X-Men: Evolution (2000) s02e09 Episode Script

Happy holidays.
I'm not here.
Leave a message.
Warren, if you're there, please pick up.
Dad and I just wanted to say "Hi" from London and let you know that we're thinking about you.
Please call, dear.
We're worried about you.
Once again, we understand that a disabled woman is still inside this burning building.
Firefighters have made numerous heroic but unsuccessful attempts to reach her.
Please! Let me go! She can't walk! She can't get out! Let me save her! Please! Mother! Jamie! Here, honey! I'm over here! Mom? Mom! - How did you get here? - An angel, honey.
A real angel, with wings.
Oh, it's beautiful! Thank you, Jean.
You're welcome.
How cute.
Thank you so much.
I love it! You're so sweet.
Thanks.
Kurt! In your dreams! All in the holiday spirit.
Kurt, knock it off! Come on, Kitty.
Just one little kiss? - To be young again.
- Yeah.
Glad that's over.
You know, Logan, you're welcome to spend the holidays here with us.
Thanks, but I got some important things to catch up on.
It's sure gonna be lonely around here when all these guys leave tomorrow.
Yeah, really.
But it could be fun, you know? Just us, the prof, Mr.
McCoy.
Hey, I got something for you.
I know it's early, but everyone else is exchanging gifts today.
Oh, Rogue, thanks.
Gee, I haven't gotten you anything yet, but Don't worry about it.
There's still time.
Go on, open it.
- All right! - Thanks.
- Bye, Jean.
Have fun.
- Bye! All right! Who's up for helping the professor and me install Cerebro's new security upgrades? I guess this is his idea of how to have a fun holiday.
What did I tell you? Let go! Let go! Let go! Hey! Stop! Get back here, creep! What is this? Put me down! No, no! Don't drop me, please! This ain't possible! Oh, please! No! No! No! Don't leave me here! Please! I'll go straight! I'll go to church! Anything! Name it! Oh, please! He carried him off that way.
I couldn't believe it.
I mean, wings and everything.
Wings, I'm telling you.
It was an angel.
A real angel! Look, it's him.
I told you.
Just like I said, an angel.
Glory be, would you look at that.
In a story with a great holiday twist a mugging was apparently thwarted in Central Park today by an angel.
Eyewitnesses claim a winged man flew down from the sky capturing the alleged thief.
His wings were beautiful and he was so handsome.
And so, Dr.
Johnson, you're saying these angel reports are just another kind of UFO sighting? Yes.
Stories like this quickly take on a life of their own growing more exaggerated with each telling.
Soon you find otherwise rational people seeing and believing very irrational things.
Repent! Repent! "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
" - Shakespeare? - The Bible.
Indeed.
Although I don't believe this angel is of the heavenly variety.
What, you think he's some kind of demon? Yeah, right.
"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
" Now, that's Shakespeare.
No, Scott.
I'm saying that if Cerebro weren't still being repaired we would certainly have gotten a reading on this "angel" by now.
I fear his activities will alert the public to the existence of mutants.
Someone should go to the city.
Perhaps we could recruit him.
Yeah, we could go! I mean, you know, Scott and I.
- I'm going nuts just sitting around here.
- All right.
Hank, could you compile a list of angel sightings with witnesses, addresses, that sort of thing? That should give these two a place to start.
Yes! This hits the spot.
- My hands are freezing.
- This angel guy sounds pretty cool.
Yeah, but I think the chances of finding him are pretty slim.
I know, but at least we got out of the institute.
Hey, let's do something fun while we're here.
- What do you say? - Okay, sure.
What did you have in mind? Well, I saw this cool music store on Fifth Avenue and you do still owe me a gift.
Okay, that'll do for starters.
Although shopping isn't exactly my idea of fun.
- Rogue.
- Yes? These people we talked to today, they really believe this angel is for real.
Do you think? I mean, is it possible that? Come on! You don't think You do.
- Scott, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean - Yeah, you're right.
When I was a kid, after the plane crash, I thought I'd lost everything: My parents, my brother.
I just couldn't deal with it, you know? So I believed for a long time that Alex must be out there somewhere with a guardian angel looking out for him.
And after a while, I finally grew up.
But when we found Alex again after all these years I kind of wonder if maybe somebody was looking out for us after all.
Mom! Help! I've got you, honey.
Give me your hand.
Mr.
Angel? - Haley! - No! It's his fault.
He knocked the girl into the river.
- I saw him.
- Yeah, I did too.
This guy's no angel.
He's just some kind of freak! Yeah, those wings aren't real, are they? No, stop! Get back! Did you see the news tonight? They actually had pictures of the angel at that accident on the Brooklyn Bridge.
I know.
Can you believe it? He's for real! Or else it's some incredible hoax.
We'll take good care of her.
Please, come with me now.
- I'm sorry, you've just missed her parents.
- Do you know where we can reach them? - It's very important.
- I believe they said something about praying at their church.
Scott, it's him! Wait! We just want to talk to you! - Who are you? - Someone like you.
- What do you mean? - Someone who used to be confused about what he'd become.
Someone living in fear and self-pity wondering whether he's been cursed or blessed.
Listen, I don't know what you're selling, but I'm not buying.
Do you realize what a wonderful gift you have? You can fly.
You can do what everyone else dreams about.
And yet you live alone, hiding in shame.
- It needn't be so.
- I'm learning to deal with it.
You think that by helping a few pathetic people they will learn to accept you? You saw how quickly they turned on you today.
Do you want to live in fear for the rest of your life? - No, but - There are others like us, Warren.
I want you to meet them.
What, some sort of club for weirdoes and freaks? I don't think so.
What is this? This could have been easy.
Regrettably, you've chosen to make it hard.
Scott, he's falling! Are you all right? Hold still, I'll help you with that.
Now we know Magneto's still in business.
Who are you people? You fools! Have you learned nothing? A simple "thank you" would have been nice.
Angel, let him go! I think you really are an angel.
I hope she'll be all right.
- I didn't mean to - You don't need to explain, Warren.
Listen, from what we've heard, a lot of people owe you their lives.
Yeah, including me.
So this Xavier Institute of yours what makes it any different from Magneto's pitch? I mean, suddenly it seems like everybody wants me to join their organization.
No, it's not like that at all.
Believe me, we're nothing like Magneto.
Yeah, he's on a total power trip.
We're just trying to fit in and make good use of our abilities.
But we've learned to be careful because most people just aren't ready to deal with us yet.
Yeah, tell me about it.
And with Magneto still out there, you really should lay low for a while anyway.
Just come with us and meet Professor Xavier.
Check out what we do and see what you think.
Haley's awake.
She's gonna be all right.
You can see her now.
- Do you think he'll come with us? - No.
I saw him again.
In my dreams.
- Saw who, sweetheart? - My angel.
He came to see me.