Cry Your Name

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At Alex’s funeral, Max confronts Valenti, angrily insisting that Alex did not commit suicide. Valenti lets Max read the police report. Back at Alex’s house, Liz asks the almost-as-tall-as-TVR Mr. Whitman if she can go up to Alex’s room. Once inside, Liz asks Alex for help in proving his death wasn’t a suicide. She spots a book of Robert Frost’s poetry, with two Beth Orton concert tickets marking the page of the poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." It’s apparently the clue she’s been looking for.

Liz gathers the others in Alex’s room, then tells them that though the sheriff’s office is implying Alex committed suicide, she knows he didn’t. Max says the evidence is pretty overwhelming that it’s true. Liz hold up the concert tickets, and insists that Alex bought them on the day he died, probably for him and Isabel. Why would he buy concert tickets if he were planning to kill himself? Tess says that’s slim evidence, and Maria snarls that Tess doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about. Michael attempts to calm them down, but then Liz states that Alex was murdered, maybe by an alien. Isabel angrily asserts that this had nothing to do with them, but Liz shouts back that Isabel could be involved, because of her previous life with Khivar. Max argues, telling Liz she doesn’t know anything about their world, but Liz yells, "You don't want to think that Alex was killed by an alien because that would mean you are responsible!" Isabel, Max, Michael and Tess leave, and Kyle states that it’s "us against them."

At the Crashdown, Liz looks at photos and remembers Alex. The delivery boy shows up, bringing along the receipt that Alex had signed. But Alex didn’t sign his name, he signed a series of ones and zeros, a binary code. Liz realizes she now has more evidence to support her theory.

Judith Gerber