| First Aired: |
May 14th, 2001 |
| Co-Executive
Producer: |
Ronald D. Moore |
| Executive
Producers: |
Kevin Kelly Brown
Jonathan Frakes
Lisa J. Olin |
| Screenwriters: |
Russel Friend
Garrett Lerner |
| Director: |
Patrick Norris |
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| This time, Marias
blackboard recap is necessary, given that this episode is the one that should have been
aired before Alex died and Tess became pregnant and Liz turned into Angela Lansbury as
Jessica Fletcher. Maria talks about Brody Davis and Larek using Brody as a "human
cell phone" when he wants to talk to his "good buddy Max" (theyre
good buddies now? There must be another episode missing in there.) She says something
happened before Max started remembering Tess, Liz became closer to Sean, and Alex died.
She didnt think it was important at the time, but now, she says, she realizes it was
the key to everything. Whistling something maybe "Coming Round The
Mountain" Max knocks on Brodys door with the intention of organizing his
"crop circle files." A mysteriously hyper Brody, however, decides Max should fix
the weather balloon instead, an obvious ploy to get rid of him. Brody goes back inside his
offices at the UFO Center, dons a virtual reality headset, and conjures up a rather lame
computer-generated version of himself as he tries to find out more about his alien
abductions. He goes back to the time when his abducted body sat in on the meeting from
"Max in the City," and though the program warns "Memory Disk Full"
(huh?), he continues trying to recall the attendees. He starts with himself, then
Nicholas, then receives a shock: "Oh my God -- Max? How can Max be in
" But
apparently, the "Memory Disk Full" just got fuller, because Brody is thrown
backward, sparks shooting off from his headset, and the lights go out in the UFO Center
and the Crashdown.
Max attempts to check the fuse box as Brody gets a gun out of a drawer. A
suddenly-appearing, gift-bearing Tess tells Max its not a fuse, that the lights are
out all over town. She attempts to give him the present, but Max seems suspicious.
Obviously hurt, Tess tells him its a black V-neck sweater, but she can give it to
Kyle if he doesnt want it. Max relents and thanks her for the gift, then turns on
the auxiliary power. Suddenly, Brody rounds the corner, "Why did you lie to me?
Youre an alien, arent you?" He goes on to say that he remembers New York
City and he, Max, and Tess were all there with the other aliens. Max says,
"Larek," to which Brody replies, "There. Thats an alien name. That
makes you an alien." (So
if I say "Kivar," does that make me an alien,
too?) He pulls a gun on them, as Max tries to deny hes an alien, but Brody points
the gun, prepared to shoot. Max holds up a hand and sends out his green energy field just
before Brody fires, and the bullet bounces off and smashes a framed picture on the wall.
Brody smiles weirdly and snarks, "So how do you explain that?" |
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