First wave

The life of former thief Laurence Kincaid "Cade" Foster, who became a security specialist, was ideal: a wonderful wife, a good job, and a cozy home. Unbeknownst to him, he becomes object 117 in the gua experiment (alien race) to test human endurance. For this experiment, his life is destroyed: freezing accounts, dismissal from work, as well as the murder of his wife, of which he was also accused. Of 117 “experimental rabbits,” only he was able to solve the mysteries of the experiment and escape from the hands of the police, becoming a fugitive. Gua have infiltrated human society in the form of hybrid clones and plan to enslave people - this is the first of three “waves” to capture and destroy our race. The police are constantly following him. Foster finds the lost quatrains of Nostradamus , which predict the end of the world from three waves, if the "twice blessed" does not stop them. Having guessed that he was talking about him, Foster investigates the events predicted by these quatrains, hoping to find out something important to prevent the invasion of the gua.

Mad Eddie Nambulus (real name Larry Pisinski, usually appears as Eddie or Mad Eddie) is a hacker who helps Cade by posting his diaries on the website of his electronic newspaper Paranoid Times. He uses Foster’s diaries to tell people that “strangers here, walk among us, lay the foundation for the impending invasion.” He translated the predictions of Nostradamus into his computer and compares them with current events. In addition, he is often involved in hacking and extracting the information Foster needs.

One gua named Joshua disagrees that an invasion is necessary. Although he wants the best for his people, he secretly helps Cade and Eddie stop the “second wave” - the invasion. He explains this by saying that if each of the 117 people is as purposeful and enduring as Foster, then the invasion is doomed to failure or to horrific victims on the part of the gua. Joshua sees a lot in common between former gua and humanity.

In the third season, Cade meets with Jordan Radcliffe, who is the leader of an underground gua-hunting group.

Also in the third season, Foster's main enemy, the leader of the invasion, Mabus, is declared . According to the prediction of Nostradamus, the third and last Antichrist (after Napoleon and Hitler ). Mabus is a gua prophet with supernatural powers.

At the seventh dawn of the seventh day,

Twice blessed will roam the fields.
Doomed to go to the shadows with his brothers,

Or become the savior of all who walk on Earth.

Gua is an alien race, much older than humanity, like their star system. In the ninth episode of the first season of Joshua, Joshua explains that their star in the last phase of their existence is a red giant (which, however, contradicts the words of Trent, a friend of Joshua, who said that the planet (not the star) is dying in episode 8 of season 2 , and that if you spend all your strength and money on their home planet, it can be saved (saving a star would hardly have been possible, given that Gua, although technologically more advanced than man, is still not so)). For a long time, the Gua were peaceful people and were engaged in self-exploration. But their planet once, like now the Earth, was attacked by strangers . Shortly after the invasion began, when their race was almost broken, a leader appeared who led the people and the strangers were defeated. After that, they took on a new name - Gua, which in their language means "Invincible Power." From now on, the Gua won any war in which they were drawn. Soon their planet began to perish, and then they began to look for another place to live, so the invasion of the Earth was planned.

Since the distance between the planets is very large, Gua developed a way to move to Earth through wormholes in space. They move small balls that, in containers disguised as a meteorite, fall to Earth. The balls recorded their consciousness, which is transferred to an artificial body, called the "Shell", " Clone ". If Gua dies, his body immediately evaporates, leaving no evidence. Such “evaporation” is also used in some experiments, so that in case of detection of technology and experiments, Gua would not leave evidence. It was later proved that the body of the clone does not evaporate if the gua consciousness was not recorded in it.

Each body contains a small portion of Gua’s DNA, giving them improved strength, speed, intelligence, and regeneration. Gua's task is to prepare the planet for the Second Wave. Joshua noticed that his current body is already the third.

In season three, Joshua recounted that at least one other race was captured and destroyed centuries ago. Apparently, some members of this race had the ability to predict the future.

Season One

• 1.01 - “Object 117” - when a former thief, and now a security specialist, Cade Foster discovers that he has become an involuntary participant in the alien experience, they kill his wife and accuse him of murder.
• 1.02 - “Crazy Eddie” - Cade is a fugitive from the law, trying to convince the world of a future invasion from outer space. For the sake of this, he is looking for a weird publisher of an online newsletter on conspiracy theories.
• 1.03 - “Mata Hari” - Cade infiltrates the university, trying to prevent a spy with telekinesis from trying to turn off the planetary defense system.
• 1.04 - “Hypnosis” - Cade examines a therapy group claiming that they were abducted by aliens, trying to find out whether they were really abducted or whether the group is a facade for aliens.
• 1.05 - “Elixir” - investigating the case of a girl aged up to 80 within a few minutes, Cade learns about the existence of a rejuvenating elixir created by the aliens, but its effect is only temporary.
• 1.06 - “Different Languages” - joining a cult warning people about an impending invasion, Cade learns that the charismatic cult leader himself is one of the aliens.
• 1.07 - “Fish with Lungs” - Cade travels to Indiana to investigate the boy’s allegation of a strange fish with lungs and learns of an alien attempt to create creatures that can survive in water and on land.
• 1.08 - “The Book of Shadows” - having arrived in Salem, Oregon , Cade learns about the witch’s court for the murder of three famous citizens, who, according to her, were demons, but in fact - aliens.
• 1.09 - "Joshua" - while on the run in the forests of Montana , Cade captures a federal agent who is an alien in doubt about the capture of the Earth.
• 1.10 - “Mile Pillar 262” - Cade travels to Missouri to investigate the disappeared racer and finds the remains of a thirty-year-old Gua experience in the area of ​​Mile Pillar 262.
• 1.11 - “Motel California” - conducting an investigation in a small hotel in California , Cade unwittingly becomes one of the “guinea pigs” of Gua’s next experience aimed at creating hallucinations in people.
• 1.12 - “Breeding offspring” - Cade is hired by a running trainer at a private school in New England to investigate rumors of students with superhuman abilities.
• 1.13 - “Blue Agave” - Cade contacts her late wife’s best friend and discovers that she and other members of her club are participants in the gua’s experience in reading people's memory using a parasite worm.
• 1.14 - “Suburb” - Cade is investigating a beautiful gua woman who uses pheromones to seduce men and force them to do what she wants.
• 1.15 - “Box” - returning home to visit his wife’s grave, Cade falls into the hands of the police and is interrogated, but he manages to escape and find out valuable information about the goals of the gua on Earth.
• 1.16 - “Unwanted” - trying to find out if the physics professor’s research on wormholes is important, Cade learns that he is being protected by a gua woman who has fallen in love with him. Because of this, the gua command sent Joshua to kill her. Joshua and Cade agree that their goals are not contradictory.
• 1.17 - “Second Wave” - having arrived in the suburbs after rumors of UFO sightings , Cade discovers that a full-scale invasion is beginning, and he falls into the basement with a group of people suspecting each other.
• 1.18 - “Blind Witness” - Cade pretends to be a patient in a seedy city hospital, where as a result of the gua experience, the blind woman not only gained a partial ability to see, but also distinguish between people and gua.
• 1.19 - “Flood” - Cade pretends to be a bounty hunter in search of a criminal and arrives in a town where the rain has not stopped for two years in a row. Cade believes that gua is behind this phenomenon.
• 1.20 - “Melody” - Cade investigates the case of a musical group whose songs cause bouts of violent behavior.
• 1.21 - “Time After” - a woman arrives from the future to save Cade from murder and change the course of history.
• 1.22 - “Decision” - the gua convene a tribunal to decide whether to start the second wave. Joshua agrees against, citing the fact that if every 117th person has the willpower of Cade Foster, then the invasion is doomed to failure in advance.

Season Two

• 2.01 - “Target 117” - a female gua warrior arrives on Earth to test Cade’s combat potential.
• 2.02 - "Deep Throat" - Cade is trying to bring to the open the senator who puts sticks in the wheels of the US space program.
• 2.03 - The Apostles - Cade pretends to be a journalist to investigate a group of bikers and a missing person. He learns that the Apostles (self-name of bikers) know about gua and use cruel methods to identify and destroy them.
• 2.04 - "Vision" - Cade travels to Maine to investigate the mysterious death of a psychic.
• 2.05 - “Channel” - a young woman has an accident and is in a state of clinical death. Having woken up, she begins to quote the lost quatrains of Nostradamus in an afterlife voice. Cade has a real chance to talk with an ancient prophet.
• 2.06 - “Red Flag” - Cade tries to uncover the gua’s attempt to infiltrate US troops.
• 2.07 - “Prayer for the White Man” - Cade pretends to be a journalist to investigate an attempt to build a casino on an Indian reservation .
• 2.08 - “Cleansing” - the attempt on the life of Minister Gua leads to chaos at a meeting of prominent aliens.
• 2.09 - "Lost Souls" - Foster investigates the gua experience, leading to burials alive.
• 2.10 - "Robbery" - Cade again meets his former partners in crime, but everyone falls under the influence of an alien device.
• 2.11 - “Ohio footballers” - Cade is trying to find evidence of another gua experience being held on footballers .
• 2.12 - “Under cover of night” - the gua try to trick Cade into revealing the whereabouts of the lost book of Nostradamus.
• 2.13 - "Normal, Illinois" - Cade travels to the town of Normal to investigate the mysterious deaths of adolescents from neurological disorders.
• 2.14 - “All About Eddie” - Crazy Eddie goes to the alumni congress of his school, where he is visited by gua agents.
• 2.15 - “A place for games” - a young guy commits a series of senseless killings after being in an alien amusement park.
• 2.16 - "Harvest" - gua collect human hormones to take advantage of their healing properties.
• 2.17 - “Rubicon” - Cade becomes a national hero supposedly revealing to the world the existence of aliens, but is this not too good a dream?
• 2.18 - “Gladiator” - Cade and his old cell-mate are investigating the gua’s experience with the underground fighting club.
• 2.19 - “Joshua Bridges Court” - gua judges Joshua on suspicion of sympathy for people and treason to his people.
• 2.20 - “The Underground World" - Foster learns about the experience of the gua with connections with the mafia.
• 2.21 - “Tomorrow” - Cade wakes up 11 years after the invasion, where he himself is the face of the propaganda of the invaders.
• 2.22 - “Believers" - Cade and Eddie capture the TV station, trying to tell the world about the impending invasion.

Season Three

• 3.01 - “Mabus” - a woman named Jordan Radcliffe joins the fight between Cade and Eddie. Meanwhile, the gua create a clone of Cade.
• 3.02 - “Raven Nation” - Cade meets a girl who saved him. She leads people who are ready for an uprising against gua.
• 3.03 - “The Rider Comes” - Cade investigates the mysterious death of a virologist.
• 3.04 - “The Gulag” - Cade falls into a cyclical world, which is a prison for Joshua, where he constantly tries to prevent the destruction of the Earth after the failure of the invasion. But Foster is not the only stranger in this world - he is closely followed by Kane, Joshua's double.
• 3.05 - “Francis Jeffries' Escape” - Cade investigates the murder of a scientist accused of his daughter.
• 3.06 - “Still at large” - A girl working at the police station dies, barely having time to report that she has evidence of Foster's innocence. Cade is trying to figure out what kind of documents.
• 3.07 - “Shelter” - Eddie enters a psychiatric hospital to help a judge hidden there by aliens.
• 3.08 - “Eyes of Gua” - Endowed with unique abilities, the gua performs ritual killings of selected people on the instructions of Mabus. Foster and Joshua are forced to join forces to stop the killer.
• 3.09 - "Looking to the sky" - The girl-agent of the Raven Nation mysteriously dies in a small town. Investigating her death. Cade and Jordan understand that all the people in the city are intimidated by aliens.
• 3.10 - “Plan” - the faction of the gua generals, together with Joshua, ask Cade for help to kill Mabus.
• 3.11 - “Baby born on Wednesday” - A terminally ill little wunderkind girl sends Eddie an electronic warning about an impending explosion. It soon becomes clear that there is a mental connection between her and Mabus.
• 3.12 - “From the Ground” - An archaeological expedition digs up the mythical hammer of the Scandinavian god Thor, who is actually a device for moving in space, lost by aliens in the Middle Ages.
• 3.13 - “Land of Shadows” - Foster goes to the psychotherapist after a series of nightmares, which helps him to uncover childhood memories associated with gua.
• 3.14 - “Heritage” - Jordan is attacked at the annual foundation ball founded by her father and finds out the shocking truth about his premature demise.
• 3.15 - “Edge” - Foster is injected with gua DNA. He begins to gradually turn into an alien, and Eddie and Jordan have to come to terms with the possibility that he will have to be killed for the sake of the Earth.
• 3.16 - “Vessel” - Mabus inhabits the body of a computer magnate to destroy the human information network. However, an attempt to catch him comes to the fact that he dwells in Jordan's body.
• 3.17 - “Requiem” - Foster informs the generals of the Raven Nation that Mabus uses the body of their leader.
• 3.18 - “Checkmate” - Mabus captures Foster and tries to persuade him to cooperate with the body of Jordan.
• 3.19 - “Black Box” - Foster and Eddie discover the site of the crash of a mysterious plane, which turns out to be a stealth bomber with a bomb ten times more powerful than an atomic warhead.
• 3.20 - “Under the black sky” - Foster meets with a mysterious man who saved him in childhood from gua. He teaches Foster the wisdom of forgiveness and prepares him for the final battle.
• 3.21 - “The Last City” - Foster falls into the future, hoping to find the Hammer of Thor, which can predetermine the fate of the battle with the aliens. Alone, he discovers only a miserable handful of rebels and himself, who long ago lost all hope of victory.
• 3.22 - “Twice Blessed” - Mabus (in the body of the son of Foster and Jordan) catches the heroes and tries to manipulate their minds to initiate the Second Wave. Foster needs to understand what is reality and what is just fiction.

• Cade Foster - Sebastian Spence
• The Crazy Eddie Nambulus - Rob LaBell
• Joshua Bridges / Kane - Roger R. Cross
• Jordan Radcliffe - Tracy Lords

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