[sits next to Wes] All my life I've been enforcing laws. The way I saw it, society only worked if there were consequences for breaking the rules. Lately, my feelings about society have changed a bit, but it's something I still believe in. Maybe in a new way, but I do believe it. It's about trust. What you did was wrong, Wes. You know that, right?
I haven't told them. You have a choice to make, Wes. You can hope they don't find out, or you can tell them and take your choices. But I'm gonna leave it in your hands.
It's fine. They just had some delays, so I had to wait a bit, but I got what they could give us. I ran down an old contact, explained our situation, and he managed to give us some cash. Should be enough to keep the lights on a few weeks.
Well, I'm gonna have to disappoint you. I'm only here for one reason. My foster parents were slaughtered by the Sentinel Services, and I'm going to fight back. This is a war and we're on the same side. It's the only relationship we need.
There's something you need to see. It's better you know everything. [takes out photos from a box] This is my father, Andreas von Strucker. My father and his sister Andrea did unspeakable things, they were terrorists. They were also mutants.
Apart, they had the same abilities as your children. Together though, they were known as Fenris, the wolf. And they were more powerful than you can imagine.
I hid my powers from everyone, even your mother. You have to understand, our family's abilities set us apart even from other mutants. It was too much, I had to stop it.
That's what brought me to Trask. A research project to eliminate the X-gene. I never found what they wanted, a serum that worked on all mutants. But I made a version that worked on one mutant, and gave it to you.
There's a new kid that came in, a refugee. She had the same foster parents as me. When I got sick and my portals went crazy, I kept trying to portal back there and that's how they found them. She watched them die, and now she can't stop dreaming about it. It's all my fault. I can't take those memories away from her, but you can.
That's not on you, Johnny. And continuing to blame yourself is not doing anybody any good. Besides, don't you think it's strange that she knew about Pulse? I mean, she just got here.
She's a telepath, Sonya. Maybe she picked it up off me. It doesn't change the fact that I gave up on my friend, and they turned him into a monster. I'll be damned if I let that happen to anybody else.
Combined it was like we could do whatever we wanted. I mean, we were looking at the wall in front of us and we could of just vaporized it. Maybe if we practice–
Yeah, me too. But John, you weren't the only person who left him there that night. That's on all of us, not just you. Today we get to make it up to him.
