#116 Sexual Healing – Primer

Not being able to contain their feelings any longer, Liz and Max give in to their attraction and share an intense kiss. Liz, however, experiences visions of Space that neither her nor Max are able to explain.

With each new kiss, the visions become stronger and Liz soon feels the visions may contain clues into Max’s past. When Liz recognizes a star cluster she saw from a vision, she tells Max she thinks the visions may be from the crash of 1947.

Liz also goes to Michael telling him about Topolsky, and Michael questions her about the photo Valenti had shown her. Michael decides to break into Valenti’s office to find the photo. Once there, Michael finds a key that instantly causes him to have a flash of an unclear vision.

Wanting to find the true origin of the visions, Max and Liz decide to take the sexual relationship further. The clues they receive lead them into the desert just a few miles away from the crash site. The two are just about to consummate their relationship, when Liz hears a constant beeping she recognizes from the visions. Liz and Max dig up an alien orb with a glowing symbol on top. Exhausted by the previous events, Liz and Max fall asleep in the desert only to be awakened by a strange man who unbeknownst to them is Nasedo.

Meanwhile, Maria lies to Michael about having visions herself in order to bring the two closer together. Alex also offers himself to Isabel for testing, and the two share their first kiss.

Jason Katims Commentary

“It communicated how being intimate was both exciting and scary.”

Transcribed by Lena

“Sexual Healing” was really fun episode to do and again it was sort of dealing with the premise of the series, which is how things that happen between humans and human relationships are overlapping with alien themes and a metaphor of teenagers as aliens. In this case dealing with teenage sexuality the metaphor of this episode was showing Max and Liz growing more intimate and going further and Liz started to have these flashes and the flashes were very clearly alien in nature and as they continue to do this it became clear that these flashes might be meeting them somewhere or telling them something and it communicated how being intimate was both exciting and scary and I thought that it was adelightful episode to watch because all the themes came through in a very real way.