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| narrated = {{Plainlist|
* [[Shiri Appleby]]
* [[Majandra Delfino]]
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| open_theme = {{Theme song|"[[Here with Me (Dido song)|Here with Me]]"|[[Dido (singer)|Dido]]}}
| composer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Joseph Williams (musician)|Joseph Williams]]
* Will Edwards
* Jon Ernst
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| country = United States
| list_episodes = List of Roswell episodes
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* Jason Katims
* Lisa J. Olin
* Kevin Kelly Brown
* [[Jonathan Frakes]]
* [[David Nutter]]
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| producer = {{Plainlist|
* John Heath
* Barry Pullman
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| runtime = 42 minutes
| company = {{Plainlist|
* [[Jason Katims Productions]]
* [[Regency Television]]
* [[20th Century Fox Television]]
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| network = [[The WB]]
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'''''Roswell''''' is an American [[science fiction]] television series that imaginespresents thea rumouredtimeline where the Roswell UFO exists, and its aliens are hiding in plain sight as a trio of high school -aged teenagers. Developed, produced, and co-written by [[Jason Katims]], the series debuted on October 6, 1999 on [[the WB]], and later shifted to [[UPN]] for the third season. The final episode aired on May 14, 2002. Sixty-one episodes in total were broadcast over the shows three seasons. In the [[United Kingdom]], the show aired as both ''Roswell High''<ref name="BBC">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/roswell {{"'}}Roswell High' on BBC"]. Retrieved on September 1, 2008.</ref> and ''Roswell''.
The series is based on the ''[[Roswell High]]'' young adult [[book series]], written by [[Melinda Metz]] and edited by [[Laura J. Burns]], who later became staff writers for the television series.<ref name="Sci-Fi">{{cite web |last=Lee |first=Patrick |title=Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz graduate from 'Roswell High' to TV |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue254/interview.html |access-date=2005-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207003845/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue254/interview.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive. --> |archive-date=2005-02-07}}</ref>
=== Main ===
* [[Shiri Appleby]] as [[Liz Parker]]: A teenage girl who learnsdiscovers the aliens' secrettrue identities after Max saves her life. The two develop a relationship afterward.
* [[Jason Behr]] as [[Max Evans (Roswell)|Max Evans]]: The Alien Leader of the Royal Four with the power tohealing healpowers. Throughout the series, Max struggles with his relationship with Liz, his mysterious alien past, and finding his placedeveloping as a leader.
* [[Brendan Fehr]] as [[Michael Guerin]]: Max's best friend. Michael is an alien who struggles to find his place on earthEarth. He has a relationship with Maria. His special power is never revealed and heHe has the most troubledifficulty controlling himself, especially when his emotions are strong. His special power is never revealed.
* [[Katherine Heigl]] as [[Isabel Evans]]: Max's sister, who struggles to fit in carryingwith the secretweight of her secret alien existenceidentity. Isabel has the power to "dream-walk", or enter people's minds during their dreams or her own.
* [[Majandra Delfino]] as [[Maria DeLuca]]: Liz's best friend who is in on the secret. She is in a relationship with Michael and struggles with it.
* [[Colin Hanks]] as Alex Whitman: Liz and Maria's best friend who helps them on their adventures andwhile hasnurturing a crush on Isabel.
* [[Nick Wechsler (actor)|Nick Wechsler]] as [[Kyle Valenti]]: Jim's son who hasovercomes initial suspicions about Max, butto eventually becomesbecome a friend.
* [[William Sadler (actor)|William Sadler]] as Sheriff Jim Valenti: The town sheriff who starts out as an enemy but becomes a powerful ally .
* [[Emilie de Ravin]] as Tess Harding: The "fourth" alien who was raised by Nasedo. Tess has the power to "mind-warp", or cause people to see things that are not really happening.
* [[Adam Rodriguez]] as Jesse Ramirez
* [[Jo Anderson]] as Nancy Parker: Liz's mother
* Nicholas Stratton as Young Michael (season 1): Appears in several flashback sequences
* [[Julie Benz]] as Kathleen Topolsky (season 1): FBI agent posing as a high school guidance counselor
* Jim Ortlieb as Nasedo (seasons 1–2): Alien sent from Antar to watch over the Royal Four. He has the ability to shapeshift.
* [[Michael Horse]] as Deputy Owen Blackwood: Sheriff Jim Valenti's assistant
* [[Steve Hytner]] as Milton Ross (season 1): Owner of the UFO center
* [[Richard Schiff]] as Agent John Stevens (season 1): FBI agent from thea special unit assignedtasked towith discoverinvestigating ifalien aliensexistence exist
* [[David Conrad]] as Deputy David "Dave" Fisher/FBI Agent Daniel Pierce (seasons 1–2): Head of the FBI special unit assigned to discoverinvestigate ifalien aliensexistence exist
* [[Devon Gummersall]] as Sean DeLuca (season 2): Maria's delinquent cousin who has feelings for Liz
* [[Desmond Askew]] as Brody Davis/Larek (season 2): New owner of the UFO center who has a young daughter and passion for researching aliens
* [[Gretchen Egolf]] as Congresswoman Vanessa Whitaker (season 2): Congresswoman for whom Liz is an assistant before her identity as a skin"Skin" is discovered
* [[Sara Downing]] as Courtney Banks (season 2): "Skin" who works at the Cafe and thinks Michael should be the leader of the Royal Four
* [[Miko Hughes]] as Nicholas Crawford (season 2): Powerful "Skin" who has the appearance of a teenage boy
* [[Jason Dohring]] as Jerry (season 2)
* Spence Decker as Kivar (season 3)
* [[Morgan Fairchild]] as Meris Wheeler (season 3)
* [[Joe Pantoliano]] as Kal Langley (season 3)
* [[John Billingsley]] as Himself (season 3)
==Production==
''Roswell High'' was originally developed by [[20th Television|20th Century Fox Television]] and [[Regency Television]] for the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Network]], thoughbut it eventually landed on [[The WB]] (retitled simply to ''Roswell'') thanks to the latter network's offer to extend a full 22-episode upfront commitment. The pilot episode was filmed in 12 days with a budget of $2,000,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hackwriters.com/roswell.htm |title=Teen Alienation from novel to screen |publisher=Hack Writers |access-date=2008-06-19}}</ref> "The Morning After," the second episode of the series, was the first episode with the full title sequence utilizing the theme song, "[[Here with Me (Dido song)|Here With Me]]" by [[Dido (singer)|Dido]].
==Filming locations==
[[File:Vasquez Rocks April 2005.jpg|thumb|right|Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park.]]
''Roswell'' was filmed in various locations around [[California]]. City Hall, Charter Oak High School, and several other businesses and residences in [[Covina, California|Covina]] served as locationsstand ins for the fictional locations in [[Roswell, New Mexico]], as well as [[Vasquez Rocks]], a {{convert|905|acre|ha|sigfig=2|adj=on}} park in [[Los Angeles County]]. Episode 1 of season 3 was filmed partially in [[Salina, Utah]].<ref name="Filming Locations">[http://www.seeing-stars.com/Locations/RoswellPhotos.shtml Roswell Filming Locations]</ref>
==Airing history==
The series premiered on October 6, 1999, on [[The WB]] in the United States to generally favorable reviews,<ref name="CNN">{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9910/14/roswell |title=Viewer alienation not a problem for teen drama 'Roswell' |access-date=2008-09-03 |last=Sydney |first=Laurin |work=CNN}}</ref><ref name=Salon>{{cite news |first=Joyce |last=Millman |title=From 'The Sopranos' to 'Greed,' a look back at the highs and lows of the year in television |date=1999-12-13 |url=http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/1999/12/13/best/index1.html |work=Salon.com |access-date=2008-09-03}}</ref> and it quickly gained an outspoken [[fanbase]].<ref name="Zap2it">{{cite web |url=http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274/75811/1/,00.html |title='Roswell' Finale Aims for the Stars |access-date=2008-09-03 |last=Kate |first=O'Hare |date=2002-05-09 |archive-date=2013-01-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105142816/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274/75811/1/,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In response to the problems the series had withlow ratings during itsthe first season, the relationship-driven stand-alone episodes of the early first season were to be replaced with more science fiction themes and multi-episode [[plot arc]]s. Starting with the second season, after a fierce fan-driven campaign involving bottles of Tabasco sauce—a favorite condiment of the show's alien characters—beingcharacters—were sent to the network's offices, veteran science fiction writer [[Ronald D. Moore]] was brought in to join Katims as an executive producer and [[showrunner]] and to further develop the science fiction elements of the show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mania.com/roswell-ronald-d-moore_article_24835.html |title=ROSWELL: Ronald D. Moore |access-date=2008-09-03 |last=Kaplan |first=Anna L. |date=2000-10-09 |archive-date=2008-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220032646/http://www.mania.com/roswell-ronald-d-moore_article_24835.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Not all fans responded favorably to the shift to more science fiction-driven storylines during the second season and the ratings continued to disappoint, causing the network to finally cancel the show on May 15, 2001, after the show's second-season finale, a move widely anticipated due to the sagging ratings.<ref name="Zap2it" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue213/news.html |title=WB Announces Schedule |access-date=2008-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514042620/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue213/news.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive. --> |archive-date=2008-05-14}}</ref> 20thHowever, Century Fox (theproducing studio that20th producedCentury theFox show) was able to persuadepersuaded [[UPN]] to pickcommit it up forto a third season as a package deal when UPN outbid The WB for one of its popular flagship series, ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. During the 2001 – 2002 television season, ''Roswell'', in its third season, aired directly after ''Buffy'' on Tuesday nights on UPN, though it was unable to hold on to the audience ''Buffy'' provided as a lead-in. This eventuallylet resulted into the show's final cancellation from UPN as well.<ref name="Zap2it" />
==Ratings==
===Season >
In the first season of Roswell, (premiering October 1999 on The WB) we meet high school students and best friends Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby), Maria DeLuca (Majandra Delfino), and Alex Whitman (Colin Hanks), residents of the small town of [[Roswell, New Mexico]], site of the famed [[Roswell Incident]]. Liz Parker's parents own the Crashdown Café, which serves alien-themed dishes. At the beginning of the pilot episode, Liz is waitressing in her parents' restaurant when a disagreement between two customers breaks out. A gun is fired, and Liz is shot. We are introduced to a character named Max Evans (Jason Behr), a seemingly normal high school student, who rushes to Liz's aid and saves her life by healing the gunshot wound with his alien abilities. The healing leaves a silver hand print on her stomach. To hide what he has done, Max pours ketchup on Liz before fleeing the scene with his friend Michael Guerin (JasonBrendan BehrFehr). The shooting acts as a catalyst for the rest of the series action.
Liz is presented as an insatiably curious character, obtaining a sample of Max's saliva, analyzing it, and finding that his cells do not look like normal human cells. When she confronts him, Max admits that he, his sister Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and their friend Michael, are aliens from the planet Antar, whose spaceship crashed at Roswell in 1947. A love triangle begins between Max, Liz, and Kyle Valenti (Nick Wechsler), the sheriff's son whom Liz was dating.
Much of Roswell's second season (commencing October 2000 on The WB) concerns the 'will they/won't they' love story between Max and Liz, now that Liz knows Max has an ancient destiny to be with Tess. While Max reassures Liz of his love for her, and while Tess feels ostracised from the teenage gang of friends, a new upset to this romance arrives in the form of "Future Max." A version of Max from a future timeline has used [[time travel]] to return to a point where he can refocus Max away from his crush on Liz and back to his destined relationship with Tess, to save all the characters from a dark future. Liz steps aside but maintains hope that she and Max will one day be together.
The second season introduces the Skins, another alien race from Antar who have been searching for the alien hybrids since they hatched. Their mission is to locate and turn them over to Kivar, who is now king of Antar. It is revealed that Liz's new boss, Congresswoman Whitaker (Gretchen Egolf), is a Skin and her brother Nicholas is the leader of the Skins. Along with renegade Skin Courtney (Sara Downing), a Crashdown Café waitress, who believes Michael, not Max, should have been in charge of Antar, the group travels to the town where Congresswoman Whitaker's ishome fromtown andto discoversdiscover the entire townit is inhabited entirely by Skins and that the Skinswho are ready for the "Harvest". Skins unlike "The Royal Four" do not contain a mix of alien and human DNA. In order to survive Earth's climate they create husks (fake bodies) which last around 50 years. Skins are so called because once their husks start to reach the end of their shelf lives, they shed their skin.
Nasedo, theTess's shape shifter who was protecting the teen aliens as well as acting as a-shifting father to Tess,Nasedo is killed by Congresswoman Whitaker, at the beginning of the season. Asand Tess has nowhere to go, she moves in with Sheriff Valenti and his son Kyle. ShortlyThe after,Roswell aliens destroy the "podHarvest squad"and destroysfind theout Harvestmore about their past. ItIsabel is revealeddisturbed duringthat theon "Harvest"their thathome Isabelplanet she was named Vilandra on Antar. Vilandraand was in love with Kivar, Max's enemy and rival, and betrayed her family in favor of Kivar. ThisThey hauntsalso Isabel so much it createsdiscover a rift between her and Max when they find out anothersecond set of alien clones of the Royal Four were created., Thelanding clones,on knownEarth asin the[[New "dupes",York areCity]], exact copies of Michael, Max, Isabel and Tess, only they grew up in the sewers of [[New York City]]. Their names arenamed Rath (Michael's clone), Zan (Max's clone), Lonnie (Isabel's clone), and Ava (Tess's clone). These clones have killed their Max/Zan and come to Roswell to convince Max to join them at a summit meeting of the families of the five warring planets.
Rath, Lonnie, and Ava come to Roswell after killing Zan to convince Max to return with them and represent the family at a summit meeting of the families of the five warring planets. Max and Tess go with Rath and Lonnie to New York, while Ava stays in Roswell because she is haunted by the death of her beloved Zan. Nicholas returns as a voice for Kivar, and it is revealed the owner of the UFO museum, Brody Davis (Desmond Askew), was used by an alien many times to communicate on Earth, acting as a puppet, explaining why he believes he was abducted by aliens although he has no memories of the incident. RathMax and LonnieTess tellgo Tesswith Isabel and MaxMichael's clones to New York, where they are told they can return to their home planet if they give Kivar the Granilith (the rock which came with the "podRoyal squad"Four when they landed on Earth), theybut canremembering goadvice homefrom to Antar.Liz, Max remembers what Liz told him before he left — "the Granilith could be dangerous if in the wrong hands" — and turns down Kivar's deal. Lonnie betraysstrikes thea others when she meets withdeal Nicholas inexchanging secretMax's tolife discussfor her desire toown return to Antar, as she remembers more aboutbut her past life and wants it back, regardless of whether Kivar gets the Granilith. Nicholas tells her that can be arranged as long as Max is dead. The assassination attempt fails, and Rath and Lonnie "disappear". Ava,Tess's stillclone inAva Roswell,is goeshaunted toby livethe adeath "normal"of lifeher Zan/Max and isremains alsoin not mentioned again; howeverRoswell, she does reveal to Lizrevealing that since Max healed her andshe broughtis herno backlonger evil, sheand hasher "changed"character andnever willreappears bedespite differentapparently fromliving nowin onthe same town as Tess.
For part of the second season,When Alex isreturns onfrom a trip to [[Sweden]]. However, shortlyhe afterfinally coming back and getting Isabel to see him as something more thanmakes a friendromantic andconnection start to love him,but he dies tragically in a car accident. Liz is devastatedsuspicious when she discoversof the police have evidence to ruleruling Alex's death a suicide. Investigatingand theconducts wreck,her sheown finds a torn photo of Alexinvestigation, causinguncovering herevidence tohe suspectmay thathave he wasbeen murdered. When Liz's voicessuspicions thepoint possibilityto thatone anof alienthe killedaliens killing Alex, she causes tension between the aliens and theshe humansdiscovers inthat theinstead group. Through her investigation, she discoversof Alex washaving neverbeen in Sweden, buthe had actually been livingin athiding a Las Cruces college. Liz, Maria, and Michael find out Alex had beenwhile working on the translation of the Destiny book. Even though they find the translation, they are unable to discover the identity of Alex's killer.
AsAngry Max is angry towardat Liz and her's investigations, heof growsthe closer to Tessaliens, andMax theysleeps end up sleeping together.with Tess discoverswho that she isfalls pregnant. andTess informs Max thatsays alien pregnancies last about a month. Theand that the baby can'twill not survive on Earth, soand the aliens make a collective decision to leavefor the planet,sake withof the knowledgebaby gleanedMax, fromMichael, theIsabel Destinyand translation.Tess Everyoneprepare hasto 24 hourstravel to saytheir theirhome goodbyesplanet. MaxAs andthey Lizsay make a last-ditch effortgoodbyes to findtheir Alex'shuman killer. Isabel dances with Alex's spirit at his grave.friends, Michael and Maria make love for the first time. Justand before the aliens are to leave, MariaMax and Liz realizemake thata Tess mindlast-warpedditch Kyle, who is ableeffort to recallfind Alex's deathkiller. MichaelLiz decides at the last minutediscovers that he'dTess rather stay on Earth with Maria and exitsis the Granilith.villain, Lizhaving rushesbrainwashed inAlex to telltranslate Maxthe thatDestiny Tessbook wasand theis oneresponsible whofor killedhis Alexdeath. TessIt revealsis that she mindwarped Alex to translate the book.revealed Nasedo made a deal with Kivar: Tess can return home safely as long as she's carrying Max's child, but she must turn over Max, Isabel, and Michael to Kivar. Max lets Tess go and the gang watches as Tess leaves Earth via the Granilith. Maria realizes Michael stayed for her. Max tells Liz he loves her and now must save his son.
===Season three===
After being cancelled by [[The thirdWB]], andRoswell finalreturned for a third season openson [[UPN]] with a storyline around Max's quest to save his son. Hewhich doesn't get off to a good start when he and Liz are arrested in Utah after holding up a convenience store. They both end up getting out of jail, but their actions have serious consequences for the rest of the season. Liz's father, who disapproves of the relationship throughout the series, threatens to sendsends Liz to a boarding school in an attempt to split the couple upVermont. Max, duringcontinues thehis holdup,hunt foundfor an alien ship being stored inand the basement, but when he goes back, the ship is gone. While they are in a Utah jail, Michael searches for evidence of a diamond (the key to the spacespaceship, ship)his that Max tossed in a field while being chased. A man approaches Michael andsearch warnstaking him and the others to stopLos theirAngeles search. This man is mysteriously murdered in L.A. bywhere a fifthshape-shifting alien. Knowingis theworking alien isas a shape shifter and in the film industry,producer. Max tries out acting and [[audition]]s for a role in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. The fifth alien is, in fact, a very successful film producer who is also Max's protector. Max,and againstthey discover the fifthlocation alien'sof wishes,an forces him to help find thealien ship, which is at a military base. They attempt to fly it, but the ship is too damaged from the crash in 1947. Max leaves L.A. disappointed, and he feels as though he has let down his son.
Isabel is revealed to bebeing haunted by Alex's ghost, but it is actually a figure of her subconscious. Sheand begins a relationship with [[Jesse Ramirez]], an attorney several years older than her and who works with Isabel and Max's adoptive human father. As the season unfolds, Max and Isabel'stheir father is diving deeper into the past of his children, due to Max not givinghappy him a satisfactory reason as to what happened in Utah, or whywith Max's wascriminal even there in the first placebehaviour. Midway through the season, Isabel getsmarries marriedJesse, much to the disappointment of her parents, Max, and Michael. Whilebut on her honeymoon withis Jesse,contacted Isabel comes in contact withby Kivar. Hewho awakensreawakens Isabel's evil past self, Vilandra, who betrayed Max and Michael in their previous life for her love with Kivar, which is the reason the four of them died in their first life. Kivar tries to compel Isabel (now reawakened as /Vilandra) to travel through a portal back to their home world, while Max and Michael attempt to stop them. In the end, Isabel pushes Kivar into the portal.
Michael and Maria are having trouble with their relationship, especially when Maria feels the whole "alien thing" is ruining her life and decides to take a break from the gang so she can try to live out a "normal" life. Michael takes a night job as a security guard during the night at a local pharmaceutical factory. But little does Michael know, thewhere ownerits ofowners thehave companyset hasa beentrap going through the trash to obtainfor Michael's DNA. WhenKnowing the owners find outthat he is an alien, they kill one of Michael's co-workers "Munk" to see if Michael is "the healer". But of course Max is the healer, not Michael, so he is powerless to save his dying colleague. Michael and Former Sheriff Valenti find a room with all of Michael's things and realize what the company has discovered;been Valenti, however, is captured.helping Michael enlistsuncover thethis help of Maxconspiracy and Isabelis inshot ordernear tohis rescue Valentiheart. DuringMax thegives escapeaway attempthis Valentiidentity is shot nearas "the heart from behind. As Max ishealer" saving Valenti's, life heand is taken by the millionaire's desperate wife and goons and coerced into healing the dying millionaire. Max is wary of doing so, as the millionaire has lived out his life and will die of natural causes, but he tries anyway. Max ends up transferring his youth, and the millionaire's body transforms into Max's body, killing Max. While Michael and Isabel try to come to grips with Max's death, a [[patrol]] of guards come. Michael and Isabel use their powers to destroy their vehicles, but Isabel is shot. Jesse sees the shooting and panics, insisting that they call an ambulance. Michael is forced to admit to Jesse that he and Isabel are aliens to keep Jesse from calling the authorities. Michael unknowingly inherited Max's powers after his death, and then he heals Isabel during an emotional moment. The millionaire is at his house in Max's body when he receives a memory of Liz. He can't stop thinking about her due to having Max's soul inside him, so he decides he must kill Liz in order to get rid of Max. He travels to Vermont with his reluctant wife to find Liz. He murders his wife and then sets his sights on Liz. As he is about to kill Liz, they both fall from the "Rat" (Rathskeller) attic window of Liz's boarding school. Seeing Liz is about to die, Max takes control over the body and uses his powers to save her life while he hits the ground. The millionaire's soul dies, and Max miraculously survives after Liz kisses him. The group heads back to Roswell.
A grieving Michael and Isabel use their powers to escape the millionaire's security staff, but Isabel is shot. Michael unknowingly inherited Max's powers after his death, and then he heals Isabel during an emotional moment. He also reveals their alien secret to Jesse, who was going to cal the police. Meanwhile the millionaire, in Max's body, starts receiving Max's memories, especially unable to stop thinking about Liz. He feels the only way to kill Max's soul inside him is to find and kill Liz, and so travels to Vermont with his reluctant wife to find Liz. He murders his wife and in a struggle, falls with Liz from a window of Liz's boarding school. Seeing Liz is about to die, Max takes control over the body and uses his powers to save her life while he hits the ground. The millionaire's soul dies, and Max miraculously survives after Liz kisses him. The group heads back to Roswell.
Meanwhile, the [[FBI]] has been studying the group for many months and is closing in on them. Liz begins to exhibit alien powers, including [[wikt:premonition|premonition]]s, toward the end of the season, which later causes her to become a target. When Tess returns with Max's son, Zan, the gang must group together and plan to escape Roswell. Tess' unexpected arrival causes the FBI to find more evidence of the aliens, including a video revealing Isabel's powers. Everyone is angry with Tess and at first tries to kill her, but instead end up helping her. Because of Liz's forgiveness, Tess decides to sacrifice herself by turning herself in and blowing up the military base. The baby is revealed to be fully human, as only Max's and Tess' human DNA produced the baby. Max, realizing his son can have a normal life, gives him up for adoption; showing the Evans' parents driving the child away to New York. ▼
▲Meanwhile, the [[FBI]] has been studying the group for many months and is closing in on them ., Lizand beginsafter Liz toalso exhibitdisplays alien powers inherited from Max, including [[wikt:premonition|premonition]]s, towardshe thealso endbecomes oftheir thetarget. season,Tess whichreturns laterfrom causestheir heralien to become a target. When Tess returnshomeworld with Max's son, Zan, the gang must group together and planthey totoo escapebecome Roswell.targets Tess' unexpected arrival causesof the FBI to find more evidence of the aliens, including a video revealing Isabel's powers. Everyone is angry with Tess and at first tries to kill her, but instead end up helping her. Because of Liz's forgiveness, Tess decides to sacrifice herself by turning herself in and blowing up the military base. The baby is revealed to be fully human, as only Max's and Tess' human DNA produced the baby. Max, realizing his son can have a normal life, gives him up for adoption; showing the Evans' parents driving the child away to New York.
The series closes with Liz getting a premonition of her, Max, Michael, and Isabel dying in an FBI setup, so they decide to leave Roswell after their high school graduation. With the realization he will be leaving Roswell, possibly forever, Michael professes his love for Maria and she makes the decision to be with him no matter what. After Liz, Max, Michael, Isabel, Maria, and Kyle escape from their high school graduation, where the FBI setup is, they hit the road in a van, where there are several emotional goodbyes, especially between Kyle and his father, Jim Valenti. Isabel decides to leave her husband behind in order to save his life. The final scenes of the show feature Max and Liz getting [[married]] and Liz's father reading her journal, chronicling the last three years. The series closes with Liz climbing into the van in her wedding dress and narrating, "I'm Liz Parker, and I'm happy". ▼
▲The series closes with Liz getting a premonition of her, Max, Michael, and Isabel dying in an FBI setup, so they decide to leave Roswell after their high school graduation. With the realization he will be leaving Roswell, possibly forever, Michael professes his love for Maria and she makes the decision to be with him no matter what. After Liz, Max, Michael, Isabel, Maria, and Kyle escape froman FBI setup at their high school graduation , where the FBI setup is, they hit the road in a van, where there are several emotional goodbyes, especially between Kyle and his father, Jim Valenti. Isabel decides to leave her husband behind in order to save his life. The final scenes of the show feature Max and Liz getting [[married]] and Liz's father reading her journal, chronicling the last three years. The series closes with Liz climbing into the van in her wedding dress and narrating, "I'm Liz Parker, and I'm happy".
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