Main Plot: The burial spot of Agent Pierce’s bones is discovered by a geologist and Michael is the prime suspect in Deputy Hanson’s investigation. Also, the Pod Squad’s enemy (The Skins) make their presence known.

Max/Liz: I felt so bad for Max. He’s in denial. He doesn’t want to face the fact that everything has changed since they received the message from home. He’s frustrated and Liz distancing herself from him is not helping. I thought Maria was unnecessarily cruel telling Max that Liz blew him off (I don’t believe that for a minute). Max is under the false impression that Liz is keeping her distance because she thinks he has unexpressed feelings for Tess and does not want to interfere with him following his true heart. He thinks that by reassuring her that he does not love Tess, Liz will want to come back to him. But Liz knows he doesn’t love Tess, that she is his true love, which makes her sacrifice all the harder. Her seeming coldness and indifference are actually signs of the suffering she is going through, trying to stay away. She still believes that she would be a hindrance to his fulfilling his destiny to lead his people and that she’s doing this for his own good. She doesn’t realize that she completes him and the emptiness he feels without her has caused him to be an ineffectual leader. However, now that she is back and can see the effects of their separation, perhaps she will see the error in her decision. (Maybe Liz should hear the song "Here With Me"; then she would understand that Max can’t breath, can’t be without her resting there with him. J )

I wonder if Nasedo knew Max in his former life as king. He seemed disgusted that Max is a pacifist. I wonder what kind of king Max was?

Maria: I was surprised by Maria’s behavior. I couldn’t believe she actually said "I hear ex-cons are really great in bed.", making it sound like she was offering to sleep with Michael to get him back. Being needy isn’t going to help Maria; she needs to get back some of the spunk she displayed in the earlier episodes of the 1^st season.

I was glad to hear that Maria and Max "bonded" over the summer. I hope we get to see some of it ourselves.

General: I felt the opening scene in the therapist’s office was a clever way of recapping the previous season and admitting that, after what Max has been through, he would need psychological counseling. Not that it will do any good, because if he ever "opened up" to the doctor he would be committed!

Is the geologist, Grant Sorenson, supposed to be a new love interest for Isabel? Poor Alex! I’m not sure I approve; he’s too old for her. (Can we say jailbait?!)

I don’t usually pick up on accents but I noticed that Majandra used the Boston pronunciation when she said that Liz was visiting her "aunt" in Florida. Since people pick up on it every time I use it (being a Boston transplant living in California and it being a pronunciation not used elsewhere in the US), I’m surprised the director/production crew didn’t pick up on it when "Maria", who’s lived her whole life in Roswell, used it.

Michael’s arrest was waaay over the top! On WHAT grounds?! Because his pocket knife was found near the burial spot? Bringing him in for questioning is one thing but arresting him?! What happened to establishing who the victim is, when the murder took place, where the suspect was at the time of the murder and what his/her motive would be before being able to arrest someone?! It made it look like Valenti didn’t know how to handle the situation and I believe he would have been able to.

So, shapeshifters can have and enjoy sex; something tells me this will come up again!

I realize that they wanted Liz to figure out where the bones were taken but they handled it badly. Why would Liz say to Max "I’m not a dork, I just love science"? He knows that! And why would she have to explain that Mr Seligman told them about it in class? Max took the same class! They should have just had Liz remind Max about what Mr Seligman told them in class and have that lead her to the conclusion of where the bones were taken.

"The Skins"; Max and Isabel’s "mom" said they would know the enemy by the evil within but it also seems they shed their skin as well. Are they reptilian? Why did it take so long for them to show up? Have they been observing the Pod Squad for 3 months? I thought it was a neat special effect when Michael picked up the hand skin and it disintegrated.

Speaking of neat special effects, I jumped a mile when they "initiated the accelerator". I knew something would happen but I wasn’t expecting that! And just what were they doing to the bones; what was that "field" supposed to be? Could Max have been harmed by it? He does have a human body after all. And how did Max know where the bones were once he got into the building? Did he "sense" it or did he see them place them in that chamber out of our view?

At the Crashdown when they were "celebrating", they were eating pizza; I wonder if the delivery guy thought it was odd delivering pizza to a restaurant? J What was Maria apologizing for? Just that she forgot to tell them Courtney was still there? Her apology seemed directed at Michael rather than the group as a whole. Courtney is obviously interested in Michael but the feelings better not be reciprocated. His excuses to Maria will seem pretty hollow if they are.

The promo has Max saying "He died in my arms" and it’s probably safe to assume he means Nasedo, but Nasedo has died before and been brought back. It will be interesting to see if Max has the healing stones and if he will try to use them alone.

I really liked the fact that they are bringing back the humor that seemed missing from the last few episodes of the 1^st season.

Max: No rock stands a chance against Michael Guerin.

Nasedo: You can never find those little pod people when you want them.

Nasedo: Sheriff Valenti, welcome to the ever-burgeoning "I know an alien" club.

Maria: I hope he’s using birth control.