X-Men (1992) s04e08 Episode Script
Beyond Good and Evil (1)
NARRATOR: Previously on X-MEN APOCALYPSE: I am the instrument to purify the world! The evil of human and mutant must be cut away! Those who oppose me shall perish through my agents of destruction.
Famine.
Pestilence.
War.
And my greatest creation, Death.
This is what I've feared the most, a powerful mutant driven completely mad by his powers.
I am Apocalypse! All who oppose me shall be crushed! Tyler, you must understand why tonight is so important.
For over 5,000 years, the world has had to put up with Apocalypse's brutalities.
You know what he's meant to us.
We're gonna stop him tonight, Father, I can feel it! He's in the pyramid, forcing life through those decaying veins of his.
Five hundred centuries of research points to it.
We get this chance once in a lifetime.
We leave victorious.
Or we don't leave at all.
CABLE: Watch your backsides! Apocalypse is vulnerable now, but he's not stupid.
The door to his Lazarus Chamber ought to be here.
Computer, how do we get inside? CO MPUTER: Analyzing.
One moment.
Locate the snake glyph.
Press it.
Ah! I hate snakes.
Cover me.
Not a great start.
Feeble mutant! You dare challenge Apocalypse again? Blasphemer! You defile my sacred chamber? Your attack was foreseen.
I allowed you to get this far so I might gain the one great power I lack, a passport to the dimension of time.
You presume to attempt to destroy me? Mutant, you shall pay for your hubris.
Right now! - We have to get inside.
- Go on.
Take your best shot.
You'll never win.
Never win, insect? (LAUGHING) Others will come after you.
The world won't stomach your evil forever.
Evil? I am not malevolent.
I simply am.
Which soon will be more than I can say for you.
But then again, I am given pause to wonder, is it possible you are correct, mutant? I have been battling your kind for thousands of years.
I ought to have triumphed long ago.
But what if, like tortured Sisyphus, I cannot win? Ever? What a cruel joke.
Am I doomed to struggle with such filth until the end of time? Perhaps my newfound power can show me the answer.
I've got your answer, right here! Apocalypse! TYLER: Father? - Did you find him? - Yeah.
But he took off with my computer.
Now I can't time travel and he can.
What bothers me is that he didn't finish me off.
Like he didn't need to, like nothing I could do to him mattered.
Sorry, pal.
You'll be fine in a day or two.
BANTAM: I hate this! It's incredible how one kid could mean so much to so many people.
What now? With him alive, - we ain't even supposed to exist.
- I don't know! Why are we still here? As long as your armbands are on you and functioning, you'll both exist outside of time.
- How long? - Sorry.
The charge only lasts a couple of days.
It was good, darling.
SHARD: Here he comes.
- Forge, what is it? - I do not understand! The portal is functioning properly.
There is a massive impediment in the time stream.
Do something! Bishop! (SCREAMING) (LAUGHING) (SCREAMING) (PANTING) What is this place? (CACKLING) A visitor! Just in time to catch me if you can! Hey! Wait! So close yet so far.
So far, so good.
So long! - What the - I'm not half the man I used to be.
You can't catch me, you can't catch me.
I'm neither here nor there.
I'm over here, no, I'm not there, I'm over here, I'm gone.
Stop it! Give me some straight answers! Okay, okay, I'll spill! Call me Bender, so few do.
But that's because you're the only other one here.
That's crazy! And where's here? The Axis of Time.
No time like the present.
Can't run away from your past.
But your future's so bright, I can hardly see you! Been here over 10,000 years, give or take! (LAUGHING) Your molecules, they get a little unstable after a while.
But how did I get here? Through the Axis, how else? All time travelers pass through there.
Anyone knows that.
Some big guy threw you off course.
If the Axis is the way out of this dump, that's where I'm going.
BENDER: We're going on a trip! How exciting! (LAUGHING) Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
This clown's wearing thin.
BENDER: Pictures! Someone's playing with time! The X-Men! (EX CLAIMS) You can't kill time, silly.
Don't you like those people? Anybody who can get me out of here will be my friend for life.
Don't everybody volunteer at once.
BEAST: "And the brass will crash and the trumpets bray "And they'll cut a dash on their wedding day" Professor, you have outdone yourself.
Well, Jean and Scott deserve nothing but the very best.
Ah! Here we go.
(WHISPERING) Weddings are so totally cool! (WHISPERING) That all depend on your point of view, chere.
A joyous day, long in coming.
"The joys of marriage are the heaven on Earth, "life's paradise, the soul's quiet sinews of concord, "earthly immortality," John Ford, 1630.
For my first two X-Men, I pray it is so.
(GUESTS APPLAUDING AND LAUGHING) MAN: That's it.
If you don't make her happy, don't let me find out.
You came to me as children, now look at the extraordinary people you have become.
Thanks, but we still have a lot to learn.
I am not so sure.
Perhaps.
(WOMEN CLAMORING) Whole lot of good it's gonna do me.
Gambit fix their car good.
(ALL CHEERING) After what happened the last time they tried to get married, I am pleased that this has gone so smoothly.
(JEAN SCREAMING) Jean! As practical jokes go, that seems a bit excessive.
But Gambit just soap the window! I shut the defensive perimeter down for the wedding.
GAMBIT: It's Ruckus.
STORM: Can't fly! This party ain't over yet! The Nasty Boys got Jean and Cyclops! That means, Sinister! That's no way to start a honeymoon, huh, chere? Nice work, Slab.
The boss is gonna be psyched! Toss the woman in the portal and let's blow this dive.
(GROANING) Jean Grey! Scott Summers! The mighty X-Men, ours to play with.
(LAUGHING) Leave him.
This wedding day belongs to the bride.
Ruckus, Vertigo, Hairbag, move it! We're traveling.
Storm, I can't sense Jean anymore.
That cannot be! We shall search for her, Professor.
Jubilee, get rid of the guests.
Sure, I'll think of something.
He don't look so good.
Where is she? Cyclops will be all right.
How'd the Nasty Boys show up out of nowhere, and then disappear? And it is curious that they would take only Jean.
(WOLVERINE SNIFFING) They were here all right.
But I can't tell which direction they went.
They better hope I never find them.
BEAST: There is nothing more we can do here.
Perhaps this was simply a ruse to draw us away from the mansion.
Rogue, you and I shall take Cyclops back and check headquarters.
The rest of you, see if you can find some trace of the Nasty Boys.
If I can't smell them, we ain't finding them.
(BEEPING) The guests are all gone.
I still cannot find Jean.
There have been a few spikes of unusual energy.
MR.
SINISTER: Like me? XAVIER: Sinister! MR.
SINISTER: I missed the wedding.
I'm hurt.
(SCREAMING) Get away from him! Foolish girl, do you think your puny powers can affect me? (SCREAMS) Xavier, don't let him take you.
(LAUGHING) You don't like the movie, change the channel.
Why am I seeing these things? Is this happening now? Beats me! (CACKLING) Someone to play with! Look, I've got no time for games.
Give me some straight answers, and I'll take you out of here with me.
Out? (LAUGHS) There is no way out! We'll see about that.
I can find nothing wrong with the time portal.
FORGE: Your brother should have arrived safely.
Then send me back to find him.
If something happened to Bishop while he was traveling through time, then he could be anywhere, or in any time.
The only trace indicators point to the north-eastern United States in the late 1990s.
The X-Men.
That's a start.
- Send me there.
- Are you sure you want to try this? If we lost Bishop, we may very well lose you.
Where's my portal? - You're Mr.
Sinister! - Who dares defy me? A friend of Charles Xavier's.
- Drop him! Easy.
- No chance.
(JUBILEE GROANING) Easy, kid.
Who Who are you? Shard.
Bishop's sister.
I'll explain more later.
Right now, we must help the Professor.
GAMBIT: This more my kind of time traveler.
JUBILEE: All right, the cavalry's here.
I smell something Sinister! Come on, he's got the Professor inside! George, it is time.
Say farewell to your world, old man.
C YCLOPS: Don't count on it, Sinister! George, I need you and the others! Now! - Setback, sir? - Stop them! And get me out of here.
How'd you get in here? Where's Jean? - ROGUE: Get her out of here.
- Cover your ears.
Vertigo's powers attack the equilibrium.
GAMBIT: So we turn her music off.
(BELLOWING) This boy better lay off the ice-cream sandwiches.
JUBILEE: Hey, this isn't a date.
Somebody, open a portal.
Xavier was your job, Sinister, not ours.
I'll see what I can do about transportation.
MR.
SINISTER: Traitors! BEAST: Despite his newfound time travel abilities, I believe Mr.
Sinister is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Do we find out where Jean is now, or after? What have you done with my wife? Mrs.
Summers is just another broken blossom, floating through the winds of time.
What do you mean, floating through time? (LAUGHING CRUELLY) Follow to find her, if you dare.
ROGUE: No, you don't! C YCLOPS: I'll follow you to the ends of the earth! They've taken Jean to the one place you can't get to.
Another time.
But you can! Show me how! JEAN: Where am I? Can anyone hear me? Am I still alive? (SCREAMS) I guess so.
Looks like I can expect company.
Sinister, what is this place? Why have you kidnapped me? APOCALYPSE: Because I told him to! (FOOTSTEPS THUMPING)
Famine.
Pestilence.
War.
And my greatest creation, Death.
This is what I've feared the most, a powerful mutant driven completely mad by his powers.
I am Apocalypse! All who oppose me shall be crushed! Tyler, you must understand why tonight is so important.
For over 5,000 years, the world has had to put up with Apocalypse's brutalities.
You know what he's meant to us.
We're gonna stop him tonight, Father, I can feel it! He's in the pyramid, forcing life through those decaying veins of his.
Five hundred centuries of research points to it.
We get this chance once in a lifetime.
We leave victorious.
Or we don't leave at all.
CABLE: Watch your backsides! Apocalypse is vulnerable now, but he's not stupid.
The door to his Lazarus Chamber ought to be here.
Computer, how do we get inside? CO MPUTER: Analyzing.
One moment.
Locate the snake glyph.
Press it.
Ah! I hate snakes.
Cover me.
Not a great start.
Feeble mutant! You dare challenge Apocalypse again? Blasphemer! You defile my sacred chamber? Your attack was foreseen.
I allowed you to get this far so I might gain the one great power I lack, a passport to the dimension of time.
You presume to attempt to destroy me? Mutant, you shall pay for your hubris.
Right now! - We have to get inside.
- Go on.
Take your best shot.
You'll never win.
Never win, insect? (LAUGHING) Others will come after you.
The world won't stomach your evil forever.
Evil? I am not malevolent.
I simply am.
Which soon will be more than I can say for you.
But then again, I am given pause to wonder, is it possible you are correct, mutant? I have been battling your kind for thousands of years.
I ought to have triumphed long ago.
But what if, like tortured Sisyphus, I cannot win? Ever? What a cruel joke.
Am I doomed to struggle with such filth until the end of time? Perhaps my newfound power can show me the answer.
I've got your answer, right here! Apocalypse! TYLER: Father? - Did you find him? - Yeah.
But he took off with my computer.
Now I can't time travel and he can.
What bothers me is that he didn't finish me off.
Like he didn't need to, like nothing I could do to him mattered.
Sorry, pal.
You'll be fine in a day or two.
BANTAM: I hate this! It's incredible how one kid could mean so much to so many people.
What now? With him alive, - we ain't even supposed to exist.
- I don't know! Why are we still here? As long as your armbands are on you and functioning, you'll both exist outside of time.
- How long? - Sorry.
The charge only lasts a couple of days.
It was good, darling.
SHARD: Here he comes.
- Forge, what is it? - I do not understand! The portal is functioning properly.
There is a massive impediment in the time stream.
Do something! Bishop! (SCREAMING) (LAUGHING) (SCREAMING) (PANTING) What is this place? (CACKLING) A visitor! Just in time to catch me if you can! Hey! Wait! So close yet so far.
So far, so good.
So long! - What the - I'm not half the man I used to be.
You can't catch me, you can't catch me.
I'm neither here nor there.
I'm over here, no, I'm not there, I'm over here, I'm gone.
Stop it! Give me some straight answers! Okay, okay, I'll spill! Call me Bender, so few do.
But that's because you're the only other one here.
That's crazy! And where's here? The Axis of Time.
No time like the present.
Can't run away from your past.
But your future's so bright, I can hardly see you! Been here over 10,000 years, give or take! (LAUGHING) Your molecules, they get a little unstable after a while.
But how did I get here? Through the Axis, how else? All time travelers pass through there.
Anyone knows that.
Some big guy threw you off course.
If the Axis is the way out of this dump, that's where I'm going.
BENDER: We're going on a trip! How exciting! (LAUGHING) Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
This clown's wearing thin.
BENDER: Pictures! Someone's playing with time! The X-Men! (EX CLAIMS) You can't kill time, silly.
Don't you like those people? Anybody who can get me out of here will be my friend for life.
Don't everybody volunteer at once.
BEAST: "And the brass will crash and the trumpets bray "And they'll cut a dash on their wedding day" Professor, you have outdone yourself.
Well, Jean and Scott deserve nothing but the very best.
Ah! Here we go.
(WHISPERING) Weddings are so totally cool! (WHISPERING) That all depend on your point of view, chere.
A joyous day, long in coming.
"The joys of marriage are the heaven on Earth, "life's paradise, the soul's quiet sinews of concord, "earthly immortality," John Ford, 1630.
For my first two X-Men, I pray it is so.
(GUESTS APPLAUDING AND LAUGHING) MAN: That's it.
If you don't make her happy, don't let me find out.
You came to me as children, now look at the extraordinary people you have become.
Thanks, but we still have a lot to learn.
I am not so sure.
Perhaps.
(WOMEN CLAMORING) Whole lot of good it's gonna do me.
Gambit fix their car good.
(ALL CHEERING) After what happened the last time they tried to get married, I am pleased that this has gone so smoothly.
(JEAN SCREAMING) Jean! As practical jokes go, that seems a bit excessive.
But Gambit just soap the window! I shut the defensive perimeter down for the wedding.
GAMBIT: It's Ruckus.
STORM: Can't fly! This party ain't over yet! The Nasty Boys got Jean and Cyclops! That means, Sinister! That's no way to start a honeymoon, huh, chere? Nice work, Slab.
The boss is gonna be psyched! Toss the woman in the portal and let's blow this dive.
(GROANING) Jean Grey! Scott Summers! The mighty X-Men, ours to play with.
(LAUGHING) Leave him.
This wedding day belongs to the bride.
Ruckus, Vertigo, Hairbag, move it! We're traveling.
Storm, I can't sense Jean anymore.
That cannot be! We shall search for her, Professor.
Jubilee, get rid of the guests.
Sure, I'll think of something.
He don't look so good.
Where is she? Cyclops will be all right.
How'd the Nasty Boys show up out of nowhere, and then disappear? And it is curious that they would take only Jean.
(WOLVERINE SNIFFING) They were here all right.
But I can't tell which direction they went.
They better hope I never find them.
BEAST: There is nothing more we can do here.
Perhaps this was simply a ruse to draw us away from the mansion.
Rogue, you and I shall take Cyclops back and check headquarters.
The rest of you, see if you can find some trace of the Nasty Boys.
If I can't smell them, we ain't finding them.
(BEEPING) The guests are all gone.
I still cannot find Jean.
There have been a few spikes of unusual energy.
MR.
SINISTER: Like me? XAVIER: Sinister! MR.
SINISTER: I missed the wedding.
I'm hurt.
(SCREAMING) Get away from him! Foolish girl, do you think your puny powers can affect me? (SCREAMS) Xavier, don't let him take you.
(LAUGHING) You don't like the movie, change the channel.
Why am I seeing these things? Is this happening now? Beats me! (CACKLING) Someone to play with! Look, I've got no time for games.
Give me some straight answers, and I'll take you out of here with me.
Out? (LAUGHS) There is no way out! We'll see about that.
I can find nothing wrong with the time portal.
FORGE: Your brother should have arrived safely.
Then send me back to find him.
If something happened to Bishop while he was traveling through time, then he could be anywhere, or in any time.
The only trace indicators point to the north-eastern United States in the late 1990s.
The X-Men.
That's a start.
- Send me there.
- Are you sure you want to try this? If we lost Bishop, we may very well lose you.
Where's my portal? - You're Mr.
Sinister! - Who dares defy me? A friend of Charles Xavier's.
- Drop him! Easy.
- No chance.
(JUBILEE GROANING) Easy, kid.
Who Who are you? Shard.
Bishop's sister.
I'll explain more later.
Right now, we must help the Professor.
GAMBIT: This more my kind of time traveler.
JUBILEE: All right, the cavalry's here.
I smell something Sinister! Come on, he's got the Professor inside! George, it is time.
Say farewell to your world, old man.
C YCLOPS: Don't count on it, Sinister! George, I need you and the others! Now! - Setback, sir? - Stop them! And get me out of here.
How'd you get in here? Where's Jean? - ROGUE: Get her out of here.
- Cover your ears.
Vertigo's powers attack the equilibrium.
GAMBIT: So we turn her music off.
(BELLOWING) This boy better lay off the ice-cream sandwiches.
JUBILEE: Hey, this isn't a date.
Somebody, open a portal.
Xavier was your job, Sinister, not ours.
I'll see what I can do about transportation.
MR.
SINISTER: Traitors! BEAST: Despite his newfound time travel abilities, I believe Mr.
Sinister is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Do we find out where Jean is now, or after? What have you done with my wife? Mrs.
Summers is just another broken blossom, floating through the winds of time.
What do you mean, floating through time? (LAUGHING CRUELLY) Follow to find her, if you dare.
ROGUE: No, you don't! C YCLOPS: I'll follow you to the ends of the earth! They've taken Jean to the one place you can't get to.
Another time.
But you can! Show me how! JEAN: Where am I? Can anyone hear me? Am I still alive? (SCREAMS) I guess so.
Looks like I can expect company.
Sinister, what is this place? Why have you kidnapped me? APOCALYPSE: Because I told him to! (FOOTSTEPS THUMPING)