Lead in:
(Catt Sadler, WB entertainment reporter speaking to news anchor Cheryl Hurd)

CS: Okay, before you go anywhere, Cheryl, I got a question for you. Do you believe in UFO’s?

CH: You know, I kind of do.

CS: You kind of do?

CH: Yeah, I think I do.

CS: Well, I’m not sure how I feel about it quite yet, but check this out. Look at the cover of this Life Magazine. (Holds up current issue for the camera). It’s got the cast of the WB’s hit sci-fi show, Roswell, on the cover. How do they feel about the possibility of extra-terrestrial existence? I went to Tinseltown to find out.

(Shows scene in Independence Day where Max and Isabel follow Michael out of the CrashDown Café after Michael found out that Max told Isabel about Hank giving him a black eye.)

Isabel: What are you going to do? Pretend it didn’t happen? You have to do something.

Michael: Like what?

(CS voiceover: For this small town in New Mexico, life on Earth is anything but normal for its teens and for its teen aliens.” Cut to scene of Liz getting ready to do a scene.)

Director: And roll please!

CS: The show is Roswell and the actors in the sci-fi show each have a unique take on alien life.

(View of Michael sitting next to a blonde with short curls across the table from Max in a booth at the CrashDown Café. Note: The blonde had her head turned away from the camera, but it was definitely not Maria.)

CS: How’s alien life treating you?

(Close up of Brendan Fehr)

BF: Um… what? You mean living in L.A.?

CS: Actor Brendan Fehr on the possibility of extra-terrestrial existence.

BF: There’s a possiblility that they exist. I don’t think you can deny that. Whether they do or not? Um, I don’t know. I don’t say ‘cause I --- I don’t like to be wrong.
I never think in terms of , you know, I’m playing an alien. Are they real? Is someone gonna contact me?

CS laughs

BF: I just think of it if --- I think of it … I’m playing an alien… I’m playing one…

(Cut to the scene in Independence Day where Max and Michael are talking to each other at the train tracks and Max heals Michael’s eye.)

CS: On Roswell, he plays, if you can imagine, the outcast alien Michael. But perhaps most viewers are most sympathetic to the alien we’ve grown to love, Max. He’s played by actor Jason Behr.

(Close up of Jason)

JB: Until we have, like, actual proof, like sitting down right in front of you, talking to you, there’s no real way to say, that’s a fact. You have to at least lend yourself to the idea of it. If --- if you completely shut that out and don’t believe it, I think that you’re --- you’re missing a lot of --- of what’s available for --- for this show.

(Cut to scene of Max with his arm draped casually around Liz in a booth at the CrashDown, absently kissing the top of her head. Liz is leaning into his shoulder. She and Max react with laughter to a comment from an unseen person sitting across the table from them.)

CS voiceover: On the show, actress Shiri Applebee plays Liz, who dares to date alien Max.

(Close up of Shiri)

CS: Would you consider dating an alien?

SA: Um, you know, if he was as nice as Jason, I’d have to consider it! (Big smile) You know, I don’t know whether or not aliens exist or not. I --- I’m in no position to even to say. Granted, working on this show, you --- you have to think that something is --- else is out there. It’s somewhat ignorant of us to say that we’re the only creatures out there. But at the same time, like, growing up, everyone feels a little bit like an alien and a little bit out of place and not exactly sure who they are or where they fit in. the entire spectrum of --- high school, even.

(Cut to scene in Independence Day where Maria is wiping away Michael’s tears in her bedroom and leading him to her bed.)

CS: And maybe even the most developed theory of all is that of actress Majandra (she pronounced it Majandro) Delfino, playing a non-alien teenager, Maria.

(Close up of Majandra)

MD: I kind of have this, like, belief that, like, we go to like, Mars or whatever, you know we may travel to you know, whatever --- moons --- and we see, like, nothing but, like, you know, land. And they come on Earth and they see nothing but land because it’s all occurring in, like, different dimensions. Do you follow?

(Cut to Catt back at the news station, chuckling)