Roswell (TV Series)

The Departure (2001)

Jason Behr: Max Evans

Quotes 

• Max : I always thought when we graduated I would give you my ring. It looks like I won't graduate, so this is something from where I'll be.

  [He gives her the necklace from the first season] 

  Liz Parker : I can't believe that this is what I have of you. I can't believe that after everything...

  Max : Liz. You never slept with Kyle, did you?

  [Liz shakes her head] 

  Max : I wish... I wish this all could have been different. I wish that so much.

  [They kiss] 

  Liz Parker : I guess this is goodbye. Just tell me one thing. Do you love her?

  Max : Not like I love you.

• Isabel : [Taping themselves with a video camera]  We want you to know that we love you so much. We're orphans, we could have ended up anywhere, with anyone, but we got you. What is it they say? There but for the grace of God. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to leave you, but we have to go. I wish we didn't, I wish I could just be your girl forever, but um...

  Max : You were great parents to us. We will always, always love you. Thank you, for everything. And goodbye.

  [Turns off camera] 

• Max : [to Liz]  I've been really wrong about a lot. But I was right about one thing. To get you into my life, to be around you. To love you.

  Maria : [to Michael]  You opened the door and you came out, why?

  [Michael doesn't say anything] 

  Maria : You stayed for me.

  Isabel : What happens now, Max?

  Max : I have to save my son.

• Isabel : What if I said I wanted to stay?

  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.

• [after everyone else leaves the Granolith Chamber] 

  Max : [to Tess]  Did you kill Alex?

  Tess : I didn't want to. I wish I hadn't, but I did.

  Max : Why?

  Tess : Look Max, the-the clock's ticking, we don't really have time...

  Max : Tell me why!

  Tess : He would have told you what I did and I couldn't let that happen.

  Max : So you just, you just killed him?

  Tess : I didn't mean to. His brain was just so weakened by the mindwarp, and... look, none of this matters now.

  Max : Life matters Tess. My life, your life, his...

  Tess : What matters is getting home, but you could never understand that could you? I might have been able to teach you but that stupid bitch had you wrapped around her...

  Max : Don't you ever call her that!

  Tess : See! Look how fast you run to her defense! Why couldn't you ever feel that about me? I'm your wife, Max! I'm carrying your child!

  Max : This was all some kind of plan to get pregnant and go home, wasn't it? Home to what, Tess? To Kivar? To our enemies?

  Tess : They're not my enemies, Max.

  Max : You made a deal with them, with Kivar.

  Tess : No, Nacedo made a deal, 40 years ago.

  Max : What was the deal? Tell me!

  Tess : To return home with your child, and deliver the three of you to Kivar.

  Max : And what would happen to us once you delivered us?

  [Tess doesn't answer] 

  Max : How did I ever fall in love with someone like you? How could I ever marry you?

  Tess : You were different - you were a king! Now you're just a boy.

  [Max raises his hand to Tess' neck] 

  Tess : You kill me, Max, you kill our son.

  Max : [agonized]  Go. This isn't over, Tess

  [Max leaves the Granolith chamber] 

• Max : I need you to protect Liz, Maria and Kyle.

  Valenti : With my life. It's been an honor to know you, Max. It's been an honor.

  Max : Same here.

• [Michael leaves the Granolith Chamber and finds Liz, Maria and Kyle outside the door] 

  Maria : Liz!

  Maria : [to Michael]  Tess killed Alex!

  Micheal : What?

  Maria , Micheal , Kyle , Liz Parker : [Michael, Liz, Maria, and Kyle rush into the Granolith Chamber] 

  Liz Parker : Max stop! It was Tess. Tess killed Alex. She mindwarped Alex and sent him to Las Cruces to decode the book, but he broke out of the mindwarp and she killed him.

  Kyle : It's true, I was there, I witnessed it.

  Max : Why didn't you ever say anything?

  Kyle : Because she mindwarped me!

  Kyle : [to Tess]  You lived in my home, you were like my sister!

  Max : [looking at Tess but to Micheal]  How long?

  Micheal : About 3 minutes.

  Max : Everyone out.

  Micheal : Max...

  Max : Now!

  [everyone else leaves besides Tess and Max] 

• Micheal : Max, I can't go. Ever since we came out of the pods, I've been on some quest to figure out where I belong. I finally found home. The weird thing is... it's here. It's on Earth.

  Max : You of all people...

  [They hug] 

  Max : Take care of yourself, Michael. I love you.

  Micheal : You're a great brother.

  Max : [to Isabel]  I would understand...

  Isabel : What you said before... You're my home too.

• [Max gets out of the Granolith chamber] 

  Isabel : MAX!

  Max : Quick, go. Let's go!

  [Max, Liz, Michael, Maria, Isabel and Kyle run away from the chamber, and stand to watch as the chamber disintegrates and a ship shoots out into the sky] 

  Max : [to Liz]  I've been really wrong about a lot. But I was right about one thing: To get you into my life, to be around you, to love you.

  Maria : [to Michael]  You opened the door and you came out - why?

  [It dawns on her] 

  Maria : You stayed for me.

  Isabel : What happens now, Max?

  Max : I have to save my son...

• Isabel : So what now Max?

  Max : We save my son.

• Liz Parker : I jumped off bridges for you, I broke laws for you, I risked getting shot for you, I trusted you! And you go off - God, with Tess! I saved myself for you!

  Max : Saved yourself? You slept with Kyle