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First Wave is a sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure TV series that premiered on Syfy on September 9, 1998. It has 3 seasons and 66 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 3 Episode 22 "Twice Bless'd", aired on February 7, 2001.

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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  • Action & Adventure

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Episodes

66 episodes · 3 seasons

Season 1

1998 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 27 years ago

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    22. The Decision

    Finale

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    19. Deluge

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

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    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.

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    17. Second Wave

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    10. Marker 262

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    5. Elixir

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

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    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.

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    3. Mata Hari

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

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    2. Crazy Eddie

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

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    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.

Season 2

2000 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 26 years ago

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    22. The Believers

    Finale

    Foster and Eddie take over a TV station at gunpoint to get the message out to the world about the alien invasion.

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    21. Tomorrow

    Cade Foster wakes up in a dirty alley and soon discovers strange posters that advertise Human-Gua cooperation.

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    20. Underworld

    Foster poses as a gunman to probe the Gua infiltration of organized crime.

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    19. The Trial of Joshua Bridges

    Joshua is put on trial and must defend himself against charges that he is a human sympathizer and a traitor to the Gua.

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    18. Gladiator

    An alien experiment involving bare knuckle fighters draws Cade Foster and an old prison friend to enter a boxing competition.

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    17. Rubicon

    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.

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    16. The Harvest

    Cade investigates a series of disappearances of young women with help from a romantic fiction writer whose sister is the latest to vanish.

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    15. Playland

    The death of a murderer and a Nostradamus quatrain lead Cade and Eddie to an amusement park in search of another pocket dimension.

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    14. All About Eddie

    Eddie must take on the aliens at his high school reunion when he discovers his friends are being kidnapped and interrogated by the Gua.

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    13. Normal, Illinois

    In a college town, teens have been dying of aneurysms during attempts at having sex.

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    12. Night Falls

    Wounded while fleeing the police, Cade hijacks a car and forces the driver to take him home with her.

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    11. Ohio Players

    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.

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    10. The Heist

    When Cade is hired to steal an item, it becomes a life and death fight for survival.

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    9. Lost Souls

    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.

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    8. The Purge

    Treachery is afoot amongst the acolytes on Earth and Joshua is enlisted to ferret out the traitors.

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    7. Prayer for the White Man

    Cade suspects an alien influence while investigating a casino on a Native American reservation.

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    6. Red Flag

    Cade infiltrates a Red Flag competition at West Point military academy, where choice candidates are groomed for government leadership.

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    5. The Channel

    After nearly dying in a hit and run accident, a woman begins spouting quatrains every time she sees a bright light.

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    4. Susperience

    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.

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    3. The Apostles

    Cade travels to a small town in Wyoming that is being terrorized by a motorcycle gang called The Apostles.

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    2. Deepthroat

    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.

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    1. Target 117

    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.

Season 3

2000 · 22 episodes · Last episode: 25 years ago

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    22. Twice Bless'd

    Finale

    Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.

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    21. Terminal City

    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.

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    20. Beneath The Black Sky

    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.

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    19. Black Box

    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.

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    18. Checkmate

    Victory for the Gua seems close, as Mabus capotures Foster. Could an extraterrestrial revelation free Jordan and destroy Mabus?

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    17. Requiem

    Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.

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    16. The Vessel

    Foster must stop the aliens from destroying the world's computer systems and Mabus from occupying human bodies, including his new love's.

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    15. The Edge

    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.

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    14. Legacy

    Jordan is ambushed by the Gua at the Radcliffe Foundation annual ball, where she learns the shocking truth about her late father's demise.

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    13. Shadowland

    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.

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    12. Unearthed

    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.

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    11. Wednesday's Child

    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.

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    10. The Plan

    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.

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    9. Skywatchers

    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.

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    8. Eyes of the Gua

    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.

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    7. Asylum

    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.

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    6. Still At Large

    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.

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    5. The Flight of Francis Jeffries

    Foster investigates an alien experiment that will allow the Gua to transfer their consciousness without having to use husks.

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    4. Gulag

    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.

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    3. Comes a Horseman

    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.

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    2. Raven Nation

    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.

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    1. Mabus

    Jordan Radcliffe joins Cade and Eddie to fight the aliens. The Gua make a clone of Cade.

Cast & crew

Created by Chris Brancato

  • Gabrielle Miller

    Gabrielle Miller

    Molly Simon

  • Sarah Strange

    Sarah Strange

    Henrietta / Hank

  • Katharine Isabelle

    Katharine Isabelle

    Denise

  • Rick Ravanello

    Rick Ravanello

    First Lieutenant Joel Langley

  • A.J. Cook

    A.J. Cook

    Lindsay Tilden

  • Sarah Chalke

    Sarah Chalke

    Chloe Wells

  • Patricia Drake

    Patricia Drake

    Ellen

  • Camille Sullivan

    Camille Sullivan

    Diana Black

  • C. Ernst Harth

    C. Ernst Harth

    Mel Ludwig

  • Sean Day Michael

    Sean Day Michael

    Biker Leader

  • Andre Benjamin

    Andre Benjamin

    Soldier

  • Jennifer Jasey

    Jennifer Jasey

    Dr.Giddings

  • Ben Derrick

    Ben Derrick

    Cop

  • Terry Barclay

    Factory Manager

  • Myron Natwick

    Myron Natwick

    Emmett Mayhew

  • Eric Schneider

    Alexander Dray

First Wave FAQ

Will there be new episodes of First Wave?

First Wave has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on February 7, 2001.

When did the latest episode of First Wave come out?

The most recent episode of First Wave, Season 3 Episode 22 "Twice Bless'd", aired on February 7, 2001.

How many seasons of First Wave are there?

First Wave has 3 seasons with 66 episodes in total.

When did First Wave first air?

First Wave first aired on Syfy on September 9, 1998.

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