The Sentinel/Flight

Flight
Season 2, Episode 1
Airdate	September 4, 1996
Written by	Gail Morgan Hickman
Directed by	Danny Bilson
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The Sentinel — Season Two

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Flight is the first episode of the second season of The Sentinel, and the eleventh episode overall.

Guest Stars: Ken Earl (Captain Joel Taggert), Kendall Cross (Rhonda), Oscar Goncalves (Vasquez), Drancy Jackson (Daryl Banks), Richard Yniguez (Sandoval), Raoul Trujillo (Spirit Guide)

Plot Overview

When Simon and his son Daryl get lost in the jungles of Peru Jim and Blair follow to try and find them. They end up having to parachute in and eventually find out that father and son are being held by cocaine producers posing as a lumber company.

Meanwhile both Sentinel and Guide have make difficult decisions that will likely affect the rest of their lives.

Notes

With this episode the opening intro is changed yet again again. From now on each episodes starts with a monologue by Blair Sandburg:

"In the jungles of Peru the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective James Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Seeing before others see. Sensing what others can't. An ever-vigilant watchman in the war against crime."

Arc Advancement

Characters

Jim

Jim sees his spirit animal, the black panther, for the first time. When searching for Simon and Daryl he loses his heightened senses again. Later he has a vision, where the panther morphs into a chopec indian, who tells him, that he has to decide if he wants to be a Sentinel or not.

Spirit Guide: "Your return to the jungle was no accident. This is the place you were reborn as a sentinel. You have been brought back to complete the circle."

Jim: "Why have my abilities been taken away?"

Spirit Guide: "To remind you of who you were. What you've experienced so far is just an initiation. Now is the time to make a choice. You can go back the way you came and be an ordinary man, or you can go forward, but to do so will require your life and your soul. Are you prepared to make such a journey?"

Jim: "I'm not sure."

The scene now shows Jim who stands at the edge of a really high cliff.

Jim: "I'm standing at the edge of a cliff. If I go forward, I'll die."

Spirit Guide: "Yes."

Jim: "Okay, I'm ready."

Blair

Blair is offered a position on the exkursion team of his professor and mentor Eli Stoddard. The trip would lead him to Borneo for more than a year, effectively ending or at least disrupting the Sentinel research. He has no chance to make a desision before they find out about Simon and Daryl's disappearance in Peru. Blair accompanies Jim anyway, even though the detective initially doesn't want him to come.

When they return to Cascade Blair tells Jim, that he has decided not to take Stoddard up on the offer, but not because of the Sentinel research:

"Well, actually, I've already decided not to go. This sentinel thing... You know, it's more than just a research project. Uh... it's about friendship. I just didn't get it before."

Simon

Simon's relationship with his teenage son Daryl is boosted quite a bit through this shared dangerous adventure.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• Jim accepts his destiny to be a Sentinel, when having a vision where he sees his spirit guide in the jungles of Peru.
• Blair tells Jim that he decided not to go on the exkursion to Borneo, though it's not because of the Sentinel research but because of their friendship

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