River Dog

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“River Dog”
Roswell episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 7
Written by Jason Katims
Directed by Chris Long
Original airdate –
Episode chronology
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"285 South" "Blood brother"

River dog is the 7th episode and continuation of the 6th 285 South Roswell episode.

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[edit] Plot Synopsis

After getting out of the geodesic dome and finding the amulet, Max, and the others try to find out its meaning and find the Fourth Alien.

[edit] Episode overview

After finding the geodesic dome Max, Liz and the others realize they've been followed. It was Valenti and Topolsky, who knocks the Sheriff unconscious. Michael starts searching for any clues so they'd find it before them. Liz finds a way out and Isabel takes some sort of amulet.

At home they hide all the research material, then Isabel told Max to draw a symbol they used to draw as kids, then she shows him the amulet, the symbol matches.

Back at school, Maria indicates that Michael had asked her to come with him to Max and Isabel's house, to go through the information that they had gathered, Liz tells she will join her later, then goes off to talk to a bitter and sarcastic Kyle, who says he won't reveal what had happened the night before, until he has something on Max that will destroy him.

Agent Topolsky is being chewed out over the phone by her superior. He orders her to get the information that had been taken from James Atherton's geodesic dome.

Sheriff Valenti goes to the UFO Center, and asks Max's boss about James Atherton, and Max's boss indicates that James Atherton had written a book about aliens called 'Among Us', and he had mysteriously disappeared in 1959. Back in his office, the sheriff examines that the dust jacket picture of Atherton matches the photograph of the dead body with the palm print on it.

Max, Isabel and Michael head to Max and Isabel's house, and Michael indicates that Maria will be joining them, and when Max and Isabel express their displeasure at this, Michael gets all defensive and says that Maria had 'forced him' to allow her to come. Pulling up to their house though, they see it surrounded by the police, and Michael makes his escape. They then pull up to the house, and a dubious Sheriff Valenti tells them that their house has been broken into. Horrified, Max and Isabel go into Max's room, and discover that all the research material that they had gotten from James Atherton's geodesic dome has been stolen. In Isabel's room, the Deputy notices the locket that Isabel is wearing, and he says that it's from the Mesa Laka Reservation, where he had grown up. Michael, Max, and Isabel then go to see Maria and Liz, and tell them what's happened, and that they're being followed. Michael recognizes the locket that Isabel has.

Sheriff Valenti goes to see Ms. Topolsky and tells her about the break in at the Evans house, while dropping hints that he's on to her. Liz goes to see Max, and she climbs through the window, and literally falls into Max's arms. She tells Max that she intends to go to the Reservation to find out whatever information she can, to pay Max back for saving her life. Max is against this of course, but in the sweet and earnest way that has become Liz's trademark, she tells Max that she has to do this one thing. She tells him, in a firm but incredibly endearing way, that she didn't come to ask him for a permission, but that she needs the locket that may hold the key to their origins.

Liz then goes out to a trade store on the Reservation, and runs into a mysterious older Native American who recognizes the locket she has, and he tells her to give him the locket, and that the locket is dangerous and brings death. Later, back at the diner, Liz meets a young Native American named Eddie, who brings her a message from 'River Dog,' the man she had met the night before. Eddie has the missing corner from the locket that Liz had. He tells her to meet River Dog on the Reservation at 10:00 PM that night.

That evening, knowing they're being followed, Liz, Max, Isabel and Michael throw Ms. Topolsky off their trail, and Liz and Max meet up with Maria, who lends them her mom's car. Ms. Topolsky is stopped by the sheriff, and he indicates that he knows she's an FBI agent, and he tells her that he's ready to turn her in to her superiors. Ms. Topolsky, clearly corned, proposes that they work together and pool their information, and he tells her that he'll �think about it.

Max and Liz meet up with Eddie at the Reservation, and he says that he will lead them to River Dog, but they will have to pass a test before River Dog will reveal any information to them. Max and Liz get separated, and Max uses his powers to light up the area, and by doing so, he apparently passes the test that River Dog had laid out for them. River Dog then tells Max and Liz about the alien that he had encountered 40 years before, and that the alien had befriended River Dog and his entire tribe, and had lived among them. He said that the alien had also befriended James Atherton, and had given him the locket they had. Much to Max and Liz's horror, however, he then told them that the alien had murdered James Atherton.

Meanwhile, Michael and Maria, waiting for Max and Liz to return, continue to argue with each other, but at the end of their argument, Michael kisses Maria passionately, which he tells an obviously smitten Maria that he did it to calm her down.

The episode ends with River Dog showing Max and Liz a mysterious cave writing that was made by the previous alien, and he warns Liz to make sure that Max deserves her trust knowing she's not one of them.

[edit] Cast

  • Jason Behr as Max Evans
  • Shiri Appleby as Liz Parker
  • Katherine Heigl as Isabel Evans
  • Brendan Fehr as Michael Guerin
  • Majandra Delfino as Maria DeLuca
  • Nick Wechsler as Kyle Valenti
  • William Sadler as Sheriff Jim Valenti
  • Julie Benz as Kathleen Topolsky
  • Steve Hytner Milton Ross
  • Richard Schiff as Agent Stevens
  • Ned Romero as River Dog
  • Tod Thawley as Eddie

[edit] Powers Used

  • Max uses his powers to light up the area of the cave