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Sunday,
28 January 2001 It's evening and Michael and Maria are on the roof of a market with binoculars trained on the Sheriff's Station. Michael has shown Maria the picture of Grandpa Dupree. Maria points out that Michael probably got his DNA from him, which makes Laurie a relative. Michael replies "That figures. I finally find a family member and she's a complete whack job". Inside of Sheriff's Station, Agent Duff has been trying for two days to persuade Laurie to tell her who kidnapped her. She tells Laurie that they are returning her to Pinecrest where she will be safe and gently asks her to please tell her who kidnapped her. Laurie calmly says "They're aliens". Then she freaks, first cowering and then running around the room, attacking Agent Duff, screaming "They're back! They're back! They're close…they're coming here! Let me out of here now! Let me out!" Deputies rush in and wrestle her to the table where, unseen by them, she takes a pen and slips it inside the bandage on her wrist. Michael and Maria see Laurie on a gurney, being placed in an ambulance. Inside the ambulance, while the attendant is writing in his log, Laurie manoeuvres the pen out of the bandage and uses it to release the leather restraints on her wrists. Michael and Maria are following the ambulance in the Jetta. Maria tells Michael that if she is willing to chase down "some crazy girl in the middle of the night" with him, it means they are dating again. His input, as to whether or not they are dating, is irrelevant. Once free, Laurie grabs something heavy and hits the attendant on the head, knocking him out. She then goes to the front of the ambulance, grabs the wheel from the driver, causing the ambulance to go off the road, careen down a ravine and roll over. Michael and Maria rush to their aid. They open the back of the ambulance and Laurie tumbles out. Seeing Michael, Laurie screams and starts to run off. Shots are fired from the kidnapper, who was following the Jetta. They scramble to the Jetta and Michael tells Laurie "Hey, now you can come with us or you can stay here and get killed". Laurie nods and Michael uses his powers to set the kidnapper's car on fire. Laurie looks on in shock and the kidnapper ducks from the explosion. They drive off as the kidnapper shoots and hits the side mirror. Monday, 29 January 2001 The next morning, at home, Isabel and Max are watching a news report of the accident and talking on the phone to Michael, who has stopped about 30 miles west of Dexter, a rural area. Isabel asks how Laurie is and Michael replies "She's completely crazy. She tried to jump out of the car three times while it was moving. So, I had to use my powers to lock her in. She's basically like a caged animal". True enough, Laurie is bouncing off the walls inside the car, grabbing at anything she can get her hands on and banging on the windows and dashboard. Meanwhile Maria is taking a financial inventory of the damage done to the inside and outside of the Jetta. The news report posts a picture of Laurie and Isabel tells Michael they cannot bring her back to Roswell. Max says "We can use any information she has about the crystals. Try to get her talking". Michael sarcastically replies "Oh yeah, she's a real conversationalist!" and hangs up. In the Valenti living room, Jim has set up a woodworking station and is busily sawing away with a table saw, sawdust flying everywhere. Kyle and Tess walk in and are shocked by what they see. Jim explains that he now has plenty of time to work on things he hadn't had a chance to get to before. Kyle picks up some papers lying near the workstation, they are papers regarding the legal suit Grant Sorenson is filing against Jim. Kyle is obviously concerned about how the lawsuit is effecting his father's behaviour. In his bedroom, Max is examining the green blob under the microscope. Isabel asks "Are you getting anywhere?" Max says he thinks they're dealing with some kind of alien bacteria. He is tired and frustrated so Isabel suggests that he consult with Liz, the science wiz. Max responds "I'm trying to keep Liz out of this right now". Isabel tells Liz and Alex at the Crashdown that Michael and Maria will be gone for a couple of days with Laurie, so they need to cover for them. Sean interrupts, saying that Amy is flipping out over Maria's absence and wants to see Liz. She leaves with Sean. Maria is lying on the hood of the Jetta, which is now stopped along the side of a road. Michael is trying to convince Laurie to tell him if she has family and to trust him. She ignores him. This has obviously been going on for awhile and, frustrated, Michael slams the horn of the car. Maria jumps out of her skin and rolls off the hood. She says "That's it! Let's go, I'm hungry". She suggests they go to this really awful cafe that even the cops avoid. The Roadside Café is "strictly for us hard-core greasy spoon aficionados". Agent Duff stops Isabel leaving the Crashdown and introduces herself. At the Sheriff's Station, Duff tells Isabel that Sheriff Valenti will not tell her how he knew Laurie Dupree was missing nor how he was able to find her buried underground. The only link she can find is Isabel and Max. She asks "Isabel, what is the big secret and why can't I be let in on it?" Isabel replies "I've already answered these questions for Deputy Hanson". Duff responds "But you lied to him". She reminds her that she is not some local deputy, she is with the FBI and if she lies to her, she is in deep trouble. Deputy Hanson and Grant enter the room. Grant is delivering something he found in the woods a mile from the crime scene. He unveils the rifle. At the Roadside Café, Laurie says she needs to go to the bathroom. Michael wants Maria to accompany her, to keep her from bolting. Maria doesn't want to go anywhere near that skanky restroom. She tells Laurie that she is not her Mommy and she is not going to hold her hand while she goes potty. She reminds her that they helped her escape from the evil aliens who want to bury her in the woods and asks if there is anyone else out there in the big bad world that is going to do that for her. She tells her that after she "answers nature's call in that toxic waste, dump of a restroom" she can either rejoin them at the table, with a different attitude, or hoof it to the Mexican border, "It's about 150 miles that-a-way". Laurie takes off for the restroom and Michael asks "You think that's gonna work?" Maria replies "Not a chance. But it doesn't matter. The Mexican border is that-a-way" and she points in the opposite direction from where she told Laurie. At the DeLuca home, Liz is telling Amy that she is sure Maria is fine. Very distraught and speaking with restrained control, Amy says that Maria called and told her she went camping but Amy wants to know why all the things she would need for camping are still at home. After musing on it, Amy's theory is "She didn't go camping. She lied to her mother, just like she lied to me the other four times she took off for days on end. Each time leaving out on the open road another piece of her innocence - and my Jetta. Liz, I consider you a friend and an extended member of this family and I value the friendship you have with my daughter very much. But if you don't tell me everything you know, about where the hell she is, I'm going to become very violent with you". Liz admits that Maria is with Michael. This does not calm Amy down. Liz quickly adds "But they're just getting away. You know? They're taking in the scenery". Not helping, Sean interjects "Yeah, of a cheap motor inn". Liz tells him to shut up and Amy tells Liz to give her her cell phone. Puzzled, Liz complies. Amy tells her "She shut her phone off but I'm sure she'll be turning it on, to call you again. And when she does, I'll be here with you to receive that call. You can sit down. You're not going anywhere until I get my daughter back". Laurie is walking down a deserted dirt road when she sees Michael and Maria in the Jetta. She starts to run off into the brush but then gives up and sits on a log. Michael asks "Are you OK?" Laurie does not reply. Maria pulls Michael aside and tells him "OK, you want to get through to her? You want to make a connection here? This is what you've gotta do - you gotta tell her the truth". Michael scoffs and replies "Forget it". Maria responds "Look, you want to know why you look like Grandpa 1935? She has the key. So you have two choices, all right - you can let her in on the whole alien conspiracy thing, and hope that it shakes something lose from the dusty corners of her brain, or you can…no, you know what, that's not gonna work so, look, you have that one option, all right". Michael wants to know what his other option was. Maria tells him he is not capable of it but he demands that she tell him. She looks him straight in the eye and says "Form an emotional bond with Laurie". He rolls his eyes and shakes his head. Maria says "Fine! You don't like that answer, then go show her the secret alien handshake". Michael replies "OK, fine. What kind of pyschobabble, Oprah crap do I gotta tell her". She tells him "Just go over there, and tell her, in your words, that she can trust you. And make sure that she feels that you're being completely, emotionally honest". She asks if he thinks he can handle it and he replies "I'm not completely emotionally retarded. I have feelings". Maria responds "All right, then walk 'em over there and give 'em a work out". He goes over to Laurie and doesn't know what to say. Jim is using a lathe to shape wood. Kyle comes up to him and asks if he should be concerned by his behaviour. He asks him what he is making and Jim says it is a baseball bat. He always wanted to give Kyle a handmade bat, back when he was in Little League. He says "I'm in kind of a dark place here, Kyle. It's just gonna take me awhile to work my way out of it. OK?" Kyle replies "All right. Tess and I…we're still here. We're just trying to make ends meet, keep our heads above water". He pulls out the lawsuit papers and, handing them to Jim, says "Well, if this lawsuit doesn't go away, then we'll be in that dark place with you". Michael is sitting next to Laurie. Finally finding the words, he tells her "Look Laurie, I know a lot of people think you're pretty crazy, but the truth is, knowing everything you've been through, you seem pretty normal to me. I just want you to know that, whatever you are to me, a sister, a cousin, whatever, you're the only family I've ever known, and I just found you, I don't want to let you go. I know you're scared to death of me but if you could find some way to trust me. I mean, I've got all kinds of faults. And, this one over here, you know, she can list them off for you later on but the one thing I am is loyal. I will not turn my back on you. That's all I've got to say". Tearing up, Laurie says "You're not my Grandpa, are you". Puzzled, Michael replies "No, but I'd like to meet him". Laurie says "Tucson. Grandpa's in Tucson, Arizona". That evening, Max is asleep at his desk. The green blob in a glass, starts to glow and move. The glass falls to the floor and Max awakens to find the green blob spread out across his hand. Scared to death, Max tries to move his hand but can't. He looks for something to use to remove the green blob but then it slithers away on it's own. Max snatches his hand away, looks to see that it is OK, then, as it reforms itself into a glowing blob, he grabs a glass container, puts it over it and holds it down. Liz's cell phone rings and, to Maria's surprise, Amy answers. Amy demands to know where she is and Maria admits they are on their way to Arizona, because they are being "free spirits". Amy thinks they are on their way to Sedona for drugs and sex. She asks "Do you think I wasn't 17 once? Do you think I didn't do crazy, stupid things with a really bad boy, when I was your age?" Maria replies "Yes, I know you did Mom - Dad!" Amy demands to speak to Michael. Maria tries to hand him the phone and, still driving, he keeps batting away her hand. Maria forces him to take the phone and Michael politely says "Hey, Mrs DeLuca". Amy sternly says "Michael, I want you to listen to me, very, very carefully. On this glorious, rebellious, lost weekend of yours, you will take care of my daughter. You will protect her and be kind to her and she will have fun. You will not get matching tattoos and you will not allow her to pierce any part of her body that cannot be shown in polite company. And Michael, if you have sex with my daughter, I will hunt you down and kill you, like the mangy dog you are. OK?" He replies "OK". Amy says "Call me if you need bail money" and hangs up the phone. Michael hands the phone back to Maria and she asks what her mother said. Michael replies "She wants you to have fun". Sean is saying they should call the police, because Guerin is a shady character. Liz says "Look who's talking" and Sean replies "I'm not shady, I'm misunderstood". He starts a pillow fight with Liz and Amy, at her wits end, says she is going out for a drink. When she opens the door, Max is there asking for Liz. Amy asks if he has any plans to take her across state lines. Puzzled, he replies "No" so she lets him in and leaves. He walks in on Sean on top of Liz on the couch and Liz, giggling and telling him to get off. He tells her he needs help with his science homework, so she gets her coat and leaves with him. Jim goes to Grant's campsite to apologise and plead with him to drop the lawsuit. When Grant ignores him he says "You could do me the courtesy of turning around". Suddenly Grant growls like an animal and attacks him. Jim overpowers him and as he is hitting him, Grant reverts to his normal self and seems surprised that Jim is hitting him. Jim goes to see Duff in his old office. He tells her that she needs to put Grant under surveillance, that he is the one she is looking for. She shows him the gun that Grant found and turned in and asks if he is the kidnapper, why would he be helping her solve the case? Jim says "I went to Sorenson, to try to settle our differences. When I approached him, he didn't recognise me, it was like he'd never seen me before. Suddenly he lunged at me and one minute later, he's his old self again. Now, I don't know, maybe he's guilty and he's innocent". Duff asks "A split personality?" Jim replies "Grant Sorenson may have turned in the rifle but I'm telling you the person who jumped me earlier today is the one who fired it!" Duff says "Well, that's an interesting theory Sheriff. But the problem is, right now, you appear to be the one with a split personality". Using the more sophisticated equipment at the UFO Centre, Max and Liz are examining the crystals of the green blob. Liz says it looks like they are alien versions of waterborne parasites found in the blood cells of certain species of fish. Max says "Parasites? That implies they need something to feed on. Like an arm". Liz replies "Maybe, but you said they didn't affect you". Max responds "No, I got the feeling I didn't taste good or something". Since they also didn't react when Sheriff Valenti picked them up, Liz suggests they are not interested in terrestrial organisms. Max points out that they formed on Laurie's gravesite, so Liz thinks that could imply that there may be something unique about Laurie or her gravesite. She reaches for the phone and calls Isabel for a favour. Isabel is meeting Grant at the Crashdown. He wants to know why she asked him to meet because he thought it was over between them. She says things got really complicated and she would like to go back to the beginning, as if they were meeting for the first time. She introduces herself and playing along he does the same. She flirts with him and asks what he does, saying how fascinating it sounds and wanting to hear all about his current project. He tells her he is doing a survey in Frazier Woods and, she says "Really? Tell me, what's so special about Frazier Woods?" Tuesday, 30 January 2001 The next morning, Michael, Maria and Laurie arrive at Grandpa's home in Tucson. It's a castle-like mansion and Maria comments that Grandpa has done well for himself. Laurie is nervous, saying she hasn't seen her grandfather for a long time. Michael takes her hand as moral support and they approach the electric gate. They ring the bell and a gargoyle, hiding a camera, turns to focus on them. A voice asks them "Can I help you?" Michael says they are there to see Charles Dupree and identifies himself, Maria and Laurie. The gate opens and they approach the front door. The maid opens the door and is shocked and mesmerised by Michael. A man in horseback riding gear approaches from down the hall, saying "Laurie! Is it really you Laurie?" He stops in his tracks when he sees Michael. Laurie says "Where's Grandpa?" Still looking at Michael he says with dread "Oh my God!" A woman descends the grand staircase reminding "Bobby" about a function later that afternoon. She gets to the bottom of the staircase, sees Michael, and stops in mid-sentence, her mouth dropping open in shock. Laurie says "Aunt Mary, I want to see my grandfather, right now!" Bobby scoffs and replies "He's dead Laurie. He's been dead for seven years. You were at his funeral, for God sakes". In the living room, Bobby and Mary are standing by the bar, whispering about Michael. Bobby says it's spooky and Mary says it's typical, that Daddy always did have a wandering eye and he must have "wandered off the marital reservation and left us all a little surprise". They rejoin the others and Mary calls for Carmen, the maid, to draw a bath for Laurie. She suggests that Laurie go up to her old room and freshen up. Laurie is reluctant but Michael assures her saying "It's OK, I'm not going anywhere". Bobby asks Michael what he wants and he tells them that their niece has been through a traumatic experience - being kidnapped and buried alive - and he thinks the kidnapper is still after her. They are sceptical of his story. Michael asks them why Laurie's medical records don't list them as her next of kin. They ask what records and indicate they haven't seen Laurie in years and had no idea she was at the Pinecrest Psychiatric Hospital. They are not surprised, however, asking if the "aliens chased her there". Mary sarcastically says "You know aliens are chasing our family Mr Guerin. Don't stay too long, they might get you too". At the UFO Centre, Isabel tells Max and Liz what she learned about Grant's numerous experiments. She says they all have a common thread - the water table. The Woods are unusual because the water is so close to the surface. Liz suggests that the parasites may be in the water table. She brings up a map of the water table for the county on the computer. She discovers that a stream under Pohlman Ranch flows to the burial site in Frazier Woods. Max speculates that the parasites may have been on their ship. Liz thinks somebody kidnapped and buried Laurie so the alien parasites could get to her but to do what? She asks "And how does he know about these parasites? Is he human or is he alien? Are these things dangerous to normal people in Roswell?" Isabel asks "Where do we go from here, Max?" He says "I have absolutely no idea". Liz says "We need help. I wish you guys could just, phone home". Brody comes in and is surprised to see them. Max apologies, saying they were using the equipment for a school assignment and hopes Brody doesn't mind. Brody says it's OK and excuses himself. Isabel gets an idea wondering if the connection Larek made with Brody at the Summit could be done in reverse. Duff visits Jim at home. She is surprised to see the woodworking equipment in the living room and Jim sitting on the floor in the corner, holding a half finished bat. She tells him the rifle, the oxygen tanks and the plastic box around Laurie's head were all stolen from different areas and that Grant's work schedule had him in all those areas at the time of the thefts. Jim says "Chalk up another one for the woodworking detective". Duff tells him that if he helps her close this case, she will make it her business to get him his job back. Jim responds "I guess the bats can wait". Michael and Maria are standing by the pool at the Dupree mansion. Michael is worried because they haven't seen Laurie in three hours. Bobby approaches with two thugs behind him. He hands Michael a paper bag and says the $50,000 inside is for him but it's all he is going to get. He may look like their father but they will fight any paternity and inheritance claims he may make. He tells the thugs to throw them off the premises. Michael protests, saying he is not interested in an inheritance, he is only concerned about Laurie's safety. Bobby scoffs at Michael's concerns, saying he will keep a lookout for "the aliens". When the gate closes behind them, Maria asks "Now what?" Michael replies "I don't know, but I promised Laurie I'd protect her and that's exactly what I'm gonna do". At the UFO Centre, Brody tells Isabel that he has been put under hypnosis before and it didn't help him remember his abduction experience. Isabel tells him she is psychic. Brody is sceptical but the others convince him to give it a try. She tells him to close his eyes, clear his mind and relax. She touches his hand and there is a flash of light. She gets slammed against one wall and Brody is slammed against another. Max rushes to Isabel and Liz to Brody. Isabel is fine but Brody isn't. Larek speaks through Brody, saying that they shouldn't have done this because the subject had not been prepared properly. Brody's heart has stopped so they have very little time to speak. They quickly explain about the parasite. Larek tells them that the Gandarium have escaped from their ship. He says "Earth has become infected. You're no longer safe there. Get off the planet now!" He stops speaking and Brody collapses. Max is about to use his powers to revive him but Isabel says "No", so he starts CPR. Brody comes to and asks what happened. They tell him he fainted. They help him up and huddle around him in concern. |
