Richard Burgi
Jim Ellison
Series SeasonSeason 2 episodes1996
The Sentinel
Season 2
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Episodes
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Episode 145 min1996-09-04
Flight
During a flight to South America, Captain Banks and his son Daryl crash land in the Peruvian jungle and eventually stumble across a shady lumbering operation run by a man named Reischer.
Episode 245 min1996-09-11
Out of the Past
Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.
Episode 345 min1996-09-18
Deep Water
At an unrelated auto accident by the river, evidence surfaces which implicates Jim and his old partner, Jack Pendergrast, in a kidnapping/murder case from four years prior.
Episode 445 min1996-09-25
Reunion
When Blair and Jim join Captain Banks at his 20-year high school reunion they discover more than just nostalgia awaiting them in the officer's hometown.
Episode 545 min1996-10-02
Payback
Ellison finds himself witness to the beginnings of an underworld war between the drug-running bikers of The Void and the local representatives of the deadly Japanese Yakuza.
Episode 645 min1996-10-09
True Crime
Ellison gets his fifteen minutes of fame when the police department invites TV producer Wendy Hawthorne and Conner, her cameraman, to do a piece on him for her show "True Crime."
Episode 745 min1996-10-30
Ice Man
Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.
Episode 845 min1996-11-06
The Rig
When employees start dying "accidentally" aboard the North Star Five oilrig, Jim and Blair discover that their newest assignment has them walking a decidedly watery beat.
Episode 945 min1996-11-13
Spare Parts
Ellison and Sandburg get a chance to hone their driving skills when some high-end car thieves set up shop on the streets of Cascade.
Episode 1045 min1996-11-20
Second Chance
When Francisco Rivero, an ex-associate of Hector Carasco, kidnaps Carasco's daughter Maya and uses her as blackmail for the family fortune, Ellison and Sandburg join forces with her Uncle Gustavo to bring her safely home.
Episode 1145 min1996-11-27
Black or White
When a series of explosions level black churches throughout Cascade, Ellison, Sandburg and Captain Banks uncover the racist influences of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) in their city.
Episode 1245 min1997-01-08
Blind Man's Bluff
Ellison and Sandburg trace the distribution of Golden, Cascade's trendy new drug, to a local dive where the narcotic wreaks havoc with Ellison's enhanced senses.
Episode 1345 min1997-01-15
Hear No Evil
Ellison sees an undercover police detective named Brent Marten thrown to his death from a police helicopter. Ellison watches Banks and his men retrieve the body from the harbor, then learns the case has been placed under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs investigator Sheila Irwin.
Episode 1445 min1997-02-05
Light My Fire
An arsonist burns down a furniture warehouse, and Ellison rescues an unconscious guard from the building.
Episode 1545 min1997-02-12
Secret
Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.
Episode 1645 min1997-02-19
Dead Drop
Sandburg becomes trapped between floors in a skyscraper elevator controlled by an extortionist, who threatens to send the elevator plummeting to its doom unless a hefty ransom is paid.
Episode 1745 min1997-02-26
Red Dust
A birthday party for Katrina, a young Russian woman, is interrupted by a vicious attack that claims the life of two men and ends with the theft of a mysterious black suitcase from the woman's boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellison's "Sentinel" intuition leads him to discover a gold neckchain worn by Sergei is, in fact, radioactive.
Episode 1845 min1997-03-12
Smart Alec
Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.
Episode 1945 min1997-03-26
Private Eyes
During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."
Episode 2045 min1997-04-09
Vanishing Act
Ellison and Sandburg spot a man, a mob accountant, who they thought was dead. When they try to catch up to him, he nearly runs them over escaping in his car.
Episode 2145 min1997-04-30
Pennies from Heaven
An armored truck explodes on a freeway overpass and rains hundred-dollar bills down into a ghetto neighborhood. Ellison and Sandburg investigate, but Marcus Watson, the sole witness, has vanished and no one in the ghetto is giving back the money they found.
Episode 2245 min1997-05-07
Survival
Dawson Quinn, a cop-killing thief who stole five million dollars from the Federal Reserve that has never been found, is transported in an armored police vehicle through a stretch of forested wilderness by a team of cops assisted by Banks, Ellison and Sandburg.
Episode 2345 min1997-05-14
His Brother's Keeper
A construction foreman is murdered at a racetrack under renovation, and his body is hidden in a pillar. Weeks later, Banks attends the opening of the racetrack with friends, and Ellison attends a police benefit at the track's turf club. During the benefit event, one of Banks' friends is pushed from the roof, and falls to his death in what looks to the partygoers to be a suicide.
Episode 2445 min1997-05-21
Sleeping Beauty
Eight years ago: A 12-year-old girl named Stacey is woken in the middle of the night by her parents, who take her and flee their home. The family's car is run off the road, killing the parents and placing Stacey in a coma.