The Sentinel

The sole survivor of an Army plane crash in the Peruvian hinterlands, Jim Ellison subsisted for nearly two years on his raw animal instincts. When he returned to America and became a police lieutenant, Jim discovered that the abilities that had kept him alive in the jungle now gave him extraordinary senses of perception. With the help of Captain Simon Banks and a grad student Blair Sandburg, Jim now attempts to use these powers to apprehend a terrorist bomber called the Switchman.

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.

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 Blairs 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.

Jims sentinel abilities detect something strange at the crime scenes of all the recent jewelry robberies but hes unable to figure out exactly whats causing the reaction.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ellison receives a phone call from old Army buddy Sam Holland, who asks for help.

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 womans boyfriend, Sergei. Ellison and Sandburg receive little cooperation from the witnesses, but Ellisons "Sentinel" intuition leads him to discover a gold neckchain worn by Sergei is, in fact, radioactive.

During the search for a kidnapped little girl, the skeptical Ellison and Sandburg receive help from Charlie Spring, a "psychic."

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.

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 tracks 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.

In the Peruvian jungle, a Chopec Sentinel named Incacha is enraged by the pollution of his land by a contaminated oil well and the murder of one of his tribesman by an employee of the Cyclops Oil Co. ... Back in Cascade, Ellison foils a burglary but accidentally shoots a security guard. Luckily, the guard is OK, but Ellisons dismay causes his Sentinel powers to disappear.

Blair falls for Jims new neighbor; a beautiful woman named Iris, but learns that this particular girl next door isnt as innocent as she appears. Iris and her ex-boyfriend Chance havent exactly been living the American dream and the smitten Sandburg is quickly sucked into this couples twisted nightmare.

Using his sentinel powers, Jim saves Edward, the grandson of Mafia don Dominick Lazar, from drowning. When Don Dominick himself thanks Jim for his efforts, he decides to use this opportunity to get on the inside of the citys organized crime world.

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

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

When archaeology student Martin Gillman is buried alive by a cave-in at an excavation site, Ellison and Sandburg suspect foul play. As they unearth vendettas between various members of the archaeological team allusions also surface to hidden treasure buried at the site.

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 Cascades Little Havana community in order to uncover the killer.

When Captain Banks is injured in a shootout at the Cascade National Bank, Captain Sarah Finkelman steps in as his replacement and steps on some toes. She rubs Ellison and Sandburg the wrong way with her new policy changes and obsessive control.

Professor Robert McCain, the Rainier University expert in serial killers, turns up dead and Ellison is forced to re-open a case that dates back to his youth. As a 10-year-old Jim discovered the last known victim of the infamous Country Club Strangler and its haunted him ever since.

Ellison, Blair, and Captain Banks are trapped in Clayton Falls when some overzealous military officers quarantine the small town. Apparently, an airborne virus wreaked havoc on the community and now everyones been ordered to stay in protective custody.

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

With Ellison having strange visions of jaguars and a series of superhumanly performed thefts occurring around the city, Blair and Jim suspect that he may not be the only sentinel in town.

It appears that Brad Ventriss and Suzanne Nadine, two students in Blairs anthropology class, are engaged in some extracurricular activities that arent listed in any of the college handbooks.

When Internal Affairs accuses him of stealing money captured in local drug busts, Ellison finds that during this case hes forced to answer the hard questions instead of asking them.

When retired television actor Vince Deal suspects that one of his friends has been murdered he enlists the help of Jim Ellison.

When Blairs mother Naomi secretly submits her sons 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 Blairs paper is leaked to the press and Ellison is caught in the middle of a media frenzy.