Roswell Series Dictionary
Below is an explanation of all those crazy things in Roswell!!!
Here is a list of terms and items from season 1 & 2, and their significance, in alphabetical order.
I've also included some things that never made it to the show but were supposedly in earlier script versions or
cut scenes - abbreviated as (CS) cut scenes
Season 3 is such a piece of crap, I'm not motivated to reference it,
and I prefer to pretend it doesn't exist
I have done tons of research for my writing, gathering as many details as I could to make things as
accurate as possible. I've decided to make a place to easily reference all of that info.
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A - Alice - Alien Abyss - Alien Book - Alien Herpes - Alien Hunter - Alien Mafia - Alien Powers - Alien Ship - Alien Signal - Alien Takedown - Aliens are Among Us Thing - Among Us - Aqua Bra B - The 'B' Team - The Balance - Behind the Tree - Beth Orton Concert Tickets - Bitter Lake Daily Journal - Blind Dream Date - Buddha Boy - Buddhism - Buddhism for Beginners - Busty Biker Babes C - Cadmium-X - Cave Map/Painting - Cedar Oil - Cement/Cemented - Christmas Dog Show - Christmas Nazi - Comets - Communication Orb/Communicators - Concert Tickets - Connect/Connection - The Convention - The Crash Festival - Cypress Oil - Czechoslovakians - Czechoslovakians can’t resist temptation D - Deputy Dawg - Destiny Book - Diary - Do a Max - Dream Girl - Dreamwalk - Dupes E - EBE (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity) - Enigma - Essence of Rosmary Oil - Exploding Triangle - Extraterrestrialist F - Father's Camping Weekend - Fearless Leader - Flash/Flashes - Follow Your Heart - Four Square - Frick & Frack - Future Week G - Ganderium - Geodesic Dome - Gidget & Moondoggie - Gomez concert tickets - Granolith - Granolith Crystal - Green Around the Gills - Green Jello Shield - Green Rod (aka. The Greenis) - Grief Relief H - Healing Stones - Heckle & Jeckle - Holiday Pageant - Honey Bear - Hot Alien Sex - Hot Buttered Run - Hunger Drive - Husks - Hybrid I - I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep - I Know an Alien Club - Ice Princess/Ice Queen - I the stud - I'm Teflon, babe - Incubation Pods J - Jeep - Jetta - Journal K - KROZ - Kase Security - Key L - Leanna is not Leanna - Little Green Men - Liz's Journal - Lost Treasures - Luminous M - Map - Maria Filter - Martian - Massacre at Sunset Villiage - Mesaliko Tribe - Metal Book - Michael Worshipper - Mindwarp - Moisture Chamber - Mom-o-Gram - Mr. Squishels - Ms Texas - Mud N - National Interrogator - Necklace - Negleria Filarae - Not of this Earth O - The Once & Future King - Orbs P - Pendant - Pentagon Device - Photo of the Corpse with Silver Handprint - Photo of Milton next to the 'alien shadow' - The place by the thing that we went that time with what's-her-name - Planet Vulcan - Pod People - Pod Squad - Pods - Possessed Humans - Powers - Prince Charming Q - Quasimodo - Queen Amidala R - Robert Frost Poem - Roswell Daily Record - Roswell Gazette - Roswell High - Roswell High Gazette - Roswell Missle Crisis - Roswell Tribune - Roswellian - Royal Four - Royal Seal S - Sergeant Martian - Senior Presidente - Shapeshifter - Shield - Sighting - Signal - Silo Murder - Silver Handprint - Skins - Slag you with my death ray eyes - Smooth-skinned Ovoid EBE - Space Boy - Special Unit - Stone Wall - Summit - Sunshine Committee T - Tabasco - Tres Dias - Trithium Amplification Generator U - The UFO Convention - UFOlogist - Universal Friendship League V - V-Constellation - Venus - Vessel - Vilondra Project W - Whirlwind Galaxy Symbol - The Whits X - Y - Ylang Ylang Z - |
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11100100100111011001 In the episode ‘Cry Your Name,’ Liz is convinced that Alex didn’t commit suicide, but is having trouble getting anyone else to believe. She talks to the guy who delivered Thai food to Alex just before he died, and says to tell her if he remember anything else. The delivery guy brings Liz the credit card receipt for Alex’s food, which he signed not with his name, but with binary code. This is proof to Liz that there is more to the circumstances surrounding his death. |
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Alice The mocking nickname that Sean Deluca has for Alex in the episode 'We Are Family.' |
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Alien Abyss The term Maria coined, in the episode 'The Balance'. We are never told exactly what it means but Maria says it when Alex has been told about the aliens and looks to Isabel for answers. It could refer to the humans being intrigued by the aliens and drawn into their lives and problems, or it could refer to the humans all falling in love with the aliens. |
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Alien Book
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Alien Herpes In the episode 'Baby it's You', when Max tells Michael about having sex with Tess, he mentions there was a problem. Michael's first guess is alien herpes, obviously assuming that Tess gave it to Max. That Tess just gets no respect. |
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Alien Hunters In the episode 'Morning After' Maria and Liz suspect that Kathleen Topolsky might have been sent to spy on them. Maria calls her an alien hunter. In the episode 'Crazy' we learn that there is a branch of the FBI, called the Special Unit, was formed to investigate alien activity. Alien hunters. See Special Unit for more info |
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Alien Mafia In the episode ‘Baby It’s You’, Michael tells Isabel she can’t leave town to go to school, and he is speaking for Max. Isabel says she can't believe he would do that, and it is like the alien mafia. |
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Alien Powers
Complete list of Alien Powers Each of the aliens have some general powers, moving things, changing colors, etc. Max calls it molecular structure manipulation. But each alien also seems to have a special or unique power. Max can heal and make a shield, Isabel can enter people's dreams, etc. The guys' unique powers seem to be more physical, and the girls have more psychic or mental abilities. |
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Alien Ship We don't know much about the ship that came to Earth other than it flew across space from Antar with two sets of pods, the granolith, and at least 4 shapeshifters. It is unclear when the ship arrived on Earth, but for unknown reasons, on July 4th, 1947 the ship crashed near Roswell, NM. The ship was described as a flying disc in Betty Osrio's Notebook in the SHP. |
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Alien Signal In the episode 'Into the Woods' an alien sends a signal, burning it in the ground in Frazier woods. Although it is never said for sure, it is generally accepted that the signal was sent by Nasedo. And in the Roswell soundtrack info, it says that Nasedo left the signal to announce his return. In the episode 'Blind Date' Michael thinks they should answer the signal, so he and Isabel go to the Roswell Library, where Michael has calculated one of the symbols on the cave map is indicating, and they burn another signal into the ground. They don't think they have been answered, but after they clean up and leave, an alien reignites the signal and burns a picture of the three aliens, Max, Michael & Isabel in the flames. |
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Alien Takedown The name of the promotional wrestling match at the UFO Convention, in the episode 'The Convention'. In the match, one of the wrestlers is dressed as an alien and called the Alienator, and the other is a human. The Alien Takedown is sponsored by Amy Deluca. |
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Aliens are Among Us Thing how Kyle refers to finding out there really are aliens, in the epi 'Ask Not' |
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Among Us A Critical Appraisal of the UFO Problem by James Atherton Atherton's Biography A book about aliens that Milton Ross gives Max in the episode 'Missing'. It was published in 1955. On the back flap of the book there is a picture of Atherton's home, a geodosic dome, that leads the gang to Marathon, TX, where they find Atherton's files, and the necklace with the swirl symbol. Max quotes from the book to Michael and Isabel. "It's just Atherton. Listen to this. He says...this guy is nuts...that aliens wouldn't possess the lung capacity or brain capacity for more than short-term survival on Earth. Brain capacity?" |
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Aqua Bra The bra that Maria 'unveils' in the episode 'ITW'. Presumably it is a sort of push-up bra filled with water instead of padding. She wants to try and make a break from the aliens and start living her life, and uses the bra to try and get other male attention. But there was at least one problem with the bra. On the camping trip in 'ITW' Maria mentions that she is now wearing an ice bra. |
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The ‘B’ Team What Kyle calls Alex in the episode 'Blood Brothers' because he thinks Liz has sent Alex to find out what he knows. Kyle is insulted that she has only sent the 'B' Team. |
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The Balance In the episode ‘The Balance’, Michael gets sick after he attends a Native American sweat ceremony. Having nowhere else to turn, Max and Liz go to see River Dog to get help for Michael. River Dog explaines that Nasedo also got sick in the same way, and told River Dog his secret so he could heal him. This is what River Dog says that Nasedo told him. “Wherever you are from. He said that his body carried the same energy that's in these stones. He called it the balance. He said that the heat from the sweat disrupted it in some way.”
“He told me to hold the stones until my energy activated them, and the balance would be restored.”
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Behind the Tree In the episode 'Monsters', Max has a counseling session with Kathleen Topolsky, the sudent counselor at West Roswell High School as part of Future Week. She shows him a picture, and asks which child he is. Max responds that he is the one behind the tree. Kathleen advises him to start living life. Do something small at first, but come out from behind the tree. |
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Beth Orton Concert Tickets In the episode ‘Cry Your Name’ Liz finds the concert tickets in Alex’s room, and believes that they prove conclusively that he didn’t commit suicide. The tickets were purchased the day he died, and she assumes that he was planning to take Isabel to the concert. |
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Bitter Lake Daily Journal Sheriff Valenti's father kept a clipping from the paper about the death of Shelia Hubble. |
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Blind Dream Date The Blind Dream Date is a contest sponsored by Roswell local radio station KROZ 107.2, in the episode ‘Blind Date.’ Maria enters herself and Liz, and Liz wins. She is set up by the radio station, on a blind date with Doug Shellow, for Valentine’s night. The station provides dinner at Chez Piere, the nicest restaurant in town, and then a concert with a surprise band performing. Alex’s band ‘The Whits’ wins an audition to open for the mystery band, and performs with Maria singing lead vocals. |
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Buddha Boy The nickname Tess gives Kyle in the episode 'Ask Not', because Kyle came back from his summer at football camp studying Buddhaism. |
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Buddhism In the episode 'End of the World' Kyle tells Liz his version of Buddhism. "It's really about approaching life through a spiritual place and becoming in tune with different planes of existence." He burns ylang ylang to open his mind, hangs wind chimes in his back yard, and releases fish he caught. He stops hanging out with his friends and stops dating. |
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Buddhism for Beginners A book that Tess finds under Kyle’s bed in the episode ‘Ask Not.’ |
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Busty Biker Babes One of the 'skin magazines' that Tess finds under Kyle’s bed in the episode 'Ask Not', along with Hustler and Jugs As far as I can tell from the little research I did on the internet, it is a fictional mag. Of course Hustler is real, and I discovered that Jugs is real too. |
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Cadmium-X A substance that doesn't naturally exist on Earth, but is produced sometimes as an after effect of the aliens using their powers. When Michael kills Pierce, it is infused in Pierce's bones. In the episode 'Skin & Bones' Pierce's bones are discovered in the desert, and Max has to alter the Cadmium-X on the bones and age the bones so they won't be linked back to Michael or the group. |
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Cave Map/Painting see Map |
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Cedar Oil In the episode ‘The Morning After’ Maria is freaking out about the posibility of Ms. Topolsky being an alien hunter, and Liz tells her to sniff some cedar oil. (possibly Liz meant cypress oil, which Maria sniffed in the Pilot to reduce stress.) |
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Cement/Cemented The term Future Max used in 'The End of the World' meaning to make love. He tells Liz that the night of the Gomez concert things between them were cemented, that they made love. |
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Christmas Dog Show One of the holiday activities that Isabel participates in. |
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The Christmas Nazi The name Max and Michael call Isabel in the episode 'A Roswell Christmas Carol' because of her fanatical Christmas requirements and preparations. Isabel gives Max a diagram to purchase a tree, berates her father for having lights burnt out on the house christmas decorations, and throws a fit demanding a perfect Christmas. She is the director of the Roswell holiday pagent, president of the hunger drive, participates in the toy drive, and attends holiday events & dinner at the nursing home, as well as a Christmas dog show. |
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Comets The mascot of West Roswell High School, where the gang attends school. |
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Communication Orb/Communicators see 'Orbs' |
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Concert Tickets see 'Beth Orton Concert Tickets' or 'Gomez Concert Tickets' |
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Connect/Connection In the Pilot, when Max heals Liz, he forms a connection with her mind and sees images and feels her feelings. Max mentions connecting with people, as one of the powers the aliens have. In later episodes we see that Michael and Isabel can both do it too. It seems kissing is the easiest way to form a connection, but Max can also form a connection by healing, and by a simple touch. Max is also able to touch Liz and form a reverse connection, so she can see into his mind. The aliens can block the connection so the people they are kissing can't see into their minds. In the episode 'Departure', Michael admits to Maria that he has been blocking her, but he is ready to let her see him. Although it is never specifically spelled out in the show, in the episode Max in the City, it appears that Liz uses her connection with Max to reach out to New York in order save him. |
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The Crash Festival In the Pilot, the 10th annual Crash Festival takes place Friday, September 22nd, in 'The Pit', and is MCed by Jonathon Frakes. This is where Liz sets up Sheriff Valenti, to throw his suspicions off Max by faking Maria getting hit by a car and healed by an alien. |
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Cypress Oil In the Pilot, Maria sniffs cypress oil after the shooting in the Crashdown, saying it reduces stress. |
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Czechoslovakians The word Maria coins in the episode 'The Morning After' to say instead of aliens. |
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Czechoslovakians can’t resist temptation In the episode ‘Tess, Lies & Videotape,’ Maria suspects that something weird is going on with the new girl Tess and Max. Liz assures Maria that she and Max are happy. But Maria is still suspicious, and says to Liz, “Max isn’t human. What if Czechoslovakians can’t resist temptation?” (meaning, that because he is an alien, he might not be able to control his urges) |
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Deputy Dawg What Grant Sorensen calls Max, in the episode 'Surprise',when he finds Max and Sheriff Valenti searching his room without a warrant. The reference is from a cartoon of the same name that aired in the 1960s to the early 70s about a dog deputy. |
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Destiny Book Destiny Book Translation The term 'destiny book' was coined by the Roswell fans on the internet. It refers to the alien book that Tess takes out of the library wall in the episode 'Four Square'. The book is in an alien language and has pictures that supposedly show the 4 aliens, and their pairings. The book is in an alien language, and Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess can't read it. |
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Diary see 'Liz's Journal' |
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Do a Max In the episode 'Toy House', Isabel says they can't 'do a Max,' or passively watch. |
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Dream Girl In the episode 'Blind Date' when Max gets drunk he calls Liz his Dream Girl. |
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Dreamwalk The alien ability Isabel has that allows her to enter the dreams of others, and interact with them. She uses a photo of someone to concentrate on them in order to connect with them more easily. Isabel visits Maria in her dreams and tells her, 'I'm not really a part of your dream. I can't change it or anything. I just wanted to see what you were thinking.' |
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Dupes More Info & Pics In the episode 'Summer of '47' Michael discovers that two sets of pods were sent to Earth. In 'Meet the Dupes' it is revealed that the other set of pods contained duplicate hybrids, who were identical to Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess. The duplicates, Zan, Lonnie, Rath, and Ava, were sent to New York where they were 'born' and still lived. |
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EBE (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity) EBE is a term that Jonathon Frakes uses to describe an alien supposedly encountered by a witness at the UFO Convention. EBE stands for Extraterrestrial Biological Entity. |
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Enigma Okay, yes, this is from season three. But I thought it was kinda interesting. In the episode ‘A Tale of Two Parties,’ Egnima is a secret New Year’s Eve party that is hosted in a different location each year. The only way of attending is to decipher the clues left around town. Max, Maria and Michael try to find the party. The first clue is at West Roswell High, written on the board of Mr Seligman's classroom. (How they know the 1st clue is there is never explained) The clue is - Hut Hut Zero Twenty-Four Seven Zero Hike Maria figures out this is a place called Bud's 24/7. She and Max go to Buds, and Maria sees a fake menu for the Crashdown Café. Maria points out that there is no Blue Moon Quesadilla on the real menu, and Max determines that Enigma must be in Blue Moon canyon. Jeff Parker mentions that the Enigma party has been going on since before he was Liz's age. |
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Essence of Rosemary Oil It is never mentioned in the show. It only appears in an early version of a script for 'Monsters'. Maria mentions that Essence of Rosemary Oil is supposed to be very calming, but it's not working and all that happening is that she smells like a leg of lamb. |
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Exploding Triangle In the episode, ‘Baby It’s You,’ Liz, Michael and Maria discover that when Alex was at the University of Las Cruces decoding the ‘destiny book’, he emailed the finished translation to Leanna, aka Jennifer Coleman. Liz, Michael and Maria go to her dorm room to look for her, but she is gone. They discover a bill for a rental house and when they go there they find a compter. The exploding triangle is an alien device that was set up to guard the computer. |
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Extraterrestrialist aka. UFOlogist A term for someone who studies UFO phenonenum |
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Father’s Camping Weekend An annual event in January, sponsored by West Roswell High School, for Father’s to take their children camping. In the episode ‘Into the Woods,’ the Camping Weekend starts on a Friday, and takes place in Frazier Woods, near where an alien sighting was reported a few days before. Maria & Liz go with her Liz's father, who wants to spend quality time with Liz. Max and Isabel get their father to take them because they want to check out the sighting to see if it's real. Alex gets his father to go so he can be close to Isabel. Sheriff Valenti takes Kyle, so he can be close to Max. |
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Fearless Leader Michael's mocking nickname for Max in the episode 'Ask Not', refering to Max being the leader, or king. The name fearless leader is originally from the cartoon 'Rocky & Bullwinkle', refering to the dictator of Pottsylvania, who is Boris & Natasha's boss. |
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Flash/Flashes
list of flashes In various episodes Max and Liz gets flashes or visions when they touch or kiss. With the help of alien powers they form a mental connection and are able to see images and feel emotions from inside each others heads. Max also explains that when things get intense or heightened he can sometimes get flashes from objects. In the episode 'Missing' Max gets a flash when he touches a CD. He sees that Kyle left the CD in Liz's room. |
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Follow Your Heart The advice that Liz's grandmother gives to her in the episode 'Leaving Normal'. She says to "follow your heart wherever it takes you. Trust it." Maria also gives this advise to Max in the episode 'Ask Not' when he asks her what he is supposed to do as a leader. Maria tells him, "just try and follow your heart. I mean, isn't that what the great leaders always do?" |
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Four Square The term Four Square is the name of the episode where Max, Isabel and Michael discover that Tess is the fourth alien they have been looking for. She was incubated in the pods with them, and is part of their family. Michael uses the term in the episode to describe the symbol that shows the four pods, and the one Tess made of sugar cubes to show Isabel. |
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Frick & Frack A derogitory name Michael uses to refer to Liz and Maria in the episode 'Toy House'. |
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Future Week In the episode ‘Monsters’, Ms. Topolsky, the new Guidance Counselor has an event she calls Future Week to get the students thinking about their path for their future. It includes a computer profile and individual interviews with the students. She uses the interviews as an excuse to get close to Max, and speak to him about his past. This is where she gives him the adivce to come out from ‘behind the tree.’ |
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Ganderium More info & pics The ganderium are introduced and dealt with in the four episodes of the 'Hybrid Chronicles' ('To Serve & Protect', 'We Are Family', 'Disturbing Behavior', 'How the Other Half Lives'). The Ganderium function as a hive with a Queen in control of her drones. The Queen somehow got inside Grant Sorensen and occasionally takes control of his body to force him to do what she wants. She uses him to look for and kidnap Laurie Dupree. In 'How the Other Half Lives' Larek explains that the ganderium are parasites used to combine the alien genetic material with human DNA to make the hybrids. But they weren't meant to be let loose into an ecosystem. The ganderium have one purpose - to infect human cells. Fewer than 1 in 50 million people have the genetic flaw needed by the Ganderium to infect them, but Laurie Dupree has the flaw. Larek tells Liz, Isabel, Max and Tess that if the Ganderium succeeds in infecting Laurie, it will make a virus that will kill everyone on Earth. Max, Isabel, Liz, Tess, Alex and Kyle go into Frazier Woods to find the Ganderium hive and destroy them. Kyle and Alex find the hive and the Ganderium seal them inside. Grant tries to fight the Queen's influence over him, but is unable to, and forces Sheriff Valenti to kill him so he won't harm anyone else. Liz figures out from a conversation with Kyle that the Ganderium needs oxygen to live, and Max passes the info to Michael, which allows him to kill the Queen. When the Queen dies, so does the rest of the hive. |
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Geodesic Dome More pics & info This is the thing that Michael keeps seeing in his visions after he touches the key he stole in Sheriff Valenti's office, in episodes 'Morning After'. He thinks it might be something alien, and obsesses about it, making drawings, and eventually a painting. It is in his art class where his art teacher, Mr. Cowan sees the drawing and tells Michael it is a Geodesic Dome. Michael doesn't know what that is, and Mr. Cowan explains, "A geodesic dome. Perhaps before your time. It's a type of house, architecturally postmodern." It turns out to be the house where James Atherton lived. |
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Gidget & Moondoggie More info & pics Maria uses these names to refer to Max and Liz in the episode 'Crazy'. The names are originally from the show Gidget. Moondoggie was Gidget's boyfriend. |
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Gomez Tickets In the episode ‘The End of the World’, Liz is still refusing to be with Max because she thinks she will stand in the way of his destiny. Max won’t give up though, and tries to tempt her to go out with him by asking her to the Gomez concert. The Gomez song ‘We Haven’t Turned Around’ was playing when Max and Liz first kissed. The date of the concert is October 25th. Later in the episode. Max comes to Liz’s window with the tickets, and sees her and Kyle in bed together apparently naked. He drops the tickets, and leaves, assuming they have slept together. |
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Granolith More info & pics The granolith is first mentioned in the episode 'Suprise'. Vanessa Whitaker demands that Isabel give it to her, but Isabel has never heard of it. Later in the episode, Isabel finds it in a secret room behind the pods in the pod chamber. In the episode 'Baby It's You', Michael, Liz and Maria find a translation of the destiny book that says the Granolith is one-use, transport back to Antar. |
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Granolith Crystal In the episode 'Baby It's You', Liz, Maria & Michael discover the crystal in Leanna's rental house with instructions on how to use the granolith. In the episode 'Departure' Max inserts the crystal into the base of the granolith, and it acts as a 'starter key' that activates the granolith. |
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Green Around the Gills In the episode 'Skin & Bones', Max refers to himself, Isabel, Michael and Tess as being green around the gills, meaning they are alien hybrids. |
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Green Rod (aka. The Greenis) We are never given an official name for the green rod. The fans on the internet nicknamed it the Greenis, because of the position where it sticks out on the alien. In the episode 'Wipeout', the Skins put it in the UFO Center billboard located at Chaparell turnout. They use it to create a green haze over Roswell that makes all the humans disappear, so they can find the aliens easily. Courtney explains it. Time exists in multiple subset dimensions on our planet. Nicholas must have a technology to impose one or more of these here. It's like being on Pacific and Eastern and Central and Mountain time all at once. Human bodies can't function. They simply disappear. Another dimension, another plane of existence. I don't know where. They seem to have just...shifted. Liz figures out that it is an electrical field and Kyle and Maria figure out they need to overload it. They use her car battery and jumper cables to destory it. It explodes and all of the humans who disappeared, come back, with no memory of being gone. |
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Grief Relief In the episode ‘Independence Day’ when Liz is trying to tell Maria about the flashes she had when kissing Max, Maria thinks she is freaking out. She tells Liz to open her mouth and places 4 drops out of a bottle under her tongue. Liz says it is gross and asks what it is. This is what Maria says. “I got it at my mother's shop. It's this herbal remedy that shocks the body back into reality when the mind's gone into overload. Veterinarians use it to calm wild animals. Here, you can have this, and any time you feel yourself spiraling out of control, put 4 drops under your tongue, ok?” In an early script version of the epi 'Independence Day' it is called Rescue Remedy |
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Healing Stones In the episode 'The Balance' when Michael gets sick, Max goes to River Dog for help. River Dog has the healing stones that Nasedo left with him. River Dog explains how to use them. “I'll need the help of all of you. Healing requires energy. The more we have, the faster we heal. Now everyone take your place in the circle. There's a line for each of you leading to the center.” “Nasedo gave me these stones. They're from his place. And they carry an energy inside them.” “He said that his body carried the same energy that's in these stones. He called it the balance. He told me to hold the stones until my energy activated them. And the balance would be restored.” “He warned me, though, there was a risk. The balance can pull you in. It's a force that can change both your body and your mind unless you navigate it properly. Now, clear your mind...and drink from the bowl. Don't change the way you feel about your friend, and you'll come out on the right side.” |
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Heckle & Jeckle In the episode 'The Departure' Kyle refers to Max and Michael as Heckle & Jeckle. The original Heckle & Jeckle were mischievous cartoon birds. |
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Holiday Pageant Isabel is the director of the Holiday Pageant in 'ARCC'. Is the 23rd Roswell Holiday Pageant. It features a live band and kids in costume performing. |
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Honey Bear The endearment Liz's grandmother calls her in the episode 'Leaving Normal' |
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Hot Alien Sex First mentioned by Lonnie and Rath in 'Max in the City'. Rath says there is no substitute for hot alien sex, but doesn't really explain. In 'Baby it's You', Max tells Michael a little more in reference to his night with Tess. He says that it feels like you are floating and electrical energy rushes through your body for an hour. |
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Hot Buttered Run In the episode 'Cry Your Name', Michael makes some hot buttered rum for Amy Deluca, telling her it will help her sleep. |
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Hunger Drive Isabel is the president of the Roswell Hunger Drive, that is held at least once a year during the holidays. |
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Husks In the episode 'Harvest', Courtney explains that she and the rest of the Skins, must wear husks. This is what she says. My skin. This thing that I'm wearing. It never ages. It's basically a shell. It protects us from the environment. This planet's atmosphere is hostile to our race. The husks are a lifeform technology that we can genetically manipulate to resemble human bodies. Our relationship to it is essentially parasitic. It is alive, like the trees are alive. They're good for maybe 50 years. But the husks are dying. The new husks took 20 years to grow. |
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Hybrid More Pics & Info Max, Michael, Isabel, Tess, & the Dupes are all hybrids. They were created with a mixture of alien genetic material and human DNA. Hybrids have human skeletons and organs, but their blood is completely not human. The powers the hybrids have are human. They were engineered to be several thousand years ahead to take complete advantage of the human brain. Their alien powers come from the cerebral cortex. |
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I Know An Alien Club In the episode 'Skin & Bones' Nasedo refers to the group of humans who know of alien existance as the 'I Know an Alien Club.' |
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I The Stud In the episode ‘It’s too Late and It’s too Bad’, Liz and Maria are searching Alex’s room, and Liz discovers a locked file on his comupter. Maria knows his password – I The Stud. |
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Ice Princess / Ice Queen A name the fans gave Isabel because of her frosty and superior attitude. |
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I'm Teflon, Babe In the episode 'The Balance', Maria tells Liz that she can get involved with Michael but still stay detached because 'I'm Teflon, babe.' |
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Incubation Pods more pics & info The aliens were sent to Earth in incubation pods, where they stayed for approximately 40 years until they 'hatched'. |
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Jeep More vehicle pics & info License plate # - 384 X7A This is the Jeep that Max and Isabel drive. It is never said in the show, but presumed the Jeep is army surplus and the Evans bought it for Max and Isabel to share. |
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Jetta More vehicle pics & info License plate # - 275 Q6T This is the Red, '92 Volkswagen Jetta that belongs to Amy Deluca and is often driven by Maria. The fans have nicknamed the Jetta Genie because Maria was listening to 'Genie in a Bottle' on the Jetta radio in the episode 'Monsters'. It is kind of a running joke in the show that the Jetta gets damaged when the kids use it to pursue alien interests. |
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Journal see 'Liz's Journal' |
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KROZ A local radio station in Roswell that sponsers the Valentine's Blind Date Contest in the episode 'Blind Date'. |
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Kase Security The company vehicle that the Special Unit uses as a cover to transport Nasedo’s body, in the episode ‘Destiny.’ |
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Key Michael discovers the key in Sheriff Valenti's office in the episode 'The Morning After'. The Sheriff had the key in a file from an unsolved case from 1959. The key was taken off an unidentified corpse, with a silver handprint on the chest. In the episode 'Missing', Max, Michael & Isabel discover that the corpse was James Atherton. In '285 South' they figure out that the key opens a secret room in Atherton's house where he kept all of his files on aliens, and the alien necklace with the swirl symbol. |
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Leanna is not Leanna In the episode ‘It’s too Late and It’s too Bad’, Liz and Maria are searching Alex’s room, and Liz discovers a locked file on his comupter. When they open the file, it prints out the same sentence over and over again – Leanna is not Leanna |
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Little Green Men How Kyle refers to the aliens in 'Ask Not' |
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Liz' Journal Liz's Journal Entires Liz began to keep a journal or diary after Max healed her. She knows it is foolish to write it all down, but here are her own words explaining to Max why she started it. What I wrote in my journal, it didn't really have anything to do with science. "That day that you saved me, I felt something that I just had to put into words, so years from now, if anyone ever, if anyone ever touches me the way that you did, I'll know what it's supposed to feel like. In the episode Missing Liz's journal is taken. Luckily it turned out to be Michael who had it. Liz tells him he should destroy it because anyone reading it will learn all about him, Max and Isabel. Michael says, no, they would learn about you. After that, Liz keeps the journal hidden behind a loose brick in her room. |
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Lost Treasures In the episode 'Leaving Normal' we learn that Liz's grandmother, Claudia Parker, has written an article, called Lost Treasures, that will be published in the American Journal of Archeology. Liz tells Maria it is about "the first findings on the Navajos in a hundred years." |
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Luminous more pics & info The name of the West Roswell High Yearbook. |
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More info & pics This is the painting on the wall of Nasedo's cave that has alien symbols and language. It is first seen in the episode 'River Dog'. RD was instructed to show it only to those who passed a test. He showed it to Max after he passed the test of using his alien powers to create a light. RD says that the visitor drew the cave painting, but he never told RD what it meant. Max asks if anyone else has come to see it, but RD tells him no. In the episode 'The Balance', Michael sees the painting for the first time and realizes it is a map, and the healing stones fit into it, making the 'V'-formation. In 'Blind Date', Michael figures out that one of the symbols on the map leads to the Roswell Library. He and Isabel go to the library and burn an alien symbol into the grass as a message to Nasedo. Nasedo doesn't reveal himself to them, but Michael was correct about the location. Later Tess takes the 'destiny book' out of the wall of the library, that has the symbol on the cover that is on the map. |
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Maria Filter In the Pilot, Alex uses the phrase the Maria filter, to refer to the fact that he knows to take wild things that Maria says with a ‘grain of salt.’ |
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Martian Kyle refers to the aliens as Martians in several episodes. In the episode ‘We Are Family,’ Kyle tells Tess that she is his ‘favorite Maritan.’ |
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Massacre at Sunset Villiage The horror movie Kyle rents in 'Leaving Normal', saying it is a classic. He explains that it's got something for Liz's grandmother, because "a serial killer hones in on this retirement community." |
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Mesaliko Tribe This is the local Native Ameriacn tribe that River Dog, Eddie and Deputy Owen Blackwood belong to, and where Liz goes to find out about the alien necklace. |
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Metal Book
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Michael Worshipper The term that Maria coins in the episode 'Harvest' to refer to Courtney, and her obsession with Michael. This is what Courtney says. "I'm not obsessed with him, ok? I follow him in the political sense." "We're not with the other skins. We're renegades who believe that if you (Michael) were in charge instead of Max in the first place, that none of this would have ever happened." "The short version, is that our planet was on the brink of a golden age, and then it all fell apart. You were the one who could have united our planet, pulled together the warring factions, brought peace. But you weren't on the throne." "You wouldn't betray him. That loyalty cost your lives and those of everyone you loved. Please, just don't let history repeat itself. You're the one we need. You're our leader, our salvation." |
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Mindwarp The alien power Tess has that allows her to alter other people's perceptions to what she wants them to see. |
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Moisture Chamber In the episode 'Wipeout', the Skins husks are peeling badly, and being in the Roswell heat makes it even worse. They use what they call a moisture chamber to extend the life of the husks, but we never see it. |
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Mom-o-Gram Mom-o-gram Message Mom-o-gram is a name created by the Roswell fans on the internet, for the message emitted from the orbs, that was supposedly from Max and Isabel's mother. The message is viewed by the gang in the pod chamber in the episode 'Destiny'. |
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Mr. Squishels Presumably this was a stuffed animal or toy or some kind, that belonged to Kyle as a child. In the episode 'Wipeout' Sheriff Valenti reminds Kyle that he gave him the toy after his mother left, so the Sheriff wouldn't have to sleep alone. |
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Ms. Texas In the episode 'River Dog', Kyle calls Liz Ms. Texas, refering to the fact that he had just followed her, Max & Isabel to Texas, trying to find out what they were doing. |
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Mud In the episode 'The Convention', Max asks Michael how he stops thinking about Maria. Michael tells him to think about mud. Later when Max is talking to Liz, he starts to fall under her charms, but breaks the spell by saying mud, telling Liz he wants to order Mud pie from the Crashdown. Then Michael fills in for the missing wrestler, so Amy Deluca won't lose her investment. When Maria finds out, she kisses him. He breaks the moment by saying he is thinking about mud. |
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National Interrigator View it here The tabloid featured on the Silver Handprint website that had articles pertaining to several Roswell stories, Laurie Dupree's abduction, alien parasites (the ganderium), Brody buying the UFO Museum, the children healed by Max, a trucker abducted by aliens that found herself in New York (one of the possessed humans at the summit). |
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Necklace see Pendant |
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Negleria Filarae In the episode ‘Disturbing Behavior,’ Max asks Liz to look at the alien crystals they found in Laurie Dupree’s grave. She says they resemble Negleria Filarae – waterbourne parasites found in the blood cells of certain species of fish |
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Not of this Earth In the Pilot when Liz confronts Max about healing her, he admits to her that he is an alien, but says he prefers the term – ‘Not of this Earth.’ |
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The Once & Future King T. Green calls Max this in the episode 'Wipeout' because Max was the King of their planet in his past life, and was sent to Earth in hopes that he would return to the planet and rule again in the future. The reference is from a book by T. H. White about King Arthur. White took the reference from the legendary inscription on Arthur's Grave - 'Here lies Arthur, the once and future king.' |
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Orbs aka. Communication Orb or Communicator One orb is discovered by Max & Liz in the episode 'Sexual Healing'. Liz gets images in her mind when she kisses Max that lead them to the place where it was buried. in the episode 'Crazy', Kathleen Topolsky tells Michael about them. "It's a communicator, and there's another one just like it. I took it from the special unit evidence vault back in Washington. Now, I know they only work when they're together." In the episode 'The White Room', Pierce tells Max that an alien he had in captivity told him that the orbs were communicators and two were required to work. Pierce tortures Max until he tells where their orb is, and Pierce gets it. He ties to force Max to show him how they work, but Tess creates mindwarp so Max can escape, and he takes both orbs with him. In 'Destiny' the gang activates the orbs in the pod chamber. It seems that they just need to concentrate and use their powers, and they see the 'mom-o-gram', the message from Max & Isabel's mother. |
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Pendant In the episode 'River Dog' Isabel finds the necklace in the secret room at Atherton's house. She recognizes the symbol on it and takes it with her. Later in the episode, River Dog tells Max and Liz that Nasedo gave the necklace to Atherton. In the episode 'Departure', Maxs gives the necklace to Liz to remember him by after he leaves Earth. |
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Pentagon Device see 'Trithium Amplification Generator' |
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Photo of the Corpse with Silver Handprint In the 'Pilot' episode Kyle sees the silver handprint on Liz's stomach where Max healed her, and tells his father. Both Kyle and Sheriff Valenti have seen something similar before. Sheriff Valenti's father, Jim Valenti Sr., discovered an unidentified corpse who had a silver handprint on his chest in 1959. Sheriff Valenti shows Liz a photo of the corpse with the silver handprint, hoping to get her to tell the truth about what happened at the Crashdown the day of the shooting. Later it is revealed that the corpse in the piture is James Atherton. |
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Photo of Milton next to the 'alien shadow' In 'Monsters' Milton Ross, the owner of the UFO museum, shows Max a photo of himself, taken in 1959 outside an ice cream parlor, and it appears an 'alien shadow' is next to him. Milton claims it is proof that aliens walked the Earth. It also might be the reason Milton is so determined to find alien life. |
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The place by the thing that we went that time with what's-her-name the friend 'code' that Liz uses in 'MITC' to tell Maria where to meet her. She is refering to the fountain in front of City Hall. It shows how close they are and how in tune. |
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Planet Vulcan How Kyle refers to the aliens' home world in 'Ask Not' |
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Pod People In the episode 'Skin & Bones', Nasedo calls Max, Isabel, Michael & Tess, pod people. |