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 and they'll have you in chains with a number on your forehead.
- It won't be that way. - Then kill me and find out.
No? 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.
Goodbye, Charles.
- You said he wanted me. - I made a terrible mistake.
His helmet was somehow designed to block my telepathy.
Couldn't see what he was after till it was too late.
- Where are you going? - To find her.
- How? - The traditional way: Look.
- Logan, you can't do this alone. - Who'll help me? You?
- So far, you've all done a bang-up job. - Then help us. Fight with us.
Fight with you? Join the team? Be an X-Man?
Who the hell do you think you are? You're a mutant.
The world is full of people that hate and fear you
and you're wasting your time trying to protect them. I got better things to do.
You know, Magneto's right. There's a war coming.
- Are 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 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 immediately. - What effect does it have on mutants?
There appears to be none. But I fear it will 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 going to transfer his power to Rogue and use her to power the machine.
Is somebody there?
Yes. I'm here.
Please don't leave me!
I 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 be afraid of.
Cyclops, you and Storm ready the jet. I'm gonna find Rogue. Get Logan a uniform.
Wait a minute. He's not coming with us, is he?
- Yes. - Sorry, but he'll endanger the mission and...
I wasn't the one who gave the station a new sunroof, pal.
No, you were the one who stabbed Rogue in the chest.
Why don't you take your little mission and stick it up...
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...
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 going to 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.
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.
Presumably his objective is to mutate the world leaders at the 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.
All right. We can insert here at the George Washington Bridge.
Come around the bank, just off of Manhattan, land on the far side of Liberty Island. Here.
What about harbour patrol? Radar?
If they have anything that can pick up ourjet, they deserve to catch us.
You actually go outside in these things?
What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?
Whoa.
There's the bridge. I'm takin' her down.
Storm, some cover, please.
Toad, Mystique, stay sharp. We're not alone.
And you stay here. Once I've given my power to the girl, I'll be temporarily weakened.
You'll be my only defence.
Sounds like a storm's comin'.
- Sorry. - You call that a landing?
The torch.
...the proceedings. The first dignitaries started to arrive about an hour ago,
greeted with a garden-party atmosphere 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? - There's someone here. I just can't see 'em.
Wait!
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?
The same thing that happens to everything else.
Logan, is that you?
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.
OK.
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 better close your eyes.
Storm, fry 'em.
A bolt of lightning into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school.
For those of you not 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 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 of America
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 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're really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing.
Help! Somebody help me!
Please!
Somebody please help me!
Somebody! Help me...
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.
- Gotta get her outta there. Can you hit it? - The rings are moving too fast.
- Shoot it! - I'll kill her! Storm, can you get me up?
- I can't control it like that. - Then let me go.
If I don't make it, 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!
- Jean, I have to! - Just wait!
I have a shot.
I'm taking it.
Come on...
Hey, this one's alive. Let's get him outta here.
Welcome back. I knew you'd find your way.
I had you to guide me.
How did we do?
Oh, that tickles.
Hey.
How are 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 goodbye to them?
The Mutant Registration Act lost its main proponent
with the reversal of Senator Robert Kelly
who until now had provided the loudest voice in the cry for mutant registration.
I was wrong in 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 a related story, the body of Senator Kelly´s aide, Henry Guyrich, was found today.
Preliminary coroner´s reports seem to indicate that Guyrich was mauled by a bear.
Hey!
- You running again? - Not really.
I have some things to take care of up north.
I kinda like it.
I don't want you to go.
I'll be back for this.
Doesn't it ever wake you in 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 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 for ever.
The war is still coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it.
By any means necessary.
And I will always be there.
Old friend.