1998

S2.E1 ∙ The Football

Tue, Sep 28, 1999

Frank must undo a worldwide nuclear holocaust after the President's Nuclear football is fumbled.

6.9 /10

S2.E2 ∙ Pinball Wizard

Tue, Oct 05, 1999

Frank must undo a missile attack on the pentagon by a young woman who thinks she is playing a video game.

7.5 /10

S2.E3 ∙ Parker.com

Tue, Oct 12, 1999

An artificial intelligence program named CLAIRE disables all of the world's defensive systems and it's up to Parker to stop her.

7.2 /10

S2.E4 ∙ For the Children

Tue, Oct 19, 1999

Parker quits when a Backstep is canceled that would have saved children on a subway train from being killed, and the team must question whether they obey NSA orders or act on their consciences.

7.3 /10

S2.E5 ∙ Two Weddings and a Funeral

Tue, Nov 02, 1999

Parker weds Olga in Las Vegas, but the bride turns out to be escaped psychotic killer Galina Komanov in disguise.

7.2 /10

An autopsy on Adam finds alien technology that can help the paralyzed walk again and Dr. Ballard jumps at the chance to be able to walk again. But soon after the device is installed, strange things start happening.

7.4 /10

S2.E7 ∙ Sister's Keeper

Tue, Nov 16, 1999

Parker hunts for Olga's younger sister, a hustler who is running from Russian mobsters in Las Vegas.

7.2 /10

S2.E8 ∙ The Collector

Tue, Nov 23, 1999

Parker Backsteps to prevent a collapsed dam from killing people, but when under the influence of alcohol lands in the middle of an execution, letting a serial killer escape. Frank insists on taking on the investigation to make up for his screw-up.

6.5 /10

S2.E9 ∙ Love and Other Disasters

Tue, Dec 14, 1999

Olga and Ballard attend a royal wedding. While there, there's an explosion so Frank is sent to stop it. They assume that it was an accident. But what they don't know is that someone is trying to stop the wedding. Frank goes there and neutralizes the threat. The ones who did it then pull guns and take everyone there captive and the leader demands the Princess but Frank saves her and they hide. That's when Frank learns how she feels about her marriage.

7.1 /10

S2.E10 ∙ The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Tue, Jan 04, 2000

An unknown confrontation between a U.S. Navy ship and a Chinese sub leads to total destruction and loss of life on both vessels and heightened tensions between the countries. Parker must somehow convince two head strong Naval officers to do otherwise.

7.3 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Time Gremlin

Tue, Jan 11, 2000

Parker's efforts to stop a massive earthquake in California are stymied by a destructive gremlin.

7.5 /10

S2.E12 ∙ Buried Alive

Tue, Feb 08, 2000

A big disaster leads Frank to Backstep, but when he comes to, he finds the sphere is buried alive, and the project Backstep team cannot find him.

7.4 /10

S2.E13 ∙ The Backstepper's Apprentice

Tue, Feb 15, 2000

Parker Backsteps to save the life of a Priest assassinated by a drug cartel and while mid Backstep he cuts through an airliner and momentarily picks up a passenger blown into the sphere. Now they must try to find out the flight before it's too late.

7.2 /10

S2.E14 ∙ Deja Vu All Over Again

Tue, Feb 22, 2000

Bradley takes his first vacation in a decade and in doing so, is kidnapped. During questioning he takes a suicide pill, which ultimately leads to a Backstep. Trying to juggle two deaths, Frank experiences what he calls "time burps", where time just seems to go back by itself, and he uses these to repeat events again and again in order to get the desired outcome.

7.7 /10

S2.E15 ∙ Space Station Down

Tue, Feb 29, 2000

On the first day of operations for the Global Space Station, an accident leads to it's destruction and the scattering of Plutonium across the United States. Frank Backsteps to fix the events, but things go wrong.

7.2 /10

S2.E16 ∙ The Cuban Missile

Tue, Mar 21, 2000

After the adopted son of Fidel Castro, a renowned boxer, is assassinated during a boxing match in America, the communist leader retaliates by launching secret nuclear missiles at Miami, triggering a Backstep.

6.1 /10

S2.E17 ∙ X-35 Needs Changing

Tue, Apr 04, 2000

Frank and Olga must go to Chechnya in search of a stolen classified U.S. experiment, the X-35 - a human baby with important specifically bred genes.

6.1 /10

S2.E18 ∙ Brother, Can You Spare a Bomb?

Tue, Apr 18, 2000

Ramsey's mentally unbalanced brother commits an act of terrorism and he used Ramsey's access to classified information to do it. Ramsey's relieved of duty. Frank goes back to stop him but instead of telling them what happened, he only tells Ramsey so that they can stop his brother and save Ramsey's career.

6.9 /10

S2.E19 ∙ Pope Parker

Tue, Apr 25, 2000

Frank backsteps to prevent the assassination of the Pope. But something goes wrong and Frank finds himself in the Pope's persona. So he tries to get word to Neverland but the Pope's Entourage stymies him. He then uses his authority as Pope to send for Olga.

7 /10

S2.E20 ∙ Witch Way to the Prom

Tue, May 02, 2000

3 high school girls use magic and believe they have conjured Parker during a backstep and therefore control him, all just to get a date to prom.

6.2 /10

S2.E21 ∙ Mr. Donovan's Neighborhood

Tue, May 09, 2000

When a reverend fighting against drug deals in Donovan's old neighborhood gets killed, Donovan's sister is killed as well. Donovan investigates and is arrested for killing one of the men responsible, and Frank engineers a Backstep to go back and save his friend.

6.5 /10

S2.E22 ∙ Playmates and Presidents

Tue, May 16, 2000

Parker is ordered to Backstep in order to prevent a Presidential candidate from being assassinated. His mission is a success and the Governor asks him to join his campaign team, but Frank soon discovers the Governor has psychological issues and his daughter is trying to get the evidence to the public.

6.9 /10

S2.E23 ∙ The Cure

Tue, May 23, 2000

A friend of Olga's, who's a scientist, calls to tell her she discovered a cure for cancer. Shortly after she dies in an accident. Frank is sent back to save her and he does. Later someone tries to kill her. Frank catches the man who reveals he's a chrononaut from the future. It seems the woman's cure a few years after it was released would mutate into a plague that killed most of the world. The man claims that another vessel was discovered and they used the fuel source to send him back to stop her. But he says because she is so paranoid, they can't reason with her so the only alternative is to terminate her. Frank tells the guy he's cold who responds by saying Frank would have done it. Bradley's superiors agrees and orders her termination.

7.6 /10