One week later, a science teacher tells the class about a red giant star that has imploded, but Liz notices that Max seems distant. He refuses to talk after class.

Back in New York, the duplicates of Michael, Isabel and Tess throw the driver of a Trans Am out of his car, taking it for themselves. "Loni" -- the duplicate Isabel -- changes the license plates to a New Mexico set.

"Rath," the duplicate Michael, drives. An upset "Ava," the duplicate Tess, sits in the back. She says, "We were family, the four of us."

"Things change," Loni replies. She is only keeping Ava around now out of love.

An alarm goes off: it's dinner time. Brody waves Max away.

Through the kitchen window at the Crashdown, Maria reminds Michael to put Pepperjack cheese on the sandwich he's making because this customer’s nuts about his cheese.

Max has called a meeting for Saturday night, but both Michael and Maria have plans -- she is singing and expects him to be there to watch, but he wants to go to the dirt bike finals.

Maria takes the sack of food and leaves. The nutty customer is Brody at the UFO Center, and his cheese is missing.

This drives Maria to rail against the irresponsibility of it all -- i.e. Michael. Brody is flustered. Although she tells him the meal is on the house, he insists on giving her a tip.

Back in the Trans Am, the duplicate aliens listen to "Rhinestone Cowboy". Ava thought that the others would get "Zan" -- the duplicate Max -- to change his mind. Rath tells her that they simply chose an alternate plan.

Armed with a high school yearbook , Loni points out that the new Zan is named Max. They will persuade him to come to New York with them.

Isabel is out jogging when Max pulls the Jeep up onto the curb to block her. He wants to talk.

"What are you running from?" he asks.

Isabel only apologizes and walks away.

Meanwhile, the Trans Am speeds across the Roswell city limits. A police cruiser stops them. Sheriff Valenti gets out.

Valenti laughs to recognize his alien friends -- punked out though they are -- in the car. Loni explains that they’re on their way to a party.

The sheriff says, "You look like you’re from another planet, for once."

He tells them to slow down, that there’s no reason for them to attract any more attention than they’ve gotten recently.

Picking up on this, Loni and Rath tell Valenti that they were worried about a car parked outside their home. Could Valenti escort them in and check? He agrees, and these new aliens have a way into town.

"Sheriff, you’re the freakin’ man," Loni says.

Max says he needs more time.

While Ava watches the car, Loni and Rath enter Max’s room via the window. The two search for any information, learning about Max’s job and his love of Liz Parker.

Loni sums up Liz as someone who "ain’t got nothin’ goin’ on."

Mr. Evans knocks and enters, spotting Loni. Seeing her outfit, he says, "You look like some rapper on TV, like that Queen Latisha."

Loni corrects him and explains that she’s playing Juliet in a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Evans is pleased that his daughter -- unlike Max -- has found an outside interest.

Dad is worried about the growing distance between Max and Isabel, especially when Max isn't responding to therapy. Maybe a joint session would help both his children?

Regardless, he finally leaves, having given Rath and Loni have a new strategy to explore.

Maria storms into the UFO Center and demands to know what the money was all about -- Brody tipped her $100. He asks if she would like to have lunch with him, a nebulous quasi-date.

Then he asks if she would bring a sandwich for herself the next time that she delivers one to him. She can pay for her own so it won't be a date, but they could sit and eat anywah.

Maria does not say no.

At school, Rath approaches Liz’s locker. He tells her that he "wouldn’t mind kickin’ it to ya." Liz mocks his dated expressions.

She wrinkles her nose when he flicks his tongue at her. He finally admits that he was simply testing her loyalty to Max. But when she turns, he pulls her into a passionate kiss which she struggles against.

As Liz walks away, grossed out, Rath proclaims their encounter "epic."

Saturday night at the UFO Center and Max is trying to convince the others to pursue the connections between the dying star and Brody’s signals.

Nobody can believe that he called them together for such a trivial reason.

Meanwhile, the duplicates watch from upstairs, behind one-way glass. The Royal Four are nothing to worry about. Alex, tardy, walks in on them and is surprised by the "costumes," but then sees the others below.

He heads downstairs. Rath, Loni, and Ava follow, each sizing up her or his counterpart.

As Rath explains, the other Max died recently in a stupid car accident. After everyone is introduced, Rath says that he needs to speak with Max in private.

He explains that they were contacted by other aliens who want to meet: "the ruling families of the Five Planets." It has something to do with peace, and Zan was to represent their family. Since nobody knows there were two sets, Max must go in his place.

Meanwhile, Loni tells Michael that the second set was sent since the first was "not quite right." Michael assumes that the newcomers are defective. Loni counters that the Roswell bunch were "too human."

Both sets were sent in the midst of the war, a kind of insurance.

Isabel asks if Loni is short for "Velandra." Loni seems relieved that Isabel knows something of their former self.

The two face off, each questioning the other, until Loni narrates the story we’ve heard about Velandra’s betrayal of her house. Each has had trouble keeping this information to herself.

Loni seems surprised that Isabel hasn't told Max. This will be their little secret now.

Alex approaches the two women only to have Loni promptly shoot him down, easing the dramatic tension.

Max is unsure his place in stopping a war he doesn’t even understand. Rath explains that there was a revolution, and the Royal Four were sent to be reborn on Earth.

Now there is a chance for peace -- something Zan wanted -- if Max goes to the summit.

Max talks with his aliens while Rath consults with his. Loni privately insists that Max accompany them to New York, or they will be stuck here forever.

Come morning, Maria and Liz discuss recent events. Maria cannot believe that Liz did not mention being kissed by the duplicate Michael, but Liz only wants to talk about the breakdown of her relationship with Max -- although without any details or reasons.

Brody shows up at the Center to work and is surprised to see "a party" there instead. Max tries to explain, but Maria handles things when she asks Brody to breakfast.

At the Crashdown, the two speak frankly. Maria makes an initially flip remark about aliens, but Brody is sincere. He thinks that something is about to happen. The "warning signs" are there: missing moments and dreams he can’t remember. It’s all like "last time."

Maria surprises him by not being fazed by all this. She tells him that anything is possible in Roswell.

Since Loni just had to see Max alone, she goes to his bedroom. She never apologized to her own brother, so now she wants to set things right with his duplicate.

Asking if he’s ever been "so crazy in love you’d do anything," Loni tells him the story of Velandra’s betrayal of their people.

Max assures Loni that neither she nor Isabel is Velandra. They have done nothing wrong.

Loni is glad that Isabel has told Max about this. The "trust" they share is wonderful. Loni wishes that she and Zan had been so close.

Out on the street, Max corners Isabel to find out why she lied to him about Velandra, leaving him to hear this story from a stranger.

Isabel is sick of worrying about disappointing her brother. She wants to live her own life, free of the expectations of everyone else.

All that Max cares about, she says, are himself and Liz Parker. Everyone else is simply property to him. Angry, he grabs her, but Michael is there to stop him from going further.

Max decides to go to New York. When Michael tries to stop him, Max only sees it as further reason to go.

After Max leaves, "Isabel" and "Michael" transform themselves into Loni and Rath. They share a passionate victory kiss.

Liz sits in bed and stares at pictures of herself and Max. He appears at her window, and she lets him in.

Max cannot be friends with Liz because he is still holding onto her; this lets him make a clean break. He returns the engraved knife she gave him last Christmas. He can’t promise that he’s coming back.

With talk of the summit, Liz remembers the granolith. She cautions him not to let it be abused. It’s too powerful and dangerous.

Asked to explain, Liz asks Max to trust her. This is the heart of the problem, though. Max leaves through the window.

Liz slams it shut behind him.

Tess and Max approach the Trans Am, where Ava is standing off to the side of the others. She flashes back to what really happened in New York:

Back in the present, Ava says that there is no room for her in the car. She’ll stay here. Rath grabs Ava and says that she's coming. She asks if he’ll kill her if she doesn’t.

Max hears this and wants to know more. Rath laughs the comment off. Of course Ava is free to stay. Everything is fine. No problem.

Ava walks away as the Trans Am roars to life. As it drives away, we see that this story is "To Be Continued."