We open yet again with Liz Parker writing in her journal...contemplating how she'll never look at the stars again ever since learning that Max Evans (and Michael Guerin and Isabel Evans) is an alien. She wonders if he is just as tortured and unable to sleep as she is...
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Well, is he?
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Nope. But, Max is awoken with Michael sneaking in through his window (which he seems more than comfortable doing). He too is tortured and unable to sleep (get with it Max, geez) and is upset at Max for being so...calm.
So Max offers him a sleeping bag.
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CREDITS.
Michael likes to investigate on his own, it seems he feels that Max is constantly dragging his heels because he's afraid of finding out where they come from. Michael, however, has hardly any ties to their earthly life and his foster dad that keeps him around for the monthly check, so he decides to look for access into the Sherrif's station.
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Maria and Liz are at the Crashdown. Maria is telling Liz how she does not trust the aliens, cough, "Czechoslovakians". I mean, are they good Czechoslovakians, bad Czechoslovakians? They don't know. For all they know they don't have their passports. Then Maria spots Michael...and informs Liz that he creeps her out (oh stupid Maria), however not before Alex perks up from behind a booth and questions who is from Czechoslovakia? No one gives him an answer.
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The next day at school, the usual Geometry teacher is absent and has been replaced by
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When she gets to Michael Guerin's name and he is not there she asks a lot of questions. Then she completely forgets attendance at all and proceeds to teach.
Sheriff Valenti walks into his office to find a burly African-American man parked on a folding chair in the middle of the station. Finding this odd (and also finding it odd that apparently no one else finds it odd), he asks him to leave.
Back at school, Maria (with her worst hair ever) proceeds to tell Liz that she thinks Ms. Topolsky is an alien hunter because she takes attendance.
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She also thinks it is important that they tell Alex, though they cannot come up with a good reason why (um, they're best friends)? She then tells Liz that Kyle Valenti is heading towards her (not just in her general direction) and even though Liz thought she was just a summer thing she was really wrong about that, Kyle is still in lurve.
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Liz then tells Max that Maria thinks that Ms. Topolsky is an alien hunter, and Max broods as he does best.
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Max insists that life is just like it is before and nothing needs to change. As Liz is walking down the hall she runs into Ms. Topolsky who was carrying Michael's file. She knows Liz by name (claiming photographic memory), and makes small talk. Well, Liz also must think that Max is just dragging his heels (seriously, even LIZ cares about where they come from more than Max), because she decides to visit ye olde Trailer Park to tell Michael that he is being investigated.
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She even asks about Hank. Look at Liz, trying to make friends.
It's now late at the Sherrif's office, and before Valenti calls it a day, he takes a small key from an envelope hidden in the depths of his desk and places it inside his thermos.
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After a quick stop at the gas station, who would show up that late at night selling candy for charity? Well, Michael of course.
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And they weren't buying (the candy NOR the story, see what happened there?) unfortunately, and so Michael's plan to infiltrate the Sheriff's station did not happen. So he heads over to his home away from home, Max and Isabel's to tell them of his plan, which of course, they do not agree with. Then Isabel goes on a date wearing a horrible leopard print jacket.
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Back at school Max witnesses a handshake between Ms. Topolsky and Sheriff Valenti being supervised by the principal. Stranger Danger!
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This causes Max to brood even more, but of course after some mulling about in that brooding head of his he decides to meet with Liz in the eraser room to do some spying.
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Within the eraser room Max and Liz do not make out, which is apparently what you do in the Eraser room (according to Maria it's not just kissing that goes on in the Eraser room, it can also steal your innocence, and I think Max and Lis are due to lose some of their innocence). They instead talk about Michael (excellent mood killer) and how Liz got him all riled up. Max doesn't appreciate a riled Michael.
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They strike gold and over hear Topolsky discussing Michael and how she's going to track him down to be interviewed. Huge red flag you guys! Max tracks down Michael who informs him that things are being taken out of the Sheriff's office so it's now or never, they gotta break in.
Liz goes into the Crashdown on what seems to be the busiest night ever and asks Maria to cover for her to help with Czechoslovakian business. Alex interrupts asking them for the umpteenth time who is Czechoslovakian because that country hasn't existed for ten years. They tell Alex that Czechoslovakian is code for cramps.
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Kyle sees Max and Liz take off to Michael's trailer to wait for Topolsky. He gets the wrong idea after Liz in seen dipping down toward Max's lap (maybe they lost a little too much innocence in the Eraser room, amiright?) so he confronts them.
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Liz explains that she dropped her ring, which is true. They see Topolsky come and go, and after waving off annoying Kyle, they drive away, but not before Topolsky get a good look at Liz.
Again, not wanting to wait on Max, Michael takes it upon himself to shimmy up the drain pipe and break into Sheriff Valenti's office. Isabel explains her distaste for this and then brushes her hair behind her shoulder. She has to play decoy again and she is not looking forward to it.
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Max follows Michael up the pipe and Isabel portrays the damsel in distress and asks Valenti to help her fix a flat tire on her unregistered jeep.
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While all of this is happening, Michael finds the key, and the key gives him a vision.
Is that a geodesic dome I see?
After Max and Michael escape, they all try the key. None of the other aliens have luck obtaining a vision.
For the closing monologue Liz talks about secrets.
Ever since I found out about Max and Michael and Isabel, I’ve been thinking a lot about secrets.
That for everyone who has a secret, there’s someone else who needs to know what that secret is.
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How sometimes secrets keep people from feeling like they belong.
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And sometimes secrets make you feel like you do belong. And now even I, Liz Parker, the smallest of small town girls with the simplest of lives-- even I have something to hide.
Basically Kyle feels alone, Topolsky is alone and nosy as she tells Liz she's actually a guidance counselor and is worried that Michael is going to be expelled, Valenti feels alone with out his key, Michael feels alone since he doesn't have a driveway to play basketball in. And Liz has her journal, the best of friends.
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Fin.
