The scene: Liz is working at a local diner in Roswell, called the Crashdown Cafe. The diner is not an ordinary one; it is covered with alien paraphanelia, and even her waitress costume is covered with pictures of aliens, in a space-age design.

Suddenly, a shot is fired, as two men start fighting. Everyone in the restaurant scrambles frantically. A teenage boy sitting at a nearby table notices Liz on the floor. He comes to her side and sees that she has been shot in the stomach. The boy holds his hand over her wound, and suddenly images flicker in the boy's mind. The images are of a young girl, in a cupcake dress. Liz suddenly becomes conscious again, and sees the boy. She recognizes him as Max, a mysterious boy who goes to the same school as she, W. Roswell High. He frantically breaks a ketchup bottle and pours it over her stomach, telling her that she just broke the bottle and slipped.

As Liz slowly got back to her feet, she could only watch Max's figure run out the door of the diner.

When the sheriff came to investigate, things seemed a bit suspicious. There was no bullet or bullet hole, though a shot was fired. Liz's waitress friend, Maria, tried to tell the sheriff about Max and his friend at a nearby table, but Liz claimed that this wasn't true. Valenti (the sheriff) didn't know what to make of anything, and basically believed Maria's story and as he left, noticed that there were two empty Tabasco bottles at a table near the counter.

As Liz got home, she still was a bit dazed, and didn't really know what had happened. When she saw the bullet hole in her waitress uniform, though, her eyes widened. What was even more shocking was the silver handprint she found on her stomach (where the bullet should have penetrated).

At school the next day, Liz and Max are partners in biology class. The assignment is to examine cells, like those one can scrape from the inside of one's cheek. Max suddenly asks to go to the bathroom; while in the bathroom, Liz takes the pencil that Max had been chewing on, and scrapes some of the saliva off. When she checks it out under the telescope, she is surprised to find different cells.

After class, Liz pulls Max into an empty orchestra room. Her boyfriend Kyle is playing on some drums there, but she quickly rushes him out. Liz gets straight to the point. She tells Max that she found a different type of cell when she scraped the cells off his pencil, and demands an explanation. This is when Max decides to tell Liz that he is, indeed, an alien (he points to the sky, when asked where he's from).

Liz immediately starts rushing out of the darkened orchestra room, but Max stops her just as she is at the door. He tells her quietly that she must not tell anyone, and that his life is now in her hands.

After school, Max is eating with his sister Isabelle and their friend Michael. (Cool stuff: Isabelle heats her taco with her hand; they eat a LOT of Tabasco sauce) When they find out that Max has told Liz their secret, they immediately get paranoid. Michael demands that it is time to leave, and that they always knew this time would come. Max and Isabelle are reluctant to leave their beloved foster parents, but Michael admits unhappily that his father only keeps him around for the "monthly checks."

As Liz is in the bathroom, she is stopped by Maria (who also goes to that high school). Maria demands to know why Liz has been avoiding her, and asks her about what really happened at the diner. Liz goes back to the ketchup, but Maria pulls out a receipt pad, and it is covered with blood.

Max, Michael, and Isabelle are driving back home. (Cool stuff: Isabelle listens to a CD by holding it up to her ear) A squad car stops them, and it turns out to be the sheriff (very small town). Although Michael feels they should just make a break for it, Max stops willingly. "They always pull kids over," he says reassuredly. Valenti only asks for license and registration, then mentions that there was an incident at the Crashdown Cafe, and to be careful. He then notices the Tabasco bottles in their jeep.

After Valenti leaves, Michael takes the keys from Max. They begin to argue about whether to leave or not, and Michael brings up the point that their relatives, the other aliens, were not around because they were killed. Max reassures Michael that Liz would not tell, but he remains the only one that is confident in her.

That same night, Liz is walking up to her house after a date with Kyle. She begins to ask him if he ever wonders, and he nods, but doesn't really know what she's talking about. She says goodnight, and reaches up to pull the cord to turn off the lightbulb. As she does so, her shirt lifts up a little, and the silver handprints shows a bit. Kyle immediately asks what it is, and Liz covers it up and says it's nothing.

Sitting outside and staring at the sky from an upstairs balcony, Liz hears someone calling her name. When she peers over the balcony (very Romeo & Juliet like), she sees Max, and he requests a talk with her.

Since Liz is a waitress at the Crashdown Cafe, she lets them into the darkened diner. Max admits that he has not been able to get the image of her in her cupcake dress. Liz realizes that Max had read her thoughts as he had healed her; Max then offers Liz the same exchange. He places his hands on her head, and they both close their eyes, and suddenly we hear Liz's overvoice. She tells us that she could feel his loneliness, and his love for her.

At school the next day, Liz admits that she is starting to return Max's feelings, only because no one has ever expressed those kind of emotions for her (let alone Kyle, who seems basically emotionless).

As she is searching for her bookbag in the orchestra room, she is fetched to talk to the sheriff. In an office, she is shown a picture of a corpse, where a silver handprint lay on the upper left part of the chest. Though Liz denies ever seeing it before, Valenti tells her that Kyle had mentioned the same mark on her stomach. (It just so happens that Kyle's father is Valenti.) He demands to see her stomach, and Liz shows him regrettably. She is surprised to see, though, that the handprint had disappeared. Valenti tells her that the handprint on the corpse disappeared soon after as well. Liz only remained silent. Then, Valenti returned her bookbag to her. Liz could only become more worried, since she had stuffed her bloodied waitress uniform in it.

Next scene: Valenti is trying to convince another man (probably from another unit, specializing in unsolved cases, such as those dealing with "aliens") from a higher department that there is something strange going on. The man, however, has no confidence in the evidence at all, and Valenti vows to follow his father's footsteps. It just so happens that his father was very involved in the UFO Crash of 1947.

Liz immediately goes to Max. She demands to know everything about his background, and threatens to expose him if he doesn't comply. Her questions are simple, like where did they come from, etc. Max doesn't necessarily know the answers, but he tells her the best he knows. When she asks for further proof of his alien powers, Max shows her how he can manipulate atomic structures, which is how he healed her.

Finally, Liz asks for the reason why Max healed her (since he risked his and his friends' lives in doing so). Max simply replies, "It was you." Pause. Liz quickly tells Max about her interview with the sheriff, and now it's Max's turn to be paranoid. When she mentions the photograph of the corpse with the handprint, Max's spirits lift. He quickly rushes out of the room.

That night, the anniversary for the Roswell landing is being celebrated (the "Crash festival"). At Liz's place, Maria (in leafy costume) demands to know what is going on. She also threatens to tell the sheriff everything she knows, especially the part about the receipt book with blood, and not ketchup, on it.

After Liz regrettably tells her, Maria goes crazy. She responds by babbling and basically, freaking out. As they are driving toward the celebration site, they see Max's jeep drive by. Liz demans that they follow them.

Eventually, both cars end up in an alley. Showdown. Michael begins by asking them to move their car. Liz refuses, and tells them that it is a better idea to stay, or else they will definitely have signed their own death warrants. She even tells him she has a plan. Finally, after some bickering about lives at stake, they decide to go by Liz's plan.

As Liz gets Kyle to come to the festival celebration, the others mingle within the crowd of very cool costumes.

Meanwhile, Valenti is in search of Max. When he finds him, he starts interrogating him. Max tries to deny anything the sheriff tries to pin on him, but gets nowhere, and suddenly finds himself being handcuffed. At the same time, Maria and Isabelle are working out the other part of the plan. Isabelle runs Maria over with her car!!! In costume, Michael comes to heal Maria, and leaves a silver handprint. When Valenti sees this, he immediately goes after the guy in the costume. After searching the crowd, he finally finds the costume, and when the suspect is unmasked, it turns out to be his own son.

When Valenti gets back to Max, he roughs him up a bit, but Max acts innocently, and the sheriff is forced to let him go. Before he does though, he vows to Max that even though Max is a smart guy, he is too, and he will get to the bottom of it.

At the peak of the celebration, a toy UFO is released down a string to assimilate what happened in the "Crash." As everyone cheers when it crashes and the remains burn, Michael, Isabelle, and Max can only stand watching, sadly.

When Max sees Liz standing by herself on a little hill above the demonstration, he goes to her. He confesses that nothing could ever happen between them, since they are too... different. Before he leaves, she stops him. "I never got to tell you 'thank you' ...for saving my life." Max can only say, "Thank you" in return.

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