| First Aired: |
October 6th, 1999 |
| Producer: |
Phillip M. Goldfarb |
| Executive
Producers: |
Kevin Kelly Brown
David Nutter
Jonathan Frakes
Lisa J. Olin |
| Screenwriter: |
Jason Katims |
| Director: |
David Nutter |
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| Isabel Evans is a
beautiful, popular teenage girl who is normal in every way, except for the fact that she
can heat up a burrito with her hand and listen to a CD by putting it up to her ear.
Isabel’s an alien in Roswell, New Mexico, where she, her brother Max, and their
friend Michael, attend high school and live with their adopted families, who have no idea
that their children are from another planet. But one day, one of Isabel’s classmates,
Liz Parker, is shot while waiting tables in her parents’ UFO-themed diner, the
Crashdown Café. Max impulsively jumps in to heal her wound by using his alien powers of
molecular manipulation, and so risks everything in order to save the life of the girl
he’s always loved from afar. Isabel is horrified by what Max has done, especially
when the local sheriff, Jim Valenti, investigates the shooting. Though Liz lies to protect
Max, Valenti is suspicious, so the three aliens plan to run away. When Liz comes up with a
plan to throw Valenti off the trail, Max decides to stay, and Isabel will not leave
without him. Even though she doesn’t trust humans, she agrees to go along with
Liz’s plan. At Roswell’s Crashdown Festival, Isabel and Maria fake an accident
in which Maria is hit by a car, and make it seem as though an alien was the one to commit
the crime. But Valenti discovers the deception, and is now more suspicious than ever.Judith Gerber |
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