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Saturday,
13 May 2000 It's nighttime. Michael and Valenti are helping Max out of the Eagle Rock Military Base. They meet up with Isabel, Tess, Liz, Maria and Alex. Valenti tells them they should split up, to make it more difficult for the FBI to follow, and meet at an old silver mine in Gallinas, to buy themselves some time. Tess asks "Where's Nasedo?" Michael says "Just get in the jeep." Max is with Liz in Maria's car. He changes into the clothes Isabel gave him. The FBI are behind them, shooting at them with machine guns. Liz pulls over and they take off on foot, which is a struggle for Max who is still feeling the effects of his treatment. Cornered on a bridge, they climb on the railing, hold each other's hand, exchange a kiss and jump into the water below. Cut to Max and Liz running through storm drains. They find an abandoned bus and use it as a refuge. Liz kisses Max and is horrified when she sees flashes of what Max went through at the base. Cut to the jeep, where Michael tells Tess Nasedo may not have made it. She says that Nasedo told her that if anything like this ever happened to him she should go to the pod chamber and insists they have to go there. The others disagree. They aren't going anywhere without Max and Liz. They will go to the mine. Cut to the bus, where Max has told Liz about his destiny with Tess. Max wishes things could go back to normal and Liz wishes he never saved her when she was shot because that was the day his life ended. Choked with emotion, Max says, "No, that's the day my life began." He tells her that what got him through the torture was the thought of her; the way her eyes look into his, her smile, the touch of her skin, her lips. "Knowing you has made me human. Whether I die tomorrow or 50 years from now, my destiny is the same…it's you. I want to be with you, Liz. I love you." Liz replies "I love you" and they kiss. Sunday, 14 May 2000 Valenti is at the mine when the kids arrive. They are concerned when they discover that Max and Liz have not yet arrived. Valenti says he needs to retrace their route to find them. Michael goes with him to help. Cut to Max and Liz. It is daybreak; they hear the sound of an approaching car and leave. Cut to Michael asking Valenti why he's helping. He says there's a right side and a wrong side and Pierce is not on the right side. They see Max and Liz running from the agents. Valenti stops and Michael gets out and uses his powers to send a blinding light at the agents, disabling them and their vehicle. Valenti looks on in astonishment. Max and Liz reach them and they all get in the car. Valenti says "What did you do?" and Michael says "I don't know, just go." They take off and return to the mine. Michael and Liz go into the mine. Valenti says "Tell me what just happened back there, Max. All this time I thought it was just you. It's Michael too, isn't it. Isabel? My God…man!" Max says "You swore to me that we could trust you. I need to trust you right now. It's our lives, Sheriff; there's no time for doubts." Valenti says "It's my life too and I need to know everything." Max says "We don't know where we're from. We don't know why we're here. We don't won't to hurt anybody, Sheriff, we just want to stay alive." Valenti says his father was right and Max says "But he would have turned us in. What are you going to do?" In the mine, Michael says "I don't know how I did it. I don't even know what I was trying to do. It just happened." Tess tells him it's his own energy and how he focuses it. Isabel is concerned that Valenti saw him do it. Alex wants to know what they're going to do and Max, entering the mine, says "We are gonna think this through and we're not gonna panic." Max wants to trust Valenti. Tess thinks the four of them should go to the chamber to be safe. That Pierce doesn't want the rest of them. Max says "We're not going anywhere. We're taking our lives back." He says they can't keep running. They have to fight. They are stronger than Pierce thinks. "We may be even stronger than we think." Valenti is listening to the police scanner and hears Pierce talking to his deputy about his absence. Pierce says he has someone "checking on the Sheriff's son." Cut to Agent Samuels at Kyle's saying his orders are to protect him from any harm and Kyle wanting to know if his father is in trouble. Cut to Michael and Isabel, in town, drawing the attention of Agent Bellow, while Tess does her mind trick on both Bellow and Samuel, making them think that Pierce is in front of them telling them to go to an abandoned gas station in Hondo and wait for him. Kyle asks Samuels who he's talking to. Tess breaks the connection and Liz asks "Can you just do that with everyone, make them see things that aren't even there?" Tess replies "Sometimes it's easier to do that than to make someone see something that is right in front of her eyes." Cut to Samuels saying "What the hell just happened here?" Kyle says "I was kinda hoping you could tell me." Max comes in and knocks Samuels out with one punch. Kyle says "What are you doing, he's an FBI agent!" Max locks Samuel in a closet, says Samuels is not what he seems, that he can't explain anything right now but his father is safe, he doesn't want him involved. Leaving, he tells him not to let Samuels out. As soon as he's gone, Kyle tries to open the closet but Max welded the lock. He goes to the gun rack. Valenti finds Pierce at the station wearing his deputy uniform. Pierce says "If you're here to kill me, Sheriff, it won't do any good. There'll be a new man in charge of the unit in 24 hours." Valenti tells him he's there because he's scared for himself, for his son, for everyone. Pierce says "You didn't seem scared last night when you put a bullet 6" from my heart." Valenti says things are different from last night; he knows things he didn't before and it's "bigger than you can imagine. I heard them, I know their plan. Right now they're disabling your agents, one by one. You don't believe me? Get them on the radio." Pierce tries and fails. He says "I want those aliens." Valenti wants a deal - a clean record, a full pension for himself and his father and protection for his son. Pierce agrees if Valenti shows him where they are. That evening, at the UFO Center, Valenti and Pierce watch as Isabel, Liz and Tess enter and go upstairs. Pierce says "As soon as we see them all, shoot to kill, Sheriff." Valenti says "What about the civilians?" Pierce says "There's always a price to pay for freedom, Sheriff." The lights go out. Valenti shouts "Pierce!" There's a struggle. The lights come back on and Pierce and Valenti are on the floor, Max and Michael have their guns and are pointing them at them. Cut to Max tying Pierce to a chair in the Center's theater room. A slide show is projecting on the screen. Max goes up to Valenti and says "I can't believe I trusted you." Michael leads Valenti out of the room, leaving Pierce and Max alone. The roles are reversed now, Pierce is the captive and Max the tormentor. Cut to Michael saying to Valenti "I always thought you were out to get us…and I'm glad I was wrong." He removes the handcuffs. Valenti says "I'll take care of Pierce as soon as Max gets what he needs. Michael asks "What are you gonna do?" Valenti says he put a call into the Attorney General's office. Michael is skeptical that the government will help because they're in on it. Valenti says the government doesn't tolerate secret government action, once the press gets a hold of it. "It's time for this to be over." Cut to Max, who, using words Pierce said to him the day before, softly says "Good evening Agent Pierce. You know who I am, I know who you are and now you're going to tell me everything." Pierce says "I've got nothing to say." Max says "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. It's up to you. What happened to Nasedo? Did you capture him? Did you kill him? Tell me!" Cut to another room where Isabel, Tess, Liz, Maria and Alex are waiting. Isabel is preparing to dreamwalk with Pierce while Max interrogates him to see if Pierce will visualize where Nasedo is. Cut back to Max intensely saying "Where is he? You know what I can do to you. Tell me what I'm asking or I will take you apart, piece by piece and make sure you stay conscious enough to feel every second of it." Pierce says "Untie me and I'll take you to him." Max says "So you do know where he is." Cut to Isabel visualizing Matheson/Nacedo being zipped up in a body bag. Pierce is saying "There is a helo meeting us a Jefferds airstrip out by Hobson. Hold the body there until I bring the others." Nacedo's body is placed in a van marked Kase Security. Isabel comes out of it and says to Tess "I'm sorry, it looks like he's dead." Tess says he can't die because he can be brought back with stones he gave to River Dog. They tell her they have the stones. She says all they need is Nasedo and asks if she saw where he is. Isabel says yes. Cut to Michael asking Valenti if his contact at the Attorney General's is coming there. Valenti says he doesn't know and Michael realizes he never contacted him. Valenti admits that if he had he would have to turn them in too. He reminds Michael that Pierce is a killer. He killed Agents Topolsky and Stevens, the innocent people at the hospital and would have killed all of them. Cut to Pierce, alone in the theater room, until Kyle comes upon him. Pierce tells him that Max has his father and to untie him. He notices the gun Kyle has, tells him to give it to him and to leave. Pierce puts his hands behind his back so when Max, Michael and Valenti come in they are unaware that he is free and are surprised when he stands up and shoots. Valenti pushes Max and Michael out of the line of fire and shoots back. He hits the screen but not Pierce, who dived out of the way. Valenti needs to reload and Pierce is about to shoot him when Michael screams "No!" and sends an energy surge at Pierce that lifts him off his feet and slams him into the screen. Valenti goes to check on him and says "He's dead." Michael is visibly distressed. Valenti recognizes the gun Pierce had as his own and realizes Kyle must be there. He looks behind the screen and sees Kyle lying there bleeding and dying. The others look on in shock. Valenti is crying out "help me". He turns to Max and says "Save my son, please." Max lays his hand on Kyle's wound and concentrates. There is a flash and when he lifts his hand the wound is gone. Kyle says "What the hell just happened to me?" Tears streaming down his face, Valenti says to Max "I don't care who you are or what you are, I'll be here for you. I need a moment with my son." Max goes to Michael and says "You were just trying to stop him. I know you didn't mean to kill him." Michael replies "No, that's just it. I wanted to kill him. I mean, that's all I could think about. I wanted him dead, you know, and then I just did it, it just happened. What kind of person does that make me?" Max says "We would have been dead if you didn't help us." He's not buying it. He says Max is a healer, he's a killer; Max is good, he's bad. Maria comes up to him and he tells her to get away from him because he's not safe. He can't control his abilities and he doesn't want to take any chances with her; he doesn't want her around for what's going to happen. She says he needs her around now more than ever and he says he doesn't. She asks how he can push her aside so easily and he says "Maybe because I love you too much. Goodbye." Alex says to Isabel "I know what you need to do and I know that you need to do it alone." She hugs him and they kiss. Max says to Liz "I can't make you do this" and Liz replies "You're not making me do anything. We choose are own destines, remember?" They leave to get Nasedo. Cut to the airstrip where Michael, dressed as an agent, distracts one of the agents guarding the van. Isabel knocks him out with a 2 x 4 and Max does the same with the second guard. They climb into the van and drive off. Cut to the chamber. Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess are kneeling around Nasedo, holding the stones. Liz is observing. The stones and Nasedo start to glow. Nasedo's body changes back and forth between his Matheson persona, his Harding persona and his true self (similar to the small gray aliens with the big eyes at the UFO Center). It ends with the Harding persona, he awakens and stands up. Smiling, Tess says "I knew you wouldn't leave us." He replies "You're not ready to be left alone." Michael says "You're right, we need you. Show us how the orbs work." He says "It's not my job to show you. My only job is to keep you alive." Max says "You're job?" Michael realizes that the orbs communicate with their home planet and asks "Why don't you want us to contact them?" He says that they have no idea who else they may contact and lead straight to them. Max realizes Nasedo doesn't know how to use the orbs or he would have already, and, if he's only there to protect them, then he's not their leader. He asks "But if you're not the leader, who is?" Nasedo turns and looks straight at Max. Realization comes to the others who also look at him. Nasedo says he can't stop them from trying to make the orbs work but they do so at their own risk. Max tells him that as their protector he needs to make sure no one is hunting them. If the FBI find out Pierce is dead, they will replace him, unless they do it first. Nasedo shapeshifts into Pierce and Max tells him he'll find his agents in Hondo. Nasedo leaves. Max picks up an orb and says "I want to know. Maybe if we focus like Nasedo always said." Michael picks up the other orb. Max and Tess hold one together, Michael and Isabel the other. They concentrate and a light emanates from the orbs, goes through an opening in the chamber to the sky. A ball of light appears and transforms into the shape of a human woman. She says "If you are seeing me now, it means you are alive and well. I take this form because it will be familiar to you and it will help you to understand what I am about to say. You have lived before. You perished in the conflict that enslaved our planet but your essence was duplicated, cloned and mixed with human genetic material so that you might be re-created into human beings. My son, you were the beloved leader of our people. I have sent with you, your young bride. My daughter, the man you were betrothed to and your brother's second in command." Isabel says "Oh my God, Max, our mother." Their mother continues "Our enemies have come to the Earth. You will know them only by the evil within. Learn enough to use your skills, your knowledge, your leadership to combat the enemy so that you can come back and free us and that I may, once again, hold you both in my arms. I live for that moment. Help us. I love you." The image fades and the light goes out. Michael says "I always knew there was something out there but I didn't know how important it was." Max says "Things will never be the same but whatever happens, we have to stay together. It's the four of us now." Tess puts her arms around him and says "I knew this was meant to be." Max tells Tess "No" and goes to Liz, who is starting to leave. He takes her arm and says "Everything I told you before is still true." Liz says "Max, you do have a destiny, you just heard it. I can't stand in the way of it." Max looks pained and says "But you mean everything to me." She kisses him and says "Goodbye Max" and leaves. Max goes after her and calls her name. She turns and he can see how much pain she is in. Then she runs off. Michael stops Max from following and says "You gotta let her go." Tess says "What happens now Max?" We can hear a beeping sound. Then we see a hand holding an object with five blinking, lighted triangles. Then we see flashes of light at various houses across the land. The man holding the blinking object says "It has begun". |
