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Saturday,
20 January 2001 Max and Isabel are watching TV in their kitchen, channel surfing because there is nothing but "crap" on. Isabel decides it's late enough for people to be sleeping and that some recreational dreamwalking would be more interesting. Max does not approve, saying it's not a very nice thing to do and asks her to "Stay away from Liz please". Isabel is dreamwalking Liz's dream. Liz is in the Crashdown after closing. She is barefoot and her uniform is slightly more seductive - sleeveless, lower cut. A handsome young man, named Brad, comes in, picks her up and lays her on top of the counter. She seductively says "Would you like fries with that?" She is standing again, she and Brad are kissing passionately while Max watches with his arms folded. Looking at Brad Liz says "I'm with Brad now". Max replies "Brad doesn't even exist. Besides, you want someone who can do this". Max snaps his fingers and white rose petals fall from the ceiling, all around them. Brad disappears and Max and Liz kiss passionately. They stop and Liz breathlessly says "Oh my!" before they begin to kiss again. Isabel, exasperated, says "Oh, even her romantic dreams are boring!" She decides to see if Kyle can be more entertaining. He is sitting shirtless, in a Lotus position, on a mountain top Buddha is advising him "With every inhale, find the centre of your self. With every exhale, release the ties that bind your energy". Kyle breathes deeply and exhales, repeatedly. Buddha excuses himself to answer his cell phone. Responding to the caller, Buddha says "Prepare the ship. Standby to beam us aboard". He hangs up and says "Our enemies have arrived, Kyle. We must leave Earth and face the dark legion". Frightened, Kyle responds "No, no, no, no, no. I'm here for inner peace, not that science fiction crap!" Buddha replies "Max Evans changed you when he saved your life, you know that. You're an alien now, Kyle. Dude except your destiny". Kyle yells back "No I'm not!" Isabel is enjoying this exchange. Suddenly Isabel's consciousness is thrown into another dream, of someone she doesn't know. She is in the woods. A man is dragging a body bag with a squirming, kicking body inside. There is a brief, unclear flash of a young blonde woman screaming. Isabel breaks from the connection, upset and unsure of what she just experienced. An old friend and colleague, Dan, visits Sheriff Valenti in his office. After exchanging pleasantries, Dan tells "Jimbo" that, on behalf of the State Police Board, he is there investigating the Hubble shooting. Jim is surprised and concerned, because he thought it was settled that it was a clean shoot, an open and shut case. At the Crashdown, Kyle watches as Tess smothers her strawberries and whipped cream covered pancakes with Tabasco sauce. He remarks that liking things very sweet, mixed with very spicy is a "very alien thing". He asks if he can try it and when she says he won't like it he replies that he hopes he doesn't. He is very upset to realise he doesn't hate it, in fact, he almost likes it. He tells her he's not ready for this, for the change, for becoming an "alien freakazoid". Tess replies that they prefer the term "hybrid". Kyle continues to freak out saying "Seriously, I never bargained for this. One minute I'm a normal guy with my whole life ahead of me, the next thing I know, Max Evans transmogrifies me into something not of this Earth". Implying he is ungrateful, Tess replies "Well, I suppose he could have let you die. Is that what you wanted?" Kyle explains that if he had died, he would have been reincarnated into his next stage in life, as another person or animal. Teasingly, Tess suggests he could have come back as a gopher. Kyle tells her they are getting off the point, he is asking for her help. Tess replies that since she has no idea what is going to happen to him, she doesn't know how she can help. Jokingly, she says for all she knows he could develop superpowers and start flying around Roswell in a cape. Ignoring the sarcasm, Kyle seems intrigued at the possibility of superpowers. Kyle asks for another sampling of her Tabasco covered pancakes. Tess pulls her plate away and firmly says "No!" Sunday, 21 January 2001 At the Sheriff's Station, Isabel and Max are telling Jim about her dreamwalking experience. Jim asks how she can be sure it was real, as opposed to someone's nightmare. Isabel tells him that this felt more real than other dreams and Max reminds him that it may be the same as when Tess was kidnapped by Whitaker and cried out to Isabel. He thinks they should look into it. Dan walks into the office to remind Jim that they are going to Senior Chow's for lunch. He says hi to Max and Isabel, hoping for an introduction, but none is forthcoming so he leaves. Max asks who he was and Jim tells them. Max is concerned that the Hubble situation is being brought up again but Jim assures him it will blow over. He also tells them he will do what he can about Isabel's vision, but reminds them it will be difficult to find her when they don't even know who they are looking for. At Senior Chow's, Jim is telling Dan "…when I ordered him to put his weapon down, he refused. He brought the gun up, I felt my life was in imminent danger, so I fired". Dan remarks that that was what the report said. He asks Jim who the kids in his office were. Jim tries to dismiss it as just two kids reporting a stolen bike but, when pressed, reveals their names. Dan comments that a witness saw Hubble drive off with Max Evans the day he died and ignores Jim's request for the name of the witness. Jim denies that Max was with Hubble and Dan says "OK, Jim, that's all I need to hear". At the Crashdown, Liz, delivering an order, tells the customer "OK, we have the Saturn Rings and a Galaxy Sub, hold the Max". Maria overhears Liz's slip and asks what's wrong. Liz confesses that she has become obsessed with Max, thinking about him all day, dreaming about him at night, carrying his picture with her wherever she goes. Maria tries to calm her down saying it's understandable because she loves him but Liz thinks it has reached scary levels. Maria replies "OK, you're a Maxaholic. I'm here for you. What can I do?" Liz asks her to get her a life. Just then, Maria's cousin Sean walks in. Shocked to see him, Maria asks if he was released from prison or did he escape. He says he was released for good behaviour, which Maria finds hard to believe. She is very disappointed to hear that her mother is letting him stay with them. He is pleased to see Liz "all grown up". That evening, Max is perturbed to find Grant watching TV in the Evans' kitchen, waiting for Isabel to get ready. Max goes to her room to find her frantically trying on every item in her closet. Max comments on her frazzled state and she admits that she can't stop thinking about the girl in her vision. It was as if she was dreamwalking Isabel, but when Max asks, she says she doesn't think she is an alien. He suggests this may not be the best time for her to go out on a date with Grant but she says she has cancelled too many dates in the past month and has no more excuses. Kidding, Max replies "Tell him the truth. You've been battling evil aliens for control of the planet and it's hard to fit him in". Isabel is not amused, says she wants a normal date, with a normal guy, and asks him to tell Grant she will be there in 5 minutes. At the Valenti home, Tess comes up behind Kyle, who is sitting in the darkened living room staring at his right hand looking for changes. He tentatively reaches out with his hand towards the TV and Tess uses the opportunity to play a joke on him. Unknown to him, she picks up the remote and turns on the TV. Kyle jumps, thinking he turned it on with his new powers. He reaches out again, calling out channel numbers and Tess uses the remote to bring the "requested" channel up. He finishes with "unscrambled porn" and she hesitates, then finds a sexy channel. He jumps up, looks at his hand and says "I have become…" He turns towards Tess and finishes "an idiot". She laughs, says "Oh, but a cute one", tosses him the remote and leaves the room. At the movies, Grant massages Isabel's neck, when he notices it seems sore to her, then puts his arm around her shoulder. She rests her head on his shoulder and drifts off to sleep. This time she sees the young blonde woman heading towards her silver car and being grabbed from behind, small vials of drugs, the squirming, kicking body bag being dragged and the woman screaming. Isabel jolts awake, screaming herself, which is disconcerting to the other movie-goers, since they are attending a comedy. Worried, Grant asks if she is OK. Isabel apologises and assures him she is fine but she is obviously shaken by the incident. Max and Isabel visit Jim at home. Isabel is frantic, telling Jim she needs to find her before she dies. She knows it's real, that's it's actually happening and not a dream. Jim mentions that there are no missing person reports so he needs more information. Isabel tells him she saw her silver car but doesn't know the model, maybe a Honda or Toyota. Jim says it's not a lot to go on without the plate number but he will check abandoned car reports. Isabel thanks him for his efforts and apologises for barging in on him at home. He calms her down and assures her he doesn't mind and heads out. Max says "I know how all this must look". Jim replies "I believe her. I do! I just don't know how realistic it is to think that I'm gonna be able to find this girl with this evidence". Max says he knows and leaves. Jim calls Deputy Hanson and tells him he is coming in. He stops at the Crashdown for take-out and meets a friend, Judith Foster, who comments on how well Kyle is doing on his wrestling team, just like his father did years before. He asks how she remembers back that far and she admits she had a crush on him. He mentions she also had a boyfriend and she points out he is now her husband. Jim asks how her daughter is doing and she says she is fine, she thinks. Jim asks what may be wrong and she tells him Melissa was driving to Santa Fe to visit a friend and never called to say she arrived, like she usually does. Jim suddenly remembers that Melissa has a silver car and Judith says "Yeah, a Toyota. Why?" Monday, 22 January 2001 Jim and Judith are at the station. Jim is organising his deputies into a search. Distraught, Judith gives a description of what Melissa had with her to Hanson. Jim gets a picture of Melissa from Judith and shows it to Isabel and Max who are waiting in his office. Isabel says she isn't positive it's the same girl, because she never saw her clearly but the hair is the right colour and she feels it is her. Jim says he hopes she is wrong because he has known the Foster's for years. Max says he doesn't recognise her and Jim says she goes to Goddard High. Studying the picture, Isabel says "The terror, I felt it so clearly in the last dream. We have to get her back. I need to". At the Crashdown, Maria delivers Sean's order to him saying "In case I haven't told you this, you dine and dash here, you die!" He searches all his pockets to come up with payment for the order, sans tip. As he eats his burger, she sits with him to tell him the rules he needs to follow while staying with them - 1. Toilet seat stays down, 2. Underwear off the floor, 3. Milk to be drunk out of a glass not the carton and, the most important, 4. Leave Liz alone! She tells him that she saw the way he looked at her and it's not going to happen, she is way off limits to him. He is amused by her instructions, says he hears her and asks "What do you want from me?" She replies "I'll give you the list by the end of the day" and walks away. Liz, delivering food to a customer, exchanges glances with Sean. At home, Isabel lies down for a nap. She immediately has flashes of the girl in the woods and this time she sees the face of the kidnapper - it's Grant! Max wakens her saying she was crying in her dream and asks what happened. Isabel is very upset, saying "It can't be" and tells Max about Grant. They go to Jim who says he will take care of it. Later, Jim meets up with a judge on a golf course. The judge reminds him that Grant Sorenson filed a complaint against Jim after he searched his room without a warrant and shoved a gun in his face. He brusquely tells Jim "You hurry and get me probable cause, then you'll get your warrant. Otherwise, you're ruining my handicap". Jim and a deputy are at Grant's campsite. He tells the deputy to search Grant's car for a large vinyl bag, 7' x 3'. Grant comes up to him as he heads for Grant's tent, asking what he is doing. Jim asks if he knows Melissa Foster and Grant angrily replies "What is this, every time somebody disappears I become your number one suspect?" Jim asks "What were you doing last Friday night?" Grant replies that he was picking up equipment in Carlsbad and asks if the Sheriff has a warrant. Jim ignores the question and looks in his tent. He finds a large vinyl bag, about 7' x 3' and pulls it out. He asks what's inside and Grant says it is equipment. Jim tells him to open it and Grant says he can't do that. Jim tells him he will, if Grant won't, and screams at Grant to "Back off" when Grant tries to talk him out of it. Jim opens the bag and finds equipment. Grant hurriedly closes the bag, explaining that it is photo sensitive equipment he uses to get readings in the caverns. He angrily reminds Jim that he did not have a warrant. Jim returns to his office to find Dan waiting for him. He wants to know what's going on and where he has been for the last four hours. When Dan mentions Sorenson, Jim says "You always know more than you let on, don't you Dan. I should have remembered that the day you walked through my door". Dan replies "What I know right now is, you disappear for days on end and you spend a lot of time lately with teenage kids. That's awfully strange behaviour". Jim realises Dan is not there for the Hubble case. Dan tells him the State Police Board has him on their watch list and that his own men are talking and they want to know what is happening with their sheriff. They get into a screaming match (about who owes who an explanation) that is interrupted when Hanson brings in Melissa Foster. That night, Jim meets Max and Isabel in an alley and tells them "The girl said her car gave out, half way to Santa Fe. The next day she had it towed. No kidnappers, no needles, no bags and no desert". Isabel is distressed by this news and Jim assures her it's all right, "Melissa's safe, her family's happy, nobody got hurt". Max asks "What about you?" Jim replies "I'll have some awkward questions to answer but I'm sure it will blow over". Isabel apologises to him, saying "I don't know how I could have been so wrong". Jim tells her "You didn't do anything wrong. You have gifts the rest of us don't and I trust those gifts. And if anything like this ever happens again, I want you to come to me. All right? Now, don't worry about me. I'll be fine". At Jim's office the judge is yelling at him for conducting the illegal search and Dan tells him Sorenson is filing a $50 million civil suit against the city. The judge tells him "I'm half tempted to have you thrown in your own jail on a contempt citation". Jim apologises saying he had a hunch and he had to follow it. The judge counters with "A hunch? You told me you had a witness". Dan says "You told Judith Foster you had two witnesses. You terrified that family. I spent all day trying to calm them down". Jim says "There are two witnesses but I promised them anonymity. I can't break that promise". Dan wants to know if this has anything to do with Max and Isabel Evans. Jim says no and the judge demands to know who the witnesses are. Jim refuses to say and the judge advises him to get a lawyer. In Isabel's bedroom, Max says he doesn't understand how this could happen, she has never been wrong before. In an accusatory tone he says "Valenti might be losing his job because of us. Have you thought about that?" Upset, Isabel replies "Of course I have but what was I supposed to do? Just let her die?" Max counters with "There is no missing girl! All right. Your dreams were wrong. You were wrong". Isabel says "Don't you think I know that!" She then explains that maybe she needed them to be true because "after everything we've been through, after all the pain we've caused, I just wanted what we are, what I am, to do something good for a change". Max switches to a consolatory tone and says "Isabel, you are my sister. You yell at me, you second guess me and you piss me off. You also saved my life. I don't care what we've been through, I still believe in you, I always will". At the Crashdown, Kyle is telling Liz "Tess is openly mocking me now. This morning I woke up with little antennae coming out of my head". Sean comes in and Maria cuts him down for calling her "M" instead of Maria. Kyle wants to know who he is and Michael replies "Maria's loser cousin, Sean". Sean says to Michael "Can I get some fries, tough guy?" and Michael says "No". Maria adds that they are closed. Liz is watching Sean and Kyle tries to get her attention back by saying they are both obsessed people but they will get through it because they have each other. Liz isn't paying attention and tells Sean she could whip him up some fries. He is pleased by her offer but declines, saying he will get something at home. Maria calls after him that it's not his home, reminding him that he is just passing through. When he leaves she turns to Liz and says "You're not actually thinking…" Liz says "No, of course not". Not believing her, Maria says "All I try to do is help. Does anyone listen?" Liz turns to Kyle and asks what he was saying. He replies "Nothing. I was just talking to myself". Turning to Maria he asks "Hey, you got any cousins for me?" While sleeping, Isabel gets another message from the girl. This time there is more detail of where she is. Isabel thrashes around on the bed and calls out for Max. Max comes to her and tries to wake her. While having visions of a needle and drugs, Isabel is screaming "Don't do this! You don't have to do this! Please!" Finally she wakes. Shaking, she hugs Max saying "Oh my God". Dan comes into Jim's office and tells him that Judith Foster has filed a grievance with the State Police Board, requesting an investigation into his actions. Jim says "I wonder who put that idea into her head?" Dan tells him there are a lot of questions here and it is time for him to start thinking about his answers. Jim tells him to talk to his lawyer. The phone rings. Max tells Jim that it isn't over. It's not Melissa but another girl. She is in Frazier woods, in the clearing outside the abandoned pump house. He tells him they have to go now. Jim pretends he is talking to one of his deputies and that he will meet him near the Crashdown. Dan is still suspicious saying "Your deputies always call you on your private line?" He reminds Jim that his father lost his career when he "got some fool notion into his head, ignored the law and his friends and ended up handing over his badge". Jim asks "Is that a threat?" Dan replies "If that phone call was from those kids, consider it a warning". In Frazier woods, at the area Isabel saw in her vision, looking around with flashlights they discover breathing tubes, which lead to oxygen tanks. They reverse direction and follow the tubes to a shallow grave. As they are unburying the girl they are being observed by a sniper, wearing a ski mask, by the trees. He is aiming a high powered rifle with a night scope at them. The crosshairs of the scope are trained on Jim, then Isabel, then Max. They uncover the girl to discover a plexiglass box covering her head. As they try to remove it, a shot rings out, just missing them. Max jumps out and initiates the force field. Jim comes up beside him as Isabel continues to try to remove the box. Another shot rings out and the bullet hits the force field, pushes against it but is repelled. Two more shots are fired, with the bullets being repelled, but the force of the bullets is putting a strain on Max. He calls out to Isabel to hurry. Jim tells him he can see the shooter, so as soon as Isabel removes the box, Max drops the field and Jim fires. The sniper is hit but gets back up and takes off. Dan appears and, gun drawn, tells them to freeze. Jim calls out to identify himself. Dan asks who he is shooting at and Jim tells him the kidnapper and that they found the missing girl. Dan puts his coat over the shivering girl. Laurie is on an ambulance gurney saying "I never saw his face. I was coming down to visit my grandparents in Roswell when he came up behind me on the street". Jim tells her he will have someone watch over her round the clock until her parents arrive. He assures her she is safe now. She asks "How did you know to find me out here?" He glances at Isabel and replies "Someone heard you cry out for help". The paramedics take her towards the ambulance and Dan comes up to Jim. He wants to know how he found her and what Max and Isabel are doing there. Jim says they were just along for the ride and Dan says "That alone is enough to get you suspended". Jim says "I'll take the suspension. You leave the kids out of it". Hanson brings the bullets they found over to Jim, pointing out that there are no lacerations or other marks indicating impact on them. Dan says that is impossible, takes the bullets and says he will take care of them. He looks at Jim who says "I'm as baffled as you are". Dan replies "No, you're not. You're a good cop, Jimbo, but you don't lie very well. Now, whatever you're covering up, I'm gonna find it out. You can count on it". Isabel is standing by the ambulance with Laurie. Laurie says "You saved my life. Thank you". Isabel takes her hand and gets a flash of blue cells. The paramedics put Laurie in the ambulance. Isabel tells Max "There's something about her Max". He asks "What do you mean?" She replies "It's like I know her". |
