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Wolverine:
She's good.

Magneto:
You have no idea.

Wolverine:
Got any beer?

Bobby:
This is a school.

Wolverine:
So that's a no?

Bobby:
Yeah, that's a no.

Wolverine:
Well do you have anything other than chocolate milk?

Nightcrawler:
You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

Storm:
Well I gave up on pity a long time ago.

Nightcrawler:
Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.

Storm:
Sometimes anger can help you survive.

Nightcrawler:
So can faith.

Rogue:
Logan, come on. Let's go.

Wolverine:
Go, I'll be fine!

Rogue:
But we won't.

Pyro:
I'm driving.

Wolverine:
Maybe next time.

Wolverine:
Who's this guy?

Rogue:
This is Bobby, he's my...

Bobby:
I'm her boyfriend

Bobby:
call me Iceman.

Wolverine:
Boyfriend? How do you two?

Bobby:
Oh, we're still working on that.

Colossus:
I can help you.

Wolverine:
Help them.

Storm:
Can you teleport inside?

Nightcrawler:
No. I have to be able to see where I am going, otherwise I could wind up inside a wall.

Magneto:
Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman; especially one who's interested in you.

Madeline Drake:
You have to understand we thought we were sending Bobby to a school for the gifted.

Rogue:
Bobby is gifted. You should see what he can do.

Pyro:
They say you're the bad guy.

Magneto:
Is that what they say?

Pyro:
That's a dorky looking helmet.

Magneto:
That "dorky looking helmet" is the only thing protecting me from the real bad guys.

Pyro:
You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news - I'm the worst one.

Magneto:
War has begun...

Professor X:
Eric what have you done?

Magneto:
I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.

Professor X:
What have you told Stryker?

Magneto:
Everything.

Pyro:
Don't do that again.

Wolverine:
I agree.

Storm:
It is about to get very cold in here.

Nightcrawler:
I'm not going anywhere.

Magneto:
When will these people learn how to fly.

Rogue:
Bobby, what did you do?

Bobby:
I didn't do it.

Professor X:
No, but I did; the next time you feel like showing off... don't.

President McKenna:
How did you get these?

Professor X:
Lets just say I know a little girl who can go through walls.

Wolverine:
I need you to read my mind again.

Professor X:
Sometimes the mind needs to discover things for itself.

Wolverine:
I can't.

Wolverine:
If you want to shoot me, then shoot me!

Wolverine:
She did make a choice Scott, it was you.

Wolverine:
Who are you?

William Stryker:
Don't you remember?

Cyclops:
Everybody stand back.

Dr. Jean Grey:
Scott no. His mind is connected to Cerebro. Opening the door, could kill him and everyone his mind is linked to.

Storm:
Wait, Kurt, I need you to take me inside.

Cyclops:
Storm, who is this guy? Who are you?

Nightcrawler:
My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus...

Storm:
He's a teleporter.

Nightcrawler:
I told you, If I can't see where I'm going...

Storm:
I have faith in you.

Dr. Jean Grey:
Don't believe anything you see in there.

Nightcrawler:
Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.

Madeline Drake:
Bobby? Aren't you supposed to be in school?

William Drake:
Do you know him?

Bobby:
That's Professor... Logan. Mom, Dad there's something I need to tell you.

Professor X:
William...

William Stryker:
Oh, please Xavier, don't get up.

Madeline Drake:
What exactly do you teach, Professor Logan?

Wolverine:
Art.

William Stryker:
Sergeant, kill everyone that approaches; even if it is me.

William Stryker:
Nobody really knows how many even exist or where to find them-except you.

Magneto:
You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

Wolverine:
Holy sh*t.

Dr. Jean Grey:
Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy.

Wolverine:
I can be the good guy.

Dr. Jean Grey:
Logan, the good guy sticks around.

William Stryker:
If there's one thing I know more than anyone else, it's my own work. Seal the room. Shoot it.

Professor X:
Oh my god, William, this is your son! What have you...

William Stryker:
No, Charles. My son is dead. Just like all the rest of you!

Magneto:
The professor thought you would be able to figure it out on your own. He gives you more credit than I do.

Bobby:
Have you ever wanted to be with someone so badly, but you can't?

Bobby:
I've seen how you look at Professor Grey.

Wolverine:
Excuse me?

Bobby:
Nothing.

Nightcrawler:
My name is Kurt Wagner. But in the Munich circus, I was known as The Incredible Nightcrawler!

Wolverine:
Ah, save it.

Bobby:
This is Cyclops' car.

Wolverine:
Oh yea.

Professor X:
Logan, the mind isn't just a box that can be unlocked and opened, it's a beehive with many...

Wolverine:
Spare me the lecture.

William Stryker:
You were an animal then and you're an animal now. I just gave you claws.

Professor X:
If you continue to smoke in here, you'll spend the rest of your life believing you are a six year old girl.

Wolverine:
You can do that?

Professor X:
I'd have Jean braid your hair.

Professor X:
It is an historical fact, sharing has never been humanity's defining attribute.

Bobby:
I found some of my Mom's old clothes. I think they're from before I was born.

Rogue:
Groovy.

Bobby:
You're so dead.

Rogue:
No, you're dead.

Rogue:
I don't want to hurt you.

Bobby:
I'm not afraid.

Wolverine:
How long have you been here?

Bobby:
Couple of years, its not so bad.

Wolverine:
What about your parents, they just ship you off to mutant school?

Bobby:
Actually my parents think this is a prep school.

Wolverine:
Lots of prep school have their own campus, dorms, kitchens...

Bobby:
Jets.

Magneto:
Come to rescue me Charles?

Professor X:
Sorry Eric not today.

William Stryker:
I have found evidence of a mutant training facility in upstate New York.

Senator Kelly:
This facility is a school.

William Stryker:
Sure it is.

President McKenna:
What is that?

William Stryker:
A jet.

President McKenna:
What kind of jet?

William Stryker:
We don't know-but it comes out of the basketball court.

Rogue:
What's so funny?

Magneto:
We love what you've done with your hair.

Rogue:
They told us to stay here!

Pyro:
Do you always do as your told?

Rogue:
John knock it off.

Bobby:
Will you stop showing off.

Pyro:
What for her, it's not my fault; if your girlfriend getting excited.

Magneto:
A war is brewing...

Senator Kelly:
Mr. Stryker, do you really want to turn this into some kind of war?

William Stryker:
I was pilotin' Black Ops missions in the jungles of North Vietnam while you were suckin' on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly. Don't lecture me about war. This already is a war.

Madeline Drake:
This is all my fault.

Pyro:
Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on, so it's his fault.

Nightcrawler:
Please don't kill me, I didn't mean to harm anyone.

Storm:
Now why would people have gotten that impression?

Magneto:
Something's different, today...

Magneto:
Too much iron in your blood!

Wolverine:
You picked the wrong house bub.

Magneto:
Ah, Mr. Stryker! Come to see that American tax dollars are keeping me comfortable?

Professor X:
You arranged the attack on the president.

William Stryker:
Why you didn't even have to read my mind.

Magneto:
What's your name?

Pyro:
John.

Magneto:
What's your real name, John?

Pyro:
Pyro.

Professor X:
You see Logan; we're not as alone as you think.

Dr. Sebastian Shaw:
Look, I think all this anti-mutant protesting underscored the genuine growing concern among most Americans. I think mutant registration...

Dr. Hank McCoy:
But why stop there? Maybe it would be easier to round up mutants by the truckload. Or maybe you'd like all-out war, Mr. Shaw.

Dr. Sebastian Shaw:
Oh, please.

Wolverine:
If we die, you die.

William Stryker:
One day someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine! ONE DAY!

President McKenna:
What do you need, William?

William Stryker:
Just your authorization for a special operation.

President McKenna:
And somehow I thought you were here to talk about school reform.

William Stryker:
Funny you should say that, Mr. President.

Professor X:
William, you wanted me to cure your son, but mutation is not a disease.

William Stryker:
You're lying! You were more frightened of him than I was. You know, just one year after Jason returned from your school, my wife... You see, he resented us. He blamed us for his condition. So he would toy with our minds, projecting visions and scenarios into our brains. Well, my wife, in the end, she took a power drill to her left temple in an attempt to bore the images out. My boy. The great illusionist.

Professor X:
For someone who hates mutants, you certainly keep some strange company.

William Stryker:
Oh, they serve their purpose. As long as they can be controlled.

Professor X:
I'm sending you the coordinates of his location right now

Storm:
Lets just hope he cooperates...

Professor X:
Yes, for his sake. Good luck.

Nightcrawler:
There was so much shooting, such fear and then there was only pain. I could see it all happening, but I couldn't stop myself. It was like a bad dream. Perhaps he is testing me.

Storm:
and before you were in the white house, what do you remember?

Nightcrawler:
Nothing. I was here.

Storm:
Jean.

Dr. Jean Grey:
I'd rather get him back to the professor.

Nightcrawler:
The Professor?

Storm:
Did you do these yourself?

Nightcrawler:
Yes.

Nightcrawler:
The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Pyro:
I don't like uncomfortable silences...

Pyro:

Wolverine:
Awwh!

Pyro:
That isn't the CD player...

[Pyro and Iceman show off their skills in a museum, but the people caught by surprise at what's happening suddenly freeze.]

Rogue:
Bobby, what did you do?

Iceman:
I didn't do this.

Professor Xavier:
[appears] No. I did. [to John] And the next time you feel like showing off, don't.

Colonel William Stryker:
We developed the technology that built his plastic prison.

Senator Kelly:
This facility is a school.

Stryker:
Sure it is. [he sets photos on the president's desk]

President McKenna:
What the hell is that?

Stryker:
A jet.

McKenna:
What kind of jet?

Colonel William Stryker:
We don't know — but it comes up out of the basketball court.

[Logan enters Cerebro holding a lit cigar]

Professor Charles Xavier:
Logan, my tolerance for your smoking in the mansion notwithstanding, continue doing it in here and you'll spend the rest of your days under the impression that you're a six year-old girl.

Logan:
You'd do that?

Xavier:
I'd have Jean braid your hair. Welcome back.

[Professor Xavier learns that Colonel Stryker has been interrogating Magneto in prison.]

Professor Charles Xavier:
Erik, what have you done?

Magneto:
I'm sorry, Charles. I couldn't help it.

Professor Charles Xavier:
What have you told Stryker?

Magneto:
Everything.

Professor Charles Xavier:
[Wakes up in Stryker's chambers] William?

Colonel William Stryker:
Please, Xavier, don't get up!

[electronic static]

Colonel William Stryker:
I call it the neural inhibitor. It keeps you outta here.

Professor Xavier:
What have you done with Scott?

Colonel William Stryker:
Oh, don't worry. I'm just giving him a little re-education. Of course, you know all about that, don't you!?

Professor Xavier:
William, you wanted me to cure your son, but mutation isn't a disease...

Colonel William Stryker:
[hatefully] YOU'RE LYING! You were even more frightened of him than I was. You know, just one year after Jason returned from your 'school', my wife-! You see, he resented us, he blamed us for his condition, so he would toy with our minds, projecting visions and scenarios into our brains. Well, my wife, in the end she took a power drill to her left temple in an attempt to bore the images out. [contemptuously] My boy, the great illusionist!

Professor Xavier:
For someone who hates mutants... you certainly keep some strange company.

Colonel William Stryker:
Oh, they serve their purpose... as long as they can be controlled.

Professor Xavier:
You arranged the attack on the president.

Colonel William Stryker:
You didn't even have to read my mind. You know, I've been working with mutants as long as you have, Xavier... but the most frustrating thing I've learned is that nobody really knows how many even exist or how to find them - except you. Unfortunately this little potion won't work on you, will it? You're much too powerful for that. Instead we'll go right to the source. Allow me to introduce mutant 143. The fluid secreted by his brain acts as a mind-controlling agent.

[Stryker introduces Jason, his son bounded on a wheelchair, who is also a mutant]

William Stryker:
But that's only where it begins.

Professor Xavier:
Jason. Oh, my god, William, this is your son! What have you-

Colonel William Stryker:
NO, Charles! My son is dead! Just like the rest of you.

[While Kurt prays, Ororo stumbles to him and look at Kurt's markings in his face]

Storm:
So... what... are they?

Nightcrawler:
They are angelic symbols passed on to mankind by the Archangel Gabriel.

Storm:
They're beautiful. How many do you have?

Nightcrawler:
One for every sin. So quite a few.

[Storm smiles]

Nightcrawler:
You and Miss Grey are schoolteachers?

Storm:
Yes. At a school for people like us, where we can be safe.

Nightcrawler:
Safe from what?

Storm:
Everyone else.

Nightcrawler:
You know, outside of the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I did not hate them: I pitied them. Do you know why? Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

Storm:
Well, I gave up on pity a long time ago.

Nightcrawler:
Someone so beautiful should not be so angry.

Storm:
Sometimes anger can help you survive.

Nightcrawler:
So can faith.

Magneto:
His name is Colonel William Stryker, and he invaded your mansion for one purpose; he wanted Cerebro, or enough of it to build one of his own.

Dr. Jean Grey:
But that doesn't make any sense. Stryker would need the Professor to operate it.

Magneto:
Which I think is the only reason my old friend is still alive.

Storm:
Oh my God...[She, Jean and Magneto exchange worried looks]

Wolverine:
What are you all so afraid of?

Magneto:
While Cerebro is working, Charles's mind is connected to every living person on the planet. If he were forced to concentrate hard enough on a particular group-let's say, mutants, for example-he could kill us all!

Storm:
[coldly] Wait a minute. How would Stryker even know where to find Cerebro in the first place?

Magneto:
[ashamed] Because I told him. I helped Charles build it, remember? Mr. Stryker has powerful methods of persuasion, even against a mutant as strong as Charles.

Jean Grey:
So who is this Stryker, anyway?

Magneto:
He's a military scientist. He spent his whole life trying to solve the 'mutant problem'. If you want a more intimate perspective, why don't you ask Wolverine? [to Wolverine] You don't remember, do you? William Stryker: The only other man I know who can manipulate adamantium. The metal on your bones. It carries his signature.

Wolverine:
But the Professor—

Magneto:
The Professor trusted you were smart enough to discover this on your own. He gives you more credit than I do.

Pyro:
So they say you're the bad guy.

Magneto:
Is that what they say?

Pyro:
That's a dorky-looking helmet. What's it for?

Magneto:
This "dorky-looking helmet" is the only thing that's going to protect me from the real bad guys. [grabs Pyro's lighter with his power] What's your name?

Pyro:
John.

Magneto:
What's your real name, John?

Pyro:
[collects a flame from the lighter and juggles a small fireball.] Pyro.

Magneto:
That's quite a talent you have there, Pyro.

Pyro:
I can only manipulate the fire. I can't create it. [closes his hand, extinguishing the flames]

Magneto:
You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.

[Wolverine stops Stryker from escaping and stabs him in the side.]

Wolverine:
How did it feel, bub?

Colonel William Stryker:
Why did you come back?

Wolverine:
You cut me open! You took my life!

Colonel William Stryker:
You make it sound as if I stole something from you. As I recall, it was you volunteered for the procedure!

Wolverine:
[Pauses] Who am I?

Colonel William Stryker:
You are just a failed experiment. If you really knew about your past, what kind of person you were, the work that we did together...People don't change, Wolverine. You were an animal then, you're an animal now. I just gave you claws.

[An alarm sounds, distracting both men]

Wolverine:
What the Hell is that? What is it?!

Colonel William Stryker:
The dam's ruptured. It's gonna flood water under the spillway. It's trying to relieve the pressure. It's too late. In a few minutes, we'll all be underwater...Come with me, and I'll tell you everything you wanna know. You can't help your friends. They're as good as dead, Wolverine. You're a survivor--always have been.

Wolverine:
I thought I was just an animal. With claws. [Holds his claws up to Stryker's face] If we die, you die.

[He knocks Stryker down and chains him to the wheel of the helicopter before running off]

Colonel William Stryker:
THERE ARE NO ANSWERS THAT WAY, WOLVERINE!

[Wolverine approaches Stryker, who was chained to the chunk of the dam by Magneto earlier, while carrying Artie in his arms.]

Colonel William Stryker:
Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people, or that creature in your arms?

[Logan doesn't respond and turns to Artie then turns back to Stryker]

Colonel William Stryker:
Huh? Huh?!

[Wolverine puts down Artie, then takes off his dog and throws it at Stryker's feet]

Wolverine:
[picks up Artie] I'll take my chances with him. [walks away]

Colonel William Stryker:
One day, someone will finish what I've started, Wolverine! One day! ONE DAY!!!

[While Wolverine walks away, Artie turns to Stryker and sticks out his lizard tongue at him]

[Professor Xavier has handed the President classified documents detailing Colonel Stryker's activities.]

President McKenna:
Where did you get these?

Professor Charles Xavier:
Let's just say I know a little girl who can walk through walls.

Professor Charles Xavier:
Mutants. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.

Logan/Wolverine:
[After ripping off and throwing his dog tags at Stryker's feet] I'll take my chances with him.

Jean Grey:
Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.