Episode
Earth: Final Conflict: Scorched Earth
Overview
Liam and Renee investigate the taelons involvement in the S.I. war.
Details
- Series
- Earth: Final Conflict
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2000-02-07
Episode context
Scorched Earth is Episode 14 in Season 3 of Earth: Final Conflict. It aired on 2000-02-07.
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Episode 13: Subterfuge
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.
Episode 15: Sanctuary
When Zo'or contracts an ancient deadly plague for which there is no known 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.
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Episode 12: Keep Your Enemies Closer
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.
Episode 16: Through Your Eyes
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.
Episode 11: Interview
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.
Episode 17: Time Bomb
A Roman citizen is awoken uboard Ma'el's ship to pronounce jugement against the taelons.
Episode 10: The Cloister
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.
Episode 18: The Fields
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 investigator, 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 data log. 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 data log as commandos storm the house. Liam overpowers one of the commandos and escapes as a command
Episode 9: In Memory
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
Episode 19: Apparition
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. Liam knows that Taelon plants only grow in 98F degree temperature. They discover that humans are being used to grow Kryss.
Episode 8: Pad'ar
Liam investigates if Jack Patches, that allow fans of the combat game Pa'dar to feel the feelings of the warriors, causes seizures.
Episode 20: One Taelon Avenue
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