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 The following storyline is not an actual transcript of an actual episode of Roswell. It is merely a possible storyline built on the characters. This particular story is a sequel to the previous storyline: A Separate Destiny.
 There is a universal hush at the Crashdown. Liz stares at her sister, who now stands at the doorway, watching her. She now understands how Isabel, Michael and Tess felt after seeing Lonnie, Rath, and Ava. She walks up to Rose.
"Hi."
"I haven't got much time," Rose says, peering about the room.
"Umm, maybe we should go out back," said Liz, sensing Rose's discomfort.
Rose nods.
Liz takes Rose's hand and leads her through the dwindling breakfast crowd into the back of the restaurant. She only stops long enough to connect with Maria, but before Liz can speak, Maria says, "Go on." "Thanks," said Liz, smiling.
As they pass through the swinging door, Nancy enters carrying a basket of laundry. She stops dead in her tracks.
"Mom," Liz begins.
Nancy sits on the sofa, shocked at the sight of her two daughters, together for the first time since they were very young children. She looks into Rose's eyes. They are no longer vacant. They show life.
"Rose?" she says, putting her hand to her chest.
"Mom."
"OMG," Nancy whispers. To hear her voice and so like Liz! She wasn't sure what to do. She looks to Liz.
"Let's go upstairs," said Liz, nodding. "We can talk."
At the UFO Center, Brody is picking up more signals, this time, microwave signals, similar to those from May 14. They originate near Roswell. Now if he could learn if the signal was incoming or outgoing, maybe he could find a way to track it. Where was Max? He should be here for this! It's been too long since he called him. He needed to share this with someone. Maybe he'd call in his lunch order early. He could tell Maria.
Max is outside the pod chamber. He looks to see if he was followed, but sees no one. He waves his hand and the door opens. He enters. It is quiet. Slowly, he proceeds through the pod chamber, carefully listening for any sound. He hears nothing unusual. The Granilith remains silent and keeps its secret.
Maybe it hadn't been the Granilith at all, Max hopes. Maybe Brody had picked up a different signal from Roswell. Maybe it was the Skins, or just some random signal. Slowly, he circles the Granilith. He thinks about Liz and how she knows so much about the Granilith.
Nicholas signals the homeworld from a moving location in the desert. He senses he's close to the Granilith. Somewhere out there, in the hills, the Granilith lay, the ultimate spoils of war. All he had to do was find it; then maybe they all could go home.
"This stupid, inferior husk," he mutters while scratching his neck. Kivar had selected it. Payback for his trysts with Vilandra? Well, it wouldn't matter if he found the Granilith. Then he could dispose of the Royal Four. But first things first. Courtney hadn't given him any information and he didn't get much more from Max. But now he knew HOW he could get to Max. The mind rape revealed all. Liz Parker.
Rose looks through Liz's telescope. Liz wants to ask her lots of questions. The silence kills her. Finally, she says, "You said you didn't have much time. What did you mean?"
Rose smiles faintly.
"Just that. You have a lifetime; I have much less than that."
"I don't understand."
"You have a mind," she states, pointing to her brain. "I have one on borrowed time."
Liz didn't know what to say.
"It's okay," assures Rose. "It's sometimes that way with twins. One gets a little shortchanged."
Liz feels a bit guilty. She remembers Rose when she first saw her at the hospital.
"But we do burn brightly, like a star before we enter that black hole," she continues. "There's no coming back."
"It's not fair."
Rose shrugs.
"I have so much I want to say to you. ... I just find you and I, I don't know where to begin..." says Liz. "Do you remember what you said to me in Phoenix?"
"About you and the king?"
"Yes."
"I've had lots of time to think about it."
"Is it true?"
"You don't believe it?"
"I'm so confused."
"But you love the king?" asks Rose, although it strikes Liz as more of a statement.
Liz nods.
"Well, then ..."
"It's not that simple."
"Nothing is simple. ... You're special."
"Special, HOW? I FEEL different, but I don't know how or why or what it means ..."
"You saved the king. ..."
"How do you know that?"
"I share your thoughts, at least, temporarily."
Liz sits back.
"But you think for yourself."
"I think, therefore I am ..." says Rose, slightly amused.
Liz frowns.
"I have to go back to work. I can't leave my friend too much longer. Will you be okay here?"
Rose nods.
"If you want to change into something else ..." says Liz.
"Thank you."
Liz nods.
"What do you mean, he's not dead?" says Lonnie.
"I dunno," returns Rath defensively, "He should be dead, but he's not dead."
"How do you know that?"
"He's been seen, man."
"Does Nicholas KNOW this?"
"Yeah."
"Zan is gonna kill us!"
"Yea, it really bites!"
"You really screwed up this time."
"Hey, you saw. He was dead dead."
"Okay, we gotta change the plan. I'll handle Nicholas," says Lonnie, then pauses. "We gotta find Ava. See what she knows. Maybe she's hiding him. If I can get to Ava, then I can get to Zan."
Rath laughs.
"Oh, yeah ... let's can the man!"
Brody is on the phone with Maria when Max descends the stairs.
"Hold on, Maria," he says, "Max is here." To Max, "You took your sweet time."
"I had a problem with the jeep," Max lies.
"Maria? Yea, it's okay. Mechanical problems. Lunch in a half hour? Great. Bring a sandwich for yourself. Thanks a lot. Yea ... bye."
"You said you were getting signals again?"
"Max, this is so incredible. Look, it's the same as before ... back in May. That thing activated," says Brody, pointing to the alien device, "when I started receiving the signals. It has to be some kind of communications device."
"Are you sure?"
"I can't think what else it could be for."
Max remembers Michael's description.
"Maybe it's something else."
Brody looks at him.
"Do you remember something? ... from your abduction?"
"No."
"The signal is coming from the north ... outside Roswell."
Max tries not to show his alarm.
"Where?"
"Not far from the original crash sight. Someone is here, Max. I thought it was impossible, you know, aliens on the planet. But what if it's true. ... What if extraterrestrials ARE HERE ... on Earth ... in Roswell? What if they've been here all along, since the crash? Wouldn't that be something, Max?"
Max remains quiet, but he feels his heart race.
Brody looks back to the tracking screen.
"Max, the signal ... it's moving! Look!"
Max draws closer to the computer screen. Yes, it's moving toward Roswell. Not the Granilith. Something else.
"False alarm?"
"I don't think so. If I overlay the data from the May incident, the signal appears to target a particular point, the SAME point in space. But I don't find anything astronomical body that intersects along the line ... except maybe where that super nova happened. There shouldn't be anything there now but a black hole."
"Can you tell if the signal is incoming or outgoing?"
"I suspect it's outgoing if it's moving ... though it's only a guess."
"Has there been a response?"
"None that I can tell."
I need to talk to Liz, Max thinks.
Nicholas stands outside the Crashdown, staring at Liz's balcony. Swiftly, he ascends the fire escape. And there she is, he thinks as he looks through the window ... Liz Parker. He puts on his sunglasses. "Showtime," he says.
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