DESTINY
(Episode
begins where The White Room left off. Michael and Valenti have reached the gate
around the compound with Max where everyone is waiting.)
MICHAEL:
That won't keep Pierce for long. We've got to get Max out of here.
SHERIFF:
I know somewhere safe. It's an old silver mine in Galitas off horseshoe road. If
we make it there, it will buy us some time. We should split up, make it harder
for them to follow. Come on. Come on.
LIZ: Max, are you alright?
TESS:
Where's Nasedo?
MICHAEL:
Just get in the jeep.
SHERIFF: Come on! Let's go.
MICHAEL:
I don't know about this.
MAX: I
trust him.
SHERIFF:
Come on.
ISABEL:
Clothes.
(Liz
and Max drive off in the Jetta, Valenti is in his patrol car, and everyone else
is in the Jeep. They each take a different road.)
(Max is
dressing.)
LIZ:
Max, what did they do to you?
MAX:
It's over. Listen, Liz, if we ever get out of this…
(The
back window is shot out of the Jetta. They get out and run into the trees.)
LIZ:
Let's go. Let's go. Come here.
(The
FBI guys chase them.)
MAX:
Go.
LIZ:
Come on, come on, Max.
MAX:
Go. Go.
(They
double back onto the road. The agents follow and now have them surrounded.)
LIZ:
Come on.
(Liz
and Max climb up onto a guard rail, and jump off into a river.)
(Credits.)
(Liz
and Max are making their way down a stream. They come to a junk yard, of
sorts.)
LIZ:
We've got to hide. Come on, in here. Come on, Max. Come on, in here. Come on.
(They
enter an overturned delivery truck .) I think we'll be safe in here for a while.
They don't know how far down river we got. Max. (They kiss. Liz gets flashes of
some of the things that happened to Max in the White room.) Max.
(Going
down the road.)
TESS:
How could you leave Nasedo there?
MICHAEL:
Listen, he might not have made it, alright? We heard gun shots.
TESS:
Michael, listen to me. We have to turn around. We have to go to the pod
chamber.
MICHAEL:
What are you talking about?
TESS:
Nasedo told me that if anything ever happened to him, to go to the pod chamber.
ISABEL:
What are we supposed to do? Just go there and wait? How will anyone know where
we are?
TESS:
Max will know. He'll find us.
MARIA:
Well what about Liz and Valenti? What happens to them?
ALEX:
No, look, we said we'd meet at Galinas. If we don't go now, we may never see
them again.
ISABEL:
Alex is right. We don't do anything without everyone.
TESS:
But without Nasedo, we have nothing. Michael, I'm telling you, turn around. Our
lives depend on it. Everything depends on it.
MICHAEL:
No, we're not leaving anyone behind anymore. All right? We're going to the
mine.
(In the
overturned van.)
LIZ: So
everything Nasedo told me was true. You and Tess were meant to be together.
MAX:
Liz.
LIZ: I
mean, it's your destiny, right?
MAX: I
wish I could go back Liz. Back to when things were normal.
LIZ:
Me, too. I just wish that I could have stopped you from saving my life that day
in the CrashDown.
MAX:
Don't say that.
LIZ:
Max, the day that you saved my life, your life just ended.
MAX:
No, that was the day my life began. Liz, when I was in that room, and they did
what they did to me. You're what kept me alive. The thought of you. The way
your eyes look into mine. Your smile. The touch of your skin. Your lips.
Knowing you has made me human. Whether I die tomorrow or fifty years from now,
my destiny is the same: it's you. I want to be with you, Liz. I love you.
LIZ: I
love you. (They kiss.)
(At the
silver mine.)
MICHAEL:
Where's Max and Liz.
SHERIFF:
They're not back yet.
ISABEL:
We took the long way. They should have gotten here before us.
MICHAEL: It'll be light in an hour. They're
still out there.
SHERIFF:
I'm going back and retrace the route.
MICHAEL:
I'm going with you, you may need me.
SHERIFF:
The rest of you wait here. Don't make a move without us.
MARIA: Michael! Michael.
MICHAEL:
I'll be back with him soon. Don't worry.
(At the
overturned van. A car engine wakes up Max and Liz.)
MAX:
Let's go.
(They
run off.)
(Going
down the road.)
MICHAEL:
Why are you helping us?
SHERIFF:
There's a right side here and a wrong side. I don't think Pierce is on the
right side. Besides, I like to think that if my son were in trouble somewhere
and I wasn't around to help, that somebody would be there for him.
(In a
washout, the FBI Hummer from last night suddenly appears behind Max and Liz
just as Valenti nears.)
MICHAEL:
There they are. Stop the car.
(Michael
uses his powers to disable the Hummer. Max and Liz get into the patrol car.) Get
in. Let's go.
MAX:
What did you do?
MICHAEL:
I don't know.
MAX:
What do you mean you don't know?
MICHAEL:
I don't know, just go! Come on, go. Go! Go, or get out!
(They
drive off.)
(At the silver mine.)
SHERIFF: We'll be safe here for a while.
MICHAEL:
There is no safe anymore.
(Michael goes inside.)
MAX: Go
ahead. I'll be right in. (Liz goes inside.)
SHERIFF:
Tell me what just happened back there, Max. All this time, I thought it was
just you. It's Michael, too, isn't it? Isabel? My god. Man.
MAX:
You swore to me that we could trust you. I need to trust you right now. It's
our lives, Sheriff. There's no time for doubts.
SHERIFF:
Well, it's my life, too, and I need to know everything.
MAX: We
don't know where we're from. We don't know why we're here. Liz, Alex and Maria
are the only ones who know. And now you. We don't want to hurt anybody,
Sheriff, we just want to stay alive.
SHERIFF:
I keep thinking about my father. He was right.
MAX:
But he would have turned us in. What are you going to do?
(Inside
the mine.)
MICHAEL:
I don't know how I did it. I don't even know what I was trying to do. It just
happened.
TESS:
It's just your own energy, Michael, and how you focus it. That's what Nasedo was
trying to teach you.
ISABEL:
So you did this in front of Valenti?
MICHAEL:
Well I couldn't let them get caught.
ISABEL:
This changes everything.
MICHAEL:
Yeah, don't you think I know that?
ALEX:
So what is Valenti going to do? What are we all going to do?
MAX:
We're going to think this through, and we're not going to panic.
ISABEL:
So, you think we should trust Valenti?
MAX: We
have no choice.
TESS:
Yes we do. We can go to the chamber and be safe, just the four of us. Nasedo
will rescue us, and Pierce doesn't want the rest of you.
MAX:
Well, Nasedo isn't here. And Pierce will do anything to anybody if he thinks he
can get to us.
MICHAEL: Well we sure as hell can't stay here
the rest of our lives.
ISABEL:
What do you mean? Leave Roswell for good?
MICHAEL:
Maybe Tess is right. If the four of us leave, maybe the rest of you could…
MARIA:
No. I'm staying with you.
ALEX:
So am I.
LIZ:
Yeah, we all are.
MICHAEL:
So where do we go?
MAX:
We're not going anywhere. We're taking our lives back.
MICHAEL:
What?
MAX:
When Pierce told me the things they had done to the other alien… I'll die
before I let that happen to any of you.
ISABEL:
Then we have to run.
MAX: If
we run, then he'll just keep hunting us and there's no coming back. Are you
willing to never see home again? Any of you? Then we have to fight.
ALEX:
Fight the most elite unit in the FBI.
ISABEL:
Who now knows who we are and everything about us.
MAX:
Pierce does know who we are. But we also know who he is, and we're stronger
than he thinks. We may be even stronger than we think.
(Outside
the mine, Valenti is listening to his Police radio.)
VOICE
1: …hasn't checked in?
VOICE
2: The last time we saw him, he left here with the Parker girl. That's the six
kids all together and the Sheriff.
VOICE
1: Don't worry, deputy, I've already contacted headquarters in Albuquerque. They're
handling the search from there.
VOICE
2: What about the Sheriff's boy? Somebody ought to look in on him.
VOICE 1: I already talked to him. I got
somebody with him right now.
VOICE
2: I'm sure the Sheriff will appreciate that when we find him.
SHERIFF:
Pierce.
VOICE
1/PIERCE: Oh, I'm sure he will, too.
(At the
Valenti residence.)
KYLE: I
want to know what the hell is going on.
AGENT
1: My orders are to protect…
KYLE:
Protect me from any harm. I know. You told me. Look, if my dad's in any
trouble, I have to know about it.
(Across
the street from the Crashdown, Liz and Tess are in the Jeep. In a door way,
Michael and Isabel are watching an Agent. [AGENT 2])
MICHAEL: There he is.
ISABEL:
What if this doesn't work? What if we can never go home again?
MICHAEL:
It has to work. How much time?
(They
step into sight of Agent 2 who begins to follow them.)
(Across the street.)
TESS:
It's time.
LIZ:
What are you going to do?
TESS:
I'm going to make them see Pierce.
(Pierce
appears in front of the agent.)
PIERCE:
Agent Bellow, I'll take it from here.
AGENT2:
Yes, sir.
(At the
Valenti residence.)
PIERCE:
Agent Samuels.
AGENT
1: (To Kyle) Stay here.
(Both
Pierces.) PIERCE: Go to Hondo. There's an abandoned gas station three miles
east of town. Go there and wait for me.
AGENT
1: Yes, sir, Agent Pierce.
(Outside
the Crashdown.)
AGENT
2: I'll wait in Hondo for your instructions sir.
(At the
Valenti residence.)
AGENT
1: I understand. Hondo.
KYLE:
Who the hell are you talking to? Hey!
(Outside
the Crashdown.)
LIZ: You told them both at the same time to
go to Hondo?
TESS:
Pierce told them to go to Hondo.
LIZ:
Can you just do that with everyone? Make them see things that aren't even
there?
TESS:
Sometimes it's easier to do that than to make someone see something that's
right in front of her eyes.
(At the
Valenti residence.)
AGENT
1: What the hell just happened here?
KYLE: I
was kinda hoping you could tell me.
(Max
comes in and punches out the agent.) What are you doing? He's an FBI Agent.
MAX:
He's not what you think he is.
KYLE: I
should have known it! Where the hell's my father?
MAX:
Safe. That's all I can tell you right now.
KYLE:
Well that's not good enough.
MAX:
It'll have to be. (Max stuffs the agent into a closet.) Turn around.
KYLE:
What? No.
MAX: I
said turn around! (Max melts the lock on the closet door.)
KYLE: Look, if anything happens to my father
because of you, I swear to God, I will kill you myself.
MAX: I
can't explain anything right now. This wasn't supposed to happen. Your father's
ok. Just stay put. He doesn't want you involved. Don't let him out of there and
we'll all be ok.
(Max
leaves. Kyle grabs a coat and heads for Valenti's gun case.)
(In Sheriff Valenti's office.)
PIERCE: If you're here to kill me, Sheriff,
it won't do any good. There'll be a new man in charge of the unit in
twenty-four hours.
SHERIFF:
If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already.
PIERCE:
Then why are you here?
SHERIFF:
Because I'm scared. For myself, for my son, for all of us.
PIERCE:
You didn't seem scared last night when you put a bullet six inches from my
heart.
SHERIFF:
There were things I didn't know last night. Things that change everything.
PIERCE:
I don't think anything's changed. I think they sent you here.
SHERIFF:
Damn it. This is bigger than you can imagine. I heard them. I know their plan. Right
now, they're disabling your agents, one by one. You don't believe me. Get them
on the radio. Go on.
PIERCE:
Agent Bellow. Agent Bellow, come in. Bellow. Samuels, can you read me? This is
Pierce. (To Valenti.) I want those aliens.
SHERIFF: But first, we deal. My name stays
clean. I get a government pension for me and my father for the rest of our
lives and nobody bothers us. Nobody. And my son, he stays protected.
PIERCE:
I'll get the three of you new identities. But you… you will show me where they
are.
(At the
UFO Center, Liz, Isabel and Tess go into the office. Valenti and Pierce are
waiting at the foot of the stairs.)
PIERCE:
Soon as we see them all, shoot to kill, Sheriff.
SHERIFF:
What about the civilians?
PIERCE:
There's always a price to pay for freedom.
(The
lights go out.)
SHERIFF:
Pierce!
(The
lights come back on. Valenti and Pierce are laying on the ground. Max and
Michael are pointing their guns at them.)
(In the
auditorium, Pierce is tied to a chair, Valenti is handcuffed.)
MAX: I
can't believe I trusted you.
(He
nods to Michael who escorts Valenti away.)
(In the storage/prop area.)
MICHAEL: I always thought you were out to get
us. And I'm glad I was wrong.
(He
removes the handcuffs and returns the gun.)
SHERIFF: I'll take care of Pierce as soon as
Max gets what he needs.
MICHAEL:
What are you going to do?
SHERIFF:
There's this guy I know at the Attorney General's office. I already put in the
call.
MICHAEL:
You think the government's going to do something about Pierce? He part of it.
SHERIFF:
He's not the good part of it. See, we don't tolerate secret government action
in this country. At least not once the press gets a hold of it.
MICHAEL:
I hope you're right.
SHERIFF:
It's time for this to be over.
(In the
auditorium.)
MAX:
Good evening, Agent Pierce. You know who I am. I know who you are. And now
you're going to tell me everything.
PIERCE:
I've got nothing to say.
MAX: We
can do this the easy way or the hard way. It's up to you. What happened to
Nasedo? Did you capture him? Did you Kill him? Tell me?
(In the
office.)
ALEX:
Max is pounding him with questions.
MARIA:
He isn't going to answer them.
ALEX:
That's why we have Isabel.
ISABEL:
I've never dream-walked anyone who wasn't asleep before.
TESS: But you did it to Max when he was
captured.
ISABEL:
He was drugged. He didn't fight it. Pierce isn't going to do that.
TESS:
If you can just get in, even a little, you'll see his answers.
(In the
auditorium.)
MAX:
What happened to Nasedo? Where is he? You know what I can do to you. Tell me
what I'm asking or I will take you apart piece by piece and make sure you stay
conscious enough to feel every second of it.
PIERCE:
Untie me and I'll take you to him.
MAX: So
you do know where he is.
(In the
office, Isabel begins a dream-walk. She sees Pierce zipping Nasedo into a body
bag.)
PIERCE:
There's a Helo meeting us at Jeffords Airstrip out by Hobson. Hold the body
there until I bring the others.
(The
body is put into an armored truck, and the dream-walk ends.)
ALEX:
What did you see?
ISABEL: I'm sorry. It looks like he's dead.
TESS:
He's not dead. He can't die.
LIZ:
Tess, what do you mean he can't die.
TESS:
He said that if this ever happened, that we had the power to bring him back.
ALEX:
How?
TESS:
He told me to find this Indian called Riverdog. He has these stones.
ISABEL:
The healing stones.
TESS:
You know about them?
MARIA:
Yeah, we already have them.
TESS:
Then all we need is Nasedo. You did see where they took him?
ISABEL:
Yes.
(In the
storage/prop area.)
MICHAEL:
So, this guy at the Attorney General's… Sheriff?
SHERIFF:
Hm?
MICHAEL:
The one you called? Is he coming here, or are you taking Pierce to him?
SHERIFF:
I haven't decided yet.
MICHAEL:
There is no guy, is there?
SHERIFF:
If I turn him in, I turn all of you in. He kills people, Michael. It's what the
guy does. He killed Topolsky, and Stevens, and six innocent people in that
hospital, and who knows how many others. And he was just about to kill all of
you.
(In the
auditorium, Kyle sneaks in.)
PIERCE: Hey, Kyle. Kyle. It's Max Evans and
the others. They have your father.
KYLE:
Where?
PIERCE:
I can't tell you, now, just untie me. They'll be back in seconds. Hurry up.
(He
spots a gun tucked into Kyle's waistband.) Kyle, give me that. Give me that
gun. What are you doing with it? Get out of here. Go hide.
(Kyle
disappears and Pierce waits in the chair with the gun hidden. Max, Michael and
Valenti walk by. Pierce shoots at them and misses. Valenti fires repeatedly in
the direction that Pierce had fled. He is reloading when Pierce comes back.)
MICHAEL:
NO!
(Michael
uses his powers to knock him backwards into the wall. Valenti checks him)
SHERIFF:
He's dead. (Looking at the gun he took from Pierce.) It's one of mine. (He
looks behind the curtain.) No. Oh no. (Spots Kyle, who has a bullet hole in his
chest.) No. Aw, no, Kyle! Aw, geez, no! NO KYLE! Augh! Help. Help me. Somebody,
help me! Augh. Save my son, please. (Max heals Kyle.)
KYLE: What the hell just happened to me?
SHERIFF:
I don't care who you are, or what you are. I'll be here for you. I need a
moment alone with my son.
(Valenti
hugs Kyle.)
(Max
goes to Michael who is standing off to one side.)
MAX:
You were just trying to stop him. I know you didn't mean to kill him.
MICHAEL:
But that's just it. I wanted to kill him. I mean, that's all that I could think
about. I wanted him dead. Knowing that, I just did it. It just happened. What
kind of person does that make me?
MAX: We
would have been dead if you didn't help us.
MICHAEL: No! The bottom line Maxwell, I kill
people. I kill people, you heal them.
(Maria
walks over) You're good, and I'm bad.
MAX:
It's not true, Michael.
MICHAEL:
Just get out of here.
MARIA: What are you talking about?
MICHAEL:
It's not safe.
MARIA:
It's never been safe. What difference does it make now?
MICHAEL: No, I'm not safe. All right, I mean,
I can do these things that I can't control. Look at what I did to Pierce. I'm
not going to take that chance with you. I don't want you to be around for
what's going to happen.
MARIA:
Wait. Don't do this to me Michael, please. You need me now, more than you have
before, alright?
MICHAEL:
No, I don't need anyone.
MARIA:
Well, maybe I do. Did you ever think of that? I mean, look at Max and Liz. They
can't bear to be separated. But you, you can just throw me away. Just like
that. Why is that, Michael? Why?
MICHAEL: Maybe because I love you too much. Goodbye.
(He
leaves.)
ALEX: I know what you need to do, and that
you need to do it alone. (He embraces Isabel.) Good luck.
TESS:
We have to get Nasedo.
ISABEL:
I know where he is.
MAX:
We've got to go. Now. I can't make you do this.
LIZ:
Max, you're not making me do anything. We choose our own destinies, remember?
(At the
deserted airstrip two agents are guarding a truck.)
MICHAEL: Hey, over here.
(Isabel
clobbers Agent 3 with a board.)
AGENT
4: Hey what's going on?
(Max
hits Agent 4.)
MAX:
Go!
(They
climb into the truck.)
ISABEL:
It's him, it's Nasedo. Let's go.
(They
drive away.)
(At the
pod chamber. Liz is off to the side while the aliens use the healing stones.)
ISABEL:
Are you sure this is him?
MICHAEL:
This is who he was last time I saw him.
(They
heal Nasedo.)
TESS: I
knew you wouldn't leave us.
NASEDO:
You're not ready to be left alone.
MICHAEL:
You're right, we need you. Show us how the orbs work.
NASEDO:
She doesn't belong here.
MAX:
She's with me. We want to know. You're the only one who can show us.
NASEDO:
It's not my job to show you. My only job is to keep you alive.
MAX:
Your job?
MICHAEL:
Well if your only job is to keep us alive, then tell us. They're communicators.
They communicate with who?
NASEDO: You're not ready to know yet.
MICHAEL:
They communicate with our home planet, don't they? Why don't you want us to
contact them?
NASEDO:
Because you don't know who else you may contact in the process.
ISABEL:
Who else is there?
NASEDO: Set off those orbs, and you have no
idea who you may be leading straight to us.
MAX:
You don't know, do you? You don't know how to use the orbs. If you knew, you
would've already used them. You're here to protect us, but not to lead us, you
said it yourself. But if you're not the leader, who is.
(Everyone looks at Max.)
NASEDO: If you really want to know what the
orbs do, you can find out for yourselves, I can't stop you. But do it at your
own risk.
MAX: If
you're really here to protect us, there's something you have to do. The only
way we can ever go back is if nobody's hunting us anymore.
MICHAEL:
Pierce is already dead.
MAX:
He'll only be replaced, unless we replace him. (Nasedo shape-shifts into
Pierce.) The other agents are at an abandoned gas station in Hondo.
NASEDO:
Now that I'm the head of their Special Unit, we've have all their resources. You'll
be safe now.
(He leaves. Max picks up an orb and goes to
Tess. Michael and Isabel get the other orb.)
MAX: I
want to know. Maybe if we just focus like Nasedo's always said.
(They concentrate. The orbs shoot up a blue
light, and a beeping sound, like a beacon, is heard. Another blue light floats
into view, and transforms into a woman.)
WOMAN:
If you are seeing me now, it means that you are alive and well. I take this
form because it will be familiar to you, and it will help you to understand
what I am about to say. You have lived before. You perished in the conflict
that enslaves our planet but your essence was duplicated, cloned, and mixed
with human genetic materials so that you might be recreated into human beings. My
son, you were the beloved leader of our people. I have sent with you your young
bride. My daughter, the man you were betrothed to, and your brother's
second-in-command.
ISABEL:
Oh my god, Max. Our mother.
WOMAN:
Our enemies have come to the Earth. You will know them only by the evil within.
Learn enough to use your skills, your knowledge, your leadership to combat the
enemy so that you can come back and free us. And that I may once again hold you
both in my arms. I live for that moment. Help us. I love you.
ISABEL:
She's so beautiful.
MICHAEL:
I always knew there was something out there, but I had no idea how important it
was.
MAX:
Things will never be the same, but whatever happens, we have to stay together. It's
the four of us now.
TESS: I
knew this was meant to be.
MAX:
No. (To Liz.) Look, everything I told you before is still true.
LIZ:
Max, you do have a destiny. You just heard it. I can't stand in the way of it.
MAX:
But you mean everything to me.
(They
kiss.)
LIZ:
Goodbye, Max.
(She
leaves.)
MAX:
Liz. (Outside.) Liz. Liz, wait.
(She
turns to look at him, then runs off.)
MICHAEL:
(Restraining him.) You gotta let her go.
(Tess and Isabel join them.)
TESS:
What happens now Max?
(Someone
far away, in a car, has a little black beeper that has a flashing pentagon on
it. It is making the same beacon sound as the orbs.)
PERSON:
It has begun.
(Scene
after scene of different locations around the globe where the same beacon sound
and flashing light can be seen and heard.)