The BEST episodes of Time Trax
Every episode of Time Trax ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Time Trax!
"It began in the future. A time machine called TRAX, criminals who vanish, and a lawman who must pursue into the past. Now he is among us, a special breed of man. He has one weapon and a computer called Selma. With her, he will travel through our world, searching for fugitives from his own, knowing he cannot go home until he has found them all. His name is Darien Lambert, and this is his story."
#1 - A Stranger In Time (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1993
As Lambert enters our time, he is discovered by a woman who looks exactly like his now dead girlfriend from the future. Lambert learns that she's a cop too. Together, but with many secrets between them, they pursue a would-be presidential assassain.
#2 - Cool Hand Darien
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/22/1994
The widow of a fugitive from the future calls Lambert with a request. She doesn't believe that her husband is dead, and asks that he investigate what has happened. Her husband worked as a jailer, but when he opposed the warden, he was interned himself. When Lambert shows up, asking questions, he is also imprisoned. The warden runs a very tight jail. The prisoners must dig for diamonds in a mine, and punishments for disobedience are severe. And Lambert of course has to release SELMA to his captors. Now it's a question of how he will get out of there before the warden decides to kill him.
#3 - The Dream Team
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/1994
In this episode Darien befriends an NBA player from his time. At the beginning scene the two are together and an attempt is made to kill Trey (the NBA player), and he divulges to Darien that he has been having numerous death threats. Darien tries to help Trey, but he has to wade through various stories (Trey being discredited by the church) to do so. Ramon (the man who wants Trey dead) traps Trey using the cover story that he wants to deliver a confession. The question is whether or not Darien will get there in time to save Trey--and himself.
#4 - Mother
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/21/1994
When Lambert follows an embezzler from the future, one of the clues leads him to Bradwell orphanage, where he himself is left when he is born. There he meets Kit, who looks like an older version of Lambert's SELMA. What he doesn't know, but soon finds out is that she is his mother. The question is why she doesn't want to admit it. Meanwhile, Kit's former husband, the fugitive Lambert was looking for, has hid a disk with damaging information about a gang. Naturally they want it back, which means that neither Lambert, Kit nor her ex-husband is safe...
#5 - A Close Encounter
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/1994
SELMA picks up the distress signal from an alien from another planet. The alien crashlands on Earth near a small town. Now Lambert has to get to him before someone else finds him. But a sheriff has seen the crash and rounds up a posse. Lambert manages to find the alien first, and hides him from the posse. Then the alien tries to leave Lambert. Lambert catches up, and the alien explains his reason for being there - love. His girlfriend crashed on Earth some time ago. But since their race age very quickly he has no idea what his girlfriend looks like. How will they find her, with the posse looking for them? And will she still love him?
#6 - The Last M.I.A.
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/28/1994
While in pursuit of a fugitive, Darien is shot. He finds himself in the care of a army veteran, Ev Rankin. Rankin needs Darien's help to free his son, who's still missing in Cambodia. Darien doubts that the son would be alive, but according to SELMA, a ransom demand will be made 48 hours later - and shortly thereafter, Rankin's son will be killed. Darien and Rankin seek out a notorios double agent, who may have information about Rankin's son, but before they can question him, the agent is killed. How will they now find the right rebel hideout? And will they get there in time?
#7 - Night of the Savage
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/1993
In London, a Jack the Ripper-type killer is on the loose. Lambert discovers evidence that suggests that the killer is from the future. Befriending a journalist, he starts to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity. But can Lambert stop him before The Savage commits his next murder?
#8 - Face of Death
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/1993
A criminal from the future whom Lambert has been chasing for some time, has his appearence altered. Lambert finds a trace, and sets out in the jungle to find him. But how do you find a person, when you don't know how they look or sound? And what do you do if you find out who he is, when you're in the middle of nowhere?
#9 - Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/1993
SELMA detects something odd on TV - a group of racists carrying the Shrek mark, which isn't due to be invented for another 150 years. Lambert goes to Hawaii and talks to the journalist who got the attack on film. But Lambert is in for a surprise when he discovers who is behind it all, and what the true objective is...
#10 - The Prodigy
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1993
The whole world is baffled when a little boy breaks the world short distance record. Lambert suspects that the boy comes from the future, but he is stopped by the boy's father, a criminal, who has Lambert's speed and strength.
#11 - The Mysterious Stranger
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/27/1993
Lambert is called to Mexico by a personal ad "if you want to find professor Alwyn". Alwyn, a fugitive from the future, disappeared after being convicted for making deadly drugs. When Lambert comes to Mexico, he discovers Alwyn directly, but it turns out not to be Alwyn, but a private investigator from the future, who wants to find Alwyn as well. Lambert doesn't want the PI to tag along, but it seems he has no choice. However, when they find Alwyn's hideout, the lawyer tries to kill him, resulting only in a severe head wound on Lambert. The lawyer discloses that he's really a doctor whose wife was killed by Alwyn's drugs. But soon Lambert learns that the doctor is not a doctor either, but a policeman. Or an actor... And Lambert can't even be sure of that. But he has to find Alwyn before his new batch of drugs is completed and shipped out.
#12 - A Stranger In Time (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/1993
In the future, honest cop Darien Lambert is discredited when several criminals he has been tracking disappear. Lambert however soon finds out that Nobel prize winning scientist, Mordecai Sahmbi, has been sending the bad guys back in time, to 1992. When Lambert's love interest is killed by Sahmbi in a shoot-out, Lambert decides to follow Sahmbi back in time and catch him. He's equipped a portable holographic database, SELMA, and sent on his way...
#13 - Catch Me If You Can
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/30/1994
Lambert is close on a bankrobber's tail, but the criminal gets away and leaves a taunting note. So Lambert gives chase. Suddenly he's stopped by a road block. Selma assures Lambert that his credentials will clear him. The female sheriff puts Lambert in jail, because an eyewitness has placed Lambert on the scene. And the county's sheriff's office doesn't have computers. But the criminal that Lambert is chasing wants to continue play the game that they have been playing so long - so he clears Lambert by committing another robbery while Lambert's in jail. Lambert takes command over the sheriff and goes after his foe, but learns a valuable lesson about being too committed to catching one criminal. However, Lambert's arch-enemy manages to escape again. What will it take to catch him? And how much will he humiliate both Lambert and the sheriff in the process?
#14 - The Price of Honor
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/7/1993
A blackmailer from the future uses his knowledge of things to come - and high ranking people's secrets - to get his money. When he extorts a man who's destined to become president, Lambert takes notice of the event and tries to stop him. But the blackmailer seems to have his back covered. And the future president desperately wants to keep his dirty secret from interfering with an ongoing peace process. Can Lambert stop the secret from getting out? And what is the secret?
#15 - Split Image
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/15/1994
A female cat burgler is discovered during a heist, but takes out a weapon and freezes the guard instantaneously. SELMA notices this in a tacky magazine, and Lambert suspects a fugitive from the future. He interviews the guard, and narrows it down to a rich woman. When he attends her party, he's attracted to her. After he leaves we find out that she's a twin. The twins appear to have some psychic connection that allows them to share each others feelings and experiences. That same night he breaks into her house, but is caught before he can steel the loot from her heist. He manages to convince her that he used to be a cop, but that he also is blackmailed by Sahmbi...
#16 - The Scarlet Koala
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/12/1994
A distress call from the future lets Lambert know that he must find a scarlet koala to stop a plague. He enlists the help of a woman scientist whose father was the last person to see the rare koala, but when they reach the jungle they are captured by aboriginies who believs that the scarlet koala is sacred. Then Lambert discovers that they aren't the only ones after a koala.
#17 - To Live and Die in Docker Flats
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/1994
The search of some missing future fugitives leads Lambert to Docker Flats, a small village in the middle of nowhere. He finds that no-one wants to talk to him, and everyone seems scared of being seen with him. Soon he is under siege in a restaurant, not knowing who he can trust. And then there's the lynch mob when night sets in...
#18 - Perfect Pair
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/23/1994
When Lambert has tracked down a fugitive and prepares to send him to the future, the criminal draws his weapon. Suddenly another man fires against the criminal, incinerating him completely. It turns out that it's one of Lambert's old buddies, Mace. He's sent to catch a crooked police chief, who uses the police force as his private army. Lambert protests against Mace's violent and impatient methods, but on this case they have to co-operate. To his help, Mace has brought his own version of a SELMA, CINDI - with a sexy blonde holographic image. But it takes a SELMA to trace the fugitive. On the road to the fugitive's whereabouts, a man highjacks the plane their on. Mace overpowers the highjacker, which makes their arrival less inconspicous. With Lambert's more thoughtful approach, they manage to sneak away. They decide to talk to one of the police chief's enemies - a good cop in a bad force. But the officer in question is bugged, and soon a SWAT team attacks his trailer. How will they get
#19 - To Kill a Billionaire
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1993
Sahmbi's new operation is a method to eradicate radioactive materials. But Lambert suspects foul play and discovers that Sahmbi sends the radioactive waste into the future. He manages to get evidence and tries to take Sahmbi to court. Then he finds out that the judge is also from the future - and that he is a fugitive. He aquits Sahmbi. So Lambert decides it's time to take matters into his own hands. But Sahmbi didn't win his Nobel prize for nothing and surprises Lambert with a shield that protects him from being sent back.
#20 - Forgotten Tomorrows
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/3/1994
The witness in a trial suddenly loses her memory, and Lambert suspects temporal foul play. But when he gets on the case, he is attacked with the same weapon, and forgets who he is. A newfound friend tries to evoke his memory, but can Lambert remember the future without divulging his secret past?
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#21 - The Crash
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/26/1994
Lambert is unusually quick in apprehending a fugitive, but the criminal says that he's only small fry compared to his boss, and he's prepared to lead Lambert to him. Before they leave, another temporal fugitive recognises Lambert and alerts the boss, Bergdorf. Bergdorf wants the plane sabotaged. Soon after lift-off, the passengers starts to exhibit unusually good moods. SELMA determines that the oxygen level is dangerously low. The pilots faint and SELMA have to guide Lambert into landing the jet safely. But when the jet is on the ground, Berghof intercepts the SOS, and sends a helicopter with heat seeking devices. How will they survive the attacks? Can the young Edison-type genius help save the day?
#22 - Return of the Yakuza
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/1994
The head of the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, whom Lambert managed to catch in the 22nd century, has fled to the 20th century. His goal here is to unite all fractions of the Yakuza in order to gain more power. And since he has knowledge of things to come, he quickly comes to the top of Yakuza. When he learns that Lambert has also come to our time, he launches a series of attacks upon him. Lambert tries to seek him out but gets nowhere. ...until he meets a japanese woman, also looking for the fugitive. He's trained by her father, but can he go up against a modern day ninja? And what are the woman's motives? Can Lambert trust her?
#23 - Lethal Weapons
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/1994
Two criminals stop an armoured car, trying to break in. They bring with them a strange ray weapon, but grow impatient and raise the volume. The armoured car blows up and one of the criminals are killed. Lambert watches the news and recognizes the weapon from the future. He goes undercover as an agent from the board of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco, recovers the weapon and interviews the surviving criminal, but the criminal doesn't know who sold them the weapon. Lambert has an idea who made the weapon - a weapons inventor from the future. But before he can do something about it, he is attacked and left for dead. The weapon is stolen. When Lambert recovers, he comes up with an idea of how to reach the inventor. But the inventor and an associate is waiting for him, with a 21st century gauntlet ready. Can Lambert reach them?
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#24 - Two Beans in a Wheel
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/19/1993
Darien gets a new partner, a policewoman from the future named Eve Thorne. Together they track Sahmbi, who they believe is after the Holy Grail.
#25 - Death Takes a Holiday
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/1993
Lambert takes on a mafia family in New Orleans, whose boss uses his knowledge of future drugs to keep his employees at bay. When the family clashes against another crime family, Lambert gets caught in the middle. And then a drug-taking woman becomes his companion...