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The Sentinel, Season 1, Episodes 1 - 5

Last modified December 1, 1997

Pilot (aka Switchman)
Siege
The Killers
The Debt
Cypher

Pilot (aka Switchman)

SenseQuote
"A sentinel is chosen because of a genetic advantage, a sensory awareness that can be developed beyond normal humans. You could be the real thing." -- Blair

• sees soldier's special forces armband from far away (in Peru) (first way we see Jim use his senses)
• hears birds before anyone else can hear or see them (in Peru)
• hears the water boiling extra loud
• hears jeep coming from far off, sounds extra close
• smells gas leak
• sees bomb timer through the darkness in a hidden spot in the building (first time we see Jim's senses save lives)
• hears motorcycle coming up from hidden hole
• sight focuses in on his reflection in rider's helmut, startles him
• taste of paprika extra strong
• touch - kissing Carolyn
• ZONES out on red frisbee, nearly gets hit by truck (Jim's first zone-out)
• TEST - smell roses (Jim's first test)
• TEST - listen to blonde talking about Blair
• TEST - feel ashes at building in woods to tell difference
• hears bird pulling on string, then sees blue string that bird is pulling from top of wrecked building
• smells string and picks up some kind of scent from a shampoo or oil
• smells various oils to pick out particular scent
• sees Veronica on the ground from atop the Space Needle
• sights down barrel of Veronica's gun to aim, then fires
• listens for bomb
• ZONES out on listening for bomb, doesn't hear Blair and Veronica fighting over gun
• hears Carolyn's watch in the back seat of her car

Siege

SenseQuote
"You were hearing things I couldn't hear, smelling things I couldn't smell." "I've got this sensory thing going on .... turns out I have what could only be called hyperactive senses." "You mean like a Superman thing?" "No, no it's all perfectly natural." -- Simon and Jim

• smells blood in garage, thinks it's from Blair's bagel cut; actually from dead body in trunk of police car
• smells Vera's White Shoulders perfume
• sights through closed police garage gates to shadowed doorway where a gunman stands
• listens from street to Kincaid and his group, plus Rhonda and Daryl, overpowered by car horn
• EXCUSE - "I saw him in the window." -- covering for the fact that he heard Daryl inside to tell Simon he's safe
• hears Daryl yelling before he's dangled outside broken window
• smell from sewer overpowers him nearly
• smells gasoline from inside sewer, leads to pumps in police garage
• hears bad guy behind closed door in garage
• touches stairwell door, still warm from being welded
• smells bad guy's Skin Bracer through doorway
• hears chopper coming
• hears Kincaid planning to evacuate and kill all the hostages before doing so

The Killers

• hears Danny's motorbike coming in warehouse alleyways
• focuses on laser sight of gun, then to shooter's face -- Tommy Juno
• sensory powers -- go in and out because of emotional reaction to Danny's death
• tastes beer - is flat
• ears - goes deaf, doesn't hear Beverly come back into loft or hear her talking
• sees in the dark in shed during the set-up by Juno's lawyer
• touch - drops his keys because he loses feelings in hands
• hears gun clicking on the roof of building opposite Beverly's apartment, then sees Juno
• hears phone ringing and Beverly answering it
• vision fuzzes out while chasing Juno
• ears - loses hearing at outside sushi bar
• sights through darkness to find Juno in amusement park
• listens for Juno
• vision fuzzes out in the hall of mirrors
• listens for Juno's heartbeat

The Debt

SenseQuote
"I have good eyes." -- Jim

• hears gunfire from other side of wall
• smells drugs (?) in Tyrell's car trunk
• watching Blair being social worker as he goes to see Earl's grandmother
• smells Turkish cigaretts on hospital sheets
• sees the blue Lincoln Continental without binoculars
• EXCUSE -- "How can you see that far?" "Good eyes." -- talking to Earl
• shoots Williams from far away

Cypher

• hears dripping water in bathroom of Susan Fraser's house
• hears difference in voices of 911 call and answering machine tape
• sees yellow scarf during Susan Fraser's funeral
• looks down bathtub drain and sees duck down
• smells water and identifies bird waste as duck waste
• hears Blair and Lash's voices in warehouse
• sees warehouse window to see candlelight
• sees Lash's reflection on piece of broken glass

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