Roswell: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Roswell Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
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.
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.
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 stripteas
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 i
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
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 wh
Wipeout!
Nov 13, 2000 · 40 min
The Skins make all the humans in Roswell, New Mexico disappear turning it into a ghost town.
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
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
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
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 askin
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 Laur
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 c
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; Mi
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
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
Cry Your Name
Apr 23, 2001 · 42 min
The sudden death of a close friend shocks the group.
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.
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
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
The Departure
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 fran