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Episode 5 Don't Speak
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David
Feb 15, 2019, 11:20:58 PM2/15/19
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Don't Speak
Isobel wakes up face down in the middle of the desert, wearing only a
nightgown. When her hubby, Noah shows up looking for her, Max and Michael
deduce that Isobel is having a blackout triggered by her deep fear of
abandonment. This hasn’t happened since the end of high school, when she was
afraid of losing Max. Now, she’s afraid of losing Michael if he turns
himself in.
Podcast Guy Grant Green proves to be useful. He has footage from the night
Rosa died that shows three kids levitating in the desert (presumably Rosa
and the two girls being lifted out of the wreck by Michael) and reluctantly
shares it after Liz tracks him down to the storage facility where he hoards
all of his UFO paraphernalia.
He tells Liz that everybody who knows anything about the 1947 crash is dead,
from generals and scientists to Valenti to Rosa.
Sure enough, someone starts shooting at them as soon as Green tells Liz the
truth, which is that he doesn’t even believe his own bullshit. He’s been
paid to flood the airwaves with “bogus conspiracy theories and extremist
propaganda, so that anything real seems small in comparison.”
The gunman is Wyatt Long, who it turns out is in the employ of the same
cover-up operation that was paying Green for alien fake news. Green gets a
bullet in the head, while Liz is knocked out and wakes up in a box, with
gasoline pouring in and Wyatt lighting a match.
Liz manages to kick her way out of the box before the fire can touch her.
Max shows up to rescue her anyway, shoots Wyatt, and gets shot in the
shoulder.
The cops show up and haul Wyatt away, not bothering to question Max or Liz.
There is an ambulance, so we assume Max was taken to the hospital.
Max is fine, but of course can’t risk letting a doctor examine him, and I
guess hospitals in Roswell just let you walk right out with a bullet wound.
Max now knows that Liz didn’t leave without saying goodbye (10 years ago),
but was sent away by Isobel because she thought it was only puppy love.
Liz shows up at Max’s place after he’s done performing self-surgery, to
take care of him but also to put some murder-mystery puzzle pieces together.
Out in the desert, a confused Noah shows up to ask Isobel whether she is
(a) having an affair, or (b) an alcoholic, because of all the empty nail
polish remover bottles he found stashed around the house. But Isobel can’t
bring herself to tell him the truth.
Noah is done, hands Isobel a suitcase and leaves. (Seems to me that Noah
did a real abrupt 180 from World’s Most Understanding Husband to kicking
Isobel out. Obviously, disappearing for an entire night and day looks bad,
as do the bottles of nail polish remover. )
Michael, has finally had enough of the never-ending lies and tells her the
truth he and Max have been hiding about Rosa’s death. “I didn’t kill those
girls, Isobel. You know who did. You’ve always known.”
Over at Max’s place, Liz deduces that the handprint on Rosa’s face was too
small to be Max’s, and couldn’t have been Michael’s since his hand was
broken at the time. “The person you love most in the world is the one who
did it,” she says to Max, "the same person who was having blackouts in the
final weeks of high school."
Yes, Isobel is the killer. . . . Or is she?
David
Isobel wakes up face down in the middle of the desert, wearing only a
nightgown. When her hubby, Noah shows up looking for her, Max and Michael
deduce that Isobel is having a blackout triggered by her deep fear of
abandonment. This hasn’t happened since the end of high school, when she was
afraid of losing Max. Now, she’s afraid of losing Michael if he turns
himself in.
Podcast Guy Grant Green proves to be useful. He has footage from the night
Rosa died that shows three kids levitating in the desert (presumably Rosa
and the two girls being lifted out of the wreck by Michael) and reluctantly
shares it after Liz tracks him down to the storage facility where he hoards
all of his UFO paraphernalia.
He tells Liz that everybody who knows anything about the 1947 crash is dead,
from generals and scientists to Valenti to Rosa.
Sure enough, someone starts shooting at them as soon as Green tells Liz the
truth, which is that he doesn’t even believe his own bullshit. He’s been
paid to flood the airwaves with “bogus conspiracy theories and extremist
propaganda, so that anything real seems small in comparison.”
The gunman is Wyatt Long, who it turns out is in the employ of the same
cover-up operation that was paying Green for alien fake news. Green gets a
bullet in the head, while Liz is knocked out and wakes up in a box, with
gasoline pouring in and Wyatt lighting a match.
Liz manages to kick her way out of the box before the fire can touch her.
Max shows up to rescue her anyway, shoots Wyatt, and gets shot in the
shoulder.
The cops show up and haul Wyatt away, not bothering to question Max or Liz.
There is an ambulance, so we assume Max was taken to the hospital.
Max is fine, but of course can’t risk letting a doctor examine him, and I
guess hospitals in Roswell just let you walk right out with a bullet wound.
Max now knows that Liz didn’t leave without saying goodbye (10 years ago),
but was sent away by Isobel because she thought it was only puppy love.
Liz shows up at Max’s place after he’s done performing self-surgery, to
take care of him but also to put some murder-mystery puzzle pieces together.
Out in the desert, a confused Noah shows up to ask Isobel whether she is
(a) having an affair, or (b) an alcoholic, because of all the empty nail
polish remover bottles he found stashed around the house. But Isobel can’t
bring herself to tell him the truth.
Noah is done, hands Isobel a suitcase and leaves. (Seems to me that Noah
did a real abrupt 180 from World’s Most Understanding Husband to kicking
Isobel out. Obviously, disappearing for an entire night and day looks bad,
as do the bottles of nail polish remover. )
Michael, has finally had enough of the never-ending lies and tells her the
truth he and Max have been hiding about Rosa’s death. “I didn’t kill those
girls, Isobel. You know who did. You’ve always known.”
Over at Max’s place, Liz deduces that the handprint on Rosa’s face was too
small to be Max’s, and couldn’t have been Michael’s since his hand was
broken at the time. “The person you love most in the world is the one who
did it,” she says to Max, "the same person who was having blackouts in the
final weeks of high school."
Yes, Isobel is the killer. . . . Or is she?
David
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