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Monday,
22 November 1999 At school, Max tells Liz that their teacher for 4th period is off sick and asks her to skip class with him so he can show her something. They are driving on the old highway to Albuquerque in the jeep when a horse runs out on the road. Max swerves to avoid the horse and crashes the jeep in the brush. Liz is OK but Max is unconscious. Back at school, Maria runs into Michael and asks him why he is avoiding her when her phone rings. It is Liz, telling her about the accident. Agent Topolsky is notified of the accident, calls her operative and tells him to go to the hospital. Michael and Isabel arrive at the hospital. The nurse drawing Max's blood tells them they cannot stay but Michael charms her into letting them stay. When she leaves with the blood, he follows her. Liz asks Isabel what they have done before and Isabel says that nothing like this had ever happened before. They do not get sick. Isabel tells her they need to find a guy so they can switch the blood. At school, Alex is talking with friends, trying to organise a garage band, when Maria pulls him away. In the lab room, the nurse leaves Max's vial with others. Michael comes in, starts looking for the vial and hides when he hears someone enter. It is the FBI agent, dressed in hospital garb. He starts looking for the vial. Maria and Alex arrive at Max's hospital room. Liz tells Alex she needs a huge favour, she needs his blood. The nurse returns to the lab room and asks the "medic" what he is doing there. He apologias and leaves. Isabel draws Alex's blood. The nurse in the lab room pulls out Max's vial, places it on her desk and, while her back is turned, Michael comes out of his hiding place and pretends he has just come in. As an excuse for being there, he asks her out on a date. She is flattered, replies he is a little young for her and goes into an adjoining room to check something under a microscope. Liz sneaks up behind him and hands him the vial with Alex's blood. While Susan is still using the microscope, Michael switches the vials, all the while telling her age does not matter to him. Susan tells him she appreciates the thought but she cannot do it and asks him to call her when he is 18. He agrees and leaves with Max's vial. The FBI agent sees him leave. Maria, Alex, Liz and Michael are in the waiting room. Liz suggests to Alex that he go home. He says he could get arrested for what he just did then leaves. Liz follows and tells it is complicated. He surmises that it is about drugs, that Max was wasted when he had the accident and Michael is just as high so they could not use his blood, so she calls him because he is so loyal a friend he will do anything she says even when she lies to him and uses him. Liz lets him believe it is drugs so she does not have to tell him the truth. Alex, very disappointed in her, leaves. Isabel comes out to tell her Max is awake. In Max's room, the doctor tells Diane that Max is fine but he would like to keep him overnight to run tests in the morning. Max assures his mother that he is fine and pleads with her to let him go home. The doctor and Diane relent when Max promises to take it easy and let them know if he feels any dizziness. The doctor leaves and the others come in. Max introduces his mother to Liz. Later, as everyone is leaving, Maria realises she left her purse in Max's room. Michael goes back for it and sees two FBI agents going through the trash and Max's chart. He recognises one of them as the guy that followed him to the Crashdown and the other as the one who was in the lab room. Later, in Max's bedroom he tells Max and Isabel what he saw. Michael says they need to find out what they can about them, that he wants to know his enemy. Topolsky has a clandestine meeting with the agent who posed as a medic who tells her that the blood test came back normal but he thinks they switched samples with Alex's blood. Tuesday, 23 November 1999 At school, Alex sits with Kyle for lunch and learns that Liz has been lying to him too. Kyle does not believe that Liz did not let Alex in on her little secret. Later, Liz tells Max how scared she was when he was hurt and he thanks her for her help. She tells him it was Alex that helped and sensing that she wants to tell Alex the truth. Max reminds her that they can't but says that they have to tell him something. She tells him that she told Alex it was drugs and she thinks he believed her. Max apologises for making her lie for him and she tells him that these are the things you do when you feel a certain way about someone. In Maria's car, Isabel, Michael and Maria follow one of the FBI agents to a motel, where they wait for him to come out again. When the agent leaves his motel room, Michael and Maria break into his room while Isabel acts as lookout in the car. Maria comments that this is the second time he ha dragged her to a cheap motel and Michael tells her not to spread it around as it will ruin his reputation. Michael tells her they are looking for ID, something to tell them about this guy. He heads for the bathroom and she, not impressed by his detecting abilities, points out they would have better luck checking luggage tags, the phone message pad and the trash, rather than the guy's toiletries. They have success in the trash, finding something with the name Moss and a phone number. Maria picks up the phone and dials the number. Topolsky answers by saying her name. Maria hangs up and says either Toplosky takes her job way too seriously or she is not a guidance counsellor. At school, Topolsky comes up to Alex, who is having lunch. While he is not looking, she puts something in his drink. She starts asking him about Max when Liz interrupts. Topolsky asks Alex to stop by her office later. Liz starts to apologise and tries to make sure he has not told anyone, when he develops a nose bleed and leaves for the boys' room. When his nose stops bleeding, he throws the tissue in the trash and leaves. Topolsky goes into the boys' room and retrieves the tissue. At the Crashdown, Michael tells Max and Isabel what happened at the motel and Maria tells Liz. Michael's version makes it sound like he was the master detective, not Maria. They are all concerned about what Alex will say to Topolsky. Alex goes to Toplosky's office. She tells him she knows he switched blood for Max, that she wants to help him, that the sheriff will not get involved and it will not appear on his record. She wants to keep him safe from Max and asks him to write out a statement and sign it. When he hesitates, she tells him to think about who he is protecting. She tells him she has friends who can help him. When he asks who they are she says they are people you can trust, like me. Alex leaves her office and goes to his locker where he meets Max. Max says they need to talk about what Alex did for him at the hospital. He tells Alex that he saved his life and Alex replies he screwed up his. He tells Max that if he is there to threaten him into not talking he is too late, Topolsky already knows. Max asks if he told her and Alex says that she told him and asked him to sign a confession. Max asks if he did and Alex avoids the question and leaves. Liz comes by and slips a note in Alex's locker. Wednesday, 24 November 1999 Alex meets Liz at the Crashdown. She tells him she needs him to believe in her even though she cannot tell him what he wants to know. She tells him there is a right side and a wrong side and if he chooses the wrong side, something terrible will happen to all of them. She asks him to remember their five year friendship and trust her when she says she is on the right side. At school, Alex goes to see Toplosky. He tells her he is worried about Liz and wants to know what her friends would do to Liz if he gives her what she wants. She says Liz would be questioned and that they would run medical tests to make sure she was not harmed. Liz comes in and asks if she can speak to her in the hallway. She tells Topolsky that Alex has been acting paranoid and hurt since she has made new friends. Meanwhile, Alex is at Topolsky's computer trying to break into her e-mail files. Topolsky realises that Liz is just stalling her and goes back to her office. When she opens the door, Alex turns the screen towards her and reveals the FBI seal. Topolsky packs up her laptop and leaves. Alex tells Liz that she either tells him the truth or it is the end of their friendship. Liz is devastated but tells him she cannot. |
