Open Cage

• Writer - Terry Kavanagh
• Penciler - Roger Cruz
• Inker - Bud LaRosa
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Enhancement - Graphic Colorworks
• Editor - Jaye Gardner
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  In Washington Square Park, Threnody introduces Nate to 3-Card Monte, which he wins by reading minds, and a palm reader, whose life story he tells her; then he plays Cupid and scares off a soon-to-be arsonist. All these miracles gather a crowd, including Maddie, but he runs off with Threnody. He manipulates minds to impersonate Quentin Tarentino and Naomi Campbell and eat in the Rainbow Room. But when they dance on air, anti-mutant hysteria is raised, and Nate has to stop a riot and erase all memories. Threnody, meanwhile, has pick-pocketed from the rich, but Nate makes her throw it to the poor. He offers to reroute her mind and free her from Sinister's baffles, but she isn't sure.

  Selene sends Fitzroy to Shaw's yacht, to effect a meeting. In response to Bastion's attack on mutants, she wants to reestablish the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.