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Graduation

Episode Number: 61    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Tuesday May 14, 2002    Prod Code: 3ADA18
As their high school graduation approaches, the gang must come to terms with their expectations for the future, while joining together to thwart the FBI when they discover that several members of the group are under surveillance. Meanwhile, Liz begins exhibiting even more alien-like powers, that cause her to see visions of their future - including their deaths. Roswell's final episode.

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Writer: Ronald D. Moore, Jason Katims
Director: Allison Leddi-Brown
Star: Jason Behr ('Max' Maxwell Evans),  Adam Rodriguez (Jesse Esteban Ramirez (Season 3)),  William Sadler (Sheriff Jim Valenti),  Nick Wechsler (Kyle Valenti),  Brendan Fehr (Michael Guerin),  Majandra Delfino (Maria DeLuca),  Katherine Heigl (Isabel Amanda Evans Ramirez),  Shiri Appleby ('Liz' Elizabeth Parker Evans)
Recurring Role: Garrett M. Brown (Phillip Evans),  John Doe (Jeff Parker)
Guest Star: Patrick Kilpatrick (Watcher),  Winnie Holzman (Madame Vivian),  Bob Morrisey (Principal)

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Episode Music

Ryan Adams: Somehow, Someday (DVD: Evan Olson: Call Me Again)

Riddlin Kids: Here We Go Again (Irving: L-O-V-E)

Mandalay: Deep Love (Amilia K Spicer: Falling In)

Frou Frou: Breathe In

Jimmy Eat World: My Sundown (The Belles: Victory Parade)

Ash: Shining Light (edit)

Quotes

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Liz: I can't tell you much more than that. It wouldn't be safe. For you or for us. I can tell you that we're far away and that we're all trying to avoid the law and do good in the world. Oh, and I guess I should tell you that Max and I did eventually tie the knot. Give my love to Mom. Let her read this journal too. Then, give it to Maria's mom, and after that, take it and burn it out in the desert by the ruins of the pod chamber, where my husband was born. So that's the end. Our life in Roswell. What a long, strange trip it's been. Will we ever go back? I don't know. Even I can't see everything in the future. All I know is that I'm Liz Parker... and I'm happy. (edit)
Max: Hi, I'm Max Evans. I thought I'd take this opportunity to say a few things on behalf of myself and the graduating class. Some of us are here tonight to walk across this stage and get our hard-earned diplomas and toss our caps in the air. But there's another group here tonight, a group of people who are here for another reason altogether. They're here to say goodbye. Goodbye to their high school lives. Goodbye to family and friends. You see, this group has been though a lot. And tonight is the night they've decided to call it quits. It's been a long, hard road for them. They have a lot of wounds. They've lost people. People that were close to them. They've had each other to cling to. But tonight that's all coming to an end. I'm a member of that group of...outsiders. I always knew I was different. And for a long, long time, all I wanted was to be another face in the crowd. But in the end...it wasn't possible. I guess it never was. So from now on, I'll just concentrate on being who I really am. Some of you might not like that. Some of you might even find that frightening. But that's not my problem anymore. I have to be who I really am and let fate take care of the rest. So thank you, Roswell. Thank you for letting me live among you. Thank you for giving me a family. Thank you for giving me a home. (edit)
Max: A trick I learned from Superman. Let's see if it really works. (He takes a piece of coal and turns it into a diamond, then gets down on one knee)
Liz: Oh, my...
Max: Liz, they're taking our home from us. They wanna kill us...and they might. But when I look in your eyes I don't feel angry or deprived. I feel like the luckiest half-human on the planet. You're pure. You're true, and you're real. And right now that seems like the only thing that's important. I wanna be with you, Liz. Forever.
Liz: 'Forever' may only be 12 days.
Max: Then we'll take those 12 days. And we'll live 12 lifetimes. Liz Parker...will you marry me?
Liz: Yes.
(They kiss) (edit)
Michael: Well, I'm not graduating so, I guess I'll be the first to leave.
Max: Michael, look...
Michael: Ah, I'm traveling light so, you can have my Metallica cds
Max: I know things between us have been a little ah...
Michael: Maxwell don't. 'Cuz I can't.
(Max hugs Michael as the others look on) (edit)
Max: I renounce the throne... I'm not a king, (to Michael) you're not my second-in-command and (to Isabel) you're not a princess. (edit)

Trivia

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In this episode Liz's alien powers develop more, she now gets premonitions, so she can see the future. (edit)
TRIVIA: Max and Liz finally get married in this episode and Liz's father also discovers the truth about the alien-hybrids, as does her mother, and Maria's mom. (edit)
TRIVIA: While shooting the finale Brendan Fehr broke his arm playing hockey and had to shoot the remaining three days with a cast on his arm. When they are all in the desert the first time making their plans to leave, his cast is just visible underneath his jacket. (edit)
When Max walks up on stage at Graduation, there are people sitting behind him. When Michael shows up on the bike and Max hops on, there is no one left on the stage and the chairs that they had been sitting in have disappeared. (edit)

Allusions

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Max: I learnt this one from Superman.

This is a reference to the infamous DC Comics superhero Superman, which has also been made in numerous films and a couple TV series. (edit)
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StargirlDR
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5.5
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Graduation
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Rushed because the series was ending prematurely. It felt like the characters were rushing to the expected conclusions before they it was time
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Graduation
"Conclusion"
It's the series finale and their graduation approaches. Liz's powers start to further develop and she sees their impending deaths. Together Max, Liz, Micheal, Isabel, Maria, and Kyle leave Roswell and thwart the FBI.
Continue » Posted Jun 26, 2007 9:49 am PST

ikena8
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Graduation
"Series finale"
Max and Liz got married,finally!
Continue » Posted Jun 6, 2007 4:19 am PST
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Graduation
"Series finale"
Welcome to Roswell home of many things that can not be explained. So it all comes down to this. Life in Roswell with those aliens and humans. Our story goes like this Max,Isabel,and Michael are trying to fit in while being different. Alien Different.
Continue » Posted May 3, 2007 6:03 am PST

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Graduation
"Series finale"
"All I know is that I'm Liz Parker. And I'm Happy"
Continue » Posted Apr 26, 2007 7:57 am PST
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