Roswell: Season 2

2000 · 21 episodes · ★ 8.7

What Season 2 of Roswell

Season two opens with Max, Liz, Isabel, Michael, and Alex trying to keep anyone from finding out they're aliens. Michael is arrested for murder, and the group must get him out of trouble, while Liz takes a job with a congresswoman who has her own hidden agenda. The love triangle between Max, Liz, and Kyle Valenti keeps gaining weight, and Sheriff Valenti is dragged into the investigation when the FBI starts asking about Max and Isabel. The Skins, enemies of the main characters, become the main threat. Max also receives a visit from a future self who warns him that his relationship with Liz will endanger his planet.

21episodes

Oct 2, 2000aired

May 21, 2001latest episode

14.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Skin and Bones
Oct 2, 2000 · 41 min
Max and the others must rescue Michael after he is arrested for murder; Liz takes a job with a congresswoman who has a hidden agenda.
Directed by James A. Contner · Written by Jason Katims · Starring Dennis Lipscomb, Kenneth Choi, Sara Downing, Gretchen Egolf
2x02 Ask Not
Oct 9, 2000 · 42 min
Brody Davis, the mysterious new curator at the UFO Museum has the group on edge, and Michael and Isabel plotting his demise.
Directing: Bruce Seth Green · Writing: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Desmond Askew, J.G. Hertzler, Sara Downing, Gretchen Egolf
2x03 Surprise
Oct 16, 2000 · 40 min
Isabel is deeply moved when Max throws her a surprise birthday party, but she grows troubled after seeing visions of a bound and gagged Tess. Alex does an interesting cop striptease for Isabel.
Directed by Frederick King Keller · Written by Toni Graphia · Starring Sara Downing, Gretchen Egolf, Mary Ellen Trainor, Jeremy Davidson
2x04 Summer of '47
Oct 23, 2000 · 42 min
Michael discovers the hidden history behind the 1947 crash when interviewing a World War II survivor for a school project. The story unfolds with familiar faces portraying people in 1947.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring: Charles Napier, Tom Kenny, Eric Saiet, Michael Roddy
2x05 The End of the World
Oct 30, 2000 · 42 min
An older Max travels from the future (2014 to be exact) to tell Liz that their relationship will imperil his planet and together they devise a plan to change the future: by making present Max fall out of love with Liz.
Directed by Bill L. Norton · Written by Jason Katims · Starring Sara Downing, John Doe, Winnie Holzman
2x06 Harvest
Nov 6, 2000 · 40 min
After the death of congresswoman Whitaker, Max and the gang visit her hometown, Copper Summit, Arizona, where they find themselves trapped in enemy territory when they learn the whole town population are Skins.
Directed by Paul Shapiro · Written by Fred Golan · Starring Chris Ellis, Holmes Osborne, Sara Downing, Jenny O'Hara
2x07 Wipeout!
Nov 13, 2000 · 40 min
The Skins make all the humans in Roswell, New Mexico disappear turning it into a ghost town.
Directing: Michael Lange · Writing: Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring: Sara Downing, Jenny O'Hara, Miko Hughes, Mary Ellen Trainor
2x08 Meet the Dupes
Nov 20, 2000 · 42 min
Duplicate versions of Michael, Isabel and Tess come to Roswell after killing their king Zan, to urge Max to attend an important interstellar summit in New York City, but they have their own agenda; Ava stays behind in Roswell.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writing: Toni Graphia · Starring: Desmond Askew, Sean Allen Rector, Steve Picerni, Michael Chieffo
2x09 Max in the City
Nov 27, 2000 · 41 min
Max and Tess depart for the interstellar summit in New York City with Rath and Lonnie, Michael and Isabel's duplicates, who both harbor a secret agenda for their future king and an alliance with Nicholas, the Skin. Ava reveals to Liz that Rath & Lonnie murdered Zan. Tess is kidnapped by the dupes after Max learns of their true intentions. When Max finally finds Tess she reveals that they tried to read her mind to find the Granolith but she resisted. She then says that they're gone but did they die or are they still out there? Ava says goodbye to Liz and leaves Roswell.
Directed by Patrick R. Norris · Written by Ronald D. Moore · Starring Desmond Askew, David Reivers, Jerry Gelb, Marji Martin
2x10 A Roswell Christmas Carol
Dec 18, 2000 · 42 min
Max witnesses a tragedy and is haunted by the ghost of a man he could have saved, leaving him overwhelmed with guilt and questioning his healing abilities. Isabel aka the Christmas Nazi (dubbed by Michael) tries to brighten up the holiday season and Tess tries to became a part of the Valenti family.
Directed by Patrick R. Norris · Written by Jason Katims · Starring Desmond Askew, Joseph Williams, Madison McReynolds, Adeline Allen
2x11 To Serve and Protect
Jan 22, 2001 · 41 min
When Isabel develops a psychic connection to a girl who has been buried alive, she races to find the teenager before it's too late. Meanwhile the FBI comes to town and starts asking questions concerning Valenti and his involvement with Max and Isabel.
Directed by Jefery Levy · Written by Breen Frazier · Starring Devon Gummersall, Breon Gorman, Keith Szarabajka, Woon Young Park
2x12 We Are Family
Jan 29, 2001 · 41 min
Sheriff Valenti is suspended from the force after refusing to answer the FBI's questions about Max and Isabel, but he soon finds himself right back in the thick of things when Laurie DuPree shows up at his house claiming to be chased by aliens.
Directed by David Grossman · Written by Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring Devon Gummersall, Erica Gimpel, Keith Szarabajka, Rachel Winfree
2x13 Disturbing Behavior
Feb 5, 2001 · 42 min
Michael and Maria flee from Roswell after helping Laurie DuPree escape from the police, and Max learns that a deadly parasite was released into Earth's atmosphere when their ship crashed 50 years ago.
Directed by James Whitmore Jr. · Written by Ronald D. Moore · Starring Desmond Askew, Devon Gummersall, Dennis Christopher, Erica Gimpel
2x14 How the Other Half Lives
Feb 19, 2001 · 41 min
Max tries to stop Alex and Kyle from being buried alive in a cave filled with glowing blue crystals; Isabel is kidnapped by Grant Sorenson possessed by the alien parasite queen; Michael is shot while trying to protect Laurie.
Directing: Paul Shapiro · Writing: Ronald D. Moore, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring: Desmond Askew, Dennis Christopher, Erica Gimpel, Heidi Swedberg
2x15 Viva Las Vegas
Feb 26, 2001 · 41 min
When the gang makes a spur-of-the-moment trip to Las Vegas, in order to spend the DuPree money, the event-filled excursion ends in a faceoff between Max and Michael over leadership; Tess and Liz can't pass for over-21-year-olds; Maria recruits Alex to help her audition for a role that ends up to be for a stripper; Isabel meets a man.
Directed by Bruce Seth Green · Written by Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring Sam Ball, Michael Bailey Smith, Howard George, Linda Pine
2x16 Heart of Mine
Apr 16, 2001 · 42 min
The onset of junior prom stirs up emotional tumult as Liz tempts fate by asking Max to be her date, Isabel decides Alex is the man she's been searching for, and Michael tells Maria he won't take her to prom.
Directed by Lawrence Trilling · Written by Jason Katims · Starring Devon Gummersall, Scott Clifton, Taran Killam, Michelle Moretti
2x17 Cry Your Name
Apr 23, 2001 · 42 min
The sudden death of a close friend shocks the group.
Directed by Allan Kroeker · Written by Ronald D. Moore · Starring Jason Dohring, Jo Anderson, John Doe, Mary Ellen Trainor
2x18 It's Too Late and It's Too Bad
Apr 30, 2001 · 41 min
Liz continues her investigation into Alex's death while Isabel plans her future and Maria wonders whether Michael will always be around.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Aaron Harberts, Gretchen J. Berg · Starring: Devon Gummersall, Ted Rooney, Michael Caldwell, Per Bristow
2x19 Baby, It's You
May 7, 2001 · 41 min
Max is hit with a one-two punch after he discovers that not only is Tess pregnant with his son, but that the baby cannot survive unless they return to their home planet. Liz, Maria and Michael work together to unravel the mysterious double life of Alex. Isabel and Kyle explore her powers as they play pranks on Max and Kyle dreamwalks with a Playmate.
Directed by Rodney Charters · Written by Garrett Lerner, Lisa Klink · Starring: Jodi Ann Paterson, Nelly Furtado, Jeff Wadlow, Nicole Brunner
2x20 Off the Menu
May 14, 2001 · 41 min
Brody Davis, his mind frazzled from an electric shock,holds several members of the gang hostage, when he begins to remember what happened when he was abducted, such as the New York City interstellar summit and the fact that Max is an alien. Max must use his healing abilities to fix Brody's mind so that he doesn't remember the alien mind that inhabits him. Tess must mindwarp Amy DeLuca into not remembering that Brody held them hostage.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner · Starring: Desmond Askew, Devon Gummersall, Diane Farr, Jason Peck
2x21 The Departure Season Finale
May 21, 2001 · 41 min
Max, Isabel, Michael and Tess struggle with goodbyes on what they believe to be their last night on Earth before they travel back to their home planet. In the final hours, Max frantically searches for the killer that is still out there and threatens the lives of everyone they love.
Directing: Patrick R. Norris · Writing: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend · Starring: Devon Gummersall, Nicole Brunner, Nicholas Stratton, Mary Ellen Trainor