In season 2 episode 1, Bishop is sent back to what year?

In X-Men ’97 season 2 episode 1, Bishop is sent back to 3000 B.C. The time jump places him in ancient Egypt during the early life of En Sabah Nur, the mutant who will become Apocalypse.

The premiere follows the season 1 finale, when the X-Men are scattered across different eras after Asteroid M’s destruction. Forge uses his technological knowledge to operate a time machine, sending Bishop into the past while another rescue mission reaches the distant future.

The ancient-Egypt setting is important because it lets the series explore Apocalypse before he becomes the fully formed conqueror familiar from X-Men stories. Bishop’s mission is therefore more than a rescue operation: it risks changing the conditions that created one of mutantkind’s most dangerous enemies.

Viewers can easily confuse Bishop’s destination with 3960 A.D., the far-future era where another group of X-Men encounters Mother Askani. The two dates are deliberate opposites—Bishop goes to 3000 B.C., while the future team is stranded nearly seven millennia later.