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The Sentinel Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
Flight
Wed, Sep 4, 1996
Simon Banks and his son Daryl disappear from an anti-drug conference in Peru. Blair insists on going with Jim to rescue the Captain and his son, even if it means he has to jump out of an airplane and face drug runners.
Episode 2
Out of the Past
Wed, Sep 11, 1996
A female pop star is being stalked by her escaped convict ex-lover. Ellison and Sandburg are assigned as her protection detail.
Episode 3
Deep Water
Wed, Sep 18, 1996
When the car of Ellison's partner, who went missing a few years ago while he and Ellison were working on the kidnapping of the son of a wealthy man, is found, everyone seems hell bent on proving that he ran off with the money. Ellison believes that is not true. But an investigation reveals that Ellison could have been his accomplice and Ellison can't prove it. So he tries to find who the kidnapper is.
Episode 4
Reunion
Wed, May 22, 1996
Simon Banks attends his high school reunion. One of his former classmates is killed with Simon's gun. Ellison and Sandburg try to solve the crime and to prevent their friend's murder.
Episode 5
Payback
Wed, Oct 2, 1996
Cascade Police tries to stop a gang war between the Yakuza and a local biker gang by hosting a summit meeting. The leader of the bikers is poisoned and the Yakuza's female lawyer is suspected. Ellison discovers she's an undercover office.
Episode 6
True Crime
Wed, Oct 9, 1996
A camera crew from a true crime show dog Ellison and Sandburg as they investigate a series of bank heists.
Episode 7
Ice Man
Wed, Oct 30, 1996
A prostitute witnesses the murder of her pimp at the hands of a hired hitman known as the Iceman. Ellison and Sandburg have to provide protection for the woman while trying to figure out which of her clients is the hitman's target.
Episode 8
The Rig
Wed, Nov 6, 1996
Jim and Blair investigate a murder on an oil rig while Sandburg tries to help Ellison get over his fear of deep water.
Episode 9
Spare Parts
Wed, Nov 13, 1996
Ellison investigates a violent carjacking ring. When he sets a trap for the perpetrators events don't go the way he expects and both Blair and his mother Naomi end up in danger.
Episode 10
Second Chance
Wed, Nov 20, 1996
A Chilean druglord's enemies kidnap his daughter while she is in Ellison and Sandburg's protective care.
Episode 11
Black or White
Wed, Nov 27, 1996
Ellison and Major Crimes work with a replacement bomb expert investigating a series of bombings targeting black churches. Sandburg tries to help Joel Taggart, Cascade's bomb expert, who has developed a phobia about explosives.
Episode 12
Blind Man's Bluff
Wed, Jan 8, 1997
While investigating a designer drug, Ellison gets some in his eyes and is blinded.
Episode 13
Hear No Evil
Wed, Jan 15, 1997
Ellison experiences a dramatic increase in his hearing after having wax blockage removed from his ears. As a result he hears the murder of an undercover vice cop, but has difficulty in convincing the internal affairs officer.
Episode 14
Light My Fire
Wed, Feb 5, 1997
A female arson investigator is teamed with Ellison and Sandburg to investigate a series of arson fires targeted at warehouses.
Episode 15
Secret
Wed, Feb 12, 1997
Ellison is kidnapped by Norman Oliver, a former army intelligence officer. Sandburg and Simon Banks work together to try to locate and rescue their friend.
Episode 16
Dead Drop
Wed, Feb 19, 1997
Blair is among a diverse group of hostages being held in a high rise elevator by a man calling himself Galileo. Galileo demands a ransom and threatens to drop the elevator cage unless it is delivered.
Episode 17
Red Dust
Wed, Feb 26, 1997
Stolen uranium is being moved through Cascade by an international criminal organization using the local Russian emigrate community.
Episode 18
Smart Alec
Wed, Mar 12, 1997
Ellison investigates the death of a Rainier University campus maintenance worker. Sandburg mentors a young genius with attitude issues.
Episode 19
Private Eyes
Wed, Mar 26, 1997
Naomi's psychic friend, Charlie Spring, is hired by a distraught mother to find her kidnapped child. Ellison doesn't believe that Spring has psychic abilities and doesn't want Charlie involved with this case.
Episode 20
Disappearing Act
Wed, Apr 9, 1997
Ellison clashes with a manipulative FBI agent when he learns that a mob informant that is supposed to be dead is really still alive.
Episode 21
Pennies from Heaven
Wed, Apr 30, 1997
Ellison suspects a setup when an armored car spills its payload onto the streets of a poor neighborhood and millions vanish.
Episode 22
Survival
Wed, May 7, 1997
A cop killer takes Capt. Banks hostage during his extradition.
Episode 23
His Brother's Keeper
Wed, May 14, 1997
Sandburg helps Ellison investigate murders at the local horse racing track. Ellison's brother Stephen is one of the suspects.
Episode 24
Sleeping Beauty
Wed, May 21, 1997
Ellison and Sandburg work with a twenty year old woman who recently awoke from a ten year coma. They try to solve the murder of her parents and to help her adjust to losing ten years out of her life.