INT. MEDTECH LAB โ NIGHT
A sterile white room hums with futuristic equipment. JOE C. JUKIC and TOM CRUISE stand beside a glowing holographic display of a human eye. JEAN GREY, dressed in her dark X-Men uniform, looks skeptical but intrigued.
TOM CRUISE
(enthusiastic)
See, Jean โ in Minority Report, this is the moment. I had my eyes swapped out by this shady surgeon so I could evade the retinal scanners. It was raw, gritty… but visionary.
(He taps a button, and a holographic clip plays โ Tomโs character screaming as robotic arms delicately swap his eyes.)
JEAN GREY
(tilting her head)
That scene was brutal. But Iโve seen worse โ in the minds of surgeons and mutants alike. Still, youโre saying this could actually be done now? A cloned eye transplant?
JOE C. JUKIC
(smiling)
Itโs closer than you think, Jean. Theyโre growing optic nerves from stem cells now โ rebuilding the retina with the patientโs own DNA. The body canโt reject it. No more donor waiting lists.
TOM CRUISE
Yeah. Imagine โ no prosthetics, no cyborg implants. Just a perfect biological match. A reborn eye.
JEAN GREY
But the optic nerve… Thatโs the tricky part. You canโt just plug it back in. The brain has to learn to see again.
JOE C. JUKIC
Thatโs where neuroplasticity comes in. The brain rewires itself. Given the right frequency stimulation โ light, sound, electromagnetic pulses โ it adapts. The trick is convincing the neurons to reconnect.
TOM CRUISE
(laughing)
Sounds like something out of Mission: Impossible.
JEAN GREY
(softly, a little sad)
For some of us… it is impossible. Vision isnโt just light โ itโs memory, emotion. You canโt clone those.
JOE C. JUKIC
Maybe not yet. But the eye is the window of the soul, right? So if the soulโs still inside… maybe it can find its way back to the light.
TOM CRUISE
(grinning, quoting himself)
โSometimes youโve got to lose your eyes… to really see.โ
JEAN GREY
(smiles faintly)
That line wasnโt in Minority Report, Tom.
TOM CRUISE
I know. Maybe it shouldโve been.
(They all laugh lightly. The holographic eye spins โ glowing blue, alive โ as if listening to them.)