"So, what do you think this adam guy is going to do with me?" "You worried he's going to get rid of you the second he finds out all you can do is defoliate?" "See, right there." "You've never respected my botanical thing." "You should... never mind." "Come on, skeet." "What was it you were going to tell me?" "Charlotte, don't." "This fried rice sucks!" "I'm so sick of this takeout!" "I hate it when you do that to me." "Look at this mess." "You know, when this is finished, that's it:" "I'm on my own." "Hey!" "What's going on?" "Who are you guys?" "Ow!" "Ow!" "Get off!" "Get off!" "Come with me." "Adam's waiting on the roof." "Argh, come on." "All i do is kill plants." "Not even big plants." "They got the other one." "Couldn't get them both." "Hello, adam." "Charlotte." "Are you alright?" "Why?" "Were you worried about me?" "No." "I'm just very glad that you decided to contact us." "I can't remember the last time i saw you." "Oh, i know." "It was that time that you, me, and dad went to dinner." "Thirteen years ago." "Yeah." "And right after that my whole life changed... thanks to you." "Well, this is it." "Welcome." "I was hoping i'd get to see where you guys worked." "It's just policy, charlotte." "This is jesse." "So it's not because you thought i was like my father." "Your father and i worked together a long time and i'm very sorry about what happened to him." "Yeah, yeah." "That's alright." "It's all just history." "I'm more interested in now." "I contacted you because i want to join up with you guys." "Well, i'm sorry." "That's just not possible." "I could really help you." "Well that's not the issue." "I know you're very gifted you have the rare nucleotide sequencing on strand 17 of your... yeah, i change people." "Turn bad people good." "Yeah, i now." "How do you know?" "Well we've been file on all the children of genomex." "So you know how valuable i'd be." "Tell him." "Adam?" "Come on, adam, don't you think you owe this to me?" "Hey, brennan, how well does adam know charlotte?" "Well, shalimar said that adam worked for their father at the biochemistry department at stanford." "That's all i know." "I think there's a little more to it than that." "What do you got?" "Her father was anthony cooke." "The guy that was convicted for selling biological weapons." "Yes." "And it was adam who turned him in." "Wow, charlotte can't be too fond of adam." "Well, it gets worse." "Cooke committed suicide right before the trial." "That's rough." "What's her new mutancy?" "She can manipulate moral polarity." "Bad to good, or good to bad?" "My guess is she could go either way." "Defoliation." "It's no big deal in the city, of course, but... tell me about charlotte cooke." "We hung around in high school." "She was pretty hot, but... i was the only one... just tell him about the girl." "She was always kind of weird." "It used to bother her that no one would hang around with her." "Especially when that stuff about her father came out." "That was... shocking." "Why did she contact mutant x?" "She hates this adam guy." "She... charlotte figures that if... adam wants her to join mutant x, she can he ruin his life... like he did with hers." "What is it exactly that miss cooke does?" "What's in it for me if i tell you?" "It can wait." "She... she..." "she can change people." "She... she... she makes them... she can make them bad." "It only lasts a minute on new mutants... but on... you know, real people it can last forever." "A new mutant with the ability to adjust the moral compass." "Show the young man his room." "Okay, we're ready to go." "Good." "Alright, charlotte, here's the telephone number where you can reach me." "Now your call will be forwarded to me from one of the safe-houses." "I didn't contact you so you could stick me in underground." "Charlotte, the gsa know about you." "We have no choice." "We're just trying to keep you safe, charlotte." "I contacted you because i want to join mutant x." "Alright." "Look, charlotte, i'm very sorry, but you can't just join mutant x." "Fine." "If that's the way you want it... then that's the way it's got to be." "Adam, where does it say that you get to make the decisions for everybody?" "What?" "Jesse, are you okay?" "Was i talking to you?" "Hey, woah... hey, don't use that tone on me, adam." "I've had it!" "And i've had it with your attitude too jesse." "Argh... hey, hey!" "Wait!" "Hey!" "Stop it you two." "Shalimar." "Are you alright?" "Yeah." "It must have been charlotte." "I'm sorry." "Charlotte?" "She's gone." "Our sources tell us charlotte cooke is back on the streets." "Quelle surprise." "Her plan to bring down adam has failed." "I think we could make use of miss cooke's talents and achieve our own goals." "Well, from what i understood from our little friend mr vosburg, she's a trifle unstable." "She'll need proper training and guidance." "Are you suggesting you'd like to become her mentor, mr." "Lynch?" "I am." "She's your responsibility." "If she fails, you fail." "Extend an immediate invitation to miss cooke." "We're trying to locate her now." "Might i offer a piece of my own advice:" "Miss cooke is a wounded animal; you must try to convince her that we are her collaborators, not her captors." "In her mind, adam is responsible for her father's death." "She want revenge." "You must harness this energy." "It's priceless." "Oh good, there's no residual damage." "But i have to do a more complete toxic scan." "I was completely out of control." "I could have killed him." "Or he could have killed you." "Not likely." "Well, luckily for both of you the toxin wore off when it did." "So what are we going to do if we find her again?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, what are we going to with her?" "Are you going to put her in some kind of stasis and keep her here?" "No." "Can't do that to her." "I'm the one that's responsible for what happened to her." "No you're not." "It was her father who ruined her life." "Not you." "Well, that's not the way she sees it." "Exactly." "She's blaming you for this." "But if you hadn't stopped her dad, who know what would happened." "Shalimar, i have to help her." "There's no one else who can do it." "Okay." "Are we talking about the same charlotte?" "Because you're thinking about the little girl that you used to know." "I'm thinking about the woman who almost got us killed." "She didn't want to join mutant x, she wanted to infiltrate mutant x... and turn us all against each other, and against you." "Alright, so what are you suggesting?" "I'm suggesting if you insist on going after her, you watch your back." "Adam?" "Yeah, jesse." "I got a lead." "Charlotte was seen a half hour ago in the garment district." "Good, check it out." "Great." "Shalimar, are you okay?" "Alright." "But i want a rematch." "Well, you already kicked my ass." "No chance you're getting a second shot." "Well, there's definitely nothing here charlotte'll come back for." "Well, they were very international with their tastes:" "Thai, middle eastern... deli." "Woo, that's going to limit the search." "What are you seeing?" "A rooftop." "Some place she went to feel safe." "Jesse's up in the double helix." "He can scan from up there." "I think he'll need a little more information." "They stopped building it." "What?" "She's looking out on something unfinished:" "Concrete, steel... a parking lot." "Happen to catch a street sign?" "Let's run in what we've got to adam, he can run a data search." "She loves the kung pao lunch special, i don't know what's keeping her." "Maybe she's in the restroom, we just missed her." "You're wasting my time." "Okay." "No, don't." "I... i know where she is." "It's like five minutes from here." "You better be right." "Or you'll be call that stasis pod home sweet home." "Evans contracting had an investor pull out, shut down construction a year ago." "It's on ash street, right near charlotte's apartment." "I've got it, adam." "Brennan and emma are a block away." "Hey, charlotte." "Who are you?" "Friends of adam's." "Yeah, i'm finished talking to you guys." "Watch out." "You're afraid of me?" "And i thought you were the best adam could find." "You know, the gsa is still looking for you." "Really?" "You don't want to go with them, charlotte." "They're going to use you up, and they're going to throw you away." "And that's not what you guys are going to do." "We know what happened with your father." "Did adam tell you the whole story?" "Did adam tell you how everyone at school treated me like i was the one that did it?" "They said they were glad my father was dead, and that i should kill myself too." "Do you know what it feels like to grow up having everyone hate you for something that you never did?" "We're trying to help you, charlotte." "Adam... i don't care what adam wants." "You guys are too late." "All of you are too late." "See, i told you she'd be here." "Charlotte, come on!" "They got charlotte." "Hi." "You know, the minute i got here, i knew this was the place for you." "Do you expect me to believe that?" "Listen, i had no choice." "You're such a weasel." "You'd do anything to save your own skin." "Would you listen to me?" "The..." "the gsa want to get rid of adam, just like you." "Really?" "Yeah, that's why they want you:" "To... to help them." "They want me?" "Are you kidding?" "Charlotte, you belong here." "I mean, you can really, really fit in with these people." "Miss cooke, mr." "Eckhart would like to see you." "I'm a little tied up right now." "We don't often come across new mutants like you." "We think you might have the right stuff for the gsa." "That's just what i was just... we know what adam did to your father." "He could have handled the situation quietly, between colleagues." "But he had to go public." "He had to satisfy his own ego." "We need your help to stop adam before he ruins more people's lives." "Don't offer too much up front." "I know, i know." "Let him do the talking." "He likes to come up with the ideas himself." "Speak when you're spoken to." "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" "Let's get something straight right now, charlotte:" "You've got raw talent, and that's all you've got." "I convinced eckhart to give you a chance." "Don't make me look bad." "Am i understood?" "I won't let you down." "Mr. Lynch here has the utmost confidence in your abilities, miss cooke." "I'm afraid i do not." "Sir?" "I realize i might have been a bit hasty in agreeing to this." "Please don't underestimate me, mr." "Eckhart." "But i'm willing to be convinced." "Remove her restraints." "Hold on." "This should be a controlled experiment." "How're you feeling, mr." "Lynch?" "Did you know he was prone to those kinds of behaviour before you hired him?" "Nicely done, miss cooke." "That's quite enough." "Mr. Lynch." "Oh, it'll wear off in about five more seconds... on new mutants." "And on normal..." "excuse me... non-new mutants?" "I only tested it once before." "And?" "Well, it seems to last forever." "Really?" "Alright, miss cooke, i'm convinced." "What was your plan?" "Adam?" "Adam, it's charlotte." "Um, i need your help, and i have nowhere else to go." "Charlotte, this is emma." "Emma, i escaped from genomex, it was horrible." "Where is she?" "Is that adam?" "Charlotte, where are you?" "I'm..." "i'm at my apartment." "Alright, you stay right there." "I'm on my way." "No one escapes from genomex." "You can't trust her." "Emma." "Look, at least let me come with you." "Too dangerous, not going to have anyone else exposed to that toxin." "How are you supposed to protect yourself against the toxin?" "Because she wouldn't do that to me." "She had the opportunity before, and she didn't do it." "Just think about it for a minute." "Why would she come running back to us for help?" "Well, maybe she's seen what life would be like for her there." "That's what she want you to think." "Alright, look." "If it's a trap, i'll deal with it alone." "I'm so sorry about what i did before, to your friends." "That's alright." "I understand." "No, you don't." "You don't know how much i hated you." "I... i just... i needed someone else to blame." "Somebody other than my father." "Your father loved you very much." "Yeah, he was weak, that's all." "Well, if i knew what he was getting himself into... you would have stopped him." "I'm so sorry for hating you." "Please forgive... oh my god." "You don't trust me." "You're just like them." "Charlotte, what do you really want?" "I want another chance." "Put me in the underground." "I want to go in the underground." "Alright." "How did you escape from genomex?" "The way i always do." "I used my powers." "I don't want to do that any more." "I..." "i'm asking for help." "All my life everybody just... won't even touch me, they're afraid of me." "And you are too." "You... i'm sorry." "No, no." "No." "I'm... i'm so sorry." "I just... i'm sorry for the way things turned out." "I'm sorry that i... i haven't been there for you." "It's going to be okay." "Adam." "Emma?" "What am i going to do with you?" "Are you alright?" "Yeah, i'm fine." "Of course he's alright." "He came to help me." "She's going to be fine." "Thanks for coming by." "Very clever of you to play on my guilt like that." "So i'll see you at genomex?" "Sure." "Right now i got things i got to take care of." "Shalimar, charlotte's gotten to emma." "The two of them headed out." "Charlotte took off." "Well what about emma, is she okay?" "The toxin seems to have different effects on psionics." "What do you mean?" "Listen, i need you to prepare the lab for a neural resystemization." "It's our only chance." "I'll be right there." "Poor little emma." "By the time i'm done with you, you won't know yourself." "Shalimar, i need the files on brain resystemization." "I need to know my options in case the cranial nerves are affected." "What are you doing to her?" "I'm trying to save what's left of her mind." "What are you talking about?" "The toxin's spreading through her cerebral cortex." "I need to cauterize it before it spreads any further." "Is she going to be okay?" "I'm hoping that this procedure will help prevent further damage." "Until i do the work, i won't know what's already been lost." "And i know that this is hard on us, but we need to put our feelings behind us." "I need you two to go out and find charlotte." "What good is that going to do now?" "Well, maybe she'll know something about the toxin that we don't know." "And you, i need those files now." "Adam?" "I'm... i'm fine." "You don't need to do that." "What are you doing?" "Don't tell me what i need to do." "She got to you, didn't she?" "Charlotte did this to you." "Adam, look at me." "Adam, stop it." "In a little while, nothing much will matter anymore." "I was thinking maybe i shouldn't have done it." "What?" "They're..." "they're making you a gsagent." "You've got the look and everything." "Aren't you proud?" "I don't know." "It's weird." "I've never changed anyone so powerful before." "Oh yeah." "You took a really really good guy and you turned him and... now he's everyone's worst nightmare." "I... i don't think he's going to bounce back from it." "What do you think?" "Ow!" "Get off!" "Ow!" "What was that?" "That was a subdermal governor." "To prevent you from accessing your powers except when i say so." "You don't feel so powerful anymore, do you, charlotte?" "Thank you for holding charlotte's attention, mr." "Vosburg." "I've changed my mind." "I want to leave now." "Give me my stuff." "Give me my boots." "I want to leave." "Well, i'm sorry miss cooke, but that's just not an option." "Now we've all come full circle." "You've gotten back at adam for what he did to your father, and done us a great service at the same time." "So how does it feel?" "Okay, i guess." "And do i detect a conscience?" "Your father exhibited the same tendencies... until i convinced him he had no choice but to sell me his research." "My father?" "I worked hard to convince him." "The money, in the end, was his achilles' heel." "Welcome to the gsa, miss cooke." "Where's that feral with my files?" "Then again, maybe precision isn't exactly what's called for right now, is it, my little mind-bending freak of nature?" "Adam?" "I knew there was something wrong with you." "Excuse me a moment." "Charlotte got to adam." "I need both of you back here now." "We're on our way." "Shalimar. it's you she got to adam, not emma." "Not likely." "Wrong way." "Hello, shalimar." "You can't hide from me, adam." "I'll find you, you know i will." "Charlotte turned you, adam." "You've got her toxin inside of you." "Look, adam, what you're feeling right now, it isn't real." "That is just a little something to soothe the savage beast in you." "Stay back." "Shal', are you okay?" "Shalimar." "Don't come in here." "I wouldn't do that if i were you." "You hit the for forcefield with that and it'll rebound." "And you, my friend, will fry." "Adam... jesse... well, now, you just saw what happened when you tried to phase, but go ahead, mass out if you want, it's kind of pointless... i designed this little forcefield with all of you in mind." "download new mutant database to disk, including all current addresses and aliases." "Adam!" "You can't do this." "Watch me." "Shalimar... i told you not to come in here." "Come on." "We saw you lying there." "I didn't think it was a trap." "No, she's right." "We should have been way ahead of him." "I should have known as soon as he brought emma in here." "It just wasn't right." "What about emma?" "She's still in the lab." "He hasn't operated on her yet." "We've got to get out of here and take him down." "Yeah, how are we going to do that?" "He knows all of our weaknesses." "He's the one who taught us how to control our powers." "He's only ever fought us in training exercises, never for real." "Yeah, well we can't just fight him." "We have to turn him back." "Adam's got the names and addresses of new mutants on a disk, and i'm pretty damn sure that i know where he's going with it." "So we should better just hope that we get a chance to get out there and stop him." "Damn." "Emma, you got out!" "Emma, get us out of here." "Adam locked us in." "Sanctuary, deactivate force field." "Valtuutus, okaa hyva." "I can't believe this." "You don't think we tried that already?" "Adam reprogrammed it you know, i can maybe try to talk you through cracking that, but... you don't recognize that language?" "It's finnish." "Adam doesn't realize i dated an exchange student from helsinki in high school." "Turvapaikka, pudotta suojakilpit." "Maybe adam did know." "It's not like him to screw up like that." "You think some part of him's fighting what charlotte did to him?" "Well, we better hope that he screws up again, or we're all history." "Adam." "You're looking well." "Your security people didn't seem very surprised to see me." "Nice to be back?" "I have something for you." "This is a complete list of all the children of genomex." "But, you know, i was wondering, how would i fit in here?" "I mean, i'm a leader, not a follower." "Well, i've always thought of myself as a team player." "A team player." "Yeah, that's good." "No, that's very good." "But, of course, we both know that that's not true." "You'd have me in stasis in, what, thirty seconds?" "No." "You know, i think you should try a little stasis yourself." "Well, i've been looking all over for you." "Why don't you send up a flare or something?" "Adam... no, no." "We have no time to talk." "Wait." "Eckhart put a subdermal governor on me." "I know." "That's not fair, is it?" "He lied to me about everything." "Well, see, all the men in your life have been a constant disappointment, haven't they?" "Well, see, i'm here to change all that." "I'm going to deactivate your subdermal governor, and make it all up to you." "You'll get me out of here?" "Well, that's a very good place to start." "Now you and i are going to make a great team." "We're going to sell this list of new mutants to the highest bidder." "You're going to work your magic, and we're going to make millions." "You're going to destroy everything you've created?" "Yeah." "Don't do this, adam." "What, you don't want to make some cash?" "No." "Adam, i did this to you." "You're not yourself." "Right." "I'm better." "Now go inside and get what you need." "I'll wait for you here." "Adam!" "Hey!" "I guess i underestimated all of you." "You forgot to turn your comlink off, adam." "Yeah." "Thanks for making it so easy for us." "The pleasure's all mine." "He's going to sell the database to an international genetics... keep that to yourself." "Hey." "I can't go through that." "Yeah, that's why he did it." "What is it exactly that happens to your electricity when you get wet?" "When you get soaked with water, brennan?" "Huh?" "I was trying to explain the phenomenon to charlotte over here." "Now she didn't understand why it makes you so weak." "What do we know about you?" "What's your weakest moment?" "When you take a breath." "Adam!" "Look into her eyes." "You are choking the person that would do anything in the world to protect you." "Who loves you more fiercely than anyone else." "I know you can hear me, adam." "Somewhere inside, i know that you hear me." "Let me help you." "Oh god, i'm sorry." "Are you alright?" "Are you alright?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry about what's happened to you, about your father." "I'm sorry i had to turn him in." "But... he is the one you should be angry with." "And he's the one you have to forgive." "Thanks for not hating me." "Of course i don't hate you." "I'm here for you." "Okay?" "Is she alright?" "She will be." "What about you?" "I'm trying not to think about it too much." "Come on, adam." "That doesn't sound like you at all." "Hm, well, maybe not, but it's true." "You know, i want to apologize to all of you for the way i treated you all." "No, forget it." "You weren't yourself." "No, but i was." "You know, ask shalimar, ask jesse, they... they experienced it." "Yeah, well you couldn't control yourself, that's all." "Well, maybe." "But... it was still me." "I knew your weaknesses, and i used them against you." "It was very weird." "It was very dark." "But you guys saved me." "And..." "i don't know what to say." "Thank you."