Who are the skins? Can they trust the new owner of the UFO center?

Max isn't wearing a shirt! Max isn't wearing a shirt! Hooray!

Oh, yeah, and Nasedo dies and an alien menace called the Skins arrives. Shocking and dramatic developments, obviously, but they pale into insignificance when put alongside a whole two minutes of Max running without a shirt.

Kyle returns, and, rather wonderfully, has had a complete character transformation. "I only hear the locusts..." he mutters, announcing his conversion to Buddhism. The idea of him sharing his house with Tess is great, and promises to deliver some much-needed comedy over the next few weeks. It's great to see two characters in Roswell who actually have... chemistry.

There's a nice, but laborious attempt to try and compare Max's dilemma (do they kill Brody) to President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. This doesn't quite work, and ends up making Max seem incredibly pompous.

The new alien threat from the Skins is nicely handled though - Roswell has a newly acquired sense of menace, and wears it well.

The UFO centre's new boss Brody is Brit actor Desmond Askew. Having starred in indie hit Go, we see him here struggling manfully against a truly badly written part. And, perhaps, trying to look a little like Spike from Buffy?

Shock revelation about Courtney. We knew she was bad news. Not only is the girl an impossible hussy (teasing poor Michael with all that talk of piercings) but she's also ... gasp ... a Skin. That girl is trouble.

Trivia: The title "Ask Not" comes from a line of JFK's: "Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country."

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