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First Wave

First Wave

★ 7.1/10•1998•16•Action & Adventure•Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 9, 1998

Episodes

Episode 1 - Subject 117E145m

Subject 117

After having disturbing visions and finding a man who was in one of his visions dead of suicide, Cade Foster's life is suddenly turned upside down; his house bugged, credit cards not working, job gone, and his wife terrified even to go home, things go from bad to worse.

Sep 9, 1998

Episode 2 - Crazy EddieE245m

Crazy Eddie

On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.

Sep 16, 1998

Episode 3 - Mata HariE345m

Mata Hari

With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.

Sep 23, 1998

Episode 4 - HypnoticE445m

Hypnotic

A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.

Sep 30, 1998

Episode 5 - ElixirE545m

Elixir

A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.

Oct 7, 1998

Episode 6 - Speaking in TonguesE645m

Speaking in Tongues

Cade poses as a drifter to investigate a religious cult and finds that the messianic leader is delivering a message to beware of an impending invasion.

Oct 14, 1998

Episode 7 - LungfishE745m

Lungfish

A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.

Oct 21, 1998

Episode 8 - Book of ShadowsE845m

Book of Shadows

Cade and Eddie travel to Salem, Oregon, where a high school student accused of killing three high-ranking members of the community claims that she is a witch and the victims were not human but demons.

Oct 28, 1998

Episode 9 - JoshuaE945m

Joshua

Cade is on the run in the Montana wilderness as the police and U.S. Marshalls surround him. Posing as a Marshall, Joshua joins the hunt.

Nov 4, 1998

Episode 10 - Marker 262E1045m

Marker 262

Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.

Nov 11, 1998

Episode 11 - Motel CaliforniaE1145m

Motel California

Investigating a small California inn, Cade becomes one of the subjects of an alien experiment that makes the guests' dreams come alive so that they can no longer tell what is real and what is merely a beguiling illusion.

Nov 18, 1998

Episode 12 - Breeding GroundE1245m

Breeding Ground

Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.

Nov 25, 1998

Episode 13 - Blue AgaveE1345m

Blue Agave

Contacting his late wife's best friend for help, Cade discovers that she and other members of an exclusive club are the subjects of an alien experiment that uses a parasitic blue worm to read people's memories.

Dec 2, 1998

Episode 14 - Cul-De-SacE1445m

Cul-De-Sac

Following up on a report by a teenage boy about a sexy alien woman who is impervious to bullets, Cade discovers that she is manipulating the men in the community to do her bidding by means of a pheromone ingredient in her perfume.

Dec 9, 1998

Episode 15 - The BoxE1545m

The Box

Going back home to visit his wife's grave, Cade is captured by police officers and interrogated, but he manages to turn the tables on them and find out important information about the alien agenda.

Dec 16, 1998

Episode 16 - UndesirablesE1645m

Undesirables

Joshua's latest assignment is to track down and assassinate the Gua agent assigned to keep tabs on a physics professor who may be on the verge of discovering wormhole technology. The agent has fallen in love with the professor and must be killed before she reveals secrets of Gua technology to him.

Dec 23, 1998

Episode 17 - Second WaveE1745m

Second Wave

A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.

Dec 30, 1998

Episode 18 - Blind WitnessE1845m

Blind Witness

Cade fakes a diabetic seizure to get admitted to a hospital to look for an ally promised in one of the prophecies. In an unused wing of the hospital, he finds a blind woman who is undergoing an experimental treatment to regain her sight.

Jan 6, 1999

Episode 19 - DelugeE1945m

Deluge

Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.

Jan 13, 1999

Episode 20 - MelodyE2045m

Melody

After a rock concert erupts into violence, Cade and Eddie find a Nostradamus quatrain that seems to suggest that music might be making young people aggressive.

Jan 20, 1999

Episode 21 - The AftertimeE2145m

The Aftertime

A teenager accidentally intercepts a Gua transmission on his ham radio and records it on a disc. Cade races against the Gua to retrieve it.

Jun 19, 1999

Episode 22 - The DecisionE2245m

The Decision

Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.

Jun 30, 1999

Actors

Rob LaBelle

Rob LaBelle

Crazy Eddie

Sebastian Spence

Sebastian Spence

Cade Foster

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