The movie begins in the year 2029 with the opening scene showing Logan (Hugh Jackman) slumped over drunken stupor in the limousine that he drives around to eke out a living. The sound of thieves trying to steal his tires wakes him up and he tries to fight them but is shown struggling to pin them down. Although he eventually kills them, he gets shot a couple of times and is seen limping towards his limo before driving away.
Next, he is seen driving across the US/Mexico border to a derelict and abandoned water plant where he is met by Caliban (Stephen Merchant) who asks him if he has got more medicine for Professor Charles Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart). At 90, Xavier is now bedridden and suffering from dementia, which causes his once powerful brain to wreak havoc. Logan gives him his medicines but not before Charles has a powerful seizure. Logan manages to administer a sedative shot just in time. The next few scenes show how Logan’s body is unable to heal itself in the same way like it used to, making him more vulnerable.
After some time, Logan is at a cemetery when he is approached by a Mexican woman, who asks him for help. While he initially brushes her off, she keeps begging him to help her save a child. Once Logan gets into his car, he is approached by Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) who tells him that he knows who Logan really is (a mutant) and asks him if someone came asking him for any help. Although Logan gives him no information whatsoever, Pierce leaves his Transigen business card in the car.
Soon Logan is called to a motel to pick up a passenger, who turns out to be the same woman he met at the cemetery. Here, he sees Laura (Dafne Keen) for the first time. The woman tries to convince Logan to take her and Laura to a safe place for which she offers him $50,000 in total with $20,000 upfront. While Logan initially wants to walk away, the thought of the money tempts him to consider the request especially because he needs $75,000 to buy a boat and move someplace safe south with Xavier.
Logan goes back home to tell Caliban and Xavier that he will be away for a few days to earn some money. He then drives back to the motel but discovers that the woman has been killed and Laura is missing. He returns home only to discover that Laura somehow managed to get into the trunk of his limo and come along with him. Just as Laura is discovered, Pierce arrives saying that he knows Xavier is hidden there. Logan knocks him out cold and asks Caliban to drop him off in the Mexican desert.
Meanwhile, Xavier is delighted to discover Laura because he realises that she is a mutant. In the desert, Pierce wakes up and captures Caliban, as his henchmen arrive. Together, they raid the plant and capture Laura. Logan, Xavier, and Laura escape to Oklahoma City, where they discover that Eden, a supposed refuge for mutants, is fictional.
The Reavers arrive, but Xavier has a seizure that incapacitates everyone except Logan and Laura, who kill the attackers and inject Xavier with his medication. As they flee, Dr. Zander Rice, the head of Transigen, arrives to help Pierce.
Logan, Laura, and Xavier help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident, accepting an offer of dinner at their home, where Logan drives off enforcers from a corporate farm. Rice unleashes X-24, a mindless clone of Logan in his prime created as Transigen’s ultimate weapon. X-24 murders Will’s family and Xavier before capturing Laura. Caliban sets off grenades, killing himself and several Reavers but only injuring Pierce. Logan is outmatched by X-24, but Will pins X-24 with his truck before dying from his injuries. Logan and Laura escape with Xavier’s body.
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