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    TV Series

    First Wave

    IMDb7.2/10
    1998 - 2001
    Ended
    Seasons: 3
    Episodes: 66

    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.

    Created by: Chris Brancato
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    Seasons & Episodes

    Subject 117

    1. 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.

    9/9/1998
    Crazy Eddie

    2. Crazy Eddie

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

    9/16/1998
    Mata Hari

    3. Mata Hari

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

    9/23/1998
    Hypnotic

    4. Hypnotic

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

    9/30/1998
    Elixir

    5. Elixir

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

    10/7/1998
    Speaking in Tongues

    6. 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.

    10/14/1998
    Lungfish

    7. 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.

    10/21/1998
    Book of Shadows

    8. 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.

    10/28/1998
    Joshua

    9. 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.

    11/4/1998
    Marker 262

    10. Marker 262

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

    11/11/1998
    Motel California

    11. 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.

    11/18/1998
    Breeding Ground

    12. 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.

    11/25/1998
    Blue Agave

    13. 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.

    12/2/1998
    Cul-De-Sac

    14. 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.

    12/9/1998
    The Box

    15. 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.

    12/16/1998
    Undesirables

    16. 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.

    12/23/1998
    Second Wave

    17. Second Wave

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

    12/30/1998
    Blind Witness

    18. 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.

    1/6/1999
    Deluge

    19. Deluge

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

    1/13/1999
    Melody

    20. 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.

    1/20/1999
    The Aftertime

    21. 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.

    6/19/1999
    The Decision

    22. The Decision

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

    6/30/1999

    Cast

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