Roswell, Season One

Liz:
[Voiceover] September 23rd. Journal entry one. I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. After that, things got really weird.

Liz:
So, help me out here, Max. I mean, what are you?

Max:
Well, I'm not from around here.

Liz:
You're not an ... an alien ... are you?

Max:
Well, I prefer the term "not-of-this-earth." Sorry, it's not a good time to joke.

Michael:
Roswell's not our home. It's not even our solar system.

Liz:
[Voiceover] I could feel everything he was feeling. I could feel his loneliness. For the first time I was really seeing Max Evans. I saw me as he saw me, and the amazing thing was, in his eyes I was beautiful.

Liz:
[Voiceover] It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.

Deputy:
What did they look like?

Maria:
Well, one was like a muscular Beavis and the other was like a beefy Butthead.

Deputy:
I assume they weren't actual cartoon characters?

Maria:
I mean, what do we even know about these people? Nothing. How do we know that they're not three feet tall, green and slimy?

Liz:
I guess we don't.

Maria:
And you know what else doesn't, like, particularly please me? The powers. How do we know they can't just, like, wiggle their noses and, like, poof us into an oblivion?

Liz:
I guess we don't.

Maria:
Okay, you're being, like, so casual about this. I want to choke you.

Maria:
The thing is, we don't know anything about these Czechoslovakians. Are they good Czechoslovakians? Are they bad Czechoslovakians? We don't know. They're just random Czechoslovakians. For all we know, they don't have their passport.

Michael:
I didn't just wander in. I had a cover story.

Max:
And what was your cover story.

Michael:
I was selling candy for charity. Peanut cluster?

Max:
And they bought it?

Michael:
No, they all seemed to be on a diet.

Isabel:
Not the candy, Einstein, the story.

Maria:
It's not just kissing that goes on in the eraser room, Liz.

Female Student:
She's got that right.

Maria:
All right, the eraser room does two things; cleans erasers and takes our innocence. Do you know what I mean by "takes our innocence," Liz? The eraser room has taken some of the best of us.

Liz:
Sometimes I just wish I could be invisible.

Max:
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to be so invisible.

Isabel:
The way to deal with [Maria] DeLuca is to make her sweat, keep her on her toes. Make her afraid of my shadow, your shadow, her shadow, Michael's shadow. Right, Michael?

Michael:
Or we could just kill her. [pause] Kidding.

Max:
We're always being so cautious, you know? Always watching behind our backs, never getting too involved. But we're never moving forward either. We're just kinda stuck, Isabel. I'm not sure I want to be stuck any more.

Liz:
But what if were, like, complicated... like, incredibly, incredibly complicated?

Grandma Claudia:
Well, one thing I can tell you... if it isn't complicated, he probably isn't a soulmate.

Liz:
No... Max... he's so not possible. He's just like this whole different...

Maria:
Life form?

Liz:
Type.

Grandma Claudia:
How intriguing. A dangerous man?

Maria:
Spacey man.

Grandma Claudia:
A mystery man.

Liz:
Okay, you two... you're out of control.

Michael:
[after Max busts open a bathroom stall] Gandhi feeling frustrated?

Michael:
Let me guess. You're in love with a girl and she's with another guy?

Max:
You realize you can be really annoying, right?

Liz:
Is there anything you can do for my grandmother? You know, "do"?

Max:
Liz, when I saved you, it was because you were shot. There was a bullet in you. Something was happening to you that wasn't supposed to happen. It was before your time. But I can't just heal people. I'm not... God.

Liz:
I know.

Liz:
[Voiceover] The tough thing about following your heart is what people forget to mention, that sometimes your heart takes you to places you shouldn't be, places that are as scary as they are exciting and as dangerous as they are alluring, and sometimes your heart takes you to places that can never lead to a happy ending. And that's not even the difficult part. The difficult part is when you follow your heart, you leave normal, you go into the unknown. And once you do, you can never go back.

Liz:
[Voiceover] It's funny how the world changes sometimes, how the streets you walked your entire life seem darker, colder. How the silence isn't so quiet any more. How eyes you've barely even noticed now look at nothing but you. How the walk home every night is no longer routine, but a victory. And then you begin to wonder. Maybe it's not the world that's changed. Maybe it's just you.

Max:
You said you'd be nicer to her.

Michael:
And you said you'd stay away from her. Let's call it even.

Alex:
Okay, you know what? The next time you and Liz feel the urge to share with me, you know, feel the impulse to really open up... do me a favor, okay? Let it pass.

Max:
Someone should tell the sheriff that deadbolts don't work as well when you leave your door open.

Liz:
[Voiceover] October 28th. I've missed a few days. But in my absence I've been thinking about some things, about life before Max Evans saved me, of how I used to pray for something to happen, something to just break the routine, you know, of school and work. Something that would make a small town feel bigger, that would make a small town girl feel bigger, too. And ever since I got my wish and Max Evans patched a bullet hole two inches below my ribs, I realized one thing: that the bigger your world gets, the bigger your problems get, too.

Kyle:
What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?

Max:
Getting adopted, I guess.

Kyle:
I'm gonna shed a tear.

Maria:
I just... I knew you had criminal tendencies. You even drive erratically.

Maria:
If there's ever a time to have secret powers, now is the time.

Maria:
When I was a kid, I used to stay up at night and, um, make up stories about my father... you know, and who he was and... what he was doing. And they all ended exactly the same way. He would come in a limo and pick me and my mom up and take us off to some exotic place where we'd live like royalty. Because, you know... I thought to myself, there's got to be something better out there for me than Roswell, New Mexico.

Michael:
Substitute a spaceship for a limo, and you know what i mean.

Maria:
Not if you were the last alien on Earth.

Liz:
[Voice Over] All logic is gone. Here were my plans last night: finish my shift, dinner with the parents, half-hour of talking to Maria on the phone, then dive into this issue I've been having with geometry and hopefully finish in time to watch this A&E biography on Madame Curie. Instead, I took off in an open-air vehicle that probably shouldn't be allowed on the road to begin with, broke into a house, essentially stole things from it, and engaged in general bonding with aliens. Welcome to my world.

Maria:
I mean, it can never be. There's a number of obstacles. His hair, his personality, the fact that he was hatched.

Liz:
Oh, I have to go talk to Kyle.

Maria:
Oh, the stalker. Good luck with that, Lizzy.

Liz:
Can I help you?

Eddie:
I think I'll try the redskin basket.

Liz:
Oh, yeah, I've been trying to get that off the menu for months.

Eddie:
Thanks for the effort. My people are indebted. My name's Eddie.

Liz:
[Voiceover]: Have you ever had a moment when you're with the one person in the world you want to be with and the wind is blowing through your hair and the song that just describes your entire soul happens to come on, and then the person that you want to be with happens to love the same song and suddenly you realize you're listening to it together? And that no matter how crazy your life has gotten there's this one moment, this perfect moment, where you could just say that no matter what happens, nothing can take this moment away from me...

[A horse appears in the road ahead]

Liz:
[Voiceover]: And then, something does.

Alex:
See, I mean, my point is... is that there's no garage band scene here at Roswell, you know? Which makes for a potential genius situation. I mean, we could start an entire music scene, you know?

Lester:
I think I'm tone-deaf.

Alex:
You are tone-deaf, Lester. That's why I was thinking the drums for you.

Liz:
Alex, I need you to do me a huge favor.

Alex:
Of course. Anything.

Liz:
I need your blood.

Maria:
Relax. God, you guys act like I've never tailed someone before. [drives in reverse]

Isabel:
Subtle. He'll never notice us going backwards.

Maria:
This is the second time you've dragged me to some cheap motel.

Michael:
Yeah, well, don't spread it around. You'll ruin my reputation.

Alex:
It's amazing. You wanna know what? A couple weeks ago, if someone were to ask me who I would trust with my life other than my parents, I would have said you without skipping a beat. And now... now I feel like I don't even know who you are.

Liz:
Alex, I want to tell you, I do, but... it's not my secret to tell. Alex, I need to know what you told Sheriff Valenti.

Alex:
I want to tell ya, Liz... but it's not my secret to tell.

Max:
Liz, I think that what I'm afraid of isn't that we try this and it works out really badly. What I'm afraid of is we try it and it works out really well. I'm afraid of feeling everything that I know I would feel. Because I know it's not meant to be. And somewhere down the line, we're gonna get hurt. I can live with that. I just couldn't bear to hurt you.

Sheriff:
You were breaking the law. You were stopping honest, hard-working people from doing their jobs.

Amy:
Those honest hard-working people were destroying a 200-year-old piece of Native American architecture, raping our town of its history.

Sheriff:
Amy, the Native Americans wanted that thing torn down more than anybody.

Amy:
That's not the point.

Sheriff:
Well, it is kinda the point.

Isabel:
[about Alex] Well, he's a complex individual with... a lot of complexities.

[Liz and Max prepare to kiss]

Max:
So...

Liz:
So... let's hope nothing explodes.

Amy:
I was 18. Naive, clueless. Why did you pick on me?

Sheriff:
Because you were cute.

Maria:
Well, I guess when Liz was shot and Max dissolved the bullet into nothingness and then repaired the damages inside of her that would have otherwise left her dead, I guess that kind of changed my thinking.

Michael:
Well, I hope so, because dealing with frick and frack over there is one thing, but we can't bring adults into this and expect them to handle it. Adults are the enemy, Max. Remember that.

Max:
Michael, you say everyone is the enemy.

Michael:
They are.

Maria:
It's cheating. You can't just wave your hand over a problem and make it go away. Why don't you figure out what's really going on with you, Michael...why you can't just piece together an apology like any normal human being. Oops. Maybe that's the problem

Michael:
I have something to say to you. If anything like that happens to me again, like when I got sick, don't help me. I can't get indebted to anyone, and I can't get entangled. I got to be a stone wall. And when I'm around you sometimes, I don't feel like a stone wall anymore.

Maria:
Well, what do you feel like?

Michael:
I don't know. Like confused.

Maria:
Like human?

Michael:
Yeah, and I don't want to feel that way.

Liz:
Max, you know what your problem is? You put everything on yourself...on your own shoulders. Maybe you should have some faith in the people around you.

Michael:
Yeah, you know what, I do. I'm here trying to figure out the meaning of my existence, and I'm tired of having to wade through the kooks like you and the freak shows like this in order to do it.

Max:
What did you tell him? Why did he come after me? You're the Sheriff. You're supposed to protect me. But all you've done is go after me! You believe all these crazy things. You're just like Hubble. You want me? Well, here I am! Take me.

Liz:
Max! Max, please. We have to stop. Please, we have to stop.

Max:
Let's just keep running, you and me, away from here, away from everything. I see everything so clearly now. We'll go someplace where no one knows us. As long as we're together, nothing else Matters.

Liz:
You're drunk. Nothing that you're saying is true.

Max:
It's all true, Liz. It's how I really feel. It's all just magic when I think about you.

[Max touches a lamp post and causes the light to shine in a pattern.]

Liz:
Max, turn it off. Anyone can see.

Max:
And when I'm not with you... I go crazy.

[Max touches a car and the car alarm goes off.]

Liz:
Max.

Max:
When you're here...

Liz:
Oh, Max. Please.

Max:
You're my dream girl, Liz.

Liz:
And what if I believe you tonight?

Max:
Then we live happily ever after.

Liz:
And then what about tomorrow... when you go back to realizing who you really are, and all of your fantasies go away.

Max:
I'll still have you.

Liz:
This can never be normal, Max.

[Max touches the tops of some parking meters, which then sparkle.]

Max:
What's so great about normal?

Isabel:
Hey. Something's up with Michael. He's acting weird.

Max:
Weirder than usual?

Max:
I know what you're scared of, Michael.

Michael:
No, you don't.

Max:
You keep telling me how lucky I am... to have a great home, great parents. But in one way, it's harder for me, because when I screw up, I have no excuses. But you, you can do and say anything you want because you have Hank, and you can blame it on that. But what happens without him? It'll all be on you, that's what.

Michael:
Well, leave it up to me to still screw it up, huh?

Max:
He can't make up for in one night what he's never had in a lifetime.

Trucker:
Ain't no aliens in that town. Let me ask you something. If you were an alien, you can go anywhere in the world, would you pick Roswell?

Maria:
I have never seen her like this.

Alex:
So this was like the kiss of the millennium?

Maria:
Alex, if they actually do it, she'll probably explode.

Alex:
Or maybe she'll explode if they don't do it.

Nancy Parker:
What exactly is an eraser room?

Principal:
It's a small room that we use to clean the erasers so that chalk dust doesn't fly all over the school.

Diane Evans:
Wait. I'm a little lost. You mean Liz and Max were cleaning erasers when they created this disturbance?

Principal:
No. They were what we used to call "making out." We're talking sexual activity here, not erasers.

Maria:
I'm worried for you.

Liz:
Why?

Maria:
Because this isn't you.

Liz:
Yes, Maria, see... this is, this is me. I'm sitting right next to you.

Maria:
I just don't want you to go too far.

Liz:
I think I want to.

Maria:
Are you crazy? This is dangerous. This isn't like a game! We don't even know what could happen!

Liz:
Look who's talking! You were the first one to take the plunge, Maria!

Maria:
Michael and I just kissed. Okay, fine. We did a little more than kissing. But, look, I wasn't getting visions, and I didn't have glowing hickeys and rashes and... look, Liz, the bottom line is that we don't know what this is about, all right? Female spiders can, you know, bite off the males' heads after they mate. What if they need someone to mate with to get certain information, you know? And then... Blttt! You know?

Liz:
What're you been trying to say? That Max is just gonna bite my head off?

Maria:
Uh, no. What I'm saying is, how do you know that he's not like using you?

Liz:
Maria, because it... it... it feels right. I'm sorry. It feels right in a way that nothing has felt right in my life before.

Maria:
I want you to know that what I said about you being all shut down and that's why I had to fake the flashes, that was... wrong and very unfair. If something went wrong, it was because of me. I'm the one who's scared. I mean, I fake all kinds of things all the time with everybody. It's just you were the first person I actually ever admitted it to.

Michael:
Well... thanks for sayin' that, but it's not really true.

Maria:
What do you mean?

Michael:
It's not true about you being shut down all the time. I happen to know that for a fact.

Maria:
Really? How?

Michael:
Because you let me see you. The red sneakers, Maria. One had a Kermit patch on it, and the shoelaces were blue, and you had your dalmatian dog with you there, licking off your tears.

Liz:
Okay. Fine. If you know so much, then tell me, Max...what's my destiny?

Max:
I only know the part I'm hoping for.

[Max and Liz are kissing in Max's jeep in a secluded woodsy area.]

Liz:
Do you mind missing the movie?

Max:
I heard it got bad reviews.

Max:
All right... romantic. When you're with her, act like she's like the only girl in the room.

Michael:
She's usually the only other person in the room.

Max:
Liz, about what Michael said before, about Tess, I just...I want you to know that I don't feel anything for her. I look at you, and I know you're the person I'm supposed to be with. I've always known it. What happened here that day, when you got shot, and how that brought us together...it's fate. Look at me. You're the one, Liz...the only one. I could never be with anyone else.

Max:
You've made a mistake.

Agent Pierce:
I don't think so. I know what you are, and now, you're going to tell me everything.

Max:
I'm Max Evans. I live at sixty-twenty-five Murray Lane. You can call my parents.

Agent Pierce:
We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. What is the name of your home planet?

Max:
Earth.

Nasedo:
It's inside you. Your program.

Michael:
Hey, I didn't get the manual, ok?

Michael:
You're not who I thought you'd be.

Nasedo:
Neither are you.

Michael How can you do this? How can you kill all these people? You don't care do you?

Nasedo:
Michael, if you wanna survive, if you wanna go back home, you have to be willing to fight for it. Do you understand?

Liz:
Max, the day that you saved my life, your life just ended.

Max:
No, that was the day my life began. Liz, when I was in that room, and they did what they did to me. You're what kept me alive. The thought of you. The way your eyes look into mine. Your smile. The touch of your skin. Your lips. Knowing you has made me human. Whether I die tomorrow or fifty years from now, my destiny is the same: it's you. I want to be with you, Liz. I love you.

Sheriff Valenti:
We'll be safe here for a while.

Michael:
There is no safe anymore.

Michael:
It's not safe.

Maria:
It's never been safe. What difference does it make now?

Michael:
No, I'm not safe. All right, I mean, I can do these things that I can't control. Look at what I did to Pierce. I'm not going to take that chance with you. I don't want you to be around for what's going to happen.

Maria:
Wait. Don't do this to me Michael, please. You need me now, more than you have before, alright?

Michael:
No, I don't need anyone.

Maria:
Well, maybe I do. Did you ever think of that? I mean, look at Max and Liz. They can't bear to be separated. But you, you can just throw me away. Just like that. Why is that, Michael? Why?

Michael:
Maybe because I love you too much.

Liz:
Max, you do have a destiny. You just heard it. I can't stand in the way of it.

Max:
But you mean everything to me.

[They kiss.]

Liz:
Goodbye, Max.