5.4/1051 votes#1 - 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.
Director: Andrew Potter
Writer: John Whelpley
5.4/1045 votes#2 - 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.
Director: Will Dixon
Writer: George Geiger
5.8/1043 votes#3 - 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.
Director: Andrew Potter
Writer: Stephen Roloff
5.6/1041 votes#4 - Subterra
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2001
Renee, with a former reporter, tries to inform the media about the Atavus.
Director: Will Dixon
Writer: Mark Amato
6.2/1050 votes#5 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Paul Gertz
6.2/1044 votes#6 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: David Ransil
6.5/1040 votes#7 - Guilty Conscience
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2001
Renee attempts to sabotage Sandoval and Howlyn's plans for producing Atavus regeneration chambers.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Noreen Tobin, Gene O'Neill
6.6/1043 votes#8 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Paul Gertz
6.7/1046 votes#9 - EnTombed
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2001
A young woman, J Street, finds herself attracted to a seductive Atavus.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Harold Apter
5.8/1044 votes#10 - Legacy
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2002
Renee travels back through time in pursuit of a deadly female Atavus.
Director: David Winning
Writer: Stephen Roloff
4.8/1048 votes#11 - 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.
Director: Andrew Potter
Writer: Meredith Muncy
5.0/1054 votes#12 - 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.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Brad Falchuk
5.7/1042 votes#13 - 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.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Mark Amato
7.1/1060 votes#14 - Art of War
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2002
Juda's death spells hope for Renee in her battle against the Atavus.
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Paul Gertz, John Whelpley
5.6/1040 votes#15 - 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.
Director: James Rait
Writer: David Ransil
5.8/1041 votes#16 - 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.
Director: Kelly Makin
Writer: Mark Amato
6.0/1039 votes#17 - 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.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: Paul Gertz, John Whelpley
5.9/1046 votes#18 - 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.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: John Whelpley
5.6/1041 votes#19 - Subversion
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2002
Renee is put on trial for opening an Atavus stasis chamber.
Director: Martin Wood
Writer: David Ransil
5.9/1040 votes#20 - Street Wise
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2002
J Street has become an Atavus hybrid, Renee rushes to locate an antidote.
Director: Will Dixon
Writer: Paul B. Margolis
4.9/1042 votes#21 - 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.
Director: David Winning
Writer: John Whelpley
6.6/1062 votes#22 - 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.
Director: Andrew Potter
Writer: Paul Gertz
The Best Episodes of Earth: Final Conflict Season 5
Every episode of Earth: Final Conflict Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Earth: Final Conflict Season 5!
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"UnEarthed" is the best rated episode of "Earth: Final Conflict" season 5. It scored 5.4/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by Andrew Potter and written by John Whelpley, it aired on 10/1/2001. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Pariahs".