Roswell

The lives of three young alien/human hybrids with extraordinary gifts in Roswell.

Cast:Shiri Appleby , Jason Behr , Katherine Heigl , Majandra Delfino , Brendan Fehr , Nick Wechsler , William Sadler , Colin Hanks , Emilie de Ravin , Mary Ellen Trainor , Adam Rodriguez , John Doe , Garrett M. Brown , Jason Peck , Diane Farr , Devon Gummersall , Julie Benz , Desmond Askew

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Pilot

Mon, Oct 4, 1999

Liz Parker is an average teenager, until one day she is shot during an altercation at the Crashdown café, where she works. A fellow classmate named Max Evans rushes to her side and miraculously saves her from death. Liz later learns that Max, along with his sister Isabel and their friend Michael Guerin, are not really from around here. To be exact, Max, Isabel and Michael are aliens, who are survivors of the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. But, Max, Isabel and Micheal's secret is not totally safe, as the local Sheriff, Jim Valenti is beginning to suspect something is amiss.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Morning After

Wed, Oct 13, 1999

Liz suspects the new substitute teacher, Ms. Topolsky, is an alien hunter after spying her with Michael's file. Michael steals a key from the Sheriff.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Monsters

Wed, Oct 20, 1999

Isabel uses her powers to visit Maria in her dreams after she, Max and Michael begin to fear Maria will not be able to keep their secret.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Leaving Normal

Wed, Oct 27, 1999

Although Max has decided he must stay away from Liz, he helps her say a final farewell to her comatose grandmother.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Missing

Wed, Nov 3, 1999

Liz panics when her journal, which contains details of how Max used his alien powers to save her life, comes up missing.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ 285 South

Wed, Nov 10, 1999

A book entitled "Among Us" leads the gang to a geodesic dome where they discover information that may reveal Max, Isabel and Michael's origins.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ River Dog

Wed, Nov 17, 1999

Isabel finds a pendant which a Native American named River Dog claims an alien gave to the author of "Among Us" back in 1959.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Blood Brother

Wed, Nov 24, 1999

Alex, who knows nothing about the aliens, is shocked and suspicious when Liz and Isabel say they need a sample of his blood.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Heat Wave

Wed, Dec 1, 1999

Hormones run high when Roswell is hit with an unusual heat wave. Maria and Michael advance their relationship, Isabel notices Alex, and Liz and Max consider starting a relationship. After a night in jail, Liz must decide whether to tell Alex the truth or risk him going to Valenti.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Balance

Wed, Dec 15, 1999

Michael becomes very ill after an encounter with River Dog. Max and Liz have their first date. Alex questions Isabel about their alien side.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Toy House

Wed, Jan 19, 2000

Max uses his powers to put out a fire in his mother's kitchen, triggering her memory of how he healed a wounded pigeon when he was a child.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Into the Woods

Wed, Jan 26, 2000

The gang uses the Father's Weekend camping trip to search for clues about a recent "sighting".

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Convention

Wed, Feb 2, 2000

The annual UFO convention has Michael looking for answers while Max's life is in danger from an old friend of Valenti's. Max and Michael struggle with their feelings for Maria and Liz, while Isabel asks for space from Alex.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Blind Date

Wed, Feb 9, 2000

Liz wins a radio contest for a romantic blind date leading Max and Kyle to get drunk and try to win her back. Isabel and Michael leave a sign for Nacedo. Alex and Maria perform for the first time.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Independence Day

Wed, Feb 16, 2000

After his foster father becomes physically abusive Michael decides the time has come for him to leave Roswell.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Sexual Healing

Wed, Mar 1, 2000

Fleeting images that Liz sees whenever she kisses Max lead the couple to a radio tower where they discover an otherworldly metallic orb.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Crazy

Mon, Apr 10, 2000

Isabel makes friends with a new girl at school named Tess just as Ms. Topolsky returns with a warning that an alien hunter is tracking down Max.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Tess, Lies and Videotape

Mon, Apr 17, 2000

Although strangely drawn to Tess, Max finds it hard to trust her - so the gang decides to set up a hidden camera in her house.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Four-Square

Mon, Apr 24, 2000

Isabel and Michael share a shockingly erotic dream while Tess approaches Max with the promise that she will explain everything to him.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Max to the Max

Mon, May 1, 2000

A mysterious being called Nasedo assumes Max's identity and kidnaps Liz in an attempt to trap the secret government agent chasing him.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ The White Room

Mon, May 8, 2000

The gang must work together with Sheriff Valenti, Tess and Nasedo after Max is captured and held at a military base by a special unit of alien hunters.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Destiny

Mon, May 15, 2000

Even as everyone escapes from the military base Max and Liz realize they are not meant to be together and that Max's destiny lies with Tess.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Skin and Bones

Mon, Oct 2, 2000

When a geologist discovers the real Agent Pierce's bones in the desert, Valenti must work to protect Michael who is the chief suspect in the alleged homicide. Nasedo, who has been posing as Agent Pierce, returns from DC to help them, but discovers that there are far worse dangers among them. Meanwhile, Liz returns from a summer trip and takes a job in the local Congresswoman's office, a woman who is known to be suspicious of alien activity. Liz helps Max search for information about the mysterious element Cadmium X found in residue left on corpses killed by the aliens. Relationships are strained as the aliens have to decide between their supposed destiny and the way they feel about their human love interests.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Ask Not

Mon, Oct 9, 2000

After Nasedo's death Max senses he has to assume more of a leadership position and also realizes that Tess will be safer if she moves in with Sheriff Valenti and Kyle.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Surprise

Mon, Oct 16, 2000

A surprise birthday party for Isabel brings everyone together at the Crashdown, but she had already made plans that stun Max and their mom. Liz discovers that Congresswoman Whitaker has been recording her phone conversations. Michael confronts Courtney after finding pictures of her in Whitaker's office. Isabel has visions of Tess pleading for help; against Max's orders, she goes in search of Tess and is confronted by one of the Skins.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Summer of '47

Mon, Oct 23, 2000

Michael is assigned to talk to a WWII vet (Hal Carver) for history class and hears the story of the crash of the alien craft in 1947. Michael imagines the story with himself and his friends in the roles. The military actions and cover up surrounding the crash is revealed and Michael learns more than he bargained for about his own history and what else might be out there.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The End of the World

Mon, Oct 30, 2000

Max visits Liz from the future to persuade her to break up with him, which could result in the world being saved.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Harvest

Mon, Nov 6, 2000

The teenage aliens travel to the Skins' organization and destroy the husk factory. Skins' leader Nicolas determines to pursue them.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Wipeout!

Mon, Nov 13, 2000

The teenage aliens flee back to Roswell, where they find all the humans gone. They surmise that their disappearance is due to the Skins, who want to isolate the Roswell aliens, making them easier to find. Nicolas leads the Skins in the hunt but is unable to see the royal aliens due to a mind push. Courtney protects the Granilith.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Meet the Dupes

Mon, Nov 20, 2000

The punk, duplicate aliens from the second set of pods come to Roswell to persuade Max to come away to an interplanetary peace summit in New York.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Max in the City

Mon, Nov 27, 2000

Max and Tess arrive in N.Y.C. to meet with the leaders of their home star system, unaware that Max's counterpart was killed by the other three counterparts and Max is in similar danger.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ A Roswell Christmas Carol

Mon, Dec 18, 2000

The Roswell aliens celebrate Christmas with their friends and families.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ To Serve and Protect

Mon, Jan 22, 2001

Isabel enlists Sheriff Valenti's help after she receives numerous flashes of a young girl being kidnapped then buried alive somewhere near Roswell.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ We Are Family

Mon, Jan 29, 2001

Laurie Dupree, the girl who Isabel and Sheriff Valenti saved, suddenly claims she is being pursued by aliens and the conflicting information on the case causes Valenti his job.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Disturbing Behavior

Mon, Feb 5, 2001

Laurie breaks away from custody and reluctantly goes with Maria and Michael. They end up at her grandfather's house in Tucson where her aunt and uncle show her very little love. Meanwhile, Max enlists Liz's help to investigate the blue crystal that Michael found at Laurie's burial site. Valenti grows even more suspicious of Sorenson when he attacks Valenti in a momentary fit of rage. Valenti convinces FBI Agent Duff to investigate Sorenson further and she discovers an interesting pattern in his travel.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ How the Other Half Lives

Mon, Feb 19, 2001

Maria and Michael investigate Laurie's situation and find that the house really belongs to her, but her aunt and uncle paid to have her declared insane. Michael discovers the manner in which he is related to Laurie. Brody's body is possessed again and Max, Isabel, Tess, and Liz learn about the parasitic nature of the blue crystals and why they infected Laurie, but not all human beings. They enlist Alex and Kyle to help them search for the hive so they can stop the deadly spread of the parasite.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Viva Las Vegas

Mon, Feb 26, 2001

Michael feels like the $50,000 payoff from Laurie's aunt and uncle is haunting him and decides a trip to Las Vegas is in order. The whole gang ends up going, but Michael's special guy's vacation hits the rocks when he and Max argue after being arrested in the casino. The trip brings back memories for Liz of when future Max revealed they had eloped in Vegas at age 19.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Heart of Mine

Mon, Apr 16, 2001

The prom is approaching fast and our Roswellian friends are extremely excited, each looking forward to it for different reasons. Liz is going to ask Max to go with her, but her night ends very differently to the way she hoped it would. Maria wants Michael to go with her, but suspects he's having an affair. Kyle finally decides to tell Tess how he feels about her, only to discover that he was confused about his own feelings. Isabel finally 'sees' Alex.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Cry Your Name

Mon, Apr 23, 2001

When one of their closest friends die in suspicious circumstances, each character deals with it differently. Liz is in denial, refusing to believe that her friend would commit suicide; Maria falls apart, leaning on a surprisingly caring Michael for support; Isabel believes her friend's death was her fault; Kyle tries to stay strong and Max finds himself jealous that Sean is there for Liz when he can't be. Liz makes an accusation that could ultimately crush her relationship with not only Max, but the entire pod squad.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ It's Too Late and It's Too Bad

Mon, Apr 30, 2001

While investigating Alex's death Liz uncovers information that leads her to believe that the semester Alex supposedly spent in Sweden never really happened.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Baby, It's You

Mon, May 7, 2001

Liz continues to pursue her theory that Alex's accident was caused by an alien. Maria joins her investigation when they discover that Alex was at the University of New Mexico in Las Cruces instead of in Sweden. So Liz and Maria head to the University to find out what Alex was doing there and Michael follows them. After an intimate night together, Tess tells Max she's pregnant and forces him to consider their future.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Off the Menu

Mon, May 14, 2001

In events that are supposed to have taken place before the last several episodes (pre-prom), Brody remembers being controlled by the alien Larek and holds Max, Tess, Maria, Sean, and Maria's mom hostage at the UFO center. He demands to be told why he has been abducted and lied to.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Departure

Mon, May 21, 2001

Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess prepare to return to their home planet using the granolith and the directions from the book that Alex translated. They find that saying goodbye is not an easy thing to do. Max and Liz discover that the university student they believed to be an alien is not and therefore couldn't have been Alex's killer. Kyle and Maria's mom start to remember things that Tess had mind-warped them to forget.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Busted

Tue, Oct 9, 2001

Liz and Max get caught while apparently robbing a quick stop that happens to have a government storage facility with a space ship underneath it. The past three months are reviewed in flashbacks explaining how and why they have gotten to this point. Max's charges are dropped, but Liz is held because she was allegedly holding a gun. Meanwhile, Isabel has a new haircut and a new boyfriend - a secret one who works for her father.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Michael, the Guys, and the Great Snapple Caper

Tue, Oct 16, 2001

Michael takes a job as a security guard at a pharmaceutical company, Isabel and Jesse’s relationship deepens, and Liz and Max secretly meet each other despite Liz’s father’s objections.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Significant Others

Tue, Oct 23, 2001

Isabel struggles as her relationship with Jesse becomes more serious. She continues to see and talk to Alex about what's going on in her life. Michael and Max insist she not tell Jesse about their origins. Liz's dad holds his stance on her not seeing Max, but she continues to rebel and they argue. Michael enjoys the company of his new co-workers at the expense of time with Maria.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Secrets and Lies

Tue, Oct 30, 2001

Max heads to Los Angeles to try to locate the second shape-shifter to find out how to contact his son. Back in Roswell, Kyle and Liz discover information about a murder that the shape-shifter may have committed in 1959. Kyle's grandfather, sheriff at the time, believed it was an alien who killed the actress, but was ridiculed.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Control

Tue, Nov 6, 2001

Max strikes out alone for Los Angeles in search of the second shape-shifter, inadvertently discovering that he, the shape-shifter, is programmed to be a slave over whom Max has absolute control. With his unwilling help, Max attempts to use the saucer to return to Antar to contact his son.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ To Have and to Hold

Tue, Nov 13, 2001

Kivar, in human form, voluptuously inhabits Isabel's dreams and attends the wedding.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Interruptus

Tue, Nov 20, 2001

Kivar shows up in the form of Denny, a missing Roswellian, and causes galactic problems for the honeymooners.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Behind the Music

Tue, Nov 27, 2001

Guitar-playing Billy, an old friend and flame of Maria's, shows up and causes havoc between her and Michael.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Samuel Rising

Tue, Dec 18, 2001

A young autistic boy approaches Max at the Crash Down and speaks to him. Max believes it may be his son trying to communicate through the boy. Jesse is not impressed by Isabel's hectic holiday schedule and tries to get her to relax. Michael takes on the role of Santa to be close to Maria, who is volunteering as an elf with Liz.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ A Tale of Two Parties

Tue, Jan 1, 2002

Everyone ends up spending New Year’s Eve with someone else’s significant other: Maria and Max go to a rave, Isabel watches a movie with Kyle, and Liz watches over a passed out Michael.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ I Married an Alien

Tue, Jan 29, 2002

Eric, an old frat friend of Jesse's and an investigative reporter, comes to Roswell, needing a big story to save his job, eventually settling on Isabel, Max, and Michael as "the Roswell Aliens".

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Ch-Ch-Changes

Tue, Feb 5, 2002

When Liz begins to feel ill she suspects it is connected to when Max brought her back from the dead, and Maria gets an opportunity to pursue her life’s big dream as a singer.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Panacea

Tue, Feb 12, 2002

Two thousand miles away from Roswell Liz settles in at Winnaman Academy while Maria has a disappointing experience in New York City at her first professional recording session.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Chant Down Babylon

Tue, Feb 26, 2002

As the group tries to save Isabel's life after she is shot, Jesse discovers the truth, and Max's mind begins to resurface in the evil Clayton Wheeler's body.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Who Died and Made You King?

Tue, Apr 23, 2002

Michael realizes that he became the leader when Max died and begins to take matters into his own hands, rebelling against the resurrected Max. Jesse is having a hard time dealing with the news that his wife is an alien. Michael fears Jesse is telling his therapist too much so he threatens the therapist, who alerts the FBI causing big problems for the whole group.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Crash

Tue, Apr 30, 2002

Michael witnesses an Air Force plane crash into a UFO in the desert. The Air Force reports that the pilot died, but Michael searches for him, helping the pilot's daughter to learn the truth. While Jesse is out of town with her father, Isabel spends time with her mother. Both are interrogated about their lives by her parents.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Four Aliens and a Baby

Tue, May 7, 2002

The scientists studying the crashed UFO discover a baby inside, but to protect the baby, the other passenger kills them all and takes the baby on the run. Just as their parents are confronting them with a video of Isabel using her alien powers, Max hears an intruder and goes to the kitchen to find Tess holding the baby. There is little time to explain to their parents as they need to get out before the Air Force comes into the house searching for the alien. So now the group of friends must decide what to do with Tess as several of them want her to pay for Alex's death, but others aren't comfortable killing her. They must also trust that Isabel and Max's parents will not betray them to the government agents in pursuit.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Graduation

Tue, May 14, 2002

Liz has a premonition where she, Max, Michael and Isabel are all viciously murdered. Thinking that this event will take place in two weeks the group decide they must leave Roswell one by one right after graduation to save themselves and everyone they love. They find out only too late that their deaths, in actual fact, occur during graduation (which they are all attending at the time of realization).