ANDY AUNT_DANE BANK_MANAGER BLINK BOTH CAITLIN DAWN ECLIPSE ESME FADE LAUREN MADELINE MAN MAX NEWS_BROADCASTER_1 NEWS_BROADCASTER_2 NOAH OTTO PATRONS PEOPLE POLARIS PROTESTORS PROTESTOR_1 PROTESTOR_2 REED REEVA SAGE SCIENTIST SECURITY_GUARD THUNDERBIRD TWIST WOMAN YOUNG_POLARIS ESME It's not just a bank. Creed Financial is built on mutant suffering. I know it's a risk, Lorna. Some risks are worth taking. OTTO Our family's abilities set us apart, even from other mutants. I made a serum that worked on one mutant. You. REED I don't know what's happening. When I touch things, they begin crumbling. I can't make it stop. CAITLIN Most of his later research was overseen by his lab assistant. Professor Madeline Garber. She may be the only person alive who knows your condition. TWIST ESME We drained over $100 million in account balances. BANK MANAGER You people are monsters. All of you deserve to be wiped from the face of the earth. TWIST We're just gonna let that go? POLARIS The plan is, we walk out of here. TWIST Screw the plan. BANK MANAGER Oh no. REEVA What did you do? POLARIS That tickles. ECLIPSE Yeah. You know, they say that babies can respond to bright light, even in the womb. POLARIS Someone’s been on the internet. ECLIPSE Hola. Soy tu papá. Nothing. POLARIS See, the kid's not even born yet, and you're already a better dad than either of ours ever was. ECLIPSE Yeah. There's not much competition on my end. You never talk about your dad. POLARIS I mean, there's nothing to talk about. He died in a plane crash when I was one, but. ECLIPSE You know who I mean. Lorna. POLARIS I don't want to talk about him. ECLIPSE I'm sorry. POLARIS Just promise me we'll never be like our parents, okay? ECLIPSE I promise. POLARIS What the hell was that? TWIST What? We were just going to let a bunch of mutant-haters walk away? POLARIS Massacring 30 people does not help our cause. TWIST I thought our cause was to build a place where mutants could use their powers whenever they wanted to. ANDY The cops are coming. Can we not do this now? POLARIS I don't think this can wait, okay. I got news for you, you little psycho, you can't go around slaughtering everyone who pisses you off. TWIST If I killed everyone who pissed me off, it'd be a lot more than 30 people. ANDY Everybody just chill, okay? She made a mistake, all right? She lost control. POLARIS She doesn't belong here. TWIST Andy, she's right. I was just a tool to them, anyway. It's been awesome. POLARIS What the hell? ANDY We have to go get her! POLARIS We can't! She made her choice. CAITLIN Lauren. We're almost there, we-we need to figure out what we're doing. LAUREN Dad. Hey. It's time to wake up. REED Don't. LAUREN Are you okay? REED I'm fine. Come on. I think I should go into this place alone. LAUREN No. You're sick. If anything happens, we can get you out of there. REED You're hard to say no to, you know that? LAUREN Trust me. I've known that since I was six. REED NEWS BROADCASTER 1 Commentator Benedict Ryan called for mandatory mutant curfews and urged anti-mutant protestors to stand their ground. THUNDERBIRD I can try to track the Inner Circle from the bank, get ahead of them. BLINK You're crazy. That place is like a hornet's nest right now. ECLIPSE Look, the world's a tinderbox and the Inner Circle's out there lighting matches. We have to do something. BLINK Just because we have no other option doesn't mean that we need to go on some kind of suicide mission. THUNDERBIRD This isn’t a suicide mission. BLINK Dude, for a guy with eyes of an eagle, you are stone-cold blind. I-There are three of us, and they killed, like, 20 people. ECLIPSE 37, actually. BLINK 37. THUNDERBIRD I'm just talking about finding out what they're doing. Okay? If we don't respond to this, Clarice, we're done. The other Mutant Underground stations, they're already losing faith. You know it. Marcos, I need you to reach out to the other stations and let them know we are on this. All right, I'm going to get out there before the trail goes cold. BLINK THUNDERBIRD Thought you said this was a bad idea. BLINK Yeah, well, the only thing worse than doing something stupid and dangerous is doing it alone. Let's go. NEWS BROADCASTER 1 in Alexandria this afternoon when anti-mutant protestors attacked a foster care facility for mutant children. PEOPLE REED Here goes nothing. Hi. I, um, need to talk to Dr. Madeline Garber. SECURITY GUARD The director. And, uh, what is this regarding? REED It's a private matter. SECURITY GUARD Hmm. Yeah, I'm going to need a little bit more than that. REED It's complicated. I just need to talk. SECURITY GUARD Uh, yeah, well, we get a lot of folks in here that want to talk to the director. REED I appreciate that, but we have come a very long way. She used to work with my father. And, um, I just need to get her a message. MADELINE Reed. God. Are you Reed Strucker? REED Yes. MADELINE I thought I'd never see you again. What are you doing here? REED I need your help. REED Thank you so much for meeting with us. MADELINE The work your father and I did with you, that was the foundation of my research. All of this. It started with you. REED I thought you might be able to give us some advice. MADELINE Well, honestly, I'm perplexed as to what went wrong after all these years. But from what you say, you need treatment, not advice. CAITLIN So, you think you can do something for Reed here? MADELINE Yes. I do. REED MADELINE But it will be easier for me to explain in the lab. MADELINE People talk about the manifestations of X genes as "powers," but for many people who have the X gene, they have serious problems that can better be described as disabilities. Those are the people we help here. REED We tried lots of different medications and nothing worked. MADELINE Well, I'm talking about something that goes much deeper. We genetically tailor treatments for each patient. Her body absorbs energy, and releases it uncontrollably. We're currently working on a drug to help metabolize the energy. LAUREN So, then her powers will be gone? MADELINE No, it's like giving a diabetic insulin. In fact, the device we use is much like an insulin pump. Her X-Gene will be active, but she'll finally be able to be in control of her own body. LAUREN What about her? MADELINE Shawna has Down syndrome and an X-Gene. Her abilities promote plant growth. Her parents wanted me to "cure" her. But I told them there's nothing to cure. And I gave her a job. Our plants have never been happier. For some, the X-Gene is a blessing. When it's a curse, we find the answers. CAITLIN Uh, but Reed's treatments already failed. MADELINE But now we have Lauren. She's inherited his X-Gene. We'll stabilize Reed and then use her genes to figure out what went wrong. If she's willing, of course. LAUREN Yes, whatever it takes. Just want him to get better. SAGE It's getting tense out there. Since word broke out about the bank, people have taken to the streets. Mutants are getting attacked. ESME Are Reeva and my sisters gonna be okay out there? SAGE I don't know. But after what happened, Reeva's not gonna give up until she finds Rebecca. If we don't find her, she could ruin everything. ESME Anything on the city security cameras? SAGE Her powers make her really difficult to find. I had a fix on her a couple of times, but then she twists something and. ESME I'm going to send Fade and Bulk out, too. We need to wrap this up before anyone else gets hurt. ANDY What happens when they find her? ESME That's up to Reeva. PROTESTORS PROTESTOR 1 Yeah, I'll be right there. Hey, hey! There's a group over by the mutie rights center on 10th. PROTESTOR 2 Let's get down there. PROTESTOR 1 Let's go. Come on. THUNDERBIRD Pretty sure the Inner Circle's cars came this way after the bank. BLINK Well, thank God you're pretty sure. Otherwise, we'll get our heads bashed in for nothing. THUNDERBIRD BLINK What is it? THUNDERBIRD Something strange happened here. BLINK Come on, John, let's face it. The Inner Circle's long gone by now. THUNDERBIRD No, maybe not all of them. Come on. POLARIS Any progress? ESME Not yet. We're working on it. We'll get her back. POLARIS Okay, that's what I'm worried about. I cannot have Dawn here if she's around. ESME Look, I know things didn't go as smoothly as we hoped. POLARIS I've been in plane crashes smoother than that. Are you seeing this? It's anarchy out there. People are setting cars on fire, mutants are being attacked. ESME The humans are being a bit reactive. POLARIS What did you expect? That freak killed a room full of people before we could lift a finger. ESME Lorna, believe me. We will keep Dawn safe here. POLARIS Look at what is happening out there. I know you care about my daughter. Can you really look me in the eyes and make that promise? That's what I thought. AUNT DANE I've been looking for you all over. YOUNG POLARIS Congratulations, you found me. AUNT DANE Lorna. Lorna, Lorna. You can't do that. We've talked about this. If people find out. YOUNG POLARIS Don't worry, Aunt Dane, everyone already hates me. AUNT DANE Come on, nobody hates you. YOUNG POLARIS Those cupcakes you sent to school for my birthday? Nobody even ate them. I'm already the bipolar girl with the green hair and dead parents. So what if they know I'm a mutant? AUNT DANE Sweetheart. I know it's hard. It's for your safety. I've got groceries in the car. Let's go home. We can have some melted birthday ice cream. AUNT DANE What's wrong? YOUNG POLARIS Nothing. ECLIPSE Did you ever meet your real dad? POLARIS My biological father. I mean, I'm not even sure. ECLIPSE Lorna. POLARIS Sure, you want to see my relationship with the guy they say is my dad? ECLIPSE Yeah. POLARIS One present on my thirteenth birthday. A, uh, red metal disk. Every little girl's dream. ECLIPSE It's, uh, it's It's something. POLARIS ECLIPSE Hey. POLARIS No. It's nothing. It's worse than nothing. You know what it was like, growing up in that crappy little town knowing he was out there? I remember watching the news. And they'd talk about the Brotherhood, and how he was a monster. You know, and all I could think was, "The world hates him, but I hate him more." DAWN POLARIS See that? It's all in the wrist. ESME Starting her training a little early, aren't you? POLARIS I'm not leaving her alone. Not with little miss psycho and all those humans with pitchforks out there. ESME I think you're right. About Dawn not being safe here. POLARIS Oh, really? What made you change your tune? ESME You know the smoke we saw outside? It was coming from a mutant foster care facility in Georgetown. The humans, they, um, set it on fire. POLARIS The kids? ESME They're still looking for survivors. Look, Lorna, I--I may have found a place for Dawn. A school for mutant children. It's safe, hidden, tucked away in the Swiss Alps, totally off the grid. POLARIS I'm sorry, Switzerland? I wouldn't even be able to see her. ESME Until we have a mutant homeland, there's nowhere close to here that she'll be safe. Look, Lorna, I don't want this, either. I-I, I've become very attached to Dawn. Please. Just think about it. MADELINE I was able to synthesize a new batch of the original medication to stop the attacks while we work on something more permanent. REED Is it going to hurt like it did when I was a kid? The burning? MADELINE It shouldn't be as severe. But it won't be comfortable. REED You think it'll stop this? MADELINE It should. Are you ready? REED CAITLIN Just breathe. REED CAITLIN Just breathe. REED CAITLIN It's working. REED NOAH Hey, I'm Noah. Dr. M's medical assistant. I'm going to be helping with your genetic rundown. Which, unfortunately, means you get to be a human pincushion. LAUREN Go for it. You think she'll be able to help my dad? NOAH No question. She's the best. She saved my life. LAUREN What do you mean? NOAH My X-Gene causes me to make harmonic vibrations. They tear apart anything around me. When I was a kid, I nearly brought my house down. Almost killed my little brother. Dr. M hooked me up with this. Helps keep me under control. I call it "Norm." LAUREN You named it? NOAH Hey, little guy deserves a name. He gave me a normal life. LAUREN "Normal life." You're okay with that? NOAH Hey, I went from worrying about destroying my house to worrying about my organic chem midterm. So, where do you go to school? LAUREN Hmm. School kind of got put on hold last year. NOAH Well, if you want, I can show you around campus later while Dr. M works with your dad. Hold that. LAUREN I'd like that. NOAH Cool. LAUREN NOAH What color do you want? LAUREN Purple. NOAH Nice. BOTH BLINK So, any reason why we're searching alleys for someone from the Inner Circle? I mean, why would someone just randomly take off in the middle of their getaway? THUNDERBIRD I don't know. This trail doesn't make sense. BLINK Whoa. THUNDERBIRD What is it? BLINK I don't know. Whoa, the energy I use to portal, it's, like, off. Like, twisted. John, I think something happened here. Something bad. THUNDERBIRD That girl from the psych ward, Rebecca. I think she used her powers here. BLINK Why here? Oh my God. Oh, God. PATRONS MAX Hey. You're Lorna, right? POLARIS If I say no, will you go away? MAX I heard’a you. They say your dad is that mutant from the news. POLARIS Sorry, you've got the wrong girl. MAX But you got powers like him, right? POLARIS So what? MAX So, it's cool. Show me a trick. I'll buy you a drink. POLARIS Well, how can I pass that up? Um. Which one is your car? MAX Right there. That one. WOMAN MAN Whoa, run, run! MAX PATRONS MAX My car! You crazy bitch! AUNT DANE What is going on with you, Lorna? This is the fourth time you've been arrested this year. And it's not just the police. You've stopped taking your meds. You're fighting with the psychiatrists. POLARIS Okay, maybe the creep at the bar was right. I'm a crazy bitch. AUNT DANE You have so much potential. Your parents would have wanted- POLARIS Yeah, let's talk about my parents. How did I get out of that cell tonight? AUNT DANE I made a call. POLARIS The police captain came to my cell to apologize, because he got a call from a substitute teacher? Like. AUNT DANE You have no idea how dangerous these questions are. POLARIS Come on, just tell me. Who--Who is my father? AUNT DANE My brother. A wonderful man who married your mother and loved you until the day he died. Now get in the car. ECLIPSE No, Brad, come on. But we need Chicago's support. We can't just give up on e- go away! No, not you. Listen. We're onto something. We're onto something big. Now if you guys can just come out here, you could help. Brad, I'm gonna have to call you back. POLARIS Can we come in? NEWS BROADCASTER 2 More trouble as activists marched against the mutant curfew tonight. Some politicians have expressed sympathy with the protesters' goals, but most have strongly condemned the acts of violence and vandalism that have flared up in resp- MADELINE It's unbelievable. They oppress mutants for years, and then act shocked when they stand up for themselves. CAITLIN We don't really get involved. MADELINE You don't need to worry. I know a little bit about your situation. I know you've been running. I'm not concerned with politics, I'm a doctor. I just want to help. REED Thank you, Madeline. MADELINE I’m so sorry to hear about your father. He cared deeply about these issues, you know. REED I thought he cared mostly about not having a mutant for a son. MADELINE You have no idea how sad it makes me to hear you say that. REED He experimented on me. He never told me who I really was, about my family. MADELINE Reed, how could a father tell his 12-year-old son that he had been brought up by two of the deadliest terrorists in Europe? You have to understand, the X-Gene in your family is highly unusual. The Fenris twins had a connection we still don't understand. Their power fed off each other, it was said they even shared their dreams. It was like they each had half of the same mind. He was trying to protect you. REED Maybe he meant well, but I still think I would've been better off knowing about my family. MADELINE This belonged to Andrea Von Strucker. Your father didn't want to destroy the one thing that he got from his family, but he couldn't bear to be near it because it reminded him of them. So he gave it to me. I think you should have it. LAUREN So beautiful. MADELINE Your father loved you very much, Reed. I hope, I believe we can succeed where he failed. ECLIPSE Lorna, I won't let you do this. Please, just--just give her to me. POLARIS I found a school. In Europe. It's all been arranged. This is the safest place for her. ECLIPSE Look, I will keep her safe. She's my daughter, I'll do anything. POLARIS How? How are you going to keep her safe, Marcos? ECLIPSE I'll figure it out! That's what parents do. They don't give up. DAWN POLARIS I'm not giving up. ECLIPSE Oh, come on. POLARIS I'm not giving up! I'm being realistic. I mean, what are you going to do? You gonna shoot lasers at the whole world? News flash it's already on fire. ECLIPSE Yeah, because of you! DAWN ECLIPSE You and Reeva, and all your new friends, you set the world on fire and now you're worried that your daughter might get burned? Yeah. Damn. You're a real piece of work, you know that? POLARIS Look, I didn't come here to fight. I came here to let you say goodbye. ECLIPSE Lorna, you made me promise we wouldn't be like our fathers. Look what you're doing. You hated your dad for leaving. You know what that hurt did. Do you really want that for Dawn? For our daughter? POLARIS You don't get it, do you? I'd rather have her grow up hating me than not grow up at all. Do you want to say goodbye to your daughter or not? ECLIPSE But I don't even know her. How am I supposed to say goodbye? ECLIPSE You think it's a boy or girl? POLARIS Right now it's a walnut. ECLIPSE I hope it's a girl. POLARIS You do? ECLIPSE Yeah. POLARIS I always figured you'd want a boy, someone to be all, like, broody and macho. ECLIPSE No. Um no, when I, uh, when my father kicked me out and I was living on the streets, I, I'd hang around this church in town. One of the priests used to leave me leftover food from the events. And I remember one time, it was a-a first communion. I'm waiting across the street, and I see this little girl, and she's seven years old. And she's dancing with her father, and I remembered the way that she was looking at him. And I thought, "I want that someday." POLARIS It's time. ECLIPSE Who's gonna hold her? And tell her she's special? Who's going to love her, Lorna? POLARIS Look, I'm sorry, Marcos, we have to go. ECLIPSE I love you, Dawn. Te amo, mi Aurora. Lorna, she deserves to be with her family. You get that, right? POLARIS ECLIPSE PEOPLE SCIENTIST Thank you, Shawna. MADELINE So, Reed, how are you feeling this morning? REED Better. MADELINE Wonderful. And I have some good news about the work we're doing with Lauren, as well. CAITLIN Really? What did you find? MADELINE Well, her X-Gene is very similar to Reed's. By comparing the two, we should be able to come up with a new version of the treatment that will cause the attacks to stop permanently. But, it'll be a long road. You'll have to stay here under observation. REED The old serum seems to be working. Can't we just use that? MADELINE The original medication was like a dam, but I suspect with all the stress you've been under this past year, it broke. We've patched up the cracks for now, but eventually, the dam will break. Again. CAITLIN And then? MADELINE If we don't treat him, Reed will die. PEOPLE NOAH So, what do you think? Does CSU make your list? LAUREN It's pretty great. I just don't think I could ever do this. NOAH Ah, don't say that. If I can have a normal life, so can you. LAUREN It's not that simple. NOAH Look around. Right, you belong at a place like this. LAUREN NOAH Give you a backpack and a few very heavy books and you’ll fit right in. LAUREN That still doesn't change the fact I'm here because my dad's mutant powers are out of control. NOAH You're more than your X-Gene, Lauren. You know that, don't you? LAUREN I just feel like it hangs over everything I do. How do I just lay on the grass reading a book? Or play Frisbee with a friend? NOAH Easy. Yo! LAUREN What are you doing? NOAH Now you've got a Frisbee and a friend. Let's play. LAUREN I cannot believe you just did that. BLINK You know, we've been at this all night. The Inner Circle could be lurking around any corner. I think it's time to call it. Oh God, this is wrong. She's here. THUNDERBIRD Rebecca?! Rebecca! BLINK THUNDERBIRD Hey. Rebecca, if that's you, look, we're not here to hurt you. TWIST If you want your organs to stay inside your body, you'll stop following me. THUNDERBIRD Hey, hey. We just need information. On the Inner Circle. We know you ran away after the bank heist. TWIST Yeah, well, it turns out we have different views on the whole mutant freedom thing. THUNDERBIRD Okay. They're out there looking for you right now. All right? Please, just tell us what they're doing. BLINK TWIST Say I tell you, then what happens? THUNDERBIRD We stop them. We're the only ones standing between you and them right now. Just tell us what happened at Creed Financial, why they were there. TWIST I don't know much. We got inside the vault. They were looking for information on something called Regimen. THUNDERBIRD Regimen? What's that? TWIST I don't know. It's not like they told me their plan. I was just a crowbar that they used to get into the bank. My advice? Give up now. I should go. THUNDERBIRD No, no, wait, wait. TWIST You know, you guys have no idea what you're up against. AUNT DANE Lorna? POLARIS Hi. AUNT DANE Oh my God, Lorna. AUNT DANE I'm sorry, I don't understand, Lorna. You want me to take your baby? POLARIS Not forever. We're building a place for mutants. A place for her. But until then, it's just too dangerous for her with me. I need her to be safe, I I need her to be here. AUNT DANE But you hated living here. POLARIS No. I hated being a bipolar kid with green hair, stuck in a town that has three feed stores and no high-speed internet. AUNT DANE POLARIS I hated being different. You know, I've never even said this out loud, but my entire life I thought that we lived in this Podunk little town because you were hiding me from my birth father. AUNT DANE Lorna. POLARIS No. It's okay, because. I get it now. You weren't hiding me from him. You were hiding me for him. AUNT DANE He just wanted you to be safe. POLARIS That's the first time you've ever admitted that he's my father. I hated him for not coming for me. I took that out on you. I'm sorry. And now I'm asking you to do the same thing you did for him. DAWN POLARIS Please. Please take her. Please keep her safe. AUNT DANE Of course I will, sweetheart. POLARIS Thank you. Her father made her this. It always makes her smile. AUNT DANE Yeah. POLARIS Tell her that I'll come back for her someday. And tell her she's special. THUNDERBIRD Come on. How you feeling? BLINK Well, we were out all night. Excuse me for not having superhuman energy reserves. THUNDERBIRD I've got some good news. I've been looking into that name that Rebecca gave us. Regimen? It's a tech company. Right here, offices in D.C. BLINK That's great, John. THUNDERBIRD Yeah, it's progress. I thought you'd be happy. BLINK Progress, huh? John, what happened with that girl today, it scared me. You know, your whole "never say die" attitude is crap. It's admirable, but crap. You're picking a fight we can't win because you think you can't die. I'm sorry, but the last time I checked, you're freakishly strong, but you are not immortal. THUNDERBIRD I never said I was. BLINK Then stop acting like it. What're we gonna do with him, Zing? What are we gonna do? NOAH Mm, so, bad news, Dr. M needs me to draw some more blood. You game? LAUREN Yeah. I guess so. NOAH You know it's really awesome what you're doing here, right? LAUREN Oh, I'm just doing what anyone would for their family. NOAH Dr. M is on the verge of something with you and your dad. LAUREN What are you talking about? NOAH If her process works with you two, it could be a solution for all mutants. LAUREN All mutants? NOAH Yes. It could make it possible to permanently suppress the X-Gene in everyone. LAUREN Why would she want to do that? NOAH Think about what it could mean. Anyone who doesn't want the X-Gene, or doesn't want it in their family? They'd have an answer. It could mean an end to all the violence. LAUREN How? NOAH Her brother was Matthew Risman. He, uh, founded the Purifiers. She hated him. Hating the mutants for something they couldn't change. But with the work we're doing, mutants can change. You're going to transform the world, Lauren. ANDY What the? TWIST FADE I see your hands move and I slit your throat.