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Sunday, 20 February
2000 Liz is in the shower of the girls' locker room at school. Suddenly, Max walks in and they stare at each other passionately. Maria wakes Liz from her reverie and she tips over a bowl of strawberries. Max comes in and helps her pick up the strawberries and follows her into the back room. He asks if they are still friends. He wants to be more than friends, so he grabs her in an embrace and kisses her more passionately than ever before. Liz sees a vision of a star system while kissing. She is totally blown away by the experience and has trouble putting it into words when explaining it to Maria shortly after. Monday, 21 February 2000 At school, Max too seems blown away by the whole thing as he relates the experience to Michael. Max goes into his science class, sits next to Liz and passes her a note to meet him in the eraser room at 6th period. Liz purposely drops her pencil so Max can pick it up and while down there he touches her hand, causing her to have flashes of the star system and to experience orgasmic pleasure, which does not go unnoticed by the rest of the class nor the teacher, who gives them both detention in his class after school. Maria meets Michael and asks him if he has heard of Liz's flashes. They decide to do some "experimenting" of their own. Maria tells Michael that she sees a sunset near the rings of Saturn. Michael tells Maria that he saw her as a little girl trying to tie her shoelaces on red sneakers. Max and Liz are making-out in the eraser room. Max is seeing flashes of Liz as a child playing dress-up, then is momentarily startled. Liz is hurtling through space and crashing to Earth. Their passionate outcries are overheard and they are discovered when the door is opened. The Principal summoned their mothers and informed them of Max and Liz's very vocal make-out session in the eraser room. Liz's mother tells her she is to come straight home after her last class and Liz has to tell her she has detention after school. Isabel is having lunch and burns the roof of her mouth with her pizza. Alex comes by and mentions he has heard about the flashes and offers his services, in the interest of science. Isabel declines his offer. Liz reports for detention and is examining a poster of a star system on the classroom wall. The teacher identifies it as the Whirlwind Galaxy. When Max arrives, the teacher hands them their detention assignments and leaves the room. Max and Liz kiss and then she points out the poster and tells him it is what she saw in her vision and that she thinks she saw the crash. Nancy comes into Liz's bedroom to talk with her about boys and sexual intimacy and she tells Liz that she never has to lie to her about these things. Liz assures her that she and Max have not had sex. At Michael's new apartment, Isabel is putting away groceries and Max is telling them about Liz seeing the crash and that he is seeing Liz's memories. Michael and Isabel ask him how he knows they are real and he says he does not. Michael wants to know what he has seen but Max says it is private. Isabel suggests he ask Liz to confirm they are real but he says he does not want to embarrass her. Michael says Max needs to find out and, in the meantime, he is going to pursue his own avenues. Michael and Maria are making-out when Maria, feeling guilty, confesses to him that she faked the flashes she said she had before. Michael gets mad at her so she tells him that if he was not so defensive and did not shut down all the time maybe it would happen. He tells her he lied about the flashes he had of her. Tuesday, 22 February 2000 Maria and Liz are in the girl's locker room, heading for gym class, when Maria notices something on Liz's neck and tells her to check it out. Maria leaves for the gym and Liz heads towards the mirrors when she sees Max standing in the locker room. She asks him what he is doing there. He tells her he needed to find out if one of the flashes he had of her was real and looks towards the showers. Liz realises he is referring to her fantasy about his watching her in the shower and is embarrassed. Max explains he was not sure if it was her fantasy or his own but he had never seen the girls' locker room before so he wanted to know if it looked the same as in the vision (which would confirm it was Liz's fantasy). He tells her that not only did he see the fantasy he also felt what she was feeling about him when she had it and he never thought anyone could ever feel that way about him. The gym teacher comes looking for Liz and they hide in one of the shower stalls. The teacher leaves. Max notices what Maria saw on Liz's neck, a glowing hickey. Max touches her neck to remove the hickey and Liz has a flash of army troops in the desert. At Michael's apartment, he and Isabel are discussing Liz's flashes and Michael hypothesises that perhaps they find out who they are by connecting with humans. Max arrives and says Liz is coming over. Isabel and Michael prepare to leave and Max asks them why. They indicate they want Max and Liz to be alone to continue their research but Max does not like the idea of using Liz for experiments. Michael points out that they would not be doing anything they did not want to do anyway. As they leave, Isabel snaps her fingers and produces mood lighting with candles. Liz arrives and shows Max that the hickey has returned only this time it is not glowing, it is more like a rash. Max uses his healing powers again and removes the hickey but as he touches her skin, running his hand down her arm, he causes her skin to glow. Liz suggests that he remove his shirt and tries to make his skin glow but it does not work. Max tells her he is glowing on the inside. They start to heat up with the passion they feel for each other and discuss whether it is safe to give in to their feelings. They do not know the answer. Max does not want to hurt her but they are unable to stop. They begin to kiss passionately and move over to the couch. Liz hears a beeping sound and has a flash of army troops near a transmission tower in the desert and something being buried. Maria walks in, looking for Michael, and finds Max and Liz lying on the couch in a passionate embrace. Maria drives Liz home and lectures her about not going too far with Max but Liz reveals that she wants to. Liz climbs through her bedroom window and finds her mother waiting for her. They argue, with Liz asking her mother to stop trying to control her. That just because she has always done everything she wanted her to in the past, she shouldn't expect it to continue. Max comes by later to Liz's rooftop balcony. She tells him about seeing something being buried near a tower and shows him a picture she drew of it. He recognises it as an old radio transmission tower by Highway 42, near the sighting of the 1947 crash. They decide to go that evening to see if they can find what was buried. They arrive at the tower and lie down on a blanket to do some more "research". Max asks Liz if she is sure she wants to do this when Liz hears the beeping from her vision. They investigate and find the exact spot in her vision and start digging. They unearth a glowing orb with a symbol on it like on the necklace. Wednesday, 23 February 2000 The next morning they are discovered missing. Isabel goes over to Alex's and tells him to kiss her to see if she can get a flash of where Max is. It does not work but Alex lets her know he is available anytime for further experiments. Max and Liz wake up in the desert to find Nasedo, who does not identify himself, watching them. He tells them they are on private property and should go home. Maria visits Michael to apologise for telling him it was his fault they did not see the flashes, that it was her fault and she was afraid. She tells him she fakes all kinds of things, all the time, with everyone but he was the first one she admitted it to. Michael thanks her and tells her she was not the one that was shut down because she let him see her. He did see her tying her red sneakers and adds that they had a Kermit patch and blue shoelaces. He also saw her Dalmatian licking off her tears. She confirms that what he saw was real. That her dog died when she was 7, right after her father left. She tells him she did not care about the flashes, she just wanted to be close to him. Michael puts his arm around her, says thanks and kisses her on the forehead. Max and Liz's parents are at the Crashdown Café discussing their behaviour. Nancy suggests that perhaps they should be kept apart for a while. Max and Liz are parked outside the Café, kissing but neither of them has any flashes. Liz wonders if everything they felt was just about the orb. They start talking about their destinies. They then join hands and walk into the Café to find their parents waiting for them. |
