Jaaa, es geht los
Ich habe mir die Folge gestern extra nochmal angeschaut, um mein Gedächtnis mal wieder aufzufrischen.
Als erstes Mal kriege ich immer wieder Gäsehaut wenn Liz aus ihrem Tagebuch liest
Liz: [voice over] September 23rd. Journal entry one. I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. After that, things got really weird. . .
Dann steigen wir auch schon direkt in die Geschichte ein und lernen die anderen Hauptcharaktere kennen, Max, der Liz rettet; Michael, der ihn daran hindern will; Valenti, den etwas zu neugierigen Sheriff; Maria, die manchmal ETWAS zu hektische Freundin

(ihre Frisur finde ich übrigens sehr schrecklich im Vergleich zu den langen Haaren in Season 2

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und Kyle, den eifersüchtigen Freund.
Liz entdeckt den Handabdruck auf ihrem Bauch und ist zu Recht "geschockt", geht das ganze aber, ganz die Wissenschaftlerin, logisch an und entnimmt Max erst einmal eine Zellprobe, um zu erkennen, dass seine Zellen irgendwie "anders" sind. Dann die absolute Kultszene:
Liz: Um, yea. Well, it's kind of like this, this casual...okay, Max. Can we just focus here for one minute please?
[She lifts her shirt and shows him the mark on her stomach.]
Max: Wow.
Liz: Um, I-I scraped some cells from your pencil. This is really hard to say, I'm trying to keep from blacking out here. Um, the cells weren't normal. So, Max, what I'm going to suggest to you is that we just go back to the bio lab now, so that I can take a sample so that I can see what I'm thinking is wrong, you know? That I got the wrong cells...
Max: You didn't.
Liz: Okay, um. So help me out here Max. I mean, what are you?
Max: Well I'm not from around here.
Liz: Where are you from?
[Max points up with his index finger.]
Liz: Up north?
[Max points higher.]
Liz: You're not an, an alien, I mean. Are you?
Max: Well I prefer the term not of this earth. Sorry, it's not a good time to joke.
Max: Yea, I am. Wow, it's weird to actually say it.
Max hat für Liz seines und das Leben von Michael und Isabel riskiert, haben sie doch vorher versucht, so unauffällig wie möglich zu sein.
Max: Liz, listen to me. You can't talk to anyone about this. Not your parents, not Maria. No one. You don't understand what'll happen if you do. Liz please? Now my life is in your hands.
Im Gegensatz zu den anderen traut er Liz aber und glaubt nicht, dass sie sie verraten wird.
Isabel: I can't believe this Max. You know, I finally feel like I have a quasi-normal existence and you go and blow it all with one random act of lunacy. [to Michael] How did you let my misguided brother do this?
Michael: Hey don't turn this around on me. I'm not the one who thinks he's a super hero.
Max: Look, I said I was sorry.
Isabel: You're sorry? You break a sacred pact and that's all you have to say? It's against the rules Max, the rules we made!
Max: You use your powers all the time.
Isabel: Recreationally.
[She heats her taco with her hand]
Isabel: The important thing is, to contain this. We just have to figure out what to say to Miss Scientist.
[Max looks guilty.]
Isabel: Oh my God, you told her.
Max: I didn't have a choice. It's gonna be okay.
Isabel: Don't you reaLize that everything has changed.
Max: No, it hasn't.
Michaels stürmischer Charakter wird von Anfang an deutlich, hat er doch aber auch ein schweres Leben gehabt und ist nicht so glücklich aufgewachsen wie Max und Isabel.
Michael: For you two maybe, it was you the Evans found on the side of the road not me. They're like real parents to you. My foster dad just keeps me around for the monthly check.
Meine Lieblingszene ist die, in der Max Liz von seinen schon länger gehegten Geühlen erzählt und eine Verbindung zu ihr herstellt, damit auch sie in ihn "hineinschauen" kann. dazu dann noch von "Fear" von Sarah McLachlan...
Max: I have to talk to you.
[She lets him in.]
Max: I can't imagine how you must feel right now, I mean, I've thought about telling you a thousand times.
Liz: You have, me?
[Max smiles.]
Liz: What?
Max: Sorry, I just , uh, I just keep picturing you in that dress, with the, uh, the cupcakes...on it.
Liz: What?
Max: Forget it, it was a long time ago.
Liz: Oh my God. That's, that's right. I can't believe I actually wore that thing!
Liz: I had that dress in kindergarten, I didn't know you until the third grade. Did you like, read my mind or something?
Max: No, I-I don't read minds. When I healed you, I made this, this, I don't know, this connection. And I got this rush of images... An image of that dress flashed into my mind, and, I knew how you felt about it.
Liz: How did I feel about it?
Max: It was the single supreme embarrassment of your life. But your Mom made it for you, she was so proud of it, she'd never made a dress before, so you wore it. For her sake.
[Liz nods in shock.]
Max: I've never tried this before, but maybe I can make the connection go the other way. So you can see, you know that, that I'm still me.
[He advances until he's in front of her.]
Max: I have to touch you.
[Liz nods.]
[Max puts his hands on both side of her head.]
Max: Now just take deep breaths and try to let your mind blank out.
[Liz gets a rush of images, Max and Isabel walking down the road and the Evans finding them, Max on the first day, and how he sees her. In the halls at school talking to Maria, and since they were in third grade]
Liz: [voice over] I could feel everything he was feeling. I could feel his loneliness. For the first time I was really seeing Max Evans, I saw me as he saw me, and the amazing thing was, in his eyes, I was beautiful.
[Max pulls away.]
Max: Did it work?
[Liz nods and Max looks at her embarrassed.]
[Liz is watching Max walk down the hall.]
Liz: [voice over] Max Evans has put a force on me. It's like my whole life changed in an instant. It's just so ironic that when something like this finally happened to me, it was with an alien.
Zusammen überlisten sie dann den Sheriff, was auch Michael und Isabel zeigt, dass sie Liz vertrauen können.
Dann leider der unvermeidliche "Wir können nicht zusammensein"-Dialog
Max: Hey.
Liz: Hey.
[Max walks up and pushes a stray piece of hair behind her ear.]
Liz: Oh.
Max: You had a, uh...
Liz: Hair thing, right. Thanks.
Max: Sure. Liz, it's not safe. I mean, for you and , and me to...it's not safe.
Liz: I don't care.
Max: Liz I really, really wish that this could be something, you know, more. But it can't. We're just...
Liz: Different.
Max: Yea.
Max: I'll see ya at school.
Liz: Max?
Liz: I never got to thank you, for saving my life.
Max: Thank you.
Am Ende wieder Liz Tagebuch, ein sehr schöner Abschluss einer tollen Pilotfolge.
Liz: [voice over] It's September 24th, I'm Liz Parker and five days ago I died. But then the really amazing thing happened. I came to life.