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Citrus and Vine · 05-18-2006, 01:25 AM

Hi, everyone!

Naturally, each person can decide the theory they prefer.

Misha, you say, ”Nasedo told Michael, Tess and Isabel that he knew Eagle Rock Military Base intimately because he had escaped once, and that Pierce told Max that -he believed- the one named Nasedo was the one who escape from the White Room in 1950.”

Pierce didn’t say that Nasedo escaped in 1950. Here is the scene between Max and Pierce:

PIERCE: All right. How about this: May second, 1999, Agent Daniel Summers, the man who brought me into this unit, the man whose job I now have, did you kill him, too? Or was it one of the others?
MAX: What others?
PIERCE: You know, I might not have been around in 1947, but I know all about the crash. About the four aliens they captured: two dead, two alive. I’ve spent my entire career studying the documentation. Especially the three years of observation they made on the one held in captivity, right here in this room.
MAX: I thought you said there were four.
PIERCE: One of them escaped. Nasedo. Isn’t that what you call him?

Notice that Pierce doesn’t say what year the alien from the 1947 crash escaped. He says that one alien, the one who didn’t escape, was held for three years in the white room. The other alien escaped at an unspecified date.

Pierce guessed that the alien who had escaped was named “Nasedo”, because he watched a taped conversation between Michael and Isabel, about Liz’s vision.

(Scene: At an undisclosed location, someone is watching a video of Isabel and Michael in Michael’s apartment, taken with the hidden surveillance camera.)
ISABEL: That would mean that each of us has this information in some part of us we’re just not conscious of.
MICHAEL: Or Liz is getting the messages from somewhere or someone else.
ISABEL: Nasedo?
(Tape rewinds.)

Again, Pierce knew the name Nasedo, because Isabel mentioned the name Nasedo in the video Pierce watched of Michael and Isabel’s conversation in Michael’s apartment. [Pierce repeatedly watches the tape, in the episode Max to the Max. The taped scene in Michael's apartment occurred in the episode Sexual Healing.]

Pierce lacked any personal knowledge of the name of the alien who had escaped. Pierce didn’t know that Ed Harding, who came into the Sheriff’s office, was Nasedo. Michael and Isabel didn't know who Nasedo was, when they were discussing him, in the taped scene.

Nasedo knew the Special Unit and the base intimately. Nasedo told Isabel and Michael that he knew it intimately, because he had escaped it once. Nasedo knew that Isabel had doubts about belonging with him.

ISABEL: I don’t think we belong with him.
MICHAEL: He’s Nasedo, what choice do we have?
ISABEL: We could go back up there ourselves.
MICHAEL: Four is stronger than two. We need them.
ISABEL: He could be working for Pierce. You know, we don’t know anything for sure.

By telling Isabel and Michael that he had once escaped the place, Nasedo was justifying how he knew so much about the place.

Nasedo knew exactly where Max was, even though Nasedo claimed that he couldn’t get past the security door. And, even though Nasedo claimed that he couldn’t get past the security door, without Michael’s help, Nasedo refused to leave with Michael and Max. Nasedo didn’t kill Pierce in the white room, even though he stood right next to him.

Because Nasedo didn’t kill Pierce, Pierce ordered a lock-down. If Michael hadn't authortatively told the agent to go help Pierce or if the Sheriff hadn’t arrived at the right moment and shot Pierce, then Michael and Max would have been captured and held.

Nasedo knew the base intimately, because he planned for Max and Michael to be captured and held on the base. Once they were both captured, then Nasedo could shape-shift to look like Michael or Max and then get Isabel and Tess captured, too.

Misha, you quote a portion from this scene, in the episode Control, between Kal and Max, as explaining why you think that Kal was a protector.

KAL: Why do you think I know where this ship is?
MAX: You knew it was in Utah.
KAL: Who else knows?
[Max, coughing]
MAX: Please, the...
KAL: Answer me!
[Max, breathing hard, then coughing]
KAL: So, this is the mighty King of Antar. A low-rent Tom Cruise with a $10 haircut? Buddy boy, you have no idea what you're gettin' yourself into.
MAX: I came all this way to find you. I need your help. You're our protector.
KAL: Don't call me that. Yeah... I was put on that ship to protect you. But that was 50 years ago.

In the scene, it is Max, who first believes that Kal is their protector, because Kal knew about the spaceship in Utah. But Max doesn't know all the bad things that Kal and Nasedo each did against him and the others.

Notice that Kal told Max not to call him protector. Kal knew that if Max had instructed Kal to protect, then Kal would have had to protect Max. But in the scene, Kal didn’t protect Max.

In the scene, Kal has his foot on Max’s face and chest. Before that, Kal had blasted Max into the wall, causing Max to go unconscious. Kal set fires in the small room. Kal wanted Max dead. Kal wasn’t a protector. He hadn’t been programmed to protect Max. His genes weren’t encoded to protect. Kal abused and harmed Max.

Kal wasn’t the kind of person that would be selected to protect people. He lacked the personality and the loyalty to protect anyone, except himself. Kal was a selfish, abusive person. He harmed Max, without provocation. He got Max arrested in Utah, to keep Max from the spaceship. Kal knew that Max could fly the ship away, by himself. Kal interfered in Max’s life, to keep Max from the spaceship. Kal wanted the spaceship for himself, in case he needed or wanted to leave Earth.

I think that Kal and Nasedo arrived on Earth around 1958-1959. I think they arrived on the beautiful, fully functional ship they hid under the convenience store in Utah. Neither Kal nor Nasedo behaved as protectors.

Nasedo began his silver handprint murders in 1959, with Atherton’s murder, in order to locate Max/King Zan, who healed people, leaving a silver handprint. Nasedo left his victims in plain view for humans to discover, so that humans would report silver handprint incidents. Nasedo didn’t know in 1959 that the Royal Four were in hibernation pods, hidden in the rock formation. Nasedo couldn’t find Max, Michael or Isabel, until after Max healed Liz. So, I don’t think that Nasedo had ever been part of the 1947 mission. Otherwise, Nasedo should have been able to find Max, Michael, and Isabel sooner.

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