First Wave

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.

Type: tv

Season: 3

Episode: N/A

Duration: N/A minutes

Release: 1998-09-09

Rating: 7.2

Season 1 - First Wave
1998-09-09
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.
1998-09-16
On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.
1998-09-23
With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.
1998-09-30
A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.
1998-10-07
A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.
1998-10-14
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.
1998-10-21
A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.
1998-10-28
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.
1998-11-04
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.
1998-11-11
Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.
1998-11-18
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.
1998-11-25
Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.
1998-12-02
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.
1998-12-09
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.
1998-12-16
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.
1998-12-23
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.
1998-12-30
A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.
1999-01-06
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.
1999-01-13
Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.
1999-01-20
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.
1999-06-19
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.
1999-06-30
Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.

Season 2 - First Wave
2000-01-09
Cade travels to an island to search for a man who has contacted them, saying that he has escaped an alien experiment. Too late, Eddie realizes it is a trap.
2000-01-16
An astronomer friend of Eddie's has proof of a meteor coming through a wormhole, but is murdered by a Gua agent before he can send it to Eddie. He sent a copy to a U.S. Senator who denies receiving the package.
2000-01-23
Cade travels to a small town in Wyoming that is being terrorized by a motorcycle gang called The Apostles.
2000-01-30
Cade is led to a group of empaths with the ability to influence the thoughts of others. While investigating, he begins to realize the group is under the covert control of a murderous alien.
2000-02-06
After nearly dying in a hit and run accident, a woman begins spouting quatrains every time she sees a bright light.
2000-04-02
Cade infiltrates a Red Flag competition at West Point military academy, where choice candidates are groomed for government leadership.
2000-04-09
Cade suspects an alien influence while investigating a casino on a Native American reservation.
2000-04-16
Treachery is afoot amongst the acolytes on Earth and Joshua is enlisted to ferret out the traitors.
2000-04-23
Working in a subway tunnel, a jackhammer operator discovers the body of a travel writer encased in a concrete wall, She is alive and hasn't aged, even though the wall was constructed fifty years before.
2000-06-18
When Cade is hired to steal an item, it becomes a life and death fight for survival.
2000-06-25
When a losing small town high school football team is suddenly vying for the state championship, Cade poses as a college football recruiter to investigate.
1999-12-08
Wounded while fleeing the police, Cade hijacks a car and forces the driver to take him home with her.
1999-12-15
In a college town, teens have been dying of aneurysms during attempts at having sex.
1999-12-22
Eddie must take on the aliens at his high school reunion when he discovers his friends are being kidnapped and interrogated by the Gua.
1999-12-29
The death of a murderer and a Nostradamus quatrain lead Cade and Eddie to an amusement park in search of another pocket dimension.
2000-01-05
Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.
2000-01-12
Cade finds himself in a secret government facility where he is told his mission to fight the Gua is being observed. Suspecting a hoax, he attempts to reveal the Gua in the facility.
2000-05-17
An alien experiment involving bare knuckle fighters draws Cade Foster and an old prison friend to enter a boxing competition.
2000-05-24
Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.
2000-05-31
Foster poses as a gunman to probe the Gua infiltration of organized crime.
2000-06-07
Cade Foster wakes up in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation.
2000-06-14
Foster and Eddie take over a TV station at gunpoint to get the message out to the world about the alien invasion.

Season 3 - First Wave
2000-09-13
Jordan Radcliffe joins Cade and Eddie to fight the aliens. The Gua make a clone of Cade.
2000-09-20
Raven Nation is a resistance group that fashions themselves after the ethos of Cade Foster and his significance as a key in defeating the Gua. Jordan Radcliffe becomes Cade's most trusted ally within the group.
2000-09-27
While investigating a biological research facility, Foster is exposed to a lethal airborne virus and must risk his life in order to prevent the virus from spreading.
2000-10-04
Foster discovers Joshua locked away on a quantum pocket where he is forced to attempt the same task over and over again as punishment for helping Foster.
2000-10-11
Foster investigates an alien experiment that will allow the Gua to transfer their consciousness without having to use husks.
2000-10-18
Foster and Jordan go undercover in a Chicago police station in order to find documents that allegedly prove Cade Foster's innocence in his wife's murder.
2000-10-25
Eddie checks into a mental asylum in the hope of rescuing a judge who shares the institution with other people who believe that the Earth is being overrun by aliens.
2000-11-01
A Gua assassin is sent out to kill what appear to be random victims. But with Joshua observing events, Foster is determined to find out the truth behind the incidents.
2000-11-08
One of the Raven Nation operatives disappears near the small town of Hope. When Jordan and Foster investigate, they discover that the townspeople are hiding a terrible secret.
2000-11-15
When Mabus dissolves the Gua Assembly, his military leaders are concerned that he is launching the second wave too early. They hatch a plan to assassinate him, with the help of Cade Foster.
2000-11-22
Foster and Jordan are saved from a Gua bomb by an email sent to Eddie by an ill ten year old girl. Jordan discovers that Mabus has made a psychic connection to the girl.
2000-11-29
Eddie and Jordan join an archaeology dig looking for Thor's Hammer and discover a Gua presence looking for the powerful weapon, which claims Foster as its first victim.
2000-12-06
After Foster experiences a series of nightmares, he visits a hypnotherapist friendly to the Raven Nation and is led back into a childhood he has forgotten, including a suppressed encounter with the Gua.
2000-12-13
Jordan is ambushed by the Gua at the Radcliffe Foundation annual ball, where she learns the shocking truth about her late father's demise.
2000-12-20
Foster is injected with Gua DNA and, as the process of transformation progresses, Jordan and Eddie face the agonizing prospect of having to kill Foster in order to save the planet.
2000-12-27
Foster must stop the aliens from destroying the world's computer systems and Mabus from occupying human bodies, including his new love's.
2001-01-03
Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.
2001-01-10
Victory for the Gua seems close, as Mabus capotures Foster. Could an extraterrestrial revelation free Jordan and destroy Mabus?
2001-01-17
An Omega quatraine points Foster and Eddie towards a magnetic signal in the mountains. Suddenly a GUA ship crashes nearby. Joshua brought the ship down and it begins a race to find a powerful GUA warhead from the crash.
2001-01-24
Foster encounters Xevallah, the mysterious stranger who rescued him from the Gua when he was a child. Xevellah teaches Foster the essential wisdom of forgiveness and prepares him for the final battle with the Gua.
2001-01-31
Foster travels to the future to locate the Hammer, a Gua weapon that has the power to determine the fate of humankind. But he discovers that the Resistance has crumbled and his counterpart has lost hope.
2001-02-07
Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.