Ed Harding has discovered the miniature camera that Liz planted in his house, and he takes it to Valenti, who promises to get to the bottom of the crime.

Under vague pretenses, Isabel manages to get into the school records office, commandeer the school computer, and print out Tess’s class schedule, while Tess secretly watches her. When Isabel arrives back at her house, Tess is there with Mrs. Evans, looking at photo albums of Isabel and Max as children. When Mrs. Evans leaves to go to the market, Tess lets Isabel know that she feels a connection with Max, and asks Isabel if she hasn’t ever felt that connection with someone else as well? Isabel gets a flash of Michael in the desert again, and Tess leans in very closely and whispers that there are signs all around her. Isabel is shocked to see sugar cubes on the counter in the square formation of the symbols she saw in her desert dream.

Later, Isabel and Max discuss their feelings about Tess, and after Isabel falls asleep, she has yet another dream about Michael and the desert. In this one, they are embracing, and Isabel wakes up with a gasp to find Michael in her room, similarly disturbed. They assure each other it was only a dream. They then discuss the dream with Max (but neglect to tell him about their implied dream lovemaking). They also finally admit to him that they had tried to summon Nasedo by using a map of the V constellation and setting the library lawn afire in the shape of the alien symbol. Max is furious, reiterating that the goal is to stay in control.

Back at school, Michael tells Maria that he wants to "move to the next level" at the same time that Isabel is claiming the same thing to Alex. When Michael and Maria open the eraser room door to be alone, they discover Isabel and Alex already in there, passionately kissing. After Alex drops Isabel back at her house, she goes to sleep and once again dreams…this time, she and Michael are actually in the throes of making love in the desert. Flash to a cell developing, then a fetus, and Isabel wakes up, confused and upset.

In the library at school, Max and Liz see Tess flirting with Kyle. Max follows them and sees Kyle boost Tess up so she can reach a top shelf, and then watches as she extracts a strange book seemingly out of a third dimension in the wall. Cut to Isabel, once again dreaming; this time, she and Michael have a child with them, and they are laughing together and cuddling the child. She wakes up with a start as Michael enters her room again. They discuss how they believe that the dream means Isabel is now pregnant with Michael’s child.

After Max has a dream of his own about Tess, he wakes to find her in his bedroom. She persuades him to come with her to the crash site in the desert, telling him that they’ve been there before. Max becomes angry and violent with Tess, accusing her of being Nasedo, an evil shape-shifter. Tess implores him to think, shows him her book, and tells him that he already knows her face…and he suddenly remembers all of them in their pods in the cave. He also recalls leaving Tess behind, and when Isabel and Michael appear, and Michael demands to know who Tess is, Max firmly states "She’s one of us."

Judith Gerber