X-Men '97 (2024) s01e10 Episode Script

[MAGNETO] Previously on X-Men
[JEAN] We need to find
Magneto and convince him
to reverse the damage to Earth
before it becomes permanent.
[WOLVERINE] Well, Magneto
ain't gonna change his mind
just because we say "please."
The man just declared
war on the whole planet.
His day ends one way.
Rogue, you're going with me
and Blue Team to find Magneto.
Storm and Jean will lead Gold
to shut down Bastion at his headquarters
in the Galapagos Islands.
[MAGNETO] How many more of your bones
will pave the way to Xavier's future?
Your professor's dream is dead.
So I offer a new one.
Rogue, no.
Roberto?
[STORM] Forge!
[SENTINEL FIRES]
Nathan, stop! Please!
Sinister's controlling you just
like he controlled your mother.
My real mother was a
world-class telekinetic.
Stuff tends not to skip a generation.
[PROFESSOR X] I must hijack
his powers to repair Earth.
No, Magnus!
For the love of God, don't do this.
[WOLVERINE SCREAMS]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
God, you're suicidal,
or sentimental, maybe.
Though either'll kill you.
Would we be here helping the survivors
if we cared about staying alive?
We care about others.
As do most, I believe.
- And if indeed mutants exist
- They don't.
If they exist, why wouldn't
they use their abilities
to make the world better for all people?
People don't want to be better.
They're already the best everything.
Best tribe, best faith,
they even fight over
who's the best victim.
These are tense times.
Be mindful not to sound like
you actually are a mutant.
What if I were?
Run and hide
before someone starts dreaming of camps.
[PROFESSOR X] I'm a mutant.
Telepathy. Mind reader.
Likely can control them, too.
Bend their will.
Metal.
It bends to my will.
Have you met others?
I've met several.
Many alone. Scared.
And they will be feared.
Hated.
[PROFESSOR X] Not if we guide them,
help them cherish their gifts,
help the world see all we
share by being different.
Alas, my new friend,
in my experience, minds are
far harder to bend than metal.
[ROGUE] Erik?
Erik!
Rogue.
Charles, how shockingly
far you've fallen,
yet also so predictably.
Welcome to your mind, Magnus.
This is a violation.
[PROFESSOR X] You declared
war against mankind.
Turned my X-Men against each other.
Allowed your torment to
flood the world. And Logan
He meant to murder me.
Too many have died, Magnus.
But we both have the power to end it.
Restore the damage done to Earth.
Why must you always defend
our genetic inferiors?
Do you yearn for
Bastion's bastard cyborgs
to resume their pogrom
against our species?
And what happens to mutants
in a blacked-out world?
Evolution thrives in darkness.
Restore Earth's power,
or I will hijack your mind
and force you to do so.
Such psychic penetration risks
leaving both our minds shattered.
Please, then, heed reason.
Please.
Turn this nostalgic parlor
trick back to my childhood
and heed what happened
when my village used reason
while others used tanks.
Then forgive me, Magnus.
[GRUNTS]
[STRAINING]
Charles, please.
[SCREAMS]
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
[BASTION] Poetic, isn't it?
The inevitability of my vision.
Even now, Professor Xavier
must pave the path to my dream
in order to honor his own,
a dream as crippled as its dreamer,
built to die.
You mutants lost at birth, too,
the Neanderthal 2.0.
Buggy stillborns, flapping upstream,
draining yourselves dry so that
the tide can more easily drown you.
See, me.
The future's tide.
Despite this little
toy you X-Men would use
to abort the bond to my creations.
[BEAST] Your creations are prisoners!
Held hostage by ignorance and
coerced through fear into
Hank!
Think, had the good Professor
taken me in when Mother begged him,
I'd be hanging here with you freaks
in the name of peace, tolerance
and equal opportunity suicide.
Even then, "fate got my back."
Charles Xavier wanted to help you.
He came to your mother,
but she was too afraid!
You would have been one of the first
Get your filthy paws off her!
I didn't ask for this, either!
To be born with this programming,
- this destiny inside me, the urges.
- [STORM GROANS]
None choose to be born, Bastion.
Thus why we must never
begrudge them being.
Did you just try to
appeal to my humanity?
Look at me.
Yet another reason why
Operation Zero Tolerance
must skip to final phase.
Slavery and genocide ain't enough?
As I told Dr. Cooper right before
she betrayed me and her kind,
people are good.
Too damn good.
Thus, to protect humanity, I
must protect humanity from itself.
From the hearts that start dripping
red at the latest token underdog.
From seeing themselves
in those who would use their
same hearts against them.
Tolerance is extinction.
But even worse is empathy.
Speaking of pity, the little
temporal orphan who could
Error, couldn't.
Parents likely punted you to time
to skip the shame of
rearing a repeat mistake.
The clone was psychic.
How many times did you
fail to stop me? Hmm?
Fail to save your carbon-copy mothers?
Make him speak, Sinister.
How many times, my writhing thing?
Two hundred. Two hundred times.
But how's your mommy,
Sebastion? [GRUNTS]
Time always tells.
You know this better than most.
Accept what it's been saying.
Jean Grey, Madelyne Pryor,
never Phoenix, just dead.
Again. Like you.
[MISTER SINISTER] What is this?
You promised this pup
as my prize, Bastion!
An example must be made.
Cable will stop at nothing
to undo the one true future,
for he is as blind as his
deadbeat dad and as doomed as
- [RUMBLING]
- [BIRDS SQUAWKING]
Maybe you two should've listened
to what time's got to say about my mom.
[BIRD SCREECHES]
[LAUGHS]
I am Phoenix!
Hank was right.
The Prime Sentinels
were never your family.
They did not choose to
become slaves to hate.
[ALL GROANING]
Defend your master.
You think peacocking
makes you whole again?
Think it rebuilds your past?
If so, truly, you did not think at all.
Sinister, all I do is think.
All this mutant DNA you stole
to stay duct-taped together,
young and relevant.
- [GROANS]
- But the Phoenix burns away the obsolete,
the underbrush of our
fears and insecurities.
Please! No!
[GROANING]
Show me!
Show me my face!
Looks the same to me.
[GROANS]
- [GASPS]
- [BEAST] Jean!
Jean, your powers
The Phoenix Force is gone now,
but I could feel it deep
inside, pulling me back,
to protect my son.
- [BASTION GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
What have you done to me?
My Sentinels and I were
meant to save the future,
- but now, you have sealed humanity's fate.
- [GROANS]
Think, Nathan.
I could have used slaves,
camps, or death marches.
[SCREAMS IN PAIN]
But instead, I killed
Genosha in 4,621 seconds.
I will tear that rock from the
heavens and hurl it to Earth,
granting humans the same mercy
I granted your clone mother.
A quick extinction.
Power goes on and
these two go lights out.
Why ain't they wakin' up?
[PROFESSOR X] Magnus.
Magnus.
Are you all right?
Who's Magnus?
Who are you?
[PROFESSOR X] I'm a teacher.
Here to help guide you from this place
before these elements consume us.
What is this bar?
How did I get here?
I can show you, I promise.
But you must trust me, understand?
Only then can I finally help you escape.
Good news is their pulses are steady.
So is Wolverine. For now.
Don't you dare break her heart.
Be the best at what you do.
Heal.
We get our injured to Muir Island
and then back up Jean
and the others in
[JEAN] Scott!
Jean, you're okay!
Where's Nathan?
Scott, the scrambler
worked, but Bastion, he
He hurt him?
Jean, Scott, come in.
Professor, I can barely sense you.
My psychic attack
shattered Magnus' psyche.
I must restore it before
the pain consumes his mind.
Sir, if you're still linked
with him when that happens
Both our minds will be lost.
No way. Magneto put us in this mess.
We won't lose you again.
In order to save the
world, we must not lose him.
Professor. Professor!
Scott, Bastion's inbound to you.
He intends to bring
Asteroid M down on Earth.
Forge and Beast are working
on getting us up there, but
He's more than flesh or
metal, more than unstoppable.
Bastion is the future incarnate.
If he's gonna bring this sucker
down, he'll blow up the gravity core.
[JUBILEE] Jean and
Storm couldn't stop him.
Keep us safe, my Lord.
For in you we take refuge.
Hey, we both know how
this will go for me.
Like, just learned my
powers yesterday, so
Well, you know.
[ROGUE] Hey, Romeo.
Odds may be bad,
but the cards are always
in the X-Men's favor.
[ALARM BLARING]
[ROGUE] His name was Gambit.
Remember it. [GRUNTS]
[GASPS]
[STRAINING]
[ROGUE GRUNTING]
[COUGHING]
Roberto da Costa, the disowned heir.
The name's Sunspot.
It's definitely got more flair.
[REPORTER] The sky is on fire.
Leaders are working fast to
avert this mutant doomsday.
That asteroid is a gun
pointed right at our head.
This is the only language
mutants understand, sir.
Mr. President, the gravity core.
Robert, vote yes, and you best pray
our children read their textbooks
more than their Bibles.
For only history could be
conned into forgiving us.
Sir, King T'Chaka is right.
We know next to nothing
about Asteroid M.
This could do more harm than good.
These waters
They're so cold.
This is the dark pain you've
carried inside all these years.
I have these waters, too.
So many do.
And while the tide of our
past can drag us under,
it also carries us to others who
are fighting their own current.
- Rogue?
- Yes.
People like Rogue,
who help us stay afloat
when our limbs tire or the waters rage.
And for whom we do the same.
No, she left me.
So many did.
You did.
I trusted you. You said you understood.
You hurt me.
As you did me.
Countless times.
Both of us.
But we never abandoned each other.
The only ones who can break
our heart are those kept in it.
Charlatan! You pretended
you knew what it's like.
But none know what this is like.
No, we were
Are brothers.
Do not presume us family.
Family
My family, my parents
I can't see them.
Where are their faces?
Why can't I see their faces?
I know. It's cold.
But be brave. Let the
tide pull you back.
It's too cold. I'll drown.
I have you, Magnus.
I'll always have you, even
if I'm pulled under, too.
Together, we will resurface.
[SPEAKS GERMAN]
- [BOOTS THUMPING]
- They took them. Those monsters took
- [WATER GUSHING]
[BOTH GRUNT]
Ironic. Xavier's students never learn.
You'll never hurt my family again!
[SCREAMS]
[CHUCKLES]
[BASTION] What will you do, child?
Slay me with the Fourth of July?
Haven't heard that one before.
Game over, sleazoid!
[PANTING]
[LAUGHS] You call yourselves a team?
A family?
But a family that can't save itself
merely works together to die alone.
Behold, my family.
Well, the Greeks did
love horses. And irony.
Forge tends to Nathan. He lives.
[METAL CLATTERS]
[GRUNTS]
[STRAINS]
[BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[SPEAKS GERMAN]
is the future incarnate.
[GRUNTING]
Stand down, team.
We can't give up.
No, Rogue.
We're gonna do what we've been
telling humanity to do for years.
Stop fighting the future.
[STORM] And embrace it.
[CYCLOPS] Your mother lied.
The Professor came to you, Bastion.
If she did, it was to protect me!
[CYCLOPS] Parents are human, too.
They mess up.
I know how it feels to
have the things you trusted,
the future you were
building, crash down on you,
and refuse to let go even as you're
buried by what should've been.
- You're not alone.
- [BASTION LAUGHS]
This is what she was protecting me from?
I massacre you freaks
and you're recruiting me?
You're suicidal.
Fella, we could say the same about you
and this dyin' duck fit of yours.
Humanity is going extinct.
No. They're having babies, and
more and more of them like us.
Well, there's just one pickle, dear.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Missile
alert. Missile alert.
Missile alert.
Humanity would rather die
than have kids like us.
No. The Magneto Protocols.
[BASTION] No!
[GRUNTS]
Bastion, grab on!
[SCOFFS]
Jubilee!
[SCREAMS]
[SUNSPOT] Got Jubilee.
But you guys are about to be the
biggest hit since the ice age.
Get to Forge on the ground. Now.
Hank, are there other means
to restore Asteroid M's orbit?
Theoretically, yes, but perhaps if
Everyone on the jet.
I'll stay back and try blowing
this place up with my blasts.
Scott, you'll die.
[CYCLOPS] It's what you would do.
It's what you've done.
- Gambit, too.
- Remy died so we could live. All of us.
[BEAST] Eureka! That's it.
Indeed, the odds remain reckless,
but if we all work in perfect unison,
we may just spare our
world a dinosaur's fate.
[STORM OVER COMMS] Forge,
a plan to move the asteroid,
we're going to tap into
the Stratojet's steer
No, that could fry the jet!
How will you get back?
- [DEVICE CRACKLES]
- Storm?
Ororo!
[SIGHS]
[CYCLOPS] Nathan.
Aren't you sappy lovebirds
supposed to be saving the world?
We are. A few, actually.
Nathan, I always swore I'd
never repeat my father's mistake,
the mistake I made when Madelyne
sent you into the future.
What are you
What mistake?
Not saying goodbye.
[GRUNTS] That sorta ending, huh?
Afraid so.
Those rebel leaders I told
you about in the future,
rambling about the
adventures of the X-Men,
getting folks inspired
It pissed me the hell off.
I belonged in those
stories, too, growing up,
- fighting alongside
- [JEAN] You were.
You always were.
[CABLE] I'll tell ya.
Those legends really
didn't do my folks justice.
The day you were born, your
mother told me you had my eyes.
They're good eyes.
And now, they're yours.
I love you, son.
Okay, Jean. It's time. Let's go.
[SCREAMS]
[STRAINING]
[REPORTER] World leaders
have been hoping for the best,
but we regret to inform
you that the missile strike
to intercept the asteroid has failed.
The object is said to be
several cubic miles in size,
and scientists believe
that when it makes impact,
it will strike the East
Coast of North America.
[WOLVERINE] Jean.
She can't say it, but I can.
I love you, Logan. Stay with me.
The asteroid's reaching
terminal velocity.
They won't have enough power
to escape Earth's gravity.
Life support down, engine
integrity down to critical levels.
Rerouting power to auxiliary systems.
[NIGHTCRAWLER] "And
forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who
trespass against us."
Magnus.
Magnus, listen to me.
You were a boy when
you lost your family.
That is why you can't see their faces.
I grew up trying to
see their eyes or smile.
So many nights scrolling
a fantasy of strange faces
for a glimpse of my future,
of who I'd grow to be.
There's a power in seeing yourself
in another, in resemblance.
There is no one like me.
Magnus.
The X-Men and I may not resemble
each other, but we are still family.
We
had a dream.
Charles.
Yes. A dream that made us a family.
And like that dream, any
family worth having
Is worth fighting for.
Your name is Professor Charles Xavier.
And you are Erik Magnus Lehnsherr.
But the man you wished
to glimpse as a child,
who you were meant to be,
who your family needs today,
chose another name.
Do you remember him, Magnus?
Remember what he was meant to do?
Magneto lives!
[BOTH GROANING]
[WOMAN] We did it!
[ALL CHEERING]
[REPORTER] Six months after E-Day
and rumors still swirl
about the fate of the X-Men.
In other news, Graydon Creed
edged ahead in polls today
as President Kelly takes heat
about the situation in Santo Marco,
where extremists are preaching
the Second Coming of Magneto and
[BISHOP] Howdy.
Must be a damn fool, walkin'
in here like we're friends.
Oh, we're friends, Daniel.
Just not yet.
Name's Lucas Bishop.
Searching for mutants
to carry on the torch?
[SCOFFS] Movin' on mighty fast there.
I looked for months.
I couldn't find a trace of
them or the damn asteroid.
She [SIGHS]
- The X-Men are dead.
- [CHUCKLES]
Luckily, this ain't our first
time at "the X-Men are dead" rodeo.
But it's less a question
about where, and more
when.
What are you talkin' about?
Something, or someone, yanked
our friends through time,
- and now, we gotta go rescue the X-Men.
- Hmm.
[GROANS] Kurt?
Hank?
- [PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
- [METAL CLANKING]
Rogue! Where are we?
Damned if I know.
Dang asteroid exploded. Now, we're here.
Indeed. What is the saying?
"We are not in Kansas."
[CYCLOPS] Jean!
Jean!
Where are you?
THE FUTURE - 3960 A.D.
Jean!
[JEAN] Scott, over here.
Are you okay?
We're not alone.
[WOMAN] Bright morrow.
Enough!
Perhaps our recently rescued friend
holds the answers to our location.
We have no quarrel with you.
You're a long way from
Crestcoast, sapien caste.
My name is Jean Grey.
This is my husband, Scott Summers.
You may call me Mother Askani,
leader of Clan Askani.
[BOY] I sense no need to be afraid.
[MOTHER ASKANI] Nathan.
Come.
Nathan.
Do not fear us.
What is your name?
My name is En Sabah Nur.
Oh, dear.
[APOCALYPSE] So much pain, my children.
So much death.