back in the present time, jean is being helped by the nurse marjorie on trying to recall her name. marjorie starts speaking name after name and would not stop even though jean asked her to. jean became confused and not realizing what she was doing, lost control of her telekinetic powers. this caught emma frost's attention when it registered on cerebro and went to pick her up with cyclops. meanwhile, jean is being chased by the mrd in the hospital and, once cornered, ratted out by marjorie, she unintentionally manifested her enormously powerful phoenix abilities in the heat of her fear and hopelessness, which caused an intense psionic wave that affected almost the entire city. archangel, under mr. sinister's command, went to capture jean but cyclops and emma intervened. they soon discovered that the reason why jean was not in mental contact with scott was because she had no memory of scott. archangel pursued them as they tried to get jean home, cyclops desperately fought him, but in the end both he and jean were captured so that sinister could take samples of their dna for his experiments. the x-men came to rescue them and fought the marauders, but just as archangel is about to kill cyclops, jean manifests her immensely powerful phoenix force abilities and defeats him. scott was able to calm her down and take her to the institute for rest and promised her that she would regain her memories in conjunction with emma's help. everyone at the institute then became unconscious, except emma, an undercover agent of the hellfire club who now had jean, and therefore the phoenix force itself, in their hands.