Weapon X, Lies & Videotape

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"Weapon X, Lies and Videotape" is an episode from the Marvel Comics X-Men animated series. This episode centers around the insidious Weapon X project, and features Wolverine, Sabretooth, Maverick and Silver Fox.

The title is a play on the film Sex, Lies and Videotape.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Wolverine is plagued by nightmares, in which he relives a romantic relationship with Silver Fox. They etch their names on the door of a hut, and every time, Sabretooth attacks them in the hut and drives them apart. Wolverine feels that he is reliving a part of his Weapon X past, when he was given his adamantium skeleton and brainwashed into being a mindless assassin.

Wolverine is drawn into the wilderness and stumbles upon Maverick, Silver Fox and Sabretooth, fellow Weapon X members who had similar nightmares (e.g. Sabretooth remembers being beaten by his father in a cellar). Although mistrust is deep, they collaborate and find an abandoned military base. Beast followed Wolverine, and joined up with the group.

In this base, they find the remains of a boot camp, videotapes of them being tampered on and tortured - and most strikingly - the backdrops of all their nightmares. Wolverine finds the hut, Sabretooth the cellar he thought he was beaten in. All their memories were false, it seems. But when the quartet wants to search further, they are attacked by robots, barely escape, and the base is destroyed.

Wolverine's camerades feel bad, as they know now that many of their memories are false. However, Wolverine saw one thing: the hut door which he saw did not have an etching on it, strongly hinting that the romantic memories Silver Fox and him share are real. But Silver Fox says even if this was true, "that was another lifetime". With that, Wolverine is left alone with Beast, and bemoans to him that he has no idea which of his memories are real and which are fake. Beast tells Wolverine that he can at least be certain that the good memories he has had since joining the X-Men are real. As they leave the boot camp we are showed a tree with the etching Wolverine remembers.