[Opening Credits]
Liz walks through the halls at school observing how everyone seems to have paired up, and describing in a voice-over the effect an unseasonal heat wave seems to have had on everyone but her.
Scene of M & M making out in the eraser room.
Liz runs into Kyle and his new girlfriend, Vicky Delaney, in the hall. Vicky, ignoring Kyle's objections, invites Liz to a party at the old soap factory on Friday night.
Liz sees Alex talking to Sheriff Valenti in the principal's office. The Sheriff is asking Alex about his conversation with Ms. Topolski on her last day at Roswell High; Alex tells him they were just looking over his class schedule for next semester.
Liz finds Max in the school library and tells him she saw Alex and Valenti talking. Max wants to know what they discussed. Liz says she hasn't been able to find Alex yet, but she doubts that he will talk to her once she does. Max apologizes again, but Liz brushes it off. She says she's just worried about Alex because he won't talk to either her or Maria -- she's never seen him like this before. She then changes the subject, telling Max that Kyle has started seeing someone else and that they invited her to a party on Friday. Liz is distracted for a moment by a couple making out across the room, and then comments about how strange it is that everyone seems to be "pairing up and moving forward." She then asks Max if he's noticed anything strange about Michael lately and the way he acts around Maria. Max wants to know if she's implying that something is going on between M & M and Liz hurriedly says no, she doesn't think so, but then asks if it would be bad if there were. Max immediately replies in the affirmative and then changes the answer to "I don't know."
As Valenti leaves the principal's office, Maria's mom is in the front office causing a fuss because Ms. Topolski asked her to come in to discuss Maria's future and then when Mrs. DeLuca shows up she is told that Topolski has "disappeared." It is obvious that the Sheriff and Amy DeLuca have met before -- he makes a comment about "staying out of the slammer" and she replies "very amusing." He asks her what the problem is and she explains, complaining about having made time in her busy schedule for no reason; the Sheriff expresses sympathy, being a single parent himself, and she notes that they finally have something in common. They then walk off in opposite directions.
Liz finally catches up to Alex at the bike rack after school, but he blows her off, refusing to talk to her unless she tells him the truth. He makes a comment that if someone had asked him weeks ago who he would have trusted with his life, other than his parents, he would have said Liz -- but now he doesn't even know who she is. Liz says she wants to tell him, but that it's not her secret to tell. She then asks him what he told Valenti -- and he replies "it's not my secret to tell" and rides off.
Liz enters the ladies' room to find Maria trying to hide a hickey with a turtleneck -- she offers Maria some concealer and tells her she saw them at the Crashdown the other day. At the same time, Max approaches Michael in the men's room and inquires about Maria. The relationship is discussed from the two different viewpoints. Liz finally asks Maria if they talk or just make out -- Maria says "of course we talk."
The next scene is another make-out session, with Maria attempting to talk to Michael at the same time. She ends up asking him to go to the party on Friday night.
Amy DeLuca is selling alien-themed cocktail stirrers to Liz's dad at the Crashdown when the Sheriff walks in; he's looking for her. The Sheriff apologizes for having arrested her years ago for protesting the demolition of a historic piece of architecture. She asks out of the 20 people who were there that day, why did he arrest her? The reply -- because she was cute. She is obviously flattered. Maria walks up just then and her mom "introduces" her to "Jim."
Liz and Isabel are sitting in the grass under a tree talking and painting their toenails. Liz inquires about Isabel's relationships with guys -- she goes out all the time but pretty much keeps all of the relationships platonic. Isabel asks if Liz is afraid to let someone in and let them see who she really is; when Liz replies in the affirmative, Isabel tells her to multiply that feeling by about a million and that's how she feels. Isabel then attempts to lighten the conversation by turning Liz's nail polish from clear to blue, after which she nonchalantly asks about Alex. Liz says she doesn't know what's going on inside his head anymore; Isabel says she'll look into it. Liz asks what she means but Iz doesn't answer.
Isabel dreamwalks into Alex's dream, only to watch stunned as she realizes that he is dreaming about her. In the dream, he tells the dream version of Iz that her beautiful exterior hides an even more beautiful interior, but that he doubts that very many people get to see that side of her because she is too scared to show everyone who she really is; he then tells her to feel free to show him. As Alex and the dream Isabel kiss, Isabel wakes up, stunned by what she's seen.
Max and Isabel are discussing the fact that she visited Alex's dream, but she avoids telling him what she saw. She tells him that she's not really sure how to interpret what she saw, but that out of everyone involved she knows that she is the one who can "control" him -- with a little old-fashioned charm.
Max and Michael discuss Maria; Michael's not sure about going with her to the party -- about making this a "public thing." He tells Max that all week long he's had this feeling that he is going to hurt her somehow. That just being who he is was going to hurt her. Max silently nods his understanding.
Max comes upon Liz in the biology lab, attempting to get two slugs to mate. Liz tells Max that when he told her that they couldn't be together because they were different she just kind of accepted it, that it was physically impossible or something, but that she was hurt when she saw Maria with Michael. Why is it okay for them but not for us? Max tells her he isn't afraid of them being together and having it turn out badly, but of having it work out really well and of feeling everything that he knows he would feel -- because he knows that it is just not meant to be and that somewhere down the line they are going to get hurt. He can live with that, but he wouldn't be able to bear hurting her. She tells him that it isn't his decision to make and he replies "I guess not." They come extremely close to kissing -- and are interrupted by the bio teacher returning to see how a disappointed Liz is doing with her project.
Isabel approaches Alex and invites him to the party, telling him to meet her there at 8:00.
At the party, Liz (who is looking for Max) runs into Maria, who sees Michael and takes off. Alex approaches Isabel and asks if she really asked him to accompany her or if she was just informing him that there was going to be a party. She invites him to go somewhere and talk. Liz is approached by a pushy band member and is saved by Max's arrival. She tells him she thought he'd decided not to come; he says he's been waiting for this for a long time. Maria and Michael are talking in a corner -- she tells him that she knows this isn't true love, but wants to know why he's been avoiding her, telling him it hurts. He tells her he just can't get too involved, and that they should never have started this -- he's alone and that's the way it's got to be. Struggling with tears, she informs him that she's going outside to get some air and walks off. He watches her leave, visibly upset with himself.
Outside, Isabel and Alex are talking. He realizes that she just invited him to the party to find out if he was going to rat them out. He walks off, upset.
Sheriff Valenti is having dinner with Maria's mom, who clues him in to the fact that Liz and Maria are having a problem with Alex. Valenti gets a phone call and has to leave -- there's been a disturbance across town.
Max and Liz make their way outside, where again it looks like they might lock lips -- only to be interrupted again, this time by Kyle and Vicky. Just then the cops show up. In the confusion of everyone packing up and leaving, Alex and Liz end up having bottles of alcohol thrust into their hand by someone else. Before they can get rid of them, the Sheriff shows up and arrests them to the horror of the alien trio who is looking on.
At the Sheriff's station, everyone except Liz and Alex are released. The Sheriff informs them that their parents agreed that they should be left inside overnight to "remember what their priorities are." Liz attempts to talk to Alex, who tells her that he is through lying -- he's going to tell Valenti everything.
Max and Isabel are watching the Sheriff's station and realize that everyone has been released except Alex and Liz. Isabel tells Max that she thinks they should have told Alex -- that she thinks he can be trusted and that they would be better off including him.
Liz is still attempting to talk to Alex. He finally breaks down and asks her if she arranged the "Isabel" thing, saying that that was "low," and that he is tired of protecting them and is going to tell Sheriff Valenti everything verbatim -- about the hospital, and the blood, and Topolski -- everything. Liz tells him he needs to know all of the facts before he does something like that; he replies that she said it wasn't her secret to tell. Liz then explains that Isabel wasn't "low" -- she was scared. Liz proceeds to tell him about the trio being aliens. Before she can find out if he believes her or not, Valenti shows up and tries to question him about Topolski again. Alex stands up to him, however, and tells him that if he doesn't release the teens immediately Alex is going to get a lawyer and sue for "abusive treatment of a minor."
Next scene is Liz and Alex walking out of the station. They are obviously back on good terms again, although Alex tells her that he doesn't believe in aliens. He does believe that she believes in them, however.
Final scene: Liz is on the roof writing in her journal. Max shows up and asks to join her. Max says that when he saw Valenti arresting her last night, it made him realize how much knowing him has screwed up her life; she replies that it's done just the opposite. He then says he'd better go. When she asks why, he replies that if he doesn't leave right now things are going to change. "Change how?" she asks. Well, he'd have to touch her hair because it's so soft. And he'd have to tell her that no matter what they go through it's all worth while for him because they're together. And then, he'd have to do this... and he kisses her.
The episode ends with a nice, long (and sweet) KISSING SCENE!!! :)
