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Learn How ROSWELL Ends!!

I am – Hercules!!

Kudos to Coax regular Cher and her valient roswellatemysoul.com site, which provided the Herc with details on “Roswell” 3.17 and 3.18, which Cher believes to comprise “Roswell’s” two-hour season (and perhaps series) finale.

MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Here’s what we’ve learned:

* 3.17 is titled (at least provisionally) “Four Aliens and a Baby.”

* 3.18 is titled (at least provisionally) “Graduation.” (Did you know? “Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s” two-hour third-season finale was titled “Graduation Day.”)

3.16

* Isabel is caught on videotape using her superpowers in this episode. That tape will soon fall into the hands of the Air Force.

* A military man named Major Carlson will be introduced in 3.16 and will reappear in 3.17.

3.17

* The episode takes place only a few days after Max’s turning to dust.

* Despite turning to dust, Max lives on. (If one peeks at this week’s TV Guide listing, it becomes fairly obvious how Maxwell manages to resurrect himself.)

* In the teaser, Air Force personnel have acquired and taken to an airplane hanger a downed alien spacecraft – containing Max’s infant son. It also contains someone who moves – and kills – at superhuman speed.

* Tess, the mother of Max’s space-child, is back for the first time this season. After examining surveillance footage depicting Tess leaving the hanger, the Air Force decides (rather understandably) that Tess is responsible for the deaths of all nine witnesses to the carnage.

* The military police are soon looking for Tess, and carry surveillance photos of the bad blonde alien. They cover their search by pretending to look for terrorists.

* At one point, Liz considers revealing Tess’s hiding place to the authorities.

* Max, Michael, Tess and space-child will endeavor to breach a military roadblock. Tess uses her familiar Jedi mindwarp to confuse the weak-minded military police. She is less than wholly successful when space-baby begins to squawl.

* Snapple continues to overtake Tobasco as the series’ dominant third-season culinary motif.

* Things are still strained between Jesse and Iz. (Jesse finally learns of his bride’s troubling alien heritage this week, in 3.14.)

* Max and Iz’s parents will have learned their kids are aliens by the third act of 3.17.

3.18

* Tess and child seem to be gone again by this point.

* Maria learns from fortune teller Madame Vivian and she and Michael will be separated forever. When she tells Michael, he cries fakery.

* Tess’ reappearance will apparently do little to inhibit the romanace shared by Max and Liz, who spend at least part of this episode tonguing each other unreservedly.

* Harvard Schmarvard! Liz seems to be planning to go to college in Chicago (Northwestern?) next autumn. Max seems cool with the idea, suggesting he might follow her there.

* Kyle approaches his boss at the garage about becoming a partner and maybe expanding the business. Toby, the boss, just laughs him off. Jim Valenti accidentally overhears.

* The USAF, having seen what Iz can do, considers abducting her.

* Deciding that Iz may not be the only alien, the military orders that she be watched 24/7.

* Liz exhibits a new superpower not unfamiliar to either Johnny Smith or Cordelia Chase.

* Finally, some sad and funny and kind-of-brilliant third-act Crashdown dialogue that’s in the script but may or may not be heard in the episode:
  • CUSTOMER: Do you recommend the Smallville salad?
  • LIZ: It would be hard for me to do that actually.
  • CUSTOMER: Hm. Alright, I guess I’ll just stay with the Roswell burrito.
  • LIZ: Smart move. This is actually the last night for the Roswell. New menus tomorrow and it didn’t make the cut.
  • CUSTOMER: What?! I’ve been eating the Roswell burrito for the past three years. It’s a classic.
  • LIZ: Hey, I just work here. I don’t decide what’s on the menu.

Wah! ”Roswell” 3.14 airs Tuesday. The show will then disappear from the UPN schedule until late spring, at which point we’ll get the final four episodes of season three.

I am – Hercules!!





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