- Michael Guerin: [Max, and Tess with the baby, enter Michael's apartment. Michael is sitting watching television, but jumps to his feet, incredulous, when he sees her, and raises his hand to blast her...] Tess, you are not here!
- Max Evans: [rushes forward to get between Tess and Michael] Michael, no!
- Michael Guerin: Maxwell, get out of the way.
- Max Evans: Not until you calm down.
- Michael Guerin: Whatever she told you, she's lying.
- Max Evans: She has my son.
- Michael Guerin: Well, get the baby out of the way.
- Max Evans: No, he needs her. If you kill her, my son will die.
- Michael Guerin: [Hesitates, but backs off] Max, what the hell's she doin' here?
- Max Evans: It's a long story. But we need to get them out of Roswell.
- Michael Guerin: Yeah. My heart bleeds.
- Tess Harding: Nice to see you, too, Michael.
- Max Evans: [warning Tess] Hey, don't start.
- [He reaches down to take the baby from her]
- Michael Guerin: [Outside Michael's apartment, Liz arrives. She preens and smiles as she reaches for the door, eagerly anticipating her evening with Max.Inside, Tess has just finished telling her story to Michael] Oh, so you're the one that crashed in the desert the other night.
- Tess Harding: You always were the quick one, Guerin.
- Liz Parker: [Suddenly Tess is blasted through the air. She lands hard in the adjoining room and Max and Michael are shocked. They look back towards the door] Get up, bitch!
- [Liz's outstretched hand crackles with green sparks. Without waiting, Liz blasts Tess again, knocking her back into the wall as a stunned Max and Michael watch for a moment in disbelief]
- Liz Parker: I'll kill you!
- Max Evans: - Liz- -No-
- [Max quickly hands the baby to Michael and lunges to stop Liz]
- Liz Parker: You're a murderer! I'll kill you!
- Max Evans: Liz...!
- [Max restrains Liz and pulls her outside onto the patio]
- Max Evans: [Tess has a stunned look on her face because of her not knowing about Liz's powers]
- Michael Guerin: [smirking at Tess] ... Welcome back.
- Tess Harding: Max loves you. Every time we were together, every time we kissed he was thinking of you. He had these flashes that I saw and they were always of you.
- Liz Parker: Why are you telling me this?
- Tess Harding: Because I know how much it must have hurt you.
- Liz Parker: So you're really going to go do this?
- Tess Harding: At least I can do one good thing with my life.
- Liz Parker: You just did.
- Max Evans: [as Tess tries to leave the room] Sit... down!
- Tess Harding: [points at her injured leg] I guess it would be too much to ask you to heal this?
- Max Evans: Making you feel better is not one of my priorities
- [Max stands and kisses Zan, carrying him to the car. Liz touches the baby's hand and lets the baby play with her fingers for a moment. At the car, Max hands Zan to his mother. Concerned, Diane studies her son as she takes the baby, then turns to secure Zan into the car seat. As Max's parents prepare to drive off, Max stands on the curb, grief-stricken and heartbroken. Liz reaches over to take his hand and stand close to him]
- Liz Parker: I'm here. I'll always be here.
- [Max looks down at her, and she smiles back supportively. Max turns and gazes after his parents' car. Liz draws him into an embrace and they hold each other. We see Zan in his infant car seat playing with a flying saucer-shaped rattle as the Evanses drive away]
- Max Evans: [with tears in his eyes, about his son, Zan] He's human. He deserves to live a normal human life. look, all I've wanted for the past year, more than anything else in my life, was to find him. And now that I finally have, I-
- [he pauses]
- Max Evans: I think that I'm going to have to give him up.
- Kyle Valenti: [Liz walks out just as Kyle is coming in] Gee, Liz. Is everything okay?
- [Liz just blows on past him]
- Kyle Valenti: ... 'guess not...
- Tess Harding: Kyle! Thank God you're here!
- Kyle Valenti: [comes into the room, but paces back and forth in front of Tess, frowning] Don't come near me.
- Tess Harding: [obviously sad] Kyle, at least give me a chance to explain!
- Kyle Valenti: [to Michael] Why haven't you killed her yet?
- Michael Guerin: Max wouldn't let me.
- Max Evans: [Max comes up and takes the baby away from Tess] Come on, Zan, - I don't want you to see this...
- Tess Harding: Be careful with him, Max.
- Kyle Valenti: So, what are you doing here?
- Tess Harding: Ask one of them, I'm sick of explaining.
- Kyle Valenti: Okay, why don't you explain what the hell you were doing at our house earlier.
- Tess Harding: I thought you'd help me.
- Kyle Valenti: Then why'd you run away in such a hurry?
- Tess Harding: I was protecting my son.
- Kyle Valenti: He wasn't in danger!
- Tess Harding: Your father had a gun! Instincts took over! You're lucky I didn't kill you!
- Kyle Valenti: [laughs ironically] Oh... I guess I owe you one. Oh, actually... No.
- Tess Harding: [Still sad] Kyle...
- Kyle Valenti: We took you into our home, Tess. We protected you. And how did you repay us? You brainwashed me into carrying Alex's dead body!
- Tess Harding: I never meant to hurt...
- Kyle Valenti: Well, too late!
- Tess Harding: You've never even heard my side of the story.
- Kyle Valenti: You have a side? The murderer has a side!
- Tess Harding: I was raised by a killer, Kyle... a sick and twisted man...!
- Kyle Valenti: Don't play the victim here, Tess. You know, of all the aliens I've met... you're the only one who has no soul.
- [He walks away from her, leaving her stung and frowning]
- [Outside, Liz is still agitated, pushing away as Max relinquishes his grip]
- Liz Parker: What? What? So you trust her now?
- Max Evans: No, Liz, far from it. But Tess and my son are linked. Killing her would kill him.
- Liz Parker: Yeah, that's convenient.
- Max Evans: Liz, I have no other choice. I have to believe her.
- Liz Parker: This is insane. She betrayed all of us! She killed Alex!
- Max Evans: ...I know.
- Liz Parker: No, she has to pay for it! Max, promise me... when this is all over, Tess will pay for what she did.
- Max Evans: ...I promise...
- Liz Parker: Let me know when it's over.
- [Liz turns abruptly and walks off, leaving him standing]
- Liz Parker: [Liz walks out just as Kyle is coming in]