Liz Parker
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| Liz Parker Evans | |
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 Liz from the episode "Max in the city" (season 2) |
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| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "The Turnabout" |
| Created by | Jason Katims |
| Portrayed by | Shiri Appleby |
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| Aliases | "Liz", "Lizzie", "Beth" |
| Species | Human half-alien in season 3, due to Max's healing effect |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 18 2002, end of the series |
| Specialty | Clairvoyant, Scientist |
| Spouse(s) | Max Evans husband |
| Children | Zan step-son |
| Address | Roswell, New Mexico |
Elizabeth (Liz or Lizzie) Parker-Evans is a fictional character from the television show Roswell. She was portrayed by actress Shiri Appleby.
Roswell the television series (mostly its premise and the pilot) was based on the Roswell High young adult book series, written by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz and published by Pocket Books. For more datails about the original books and the differences between the tv series and the show check Roswell High.
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[edit] Biography
Liz Parker-Evans attended Roswell High School where her favorite subject was science. Her closest relations and her two best friends Alex Whitman and Maria DeLuca and her boyfriend Kyle Valenti. The two broke up and she engaged in a dramatic relationship with Max Evans, which is the crux of the television series Roswell.
[edit] Effect of Max's powers on Liz
After Max Evans healed her in the pilot, he converted her to the alien side and she changed. In the end of the show she's still human but in season three she started to develop some alien powers.
In the episode "Four Aliens and a Baby", she blasted Tess Harding twice using a green energy that exited from her hands. In "Graduation", she started to see flashes about the future after touching people. She saw a customer of the crashdown in danger and she and Max saved her. Then while she was making out with Max she got a flash of Max, herself, Michael Guerin, and Isabel Evans killed by someone. Thanks to this power, in the end their lives were saved by running away from Roswell before the FBI could have killed them. Kyle and Maria also ran away, even though their lives were not in danger. Kyle went because he feared he would turn into an alien like Liz, and Maria because she could not bear to be away from Michael.
Even if her powers are more visible in season three, we can see her "change" start to develop since season two when in the episode "Max in the City" she saved Max's life by projecting her image from Roswell to New York with Isabel's help.
[edit] Season One
While Liz was working at her parents' Crashdown Cafe one day, she was shot accidentally by two men who were having an argument. When Max Evans saved her life by healing her gunshot wound her life was changed forever. He put his hand over her wound and miraculously made the wound and the bullet disappear. Realizing that there was something incredibly amazing about Max, she decided to investigate. She took Max's pencil, which Max had been chewing on, placed the saliva collected from the pencil tip on a slide and examined the slide through a microscope and she could see that his cells were not human. When she confronted Max about everything that had happened to her and his alien cells, Max confessed to her that he was an alien that had been on the "supposed" alien craft that had crashed in 1947 in Roswell.
With growing suspicion coming from the local sheriff, she devised a plan to throw him off Max's scent. She was successful and the sheriff, though still cautious and wary of Max, let him go. After this incident she started developing deep feelings for Max, even though at the time she was dating Kyle Valenti, the sheriff's son. For a while she lied to her friends Alex and Maria, but eventually Maria confronted Liz about what was going on. She eventually relented to Maria's questions and told her all she knew about Max, Isabel and Michael. Kyle Valenti grew ever jealous of the growing relationship between her and Max, and a group of his friends beat Max up. She broke up with Kyle in response to this and this caused a rift between the two of them. However her relationship with Max grew very strong and she found herself falling in love with him. An incident involving Michael Guerin however scared Max away, as he realized that he didn't want to hurt Liz in any way. He was an alien and didn't know what was going to happen to him or who would be coming after him; he wanted her to be safe.
However, they ended up getting together and falling in love. Max, as an alien, had a profound effect on her and when they kissed Liz often got images of Max's past, which helped Max, Michael and Isabel discover a healing stone. This didn't last long though, as Tess Harding arrived in Roswell and began to influence Max in a strange way. Liz saw Max and Tess kiss and was heartbroken, but after hearing Max out she believed Tess could be the mysterious Nasedo and was influencing Max's thoughts by making him hallucinate. She forgave him but was always threatened by Tess, even when they found out that she was an alien hybrid just like Max, Michael and Isabel.
Feeling that Liz was a threat to his plans, Nasedo shape-shifted into Max and took Liz. When she kissed him, she realized he was not Max because she had visions of his past. Max, worried about Liz and what Nasedo would do, went after them. Maria and Alex (as the gang had planned) told Sheriff Valenti that they were worried because Liz was with Max and that Liz had called claiming that she was scared because Max was acting weird. This was done in order to try to find Liz faster. They were found in a theme park. In the House of Mirrors, Max was grabbed by the FBI and Nasedo grabbed Liz. She kissed him, happy because they had escaped, and again realized that he was Nasedo when she got images from his past. She was deeply heartbroken when Max was abducted by the FBI and had to tell the news to Michael and Isabel. With the help of Nasedo, the gang saved Max from the FBI. Liz and Max had to run through the desert to escape them and while hiding put in a junkyard, she and Max said that they loved each other for the first time.
In the season finale, she went with Max to the alien pod chamber in the rock formation that had been disguised as the alien craft that had crashed. It was then when Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess's destiny was revealed to them when they used the alien orbs to contact Max and Isabel's real(alien) mother. Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess are human-alien hybrids of the royal four from their home planet of Antar. They were all killed in their former lives by their enemy, and Vilandra's lover, Kivar. In their death, their alien DNA was mixed with human DNA and sent to earth so their race could preserve the royal four of their planet and have them one day return to rule again. In their former lives, Max was Zan, the alien King of Antar. Tess(Ava in former life) was Max's(Zan's) wife, Isabel(Vilandra) was Max's(Zan's) sister and her betrothed husband was Michael(Rath), Max's second in command. After realizing that Max and Tess are destined to be together and the importance of Max to his race, Liz decides to let Max go in order for him to fulfill his destiny, because she now sees he is destined to be with Tess, no matter how much they love each other. As she left the cave Max went after her but Michael came and stopped him saying "you have to let her go". Liz ran home heartbroken.
[edit] Season Two
Season two begins with Liz returning from a summer away from Roswell. She has a new job as an intern for Congresswoman Whitaker (who later turns out to be a Skin, an enemy of Max and the others). Liz's relationship with Max is complicated. While she continues to have strong feelings for him, she stands by her decision that their relationship stands in the way of his destiny. Max on the other hand tells her tries everything he can to be with her.
In one episode she is asked by a future version of Max to help him try to get the modern-day Max to fall out of love with her. Future Max claims that if they don't, the world will end and they will all die. Shocked and disbelieving this announcement she only accepts it when Future Max predicts that Max will turn up with a Spanish band and sing a love song for her. When this transpires she agrees to help Future Max. He goes on to tell her the future Max and her will have if they do not succeed. He tells her that after her and Max made love for the first time, it cemented their relationship and they were never apart again. This upset Tess and she left Roswell. Max and Liz were married in Las Vegas when they were 19 and were together until the end of the world came because when Max's enemies came to earth, Max, Michael, and Isabel were not strong enough in their powers without Tess so the world came to and end. So they have to get Tess and Max together to save everyone and rewrite the future. She tries to get Tess to help by attracting Max towards her but it fails when Max catches Liz watching. Liz at the end has to resort to making Max think that she slept with Kyle. This succeeds; as Max walks to the window he sees Liz talking with Kyle in bed, which breaks Max's heart. Liz has one last dance to her future wedding song, "I Shall Believe" by Sheryl Crow with the Future Max, but he disappears as the future has been changed and so he no longer exists.
She attracts the attention of Maria's cousin, and they have a few dates, but nothing serious comes out of it. She is left devastated when she hears that Alex has died in a car crash. She visits the destroyed car that Alex was driving and finds a picture of Alex and a girl he met in Sweden, but his head was cut off in the picture. This leads her to suspect that Alex was murdered, and she begins to try and find the supposed truth by asking the last person who saw him what Alex had said to him. At the funeral gathering in Alex's home she accuses an alien of killing Alex. This deeply offends Max and the others, more so Isabel who had grown close to Alex. This creates a "them vs. us" scenario and the whole future of the formerly tight group looks bleak. She decides to go to Sweden to find the people that Alex was staying with, but she receives a call from the Swedish government claiming that the building Alex was standing in front of in the photo supposedly taken in Sweden hasn't existed in several years. She comes to the conclusion that Alex never went to Sweden. Her investigations lead her, Maria, and Michael to Las Cruses University. They discover that Alex had been working there on a translation program for the alien book that was given to Max and the others. Liz sees the girl with Alex in the photo at a Nelly Furtado concert but loses her in the crowd.
She goes back home to Roswell, and she finds out that Max had been with Tess and she is now pregnant, and also that he had to leave Earth and go back home. He had to do this because the baby was dying, as he could not survive in the Earth's environment. Max also asked her about the girl at Las Cruises. Wanting to know why he was asking, she learned that Max suspected the girl to be an alien and that he had to kill her to stop her being a threat. She asked if she could go with him to witness it, and he agreed, but as Max was about to commit the act, Liz realized that the girl was human; she saved the girl from the fire that Max had caused. They headed home confused because they did not know who had killed Alex and it now looked like they would never know. Max tells Liz and that he has to go back to Antar with Tess, Isabel, and Michael because the baby is dying. Liz is heartbroken and angry at the same time at the thought that Max is leaving her. Max discovers the truth about Kyle, when he asks Liz if she really slept with Kyle and she tells him no. Upon realizing this he sees the huge mistake he has made with Tess. He wishes he could go back because he has always loved Liz, despite being with Tess. Liz asks him if he loves Tess and Max says "not like I love you". What he felt for Tess was only care. He wanted things to be different, but he felt that his duty was to his son, and thus had no other choice than to save him. Max and Liz shared a passionate kiss. When Liz didn't have a vision, Max broke down in tears. He realized that there futures did not intersect. If he went with his son, he would never see her again.
Liz went to Maria's cousin Sean, and declared that Max had broken her heart but she realized that it wasn't Sean's fault and she couldn't use him as Max's replacement.
During the day the aliens had planned to leave, Liz, Maria, Sean and Kyle were at the Crashdown Cafe talking. Maria and Liz noticed that Kyle kept tapping the table in a peculiar sort of way. When they mentioned this, he said that he had no control over it and didn't even know he was doing it. They went back to Maria's and found her mom remembering about a hostage situation that they had been in. Tess had used an alien power to blank her memory. They confronted Maria's mother and she appeared fine and seemed to forget again. But she then started to tap the side the same way that Kyle had done earlier on in the day. Liz remembered that Alex used to tap the bass guitar when she was with him also the same way and she realized that this wasn't a coincidence. They confronted Kyle and told him to look around the room to see if anything would jerk his memory. When he looks in the mirror, he remembers that Tess killed Alex and that he had been mindwarped by Tess to carry Alex's dead body to the car. She and Maria went to the pod chamber just as Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess were about to leave in the granalith. At the last minute Michael decides he cannot leave earth because this is his home and he is in love with Maria and can't leave her. As Micheal leaves the pod chamber the door opens Liz and Maria tell Michael that Tess killed Alex. Max confronted Tess and realized that it was all a setup and that the baby was a part of the plan too. Kivar wasn't Tess and Nacedo's enemy. The truth is that 40 years ago Nasedo had made a deal with Kivar: go home to Antar, delivering Max and his friends to him (that would have killed them) and carry Max's heir too in the process.
Angry, Max wanted to kill her but then he realized that she was still carrying his own son so he let her go in order to save the baby. He regrouped with Liz and the others on the mountainside. Max then told Liz that he was wrong about many things but not about her, that he loved her, and would always love her. They embrace and the season ends with Max saying that he must save his son.
[edit] Season Three
At the start of season three we can only see flashes of some moments of the summer when Liz and Max reconcile in order to understand what happened after departure and what brought them to "busted" and then together again. They arrange to go out on a date, a way to start things over from the beginning. They are on their date when Max decides to go skinny dipping. As Liz is about to join him, Max gets a vision from his son and begins to drown. Liz saves him. Max realizes that his son is in trouble. They search for a ship that they believe is held in a storage facility in the basement of a convenience store in Utah. Liz and Max come up with a plan to hold up the store and when Liz is holding the shop clerk hostage, Max will go down and check to see if the ship is there. Max gives Liz a gun and they hold up the convenience store, Max finds that there is a ship and that it is still working, but his time is cut short as the police arrive. They try to escape, but they fail. They are caught after a police chase, and both are arrested and held in the local jail. Max is let out after the police find that nothing was taken from the shop. They couldn't find the weapon, but due to a witness seeing Liz with the gun, Liz is kept in jail and is awaiting court.
She gets saved by Max, as he is able to bribe the FBI into pulling some strings and getting the case dropped. However Liz's panic-stricken father forbids her to see Max, and bans Max from coming into the crash Down Cafe. She defiantly breaks the rule, and upsets her father on numerous occasions. The reason that her father bans Max, apart from the obvious of getting his only daughter in a whole lot of trouble, is that her father was a wild teenager, and his high school sweetheart had died in a car crash because of his drunk driving. Realizing this after her mother tells her, her whole attitude towards him changes and they begin to reconcile their differences.
Even if Tess' fiasco still did hurt her, Liz takes the responsibility of her own mistakes and how it wasn't only Max's fault if things went that way. She and Max love each other and they don't want to give up on their love no matter what. She understands that Max does need her so she stands by him trying to help him, putting herself in danger, finding and saving a baby that wasn't even hers. Thinking about Max's serious problem, she does put away her inner feelings for most of the season, giving him her support, but then she begins to suffer some side effects towards Max's touch. Whenever Max touches her, a spark appears on her body and causes her pain. This scared her, as she realizes that when Max healed her in the pilot episode, saving her life, he changed her and they don't know if she is safe or not. Max is scared for her, he even wanted to contact the FBI, the same people that tortured him in the end of season one, in order to find a way to keep her safe and know what was happening to her. He realizes that what happened with Tess was still hurting Liz and they need to talk about it. But Liz realizes that she needs a little time alone away from Roswell and Max in order to find her balance again and give their love another chance. She decides that she wants to leave Roswell temporarily, so that she can get better and understand what is happening to her, not only the alien aspect but the confusion about her life too. This is much to Max’s heartache, who respected her decision, waiting for her in Roswell. She goes to an all-girl boarding school to start fresh.
However it is not long before her life in Roswell catches up with her. While sleeping, she realizes through a dream that Max has died. She just felt it inside her and she has no doubts about it, Maria's confirmation or not. She is heartbroken and decides to drown her sorrows with alcohol. While drunk she sees Max (whose body has been taken over by an old millionaire named Clayton that wanted to kill her because Max's soul was still alive in him only for her and his memories about her that Clayton got), she tells Maria who doesn't believe her. But they are both in shock when Max (when his body was still taken over by the old millionaire) comes to kill Liz as she is all he thinks about. They are both falling from the top of a building when Max regains control and he saves Liz's life by putting a force field in her path to break her fall. But, realizing that Clayton would kill her, he did let himself hit the ground; he sacrifices his life for her. When Liz wakes up she realizes that Max has died, there was no heartbeat and no breath from him, so she kisses him with a desperate goodbye. Believing Max to be still dead, Liz is shocked as he wakes up and appears to come back to life. They realize that Liz has saved Max's life making him come back with a kiss. We don't how it happened but now they're even.
Back in Roswell, Max and Liz are shocked when Tess appears with Max's baby. Tess had to return because Kivar betrayed her trying to kill the baby because he was fully human, as it was the human parts of Max and Tess that made him. Max discovered that the baby was always fine and his sickness was another lie too. The baby wasn't sick on Earth, this was just another mindwarp by Tess in order to force Max' return to Antar. She had crash-landed on earth, and had slaughtered everyone around her ship at the air base. Tess was now being hunted by the whole army in Roswell, and so was her child. Max&Co start a vote in order to decide if they should deliver Tess to the FBI or not since it was her fault they were suddenly all in danger again. But in the end Liz's final vote is a NO because she never wanted to be a killer like her and she couldn't deliver her to the FBI that would have done to her what they did to Max in the end of season 1.
In the night Tess realizes that the only way to save her son was to destroy the base with all the proofs and kill herself in the process. So, amazed at how Liz didn't vote against her, she asks for her help, trusting only her in the group. She understands her mistakes and she tells Liz that Max always loved only her and all the times that she and Max were together she always got flashes of Liz in his mind (confirming another time an idea that we got in "departure" too) Liz appreciates her sincerity and she asks her to not let FBI study her like a laboratory animal.
After Tess' death Max decides to give up his child for adoption so he could have a safe normal life since the baby is totally human. A life that with his father he will never have. The decision destroys Max's heart but Liz comforts and supports him letting him cry in her arms.
Later Liz realizes that she now has a power: to see the future. When she touches Max she has visions that she, Max, Isabel, and Michael going to die. Micheal says that Max, Liz and Isabel should leave Roswell separately because the FBI knows who they are and their life in Roswell has to be over. Maria is upset by this because she doesn't want to be left in Roswell alone without Michael or Liz. Max proposes to Liz making the choice to be with her even if they had only 12 days. Liz says yes. They all attend their graduation and when they realize this is where they are supposed to die from one of Liz's flashes they all escape into the desert. Now Max, Liz, Michael, Maria, Isabel, and kyle decide to leave together because even though Maria and kyle were not going to be killed, kyle wants to be with his own kind when he develops his alien powers from max's healing and Maria wants to be with Michael. They leave Roswell that night, and go together in a van deciding to live life using their powers to do good deeds on the road. Liz sends her father her journal continuing the truth about everything so he can understand why she left and finally know what has been going on in her life. Liz marries Max in a beautiful country church and her last words of the show are:
"I'm Liz Parker, and I am happy."
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