Episode
First Wave: Checkmate
Overview
Victory for the Gua seems close, as Mabus capotures Foster. Could an extraterrestrial revelation free Jordan and destroy Mabus?
Details
- Series
- First Wave
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2001-01-10
Episode context
Checkmate is Episode 18 in Season 3 of First Wave. It aired on 2001-01-10.
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Episode 17: Requiem
Foster informs the Generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus is using Jordan Radcliffe's body as a host.
Episode 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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 22: Twice Bless'd
Mabus attempts to control the minds of Foster, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua in order to fulfill the requirements necessary to initiate the Second Wave.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.