| They realize that the Skins can’t
be killed by guns when Kyle and Valenti appear; Valenti attempts to shoot a Skin who is
threatening Maria and Liz, but the Skin escapes unharmed. Courtney explains that the only
way to kill them is to hit them as hard as they can at the base of the spine. Isabel
worries about Nicholas’s power, and Courtney tells them that Nicholas can get inside
their heads and take anything he wants. Max tells them to split up into groups, so Michael
and Kyle carry Courtney across the street to the UFO Center, then Valenti accompanies
Tess, Liz, and Maria. When Max and Isabel are left, she asks if she can have it out with
Nicholas on her own, but Max says no, that they’re stronger together. When Max turns
away, Isabel goes anyway. Max runs after her and away from the UFO Center. Isabel walks
up to the Skins’ bus, when suddenly, underneath it, a remote control car careens
around, before running right toward her and slamming into her foot. She turns to face
Nicholas, who regards her smugly.
Back to the UFO Center, where despite treatment,
Courtney’s skin continues its rapid deterioration. Liz works at a computer and
determines that there was an electrical disturbance that morning. If they can find the
source of the energy field and turn it off, maybe they could bring all the humans back.
Valenti comes in and begins to talk to Kyle sentimentally about Kyle’s childhood,
when suddenly, Valenti collapses and disappears, to Kyle’s horror. Kyle notices a
rack of postcards in the middle of the room, one of which contains a picture of the UFO
Center billboard outside of town. The postcard triggers Kyle’s memory, and he
suddenly realizes where the energy source is coming from. He announces that he's heading
out there.
Inside the bus, Isabel's hands are fastened to the
ceiling by handcuffs, as Nicholas sits staring at her. Isabel tells him that she has come
to make a deal with him, to which Nicholas responds, "We have you, you beautiful
moron." Isabel doesn’t understand, and Nicholas sends Mrs. Whitaker out so that
they can be alone. Isabel claims that has remembered something from her past, so Nicholas,
believing her, dissolves the handcuffs. She starts to lean in, pretending to want to kiss
him, but hits him instead. Mrs. Whitaker runs in and knocks Isabel out, angering Nicholas,
who insists she was no threat. Nicholas then tells Mrs. Whitaker they are going to
"Kill every last one of them."
Kyle, Maria, and Liz are driving to the location of
the billboard, when Liz disappears. Kyle and Maria stop at the billboard, and they decide
to use her car’s jumper cables to short out the transmitter bar. A Skin attacks them,
but Kyle kills him by hitting him on the base of the spine, before Kyle too disappears. It
is then up to Maria to save the day on her own.
Nicholas captures Courtney, who is dying, and tries
to pry out of her the location of the Granolith. Rather than tell him, she kills herself.
Max, Michael and Tess come upon the unconscious Isabel at their school. Out of the
hallways come the Skins, scratching themselves furiously. The Skins tie up the four
aliens, and Nicholas calls Isabel "Vilandra," asking her if this feels familiar.
Max looks at Isabel, shocked.
Maria is still struggling with the jumper cables,
trying to attach them to the bar. She finally succeeds, and the bar explodes…at the
same time as Tess uses her powers to create an inferno. The Skins go up in flakes, and all
the humans are suddenly back. Isabel happily greets her mother in the Evans’ kitchen.
Tess and Max walk through the park, as Tess tells Max she doesn’t know how she did
what she did, but that kind of power frightens her. A kid on a razor-scooter bangs into
them, but keeps going, and from the back, he looks very familiar…
Judith Gerber |
