NARRATOR: Previously onX-Men...
KELLY: My first act as President
has been to issue a full pardon to Dr. Henry McCoy. A mutant.
"That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet."
(SNIFFING)
MAN: Come on, blow up that mutant center.
ALL: No more mutants! No more mutants!
Get out of here!
I'm just an ordinary mutant.
I don't have any special powers.
ALL: No more mutants!
-Hey! -Perhaps you are unaware
that this is a dangerous weapon.
CREED: What we have accomplished tonight is a warning to all mutants
of what the future holds for them.
No more mutants.
JUBILEE: Why do you hate us? What did we ever do to you?
You were born.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
DR. ALEC: You did it again, old buddy.
BEAST: We did it, Alec.
The progress of medical science,
much like the construction of a great cathedral,
is the work of many hands.
And I withhold my exaltation until the treatment is proved effective.
Shall we look in on our patient?
Yes! Of course!
(POP MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES)
Hello?
It's just me, Carly. Dr. Bohlson.
Dr. Bohlson! Is Dr. McCoy with you?
(CLEARS THROAT)
Good day, Carly.
Hi, Hank.
Everything is set for the operation, Carly.
Your tests look excellent.
What will it be like to actually see?
Do you really think I will?
Dr. Bohlson and I have been working on this treatment for a long time.
We are very hopeful.
You'll be there, won't you, Hank?
Yes, of course...
-(EXPLOSION) -What the...
Alec! Shut the door!
(FIRE ALARM RINGING)
(DR. ALEC COUGHING)
What is it? Tell me what's going on?
It's all right. I'm here. Hang on.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
What's happening? Hank, why are they screaming?
It's all right.
There he is! Henry McCoy, President Kelly's favorite mutant!
Holding a human girl! Get his filth away from her!
They're evil. All of them.
MAN: Yeah, let's go get them!
ALL: (CHANTING) No more mutants! No more mutants!
Alec, get her out of here! Quickly!
Hank! Where are you going? I don't want you hurt!
Mutant!
Yes, I am.
Perhaps you self-appointed social engineers don't realize
the crucial role mutation plays in species evolution.
Get him!
I'm sorry, gentlemen. Your anger at the inexorable alienation
of late-20th-century life is sadly misdirected.
The cops!
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
Attacking a hospital for the blind!
Just let me alone with those clowns for five minutes.
Just five minutes!
(WOLVERINE ROARS)
Wolverine! Stop! You know that we can't...
"X-Men never seek revenge." I know! So?
Do we just let them get away with it?
No. But we have to approach this delicately.
Delicately?
The Friends of Humanity thrive on public hatred of mutants.
We can't help their cause by appearing to be on a rampage.
All right, Jean, for now. But I'm going after them!
And if we don't find a kinder, gentler way to shut them down,
there's going to be a few less Friends of Humanity around
stinking up the planet.
Where are you, Professor?
XAVIER: I have often thought about
what it would be like to regain the use of my legs.
But never once did I imagine myself wading through a swamp.
AMPHIBIUS: How the mighty have fallen!
MAGNETO: Amphibius!
Magneto speaks, and the Savage Land trembles!
Release us. We have done you no harm.
(HISSING)
Were it up to me, I'd feed you to my friends.
But I serve the new ruler of the Savage Land.
(BOTH GROANING)
Never again will we be our creator's slaves.
Our new leader has given us great power.
(MONSTERS ROAR)
This way, Charles!
(BOTH COUGHING)
Delicate, right!
Anybody home?
(GRUNTING)
Delicate.
(GROANS)
Over there!
It was a filthy mutant.
Get him inside!
BEAST: "We spend our mid-day sweat, our midnight oil.
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil."
Hank, I...
How's Carly?
Fine. She's fine, Hank.
I hate to say this, but, well...
What is it?
After what happened yesterday, the hospital board told me that you...
They're worried about the patients and...
(SIGHING) And having a mutant around will make matters worse.
Alec, isn't our work more important than catering to those bigots?
There's another problem.
My daughter means everything to me! I agreed to this experiment,
but I will not allow some filthy mutant to touch my daughter!
Carly's father?
Yes.
I want to do what's best for Carly. I'll leave.
I'm sorry, Hank.
I know, Alec.
I just want to say goodbye.
Hank? Is that you?
How did you know?
Your aftershave lotion.
Do you like it?
Very much. A girl could get used to it.
I'm so glad you're all right. I was worried.
That anti-mutant group...
But how did you know?
That you're a mutant? Hank, just because I'm blind
doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the world.
And you don't care?
Of course not.
Not now, not ever.
Carly, listen. I'm sorry, but I can't be here tomorrow for your operation.
What? Why?
I'm needed on another case.
It's OK.
Dr. Bohlson is an outstanding surgeon.
You will have the best of care.
I know.
I promise I will visit you as soon as possible.
I'll be thinking of you every moment tomorrow.
But it was you I wanted to see.
I thought you might be hungry, Hank.
No. Thank you.
(ROARS)
It's Carly, isn't it?
Why did this have to happen to me?
Why can't I be normal?
It's not fair!
We must think of how our gifts can benefit the world.
Gifts? I can't be close to any human!
I can't take a chance of endangering them!
My parents! My brothers and sisters! And now...
Now the woman I love.
Hank,
I had no idea she meant that much to you.
It was so much easier when I was consumed with my work.
I could pretend that what other people thought of me didn't matter.
How does she feel about you?
I think she cares for me.
That's wonderful.
No!
I won't allow her to be with me. It's too dangerous.
Maybe you should let her decide what to risk.
Talk to her, Hank. Give her that chance.
DR. ALEC: It's time.
Excuse me a moment, Carly.
Hank! You can't be here.
CARLY: Hank!
Yes, Carly. I'm here.
How did you know?
She knows my aftershave.
You want me to get rid of him, Doctor?
No. The man who designed this treatment deserves to be here.
Well?
You're beautiful.
So are you.
What about me?
(CHUCKLES) You're all right.
But why don't you have soft fur like Hank's?
I have a better razor.
Carly, how are you, my... You! You animal!
I'll leave.
You bet you'll leave! And now!
Father! Don't do this!
I'll be in touch.
No, you won't!
I won't have my daughter associating with
some disgusting mistake of nature!
If it weren't for Dr. McCoy,
your daughter's operation would not have been possible!
He's a mutant!
Father! Stop it now!
Today is a day of joy. Carly can see.
Let's leave it at that.
DR. ALEC: Hank!
Thank you, Alec.
But I don't know if it will ever be possible
to get through to people like that.
I forgot to give this to Carly.
Would you give it to her for me, please?
Of course.
Hank! Come quickly!
BEAST: No.
Carly! Carly!
Where is Carly? Where did they take her?
Mutant! This is your fault! Carly!
It was intolerant, ignorant, mutant-hating fools like you
who took your daughter! If anything happens to her, I'll...
I am going to find her.
I suggest that if you want to see your daughter alive again,
you will help me.
Wait!
CREED: So, Mr...
WOLVERINE: Logan. John Logan.
Logan. How are you feeling?
That mutant beat me up pretty good.
They're animals! Totally unpredictable.
I'll say.
I was minding my own business when that filthy mutant bumped into me.
"Excuse me," he says.
I excused him right in his face.
(LAUGHS) I like your style, Mr. Logan.
Right! What is this place?
We are the Friends of Humanity.
We believe that mutants have their place.
It's just not here with us, if you know what I mean.
Extermination? Like the rats they are?
Well, you'll never hear me say that in public.
Say, you look familiar to me.
-Oh? -Yeah.
I knew a guy about 20 years ago by the name of Creed.
Could've been your old man.
-Really? -Yeah.
Working coal mines in Kentucky.
Oh! That couldn't have been my family.
We were all in Canada then.
So was I, bub. So was I.
Hello, Cyclops? This is Beast.
We're here, Beast. What's up?
The Friends of Humanity kidnapped Carly. I need assistance.
Jean and Jubilee are here with me. We're ready to help!
BEAST: Jubilee, where was the FOH headquarters Morph sent you to?
JUBILEE: It's the abandoned Veteran's building.
Meet me there!
Let's go.
WOLVERINE ON RADIO: Hey! War room!
Can anybody hear me?
Where are you, Wolverine?
I'm babysitting a bunch of mutant-hating gutter trash.
If you want them alive,
get everybody down here to the old Veteran's building right away.
Beast is almost there, and we're on our way.
Beast thinks they're holding a young woman he knows.
Beast has a girl? Well, well, will wonders never cease.
Don't worry, I'll find her.
And listen, I need the portable Cerebro projector and a file disk
on an old buddy of mine.
So, how long have you known this Dr. McCoy?
You bigot!
I don't need to answer any of your questions!
I understand he was your doctor.
But he's more than that, isn't he?
You're more than friends, aren't you?
Leave me alone!
Don't you know what monsters they are?
They're evil! All of them!
They and all who associate with them must be exterminated!
(MEN GRUNTING)
Come on!
Hey, fellas! Where's Creed? I have a couple of questions for him.
He's busy.
(BEAST ROARING)
MAN ON PA: Intruder on 4! All security report! Intruder on 4!
Isn't that nice?
Looks like my new friends will get to meet some of my old friends.
No!
What are you doing here?
New members aren't allowed in here!
Let the girl go, Creed.
How dare you? You have no right to...
These give me plenty of rights.
You... You're a...
Stay back, you mutant garbage!
What's the matter, Creed?
Daddy's boy doesn't like claws?
(STAMMERS) I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh.
I don't have a familiar look to you?
Shut up! Shut up!
MAN: Mr. Creed!
That mutant from the hospital broke in! He's busted up half the men!
Who are you?
Just say Hank sent me.
(WEAKLY) Carly!
Hank!
Look, this is all very touching, but we gotta get out of here.
(WOLVERINE GRUNTING)
Beast, you gotta cut down on those snacks, pal. Come on!
WOLVERINE: Uh-oh.
Looks like we took a wrong turn.
CREED: Well, Mr. Logan.
Since you hate mutants so much,
I think I'll let you watch while I put one out of his misery!
No!
Not until I take a few of you joy boys along with us.
I'd still like to know what Wolverine wants with a hologram.
Weird, Wolverine using his head and Beast going berserk.
What's the world coming to? Got it!
(SABRETOOTH GROWLING)
MAN ON CEREBRO: The mutant Sabretooth.
Last seen in the Baffin Island region of Canada.
No! Get it away! Turn it off!
Stay away from me!
MAN ON CEREBRO: Home: Edmonton, Alberta. Real name...
No!
...Graydon Creed, Senior.
Graydon Creed, Senior?
Like father, like son.
What are you looking at? I hate him! I'm not like him!
I'm normal! Get out of here! All of you!
I'm not like him! I'm normal!
I'm not like him!
You are not my father! You are not my father!
You are not my father!
Scratch one friend!
Now that you see what my life is like,
I hope you will understand what I have to tell you.
Hank, please don't...
We have to face it.
I am a mutant in a world that fears and despises my kind.
I thought for a moment we could live in that world together,
but I know now that we cannot.
Someday, with work and hope, the world will change.
Until then, if you care for me as much as I care for you,
you'll understand why we must part.
Carry my love with you always.
Honey! I'm so glad you're all right.
I will be.
As for you, how can I ever thank you, Dr. McCoy?
This is a beginning.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)