We open with Rogue in her room at night talking on the phone.

Rogue: Yeah, I know. Thanks for lending it to me. I thought it was great, especially at the end, where he turned into a werewolf and nobody knew it. Well, I gotta go. I've got 3 finals tomorrow. Talk to you later. Bye.

She is asleep. Dreaming. Rogue: [sighs deeply] unh! No--unh!

There is thunder, growling, and howling. It's in a lab somewhere.

Mystique: Monster! What have you done to him?!

Mystique grabs a baby and runs. Magneto chases her.

Magneto Come back at once!

Wolves chase her.

Mystique: *dopping the baby off a bridge and into the river* no! No--no! Aah!

Rogue: *waking up from the nightmare* Aah!!

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Opening credits.

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Scott: Rogue, are you all right? What happened?

Rogue: I--I don't know. I was dreaming... some kind of awful nightmare... With these... these images. It's horrible.

Kitty: Yeah. Her shrieking totally freaked me out. I just about phased through the bed.

Scott: Whoa. Finals must be really getting to you.

Rogue: No. It's not the first time. I've had this dream before. They started when I moved to the institute.

Evan: Unh! What's going on, man? Are you guys ok?

Kitty: Rogue's having creepy nightmares.

Kurt: Whoa. What about?

Rogue: I'm not sure. There's, uh... a castle and wolves. Oh, the poor baby. [crying] I didn't really see his face, but I seem to know- to know him somehow.

Kurt: What? Why are you looking at me like that? What's wrong?

Rogue: It was you!

Kurt: What was me?

Rogue: Somehow--I just know. It was you, Kurt!

Kurt: What are you talking about?

Rogue: In the dream... there was a baby crying. Cry--someone--a woman, I think, I didn't really see her face, was running, and she--the baby was dropped into the river.

Kurt: And you think that baby was me?

Rogue: Why am I having this dream?!

Jean: Maybe the professor can help us sort this out. But let's do it in the morning. It's pretty late.

Professor X *telepathically*: That's all right, Jean. This is important. Rogue and Kurt, please come to the library with Jean. And the rest of you, try and get some sleep. In case you've forgotten, you all have finals tomorrow.

Evan: Man, there's no keeping anything for that dude, is there?

In the library.

Kurt: I've always known that my parents adopted me, but they never said anything about me being fished out of a river.

Professor X: Don't worry, Kurt. We'll try to sort this out. Rogue, since this was your dream, I think I should start with you. Would you mind sitting here, please? Now, just relax. Try to think of the dream.

Rogue: You sure this isn't gonna hurt?

Professor X: Yes. Now, please, just concentrate.

Dream sequence.

Mystique: monster! What have you done to him?! *chasing, running, etc* oh! Ohh! *the baby goes over the side* no! *we see Magneto and Mystique* why?! Why? [crying]

Mystique watches as Kurt's adoptive parents find him in the river. They pick him up and take him ome, happy to have him.

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Kurt: Well, did you see anything else?

Professor X: Apparently, Rogue, your dream isn't a dream. It's a repressed memory, not just your imagination.

Kurt: But if I'm in it, then why is she having the dream? Shouldn't it have been mine?

Rogue: Yeah, professor, what's going on?

Professor X: Well, I'm not quite certain. You must've absorbed the memories of someone who, indeed, knows about Kurt's past.

Kurt: She touched me! back when we first met, remember, Rogue? Maybe you got those memories from me.

Professor X: You were just an infant in the dream. It is possible that you could have memories that far back.

Kurt: Probe my mind now, professor! To find out more! Maybe I've got more memories about what happened later.

Professor X: Yes, that might help, but--but not tonight. We've had quite enough excitement, I think, for now.

Kurt: But, professor!

Professor X: Tomorrow, Kurt, after school. I promise. *Kurt sighs*

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Next day at school.

Professor X: You've been carrying a terrible burden for many years, Mystique. Rogue's recent contact with you seems to have given her some of your darker memories- nightmares about a very unfortunate incident involving an infant.

Mystique: You're fishing. You know nothing.

Professor X: I know about your relationship with the boy, Mystique. What I don't know is what Magneto did to him. Why did you run that night?

Mystique: Dear, dear Charles, how incredibly frustrating for you to realize that that amazing mind of yours knows so very little, really.

Professor X: What were you to up to in that dreary castle? Was it worth the loss of your son? *memory flash* Monster! What have you done to him?! *end flash* No! Get out! Get out now!

Professor X: And just in case you're curious, he turned out to be a very fine lad. [telepathically] Logan, I've got the coordinates.

Logan: Fire away. *he takes off in the jet*

Rogue: Hey, kurt, wait up! What's the rush?

Kurt: You know. Prof said we'd look for more answers after school.

Rogue: Right. You sure you want to know?

Kurt: What? Of course! Hey, wouldn't you? I mean, haven't you ever wondered who your real parents were?

Rogue: I guess so. Yeah, sometimes, but Irene was always a good mom to me. I mean, sometimes she could be real strict and all, but...

Kurt: My adoptive parents were great, too, but I always felt that they were keeping something from me. whenever the subject of where I came from came up, they were always vague. They never mentioned anything like the stuff in your dream.

Rogue: Maybe they didn't know. Or maybe they were just trying to protect you.

Kurt: How, by hiding my own past from me? kurt- listen, maybe you can live without knowing, but I've got to know the truth about my life! I'm outta here! *ports away*

Scott: Man! What was that about?

Rogue: He's still really worked up about last night.

Scott: Ah, well, we'd better go find him.

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Pietro and Mystique outside the school.

Pietro: Are you sure about this? I mean, I've seen the defenses they've got around that place.

Mystique: Don't worry. You're fast enough. You should be able to get in and out of there undetected.

Pietro: Why is it so important? I mean, what are you telling that blue-furred freak?

Mystique: Never mind. That's none of your business. Just deliver it!

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In the mansion.

Logan: *on the radio* Looks like this is the place, Charles. I'll set her down in the woods nearby, go in on foot.

Professor X: Good. Keep me informed.

Logan: Right. Logan out.

Professor X: [thinking] Quicksilver.

Kitty: Hey, who opened a window?

Knock on Kurt's door.

Kurt: "if you want to know the truth, come to the new mall construction site at sundown. Come alone." why not? *ports out*

Scott: [knock on door] Yo, Kurt! Professor X says he may have some info- Kurt? Kurt!

Pietro is on the phone.

Pietro: That's what the note said, I'm tellin' ya. She's gonna meet that little blue creep tonight. And that Wolverine guy and the blackbird were gone, just like you said.

Magneto: hmm. As I feared. Good work, Pietro. Now I need you to do something further for me. get the others and intercept Nightcrawler before he gets to Mystique. She must not tell him what he wants to know. I have to take care of a visitor.

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Logan is outside the creepy castle type place. Climbing walls and whatnot to get in.

Logan: Hmmm.

Professor X: Wolverine, report.

Logan: It looks like I was expected. I think this place was some sort of... [sniffs] dna lab or something, but whoever was running it pulled out recently. Real recently. Huh? *notices a bomb* Sorry, doc, I gotta sign off now!

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Back at the mansion.

Scott: Jean! Kurt's taken off. The professor wants us to check out his room.

Jean: So what are we looking for?

Scott: I'm not sure. Professor X seems to think Kurt might have had a visit from Pietro this afternoon.

Jean: Quicksilver? Here? But how?

Scott: Hey, you know how fast that dude moves. And I guess he'd get past the mansion security with no problem.

Jean: Oh, no. Scott, look at this.

Scott: Get the others. We gotta move.

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At the construction site.

Kurt: Ok...so I'm here.

Mystique: Hello, Kurt.

Kurt: Huh? You! You're the one in Rogue's dream! Who are you? Why don't you show yourself?

Mystique: You already know me... son.

Kurt: No! No, it's impossible! What happened to me? Why didn't you-

Fred drops in with the rest of the brotherhood.

Pietro: Whoa. Far as you go, fur boy. This conversation's over.

Mystique: Get out of here, all of you!

Pietro: No can do, boss lady. We have other orders.

Kurt: Whoa! What kind of game is this, mystique?

Pietro: Aah! Ha! That was easy.

Scott: Wrong! It just got hard!

Fred: Get 'em! Arrghh!

Evan: Hey, wart man... uh-oh. Lick this!

Toad: Aah! Aarrgghh!

Fred: *in a cement mixer* Let me outta this thing! Aah!

Lance: Time to rock and roll!

Rogue: Rock and roll this, creep! Huh? Unh!

Pietro: Come on, shades! You can't hit me! I'm too fast. You can't hit me, can you? Ha ha ha!

Scott: Jean, I could use a little help here!

Pietro: Hey, no fair! Whoa-o-o-ohh!

Lance: Aah! Aah! *Rogue takes him down*

Jean: Rogue, over there!

Rogue: I see her! Going somewhere? Me and Kurt have a few questions we need you to answer.

Mystique: I'm afraid it's too late for answers. Far too late.

Rogue: *using Lance's powers. Not so fast.

Mystique: Oh, oh, ohh! Oh! *morphs into a crow and flies away.

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Logan: So the dreams Rogue was having were really Mystique's.

Professor X: I'm afraid so. Rogue must havepicked them up when she touched her. Mystique may very well be the boy's mother, but we may never know the truth now. There was nothing left of the lab?

Logan: Nothing. Whoever was running it didn't want us finding anything, but before it went kablooey, it looked like the kind of place Dr. Frankenstein might've been comfortable in.

Professor X: Genetic experimentation on mutants... I hadn't realized that he was willing to go that far. And poor Kurt.

Scott: So when are you going to tell kurt about all this?

Logan: I'm not so sure the elf needs to know. At least not yet. Some of this stuff could be pretty damaging.

Kurt and Rogue sitting on the balcony upstairs.

Kurt: I--I still can't believe it. Mystique is my mother?

Rogue: Listen, Kurt, who really knows? I mean, that's one seriously disturbed lady. Maybe she's just messin' with you.

Kurt: I guess, but there is a certain resemblance.

Rogue: Hey, look, that doesn't mean anything. Let's just wait till the prof finds more answers for you. Then you'll know for sure.

Kurt: Somehow, I think he already knows more than he's willing to tell us.

Rogue: Maybe, but if he does, he's probably got good reasons for not telling you.

Kurt: Yeah, sure.

Rogue: And listen, Kurt, I really do know what you're going through. We'll both keep looking, and we'll find our answers together someday. Ok?

Kurt: Yeah, ok.

Rogue: Hey, it's almost time for school, and I've got finals. I gotta finish getting ready. So do you.

Kurt: Thanks, Rogue.

Over to Bayville. Mystique is staring out the window. A girl gets out of her mother's car.

Girl: Thanks for the ride, mom. See you after school.

Mystique looks sad.

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