Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1994
Beth Kittridge is hired by Marty Dollar to find a way to make tek non-addictive. Beth soon discovers that he is planning on lacing the music players with the main ingredient in tek so he can sell these players to customers. This would create millions of new addicts and he would be the only supplier.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1994
When Electra helps Jake in a fight, he decides to assist her in getting a job at Cosmos. But Jake is unaware that Electra is an enhanced "X-Class" solider and she moonlights as an assassin. Her current target is Jake's boss and friend, Walter Bascom.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1995
Jake is enticed by John Grant and his newly formed team known as the "Tek Posse". This is a group of men that operate above the law and have some of the best tools, including a mind prober, which is a prototype. On the first mission, Jake begins to doubt his decision to leave Cosmos.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1995
Tom Weston went into hiding because he was making progress on a cure for tek addiction. When he returns from the dead to reclaim his lost love, Jake must make the ultimate sacrifice.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1995
Alec Seeger takes control of Weathercon, making demands and threats. Jake is recruited to help and is partnered with an old partner of Alex's, Lianna. Lianna is a prisoner who has been temporarily released to help on this mission. If she does well, she may have her sentence reduced. Jake must determine if Lianna is helping or hurting his search for Alex.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1995
Miles Connor was a Tek Lord that was caught and imprisoned in a cryogenic state. Connor seems to have reappeared seeking revenge on those that put him away, which includes Jake and Sid. His body is discovered to be in the same place and he is still in his cryogenic sleep. Jake and Sid investigate the other Connor and find some disturbing and deadly answers.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1995
When a cop is killed by a seemingly innocent and good teenage boy, Jake and Sid begin looking into reasons why this might have happened. They check out a new game that the boy had been playing and discover that someone hacked into the game. They created a virus that motivates all people to commit violent acts. Only problem is that this virus is spreading and Jake must get the hacker before he is affected.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1995
Lowell was recently convicted and scheduled for cryogenic freezing and he injected himself with a virus. Although the virus is no threat, as it is in a harmless form, the computers running the cryogenic system reacts to the discovery and stops Lowell's process. The computer detects that the virus is present in other already frozen convicts and unfreezes them as well. Lowell and the other convicts take control of the cryogenic facility and they take Jake as one of their hostages. Recent upgrades to the computer system include the fail safe plan to sterilize the cryogenic facility, which will kill everyone that is not frozen. Jake must find a way to save everyone, even if that means they may be scared to death.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1995
When Lieutenant Winger, an android, is attacked and his CRU (Cortical Relay Unit) is stolen, he finds himself needing the help of his biggest adversary, Jake. Winger has only 18 hours before his brain will shut down and Jake continues to run into various roadblocks trying to save his life.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1995
David Lane is a politician, who has fallen in love with a computer generated prostitute, Carlotta. Only he believes that she is real, being held hostage and being forced into this program. David decides to buy the program, but instead ends up on the losing end of a blackmail scheme. When he turns up dead, Jake must find out what happened to his friend and the truth about Carlotta.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1995
Jake finds himself getting a new partner, Sam Houston, and her first assigned is to infiltrate the Del Amo organization. Problem is that Cassandra and her brothers are running it and they have a device that reads your mind. Sam agrees to undergo mind sculpting, which creates a new personality and hides the old one. Then she is positioned to help Michael escape from jail and becomes Cassandra's right hand. When her true identity is discovered, Sam's life and true personality are threatened and Jake must rescue both of them.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1995
Nika gets herself into trouble when she hacks into cyberspace to find hidden bullion as a favor to an old friend and because she feels under appreciated at Cosmos. Jake must intervene to rescue her from the law, the underworld, and even the bullion.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1995
Peter and his sister, Rachel have discovered a potion that kills those who have used tek. They contact Jake to join their movement as they feel he has made progress in the war. Jake joins the cause so he can find a way to stop them from hurting anyone.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jul 1, 1995
Jake finds himself alone in an alley beaten and bruised with some memory loss. At Cosmos, it is discovered that memories were taken from Jake and that he must recover his missing memories or he will die. Through the investigation into what happened, Jake and Sam discover that other memories of prisoners were accidentally shared during their cryogenic state. They also find out that Jake's memories were stolen to help another inmate, Lobo, to steal a shipment of rock fuel.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1996
Danny and his friend, Peter meet Tina and follow her to a "party". At this party, Peter uses a headset and ends up disappearing. Danny tries to find his friend on his own and ends up being trapped in some alternate reality. Back in the real world, Danny and Peter are unconscious. Jake discovers that this world is draining the minds of the people trapped to run a computer. Jake goes into the alternate reality to save Danny and his friend, hoping he can find a way out for all of them.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1996
Sharon, Jake's old girlfriend, comes to him for help to solve her murder. The woman is a double and informs Jake that Sharon's husband killed her. She states that he is a major distributor of tek and Sharon found out. Jake begins to believe this story when Sharon's body is discovered.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1996
Jake is ordered to provide security to one of the candidates running for mayor. Frank Avery is a recovering tek addict and Jake naturally does not like either politicians or addicts. The biggest threat is Brackett, the candidate of the Tek Lords, who have hired Trask to sabotage Avery's campaign. Jake and Sam must protect Avery's reputation before voting ends and the Tek Lords have control of the city.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1996
It becomes apparent to Bascom that there is a security leak at Cosmos and he seeks outside help to identify the leak. Jake becomes the number one suspect, especially after the outside help is found murdered.
Specials
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Jan 23, 1994 (120 min)
After four years, Jake Cardigan is prematurely awoken from his fifteen year cryogenic punishment to a world very different than the one he knew. Much more than before 'Tek', the highly-addictive electronic designer narcotic of the 21st century, seems to be prevalent. His wife has divorced him and disappeared together with their son. He wants them back and he wants justice for those undercover policemen who were murdered by unknown conspirators which led to his imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. He links up with his ex-partner Sid Gomez, now also an ex-cop, and they go to work for the mysterious Bascom who owns and runs the giant Cosmos security corporation. Their first job is a seemingly easy missing persons case trying to locate a missing scientist who may have developed a crystal to destroy Tek chips. The more the two men investigate the more the dark and powerful forces of the hidden Tek lords are sent to thwart them. What is the connection between this case and his wrongful imprisonment four years ago? Will he ever be able to trace his lost family through the infinite twists and turns of this new technological age? In a race against time Jake struggles to come to terms with this new world where nothing is as it seems and his place within it.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Feb 24, 1994 (120 min)
While using Tek for leisure, Inspector Winterguild is attacked by a powerful virus impossible to be treated. Jake Cardigan receives a demand letter saying that Bennett Sands wants to adopt Danny. While discussing with Kate by phone, she is also attacked by the same virus. Walter H. Bascom and his assistant Centra find that Sonny Hokori, who is imprisoned, is somehow involved in the development of the virus in the global computer network. Jake and Sid Gomez further investigation show that Sonny's sister Tora Hokori, who died in a boat attack to kill Sonny, and now is living in the network. Further, the programmer Gordon Chesterton has developed the powerful virus for her that may compromise the worldwide network.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Feb 27, 1994 (120 min)
Prince Albert, his son Richard Stewart and his assistant Rachel Tudor are traveling in USA to exhibit the family treasure, including the legendary sword Excalibur, and raise money to bring monarchy back to England. Out of the blue, a man named Tristan and his gang steal Excalibur and Prince Albert is found dead. Richard explains to Jake Cardigan that Excalibur is the symbol of power in England and need to be recovered. Jake and his partner Sid Gomez travel to London expecting to recover Excalibur and find that the Teklords have projects for the next Governor of England.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: May 14, 1994 (120 min)
After receiving a phone call, Lieutenant Winger and Det. Prosco arrive at the Cosmo office and find Bennett Sands shot dead. They analyze the crime scene and find 82% of the DNA of Jake Cardigan, and soon Jake appears and confesses the crime. His friends see that he is lying to protect someone, and Walter H. Bascom hires the efficient teenager lawyer Eugene Leopold to defend him.