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<hero description="The&#10;series begins with Sarah Manning, a con artist by trade, witnessing&#10;the suicide of a woman, Beth Childs, who appears to be her&#10;doppelganger. Sarah takes on Beth&#039;s identity and occupation as a&#10;police detective after Beth&#039;s death. During the first season, Sarah&#10;discovers that she is a clone, that she has many &#039;sister&#039; clones&#10;spread throughout North America and Europe, and that someone is&#10;plotting to kill them and her. Alongside her foster brother, Felix&#10;Dawkins, and two of her fellow clones, Alison Hendrix and Cosima&#10;Niehaus, Sarah discovers the origin of the clones: a scientific&#10;movement called Neolution. The movement believes that human beings&#10;can use scientific knowledge to direct their evolution as a species.&#10;The Neolutionists thus advocate eugenics. The movement has an&#10;institutional base in the large, influential, and wealthy bio-tech&#10;corporation, the Dyad Institute. The Dyad Institute conducts basic&#10;research, lobbies political institutions, and promotes its eugenics&#10;program, aided by the clone Rachel Duncan. But it also seeks to&#10;profit from the technology the clones embody. It has thus placed&#10;&quot;monitors&quot;&#10;into&#10;the clones&#039; personal lives, allegedly to study them scientifically&#10;but also to keep them under surveillance.&#10;Sarah&#10;eventually discovers that she&#039;s also wanted by the police and by a&#10;secret religious group, the Proletheans. A faction of the Proletheans&#10;carries out the clone assassinations. They use a clone, Helena, to&#10;kill the other clones. Yet Sarah and Helena share a surrogate birth&#10;mother and are twins both genetically and with respect to their early&#10;maternal environment. The Proletheans assassinate clones because they&#10;believe they are abominations.&#10;Eventually,&#10;the Dyad Institute and the Proletheans learn that Sarah has a&#10;daughter, Kira, the only known offspring of a clone, all other clones&#10;being sterile by design. The plot lines of the series revolve around&#10;Sarah and Kira&#039;s efforts to avoid capture by the clearly sinister&#10;Neolutionists and Proletheans as well as around the efforts made by&#10;each clone to give sense to her life and origin. The attempt to&#10;control the creation of human life is a dominant theme that drives&#10;various story lines. A second key theme forms around the intrigues&#10;made by the Dyad Group and the Proletheans along with the earlier&#10;intrigues made by the authors of Project Leda (see the Greek myth&#10;Leda and the Swan) and Mrs. S., Sarah’s foster mother, and her&#10;political network.Both themes intersect in the effort to control the&#10;creation of human life. Sarah, who matures because of her struggles,&#10;defends the bond between parent and child against the Neolutionists&#10;and Proletheans." imagename="Wikia-hero-image" cropposition="0" />
  
 
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'''[[Sarah Manning]]''' and her daughter, [[Kira Manning|Kira]], are considered significant and actively sought after by the [[Dyad Institute]], among others, because she and her twin sister, [[Helena]], are the only clones able to reproduce, and Kira is the first ever offspring of any of the clones.
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'''Rachel''' grew up aware of who and what she is as she was, according to Amelia, "a child raised by Neolution" and is thereby dubbed as a "proclone" by Felix. Years into adulthood, she is still working with her creators and, upon discovering that some of her fellow clones have become self-aware, is even trying to get the other clones to work with them.
  
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Tune in for Season 5!
Who Did What When?
Clones
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Tune in for Season 5!

Rewatch the Final Season of this Cult Classic

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Who Did What When?

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Clones

Who and what are they?

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Episode Recaps

Read up on the episodes so far.

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Tune in for Season 5!
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Clones
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Sarah Manning and her daughter, Kira, are considered significant and actively sought after by the Dyad Institute, among others, because she and her twin sister, Helena, are the only clones able to reproduce, and Kira is the first ever offspring of any of the clones.

Once merely a rebellious punk on the run hoping to eventually make a better life for her daughter and foster brother, continual shocks to her identity changes Sarah's plans in life, leaving her reeling and wondering who she really is. Originally as a scam to steal Beth's savings, she takes on the identity of recently-deceased Beth Childs and instead finds herself sucked into a hidden life-long conspiracy of illegal human cloning.
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