Roswell (1999–2002): Season 1, Episode 4 - Leaving Normal - full transcript
Although Max has decided he must stay away from Liz, he helps her say a final farewell to her comatose grandmother.
- Previously on Roswell.
- Liz!
There's a bullet hole
in the dress.
I'm telling you.
The girl was shot.
Thank you, Sheriff. Your work
is done now. We'll take it from here.
Where are you from?
Up north.
You can't talk to anyone
about this.
- Oh, my God. You told her.
- What do you make of that mark?
So with this picture,
what we're saying is there's more of us?
- Kyle Valenti headed this way.
- Like, in this general direction or, like, towards me?
- Liz!
- Kyle!
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
- We're just...
- Different.
[Thinking]
It's October 19th.
I'm Liz Parker, and this
is what I've been thinking.
Can life ever
go back to normal?
- It's, like, crazy.
- Orthodontists' convention.
Why would orthodontists
want to convene in Roswell?
- That's a good question.
- Listen, Jose.
If table three doesn't get fed soon,
they're gonna attack.
- Busy, ladies. Very busy.
- Oh, my God. I forgot to tell you.
Grandma Claudia's
coming on Friday.
I have been going through grandma
withdrawals. I love Grandma Claudia.
I know. She's the basis
of my existence.
- Table six.
- Oh. Great. Thank you.
Jose, what about me?
- Here she is.
- Okay, gentlemen.
I've got one Venus meat loaf platter.
There you go.
Two Trekkie specials.
Enjoy your dinner.
- Your space fries will be right out.
- Miss?
My colleagues and I were just
appreciating your wonderful overbite.
Oh. Well, thank you.
That's... That's
a first, actually.
Would you mind if we just...
take a look at your bite?
For medical purposes.
Sure.
[Liz Narrating]
Part of me wants safety...
wants to go back
to how things were...
to a life that I could predict,
where I know what is gonna be.
And the other part of me
wants to go somewhere else...
into the unknown.
Magnificent.
Enjoy your dinner,
gentlemen.
- It's an orthodontists' convention.
- Apparently.
So, um, are you
waiting for Michael or...
No. No.
[Clears Throat]
I'll just have, uh,
an Alien Blast.
- Me too.
- Excuse me?
Nothing. Okay. Um,
one Alien Blast.
He's the guy.
What's going on, guys?
- Evans, right?
- Yeah.
- Stay away from her.
- Who?
#[Rock]
#[Continues]
#[Ends]
It was those jocks
from the football team, right?
Kyle and his friends?
Kyle wasn't there.
I've seen them
giving you those looks.
- It was them, wasn't it?
- It doesn't matter who it was.
- I'm gonna kill them.
- Michael, no.
So what are we gonna do?
Nothing.
What do you mean,
we're gonna do nothing?
Michael, listen to me.
This is bad.
Kyle does something to us.
We do something back to him.
This kind of thing
gets all over school, all over town.
Rumors start flying.
The whole thing about what I
did to Liz starts coming up again.
- We get exposed.
- That's exactly what I'm saying.
We go, and we shut
those guys up right now.
Michael, we have to stick together
now more than ever before.
We have to go back into our shells.
You can't do anything to those guys.
I have to stay away from Liz.
[Bell Ringing]
- Hey.
- Hey.
So, catching up on
upcoming athletic events?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
It couldn't be that Max
has P.E. Fourth period...
and you're conveniently
positioning yourself...
- to just happen to run into him?
- [Bell Ringing]
- Good-bye.
- Bye. [Chuckles]
- Hey, Max.
- Hey.
- What happened to your face?
- I fell.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
When did it happen?
It looks really bad.
Yesterday.
Look, I gotta get going.
I have
an English midterm.
Okay. Right.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Liz, hey.
- Hey.
So, tonight's
movie night, right?
- Yes.
- Video store at 6:00?
- Sounds great.
- All right. Okay. See ya.
[Chattering]
Hey, watch
where you're going.
Dude, I'm sorry.
#[Man Singing]
#[Ends]
#[Rock Ballad, Indistinct]
- Grandma! Hi!
- Honey Bear.!
[Chuckling]
Oh!
- Hello, Jeffrey.
- Mom.
Oh, you're still
listening to them.
- You're dating yourself.
- Well, you know, some things defy time.
- Oh, look at you.
- What?
Last year when I left,
you were a child.
Now I come back
to find a beautiful, young woman.
Grandma. Let me help you
upstairs with your stuff.
Oh, Jeffrey'll get it,
won't you, dear?
I thought you weren't
supposed to be here till Friday.
Tell me what's going on. Did you finish
the book you were working on?
Oh, book schmook.
Let's dish.
- Hey, Claudia.
- Oh, Nancy.
Oh, it's so good
to see you.
Come with us.
We're going upstairs to catch up.
- Really? Should I?
- Yeah. Definitely. Come on, Mom.
I don't think so.
I have a lot of laundry to do, so...
We'll be back just as soon
as Liz has told me...
about all the boys who are
head over heels in love with her.
Don't waste your time, because
she never talks about that stuff.
[Chuckles]
So, in any case,
Kyle's not somebody...
that I'm gonna marry
or anything, but it's...
You know, we have
a good time together.
It's good. What?
Well, not every relationship
has to be the be-all and end-all.
Right.
- It doesn't?
- No.
Everybody wants
to find her soul mate...
but there's
so much time for that.
I think it's nice that you have somebody
you can have fun with.
What if there
was something else?
"Something else."
Someone... else.
Now, this is worth
the price of the airfare.
What if this someone else
could potentially be...
you know, what you said?
Is there?
[Sighs]
But what if it were,
like, complicated...
like, incredibly,
incredibly complicated?
One thing I can tell you.
If it isn't complicated...
he probably isn't a soul mate.
- Grandma!
- Oh! Maria! Look at you!
Another beauty! Oh!
God help this poor little town
with you two running around!
- Okay, I love this woman.
- Maria, look at this.
It's an article
on the first findings...
of the Navajo Indians
in hundreds of years.
Look. Lost Treasures,
by Claudia Parker.
It's gonna be in
The American Journal of Archaeology.
That is so cool. Okay. All right.
So, let's talk about me.
The hair thing.
Does it work for you?
I kind of see it as like a Meg Ryan
style after an electric storm.
- I think... it's you.
- She's good.
- So, what were you guys talking about?
- Nothing.
- Boys.
- Oh, Kyle or Max?
- Thank you.
- Aha, Max!
No. Max...
he's so not possible.
He's just like
this whole different...
- Life-form?
- Type.
- How intriguing. A dangerous man.
- Spacey man.
- A mystery man.
- Okay. You two?
- You're out of control.
- [Chuckling]
So, what are we
doing tonight?
Tonight.
Whatcha doing?
Oh, some kid
pulled these out.
Great job you found, Max.
Real dignified.
Gotta feed the monkey.
Seventeen people at school
already told me about your face.
Oh, my God.
What happened?
Uh, Michael and I
were just...
He told me the story about you falling on the
basketball court. What really happened, Max?
Some guys roughed me up
last night.
Why?
They're friends
of Kyle's.
I think Kyle must be upset
about me and Liz.
You were just gonna tell me some story,
like I can't handle the truth?
I guess I knew how upset you'd be,
and I don't want you to get mad.
We have to stay inside now.
We have to be careful.
Max, this whole thing with Liz
and the sheriff s son...
I know.
I'm staying away from Liz.
Pretty raw.
Why don't you just get rid of them?
Because they have to
heal normal.
Everything has to be normal.
I can't believe
you actually rented this.
This looks like
the worst movie in history.
Well, for your information,
Massacre at Sunset Village...
is a modern-day classic.
The serial killer hones in
on this retirement community...
so it's got something
for your grandmother.
I am not showing this
to my grandmother.
Twenty minutes of Wings of Boringness,
we'll all be ready for some action.
[Sirens Wailing]
- [Indistinct]
- [Woman On Radio, Indistinct]
- What've we got?
- Patient complained of weakness in her left side.
Then her family members noticed slurred
speech before she lost consciousness.
B.P. 160, pulse 100,
respiration's 20.
Give me an E.K.G.,
smack seven, and keep them out of here.
- I'm sorry. I need to have you wait.
- That's my mother!
- I understand that, but I need you to wait out here.
- Get ready to scan her.
Drop a P.T. And a P.T.T.
And hold an extra red top.
We also need a portable
chest X ray.
I'm gonna go...
I'll be right back.
[Line Ringing]
[Machine] Hi. It's Max.
I'm not here right now...
- but please leave a message.
- [Beeps]
Hi, Max.
It's Liz. Um...
I'm at the hospital.
Something happened
to my grandmother.
We don't know
if it's serious, but...
it seems really bad, and...
I'm just scared.
Look, I don't even know
why I'm calling you.
I guess I just wanted
to hear your voice or something.
Um...
Now I just feel
completely stupid.
Look, you... Don't come here
or anything, 'cause everybody's here.
I'll see you at school tomorrow.
Sorry for the weird call.
Bye.
[Dial Tone]
[Woman On P.A., Indistinct]
Dr. Sanchez.
- Jeff, hi. Nancy.
- Thank you for coming.
- We're so glad you were able to be here.
- Of course.
- How is she?
- Jeff, your mother's had a stroke.
This is serious, but she's been
responding very well.
Her vital signs are good.
She's stabilized.
Is she gonna be okay?
A lot of people fully recover
from a stroke like this.
But it's early.
We're going to need time...
before we can determine
what the repercussions are.
- Thank you.
- We have reason to be positive here, okay?
Thanks.
Max.
Hey.
My grandmother
just had a stroke.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
How are you doing?
You okay?
Yeah. Thanks.
- Everyone, this is Max.
- Hi there.
Hi.
So, what are you
doing here?
My cousin got into
a car accident.
I'm sorry.
I don't think it's serious.
I better go find out
how he's doing.
[Siren Beeps]
So how's your cousin?
He's gonna be okay.
Your cousin wasn't
in an accident, was he?
- It was a mistake.
- [Sighs]
Max, I know that
something happened...
between you and Liz
the day of the shooting...
that you helped her out
or whatever.
She was shaken up, and you calmed
her down, and I appreciate that.
But what
I don't appreciate...
is that ever since then,
you've been all over her.
I see it, Max.
My friends see it.
The entire school
sees it.
Now...
I like Liz, Max.
A lot.
And I don't want you
around her.
Believe me,
I can see that.
[Sobbing, Growling
On TV]
Hey!
Improving your mind, eh?
[TV Continues]
How was your day?
Just got back
from the hospital.
The hospital?
Liz's grandma had a stroke.
Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that.
- They think she's gonna be all right, though.
- That's good.
Give my regards
to the family, will you?
Yeah.
Kyle, is something
bugging you?
No. Just girl troubles.
Nothing you'd understand.
Why don't you try me?
All right.
[Clears Throat]
Let me just
ask you then.
- With you and Mom...
- Mm-hmm.
Back when things were good,
if you can remember that far back...
did you ever feel like you didn't know
what was going on with her?
Like she was just going through
the motions...
like there was something else
on her mind all the time?
Is that what's going on with Liz?
There's something on her mind?
Why am I talking to you about this?
I'm, like, deranged.
Well, what else
is on her mind?
- School stuff?
- No, no. It's just, like...
like someone else...
maybe.
Does this have anything
to do with that Max kid?
What, like,
the entire country knows?
Kyle, listen to me.
I don't want you
getting mixed up with that kid.
What are you talking about?
What do you care about Max Evans?
Kyle, I don't
want you around him.
Do you hear me?
Yeah.
Max. Hey.
Hey.
How's your grandmother?
We're waiting, but I think
she's gonna be okay.
If anybody
can pull through this, it's her.
She's so full of life.
I was thinking
that, um...
when she gets better,
I'd really love for you to meet her.
I hope she's okay.
- So, about last night.
- Yeah, I shouldn't have come.
- You told me.
- No, I'm glad you did.
It really meant a lot
that you were there.
I'm just really sorry
that it got so awkward.
It was a mistake.
I mean, you had
your family there.
And Kyle.
- I know I shouldn't have called...
- Yeah, you shouldn't have, probably.
I mean...
we said we agreed to,
you know.
See you later, Liz.
Ow!
Gandhi feeling frustrated?
Shut up.
Let me guess.
You're in love with a girl...
and she's with another guy.
You realize that you can
be really annoying, right?
I got something else
that's gonna cheer you up.
What's the matter with you?
You forget your combination?
- What the hell are you doing?
- What am I doing?
- What are you doing?
- I'm helping you out.
No, you're not helping me out.
You promised me you wouldn't
do anything to those guys.
I promised I wouldn't
hurt those guys.
You're putting us in danger.
You're the one who put us in danger
when you saved Liz.
- You're the one who screwed up.
- And I would do it again right now.
Let's hope
we can trust her.
We can trust her.
Well, I don't trust
anyone these days.
[Banging]
Liz, how's she doing?
She's okay.
We're just gonna
wait and see.
Come here.
So what are you
doing in school?
I was at the hospital
all night.
My parents just wanted me
to take a break.
My mom said she'd page me
if anything changed.
Well, you know,
you should be home then.
You know, bingeing
on junk food and Rosie.
Maria, I'm getting this
really weird feeling from Max.
What kind of feeling?
It's like he's pulling
away or something.
He can't even be pulling away, because
we're not together to begin with, but...
I feel him, like, avoiding me.
Well, wasn't that
the whole agreement...
that you guys wouldn't
be seen together for a while?
Yeah, but it's different.
I saw Max before,
and he had this, like...
this tone,
like I was this...
like I was this
enemy or something.
Maybe you're just reading
into this too much.
- I mean, with everything that's going on.
- Maybe.
[Bell Ringing]
All right. So I'll just...
I'll see you at work.
Work? No way you're
working tonight, Liz.
No. Stephanie's on vacation,
Karen's pregnant...
and those tooth people
are gonna invade.
I cannot leave you
by yourself.
Liz, you should be
with your family.
I can handle
the Crashdown.
- Are you sure?
- Absolutely.
And besides, I'm not alone.
I have Agnes.
And besides, I'm not alone.
I have Agnes.
- I've been here a half an hour.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Thanks.
- Miss, could I order now, please?
- Yeah, just one second.
- Hi. What can I get for you, sir?
- Let me ask you.
Would you recommend
the Will Smith burger...
over the Tommy LeeJones
bacon basket?
- Miss.!
- That sounds terrific.
Agnes, could you get
that guy's order, please?
So which one
would you recommend?
- The first one.
- The Will Smith?
- Suck a duck.
- Excuse me?
Agnes!
Agnes!
- What are you doing?
- I'm on break.
[Scoffs] Break? You're on a break.
You just had a break.
They'll get their food
when they get their food.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[Mutters]
- [Deep Breaths]
- [Girl Chuckles]
Isabel.
Isabel.
- I'm sorry. Do I know you?
- I have to talk to you.
[Sighs]
I'll meet you guys at the movie.
I thought we agreed that
you would never address me...
until we've established
complete privacy.
I am gonna hate myself for this,
but I need to ask you for a favor...
that will leave me
forever indebted to you.
I am so dead here.
Will you help me wait tables?
[Chuckles]
- You're kidding, right?
- Please.
To put this
as succinctly as possible...
I'm not really
a service-oriented person.
Wait, wait, wait.
Liz's grandmother is in the hospital.
If she doesn't think I can do this, it's just gonna
give her one more thing to worry about.
Please.
It's not for me. It's for Liz.
Well, since
you put it that way, no.
Well, your grandmother
was hiking in Yosemite...
and she came across
this guy who was deer hunting.
And it wasn't
even deer season.
Well, I think it was.
But anyway...
he's hunting inside
the national park.
And it was
off-season too.
- Anyway, she arrested him.
- Who, the hunter?
Yeah. It was him and his brother and,
um, and their buddy, too, right?
- Right.
- Made a citizen's arrest.
You should've seen your grandma. She's
dragging these three gun-wielding...
beer-guzzling hunters
into the sheriff s office.
- It made national news. Am I right?
- She's so incredible.
[Woman On P.A.]
Code blue, I.C.U., room 104.
- Code blue, I.C.U., room 104.
- Oh, my God. That's her.
[Nurse]
All right. Got no pulse, no B.P.
- Paddles ready.
- Charge 200.
- Clear!
- Nothing.
- Charge 300. Clear.
- 300. Go.
- Still nothing.
- Charge 360. Clear.!
- [Paddles Discharging]
- Let's have some lidocaine.
Epi.
[Heart Monitor Beeping]
- She could still come out of it.
- The doctor doesn't think so.
I saw it in his eyes.
I can't believe this.
I mean, you saw her yesterday.
- You know, she was so full of life.
- I know.
I can't believe I went out.
I was out all day.
I wasted all that time
in a video store.
I had all this time that
I could've spent with her, and I left.
What was I thinking?
I know. It's irrational.
I'm being irrational.
Liz, I'm glad
you're being irrational.
I mean, this is hard.
This is really, really hard.
Are you sure you
don't want me to stay?
Yeah. It's fine.
But thank you.
- Okay. I love you.
- I love you too.
[Banging]
- Oh, that's weird.
- What?
Looks like it melted.
No way.
Shut up.
- It's a temporary situation.
- Why are you...
You're covering for Liz,
aren't you?
So, depressed?
Feeling sorry
for yourself?
- Angry at the world?
- All of the above.
Listen, I heard Liz's grandmother
isn't doing so well.
She could probably use
someone to talk to.
She's got Maria.
She's got Kyle.
And who'd she call
when she first found out?
You're the one who's always
telling me I have to stay away from her.
What are you saying, Iz?
I'm just saying that,
you know...
if something like this
happened to Grandma or Grandpa...
I wouldn't want to be kept away
from who I really needed.
So, anyway,
wish me luck.
[Chuckles] Or should I say,
wish the orthodontists luck?
[Man]
Excuse me, ma'am?
"Ma'am"?
Okay, you're not gonna get anywhere
calling me "ma'am."
I ordered this burger
well-done.
Well, not rare. Well.
[Sizzling]
Looks well-done to me.
Isabel Evans?
Cleaning people's remains?
Isabel, image means everything
in this world.
- You know that.
- We base our lives on that.
If you're seen in this capacity,
it's notjust you that suffers.
It brings us all down.
Chill out.
Hi. Can you heat this?
[Bubbling]
- You're a genius.
- [Doorbell Ringing]
Can I talk to you
for a second?
So I've been thinking
about why I called you...
you know, that day
from the hospital.
Because l...
I knew that it was against the rules...
and it led
to that whole...
awkward moment, but...
I called anyway.
Sort of couldn't help it. Because
when something like this happens...
what's... what's happening
to my grandmother...
you don't really listen to logic,
to what you're supposed to do.
You listen to your heart.
And my heart
told me to call you.
Because you were the one person in the
world that I really wanted to talk to.
Max, I've been
thinking something...
and I'm really not gonna be able to get
it out of my head unless I just say it.
I'm really sorry
for asking you this...
but is there...
is there anything
that you could do...
for my grandmother?
You know, do?
Liz, when I saved you,
it was because you were shot...
and there was
a bullet in you.
Something was happening to you
that wasn't supposed to happen.
It was before your time.
But I can't
just heal people.
I'm not...
God.
I know.
So the locker
just melted closed.
How do you explain that? Metal's
gotta be, like, 500 degrees to melt.
Maybe it was that Max guy
getting back at us.
Getting back at us
for what?
We beat the crap
out of the bastard.
What?
You're the one who told us
he was hitting on Liz.
You idiots.
[Woman On P.A.]
Nurse Rush to Pharmacology.
Nurse Rush to Pharmacology.
How's she doing?
She's okay.
Listen, l... I need
to talk to you.
Liz, I'm sorry.
I know you have other things
on your mind right now...
but I just wanted to tell you
I had nothing to do...
with what happened to Max.
What happened to Max?
You know,
Tommy and Paulie... those guys.
They're degenerates, and I had no idea
that they were gonna do that.
- Do what?
- You know, beat him up.
You didn't know?
Why would they do
something like that?
I don't know why.
They just...
were trying to help out.
Help out?
How would that help out?
I told them
it was wrong, Liz.
How could you be friends
with people that would do that?
- Come on, Liz. They're good guys.
- No, Kyle.
They're not good guys.
- Why are you getting like this?
- Like what?
I'm tryin' to explain something to you,
and you're letting it get out of hand.
You must've said something
to them about Max.
They must've had... They must've
had a reason to do what they did.
Why are you
so damn worried about Max?
Because he got attacked
for no reason.
He is the last person
in the world...
who would ever want
to hurt anyone.
So you are, aren't you?
You and Max are together.
No, we're not.
- Neither are we.
- What?
Kyle, I just...
I really don't think that
we should be together anymore.
So you're gonna break up with me
because my friends knocked Max around.
No.
It's complicated.
It's because of Max.
- No. I told you that Max...
- Listen, Max is trouble.
My dad's got an eye on him.
I have to go
and see my grandmother.
I'm sorry, Kyle.
Okay.
Mom? Dad?
Hi, guys. Here.
I got you coffee.
- Thank you, baby.
- Got it? Here.
Why don't you guys just go outside
and get some air?
You sure?
Yeah.
I'll be fine, okay?
[Monitor Beeping]
Grandma.
Grandma.
[Max]
Hey.
I can't stop, you know,
what's gonna happen.
But maybe I can
help you say good-bye.
[Heart Beating]
[Breathing Heavily]
[Beeping Continues]
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
[Claudia]
Honey Bear.
Let me guess. Max.
Grandma, I guess the thing
that I really wanted to say to you...
more than anything else was...
just how much you mean to me.
And somehow you just
always managed...
to make me feel
really special.
And l...
I just don't know
what I'm gonna do without you.
You're gonna do
just fine.
And I want
to tell you something.
When I look at you,
so excited about life...
I can see myself.
And that's a gift...
a gift I'll take with me
that I'll always treasure.
Promise me one thing...
that you'll
follow your heart...
wherever it takes you.
Trust it.
Will you do that?
I will.
[Sustained Beep]
[Liz Narrating] The tough thing
about following your heart...
is what people
forget to mention...
that sometimes your heart
takes you to places you shouldn't be...
places that are as scary
as they are exciting...
and as dangerous
as they are alluring.
And sometimes your heart
takes you to places...
that can never lead
to a happy ending.
Max, thank you for...
It's okay.
- Good night.
- Night.
[Liz Narrating]
And that's not even the difficult part.
The difficult part is
when you follow your heart...
you leave normal...
you go into the unknown.
And once you do,
you can never go back.
- Liz!
There's a bullet hole
in the dress.
I'm telling you.
The girl was shot.
Thank you, Sheriff. Your work
is done now. We'll take it from here.
Where are you from?
Up north.
You can't talk to anyone
about this.
- Oh, my God. You told her.
- What do you make of that mark?
So with this picture,
what we're saying is there's more of us?
- Kyle Valenti headed this way.
- Like, in this general direction or, like, towards me?
- Liz!
- Kyle!
- What's going on?
- Nothing.
- We're just...
- Different.
[Thinking]
It's October 19th.
I'm Liz Parker, and this
is what I've been thinking.
Can life ever
go back to normal?
- It's, like, crazy.
- Orthodontists' convention.
Why would orthodontists
want to convene in Roswell?
- That's a good question.
- Listen, Jose.
If table three doesn't get fed soon,
they're gonna attack.
- Busy, ladies. Very busy.
- Oh, my God. I forgot to tell you.
Grandma Claudia's
coming on Friday.
I have been going through grandma
withdrawals. I love Grandma Claudia.
I know. She's the basis
of my existence.
- Table six.
- Oh. Great. Thank you.
Jose, what about me?
- Here she is.
- Okay, gentlemen.
I've got one Venus meat loaf platter.
There you go.
Two Trekkie specials.
Enjoy your dinner.
- Your space fries will be right out.
- Miss?
My colleagues and I were just
appreciating your wonderful overbite.
Oh. Well, thank you.
That's... That's
a first, actually.
Would you mind if we just...
take a look at your bite?
For medical purposes.
Sure.
[Liz Narrating]
Part of me wants safety...
wants to go back
to how things were...
to a life that I could predict,
where I know what is gonna be.
And the other part of me
wants to go somewhere else...
into the unknown.
Magnificent.
Enjoy your dinner,
gentlemen.
- It's an orthodontists' convention.
- Apparently.
So, um, are you
waiting for Michael or...
No. No.
[Clears Throat]
I'll just have, uh,
an Alien Blast.
- Me too.
- Excuse me?
Nothing. Okay. Um,
one Alien Blast.
He's the guy.
What's going on, guys?
- Evans, right?
- Yeah.
- Stay away from her.
- Who?
#[Rock]
#[Continues]
#[Ends]
It was those jocks
from the football team, right?
Kyle and his friends?
Kyle wasn't there.
I've seen them
giving you those looks.
- It was them, wasn't it?
- It doesn't matter who it was.
- I'm gonna kill them.
- Michael, no.
So what are we gonna do?
Nothing.
What do you mean,
we're gonna do nothing?
Michael, listen to me.
This is bad.
Kyle does something to us.
We do something back to him.
This kind of thing
gets all over school, all over town.
Rumors start flying.
The whole thing about what I
did to Liz starts coming up again.
- We get exposed.
- That's exactly what I'm saying.
We go, and we shut
those guys up right now.
Michael, we have to stick together
now more than ever before.
We have to go back into our shells.
You can't do anything to those guys.
I have to stay away from Liz.
[Bell Ringing]
- Hey.
- Hey.
So, catching up on
upcoming athletic events?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
It couldn't be that Max
has P.E. Fourth period...
and you're conveniently
positioning yourself...
- to just happen to run into him?
- [Bell Ringing]
- Good-bye.
- Bye. [Chuckles]
- Hey, Max.
- Hey.
- What happened to your face?
- I fell.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
When did it happen?
It looks really bad.
Yesterday.
Look, I gotta get going.
I have
an English midterm.
Okay. Right.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Liz, hey.
- Hey.
So, tonight's
movie night, right?
- Yes.
- Video store at 6:00?
- Sounds great.
- All right. Okay. See ya.
[Chattering]
Hey, watch
where you're going.
Dude, I'm sorry.
#[Man Singing]
#[Ends]
#[Rock Ballad, Indistinct]
- Grandma! Hi!
- Honey Bear.!
[Chuckling]
Oh!
- Hello, Jeffrey.
- Mom.
Oh, you're still
listening to them.
- You're dating yourself.
- Well, you know, some things defy time.
- Oh, look at you.
- What?
Last year when I left,
you were a child.
Now I come back
to find a beautiful, young woman.
Grandma. Let me help you
upstairs with your stuff.
Oh, Jeffrey'll get it,
won't you, dear?
I thought you weren't
supposed to be here till Friday.
Tell me what's going on. Did you finish
the book you were working on?
Oh, book schmook.
Let's dish.
- Hey, Claudia.
- Oh, Nancy.
Oh, it's so good
to see you.
Come with us.
We're going upstairs to catch up.
- Really? Should I?
- Yeah. Definitely. Come on, Mom.
I don't think so.
I have a lot of laundry to do, so...
We'll be back just as soon
as Liz has told me...
about all the boys who are
head over heels in love with her.
Don't waste your time, because
she never talks about that stuff.
[Chuckles]
So, in any case,
Kyle's not somebody...
that I'm gonna marry
or anything, but it's...
You know, we have
a good time together.
It's good. What?
Well, not every relationship
has to be the be-all and end-all.
Right.
- It doesn't?
- No.
Everybody wants
to find her soul mate...
but there's
so much time for that.
I think it's nice that you have somebody
you can have fun with.
What if there
was something else?
"Something else."
Someone... else.
Now, this is worth
the price of the airfare.
What if this someone else
could potentially be...
you know, what you said?
Is there?
[Sighs]
But what if it were,
like, complicated...
like, incredibly,
incredibly complicated?
One thing I can tell you.
If it isn't complicated...
he probably isn't a soul mate.
- Grandma!
- Oh! Maria! Look at you!
Another beauty! Oh!
God help this poor little town
with you two running around!
- Okay, I love this woman.
- Maria, look at this.
It's an article
on the first findings...
of the Navajo Indians
in hundreds of years.
Look. Lost Treasures,
by Claudia Parker.
It's gonna be in
The American Journal of Archaeology.
That is so cool. Okay. All right.
So, let's talk about me.
The hair thing.
Does it work for you?
I kind of see it as like a Meg Ryan
style after an electric storm.
- I think... it's you.
- She's good.
- So, what were you guys talking about?
- Nothing.
- Boys.
- Oh, Kyle or Max?
- Thank you.
- Aha, Max!
No. Max...
he's so not possible.
He's just like
this whole different...
- Life-form?
- Type.
- How intriguing. A dangerous man.
- Spacey man.
- A mystery man.
- Okay. You two?
- You're out of control.
- [Chuckling]
So, what are we
doing tonight?
Tonight.
Whatcha doing?
Oh, some kid
pulled these out.
Great job you found, Max.
Real dignified.
Gotta feed the monkey.
Seventeen people at school
already told me about your face.
Oh, my God.
What happened?
Uh, Michael and I
were just...
He told me the story about you falling on the
basketball court. What really happened, Max?
Some guys roughed me up
last night.
Why?
They're friends
of Kyle's.
I think Kyle must be upset
about me and Liz.
You were just gonna tell me some story,
like I can't handle the truth?
I guess I knew how upset you'd be,
and I don't want you to get mad.
We have to stay inside now.
We have to be careful.
Max, this whole thing with Liz
and the sheriff s son...
I know.
I'm staying away from Liz.
Pretty raw.
Why don't you just get rid of them?
Because they have to
heal normal.
Everything has to be normal.
I can't believe
you actually rented this.
This looks like
the worst movie in history.
Well, for your information,
Massacre at Sunset Village...
is a modern-day classic.
The serial killer hones in
on this retirement community...
so it's got something
for your grandmother.
I am not showing this
to my grandmother.
Twenty minutes of Wings of Boringness,
we'll all be ready for some action.
[Sirens Wailing]
- [Indistinct]
- [Woman On Radio, Indistinct]
- What've we got?
- Patient complained of weakness in her left side.
Then her family members noticed slurred
speech before she lost consciousness.
B.P. 160, pulse 100,
respiration's 20.
Give me an E.K.G.,
smack seven, and keep them out of here.
- I'm sorry. I need to have you wait.
- That's my mother!
- I understand that, but I need you to wait out here.
- Get ready to scan her.
Drop a P.T. And a P.T.T.
And hold an extra red top.
We also need a portable
chest X ray.
I'm gonna go...
I'll be right back.
[Line Ringing]
[Machine] Hi. It's Max.
I'm not here right now...
- but please leave a message.
- [Beeps]
Hi, Max.
It's Liz. Um...
I'm at the hospital.
Something happened
to my grandmother.
We don't know
if it's serious, but...
it seems really bad, and...
I'm just scared.
Look, I don't even know
why I'm calling you.
I guess I just wanted
to hear your voice or something.
Um...
Now I just feel
completely stupid.
Look, you... Don't come here
or anything, 'cause everybody's here.
I'll see you at school tomorrow.
Sorry for the weird call.
Bye.
[Dial Tone]
[Woman On P.A., Indistinct]
Dr. Sanchez.
- Jeff, hi. Nancy.
- Thank you for coming.
- We're so glad you were able to be here.
- Of course.
- How is she?
- Jeff, your mother's had a stroke.
This is serious, but she's been
responding very well.
Her vital signs are good.
She's stabilized.
Is she gonna be okay?
A lot of people fully recover
from a stroke like this.
But it's early.
We're going to need time...
before we can determine
what the repercussions are.
- Thank you.
- We have reason to be positive here, okay?
Thanks.
Max.
Hey.
My grandmother
just had a stroke.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
How are you doing?
You okay?
Yeah. Thanks.
- Everyone, this is Max.
- Hi there.
Hi.
So, what are you
doing here?
My cousin got into
a car accident.
I'm sorry.
I don't think it's serious.
I better go find out
how he's doing.
[Siren Beeps]
So how's your cousin?
He's gonna be okay.
Your cousin wasn't
in an accident, was he?
- It was a mistake.
- [Sighs]
Max, I know that
something happened...
between you and Liz
the day of the shooting...
that you helped her out
or whatever.
She was shaken up, and you calmed
her down, and I appreciate that.
But what
I don't appreciate...
is that ever since then,
you've been all over her.
I see it, Max.
My friends see it.
The entire school
sees it.
Now...
I like Liz, Max.
A lot.
And I don't want you
around her.
Believe me,
I can see that.
[Sobbing, Growling
On TV]
Hey!
Improving your mind, eh?
[TV Continues]
How was your day?
Just got back
from the hospital.
The hospital?
Liz's grandma had a stroke.
Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that.
- They think she's gonna be all right, though.
- That's good.
Give my regards
to the family, will you?
Yeah.
Kyle, is something
bugging you?
No. Just girl troubles.
Nothing you'd understand.
Why don't you try me?
All right.
[Clears Throat]
Let me just
ask you then.
- With you and Mom...
- Mm-hmm.
Back when things were good,
if you can remember that far back...
did you ever feel like you didn't know
what was going on with her?
Like she was just going through
the motions...
like there was something else
on her mind all the time?
Is that what's going on with Liz?
There's something on her mind?
Why am I talking to you about this?
I'm, like, deranged.
Well, what else
is on her mind?
- School stuff?
- No, no. It's just, like...
like someone else...
maybe.
Does this have anything
to do with that Max kid?
What, like,
the entire country knows?
Kyle, listen to me.
I don't want you
getting mixed up with that kid.
What are you talking about?
What do you care about Max Evans?
Kyle, I don't
want you around him.
Do you hear me?
Yeah.
Max. Hey.
Hey.
How's your grandmother?
We're waiting, but I think
she's gonna be okay.
If anybody
can pull through this, it's her.
She's so full of life.
I was thinking
that, um...
when she gets better,
I'd really love for you to meet her.
I hope she's okay.
- So, about last night.
- Yeah, I shouldn't have come.
- You told me.
- No, I'm glad you did.
It really meant a lot
that you were there.
I'm just really sorry
that it got so awkward.
It was a mistake.
I mean, you had
your family there.
And Kyle.
- I know I shouldn't have called...
- Yeah, you shouldn't have, probably.
I mean...
we said we agreed to,
you know.
See you later, Liz.
Ow!
Gandhi feeling frustrated?
Shut up.
Let me guess.
You're in love with a girl...
and she's with another guy.
You realize that you can
be really annoying, right?
I got something else
that's gonna cheer you up.
What's the matter with you?
You forget your combination?
- What the hell are you doing?
- What am I doing?
- What are you doing?
- I'm helping you out.
No, you're not helping me out.
You promised me you wouldn't
do anything to those guys.
I promised I wouldn't
hurt those guys.
You're putting us in danger.
You're the one who put us in danger
when you saved Liz.
- You're the one who screwed up.
- And I would do it again right now.
Let's hope
we can trust her.
We can trust her.
Well, I don't trust
anyone these days.
[Banging]
Liz, how's she doing?
She's okay.
We're just gonna
wait and see.
Come here.
So what are you
doing in school?
I was at the hospital
all night.
My parents just wanted me
to take a break.
My mom said she'd page me
if anything changed.
Well, you know,
you should be home then.
You know, bingeing
on junk food and Rosie.
Maria, I'm getting this
really weird feeling from Max.
What kind of feeling?
It's like he's pulling
away or something.
He can't even be pulling away, because
we're not together to begin with, but...
I feel him, like, avoiding me.
Well, wasn't that
the whole agreement...
that you guys wouldn't
be seen together for a while?
Yeah, but it's different.
I saw Max before,
and he had this, like...
this tone,
like I was this...
like I was this
enemy or something.
Maybe you're just reading
into this too much.
- I mean, with everything that's going on.
- Maybe.
[Bell Ringing]
All right. So I'll just...
I'll see you at work.
Work? No way you're
working tonight, Liz.
No. Stephanie's on vacation,
Karen's pregnant...
and those tooth people
are gonna invade.
I cannot leave you
by yourself.
Liz, you should be
with your family.
I can handle
the Crashdown.
- Are you sure?
- Absolutely.
And besides, I'm not alone.
I have Agnes.
And besides, I'm not alone.
I have Agnes.
- I've been here a half an hour.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Enjoy your meal.
- Thanks.
- Miss, could I order now, please?
- Yeah, just one second.
- Hi. What can I get for you, sir?
- Let me ask you.
Would you recommend
the Will Smith burger...
over the Tommy LeeJones
bacon basket?
- Miss.!
- That sounds terrific.
Agnes, could you get
that guy's order, please?
So which one
would you recommend?
- The first one.
- The Will Smith?
- Suck a duck.
- Excuse me?
Agnes!
Agnes!
- What are you doing?
- I'm on break.
[Scoffs] Break? You're on a break.
You just had a break.
They'll get their food
when they get their food.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[Mutters]
- [Deep Breaths]
- [Girl Chuckles]
Isabel.
Isabel.
- I'm sorry. Do I know you?
- I have to talk to you.
[Sighs]
I'll meet you guys at the movie.
I thought we agreed that
you would never address me...
until we've established
complete privacy.
I am gonna hate myself for this,
but I need to ask you for a favor...
that will leave me
forever indebted to you.
I am so dead here.
Will you help me wait tables?
[Chuckles]
- You're kidding, right?
- Please.
To put this
as succinctly as possible...
I'm not really
a service-oriented person.
Wait, wait, wait.
Liz's grandmother is in the hospital.
If she doesn't think I can do this, it's just gonna
give her one more thing to worry about.
Please.
It's not for me. It's for Liz.
Well, since
you put it that way, no.
Well, your grandmother
was hiking in Yosemite...
and she came across
this guy who was deer hunting.
And it wasn't
even deer season.
Well, I think it was.
But anyway...
he's hunting inside
the national park.
And it was
off-season too.
- Anyway, she arrested him.
- Who, the hunter?
Yeah. It was him and his brother and,
um, and their buddy, too, right?
- Right.
- Made a citizen's arrest.
You should've seen your grandma. She's
dragging these three gun-wielding...
beer-guzzling hunters
into the sheriff s office.
- It made national news. Am I right?
- She's so incredible.
[Woman On P.A.]
Code blue, I.C.U., room 104.
- Code blue, I.C.U., room 104.
- Oh, my God. That's her.
[Nurse]
All right. Got no pulse, no B.P.
- Paddles ready.
- Charge 200.
- Clear!
- Nothing.
- Charge 300. Clear.
- 300. Go.
- Still nothing.
- Charge 360. Clear.!
- [Paddles Discharging]
- Let's have some lidocaine.
Epi.
[Heart Monitor Beeping]
- She could still come out of it.
- The doctor doesn't think so.
I saw it in his eyes.
I can't believe this.
I mean, you saw her yesterday.
- You know, she was so full of life.
- I know.
I can't believe I went out.
I was out all day.
I wasted all that time
in a video store.
I had all this time that
I could've spent with her, and I left.
What was I thinking?
I know. It's irrational.
I'm being irrational.
Liz, I'm glad
you're being irrational.
I mean, this is hard.
This is really, really hard.
Are you sure you
don't want me to stay?
Yeah. It's fine.
But thank you.
- Okay. I love you.
- I love you too.
[Banging]
- Oh, that's weird.
- What?
Looks like it melted.
No way.
Shut up.
- It's a temporary situation.
- Why are you...
You're covering for Liz,
aren't you?
So, depressed?
Feeling sorry
for yourself?
- Angry at the world?
- All of the above.
Listen, I heard Liz's grandmother
isn't doing so well.
She could probably use
someone to talk to.
She's got Maria.
She's got Kyle.
And who'd she call
when she first found out?
You're the one who's always
telling me I have to stay away from her.
What are you saying, Iz?
I'm just saying that,
you know...
if something like this
happened to Grandma or Grandpa...
I wouldn't want to be kept away
from who I really needed.
So, anyway,
wish me luck.
[Chuckles] Or should I say,
wish the orthodontists luck?
[Man]
Excuse me, ma'am?
"Ma'am"?
Okay, you're not gonna get anywhere
calling me "ma'am."
I ordered this burger
well-done.
Well, not rare. Well.
[Sizzling]
Looks well-done to me.
Isabel Evans?
Cleaning people's remains?
Isabel, image means everything
in this world.
- You know that.
- We base our lives on that.
If you're seen in this capacity,
it's notjust you that suffers.
It brings us all down.
Chill out.
Hi. Can you heat this?
[Bubbling]
- You're a genius.
- [Doorbell Ringing]
Can I talk to you
for a second?
So I've been thinking
about why I called you...
you know, that day
from the hospital.
Because l...
I knew that it was against the rules...
and it led
to that whole...
awkward moment, but...
I called anyway.
Sort of couldn't help it. Because
when something like this happens...
what's... what's happening
to my grandmother...
you don't really listen to logic,
to what you're supposed to do.
You listen to your heart.
And my heart
told me to call you.
Because you were the one person in the
world that I really wanted to talk to.
Max, I've been
thinking something...
and I'm really not gonna be able to get
it out of my head unless I just say it.
I'm really sorry
for asking you this...
but is there...
is there anything
that you could do...
for my grandmother?
You know, do?
Liz, when I saved you,
it was because you were shot...
and there was
a bullet in you.
Something was happening to you
that wasn't supposed to happen.
It was before your time.
But I can't
just heal people.
I'm not...
God.
I know.
So the locker
just melted closed.
How do you explain that? Metal's
gotta be, like, 500 degrees to melt.
Maybe it was that Max guy
getting back at us.
Getting back at us
for what?
We beat the crap
out of the bastard.
What?
You're the one who told us
he was hitting on Liz.
You idiots.
[Woman On P.A.]
Nurse Rush to Pharmacology.
Nurse Rush to Pharmacology.
How's she doing?
She's okay.
Listen, l... I need
to talk to you.
Liz, I'm sorry.
I know you have other things
on your mind right now...
but I just wanted to tell you
I had nothing to do...
with what happened to Max.
What happened to Max?
You know,
Tommy and Paulie... those guys.
They're degenerates, and I had no idea
that they were gonna do that.
- Do what?
- You know, beat him up.
You didn't know?
Why would they do
something like that?
I don't know why.
They just...
were trying to help out.
Help out?
How would that help out?
I told them
it was wrong, Liz.
How could you be friends
with people that would do that?
- Come on, Liz. They're good guys.
- No, Kyle.
They're not good guys.
- Why are you getting like this?
- Like what?
I'm tryin' to explain something to you,
and you're letting it get out of hand.
You must've said something
to them about Max.
They must've had... They must've
had a reason to do what they did.
Why are you
so damn worried about Max?
Because he got attacked
for no reason.
He is the last person
in the world...
who would ever want
to hurt anyone.
So you are, aren't you?
You and Max are together.
No, we're not.
- Neither are we.
- What?
Kyle, I just...
I really don't think that
we should be together anymore.
So you're gonna break up with me
because my friends knocked Max around.
No.
It's complicated.
It's because of Max.
- No. I told you that Max...
- Listen, Max is trouble.
My dad's got an eye on him.
I have to go
and see my grandmother.
I'm sorry, Kyle.
Okay.
Mom? Dad?
Hi, guys. Here.
I got you coffee.
- Thank you, baby.
- Got it? Here.
Why don't you guys just go outside
and get some air?
You sure?
Yeah.
I'll be fine, okay?
[Monitor Beeping]
Grandma.
Grandma.
[Max]
Hey.
I can't stop, you know,
what's gonna happen.
But maybe I can
help you say good-bye.
[Heart Beating]
[Breathing Heavily]
[Beeping Continues]
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
[Claudia]
Honey Bear.
Let me guess. Max.
Grandma, I guess the thing
that I really wanted to say to you...
more than anything else was...
just how much you mean to me.
And somehow you just
always managed...
to make me feel
really special.
And l...
I just don't know
what I'm gonna do without you.
You're gonna do
just fine.
And I want
to tell you something.
When I look at you,
so excited about life...
I can see myself.
And that's a gift...
a gift I'll take with me
that I'll always treasure.
Promise me one thing...
that you'll
follow your heart...
wherever it takes you.
Trust it.
Will you do that?
I will.
[Sustained Beep]
[Liz Narrating] The tough thing
about following your heart...
is what people
forget to mention...
that sometimes your heart
takes you to places you shouldn't be...
places that are as scary
as they are exciting...
and as dangerous
as they are alluring.
And sometimes your heart
takes you to places...
that can never lead
to a happy ending.
Max, thank you for...
It's okay.
- Good night.
- Night.
[Liz Narrating]
And that's not even the difficult part.
The difficult part is
when you follow your heart...
you leave normal...
you go into the unknown.
And once you do,
you can never go back.