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==Synopsis==
==Full Summary==
[[Max Guevara|Max]], [[Original Cindy]], [[Sketchy]], [[Alec McDowell|Alec]], and [[Logan Cale|Logan]] are all hanging out at Crash. For the most part, they’re all watching Alec beat people at pool. As he polishes off another victory, he begins scouting for another opponent. No one is interested until he comes to Logan; Logan agrees, as long as he can break. Logan executes a good break and proceeds to sink several shots as Alec looks on, impressed. As Logan takes aim for another shot, Alec distracts him by asking if he would like a beer, and Logan misses. Alec takes over and sinks several balls of his own. As Alec sets up to take a difficult shot, Logan asks, “Sure you don’t wanna bank it?” Alec replies, “I’m sure,” then misses the shot. Logan takes control of the table again, putting more balls into the pockets. His last shot before the eight-ball shot is a difficult one—he’ll have to “jump” the cue ball over one of Alec’s balls to hit his into a side pocket. As he takes aim, Sketchy and Alec come along side him and speculate whether he’ll make it. “Guys?” Logan mutters. “Beat it!” They move back, and Logan makes the shot. Max grins and remarks to OC, “You gotta admit, that was pretty cool!” OC replies, “Silly boys playing with their sticks and balls… I may vomit!”
Logan has one shot left—the eight-ball. Alec ups the wager by betting $50 that Logan will miss this last shot. Logan takes aim, banks the shot on the side, and in it goes! Max saunters over to Logan to congratulate him and hands him a mug of beer. As she does, their fingers touch. Max panics and orders Logan to go wash his hands. Alec wonders why she’s freaking out, and OC reminds him of the virus and the fact that they can’t touch. Logan returns and reassures Max that he’s all right. She’s clearly upset as she remarks, “I could have killed you over a stupid game of pool!” Logan tries to lighten the situation by saying, “I thought it was a very satisfying game of pool; wanna get a drink?” Max is too distraught to lighten up, so she opts to take off and go home.
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At a junkyard across town, a guy is talking to his plastic dog and crunching cans to turn in for money. He hears a noise, tells the dog to stay, then gets hit in the face with some slime and is dragged away.
At [[Joshua|Joshua’s]], Max is trying to read the formulas on the papers from the Manticore doctor that are stuck in one of Joshua’s paintings. She has a breakthrough on one of the formulas and thanks Joshua for painting on the papers; otherwise, she might never have figured it out. She leaves to visit another technician. The technician looks at the formula and determines that it isn’t so much wrong as it is not right. He inquires as to the origin of the virus. Max blurts out the truth, but he doesn’t believe her. Since he doesn’t seem to be able to help her, Max asks for the papers back. The technician corrects himself saying the numbers were off, but the idea of luring the virus into a dead end protein coat is right. He likens it to a Pied Piper/Chuck Heston combination- “Take that, you damned, dirty virus!” All he needs is a blood sample and $20,000.
At Jam Pony, OC tells Max that $20,000 is a small price to pay for the man of her dreams. Max decides to enlist the help of Alec in stealing something she can sell to get the money. She tells him they’re going after a single surviving copy of Star Wars: Episode VII because the public deserves to see it. Alec snidely remarks, “Is that the one where Captain Kirk dies?” Max shrugs, “I guess…” Alec looks appallingly at Max and gives her a hard time about stealing, but then agrees once she tells him what his take will be.
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Max asks Logan, “Hypothetically, what if there was a temporary cure?” Logan asks how long they would have. Max looks at her pager and responds, “Ten hours, fifty minutes.” Logan’s eyes widen as he stares at Max and asks, “You’re serious? So we can touch, and nothing will happen?” Max smiles and says, “I don’t know about nothing, but you won’t die.” Max says they should think about it because when it’s over, that’s it—no repeats; ten hours is not very long. Logan gives her an intense look and says it will have to be long enough. Max grins and says, “I was hoping you’d say that.” They both stand and move towards each other. Logan holds out his hand, and Max puts her hand in his. They laugh softly, and Logan moves in to kiss her. Max stops him by going all girly, saying she doesn’t want to blow this on a quickie; it should be perfect. Logan asks, “How about a perfect quickie?” Max hands him a bottle of wine to open. They sit down to drink their wine, and Max tells him what she had to do to get here. How she was trapped in a closet for hours with Alec, but now she knows it was worth it. Logan agrees that it feels like old times, but Max says it’s better.
At Crash, Alec spots [[Asha Barlow|Asha]] and buys her a drink, but she’s not interested. She gets ready to leave, but Alec spills the news about Max and Logan. She accepts the drink, and they toast Max and Logan’s relationship and talk about what they might be doing right now. Asha thinks Logan would be romantic. Alec turns the tables on Asha and implies that she and Logan had something going on while Max was at Manticore. Asha insists that Logan was lost without Max, and she respected their relationship because it’s true love. Alec laughs in disbelief that they’ve even said “I love you” to each other. He thinks Max would choke on the words, and Logan would send it in an e-mail. He, on the other hand, believes in going after what he wants because they’re all living on borrowed time. Intently, he looks at Asha and says he wants her and invites her home with him.
Joshua is at his house painting until he notices the warning label on his paint says it should be used in well-ventilated areas. He runs outside to get some air and catches a scent that he follows to a manhole. Removing the cover, he goes below the street where he sniffs some slime hanging from the pipes and states, “Gossamer!” He follows the scent through the sewers and out an exit where he arrives in time to see another man attacked by the slime-throwing creature.
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Still in the junkyard, Max joins Logan in the backseat of a car. According to her pager, they have two minutes left. Logan remembers the night they took down Manticore when he thought he’d lost her. When he returned home, he just sat on his couch for days; he couldn’t move because it hurt too much. That’s how he feels now. Max wonders if maybe they shouldn’t have taken this chance. Logan counters that they had to, but they can’t keep going through this. If only he could go back to the year they wasted, being too afraid to admit their feelings for one another, he would have done things so differently. The silence is cut by the beeping of a pager. Logan leans in and kisses Max passionately, then gets out of the car. He turns back to her and says, “I love you, Max,” then walks away. Max replies, “I love you, too,” as a tear rolls down her cheek.
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'''Guest Cast'''
*Dee Jay Jackson as Gordie
*Scott Bellis as Delbert
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*Sarah Cole-Burnett as Emma
*Ryan Drescher as Tim
*Peter Williams
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==Trivia==
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