Max Evans
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| Max Evans | |
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 From season Two episode "Ask Not" |
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| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "Turnabout (Roswell book)" |
| Created by | Jason Katims and Melinda Metz (books writer) |
| Portrayed by | Jason Behr |
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| Nickname(s) | "Fearless Leader", "Romeo" |
| Aliases | "Maxwell" "Maximillian", Zan (former life on planet Antar) |
| Species | Alien-Human hybrid |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 18 (2002, end of the series) (approximately 25) |
| Specialty | Healer |
| Title | Leader, King (former life on planet antar) |
| Spouse(s) | Liz Parker (wife), Ava (Tess Harding former self on Antar, his former self was married to her) |
| Children | Zan (son) |
| Relatives | Isabel Evans Ramirez (sister) Philip Evans (adoptive father) Diane Evans (adoptive mother) |
| Address | Roswell, New Mexico |
Max Evans is a fictional character from the 1999-2002 television series Roswell, portrayed by actor Jason Behr.
Roswell the television series (mostly its premise and the pilot) was based on the Roswell High young adult book series, written by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz and published by Pocket Books. For more details about the original books and the differences between the tv series and the show, check Roswell High and Aura.
Max made his first appearance in the Pilot (Roswell) and remained a core character throughout the full 3 seasons of the show, which aired its finale in the United States in May, 2002.
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[edit] Character Summary
In a previous existence, Max was Zan - King of a planet named Antar. After his death, his people were able to use his DNA to create 2 sets of alien hybrids 'clones' of Zan and the rest of the Royal Four of Antar. These included Isabel Evans Ramirez (Vilandra, Zan's sister), Michael Guerin (Rath, Vilandra's husband and Zan's second-in command), and Tess Harding (Ava, Zan's wife). The clones were sent to Earth to hide them from Max's enemy - Kivar.
The craft carrying Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess crashes in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 (an overt reference to the Roswell UFO incident). In the series, the Army finds the alien pods and takes them into a base for study. The four are saved from this fate by an Air Force pilot and stashed in a new ship hidden in a rock formation. About 40 years pass before the clones "hatch" in 1989. Max, Isabel, and Michael leave the pod together, looking like small human children aged about 6 years old. The three characters were blank slates with no memories of life on Antar, nor of the fourth hybrid - Tess (who is individually rescued by an Antarian with an agenda). It is not revealed what the characters DO know at this point, including the most rudimentary abilities - like speech - or how they would have learned them. Max and Isabel are found together by a couple of lawyers, the Evans, who adopt the two and make a loving and stable home for them. Michael hides when this happens, and is eventually discovered and eventually placed with an abusive foster father.
Max is very introverted and he is often seen by others to be shy, though this is not his true disposition. Being a hybrid often forces him into hiding his "true self". Because he must conceal his true identity, Max is a complex character, very timid at times, yet passionate and carefree at others. Even before he knew that he was the clone of the king of Antar, Max emerged as the de facto leader among his friends.
Portrayed as the 'deep thinker' of the group, sometimes Max is nevertheless shown spurred to bold action by his protective nature, both of the other alien-human hybrids and of other people he cares about. This sometimes manifests as a character flaw, as his protective nature leads him to make far too conservative choices although, seeing the outcome, most of the times he's able to make the right choice. However, fitting into the archetypal leader role, he always takes responsibility for his actions and choices, and is never beyond offering apologies to those he hurts. Max also stands out in the group because of his unique healing powers.
An important premise of Max's character (and the show itself) is that he's been in love with Liz Parker since the first time he saw her at school when he was just six years old (shortly after emerging from the pod). However he keeps himself at a distance from Liz, primarily because of his concerns about being an alien and her being a human. This "secret" ends one day when she gets shot at the Crashdown Cafe and without thinking he saves her life risking everything for her and starting the lead plot of the whole show.
Max cares strongly about Liz, sometimes even more than he cares about his fellow alien-human hybrids or even himself. He shares a deep mysterious connection with her that never found a real rational explanation. It is with her involuntary help that he starts to find more clues about his origins. Also, Liz is able to "feel" whether Max is in danger or hurt (season 3) and they save each other's lives more than once.
[edit] Powers
Max has special healing powers which he has used at various times throughout the show, the most notable incident being when he saved Liz from a bullet wound. He is also able to change the molecular structure of items, as can the rest of the hybrids. Max is able to produce a force field which can protect himself and others from being hit by an object, or in one case when Liz was falling, from hitting the floor.
[edit] Season One
We first see Max watching Liz work as a waitress while eating at the Crashdown Cafe, which belongs to Liz's parents. Fellow waitress Maria De Luca is the one that points out Max's infatuation to Liz. Liz then witnesses an argument between two customers and is accidentally shot. Max rushes to her side and heals the wound simply by placing his hand over it, bringing her back to life. Liz later discovers a silver hand print on her stomach, a mystery she becomes determined to solve. During a biology class experiment, Liz sneaks a sample of Max's saliva and examines it under a microscope, discovering that Max's cells look nothing like human cells. She confronts Max, who then admits that he, his sister Isabel and their friend Michael are aliens whose spaceship crashed at Roswell in 1947. By telling her, Max breaks the ultimate taboo that he, Isabel, and Michael have kept their whole lives. Liz becomes the first human being who is let into the secret of the "Pod Squad". Overwhelmed by the secret, she asks Max why he'd risked everything to heal her. Max replies "Because it was you." This sets the tone for the series, Max will break any rule (including his own) for Liz.
In order to gain her trust, Max creates a connection with her so she can see into his soul. Liz experiences all his inner feelings, especially the love Max has for her. After seeing Max's true character, Liz makes the decision to protect Max and his friends. Liz also begins to feel very drawn to Max in return. This despite the fact that she is dating the sheriff's son Kyle Valenti. Liz confides in Maria about Max and the others, a transgression Max forgives. As the season progresses, Max and Liz's relationship and their struggles with his secret take center stage.
Liz later begs Max to use his healing powers to help save her aged grandmother, Claudia. Max reveals that he can not stop a natural death, but does help her have a final conversation with Claudia. Her grandmother's insights give Liz the clarity needed to break up with Kyle and pursue a relationship with Max.
The hybrids' search for answers about their own existence is a recurring theme of the show. Max comes to the conclusion that there is a fourth alien on Earth after he gets a job at the local UFO center. There, he discovers that the silver hand print which Max had left on Liz had been spotted on a number of murder victims in the 1950s. During a Roswell crash convention, Max is nearly killed by an alien hunter named Hubble. Hubble is intent on revenge because an alien killed his wife and unborn child. Sheriff Jim Valenti, saves Max's life.
The three hybrids and their romantic partners are portrayed as chaste throughout the first season. However, sexual themes are explored. In the episode "Sexual Healing", repressed passion explodes between Max and Liz. Liz finds that when they kiss, she gets flashbacks of Max's past. They later find an orb from his planet thanks to these visions.
Tess Harding arrives mid-season. At first, they suspect she is a shape-shifting murderous alien named Nasedo. After Max has hallucinations about her, he confronts Tess. It is revealed that she is an alien-human hybrid like them. Nasedo is actually Tess' father figure.
Nasedo is both a murderer and their protector, a conundrum that leaves the Pod Squad undecided about what to do. Nacedo then kidnaps Liz by shifting into the image of Max, leaving the true Max with a clear mandate to save Liz and terminate Nasedo. In the effort, Max is abducted by a special branch of the FBI headed by the elusive Special Agent Pierce. Max is tortured for information but rescued by Nasedo and Michael before he reveals anything significant. In turn, they manage to kidnap Pierce. In the subsequent confusion, gunfire erupts and the sheriff inadvertently shoots his son, Kyle. Michael kills Pierce while Max saves Kyle using the same method that he had used on Liz at the start of the season. Thankful, Sheriff Valenti gives him his word that he will protect Max, Isabel and Michael.
It is the ship hidden in the caves that eventually is the key to the hybrids' history. An image of Max and Isabel's mother comes up and tells them that they are the clones of the royal four of their home world Antar. Tess and Max were married, Isabel was his sister and a promised spouse of Michael that was his second in command. Upon hearing this Liz runs away as she realizes that his destiny and responsibility are far bigger than her. He loves her and is reluctant to let her go but she says that there is too much in their way and leaves.
[edit] Season Two
The second season of the series finds Max as 'reluctant King'. The others now awkwardly defer to him, except for Michael who still acts out and does things his own way. At the beginning of season two, Max's relationship with Liz is awkward. He still loves her and declares to her that he will keep fighting for her and will never give up on them. His role as the leader also proves to be an obstacle as he finds out about power he never knew he had and the responsibility that comes with that power. But he is rocked when Nasedo is murdered and proclaims that the "skins" have arrived. Worried by this, he and the gang agree to sit tight. They target Liz's new boss, Congresswoman Whitaker, who had had a relationship with Special Agent Pierce, and do some reconnaissance on her. It is later revealed that the Congresswoman was in fact a "skin".
It is around this time that he tries to resurrect his relationship with Liz, but she rejects his advances. He only gives up on her when he catches Liz in bed with Kyle Valenti, believing that they had been together. The truth is that it's all a setup created by Liz when the future version of Max comes back from the future saying that she had to make his present self stop loving her because their love will be the cause of the end of the world. Future Max and Future Liz sacrifice their love in order to make Tess stay in Roswell (in their timeline she left after Max and Liz cemented their relationship). Since she was obsessed with Max and she would stay only if Max will give her a chance.
For most of season two, Max is only a friend for Tess and he still tries to be with Liz, never stopping loving her even if he doesn't know the truth about Kyle. But when their friend Alex dies and his friendship with Liz is compromised by her research for Alex's alien killer that Max can't accept, he has his first personal crisis about who he really is, losing his balance. When Tess starts to help him into remembering his past Max is confused about himself and he starts to act out of character, making his friends dislike him, especially Liz and Isabel.
Thanks to Tess' influence he starts to think that maybe he's just too blind to accept the truth and the truth is that his life isn't real and Tess with her obsession about the past is right. When he realizes that he has really lost everything, especially Liz, in a moment of weakness he sleeps with Tess who is the only one with him and she seems to know the answers that he can't find. Since he was supposed to love her because it was his destiny, he tries to feel something for her using a physical way since they never were emotionally involved with each other and he always saw her as a stranger. The day after their night together he just realize his mistake and how they're really far away and he can't love her no matter if his previous self (Zan) had feelings for his wife or not. When Tess tell him that she's pregnant with his son and she doesn't want to get rid of their baby, Max takes his responsibility staying with the woman for duty even if he still loves only Liz Parker.
At the end of the season, Tess mindwarps him into believing that the baby is sick and he can't survive in the earth's atmosphere so they need to return home to Antar in order to save him. Thanks to the alien destiny book that Alex translated before dying, Max and his friends find the way to return home using the Granlith. Eventually before it's too late, Liz, Maria and Kyle discover that Tess killed Alex. Max confronts her and he realizes that the pregnancy was all a setup in order to force him and the other aliens to return home. Nacedo made a deal with Kivar 40 years ago that Tess had to get pregnant by Max's heir and then deliver Max and his friends to Kivar that would have killed them finally deleting the royal family. Angry, he wanted to kill her but then he stopped realizing that she was still carrying his son. He let her go to Antar in order to save the baby that he still thinks can't survive on Earth.
He regroups with Liz and the others on the mountainside. Max then tells Liz that in his life he was wrong about many things but not loving her. They embrace and the season ends with Max saying that he must save his son.
[edit] Season Three
Desperate to bring his son to Earth, Max digs through Tess's things and discovers evidence that leads him to a secret government facility that holds the reconstructed ship that brought him and the others to Roswell. It is underneath a convenience store in Utah. Having rekindled his relationship with Liz, the two of them hatch a plot. They stage a robbery, Liz holding up the store with a gun, while Max goes below to find the ship. He doesn't have the time to figure out how to work it, however, before they are captured by the police. Although the charges are dismissed due to the clever legal work of his father, Max's father demands to know his reasons for robbing the store, and, not wanting to get his father mixed up in the alien affairs, leaves the house to stay with Michael. Subsequently, Liz's parents forbid her to see Max again, and the two of them must carry on their relationship in secret.
Max continues his search for his son. He discovers that there was a second alien protector sent in the ship with them, but he abandoned his responsibility for a life as a Hollywood producer and currently goes by the name Cal Langley. Langley killed an actor who played a role in "Busted" in order to destroy Max and Liz's plan. It's Langley's fault if they got arrested and Max discovers it when Langley still tries to interfere with Max's search of his son and when Max realize it Langley threat his life again trying to make him return home. Langley's reasons of this behavior against Max lies on Langley's desire to be human even if he can't be because he doesn't have the DNA inside him like Max so he can't even feel things or be hurt by fire. So he did fear Max who could make him alien again. However, he can't kill Max no matter how much he wants because he's made to protect him. After discovering that his protector must obey to his direct orders thank to a genetic reason, Max forces Langley to help him find the ship again and use it in order to leave Earth, no matter Langley's advice about the ship. An advice that is actually right since the ship is too damaged to work and it crashes after some seconds without even leaving the hangar where it's situated. After the accident Max takes Langley to his place trying to help him and feeling guilty for what happened. Langley tells him that no matter if he's his protector by genetics, he will always hate him. But then after Max's apologies he understands that the boy was just desperate and he wanted to save his baby without knowing what to do. Then he gives to him one advice and makes him understand what and who he would have lose if the ship would have really worked.
However, Max's behavior hurts Liz because in the mess of what happened with Langley he didn't call her nor he did reply to her call and when Max drives all night just in order to get back to her as soon as possible when he finally is at the crashdown she doesn't welcome him with open arms and she tells him how she felt when he was away and how she still fells. This make Max understand even more how Langley was right and he finally break down in tears and discomfort admitting that he can't handle what happened with his son and he just failed again. He feels like if he not only ruined Langley's life but Liz's too. Seeing how sad he's she ultimately understands him and that something bad happened. She hugs him and he lets himself cry into her arms promising that he will never leave her.
With the failure of his plan, however, Max gives up all hope of finding his son till only one moment in the episode "Samuel Rising" where an autistic kid, Samuel (who never talked), calls him "daddy". Max starts to think that maybe his son is using Samuel in order to contact him so he goes to the kid trying to be friends with him and at the same time using what happened in order to help the kid too. However, he realizes that Samuel isn't his son and the reason of why he talked with him and "liked" him at first sight lies on how Max is special and "different" like him and he thought that maybe Max could have help him to communicate with his parents and tell them that he loved them even if he couldn't tell it like the other kids. So, Max, with Isabel's help who create a shared dream with Samuel and his parents, gives to Samuel what he wanted. What happened make Max realize that Liz is his family and even if he will really find his son this will not change. So he tells her at the end of the episode when they finally go at the ice skating together like he promised Liz at the beginning.
Later in the season, however, Liz begins developing alien powers of her own, evidently as a side effect of Max healing her over two years ago. She's sick and seems like if she could die. Max tries to find a solution and he's willing to contact even the FBI if it's necessary, but nothing seems to help her and it gets worse when trying to heal her with the healing stones she explodes crying and telling him that he always hurt her like when he slept with Tess. Max realize that even if she's stressed for what is happening to her she really feels this way and he was blinded for not realizing how hurt she still was. When he tries to talk with her about it Liz can't control it anymore and she realizes that she is losing her balance and she decides to take a break from roswell in order to understand who she's and what she wants since for three years she didn't got a chance and too many things happened to her. Crying Max respects it and he tells her that he loves her trying to make her understand that he will be there when she wants and he isn't angry with her for what she said. So, Liz goes to a boarding school in Vermont.
Back in Roswell someone kills Michael's friend, Monk at the Meta-Chem Corporation where they worked together. Later Michael finds that someone at the Meta-Chem Corporation is tracking him and most likely they discovered that he's an alien and they killed Monk for this reason. With Valenti's help, Michael tries to discover the truth but things gets worse when someone takes Valenti and Max, Michael and Isabel goes to the Meta-Chem Corporation in order to free him. Max is the one who finds him and he discovers that someone at the Meta-Chem Corporation lead by their female leader Meris was tracking Michael because they thought that he was the healer alien.
Meris wants Max to heal her old husband and when Max tries to explain her that he can't heal people who're dying for natural reasons, the lady blackmail him using Valenti's life and Max is forced to try the heal. However, something goes wrong in the healing process and instead of healing the lady's husband Max gives his life to the old man. Max become the old one and when the healing process ends a circle of fire emits from Max's body, the fire comes back to him and the room catches on fire. Jim Valenti tries to help Max but it's too late: when he reaches out to touch him Max turns into dust.
At the same time in Vermont Liz suddenly awakes feeling Max's death deep inside of her and knowing without any doubt that he's dead. But Max isn't really dead. His soul his still inside the lady's husband: Clayton. Clayton assumed Max's body like if they switched their previous forms. At the beginning the now young man is happy for the news but then while he's kissing his wife he's hit by strong flashes of Max and Liz together from Max's soul, and he rolls over, agonized. At this point he realize that Max is still inside him and he wants Liz, her memory makes his soul survive inside him and he understands that the only way he can get rid of Max is to kill Liz Parker. So, Clayton goes to the Vermont where the girl is but when he sees her he realize that Max's connection to the girl is stronger than he thought because all the times he's closer to her Max's soul become stronger and can take control over their shared body.
later when Clayton tries to kill Liz, Max takes control over the body in order to tell Liz to kill him. Liz doesn't want to hurt or kill Max but he jell at her saying that she must do it otherwise Clayton will kill her so she must kill them both in order to save herself. However Clayton takes the control again and while he's trying to kill Liz they both fall from the window to the ground of the school. While they're falling Max takes control over Clayton again and both him and Liz get flashes of their life and all the people they love. All Max see are his memories with Liz and how she's his whole life so realizing that she is in danger he sacrifices his life in order to save hers. He reaches out to project an energy field to break her fall without using one for himself. Then, even as Liz is cushioned in the protective green energy, Max fall to the ground without a protection. After a moment, the energy field blinks out and Liz drops down too falling closer to Max, them both lying still. Later, Liz wakes up and touching Max she realize that he's dead, now for good.
Then she tenderly caresses his face with her hands and bends over him in order to give him her last kiss. A single tear falls onto his cheek as she gives him all love but then, wonderingly, a glow of white energy pass across his face and it begins to transform, taking on Clayton's original features, then fading back into Max's till he wakes up staring into her tearful eyes. Max tells her that she brought him back from death. A smiling Liz tells him that now they're even and then with Maria's help they return home, Roswell.
In Roswell Max, Liz and their friends are still facing Max's death and "resurrection" when things gets worse because Michael, after Max's death, get the royal seal of Antar and become the king/leader. Michael can't handle this change and he starts to act like if he doesn't think anymore about what he do. He becomes dangerous and the group tries to find a solution. Eventually, Max takes the seal from him returning the rightful king again even if he never liked this role and Michael finally understands how Max was right about being the king and how it's not a game to play. Later when a ship seems to crash in Roswell, Max and Michael help a girl and her father who were trapped by the government.
Shortly afterward they discover that the crashed ship was Tess arrived back on Earth, carrying Max's son with her. Calling him Zan, after his father, she says that Kivar betrayed her and their deal and he rejected him as the heir of Antar because he is fully human so she had to escape from the planet and return to the earth in order to save her son. However, Max discovers that Tess, in order to force him to leave earth, mindwarped him about the baby, later on the end of season 2 when he thought that he was dying. Tess's arrival, however, has sparked government action because in order to protect her son she killed a whole military base. So, in the end of the episode, to ward them away from her son, she sacrifices herself, blowing up the military base and dying in the process and she asked for help the last person we could have thought about: Liz. Before dying she confess Liz that Max always loved only her and every time they were together she always got flashes of her from him (like it happened in "Departure").
However, what happened only proves to resurrect the Special Unit to look for the aliens, and realizing someone will always be after him, Max gives Zan up for adoption, for his own safety.
Shortly after that, Liz starts to receive visions of the future while she's touching people. When she and Max are making out she gets one of her visions and she see how the Special Unit will kill them at their own high school graduation. Not able to harm the Special Unit again, the group agrees to flee Roswell separately. Max give up his throne because they're a group and their lives are in danger, he can't make all the decisions anymore and after all, he never really considered himself as the king nor the leader and they all have the right to choose what they want to do with their life. Later, Max proposes to Liz and she accepts because they can't leave Roswell without each other no matter if they could die. However, at the high school graduation Max tries to sacrifice himself by taking FBI attention only on him in order to free the others but Michael saves him at last minute. After what happened the group make the decision to leave Roswell all together and not separately like they established before. Max, Liz, Michael, Maria, Isabel, and Kyle then depart from Roswell into a van and Max makes the decision to use his powers in order to help people. One of last scenes of the series shows Liz's father reading his daughter's journal where she wrote him a letter and told him about her wedding with Max and who he really was. What we see as the very last scene of Roswell is Max and Liz being married in a small chapel in the desert and getting back in the van, continuing their trek throughout the country with their friends.
[edit] Original Novels: Pursuit/Turnabout
The original novels take place after Max, Liz and the others leave town to run from the government.
In the last book - Turnabout, they are finally safe from the government when they wipe out all memories about aliens from the Special Unit. He and Liz are legally married at the end of the story, at the Crashdown Café.
[edit] Memorable quotes
Liz: Max, who else knows this?
- (From: Pilot )
Max: No one.
Liz: What about your parents?
Max: We don't tell anyone. We sorta think our lives depend on it.
Liz: So when you healed me you risked all of this getting out didn't you?
Max: Yea.
Liz: Why??
Max: It was you.
Liz: Sometimes, I just wish I could be invisible.
- (From: The Morning After)
Max: Sometimes, I wish I didn't have to be so invisible.
Max: What's so great about normal?
- (From: Blind Date )
Michael: You could call it that. Everything I have fits in this bag.
- (From: Independence Day )
Max: You have me. You have Isabel.
Michael: Say goodbye, Max.
Max: I can't.
Michael: We'll keep in touch, all right?
Max: It's not good enough.
Michael: Well, it's gonna have to be, all right? So say goodbye.
Max: I can't.
Michael: Max...
Max: I know what you're scared of, Michael.
Michael: No, you don't.
Max: You keep telling me how lucky I am...to have a great home, great parents. But in one way, it's harder for me, because when I screw up, I have no excuses. But you, you can do and say anything you want because you have Hank, and you can blame it on that. But what happens without him? It'll all be on you, that's what.
Michael: Well, leave it up to me to still screw it up, huh?
Max: It's ok, Michael, because if you do, we'll all still be there for you. Maybe you have to start thinking about someone other than yourself, Michael. The 3 of us belong together. There's a reason that we're together. We're family. So, go if you want to, but no matter where or how far, we will always be connected. Isabel and I wanted you to have this. It means nothing without you.
Liz: I just wish that I could have stopped you from saving my life that day in the CrashDown.
- (From: Destiny )
Max: Don't say that.
Liz: Max, the day that you saved my life, your life just ended.
Max: No, that was the day my life began. Liz, when I was in that room, and they did what they did to me. You're what kept me alive. The thought of you. The way your eyes look into mine. Your smile. The touch of your skin. Your lips. Knowing you has made me human. Whether I die tomorrow or fifty years from now, my destiny is the same: it's you. I want to be with you, Liz. I love you.
Isabel: What if I said I wanted to stay?
- (From: Departure )
Max: When we came out of the pods and we lost Michael, it was just the two of us in the desert and I knew that I wasn't alone - that I had my sister. To me, earth isn't home and whatever's out there isn't home but you're my home.
Max: Liz... they're taking our home from us. They want to kill us... and they might. But when I look in your eyes, I... I don't feel angry... or... deprived. I feel like the luckiest half-human on the planet. You're pure... you're true... and you're real. And right now that seems like the only thing that's important. I want to be with you Liz... forever.
- (From: Graduation )
Liz: Forever may only be twelve days...
Max: Then we'll take those twelve days... (He places the diamond in Liz's palm and closes her hand around it.)...and we'll live twelve life times.
Max: Liz Parker... will you marry me?
"Hi. I'm, ah, I'm Max Evans. I'd like to take this opportunity to say a few things on behalf of myself... and the graduating class.
- (From: Graduation )
Some of us are here tonight to walk across this stage, get our hard-earned diplomas and toss our caps in the air.
But there's another group here...tonight... a group of people who are here for another reason altogether.
They're here to say goodbye. Goodbye to their high school lives...goodbye to their family... and friends...
You see, this... this group has been through a lot... and tonight is the night... they've decided to call it quits.
It's been a long... hard road for them. They have a lot of... wounds. They've lost people... people that were close to them
They've had each other to cling to....but tonight, that's all coming to an end.
I'm a member of that group of... outsiders. I always knew I was different and for a long... long... time, all I wanted was to be another face in the crowd... but in the end... it wasn't possible. I guess it never was. So from now on, I'll just concentrate on being who I really am. Some of you might not like that. Some of you might even... find that frightening. (He looks up into the darkness again, an edge of anger in his voice.) But that's not my problem any more. I have to be who I really am and let fate take care of the rest.
So... thank you, Roswell...Thank you for... for letting me live among you. (Max looks out into the audience at his parents, and is now on the verge of tears.) Thank you for giving me a family. Thank you for giving me a home."
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