Two new young X-Men were introduced: (1) Rogue's (Anna Paquin) mutant student boyfriend Iceman/Bobby Drake (Shawn Ashmore) (he had only a minor role in the first film), and (2) their angry young friend Pyro/John Allerdyce (Aaron Stanford).Alice awoke abruptly in a hospital bed, screaming: "No!" A doctor ordered 3 milligrams of Valium for her, and assured her: "It's over.He asserts to Lon:Hud: "It was the best hing.He was wore out and he knew it....Tryin' to get up, hurtin' himself.He couldn't have made it.Lonnie, any way in this world, he couldn't have made it another hour....You don't know the whole story.Yeah, him and me fought many and many a round together.But I guess you could say that I helped him about as much as he ever helped me."Lon: (questioning Hud's sincerity and complicity) "How did you help him, Hud? By tryin' to sell him out? By takin' the heart out of him? By makin' him give up and quit? Is that how you helped him?"In the final scene, Lon walks off from he ranch in disgust as he speaks to Hud driving next to him in his car, and decides not to follow his ways: "I'm goin' somewhere else and work for awhile if I can happen onto a job."A leather book titled "Intolerance" opens, with a title card superimposed over the text of the open pages:Act I:Our first story - out of the cradle of the present...her father passed on soon after she was born, my ugly duckling...I've kept her close by me always.When she was young, foolish, I made decisions for her, always the right decisions.One would think a child would wish to repay her mother's love and kindness.She is seen in a full-length frame as she enters the palatial parlor - a lonely-looking, repressed, dowdy, and unhappy spinster daughter with owlish librarian's spectacles, heavy eyebrows above pop-eyes, unattractive mousy hairdo, a white-powdered face, and a shapeless body.