Wolverine and the X-Men (2008–2009): Season 1, Episode 17 - Code of Conduct - full transcript
Wolverine comes back to the mansion to discover the Silver Samurai.
(SNIFFING)
Hmm.
(SNIFFS)
(BOBBY SCREAMS)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
(SNIFFS)
(GROWLS)
(EXCLAIMS)
(SNIFFS)
(EXCLAIMS)
(GROANS)
Huh?
(SHRIEKS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(SHOUTS)
(GRUNTS)
(MUFFLED GROANING)
(GROANING)
Logan!
Are you all right?
Yeah, but everyone's gone.
They've been taken.
We'll get them back.
One of them knew you.
He said you'll never
see the X-Men again
unless you fight him, tomorrow.
(SNIFFING)
Who is he?
The Silver Samurai.
(WHIMPERS)
(GROWLS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
What is going on, Logan?
Who are these people?
What do they want from you?
Logan!
Get on. We have to go.
Go where?
Tell me what this is all about.
A woman.
Are you serious?
It was a few years ago.
It might as well have
been another lifetime.
Her name was Mariko.
She meant a lot to me.
But her father wanted her to
marry a guy named Harada.
He was Japanese nobility
and a member of
the criminal Yakuza.
I was gaijin, an outsider.
He wanted to
fight me for Mariko,
and I accepted.
(YELLS)
Harada was a mutant.
He could supercharge his
sword to cut through anything.
Me, I didn't even need a sword.
But this challenge was
bound by the samurai code.
No powers allowed.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(PANTING) Yield!
Don't be stupid, Harada.
No, Logan-san. It is over.
Please, leave now.
Mariko!
I was doing this all for you.
And now, for me,
you will leave.
(EXCLAIMING IN JAPANESE)
Leave? For how long?
Forever.
But you won.
Why would she... Didn't matter.
Minds were already made up.
You're seriously just going to
sneak into the Japanese embassy?
Yeah.
What makes you
so sure he's even...
Because he's a coward.
And this is where he'd hide.
He thinks he's safe here.
He's wrong.
I don't get it.
He goes to all this
trouble, he gets the girl,
what else does he want?
What he's always wanted,
a fight to the death.
(SNIFFS)
We're near the kitchen.
Three cooks.
A tray of tea came by here.
What about the
X-Men? Sense anything?
They're not here.
But I recognize that tea.
What are you talking about?
Wait here.
(GASPS)
Mariko.
It's okay.
It's me.
Logan-san.
You should not be here.
I had no choice.
You promised you
would not try to see me.
That was before your
husband kidnapped my friends.
Mariko, talk to me.
Why is he doing this?
My husband,
he is vying for the
leadership of the Yakuza clan.
But they have
a very strict code of honor.
What's that got to do with me?
He must wipe his
past clean of all failure.
He has never been beaten...
Except by me.
And if he had simply
issued a challenge...
I'd have told him to buzz off.
So he is now forcing your hand.
Yakuza is his problem, not mine.
I just want my friends back.
Mariko, please. Tell
me where they are.
If I do, will you go?
Will you promise not to
face my husband in battle?
Yeah.
I no longer have a
reason to fight him.
There is a warehouse
near the docks.
A sakura marks the front.
Do you know it?
Logan-san?
So that was her, huh?
What, you were listening in?
Uh, yeah. Who wouldn't?
(GROWLS)
You!
You have betrayed me!
This fight is foolish.
Someone will die.
And you fear it will
be Logan, desyo?
No.
I fear it will be you.
(GRUNTS AGGRESSIVELY)
(GRUNTS DEFIANTLY)
(EXCLAIMS IN JAPANESE)
Get everyone into the warehouse.
Now!
(GROWLS)
WOLVERINE: We got three!
Rogue, get out.
I mean it, Rogue. These guys
are highly trained assassins.
(EXCLAIMS)
Good.
(GROANS)
Check it out.
I just learned Bushido.
(YELLING)
(ASSASSINS GROAN)
(GRUNTING GROGGILY)
Got to cheat to win, huh?
You call this honorable?
Insolent gaijin!
Stop! He is right.
There is no honor in
fighting a sedated opponent.
Tomorrow, then,
we settle this.
It will be a battle
between warriors.
No mutant powers,
only katanas.
Such is the samurai code.
You fight like a common thug.
It will be a short battle.
(SNICKERS)
(GRUNTING WEAKLY)
I'm sorry, Charles.
I let you down.
Logan, you've
done no such thing.
I'm used to things in my
past dogging my heels.
But now the X-Men
got dragged into it.
You had no control over that.
Still, I'm being forced
into a fight I might not win.
And if I do, I got serious doubts
Harada will let the team go.
I thought the Yakuza were
bound by a code of honor.
Yeah, they are.
Harada isn't.
It is not like you to
fear an enemy, Logan.
I've been on the
streets too long, Charles.
The Mardies, Sabretooth...
They turned me into a savage.
I'm not a samurai anymore.
But at one time
you had the skill.
The samurai trains every day,
lives and breathes it every day.
I turned my back on it.
It's been years since
I've used a blade
that didn't come
out of my knuckles.
Ah, but your training still
remains in your memory.
I've seen it.
(EXCLAIMS IN JAPANESE)
Logan-san, on your feet!
You will show respect now!
Sensei? How?
I've taken him from your mind.
He was the only swordsman
you ever respected.
Ruthless, but honorable.
Too much talk!
Kata seven!
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS IN DISGUST) Sloppy.
Look at your opponent,
not at your weapon.
Again!
(GROANS)
Again!
(EXCLAIMS)
(GRUNTING)
Well?
Bah!
He is terrible. A disgrace.
But it no longer revolts
me to observe him.
(CHUCKLES) Yep.
As I remember, that was
his highest compliment.
Good luck, son. I
have faith in you.
(SIGHS)
Thanks, Chuck.
(METAL SCRAPING)
Logan.
Harada.
I beg of you,
do not do this.
Still you defend him,
this animal?
He is but a brute. His
anger will betray him.
You will see.
Harada-san. Logan-san. This
will be a battle of skill and honor.
You possess unnatural powers.
I remind you, these
must not be used.
You will fight by the
code of the samurai,
or you will pay
the consequences.
Is this understood?
Of course.
To the death, then.
Fight!
(HARADA SHOUTING)
(GASPS)
You can still call
this off, Harada.
Just return my
friends and I'll go.
(SNARLS)
My wife's eyes
are on you, Logan.
They always have been.
So once I defeat you,
she will pay for her impudence.
(SHOUTS)
(GROANS)
Do you want to know
the truth, Logan?
Mariko means nothing to me.
I married her only
so that you could not.
(EXCLAIMS)
You're a fool as well
as a coward, Harada.
And this fight ends now.
(SHOUTS)
(GASPS)
(HARADA EXCLAIMS)
(BOTH PANTING)
Last chance, Harada.
Yield!
The Silver Samurai
yields to no man!
(EXCLAIMS)
(SHOUTING) No!
(SHOUTING)
(SIGHS)
(GROANS)
Enough!
(COUGHING)
This fight is forfeit.
Harada has violated
the code of the samurai.
He is disgraced before the clan.
Take him away.
And the X-Men?
You have shown honor
in battle, Logan-san.
Your friends will be
returned within the hour.
So...
What happens now?
My husband will be driven
from the Yakuza in shame.
They will never admit him again.
And what about you?
He is still my husband.
I swore an oath
of loyalty to him.
And I will keep it.
Why?
Why did you choose
him and not me?
If I had chosen you,
our lives would
have ended that day.
The Yakuza awaited my
decision with drawn swords.
Do you not see?
Marrying him was the only
honorable thing I could do.
Even if it meant
keeping us forever apart.
Mariko!
I could have freed you.
If I'd have finished
him off, then...
Then you would not
have been the man I love.
Goodbye, Logan.
Hmm.
(SNIFFS)
(BOBBY SCREAMS)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
(SNIFFS)
(GROWLS)
(EXCLAIMS)
(SNIFFS)
(EXCLAIMS)
(GROANS)
Huh?
(SHRIEKS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(SHOUTS)
(GRUNTS)
(MUFFLED GROANING)
(GROANING)
Logan!
Are you all right?
Yeah, but everyone's gone.
They've been taken.
We'll get them back.
One of them knew you.
He said you'll never
see the X-Men again
unless you fight him, tomorrow.
(SNIFFING)
Who is he?
The Silver Samurai.
(WHIMPERS)
(GROWLS)
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
What is going on, Logan?
Who are these people?
What do they want from you?
Logan!
Get on. We have to go.
Go where?
Tell me what this is all about.
A woman.
Are you serious?
It was a few years ago.
It might as well have
been another lifetime.
Her name was Mariko.
She meant a lot to me.
But her father wanted her to
marry a guy named Harada.
He was Japanese nobility
and a member of
the criminal Yakuza.
I was gaijin, an outsider.
He wanted to
fight me for Mariko,
and I accepted.
(YELLS)
Harada was a mutant.
He could supercharge his
sword to cut through anything.
Me, I didn't even need a sword.
But this challenge was
bound by the samurai code.
No powers allowed.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(PANTING) Yield!
Don't be stupid, Harada.
No, Logan-san. It is over.
Please, leave now.
Mariko!
I was doing this all for you.
And now, for me,
you will leave.
(EXCLAIMING IN JAPANESE)
Leave? For how long?
Forever.
But you won.
Why would she... Didn't matter.
Minds were already made up.
You're seriously just going to
sneak into the Japanese embassy?
Yeah.
What makes you
so sure he's even...
Because he's a coward.
And this is where he'd hide.
He thinks he's safe here.
He's wrong.
I don't get it.
He goes to all this
trouble, he gets the girl,
what else does he want?
What he's always wanted,
a fight to the death.
(SNIFFS)
We're near the kitchen.
Three cooks.
A tray of tea came by here.
What about the
X-Men? Sense anything?
They're not here.
But I recognize that tea.
What are you talking about?
Wait here.
(GASPS)
Mariko.
It's okay.
It's me.
Logan-san.
You should not be here.
I had no choice.
You promised you
would not try to see me.
That was before your
husband kidnapped my friends.
Mariko, talk to me.
Why is he doing this?
My husband,
he is vying for the
leadership of the Yakuza clan.
But they have
a very strict code of honor.
What's that got to do with me?
He must wipe his
past clean of all failure.
He has never been beaten...
Except by me.
And if he had simply
issued a challenge...
I'd have told him to buzz off.
So he is now forcing your hand.
Yakuza is his problem, not mine.
I just want my friends back.
Mariko, please. Tell
me where they are.
If I do, will you go?
Will you promise not to
face my husband in battle?
Yeah.
I no longer have a
reason to fight him.
There is a warehouse
near the docks.
A sakura marks the front.
Do you know it?
Logan-san?
So that was her, huh?
What, you were listening in?
Uh, yeah. Who wouldn't?
(GROWLS)
You!
You have betrayed me!
This fight is foolish.
Someone will die.
And you fear it will
be Logan, desyo?
No.
I fear it will be you.
(GRUNTS AGGRESSIVELY)
(GRUNTS DEFIANTLY)
(EXCLAIMS IN JAPANESE)
Get everyone into the warehouse.
Now!
(GROWLS)
WOLVERINE: We got three!
Rogue, get out.
I mean it, Rogue. These guys
are highly trained assassins.
(EXCLAIMS)
Good.
(GROANS)
Check it out.
I just learned Bushido.
(YELLING)
(ASSASSINS GROAN)
(GRUNTING GROGGILY)
Got to cheat to win, huh?
You call this honorable?
Insolent gaijin!
Stop! He is right.
There is no honor in
fighting a sedated opponent.
Tomorrow, then,
we settle this.
It will be a battle
between warriors.
No mutant powers,
only katanas.
Such is the samurai code.
You fight like a common thug.
It will be a short battle.
(SNICKERS)
(GRUNTING WEAKLY)
I'm sorry, Charles.
I let you down.
Logan, you've
done no such thing.
I'm used to things in my
past dogging my heels.
But now the X-Men
got dragged into it.
You had no control over that.
Still, I'm being forced
into a fight I might not win.
And if I do, I got serious doubts
Harada will let the team go.
I thought the Yakuza were
bound by a code of honor.
Yeah, they are.
Harada isn't.
It is not like you to
fear an enemy, Logan.
I've been on the
streets too long, Charles.
The Mardies, Sabretooth...
They turned me into a savage.
I'm not a samurai anymore.
But at one time
you had the skill.
The samurai trains every day,
lives and breathes it every day.
I turned my back on it.
It's been years since
I've used a blade
that didn't come
out of my knuckles.
Ah, but your training still
remains in your memory.
I've seen it.
(EXCLAIMS IN JAPANESE)
Logan-san, on your feet!
You will show respect now!
Sensei? How?
I've taken him from your mind.
He was the only swordsman
you ever respected.
Ruthless, but honorable.
Too much talk!
Kata seven!
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS IN DISGUST) Sloppy.
Look at your opponent,
not at your weapon.
Again!
(GROANS)
Again!
(EXCLAIMS)
(GRUNTING)
Well?
Bah!
He is terrible. A disgrace.
But it no longer revolts
me to observe him.
(CHUCKLES) Yep.
As I remember, that was
his highest compliment.
Good luck, son. I
have faith in you.
(SIGHS)
Thanks, Chuck.
(METAL SCRAPING)
Logan.
Harada.
I beg of you,
do not do this.
Still you defend him,
this animal?
He is but a brute. His
anger will betray him.
You will see.
Harada-san. Logan-san. This
will be a battle of skill and honor.
You possess unnatural powers.
I remind you, these
must not be used.
You will fight by the
code of the samurai,
or you will pay
the consequences.
Is this understood?
Of course.
To the death, then.
Fight!
(HARADA SHOUTING)
(GASPS)
You can still call
this off, Harada.
Just return my
friends and I'll go.
(SNARLS)
My wife's eyes
are on you, Logan.
They always have been.
So once I defeat you,
she will pay for her impudence.
(SHOUTS)
(GROANS)
Do you want to know
the truth, Logan?
Mariko means nothing to me.
I married her only
so that you could not.
(EXCLAIMS)
You're a fool as well
as a coward, Harada.
And this fight ends now.
(SHOUTS)
(GASPS)
(HARADA EXCLAIMS)
(BOTH PANTING)
Last chance, Harada.
Yield!
The Silver Samurai
yields to no man!
(EXCLAIMS)
(SHOUTING) No!
(SHOUTING)
(SIGHS)
(GROANS)
Enough!
(COUGHING)
This fight is forfeit.
Harada has violated
the code of the samurai.
He is disgraced before the clan.
Take him away.
And the X-Men?
You have shown honor
in battle, Logan-san.
Your friends will be
returned within the hour.
So...
What happens now?
My husband will be driven
from the Yakuza in shame.
They will never admit him again.
And what about you?
He is still my husband.
I swore an oath
of loyalty to him.
And I will keep it.
Why?
Why did you choose
him and not me?
If I had chosen you,
our lives would
have ended that day.
The Yakuza awaited my
decision with drawn swords.
Do you not see?
Marrying him was the only
honorable thing I could do.
Even if it meant
keeping us forever apart.
Mariko!
I could have freed you.
If I'd have finished
him off, then...
Then you would not
have been the man I love.
Goodbye, Logan.