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SKIN AND BONES
This is from the first scene. Normally I won't be typing in everything word for word, but I felt the stage directions and exact wording set the pass for this season.
INT THERAPY OFFICE – DAY
Max sits on an orange vinyl couch, silent, awkward, across from...
JOHN SHANAHAN(30’s) the therapist, nods soothingly.
JOHN
Your Parents seem concerned about Max. Deeply concerned.
Max is silent.
JOHN (cont’d)
Max. I want you to know that however unique you think your problems may be, there are millions of teenagers going through exactly what you’re going through right now. Let me assure you, this is all normal teenage....stuff . Can you try and tell me what’s been going on?
We PUSH IN on Max as he begins to speak...
MAX
Well. I guess the natural place to start is that I’ an alien. A hybrid, actually – you know, human DNA mixed with alien DNA, that kind of thing.
We are now extremely close up on Max looking back at us, he continues without apology, and we
SEE A SERIES OF IMAGES FROM SEASON 1
---POD CHAMBER (From FOUR SQUARE) young Max breaks out of his pod as young Isabel and young Michael await him.
MAX (V.O.)
Oh, I almost forgot - my sister, Isabel and our friend Michael are also aliens.
---MICHAEL, ISABEL and MAX (TBD) out in the desert
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
We didn’t know where we came from, who sent us. Or Why. For the past ten years we’ve been aging much like humans. But clearly we’re different.
---ISABEL turns mustard to ketchup.
---MAX changes sculpture.
---MAX passes VALENTI, tries to look anonymous.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
From the beginning we had the instinct to keep this to ourselves. To hide in plain sight.
---MAX looks at LIZ in the cafe.
(V.O. cont’d)
Then one day last fall everything changed.
---A gun is fired.
---Liz falls, shot.
---Max approaches. Heals her.
(V.O. cont’d)
With a simple twist of fate. Our secret was sacrificed. We were exposed.
---Liz watches Max and Michael make a quick exit.
(V.O. cont’d)
Which admittedly had its plus sides.
---Max and Liz kiss on Liz’s rooftop.
---Michael and Maria kiss.
---Isabel and Alex laughing.
(V.O. cont’d)
The sic of us we connected by the secret we shared.
---The six of them on the rock quarry.
---TESS, with Isabel, meets Max and Michael for the first time in the Evans kitchen. (CRAZY)
(V.O. cont’d)
There was also Tess. A hybrid like us. Part human, Part alien. And then there was Nesado.
---HARDING shapeshifts out of the wall.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
...He’s a shapeshifter. Which means he can take on any human form. A skill that could really come in handy since....
---The Special Unit Hummer shoots out the back window of the Jetta.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
...there are people out there who would do anything to find us. And if the found us...
---Max is tortured in the White Room.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
...there is not limit to what they would do.
---HARDING SHAPESHIFTS into Nesado Mathison.
---NASEDO MATHISON and Michael save Max from the White Room.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
Fortunately, we used Nasedo’s abilities....
---Harding shapeshifts into Pierce.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
To infiltrate the Special Unit of the FBI.
(beat)
Of course, we had skills of our own....
---Isabel dreamwalks Pierce
---Tess repairs the Buddha with her powers.
---Michael creates a disturbance at the Jeep.
---Michael kills Pierce.
MAX (V.O. cont’d)
And as much as we tried to convince ourselves that we could live a normal life the truth is we couldn’t/
---Pod Chamber – they activate the orbs and MOTHER appears,
we see a clip of the Mother laying out the basics of her message: Max is betrothed to Tess and Michael to Isabe, Max is their leader, evil aliens are on Earth, the kids must defeat them and return home to save their planet. (DESTINY)
---Liz walks away from Max at Vasquez Rocks.
MAX (V.O, cont’d)
But there was a price to discovering our true nature. I lost the only girl I ever loved.
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