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Blair and Jim, along with forensics specialist Carolyn Plummer, suspect that a series of seemingly unrelated murders are actually the work of a serial killer.

While guest-lecturing in Blair's anthropology class, Jim saves the entire building from a deadly gas leak only to discover that the leak was designed to distract the campus' attention while a canister of the Ebola virus was being stolen from the hazardous materials lab.

When Blair unknowingly moves into an apartment next to the drug lab of a local gang (dubbed the 357), Jim suddenly finds himself embroiled in the beginnings of an all-out gang war.

After stopping an armored car heist, Ellison is struck by the high-tech weaponry at the criminals' disposal.

Blair forces Jim to take a vacation at a remote monastery. Initially reluctant, Ellison begins to enjoy the solitude until one of the monks is found dead.

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.

Jim and Blair are assigned to escort Derek Wilson, a key witness in a local homicide case, on his train ride from Oregon to the courthouse in Cascade. Wilson has essential information that will link his employer to charges of arson and murder.

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.

The town of Cascade is brought to its knees when Garrett Kincaid, a notorious criminal that Jim Ellison had arrested years before, seizes control of the town's police station with the help of his gang of felons.

After witnessing the death of undercover officer Danny Choi at the hands of a sniper named Tommy Juno, Jim uses his enhanced vision to identify and apprehend the killer. But the case against Juno is thrown out of court when its decided that no human could possibly have seen as far as Ellison had claimed.

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."

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.

It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blair's anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities that aren't listed in any of the college handbooks.

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.

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.

Jim and Blair are assigned to protect pop singer Angie Ferris from an obsessive, escaped convict named Jay Weston.

Jim's sentinel abilities detect something strange at the crime scenes of all the recent jewelry robberies but he's unable to figure out exactly what's causing the reaction.

Ellison and Sandburg are called in to investigate an attack on a prostitute named Amber Larkin.

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.

When Blair's mother Naomi secretly submits her son's Sentinel thesis paper to a publisher, Jim discovers that being famous can be detrimental to your health. While Jim and Blair protect a local union leader named Jack Bartley from attempts on his life, information from Blair's paper is leaked to the press and Ellison is caught in the middle of a media frenzy.

Professional thief Harry wants to see his daughter and grandson one last time, but his position on the FBI's Most Wanted list makes that difficult - especially when another thief is using his MO and has killed two cops during a job.

While Captain Banks, Blair, and Jim are fishing together they stumble across a poaching ring that's hooked up with a powerful Chinese gangster named Ho Ng.

When a local Santeria ceremony goes wrong, one man is dead and the only witness is a woman who was deep in a religious trance while she unknowingly watched the murder. Ellison and Sandburg need to enter into Cascade's Little Havana community in order to uncover the killer.

A present day murder leads to a revelation that may be able to finally clear up a 45 year old murder, and vindicate the victim and the boy (now a troubled, haunted man) who saw it happen. And Jim discovers a new ability.

Blair, Banks, and Megan may be Jim's only hope of overcoming the superhuman stalemate and returning Cascade to a one sentinel town.

Visiting his cousin Rucker on a remote island, Jim learns that people on deserted islands don't always pursue the "natural life." While rescuing a woman named Monique from a storm-tossed boat, a huge bag of heroin surfaces.

Jim Ellison agrees to go undercover as an inmate in Starkville Prison to investigate a series of suspicious prisoner suicides. He must depend on his thick skin and diplomatic skills as well as his sentinel abilities to navigate through the treacherous world of gangs and dishonest guards within the prison walls.

Some visiting Buddhist monks start dying in Cascade's Chinatown district and Lila, Jim's old love from his days in Bali, seems to be involved. Jim's investigation is hampered by some overwhelming sensory overloads that all but incapacitate him.

Ellison and Sandburg are sent to a college campus to investigate the murder of Fred Turlock, a maintenance worker.

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.

Poet Dimitri Gordienski is killed by a sniper at Cascade's Russian Arts Festival. Captain Banks wants the case resolved quickly before the federal government gets involved.

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.

When basketball players on the Cascade Jaguars start turning up dead, Jim must calculate the difference between a good shot and a deadly one.

Blair falls for Jim's new neighbor; a beautiful woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isn't as innocent as she appears. Iris and her ex-boyfriend Chance haven't exactly been living the American dream and the smitten Sandburg is quickly sucked into this couple's twisted nightmare.

During a local Amnesty International conference, Ellison and Sandburg are assigned to watch over Genevieve Benet, the outspoken St. Germainian peace activist.

When a dead body falls out of the sky with every bone broken, every organ shattered, and no identification, Ellison and Sandburg know that they are not dealing with an ordinary criminal.

Jim's friend Roger Corman, a U.S. Marshall, is killed in a car bombing before he can reveal the name of a corrupt marshall that he's uncovered. Ellison must ferret out the traitor but finds his hands tied when the U.S. Marshalls themselves take over the investigation.

When a car comes barreling into the Cascade Police Station in the middle of the night, the Sentinel team finds themselves abruptly thrown into a murder investigation. Initially, their only witnesses are shaken-up but, when an alligator gets loose in the station, everyone goes crazy.

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.

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.