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Max : Liz won't tell anyone, she's different.
Michael Guerin : Really? So how's she react when you told her? 'Great, you're an alien, that's fantastic.'
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Liz : Okay. All right. Here we go. Where did you come from?
Max : I don't know. When the ship crashed I wasn't born yet.
Liz : So there was a crash?
Max : All I know is it wasn't a weather balloon that fell that night.
Liz : The ship crashed in 1947 you're 16?
Max : We were in some kind of incubation pods.
Liz : We?
Max : Isabel and Michael are also... uh...
Liz : Okay, well, that, answers, um, that question. Um, what powers do you have?
Max : We can connect with people, as uh, you know. We can manipulate molecular structures, and... we can...
Liz : Wait, what does that mean?
[Max goes to a clay sculpture on a nearby table and moves his hand in front of it, the shape changes]
Max : That's, uh, that's how I healed you.
Liz : Max, who else knows this?
Max : No one.
Liz : What about your parents?
Max : We don't tell anyone. We sorta think our lives depend on it.
Liz : So when you healed me you risked all of this getting out didn't you?
Max : Yea
Liz : Why?
Max : It was you.
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[Liz is on the roof]
Max : Liz!
[She walks to the edge and looks over]
Max : I have to talk to you.
[She lets him in]
Max : I can't imagine how you must feel right now, I mean, I've thought about telling you a thousand times.
Liz : You have, me?
[Max smiles]
Liz : What?
Max : Sorry, I just , uh, I just keep picturing you in that dress, with the, uh, the cupcakes... on it.
Liz : What?
Max : Forget it, it was a long time ago.
Liz : [Realizes what he is talking about] Oh my God. That's, that's right. I can't believe I actually wore that thing!
[Realizes something]
Liz : I had that dress in kindergarten, I didn't know you until the third grade. Did you like, read my mind or something?
Max : No, I-I don't read minds. When I healed you, I made this, this, I don't know, this connection. And I got this rush of images... An image of that dress flashed into my mind, and, I knew how you felt about it.
Liz : How did I feel about it?
Max : It was the single supreme embarrassment of your life. But your Mom made it for you, she was so proud of it, she'd never made a dress before, so you wore it. For her sake.
[Liz nods in shock]
Max : I've never tried this before, but maybe I can make the connection go the other way. So you can see, you know that, that I'm still me.
[He advances until he's in front of her]
Max : I have to touch you.
[Liz nods]
Max : [Max puts his hands on both side of her head]
Max : Now just take deep breaths and try to let your mind blank out.
Liz : [Liz gets a rush of images, Max and Isabel walking down the road and the Evans finding them, Max on the first day, and how he sees her. In the halls at school talking to Maria, and since they were in third grade] VOICE-OVER: 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.
Max : [Max pulls away] Did it work?
[Liz nods and Max looks at her embarrassed]
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Max : Well I'm not from around here.
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Max : So you're dating the sheriff's son?
Liz : Yeah, it's like this totally casual sort of... Max, can we just focus here for a minute, please?
[she raises her shirt and shows Max the silver handprint on her stomach]
Liz : I scraped some cells from your pencil. This is really weird to say. I'm trying really hard to keep from blacking out there. The cells weren't normal. So, Max, what I'm going to suggest to you... is that we just go back in to the bio lab now... so that I can see what I'm thinking is wrong. That I got the wrong cells.
Max : You didn't.
Liz : Okay, um. So help me out here, Max. I mean... what are you?
Max : Well, I'm not from around here.
Liz : Where are you from?
[Max points upward]
Liz : Up north?
[Max raises his finger higher]
Liz : You're not a... an alien, I mean... Are you?
Max : Well I prefer the term, "Not of this Earth." Sorry. Not a good time to joke. Yeah, I am. Wow, it's weird to actually say it.
Liz : [Liz stares at him and then starts to leave]
Liz : Um, I have to go. You know, I'm going to be late for my US Government class. So I'm just gonna...
[She reaches the door but Max holds it close]
Max : Liz, listen to me. You can't talk to anyone about this. Not your parents, not Maria, no one. You don't understand what'll happen if you do. Now my life is in your hands.
