The BEST episodes of Earth: Final Conflict season 5

Every episode of Earth: Final Conflict season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Earth: Final Conflict season 5!

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.

Last Updated: 8/25/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Subversion
star
8.53
60 votes

#1 - Subversion

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2002

Renee is put on trial for opening an Atavus stasis chamber.

Directors: Martin Wood
Writer: David Ransil
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Bad Genes
star
8.43
60 votes

#2 - Bad Genes

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2002

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.

Directors: Bruce Pittman
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Boone's Assassin
star
8.43
63 votes

#3 - Boone's Assassin

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2001

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.

Directors: David Winning
Writer: Paul Gertz
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Street Wise
star
8.42
59 votes

#4 - Street Wise

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2002

J Street has become an Atavus hybrid, Renee rushes to locate an antidote.

Directors: Will Dixon
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Deep Sleep
star
8.42
57 votes

#5 - Deep Sleep

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2002

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.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Mark Amato
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Honor and Duty
star
8.40
62 votes

#6 - Honor and Duty

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/2002

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.

Directors: Martin Wood
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Deportation
star
8.39
59 votes

#7 - Deportation

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2002

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.

Directors: Kelly Makin
Writer: Mark Amato
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Death Suite
star
8.37
60 votes

#8 - Death Suite

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2002

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.

Directors: Andrew Potter
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Legacy
star
8.37
63 votes

#9 - Legacy

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2002

Renee travels back through time in pursuit of a deadly female Atavus.

Directors: David Winning
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Grave Danger
star
8.31
61 votes

#10 - Grave Danger

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2002

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.

Directors: James Rait
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Entombed
star
8.28
61 votes

#11 - Entombed

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2001

A young woman, J Street, finds herself attracted to a seductive Atavus.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Harold Apter
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Guilty Conscience
star
8.26
62 votes

#12 - Guilty Conscience

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2001

Renee attempts to sabotage Sandoval and Howlyn's plans for producing Atavus regeneration chambers.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Harold Apter
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The Journey
star
8.20
59 votes

#13 - The Journey

Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2002

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.

Directors: David Winning
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Final Conflict
star
8.19
62 votes

#14 - Final Conflict

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2002

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.

Directors: Andrew Potter
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Boone's Awakening
star
8.19
68 votes

#15 - Boone's Awakening

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2001

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.

Directors: David Winning
Writer: Paul Gertz
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Art of War
star
8.19
59 votes

#16 - Art of War

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2002

Juda's death spells hope for Renee in her battle against the Atavus.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
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Termination
star
8.15
66 votes

#17 - Termination

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2001

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.

Directors: David Winning
Writer: David Ransil
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Atavus High
star
8.13
60 votes

#18 - Atavus High

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2002

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.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Brad Falchuk
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Subterra
star
8.08
65 votes

#19 - Subterra

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2001

Renee, with a former reporter, tries to inform the media about the Atavus.

Directors: Will Dixon
Writer: Mark Amato
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The Seduction
star
7.32
97 votes

#20 - The Seduction

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2001

Renee fights to destroy the Atavus as they begin a joining process that will create human-Atavan hybrids.

Directors: Andrew Potter
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Unearthed
star
7.02
101 votes

#21 - Unearthed

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2001

The joining of the Taelons and the Jaridians create the Avatus race, a greater threat that Renee leads the fight against.

Directors: Andrew Potter
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Pariahs
star
6.81
95 votes

#22 - Pariahs

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2001

Sandoval strikes a deal with the Atavus while Renee tries to convince Hubble Urick about the existence the aliens.

Directors: Will Dixon
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