#109 Heat Wave – Primer

When Liz spies Michael and Maria in a romantic tryst, she begins to wonder why it’s okay for them to be together but not for her and Max.

As Michael and Maria continue their passionate relationship, Liz begins to notice everyone around her has paired up including her former boyfriend, Kyle and even Sheriff Valenti who has begun to date Maria’s mom, AMY DELUCA.

Feeling her life is at a standstill, Liz confronts Max about moving their relationship forward. Max eventually asks Liz to meet him at a dance that’s being held later in the week.

Meanwhile, Valenti questions Alex about the sudden departure of Ms. Topolsky. Isabel then decides to dreamwalk Alex in order to find out what Alex has told. In the dreamwalk, Isabel discovers Alex has romantic feelings for her. The next day at school, Isabel decides to invite Alex to the dance.

At the dance, Maria pushes Michael to make some type of commitment. Not wanting to be emotionally involved, Michael backs away from Maria.

A fire breaks out at the dance, bringing in Sheriff Valenti. Catching Liz and Alex with liquor, Valenti sees it as an opportunity to hold them in jail overnight hoping one of them will talk about his suspicions of Max. Liz realizes she must tell Alex the truth about the aliens, in order to save Max from Valenti. Not sure what to believe, Alex tells Liz that he believes she believes what she told him. Liz tells Alex she’s through lying to him, and the two are trusted friends once again.

Jason Katims Commentary

“A PLACE WHERE OUR…ENSEMBLE CAST CAME TO LIFE…”

Transcribed by Lena

“Heat Wave” is one of my favorite episodes. This show could on one hand be a show, where it’s all about their lives that are in danger and in the next episode it could be about whether or not to kiss a boy and I just love that you know this is a show that can cover those different
kinds of territory and “Heat Wave” it was a place where I felt like our ensemble cast really came to life, because everybody was reacting off of what everybody else was doing. Michael and Maria were involved in this crazy impetuous sexy relationship and Liz seeing that suddenly said ‘well why can’t that be me’ and a lot of people sort of asked why did we have Maria and Michael kiss first when Liz and Max of the central relationship and that to me is why – I wanted to sort of play that dynamic that Maria and Michael were moving forward and Liz and Max weren’t and then it lets the first kiss, which I thought was very romantic and really worked great and was sort of worth waiting for. Also Patrick Norris directed and he really gave it this beautiful romantic look he uses a lot of long lenses and we were sort of very intimate with the characters and you really got inside their faces and really felt like you were right with them living through all this as they were.