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Monday,
8 May 2000 At the Crashdown, Max and Liz are flirting, much to the chagrin of Isabel. Sheriff Valenti comes in to refill his thermos with coffee. Max and Isabel try to avoid looking at him but he looks right at them and says "You folks have a nice night" and leaves. Michael thinks "he knows" because he has the orb. Max blames Michael for that. Liz says "Even though he has it, he doesn't know what it is. Right?" Max says "We don't even know what it is". Tess walks over and wants to know "what is?" They change the subject. She sits and Max starts to stare at her. He has a vision of the two of them together, holding hands in the desert, standing amid the symbols from the cave wall; of a child in an incubator like pod; of something in a larva like stage of development. Liz, Isabel and Tess are all aware of Max's trance like state. Tess breaks his reverie by asking if she has something in her teeth. Liz goes to get Tess a drink and Max accompanies her out to the back room. He kisses her and says "I just really needed to do that". Then he kisses her again and he starts having flashes of Tess and suddenly he envisions he is kissing Tess and not Liz. Liz breaks his reverie and asks if he had another flash. Max is obviously unsettled by his experience. He apologises to Liz and says he is just tired. Liz goes into the kitchen and Max stares out the window in the door at Tess. Valenti is on the phone talking to the hospital in Maryland, asking to speak to Kathleen Topolsky. He is holding the orb. He is unable to talk to Topolsky so he leaves a message for Dr Margolin to call him. At school, Alex says hi to Tess and Isabel as he passes by. Tess comments that Alex has it bad for Isabel. Isabel replies that "He's sweet". Tess asks "Sweet as in nice guy or sweet as in potential love connection?" Isabel replies "Sweet as in I don't know". She asks Tess who she is interested in and Tess confesses that she is bummed that Max is not available. Isabel says Max is so into Liz and their being soul mates that "It's enough to make you gag". Tess starts to say "That's weird, I thought I felt him…" but doesn't complete the thought. In the science class, the teacher is discussing combustibility. Tess, sitting in front, turns and looks at Max sitting in the back and the flame on his Bunsen burner shoots up. The teacher asks Max to come and sit with Tess to help her catch up. He approaches Tess, then he picks her up and she wraps her legs around his waist and they begin kissing passionately. He lays her down onto the teacher's desk and climbs on top of her. The entire class, including Alex, Maria and Liz, look on in shock. Tess starts saying "Max, you're on fire" over and over. His reverie is finally broken and he discovers the Bunsen burner has set his shirt on fire. He puts it out and sits next to Tess. In the girls' room, Maria is concerned about the way Tess was looking at Max. Liz says she has nothing to worry about. In the boys' room, Max is telling Michael that he is worried. He tells him he has been having daydreams about being "together" with Tess. Michael says "Guess you're only human after all". Back in the girls' room, Maria reminds Liz that Max isn't human and what if "Czechoslovakians" can't resist temptation. Liz brushes off her worries. Max tells Michael that something is happening to him that is out of his control, he can't stop it. That it is like Tess knows something about him that she shouldn't and he worries who she is. Michael brushes off his worries and says they have more important concerns to think about, like Valenti having the orb. Max walks away, wondering aloud why he thought Michael would be any help. At the Valenti home, Kyle is watching a basketball game when the sheriff gets a phone call, causing him to switch the channel to a news report about a hospital in Maryland where six people perished in a fire. Valenti calls Dr Margolin and is patched through to his cell phone. Dr Margolin tells him Topolsky died in the fire and he doesn't know who Valenti is because he has never been to Roswell in his life. Tuesday, 9 May 2000 The next morning, Valenti goes to the UFO Centre to talk to Max. He tells him he knows how Max feels when you have something tearing you up inside and don't have anyone to talk to about it. He tells him that Topolsky died in a fire in Maryland and that the Dr Margolin they met was an impostor, possibly a shapeshifter. He asks Max what if everything Topolsky told them about Pierce was true and he just killed six people to get to Topolsky. He tells Max this is serious and that all their names are on Pierce's list, including his own. They are all in danger and they all need to help each other. That Max needs to trust him because someone is out there watching them. Michael is in his apartment being observed by someone watching a video monitor. At school, Michael goes into the Administration file room and starts going through a file cabinet drawer. Maria follows him in and asks what he is doing. He doesn't want to tell her so she reminds him they are a couple and shouldn't have secrets from one another. He tells her he is looking up Tess's files and she guesses it is for Max. Michael goes to the address listed in the file and finds it is an empty house. He hides when an Army jeep approaches. Two men and a soldier with a rifle get out. The men go inside and the soldier stands guard outside. At the Crashdown, Liz is quizzing Max about whether he is Tess's lab partner for the rest of the semester and that with an odd number of students someone is going to be without a lab partner. Max asks if they can stop talking about Tess. Michael comes in and says that is a good idea and he and Max go over to Isabel at the counter to talk. He tells them about the empty house and the military. Isabel defends Tess saying they just moved here and she is sure there is a reasonable explanation for the military. Max tells them what Valenti told him about Topolsky and that Valenti thinks everything she told them about the alien hunter is true. Michael wants to know why he didn't tell them about it sooner. Max says he didn't want anyone to panic. Michael says "I'm trying to figure out which problem to panic over. You having secret meetings with Valenti or your new girlfriend Tess bringing the Army into town". Liz overhears the new girlfriend Tess remark. She looks at Max then walks away. Max is about to follow her when Valenti comes in. He places the orb on the counter and says "Before you can expect anyone to trust you, you've got to trust them first. Whenever you're ready Max". Then he leaves. Michael says they have to do something about Tess, so Isabel volunteers to check it out. When Isabel gets to the house, the movers are there. Tess tells her they have been at a hotel all week, then introduces her to her father, Ed Harding. They have a lot of exotic artefacts which Tess says her father collected from all over the world. Isabel asks him what he does that brings him to such exotic ports. He says "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you". Isabel is stunned. Then he laughs, it was a joke. He works as a consultant for the Army. He and Tess start to direct the movers and Isabel, helping, picks up a box marked photos. Tess freaks and tells her to put it down. She tries to cover by saying Isabel is a guest and shouldn't be lifting heavy boxes. She goes to get Isabel a drink and her father asks what Isabel is doing there. Max comes by the Crashdown after closing to tell Liz that he doesn't feel anything for Tess. He knows Liz is the person he is supposed to be with. He tells her "You're the one, Liz. The only one. I could never be with anyone else". Then he kisses her. When he leaves, he runs into Tess, whose car has broken down across the street. They are standing in the rain. He tells her she planned it. That she is doing something to him. She denies planning anything, she just needs someone to help her with her car. He approaches her saying "I'm with Liz. We belong together. I don't want anyone but her". All the while he is getting closer and closer until they are inches apart and he kisses her passionately. Liz is watching at the Crashdown door. Max has flashes of the child in the pod emerging; then one of the Aries constellation. He stops kissing her. He is breathing hard and asks "Who are you?" At Michael's apartment, Max comes in and Michael, irritated, says "What are you doing here?" Max is very agitated. He says "I'm in trouble Michael. I don't know what's happening to me. I kissed Tess". Michael is shocked. Max tells him it was like something was controlling him, that something is going on. But Michael is just disgusted with Max. He says "First you talk to Valenti behind my back and now you're kissing Tess behind Liz's". Max says he didn't tell Valenti anything and, since he returned the orb, maybe they should trust him. Michael says "I use to admire you. You were solid, someone I could trust, even more than I could trust myself. And Liz trusted you. I don't know who you are anymore, Maxwell. So why don't you get the hell out of my house". He gives Max a slight push as he walks by him towards the refrigerator. Max wants him to listen so he grabs Michael and shoves him against the refrigerator, causing the items on top to fall over, exposing a tiny hidden camera. Wednesday, 10 May 2000 The next day at the Crashdown, Max, Michael and Isabel discuss who could have planted it. Michael suggests Valenti but Max thinks the device would be too expensive for the Roswell PD. Michael suggests Mr Harding. Isabel starts to disagree, telling them about the hotel and Harding's job and saying he is dorky but normal but then she remembers the box. Liz walks by but says nothing, so Max follows her into the back room. She tells him she saw him and, hurt, asks "How could you kiss her?" He replies "I don't know. I don't know what's happening". She asks if any of the things he said to her were true. He tells her she has to believe him. The way he is drawn to Tess is not just attraction, it's something else. He asks her to have faith in him, in them, until he can figure out what is going on. He tells her he had a flash when he kissed Tess and Liz is stricken. She says "I guess I'm not so special after all". She runs upstairs. Maria finds her on her balcony, sobbing uncontrollably. Maria tells her that Michael told her she needed a friend. Liz tells her that Max kissed Tess. Maria can't believe it and agrees with Liz when she says it is so unlike him. She hugs her, tells her she will support her and asks "What are you going to do?" Liz says "Everything I see with my eyes tells me that he's cheating on me but everything I feel with my heart, tells me that he's not". Maria advises her to go with her heart. At the Crashdown, Alex, using a small video monitor, explains to Michael how the camera works. Maria asks what they are doing with it and Michael tells her they are going to use it to spy on Tess and her father because they think they are FBI. They discuss how they are going to get the camera in the house. Liz calls on Tess at her house. She tells her they need to talk, that she is in love with Max and saw them kissing. Tess says it came out of nowhere and will never happen again. Tess goes to get her a drink and Liz places the camera under one of the artefacts. She sees the box and goes through it, finding pictures of Max. Michael, Maria, Isabel and Alex are watching on a monitor from a warehouse nearby. They see Mr Harding come in and startle Liz, who knocks over the artefact the camera was under, sending camera and artefact crashing to the floor. The signal goes out. Liz apologises profusely for breaking the artefact. She offers to clean up the mess. Mr Harding politely, but menacingly, tells her not to bother, they will get it later. Then he invites her to stay for dinner. T he gang discusses what they should do. Michael wants to go and get her but Isabel doesn't think they should rush in, causing suspicion, if nothing is wrong. Michael says they can't take the chance with Liz's life so they leave to check things out. Liz, saying she is calling her mom, calls Max and cryptically tells him where she is and that he was right about them. He tells her he is coming to get her. When the gang get there they look through the window. Isabel says "What's going on?" and Alex replies "They are passing the mashed potatoes". Mr Harding quizzes Liz and learns that her parents own the Crashdown and that she is dating Max. Max arrives and argues with the others about going in to get her. Mr Harding starts to clean up the artefact when the doorbell rings. Mr Harding goes to the door and Liz retrieves the camera and places it in a dish with coloured glass marbles. Max is at the door and says he is there to see Tess, that they need to talk. Tess says they have nothing to talk about, that what happened between them was a mistake. Liz tells Max that she and Tess have straightened everything out and they should leave. Mr Harding acts disappointed and says they should do it again sometime. When Liz and Max join the others, she tells them about the pictures of Max. Valenti is in a car parked outside the house taking pictures. In the warehouse, the gang are falling asleep waiting for something to happen on the monitor. Max thanks Liz for believing in him. She says she went on faith but she is not sure there will ever be a good enough reason to explain his kissing Tess. Then, on the monitor, they see Tess dump the remnants of the artefact on top of the piano then use her powers to reconstruct it. |
