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Monday,
10 January 2000 Max and Diane are in the kitchen, he is teasing her about going wild adding garlic to the meal she is preparing, she is quizzing him about his lab partner Liz. Diane unknowingly tips over a bottle of vegetable oil. The oil travels across the range top towards the open flame and then the entire cooking surface bursts into flames, shooting towards the ceiling. Diane falls back and Max uses his powers to extinguish the flames, then throws a pot of water on the debris to hide his actions. Diane did not have a full view of what Max did. The security system alerts the fire department and Sheriff Valenti, who is sceptical that Max put out the fire with one pot of water. Later, Max tells Isabel he does not think their mom saw anything but he thinks their mom may be Valenti's next project. They also discuss his decision to back off his relationship with Liz. Isabel thinks it was a very good idea. Max is still trying to accept that he made the right decision. At the Crashdown Café, Liz tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Maria that she is OK with Max's decision to cool their relationship. Tuesday, 11 January 2000 Diane is watching a video of Max and Isabel when they were six years old, chasing birds in the park. Diane starts asking Isabel about why Max is so secretive and if she has ever noticed her brother do something she could not explain. Isabel says no and leaves for the high school basketball game. At the game, Isabel pulls Max aside to tell him about their mother's suspicious questions and that she thinks she was looking for something in the video. Isabel wants to tell her the truth. Michael interrupts and says no way and Max agrees with Michael. Liz distracts Kyle while he is playing and he trips and breaks his ankle. Wednesday, 12 January 2000 The sheriff visits Diane and brings up the shooting incident at the Crashdown and Max's possible involvement, of which Diane is unaware, but he does not elaborate. He then gives her a pamphlet on household emergencies, says he highlighted the section on grease fires. At school, Michael is watching Maria trying to make a napkin holder for her woodworking class. It is not going well and he comes over to give her some advice, which she does not want. She continues to snap at him and he asks what he has done to make her so mad and she explains it is what he has not done. That after all she went through to help him when he was so sick, he never even said thank you. He thanks her and she tells him it is too late. Liz, feeling responsible for Kyle's injury, brings him a pie and study notes. He is not friendly so she leaves. That evening, Max is painting the burn marks on the ceiling. His mother tells him the pamphlet explains that water does not put out a grease fire, it makes it spread. She wants to know how he really put it out. Isabel interrupts their conversation and she and Max go out. Isabel tells him they have to tell their mother the truth, that he does not understand how important it is to her to be honest with her mother. She feels that the truth will bring them closer together but Max disagrees. Isabel tells him it is not just his decision. Thursday, 13 January 2000 Diane asks Isabel what she remembers before they were adopted. Isabel tells her she remembers being at the orphanage and the day they came to pick them up. That Diane was wearing a yellow sweater and she represented the sun to her. She tells her that the day she and daddy came for us, was when our lives began. At school, Michael tells Maria her tactic to get him to feel indebted to her will not work. He grabs her napkin holder and tells her he will use his powers to improve it and call it even. She tries to take it back and it breaks. He wants to know what her problem is. She says it is cheating. You cannot just wave your hand over a problem and make it go away. She asks him why he cannot you just piece together an apology like any normal human being or maybe that is the problem. Kyle comes to the Crashdown on crutches and apologises to Liz for making their break-up more difficult. After watching a segment on Sally Jessy about exes on a rampage, it gave him some perspective and he is hoping they can be friends. Liz is pleased with his change in attitude. He then requests something high in both fat and cholesterol and lacking any nutritional value for lunch. Max sees them bonding through the window of the Café and changes his mind about going in. The sheriff asks Diane to come down to the station. He shows her the report on the shooting at the Crashdown and tells her that two tourists said they saw Liz get hit with the bullet and Max heal her. At home, Diane is playing the video again and she shows Max where in the video he picked up a bird with a broken wing, healed it just by holding it and released it to fly away. She tells him she always wondered about that incident but since there was no way it could be explained she tried to forget about it. The kitchen fire brought it all up again. Max feels cornered and does not know how to explain it without telling her the truth. She pleads with him to just tell her but he refuses. Friday, 14 January 2000 At a quarry, Max tells Isabel and Michael about healing the bird in the video. Michael wants to destroy the video. Isabel reminds him he is referring to their mother and he reminds Isabel that she is not her mother. Isabel says if there is any adult they can trust it is her and that perhaps it would be good to have an adult on their side. Michael tells her that if she learns the truth she will not be on her side because there is no such thing as unconditional love. Max says they are not telling her and Isabel tells him to stop speaking like he has the final word on everything. At school, Maria finds a very nice napkin holder in her locker with a note "Handmade by Michael. Thanks". Maria is very pleased. Michael comes up to her later and asks how she did on her assignment. She tells him she flunked. He is incredulous because he worked very hard on the napkin holder, felt he had done a very good job and that it redefined the term napkin holder. Maria tells him she did not use his napkin holder for her school project because she kept it for herself and thanks him. He is pleased but then tells her that if anything happens to him again, she should not help him. He cannot get entangled and indebted, he has to be a stonewall and when he is around her he does not feel like a stonewall, he feels confused. Max goes to the Crashdown after closing to tell Liz that he saw her with Kyle and it is OK with him if they are getting back together. She tells him they are not but if they were she would not need his permission. He tells her she sounds like Isabel telling him he is controlling. Liz replies that he is controlling. Max, losing control, shouts at her and tells her he has a lot going on and is trying to make things work. Liz tells him he puts everything on himself and that he needs to have more faith in the people around him. Saturday, 15 January 2000 The next day, Max finds his mother at the park. Diane asks him if he ever thought of finding his real parents. With tears in his voice, Max tells her he does not think he will ever find his real parents, maybe it would give them some answers but not to think that you're not enough. He hands her a toy house that she had given him when he was first adopted because he was homesick. She had told him it was a magic house and if he held on to it, it would take him home. He tells her it could never take him home because he doesn't know where home is. He pleads with her not to ask him about it anymore and tells her that it is nothing bad and nothing dangerous. She hugs him. Max meets Isabel at the quarry. He tells her everything is going to be OK with their mom. She asks if he told her and, when he says no, she breaks down crying. He holds her and tells her they are going to be OK, they have each other. |
