The Liberation

The Liberation movement was started by Jonathan Doors to oppose what Doors saw as the Taelon domination of Earth. Doors believed that humanity had become "sheep," and he didn't "like the shepherds" ("Decision"). Doors funded the movement with money from his company, Doors International ("The Devil You Know").

Dr. Park was a member of the Liberation from its beginnings ("Through the Looking Glass"), and Doors recruited Lili Marquette during the time that she shuttled him for the Taelons ("Law & Order"). Unbeknownst to Lili, Augur had been a member before she joined ("Resurrection"). Eddie Jordan and Dr. Julianne Belman were members of the Liberation at the time William Boone was recruited to works as a double-agent ("Decision"). Other prominent members of the Liberation were Dr. Sahjit Jinnah and Dr. Rayna Armitraj ("The Scarecrow Returns"). The movement had branches in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America ("Resurrection").

Not long after faking his own assassination in order to free himself from public scrutiny to run the Liberation, Jonathan Doors emerged from hiding to announce to the world the existence of the Liberation—as was his plan all along. He also opened for operation the new Liberation headquarters located 300 feet beneath St. Michael's Church, the cornerstone of which was consecrated on July 22, 1789, the day the final draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man was submitted to the French National Assembly ("Resurrection").

The headquarters was shielded from scanner detection by polymer alloy screens that read as organic ("Resurrection") and from electronic surveillance ("The Devil You Know"). It was also equipped with a fusion reactor powered by deuterium and a self-destruct mechanism ("The Scarecrow Returns"). The base could be entered through several access points, but was mainly accessible through an elevator system connecting to the church and protected by a DNA scanner ("Resurrection," "The Joining"). Before construction of the headquarters was complete, Liberation members met at the Flat Planet Café ("Miracle").

Until the time of the Julie Payton incident, Lili stated that the Liberation had done "nothing to make a dent in the Taelons’ agenda” ("Truth"). The first major action against the Taelons was the introduction of Augur's computer virus into the Taelon computer system, which spun out of control and threatened humans as well ("Wrath of Achilles"). Later, Jonathan Doors tried to purchase a stolen Taelon information weapon, only to find that it was a trap set by Zo'or to capture him and uncover the Liberation ("The Devil You Know").

After the Liberation picked up the alien probe from Paradise, Pennsylvania ("Float Like a Butterfly") and stored it at headquarters ("Resurrection,"), Sahjit and Rayna studied the probe's systems. The probe nearly caused the destruction of Liberation headquarters and the exposure of its whereabouts to the Taelons before the Companions took it into custody ("The Scarecrow Returns"). The Liberation later sent a strike team to a Taelon research facility in Russia to destroy the probe when Rayna's consciousness, trapped inside the probe's memory banks, warned Augur that the Taelons were about to extract its recordings of Liberation headquarters. Sahjit was killed during the mission, but Rayna (in a robotic, replicated body) was rescued ("Destruction").

Jonathan Doors and William Boone often clashed over tactics, with Doors favoring more radical and violent action. Doors included in his movement a number of paramilitary personnel ("Wrath of Achilles"), and he ordered Dr. Park to engineer the alien bacteria that struck Lincoln Hills, New Hampshire, into a biological weapon for future use against the Taelons without telling anyone else ("Infection").

The Liberation was almost exposed to the Taelons by Companion Protector Lt. Siobhan Beckett when she was investigating her suspicion that Lili Marquette was a Liberation spy. Beckett discovered the DNA scanner in St. Michael's Church, but was prevented from revealing her findings by Ha'gel. The Liberation took the unconscious Beckett in after she was impregnated by Ha'gel ("The Joining").