MAX IN THE CITY
(Episode begins with a shot of Earth
from space. Gradually, we zoom in on New York City.
We see Max and Tess in an elevator on
the way to the top of the Empire State Building)
MAX: This was a mistake.
TESS: You've been looking forward to
it all day.
MAX: I mean this whole thing. Coming
here. The city. Rath. Lonnie. It's a mistake.
TESS: Max...
MAX: What do I know about war and
peace and politics? I'm gonna blow it. I'm gonna sit
down at this meeting and I'm gonna
meet these people, and they're gonna look at me and
they're gonna see this kid from New
Mexico who hasn't got a clue...is this car slowing
down? Are we slowing down?
TESS: Relax, relax. We're almost
there.
(The elevator arrives at the top)
TESS: This is where you belong,
Max...up here with the world at your feet. Like a king.
MAX: I'm the king of the world.
TESS: Yes, you are...just...not of
this one.
(Scene switches to the streets of New
York. Roth and Lonnie walk through a restaurant)
ROTH: Ooh! Yo, pastrami.
LONNIE: Yo, when he gets here...if he
gets here...we're puttin' him in his place, 'cause I'm
sick of gettin' attitude from him.
ROTH: Mayo! Who puts mayo on pastrami?
Hey, you! What kinda sick mother puts mayo
on pastrami, huh? I oughta bust your
head open for...
LONNIE: Drop it! He's here.
(Nicholas walks up the stairs from a
subway station. He's holding a map)
LONNIE: Took you long enough. Where
the hell have you been?
NICHOLAS: God, I hate this town.
(Opening credits)
NICHOLAS: So where are they?
LONNIE: They're doing the tourist
thing...Empire State building, Statue of Liberty.
NICHOLAS: You let them wander around
this open sewer alone?
LONNIE: Yo, even Max Evans can find
his way from the Empire State...it's 3 blocks.
NICHOLAS: Better hope you're right.
Without Max, no one at the summit's gonna give you
two the time of day.
RATH: We're two of the royal four.
NICHOLAS: Royal rejects is more like
it.
RATH: Hey, yo, get this straight. We
are the originals. They are the rejects.
NICHOLAS: Ha. Uh, gee...they were
carefully hidden away in Roswell and got custody of
the granilith. You were dumped in the
sewer. Figure that out.
LONNIE: Yo, you ain't getting the
granilith without us, so just remember that.
NICHOLAS: You're not getting home
unless I get the granilith. Remember that.
LONNIE: Here they come. Go.
(Nicholas walks back into the subway
station, cursing about New York)
NICHOLAS: Oh, I hate this stupid,
rat-infested, urine-soaked, butt-ugly town!
(Max and Tess wave from across the
street)
LONNIE: Here come the losers!
(Max and Tess meet up with Rath and
Lonnie)
LONNIE: Hey. So enough sight-seeing
for one day?
MAX: There's a lot more to see.
TESS: I could use a rest.
LONNIE: Wanna see our crib?
MAX: Sure.
(Rath and Lonnie lead Max and Tess
into a subway station)
MAX: Rath? Lonnie?
(After walking through several
tunnels, they arrive at Rath and Lonnie's lair. Lonnie relaxes
on a couch, while Rath gets a hockey
stick and starts shooting some balls)
LONNIE: Not quite Mayberry, is it?
MAX: So this was where you were born?
LONNIE: Day one. Wake up...break
through the membranes, step out of the pods into a
brave new world of the sewers.
TESS: And...and now you live here?
RATH: Beats livin' in Brooklyn.
TESS: S-so, why did your protector
bring your pods to New York? And why put you in the
sewers?
LONNIE: What is up with you and all
these questions about the shapeshifter?
TESS: Our protector raised me. His
name was Nasedo, and we were very close.
RATH: Yeah? How close was that?
MAX: You wanna watch where you're
hitting those things?
RATH: Do I?
MAX: I wanna talk about the summit.
When, where, what kind of...
RATH: Chill, duke. All in good time.
MAX: The time is now.
(Rath shoots a ball at Max, who
catches it bare-handed)
RATH: You flexin' on me?
LONNIE: Boys...don't make me get off
this couch.
(Rath puts the hockey stick away and
sits down next to Lonnie on the couch. Max and Tess
also sit down)
LONNIE: You are so Zan. You two done
the deed yet? Made the beast with two backs? You
are in for a treat.
RATH: Alien sex, baby. Accept no
imitations. Awoo! Ooh!
MAX: The summit.
LONNIE: No summit until you meet the
emissary. You gotta pass the test first.
TESS: Test?
LONNIE: Not you. Just him. They wanna
make sure you're the real king before they sit
down, but don't worry, you'll pass.
MAX: So when do I meet with the...
LONNIE: Enough! Enough. We'll get you
to the church on time.
(Lonnie and Rath start making out,
much to Tess and Max's discomfort)
(Back in Roswell, Michael and Isabel
are at the Crashdown talking about Max)
ISABEL: 2 days, and not a word.
MICHAEL: Your parents asking
questions?
ISABEL: They think he's gone camping
again.
MICHAEL: They gotta think he's turned
into some kinda tree hugger.
ISABEL: They think he doesn't wanna
spend Thanksgiving with his family. He could have at
least said goodbye.
MICHAEL: You know Max. It's got
nothing to do with you. It's probably got something to do
with, uh...
LIZ (to customer): Bye.
ISABEL: Can we?
MICHAEL: Yeah. Yeah.
MICHAEL (to Maria): Hey, we're, uh,
outta here.
MARIA: Thanks for helping. So sweet of
you.
(Maria walks over to Liz)
MARIA: Girlfriend, we need to have a
talk. You got a serious problem.
LIZ: What?
MARIA: A...very vicious rumor is going
around about you in school, and I shouldn't make a
bigger deal about it than it is,
because I know we can take care of it, but it's just that, like,
everybody's talking about it...
LIZ: Maria.
MARIA: Ok. The word is that you and
Kyle slept together. I know. It's so humiliating. I
know. I just can't imagine who made it
up.
LIZ: Um...it's true.
MARIA: What? No, Liz, the rumor is
that you and Kyle Valenti slept together as in, like,
sexually.
LIZ: I know. And...it's true.
MARIA: Huh. Ok, you lost your
virginity to Kyle. I mean, that is a revelation, and I don't
know what that's about, but why didn't
you tell me?
LIZ: I was embarrassed.
MARIA: That is such a completely
unacceptable answer for you to give to me, your best
friend in the entire world...
LIZ: I didn't want to talk about it.
MARIA: Why? Why didn't you want to
talk about it? Why, did he hurt you or something?
Was this like a date rape?
LIZ: No! No, it was nothing like that,
ok? I was just upset about Max, and Kyle was there
for me, and we were close at one
point, and one thing just led to another, and we...
MARIA: And you didn't tell me.
(Liz takes some garbage outside and
sees Ava sleeping in the alley)
AVA: Yo! You mind not banging that
thing around?
LIZ: Tess? Oh, no, no, I mean, um...
AVA: Ava.
LIZ: Yes, Ava! That's right. I'm
sorry. What...what are you doing here?
AVA: Trying to get some sleep.
LIZ: In the alley?
(Back in New York, Max meets with the
emissary)
RATH: You got it together?
(Rath leads Max to the emissary. The
emissary walks behind Max and places his hand
behind Max's head. A light bursts
forth from the emissary's head, shooting through Max's
head, and projecting an image in front
of Max. 5 lights circle around and gradually form the
V-shape, which is the royal seal)
EMISSARY: Sign here...your Highness.
(The emissary gives Max a receipt and
leaves)
RATH: So you...you really are the
king.
MAX: It's a...it's a time card. The
emissary works for a...a temp agency?
RATH: Duke, the emissary never left
his crib. That body that walked outta here works for a
temp agency.
MAX: What?
RATH: It's like a vessel, you know? A
puppet. The alien emissary far away on another
planet. Human knobhead here on this
planet. Emissary reaches out with his mind, takes
control of the human. Human walks
around like a puppet doing whatever the emissary wants him to do.
MAX: Like he's...like he's possessed.
RATH: Ha. Yeah, possession. Doin' the
Linda Blair, you know? Human dude never knows
what happened to him. He thinks he's
been frickin' abducted. Heh.
MAX: I still don't understand why...
RATH: Lonnie will give you the 4-1-1
later. Now you should be celebrating.
MAX: I should?
RATH: You passed, man. You are the
frickin' king! Which means you earned yourself a slice
of the best pizza in New York. And I'm
buyin'.
(3am in Roswell. Liz calls Maria on
the phone)
MARIA: Hello?
LIZ: Look, we need to talk in person.
MARIA: It's 3:00 in the morning.
LIZ: Please, Maria.
MARIA: Where?
LIZ: The place by the thing that we
went that time with what's-her-name.
MARIA: I'm there. Bye.
(Liz and Maria meet at a fountain)
LIZ: I'm sorry. I know this all sounds
really crazy...
MARIA: No, please. Crazy is sleeping
with Kyle Valenti, so, please get to that part.
LIZ: Ok. So, um...right, Max...Future
Max...tells me that the reason that the world comes
to an end is because...get this...he
and Tess weren't together when their enemies came to
Earth. And the reason they weren't
together was because Max and I got married.
MARIA: Oh.
LIZ: I know it's really confusing.
MARIA: No, no, no. I'm with you. Keep
going.
LIZ: Future Max tells me that I have
to find a way to get present day Max to fall out of love
with me.
MARIA: So you slept with Kyle.
LIZ: No, no. Not really. I arranged it
so Max saw Kyle and I in bed together, but nothing
really happened.
MARIA: So Max thinks that you and
Kyle...
LIZ: I'm sorry I lied to you.
MARIA: No. I'm so sorry that I got so
mad. I should have known that it was, you know, an
alien thing. Are you still a virgin?
LIZ: Yeah.
MARIA: Ok.
LIZ: Ok.
MARIA: Yeah. So am I!
LIZ: Frigid!
(The next day, Maria goes to the UFO
Center to deliver Brody's usual sandwich)
MARIA: Brody. You didn't call for your
order, so brought you one anyway. I brought you a
Galaxy Sub, hold the mayo, and extra
pepperjack! Oh, Mr. Davis! Hello? Brody!
(In New York, we see Brody get out of
a taxi)
(Back at Rath and Lonnie's lair)
MAX: So this is the royal seal?
RATH: You got it. And these are the 5
worlds of our star system.
MAX: And that one...that's home? Home.
RATH: Bingo. That's how the emissary
knew you were the real deal. You got the royal seal
stenciled on your brain.
MAX: And these other 4
worlds...they'll all be sending a representative to the summit?
RATH: Well, they'll be doing the
possession thing again, you know, like the emissary.
TESS: Why don't they...come in person?
RATH: You see, little girl, space is
what we call very, very big. You know, it's not easy to
get places. People just don't zip
around the galaxy like on Star Trek.
LONNIE: No one's coming back here
again in person unless there's a good reason.
RATH: Like to bring us home.
TESS: We can go home?
RATH: Yeah, we can. If the man here
cuts a deal at the summit.
MAX: What kind of a deal?
LONNIE: A deal to bring peace back to
our world.
RATH: And in our world...blood on the
streets, baby. That dude Kivar that took your
throne...people hate his ass!
LONNIE: Our mother sent our pods to
earth for safekeeping, hoping we'd come back one
day.
RATH: And that day is now. The word is
that Kivar's desperate, and he'll do anything to end
the fighting.
LONNIE: Including let us come back
home.
MAX: Home. I never thought...not this
soon. What about Michael and Isabel?
TESS: And Ava.
LONNIE: They're expecting the royal
four, not the royal seven.
MAX: I am not leaving Michael and
Isabel behind.
LONNIE: Look, Max...Max, they...they
seem so happy...in that cute little town. Chill, chill.
It'll all be ok. You'll see. It'll all
fall our way...unless they bring up the granilith again.
MAX: The granilith?
RATH: Yeah, yeah. It's this stupid
religious thing.
LONNIE: The protector told us it's
like the holy grail, some piece of junk people on our
planet worship for some reason. You
ever heard of it?
MAX: No.
LONNIE: No.
RATH: That's too bad.
LONNIE: Yeah. Would have been a nice
bargaining chip if you had.
MAX: I haven't.
LONNIE: No problem. Probably won't
even bring it up anyway.
(Back in Roswell, Ava has a nightmare.
Liz rushes down to comfort her)
AVA: Aah!
LIZ: Are you ok?
AVA: I...I saw it...and I watched it
happen again.
LIZ: What, what?
AVA: Zan...the accident. The way his
body just lay there in the street!
LIZ: Oh, shh. It's ok. It's just a
dream. It was just a dream, a bad dream.
AVA: It's all my fault! I should have
stopped it. I could have stopped it! I should have
known. I should have known.
LIZ: Known what? Known what?
(Liz and Ava sit down at a counter and
talk)
AVA: I...can't talk about it. Zan was
stubborn...strong. He put up a wall, and you just couldn't get through. He
always tried to do everything right, to be perfect. He was like that, right up
until...
LIZ: You must have liked him a lot.
AVA: Yeah. I'm not sure he ever really
loved me back, though.
LIZ: Why?
AVA: Just a feeling. I always felt
like he was waiting for someone else to walk into his life.
So what about you? How'd you find out
about Max? He just hauled off and dropped the
bomb one day?
LIZ: No. He was right over there. I
was working, and, uh...he was sitting at that booth.
And, um, someone brought in a gun, and
it kinda went off, and I got shot. I was dying, but
Max brought me back.
AVA: He brought you back.
LIZ: Yeah.
(Max calls home)
ISABEL: Hello?
MAX: Hey, it's me.
ISABEL: Max. Where are you? Are you
ok?
MAX: Yeah. I'm fine. I'm still in New
York. I just...I wanted to call and see how everything
was going. So how...how was
Thanksgiving?
ISABEL: It was great. Mom cried all
the way from the cranberry sauce to the peach cobbler.
So did I.
MAX: Isabel, how would you
feel...about going home?
ISABEL: When you say home...
MAX: I mean...home.
ISABEL: Is that even possible?
MAX: If it is, do you wanna go or not?
ISABEL: I don't know. I mean...leaving
mom and dad and Roswell and...for another planet,
it just...it's...it seems crazy. It
sounds crazy.
MAX: Well, it isn't. And I need an
answer. From you and Michael both.
ISABEL: What? You can't...you can't do
this! You can't just drop this on me all of a sudden.
I mean, God, you just leave without
even saying goodbye with those people without even
discussing it with Michael and I, and
now you expect me...
MAX: I guess I'm just being a
self-indulgent little boy again.
ISABEL: What the hell is that supposed
to mean?
MAX: I don't want to rehash the entire
thing, Vilandra.
ISABEL: That's not fair.
MAX: Neither was letting me hear the
real story from Lonnie.
ISABEL: I'm sorry, Max.
MAX: It's a little late for apologies,
don't you think? You should have said that the first time
I confronted you.
ISABEL: The first what? What are you
talking about?
MAX: I'll call you when the summit's
over.
(Isabel realizes that Lonnie and Rath
shifted into herself and Michael to trick Max. She
confronts Ava and demands to know why)
ISABEL: Why did Lonnie impersonate me?
AVA: I don't know.
ISABEL: Why don't I believe you?
AVA: That's your problem.
(Michael stretches out his hand and
blows up one of the decorations in the Crashdown)
MICHAEL: Don't piss us off.
ISABEL: Fine! We'll do this the hard
way.
LIZ: Ok, ok, wait, wait. It's ok.
(Liz intervenes and leads Ava away
from Isabel and Michael)
LIZ: Come on, Ava. Ok, ok, Ava...you
told me that you had a secret that you couldn't tell
anyone. But, um...if Max is in danger,
you have to tell us. You lost Zan. Please don't let me
lose Max. I love him, you know, and I
love him just as much as you did Zan. Please,
Ava...don't let me lose him. Please.
AVA: Lonnie and Rath...killed Zan. And
they're probably gonna kill Max.
(Back in New York, Rath and Lonnie are
giving Max some last minute advice as they're
heading to the summit)
RATH: Now, you get in trouble, you
look to us, and we'll help you out.
TESS: I think he'll handle it.
RATH: Hey, is someone talkin' to you,
retard?
MAX: All right, that's it. Let's get
something clear right here, right now. I'm the one who
passed the emissary's test. And that
means from now on, I'm the one in charge here.
LONNIE: Understood, duke. You're the
king.
MAX: And for your information, her
name...is Tess.
LONNIE: Rath, take Tess and go inside.
I wanna talk to Max for a minute.
RATH: Come on.
(Rath leaves with Tess)
LONNIE: I'm proud of you, Max. You're
everything I loved about Zan and more. You're the
brother I never knew.
(Max enters the room where the summit
will take place. Among the other representatives
there is Brody Davis)
MAX: Brody?
LAREK: Actually, my name is Larek. Are
you Zan?
MAX: They tell me that used to be my
name. But my name is Max. Max Evans.
KATHANA: If he doesn't even know who
he is, how can he sit in conference with us?
LAREK: He sits with us because the
emissary certified him. Kathana, Sero, Hanar, and I will
represent each of our worlds. Max will
speak for his.
NICHOLAS: Actually, Kivar speaks for
his world. And I speak for Kivar. Max. Nice to see
your genocidal girlfriend again.
Killed anyone today?
TESS: Day's not over.
NICHOLAS: What a charmer.
LAREK: Can we begin?
LONNIE: You know him?
MAX: Long story. He was in Roswell.
RATH: Be careful.
MAX: That much I know.
(Back at the Crashdown)
ISABEL: We've got to find a way to
warn Max. He's in the middle of the summit right now.
MICHAEL: Where's the summit being
held?
AVA: Some building downtown.
MICHAEL: You gotta do better than
that.
AVA: I don't know anything more.
LIZ: Hey, Isabel, um...can't you
dreamwalk Max? You know, um...put a warning in his
mind. You've done it before, you know,
when he was in the white room.
ISABEL: That was different. He was
drugged. I was only a few miles away. He's across the
country now.
MICHAEL: I think we're out of
alternatives.
(Back at the summit)
LAREK: We're here in the spirit of
reconciliation. We're not here to rehash the past, point
fingers, and assign blame.
HANAR: Can we get to it? We're here to
end 50 years of misery and suffering among our
worlds. Kathana attacks Kivar. Kivar
attacks Sero. Sero attacks me. The situation is
intolerable!
SERO: Agreed! We have to find a
solution.
NICHOLAS: And Kivar has a solution.
Kivar will abdicate the throne and allow the royal four
to return home under the following
conditions: 1) Max becomes king only in name. All real
power and government remains in
Kivar's hands, 2) Max calls upon his followers to lay down their weapons and
support the new government, and 3) Most importantly...Max returns the granilith
to us.
KATHANA: The granilith?
NICHOLAS: No, it's no longer on our
world. Yes, we've known about it for a long time. No,
Kivar decided he didn't need to tell
you. And, yes, we know where it is. It's with Max.
LAREK: Is this true, Max?
MAX: It's here.
LONNIE: What?
NICHOLAS: So there you have it. Max
comes home with the granilith. All is forgiven. Do we
have a deal?
MAX: I...need to think about this.
LAREK: I'd be surprised if you didn't.
But be quick about it. Holding onto these bodies isn't
easy. In fact, it's chewing up huge
amounts of our resources. 20 minutes, Max...then I need an answer.
MAX: You'll have it.
(Max and Tess leave to think about the
offer)
MAX: Cut a deal with Nicholas? I don't
trust him any more than I can throw him.
TESS: You could throw him pretty far.
MAX: Then there's Lonnie and Rath.
It's hard to believe they have the same DNA of Michael
and Isabel.
TESS: For what it's worth...I don't
trust them.
MAX: And then there's this whole thing
about the granilith.
TESS: Why did you lie to Lonnie and
Rath about the granilith, anyway?
MAX: There was something Liz
said...just before we left. She told me the granilith could be
dangerous if it fell into the wrong
hands.
TESS: How does she know that?
MAX: She wouldn't say.
TESS: But she's never even seen the
granilith.
MAX: I know. I know. But I just keep
thinking about it...the way she said it...she seemed
so sure. I just don't know what to do.
TESS: Whatever you do...it'll be the
right choice. I'm sure of it.
MAX: Why?
TESS: Because despite whatever
Nicholas said about you in there, I know that you were a
great man in that other life. A great
king. I know it in my bones.
MAX: All you've ever done...is trust
me, been there for me whenever I needed you. I've
never done anything to deserve that
kind of loyalty.
TESS: I think in that other life...you
must have been one great husband.
(Nicholas is also taking a break from
the summit. Lonnie secretly meets with him)
NICHOLAS: God, I hate this town.
Hello?
LONNIE: Yo.
NICHOLAS: Yo yourself.
LONNIE: Miss me?
NICHOLAS: Always. Can't wait to see
more of you.
LONNIE: Well, that'll have to wait
until we get home.
NICHOLAS: Let's be clear, Lonnie. You
don't get home unless I get the granilith.
LONNIE: Let me be clear, Nicholas. I
don't give a damn whether or not you get the
granilith. I'm going home.
NICHOLAS: Big talk for a woman with no
cards to play.
LONNIE: I got cards. I just haven't
shown them to you yet. You know, I'm not like the
others. I remember our world. I
remember Kivar. And I remember what it was like to be
Vilandra. I want that life, and I'll
do what I have to to get back. Be on my side, and you'll
benefit. Be against me, and...well, it
would be a mad, crazy idea to be against me. Don't
worry about Max. He's a cornball.
He'll go for the deal. He'll go for the deal because millions
of lives hang in the balance. Besides,
he wants to go home and give mommy a kiss and get
fitted for his crown.
NICHOLAS: He won't live long enough to
wear it. Kivar wants him dead.
LONNIE: Well, I'd have to be a special
kind of stupid not to have figured that out.
NICHOLAS: If he takes the deal,
there'll be a nice public execution to attend. If he doesn't take the deal,
Kivar still wants him dead.
LONNIE: I can arrange that. What's in
it for me?
NICHOLAS: Passage home. But just you.
The freak with the mohawk stays here.
LONNIE: Yeah, I can live with that.
See you at the summit.
NICHOLAS: What a woman.
(Back at the Crashdown)
ISABEL: Damn it! It's not working. I
can't reach him.
MICHAEL: Yeah, but you gotta try
again.
ISABEL: Won't do any good. He's not
hearing me.
LIZ: Ok, so um, what's plan
"B"?
ISABEL: There isn't one.
AVA: Liz can do it.
ISABEL: What?
LIZ: What are you talking about?
AVA: Max brought you back from the
dead. You've been changed.
LIZ: What do you mean by changed?
AVA: Look, there ain't enough time to
explain. You just gotta trust me here. If Max brought
you back, then...you're different now.
(Back at the summit)
LONNIE: Can I have a minute with my
brother? You lied to me. I don't like it. But there it
is. But what's about to go down in
there is a helluva lot bigger than you and I, Max. Millions
of lives hang in the balance. Millions
of people may die if we don't stop this fighting. So this
is not about whether you and I go
home. We are nothing in the scheme of things. This is
about the greater good. After you,
your Highness.
(Back at the Crashdown)
ISABEL: Liz...take my hand.
LIZ: I don't know why, but I'm really
scared to do this. You know, if you can't contact him,
what makes you think I can?
ISABEL: I know my brother, and I know
that if there is one voice he will hear no matter
where he is, no matter what he's
doing, it's yours. Take my hand, Liz.
(Back at the summit)
LAREK: Well, Max, have you made your
decision?
MAX: Yes, I have. And the answer is
no. I will not give up the granilith to you. Not to you,
not to Kivar, not to anyone. It was
entrusted to me.
NICHOLAS: You're all witnesses. Kivar
tried to be reasonable, tried to extend a hand of
peace...and had it slapped away. Our
business is at an end here. Our offers are withdrawn.
KATHANA: You made a lot of enemies
here today.
NICHOLAS: Do you ever wonder why your
predecessor was killed? He made bad decisions.
(Nicholas leaves)
LAREK: You don't remember any of this,
I'm sure, but...our families used to be very close.
You and I practically grew up
together. I was there at your father's funeral. At your
coronation, your wedding. We were
friends. And it was so painful to watch you fall, to see
you trying so hard to make a better
world for your people. And then to watch you have it
all taken away by a man like Kivar...I
told you you were trying to do too much too soon,
that change takes time. But you
wouldn't listen. You just kept...what's the point? It's all
ancient history now. What a shame it
is to see history repeat itself.
(Larek leaves)
(Max, Tess, Rath, and Lonnie are
walking through the streets of New York)
RATH: What's up with you, huh? You
just threw away our only chance of ever getting
home!
MAX: Maybe.
RATH: Hey, who do you think you are,
huh? Makin' big-time life decisions for Lonnie and
me? You think you're the man...is that
it?
MAX: That's right. I am the man.
RATH: Ok, you the man. Screw Nicholas.
Screw 'em all.
LONNIE: Screw 'em tight. We'll find
another way home.
RATH: I'm mad hungry. Let's go get a
slice.
LONNIE: Sick of pizza. Chinatown.
RATH: I'm with that.
(Max, Tess, Rath, and Lonnie are
walking along a street. Rath grabs Tess and covers her
mouth with his hand. Lonnie reaches
out with her hand and uses her power to loosen a
platform above Max. Max is staring out
into the street and sees Liz. She's calling out to him, but he can't hear what
she's saying. He takes 2 steps forward and the platform crashes down where he
was standing only seconds before. Liz disappears. Max looks around to find that
Tess, Rath, and Lonnie have all disappeared as well)
MAX: Liz? Tess? Tess!
(Max runs back to Rath and Lonnie's
lair and finds Tess sitting there in the middle of the
floor)
MAX: Tess! Tess! Tess, are you all
right?
TESS: I don't know.
MAX: What happened?
TESS: They tried to get inside my
head, find out where the granilith is. I...I didn't want
them to...so I fought back.
MAX: How?
TESS: I...I don't know.
MAX: Where are they?
TESS: I don't know.
MAX: Tess...Tess, are you all right?
TESS: I'm ready to go home now. Home
to Roswell.
MAX: Ok.
(Back in Roswell, Max discusses what
happened with Isabel)
ISABEL: So in the end, what made you
decide not to take the deal?
MAX: I was going to. I was gonna take
the chance that...that Nicholas was telling the truth.
But in the end, I realized that...that
any deal which meant leaving you and Michael behind...was something I couldn't
do. You're my sister, Isabel. Isabel, Vilandra...whatever your name is, it
doesn't matter to me. You're my sister, and I love you...and that comes first.
Always.
ISABEL: Thank you.
(At the Crashdown, Ava is ready to go
off on her own. Liz is seeing her off)
LIZ: Good-bye. Good luck, ok?
AVA: Thanks. You, too.
(Liz hugs Ava)
AVA: So cornball.
LIZ: Ok.
(Ava leaves)
(Inside the Crashdown, Brody tells
Maria what he remembers about his recent possession)
BRODY: Why...why would they take me
again?
MARIA: Well...maybe...you're special.
How 'bout a Galaxy Sub, hold the mayo?
BRODY: Sounds great. I don't think
they fed me.
MARIA: Yeah. Probably not.
BRODY: Maria. Don't forget the...
MARIA: Pepperjack. Who do you think
you're dealing with here? Come on.
(Inside Liz's room, Max and Liz have a
talk)
LIZ: I keep looking for some sort of
change.
MAX: You mean like...
(Max puts two fingers on top of Liz's
head, as if she has alien antennae)
LIZ: Yeah. Something like that. It's
nice to see you smile again.
MAX: I want to thank you for saving my
life.
LIZ: I guess that makes us even.
MAX: And...I'd like to...start
again...our friendship, that is. I mean...I miss it.
LIZ: Yeah. Um...I miss it, too.
MAX: There's just one thing I have to
say. One thing I have to ask...and...I promise I'll
never ask it again.
LIZ: Yeah. Go ahead.
MAX: Did you...sleep with Kyle?
(Liz nods slightly)
MAX: Ok. I'll see you tomorrow.
(Max climbs out the window and leaves)
(Scene fades out with Liz frustrated
that things have to be this way, that she can't tell Max
the truth)