Underpinnings

• Writer - Scott Lobdell
• Penciler - Joe Quesada
• Inker - Al Milgrom
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Tom Smith
• Editor - Kelly Corvese
• Group Editor - Bob Harras
• Editor in Chief - Tom Defalco

Summary

  X-Factor battles magistrates in the sewers of Genosha, looking for mutate 24601.

  Val accosts a troubled and briefly drunken Pietro in the Genoshan airport bar (his reconciliation with his wife failed in iss. 89).

  Rahne tells Alex that she knows her love for him was artificially induced, and all she wants is her life back.

  Jamie finds the ill mutate and, risking his own life, creates a dupe and performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

  The Genoshan president thanks X-Factor and pledges to find a cure to the mutate disease, and then free all the mutates from the vestiges of mind control.