Magento, aka Lorna “Polaris” Dane’s father, has remained an unspoken X-Men connection thus far in The Gifted‘s first season—but that’s about to change.

Speaking to Comicbook.com, Emma Dumont (Lorna) teased that “Magneto plays a big part in the rest of the season.” While Magneto will not actually appear on the show, he will play a major part in Lorna’s storyline, specifically in Episodes 12 and 13, aka the Gifted Season 1 finale, set to air on January 15th.

Polaris … thinks there are two paths: What she believes and what she wants, what her personal beliefs are and what she thinks is right, and then the other path is what she was born to do, which is be Magneto’s daughter, which is to take over his legacy. But what Lorna doesn’t realize is those two things are exactly the same, and she finally does realize that eventually in the season, later on, and that really terrifies her.

Does this mean that Lorna may turn more villainous in the Season 1 finale? Or might The Gifted have a different perspective on Magneto’s philosophy then what we’ve seen from on-screen adaptations of the X-Men so far—i.e. perhaps Lorna following in her father’s more aggressive footsteps is contextualized as the right path forward by a show that is more revolutionary and anti-institutional then many of its predecessors.

Dumont continued: