Max:
Are you ready?
Liz: Yeah, I think so.
Max: Liz, you don't
have to do this.
Liz: No, Max. We are
in this together.
That's what we said.
Together till the end.
Liz: Down! Down! Now!
Whoa!
Down! Get down!
Max:
Do what she says.
She's crazy.
Liz:
Face on the floor!
Now!
[East coast accent]
yeah. I, uh...I wanna report
an armed robbery
in progress.
At Sam's quick stop
on highway 65.
Yeah. Hurry.
Clerk: I have a family.
Liz: Hurry. We've only
got a few minutes.
[Siren approaches]
Liz:
just keep
your face down!
Keep your face down!
The cops are coming.
We gotta get
outta here.
Come on, let's go!
Come on, let's go!
Hurry up!
[Max, now in the room below the store sees the spaceship. He holds up a
large diamond, and the ship begins to glow]
Liz:
Come on.
How'd they find us
so fast?
Max:
I don't know.
All right, hold on!
Liz: Max, they can't
find out about
the diamond.
Officer: Hands! Let me see hands!
Liz:
You got any powers
for this?
previously, on Roswell...
Max: Liz, there's something I need to tell you
about Tess and me.
Our relationship is, uh--
something happened.
Liz, Tess is pregnant.
I'm going back.
Liz:
Just tell me one thing.
Do you love her?
Max:
Not like I love you.
Max: This was all some kind
of plan to get pregnant
and go home, wasn't it?
Max:
This isn't over, tess.
Isabel: What
happens now, max?
Max:
I have to save my son.
[Telephone rings]
Max: So I was wondering
if you wanted to,
you know, see me.
Liz: You mean,
like, on a date?
Max:
Just somewhere
we can talk.
I just want to try
to start over, liz.
You look amazing.
Liz:
They're my favorite.
Thank you.
So where are we going?
Max: It's a surprise.
Liz:
It's kind of dark.
Max: Liz, i just want
to put everything
that happened
behind us.
Liz: Yeah, you know
that I would, too,
if i had impregnated
an alien killer
who murdered one
of our best friends
and then left the planet
with my unborn child.
Max:
So you're still
holding on to that?
Liz:
It's hard not to, max.
See, you slept with tess,
and then you got her pregnant.
I don't know how
to just move past that. You hurt me,
you know?
Max: Liz,
meeting someone,
someone like me,
Liz:
it attracted me.
I admit that.
It was
something I had
to find out about,
and now I'm over it.
Max:
It's not
that simple.
Liz, i'm here.
I'm not going
anywhere.
Isabel, michael,
and I, we've lost
our only way home.
There's no way back.
You're the only or me to--
you're
my only reason.
I want
to be with you.
Liz:
Tess is pregnant
with your child.
What about your son?
Max:
There's nothing
i can do about that.
He's gonna be born
in a...
In another world,
a world that i have
nothing to do with.
I've accepted it.
Liz, you've paid
a lot to know me.
You've been hurt
and you've been
put in danger. Now I want to make
that up to you.
I want to make
your dreams
come true.
Will you
let me do that?
Max:
In the neighborhood?
[Sighs]
Mr. Evans: son.
If you want
to get out of here while
you're still a young man,
don't say anything
to anyone unless i'm present.
I'm not your father
right now,
I'm your lawyer.
Mrs. Evans: Oh, my god. Max.
Max:
It's all right, mom.
It's all right.
Mrs. Evans:
Look at you. What is going on?
Who are you?
Why are you under arrest
for armed robbery?
Mr. Evans:
Now tell us what the hell
are you doing in utah?!
Mrs. Parker: Jeff, stay calm.
Calm?!
Mr. Parker:
How am i gonna
stay calm? [Ms]Honey, i know
it isn't you.
I know this is not something
that you would do,
but--but if you did do it,
maybe it's because
somebody put you up to it.
Liz:
They put me
up to it. Right, mom.
Mr. Parker: Ok. That's enough!
Now tell us
what the hell happened.
Liz:
I'm not
gonna speak to anyone
until they
let me talk to max.
Liz:
Liz: So I've broken, like,
12 of my mom's rules already.
Max:
Rules?
She has rules?
Well, yeah.
Yeah, since I told her
that you broke my heart,
without any
of the alien details,
of course.
She thinks that we should
just take things slow. Just dinner,
then straight home,
no plans
for future dates.
No making out.
Max:
So i suppose
skinny dipping
would be against
the rules, too.
Liz: Uh-huh.
What are
you doing, max?
No.
No, this is
not happening.
Ok, you've made
your point.
It's not that funny.
You can stop now.
What--no, max. Max.
I can't believe you're gonna do this!
Max: Whoo!
Come on in.
It's beautiful.
No, it's not.
It is obviously freezing.
Come on, liz.
This is something
we'll tell our
grandchildren about.
Come on in, liz.
Come on.
Liz: Fine! Ok? Fine.
Grandchildren.
What are they gonna be,
3 feet tall and green?
But, hey.
I am not taking
my underwear off.
And if my mother,
like, ever, ever t about this,
you are, like, so dead.
Ok? Do we have a deal?
Max. Oh, max!
Is that a deal, max?
Huh?
Max! Max, oh, my god!
Isabel: Max!
Michael
Just tell us
what happened.
Feel free
to leave out
the lurid details.
Liz: Look,
I told you already.
He was just, like,
laying there in the water
and he woke up in the car.
But he hasn't said
a single word.
You guys, isn't there d of cure
for this?
You guys are the aliens.
Do something here.
Michael
Maxwell!
Hey, Maxwell!
Maxwell!
Hey, what the hell's
going on?
Max:
Something happened.
I had this vision.
It was my son.
He's been born.
He was reaching out to me.
He's in trouble.
Michael now if I'm to have any chance
of graduating
this year,
I need to get into
your bio 101 class.
Teacher: Why didn't you come
to my bio 101 class
when you were in it?
Michael I'm turning over
a new leaf.
Teacher: Excuse me while I take
a moment to chuckle within.
Michael
Ok, lookit,
plans changed.
I thought I was moving out
of Roswell,
but as it turns out,
I'm stuck here
for good.
Teacher: And how far away
did you plan to move
that you didn't think
that your high school records
would've been sent
to your new high school?
Michael
Actually,
pretty far.
Mr. Seligman, I know
you hate my guts.
Personally,
I hate yours, too.
Teacher: This is how
you ask a favor?
Michael But if you help me
graduate this year, then you won't have
to see me next year.
Teacher:
Well, you do
have a point there.
Ok, Mr.. Guerin,
I will let you in
to my biology 101
class
if you make
a sacred vow to me
right now
that you won't miss
a single session.
Isabel:
Michael,
there you are.
Teacher: Miss Evans,
I thought
you graduated.
Isabel: I did, mr. Seligman,
but I just can't seem
to cut the cord. Too many fond memories.
I need to talk to you.
Michael I got class.
Isabel: It's important.
Michael I will be
one minute.
Teacher: I'm sure you will.
Miss Evans,
love the hair.
Isabel:
Well, thank you.
Michael
So, what's going on?
Isabel: Max and Liz got arrested
in Utah for armed robbery.
We have to go.
Michael: So much
for ever getting
out of this school.
What were they doing
in Utah?
[In Utah]
Isabel:
Mom!
Mrs. Evans:
Isabel. Your father and i
have been going
crazy.
Oh, hi.
Philip!
Isabel: So what's going on?
Mrs. Evans: Well, we're still
trying to figure out
what happened
with your brother
and Liz.
Isabel: Hi, dad.
Mr. Evans:
Hey.
This is Jesse Ramirez from my office.
Isabel: We met
at the company--
Jesse: picnic, that's right.
Nice to see you again.
Isabel: Nice to see you
again.
Mr Parker: So what have you
found out, Philip?
Mr. Evans: A detention hearing has
been set up for tomorrow
with the judge.
Max and liz are
first-time offenders,
no physical evidence
has been produced,
so we're hoping they
get a slap on the wrist
and get sent back home.
Mrs. Evans: Well,
what about jail?
Mr. Evans: They can only
go to jail if the case
is transferred
to the criminal
court system and they get tried
as adults.
But so far
that seems unlikely.
Jesse:
Ok, they haven't
found a gun,
and there
are no witnesses
other than
the nutcase
behind the counter
who claims to have
seen an otherworldly
yellow light.
Isabel: So as long as
there's no evidence,
max and Liz will be ok, right?
Mr. Evans:
Yeah. Yeah,
we certainly hope so.
Michael: Can we see them?
[Door opens]
Isabel: max! You idiot.
What are you trying to do
to our poor,
clueless human parents?
Michael: So what's the deal?
You running low
on cigarettes?
Max: There's an underground
government storage facility
under the convenience store.
Michael:
Well, that's a surprise.
Max: Our ship's there.
Michael You mean
our spaceship?
Max: It's been reassembled.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Michael: I can feel
biology 101 slipping
from my grasp.
Isabel:
So, reassembled that
means it works?
Max: Possibly.
Isabel: I thought we made
an agreement to let go
of the other world
and live here.
Max: That was before
my son tried to contact me.
Isabel:
Max, a little reality check.
This ship you're
talking about...Sucks.
It's a lemon.
It crashed to begin with.
That's why we're stuck here.
Michael She's got a point.
Max:
Look, I need you
to find something for me.
I had to toss it
before we were arrested.
Isabel: No.
No, we are not helping s absurd plan
to find a spaceship, ok?
This is ridiculous.
Max: This isn't about
getting to a spaceship.
Liz and I stole it.
It's a diamond.
Isabel: You stole a diamond?
Max: It's not
actually a diamond.
It's the key to our ship.
It's alien,
and if we don't find it
before the police do,
we'll be linked
to another crime.
We'll never
get out of here.
Michael So what does it
look like?
[Scene switches to the past, Max and Liz looking at Tess' things]
Liz:
Hey, i've been for you.
Max:
Yeah. Yeah,
I was just, uh--
Liz:
looking through tess' stuff.
What's that?
Max: It was buried
among tess' things.
It's a letter Nasedo wrote to her
before he died.
It says, "I am your one
and only protector
on this planet.
"I'll protect you
until the end.
"If I ever die,
this is our only way
to communicate
with our home."
Liz:
And?
Max: I have to contact
my son
Liz: So i guess
this part of your life
isn't over after all.
[Michael is in a field looking for the diamond- a man with a gun confronts him]
Michael Mandatory attendance,
I understand. Yeah.
An attitude improvement?
I'm already on that.
And a respect for authority,
yeah, absolutely. Mr. Seligman,
I gotta call you back.
Man: Who was that?
Michael It's my science
teacher.
I'm trying
to graduate
high school.
Man: Why don't you
just get a G.E.D.?
Michael No one hires anyone
with a g.E.D.
Man: I got a G.E.D.
I'm doing fine.
Michael
Yeah, you're on
a nice career
path there.
Man: I got a message
for your friend max. Stop looking.
The person i work for
will do whatever is necessary
to stop him. Whatever is necessary.
Michael Whatever, dude.
[Gunshot]
Man: don't be such a smart ass.
Maybe that's your problem
in school, too.
Don't make me
come back to Utah.
[Maria arrives in Utah]
Maria: Why can't these aliens
ever get in trouble
somewhere decent?
Like Graceland
or Tahoe or New Orleans.
No, Utah.
Mormons and mountains.
Liz:
Oh, my god, Maria.
I can't believe you're here.
Maria: Who am
i, liz?
Of course I'm here.
Liz:
Ok, thanks.
Now give me
some sugar.
Maria:
Hi. Mmm. Hi.
Ok, first of all,
I have some fresh
green lime pie
from the Crashdown.
Liz:
Oh, Maria, you--
you are a goddess.
You know, if you
were a boy, I would--
Maria:
ok, no, don't go there,
girlfriend.
All right, now i talked
to everyone involved,
and I got the total
unadulterated scoop. The judge and D.A.
of this town are, like,
totally sweating it
because they have
to go before council
next month
for reappointment
and they haven't caught
a criminal in, like, a decade,
so they're basically out
for your scalps.
Ok, that's all i have.
Now it's your turn. Spill.
Last i heard, you and max
were trying to take it slow.
Max:
What? Mmm. What's going on, liz?
Liz: Do you love me?
Liz:
Yes.
How much do you
Max: who are you?
Liz: Look at this.
Max: How'd you find this?
Liz: I spent 16 hours
at the main branch
of the library
in Albuquerque.
The diamond's owned
by Delores Browning,
one of the 10
wealthiest women
in the world.
Max: Where is it?
Liz: It's on
permanent loan
at the Tate museum
in London.
But it's gonna be
the main event in
a traveling exhibit.
It'll be in Santa Fe in
two weeks.
Liz:
No, no, no, no, no.
I want to do this
with you, max. Together.
Max:
Why?
Liz: Because if
i had lost a child,
I would want you
to help me find him.
But that's only
part of the reason.
The other part is
that i don't want you
to slip away from me.
I know what it's like
to be with you, and I know what it's like to be apart from you.
And I would
rather be with you.
Max: I don't know
if i could live
with myself
if anything ever
happened to you.
Liz:
Max, you're an alien king.
What could
ever happen to me?
[In
the present], Isabel knocks on Jesse's door
Isabel:
thank you
for this meeting, Mr.. Ramirez.
Jesse: No problem, Isabel.
Isabel: Mmm!
Why didn't you tell me
you were here?
Jesse: I was
working all night
with your father.
I couldn't call.
Isabel:
Oh, I just wish this could
all be out in the open.
Jesse: I'm still not sure
why it can't be.
Isabel:
Well, there's the fact
that you're 26
and I'm barely legal.
Jesse: you're an old soul.
You have clearly
lived before.
Isabel: You have no idea.
So, what were you
and my father
holding back
from us before?
Jesse: What do you mean?
Isabel: I saw the look between
the two of you earlier.
Clearly
you're not telling us
the whole story. Jesse...
Jesse: Last year there was
a robbery in the county.
A kid died.
No one was ever charged,
and the local prosecutor got a lot of heat for it.
So...
This town is looking
for someone to hang.
Jesse: Max and liz
picked a bad place
to play bonnie and clyde.
[Telephone rings]
Jesse:
hello?
Philip.
Oh, just, uh, working
on some research.
Ok, I'll be right over.
That was your dad. They
found evidence.
[Scene switches to the past, and the museum]
Max: The honor's mine. So you're the Delores Browning?
Mrs. Browning:
Well, I don't usually put
an article before my name
but, yes, I am.
Max: So what's it like
to actually own
all these diamonds?
Mrs. Browning: I only own some of them.
Well, most of them,
actually.
So you're--
max.
And you're not really ly a waiter.
You're really
an aspiring artist
or actor or--
Max:
no. I'm just a waiter.
Mrs. Browning: A waiter? [Laughs]
god bless you.
Liz: What the hell
are you doing?
Max:
Oh, liz.
Liz: What the hell
are you doing?
Max:
Nothing.
Liz:
Nothing.
I can't believe you.
How many times
have i stuck
my neck out for you,
and you are standing here
obviously flirting
with a woman obviously--
come on, she's,
like, twice your age.
Max:
Liz, calm down.
Liz: : Calm down!
Max: I better be going.
I'm sorry.
Liz:
Oh, my god!
You're apologizing
to this bimbo?!
Mrs. Browning: Excuse me?
Max:
Liz, let's
just walk away
and forget it.
Liz:
Forget it. You think
that's your answer
to everything,
isn't it, max?
Forget everything,
ignore everything.
Security Guard: Excuse me, ma'am. Could you come
with me, please?
Liz: Can you please
not touch me?!
Listen, this is
what he does, ok?
You, you're not special.
He does this to everyone.
You are a little bit
too desperate
to see what is
really going on here!
Max:
Liz, will you
just stop it?
Liz: Why?!
Mrs. Browning: Young lady, I don't think
you have any idea
who you're speaking to.
Liz:
Oh, I don't, huh?
Mrs. Browning: Ohh!
Max: Don't touch her!
[Max
pushes a guard, the diamond falls, and Max does a somersault and catches it]
[Alarm bell rings]
Max: I believe
this is yours.
I'm sorry.
Liz: Get me out of here.
Max:
Liz--
Liz:
you have
humiliated me again. Now get me out of here.
Did you get it?
Max: Of course i did.
We did it.
Liz: You were brilliant.
Max:
No, you were brilliant.
Liz: That was
so exhilarating.
Max: I know.
Liz: You know,
just the fact
that we, like,
pulled it off. everything.
It's just, like,
anything's possible
right now.
And then throwing
that champagne
at that woman,
it was so cathartic.
Look, and, max,
I know what we did
is totally...
Totally wrong
and completely
illegal,
but I just loved it.
You know?
In a million years,
in one million years
did you ever think?
Yeah.
So, now that the diamond,
we have to find
the spaceship, right?
Max:
Well, not right
this second.
Liz:
Ok. [Giggles]
[At Liz's home]
Mr. Parker: Liz!
It's 2:00 in the morning.
Where the hell have you been?
Liz: Upstairs.
Mr. Parker: Where were you?
Liz:
Nowhere.
Mr. Parker: And what
are you wearing?
Liz: Clothes.
Lawyer: That's just the way
things work here.
She'll be fine.
Mr. Evans:
Nancy, Jeff, hi.
Mr. McGregor
Lawyer: Nice to see you again, Mr.. Evans.
Mr. Parker:
Mr. McGregor here
was just giving us
the inside scoop on
the Salina court system.
Mr. Evans:
Ah, how generous.
Lawyer:
Well, nice
to meet you folks.
Nancy, Jeff.
You're good people.
Your daughter
deserves
her best shot.
Mr. Evans: What was that about?
Mr. Parker: He's trying to put
our kids in jail.
Mrs. Evans: Mr. McGregor just feels
that we'd be better off
pleading guilty.
Mr. Evans: Well, he'd certainly
be better off.
He's a prosecutor.
His job is to get
a guilty plea.
Mr. Parker: But he said that
if we plead not guilty,
it could provoke
the judge
and he'd be
that much more likely
to transfer the case
to a criminal court.
Mr. Evans:
Jeff, if we plead
guilty to a felony,
then there's
a case against them
in criminal court.
We can't give them
that option.
Believe me, I know what
I'm doing.
Mrs. Parker: No, it's just
this isn't personal, Phil.
It's just that
you're a corporate lawyer
and this is not
your area of expertise.
Mr. Evans:
Nancy, Jeff,
that man
you were talking to
wants a guilty plea,
and he'll say and do
anything he has to
to get it.
If we plead guilty,
I guarantee you
this case is going
to criminal court.
Look,
our children are in this together.
We're all in this together.
Believe me,
I am doing right
by your daughter.
[Scene switches to court]
Judge: Do you understand
the charges against you?
Max and liz:
Yes, your honor.
Judge: How do you plead?
Max: Not guilty.
Liz: Not guilty.
Judge: All right, then,
you can have a seat.
Now, mr. Mcgregor
and Mr.. Evans,
I've reviewed the material
you've submitted--
Mr. Evans: your honor, before
you make a ruling on this, I have additional material
that i feel
is critical to this case.
Judge: All right,
let's see it, Mr.. Evans.
Mr. Evans: Thank you.
These are 4 recent rulings
in Utah state courts,
all of which
disallowed dna matches
from hair follicles
to be submitted
as evidence.
Uh, your honor,
in consideration
of the fact
that these
few strands of hair
are the only physical
evidence in this case
and there are no priors on
eitherr defendant
who are both
standout students
and members
of their community,
I ask that this matter
be dismissed.
Judge: All right. Well,
thank you, Mr.. Evans,
I'll take that
under consideration.
Judge: Max evans.
It's the decision
of this court
that you be released
to the custody
of your parents, that
you be returned to your home state of New Mexico if you will agree
not to return
to the state of Utah until
your 21st birthday.
Do you agree with that, Mr.. Evans?
Max:
Yes, your honor.
Judge: Very good.
Have a seat.
Elizabeth parker.
Now, your voice
and your height
match the description
of the person in possession
of the firearm.
Armed robbery's
one of the 10 crimes
punishable under Utah's serious shooter offender act.
Therefore it is my decision
to transfer your case
to the criminal court system.
Mr. Evans: But, your honor,
there was no gun found.
The only mention of a gun
was from the testimony
of a clerk
whose credibility--
Judge: I've made my decision, Mr.. Evans.
This is for another court
to consider.
Mrs. Parker:
Oh, my god!
Mrs. Parker: You can't do this!
Mr. Evans:
Your honor, this girl has
never so much as jay-walked.
She's one
of the best students
in Roswell high.
Judge:
Well, you're not
in Roswell, counsel.
This hearing's adjourned.
Mrs. Parker:
Oh, my god, no!
No, you can't take her!
You can't--no!
Mr. Evans: It'll be ok. Liz-- liz, we'll talk, ok?
[Later in the courthouse]
Lawyer: liz, i've reviewed your case with your parents,
and my advice
as your attorney
is to try to make a deal.
Liz: What kind of deal?
Lawyer: You're a good kid, liz.
Honor student,
clubs, activities.
Maybe you fell in
with a bad crowd,
met a guy with a problem.
Maybe max
dragged you into this.
Liz: You want me
to sell max out?
Lawyer: He sold you out
when he made you walk
in there holding that gun.
Liz: We're in this
together.
Mrs. Parker: Not anymore.
Honey, you could go
to jail for 20 years.
Lawyer: Let's talk about the gun.
Did max convince you
to hold it?
How'd you get it
to begin with?
[Scene swithces to the past]
Liz:
So, why do
we need this?
Max: Road trip.
Liz: Where?
Max: I did some research
at the UFO center.
There are 5 government
storage facilities
large enough
to hold the ship.
It's gotta be
in one of them.
Liz: I don't see a government facility , do you?
Max: Let's take a look.
Max: Don't worry.
It won't be loaded.
Liz: To go in there
with a gun,
that's a felony.
Why can't I just
distract the clerk?
Max: That's not enough time.
I need at least 5 minutes
to get downstairs,
see if the ship's there, and
if it works.
Liz: And what
if it works?
I mean, you go off
to Antar and what? I mean, what if you never come back?
Max: I will come back.
And I'm not leaving yet.
First I have to see if
this is even a possibility.
I'm gonna
have to figure out
how to navigate it.
Liz: We can't get caught.
Max: We won't.
[In
the present, Max opens Liz's cell]
Max: Let's go.
Liz: What do you mean?
Max: Let's get
out of here.
Liz:
Max, and then what? Just be on the run
the rest of our lives?
We'd never be able
to go home again.
Max: That's not as bad
as it sounds.
Liz:
No, max, i'm sorry,
but that's just
too far for me.
I'm not ready to give up
my home or my family.
Max: I wish we could
trade places.
Liz:
No. No, no, no, max.
Ok, I don't.
You're free.
We came here for a reason
because your son
is in trouble.
Now you need to go back
and do what we came for. You know,
see if your ship works.
Come on. I don't want this
to all be for nothing.
[At the hotel]
[Knock on door]
Max: how's it going?
Michael: Maria's been
crying about Liz the whole night.
Other than that,
things are great.
Max: I need
the diamond.
Michael:
Maxwell, i told you
that guy scared
the crap out of me.
There's someone out there
that wants us to stay away.
And you know what?
He convinced me.
Max: I'll be careful. Michael, my son
is in trouble.
Just give me the--
give me the diamond.
Michael: I would do it
for you.
You tell Isabel that you came in here
and you found it yourself.
[Max gets the diaomond from the undr the
couch- Maria wakes up]
Max:
Hey.
Maria: How could you make Liz hold the gun?
[Max in the hall,
sees Isabel]
Max:
Hey.
Isn't your room
down the hall?
Yeah. I was just
in there with Maria.
Max: In there.
You were in there
with Maria?
Max: Where you going? My stuff's in the trunk.
Isabel: All right.
Well, good night.
Max:
Yeah. Good night.
[Max gets into his car]
Agent Burns: Max.
I'm sorry. I have to, uh--
please.
Agent burns of the fbi.
So, why sam's quik stop?
Max: My case
has been dismissed.
Agent Burns: By the sheriff's
office maybe.
I'm gonna give you
the benefit of the doubt
and assume you're just
an incompetent criminal.
But if you
were in that store
for any other reason, ... If you don't stop,
you and your girlfriend
will not be happy
juvenile delinquents.
[Max is reliving the past]
Max: I have
to contact my son.
My son is in trouble.
Just give me the diamond.
Isabel: I thought
we made an agreement
to let go
of the other world
and live here.
Max: That was before my son
tried to contact me.
Liz: I want to do this
with you, max. Together.
Max:
Why?
Liz: Because if I had
a child that i had lost,
I would want you
to help me find him.
Max: I couldn't live
with myself if anything
ever happened to you.
Liz: Come on. We came
out here for a reason
because your son
is in trouble.
Go back and do
what we came here to do.
[Max is in the basement, but the ship is
gone]
Mr. Evans: What the hell's
going on, son?
Max: You followed me here?
Mr. Evans: Yes. Yes,
I followed you here.
Because I can
no longer trust you me the truth.
I thought you were
involved in drugs.
But this is clearly
something else.
What were you looking
for down here, max?
What is this place?
Max: If i told you
what this was about,
it would put
you and mom in danger.
Mr. Evans: And what's this?
Max: Don't touch that, dad.
It could be toxic.
Mr. Evans: Why would there be
a toxic chemical
in the basement of
a convenience store?
Max: Just don't touch it, dad.
Mr. Evans: Max, if this is
what
you think it is,
we might be able
to help liz.
Max: What are you
talking about? How?
[Scene switches to a road]
Agent Burns: Mr. Evans.
It's nice to meet you.
Agent burns of the fbi.
We now have jurisdiction.
Mr. Evans: So, maybe someone
can tell me why the fbi
is so interested
in 2 teenagers
robbing
a convenience store.
Agent Burns: Actually, mr. Evans,
we're not.
We tested
the so-called
toxic chemical
you submitted to the sheriff, and it
turned out to be
laundry detergent.
Max: It did?
Well, we did
our own test
and it turned out
to be tetryl.
Max: Now i'm sure
there are any number
of people in the media
that would be interested
to find out
why such a dangerous
chemical was found
underneath
a convenience store.
And even more interested
to find out the location
was on federally owned
property.
Agent Burns: You two are lucky
to be walking away
from this alive.
You give me that jar now,
and you were never here.
You never
saw anything under
that convenience store,
you never found
any chemical there.
Mr. Evans: It's gonna be difficult
not to ever mention this again
if that girl is
still in jail, Mr.. Burns.
[Back at the jail]
Mrs. Parker: Could you give us
a minute?
Liz: What's going on?
Mrs. Parker: The charges
were dropped.
Liz: What?
Mrs. Parker: Max's father discovered
improper conduct
with the arresting
officer,
and so
they dismissed the case.
Liz: Oh, my god, mom. Oh, my god.
Mr. Parker: Liz, before we leave,
there's something
i need to talk to you about.
Liz: Yeah?
Mr. Parker: Your mother and I forbid you
to see max anymore.
He's not welcome
at our restaurant.
You are not to go out
on a date with him,
or attend the same parties.
If you pass him in school,
you are to look
the other way.
Mrs. Parker: It's for the best.
Mr. Evans: Max...
There was over $200 left
in that cash register.
You didn't do it
for the money.
I never believed
you did it for some
adolescent thrill.
You did it
because you wanted
to get down those stairs
into that room.
And I need you
to tell me why.
Max: I can't ever
tell you the truth.
Please, don't
make me lie to you.
Mr. Evans: I'm sorry, son.
Silence is not acceptable. And neither is a lie,
not after what
we've just been through.
No. Not under my roof.
Max: I can respect that.
I just want to thank you
for helping Liz.
I'll always
appreciate that.
Max: I'll come by home to pack my things.
Good-bye, dad.
[Max sees Liz come out and drive off with her parents. He gets in
his car and leaves. The final scene is him sleeping in his car
looking at the stars]
Writer: Jason Katims
Michael: Mr. Seligman, I know you hate my guts. Personally, I hate yours, too.