haley ramm portrayed jean's first meeting with charles xavier and magneto is shown in a flashback taking place twenty years before the events of the first film. in the present day, the x-men, particularly scott and logan, continue to mourn jean's death. after hearing jean's voice, scott travels alone to alkali lake, where he encounters jean herself, having survived the flood. they kiss passionately, but scott suddenly vanishes. xavier senses it and sends logan and storm to alkali, finding jean unconscious but alive and taking her back to the mansion, where xavier reveals to a shocked logan that due to the instability of jean's powers, he created psychic barriers inside her mind to prevent her alternate personality, the destructive phoenix, from taking over. jean awakens shortly after in front of logan; they almost make love before logan discovers she is not herself. though jean begs logan to kill her, the phoenix takes over and knocks logan out before leaving the mansion for her childhood home. both the x-men and brotherhood track her down; though xavier attempts to placate jean, the phoenix takes over again and vaporises xavier, destroying most of the house, and joins the brotherhood under magneto while still distrusting him. jean, however, manages to psychically call for logan, seeing him as the only one able stop the phoenix. logan goes after her but is defeated by magneto.