"Are you sure you saw these russians following you?" "'Til i lost them this morning at the depot." "You're certain they saw you use your abilities?" "I mean, there's no way they could've missed it." "I was underwater for twenty minutes." "In that case, we really ought to get out of here." "Come on, tina, i'll take you somewhere safe, okay?" "I don't know." "I mean, i've heard weird stories about the underground." "Detection works." "But we are still out of range to neutralize." "Who knows this better than i?" "Tina, look at me." "Now, do i look like the kind of guy that'd have anything to do with something... something weird, huh?" "No." "Now, what do you say we all take a walk and get in the mv?" "Come on." "Bozhemoi, another one." "It's working." "Jesse, get tina in the mv, now." "Yuri." "Yuri, come on." "Get up." "Get in." "I lost my power." "Get him in, let's go." "Lie still, brennan." "Scan's complete." "How you doing?" "Fine." "Ow!" "Okay, this really sucks." "That gun, it... fired some sort of weird laser beam thing at me." "Adam said it was some kind of particle beam that blew your dna out of whack." "Is that what he said?" "Not in so many words." "I'll just bet." "Did you get a look at the weapon?" "No, i didn't see much." "I'm pretty sure they didn't see me." "I guess they blew up brennan's charge temporarily, huh?" "I'm afraid it's done more than just neutralize his power." "What do you mean?" "I won't know the damage until i've gone over the scan." "It's not your fault." "If anyone's responsible, it's me." "That's crazy." "Well, no more crazy than your guilt." "Can you tell me anything about them?" "It was a man and a woman." "Tina said they were russians." "Russians?" "Pushka h5b7, all files." "Is this the weapon?" "Yeah, it could be." "Like i said, i didn't get a very good look at it." "What is it?" "It's top secret russian military ordinance, circa 1980." "It's a device intended to detect and neutralize new mutants." "The gun's design schematics, direct from the kgb." "Look, according to this, the weapon can reverse the neutralization process." "So we've got to get the weapon." "Yes." "But there's a fail-safe, in case someone like us gets a hold of it." "Without the precise triggering sequence, the weapon self-destructs." "And without the reversal process, brennan will die." "I'm going to go see how brennan's doing." "Answer?" "Adam, i'm with the family." "Shalimar, what's going on?" "Well, i got to tell you it's a little weird." "I mean, tina's at the table, but they're all just sitting around staring at each other." "Everybody smiles too much, nobody's talking." "So what's the problem?" "What do i know about family therapy?" "You have a family, don't you?" "Yeah, but... well, that's all the training you need." "Steak tartare?" "No, thanks." "I may be feral, but i do prefer my meat medium-well." "Oh." "Mr. Eckhart." "You've lost a lot of weight." "All that work and stress." "I have something wonderful for you, the plans for the pushka." "Already been through this." "Your father's weapon was an embarrassment to your government, a humiliation which led to his untimely death in the gulag." "I promised you twenty thousand for each new mutant that you could bring me, neutralized." "The pushka h5b7 works." "Oh." "Well, in that case, where are these new mutants that you brought me?" "We had a glitch in our operation." "I'm busy." "Your manners have deteriorated with your white cell count, mr." "Eckhart." "Even with our glitch, we managed to neutralize an electrical new mutant." "And where is he?" "He got away but the pushka got him." "It did." "I swear on my father's grave." "Dosvedanye, mr." "Eckhart." "You know how to reach me if you want to chat about anything further." "I'm a telekinetic, and caroline regards my abilities as pretty wild." "Well, i'll get dessert." "So i guess a feral new mutant's a whole new ball game for her, huh?" "Caroline was visiting her mother." "The only time we had a feral in the house." "The one we placed with the stewarts." "That ought to be classified." "Adam trusts me, and i trust my son." "I couldn't do it without him." "So what about you, daniel?" "Any new mutancy?" "I take after my mother." "As normal as can be." "Chocolate fondue for five, everybody." "Think of it as catching your dessert with a fork." "I'm burning up here." "It's your system's reaction to the neutralization." "I gotta go get that weapon." "The more you move around, the faster the neutralization spreads." "Lie still." "We have to stabilize you." "No, no, i'm stable enough." "It's going to be okay, brennan." "I've got to go." "It's time for a little serenity." "Adam, we can save him right?" "Honestly, i don't know." "But right now, we have to buy him all the time we can." "Jesse's going to find the weapon." "What's that?" "Someone calling genomex from one of our safehouses." "I've already got a trace on the system." "Safehouse compromise?" "Eckhart here." "Can i help you?" "Eckhart?" "I have some information on the whereabouts of two new mutants." "Is that so?" "One is my father." "The other is a new mutant placed here yesterday by mutant x." "That weasel." "I'm listening." "I want a face-to-face." "We'll get back to you." "I held him in my arms when he was a baby." "Can i assume you called with good news in regard to my proposal?" "I have an informant who'll lead you to a family of new mutants." "But i don't want them dead." "That device inserts a subdermal governor, so that you'll be able to control these new mutants when you find them." "But this won't be necessary." "We have the pushka." "Oh, yes, of course." "Pushka." "Isn't that russian for "colossal error in judgment?"" "I've solved the pushka's problems." "That's wonderful." "Take it anyway, just for me." "The bounty?" "Twenty thousand each, as we discussed, providing that you bring them to me neutralized and alive." "Then we'll discuss a contract." "Of course, i fully expect to be disappointed." "Since, as i recall, the pushka neutralizes new mutants and then disintegrates their internal organs cell by cell, until they're dead."