ANDY BLINK BULK CAITLIN ECLIPSE ERG ESME FADE HEATHER HUMAN_WOMAN JACE LAUREN MAN NEWS_ANCHOR PEOPLE PHOEBE POLARIS PURIFIER PURIFIERS PURIFIER_1 REED REEVA REPORTERS REPORTER_1 REPORTER_2 REPORTER_3 RYAN SOPHIE THE_FROSTS THUNDERBIRD YOUNG_ANDY YOUNG_LAUREN ECLIPSE What did you get? POLARIS Building plans. Sentinel Services Headquarters, the Capitol. ECLIPSE Of course. The plan is to wipe out the entire government? POLARIS This attack is coming. JACE You people took everything from me! Never again. THUNDERBIRD THUNDERBIRD Clarice. Come on. No! THUNDERBIRD This is your fault. She shouldn't have been down there. ERG I gave her a place where she belonged. Blink was. THUNDERBIRD Stop calling her Blink! ERG That's the name she chose! THUNDERBIRD REED You need to come home. ANDY I don't think I can do that. When I attacked that Purifier, you were afraid of me. I belong here. I am a monster. REED Today, I killed a man. REED REED If you're a monster, son, then so am I. We're your family, you belong with us. PHOEBE Andy and Lorna are gone. SOPHIE We could sense Lorna's uncertainty, but. PHOEBE Someone thought they had a special bond. REEVA Such a shame we have to kill them. REPORTER 1 People are still reacting to the utter devastation of the first mass casualty mutant attack on American soil. MAN There was, like, these flashes in the sky and then, th-there was, like, bodies everywhere... I-I've never seen anything like it. REPORTER 1 First responders from across Dallas are doing everything they can, but it's clear the death toll will be in the thousands. CAITLIN YOUNG LAUREN Mom, is that gonna happen here? CAITLIN No, sweetie. It's gonna be okay. REED Hey! YOUNG ANDY Dad! REED Andy, come here. It's good to see you. YOUNG ANDY Yeah. REED Sorry it took so long. The roads were jammed. CAITLIN You didn't have to come home. REED Of course I did. Most of the office was out the door as soon as the first news reports came in. They've closed down some of the government buildings, just in case. Lauren, how are you? YOUNG LAUREN I'm scared. REPORTER 1 clear today that the world will never be the same. CAITLIN It just. REED I know. CAITLIN feels like a bad dream. REPORTER 1 authorities are concerned more attacks could be on the way. NEWS ANCHOR The incident in Dallas today marks the deadliest mutant attack in American- CAITLIN I think that's enough news for today. Kids are asleep. Finally. I wanted to tell them that we'll keep them safe, that that this could never happen to them, but how do you make that promise? REED You know, we talked about me transferring to the mutant crimes division. CAITLIN You-You really want to do that? Now? REED I just feel like maybe this is telling us something. This is the fight of our time, Cait. I can't just sit by on the sidelines. It's the only way I can think of to keep our kids safe. CAITLIN I can't say I'm-I'm excited about you jumping into the middle of what happened today, but if you feel like you need to do that I get it. POLARIS We have to move against Reeva now. In the next 24 hours, she plans on taking out Sentinel Services and then the entire government. Thousands of innocent people will be dead. CAITLIN So we're just gonna attack? Last I heard, she was in a fortress. ECLIPSE Well, we didn't have the power to attack a fortress before. Now we do. If they can take down the Inner Circle headquarters- REED Wait. You want Andy and Lauren to destroy a high-rise? CAITLIN God knows I am all for bringing down the Inner Circle, but there has to be another way that doesn't involve Andy and Lauren destroying an entire building. THUNDERBIRD There is no other way. If we do this, we don't lose anyone else here. POLARIS It's true. But we can't afford to wait. CAITLIN It's too much. LAUREN It's all right. ANDY I think we can do it. REED Are you sure? LAUREN In a way, I feel like we've been preparing for this for a long time. ANDY We can stop Reeva. We have this power, we might as well use it for something good. ESME It's what we thought. Lorna and Andrew went back to the Mutant Underground. PHOEBE Pathetic, really. I guess greatness skips a generation. SOPHIE Or three. HEATHER See? I told you. I knew that Lorna bitch got Max killed. What the hell do we do now?! REEVA We move forward with the plan. Yes, their loss is a setback, but they can be replaced. Lorna was going to block communications using her abilities. No, it isn't as elegant, but the same can be done using explosives. BULK What about taking down Sentinel Services? The whole idea was to have Andy do it. REEVA Yes, that part of the plan will have to change as well, but it will go forward. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to make some arrangements. RYAN Hello? REEVA Mr. Ryan. Rise and shine. RYAN You know what time it is? REEVA It's time for you to get to work. RYAN What is it now? REEVA I have a job for your Purifier friends. ANDY Dad? You feeling okay? REED Yeah, I'm good. Sorry. You ready? ANDY Yeah. I mean, we're supposed to be getting our stuff, but I don't have any stuff, so I thought you were taking medicine. REED I stopped. ANDY Why? REED I felt like I had to face this thing head on. For so long, I've been trying to make sense of it all. ANDY Yeah. Me, too. After I left, I wanted to come home so many times. I just thought that I was in so deep. But after what you said last night, I I just felt like I was part of the family again. REED When you were away, it was like part of me had been torn away, like I was never gonna be whole again. You were always my son. Nothing could ever change that. ECLIPSE A lot of these files are on stations that don't exist anymore. People that are gone. THUNDERBIRD Marcos, there's nothing left to rebuild. Just Just burn it all. POLARIS All of this is my fault. THUNDERBIRD Lorna- POLARIS It is. I was fighting for a dream. A dream of a place for all of us. I believed in Reeva's lie. And Clarice died because of it. Marcos told me you saw her at the end. THUNDERBIRD Yeah. Uh Jace Turner shot her. She was making a portal. I could still feel her, but she was just gone. POLARIS Look, I'm I'm sorry. THUNDERBIRD You just promise me that you're gonna fight. POLARIS I promise. ECLIPSE That's it. That's the last of it. We should, uh, we should get the Struckers and head out. John, what? THUNDERBIRD There's a lot of trucks, coming down the street. ECLIPSE Purifiers. PURIFIERS JACE We're at the Westlake apartments, we've got the building surrounded. Proudstar's in there? RYAN Not just him. All your friends from the Mutant Underground. The real question is whether you're gonna let them escape again. JACE Um, we got every exit covered, we got overlapping fields of fire in every direction. Just make sure nobody gets in our way. RYAN The local police are very upset about Officer Wilson's death yesterday. They'll look the other way. If you want justice for your family, now is the time. JACE I've been waiting a long time for this. I won't let you down. ECLIPSE I just checked the back. They've got that covered, and the roads are blocked, the Purifier line is three deep. We take one step out there, we're dead. POLARIS We should've known she'd call Ryan to take us out. She's not taking any chances. ECLIPSE This is not just rednecks in pickup trucks. They've got body armor, bigger guns. They're spread out, all over, some of them are out of reach. And they got us covered from every angle. POLARIS Looks like Reeva took this personally. THUNDERBIRD She's not the only one who took things personally. HUMAN WOMAN My husband is in there. JACE I understand that, ma'am. We'll get him out. We're gonna protect all the humans. We'll get him out, okay? Trust me. PURIFIER 1 We should just go in, man. There's families up there. JACE We had Proudstar at the compound with 50 men. How many of them died that day? No. They know they can't stay in there forever, they're gonna have to make a move soon, and when they do, we cut them down. We do this right, the Mutant Underground ends today. CAITLIN God, there's so many of them. REED They're setting up a perimeter. Looks like they're planning to wait us out. CAITLIN I don't want to take any chances. I've got some guns in the storage room downstairs. REED You do? You didn't tell me that. CAITLIN I'm telling you now. Stay put, we'll be right back. CAITLIN There you go. REED Where'd you get all these guns? CAITLIN It's America, Reed. Stores sell them. Look, I don't have an X-Gene. I figured it was the next best thing. Hey. Is the pain bad? REED No. It's just, um, frustrating. All I ever wanted to do was protect my children. I have this ability and there is nothing I can do with it. CAITLIN Just breathe, okay? REED Yeah. CAITLIN We're gonna get through this. REED CAITLIN You're still working? REED Yeah, just some briefs for Monday. CAITLIN Want to take a break? REED I, um. CAITLIN Kids are out. Your mission to save the world from mutant crime can wait an hour. REED Yeah, I guess an hour won't hurt. CAITLIN Yeah, I-I think this particular hour might even help. REED CAITLIN Work? REED No, it's it's Lauren. Hang on. Hey. LAUREN Hi. I need you, can you please come get me? REED Wait, s-slow down, I thought you were at Emma's party, what- LAUREN Yeah, uh, something happened to me, Dad, I-I-I'm there was a mutant attack. I'm outside. REED Are you hurt? LAUREN No, no, no, no, I'm fine, just please come get me, please. CAITLIN What happened? REED There' been a mutant attack at the party, I'm gonna go get her. I'll be right there, honey. ANDY If it comes down to it, we might have to use Fenris. Take them all out. LAUREN I don't want to think about that right now. You know what that would mean? You really want to kill all those people? ANDY I don't like hurting people. I know you think I do. All that stuff that happened at the Inner Circle, everything we did, even the worst stuff I did it because I wanted to help people. What? LAUREN The door. Mom closed it. ANDY Yeah, what the hell? LAUREN FADE Surprise. LAUREN THE FROSTS On your knees. ANDY THE FROSTS Don't fight. THE FROSTS Andrew. Lauren. Is that any way to treat guests? CAITLIN You're doing great. REED CAITLIN Remember that couples meditation class we took in Cancun before Lauren was born? REED Yeah, I don't remember them covering this situation, though. CAITLIN I told you we should have taken the two-hour class. REED Next time. Andy? Lauren? ESME It's done. REEVA Everything go smoothly? ESME Smoothly? Fade almost got us killed sneaking past the Purifiers. REEVA I don't need the details. Did you get what you came for? ESME Yes. They're here. Reeva, I'm worried. Making them use their powers like this? They could snap, they could have a stroke. REEVA As long as the job is done. Next time you call, you better have results. RYAN hide behind political correctness. The time has come to demand that our elected leaders stop the talk and do something. We're whistling in the dark, people. There's going to be a mutant attack. When it comes, is America going to be ready? REEVA Not at all. CAITLIN What is it, John? Can you see anything? Can you see Andy and Lauren? THUNDERBIRD I'm still having trouble tracking. I'm seeing Clarice everywhere. I'm trying, but. The Frost sisters were here. ECLIPSE The Purifiers have this building surrounded. How did it happen? THUNDERBIRD Fade. REED God, I hate that guy. POLARIS Reeva's plan depends on destroying Sentinel Services headquarters. If she's got Andy and Lauren. CAITLIN We have to get to them. ECLIPSE I'm all for it. But how do get out of here? POLARIS I could move cars at the roadblock, stop the bullets. ECLIPSE Not from every single direction. They've got every angle covered. REED He's right. It's like a wall out there, there's no way through it. THUNDERBIRD You need a way through? I can make one. ECLIPSE John, that is insane. THUNDERBIRD It can work. REED They've got the entire street wired tight. THUNDERBIRD Jace Turner wants the Mutant Underground, but after what happened at the Purifier compound, he wants me. If I go out there, he's going to throw everything he can at me. That might be just enough time for you guys to drive out of here. CAITLIN No, J-John, your body can take a lot of damage, but you are hardly bulletproof. You nearly died at that compound. THUNDERBIRD Caitlin. I just need to last long enough to get them away from the gate. POLARIS Look, John, I I could help. We could all- THUNDERBIRD No, we can't risk it. The four of you have to get to Lauren and Andy. You have to stop Reeva. ECLIPSE Brother, you know what they are going to do to you. THUNDERBIRD Jace Turner took Clarice from me. He can't do anything worse. JACE JACE It's him! Fire! THUNDERBIRD PURIFIER JACE What are you waiting for? Shoot him! THUNDERBIRD PURIFIERS JACE The SUV! On the SUV! PURIFIERS THUNDERBIRD JACE Go find him! CAITLIN No cops yet. ECLIPSE Let's hope our luck holds up until we get to Sentinel Services. POLARIS They're using the Morlock tunnels to get around the city. There are some steam grates at Elm and 15th. CAITLIN Okay. I'll head that way. Are you all right? REED I just can't stop it. CAITLIN It's okay. We made it out. REED You don't have to be scared of mutants. I'll protect you. This is the kind of thing that makes you stronger. LAUREN What do you mean? REED You remember do you remember 7/15? How scary that day was? Watching the news on the TV all day, thinking why? Something clicked for me that day. I knew that, somehow, I had to be a part of it. That, that I could make a difference. That I needed to. And I think that's our job. When terrible things happen, like 7/15 and like what happened to you tonight? We have to figure out what it means. And how it can make us better. LAUREN Dad I need to tell you something. REED Okay. What is it? I'll always protect you. I promise. THE FROSTS We're almost there. It's just around the corner. LAUREN No. ANDY Please. PHOEBE Still resisting. I suggest you behave. SOPHIE Or we'll make you behave. THE FROSTS Stop resisting. LAUREN ANDY LAUREN What do you want from us? ESME We just need some help destroying a building. Please, don't make us force you. It'll go easier if you cooperate. SOPHIE But if you'd rather do it the hard way, that'll work, too. PHOEBE But if you'd rather do it the hard way, that'll work, too. ANDY You left our parents to be killed by Purifiers. PHOEBE The Purifiers will get what's coming to them. LAUREN I thought the whole point of doing this was to help mutants. This is mutant freedom? Forcing us- SOPHIE We don't look at it as “forcing.” Sometimes, people just need a little help seeing the light. PHOEBE So we show it to them. ESME Wait. PHOEBE What is it? SOPHIE What is it? ESME You know what happens if we keep pushing them like this. SOPHIE We let you try to reason with them. PHOEBE They made their choice. ESME W-We'll break them. They might never recover. PHOEBE It's not like Reeva's going to let them live after what they did. SOPHIE They might as well be useful. PHOEBE Now let's get this over with. SOPHIE Now let's get this over with. LAUREN THE FROSTS Get up. ANDY THUNDERBIRD ERG John Proudstar. You look like you need some help. THUNDERBIRD How did you find me? ERG I know every tunnel and alley in this city. I know we've had our disagreements. I know you hate me. But, for Clarice's sake. I'm hoping you hate them more. THUNDERBIRD I don't want your help. Just let me fight. ERG You mean let you die? The Purifiers will be here soon to finish what they started. The man who murdered Blink is out there. You owe it to her not to let him kill you, too. THUNDERBIRD ERG The more energy I absorb, the more I can send at them. Hit me. THUNDERBIRD ERG Again. THUNDERBIRD ERG THUNDERBIRD ERG JACE Am I interrupting something? You're done. You're done, Mr. Proudstar. THUNDERBIRD My name is Thunderbird. ERG THUNDERBIRD JACE THUNDERBIRD JACE I'm ready to see my little girl, just do it, man. Kill me! LAUREN THE FROSTS It's time. You know what you're here for. LAUREN Please. Please don't make us do this. ANDY Hey, you're hurting her! PHOEBE Then she should stop resisting. SOPHIE Then she should stop resisting. PHOEBE Esme. Waiting for something? THE FROSTS Time to hold hands. ANDY LAUREN No. THE FROSTS Good. Now just relax, and let go. LAUREN No. No, no, don't. ANDY PEOPLE ESME Come any closer and they die. You shouldn't have come. REED You don't have to do this. Just give them to us and we'll go. PHOEBE Too late. Their ours now. ESME Kill them. THE FROSTS Kill them all. ANDY LAUREN No. No. ANDY Please! ECLIPSE Reed, get out of the way. CAITLIN Marcos, no, they'll kill them! REED Andy! Lauren! You have to fight! Remember who you are! ANDY POLARIS Esme. Esme, look at me. POLARIS You told me that story. About what the humans did to you when you were kids. They forced you to use your powers to do things that you hated. How is this any different? SOPHIE Esme, what is wrong with you? PHOEBE Esme, what is wrong with you? ESME I I can't. SOPHIE There is no “I,” Esme. There's only “we.” You're nothing. PHOEBE There is no “I,” Esme. There's only “we.” You're nothing. POLARIS No, she's not nothing. She's my friend. Marcos, now! ECLIPSE ESME No! Oh, God. The-The-The police are close. You can get away in the tunnels. POLARIS What about you? ESME I can't leave them, just go! Go! CAITLIN Okay. REED ESME POLARIS Esme told me a little about how their powers work. When they force people to do things that go against everything they care about, it, um, it causes damage. ECLIPSE When they tried to make me leave the Inner Circle, dragging me away from my daughter, it was like my brain was in a vice. Yeah, I think they're lucky to be alive. LAUREN Mom. Dad. I'm so sorry. CAITLIN What are you sorry for? ANDY The building. We destroyed it. LAUREN All those people. CAITLIN No, that, that was not your fault. You didn't do anything. You didn't have control of your powers. ANDY We could've killed you. REED You saved us. CAITLIN We have the chance to stop what's about to happen because of you. REED I saw how hard you fought. I have never been prouder of you both. POLARIS We need to move. CAITLIN They are in no shape to fight. They can barely even walk. ECLIPSE Okay, well, we can drop them off at the scrapyard. CAITLIN We can't just leave them there. REED Cait, I hate it, too. But they will never be safe while Reeva is out there. If we don't stop her now, we might never get the chance. POLARIS That's the building. CAITLIN It's big. POLARIS Yeah. Top floors are the Inner Circle. REED How do we get up there? POLARIS There's a private parking garage with a freight elevator. REED What about guards and security? POLARIS Security's on the outside. I can get us in. Once we're up there, most of Reeva's people will be out with the strike team. ECLIPSE Well, even by herself, Reeva's bad enough. Look, when she attacks us, we won't be able to think, we won't be able to control our powers. REED Just tell me this. If we stop Reeva, this ends? POLARIS Without her, the whole thing falls apart. FADE Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Is that safe? Those go off. HEATHER I know what I'm doing. BULK Still like the old-fashioned way. HEATHER You know, the team shouldn't have to use these explosives at all. If Max was here, we wouldn't need any of this crap. BULK Hey, if it gets the job done, works for me. FADE What the hell? ECLIPSE All right, so where is this elevator, huh? POLARIS The other end. REED Take cover! BULK REED Let's get to the elevator, come on. Come on. BULK ECLIPSE REED All right. Let's go. CAITLIN Reed. ECLIPSE CAITLIN REED Nice shot. CAITLIN It looks like they've got their hands full. REED We're not gonna have time to wait for them. I should go up alone. You cover me and I'll get to the elevator. CAITLIN What are you talking about? We've got a slim enough chance with the four of us. REED Listen to me. CAITLIN REED Reeva makes people lose control of their powers. And I already can't control mine. We can use that. We have to. CAITLIN What are you saying? REED Since I stopped my medicine, the episodes have become more severe, more frequent. We know from Dr. Risman that the energy eventually is gonna tear me apart. CAITLIN REED I can barely control it right now. CAITLIN Reed. REED If she were to attack me and that power were to be released? CAITLIN It would kill you. REED And everyone who's up there with me. It might stop her. CAITLIN REED You always said to me that things happen for a reason and you were right. CAITLIN No. REED Take care of our family. Take care of our kids. CAITLIN No, Reed. No, no, no. You can't do this, you c- REED I have to, it's the only way. I love you. CAITLIN Reed! HEATHER Over there! BULK CAITLIN I love you. CAITLIN Did you believe that? What you said to Lauren earlier about things happening for a reason? REED You were listening? CAITLIN Maybe. REED I don't know. I was just trying to let her see that something good can come of this. CAITLIN Hmm. I-I think it's deeper than that. I think that our challenges and our tragedies are ours for a reason. REED Maybe that's true. I do sometimes think that I've got a role to play in all of this. In the mutant situation. In keeping us all safe. I wish I knew what it was. REED RYAN An act of war was committed against our country. Hundreds of American heroes died today in a cowardly attack on Sentinel Services by mutant terrorists. We must honor their sacrifice. Defend the America they loved and swore an allegiance to protect. It is time to define what makes someone an American. REED It's over, Reeva. RYAN Re-evaluate the criteria for. REEVA So. The most disappointing of the Von Struckers. What a surprise, I-I thought they'd send someone more formidable. I've been keeping tabs on you over the years, you know. Fighting against mutants, fighting for them, fighting your own mutant powers. You're so confused. REED Maybe once. Not anymore. You need to stop this. REEVA Why would I stop now? We've only just begun, and I'm not sure if you've been paying attention, but this revolution of ours is moving forward one way or another. Humans and mutants couldn't live together before. REED Because you and the Purifiers have made sure that they can't. REEVA Oh, please. I only helped along the inevitable. You know, your grandparents understood what it takes to create a homeland. It's such a shame that you never could. REED You can't build a nation on the murder of innocent people. REEVA Read your history books. That is the only way that you can build a nation. It's too bad, really. Your family name could have lived on forever. REED You wanted the power of the Von Struckers? It's all yours. HEATHER ECLIPSE Let's go! LAUREN We weren't there when we lost you. And we'll live with that for the rest of our lives. ANDY But we know that what you did, you did for all of us. LAUREN You died so we could come together. So we could heal. ANDY You died to stop hate. LAUREN And you died so we could be with the people we love. ECLIPSE Te amo, Aurorita. Estamos aqui. POLARIS We'll all be together soon, baby girl. For good. ANDY We're still fighting. REPORTER 2 Mr. Ryan. Any comment on reports you were involved in the attack? RYAN I have nothing to say. LAUREN We're fighting in ways that were never possible before. RYAN Actually, I do have something to say. It's time I confess my crimes. ESME Actually, I do have something to say. It's time I confess my crimes. REPORTERS REPORTER 3 Mr. Ryan, Mr. Ryan, what do you mean? RYAN I've been secretly leading the Purifiers for over five years. LAUREN We will keep fighting, but I want you to know I love you, Daddy. ANDY Love you, Dad. CAITLIN Goodbye, Reed. ERG I know it's a hard time to meet. But a situation has arisen. The Morlocks in DC are gone, but in the past couple weeks I've had contact with some people in other cities. I hear things. Reeva Payge may be gone, but the Mutant Uprising she sparked is not. ECLIPSE And what does that mean? ERG That mutant groups are gathering. Some in the wilderness, some in cities. POLARIS What does that have to do with us? ERG People have heard of this group. What happened with the Purifiers. Your family's sacrifice. They need help. Leadership. ECLIPSE Well, do they understand the Mutant Underground is gone? CAITLIN It's all right, Marcos. We'll make a new one. ERG Good. There are some camps not too far from here. ECLIPSE John, what is it? THUNDERBIRD Something's, uh something's outside. LAUREN What? THUNDERBIRD I can feel it. There's something out there. THUNDERBIRD Come on. It's over here. It felt like her. Clarice. BLINK Something's happened. I need you all need to come with me. There's something you need to see.