The story of how a human boy meets an alien girl, and where that would lead down the line.
After Gwen finds what appears to be a bracelet, Grandpa Max recounts how he met with Verdona.- Applied Phlebotinum: The bracelet from the present scenes is revealed to have been used to repress Verdona's powers so she would have a hard time fighting back.
- The Bus Came Back: In a sense. Magister Labrid makes his return in this episode, helping young Max and Verdona against the Synthoid. While he had died in Alien Force, he appears throughout the flashbacks of this episode.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: The Synthoid's human disguise wears a trenchcoat. Amusingly, it looks very similar to Magister Labrid's Human Disguise in the Alien Force premiere.
- Continuity Nod: In the pilot episode for Alien Force, Magister Labrid notes that he and Max had been working together for years before the events of the Highbreed invasion. This episode establishes when they first met.
- Feet-First Introduction: Verdona is introduced this way in the bar that Max enters.
- Generation Xerox: Like her granddaughter, Verdona fell for a teen who was very protective of his car and who got dismayed when it was damaged by aliens. Her human form in her youth is also shown to have similarly vibrant red hair like Gwen does.
- A Molten Date with Death: Max manages to dip the Synthoid in molten magma. It survives, however.
- Mythology Gag: The colour scheme of Verdona's clothes mimics Ben's T-shirt, and she has Gwen's red hair.
- Origins Episode: Explaining how Max met Verdona and joined the Plumbers.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: Verdona is on the run from a Synthoid, of a planet of similar beings, that captures anodites like her to use as a battery powering their world.
- Real Event, Fictional Cause: The real reason President Kennedy wanted to put men on the moon wasn't due to the Russians, but due to the increased alien activity.
- Terminator Impersonator: The villainous stoic robot, called a Synthoid, that stalks and chases after Verdona is a clear homage to the Terminator. Instead of wanting to kill her, however, it wants to use her as an energy source.
- Time-Shifted Actor: Jason Marsden is the young Max.
- Whole Episode Flashback: A large part of the episode takes place in the past, showing how Max met with Verdona and the Plumbers.
- Whole-Plot Reference: A woman is stalked by a humanoid Killer Robot and is accompanied by a man who wants to protect her. Are talking about this episode or The Terminator?
