First Wave

1998 - 2001

Subject 117

9th September 1998

Episode 1

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.

Crazy Eddie

16th September 1998

Episode 2

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

Mata Hari

23rd September 1998

Episode 3

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

Hypnotic

30th September 1998

Episode 4

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

Elixir

7th October 1998

Episode 5

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

Speaking in Tongues

14th October 1998

Episode 6

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.

Lungfish

21st October 1998

Episode 7

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

Book of Shadows

28th October 1998

Episode 8

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.

Joshua

4th November 1998

Episode 9

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.

Marker 262

11th November 1998

Episode 10

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

Motel California

18th November 1998

Episode 11

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.

Breeding Ground

25th November 1998

Episode 12

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

Blue Agave

2nd December 1998

Episode 13

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.

Cul-De-Sac

9th December 1998

Episode 14

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.

The Box

16th December 1998

Episode 15

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.

Undesirables

23rd December 1998

Episode 16

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.

Second Wave

30th December 1998

Episode 17

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

Blind Witness

6th January 1999

Episode 18

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.

Deluge

13th January 1999

Episode 19

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

Melody

20th January 1999

Episode 20

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.

The Aftertime

Episode 21

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.

The Decision

Episode 22

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

Top Cast

Rob LaBelle•Sebastian Spence

Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

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Rob LaBelle Image

Rob LaBelle

Crazy Eddie

Sebastian Spence Image

Sebastian Spence

Cade Foster

Full Crew

Francis Ford Coppola Image

Francis Ford Coppola

Producer

Claude Foisy Image

Claude Foisy

Original Music Composer

Allison Volk

Post Production Coordinator

Larry Sugar

Executive Producer

Ian Nothnagel

Set Decoration

Stephen Cheung

Dialogue Editor

Lecily Corbett

Assistant Camera

Vicky Mulholland

Costume Design

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