End of the World Cut Scenes

EXT. CRASHDOWN - NIGHT

While F. Max and Liz spy on Max and Tess, this is the dialogue we missed.

Max: Hey Tess.

Tess: Oh, Max. Hi.

Max: Well, see ya.

Tess: See ya.

Liz: (spying from WHITAKER's OFFICE) Let him go. Let him walk away

Max starts to walk away. Tess pulls up a book and starts reading. Max hesitates.

Max: 'The Grapes of Wrath'? Is that for class?

Tess: No, I just love Steinbeck.

Max: You love John Steinbeck?

Tess: You don't have to look so surprised. I do read, you know.

Max: It's not that, it's just one of my favorite books.

Tess: Really?

Tess goes back to reading.

Max: Ever read, 'Of Mice and Men'?

Tess: Not yet.

Max: It's even better in some ways...

Max sits and keeps talking about the book.

In the office, F. Max grabs the binoculars.

F. Max: He sat down! You got him to sit down with her.

Liz: Rah-rah.

F. Max looks through the binoculars at himself.

F. Max: Oh my God, look at my hair. What was I thinking with those bangs?

Liz: I like the bangs.

F. Max: God, that shirt. I walked around in that same shirt for a year and a half.

Liz: That's the same shirt you wore the day you healed me.

F. Max: I know.

Something happens in this moment - Liz begins to realize this is Max. She begins to see him as Max. And the reverse is also true.

BACK AT THE CRASHDOWN

Tess and Max talk. They laugh about something.

Tess: Oh my God. You are so good at that.

Max: No.

Tess: Come on. Do Michael now.

Max: You won't tell him, right.

Tess: No. Please.

Max becomes Michael - he starts by taking his sideburns and pushes them out - and does an incredible imitation of him.

Max: (as Michael) I'm a rebel, Maxwell. And I have a plan. I'm going to take the Granilith and I'm going to eat it one bite at a time wtih Tabasco sauce. Then I'm going to be silent and moody until something happens. And you're just going to have to deal, because it's how it's gotta be. Maxwell.

Tess cracks up, loving this. Max smiles - he is actually enjoying himself.

The scene goes back to WHITAKER's OFFICE and continues as aired.

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This scene takes place right after the mariachi serenade - in the Granilith Room:
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Max, Micheal, Isabel and Tess bathed in the otherworldly light. They don't know what it is or why it's there. These days they are just drawn there.

TESS: Maybe we should pool our energy.

MAX: Pool our energy?

TESS: If we join hands and concentrate maybe we can make some kind of connection that we can't make on our own.

MAX: Is this something Nasedo told you?

TESS: No. It's an original idea. Or isn't that allowed?

Max says nothing but gives this no credence. Tess won't let it go.

TESS (cont'd): Can we at least try it?

Max is silent. Tess looks to the others.

ISABEL: I'll try it.

TESS: Michael?

MICHAEL: If it pisses Max off, what the hell.

Tess, Isabel and Micheal join hands.

MAX: I really don't -

ISABEL: Max

Max takes Isabel's hand and then reluctangtly Tess's, completing the circle. They all focus. Max is so uncomfortable holding Tess's hand - being in this proximity to her - after a few seconds Max breaks off. Tess looks at him, stung.

TESS: What are you doing?

MAX: It didn't work.

TESS: You didn't give it a chance.

MAX: I've got too much on my mind to play ring around the rosy, alright?

TESS: Holding hands is childish, but serenading Liz on her rooftop is crucial to our survival.

Max looks at her, how does she know about that?

TESS (con't): It's a small town, Max. Sing in spanish, it gets around.

MAX: My relationship with Liz is none of your business.

TESS: It's not that you think joining hands is a bad idea, you just can't stand to touch me.

Max is busted. She's nailed him.

TESS (cont'd): I am so out of here. Grow up Max.

[End of this scene.]


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Scene where Liz and FMax are watching from the Congresswoman's office as PMax and Tess are sitting outside the Crashdown:
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Through binoculars we see -

Tess sits at an outside table in a sexy lowcut top, sipping an iced tea. (This entire scene is intercut)

We are watching from: Interior of Whitakers office - night

Future Max watches through binoculars and Liz stands next to him.

FMAX: Good, you told her to wear that top.

LIZ: (Taking the bonulars): Yes, so you like that top...

FMAX: It accentuates certain -

Liz's binoculars move down to Tess' breasts momentarily.

LIZ: Yeah, I know what it accentuates.

She hands the binoculars back to FMax.

FMAX: We've got to play whatever cards we have. Here he comes.

Liz takes the binoculars and looks through...

LIZ (coaching Tess): Okay. Don't look at him. Let him come to you.

Max joins Tess at the table.

MAX: Hey Tess.

TESS: Oh, Max. Hi.

MAX: Well, see ya.

TESS: See ya.

LIZ: Let him go. Let him walk away.

Max starts to walk away. Tess pulls up a book and starts reading. Max hesitates.

MAX: 'The Grapes of Wrath'? Is that for class?

TESS: No, I just love Steinbeck.

MAX: You love John Steinbeck?

TESS: You don't have to look so surprised. I do read, you know.

MAX: It's not that, it's just one of my favorite books.

TESS: Really?

Tess goes back to reading.

MAX: Ever read, "Of Mice and Men?"

TESS: Not yet.

MAX: It's even better in some ways...

Max sits and keeps talking about the book.

In the office, FMax grabs the binoculars.

FMAX: He sat down! You got him to sit down with her.

LIZ Rah-rah.

Future Max looks through the binoculars at himself.

FMAX: Oh my God, look at my hair. What was I thinking with those bangs?

LIZ: I like the bangs.

FMAX: God, that shirt. I walked around in that same shirt for a year and a half.

LIZ: That's the shirt you wore the day you healed me.

FMAX: I know.

Something happens at this moment - Liz begins to realize this is Max. She begins to see him as Max. And the reverse is also true.

AT THE CRASHDOWN:

Tess and Max talk. They laugh about something.

TESS: Oh, my God. You are so good at that.

MAX: No.

TESS: Come on. Do Micheal now.

MAX: You won't tell him, right.

TESS: No. Please.

Max becomes Micheal - he starts by taking his sideburns and pushes them out - and does an incredible imitation of him.

MAX (as Micheal): I'm a rebel, Maxwell. And I have a plan. I'm going to take the Granilith and I'm going to eat it one bite at a time with Tabasco sauce. Then I'm going to be silent and moody until something happens. And you're just going to have to deal, because it's how it's gotta be, Maxwell.

Tess cracks up, loving this. Max smiles - he is actually enjoying himself.

IN WHITAKER'S OFFICE:

Liz and FMax. Liz takes the binoculars from her eyes, notices FMax looking at her, enraptured.

LIZ: What?

FMAX: Nothing. It's just seeing you at seventeen again is making it all come flooding back to me. How my stomach used to rumble every time I saw you.

LIZ: So, did we...? Get...married?

FMAX: Liz, I told you I can't --

LIZ: Talk about it. I know. Sorry.

FMax looks at her. She deserves to know this for all she's doing.

FMAX: We eloped. We were 19.

Liz listens, amazed, a strange combination of dying to know and not wanting to know, but the dying to know part takes over:

LIZ: Nineteen? That's so...young, too young.

FMAX: That's what I thought. But you said that Romeo and Juliet were even younger than us. We drove to Vegas and got married at the Elvis chapel. (as Elvis Congratulations, kids.

LIZ: So we didn't have a real wedding.

FMAX: We had a great wedding. We called Maria, Micheal, Isabel and Alex and had them meet us half way. We spent the whole night singing and dancing in some dive outside Phoenix. At the end of the night, "Harvest Moon" came on the radio.

LIZ: I love that song.

FMAX: I know. Everyone else was exhausted. But not us. We danced. Just the two of us. Ever since then it's been our song.

Liz takes a moment then:

LIZ: If this works, I'll never have that day.

FMAX: No, you won't.

They take this in. This has become intimate and oddly romantic between the two of them.

LIZ: And what happens to you if we succeed? I mean, you. The future version of you.

FMAX: If we succeed in changing history a different version of the future will take place. All the events that lead to who I am 14 years from now will be different. The man I am now will...cease to exist.

Liz just looks at him.

AT THE CRASHDOWN:

Tess and Max continue their talk. The mood is still positive.

MAX: Listen, I realize none of this is your fault. You just sought me out because it was your destiny.

TESS: I can only imagine if you thought you found the love of your life then someone tells you you're supposed to be with someone else...

MAX: Exactly.

TESS: If things change, they change and if they don't, it's okay, Max.

MAX (sympathetically): I don't think things will change.

TESS: I know. But it takes two and if Liz isn't interested...

Mistake. Big mistake. The hairs on Max's neck go up.

MAX: What do you mean if Liz isn't interested?

TESS: I didn't mean to...

MAX: You were talking to Liz about this?

TESS: She talked to me.

MAX: About what?

TESS: She knows we should be together and she thought it would be good if we talked, that's all.

MAX: Wait, so you planned this? The two of you?

TESS: Not exactly...

But at that moment Max looks up and sees movement in Whitaker's office across the street. Max heads towards them.

WHITAKER'S OFFICE:

Liz and FMax dive to the floor.

FMAX: Damn.

Liz looks through the window. Max is on the street coming toward them, he breaks into a run.

LIZ (to FMax): Get out of here!

FMax crawls on the floor toward the back door. Max gets to the front door. Opens it. FMas dives under a desk as Max enters.

LIZ (cont'd): Max.
[The rest of the scene is as we saw it.]


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Here is the complete line spoken by FMax to Liz about the cementing - FMax and Liz are discussing what happened the night of the Gomez concert:
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LIZ: I have no intention of making love to you or anyone at this particular stage of my life.

FMAX: I beg to differ. Trust me, I was there.


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Scene between Liz and Kyle in her bedroom before Max sees them through the window:
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Liz and Kyle awkwardly in bed.

LIZ: So. Any potential girlfriends for Kyle Valenti?

KYLE (thinking about Tess): Maybe. So Evans must've really pissed you off to make you resort to something like this.

LIZ: I told you I can't talk about why I'm doing this.

KYLE: I just figured since I'm giving you my last shred of dignity.

LIZ: I really can't, Kyle.

KYLE: Is it one of those getting the boyfriend jealous so he'll come running back to me things? Of are you just trying to destroy him.

LIZ: Kyle...

KYLE: Right.

They lay there for an awkward silent beat, then:

KYLE: So we have something in common.

LIZ: What's that?

KYLE: We're the only two people I know of who died and were brought back to life by an alien.

Liz looks at him realizing this.

LIZ: That's right.

KYLE: Do you feel different?

LIZ: I do. It's hard to put words to it. I feel...

KYLE: Safe.

LIZ: Yeah.

They look at each other realizing they share something.

KYLE: Max stole you from me. And I will never forgive him for that. But the thing that really gets me is that I can't truly hate him anymore. He's changed me.

LIZ: Me, too.

KYLE (realizing): You're not doing this to hurt him, are you?

LIZ: No.

KYLE: Good.

LIZ: So, Kyle, when he healed you did you see things?

KYLE: See things?

LIZ: Flashes. Images.

[There was another scene here, but it was omitted from the script. The rest of the scene is as we saw it.]

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In the scene where FMax and Liz are talking on her balcony. Liz is crying and telling FMax that there will never be another him....etc.
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LIZ: Don't you realize what you are to me? What you'll always be? You're the love of my life, Max. Everyone else is going to be second best. There will never be another you.

FMax and Liz are drawn to each other now. It's as if they could kiss...

[more of the lines we saw in the final ep]

LIZ: I'll be alone...

FMAX: Maybe. Maybe not. From now on, the future is to be determined. It's what I've always said to you, Liz, we create our own destiny.

Liz is thoughtful. There is a ray of hope. Liz looks at him, for a long beat, then -

LIZ: Could you dance with me?

FMAX: What?

LIZ: I wantto have my wedding dance.

FMax looks at her, her dark soulful eyes...They both have the sense of time running out. As Van Morrison's INTO THE MYSTIC begins, Liz and FMax step toward each other.

ROSWELL PARK:

Max and Tess sit silently on the bench.

TESS: Do you want to talk about it?

MAX: No...

TESS: Do you want me to leave?

The question hangs there. It's about everything. Not just leaving the bench, but Roswell - leaving him.

MAX: No.

This means everything to her...

LIZ'S ROOFTOP:

Liz and FMax dance their wedding dance together...eyes locked...souls locked. The music swells. In slow motion FMax raises his hand to begin to spin Liz into a twirl -

ROSWELL PARK:

In slow motoin Tess reaches out to Max, touches his shoulder. Max allows her to touch him, comforted. This is a defining moment. The moment history changes.

LIZ'S ROOFTOP:

In slow motion a beautiful Liz...she spins around and when she reaches out to join FMax's hand - he is gone. He no longer exists. Liz has changed history. She has just saved the world. And she has never felt sadder.

MADAME VIVIAN'S VOICE:

This is very unusual.

MADAME VIVIAN'S PLACE:

Liz and Madame Vivan.

MV: Last time you were here your future was so clear. Now I don't get a reading at all. Everything hangs in the balance. I can see nothing.

LIZ: It could be a good thing. Maybe Max and I will still be together. I mean, I create my own destiny, right?

Madame Vivian looks at Liz, realizes right now this girl doesn't need a psychic, she needs a friend.

MV: You create your own destiny.

OUTSIDE MADAME VIVIAN'S:

Liz emerges, stands outside, bathed in the red neon light of the word FUTURE blinkingon and off.