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May May 15, 2000 If for no other reason than creativity, I'll award this episode 8 Flushes. Heck, it's the season and maybe series finale so I'll bump its points a little. The gang escapes. Everyone unites outside of the FBI base and then separate in three separate cars. Valenti goes by himself; Liz and Max go together; and then Is, Tess, Alex, Maria, and Michael go in a third car. Valenti meets up with the car full of people, but Liz and Max are chased by some FBI agents. Fortunately, they jump into a river and escape. They then find the rest of the gang. Max decides to tell Valentine that he, Is, and Michael are aliens but they do not know where they are from or why they are on Earth. The gang decides that they need to find Nasedo and find safety for themselves. Valenti also feels this pressure as he knows that the FBI is after Kyle. Max saves Kyle, but Kyle doesn't trust Max. Anyway, Valenti goes and finds Pierce who is still alive despite the shot to his shoulder. Valenti tells Pierce that he wants to be safe and that he will help Pierce capture the aliens if Pierce guarantees safety for his family. Valenti takes Pierce to the Alien Museum where they see the kids; however, the real trick is on Pierce. Max ties Pierce up and tries to interrogate him, but can get no answers about Nasedo's whereabouts. Is, however, uses her powers to sneak into Pierce's head and sees that Nasedo is dead and is going to be transported to LA after going to some desert. Tess tells the gang that they can resuscitate Nasedo with some healing rocks (these are the healing rocks that the gang received from River Dog and they used to heal Michael in a previous episode). Before they can rescue Nasedo, Kyle sneaks into the museum and sees Pierce tied up. Kyle unties Pierce and gives him a gun, because Kyle still thinks that Pierce is helping his father. When Max and Michael reenter the room with Valenti, Pierce starts shooting. Valenti pushes the two boys out of the way, but when a shot is fired at Valenti, Michael pushes Valenti aside, sticks out his arm, and emits a bright, white light from his hand. This bright flash kills Pierce. Unfortunately, one of Pierce's shots hit Kyle. Valenti begs Max to heal Kyle, and Max does so. This scene brings us back to the beginning of the season when Max healed Liz. Valenti is now forever thankful to Max. Hey, now that Kyle is alive and will probably figure out the alien thing, maybe he can hook up with Tess so that Max and Liz can be together? Or maybe not. Having killed somebody, Michael feels incredible pangs of guilt. He tells Maria that he loves her too much to be around her, and he fears that one day he will lose his anger at her and kill her. So, the four aliens plus Liz go to get Nasedo's body. They do so and then bring him to the cave where they were all born. They heal Nasedo. He comes back to life. Max wants to know how to use the orbs. Nasedo says that he is only here to protect their lives and not to tell them what to do. Nasedo then says that using the orbs can be very dangerous as they might not only communicate with the home planet and that other forces might intercept the orbs. Max says that Nasedo knows nothing and he must not be their leader, that they must have another leader. Who is that leader? Max!! Max tells Nasedo that to help them, he should assume the body of Agent Pierce and infiltrate the FBI. With Nasedo pretending to be Pierce, the aliens can continue their lives without fear of being captured. After all, the FBI doesn't know that the real Pierce has been shot. Nasedo agrees and leaves. The gang then takes the orbs and concentrates. They believe that focusing their energies will release the power of the orbs. They are right. A light glows, and we see the figure of a woman. The woman says that she is the mother of Max and Is who are really brother and sister. She has taken the form of a human so that they may appreciate her. These four aliens lived on a planet which has been taken over by evil forces. All four of them were previously alive and had been killed. The mother saved their essences and made them into humans. In their former lives, Max was the leader of his planet and was married to Tess. Michael was Max's second-in-command and was betrothed to Is. Max must find strength here on Earth and use it to come home and save his planet and be with his mother again. Liz hears this message and is upset. She realizes that destiny prevents her from being with Max. Max says no, and that he loves her, but she runs off. The season closes with Liz running away from Max while Max stands besides Tess and Michael stands besides Is; all four of them on some cliffs, watching Liz leave them behind. A secondary closing scene that occurs in which people throughout the United States hear beeping noises on some weird monitor. Have the orbs warned evil forces that the aliens are on the move? Or have the orbs communicated with people who will follow Max? Some lingering questions: Where are everyone's parents and why don't they care that their children are gone for days at a time? In the future will all humans be able to cure each other with the touch of a hand? If the aliens are 100% human, how will they be able to return to their home planet? QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: Whether I die today or fifty years from now, my destiny is the same...it's you. --Max to Liz at the beginning of the episode. NEXT WEEK: There is no next week, silly; this was the season finale. May 8, 2000 What a freaky episode. If you love this show, you would definitely give it an 8 or 9, but since I try to critique as an outsider, I can only award 7 Flushes (Roswell...the 7 Flush show). Max has been captured by the FBI. The interesting deputy who worked for Valenti last week, Deputy Dave Fisher, is really FBI Agent Pierce, the best alien hunter ever. Pierce interrogates Max and tries to get all sorts of information out of Max but cannot. Medical tests conclude that Max's body is 100% human except for the blood which is this greenish liquid. Tests and what not are performed on Max. Pierce informs Max that four aliens landed when the spaceship first crashed. Two of them died and one of them got away, but one of them was captured by the FBI. Many tests have helped the FBI to realize what all of the aliens weaknesses and strengths are. But this story with Max is really background this week. The real question is who will rescue Max. No one has seen or heard from Nasedo since his disappearance at the Carnival. Michael, Isabel, and Tess decide that they have to save Max. Liz, Maria, and Alex want to come along but are told that they cannot. They lack alien powers. Tess informs the group that each alien has special powers of things they can do. For example, Tess can make people believe that an alternate reality is happening, but she can only do this for a brief period of time. These brief alternate realities explain some of the fantasies that Max had been having about Tess. Anyway, Isabel uses her ability to jump into people's dreams and jumps into Max's head and finds out where he is located. Having learned the location, our three aliens go out to find Max. When they arrive at a secret military base where Max claims to be, they realize they will never find Max...until Nasedo arrives. Nasedo informs the crew that they can work together to rescue Max. He tells the three aliens that they are all completely human and only differ from humans in that they are further evolved and can use more of their brain power than current humans. Nasedo, however, is not human and he lacks a bone structure. To save Max, Michael develops a power in which he can change his fingerprints...this change in fingerprints allows Michael access to secret rooms. However, before the rescue operative we return to Liz. Liz is awfully nervous about the disappearance of Max and as the hours pass by she doubts that Michael, Is, and Tess will save Max. Valenti has already told Liz that he knows there are two Maxes (as in the real Max and Nasedo-Max, even though Valenti does not know that Nasedo-Max is an alien). Liz knows that Max trusted Valenti so she decides to tell him where to find Max. He asks no questions and promises only that he'll help save Max. We now return to the FBI base. Pierce shows Max one of the orbs/rocks that Topolsky had spoken with them about. (These are the orbs that can contact the home planet.) Pierce knows there is a second orb; he wants to know where the second orb is and what they do when together. Max gives into threats (threats of hurting Liz) and tells Pierce where to find the second orb. Apparently, Max's weakness is that he is human and that the human relationships he has make him vulnerable. When this second orb arrives, Pierce asks Max to use them to do whatever they do. Max does not know how to make them work. But Tess uses her power of alternate reality to make them appear to work. While Michael and Nasedo sneak into the FBI room to release Max, Pierce thinks that the orbs are working. When Pierce snaps out of his alternate reality, Pierce realizes Max is missing. The hunt is on for Max. Max runs out with Michael while Nasedo appears to be caught by the FBI. Max and Michael are being shot at (keep in mind, that Is and Tess are in a distant and relatively safe room) and almost get shot directly until Valenti arrives and shoots Pierce in the arm. We are left wondering whether Max, Michael, and Valenti will be able to escape through a hole. FLOATERS: Why did the FBI choose now to capture Max, what makes this opportunity so unique? Since when has Valenti cared more about protecting people than about discovering the truth? Does the FBI suspect whether Is, Tess, and Michael are aliens? If so, why not capture them? If not, why do they think Max is and no one else is? QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: I would've felt it if something had happened to him. --Tess on knowing Max is safe. NEXT WEEK: Season finale. May 1, 2000 A well-charged, edge of the seat 7 Flush episode (have you noticed that I almost always give this show 7 Flushes whether I loved the episode or not). This week's drama picks up where last week's left off: Max, Michael, Isabel (from now on, we'll call her Is), and Tess standing in the desert. Max has just informed Michael and Is that Tess is one of them. They ask him how he knows this. He runs off into some cliffs, and they follow. Max sees a wall of rocks and touches his hand against one of them. Part of the rock wall disappears, and we see the room where Max, Is, Tess, and Michael were hatched. It's a very weird experience. Max and Is leave after awhile, but Michael stays behind with Tess. Michael always wants to learn more about his past due to his magic darkside. Tess tells Michael that she can tell them everything about their past, but she needs him to get them to trust her. She show him the book that she took from the library last week. Michael asks about the book and is shocked to discover that Max hadn't told him about it. Michael then leaves the cave and Tess is all alone until her father, Ed, jumps out of the cave wall. He says that it is time they all join together. She says that she cares for them and doesn't want any bad to happen to them. He says "All I care about is protecting them. Nothing else matters." But we note that Ed and Tess do not get along. They live together yet they feel no love for each other (evil aliens?). In the meantime, Michael, Is, and Max talk in private. They look through the book Tess took from the library and see pictures of the four aliens as they currently are. They wonder how this old book could know how they would look. Michael explains, "We weren't born. We were engineered." They also see pictures of Michael with Is and Max with Tess. The pictures are of sexual acts. Isabel asks Michael, "Are you my brother or my mate?" Max insists that they are masters of their own destinies and can love whomever they feel close to. Michael tries to convince Is and Max to trust Is. Max says that he'll talk with Tess about their past, but he will not trust her. Tess tells Max that Pierce, the FBI alien hunter, has been chasing her and her father for years. She tells him that her father is Nasedo and that he has taught her everything and has raised her, but he does not love her. Max asks about Is's baby (by the way, Max was upset about this baby secret being kept from him...so much tension between Max and Michael), and Tess says that they must have babies the way that humans do and that the dreams are only signs about who they are meant to procreate with (later in the episode Max has a vision of himself and Tess having sex). Before Max and Tess talk, Is and Michael discuss their baby (which they still think they may have). Maria overhears this conversation and wonders what is going on. She confronts Michael who explains that he and Is have never had sex, but that "This [pregnancy] isn't about you or me or our stupid relationship." Maria is upset that Michael calls their relationship stupid. In addition, Alex supports Maria and says that he'll help her in any way she desires. Of course, after they discover that the pregnancies are false all is forgiven between everyone. Now for the fun. Max enters the Crashdown and tells Liz that they need to talk. Liz wants to tell Maria where's she's going, but Max says that he's sick of asking reporting his actions. The two just leave, but Maria sees them leave. Max takes Liz for a ride, but instead of driving his usual jeep, he is driving a convertible, because his jeep is getting fixed at the car shop. BUT NO! A few moments later, Max enters the Crashdown and asks where Liz is. Maria says that he just left with her. The gang realizes that Nasedo shape shifted into Max and has kidnapped Liz. In the convertible, Liz kisses N-M (Nasedo disguised as Max) and sees visions in black and white of dark clouds and storms. She gets upset and withdraws from him. N-M pulls the car over and pulls a body out of the trunk. N-M has killed an FBI agent as a sign for Pierce. As he does this, Liz gets a call on her cell phone from the real Max. She figures out what is happening, but N-M steals the phone from her. He now knows that she knows so he lets out his plan of having Pierce find them so that he can kill Pierce, but if that fails he will use Liz as a hostage. He says that Pierce wants Liz to live, because she has been saved by an alien, and will make for interesting research. They head off to a gas station which N-M blows up and then arrive at a carnival. The final sign he leaves is an insignia in the sky, but now we're jumping forward. Maria and gang realize what has happened so she goes to Valenti and tells Valenti that Max has kidnapped Liz (the real Max remains hidden out of fear that Valenti will suspect something strange if he knows there are two Maxes). Valenti is on the case and when he learns about the fire at a gas station, he heads off to find Max. Valenti's newest officer, Dave Fisher, follows Valenti (Dave's following Valenti is a convoluted and unnecessary storyline so just realize that Dave is here and will appear in future episodes. We're not sure if Dave is a good guy or an FBI agent), and Max, Maria, Is, Michael, and Tess follow Valenti. On the car ride up, Tess says that she has no idea what Nasedo looks like in his natural form and that they should let Nasedo do whatever he wants. Max says, "It's not about the four of us right now. It's about Liz." Tess responds that "Liz is not one of us." Max snaps back, "No, you're not one of us." Ouch! On the way up, everyone in their cars see Nasedo's sign from the carnival and they all head over towards it. At the carnival, Liz escapes into a House of Mirrors to escape from N-M. N-M follows her. Valenti sees N-M and follows him (Valenti thinks N-M is Max). Max sees Valenti enter the funhouse and follows him. Liz soon sees both Maxes as does Valenti. He gets confused when some FBI agents begin firing at Valenti and the Maxes. One of the Maxes is taken away by the FBI and the other takes Liz. A quick kiss tells us that N-M took Liz (Liz gets the black and white flashes). N-M then goes to try and save Max, but it is too late. The FBI has him in a laboratory. Liz finds her friends and informs them that the FBI has Max. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE: We control our own lives. I won't let anybody tell me what to do. --Max, on learning that he was programmed a certain way NEXT WEEK: What happens to Max when the FBI begins its tests.