She's about 17. Uh, my height.
Has brown hair, and she...
Scream for me.
Quit playing around.
You must be Wolverine.
That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?
Stop! Stop it!
What the hell do you want with me?
You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you?
Young people.
All right, hold it. Hold it right there.
Stay where you are. Put your hands over your heads now.
You Homo sapiens and your guns.
- That's enough, Eric. - Let them go.
Why not come out where I can see you, Charles?
- What do you... - Want her for?
Can't you read my mind?
What now? Save the girl?
You'll have to kill me, Charles. And what will that accomplish?
Let them pass that law. They'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead.
- It won't be... - That way.
Then kill me and find out.
Huh? Then release me.
Fine.
Care to press your luck, Charles?
I don't think I can stop them all.
Still unwilling to make sacrifices.
That's what makes you weak.
Good-bye, Charles.
- You said he wanted me. - I made a terrible mistake.
His helmet was somehow designed to block my telepathy.
I couldn't see what he was after till it was too late.
- Where are you going? - I'm gonna find her.
- How? - The traditional way. Look.
Logan, you can't do this alone.
Who's gonna help me? You? So far you've all done a bang-up job.
Then help us. Fight with us.
Fight with you? What, join the team? Be an X-Man?
Who the hell do you think you are? You're a mutant.
The whole world out there is full of people that hate and fear you.
And you're wasting your time trying to protect 'em? I got better things to do.
You know, Magneto's right. There's a war coming.
- You sure you're on the right side? - At least I've chosen a side.
I'm looking for Dr. Jean Grey.
Senator Kelly.
I'm Professor Charles Xavier.
I was afraid if I went to a hospital, they would...
Treat you like a mutant?
We're not what you think. Not all of us.
Tell it to the ones who did this to me.
Senator...
I want you to try and relax.
I'm not going to hurt you.
Welcome to the future,
brother.
The machine emits radiation that triggers mutation in ordinary human beings.
But the mutation is unnatural.
Kelly's body is rejecting it. His cells began...
to break down almost immediately.
- What effect does radiation have on mutants? - There appears to be none.
But I fear it will seriously harm any normal person exposed to it.
- So what does Magneto want with Rogue? - I don't know.
Wait a second.
You said this machine draws its power from Magneto...
- and that it weakened him. - Yes.
In fact, it nearly killed him.
He's gonna transfer his power to Rogue...
and use her to power the machine.
Is somebody there?
Yes. I'm here.
Please don't leave me.
Don't want to be alone.
All right.
Do you hate normal people?
Sometimes.
Why?
I suppose...
I'm afraid of them.
Well,
I think you've got one less person to...
to be afraid of.
Cyclops, you and Storm ready the jet. I'm gonna find Rogue.
- Jean, get Logan a uniform. - Whoa, wait a minute.
- He's not coming with us, is he? - Yes.
I'm sorry, Professor, but he'll endanger the mission. And if...
Hey, I wasn't the one who gave the train station a new sunroof, pal.
- No, you were the one who stabbed Rogue through the chest. - Scott...
Hey, why don't you take your little mission and stick it up your...
Senator Kelly is dead.
I'm going to find her.
Settle this.
I'm sorry.
You can still hear me, can't you?
You've taught me everything in my life that was ever worth knowing.
And if anything happens,
well, I'll take care of them.
Jean?
Jean!
No!
Jean?
Jean.
Answer me. Please.
I know where Magneto's going.
Magnificent, isn't she?
- I've seen it. - I first saw her in 1949.
America was gonna be the land of tolerance,
of peace.
Are you going to kill me?
- Yes. - Why?
Because there is no land of tolerance. There is no peace.
Not here or anywhere else.
Women and children, whole families destroyed...
simply because they were born different from those in power.
Well, after tonight, the world's powerful will be just like us.
They will return home as brothers.
As mutants.
Our cause will be theirs.
Your sacrifice will mean our survival.
I'll understand if that comes as small consolation.
Put her in the machine.
I'll raise it.
Magneto is here. Liberty Island.
Now, presumably, his objective is to mutate the world leaders at the U.N. summit...
on Ellis Island.
He doesn't know his machine kills.
And judging from what the Professor saw, if Magneto gave Rogue enough power...
He could wipe out everyone in New York City.
We can insert here at the George Washington Bridge,
come around the bank just off of Manhattan.
We land on the far side of Liberty Island here.
What about harbor patrol? Radar?
If they have anything that can pick up our jet, they deserve to catch us.
You actually go outside in these things?
Well, what would you prefer, yellow spandex?
Whoa!
Okay, there's the bridge. I'm taking her down.
Storm, some cover, please.
Toad, Mystique, stay sharp. We're not alone.
And you stay here.
Once I give my power to the girl, I'll be temporarily weakened.
You'll be my only defense.
Sounds like a storm's coming.
- Sorry. - You call that a landing?
The torch.
... within a mile of the proceedings.
The first dignitaries started to arrive about an hour ago,
greeted with a sort of garden-party atmosphere,
which was designed to entertain them,
- as the others traversed the rigid security.
- There's someone here. - Where?
- I don't know. Keep your eye open. - Logan.
Damn it.
- Anything? - I know there's someone here. I just can't see 'em.
- Wait! - Wait!
All right, back up. Back up.
Jean!
Oh, God.
Don't move.
Don't you people ever die?
Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning?
Same thing that happens to everything else.
Logan, is that you?
Shh.
The other one ain't far away.
Come on. We have to regroup.
I know, but there's a problem.
You're not part of the group.
Hey, hey, it's me.
- Prove it. - You're a dick.
Okay.
Hey.
Everybody get out of here.
- What is it? - I can't move.
Ah, my brothers.
Welcome. And, you,
just point those claws of yours in a safer direction.
You'd better close your eyes.
- Storm, fry him. - Oh, yes.
A bolt of lightning into a huge copper conductor.
I thought you lived at a school.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the historical significance...
Mystique?
- Mystique? - I've seen Senator Kelly.
So the good senator survived his fall...
and the swim to shore.
He's become even more powerful than I could have imagined.
- He's dead. - It's true.
I saw him die. Like those people down there will die.
Are you sure you saw what you saw?
I would also like to thank the president of the United States...
for hosting this event...
under the lights of the great city of New York.
Why do none of you understand what I'm trying to do?
Those people down there, they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant.
Well,
soon our fate will be theirs.
Help! Please help me!
You're so full of shit.
If you were really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing.
Help! Somebody help me!
Please!
Somebody please help me!
- Somebody!
Help...
Logan!
- I'm sorry, my dear. - Don't do this.
This is mine.
You owe me a scream.
Hey, bub. I'm not finished with you yet.
Jean.
- Scott, when I tell you, open your eyes. - No.
- Trust me. - You drop something?
Now.
- Thanks. - Don't mention it.
We gotta get her out of there. Cyclops, can you hit it?
- The rings are too fast. I'll kill her. - Just shoot it.
- Storm, can you get me up there? - I can't control it like that.
- You could fly right over the torch. - Then let me go.
If I don't make it, then at least you can still blast the damn thing.
All right, do it.
Jean, use your power. Try to steady him.
Hang on to something.
Scott, wait.
- I have to. - Just wait.
I have a shot.
I'm taking it.
Come on.
Hey, this one's alive. Let's get him out of here.
Welcome back.
I knew you'd find your way.
I had you to guide me.
How did we do?
Oh! Oh, that tickles.
Hey.
- How're you feeling? - Fantastic.
That was a brave thing you did.
- Did it work? - Yeah. She's fine.
She took on a few of your more charming personality traits for a while.
But we lived through it.
I think she's a little taken with you.
Well, you can tell her my heart belongs to someone else.
- You know, you and I... - How's the professor?
- He's good. - Good.
There's an abandoned military compound at Alkali Lake in the Canadian Rockies,
close to where we found you.
There's not much left, but you might find some answers.
- Thank you. - Are you going to say good-bye to them?
The Mutant Registration Act lost its main proponent today...
with the dramatic reversal of Senator Robert Kelly,
who until this time had provided the loudest voice in the cry for mutant registration.
I was wrong on this particular issue.
And I hope in time I may be forgiven. Thank you.
- The Mutant Registration Act continues to draw support... - Mystique.
Son of a bitch.
from many Parents Rights groups...
who feel threatened by unidentified mutants in their school systems.
In a related story,
the body of Senator Kelly's longtime aide, Henry Guyrich, was found today.
Preliminary coroner reports seem to indicate that Guyrich was mauled by a bear.
Hey.
- You running again? - No, not really.
I have some things to take care of up north.
I kind of like it.
I don't want you to go.
I'll be back for this.
Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night?
The feeling that someday they will pass that foolish law...
or one just like it and come for you...
and your children?
It does, indeed.
What do you do when you wake up to that?
I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul...
who comes to that school looking for trouble.
Why do you come here, Charles?
Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answers?
Oh, yes.
Your continuing search for hope.
You know this plastic prison of theirs won't hold me forever.
The war is still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it...
by any means necessary.
And I will always be there,
old friend.