X-Men (1992) s03e02 Episode Script

NARRATOR: Previously on X-MEN Look! Leech has it.
DEATHSTRIKE: No one steals from Lady Deathstrike and lives.
No! A spacecraft.
(SCREAMING) Perhaps what we need is a human with a set of adamantium claws.
Leech got message for Wolverine.
Message is from Yuriko.
(GRUNTING) Yuriko.
He's here.
Attack.
Watch out! Now, where is Yuriko? Here, Logan, or don't you recognize me? Yuriko? The Yuriko you knew no longer exists.
I am Lady Deathstrike now, a living weapon of revenge.
I loved you once.
(SCREAMING) (GROANING) (SCREAMING) XAVIER: Don't open the ship! Let her go! (GROANING) What's happening? I don't think I want to know.
(ROARING) -JUBILEE: Something's inside! -And it don't sound friendly.
I ain't waiting to find out.
Okay, boys, let's give E.
T.
a Reavers welcome! (ROARING) Sounds like E.
T.
wants to return the favor.
DEATHSTRIKE: No.
GAMBIT: What is it? Whatever it is, I think it's time somebody shut it up! (ROARING) Keep back! You heard the kid, ugly! Back off.
Up the power, Reavs! It's still coming.
(MOANING) We must destroy it.
Let me go! Whatever it is guarding must be astounding.
Your shopping will have to wait.
Let's book.
But the others.
Nothing you can do for them now, petite.
You run.
I be right behind.
(ROARING) You don't want my friends, bête.
Play with Gambit instead.
Gambit, don't! (JUBILEE GROANS) No! Jubilee! (SCREAMING) (GASPS) Dear heaven, what have we unleashed? You're dead! (CREATURE ROARING) Let's move.
WOLVERINE: Ugly still following us, Cajun? Not yet, mon ami.
I think you hurt it.
Jubilee, can you hear me? Come on, kid, talk to me.
Just hang in there, okay? For me.
Have a good look, Yuriko.
Here's your revenge.
Are you happy now? You are the one who destroyed my father.
This is on your head! Gambit don't care whose fault this is.
But if you wanna live to settle it, we best be moving! This is not over between us, Wolverine! (PIANO PLAYING SOFTLY) Frankly, I've never been able to tell Jackson Pollock's paintings from his drop cloths.
But Picasso holds a peculiar fascination for me.
There's something so primal, so organic in his work.
Don't you think? Personally, I find an eloquence in his brushstroke, equaled only by -XAVIER: Beast.
-Professor? You are needed immediately.
Do forgive me, madam, but it appears I've neglected a most important appointment.
(GASPS) (ROARS) (MOANING) I think we have lost the creature.
(SNIFFING) Don't bet on it.
And what of your men? Or do you care? They knew the risks.
And what about the Morlocks? What have they done to deserve this? They were thieves.
Now they are paying for it.
What is that thing? Petite's body look okay, but there nobody home.
Worry about your whelp later.
Right now, we must get out of here! Nobody's going nowhere, till we figure out what to do about that thing.
Release me, Wolverine, while you still can.
Forget it, sister.
If that monster reaches the surface, it'll have 8 million victims to snack on.
We got to see that don't happen! (GRUNTS) To save normal humans? Why? -They all hate you! -That ain't the point.
No? (LAUGHS MOCKINGLY) You give your life for those who mock you? Animal, mistake of nature, mutant.
It's my life.
What's happening to that thing? JUBILEE: Wolverine, Gambit, help me.
What is it? Hang on, petite.
Gambit on the way! Cajun, no Now what do we do? (VIOLIN PLAYING SOFTLY) You know, Jean, there've been times lately when I thought we'd never be together again like this.
I know what you mean, Scott.
If Sinister had succeeded But he didn't.
And now, at last there's just the two of us.
Cyclops, Jean, you are needed immediately.
You were saying? Sorry to do this to you, Sidney, but I think you better pack our dinner to go.
Again.
Leave the child, Wolverine.
There is nothing more you can do for her.
Never! X-Men don't abandon their own! Are you implying that (GASPS) Lady Deathstrike, don't leave us.
Yuriko! Please, help us! They are all inside! (SCREAMING) Animal! Not so fast, chère.
Don't do something you might regret.
(DEATHSTRIKE EXCLAIMS) What good will that do? It burns through walls! Oui, chère.
But this give us time to figure out a plan.
I got a plan, Cajun.
Take the kid and get out of here.
-Say what? -You heard me! Yuriko and I will keep that thing busy, while you get Jubilee to safety.
And why you get to play the hero, huh? 'Cause we've already seen that adamantium can hurt it.
You want to play cavalry, Gambit? Come back when the kid is safe! I don't like this, mon ami.
I ain't exactly crazy about it myself.
Now, get going.
I'll be back, Wolverine.
If we're still alive, we'll welcome the company.
-It is coming, Logan! -I'm ready.
(RUMBLING) Is it still there? There's only one way to find out.
(GRUNTING) Cute.
Real cute.
He could be miles from here.
Or maybe not.
(SNARLS) -We're trapped! -I'm never trapped! (GRUNTING) Get back! Logan, we can hurt it! We can (DEATHSTRIKE SCREAMING) No! Yuriko, can you hear me? Help me, Logan! No! Help me, Logan! Come on, you piece of alien gutter trash.
Just try to suck me in! I hope you gag.
Hey, look who I found coming to join the party.
Gambit filled us in on the details.
Why'd you bring her back here? She's as safe with us here as anywhere.
And now she's got company.
-And this is? -An old friend.
She wants me dead.
Why am I not surprised? Is that it? (ROARING) I hope it's not his little brother.
Maybe I can read its mind.
-Get some idea -Jean, no! (SCREAMS) Jean, you all right? (SIGHS WEAKLY) What are we up against? (WEAKLY) I'm fine, Scott.
That creature's mind, it's so repellent, it was almost more than I could bear.
-You miserable piece of slime! -Cyclops! No! Are you crazy? Why didn't you let me destroy it? Because part of a lot of people are in there, including Jubilee.
We gotta be careful how we attack it.
And where is this grotesquery's supposed space vehicle? Down that way.
Do you believe it to be an actual spacecraft? Well, it's got weird writing on it, and had a life-sucking cloud with an attitude inside.
-Check it out.
-I think perhaps I will.
Beast, wait for me.
If this is what I've been sensing, I am certain it is both alien and dangerous.
And what do the rest of us do? We go hunting, chère.
That monster make it topside, and this city gonna be his buffet.
That's not gonna happen.
Evidently, Wolverine was quite in earnest, Professor.
Yes.
I've been sensing something so alien that I was beginning to doubt my own mind.
-It appears safe to enter.
-Then let's have a look.
Fascinating! XAVIER: There must be something we can use against the creature, some bit of information.
This shattered sphere appears to be some sort of containment vessel.
Oh! And what's this? More of Wolverine's weird writing.
Ah, my kingdom for a Rosetta Stone.
So strange, and yet so familiar.
It's like (SCREAMING) Professor, are you all right? -Speak to me! -I I feel fine, Beast.
As if my eyes had been truly opened for the very first time.
That writing! I knew it! It was a warning about the creature.
Hurry and help the others, Hank.
I must learn more.
What happened? Professor? GAMBIT: You sure that monster come this way, Wolverine? Believe me, Cajun.
(SNIFFING) I can smell it.
What, Professor? Yes, I understand, I'll warn the others immediately.
Guys, I've got news.
That spacecraft was an alien prison ship designed to hold this energy-absorbing creature, called a Spirit Drinker, captive in deep space forever.
GAMBIT: So then what it doing here? JEAN: Who knows? Maybe it was knocked off course.
How did the Professor learn all this? That's the odd thing.
He doesn't know.
(DISTANT ROARING) It's moving toward the surface.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING) (ROARING) CYCLOPS: Look, there it is! GAMBIT: But how we stop it? Blasters don't affect it, rocks don't crush it, and Jubilee's inside.
Well, whatever we do, we'd better do it quickly.
I sense that the captive spirits inside the creature have begun to grow weaker.
If we don't find a way to free them soon, I'm afraid it may be too late.
GAMBIT: How we gonna beat this thing when we can't even get close to it? That's the answer! Wolverine, don't! Look, Cyke.
My claws hurt this thing.
So did Yuriko's.
Keep those things off of me and I think I got a chance.
What about Jubilee? We've got to chance it.
If we don't get her back now, there may not be anything left to save.
Okay, bub.
Suppertime's over.
Okay, everybody.
Get ready.
You want to absorb something? (WOLVERINE YELLING) Suck on this! (WOLVERINE BELLOWING) Wolverine! No! You will never succeed, Logan.
We are all doomed.
(ROARING) (GRUNTING) You don't know me very well, do you? Wolverine, look out! (SCREAMING) Logan! CYCLOPS: Careful, people, stay out of reach of its tendrils.
Beast, get Wolverine! -Consider it done.
-We'll hold it off! -Over there.
-Do not try to move, my friend.
No, look, a chunk of it hit the third rail.
I understand.
That's the answer.
(POWER SURGING) -I don't believe it.
-What about Jubilee? -JUBILEE: What do you think? -Hey, kid.
Congratulations, Wolverine.
I was so worried about you! We seem to be short one Spirit Drinker.
Yeah.
Bad case of overeating.
So, where does that leave us, Yuriko? Still planning my funeral? Today I owe you my life, Logan.
But that changes nothing between us.
When I am strong enough, you will see me again.
Yuriko.
All the Morlocks are back to normal, Professor.
The Reavers escaped, but I bet it'll be a while before they can repair their cybernetics.
I am deeply thankful you're all safe, my X-Men.
Then it's all over, right? I only wish that were true, child.
But when I touched that alien craft, I felt things, sensed things I have never known before, saw terrible visions of beings with ruthless, unimaginable power.
But I fear this was only the beginning.