[ pilot ]

[ Pilot ]

[ Music Listing ]

Sarah Mclachlan - Fear

Played: When Max heals Liz in the beginning of the episode, AND when Liz makes the connection with Max at night in the Crashdown Cafe and gets a rush of images.

Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

Played: The very end of the show, when Max and Liz are at the crash festival, and he tells her they can't be together because they're "different".

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Played: The opening of the show in the Crashdown Cafe, before Liz gets shot.

Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot

Played: When Liz is walking away from Kyle's house, right after she tells him to meet her at the festival in half an hour.

Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

Played: When the shot of the school is shown and Liz goes to the restroom to wash her face and runs into Maria who confronts her about blood being on her order book.

Hole - Boys On The Radio

Played: When Isabel is holding the CD up and listening to it while driving with Max and Michael.

[ Description ]

The story opens with a scene in a cafe called Crashdown Cafe, where Liz and her best friend, Maria are in the middle of serving customers at the cafe that Liz's father owns. Liz is wearing a waitress uniform. She is busy serving her tables, and along the way, joking the tourists who have come to visit Roswell for its UFO genesis. She tricks two seriously wacky tourists by showing them a fake picture of what looks to be an alien for laughs with her best friend Maria, when Maria points out to her that Max is staring at her again. Liz turns around to look at the table behind her, notices Max eating with his best friend Michael. Max quickly looks away and Liz tells Maria she doesn't think so, besides which, she is already seeing the Sheriff's son, and they are well and happy together.

Suddenly, a fight breaks out between two men and a gun is shown. Before anyone can react, a shot is fired and Liz has been shot in the stomach. She collapses onto the floor. There is ciaos, everyone is running about and shattering. Michael urges Max to leave with him, but Max sees that Liz has fallen and he rushes over to her instead. Max opens her shirt and sees blood coming out of her stomach. He urges Liz to open her eyes and make eye contact with him. She opens them very weakly and immediately, Max places his hand on her stomach and we see flashes of imagery from what appears to be Liz as a child, some of which have what looks like a very young version of Max in them, all looking at her. In an instant, she is healed and Max runs off, and tells her that she broke the ketchup bottle when she fell. Liz is puzzled but she is alive and no longer wounded.

When questioned by her anxious father and the Sheriff, she says that a ketchup bottle fell on her in the shooting but that she was not hurt. No one makes too much of it, until the two naive tourists point out that they have methodically searched the area where Liz fell and were still unable to locate a bullet. The sheriff then notices a table, which was the same table that Max and Michael had engaged. There were two unfilled bottles of Tabasco sauce on them.

Later that night, Liz returns home to her room and looks at what had been her wounded stomach. There is no scar except for what looks like a sliver handprint on the stomach, where Max had touched her. She looks afraid. The next morning in biology, Max comes in late and sits beside her with a pencil in his mouth. When the teacher asks the two's side of the room to scrape the inside of their cheek to examine their cells, Max is looking nervous and asks the teacher if he could take a trip to the little boys room and the teacher says fine. Liz took her own sample and looked at them under the microscope then she looked over at the pencil Max had left and took that pencil to take a skin sample for a test. The two cells look completely different. She is again, shocked. After class, she runs after Max and grabs him insisting that she needs to speak with him. They went into a room where Liz finds her boyfriend, Kyle playing with the drums. She tells a lie that she and Max are looking for a quiet place to study and her boyfriend leaves them alone.

When they are finally alone, Max asks if she was dating the Sheriff's son and Liz tells him to focus. She then showed him the handprint, and then admits to having taken a cell sample from his pencil. Still a little in doubt, she asks him if they can go back to the lab so she can take another sample to prove to herself that she had taken something else's sample from the pencil because it looked nothing like hers. He tells her that he is an alien and she is surprised and starts to run for the door. But before she leaves, Max restrained her and begs again with her not to put in danger his life by saying anything to anyone. She leaves feeling surprised.

Afterwards, Max is eating with his sister Isabel and Michael. They load up their food with Tabasco sauce all the while; Isabel and Michael were shouting at Max for saving Liz when he should have just left it alone. Max tries to brush their concerns off but they are worried about being discovered. Michael suggests they leave town but Isabel and Max don't really want to because they consider Roswell to be their home. Max also reveals to them that he told Liz about his true individuality. This makes Isabel and Michael even angrier. Michael suggests they leave at once but the two are still cautious. Michael bitterly concludes that it is probably because a good foster family adopted them while he is stuck with a man who only adopted him for the well being inspection. The three hops into Max's jeep and drives back. On the way, they were stopped by the Sheriff's car. The Sheriff just checked Max's driver's licence but Michael is feeling anxious. The Sheriff is about to leave them after a friendly warning but he notices that there was a half-emptied bottle of Tabasco sauce sitting near Max and he becomes suspicious, but does not say anything. Afraid and anxious, Michael jumps off the car and walks off, still angry and afraid that the three of them might be discovered.

At school, Maria complains to Alex, that she thinks Liz has been avoiding her a lot. Alex brushes aside her apprehension. That night, after Liz's date with the Sheriff's son, Liz tries to brush off his observation that she wasn't really there all night and reaches up for the key to get into the house. When she does, her cut sweater moves up slightly and Kyle sees the handprint on her stomach. He asks her what it was he just saw and she said nothing, quickly saying good night and leaving him outside. A little while later, Max calls Liz out to the balcony saying he needs to speak with her. They go to her father's restaurant to talk. Max looks at Liz and accidentally smiles, remembering the image of her in his mind, with the dress that had cupcakes on it. Liz was confused, but then remembers the dress in question, which she wore when she was in playschool. She laughs a little but then quickly became doubtful that Max would know about this dress since she didn't know him until third grade. Max explains that when he heals her, images came to his mind of strong memories that she had, including that dress which had indicated to her, she said it was the single, most embarrassing moment of her life. But it was a dress her mum had made for the first time, a dress her mum was very proud of for Liz to wear, so Liz wore it to please her mother when she didn't even like it. Max then tells her that he can try to do what he had done to her in reverse, by letting her see his thoughts and what he feels. He cups both of his hand around her face softly and Liz sees images of Max as a very young boy, being found with his sister while wandering on the main road, going to school on the first day, and then her. She sees herself through Max's eyes and realizes that Max has feelings for her and that he finds her beautiful. She also feels his loneliness. When she opens her eyes again, Max asks her if it worked and she said it did. Things seem a little uncomfortable now that she knows how he feels. The two went home.

Over the next couple of days, Liz is very confused since she seems to also find herself attracted to Max. The next day, a couple of people walked in to Liz's lesson, one from the Sheriff's office. They came for Liz. Liz walks with them and sits down with the Sheriff who shows her a picture of a dead body, which was taken on November 1950 with a handprint on his chest. He noted that no one was able to decide the cause of this man's death and the only visible signs were the handprints. The Sheriff then asks Liz if she has ever seen this. She says no but he points out that his son who had seen the handprint on her stomach told him. She then says no again. The Sheriff then informs her he would need to see it himself. She hesitantly raises her sweater a little and we see that the handprint is no longer there. The Sheriff remains unconvinced since the handprint on the dead body also faded after a few days. He lets her go. Liz decides to go to the gym where Max is in class and pulls him out. She takes him into the biology lab and says that she needs to know everything or she will tell. She tells him that unless he answers all her questions, she will go straight to the police. Max said yes, he'd answer all her questions. Looking a bit surprised, she looks through her pockets and takes out a notebook. Max looks amused as she nervously begin her line of questioning: Where did he come from? Max responds he does not know. What were his powers? Max established how he saved her. How come he's so young when the crash was so long ago? Max says that there was an incubation pod on the ship. What happened to his parents? Max replied that they died and that he, Isabel and Michael are the survivors. That there were more besides just him answered Liz's other questions, and then she asked him why he would risk his safety to save her and he replied that it was because it was her. That left her a speechless. She rushes out and tells Max he's in trouble relating the whole story with the Sheriff. He quickly dashes off before she could stop him. The minute he rushes home, Max walks into Isabella's room, tell her to pack her things and told her that they are leaving.

Meanwhile, Maria who threatens to go to the Sheriff with evidence that Liz was shot if Liz does not confide in her confronts Liz. Liz confides in Maria who is blown away. The two set about driving and she spots Max's jeep. She stops him from leaving by blocking his road. Everyone gets out, acrimonious and demanding. Michael and Isabel want to leave. Max doesn't really want to but feels that staying further would be too dangerous. Liz wants them to stay because she thinks if Max leaves, he would cause to look guilty himself in the Sheriff's eyes. Max agrees but he still has his best friend and sister to think of. Liz has a plan that she thinks will redirect doubt away from them, but Michael and Isabel are not prepared to trust her. Only finally, when Max announces that he will turn himself in that Isabel and Michael agrees to go along with Liz's plan.

Liz's plan to have Michael wear an identical costume as Kyle, who she is supposed to go with to the Alien-fest with that night At the scene, Maria will pretend to be hurt and Michael, in the costume will come up to her in the Sheriff's full view while he's with Max and Michael will place his palm on her to heal her before running away. At first, the plan seems to work until the Sheriff notices that the hand print is paint and he tells Max that he's on to him. Max pretends to ignore. The Sheriff leaves. The alien-festival ends with a burning of alien dolls. Everyone is cheering happily except for Max, Isabel and Michael who look on with unhappiness. Max spots Liz standing by herself on top a hill and went over to her. He touches her hair, she thought he was going to link their thoughts again, but it was only because he saw something there. They look at each other and Max tells Liz that he truly wishes that it could be different, but it isn't so it can't be. Liz understands. They smile and that night, Liz writes in her diary that it was only a few days ago that she died but then she was saved.


	[ Pilot ] [ Music Listing ] Sarah Mclachlan - Fear Played: When Max heals Liz in the beginning of the episode, AND when Liz makes the connection with Max at night in the Crashdown Cafe and gets a rush of images. Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me Played: The very end of the show, when Max and Liz are at the crash festival, and he tells her they can't be together because they're "different". Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight Played: The opening of the show in the Crashdown Cafe, before Liz gets shot. Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot Played: When Liz is walking away from Kyle's house, right after she tells him to meet her at the festival in half an hour. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid Played: When the shot of the school is shown and Liz goes to the restroom to wash her face and runs into Maria who confronts her about blood being on her order book. Hole - Boys On The Radio Played: When Isabel is holding the CD up and listening to it while driving with Max and Michael. [ Description ] The story opens with a scene in a cafe called Crashdown Cafe, where Liz and her best friend, Maria are in the middle of serving customers at the cafe that Liz's father owns. Liz is wearing a waitress uniform. She is busy serving her tables, and along the way, joking the tourists who have come to visit Roswell for its UFO genesis. She tricks two seriously wacky tourists by showing them a fake picture of what looks to be an alien for laughs with her best friend Maria, when Maria points out to her that Max is staring at her again. Liz turns around to look at the table behind her, notices Max eating with his best friend Michael. Max quickly looks away and Liz tells Maria she doesn't think so, besides which, she is already seeing the Sheriff's son, and they are well and happy together. Suddenly, a fight breaks out between two men and a gun is shown. Before anyone can react, a shot is fired and Liz has been shot in the stomach. She collapses onto the floor. There is ciaos, everyone is running about and shattering. Michael urges Max to leave with him, but Max sees that Liz has fallen and he rushes over to her instead. Max opens her shirt and sees blood coming out of her stomach. He urges Liz to open her eyes and make eye contact with him. She opens them very weakly and immediately, Max places his hand on her stomach and we see flashes of imagery from what appears to be Liz as a child, some of which have what looks like a very young version of Max in them, all looking at her. In an instant, she is healed and Max runs off, and tells her that she broke the ketchup bottle when she fell. Liz is puzzled but she is alive and no longer wounded. When questioned by her anxious father and the Sheriff, she says that a ketchup bottle fell on her in the shooting but that she was not hurt. No one makes too much of it, until the two naive tourists point out that they have methodically searched the area where Liz fell and were still unable to locate a bullet. The sheriff then notices a table, which was the same table that Max and Michael had engaged. There were two unfilled bottles of Tabasco sauce on them. Later that night, Liz returns home to her room and looks at what had been her wounded stomach. There is no scar except for what looks like a sliver handprint on the stomach, where Max had touched her. She looks afraid. The next morning in biology, Max comes in late and sits beside her with a pencil in his mouth. When the teacher asks the two's side of the room to scrape the inside of their cheek to examine their cells, Max is looking nervous and asks the teacher if he could take a trip to the little boys room and the teacher says fine. Liz took her own sample and looked at them under the microscope then she looked over at the pencil Max had left and took that pencil to take a skin sample for a test. The two cells look completely different. She is again, shocked. After class, she runs after Max and grabs him insisting that she needs to speak with him. They went into a room where Liz finds her boyfriend, Kyle playing with the drums. She tells a lie that she and Max are looking for a quiet place to study and her boyfriend leaves them alone. When they are finally alone, Max asks if she was dating the Sheriff's son and Liz tells him to focus. She then showed him the handprint, and then admits to having taken a cell sample from his pencil. Still a little in doubt, she asks him if they can go back to the lab so she can take another sample to prove to herself that she had taken something else's sample from the pencil because it looked nothing like hers. He tells her that he is an alien and she is surprised and starts to run for the door. But before she leaves, Max restrained her and begs again with her not to put in danger his life by saying anything to anyone. She leaves feeling surprised. Afterwards, Max is eating with his sister Isabel and Michael. They load up their food with Tabasco sauce all the while; Isabel and Michael were shouting at Max for saving Liz when he should have just left it alone. Max tries to brush their concerns off but they are worried about being discovered. Michael suggests they leave town but Isabel and Max don't really want to because they consider Roswell to be their home. Max also reveals to them that he told Liz about his true individuality. This makes Isabel and Michael even angrier. Michael suggests they leave at once but the two are still cautious. Michael bitterly concludes that it is probably because a good foster family adopted them while he is stuck with a man who only adopted him for the well being inspection. The three hops into Max's jeep and drives back. On the way, they were stopped by the Sheriff's car. The Sheriff just checked Max's driver's licence but Michael is feeling anxious. The Sheriff is about to leave them after a friendly warning but he notices that there was a half-emptied bottle of Tabasco sauce sitting near Max and he becomes suspicious, but does not say anything. Afraid and anxious, Michael jumps off the car and walks off, still angry and afraid that the three of them might be discovered. At school, Maria complains to Alex, that she thinks Liz has been avoiding her a lot. Alex brushes aside her apprehension. That night, after Liz's date with the Sheriff's son, Liz tries to brush off his observation that she wasn't really there all night and reaches up for the key to get into the house. When she does, her cut sweater moves up slightly and Kyle sees the handprint on her stomach. He asks her what it was he just saw and she said nothing, quickly saying good night and leaving him outside. A little while later, Max calls Liz out to the balcony saying he needs to speak with her. They go to her father's restaurant to talk. Max looks at Liz and accidentally smiles, remembering the image of her in his mind, with the dress that had cupcakes on it. Liz was confused, but then remembers the dress in question, which she wore when she was in playschool. She laughs a little but then quickly became doubtful that Max would know about this dress since she didn't know him until third grade. Max explains that when he heals her, images came to his mind of strong memories that she had, including that dress which had indicated to her, she said it was the single, most embarrassing moment of her life. But it was a dress her mum had made for the first time, a dress her mum was very proud of for Liz to wear, so Liz wore it to please her mother when she didn't even like it. Max then tells her that he can try to do what he had done to her in reverse, by letting her see his thoughts and what he feels. He cups both of his hand around her face softly and Liz sees images of Max as a very young boy, being found with his sister while wandering on the main road, going to school on the first day, and then her. She sees herself through Max's eyes and realizes that Max has feelings for her and that he finds her beautiful. She also feels his loneliness. When she opens her eyes again, Max asks her if it worked and she said it did. Things seem a little uncomfortable now that she knows how he feels. The two went home. Over the next couple of days, Liz is very confused since she seems to also find herself attracted to Max. The next day, a couple of people walked in to Liz's lesson, one from the Sheriff's office. They came for Liz. Liz walks with them and sits down with the Sheriff who shows her a picture of a dead body, which was taken on November 1950 with a handprint on his chest. He noted that no one was able to decide the cause of this man's death and the only visible signs were the handprints. The Sheriff then asks Liz if she has ever seen this. She says no but he points out that his son who had seen the handprint on her stomach told him. She then says no again. The Sheriff then informs her he would need to see it himself. She hesitantly raises her sweater a little and we see that the handprint is no longer there. The Sheriff remains unconvinced since the handprint on the dead body also faded after a few days. He lets her go. Liz decides to go to the gym where Max is in class and pulls him out. She takes him into the biology lab and says that she needs to know everything or she will tell. She tells him that unless he answers all her questions, she will go straight to the police. Max said yes, he'd answer all her questions. Looking a bit surprised, she looks through her pockets and takes out a notebook. Max looks amused as she nervously begin her line of questioning: Where did he come from? Max responds he does not know. What were his powers? Max established how he saved her. How come he's so young when the crash was so long ago? Max says that there was an incubation pod on the ship. What happened to his parents? Max replied that they died and that he, Isabel and Michael are the survivors. That there were more besides just him answered Liz's other questions, and then she asked him why he would risk his safety to save her and he replied that it was because it was her. That left her a speechless. She rushes out and tells Max he's in trouble relating the whole story with the Sheriff. He quickly dashes off before she could stop him. The minute he rushes home, Max walks into Isabella's room, tell her to pack her things and told her that they are leaving. Meanwhile, Maria who threatens to go to the Sheriff with evidence that Liz was shot if Liz does not confide in her confronts Liz. Liz confides in Maria who is blown away. The two set about driving and she spots Max's jeep. She stops him from leaving by blocking his road. Everyone gets out, acrimonious and demanding. Michael and Isabel want to leave. Max doesn't really want to but feels that staying further would be too dangerous. Liz wants them to stay because she thinks if Max leaves, he would cause to look guilty himself in the Sheriff's eyes. Max agrees but he still has his best friend and sister to think of. Liz has a plan that she thinks will redirect doubt away from them, but Michael and Isabel are not prepared to trust her. Only finally, when Max announces that he will turn himself in that Isabel and Michael agrees to go along with Liz's plan. Liz's plan to have Michael wear an identical costume as Kyle, who she is supposed to go with to the Alien-fest with that night At the scene, Maria will pretend to be hurt and Michael, in the costume will come up to her in the Sheriff's full view while he's with Max and Michael will place his palm on her to heal her before running away. At first, the plan seems to work until the Sheriff notices that the hand print is paint and he tells Max that he's on to him. Max pretends to ignore. The Sheriff leaves. The alien-festival ends with a burning of alien dolls. Everyone is cheering happily except for Max, Isabel and Michael who look on with unhappiness. Max spots Liz standing by herself on top a hill and went over to her. He touches her hair, she thought he was going to link their thoughts again, but it was only because he saw something there. They look at each other and Max tells Liz that he truly wishes that it could be different, but it isn't so it can't be. Liz understands. They smile and that night, Liz writes in her diary that it was only a few days ago that she died but then she was saved.