| Back in New York, Lonnie and Rath
escort Max and Tess to the summit. Lonnie takes Max aside and tells him she’s proud
of him, that he’s the brother she never knew. Then she hugs him. In the room where
the summit is to take place, Max is stunned to see Brody, who is an emissary’s
vessel, and is even more shocked to see Nicholas, who is Khivar’s representative.
Nicholas says Khivar’s proposition is that he stay in power, but have possession of
the Granolith, which Max then admits he has, to Lonnie’s surprise. Nicholas continues
that Max is to tell his followers to lay down their weapons and support Khivar. Max says
he has to think about it, and is given twenty minutes. Meanwhile, Lonnie confronts Nicholas, pushing him up against a wall, and tells
him she remembers what it was like to be Vilandra, and wants to go back to that life. She
tells him that she believes Max will go for the deal because it will save millions of
lives. Nicholas states pointedly that "Khivar wants Max dead," and Lonnie
replies that she’s figured that out already. She admits she’s also willing to
betray Rath, and as she saunters away, Nicholas states the obvious: "What a
woman."
In Roswell, Isabel is worried about Max’s
safety. She has tried to dreamwalk into Max’s thoughts to let him know about the
assassination plot, but he’s too far away, and she fails. Ava tells them that Liz can
do it; because Max brought her back from the dead, she can connect with him. Liz is
afraid, so Isabel takes her hand and talks her through it.
In New York, Lonnie confronts Max and tells him she
doesn’t like that he lied to her about the Granolith. She again reminds him to make
the right decision, but once he’s in the meeting again, Max remembers Liz’s
warning about giving up the Granolith, and says no to Khivar’s deal. It is quickly
obvious that he’s now made enemies of them all.
Out on the street, Rath makes his anger known to
Max, but Lonnie says they’ll find another way home. As the four of them walk along,
Lonnie and Rath make sure that Max walks directly under a window-washing platform, which
then begins to fall just as Lonnie and Rath had planned. But a vision of Liz suddenly
appears across the street, warning Max away from the spot. Max moves, and the platform
crashes to the pavement in the exact spot where he had been standing. When he looks up
dazedly, everyone is gone.
When he finally locates Tess back in the underground
tunnel, she says she wants to go home to Roswell. Back in the Evans’ kitchen, Max
discusses what happened at the summit with Isabel. He then tells her he loves her, and
they hug.
Judith Gerber |
