Liz Parker is sitting outside. She is writing in her journal:
"September 23rd. Journal entry one. I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. After that, things got really weird..."
Sunday, 19 September 1999
Liz Parker and her best friend Maria DeLuca are waitresses at The Crashdown - the restaurant Liz's parents own in Roswell, New Mexico. Two customers start a fight, gunshots ring out and Maria screams realising Liz has been shot.
Max Evans quickly rushes over and places his hand on Liz's gunshot wound. Liz and Max share a soulful connection as Max mysteriously heals Liz. Max pleads with her not to say anything. Liz later discovers a silver handprint has been imprinted on her stomach where Max had healed her.
Monday, 20 September 1999
Needing a rational explanation, Liz confronts Max. He confides to Liz that he is an alien. Max swears Liz to secrecy saying his life in now in her hands. Liz decides to guard Max's secret and is forced to lie to the people she treasures most in her life including not only Maria, but also her boyfriend Kyle Valenti, her own father and her other good friend Alex Whitman. That night Kyle sees the silver handprint on her stomach.
Friday, 24 September 1999
Kyle's father, Jim Valenti, who is also Roswell's sheriff , becomes suspicious of what happened at The Crashdown and questions Liz about Max. When Liz denies knowing anything, Valenti shows her a photo of a dead man from 1959. Valenti explains to Liz that the man in the photo also had the same handprint that Kyle said he saw on her stomach. Liz shows Valenti her stomach but the handprint has gone. Valenti has no other choice than to let her go.
Now frightened of what she found out, Liz goes to Max saying she wants to know everything. Max explains he does not know where he is from. He then explains and demonstrates his power to change molecular structures, which is why he was able to heal her wound. Max explains that they came out of incubation pods looking like six-year old humans around ten years ago. Liz then questions Max's saying "they" and he reveals that his sister Isabel and best friend Michael are also aliens - the only ones of their kind on Earth. Liz then shares with Max the information about the photo Valenti showed to her, proving there may be others out there like them.
Not about to give up, Valenti decides to share what he knows with FBI Agent Stevens. The Agent refutes the findings reminding Valenti that it was his own father's obsession with aliens that eventually cost him his career. Valenti protests saying maybe his father was right all along.
Maria confronts Liz telling her she knows when her best friend is lying to her. Maria demands to know what is going on and Liz decides to confide in Maria, telling her Max's secret.
Meanwhile, Max has gathered Isabel and Michael and has told them about Valenti's suspicions and the photograph. Max tells them it is time to leave Roswell. As the three aliens drive out of town, they run into Liz and Maria. Liz explains that if they run, they will only be proving Valenti's suspicions. Liz tells them she has a plan to get Valenti off their trail. Michael is sceptical but Isabel, not wanting to leave the only home she has ever known, agrees to listen.
Later at the UFO Crashdown Festival, they are able to throw Valenti off their track. Valenti catches Max and tells him it is not over and he intends to find out the truth.
Liz and Max share a moment alone and she thanks him for saving her life. Liz then questions whether the two of them can ever be together and, wishing they could, Max says that he does not think it would be safe. The two agree to never be together but inside, each feels an emotional connection no one will ever be able to deny.
Later that evening Liz writes in her journal:
"It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life."