"It's February 20." "I'm Liz Parker... and lately I've been having these feelings... like I'm changing inside... and part of me doesn't want to change." "Part of me always wants to be my mom's little girl." "But the thing is these feelings are strong... dangerous, undeniable." "It's like I have no choice." "It's like chemical." "Liz, nice strawberries." " Oh." " Ooh." "Are you okay?" " Yeah, I'm..." "I'm fine." "You have a visitor." "Mmm." "Sweet." " Hey." " Hey." "I hope this isn't my fault." " Why would this be your fault?" " If I startled you." "No." "You know, I always knock over strawberries this time of night." "Always." "I'm just gonna go get more berries from..." "W-Wait." "Here's another one." "Thanks." "What are you doin' here, Max?" "Well, I have orders from my planet to take over the Earth." "Besides that." "I want to make sure we can still be friends." "Yeah." "I mean, we are." " Good." " Why wouldn't we be?" " We really haven't been able to talk since..." " What?" " That night." " Max, people do a lot of dumb things when they're drunk." "Anyway, I understand." "And we're friends?" "Yeah." "We're friends." "Just friends?" "Yeah." " Liz, you did not look normal." "I didn't feel normal, Maria." "L..." "It was the most amazing, incredible..." " Unbelievable, awe-inspiring..." " No, Maria." " This was different." " Different how?" "Um..." " like, beyond." " Wait." " What?" " You guys didn't go, like, beyond?" " No, no, no." " I was gonna say, you were only out there five minutes." "I know." "Listen, Maria, if I..." "When..." "When I actually do it, it is not gonna be... in between a plate of kielbasa and a deep fryer." "Hmm." "I saw things, Maria." "Did you see things when you and Michael kissed?" "What exactly did you see?" "Stars." "I have never seen her like this." "So this was like the kiss of the millennium?" "Alex, if they actually do it, she'll probably explode." "Or maybe she'll explode if they don't do it." "So, anyway, did anything like that ever happen to Maria when you two..." "No." "Maxwell, let me assure you, you have not experienced anything..." "I have not experienced many times, or caused to be experienced." " Then how can you call yourself my friend?" " Why?" "A friend wouldn't have kept something like that to himself." "Okay, people." "Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon." "Created in the millisecond after the Big Bang." "These simple molecules are the basis... of all possible life-forms in the universe... present and unaccounted for..." "or, so we think." "The conceit that alien life-forms... would be like us in any essential way... would be, uh, the wishful thinking of a lonely planet..." " That once believed it was the center of the universe." "So, we're going to combine hydrogen, liquid oxygen... and carbon today." " Miss Parker!" "Have you had an insight you wish to share with the rest of the class?" "No." "Mr. Evans?" "I was just returning her pencil." "I'd like to see both of you... immediately after last period today in my classroom." "The primordial experience known as... detention." "Let's get busy, people." " Oh, Michael." "Hi." " Hey." " Did you hear?" " The Max-Liz thing, with the flashes." "She's your friend." "What do you think?" "That Max and Liz have discovered some new sensation." "It seems somewhat unlikely." "Extremely unlikely." " This feels good." "This feels really good." " Yeah." "Oh, God." "Oh, my God." " Michael." " What?" "I can't believe it." " What?" "What did you see?" " I, uh..." "I saw... a cluster of stars, like, shooting through space." "Um, this, like, incredible sunset... like, near the rings of Saturn." "Did you see anything?" "Yeah, I saw you as a little girl... trying to tie her shoelaces on her red sneakers." "You're kidding." "The red sneakers?" " What?" " Nothing." "Max, hold me." "Ah!" "Oh, huh." "What exactly is an eraser room?" "It's a small room that we use to clean the erasers... so that chalk dust doesn't fly all over the school." "Wait." "I'm a little lost." "You mean Liz and Max were cleaning erasers..." " when they created this disturbance?" " No." "They were what we used to call "making out. "" "We're talking sexual activity here, not erasers." "Why don't we go talk to them?" "Uh, Miss Parker." "Mr. Evans." "This... is Completely wrong." "What did I get wrong, Liz?" "Well, i-it's just wrong that we're here." "I mean, any of us." "Well, then, perhaps you and Mr. Evans should have been less noisy." "You know, I think I've heard enough." "Mom, this is not what you're thinking right now." "Don't you believe me?" " What is it?" " Mom, it's just a mix-up." "They also cut two academic classes." "Now, Liz and Max are honor students." "I think we'd all like to keep it that way." "I'm sure there's an explanation for it." "I'm certain that Max wouldn't miss any of his classes unless there was a good reason." "Max?" " Mom, this is no big..." " Deal, right?" "You said that." "Mom, it's not like I've never kissed a boy before in my entire life." "You know, I don't think it's the kissing, but the actual volume that's the issue." "This is being totally blown out of proportion." "Okay, we'll talk about this later tonight." "Okay, I want you to come straight home from school." "Is that agreed?" "Hmm?" "No, I can't." "I have detention." " Look, Mom, I gotta go, okay?" " Okay." " Bye." " Oh!" " Liz, what's goin' on?" "Alex, the most incredible thing is happening to me... but I..." "I don't even know what it is." "What?" "Hot!" "Hmm!" " You okay?" " Mm-hmm." "Mm." "Oh, now I have that little piece of skin hanging down... from when the pizza's too hot." "Yeah, well, um, speaking of hot, this whole Liz-Max thing?" " Mm-hmm?" " Well, I was just wondering, you know... in the interest of science, kissing being purported to provoke these certain insights... you know, I wanted to, you know, offer myself as a... as a human subject available for experimentation." " It's not gonna happen, Alex." " Right." "Right, right." " Thought I'd give it a shot." " Yeah." "You want some pizza?" "Uh, yeah." "Pizza's always good." "Ah, Miss Parker." "I'm happy to see you're taking a renewed interest in science." "Well..." "Well, go ahead." "It looks like you have a question?" "Yeah, what is this?" "Oh." "Well, that's the Whirlwind Galaxy." "Could there be a red star, or a red something in this area that isn't on this chart?" "Well, it could be a red giant." "A red giant." "Isn't that..." "Yeah, that's a star that's in its last stages of its life cycle, right?" "Yes." "A-plus yet again." "The problem is the light from a red giant is weak." "So weak, we usually can't pick it up with our telescopes." "Oh." "Um, well, thank you very much." "Thanks." "May I ask what has inspired your sudden interest in astronomy?" "It's just beautiful." "Eh, the universe is beautiful." "Yes." "Lovely." " Ah." "I see your partner in crime." "Here are your detention assignments." "You are an excellent student, Miss Parker." "I'd hate to see anything get between you and the, uh... beauty of the universe." "What was that about?" "Uh, Max, I have to show you something." "Max, you know the things I saw, the stars and everything?" "I didn't make them up." "They're real." "Max, I saw this." "I saw it." "Max, this afternoon..." "I think I saw the crash." " Honey?" " Yeah?" " Um..." "You really have strong feelings about this boy, don't you?" "Max, I mean." "Mom, I have, like, a really hard time talking about this kind of stuff." "I have to talk about it." "So if you can't talk right now, can you at least just listen?" "Yeah." "Don't ever have sex." "Don't ever leave this house." "Don't ever stop being my baby girl." " Okay." " Mom..." " I'm not having sex with him." " That's good, because, um... once you enter that world..." "you know, sexual intimacy..." " everything changes." " Mom, I..." "I want you to know that you don't ever have to lie to me about this." " Really." "Okay?" " Okay." "Okay." " Um..." " What?" "Just, one moment I look at you, you're my baby girl... and the next minute, you're a young woman." "Thank you." "She said it was as if she was inside the ship looking out... when it came crashing toward Earth." "Did she see anyone else on the ship, like our parents?" "Yeah, or Captain Kirk and the Klingons?" "You got a paper towel holder?" " No." "What if it's real?" " It's not real." "What's wrong with you guys?" "Oh, God!" "Not even baking soda's gonna help with that." "You know what, Isabel?" "If you don't like my new place, you can leave." " Continue." " I see things from inside her head." "Maybe she's seeing things stored deep inside me." "What do you see inside her head?" "I can't tell you." "It's private." "Since when do we keep secrets from each other?" "Maxwell, come on." " Do you have a juicer?" " Isabel, you're pushing it." "They're Liz's personal thoughts, Michael." "They're not secrets." "Okay, yeah, so they're personal thoughts." "How do you know they're real?" "I'm not sure." "Can't you just ask her?" "I don't want to embarrass her." "Maxwell, if this is real..." "if there's any chance this is real... you owe it to us and to yourself to find out." "And in the meantime, I'm gonna pursue my own avenues." "Wow." " Michael." " Uh-huh?" " Mmm." "This feels really good." " Uh-huh." "These visions or flashes or whatever?" "I'm just, um..." "I'm not completely sure I've actually really had one." "What do you mean, you're not completely sure?" "Michael, I, um..." "I faked it, okay?" " Why would you tell me that?" " Why?" "Because I..." "I want us to be close." "You think that makes us close." " Where are you going?" "How do you expect me to react?" "Like a person?" "Talk to me?" "Yeah." "Well, I could act like a person, but then I'd have to fake it." "You know, maybe if you weren't so defensive and you didn't shut down all the time..." " Then maybe what?" " Maybe it would happen." "I lied to you, too, about the shoes." "Really?" "'Cause I did have red sneakers." " Everybody's got red sneakers." " Why would you fake it?" " Haven't you ever heard of the male ego?" " Yes." " The question is, why did I tell him that I faked it?" " You know what I mean?" "It's just..." "Oh, my God." "Liz." "Liz." " Hmm!" "Mmm." "What?" " Come here." "Come here." " Let's go, girls." " Just go look in the mirror." " Why?" "What is it?" " DeLuca, Parker, now." " Coming." " Okay, I'll cover for you." "Just go." " Okay." " Max!" " Liz." "What are you doing here?" "I just..." "I wanted to see you." "Here?" "I had to know if something was real." "If what was real?" "Well, just like you've seen things?" "I've seen things, and... one of those things..." "You saw my fantasy?" "I had to know if-if what I saw was really from you... or if it was just my imagination, which... it definitely..." "definitely could've been." "Except I've never been in the girls' locker room." "And now that I see it, and..." "Well, it is the same room." "I know I didn't make it up." " This is really horrible." " No, Liz." " It's incredible, really." " This is not incredible." "Wait." "Please?" "Listen." "Please." "The main thing is..." "I didn't just see what you saw." "I felt what you felt... when you saw me." "And I never thought anyone could really ever feel that way about me." "Really?" "Parker.!" "This way." "Parker.!" "Uh, Liz?" " What?" " You have a hickey." "And it's glowing." "This is getting really weird, Max." "That would mean each of us has this information in some part of us... we're just not not conscious of." "Or she's getting messages from somewhere or someone else." " Nasedo?" " I don't know." "I mean, why'd she see the crash, the soldiers?" "Maybe it was all planned this way... that this is how we'd find out who we really are, by connecting with humans." "Connecting?" "The more they connect, the more we find out." "Uh, listen." "Liz is on her way over." "Okay." "We'll leave." "You guys don't have to leave." "Go for it, Maxwell, for the good of all mankind, you lucky, undeserving dog." "Michael, that's not what this is about for me." "Don't make me beg you to do what you and Liz obviously want to do anyways." " I don't see a problem with it." " The problem is treating someone I care about like a thing..." " to be used." " What, and that's what I'm about?" "Is that what you're saying?" " The words are coming from your mouth, Michael." " Okay, you guys, stop." "Enough." "Listen, Maxwell... you are a sensitive guy." "And you have available to you one of the top three seduction lines in history... with "It's gonna help me find my home planet. "" "And you're refusing to use it." "No guy's that sensitive." "Use it." " Nice." " Mmm." " Hi." " Hi." "How's it goin'?" " Strange." " I'll bet." "All right." "We're leaving now." "But I got some Chaka Khan cued up in the C.D. Player." "We're leaving." "Bye." "So, you told 'em, huh?" "Yeah." "And now everyone's just sort of cheering you on, like at a football game." "No." "No, it's..." "it's not like that." "I mean, yes." "They want us to keep going, so we can find out where all this leads." " But that's not..." " Max." "I need to find out where all this leads too." "Look." " It's gone." " Thanks." " Max, do you understand any of this?" " No." "Can you take your shirt off?" "Can I?" "Yeah." "I can't do it to you." "I'm glowing everywhere... my toes, my heart." " You can't see it." "It's on the inside." " Uhh..." " No, Max." "We can't do this." " I know." "You know, could I, uh..." "could I get sick?" "I don't know anything." "I don't even know who I am." "You know, the... the mark went away because..." "because you touched it." "Maybe..." "Maybe it came because we were away for too long." "That's absolutely crazy, but... maybe that wouldn't be a complete disaster." "I can't ask you to do anything that might hurt you in any way." " I know." " And I have no idea what that is... or what's right or wrong." "I know." "I mean, and you know things... about me that you, um..." "that you shouldn't know." "And my mother... my mother, who I love, is just gonna kill me." "If I don't die from this." "You're right." "I can't stop." "Oh, my God.!" "I was looking for Michael." "Um, something tells me he isn't here." " Liz, what was going on in there?" " What was going on?" "Yeah, it looked like it was getting pretty serious, like, very serious." " Maria, I have my mother for these lectures." " I'm worried for you." " Why?" " Because this isn't you." "Yes, Maria, see, this is." "This is me." "I'm sitting right next to you." "I just don't want you to go too far." "I think I want to." "Are you crazy?" "This is dangerous." "This isn't like a game!" "We don't even know what could happen!" "Look who's talking!" "You were the first one to take the plunge, 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..." "You know?" "What've you been trying to say?" "That Max is just gonna bite my head off?" "Uh, no." "What I'm saying is, how do you know that he's not, like, using you?" "Maria, because it..." "it feels right." "I'm sorry." "It feels right in a way that nothing has felt right in my life before." " Hi, Mom." " Do you think I'm stupid?" "I'm sorry." "Sorry's not good enough." "Where were you?" " Mom, will you just stop trying to control me?" " I am trying to keep you safe." "If I need to control you..." "When have I even tried to control you?" "Right, Mom, because you've never had to!" "'Cause I do every single thing you want... and y-you just think I'm always gonna be that way!" "You don't even see me." "All right." "Then..." "Then help me to see you." "Okay?" "Talk to me." "Oh, my God." "You're so warm." "Mom, no." "I am fine." " You're not fine." "You're burning up." " Mom!" "Just stop it!" "Okay?" "This is my body!" "I don't have to tell you every single thing about it!" "Michael." "Hey." "I was, uh..." "I was looking for you at your apartment..." " but I found Max and Liz instead." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " They still there?" "No." "I just drove Liz home." "Great." "I won't have to miss the hockey game." "Liz." " Hi." " I couldn't sleep." "Yeah, neither could I." " Hey." " Hey." "Uh, look, Max, I saw something when we were..." "It-It was something being buried, and it felt like it was something... something important." " It was here." " I know this." " This is the old radio tower by Highway 42." " Max." "Highway 42." " Isn't that..." " Yeah." "Just a couple miles from the crash." "Well, there's something buried there." "I should go to Michael." "Is that what you really wanna do?" "No." "Look, all I know is that if we're gonna do this... we've gotta do it tonight." " Are we..." " Come on." "Let's go." "It should be around here somewhere." "Wow." "That's what's really there all the time." "If we could only see it." "So." "So." "So we have to decide... what our next step's gonna be." " Right." " I guess we could just start digging." "Or, uh..." "Or, um, we could look for the next clue." " Yeah." "The clue idea seems more, uh..." " More efficient." "Yeah." "Right this minute..." "I can't..." "not touch you." "Let's just lie down." " Are you scared?" " Well, I know I'm supposed to be, but..." "I'm just gonna put myself in your hands." " What's that?" "It's a coyote." "Are you sure?" " Oh, my God." "Max, that's it." " What?" " That's the sound I heard in my vision." " Shh." "It's over there." "Come on." "This is it, Max." " Start here." " Okay." "Max, something's down there." "It's the symbol from the cave painting." "Is this from your home?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's a signal... for..." "Maybe." "Liz?" " Isabel." " Max and Liz are missing." "Missing." "Okay, let me, um..." "let me get the keys to my car, all right?" "We can go and find them." "That's okay." " Okay." " Okay what?" "Okay, and kiss me." "K..." "K-Kiss you?" "My brother's missing." "I need to find him." "Maybe we can generate some information." " Right." " Maybe I'll get a flash of their location or something." "So, go ahead." "Oh, yes." "Yes, ma'am." "Um..." "Nothing." "Oh." "Nothing relevant to the current crisis." " Sorry." " Okay." "You know, I-I'm available for further experiments." "You know, when-whenever." "This is private property." "You two better get home." " Max and Liz aren't..." " I heard." "Look, I just really need you not to be cold or mean." " If that's impossible, you can just let me know." " You want to come in?" "Yeah." "Have a seat." "Thanks." " Can we talk about what happened?" " Talk on." "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." "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." "Well... thanks for sayin' that, but it's not really true." " What do you mean?" " It's not true about you being shut down all the time." " I happen to know that for a fact." "Really?" "How?" "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." "And I saw a whole bunch of other stuff as well." " Was I right?" " Yeah." "Um..." "That dog died when I was, like, seven." "Right after my father left." " Kinda rough?" " Yeah." "I'd say so." "I really didn't care about the stupid flashes." "I just wanted us to be close." "Thanks." "They're basically good kids, right?" " They're just using bad judgment." " Huh." "Bad judgment big time." "Maybe they shouldn't see each other for a little while." "Well, why don't we give 'em a chance to explain themselves?" "Well, what kind of explanation can there possibly be?" " Any flashes?" " No." "Did you?" "Don't think so." "Max, everything that we did, everything we felt... was it... was it all just about this..." "this thing?" "You know, we don't even know what it is." "Yet." "Max, was it ever just about us?" "You know, you and me?" "Because a person could feel... like they just served their purpose." " You know, like being used." " Is that what you think?" "Because you're not the only one who could worry about being used." "I mean, some girls would give a lot to see themselves fly through outer space." "You know, I'm sure it doesn't compare to other things you could be doing, like... watching Kyle barf after a beer blast." " I can't believe you just said that." " Why not?" " Because it really happened." " You're kidding me." "No." "I swear." "Last summer." "It was a really hot night..." "You know what?" "No, no." "Don't tell me." "Okay, so what you're saying is that you saved me... from a life of watching Kyle barf." "Liz Parker, I don't think that was ever gonna be your destiny." " No?" " No." "Okay." "Fine." "If you know so much, then tell me, Max... what's my destiny?" "I only know the part I'm hoping for."