ORBzine - First Wave TV Review

Sebastian Spence as Cade Foster

Rob LaBelle as "Crazy" Eddie Nambulous

Roger R. Cross as Joshua / Cain

Traci Lords as Jordan Radcliffe [ 3 ]

Season 1

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 1] Subject 117
Shown 9 Sep 98

Cade Foster is an American cop. He stumbles on a conspiracy, so the conspirators murder his wife and frame him.

The conspirators are Aliens who look like humans. As in The Invaders , they disentigrate when they die. Very inconvenient for our hero!

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 2] Crazy Eddie
Shown 16 Sep 98

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 3] Mata Hari
Shown 23 Sep 98

  4.   1- 4        104     30 Sep 98   Hypnotic
  5.   1- 5        105      7 Oct 98   Elixir
  6.   1- 6        106     14 Oct 98   Speaking in Tongues

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 7] Lungfish
Shown 14th December 2005 - Wednesday

Cade Foster goes to investigate genetic mutations among fish and humans in rural USA. Fish are growing skin, and humans are growing gills!

The MIBs, specifically led by the female US Army Colonel from a prior ep, are searching for Foster himself!

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 8] Book Of Shadows
Shown 21st December 2005 - Wednesday

Cade Foster goes to investigate a series of fatal poisonings in Salem. The suspect is a teenage goth-chick, and she's accused of witchcraft. Yes, witch-trials in Salem.

There are a couple of twists, and we get more background on the aliens.

  9.   1- 9        109      4 Nov 98   Joshua

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 10] Marker 262
Shown 4th January 2006 [Wednesday]

A hot-rodder [and his car] go missing on a highway in rural USA. Cade Foster investigates, posing as a Dept of Transportation agent.

Ingrid Kavelaars is the missing driver's ex.

The Gua aliens have built a mini Bermuda Triangle into a mile-post!.

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 11] Motel California
Shown 11th January 2006 [Wednesday]

Cade investigates the mysterious death of a man in a motel. He checks into the dead man's old room ...

Cade's desires are catered for. But what is real, and what is a halucination?

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 12] Breeding Ground
Shown 18th January 2006 [Wednesday]

Foster goes to stay with an old girlfriend. She's a millionaire with a rich lawyer. Unfortunately, her favourite nightclub is run by aliens who want to use mind-control brain-slugs on the regulars.

When Cade's cover is blown, Joshua gets called in to deal with him.

 13.   1-13        113      2 Dec 98   Blue Agave

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 14] Cul-De-Sac
Shown 1st February 2006 [Wednesday]

In suburbia a blonde seductress [ Brandy Ledford ] and her chubby middle-aged BF are shot dead by the BF's jilted wife. Then a teenage peeper sees the seductress heal her bullet-wounds!

The teenager is a fan of Eddie's website, and has printed off Cade's on-line journals. This was back in the late 1990s, when only nerds used the Net and parents were in fear of pervs grooming their offspring.

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 15] The Box
Shown 8th February 2006 [Wednesday]

Foster visits his wife's grave. Naturally the cops are waiting there, and nab him.

Back in the station, Foster sees this as his chance to spread the word about the Aliens. The cops just want to make him out as a serial killer, and improve their clean-up rate by pinniung their unsolved murders on him.

The Aliens come after Foster again. But he gets a chance to avenge his wife.

The aliens experimented on humans in Chicago, instead of doing it in a crappy third-world country. Equally stupid, the humans would rather frame Foster for murder than fight the aliens!

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 16] Undesirables
Shown 15th February 2006 [Wednesday]

Joshua is now knocking off potential traitors in the Gua ranks. He's becoming more and more disenchanted with his duty, though.

The next target is a defector who fell in love with a human scientist. The scientist understands FTL travel, so Foster tries to protect him.

Nice character development of Joshua. And we learn a lot more about the Gua, as we get to see them as something other than 2-dimensional villains.

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 17] Second Wave
Shown 22nd February 2006 [Wednesday]

Foster follows up clues about alien activity in a suburban neighbourhood. However, the Second Wave invades Earth!

Foster and a handful of locals get trapped in the storm cellar. Paranoia sets in, as they suspect there may be a traitor in their midst.

 18.   1-18        118      6 Jan 99   Blind Witness

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 19] Deluge
Shown 22nd March 2006 [Wednesday]

Cade visits a redneck town in Washington State, where it has rained constantly for 2 years.

The rednecks are right out of The Wicker Man - and not just insofar as it is being remade in the Pacific NorthWest. They conduct human sacrifice of murderers - and Cade is still a wanted man!

 20.   1-20        120     20 Jan 99   Melody
 21.   1-21        121     23 Jun 99   The Aftertime

First Wave [Season 1, Episode 22] The Decision
Shown 12th April 2006 [Wednesday]

Joshua attends a Gua conference about the future of the invasion. He states the case that Cade Foster proves that the invasion is untenable.

This is basically a clip show. We get to see the best bits of the first Season. However, there is a good reason. This leds up to the cliffhanger ending of the season ...

First Wave

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 1 ]
Shown th June 2006 [Wednesday]

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Season 2

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 1] Target 117
Shown 19th April 2006 [Wednesday]

The Gua send their greatest warrior after Foster. She's a gorgeous blonde [ Sable ], and takes a liking to Joshua.

Foster and Eddie are lured to a junkyard island.

 24.   2- 2        202     29 Sep 99   Deepthroat
 25.   2- 3        203      6 Oct 99   The Apostles
 26.   2- 4        204     13 Oct 99   Susperience

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 5] The Channel
Shown 17th May 2006 [Wednesday]

Sarah Chalke has a near-death experience, and starts spouting Nostradamus prophecies.

Cade visits, but falls foul of her gal-pal Katharine Isabelle .

Joshua is sent to lead a unit posing as a news crew. They all have .44 Automag pistols!

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 6] Red Flag
Shown 24th May 2006 [Wednesday]

Foster goes undercover on a top secret US Military selection course. One of the candidates is a Gua spy, intending to get fast-track promotion to the Pentagon.

The characters are the usual stock cliches. One of them is a Vasquez-type Latino woman.

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 7] Prayer for the White Man
Shown 31st May 2006 [Wednesday]

Foster investigates a casino built on a Native American reservation. The theme is that gambling creates drunkeness and destroys spirituality. Unlike in the real world, where the problem is poverty!

The Casino is opposed by Longtree - Graham Greene, in a role similar to his in Thunderheart and Dances With Wolves.

The Casino owner has a gorgeous sidekick who has a voice like Lexa Doig . It's not her, of course - it's Carmen Moore , who has appeared in many of the same Sci-Fi shows as her.

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 8] The Purge
Shown 7th June 2006 [Wednesday]

The Gua HQ in USA is visited by The Minister, second in command of the Gua Race. He's in town to weed our radicals and so on.

Someone tries to assassinate the Minister. Joshua is assigned to find the killer.

Joshua doesn't approve of the Minister and his cruel ways. But the Radicals could be even worse. Joshua must make a choice ...

First Wave [Season 2, Episode 9] Lost Souls
Shown 17 Nov 99

A woman is dug out of concrete, where she has been buried alive since 1945. Foster goes undercover, posing as her grandson.

 32.   2-10        210     24 Nov 99   The Heist
 33.   2-11        211      1 Dec 99   Ohio Players
 34.   2-12        212      8 Dec 99   Night Falls
 35.   2-13        213     15 Dec 99   Normal, Illinois
 36.   2-14        214     22 Dec 99   All About Eddie
 37.   2-15        215     29 Dec 99   Playland
 38.   2-16        216      5 Jan 00   The Harvest
 39.   2-17        217     12 Jan 00   Rubicon
 40.   2-18        218     17 May 00   Gladiator
 41.   2-19        219     24 May 00   The Trial of Joshua Bridges
 42.   2-20        220     31 May 00   Underworld
 43.   2-21        221      7 Jun 00   Tomorrow
 44.   2-22        222     14 Jun 00   The Believers

Season 3

 45.   3- 1        301     13 Sep 00   Mabus
 46.   3- 2        302     20 Sep 00   Raven Nation
 47.   3- 3        307     27 Sep 00   Comes a Horseman
 48.   3- 4        306      4 Oct 00   Gulag
 49.   3- 5        303     11 Oct 00   The Flight of Francis Jeffries

First Wave [Season 3, Episode 6] Still At Large
Shown 7th May 2001 - Monday

Cade Foster and Special Guest Star Traci Lords infiltrate a police station. Foster is made a detective and partnered with Ian Tracey [Tropical Heat]. Lords uses her skills to fake an orgasm as a diversion in the property room.

 51.   3- 7        305     25 Oct 00   Asylum
 52.   3- 8        309      1 Nov 00   Eyes of the Gua

First Wave [Season 3, Episode 9] Skywatchers
Shown 28th May 2001 - Monday

Cade Foster and Special Guest Star Traci Lords investigate the suspicious death of one of her colleagues. It seems that small-town USA is covering up for Alien intervention ...

 54.   3-10        310     15 Nov 00   The Plan
 55.   3-11        311     22 Nov 00   Wednesday's Child
 56.   3-12        312     29 Nov 00   Unearthed
 57.   3-13        313      6 Dec 00   Shadowland
 58.   3-14        314     13 Dec 00   Legacy
 59.   3-15        315     20 Dec 00   The Edge
 60.   3-16        316     27 Dec 00   The Vessel
 61.   3-17        317      3 Jan 01   Requiem
 62.   3-18        318     10 Jan 01   Checkmate
 63.   3-19        319     17 Jan 01   Black Box
 64.   3-20        320     14 Feb 01   Beneath The Black Sky
 65.   3-21        321     21 Feb 01   Terminal City
 66.   3-22        322     28 Feb 01   Twice Bless'd