An androgynous alien species called the Taelons arrive on earth, claiming to be companions of humanity, putting an end to crime, illness, and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons, and form a resistance movement. The resistance soon learned that the force that sustains the Taelons are breaking down, and they are using humans as test subjects in experiments to help save their species. The initial focus of the show was Commander William Boone and his partner, Captain Lili Marquette, who worked for both the Taelons and the resistance. After Boone was killed, the show introduced a new protagonist, Major Liam Kincaid, and began to play on the strengths of it's ensemble cast.
Season 1 - Episode list
1. Decision
Airdate: 1997-10-06 |
TheTVDB Rating: 5.0/10
After Police Captain William Boone's wife is killed, he is recruited to work for the taelons, a seemingly benevolent alien race that has been on Earth for 3 years. To do so he will be implanted with a CVI- a cyber viral implant that will expand his mental abilities and allow him to control a bio-weapon of unlimited power. However before he can make his decision he is also recruited by the resistance, a group of humans who oppose the taelons being on Earth. Lead by Jonathan Doors, the resistance informs Boone that the taelons are not what they appear to be. The CVI implant brainwashes its subjects into following the taelon blindly, in effect controlling them. The resistance informs Boone that they can remove this aspect from the CVI on the condition that he works for both the taelons and the resistance. Boone accepts and now searches for the truth of why the taelons are on earth and if they are responsible for the death of his wife.
2. Truth
Airdate: 1997-10-13 |
TheTVDB Rating: 4.3/10
Boone attempts to track his wife's murderer. He is determined to find out if it was the taelon companion Da'an who ordered her death to get Boone to work for the companions or if it was the resistance that killed her, securing Boone as the resistance's eyes and ears of the companions.
3. Miracle
Airdate: 1997-10-20 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Boone encounters Julie, a suicidal young woman with artificial limbs as hands, who is being used by a religious leader as a miracle when her hands are regenerated by taelon technology.
4. Avatar
Airdate: 1997-10-27 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Boone investigates a serial killer programmed with a CVI who tried to kill Da'an when he enacted an ancient taelon myth of good conquering evil.
5. Old Flame
Airdate: 1997-11-03 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Boone is caught in the middle of his double life when his old flame comes back in his life claiming to be working against the companions.
6. Float Like a Butterfly
Airdate: 1997-11-10
Boone and Lili investigate a small Amish town after several of its citizens mysteriously die.
7. Resurrection
Airdate: 1997-11-17 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Oblivious to Boone and the resistance, Jonathan Doors comes out of hiding and launches a media campaign against the taelons, leaving Boone to clean up the mess.
8. Horizon Zero
Airdate: 1997-11-24 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
When Lili's shuttle is stolen by a friend whose mission to Mars was cancelled, Boone, without breaking orders to find the shuttle for the taelons, has to help the resistance make the most of the stolen shuttle.
9. Scorpion's Dream
Airdate: 1997-12-29 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
The "Skrills" have been bio-engineered on the Earth to be a weapon for the humans who assist the Companions. A "skrill" from the first generation infests a bio-engineer who goes underground, bent on freeing all "skrills" from the oppression of the Companions.
10. Live Free or Die
Airdate: 1998-01-05 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Several soldiers who have volunteered to train in Taelon Interdimensional flight have instead been the victims of strange experiments - some have disappeared all together. A high ranking officer kidnaps Da'an in an attempt to have his men released.
11. The Scarecrow Returns
Airdate: 1998-01-12 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
At resistance headquarters, Boone meets two molecular biologists, Sahjit Jinnah and his fiancee Rayna Armitraj, who are studying the alien probe captured after it wreaked havoc in an Amish community. A power surge causes Rayna to cut off the top of the probe, which responds by dematerializing her. Unaware of the situation, Sahjit and Boone discuss with Doors and Auger the probe's purpose, recalling its ability to replicate butterflies into killers. Launching the resistance into battle with the probe that may be studying Earth.
12. Sandoval's Run
Airdate: 1998-01-19 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Sandoval's CVI is degenerating. While Dr Belman works to restore his CVI and save his life, Sandoval, free from his CVI, escapes to reunite with his wife, only to put her life in danger. Boone learns that Sandoval's CVI contained information about the Taelon's mission on earth, and tries to save Sandoval's life.
13. The Secret of Strandhill
Airdate: 1998-02-02 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
A construction blast unearths a grave marker belonging to a Taelon scout sent to size up earth for Companion occupation thousands of years ago. Boone must find the grave which contains the research, before Sandoval finds the grave. Da'an loses his position as the United Nations Companion to Zu'or, but keeps the American Companionship.
14. Pandora's Box
Airdate: 1998-02-09 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
When a taelon experiment to create an new hybrid warrior goes wrong, an ancient alien evil is unleashed upon the Earth.
15. If You Could Read My Mind
Airdate: 1998-02-16 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
At a Conference of Psychic Sciences, "The Commonality" the Taelon psychic link has been invaded and the secret plans for Earth are known. Katya Petrenko possesses incredible psychic gifts and an interest in Boone. She confronts Zu'or, telling him that the Taelons must change their approach to humans, or they will destroy both races. Katya reveals that a taelon named Ma'el gave some humans the gift to break into "The Commonality". As Katya dies, Dr. Belman performs a brain transfer of all of Katya's knowledge to Boone.
16. Wrath of Achillies
Airdate: 1998-02-23 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Lili loads Augur's computer virus into the Taelon system and it takes affect immediately. System after system crashes and Lili and Da'an are in grave danger as the virus infiltrates the shuttle's computer and lurches them out of control. Augur thinks he can stop the virus, but he must send Boone deep into the building to access the central computer.
17. The Devil You Know
Airdate: 1998-04-13 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10
Colonel Purcell and agent Carter discuss if the body of Thomas Blanchard, a thief who was beaten brain dead, is suitable for them. Doors International head, Anne Portnoy, demonstrates a new Taelon device, an EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse) weapon. Boone meets with Doors and Augur to warn them of the EMP. They plot to steal the weapon to prevent the Taelons from using it against Earth. Before they can obtain the EMP, Blanchard steals it. Lili sneaks into Blanchard's hideout, but is discovered and taken hostage. Blanchard reveals to Lili that he is really her father, Colonel Purcell.
18. Law and Order
Airdate: 1998-04-20 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Major McIntyre confronted Rho-ha in Johnson's hospital room, a struggle ensued and McIntyre was killed. Boone and Sandoval defend Rho-ha, who is ordered to stand trial facing the death penalty for murder. The prosecuting attorney is Joshua Doors, the estranged son of Jonathan Doors. Travis Perkins, delusional Taelon supporter, has vowed to kill those who pose a threat to Rho-ha. Joshua confronts Rho-ha on the stand about the DNA experiments, Rho-ha becomes enraged and threatens to kill Joshua. Perkins is angry at the treatment of the Taelon and attempts a suicide bombing.
19. Through the Looking Glass
Airdate: 1998-04-27 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
The Taelons introduce interdimensional travel to human customers. A young deaf-mute boy and his mother become separated during their travels through the portal. The boy appears and is now able to speak and hear. The boy is examined by Dr. Park, a resistance doctor, who discovers that he has been implanted with a device to restore his missing senses. Boone suspects that the Taelons are using the portal to perform experiments on humans. Doors sends Sahjit through the portal with a tracking device.
20. Infection
Airdate: 1998-07-27 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Ne'eg dies from being exposed to a devastating virus that was unleashed from an alien probe. The virus falls into the hands of a group of white supremacists, they release the virus into the Lincoln Hills homeless shelter. The deadly virus quickly spreads, threatening to decimate both the human and Taelon races. Boone, infected with the virus, comes up with an idea to develop anti-bodies against the virus but it may not be in time to prevent the virus spreading over earth.
21. Destruction
Airdate: 1998-05-04 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10
A holographic image of Rayna, who was consumed by an alien probe, tells Augur that the Taelons are dismantling the probe which will kill her, and they will learn about the Resistance's secrets. Hearing of Rayna's appearance, Sahjit is determined to bring her back. The Taelon lab is under intense security and Augur hires a special operative, Michael Sloane, to lead the resistance team to infiltrate the Taelon compound to destroy the alien probe.
22. The Joining
Airdate: 1998-05-11 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10
Divers stumble across a strange radiant canister while searching for sunken treasure. Upon opening the canister an alien being known as Ha'gel is released from its prison and assumes the identity of one of the crew and destroys the others. Boone is called to the crime scene and his suspicions are raised when he finds Taelon writing on the empty canister. Upon questioning, the Taelons tell Boone that Ha'gel is the last of an alien criminal caste. Afraid that Earth will learn the truth, the Companion's recruit the help of Beckett to deal with Ha'gel. Ha'gel assumes Sandoval's form, and confronts Beckett.
Season 2 - Episode list
1. First of Its Kind
Airdate: 1998-10-05 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Nine hours after Beckett conceived, her child is born. The Resistance must decide what to do with Beckett and her rapidly developing child, Liam Kincaid, who reaches maturity within minutes of being born. Sandoval reveals Boone's ultimate fate to Lili. Rayna transmits a signal to the Jaridians, an alien race. A Jaridian probe replicant assassin is set to destroy all Companions. At Boone's funeral the Taelon Synod leader, Quo'on, is assassinated, but Liam saves Da'an. Da'an appoints Liam as his personal protector. Zo'or realizes that if the replicant kills Da'an, then he'll be made synod leader by default.
2. Atavus
Airdate: 1998-10-12 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Augur taps into the Taelon Commonality, breaking Da'an's contact with the Commonality. Da'an regresses into the "Atavus", a pre-historic version of the Taelons. Zo'or tells Sandoval to kill Da'an. Da'an is a threat for the Atavus only has a hunger for life spirit. The Resistance lures the Atavus to try to save Da'an.
3. A Stitch in Time
Airdate: 1998-10-19
At an exhibit of Taelon items from Strandhill, Liam jumps through a Taelon portal which takes him two days into the future, where he finds everyone in the Resistance headquarters murdered. On returning to the present, he races to stop the massacre and begins to suspect that he is the assassin. Zu'or attempting to destroy Liam, beams dangerous brain wave emissions to him from the Taelon mothership. Doors, highly suspicious of Liam, becomes agitated and demands that Liam be shot.
4. Dimensions
Airdate: 1998-10-26
Liam and Augur are thrown into a parallel dimension when their shuttle flight is sabotaged by Doors. Maiya captures them and brings them back to her Imerian Resistance camp, where they start to find counterparts of people they know. The counterpart Taelons capture the colony and takes them to the mothership.
5. Moonscape
Airdate: 1998-11-02 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Augur is arrested for treason in Russia and condemned to death by hanging. However, he is blackmailed into participating in a Taelon experiment as advanced warriors and is implanted with a CVI. Maiya confuses Sandoval for her lover, Jason, from her dimension thus attracting Sandoval. For protection, Maiya takes the identity of Isabel Martinez. Liam helps Augur break his CVI and bring him back from the rage. Lazarus, the overseer of the program, was brought back to normal by Da'an.
6. Sleepers
Airdate: 1998-11-09
A Jaridian probe crashes into earth and disrupts the Commonality, leading the Taelons to round up suspected Resistance members to be harvested for their life force energy to feed the draining Commonality. As Augur, Maiya and the others lie near death, their souls are in a dream world. Liam, in a comatose state, finds them and tries to bring them back, but they are happy in their dreams and refuse to return. Lili and Sandoval locate the probe in Australia.
7. Fissures
Airdate: 1998-11-16
Working on the New York to Bangkok inter-dimensional link, a technician is killed by energy-eating creatures. Liam and Augur suspect the creatures may be from another dimension, and will drain every energy source on earth. The mothership becomes infested with the creatures, leading the Taelons to put themselves into a near-death state to protect themselves.
8. Redemption
Airdate: 1998-11-23 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Beckett's CVI begins to break down, causing her to slip and fall while climbing in a cave. Unconscious, she hallucinates a trial for her crimes against humanity and for collaborating with the Taelons. Liam and Augur try to find Becket before Sandoval finds and kills her.
9. Isabel
Airdate: 1998-12-28 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Maiya begins to suffer from dimensional phasing, Augur claims that Maiya and her counterpart Isabel must merge or they may both die. Doors enters presidential race to begin to challenge the Taelons. Lili confirms that Isabel and her have the same father. Sandoval questions Maiya on the mothership, while Doors and Zo'or discuss joining forces.
10. Between Heaven and Hell
Airdate: 1999-01-04 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Dr Belman and her scientist daughter Joyce inject an injured ape with the serum, regenerating its injured organs. Unlike her mother, Joyce is eager to try the serum on a human subject.
11. Gauntlet
Airdate: 1999-01-11 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Lili is taken hostage as a Jaridian escapes from the Taelons in a shuttle. Liam pursues and both shuttles are drawn into a alien vessel. Liam explains that the vessel is a repository for the Kimera's accumulated knowledge. In order to leave, they must go to the vessel's core. Da'an confronts Zo'or about the Jaridian's escape, and challenges his authority. The Jaridian reveals his race and the Taelons were one until the Taelons separated. Now the Taelons want to force a union with the Jaridians by using humans as soldiers against them.
12. One Man's Castle
Airdate: 1999-01-18 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
With Da'an's help, a handicapped scientist genius, Sparrow, heads a program where disabled persons can transfer their consciousness into a healthy body by creating a biosurrogate with Jaridian replicant programming, and then live normal lives. A reporter sneaks into the lab and his camera flash activates a biosurrogate. Sandoval arrives to find the reporter and a guard dead, and the biosurrogate gone having no consciousness of it's own. Lili finds that Zu'or has tampered with Da'an's research and have programmed the biosurrogates into killing machines. Liam learns that Sparrow has transferred his consciousness into a second biosurrogate.
13. Second Chances
Airdate: 1999-02-01 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Zu'or sponsors a "fountain of youth" program, called Second Chances, which makes old and ailing people young again. The resistance are trying to replace Doors as leader. Pearl Bell says that she had no previous use for the Taelons before she undergoes the first public transformation. While being interviewed afterward she states how Taelons had before helped her son live. Resistance talks with Doors about the need to go underground again. At a press conference, a Resistance member challenges new transformation group, which provokes one of them to fire a gun into the crowd. The Resistance grabs Pearl, and find that her brain scan reveals memory alternations but they need to prove that they have become Taelon supporters.
14. Payback
Airdate: 1999-02-08 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
At the opening of a new Taelon portal station, a strange flash of energy radiates from Dr Jeffrey Whitfield, Director of Portal Research, and he collapses and found dead. Sa'al, the Taelon engineer in charge of the new portal, addresses the press about the safety of the portal. Doors argues with him and Sa'al explodes in a flash of light. Liam and Sandoval view video of both public events, they zero in on Arnold Creighton, a professor and outspoken critic of the Taelons. Augur finds that Creighton has invented a mini teleportation device, which can kill from the inside out.
15. Friendly Fire
Airdate: 1999-02-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
While Chandler studies a stolen Taelon shuttle, two men burst in, and incinerate the lab while the shuttle escapes. Liam and Lili go the site and find evidence that the attack was an inside job, pointing to a Resistance traitor. During a gun battle at a warehouse, Lili finds Chandler, who asks her to join him and take arms against the Taelons. Lili promises nothing, and lets him escape. Liam and Lili discover that Chandler is planning an attack on the Taelon embassy in Washington.
16. Volunteers
Airdate: 1999-02-22 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
A "volunteer" squad of specially trained Taelon implanted teen-agers attacks an abandoned warehouse where a Resistance cell meets. Lili, Liam and Augur are surprised when Julia shows up with an unconscious Amanda. Dr Park removes Amanda's implant and tells them that her implant is killing her. Resistance sends Julia undercover to join the Taelon Volunteer Program. Julia warns Liam and Lili about a massive assault, who mobilize the Resistance for a counter attack. Liam learns that recruits are being sent through portals after an unknown enemy in another galaxy.
17. Bliss
Airdate: 1999-04-12 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Lili becomes infected by a highly addictive drug called Bliss. Liam and Sandoval go to Ireland to investigate the drug's origin, where they meet Dr Cox, and a cult of "Taelonists" who deny knowledge of Bliss. They discover a lab where Ma'el worked on an antidote for Bliss, suspecting the Taelonists found the lab and are spreading Bliss.
18. Highjacked
Airdate: 1999-04-19 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
The Taelon's hire a spindoctor who brings on a reporter onto the mothership. Unfortunately the mothership is at this time hijacked by a replicant who wants to get the ship into Jaridian space.
19. Defector
Airdate: 1999-04-26 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Two unidentified Taelon piloted shuttles appear, unscheduled, in earth airspace, dogfighting. Liam wonders why Da'an took off to an unknown location. Sandoval is sent to locate the surviving Taelon, noted to be unco-operative. Zu'or disrupts Da'an's Karpag on the moon base home world recreation. Liam finds Ba'li, who claims to have come to help humans retake earth. Augur severs Ba'li's commonality link. Ba'li fingers Da'an as the architect of Taelon strategy across the galaxy to defeat the Jaridians. Ba'li turns into an Atavus and goes to kill Da'an.
20. Heroes and Heartbreak
Airdate: 1999-05-03 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
After Augur's friend implodes, due to ID space inside him, Augur meets a beautiful woman, Beverly Wu, who hires him to engineer a weapon of mass destruction, called Forge in Antarctica. Zu'or tells Da'an that the latest battle with the Jaridians has ended badly and they are retreating. Zu'or wants to activate the Forge to strike at the Jaridians while they regroup. Da'an is against using Earth as a base for attacking, but Zo'or overrules him. Doors says Augur is in trouble if he's working with Beverly. Liam tries to get information on Forge from Da'an, who refuses to answer. Augur, falling in love, thinks the project may turn earth into a blackhole. The worm hole between earth and the Jaridian Empire stays open too long in-between firings.
21. Message in a Bottle
Airdate: 1999-05-10 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
A probe crashs on earth. The Resistance finds the probe, before Sandoval arrives, and takes it to a hideout. The hideout is ambushed and they are taken to a 'Dark Knight' base. The Resistance deals with this unexpected new player as they try to stop a Jaridian probe from an assault on Earth. The probe takes the shape of Augur, and delivers a message to humanity.
22. Crossfire
Airdate: 1999-05-17 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
While Doors is holding a press conference, Liam sees a man videotape the room. When Liam confronts him, the man runs from the building. Both exchange gunfire, and the man turns his weapon on himself and is vaporized. Augur discovers the man had a Taelon warrior implant. Julia gets a tip of the implant and an arms dealer named Margolis. Julia and Augur questions Margolis about the deal with the warrior implant. They find the weapons are undetectable by security. One of the warriors bursts in and vaporizes Margolis. Julia and Augur can't seem to stop the warrior and finally escape by racing off in a car. Liam suspects the Resistance is being set up, and is reluctant to put members in danger at the next public debate. Julia secretly offers her unit's protection to Doors for the debate. Liam arrives at the debate and is furious to find Julia armed. Liam discovers three warriors, disabling two of them while a third escapes. Julia and her team respond to the alert and find they have been set up.
Season 3 - Episode list
1. Crackdown
Airdate: 1999-10-04 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
President Thompson declares a state of emergency to crush the resistance while Liam and Auger try to prove that the resistance was not behind the assasination attempt of President Thompson.
2. The Vanished
Airdate: 1999-10-11 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Liam and Augur discover that Volunteers all over the world are breaking into homes and arresting civillians. Meanwhile, Sandoval genetically alters Lili and sends her off into space.
3. Deja Vu
Airdate: 1999-10-18 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
A new Taelon/Doors venture that allows people to relive their most cherished memories may not be what it appears four people supposedly died from overloaded synapses.
4. Emancipation
Airdate: 1999-10-25 |
TheTVDB Rating: 9.0/10
Liam learns more about the skrills while searching for the missing skrill queen.
5. The Once and Future World
Airdate: 1999-11-01 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee investigate taelon artefacts on of which leads to the discovery of Ma'el's ship.
6. Thicker Than Blood
Airdate: 1999-11-08
Da'an hires a professional hit man to seek out Augur. Liam and Renee meet with 10 Resistance leaders whose cells have been discovered and destroyed. In order to avoid one cell from crushing the entire network in the future, Liam proposes that he be the only communication link between cells. Sandoval learns that he will die unless he gets a blood transfusion from an immediate family relative.
7. A Little Bit of Heaven
Airdate: 1999-11-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
A woman barely escapes from the small town of Taelonville, Indiana through an ID Portal, the woman's three-month-old fetus was removed, possibly by ID technology. Zo'or denies the use of ID technology to perform non-invasive surgery. Liam arrives in Taelonville to investigate.
8. Pad'ar
Airdate: 1999-11-22 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam investigates if Jack Patches, that allow fans of the combat game Pa'dar to feel the feelings of the warriors, causes seizures.
9. In Memory
Airdate: 1999-11-29 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Lili awakens as a beam locks on to the shuttle. A Jaridian enters the shuttle as a Taelon warship arrives, engaging the shuttle in battle. Later, Lili finds herself to be a patient at a military hospital. Dr Reed tells Lili that she has been in a coma and that her CVI has been removed. Liam arrives to tell Lili that she has lost 3 years of her life and that the Taelons are gone after the Jaridians defeated them. She also learns she is responsible for saving Earth and Sandoval is scheduled to be executed. After Colonel Bramson debriefed her, Lili learns that Sandoval's last request is to speak with her. She agrees when she realizes that this will be her only chance to find out why Sandoval sent her out on the shuttle. However, Sandoval only reveals to Lili that he now has his own resistance, made up of faithful Taelon followers, who will kill her. Meeting Augur, Lili finds out that he is the CEO of a large company with a wife and a child. Watching Lili and Augur, Dr Reed and Bramson dis
10. The Cloister
Airdate: 1999-12-11
The Companions are invited to join with a religious order in a ceremony. The group is made up entirely of women and seeks that special spiritual connection with the Taelons that will bring them to an enlightened state. Liam finds a former resistance member, Elizabeth, in the group. During the ceremony, the Companions share their energy with The Cloister. Worried about the possible security leak, Liam and Renee have to stop Elizabeth from telling the cult everything.
11. Interview
Airdate: 2000-01-03 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
A reporter after being exposed to Taelon radiation seeks to expose the Taelons during a live television interview with Zo'or by airing secret Taelon video.
12. Keep Your Enemies Closer
Airdate: 2000-01-10
Zo'or and Liam crash in a remote area of Wyoming. Naraina Durrant, a resident of a local commune of natural purists known as the Children of the Earth, rescues Liam from his crash bubble and assists him in his search for Zo'or. Meanwhile Zo'or's bitter rival T'than calles an emergency meeting to propose Da'an take Zo'or's place as the Synod leader.
13. Subterfuge
Airdate: 2000-01-17 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Zo'or discuses with Ro'am, the Latin American Companion, his idea to make President Thompson an advisor to the Synod. Sandoval approaches Tonio Arias, Ro'am's Protector, and secretly attaches a microchip to Tonio's skrill. Ro'am and Tonio are killed while travelling in the ID Portal. T'than becomes suspicious of Zo'or because Ro'am's death shifts the balance of power in the Synod in Zo'or favour.
14. Scorched Earth
Airdate: 2000-02-07 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee investigate the taelons involvement in the S.I. war.
15. Sanctuary
Airdate: 2000-02-14 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
When Zo'or contacts an ancient deadly plague for which there is no known cause or cure, Renee suggests to Liam that the virus could be used to create a biological weapon to fight the Taelons. She recruits Augur to research the virus and it's potential.
16. Through Your Eyes
Airdate: 2000-02-21 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
At the Taelon Embassy, Da'an shows reporters the Taelon Galactic Database. A sniper fires a Pulse Gun that penetrates the virtual glass of the embassy. Liam and Da'an are stunned to see gaping holes in the virtual glass that is impervious to all human weapons. Sandoval and Liam find the Hammerlin CD-57 Pulse Gun and the transducer. Sandoval tells Liam he does not want the media informed. Later, Sandoval informs Zo'or that he has leaked all the information to the media, as per their plan. Augur identifies Scott Pierce from a webcam as the shooter, but discovers that Pierce is a patient at St John's Neurological Centre. On the Mothership, Zo'or transfers his energy into Pierce's comatose body to convince humans to ban energy weapons that could threaten the Taelons.
17. Time Bomb
Airdate: 2000-02-28 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
A Roman citizen is awoken uboard Ma'el's ship to pronounce jugement against the taelons.
18. Apparition
Airdate: 2000-04-17 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
While Carson Briggs works overtime at the New World Commonwealth Bank, a hopeless cry introduces a blue light that swirls around him. The energy light chases and tortures Carson, pushing him onto the floor. The energy whirls in circular motions around Carson, setting him on fire. At the same time, Liam dreams of the exact horrifying events that Carson experiences. Liam goes to the death scene. Recalling the events of his dream to a investigater, he offers a piece of evidence that had not yet recovered - Carson's ring, which designed with the bank's logo and the ancient Taelon symbol for impurity. At Carson's home, Liam discovers circular burn marks throughout the house. The blue energy appears, which leads Liam to a Taelon datalog. The energy takes the shape of the deceased Taelon Ku'don, who mutters the word 'exile' before disappearing. Suddenly, Liam hears loud banging and he hides the datalog as commandos storm the house. Liam overpowers one of the commandos and escapes as a command
19. The Fields
Airdate: 2000-04-24 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam is asked by a Church of the Companions member, Devon, to help find his girlfriend, also a member who has mysteriously disappeared. Sandoval gives Da'an some energy dust. Liam and Renee join the Church as homeless people. At the church's shelter they find that the food has a Taelon additive. In an underground environment on Church of the Companions land, Volunteers force drugged Church of the Companions members to harvest Kryss, a substance necessary that is vital to Taelons survival on Earth. Laim knows that Taelon plants only grow in 98F degree temporature. They discover that humans are being used to grow Kryss.
20. One Taelon Avenue
Airdate: 2000-05-01 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
At One Taelon Avenue, Dr Sato and Joshua Doors begin a test with an ID shuttle prototype. The craft explodes, sending everyone ducking for cover while Sato calmly watches. Joshua tries to persuade Renee Palmer to leave Doors International and join him at One Taelon Ave. Jonathan Doors encounters his son in Renee's office and the two exchange opinions about business. Jonathan, concerned about his son, asks Liam to find out what's really going on at One Taelon Ave. At One Taelon Ave, Renee meets with Joshua while Liam is tracked by Control, a computer, while he investigates. Control tracks Sato and begins a bio-purge function. Sato tries to escape the energy walls, but they disintegrate him. Zu'or and Da'an review the security video of Sato's demise. Da'an is concerned that Control may be overriding the Taelon programming and creating its own agenda. Sandoval reports he has begun an investigation at One Taelon Avenue, but Zu'or orders him to close his investigation. Liam and Augur find t
21. Abduction
Airdate: 2000-05-08
Da'an checks with Andrea Myzar on the decoding process of one of Ma'el's messages. Da'an is shot by Andrea. Andrea leaves the MotherShip with Ma'el's message relic. Augur's holo-computer finds that Andrea is Emma King, a mathematican killed 3 years ago. Liam retrieves the relic and discovers that humanity is the genetic link between the Taelons and Jaridians.
22. The Arrival
Airdate: 2000-05-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 9.0/10
While Lili returns to earth after being tricked into giving the jaridians interdimensional transportation, an auction is held at the Antartic Republic of Rostok for some mysterious alien weapons. Sandoval must stop the bidding taking place while Liam and Renee try to find out what the weapons are.
Season 4 - Episode list
1. The Forge of Creation
Airdate: 2000-10-02 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Lili Marquette gives birth to a half jaridian child, with the help of taelon core energy, that may be the last hope for the taelon and jaridian race. Auger goes into hiding from volunteer investigations, an old friend of his J Street agrees to help Liam and Renee while Auger is on the run. Sandoval tries to destroy evidence of the Jaridian existence.
2. Sins of the Father
Airdate: 2000-10-09 |
TheTVDB Rating: 9.0/10
A party for the new elite is in full swing at pro-Taelon Senator Edward Gale's posh Washington home when his daughter, Eva appears with a gun. She fires, wounding him in the arm before his security guards can subdue her.
The next day, Liam Kincaid and Renee Palmer meet with a holographic messenger sent by Hubble Urick. He informs them of the shooting and tells them Eva is in the hospital, having tested positive for Kryss, a substance used by Taelons in small quantities to help them adapt to Earth's atmosphere. Liam is surprised and angry, as the Taelons' Kryss facility was shut down eight months before and the Taelons swore they found a way to synthesize Kryss without enslaving humans. Yet Eva, whom the messenger tells them disappeared three weeks before to take part in an archeological dig, must have been enslaved in a Kryss factory to have traces of the substance in her bloodstream. Liam and Renee must prove the factory is still operating.
When Liam visits Eva in the hospital, she te
3. First Breath
Airdate: 2000-10-16 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee investigate Zo'or and his link to a biomedical facility's clandestine cloning operation.
4. Limbo
Airdate: 2000-10-23 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The Murder of General T'Than on board the mothership leads Liam to descover the taelons darkest secret, while the late Jonathan Doors rturns in cyber form to addminister a deadly attack upon them.
5. Motherlode
Airdate: 2000-10-30 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
While Liam and Renee investigate the suspicions of false imprisonment and infringement of civil rights, an ammoralist associate of Augur's plans to steal Zo'or's gold onboard the mothership.
6. Take No Prisoners
Airdate: 2000-11-06 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The ANA manages to negotiate amnesty for all resistance members, Liam trys to convince resistence member Halley Simmons to take up the offer. Sandoval uses parasites to make volunteers do suicide missions against the resistance
7. Second Wave
Airdate: 2000-11-13 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The Taelons decide to leave earth following what appears to be an imminent Jaridian invasion.
8. Essence
Airdate: 2000-11-20
Renee discovers that her younger brother is a victim to Zo'or's plot to harness human emotions.
9. Phantom Companion
Airdate: 2000-11-27 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
While onboard the taelon mothership, Renee is taken hostage by a mysterious being that haunts the lower parts of ship.
10. Dream Stalker
Airdate: 2000-12-04 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee investigate a serial killer who murders people in their dreams.
11. Lost Generation
Airdate: 2001-01-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee discover that a baby is born with a CVI implant.
12. The Summit
Airdate: 2001-01-22 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
Liam is implanted with a neural surveillance device to track Da'an, who leaves earth on a mysterious final journey.
13. Dark Matter
Airdate: 2001-01-29 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The mothership is damaged when a peice of dark matter colides with it.
14. Keys to the Kingdom
Airdate: 2001-02-05 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Zo'or threatens to attack the earth after an artifact containing the secret to synthesise taelon core energy is stolen from the mothership.
15. Street Chase
Airdate: 2001-02-12 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
J Street learns a lesson in trust while on the run from Sandoval.
16. Trapped by Time
Airdate: 2001-02-19
The fate of the earth and the taelons may be revealed when three astronauts from the future are discovered in stasis hidden in a government base.
17. Atonement
Airdate: 2001-02-26 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
In exchange for immunity, Sandoval agrees to testify against the taelons.
18. Blood Ties
Airdate: 2001-04-16 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Liam and Renee suspect Zo'or of orchestrating a series of murders.
19. Hearts and Minds
Airdate: 2001-04-23 |
TheTVDB Rating: 9.0/10
Renee is torn between love and duty when her boyfriend is captured by the Taelons.
20. Epiphany
Airdate: 2001-04-30
The Taelons' decision to enter death stasis causes a rift between Zu'or and Da'an, who refuses to share the core energy he has accumulated. Meanwhile, Liam learns that he only has days to live.
21. Dark Horizons
Airdate: 2001-05-07 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
After a Jaridian energy beam turns several Taelon companion protectors into assassins, Zo'or demands that they be turned over to him in 24 hours - or he will open fire on Earth. Da'an, meanwhile, dispatches Liam to take the assailants alive; and Sandoval becomes a pawn of the Jaridians.
22. Point of No Return
Airdate: 2001-05-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
The Taelons' fate - and possibly Liam's - is decided after Liam and Renee find Ma'el's regeneration chamber. The discovery of the secret location causes the surviving Taelons and Jaridians to seek the mechanism, which promises to restore their draining energy. Street, meanwhile, solves the riddle of Ma'el which will allow the Taelons and the Jaridians to join.
Season 5 - Episode list
1. Unearthed
Airdate: 2001-10-01
The joining of the Taelons and the Jaridians create the Avatus race, a greater threat that Renee leads the fight against.
2. Pariahs
Airdate: 2001-10-08
Sandoval strikes a deal with the Atavus while Renee tries to convince Hubble Urick about the existence the aliens.
3. The Seduction
Airdate: 2001-10-15
Renee fights to destroy the Atavus as they begin a joining process that will create human-Atavan hybrids.
4. Subterra
Airdate: 2001-10-22
Renee, with a former reporter, tries to inform the media about the Atavus.
5. Boone's Awakening
Airdate: 2001-10-29
William Boone, the Taelon Protector who secretly led the human Resistance movement three years ago, is awoken from a state of suspended animation aboard the Mothership by Sandoval. He awakens to find that the Taelons and Jaridians have merged to become a new alien species posing an even greater threat to humanity and joins Renee's crusade against the Atavus.
6. Termination
Airdate: 2001-11-05
Renee breaks out a serial killer from prison, hoping she will be able to provide the information necessary to kill the deadly Atavus aliens, but the plan backfires.
7. Guilty Conscience
Airdate: 2001-11-12
Renee attempts to sabotage Sandoval and Howlyn's plans for producing Atavus regeneration chambers.
8. Boone's Assassin
Airdate: 2001-11-19
Renee visits Boone and shows him a crystal that can project the location of every Atavan on Earth. In an effort to retrieve the crystal, Sandoval brings Zo'or back to life as an Atavus so that she can battle her old nemesis Boone.
9. Entombed
Airdate: 2001-11-26
A young woman, J Street, finds herself attracted to a seductive Atavus.
10. Legacy
Airdate: 2002-01-14
Renee travels back through time in pursuit of a deadly female Atavus.
11. Death Suite
Airdate: 2002-01-21
Renee suffers an emotional breakdown after a high-rise attempt to rescue a woman and her baby from an atavus attack goes horribly wrong. Unable to shake the image of the crying baby falling to its death, Renee and Street check into a spa to try to relax. Her therapy is soon cut short as they find themselves being stalked by Howlyn.
12. Atavus High
Airdate: 2002-01-28
After he sets up an Atavus fan Web site, a disaffected teenager is used by the Atavus to recruit the world's youth into its army of hybrids.
13. Deep Sleep
Airdate: 2002-02-04
This pivotal episode brings Renee Palmer to a hybrid-infested hospital where comatose patients are being used as a food source for the Atavus. It is only when Renee is ultimately able to expose these atrocities that the FBI finally takes seriously the threat of the Atavus, who must feed on the life force of humans in order to survive. The FBI pledges to join Renee's crusade to destroy this formidable alien menace before they take over the world.
14. The Art of War
Airdate: 2002-02-11
Juda's death spells hope for Renee in her battle against the Atavus.
15. Grave Danger
Airdate: 2002-02-18
Renee receives part of an old manuscript from an associate of her Harvard professor, who believed that ancient Egyptians were visited by aliens. He claims he has discovered proof of this and then disappears. Renee visits the Giza plateau and fins she must hook up with an old flame, in fact her love, Raleigh Sinclair, who's a dashing British scoundrel and a rogue archeologist. The two must work together to search the Pyramids to locate the tomb of Askenaton, a Grand Vizier to the Pharaohs and possible ancient Atavus who had mystical powers. Renee and Raleigh have some good hot-tempered banter as they try to outwit each other, while Sandoval arrives to complicate things further.
16. Deportation
Airdate: 2002-02-25
Renee has a change of heart and sympathy for her unwilling enemy as she becomes aware of the inhumane treatment the atavus hybrids must endure in government run internment camps.
17. Honor and Duty
Airdate: 2002-04-08
Renee and boyfriend Captain Michaels "do-the-right-thing" as they risk their own personal integrity in an attempt to secure plans to the one military weapon that can kill the atavus.
18. Bad Genes
Airdate: 2002-04-15
Renee's personal image of mankind's greatest enemy is forever changed when she becomes emotionally involved with a young atavus child, Yulyn, whom reveals he has a very human-like soul. Renee must now protect Yulyn, also a royal, from Howlyn's evil clutches.
19. Subversion
Airdate: 2002-04-22
Renee is put on trial for opening an Atavus stasis chamber.
20. Street Wise
Airdate: 2002-04-29
J Street has become an Atavus hybrid, Renee rushes to locate an antidote.
21. The Journey
Airdate: 2002-05-13
Renee hooks up with Captain Michaels to investigate a pharmaceutical plant manufacturing an Atavus Hybrid vaccine. But something is a little strange about the lead scientist Dr Spangler. Ra'jel returns to lead Renee on an enlightening trip down memory lane. Why did the Taelons pick Earth? Things take a very deadly turn at the lab; Michaels is seriously injured, Dr Spangler's truth is revealed, and, as the Captain fights for his life, Renee must make an awful final choice.
22. Final Conflict
Airdate: 2002-05-20
As Renee begins to lose hope that humanity will survive, an old friend reappears to give her guidance and solace. Yulyn and Ra'jel will join forces to deliver the final blow to the atavus threat to mankind. Sandoval comes to term with his past, and ends the series in a very fitting "Sandoval" manner.