In the CW reboot, Liz is of Mexican descent therefore having the surname Ortecho (like in the original books that preceded both TV series) and is played by Jeanine Mason.

However, her determination and selfless spirit mixed with her sometimes controlling nature can also be a character flaw when it leads her into making decisions where she takes too much of the responsibility.

[4] "Heart and Soul of Roswell, I think that Jason (Katims) would share this opinion, has always been the relationship between Max and Liz.

However, he kept himself distanced from her, primarily because of his concerns about being an alien and her being a human, so Liz did not know about his feelings and did not suspect that her laboratory partner had been secretly in love with her.

This secret ends only in the pilot episode when she gets shot at the Crashdown Cafe and he saves her life, risking everything for her and starting the lead plot of the show.

In that moment, Liz can see his thoughts, especially about her, and she realizes that he's lonely, he loves her and he does not want to hurt people, so she starts to help him and his friends, from the beginning making the decision to renounce her normality.

[6][7][8] For this powerful connection between them and their deep and natural affinity and compatibility, they are considered soulmates by both the characters of the story and the creators of the series.

"The Max-Liz connection works so well, as is so popular with "Roswell"'s fans, because, in Moore's opinion, "It's very romantic in the classic sense of the word.

In the episode "Four Aliens and A Baby", Liz blasts Tess Harding twice, using a green energy that exited from her hands.

[3][12][13] In the pilot, while Liz is working at her parents' restaurant, Crashdown Cafe, she is shot accidentally by two men who are having an argument.

[1] With growing suspicion coming from the local sheriff, Jim Valenti, Liz devises a plan to throw him off Max's scent.

After this incident, she starts developing deep feelings for Max, despite her current relationship with the sheriff's son Kyle Valenti.

An incident involving Michael Guerin, however, scares Max away, and he realizes that doesn't want to hurt Liz in any way.

She forgives him and with her help the group discovers that Tess is not Nasedo but another hybrid like Max, Michael and Isabel and her unique power is to create mindwarps.

[23] Liz attracts the attention of Maria's cousin, and they have a few dates, but nothing serious comes out of it.,[24][25] She is left devastated when she hears that Alex has died in a car crash.

[28] Liz returns to Roswell, and she finds out that Tess is pregnant with Max's child, and that he has to leave Earth and go back to Antar.

[29] During the day the aliens have planned to leave, Liz, Maria, Sean and Kyle are at the Crashdown Café talking.

Liz and Maria go to the pod chamber just as Max, Michael, Isabel and Tess are about to leave the planet with the granolith.

Angry, Max wants to kill her but then realizes that she is carrying his son so he lets her go in order to save the baby.

[29] At the start of season three, viewers can only see flashes of some moments of the summer when Liz and Max reconcile in order to understand what happened after departure and what brought them to "busted" and then together again.

[31] Even if Tess' fiasco still did hurt her, Liz takes responsibility for her own mistakes and realizes it wasn't only Max's fault things went that way.

This scares her, as she realizes that when Max healed her in the pilot episode, saving her life, he changed her and they don't know whether she is safe or not.

Max is scared for her; he wants to contact the FBI, the same people who tortured him in the end of season one, in order to find a way to keep her safe and know what is happening to her.

But Liz realizes that she needs a little time alone away from Roswell and Max in order to find her balance again and give their love another chance.

She decides that she wants to leave Roswell temporarily, so that she can get better and understand what is happening to her, not only the alien aspect but the confusion about her life.

The baby wasn't sick on Earth, this was just another mindwarp by Tess in order to force Max's return to Antar.

Max and the others start a vote in order to decide whether they should deliver Tess to the FBI because it was her fault they were suddenly all in danger again.

They leave Roswell that night, and go together in a van, deciding to live life using their powers to do good deeds on the road.

[13] During the time when the show aired, Shiri Appleby was interviewed many times about her character The actress originally auditioned for all the three female roles in the show (Liz, Maria, Isabel) before finally landing the part of teen heroine Liz Parker.

She doesn't like being taken advantage of"Regarding the character's relationship with Max Evans (Jason Behr ) and her chemistry with the actor, Shiri states that their chemistry was there since the first time they read a scene together "While Jason and I are looking into each other's eyes I just think about the most pure love possible because their relationship is based strictly on the heart.