Plot
- Part one
The episode begins showing TV news footage of Sabretooth attacking police forces, indicating a time of unrest between mutants and humans. Jubilee's foster parents register her under the Mutant Registration Act, apparently designed to support mutants. Later, The Sentinels attempt to apprehend Jubilee at a mall. However, the Sentinels are stopped by a group of X-Men who were coincidentally shopping at the time. Jubilee wakes up, confused, at the X-Mansion. Storm explains to Jubilee that the purpose of the X-Men is to fight for peaceful existence between humans and mutants.
Whilst the X-Men are briefed on the incident at the mall, Jubilee leaves the mansion to visit her foster parents. There, she is ambushed and captured by the Sentinels. Before she passes out, Jubilee sees Henry Peter Gyrich, who is alongside the Sentinels.
The X-Men discover that the group running the Mutant Registration Program intend to track down and eliminate mutants. Storm is assigned to lead Beast, Morph, and Wolverine into the Mutant Control Agency headquarters to destroy the registration files. The four mutants break in, while Cyclops, Gambit, and Rogue observe from the outside.
- Part two
Wolverine smells the soldiers' gun oil and quickly closes the door before the soldiers have chance to fire. Storm enters and sweeps the guards away with her wind power. After destroying the files on mutants, the X-Men escape to the Blackbird, but are confronted by the Sentinels. During the confrontation with the Sentinels, Morph is shot and presumed dead. Beast gets blasted against the fence, electrocuted, and ultimately captured. The rest of the group retreat to the Blackbird on Cyclops' command, though Rogue is forced to render Wolverine unconscious with her absorption powers before he could defy Cyclops' orders and fight a hopeless battle. Meanwhile, shown on TV, the President of the United States claims that several mutants attacked the Mutant Control Agency and that there will be a counter-offense. But after meeting with Gyrich, the President decides to cancel the Mutant Control Registration.
Later that night, after a talk with Wolverine in a bar, Cyclops visits Jubilee's foster parents' home. Her foster father calls Gyrich to inform him of Cyclops' presence. Gyrich sends some Sentinels, but later the father regrets his decision when his wife tells him that Jubilee is suspected to have been kidnapped by the Sentinels. Subsequently, he tells Cyclops everything. Cyclops leaves, but is attacked by a Sentinel. Cyclops purposely blasts off the Sentinels' arm, so it can escape with the Blackbird following it back to its home base.
Landing clumsily, the wounded Sentinel damages the electrical box and electricity is released on the base. While the X-Men attack the base, Gyrich and Trask try to escape. After the Sentinels are defeated and Jubilee rescued, Jubilee decides that it's best to stay at the Mansion and waves goodbye to her foster parents, heading for a new future.
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