Synopsis
| - Wolverine is drowning his sorrows in a New York bar, having driven three days from Oregon to meet with Nightcrawler. Kurt enters the bar wearing an image-inducer, which Wolverine isn’t happy about. He wants Kurt to be himself, especially in this particular bar which is mutant-friendly. Even the bartender, Jo, is a mutant. Kurt tries to get to the bottom of why Wolverine is feeling particularly morose. He inquires about the dead girl, Lucy Braddock, and the two discuss death, murder and the fact that Wolverine killed twenty-seven men three days ago. Wolverine needs reassurance, maybe even absolution, for what he feels are his crimes and Kurt provides the reassurance, but not the absolution, arguing that he doesn’t need it. He asks if a wolf is evil because it culls sickness from a herd? Wolverine is an honorable man, not an animal. Meanwhile, ATF Agent Cassie Lathrop struggles to obtain a clear picture of Wolverine from a police sketch artist, who tells her that it’s difficult to draw someone when emotion is clouding Cassie’s judgement. Later that evening, Cassie dreams about him killing her in bed. He is in her, head deep, and she can’t figure out why.
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