‘Roswell, New Mexico’ Season 4 Episode 6 Recap: “Kiss From a Rose”

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Rebecca Murray
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Roswell New Mexico Season 4 Episode 6 Recap
Brigitte Kali Canales as Tezca and Zoe Cipres as Bonnie in ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ season 4 episode 6 (Photo: John Golden Britt © 2022 The CW Network, LLC)

The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico season four episode six begins with Tezca learning Bonnie and Clyde are close to obtaining the final piece of the puzzle needed to allow them to return to The Oasis. Tezca warns Bonnie to get her head back in the game, and Bonnie lies and says she got rid of Eduardo.

Tezca orders Bonnie to get rid of Michael next.

Liz (Jeanine Mason) and Max (Nathan Dean) have a quiet morning chat and she shows him her injury’s all healed up. She claims to be feeling fine, but Max gets the vibe through the handprint that she’s terrified of what he might do next. Liz reminds him she can also feel what he’s feeling and knows he’s scared about his new powers.

Their conversation’s broken up when they learn Michael’s running a fever of 108 (normally, aliens are 102). Max is confused because aliens don’t get sick.

They head over to Maria’s (Heather Hemmens) where she’s playing nurse to a sick Michael (Michael Vlamis) who – because he’s a male – claims he’s dying. Liz diagnoses him with the flu, strep, and the common cold, which means his immune system is compromised. Plus, he can’t use his alien powers at all.

Maria wonders if this is because he ate the alien fruit, and Max – who doesn’t seem to have any sympathy for his brother – thinks it might be connected to the octahedron. Liz promises to solve the mystery just as Max gets a call that his deputies picked up Bonnie for vandalizing Take Me to Your Latte.

Max heads to the station and Bonnie, who could have easily gotten out of the jail cell without any help, tells Max she needs him to save her. Bonnie reveals the alighting is in motion, but she doesn’t know their plans for returning to The Oasis. Bonnie also says Noah wasn’t anyone’s “friend” and that the puzzle needs Max and Liz to be complete. (None of which clears up anything.)

Max gets angry and grabs the bars of the cell, hands – and bars – now glowing blue. He objects to being called a puzzle piece and Bonnie clarifies that he and Liz are the glue that holds the pieces together. She tosses in that Tezca ordered her to kill Michael but she can’t do it. Michael’s caused a rift in their triad and Tezca wants him out of the way.

Liz slips into research mode and Shivani joins her at the lab. Liz is confused by the human viruses showing up in Michael’s blood and Shivani corrects her; the virus is alien in nature but just looks human. Shivani’s partner, Ali, created a hard drive full of alien anomalies and Shivani has a copy.

Liz and Shivani figure out the virus in Michael was spread by close contact with a carrier. Liz calls Michael and he recalls Bonnie kissed him. Liz puts the clues together and comes up with Bonnie kissed him to disable his powers!

Maria leaves what apparently is just the latest in a string of messages for Alex letting him know Michael’s sick. Michael whines about Alex not checking in just as Dallas (Quentin Plair) shows up needing help. Dallas hopes Michael can use his engineering skills to recover the equation his dad embedded in the glass. Deep Sky loaned him the Lockhart machine, which might help them retrieve the equation.

A short while later, Maria, Dallas, and Michael are able to view the video message left by Dallas’ dad. Dallas attempts to ask about the tree, but brief snippets of his dad’s memory don’t get him any closer to understanding its purpose. Suddenly, Michael spots a bible in the memory and knows he saw it in Bonnie’s cave.

Meanwhile, Isobel (Lily Cowles) and Kyle (Michael Trevino) wake naked in each other’s arms in Careyes, Mexico. This is not a drill, people! It’s happening! Isobel apologizes for using his pecs as a pillow and Kyle jokes it’s okay to use him. Isobel panics, thinking Kyle might actually be feeling used. “Did I just ruin our friendship?!” asks Isobel.

Kyle is taken aback by the “friendship” reference but he plays it off, saying he knew it was just two friends blowing off steam. Isobel relaxes and says Kyle was exactly what she needed, giving their night of lovemaking two enthusiastic thumbs up.

Roswell New Mexico Season 4 Episode 6 Recap
Lily Cowles as Isobel Evans-Bracken and Michael Trevino as Kyle Valenti in ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ season 4 episode 6 (Photo: John Golden Britt © 2022 The CW Network, LLC)

It gets awkward when Kyle realizes he’s naked after getting up to get them coffee. He hurriedly puts on his shirt and Sonya picks that moment to join the couple who aren’t a couple…it was just a one-time thing…whatever. Sonya’s shocked to find Eduardo (David DeSantos) knocking on their door and the atmosphere switches from awkward to tense. She’s not happy to see her dad and it’s obvious she believes he’s deserted her and doesn’t care how she’s doing.

Eduardo cries as he explains she’s never far from his thoughts, but Sonya reminds him he’s been pretending she’s dead for years.

Kyle and Eduardo commiserate at the bar, with Eduardo equating his relationship with Sonya to her being Rage Against the Machine while he’s “the Machine.” When she tried to hack into Deep Sky, Eduardo thought he needed to protect her by distancing himself.

Michael’s still sick but needs answers so heads to the sheriff’s station and demands answers from Bonnie. Max realizes Bonnie can disable alien powers and Bonnie suddenly brings Michael into her mindscape. Bonnie claims she disabled Michael’s powers to keep him safe from Clyde, even though Michael’s sure he has Clyde eating out of the palm of his hand. Bonnie explains Clyde’s been manipulating him and has preyed on his dreams of returning home. It’s exactly what Clyde did to Bonnie.

Bonnie reveals she can’t use the powers she takes and that Jones used her to neutralize his enemies. Now, Earth has opened her eyes and she’s no longer brainwashed. However, she can’t reverse what she’s done to Michael.

Tezca arrives and although Liz is still at her lab, she can feel Max’s anxiety in the handprint.

Tezca takes down Michael without much effort, but Max holds her back in order to give Bonnie a chance to grab Michael and take him outside. Max continues to hold off Tezca, blue flames leaping from his hand and setting items on fire as he demands to know what the alighting is. Tezca refuses to tell him.

Liz sneaks in and stabs Tezca in the back with a machete. She brought Dallas with her and he uses the sprinklers to put out the fire.

Tezca gets up, only momentarily taken out of the action. However, Liz anticipated this and tipped the machete in Bonnie’s virus. She also added an accelerant to speed up the process. Tezca morphs into her true form, but she doesn’t appear concerned. Instead, the room begins shaking as she announces that together Liz and Max will change both worlds – just as her savior said.

Tezca escapes and Max and Liz get another moment together to reconnect. As they kiss, Max’s hand on Liz’s shirt sparks blue and her shirt is singed. They pull apart and Max is confused about what happened. He’s only called up the blue flames in anger prior to this, but he definitely wasn’t mad when they kissed.

Liz suggests they head home and relax but Max can feel she’s terrified this makes it impossible for them to be together. Liz is convinced their love is stronger than all of this.

Max wonders if the strength of their love might be what burns everything down. It could be what powers the alighting.

Dallas and Maria check out Bonnie’s cave and locate the bible. There’s a bookmarker on a page with alien symbols. They don’t understand what this means, and Maria thinks they should get Isobel to retrieve his memories from 1947.

Kyle returns from drinks with Eduardo to discover Isobel’s packed and ready to leave. Dallas needs her help so she’s heading back to Roswell, but Kyle stops her before she heads out. He confesses he’s terrified of her, recalling different situations over the years that proved her power and strength. She laughs when he describes her as dressing like a “Russian spy undercover at Coachella.” And then Kyle pours out his heart and reveals he’s terrified she’ll jump into his mind and discover she’s all he thinks about. When he says she would realize he’s in love with her, Isobel draws in a deep breath and seems to actually understand who Kyle is and what she means to him for the very first time.

“I’ve wanted to tell you for a very long time, but I’ve always been afraid of what you might say. Except now I realize I’m even more afraid of never finding out at all,” says Kyle.

Isobel reveals she can’t say what he wants to hear, and she doesn’t want to make him wait for her to figure out where she stands. She can’t do that to him. Plus, waiting implies expectations. She doesn’t know if she’ll ever be able to tell him she feels the same, yet she can’t afford to lose his friendship.

Kyle’s left alone after one night of bliss. (Damn it, that was truly heartbreaking.)

Later that night, Kyle rejoins Eduardo in the bar, confessing he told an alien he loves her. Kyle’s decided he’s no longer going to bury himself in his work and Eduardo suggests a road trip to find Ali might take his mind off his love life.

Kyle realizes his heart isn’t broken; it’s just thawing. Surprisingly, he feels closer to Isobel than ever.

Kyle talked Sonya into giving her dad another chance, and Kyle gives them some alone time at the bar to work things out.

Back in Roswell, Isobel and Dallas prepare to delve into his memories. She burns some sage – just to get rid of the junkyard smell – and instructs Dallas to focus on the bible. Dallas and Isobel slip into Dallas’ memories from 1947 and learn the bible originally belonged to Maria’s great grandfather. His dad warned him there would be a time when he couldn’t remember this period. The seeds and the bible could bring ruin to their planet, so he needed to protect Dallas by blocking his memories.

Dallas notices his dad’s glasses on top of the bible and figures out they’re the key to decoding it.

Michael’s forced to return to Maria’s couch once more and Maria offers him soup. He confesses he doesn’t want to be a “normal” person and Maria reveals she has experience in losing her powers. Michael had no idea she can’t have visions now, and she explains it was a side effect of the serum. She’s realized her powers don’t define her.

Suddenly, a poster falls off the wall. The poster’s from a festival she went to with her mom and Maria thinks maybe her mom’s trying to communicate with her.

Shivani hands one of her researchers a vial of regenerative protein, believing it could save her daughter.

Max can’t sleep and leaves Liz alone in bed. He steps outside to talk to Bonnie, assuring her she’s safe. She helped them and now Max wants to help her get what she wants. Bonnie admits she’s never seen Tezca lose a fight and she’s impressed with Liz. Max describes Liz as tough, brilliant, kind, and funny – and he can’t wait to marry her. However, he’s worried about burning down the altar when he kisses her.

In a stunning turn of events, Max asks Bonnie to take away his powers. “I can get over a flu. What I can’t abide is losing the woman I love,” says Max. This would be Bonnie using her powers for good.

Bonnie asks if he’s sure and Max becomes emotional and says this is the only way.

Bonnie kisses him and Liz is jarred awake in bed at that instant. The handprint fades from her side as she whispers, “What did you do?”




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