At night, in a hospital on Muir Island, DR. MOIRA MACTAGGERT - early-40s, Scottish and long brunette hair - walks down to the bed of an elderly male patient. The man in the bed is seen from behind, his face not shown.

MOIRA: "Are you sure you want to do this so soon?"

PATIENT: "They have to know, Moira. Please, call them for me."

Moira looks at the patient a moment and then she nods.

MOIRA: "All right. What's the number?"


Back in the X-Mansion, still afternoon in New York time, Logan sits at a desk in his classroom. He looks over a page with a multiple choice quiz printed on it. Logan looks at the answer booklet beside it, matching up the book's answers with that of the student's circled answers. Logan looks at the page and makes three x marks over three separate answers. Logan shakes his head and looks at the answer book.

LOGAN: "Going from gutting soldiers to scribbling incorrect history problems. Never thought it'd come to this."

The phone across the room rings and Logan pauses, looking up at it. Logan rises from his seat and walks over to the phone, as it rings again. Logan grabs the phone and picks it up.

LOGAN: "Hello?"

MOIRA: (on the phone) "Hello? Is this Logan?"

LOGAN: "Who is this?"

MOIRA: (on the phone) "This is Dr. Moira MacTaggert. We met at Charles' funeral, remember?"

LOGAN: "Yeah, I remember. What'd you want to talk about?"

MOIRA: "I have a patient here who asked me to call you. He wants to speak with you."

LOGAN: "With me? From Scotland?"

MOIRA: (on the phone) "I'll put him on for you."

Logan pauses a moment, waiting.

PATIENT: (on the phone) "Good afternoon, Logan."

LOGAN: "You must be the one who wanted to speak with me. What're you calling about?"

PATIENT: (on the phone) "I heard about Jean. I am very sorry it had to come to that. I know how much you cared for her."

Logan tenses and turns away.

LOGAN: "Why are you bringing up Jean?"

PATIENT: (on the phone) "Because I know you only wanted to help her, just as I did. We both know how powerful she had become, even when we were in her living room. I saw you look at us from the next room when Jean had lost control."

LOGAN: "What are you talking about? Just who are you, anyway?"

PATIENT: (on the phone) "I was the one who helped you try to find what you lost and what you were looking for. Are you still trying to find some answers?"

A beat. Logan looks a bit puzzled. Something about his words...

LOGAN: "What're you..."

PATIENT: (on the phone, interrupts) "You're not the only one with gifts."

Logan pauses a moment and looks in realization.


Back in the Danger Room, Bobby has already left and now Piotr stands next to Storm. Piotr is dressed in his own X-Men uniform and the sleeves are removed. A sheath of metal runs over Piotr's body and covers his body in metal skin, while his hair turns metallic and his eyes turn white. Piotr is now COLOSSUS. Storm and Colossus look over at a dozen, propped up test dummies scattered throughout the room. Each dummy has an unlit light bulb sticking from its chest.

STORM: "All right, Piotr. For this exercise, you need to hit the targets around here in the order they light up. Some are harder to beat than others and some will have special barricades that will form around them for protection. You will need to find a way to get all twelve targets before the time runs out. Are you ready to begin?"

PIOTR/COLOSSUS: "Da. Just say when."

LOGAN: "I'd say tomorrow works better."

Storm and Colossus turn around, as Logan walks over to them.

LOGAN (CONT'D): "Class has been cancelled."

STORM: "What do you think you're doing, Logan? I'm trying to teach!"

LOGAN: "Not anymore. We need to talk." (turns to Colossus) "If you have any homework to catch up on, Pete, I suggest you do it now."

STORM: "Logan, this --"

LOGAN: (interrupts) "Is urgent. You have to hear what I'm going to tell you."

Storm looks at Logan a moment and then turns to Colossus.

STORM: (sighs) "Fine. I'll reschedule this exercise for another time."

PIOTR/COLOSSUS: "All right. Do svidanya."

Colossus' metal skin fades away and reverts back to his normal form of Piotr. The doors slide open as Piotr walks to the doorway and then they slide shut after he walks out of the room. Storm looks at Logan sternly.

STORM: "This had better be worth it, Logan."

LOGAN: "I just got a call from Moira MacTaggert down on Muir Island. She said she has a patient down there that was previously brain- dead and suddenly woke up several days ago. But this guy wants us to come down so he can see us."

STORM: "Why? Who is he?"

LOGAN: "He said you wouldn't believe me otherwise, so he wanted me to tell you something you both knew."

STORM: "What was that?"

LOGAN: "He wanted me to tell you how you first met. That he was passing through Cairo as a tourist and he saw you when you were a kid. You picked his wallet and ran off. He chased after you into an alleyway, behind a diner."

Storm's stern look fades as Logan talks.

LOGAN (CONT'D): "He said he stopped you with a simple mental bolt, made you stop running and stay where you were long enough for him to get his wallet back." (beat) "He said to tell you he stills remember the day you first came in the school, how he recognized you walking in without having to read your thoughts. He told you that, didn't he?"

Storm pauses and looks at Logan in shock.

STORM: "He..." (beat) "You saw him die."

Logan shakes his head.

LOGAN: "He said I saw his body die, but not his mind. I don't know how, Ororo, but we have to check this out. He might be alive."

Storm pauses a moment, tears forming in her eyes. Storm looks away, stunned.

STORM: (whispers) "Charles?"

LOGAN: "I know you and the Professor are... were... close. I thought that you should know about this." (beat) "I told Warren to watch the kids. I'm flying to Muir Island to check this out. I want to see if this guy really is legit."

Storm pauses and turns to Logan.

STORM: "If you're going, I'm going, too."

LOGAN: "Hold on a minute. The guy knew things about us, yeah, but we don't know it's him for sure. That's why I'm going alone."

STORM: "I have as much right to find out if it's the Professor or not as you do. If he's a fake or not, I want to see for myself."

Logan pauses and then gruffly nods.

LOGAN: "Fine. Let's get going."

Storm nods and follows Logan out of the room.


Within the main hall of the X-Mansion, Kitty walks down the stairs and into the hall. Warren walks down the hall and Kitty turns to face him.

KITTY: "Excuse me, Mr. Worthington. Have you seen Miss Munroe around?"

WARREN: "She left with Logan to Muir Island. She said she will call when they arrive. She's having the new teacher substitute for her classes while she's gone."

There is a knock on the front door and Warren turns to it.

WARREN: "That must be her now."

Warren walks down to the front door and opens it. CAROL DANVERS - 38 years old with blonde hair - walks in from the doorway, wearing a jacket over her T-shirt and jeans. Carol looks over at Warren, holding two suitcases in her hands.

WARREN: "Hello, Miss Danvers. Welcome to the Xavier School. I'm Warren Worthington the third."

Carol sets down a suitcase and shakes Warren's hand.

CAROL: "It's nice to meet you."

WARREN: "May I help you with your suitcase?"

Warren walks to the set down suitcase and tries to lift it. Warren struggles a moment, but the bag is too heavy for him. Carol smiles and picks up the suitcase with one hand, holding it with ease.

CAROL: "I think it might be too heavy for you, but thank you."

Carol turns to Kitty and smiles at her.

CAROL: "And you are?"

KITTY: "Kitty Pryde. Miss Munroe told me to show you to your room. Well, she did before she left."

CAROL: "Left? Where did she go?"

WARREN: "She went away on business. She'll be back in two days."

CAROL: "All right. Shall we go on?"

KITTY: "All right. This way."

ROBERTO: "You're too slow, Sammy boy! You can't catch me!"

Kitty turns around and sees ROBERTO DECOSTA - 18 years old with curly black hair - flying ahead down the hall. Roberto's skin is covered in a coating of black ash, his eyes are fiery orange and an aura of fire is around his body. Roberto is in his form of SUNSPOT. Sunspot flies down the hall and right through Kitty, passing through her like a ghost. Kitty moves aside, as a second 18 year old with blonde hair - SAM GUTHRIE - flies down the hall after him. Sam's legs are covered over by a fiery blast field, which sends him flying after Sunspot.

SAM: "Get back here, Roberto! Give me back the ten bucks you picked out of my wallet!"

Carol and Warren look down the hall, watching the two young men fly down the hall and out of an exit door to the next room. Carol turns and looks at Kitty. Kitty shrugs and lets out a soft smile.

KITTY: "Welcome to Mutant High."