DEPARTURE

Here is the cut Jeep scene from Departure!

EXT. CRASHDOWN CAFE - NIGHT
Max and Liz sit out front in the Jeep. They face forward. No matter what divisions there are between them now, they are both faced with having to say good-bye to each other and it's making them both think about what they still feel for each other. Max removes the Pendant from his pocket. (The Pendant from their planet they found in Season One.)

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

Liz: (quiet, sad) I don't need anything to remember you, Max. I need something to forget you.

Max: Please.

She takes the pendant. Holds it in her hands, looks at it.

Liz: (quiet, sad) I can't believe that this is what I of you. I can't believe it. After everything.

Max looks at her, he just has to know:

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

There's a long pause. If she's not going to tell him now, then when. She begins to tell him the story, she speaks simply without anger.

Liz: You came to me, Max. You came back from the future.

Max: What are you talking about?

Liz: You showed up from fourteen years in the future to tell me the survival of the world depended on you and Tess getting together. That I had gotten in the way.

Max takes this in...

Liz: (cont'd) In this other life. This life that will never happen. We got married. We eloped to Vegas when we were nineteen.

Max: That vision I had of us married in Vegas --

Liz: Was real. Yeah. Anyway, I had to find a way to get you to stop loving me, Max.

Max looks at her, destroyed.

Liz: (cont'd) And it was impossible. You were like this stubborn mule. Finally, I arranged for you to see me and Kyle together. It was the only way I could think to get you to move forward with Tess. (beat) I guess it worked.

Max: Oh my God... Liz...

But there's nothing else for him to say...

Max: (cont'd) I wish... I wish this all could have been different. I wish that so much.

Max looks in her eyes, she looks at him. Something comes through in this look.

The love that got all this started to begin with. Max just moves in and kisses her. They kiss, deeply, soulfully and we

FLASH FLASH-- Images of Max and Liz. The gamut of emotions they have been through. He heals her. Points his finger "North". Their first kiss. Jumping off the bridge and running for their lives. He sees her with Kyle. Dancing in Vegas.

They break apart. Look at each other.

Liz: I guess this is good-bye.

A silence fills the Jeep. She knows she has to get out of there.

Liz: Just tell me one thing. Do you love her?

There's a long beat, then:

Max: Not like I love you.

Her eyes well up. There's nothing left to say. She gets out of the Jeep and he watches her as she disappears into the Crashdown. When she's gone, he breaks down.

Reading that scene took me right back thanks

Hi OlderRoswellfan

I agree newgirl torture indeed.

Seems like I heard they had to cut that missing scene so Isabel could have the Chinese mustard scene with the parents.