Cade was born in Chicago on October 2, 1970 (or '69). His father was a soldier in, and a victim of, the Vietnam war. His mother, Rose, remarried a sluggish, alcoholic brute named Ned who tortured the Fosters every chance he got. As a young boy, Cade had a love of hockey and played games with the neighbourhood children when ever he could. His "Runaway Train" slap shot won him multitudes of awards through his youth and adulthood.

When Cade was 12, his life was getting worse. His mother had fallen sick to cancer and was dying. His step-father got fired often, and liked to slap him around for no reason at all. The prospect of money was tempting to Ned, and he let some men take Cade for experiments under the guise it was for a university. The men weren't even human.

Cade had no memory of this experiment, and went on with life in a broken home. Ned taught him how to break a lock, "just like music". Eventually, his mother passed on. Overcome with grief and a need to escape Ned, Cade turned to crime. By the time he was seventeen, he had committed three bank holdups and thirty-seven other heists with friends, Harley, Dex and Richie. He was an expert with locks and could crack anything. He even once carried a safe down twenty-two floors, rupturing two discs in his back for his trouble.

He spent two and a half years in jail, and finally decided he was far enough from Ned that he could change again. So, Cade went straight. He married his parole officer's daughter, a woman named Hannah, moved somewhere in the suburbs of Chicago and got a job as a security salesman, which he was great at, given his skills.

Things went downhill from there. In October, 1997, Cade began suffering from visions of a man's severed head with a scar down the left side of the face, and the number nineteen. In April, things began getting desperate. His credit cards got maxed, his bank accounts drained, his house ransacked, and he was fired from the firm. Nineteen was painted everywhere in their house, and he decided that if someone were trying to sabatoge his new life, whether it be Harley or Ned again, he'd find out.

Cade broke into his former boss' office and found the files that had been sent describing his past. Cards included with them gave him the name and address of a police man, Samuel Hitchens. Must to Hannah's dismay, Cade went to question Hitchens, to find him in his study dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Articles on Hitchens' desk about a millionare who snapped and murdered his entire family led Cade to the Wilsonville Psychiatric hospital, where he confronted the millionaire, Emmitt Mayhew. Mayhew told him about aliens who had replaced his family and done everything to him that had recently happened to Cade. He also let him know the location of an object that could help them stop these invaders. Cade convinced his wife to go to the location and uncover what the clues were, and found an ancient book of Nostradamus quatrains. He had to go back and ask Mayhew, and they did, to find him also having committed suicide.

Hannah requested they go to a hotel instead of back to their house and Cade obliged. After demanding the cops file a report for him, Cade told Hannah he was sending her to her parents'. She refused but caved, settling for some goodbye hanky-panky instead. They began kissing, when Cade noticed something wrong. Something was coming out of her neck, and strangling him! When he woke up after falling unconscious, Hannah was there still. Only, she was dressed, but laying on the floor with her head slumped to the side. Cade examined her to find that she was dead, and the necklace he'd given to her before and then ripped off was still around her neck. The one in his hand was false. Something was going on. And then, the cops arrived.

Cade beat them away and took off for an address he'd found in Mayhew's cell. There, he discovered a pure white room with pictures of people, numbers on top. He found Mayhew's picture, and his number was 110. Hitchens was there, too, as 116. And beside that, under the heading "Subject 117", was himself. Cade pulled these down and ran out as the police once more arrived. The pictures had self-destructed somehow and the arresting officers believed he'd gone insane. He was convicted of murder and sent to Wilsonville, where Cade discovered the aliens that Mayhew told him about were real. Unbeknowest to him until three years later, this was phase two of the experiment his step-father had sold him two when he was twelve.

Cade escaped the hospital and vowed hunt the aliens down until they left Earth. He tracked down a paranoid webmaster named Eddie Nambulous and got him to believe his story. Together, Cade and Eddie roamed the United States for two years and found many allies. Among them were a sympathetic alien warrior named Joshua Bridges, and a woman, Jordan Radcliffe, whose brother was Subject 23 in Cade's own experiment. Jordan formed an army of people who the aliens had also touched and called them the Raven Nation. Cade, Eddie, Jordan and Joshua joined forces to rid the world of the aliens who had taken so much from them and killed so many innocent people, and promised not to stop until that was achieved.

The Nostradamus book Cade found behind Mayhew's with Hannah was full of quatrains and passages that predicted the aliens' moves. They predicted the meeting of the Raven Nation, the coming of an antichrist, and so many other experiments Cade, Eddie and Joshua foiled. Many of them referred to "a man, twice bless'd". At first, Cade was sure they were all total BS, but Eddie convinced him to "believe the unbelievable". He was sure that Cade was this so-called Twice Bless'd Man. And, so, with his friends in tow, Cade Foster scours the United States--a prime launching point for the prophesized three waves of alien invasion--in secret, running from both terrestrial and extraterrestrial authority. Cade's life was never a charmed one, but he believes that amongst the war cries and gunshots, under the hatred and grime, that he's finally found a warm home and a loving family. He has a purpose, to save us all, and Cade's determined not to let mankind down.

Sebastian Spence hails from St. John's, Newfoundland. He was born on December 9, 1969 to Janis Spence and Michael Cooke--who had 12 other children, including First Wave writer Fergus Cooke! Sebastian's parents were both playwrights and actors. But, Sebastian had no aspirations to follow in their footsteps.

In the mid-80s, he was out drinking with friends when one of them asked him if he'd like to be in a play on stage. He jokingly agreed, but the friend was serious, and soon enough he had starred in over a dozen plays. His first film came out in 1994, called "The Boys of St. Vincent", about a Catholic orphanage in St. John's where the depraved Brothers have their way with the boys in 1975. Sebastian played the headmaster's favourite, Kevin Reevey, when he was grown up and preparing to send the men to jail. This movie was produced by the CBC and won critical acclaim and awards, including Geminis and film festivals, to boot.

Sebastian has had parts in nine movies to date, and many television guest roles. He was the ill-fated deputy in the infamous X-Files episode "Home", Cal Sharpe in "Madison", Stevie Servine in "Fast Track", Willy in the "Dead Man's Gun" episode "My Brother's Keeper", Charlie Smith in the "Dark Angel" episode "Hit a Sista back" and, of course, Cade Foster in "First Wave". Sebastian is a great dramatic as well as comedic actor actor. His ability to change moods and portray them on his face has won him the adoration of many people, especially one large group of eccentric female "First Wave" fans.

Sebastian will be at the Toronto film festival in September, 2001 to promote his latest movie, "Little Boy Blues" (where he plays 3 roles, including a transvestite!), and be featured in a TNT Superstation movie called "Hidden Target" sometime in the fall of 2001. 1