Nora Truman is a character in The CW 2019 television series Roswell, New Mexico. She is Michael Guerin's mother who survived the 1947 crash. Nora is primarily portrayed by Kayla Ewell.
The character was initially named Mara in the credits in season 1, but the name was not used in the show; her name was changed to Nora for season 2.
Appearance[]
As a young woman, Nora has shoulder-length blonde hair, a slender build, and fair skin. She appears to Michael in white linen.
As an elderly woman, Nora has lost all of her hair, and she is dressed is ragged clothes while held in prison.
Personality[]
History[]
Nora came from a planet known as the Oasis, a place ruled by a tyrant known as the Dictator. She became a member of the resistance fighting back against his rule, working as an engineer. She became double agent and was able to gain the Dictator’s trust, becoming romantically involved with him. Her relationship with him would produce a child, a son who would be known as Michael. When Nora was gravely injured the Dictator used his powers to heal her, during the process she managed to collect blood from him, which would be used to create a clone of the Dictator called the Savior. Eventually believing that they would never be able to defeat the Dictator, Nora and her friend Louise started plotting their escape from the Oasis. They along with their children, Max and several others fled in a spaceship, placing the children in stasis pods for the journey. Unknown to them, the Dictator had stowed away aboard the vessel and caused the ship to crash on a planet called Earth.
After surviving the 1947 UFO Crash, Nora was confronted by Tripp Manes and the other military members outside of the UFO. Nora was shot, but managed to escape with numerous pods and another mysterious, unnamed woman. Shortly after — needing medical attention along with her acquaintance — she comes across a small house in the distance. The man gives the two shelter and helps sew up their wounds;[1] he does, however, remark that they must leave the following day.
Upon waking the following day, the man notices that his harvest has grown, and attributes this to Nora. In an effort to thank her, he allows her to stay.[2] Over a year later in October 1948, she was captured by Project Shepherd. She was held at Caulfield prison with the other alien survivors.
Plot[]
When Michael, Alex, and Kyle break into Caulfield prison to investigate, Michael finds the captured aliens and recognizes Nora. He tries to break her out of the cell, but he is unable to do so and the facility begins a countdown for destruction to keep the aliens contained. Alex begs Michael to leave but he refuses. Nora places her hand on the glass dividing them, and when Michael touches her hand, they share a psychic connection. She tells Michael that she's his mother and that she loves him and to run. Michael reluctantly does so, and Nora dies in the explosion of Caulfield.[3]
Alex later tries to give Michael her file from Project Shepherd, in which she was designated Subject N-39, but Michael doesn't want it.[4] Michael later goes back to Alex about the file, and Alex tells him that his mother's name was Nora Truman, and that she wasn't captured until over a year after the crash.[5]
Powers and abilities[]
Nora is an Oasian with paranormal abilities whose specialty seems to be telekinesis, the ability to move objects with her mind.
- Telekinesis: Nora has been shown to have telekinesis, when a solider was about to shoot her but, she deflected the gun out of his hand. In a Season 3 flashback, Nora was shown to use her telekinesis to solidify a pod she built herself.
- Telekinetic Blasts: Nora has been shown to create a telekinetic blast wave as shown when a solider tried to shoot her she blasted him down and ran away the night her spaceship crashed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- Psychic Communication: Nora shows the alien ability to form a psychic connection through close (but indirect) contact, such as by touching Michael's hand through the glass.[3]
Quotes[]
Appearances[]
Nora appears in the following episodes:
Roswell, New Mexico | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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Season 1 episodes | ✔ | ||||||||||||
Season 2 episodes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||||||
Season 3 episodes | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||||
Season 4 episodes | ✔ |
Trivia[]
- Showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie stated that the character's name was changed from Mara to Nora because Mara sounded too much like Maria.[6]
- According to Roy Bronson, Nora was very intelligent with a gift for engineering. This is a trait shared by her son Michael, and they have both tried to rebuild a ship to return to their homeworld.
- Nora and Michael also share the same power of telekinesis.
- Although Nora and Louise both took the surname Truman, they are not sisters.[7]
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References[]
- ↑ Good Mother
- ↑ What If God Was One of Us
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 1.12 Creep
- ↑ 2.01 Stay (I Missed You), act 2.
- ↑ 2.02 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
- ↑ Tweet from Carina Adly MacKenzie: This is from an early draft, we changed her name bc Mara is too close to Maria, but here’s the beat. February 23, 2020.
- ↑ Tweet by showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie: Nora and Louise weren't sisters. May 22, 2020.