ROSWELL: WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN - "Take Me to Your Leader" - 09/28/05

VOICEOVER
Previously on Roswell ...

  1 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - MUSIC ROOM - DAY (From Roswell Episode 101: The Pilot)

Liz has confronted Max about healing her.

LIZ
Um, I-I scraped some cells from your pencil. This is really hard to say, I'm trying to keep from blacking out here. Um, the cells weren't normal.

Cut to:

  2 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY - DAY (From Roswell Episode 102: The Morning After)

Max and Liz are talking about her visit to Michael to tell him about Topolsky's interest in him.

MAX
You can't just show up at Michael's and get him riled up like that. You don't know him. He's not big into "let's go over our options." He acts on things.

Cut to:

  3 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - EXHIBIT AREA - DAY (From Roswell Episode 105: Missing)

Michael is showing his finished painting of his vision, which is part of the exhibit, to Max and Isabel.

MICHAEL
It's pretty good, huh? I didn't even know I could paint. But Mr. Cowan said it's the best thing that's come out of this class all year.

  4 INT. LIZ PARKER'S BEDROOM - DAY (From Roswell Episode 105: Missing)

Max and Liz are hiding from Nancy and discussing Liz's missing journal. Max has just gotten a flash from a CD he picked up.

LIZ
No, Max. I told you. Kyle hasn't been here for over a week.

MAX
I saw him.

LIZ
You saw him?

MAX
I had a flash, Liz. When things get intense, heightened, sometimes we feel things...see things. He was here, Liz.

Cut to:

  5 EXT. ROSWELL CITY PARK - DAY (From Roswell Episode 105: Missing)

Max, Michael, and Isabel are having lunch, discussing Liz's journal being found and the book Max has been reading that was written by James Atherton. As Max and Michael start to leave to get something from the concession stand, Isabel flips through the book but finds it boring. She lets it close but the back cover stays open, revealing the back flap with a picture of the author outside his home–an exact replica of Michael's vision/painting.

ISABEL
Max. Michael.

Max and Michael return to the table.

MAX
What's the problem?

ISABEL
(pointing to picture)
This. Michael, it's your vision.

Cut to:

  6 INT. MOTEL ROOM OF FBI AGENT - DAY (From Roswell Episode 108: Blood Brother)

Michael and Maria are searching the motel room of the FBI agent who has been following them.

MARIA
Listen. Any baby-sitter worth her salt knows that the best place to look is in the garbage can. It's always revealing.

Michael looks through the trash can and finds a torn piece of paper with a number on it.

MICHAEL
Looks like a phone number. Local.

Maria picks up the phone and dials the number.

MICHAEL
What are you doing?

MARIA
You want to find out who's on the other end of the line, don't you?

Michael leans in to listen.

FEMALE VOICE (ON PHONE)
Topolsky. Hello?

Cut to:

  7 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - TOPOLSKY'S OFFICE - DAY (From Roswell Episode 108: Blood Brother)

Alex is at Topolsky's laptop computer trying to break into her e-mail files. Cut to:

  8 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Liz is talking to Topolsky, trying to keep her from going back into her office.

LIZ
No, wait. Ms. Topolsky, wait! I mean...can't we just talk about this some more?

Topolsky realizes that Liz is just stalling her, turns and opens her office door. She sees Alex sitting in her chair, on her computer. Alex turns the screen towards her and reveals the FBI seal.

Cut to:

  9 INT. MAX EVANS'S BEDROOM - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 110: The Balance)

Max, Michael, and Isabel are discussing the information Max learned from River Dog and kept from them.

MAX
I'm late. We'll figure out the questions we want to ask, and then we'll go back to River Dog together, OK? Please, Michael. Leave it alone for now.

MICHAEL
Fine. I'll wait.

MAX
We'll talk when I get back.

Max leaves.

MICHAEL
Do you ever wonder what else he tells Liz that he doesn't tell us?

ISABEL
Oh, please. You're one to talk. What have you been whispering in Maria's ear lately?

MICHAEL
At least I'm smart enough not to get attached. I can walk away from anybody if I have to.

ISABEL
What is that supposed to mean?

MICHAEL
It means I'm not gonna let Max's mistakes keep me from finding out what I need to know.

ISABEL
Oh, Michael, you promised.

MICHAEL
I promise I'll be as trustworthy as Max.

Michael leaves by climbing out the window.

  10 EXT. MESALIKO RESERVATION CAVE - DAY (From Roswell Episode 110: The Balance)

MAX
I remember the first time I saw Michael. It was in the desert the night we first came out of the pods. The sky was bright with stars and this full moon. Isabel and I found each other first. We didn't know how to speak, but we could communicate anyway. We walked for a while, but we could both feel someone else.

LIZ
Michael.

MAX
He said he saw us, but that he was afraid. So he just watched us for a long time. When he finally revealed himself, he was standing on this rock. Just like you'd expect from Michael. "Here I am. Deal with me." He said it was the hardest thing he's ever had to do...to trust us.

LIZ
So, um, how did you guys end up getting separated?

MAX
We all saw the headlights at the same time. Isabel took my hand. We knew we'd be safe as long as we stayed together. I held my hand out for Michael. I knew he wanted to. He just wouldn't take it. So we just looked at each other for a long time. Wouldn't see him again for 3 years.

Cut to:

  11 INT. MESALIKO RESERVATION CAVE - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 110: The Balance)

RIVER DOG
Man who lived in this cave when I was a boy was not like us. Some of the elders believed he was an evil spirit, so they decided to test him. He was invited into the sweat, just like I invited your friend. His reaction was quick and severe. Within a minute, his eyes were white, and he developed a fever.

MAX
Just like Michael.

RIVER DOG
Only it took the symptoms longer to show up in your friend. That's why I dismissed him at first. But when you told me he was sick, I knew he was another visitor.

MARIA
That's an interesting way to put it.

RIVER DOG
Well, that's what he called himself. In my language, the word is "nasedo". So that's what I called him.

ISABEL
And you knew Nasedo well?

RIVER DOG
I saved his life.

Cut to:

Max, Maria, Alex, Isabel, and Liz are holding the healing stones that River Dog has handed to them.

RIVER DOG
He told me to hold the stones until my energy activated them. And the balance would be restored.

MAX
And if you didn't?

RIVER DOG
He would die.

Cut to:

  12 INT. WEST ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL - GYMNASIUM - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 111: The Toy House)

Isabel and Max are having a private conversation during a high school basketball game.

ISABEL
Mom knows something.

MAX
What?

ISABEL
She was asking all these questions about you. She said you had secrets.

MAX
She said that?

Cut to:

  13 EXT. ROSWELL DIRT ROAD - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 111: The Toy House)

Isabel and Max are alone, standing by their Jeep, a refinery in the background, discussing whether to tell their mother the truth about them.

MAX

What if mom found out it's all been a sham? If we took her family away from her, it would destroy her.

ISABEL
Maybe it would make us all closer.

MAX
I don't think so.

ISABEL
What are you saying, that if we tell mom the truth about us, she won't love us anymore?

MAX
I'm saying we'll never know the answer to that question.

ISABEL
Max. This isn't just your decision.

MAX
I know that.

ISABEL
Do you?

Cut to:

  14 EXT. FRAZIER WOODS - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 112: Into the Woods)

Sheriff Valenti is surreptitiously following Max and Isabel as they go to check out the location of the "sighting". Kyle has been following his father and confronts him.

KYLE
How many times have I heard the stories, dad? How many times you sitting at home listening to grandma cry while grandpa spent the night chasing spacemen out in the woods? That's my role now, isn't it? It's ironic.

VALENTI
Kyle, wait.

KYLE
Now I know why you never wanted to see grandpa again. Because to him you were just a low priority!

Cut to:

  15 EXT. FRAZIER WOODS - CONTINUOUS (From Roswell Episode 112: Into the Woods)

Max and Isabel meet Michael and River Dog at the site of the "sighting". The Whirlwind symbol has been burned into the grass.

ISABEL
Oh, my God. It's the symbol from the cave.

MICHAEL
The white light, or whatever the hell that was, caused this?

RIVER DOG
Yes. It's a sign.

Max, Isabel, and Michael stoop down and hold out their hands, palms down, over the symbol, causing it to light up with a light blue glow.

RIVER DOG (cont'd)
It was meant for you.

MAX
What does this mean?

MICHAEL
That he's back. Nasedo's here.

Cut to:

  16 EXT. ROSWELL STREET - UFO CENTER- NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 113: The UFO Convention)

Sheriff Valenti is confronting Everett Hubble.

VALENTI
You got to my father when he was at his weakest, and you pushed him over the edge. Because of you, I had to have him committed.

  17 EXT. WOODED AREA - NIGHT (From Roswell Episode 115: Independence Day)

Hank drives into a wooded area, stops the car, pops something into his mouth from a small container and pockets the container. He then gets out of the car, opens the back of the station wagon, drags out and buries the body of a man that looks just like him, then gets back into the car. A bright light emanates from the car as he shapeshifts into a Hispanic male, and again pops something into his mouth from the container and pockets it.


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