ANDY BENEDICT_RYAN BLINK CAITLIN COP DAUGHTER DISPATCH ECLIPSE ERG ESME FATHER GINA GLOW HEATHER LAUREN MASON MAX MOTHER PAM PHOEBE POLARIS PURIFIER RAY REED SAGE SOPHIE SS_AGENT THE_FROSTS THUNDERBIRD POLARIS Marcos, it's Reeva. She wants to do something so monstrous that it changes the world forever. I need to stop her. I can't do that by myself. REED Lauren's obsessed with that music box. Her powers are changing. She's becoming more violent, more powerful. Andy went down this same path. He was obsessed with my family's history. The power. REED No. no. ESME I think it might be time for you to reach out to Lauren. ANDY Bring her here. SOPHIE Your mind is connected to Lauren's. PHOEBE We can reach her through you. ESME If you let us. GLOW Your ex? The one you told me about. You still have feelings for her? ECLIPSE No, no, i-it's a lot more complicated than that. ERG You gave up your life. Everything you know. A man you love. All for what you believe. This? This is your community now. Welcome home, Blink. ERG Pam, oh thank God. PAM Hi. ERG I was getting worried. What took you so long? PAM Sentinel Services, they had a checkpoint set up on First. They were checking IDs, looking for fugitives. ERG They weren't supposed to be there for hours. How'd you get through? PAM They were scanning for X-Genes. Saw I wasn't a mutant, let me through. ERG Yeah. We got to warn the others. Evangeline's already on her way to the border with the refugees. PAM Wh Leo, no, it's too dangerous. Evangeline, she can handle things. ERG Not if she's walking into an ambush. PAM She's fine! Once she gets to Flint, she'll know what to do. ERG But baby- But she- We don't know if she. How did you know where she was crossing? PAM Y-You I-I think you told me. ERG No. I never tell anyone about the crossing locations not even you. PAM It's not I. Leo, you must have told me, because how. ERG Pam what did you do? PAM Sentinel Services, they they caught me. Three weeks ago. But Leo, but Leo, I made a deal. For us. ERG All those people are gonna d. PAM I'm sorry. ERG You're sorry?! They're gonna die. There-there are mothers. Children, they. PAM They would have caught them anyway. Please, please, let's just go. We can start over. Please, I love you. ERG The others warned me not to trust a human. PAM Leo. ERG Never again. Get out of my sight. Go! ERG There's a couple in the west tunnel that could use this. And the rest can go to winter storage. When's the supply run? MASON We move out soon. The others are getting ready now. GLOW You know, you've been here for less than a week. You don't have to come on every raid. BLINK Just trying to do my part. I don't want to be a mooch. GLOW Hey, seriously. Take your time, get settled in. You don't have to prove anything. We can handle this. BLINK I'm just making up for lost time. I spent so many years up there, hiding who I was. Plus I can't let you have all the fun. GLOW Yeah. That's right. Let's move out. CAITLIN Looks like Zingo's missing Clarice. THUNDERBIRD She chose to leave. REED Listen, I've been calling around and besides Evangeline, we lost the leaders of the West, the Midwest, and the South they're all dead. We need to decide what we're gonna do. THUNDERBIRD I think it's obvious. Gather together what's left. And we make a plan to strike back. REED John. After what happened, why would anyone sign up? THUNDERBIRD What other choice do we have? We gonna give up? Hide? CAITLIN You think we're in a position to start an army? The Inner Circle is after Lauren. LAUREN I can handle it. REED But you can't keep waking yourself up every 20 minutes, not allowing yourself to dream. CAITLIN And there's another thing. My brother said that Reeva Payge has infiltrated the government. ECLIPSE And Benedict Ryan is leading the Purifiers in a nationwide crusade. With the two of them working together. THUNDERBIRD This is exactly why we have to fight. The Inner Circle, the Purifiers, they want the same thing humans and mutants, living apart. They're going to try to drive a wedge between us forever. If we do not act on this now. ECLIPSE John is right. Lorna's risking her life to find out about this attack they're planning if she gets something, anything, we need to be ready. ANDY That was insane. POLARIS Nice trick. MAX Yeah, you just gotta rub things the right way. POLARIS Hm. MAX Maybe I could show you sometime. POLARIS In your dreams. MAX Ooh. POLARIS So, we're blowing up statues, now? MAX Well, we get this thing right, it'll be a lot bigger than statues. Scale this thing up, can take a whole building down the same way. POLARIS ANDY Whoa. Are you okay? POLARIS No, no, it's nothing. I just got sloppy. Hey, uh, I sprang a leak over here. Gonna go clean this up. ESME The new recruits seem to be coming along nicely. SAGE What about the other project? ESME Lauren? It's only a matter of time. SAGE Is she still resisting? ESME We're trying something new. ECLIPSE You broke into his room? POLARIS I didn't “break” anything. I opened some locks. ECLIPSE Well, that's not the point! The risk of doing that. POLARIS Just being there is a risk. If we're gonna find out what Reeva's planning, I'm going to have to do some digging and Marcos it was worth it. ECLIPSE What did you get? POLARIS Building plans. The White House, Pentagon, Sentinel Services Headquarters, the Capitol. Max can turn those buildings into explosives. ECLIPSE Of course. Their plan is to wipe out the entire government? POLARIS For a start. This attack is coming. ECLIPSE POLARIS And soon. ECLIPSE Yeah. POLARIS I should go. ECLIPSE Hey, wait. No more plans involving stabbing yourself, okay? POLARIS I'll do my best. ECLIPSE Thank you. MASON GLOW We usually have about ten minutes before the cops show. BLINK Perfect. Let's go shopping. GLOW Focus on food and fuel. Things we can carry easily. BLINK Okay. Perfect. Freeze-dried ice cream. Never understood it. It's not icy or creamy. GLOW It's good. Take it. BLINK Why am I hearing dogs? MASON Cops. BLINK Cops? You said ten minutes. GLOW They've never been this fast. MASON We have to get out of here! GLOW You guys, get down. We have to go. DISPATCH BLINK They're getting closer. Let's go. GLOW Hurry. Get down from there. BLINK Hurry! COP There they are! There's the mutants! BLINK Hurry! COP Stop them! GLOW BLINK No. Mason! Grab her. GLOW RAY I-I gave her something for the pain, but I-I can't stop the bleeding. BLINK There's gotta be something more you can do. RAY Her blood. I-I think the clotting factor's different or something. BLINK Or something? Is that a medical term? RAY I used to be an EMT, okay? I've never worked with blood like hers. I gave her some O neg, but her BP keeps dropping. BLINK Glow's in really bad shape. ERG This is my fault. With the Mutant Uprising, there's more security everywhere, I. BLINK The only thing that matters now is that we get her to a hospital. ERG Blink, we can't do that. BLINK What are you talking about? She's dying. ERG She's a fugitive. If we take her to a human hospital, she'll be arrested in minutes. It could comprise our entire community. BLINK Erg, she's not going to betray you. ERG Not intentionally, no. But Sentinel Services can be very convincing. BLINK So then what do you suggest we do? ERG The best we can with what we have. GLOW THUNDERBIRD Come on, you guys. We are the last of the Mutant Underground. If you just listen for a second. GINA We came because we thought you had a plan to beat the Inner Circle. Have you seen the Mutant Uprising rallies in the streets? We're outnumbered, outpowered- ECLIPSE Nobody said that this would be easy. THUNDERBIRD The X-Men trusted us with this. GINA The X-Men's trust isn't gonna stop Purifiers with guns. Maybe your girlfriend had the right idea joining up with the Morlocks. ECLIPSE That's a bit much. THUNDERBIRD Hey, this is exactly what the Inner Circle wants. All right, the Mutant Underground to give up. For us to lose sight of our mission, but once we abandon our principles, our only option is war. ECLIPSE Come on. Look, we cannot let them win. Everything is at stake here. GINA I'm sorry, guys, but if all you've got for us is speeches, then they've already won. CAITLIN You're sure you're okay? No more problems with your powers? REED A few twinges. But it's under control. We need to focus on Lauren. LAUREN There's nothing you can do. CAITLIN More coffee? Lauren, this isn't going to work. You need to get some sleep. LAUREN I'll be okay. REED You've been sharing dreams with Andy for months and now you're afraid to sleep. LAUREN He's different. It's like he's probing my mind, searching for my weaknesses. REED Lauren, we need to work this out. BLINK Hi. I'm so sorry to just come in like this. CAITLIN Clarice? What are you- BLINK I need your help. A friend of mine in the tunnels she was shot. Can you come with me? CAITLIN Don't they have doctors down there? BLINK No, there's a guy but he's-he's in way over his head. She needs you. REED The Morlocks are mutant separatists. You can't just take a human down there. BLINK She's dying. And if anyone has a problem with it, they can take it up with me. Caitlin, please, she doesn't have much time. LAUREN Mom, go. I'll be okay. CAITLIN Uh, I'll get my stuff. BLINK Thank you. I'm sorry. CAITLIN We're not portaling out? BLINK No. Not yet. I have to make one more stop before we leave. REED Lauren, we discussed this and I told you to put that thing away. LAUREN It's just a music box. REED It is more than that. And I am worried that it's making you feel worse. LAUREN Actually it's comforting in a way. It reminds me that all of this has been a part of our family for a long time. Wait, Dad. REED My dad used to tell me this old German story about a father out riding in the night on horseback with his son. And the son is afraid he says he can hear something terrible calling out to him. So, the father tries to make him feel better and tells him it's the wind in the trees that he can hear. But when they got home, the boy is dead. The song that plays in that box is the story I just told you set to music. It's called the Erlking. And I didn't think about it at the time, but I I think my dad was trying to warn me. LAUREN About what? REED About the darkness that exists in our family. LAUREN Darkness? Dad, you're talking about something that's in my DNA. Mom thinks it's a good thing- she wants me to get stronger. But you, you keep. REED I'm trying to warn you. The Von Strucker twins. LAUREN Were horrible people, I know. But they were also the only people ever- who really understood what I'm going through. What I'm missing. REED The power that exists between you and your brother, that level of destruction- you can't want that. LAUREN I know it's wrong. But the power? It's incredible. It doesn't feel evil. It feels like I can make everything wrong with the world right again. REED Yeah, but you know that's not true. LAUREN Of course not. I'm sorry. I'm just being stupid. ECLIPSE There is no one down here to meet us, does Erg even know we're coming? CAITLIN I'll take that as a no. BLINK Look, I ran off to get you as fast as I could. ECLIPSE You really think I can help her? BLINK Well, you guys both have glowing blood. That's gotta count for something. ECLIPSE Please, please tell me there's more science than that. CAITLIN I I'm no mutant biology expert, but it's likely your powers are related. And I'm certain there's no other choice. RAY Are you a-a doctor? BLINK She's close enough. RAY I-I tried to stabilize her. I-I've never seen blood like hers before. CAITLIN I have. The light's carried in the platelets but once the energy dissipates it's more or less regular blood. It does interfere with clotting, though. BLINK Oh no. Marcos. ERG What the hell is going on? BLINK You said that we couldn't take her to the hospital, so I brought someone here. ERG You brought a human down. You've put our whole community in danger. ECLIPSE Okay look, man, relax, we're just trying to help here. That's all. RAY Pulse is thready. CAITLIN There's too much blood. I-I can't see. More gauze. ERG I'm sorry, but you can't be here. You don't belong. You should go back to your own people. CAITLIN Everyone I know is a mutant. Including my family. Don't tell me who my people are. ERG We cannot have a human down here. CAITLIN Well, you're going to have one less mutant if I don't stop the bleeding. BLINK Erg. Please. ERG Fine. GLOW CAITLIN Oh god. LAUREN Come on. Lauren, come on. ANDY Lauren. I've been waiting. LAUREN No no, stop. ANDY You're back. LAUREN This needs to stop. I'm never joining the Inner Circle. ANDY Whoa, just just listen to me. I was wrong, okay. I don't want to fight you anymore. LAUREN Then what do you want? ANDY I just want you to be happy. Do you remember what it was like when we were kids? How connected we were. I miss that. LAUREN Me too. THE FROSTS We can have that again. Just you and me. ANDY We're the only ones who really understand each other. I know you feel it too. LAUREN Yes. ANDY I miss who we were when we were together. I miss Fenris. LAUREN So do I. THE FROSTS This is a dream. We can do anything. ANDY we want here. Can't we just. THE FROSTS let go? ANDY Be ourselves. What do you say? LAUREN Wow. ANDY Yeah. It doesn't just have to be a dream. You can meet me here tomorrow. THE FROSTS Think of what we could do. LAUREN I don't know. ANDY You do know. THE FROSTS Think of what we can do. ANDY Both of us together. LAUREN No, Andy, I can't. ANDY Lauren! THE FROSTS Wait! ANDY Lauren! THE FROSTS Wait! ANDY Wait! LAUREN GLOW Your blood's pretty. ECLIPSE Yeah, so is yours. GLOW ECLIPSE You, uh, you enjoying that morphine there? GLOW Oh yeah. ECLIPSE Yeah, you are. ERG You said the transfusion would work. CAITLIN Well, it bought her some time, but her blood still isn't clotting. Look, I, uh. I've seen this before with Marcos. I-I think I can do something, but I need to get to the clinic. BLINK No. No way. Between the Inner Circle and the Purifiers that place is trashed. CAITLIN Trashed or not, it's our only option. ERG Ye- Fine. Blink and I will get whatever you need. CAITLIN I need to go with you. ERG Out of the question. It's far too dangerous. CAITLIN Well, I need to isolate Marcos' platelets and mix them with an antiplasmin in a centrifuge and I'm guessing you're not a pharmacist and a postapocalyptic pirate. ERG If we run into trouble, you have no powers. We can't have dead weight. CAITLIN I may not have an 'M' on my face, but I can take care of myself. ERG REED Lauren? Hey. THUNDERBIRD What did the note say? REED She said she needed to get away to figure things out and that I would never understand. THUNDERBIRD Understand what? REED Her connection to the music box. And to Andy. THUNDERBIRD Uh, did the note say anything about where she might be going? REED No. This is all my fault, man. THUNDERBIRD It's no one's fault, all right except maybe the Inner Circle. REED If they get Andy and Lauren together. THUNDERBIRD I know. REED We have to find her, John. Before they do. POLARIS So, how's the this whole team thing work? Seems like you got a system going. HEATHER Well, Max charges things with energy, I teleport 'em and Tico, he disrupts 'em with a shockwave. POLARIS How, uh, how-how big can the boom get? HEATHER I'll let you know when we find out. POLARIS MAX Yo. Which one of you was in my room? HEATHER What are you talking about? MAX I have had my cell tossed enough times in the joint to know someone was messing with my stuff. HEATHER You're drunk and paranoid. Relax. MAX Don't tell me to relax. Someone was in my room. HEATHER You're not in the joint anymore. No one here is gonna mess with your stuff. MAX Maybe. Maybe not. POLARIS I'll, uh, leave you to your family squabble. REED Anything? THUNDERBIRD Picking up something, but it's faint. REED What's wrong? THUNDERBIRD She's walking in circles. REED She's confused. THUNDERBIRD Confused about what? REED Her powers, her place in this war. THUNDERBIRD You talked to her about this? REED I tried, but Lauren's experience is nothing like mine. ERG What happened here? BLINK What didn't happen here. Purifiers hit this place hard. I'm going to go check the front, make sure we're clear. ERG Why would the Purifiers hit a medical clinic? CAITLIN Because we're the only place in the area that treats mutants. ERG So mutants worked here? CAITLIN Actually, no. Humans worked here. Humans that were willing to risk prison to help people. All people. Hopefully the looters weren't into centrifuges. Oh! That's one piece of luck. Help me search that. We're looking for antiplasmin. ERG What is it? CAITLIN It enhances blood clot formation by inhibiting protein. ERG Maybe start with what color it is. CAITLIN Right. The one with the blue top. BLINK Hey, the front area's even worse. How long is this going to take? I've got a really bad feeling about this place. CAITLIN Well, let's make it quick. BENEDICT RYAN It's mutant lawlessness. If they don't act like citizens of this country, why should they enjoy the rights afforded to those of us who choose to abide by the law. Even human protests have a tendency to turn violent. Can you imagine the horror that we might soon witness if we don't get these animals under control. FATHER Why are you doing this? This is illegal! SS AGENT We've had reports of suspicious mutant activity. DAUGHTER We haven't done anything wrong. MOTHER We're just going to visit my mother in Chicago. SS AGENT Open the bags. FATHER You have no right do this. DAUGHTER Stop, please. Dad. MOTHER No, stop. FATHER Okay, just let us go. It'll be okay, baby, it'll be okay. BENEDICT RYAN But you can't disarm a living, breathing weapon. Which is exactly what mutants are. ECLIPSE Okay. Uh, looks like it's time. GLOW Liar. It was time ten minutes ago. ECLIPSE Yeah, well, I thought I should top you off. How you feeling? GLOW Still feel like I got shot, but thanks for asking. ECLIPSE Yeah. GLOW How about you? How have you been? ECLIPSE That's not important. GLOW You're supposed to keep me awake. So you have to answer all my questions. ECLIPSE That's how it is? GLOW Yeah. That's the rules. ECLIPSE Ah, there's rules. GLOW Your ex? ECLIPSE Yeah. Lorna, everything okay? POLARIS Okay, remember how you freaked out at me for breaking into Max's room? ECLIPSE Yeah. POLARIS Okay, well turns out it didn't go as well as I thought. He suspects something... but I don't think he has anything solid yet. ECLIPSE Okay, look, you have to run. Now. If he tells Reeva, you're dead. POLARIS But if we don't find out what they're planning, then more people die. And what about Andy? Huh? ECLIPSE All right. All right, look. If we can't get you out of there. Then we have to get Max out of there. POLARIS What are we gonna do with him? ECLIPSE Well, we both know I'm pretty good at getting people to talk. POLARIS Marcos, no, you hate doing that. ECLIPSE Yeah, I know but this has to happen. Look, is there any way that you can find out, you know, uh, when he-when he goes out? And when he might be alone? POLARIS There might be something I can do. When I was a kid, I used to get into my school's computer, change my grades. ECLIPSE I didn't know you could do that. POLARIS I'm not some kind of hacker or anything. But computers are magnetic, and sometimes I can feel my way through simple stuff, like a password that's entered all the time. I'mma see what I can do. Get back to you when I can. ECLIPSE All right. Just just be careful. POLARIS Yeah. ECLIPSE BLINK What are you doing? CAITLIN Isolating Marcos' blood components to mix with the antifibrinolytic. BLINK Right. Well, I hate to rush you when you're science-ing, but can you just make this go a little faster? What was that? ERG Purifiers are outside. BLINK They're here? ERG We have to go. Now. BLINK We have to get out of here. Just bring the stuff. CAITLIN The stuff doesn't work that way! I can't leave until it's finished. ERG We can't afford more casualties. CAITLIN Well then, you go. I'll come when it's done. PURIFIER I'm telling you, there someone's in here. He's one of them! ERG BLINK No! PURIFIER BLINK Now can we go? CAITLIN Not without Erg. ERG I'm fine! Let's go! CAITLIN Let's go. THUNDERBIRD Lauren was definitely here. She did that to the Sentinel Services car then she took off. Why would she be this reckless? REED I don't think she means to be. I don't think she can help herself right now. THUNDERBIRD Reed, she's not a little kid wandering around lost. She's turning away from us. She's heading toward her brother. Toward the Inner Circle. REED It's not as simple as that. The power of this thing it's incredibly strong. It's almost irresistible. THUNDERBIRD Are you talking about her? Or are you talking about you? Reed, I think you understand more about Lauren's situation than you've told her. You owe it to her to tell her the truth. REED Well, then you need to find her for me. And then I'll do what I can. THUNDERBIRD All right. Come on. POLARIS Come on. Damn it. Come on. Yes. Okay. Where are you. Max, where are you? Gotcha. Kilroy's Liquor Store. ECLIPSE You said her BP is dropping. I got to give her more. RAY You can't do this. You already gave more blood than you should. ECLIPSE Look at her! What am I supposed to do? Just let her die? RAY The nurse said, if you lose any more blood, you could. ECLIPSE Just back off! GLOW Marcos you can't. ECLIPSE It's gonna be all right. You're gonna be fine. GLOW The things you're doing it's too important you can't risk it. ECLIPSE No. Hey. Hang on. CAITLIN Marcos, how is she? ECLIPSE Oh, finally. Get over here. W-We're losing her. No problems? You got the medicine? BLINK Big problems, actually. But yeah we did. CAITLIN Get her propped up. And we need a new sheet over here. THUNDERBIRD Lauren! LAUREN I told you not to follow me. REED Please, listen. We can talk. LAUREN There's nothing to talk about. REED Lauren! I'm not going anywhere until you talk to me! LAUREN REED Lauren. It's all right. I know what you're doing. You're going to Andy. LAUREN I don't know. REED You're confused. I understand. LAUREN No, you don't understand! You don't. You don't know what it feels like. REED Yes, I do. Because I've felt it too. LAUREN What do you mean? REED I wasn't honest with you. When we got the music box from Dr. Risman, it wasn't the first time I'd seen it. I found it, as a boy, in our attic. I was drawn to it, like you. The story I told you? My dad wasn't warning me about the darkness calling to me. Because he knew I already liked it. I think it's one of the reasons that he tried to suppress my powers. LAUREN I can't resist it anymore. REED I know, honey, but you're not alone. And I think I can help you. MAX Bull's-eye. POLARIS You shouldn't sneak up on a woman playing with knives. MAX You know, you are really good with those. Maybe too good to, uh, cut yourself by accident. POLARIS What's that supposed to mean? MAX Maybe nothing. Just seems weird, don't you think? POLARIS Mmm. Well, even the best have off days. MAX Oh. Do you know what else I think is weird? POLARIS I don't know, man. Dessert pizza? MAX You were really interested in that hit job me and my team did last week. POLARIS I was just being friendly. Won't make that mistake again. Heather's right you are paranoid. MAX I don't think so, sweetheart. You see, my guess is that. POLARIS I think you're forgetting who you're talking to. I am Polaris. My father was part of the Inner Circle before it even was the Inner Circle. Around here, that makes me royalty. So if you're going to run your mouth, you better have a lot more than a guess. MAX Sure thing, Your Majesty. ECLIPSE We should go. CAITLIN Your heart sounds strong. Try to get some rest. GLOW Yeah, thanks. You saved my life. Thank you. ECLIPSE Uh, it's, uh, nothing any guy with glowing blood wouldn't do. GLOW But now you have things to do for Lorna? ECLIPSE Yeah. GLOW Yeah. I guess she'll always have your heart. I'll just have to settle for two pints of your blood. ECLIPSE Stay safe. GLOW Yeah. CAITLIN Here's some extra syringes, some gauze. ERG You were right about her. I'm sorry. BLINK A girl can never hear 'you were right' too many times. As for the apology. I'm not the one you owe it to. RAY Bye. CAITLIN You don't have to say it. I'm leaving. I was never here. ERG That's not. I wanted to give you something before you go. Much better. CAITLIN Thank you. BLINK Are you sure you don't want me to portal you guys out? CAITLIN Uh, it's fine. We'll find our way. Just follow the rats. BLINK Will you please give Zingo a hug for me? CAITLIN Mmm. BLINK And, um. ECLIPSE We will say hi to John, too. BLINK Thank you. ECLIPSE Yeah. LAUREN THE FROSTS You said she was coming. Where is she? ANDY I don't know something's changed. I can't feel her anymore. MAX What's the point of being free if I can't go where I want to go? Get off my ass, Heather. What the hell? ECLIPSE Move real slow... or things are gonna get very hot in here. MAX What do you want? ECLIPSE We're gonna go for a drive. All right? MAX Okay, okay, okay. Okay, stay calm. I'm just-I'm just gonna put my seatbelt on. ECLIPSE Slowly. MAX Okay. ECLIPSE