Harry tries to find a way to get rid of the real Harry Vanderspiegle's wife, Isabelle, who grows romantically attached (or in her mind, re-attached) towards him.
Meanwhile, Harry tries to get Max's parents to send him away to a mental institution in Georgia (more than halfway across the country from Patience). Asta tries to settle differences with her father and Jimmy.
Tropes
- Anal Probing: When Max brings up aliens doing this, Harry replies that his people don't. It is The Greys who apparently have an ass fetish.
- The Art of Bra Removal: Both in the title cards and as Harry makes out with Isabelle — he tries pulling out her bra with his teeth.
- Breath-Holding Brat: Max and Sahar blackmail Harry into getting a truce by holding their breath. Sahar also says that she once held her breath for two minutes to get out of a Sufi prayer circle.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Isabelle visits The 59 after Harry treats her poorly. In a case of Dramatic Irony, both she and D'Arcy complain about the man in their lives that drives them to drink. (Both of them are talking about Harry.)
- Easy Amnesia: Sahar forgets her encounter with the alien technology in Harry's basement after getting knocked out by it.
- Exiled to the Couch: Isabelle sends Harry to sleep on the couch commandeering his bed. Then, she joins him on the couch.
- Insane Troll Logic: Gloriously and deliberately invoked by Sahar in her attempts to get Max and Harry to call a truce; she threatens that she and Max will hold their breath until they pass out, and Harry will be blamed. This overlooks the fact that in a public setting like the diner at least someone will be able to see Harry never touched them, and also that Max's credibility level is zero even with his own parents - but it's clear Sahar has correctly guessed Harry won't pick up on how ludicrous this threat is, and he backs down.
- Internal Reveal: Jay learns Asta is her mother.
- Jerkass Has a Point: For all his many faults, Jimmy does point out how wrong it was for Asta to hire Jay at the clinic knowing all along she was their daughter and never telling her about it.
- Landmark of Lore: The Nazca Lines are alien graffiti, according to Harry.
- Logical Weakness: Because Max always sees Harry in his alien form, he does not recognize a photo of human Harry as being someone he's ever met before.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Asta is internally revealed to be Jay's mother, the result of a Teen Pregnancy that Sam helped Asta go through and helped her give her up for adoption. Asta holds some internal conflicts about whether or not she did the right thing giving her up, having seen the lifestyle Jay is putting herself through.
- Missing Child: The Hawthornes freak out and call the police when they can’t find Max, who had been knocked unconscious at Harry’s cabin.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Isabelle mistakes Sahar's discarded hijab as a mistress's scarf.
- Ordered Apology: Max is ordered by his parents to give one to Harry for having Sahar steal his keys to make copies, then eventually ride their bikes down a highway, breaking into his cabin and trespassing into his basement to look for alien clues. Harry doesn't buy it because it was blatantly insincere. When pressured some more to apologize, Max refuses and hurls an angry rant at Harry.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Ben mistakes Sam Neill for Russell Crowe. Harry then adds that Sam Neill was from the dinosaur "documentary" Jurassic Park.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Harry was slowly succeeding in getting Max's parents to send the boy away to Georgia where a mental institution is waiting to take him in.
- Reverse Psychology: Isabelle and the real Harry were getting a divorce and they were living apart for about half a year, but because alien Harry never responded to her emails, fax messages or phone calls she decided to drive to the cabin herself to have him sign the divorce papers. The alien Harry easily signs away without hesitation much to Isabelle's disappointment who was hoping for a more soul-crushing dejected reaction out of him. Isabelle also seems confused why Harry isn't being angry or hostile towards her, so she starts warming up to him by joining him in bed (or rather couch since she first tried commandeering his bed) right after he signs the divorce papers and even telling everyone that she is his wife. This leads to the whole plot of Isabelle working to salvage her marriage to Harry.
- Sexy Shirt Switch: At one point Isabelle is wearing one of Harry's shirts which irritates him.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Harry thinks this way of Isabelle... until he sees and experiences just what a great cook and loving housewife she is and gives the relationship a shot.
- Vorpal Pillow: Subverted. In the last scene, it looks like Harry is going to smother Isabelle with a pillow for her annoying snoring that keeps him awake but then she turns to the side and stops snoring which soothes his rage.
- Unpleasant Parent Reveal: Jay learns that her biological father is "that dick Jimmy."
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Turns out that Mike's father is totally condescending of his job as sheriff.
- Win-Win Ending: Both Harry and Max score a decisive victory at the end by calling it truce, mostly thanks to Sahar's negotiating skills:
- Harry will have to give up killing Max and trying to deport Max to Georgia. But also Harry needs to confess that he really is an alien and that Max isn't crazy but rather has a one-in-a-million genetic trait that allows him to see through his human form.
- Max will have to give up trying to expose Harry for the alien he is and just pretend that he really is a human so that he doesn't end up coming off as crazy anymore and disowned by his family.
- With a Foot on the Bus: Harry almost threw Max on a bus trip to Georgia, to this point Max has to offer a truce that Harry call off the Georgia institution arrangement and that Max will agree to stop trying to break into his cabin to steal proof that he's an alien. Harry shakes on it — but then it turns out that Harry went behind Max's back and completed the paperwork needed to dump Max in Georgia anyways. And because the truce could not be enforced as Max would be locked up, this proves the truce would only benefit Harry anyways.
- You Are Grounded!: Ben tries to inflict this punishment on Max for sneaking out on his own riding his bike on a highway. But then Harry encourages Ben and his wife to just commit Max to a mental asylum in Georgia.
