eXtraction
"We will not be staying any longer than we have to."
Written by Michael Horowitz
Directed by Scott Peters
Directed by Scott Peters
"We're heading up to Charlotte tomorrow. Might be our only chance to grab Campbell, and once we have him, we're gonna need every angle we can get."
— John Proudstar / Thunderbird
The Frost sisters and the Underground make plans to kidnap Doctor Campbell.
Tropes:
- Big Damn Kiss: Clarice shares one with John after he apologises for attacking her earlier.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Fade returns, still resentful against the Struckers.
- Reed's mother Ellen returns, as her family escorts her to safety from Sentinel Services agents.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: The Frost sisters torture Franklin Bennett by mind controlling him into not breathing.
- The Corrupter: The Frost sisters, again. While Clarice doesn't fall for it, Lorna more and more embraces their methods.
- Defiant Captive: Bennett, at least until the Frost Sisters start choking him.
- Dehumanization: Senator Montez claims that mutants are wrongfully hiding behind the constitution, a human document.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Doesn't Montez's speech at the Humanity Today rally sounds a lot like anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric?
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In a flashback from four years earlier, Campbell is shown to have a terminally ill brother named Jack.
- Human Shield: Campbell uses children as his shield to escape the mutants.
- Hypocrite: The Frost sisters chide Clarice as one when she objects to her methods, alluding to her past collaboration with the Brotherhood.
- Internal Reveal: Ellen Strucker learns about the death of her ex-husband and the truth about his work in the past.
- It's All My Fault: Ellen blames herself for not having realized what her husband had been doing all these years, specifically not noticing what he did to Reed.
- Liar Revealed: Clarice is revealed to have been aligned with the Brotherhood in the past, something she never told anybody at the Underground. John is quite pissed about this at first.
- New Era Speech: Senator gives during the rally, which gives off some heavy Nazi tones.
- The Resenter: Fade is still angry about the Struckers being allowed to stay at the hideout.
- Sadist: Bennett is a rabid mutant hater, watching videos in his free time where they get tortured.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Andy is embracing some of the mutant supremacist rhetoric of his great-grandfather.
- We ARE Struggling Together: Andy and Lauren get into a fight after Andy attacks two Sentinel Services agents, with Lauren trying to stop him.
- Would Hurt a Child: Campbell grabs a child to keep Marcos and John from abducting him. Furthermore, the Frost Sisters reveal they would have had no compunctions against killing the children to complete their mission.
- Written by the Winners: Andy argues that the historical accounts of the Fenris siblings being genocidal murderers may be the result of anti-mutant bias.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Andy compares Andrea and Andreas von Strucker's goal of a mutant haven to the American Revolution and George Washington.
