The Gifted

Carmen, I need information. What do you want from me?

The price is you... so from now on, I call, you come,

and you do exactly what I ask you to do.

Your friend, Dreamer, stuck a memory in my head

without asking my permission.

It's a memory of you.

She did it to save the team.

You're not making this any better.

I've got my own issues to sort out,

my own people to find.

Clarice!

- I'm Wes. - It's nice to meet you.

Welcome to Florence.

It's beautiful.

There are rumors of mutants

hunting other mutants for Sentinel Services.

Reed Strucker, who worked with a judge there, said the guy

- might have info on the program. - If we break in,

we might be able to figure out what the hell's going on.

- You get the hard drives? - I'm almost in.

All right, I have the hard drives.

Carmen? What do you want?

I'm collecting on our agreement.

Time for you to pay me back.

- ( COUNTRY SONG PLAYING ) - _

Marcos. Thanks for coming.

You bring me out to the sticks just to try the coffee, or what?

If that's why you came out,

prepare to be disappointed... Coffee sucks here.

This is Lorna.

She's my partner on this thing.

Lorna, Marcos.

- Hi. I'll get right to it.

We've heard a lot about you, what you can do.

We want you to join the Mutant Underground.

Listen, I'm flattered, but, uh...

I don't think you guys get my situation.

Your situation's... why we're here.

We know your story. You're already

helping mutants cross the border.

We just want you to do it full-time.

That was just a side thing, okay?

There was room in a couple of trucks,

so I gave some people a ride, that's all.

You really want to run drugs for the Guerra Cartel

the rest of your life? You could make a difference.

It's more complicated than that.

What, because you're dating

the boss's daughter?

Get a new girlfriend.

That simple, huh?

- Just break it off? - Sure.

Tinder's full of girls that are into mutants.

Yeah, you don't know Carmen.

She's, uh... she's tough.

There are other tough chicks.

Think about it, Marcos.

The X-Men are gone.

The government's cracking down.

If mutants are gonna survive,

it's up to us.

ECLIPSE ( OVER PHONE ) : Look, Carmen, I can't do this.

We made a deal.

- Or did you forget? - No.

Of course I didn't forget. But it's just...

Now's not a good time.

You think it was convenient for me to find out

- where that prison convoy was going? - No.

- And I appreciate that, but... - Then show your appreciation

by honoring our deal.

You knew what you were getting yourself into

when you asked me to help you find your precious magnet girl.

- Is that a threat? - This doesn't need to be difficult.

We can talk about this

like reasonable people.

I'll expect you tomorrow.

All right, listen up.

Been talking with the other stations.

Sentinel Services is ramping up surveillance across the board.

So it looks like things are gonna get worse

- before they get better. - Well, how much worse?

With all these new refugees coming in, we're running out

of food, blankets, everything.

I heard Marietta might have some supplies...

- I can head up there this afternoon. - All right.

How's it coming with the hard drives from Baton Rouge?

We're working on cracking them.

Well, the bad news is they're encrypted.

But the good news is it probably means

- that there's something worth hiding. - Okay, if we

don't figure out how they're turning mutants against us,

none of this is gonna matter.

And one more thing.

I'm gonna go track down Clarice.

Now?

You really think that's a good idea?

She knows where this place is. If Sentinel Services catches her

right now, it's gonna be a disaster. All right?

We got a lot of work to do.

Let's get to it.

Hey.

These supplies... I can go with you.

No. No, you got training to do.

I already talked to them.

I got this.

Come on. It's cool.

Promise. I got to show you this.

Why can't you just do it inside?

- Someone might see. - No one's gonna see us.

We're not supposed to be up here.

We're practically touching the building.

- ( SCAFFOLDING GROANS ) - ( SIGHS ) : Stop.

Come on, can't you just bend the rules this once?

Do you want to miss out on everything?

You are like a textbook bad influence.

- You know that, right? - Okay.

Yeah, it's no big deal.

Fine.

Okay, I'll check it out.

But it better be cool.

It will be.

- Hey, it's... We're good. - ( EXHALES )

Great. It's the ground.

Just hang on a sec.

Close your eyes.

Please?

Okay.

: What...

Now open them.

It's gorgeous.

Better than being stuck indoors, right?

Have you ever been to the mountains?

Close enough.

The Nature Channel. ( CHUCKLES )

This is amazing.

I'm glad you like it.

Do you want to go back inside?

In a second.

Hey.

You guys get checked for herpes, right?

- I hear it's super contagious. - Way to be a stalker, Andy.

Mom told me to come get you. It's lunch.

- ( CONTINUES WHINING ) - Oh. Fine.

One bite.

Mmm, good girl.

- Hey, what took so long? - I couldn't find her,

so I decided to look on the roof.

The roof? Guys, you're not supposed to go on the roof.

Yeah. I checked and she wasn't there.

Where were you again?

Um, downstairs. Supply room. Just lost track of time.

This mac and cheese is great. You do something different?

No, it's exactly the same as the last 20 times.

I haven't seen you guys working on your homework.

- I want those papers tomorrow. - You were serious?

Mom, the only cool thing about being a refugee

- is no school. - Well, that's the deal.

You want to train, you're also gonna study.

Looks like the first drive is all police files on mutants.

The encryption is deeper on this one.

It's much deeper.

It reads like a shopping list.

Whatever program the Sentinel Services is working with,

they seem to be cherry-picking mutants

based on the powers they want.

They're not even pretending this is legal.

I mean...

Hold on.

What is it?

- ( CHILD LAUGHING ) Grace is gone.

We lost our little girl.

Dr. Campbell.

Agent Turner. Thank you for making the time.

I know you're a busy man. Oh, I brought you one of these

from that spot across the street.

Some kind of artisanal nonsense.

Thank you.

I was hoping to get a sense

of how our surveillance program

is proceeding.

Well, we've been monitoring every phone call in the region,

but the Mutant Underground, they're not exactly using

each other's names in these calls.

They're ditching burner cells every day, they're using

some sort of cloaking to beat our scans.

Yes. Well, that reinforces my conviction

that we should take a more direct approach.

More direct?

I'm-I'm not sure what you mean.

Surveillance alone isn't working.

To date, we've deployed our mutant assets cautiously.

But now it's time to be more aggressive.

You're talking about placing mutant assets in the field?

Yes.

Yeah, um, with all due respect,