The Messengers premiere: Where to watch the CW series pilot episode online

The series premiere of The Messengers airs on 17 April at 9pm on the CW network.

Episode 1 is titled Awakening, in which the lives of five strangers are turned upside down when the earth is hit by a mysterious object.

Click here to watch the episode online on the CW website.

The official synopsis reads as follows:

A mysterious object plummets to Earth, sending out a shock wave that causes five strangers to perish, only to miraculously come back to life moments later. The group includes Vera (Shantel VanSanten), a struggling radio-astronomer searching for her missing son; Erin (Sofia Black-D'Elia), a young mother desperate to protect her seven year old daughter (guest star Madison Dellamea) from an abusive ex-husband (guest star Lane Garrison); Peter (Joel Courtney), a troubled high school student; Raul (JD Pardo), a federal agent looking to escape his dangerous and violent undercover assignment; and Joshua (Jon Fletcher), a charismatic second-generation televangelist. Most mysterious of all is the figure known only as The Man (Diogo Morgado), who offers Vera the one thing she wants most in life - if she will help him with one morally complicated task which puts her on a collision course with Rose (Anna Diop), a nurse who has been in a coma for seven years. Drawn together by fate and biblical prophecy, the "Messengers" soon learn they have supernatural gifts that might be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture.

Stephen Williams directs the episode written by Eoghan O'Donnell. Craig Frank also guest stars.

The drama revolves around a meteoric occurrence that gives five people divine abilities, just in time to prevent the Rapture/Apocalypse-like event that's being triggered by an evil presence.

Executive producer Trey Callaway in an interview at WonderCon Anaheim talks about how the story begins.

Callaway said, "This is the story of five, ultimately, perhaps more, characters who are different ages, different walks of life, spread around the world, who would otherwise have never crossed paths with each other if destiny hadn't intervened. The one thing that they all have in common is they're all at severe periods of crisis in their lives, no matter what different kinds of forms that might take."