Season 2

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. The Football

After the nuclear football is lost, all US nuclear silos and 50 US submarines launch their nuclear warheads at nations all around the world, earning reciprocative attacks. After the backstep into DC, Parker and Vukavitch find the warrant officer who lost the football to a group of street thugs. Parker and Vukavitch follow the football from the thugs to a fortune teller ( Lorena Gale ) to a homeless man (Ron Small) to a stripper (Leslie Hopps) to Kiki the gorilla ( Tom Woodruff, Jr. ). Kiki circumvents all the safeguards and security to initiate launch, but Parker enters the gorilla enclosure and manages to enter the abort code in time.

2. Pinball Wizard

Nancy (Merritt Hicks) is a video game prodigy hired to play by Lloyd Sype ( John Gegenhuber ), unknowingly commanding actual US missiles. After a missile strikes the Pentagon killing over 50 people including the Secretary of Defense, a backstep is authorized. The missile was guided in using US Defense Department satellite guidance; in Seattle after the backstep, Parker tracks down the signal and finds Nancy's apartment. After capturing Nancy and escaping from a missile sent by Sype, Parker brings Nancy to NNL where she flies their version of the rocket game and takes out Sype's missile while Parker returns to Seattle and captures Sype.

3. Parker.com

Dr. Susan Erikson (Kendall Cross) has developed an artificial intelligence named Claire. After activation, Claire personifies herself akin to the AI's level of development. As Claire "ages" ( Keegan Connor Tracy ) she develops an understanding of the world and disarms all of the US' nuclear warheads as a first step toward world peace. Attempting backstep, Claire interferes and prevents Parker from time traveling, but her infatuation with the chrononaut leads her to set up a virtual reality where the two can meet, face-to-face. After distracting the AI, Parker successfully backsteps. In the past, Parker successfully helps shut down Claire.

4. For the Children

Disaffected US Army Gulf War veterans take a Los Angeles Metro Rail train hostage, including a group of sixth-graders from La Porte, Indiana. Sick with Gulf War syndrome, they demand the president acknowledge the illness and pay reparations of $300 million to those afflicted or they will kill all 33 passengers. After the train is blown up, a backstep is not authorized because it isn't a national emergency and Parker takes it hard: resigning from Project Backstep and assaulting Ramsey. After lying to the NSA panel about an important courier aboard the train, a backstep is authorized and Parker successfully defuses the hostage situation.

5. Two Weddings and a Funeral

Vukavitch has again been replaced by Galina Komanov ("There's Something About Olga") who's escaped from her mental institution. After marrying Parker in a Vegas wedding, Komanov murders Donovan for suggesting a "quickie divorce ". Meanwhile, a citizen-militia steals a helicopter from Fort Drum and blows up the Statue of Liberty. After backstepping to prevent the terrorism, Vukavitch hasn't yet been supplanted by Komanov and is incredulous at the idea that she and Parker got married. After her escape, Komanov takes Parker and Vukavitch hostage, but before she can kill them, they escape and Vukavitch kills Komanov.

6. Walk Away

Conducting the autopsy on Adam ("Lifeboat"), a device is found that allowed Adam mobility despite suffering a paralysis -inducing spinal cord injury. Ballard has the device implanted in him, allowing him to walk again for the first time since he was 15. However, Adam's consciousness is imprinted on the device and slowly takes over Ballard, allowing him to induce others to support him in creating weapon to kill humanity. After activating the weapon, Ballard is killed by Parker who must undo modifications to the sphere and backstep without any support. After backstepping, Parker stops Ballard and the device is successfully removed.

7. Sister's Keeper

Olga Vukavitch's sister Svetlana ( Stephanie Romanov ) is in Las Vegas hiding out when she's murdered on the street. After a backstep for an unrelated incident, Olga and Parker travel to Vegas to find and rescue her. Svetlana was a live-in bookkeeper for a Chechen boss named Ivan Mironov ( Vladimir Kulich ) against whom she was turning state's evidence in Moscow before she fled with $500,000 of his money; now she's wanted by Ivan, the FBI, Russian police, and the ATF. After meeting up and escaping from Ivan, Parker double-crosses Svetlana and gives the mob money to the Catholic orphanage at which Svetlana had been hiding out.

8. The Collector

To prevent the collapse of a dam, Parker backsteps while intoxicated and accidentally lands the sphere in the midst of an execution. Edwin Brucks ( Brent Stait ), former Jesuit priest turned serial killer who killed 37 young women, escapes from prison after seeing Parker emerge from the sphere. Brucks murders his former partner (Tim Bissett) and takes a victim (Jennifer Copping) hostage, driving Parker to take it upon himself to track down Brucks with Vukavitch's help. Brucks kidnaps and hides Vukavitch, but is captured himself soon thereafter. After allowing Brucks to escape again, Parker follows him to his lair and kills him there.

9. Love and Other Disasters

Prince Hamal Zeani ( Alessandro Juliani ) of Algeria and Princess Lisette D'Arcy ( Emmanuelle Vaugier ) of Sainte-Simone are to be wed with Vukavitch and Ballard among those in attendance. After an explosion kills multiple high-ranking officials at the wedding, a backstep is authorized. Arriving in Sainte-Simone, Parker uncovers a plot to assassinate the princess. Their previous plans foiled, the conspirators reveal themselves and take all the guests hostage. Parker and the princess rescue the guests and capture the terrorists. After her adventure, Princess Lisette opts not to marry Prince Hamal, and instead knights Parker.

10. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

China is rattling its sabers regarding international recognition of Taiwan. While assigned to the Taiwan Strait, the USS Melville ( DD -998) encounters a Chinese Tango -class submarine spying on Taiwan; 24 hours later the two vessels destroy each other with tactical nuclear weapons. After a backstep, Parker boards the Melville and must contend with the glory-seeking Admiral Robert Newman (Jim Antonio) who refuses to leave the Strait or cease antagonizing the sub. Parker teams up with the relieved captain, Commander Helen Keagle ( Roxann Dawson ), to commandeer the Melville and they succeed in defusing the situation.

11. Time Gremlin

An artificially induced 9.2-intensity earthquake along the San Andreas Fault triggers a massive tsunami that effectively wipes out Los Angeles, killing upwards of 9 million people. During the backstep, Parker unknowingly picks up an extraterrestrial hitchhiker (David Mylrea) in the sphere and fails to travel back in time. The entity, what the Project Backstep team comes to refer to as a "gremlin", wreaks havoc around Never Never Land, distorting time and destroying equipment. After tempting the gremlin into the sphere and backstepping without the hatch, Parker returns the gremlin to its dimension and averts the LA disaster.

12. Buried Alive

After a mine in Colorado collapses due to unauthorized demolitions work to open up more area for strip mining, an Air Force base and several stealth bombers are lost as well as thousands dead in the nearby town. Upon backstep however, the sphere lands inside the mine and Parker is trapped, a problem compounded by his claustrophobia induced by his time in a Somalian hot box. While climbing through the mine to escape, Parker flashbacks to his youth and his training as a boxer at the hands of Father John Kelly (Michael MacRae). With the assistance of the Project Backstep team, Parker finds the escape route and reaches the surface in time.

13. The Backstepper's Apprentice

When Parker backsteps to save a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the sphere accidentally intersects with a commercial airliner out of Sea-Tac, crashing the plane and sending young passenger Morgan Walker ( Neil Denis ) back in time one day. Walker wakes in his bed and soon realizes he has knowledge of the future; while he rectifies mistakes made and opportunities missed, Parker and Vukavitch hunt him down. In Albany, New York, the two catch up with Walker. In exchange for helping save Walker's grandfather (Blu Mankuma) from a heart attack, the boy gives up the information needed to ground the flight that crashed last time.

14. Deja Vu All Over Again

Talmadge is kidnapped while on a NSA -mandated vacation. Parker has been experiencing "time glitches" after backsteps; he's ravenous for fried chicken and the bubbles in his beer reverse direction back-and-forth. After Talmadge takes his L-pill to avoid divulging secrets of Project Backstep, Parker backsteps to save him. Arriving in Chinatown, Vancouver, Parker tracks down the Chinese who've taken Talmadge hostage. After saving Talmadge, but losing an innocent bystander to a shootout, Parker induces a time glitch to try again. This time saving only the bystander, Parker tries a third time and manages to save them both.

15. Space Station Down

When a meteor strikes the Global Space Station and spreads 5 kilograms (11 lb) of plutonium across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, a backstep is conducted to get Parker and the sphere to the space station to assist. After the Russian cosmonaut ( Vincent Gale ) is lost to a hull breach, and one of the remaining astronauts ( Robert Knepper ) uses the lifeboat to abandon ship rather than avert the disaster, Parker must use the sphere to move the station into an escape orbit while the last remaining astronaut (Kendall Cross) remains aboard the station. After pushing the station, Parker survives riding the sphere back to Earth.

16. The Cuban Missile

Upon release from prison, Sonny Hayes ("Vegas Heist") arranges a boxing match featuring celebrated Cuban Olympian Teo Millar ( Raymond Cruz ). When Millar is assassinated during the fight, his adoptive father Fidel Castro ( Michael Sorich ) nukes Miami. After backstep, Parker discovers Millar's surviving family living in the US having escaped Cuba without Millar after Castro killed his father. Despite trying to back out, Hayes forces Millar to fight, threatening his family and incapacitating Parker. Escaping, Parker stops the assassin and Millar wins the fight, announcing his intention to stay in the United States with his family.

17. X-35 Needs Changing

A genetically-engineered baby (X-35) is kidnapped from Clardy National Bio-Lab. After uncovering intel that the baby is in Russia, a backstep is authorized. Parker and Vukavitch travel to Russia to search for the baby. There, Russian FSB Major Vladimir Markovsky ( Garry Chalk ) points the duo to northern Chechnya where they find Chechen rebels and their leader ( Michael Kopsa ) holding the baby. After rescuing X-35, evading land mines, tending to the baby, defeating the pursuing Chechens, and thwarting Markovsky's attempt to abscond with the baby, Parker and Vukavitch kidnap him themselves and return him to his surrogate mother (Sarah Deakins).

18. Brother, Can You Spare a Bomb?

Ramsey's brother Nicholas ( Nick Searcy ) is the Ameribomber, an anti-immigration fanatic who bombed a senator 's office and a naturalization ceremony in Denver, killing a total of 27 people. Nicholas did so with his brother's credentials, resulting in Ramsey losing his job with the NSA and being arrested by the FBI. After a backstep to prevent the bombings, Parker arranges for Ramsey to accompany him to Leadville, Colorado to apprehend his brother and save his job. They intercept the letter bomb for the senator, defuse the bomb at the INS building, and successfully capture Nicholas before returning him to the VA for treatment.

19. Pope Parker

Pope Sylvester V (Walter Marsh) is assassinated in St. Peter's Square, and because the pontiff was brokering peace between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia, a backstep is authorized. Something happens during backstep and Parker finds himself only five days in the past and in the pope's body after the assassination attempt. Parker must play along with being the pope for a while pending a trip to the United States. As the pope, Parker arranges a private audience with Vukavitch and explains to her what's happened. After evading assassination a second time, and sneaking away to NNL, Parker backsteps and returns to his own body.

20. Witch Way to the Prom

Three teenage girls attempt to use witchcraft to summon the perfect prom date for Karen ( Christine Lakin ). They identify IRA terrorist Elton Wiles (Terrance Leigh) as the object of their summoning. After following him and logging his movements, they break into his hotel room and accidentally set off a bomb, destroying most of the floor. When Parker backsteps to prevent the bombing, his arrival in Boston coincides with the girls' seance and they instead latch onto Parker as their prom date. Parker plays along to track down the original bomber using the ledger from the previous timeline, and after taking him out, arrives as a prom date for Karen.

21. Mr. Donovan's Neighborhood

After a local gang kills Donovan's little sister Tracy ( Karen Malina White ), making it look like a heroin overdose, Donovan travels home to Washington, D.C. and investigates. Donovan breaks into the gang's house, and after killing the gang leader in self-defense, finds himself in jail. In turn, Parker reveals everything about Project Backstep to the press—blaming it on Donovan—in order to prompt a backstep so that Parker and Donovan can save Tracy in the new timeline. Parker and Donovan successfully thwart the gang's plans, rescue Tracy and her fiancé ( Colin Lawrence ), and clean up the neighborhood before returning to NNL.

22. Playmates and Presidents

Presidential hopeful Governor Bill Stevens ( Vaughn Armstrong ) is assassinated; after backstep, Parker saves the governor's life at the last second on national TV. At Stevens' request, the NSA loans out Parker to work with the Stevens campaign. After cryptic warnings from the governor's daughter (Paige Rowland), Parker soon learns of a dark side to the governor and his campaign: a hatred of North Koreans and all Asians stemming from his time as a POW, and a plan to instigate war once president. After a shootout over the governor's diary wounds his daughter, Parker uses his love for his daughter to convince him to bow out of the race.

23. The Cure

Dr. Krista Henderson ( Moira Walley-Beckett ) has discovered a cure for cancer, but is soon shot off the road and dies. In light of her discovery, a backstep is authorized. Parker arrives back in time and saves her, but also catches the man targeting her: a chrononaut named Jack Dawes ( Lawrence Monoson ) from Never Never Land 168 years in the future. Henderson's cure mutated into a virus in all who received it, killing off most of the world's population; Dawes' mission is to kill Henderson to prevent her knowledge from escaping. Parker and Vukavitch help her escape, but she's still killed by Dawes before he himself is shot dead.