Episode
Earth: Final Conflict: Redemption
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Earth: Final Conflict
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1998-11-23
Episode context
Redemption is Episode 8 in Season 2 of Earth: Final Conflict. It aired on 1998-11-23.
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Episode 7: Fissures
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.
Episode 9: Isabel
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.
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Episode 6: Sleepers
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.
Episode 10: Between Heaven and Hell
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.
Episode 5: Moonscape
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.
Episode 11: Gauntlet
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.
Episode 4: Dimensions
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.
Episode 12: One Man's Castle
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.
Episode 3: A Stitch in Time
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.
Episode 13: Second Chances
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.
Episode 2: Atavus
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.
Episode 14: Payback
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.