Roswell, New Mexico (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 5 - I'll Stand by You - full transcript

Previously on
Roswell, New Mexico...

Max's heart is never
beating again. He died

of a massive heart attack.
The organ is shredded.

KYLE: Liz thinks we
could do a heart transplant.

ALEX:
She wants to use Noah's heart?

MICHAEL: The pod keeps
us in stasis by regenerating

our cells at the same rate
they degrade.

This current will speed up
the regeneration

so Max will actually
improve in there.

(electricity sparking)

YOUNG MAX:
He's out here.



Don't you feel it?
I feel

like you owe me both those
grape sodas you brought.

There he is.

Leave me alone.

Get out of here.
Y-You don't remember us?

I remember you.
I don't know you.

I-I've been looking for you.
We didn't know your name.

Michael Guerin. After nobody
adopted me for a year,

they just stuck me with the name
of that trucker who found us.

But all you got to know about me

is I want to be left
the hell alone!

That's why I'm all
the way out here,

because I want to be alone!

Okay. W-We'll leave
you alone, okay?



If that's what you want.

(exhales)

But if you change your mind,

there's this diner,
the Crashdown.

I'll be there every day.

Okay?

In case you want a burger
or something.

Hey!

I didn't ask for that!

I didn't ask you for anything!

The hell is this?

When I'm finished, it's going
to be a rebuilt classic.

Relax, Sanders.

I'm just fixing it up for
a buddy who's on his way home.

You're meant to be working
on Riley's tractor.

Riley picked up the tractor
this morning.

Money's in the till.

You're doing this as a favor?

I'm repaying an old debt.

Don't pay more
than you collect, kid.

Passing credit back and forth

is a good way to get stuck
with somebody forever.

♪ Just living
on a Sunday morning... ♪

LIZ:
Papi

is finally asleep.
(laughs softly)

Clutching his rosary but asleep.

I can't believe we're
all under the same roof.

We're a family again.

Yeah. I've been thinking.

I think you should
move into Max's place.

You can, you can get it ready
for his return,

and do the whole
domestic bliss... thing.

I'm so sorry. Who are you and
what happened to "how could you"

forgive the bastion
of white male privilege?"

♪ Here and now... ♪

(gasps)

(whispers):
You want your own room.

I need...
I deserve my own room, Liz.

Oh, and Max is getting
stronger in there,

but it is still
going to be months

before we can
actually attempt this surgery.

I should be here.

What if your dreams come back?

I have not had
any freaky dreams in weeks.

Okay, Max is probably
off haunting Isobel,

now that they're strong enough
for their...

psychic twincest weirdness.

(static crackling)

How long has that
been happening?

Um, I don't know.
It's an old boom box.

Rosa,

have electrical appliances
been malfunctioning around you?

I really thought it was just
a side effect of the handprint.

If-if being in the pod

introduced a new protein
into your system,

it could have altered
your DNA, too.

You could be
developing abilities.

Liz.

Look, the handprint is changing.
It's smaller.

It's fading.

Tell me this is a good thing.

I don't think so.

MICHAEL: The pod's got a
charge. It's like a, it's like a battery,

powering the
preservation process.

This one's gone dead.

Did the generator blow
the electromagnetic threshold?

I think a surge came
from the pod itself.

But that pod has lasted
almost a century.

It shouldn't glitch out.
Okay, well, then, this one did.

All right, stop.

It doesn't matter why
the pod is broken. It just is.

So how long does Max have?
My theory is

that being tethered to Rosa
through the mark

is what kept Max
from going brain-dead,

and in turn the stasis process

is what kept the mark
from fading.

So he could be gone by tonight.

Okay, well,
we have three more pods.

So let's just put him
into another pod.

ROSA:
No.

He's just gonna do it again.

I haven't told you everything.

I didn't want to scare
you, I didn't want

to be the one that
took the hope away.

Talk now, Rosa. Right now.

I was seeing Max
in my nightmares

months before I told
you about it, and he was

begging me to stop you.

He said that he was in
a lot of pain in there.

That's Noah's pod.
Noah told us it was broken.

It wasn't keeping him in stasis,
he could feel time passing.

None of us thought of that.

We've been doing everything
we can to make Max stronger.

He pulled his own plug.

(knocking on door)

You've been avoiding me.

Well, I learned you
and all of our friends

have been lying to me

about aliens and murders
and resurrection,

so, haven't been feeling
particularly social.

That being said,
I fell for your ex,

so I've decided, even though

I'm still not speaking to them,
you and I are even?

That's fair.

(laughs softly)

What's up?

Can't remember the password.

And you want me to use my NSA
intelligence cryptology training

to hack into your laptop?

(chuckles)

How does any straight man
survive you?

(laughs)
They don't.

How did you get here so fast?

You called, I broke the speed
limit. What else is new?

You ran a scan on Noah's heart?

It's still too weak
to transplant.

We can't do anything to save
Max for at least eight weeks.

Right.

I knew that. Of course.

Do you think it's true
that he's been in pain?

Rosa's story keeps changing.
I...

I wrote a paper for a
bioethics class on patients

in vegetative states
who feel pain.

Sometimes it's all they feel.

That can't be it.
Our experiment was working.

This is not over.

No, you didn't fail.
I mean, that heart

was beyond repair,
and now it's healing.

In a few months, i-it'll be
viable again. That's insane.

You are the smartest person
I know,

but your genius pales
compared to your compassion.

And that's what
we're up against now.

We can't outsmart
our own humanity.

Okay, so what am I supposed to?

Sit around and wait
for him to fade away?

I think you're supposed to use
this time to find a way

to say goodbye that gives you

the best chance
at living through it.

Decision's gonna fall on you.

I know, it's not fair.

But Max is your person.

(whispers):
Wow.

There it is.

There what is?
(chuckles)

You know, our whole lives,
you've kept your distance.

And you've always insisted
that you're an outsider.

And I never got that,

because for me and Max,
you were family.

You always were.

On the worst day, you
get to say, "Nope, no",

person,"

pretend like he hasn't
been ours all along.

I see that now.

You got me.

My abandonment issues
have all been a long con

in case
your half-resurrected brother

decides to short-circuit
his stasis pod.

What are we gonna do, Isobel?

I was pregnant

when Noah died.

I had, um, I had
a touch choice to make.

And I did it by imagining
that Max was there.

Not just the platitudes and...
but the really tough questions.

I'd have been there.

I know.

But it was a decision that
I had to make on my own.

I mean, it was,
it was terrifying,

but I knew what
was right for me.

So I think you're wrong
about this decision.

What happens to Max
is not my choice.

It's not yours.

It doesn't matter
how much we love him.

If Rosa's right,

then Max has already
made his own decision,

to end his suffering.

(sniffles)

Max is gonna die today.

Yeah.

I think he is.

♪ ♪

Is the handprint still there?

It's smaller, but, yeah,
it's, it's still there.

L-Liz, I'm really, really sorry
that I never told you

what Max was asking me to do.
I...

I dreamed about you all the time
after you died.

It hurt at first, waking up and
remembering you were still gone.

But then, eventually, I started
to hope I'd dream of you.

They felt like little visits.

I never dream of Max.

I mean, he can reach out to you,

he can feel Isobel,
I don't even get a dream.

You really wouldn't
want to see him

messed up the way he is
in my nightmares.

It was that bad?

Did he ever talk about me?

He loved you so much.

Are you kidding? I'm here
because he loved you.

I don't know how I'm gonna live

with letting him go.

I never even told him
I love him, too.

How come you're not mad at me?

For Michael?

(sighs)

The mess between us
will never be your fault.

And plus, you didn't know
my history with him

until after you hooked up.

That's my fault.
I should have told you.

No, when I found out,
I should have stopped.

Yeah, okay, you should have,
but you couldn't.

How could I be mad at you
for falling for Michael Guerin?

It's the easiest thing
in the world.

(scoffs) Yeah, until it's not.

Don't write him off yet, okay?

He keeps secrets because of how
much he loves Max and Isobel,

not because of how much
he loves you.

You told me once that you would
stay in Roswell forever

if the guy from the museum
would just

keep kissing you,
but you did leave.

What happened?

That summer,
Guerin stopped being that guy.

♪ Well, this heart of mine ♪

♪ Has been hardened
like a stone... ♪

Ah!

(groans)
I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.
It's okay, I'm fine.

I'm fine.
That is not healing right.

You need to get it looked at.

I'm fine.

I just forgot about it
for a second.

Because for a second

I forgot about
everything except you.

(chuckles)

♪ Well, I heard the news... ♪

I can't be your medicine.

What?

You've changed since my dad
found us that night.

You're starting
fights with jocks.

I know that you broke into
the drugstore last week.

Now you're not going to UNM?

That's a money thing.

You got a scholarship.

Look, I like doing this
with you,

but not if it's just so that you
can forget about something else,

like how you and Max haven't
hung out at all this summer.

Are you in love with Max?

Are you serious?
Hey.

You can tell me, okay?

You guys were close,
like, really close.

Not like that.
It's more than that,

and it's-it's,
it's less than that.

We were friends when
we were kids, but now

Max reminds me of a bunch
of stuff that I'd rather forget.

The only thing that we have
in common anymore is Isobel.

And before you ask,

yeah... I'm totally
in love with Isobel.

(chuckles)

I want to be with you,

but not if you're
wasting your life.

You know?

♪ Well, baby,
love don't live here. ♪

(clears throat)
I begged him to get it together,

then he got busted for stealing
hubcaps, something like that.

He was pushing you away.

He does that. He hurts people
to see if they let him go.

Made out with Lindsey
right in front of me.

Yeah, well,
I didn't need much pushing.

He had become this
walking bar fight,

and I just could not deal.

Hey. You grew up
in an abusive home.

It makes sense
that you didn't want

to be around all that anger.

Yeah, and then the irony
of enlisting to escape violence.

He was locked up
the day that I left.

I didn't get to say goodbye.

Last year,

a bullet tore my heart open,
and you put it back together.

So... when your heart
needed repair,

I believed I could fix it, too.

(sighs) I can't...

No, no.

(door opens)

(laughing):
Oh, my God.

Biology club.

Max hated science.

He was in that club
for four years

just to watch your sister
chew on the end of her pencil.

I was just grabbing
the last of my stuff.

I'm gonna head out soon.
No, no, I'm here for you.

I need to talk to Max.
What?

I need to make sure that
it's him in your dreams,

and not just some freaky
drug addict nightmare

that you're having, no offense.

Okay, you know you can't
just say "no offense"

after you say
something offensive.

Okay.

Right now there's no time
for my stunning personality.

That handprint on your chest

gives you direct access
to Max's brain waves.

I need to use that channel
to get through to him,

so if I mind-meld you, and then

you find Max, the three of us
can have a three-way.

Conference call.

Look, I only see him

when I'm asleep.

Like I said, no time.

Ooh, I'll beg forgiveness later.

(high-pitched ringing)

You hit me with a thesaurus?

(thunder rumbling)

Easy,
girl. I know how to choke a bitch.

Stop it.
Quit it.

Isobel!

Do all of your nightmares
look like this?

I mean, they were all
creepy and dark, but...

not like this.

Not broken.

Max!

(thunder rumbling)

Max!

(distorted music playing)

I think the music
is coming from that way.

Come on.

(engine not turning over)

(sighs) Come on.

♪ ♪

We shouldn't come here anymore.

I want to check
on Mr. Ortecho.

In case something bad
happens to him?

I think we should tell Isobel
I did it.

It's not fair
that she thinks it was you.

She'd never believe you.

If you take credit
for a triple murder,

the person who knows you best
is gonna ask questions.

I'm the hothead,

you are the hero.
It's always been that way.

Just embrace it.

Yeah, well, someone has
to clean up your messes.

You stole the hubcaps off Kyle
Valenti's graduation present.

Both his parents are cops.

Do you want to end up
in jail tonight?

Is that it?
Where'd you get the bail money?

Huh? Tutoring?

(mocking laugh) I'm
gonna pay you back Friday.

I got a gig lined up
at Foster ranch for the summer.

Yeah, I know.

How?

Dad said they were hiring.
I didn't want the job, but

I know you love the place.

I didn't ask for that, Max.

I never asked for you.

(screaming)

Michael! Hey!

You okay?
No!

I can't commiserate
with you right now.

I don't want to sit around
and-and... Feeling feelings?

Yeah, me neither, okay?

We're doing
the transplant tonight.

Noah's heart might only keep Max
alive a few minutes.

You're gonna put him
through surgery for that?

He can either fade away in
a cave, trapped in his own hell,

or he can spend his last moments
knowing how loved he was.

You and Valenti,
you need me for the surgery?

No, but you should be there
when he wakes up.

Pretty sure Max has heard enough
out of me for one lifetime.

When I got back to town,
I asked Max

why you and your brilliant mind
hadn't changed the world yet.

He said you didn't care
about the world enough

to bother changing it.

He believed you could.

Good luck getting
his car up and running.

(distorted music playing)

Hello?

ROSA:
This is the Crashdown,

at least what's left of it
in his mind.

(music stops)

Max!

You're okay.

I could feel something was wrong
with you. Everything felt...

Cold. I know.

(thunder rumbles)

You can't be here.

It's finally ending.
I-I can feel it.

But I don't know
what-what happens

if you're in my head when I die.

So it's true?

You want this?

I could feel my connection

to the outside world
getting stronger,

so I-I snapped.

I couldn't take it anymore.
I released a surge.

You have to let me go, Iz.

Are you in?

Did I just commit a felony?

It's my mom's computer.

Her nurse said that for the two
weeks before she went missing,

when she wasn't
trying to escape,

she was talking
to someone online.

They let her have Internet?

Well, she's a patient,
not an inmate.

She uses her computer
to watch Netflix and stuff.

I don't know. I just want
to see this browser history.

Somebody cleared
her search history.

Excuse me.
(both chuckle)

No. You... It's okay.

My mom was the last one
to use this computer.

If she deleted it, she obviously

didn't want anyone to know
what she was doing online.

You know that if somebody
clears their search history,

they are hiding something.

I thought she wasn't
telling me her password

because she couldn't
remember it.

If she didn't want me
to see something, then, hey.

All the more reason to see it.

I'm not investigating my mom.

I just want to know who
might have taken her,

but she's a victim.

I'm not gonna invade
her privacy over it.

She has a right to her secrets.

(phone buzzes)

It's Valenti. I got to go.

I like Kyle, but he was
terrible to you for so long.

How have you forgiven him?

Kyle and I aren't friends.

I'm doing this
because it's my responsibility.

I'm doing this for Liz.

You know, something I learned
in the last ten years is,

sometimes showing up is
the most important thing.

Can't stay mad forever.

People have a right
to their secrets.

(scoffs)

I can't take it anymore.

(thunder rumbling)

Okay.

I am so sorry.

(shushes)

I just want to memorize this.

(whispers):
Okay. Okay.

I need you
to tell Liz something.

You can tell her yourself.

She and Kyle are
prepping for surgery.

They're gonna use
the faulty heart.

She just wants to talk to you
before you die.

No. No.
You won't be suffering.

They're just gonna bring you
back and then let you go.

No. You have to stop this.

You cannot bring me back
under any circumstances.

Max?

What is really going on?

I am dangerous.

Whatever Liz is
bringing back is not me.

It's just some broken shell.

(cranking wrench)

(knocking on door)

I'm not doing
the 21st birthday thing, Isobel.

I don't do mechanical bulls

and I don't do
Garth Brooks karaoke.

Well, that's a shame,

because I came looking for my
friend in the lowest of places.

I need help moving a body.

Tequila?

Yeah. Tequila.

See, this is what happens
when you don't show up.

Happy 21st birthday.
Very mature.

Somehow it's-it's my fault?

Of course this is my fault.

You know, you didn't just
stand Max up tonight.

It's my birthday, too.

Well, I'm sorry. I was very busy
with all of my underachieving.

Hey.

Hey, you made it.

It's after midnight, and I had
to tempt him with a felony

to get him out of his trailer.

It doesn't count.

(slurring):
The thing is,

there has to be three.

Okay? There's always three.

Until the very end.
I'll show you.

I'll-I'll sh...
This is crazy.

I got this, right...

MICHAEL:
What's it mean?

What it means...

It means that
you should be here.

You know?
Mm-hmm.

'Cause it's all broken
without three.

So we'll figure it out.

You'll find your way back.

I'm good, thanks.

But I'll see you next time you
bring me in for petty larceny.

(laughs)

(laughs)
I-I will.

Oh! Good night, Deputy.

You know he did
the whole police academy thing

because of you, right?

He thinks you're gonna get
into the kind of trouble

you can't get out of
if you don't know someone.

I can pick locks with my brain.

I don't need him.

Yeah, I think he got that.

(engine starts)

(thumping)

Purring like a kitten.

You don't do bad work

once you pull your finger
out of your nose.

Yeah, we both know I do
the best work in the state.

Regardless of where
my fingers are.

What was it?

There was too much tension

between the alternator
and the battery.

Had to reset the coils,
figure out a new way

for them to talk to each other.

I'm gonna need
the rest of the day off.

Uh... a family emergency.

Yeah, well, I got
a ice skating date

in hell with the tooth fairy.

I figured it all out.

See, there's a-an energy
to suffering,

there's an energy to death.

And when I heal people,
I absorb that energy.

So, when I resurrected Rosa,

I took in ten years
of emptiness.

So if you resurrect me, you will
be bringing back an infection.

Don't want... I don't want
to come back as a monster.

I don't want to hurt anyone

that I care about.

That's what this is about?

Hurting, Max.

We don't work without you.
You will!

You will.
You are stronger now

than when I died.

All of you are.

You and Michael, Liz,
you will survive this.

The three of you.

No, you need to stop them, Iz.

Now.

Okay.

I love you.

You, too.

I'm sorry this is happening.

(grunts)
Isobel is lying.

She is buying time.
You know she'll never let me go.

But you can feel the
darkness, too, though, right?

That's why you don't
like being in my head.

Because you know it's real.

I didn't want that
to be true, but yes.

I know my sister
and I know your sister,

and they'll never give up.

So you have to be the
one to stop the surgery.

Okay, or I will destroy
everything that we love.

You have to stop them
to save them.

Now go.

Please, Rosa, go.

(coughs)

(sighs)

What?

Hey! Hello?

Oh, these bitch-ass aliens.

He was begging you
to let him die?

Yeah. And not to relieve
his suffering, either,

but because he's scared
he's going to hurt us.

If-if Max survives at all,
he is going to be weak.

When he saved Rosa, he absorbed
all of that dark energy.

He's gonna have to expel it.

And-and he's afraid he's gonna
kill someone when he does.

Yeah.

So we just need someone stronger
than Max to take that hit.

Isobel...

Look, if he thinks
that he needs to protect us,

he obviously doesn't know
how capable we are.

Bring him back, Liz.

I'll handle the rest.

("Keep You Safe" by Lindsey Ray
playing)

Okay. Everything's secured.

Hospital staff thinks
that a highly-classified

VIP patient's being treated.

They won't bother you.
And Michael?

Uh, we've been calling.
There's no answer.

Good luck.

♪ Ooh... ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I will light the path for ♪

♪ You... ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I'll do ♪

♪ All that I can ♪

♪ Do ♪

♪ To keep you safe ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

(grunts)

♪ I will light the path for ♪

♪ You... ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I'll do all that I can ♪

♪ Do... ♪

♪ Ooh... ♪

You got this look in your eyes
like you think I'm crazy.

This look?
I get this look every time

I use my workplace
to conduct an impossible

emergency alien heart
transplant, solo.

He's gonna die, Liz.

We're risking everything
to do this, and maybe...

Maybe... he lives long enough
for you to get a minute with him

before that heart gives out.

A minute is all I need.

♪ To... keep you safe. ♪

You need a break? A water?

You don't need to check on me.

There's a reason surgeons
don't operate

on loved ones.

Holding someone's future
in your hands

when you're personally
invested is...

I'm okay, Kyle.

And there is nothing that's
gonna happen here today

that'll change how grateful
I am to you.

I will never be able
to repay you

for everything that you've...

You never have to.

(sighs)
We're family.

♪ I see it in your eyes... ♪

(footfalls approaching)
(panting)

Oh, my God.

I didn't think you'd make it.

No, I'm here.

I get it now.

It's got to be the three of us.

What?

Where's the operating room?

♪ Never give up,
don't give up now... ♪

MICHAEL:
It inserts subdermally.

To monitor and nudge the pulse.

It keeps it steady and strong.

If it works,

it'll buy us time.

Years or longer.

I thought you'd given up.

Yeah. It's what I do.

Thing is, Max... he doesn't.

He would never pull his plug
to end his own suffering.

Unless he thought he was
saving us from something.

And I'm a little sick
of his heroic martyr crap.

It's a pain in the ass.

So you built an alien
pacemaker in seven hours.

My genius increases
when I'm pissed off.

Thank you.

♪ Never give up,
don't give up now ♪

♪ There's still hope
in the darkest hour ♪

♪ Never give up,
don't give up now ♪

♪ I'll take this pain for you ♪

♪ I will pull you through ♪

♪ I'll be with you till the end
♪ (monitor beeping steadily)

♪ With you till the end... ♪

We got it ticking.

Now we just need
to keep it going.

♪ Through the fire and rain ♪

All right, time to
attach the pacemaker.

♪ I will be your strength ♪

♪ I'll be with you
till the end ♪

♪ With you till the end ♪

♪ With you till the end... ♪

(alarm sounding)

He's crashing.

Ready the defibrillators.

♪ I'll be with you
till the end... ♪

Rosa, what are you doing?

I'm sorry, but he begged me.
Wh-What?

(alarm blaring)
(monitor flatlining)

Charge.
Clear!

Shock!

Still flatlining.

No response at all.

Damn it. More power.

Charge.

Clear.

Shock.

Still no response.
Let's go again.

Charge.

Clear.

Shock.

Max!

(both grunting)

You can't be here, Iz,
you have to go. No. No, no, no.

I'm not gonna let you
go alone, okay?

I'm never gonna let you
go alone.

♪ They're spreading blankets
on the beach... ♪

(crying):
No, no, no.

♪ Yours was the first face
that I saw ♪

♪ I think I was blind
before I met you. ♪

(monitor flatlining)

There's not enough power.

The defibrillator's
cranked up as high

as it will go.

It's not meant for a heart
that's been dead for months.

(Liz gasps)

No. No!

(sobbing)

I have to call it.

No.

Do it again.

Do it again!

Come on, one more time.
You have to.

Charge.

(power surges)

Clear.

Shock!

(monitor beeps steadily)

(monitor beeping steadily)

Uh, I, uh... I just came
to check on the pacemaker.

I'm gonna come back.
No, no, no. Hey, hey, hey.

Stay. Stay.

What were you gonna do if
the pacemaker hadn't worked?

I... would've
kept him comfortable

for as long as possible.

I would have told him
I love him.

And if his heart stopped beating

and there was nothing
I could do...

I would've said goodbye.

But we don't have
to live in that

"what if" scenario anymore.

We saved him.

We're gonna keep him in the coma

until he's strong enough
to wake up.

And he will wake up.

Whatever happens next,
we're gonna handle it.

Max is alive, Michael.

First thing I remember
is the three of us.

We woke up terrified and lost

but together.

And then all of a sudden
I was alone.

And I got real good
at being alone.

I'd given up on people entirely.

♪ Somewhere past tomorrow... ♪

And then you found me again.

♪ The life you live in dreams ♪

Hell of a hero move.

You showed up just in time.

♪ If you're ever broken ♪

♪ There's always an open door ♪

♪ A beacon toward the shore ♪

♪ Sometimes it takes dark... ♪

When you are a kid
who nobody loves,

kindness is a currency.

♪ Sometimes you need fire... ♪

Friendship doesn't mean jack.

Family just lies
and hurts and leaves.

I've only ever known love
to be temporary.

♪ 'Cause the stars are
on your side ♪

So, yeah, I push people away.

Every time someone threatens
to care about me,

I test their love
until they have to leave.

♪ ♪

(truck door opens)

(truck door shuts)

♪ If you're holding breath... ♪

Connection is conditional.

Everybody eventually gives up
on the guy

who refuses to be rescued.

♪ Know you're bound for glory ♪

♪ And that all is never lost ♪

♪ No matter the cost... ♪

But y-you were the only one that
I could never run off.

You never believed me when I
tried to be something I wasn't.

♪ Sometimes you need fire ♪

♪ To see you through
the other side ♪

♪ So get up off your knees ♪

♪ Hope is still alive... ♪

So, this thing in your chest...

it might give your heart
a pretty solid kick

every once in a while.

Consider it payback.

It's my hero move, Max.

If you wake up,
you consider us even, okay?

♪ ♪

If you wake up,
we can be a family.

Where's Isobel?

She's getting ready.

Getting ready... for what?

(shuddering)

(groans)

Welcome back.

You've been in a medically
induced coma for 12 years.

Taylor Swift is president now,

which, honestly,
is for the best.

I begged you to understand.

Max, it's gonna be fine.

No.

I told you to let me go.

I can feel it inside me.

It's, it's symmetry. Okay?

It's just energy for energy.
We can deal with that.

Fight it, Max.

This isn't you.

I don't want to hurt you.

I need to get out.

I need to get away
from you, from everyone.

I can't let you do that.

(groans)

(groans)

(thunder rumbling)

(high-pitched ringing)

(thunder rumbling)

I made a promise

that if you came back
and you weren't Max,

and you were actually
gonna hurt people,

that I would kill you.

I figure, hey,

you got to play God.

Make life and death decisions
all on your own.

(thunder rumbling)

Well, it's my turn now.

(thunder cracks)

We can be a matching set.