Episode 8: Season 4, Episode 8: Deathstrike

In a chilling twist of fate, Wolverine is brutally ambushed by Lady Deathstrike, the vengeful daughter of the man who forged his adamantium skeleton, in a snowbound town where the past refuses to stay buried. As Logan flees, wounded and disoriented, he's pursued not only by Deathstrike but by the cyborgs he once left for dead—men transformed by his own violence into weapons of revenge. Meanwhile, the newly formed Freedom Force, a team of reformed mutant criminals including Avalanche and Pyro, is sent on a covert mission to dismantle a rogue cybernetics lab. What begins as a routine operation spirals into chaos when they're attacked by grotesque, mindless cyborgs created by the enigmatic Donald Pierce. The mission ends in disaster: Captain Frank Bohannon, the team's leader, is abandoned and left to die after Avalanche coldly abandons him, revealing a deep fracture in the group's loyalty. As the wreckage burns and the truth of Deathstrike's origin unfolds—her father’s legacy, her betrayal of him, and her desperate quest for freedom—the episode culminates in a haunting image: Crimson Commando, abandoned and dying in the snow, left behind by the very team he sought to lead. The night ends not with victory, but with the quiet, devastating weight of betrayal, loss, and the unrelenting cost of redemption.