- [Bastion enters the barber shop and plays "The Purple People Eater" on the jukebox. He turns on the light bulb above Magneto and snaps his fingers to the song]
- Bastion: Nifty bop, right? I've had to be bad lately. But heat, like music, it softens things.
- [Bastion pulls out a steamed face towel and places it on Magneto's face]
- Bastion: Softens follicles. Opens pores. Makes the flesh pliable.
- [Bastion grabs a cutthroat razor and starts shaving Magneto's beard]
- Bastion: This way, once I have to get to work, smooth as butter. So long as you stay still. So long as you don't resist. Simply listen and obey. See? You were born for this.
- Beast: The priority for the foreseeable future must be damage control.
- Trish Tilby: Hell, tall order when mutants everywhere are taking to the streets.
- Beast: Riots are the language of the unheard.
- Trish Tilby: Martin Luther King. But smashing windows is destruction, not communication. Normal people won't accept mutants if they feel threatened. That fear is the whole issue.
- Beast: Perhaps the Professor's vision for the future was too nearsighted, and begging for your tolerance was our first mistake.
- Trish Tilby: Oh, Hank, no, that's not what I was saying.
- Beast: But it is what you mean. That is the issue. As was your reporting outside my home while my friends were dying. Now, forgive me. I dare not waste any more of your tolerance, Ms. Tilby.