Twelve Monkeys (1995) - full transcript

(WOMAN ANNOUNCING
ON PA SYSTEM)

(EXCITED CHATTING, SHOUTING)

(EXPLOSION, BEEPING NOISE)

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

PA ANNOUNCER:
Passengers for flight 841
to Rome, come to gate seven.

(ANNOUNCER
CONTINUES INDISTINCT)

Flight 784 to San Francisco
is now ready
for boarding at...

PA, FEMALE WARDEN:
Inmate number 87645,
Cole, James.

27631, Johnson.

84743, Innis.

(WARDEN CONTINUES INDISTINCT)



Jose.

Jose, what's going on?
Bad news, man.

Volunteers?
Yeah, and they said your name.

Hey, maybe they'll
give you a pardon, man.

Yeah. That's why none of
the volunteers come back.
They all get a pardon.

Some came back, I heard.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah.

Please put me back!
Don't take me.

They got 'em up
on the seventh floor.
They hide 'em up there.

They're all messed up
in the head.
Brains don't work.

You don't know
they're all messed up.
Nobody's seen 'em.

Maybe they're not messed up.
That's a rumor.
Nobody knows that.

I don't believe that.

Good luck, man.

Volunteer duty.



COLE: I didn't volunteer.

You causing trouble again?

No, no trouble.

PA, FEMALE WARDEN:
These are the instructions
for the first time probe.

Listen carefully,
they must be followed exactly.

All openings of your garment
must be sealed completely.

If the integrity of the suit
is compromised in any way,

if the fabric is torn
or a zipper not closed,

re-admittance will be denied.

(WIND HOWLING)

(GROWLING)

(SILENT NIGHT PLAYING)

(BIRDS SQUAWKING)

(HOOTING)

(ROARING)

PA, MALE WARDEN:
If there are any indications
of contamination by germs,

the subject will be
denied reentry
to secure population.

FEMALE WARDEN:
Please place blood sample
in receptacle provided.

There will be
a socialization class
in room 700

for citizens cited
for deviations 23-A and 96-A

per subchapter six of
the Permanent Emergency Code.

MAN: James Cole,
cleared from quarantine.

Thank you.
You two wait outside.

He's got a history, Doctor.
Violence.

Anti-social six.
Repeated violations of
the Permanent Emergency Code.

Insolence. Defiance.

Disregard of authority.
Doing 25 to life.

I don't think
he's gonna hurt us.

You aren't gonna hurt us,
are you, Mr. Cole?

No, sir.

Why don't you sit down,
Mr. Cole?

We appreciate
your volunteering.
You're a very good observer.

Thank you.

GEOLOGIST: We have
a very advanced program.
Something very different.

MICROBIOLOGIST: Opportunity
to reduce your sentence.

ZOOLOGIST:
And possibly play
an important role

in returning the human race
to surface of the earth.

ASTROPHYSICIST: We want
tough-minded people.
Strong mentally.

We've had some misfortunes
with unstable types.

ENGINEER:
For a man in your position,
an opportunity.

Not to volunteer
could be a real mistake.

MICROBIOLOGIST:
Definitely a mistake.

WOMAN: "Yet among
the myriad microwaves,

"the infrared messages,
the gigabytes of
ones and zeros,

"we find words,
byte-sized now,

"tinier even than science,
lurking in some
vague electricity.

"But if we but listen,

"we hear the solitary voice
of that poet telling us,

(BEEPING)

"yesterday this day's
madness did prepare

(BEEPING CONTINUES)
"tomorrow's silent triumph
or despair.

"Drink, for you know not
whence you came, nor why.

"Drink, for you know not
why you go, nor where."

(CHATTING)

...wandering around
in nothing
but his underpants

and one of those plastic,
see-through lady's raincoats.

So, they get there,
they ask the guy real nice
for some kind of ID.

He gets agitated,
starts screaming
about viruses.

Totally irrational,
totally disoriented.

Doesn't know where he is,
what day of the week it is.

Lemme see.

All they got was his name.
Thanks.

Of course, they figured
he's stoned out of his mind.

Some kind of
psychotic episode.

He's been tested for drugs?
Negative for drugs.

But he took on five cops
like he was dusted
to the eyeballs.

No drugs. You believe that?
He's in restraints.

Yeah. Weren't you listenin'?
I've got two police officers
in the hospital !

The medic gave him enough
Stelazine to kill a horse.
Look at him. Rarin' to go.

That would explain
the bruises, I guess.
The struggle.

Yeah. You wanna go in there,
examine him, what?

Yes, please.

Is this all you have?
Ran it through your system?

No matchup.
No license, no prints,
no warrants. Nothing.

I should probably
go in with you.

No, thank you.
That won't be necessary.

All right.
He'll be right here,
just in case.

Mr. Cole,
my name is Kathryn Railly.
I'm a psychiatrist.

I work for the county.
I don't work for the police.

So my concern is
for your well-being.
Do you understand that?

Need to go! Need to go!

I can't make
the police let you go.

But I do want to
help you, so l...

I need you to tell me
exactly what happened tonight.

Do you think
you can do that, James?

May I call you James?

James.

Nobody ever calls me that.

Have you been
a patient at County?
No.

Have I seen you someplace?
Not possible.

I need to go. I need to...
I'm supposed to be
gathering information.

What kind of information?
Won't help you.

Won't help anyone.
Won't change anything.

James, do you know
why you're here?

'Cause I'm a good observer.
Got a tough mind.

I see.

You don't remember
assaulting a police officer?

Why am I chained?
Why are these chains on me?

You've been in
an institution before,
haven't you?

Or hospital?
No! Now I need to go!

Need to go!

Have you been
in prison, James?
Underground.

Hiding?

I love this air.

Oh, it's such wonderful air.

What's wonderful
about the air, James?
Very fresh. No germs.

Why do you think
there aren't any germs
in the air?

This is October, right?
April.

What year is this?
What year
do you think it is?

1 996.

That's the future, James.
Do you think you're living
in the future?

1 996 is the past.
No, 1 996 is the future.

This is 1 990.

(LOUD CHATTING)

Shut up, ladies.

Where're you taking me?

South of France, buddy.
Fancy hotel. You'll love it.

I can't go.
I just need to make
a telephone call.

Yeah, yeah. Zip it, daisy.
You fooled the shrink,
but you don't fool us.

Let's go, ace.

All right.
Come on, come on.

There you go.
Now, lemme see
your head, Jimbo.

See if you got
any creepy crawlers.

I need to make
a telephone call.

Got to take you over to
the doctor, Jimbo. Can't make
no calls 'til the doctor says.

It's very important!
What you got to do, Jimbo,
is take it easy.

Relax into things.
And we'll all get along
fine if you just relax.

Wow! Whoo!

Let's go.
Come on, let's go.

Hey, Goines!

Yo. Goines!

Yo. Jeffrey!

Goines!
What?

Look here. This here's James.

Now, do me a favor.
Why don't you show him around?

Tell him the TV rules.
Show him the games
and stuff. Okay?

How much you gonna
pay me? How much?
I'd be doin' your job.

Five thousand dollars, my man.
That enough?

JEFFREY: Five thousand.

I'll wire a check
to your account as usual.

Five thousand dollars!
Five thousand dollars!

Five thousand dollars.

I'll give him the deluxe
mental hospital tour.

My man !
Kid around,
makes 'em feel good.

We're pals. I love you.
You're the prisoners.
No, you're the guards.

Now you got it.

Okay, it's all in good fun.

Here's some games here.
And there's...

Get out! Get out!

(WHIMPERING)

He was in my chair.

Games. Games.

Here's some games.
Games that wanna get out.

See? More games.
Games, they vegetize you.

See?

If you play the games,
you're voluntarily
taking a tranquilizer.

I guess they gave you
some chemical restraints.

Drugs!

What'd they give you?
Thorazine? Haldol?
How much? How much?

Learn your drugs.
Know your doses.
It's elementary.

I need to make
a telephone call.
A telephone call?

That's communication
with the outside world.

Doctor's discretion. No.

If all of these nuts
could just make phone calls,

it could spread insanity,
oozing through
telephone cables,

oozing to the ears
of all these poor,
sane people, infecting them.

Wackos everywhere.
A plague of madness.

In fact, very few, Jim...

Jim, very few of us here
are actually mentally ill.

I'm not saying
you're not mentally ill.

For all I know
you're crazy as a loon.

But that's not
why you're here.

That's not why you're here!
That's not why you're here!

You're here
because of the system.

There's the television.
It's all right there.

All right there.

Look, listen, kneel, pray.
The commercials!

We're not productive anymore.
Don't make things anymore.

It's all automated.
What are we for then?
We're consumers, Jim.

Okay, okay.
Buy a lot of stuff,
you're a good citizen.

But if you don't buy
a lot of stuff,
what are you then?

What? You're mentally ill !

Fact, Jim. Fact.

If you don't buy things:
toilet paper, new cars,

electrically operated
sexual devices,

stereo systems with
brain-implanted headphones,

screwdrivers with miniature
built-in radar devices,

voice-activated computers...

Take it easy, Jeffrey.
Be calm.

JEFFREY: Right. That's right.
You're a very
attractive woman.

(EXCLAIMS)

If you want to watch
a particular television
program, like All My Children,

you can go to the charge nurse
and tell her the day,

the time the show you
wanna see is on.

But you have to tell her
before the show is
scheduled to be on.

There was this guy
and he was always requesting
shows that had already played.

Yes. No. You have
to tell her before.

He couldn't quite
grasp the idea

that the charge nurse
couldn't make it be yesterday.

She couldn't turn back time!
Thank you, Einstein.

Now he, he was nuts.
He was a fruitcake, Jim.

Okay, that's it, Jeffrey.

You're going to get a shot.

I warned you.

Right. Right, right, right.
I got a little carried away

explaining the inner workings
of the institution to Jim.

I don't really come
from outer space.

L.J. Washington.
He doesn't really
come from outer space.

Don't mock me, my friend.

(LAUGHING)

(GROWLING)
Get outta my chair!

It's a condition of
mental divergence.

I find myself
on the planet Ogo.

Part of an intellectual elite

preparing to subjugate
the barbarian hordes on Pluto.

But even though
this is a totally convincing
reality for me in every way,

nevertheless, Ogo is actually
a construct of my psyche.

I am mentally divergent

in that I am escaping
certain unnamed realities

that plague my life here.

When I stop going there,

I will be well.

Are you also divergent,
friend?

This is a place
for crazy people.

I'm not crazy.

We don't use that term,
"crazy," Mr. Cole.

You've got some
real nuts here!

I know some things
that you don't know.

It's gonna be very difficult
for you to understand it.

Hey! Hey, hey.

Hey, I'm not going
to hurt anyone.

All right.

Look,

have any of you
heard of the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys?

They, they paint this.

They stencil this
on the sides of
buildings everywhere.

Have you seen this?

Mr. Cole?
Have you seen this?

Why don't you take your time

and try to explain this
from the beginning?

Right, right. It's 1 990.

Okay, that makes sense.
They wouldn't've been
active yet.

(SHOUTS)

(SIGHS)

Five billion people died
in 1 996 and 1 997.

Almost the entire population
of the world.

Only about one percent
of us survived.

Are you going to save us?

How can I save you?
This already happened.

I can't save you. Nobody can.

I am simply trying
to gather information

to help the people
in the present trace
the path of the virus.

We're not in the present now,
Mr. Cole?
No.

1 990 is the past.
This already happened.
That's what I'm trying...

Mr. Cole? Mr. Cole?

You believe 1 996
is the present then,
is that it?

No! 1 996 is the past too.
Listen to me. What l...

What l...

What I need to do is
make a telephone call.

I can straighten this out
if I make a telephone call.

Who would you call?
Who would straighten
everything out?

The scientists. They'll want
to know that they sent me
to the wrong time.

I can leave a voice-mail
message that they monitor
from the present.

Can I just make
one telephone call, please?

Please?

What are you doing
in the dog bowl?
Get out of there!

(PHONE RINGING)
Who put those Doritos
in there anyway?

Yes? What? Voice mail?

Look, I don't know...
Stop makin' that noise!

I don't know
what you're talkin' about.

Is this a joke?
I don't know any scientists.

Duanne, get out... James who?

(DIAL TONE)

Wasn't who you expected?

No. It was some lady.
She didn't know anything.

Well, maybe it was
the wrong number.

No. That's why they chose me.
I remember things.

James, where did you
grow up?

Dr. Railly.

KATHRYN: I have
the strangest feeling
I've met you before.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Wait, this is 1 990.

I'm supposed to be
leaving messages in 1 996!

It's not the right number yet!
That's the problem !

COLE:
We have a message for them.

No!

(GUNSHOT)

Won't work. You can't open it.

You think you can
remove the grill,
but you can't. It's welded.

See? Told you.
All the doors are locked too.

They're protecting people
on the outside from us

when the people on the outside
are as crazy as us.

Do you know what "crazy" is?
Crazy is majority rules. Yeah.

Take germs for example.

Germs?

In the eighteenth century,
no such thing.

Nada. Nothing.
No one even imagined
such a thing !

No sane person, anyway.

Along comes this doctor...

Semmelweis! Semmelweis.

Semmelweis comes along
and he's trying to
convince people,

other doctors mainly,

that there are these teeny,
tiny, invisible bad things
called germs

that get into your body
and make you sick.

He's trying to get doctors
to wash their hands.

What is this guy? Crazy?

Teeny, tiny, invisible,
"what do you call 'em?
Germs? What?"

Now, cut to
the twentieth century.

Last week as a matter of fact,
right before I got dragged
into this hellhole!

I go in to order a burger
in this fast-food joint.

The guy drops it on the floor.

Jim, he picks it up,
wipes it off.

He hands it to me
like it was all okay.

"What about germs?" I say.
He says, "l don't believe
in germs.

"Germs are just a plot
they made up

"so they can sell you
disinfectants and soaps."

Now, he's crazy, right? See?

There's no right.
There's no wrong.
There's only popular opinion.

You, you, you believe
in germs, right?

I'm not crazy.

Of course not!
You want to escape, right?
That's very sane.

I can help you.
You want me to, don't ya?
Get you out?

You know how to
get outta here?

(LAUGHING)

Yes, my son !
Then why don't ya?

Why don't I try to escape?
That's what you
were gonna ask.

Good question.
Very good question.
Intelligent.

Because I would be
crazy to escape.
I have sent out word.

I am all taken care of.

What does that mean?

I've managed to
contact certain underlings,
evil spirits,

secretaries of secretaries,
and other assorted minions

who will contact my father.

And when my father finds out
I'm in this kind of place,

he'll have them transfer me
to one of those classy joints,

where they treat you properly,
like a person, a guest!

With sheets and towels
like a big hotel,

with great drugs
for all of us nut-case,
lunatic, maniac devils!

(ALL GROANING)

JEFFREY: Sorry. Sorry.

I got a little agitated.

The thought of escape
crossed my mind.
And suddenly...

Suddenly, I felt like bending
the fucking bars back!

And ripping out the goddamn
window frames and eating them !

Yes, eating them !

And leaping, leaping, leaping !

Colonics for everyone!

All right! You dumb assholes,
I'm a mental patient.

I'm supposed to act out.

Wait till you morons
find out who I am ! My father's
gonna be really upset.

And when my father gets upset,
the ground shakes.

My father is God !
I worship my father!

NARRATOR ON TV:
These dramatic videotapes,
secretly obtained

by animal-rights activists,
have aroused
public indignation.

But many scientists
vehemently disagree.

Torture experiments.

We're all monkeys.

They hurt you?

Not as bad as
what they're doing
to the Easter Bunny.

(JEFFREY CHUCKLING)

COLE: Look at them.

They're just askin' for it.

NARRATOR:
Animals inside the lab...

Maybe the human race
deserves to be wiped out.

Wiping out the human race?

It's a great idea! It's great!

But more of a long-term thing.

First we have to focus
on more immediate goals.

I didn't say a word
about you-know-what.

What are you talking about?

Your plan. Emancipation !

What are you writing?
You a reporter?
It's private.

A lawsuit?
It's private.

You gonna sue 'em?
Yo, Jimbo. Time for your meds.

TV ANNOUNCER:
Take a chance.
Live the moment.

Sunshine. Gorgeous beaches.

The Florida Keys.

WOMAN: We'll return you
to the Marx Brothers
in Monkey Business.

Monkey Business.

Fetch !

(LAUGHING)

Get it? Monkey. Monk key.

Monk key.

What?

Shh.

TV ANNOUNCER:
If you see a bearish future
in the decade ahead,

consider the changes
sweeping the world and
the opportunities they offer.

"And the opportunities
they offer."

They really dosed you. Jim !

JEFFREY: Major load.
Danger, Will Robinson, danger.

You got to get it together.
Focus, focus, focus.

Remember the plan.
I did my part!

What?

Shh.

Not "what," when.

When?
Yes. When.

Now! Now, Jim ! Now!

Yes! Now! Buy! Sell !

Stocks! Bonds!
Purchase! Sell ! Yes!

No more monkey business! No

more monkey business!
I am getting dizzy.

JEFFREY: Yes, enhance
your portfolio now.

Five hundred dollars.
I got $500. I'm insured !

Yeah ! Window of opportunity
is opening now.

Now is the time for
all good men to seize
the moment. The moment!

Now is the time
for all good men
to seize the day!

WARDEN: God damn it, Jeffrey!
Quit playin' the fool !

MasterCard ! Visa!

The key to happiness!

Jim, seize the moment!

WARDEN:
Jeffrey, come back here!

For God's sake!
Jeffrey!

(YELLING)

Go, Jim !

(GROANS)

Get out. Out!
Come here, Jeffrey!

JEFFREY:
The future can be yours!
Last chance! Last chance!

Last chance! Last...

(GROANS)

The best place to go
would be Florida.

The Keys are lovely
this time of year.

GROUCHO MARX:
...it's the only way
to travel.

I was gonna bring along
the wife and kiddies,

but the grocer couldn't
spare another barrel.

CHICO: I was gonna bring
my grandfather,
but there's no room for...

Two's not working today.
Use one.

Kathryn, this was in my box!

But I have a slight suspicion
it wasn't meant for me.

"You are the most
bootiful woman
I have ever sin.

"You live in a bootiful world,
but you don't know it.

"You have freedom, sunshine,
air you can breathe..."

James Cole, right?

(LAUGHING)

"l would do anything
to stay her,
but I must leave.

"Please help me."
Okay, okay, okay.

Poor man.
Hey, Kathryn?

James Cole is
one of yours, right?

He eloped. Last seen,
he was up on two.

Shit!

(ALARM RINGING)

We have to know exactly
what's there so we can fix it.

Doctor, we have a visitor.

DOCTOR: May I help you?
Excuse me?

May I help you?
Excuse me?

Excuse me?

Jim? Jim?

Hey, Jimbo.

What's up, man?

Hey, Jimbo.

All right, it's okay.
Take it easy.

It'll be all right.
Take care. Take it easy.

We'll work this out, okay?

Send you back to your room.
A little milk and cookies,

you'll be all right.

Just take it easy, okay?

(GRUNTING)

Come on, calm down !

Take him down !
Take him the fuck down !

(SCREAMING)

I'm not gonna hurt anyone.

Dr. Railly, help me please.

We're gonna give you something
to calm you, James.

No! No more drugs!

James, we have to do this.
You're very confused.

No drugs! Stop it!

(GRUNTING)

Kathryn, we've been working
together for four years.

I've never seen you like this.

So please stop
being so defensive.
This isn't an inquisition.

I didn't think
I was being defensive.

I was trying to
explain exactly what...

He should've been
in restraints.

It was bad judgment on
your part, plain and simple.
Why not own up to it?

Okay, it was bad judgment.
But I have the strangest
feeling about him.

I've seen him someplace.
And I'm...

Two policemen are
already in the hospital.

Now we've got a security guard
with a skull fracture.

I said it was bad judgment!
What else do you
want me to say?

You see that? See what I mean?

You're being defensive.
Isn't she being defensive?

Dr. Fletcher?
What?

We have another situation.

He was fully restrained
and the door was locked?

Yes, sir. I did it myself.

And he was fully sedated?

He was fully sedated.

Then, are you trying to
tell me a fully sedated,
fully restrained patient

somehow slipped out that vent,
replaced the grill behind him

and is wriggling
his way through
the ventilation system?

(BEEPING NOISE)

Watch it!

MAN WITH RASPY VOICE:
You sure fucked up!

Where are you?
You can talk!

What'd you do, Bobby boy,
volunteer?

My name's not Bob.
Not a prob, Bob.

Where'd they send you?

Where are you?
Another cell.

Maybe.

What do you mean "maybe"?
What's that supposed to mean?

Maybe means

maybe I'm in the next cell.

Another volunteer like you.

Or maybe
I'm in the Central Office

spying on ya for
all those science bozos.

Or hey, maybe
I'm not even here.

Maybe I'm just in your head.

No way to confirm anything.

(CACKLES)

Where did they send you?

1 990.
'90! How was it?

Good drugs? Lots of pussy?

Hey, Bob, you do the job?

Did you find out the big info?

Army of the Twelve Monkeys?

It was supposed to be 1 996.

Science ain't an exact science
with these clowns.

But they're getting better.

You're lucky you didn't
end up in Ancient Egypt.

Shh.

They're comin'.

(KATHRYN'S VOICE: DISTORTED)
The Freedom for Animals
Association on Second Avenue

is the secret headquarters
of the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

They are the ones
who are going to do it.

I can't do any more.
I have to go now.

Have a merry Christmas.

ASTROPHYSICIST: Well?
What?

Did you or did you not
record that message?

MICROBIOLOGIST:
It's a reconstruction of
a deteriorated recording.

BOTANIST: Weak signal.

We have to put them together
one word at a time.

ASTROPHYSICIST:
We just finished
rebuilding this.

Did you or did you not
make this call?

I couldn't make any call.

You sent me
to the wrong year.
It was 1 990.

1 990?
1 990?

You're certain of that?

What did you do
with your time, Cole?

Did you waste it
on drugs? Women?

They forced me to take drugs.

Forced you? Why would someone
force you to take drugs?

I was in trouble.
I got arrested.

l...

I did what you wanted.
I got a specimen, a spider.

I didn't have anyplace
to put it, so I ate it.

But you sent me
to the wrong year,
so it really doesn't matter.

ZOOLOGIST: Did you see this
when you went back?

No, sir, I don't think so.

ASTROPHYSICIST:
What about these people?
Did you see any of these?

No.

Oh, wait, wait.

Him?

You saw that man?

Maybe in the... Maybe
in the mental institution.

MICROBIOLOGIST:
You were in
a mental institution?

Oh, God!

ASTROPHYSICIST: Cole, you were
sent back to make some
very important observations.

BOTANIST: You could've
made a real contribution.

GEOLOGIST: Helped us
to reclaim the planet.

ZOOLOGIST: As well as
reducing your sentence.

The question is, Cole,
do you want another chance?

(INDISTINCT CHATTING)

Good.

Last connection going on.

Stand clear.

He was your choice.
Nothing we can do
about that now.

(WHISTLE BLOWS)

GEOLOGIST:
No mistakes this time, Cole.

Stay alert.
Keep your eyes open.

Good thinking
about the spider.

Try and do something
like that again.

Just relax now.
Don't fight it.

MICROBIOLOGIST: We're sending
you to the third quarter
of 1 996. Right on the money.

(EXPLOSIONS)

(SOLDIERS SPEAKING FRENCH)

(SOLDIER SCREAMING)

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

What? I don't understand !

Where am l?

I gotta find 'em !
I gotta find 'em !

(MACHINE GUNS FIRING)
Help! I don't know where I am !

You gotta help me find 'em !

Jose? Jose!

Cole! Cole, where are we?
Where are we?

JOSE: Cole!
Jose!

Help me, Cole!
Oh, God ! Wait!

(SCREAMS)

KATHRYN: "In a season of
great pestilence, there are
omens and divinations.

"And one of the four beasts
gave unto the seven angels

"seven golden vials
full of the wrath of God

"who liveth
for ever and ever."

Revelations.

In the fourteenth century,
according to the accounts of
local officials of that time,

this man appeared suddenly
in the village of Wyle
near Stonehenge

in April of 1 362.

Using unfamiliar words
and speaking in
a strange accent,

the man made dire
prognostications
about a pestilence

which he said would
wipe out humanity
in approximately 600 years.

Obviously, this
plague-doomsday scenario
is more compelling

when reality supports it
with a virulent disease,

whether
it's the bubonic plague,
smallpox or AIDS.

Now we have
technological horrors,
such as chemical warfare,

which first reared
its ugly head

during the deadly mustard
gas attacks of World War l.

During such an attack
in the French trenches
in October of 1 91 7,

we have an account
of this soldier,

who, during an assault,
was wounded by shrapnel

and hospitalized,
apparently in
a state of hysteria.

Doctors found that he had lost
all comprehension of French,

but that he spoke
English fluently,

albeit in a regional dialect
they didn't recognize.

The man, though physically
unaffected by the gas,

was beside himself.

He claimed that he had
come from the future,

that he was looking
for a pure germ

that would ultimately
wipe mankind
off the face of the earth

starting in the year 1 996.

(AUDIENCE CHUCKLING)

Though injured,
the young soldier disappeared
from the hospital,

no doubt trying to
carry on his mission
to warn others,

and substituting
for the agony of war,

a self-inflicted agony,
we call
the "Cassandra Complex."

Cassandra in Greek legend
was condemned
to know the future,

but to be disbelieved
when she foretold it,

hence, the agony
of foreknowledge

combined with the impotence
to do anything about it.

(CHATTING, LAUGHING)

I'm going right out
to get vaccinated.

KATHRYN: Hi.

I think, Dr. Railly,
you've given the alarmists
a bad name.

I have?

Surely there is very real
and very convincing data

that the planet cannot
survive the excesses
of the human race.

This is true.

Proliferation of
atomic devices,
uncontrolled breeding habits,

pollution of land,
sea and air, the rape
of the environment.

In this context, isn't it
obvious that Chicken Little
represents the sane vision?

And that Homo sapiens' motto,
"Let's go shopping,"

is the cry of
the true lunatic?

Kathryn, it's time.
My name is Troy.

Please. Dr. Railly,
I wonder if you're aware
of my own studies.

MAN: See you
at work tomorrow.

WOMAN:
Give you a call tomorrow.

(SCREAMS)
No! No!

Get in the car.
Get in the car!

I have got a gun.
Get in the car.

(COUGHING)

All right, drive.

Take my purse.
I've got a lot of cash
and credit cards.

Take my keys!
Start the car!

No!

Here, turn right.
Turn right here!

(COUGHING)

Wh-Where are we going?
Philadelphia.

That's more than
a hundred miles!

That's why
I can't walk there.

Just let me go.
(COUGHING) Just drive!

You can take the car.
I don't know how to drive.

I went underground
when I was eight years old.

I told you that before.

(COUGHING) At the next corner,
turn right.

Cole. James Cole.

You escaped from
a locked room six years ago.

(CARS HONKING)
Six years for you.

Turn around, get goin'!
Okay.

I can't believe that
this is a coincidence,
Mr. Cole.

Have you been following me?

You said you would help me.
I know this isn't
what you meant,

but I don't have any money.

I hurt my leg.
And I've been sleeping
on the street.

I'm sure I smell bad.

Do you have any food
in this car?

You have been following me,
haven't you?

No.

No, I saw this

in a store window.

I can read, remember?

Yeah.

Why do you want to
go to Philadelphia?

I checked out
the Baltimore information.
It was nothing.

It's in Philadelphia.
That's where they are,
the ones who did it.

The Twelve Monkeys.

Is that a radio?
Yeah.

Can you turn it on?

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

RADIO ANNOUNCER: This is
a personal message to you.

Are you at the end
of your rope? Are you dying
to get away?

The Florida Keys
are waiting for you.

Ocean waves...
I've never seen the ocean.

It's an advertisement,
Mr. Cole.

What is?

It's an advertisement.
You do understand that?

It's not really
a special message to you.

Mr. Cole.

You used to call me James.
You prefer that?

James, you don't
really have a gun.

Can you turn this up?
Can you make this louder?

(MAN SINGING)
I found my thrill

On Blueberry Hill

When I met you

(LAUGHING)

I love the music
of the twentieth century!

I love this air!
Love to breathe this air!

(LAUGHING)

(HUMMING)

MAN ON RADIO: WXBX news break.
News as it happens.
Roger Pratt reporting.

A story breaking with us now

of nine-year-old Ricky Neuman
say they saw him disappear
right before their eyes.

Young Neuman
apparently stepped into
an abandoned well shaft,

and is lodged somewhere
in the narrow 1 50-foot pipe.

Possibly alive,
possibly seriously injured,

playmates claim they heard
him cry out faintly.

Never cry wolf.
What?

My father said that to me.
He said, "Never cry wolf."

'Cause then people
won't believe you
if something really happens.

If something really happens
like what, James?

Something bad.

Can we have some more music?
I don't wanna hear this stuff.

Can we hear more music?

(MAN SINGING)
I see trees of green

Oh, that's good.

Red roses too

I've seen them bloom

For me and you

And I think to myself

(YAWNING)

What a wonderful world

(TURNS ANSWERING MACHINE ON)

Hello, Dr. Railly?
Yeah, this is Wikke
from Psych Admitting.

Do you remember James Cole?
The paranoid who pulled
the Houdini in '90?

Well, he's back and...

(WOMAN WHISPERING)

Sorry about that.
He's looking for you.
I thought you ought to know.

All right, take care.

It's just like I told you.

Me and my husband went ahead
and she never showed.

That is totally unlike her.

Do you know
the make of her car?

Cherokee.
'94 Cherokee, silver.

(TV CHATTERING)

I have "doed-it!"
I have "done doed-it!" Ja.

l, Professor Grossenfibber,
have invented the time tunnel!

Oh, boy!

(WOODY WOODPECKER
PECKING ON TREE)

WOODY WOODPECKER ON TV:
Oh, excuse me, mister.
Have a cigar.

(GROANING)

Excuse me, mister.
Have a cigar.

No!

GROSSENFIBBER:
Now my time machine is
ready for experiments.

The woodpecker! Ja.

Yoo-hoo, Woodpecker!
Come back!

(BLOWS)

You were in my dream
just now.

Your hair's different.
Different color.

I'm sure it was you.

What was the dream about?

About an airport

before everything happened.

It's the same dream
I always have.
When I was a kid.

KATHRYN: And I was in it?

What did I do?

(SIGHS)
You were very upset.

You're always very upset
in the dream.

Just never knew it was you.

It wasn't me before, James.

It's become me now
because of what's happening.

Could you please untie me?

No, I think it was always you.

Very strange.

KATHRYN: You're flushed,
and you were moaning.

I think
you're running a fever.

What are you doing?

(WHIMPERING, GRUNTING)

In Fresno, California,

crews continue to attempt
to rescue nine-year-old
Ricky Neuman.

And closer to home,
in Baltimore, Kathryn Railly,

prominent psychiatrist
and the author of a newly
released book on insanity,

disappeared mysteriously
last night after a lecture
at the university.

Former mental patient,
James Cole,
is wanted for questioning

regarding Dr. Railly's
disappearance.

Authorities warn that Cole
has a history of violence,

and advise anyone spotting him
to notify authorities at once.

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

Love this music.

We don't have this.
We don't have
anything like this.

What are all those?

These?

My notes. Clues.

What kind of clues?

It's about the secret army.
The Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

They're the ones
that spread the virus.
That's why I'm here.

I have to find them.
That's my mission.

I just have to locate them
because they have the virus
in its pure form

before it mutates.

When I locate them,
they'll send a scientist here.

That scientist will
study the virus.

Then when he goes back
to the present,

he and the rest of
the scientists
will make a cure.

MAN ON RADIO:
...police officers from
three jurisdictions,

including special
tactical unit personnel,

have now been mobilized
to control the growing
thousands of onlookers

in Fresno, California...

Does that disturb you?
No.

I thought it was about us.

I thought maybe
they'd captured us
and arrested me.

Just a joke.

I remember being very afraid
for that little boy.

All alone, down that well,
not knowing if anybody's
gonna get him out.

The first time
I was ever really afraid
when I was a kid.

What do you mean,
when you were a kid?

Never mind.
Just a prank, a hoax.
That boy's hiding in a barn.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

Well, the earth died

EVANGELIST:
"There are omens
and divinations.

"One of the four beasts
gave unto the seven angels

"seven golden vials
full of the wrath of God

"who liveth
for ever and ever."

You won't think I'm crazy
when people start
dying next month.

First they'll think
it's just some weird fever.

Then they'll find out.

They'll catch on.

Wait! Stop here!
Stop the car!
Stop right here!

I was right!
They're here!

You see? Twelve monkeys.

Twelve Monkeys.
Do you believe me now?
Come on !

Come on !

They're here! You see?
Twelve Monkeys!

Twelve Monkeys. Come on.

Twelve monkeys.

Wait, wait, wait. Wait, here.

Here. Do you see it?
Do you see?

I see some red paint,
some marks.

Marks? Marks?
Do you think that...

Oh, this is ridiculous.

Hey! Hey!
What?

Don't you do anything crazy

or I'll hurt somebody.

I am not gonna do
anything crazy. But none of
this is what you think it is.

MAN WITH RASPY VOICE:
You can't hide from them, Bob.

I said you can't
hide from them.

No, sir, ol' Bob.

Don't even try.

They hear everything.

They got that tracking
device on ya.

They can find you
anywhere, anytime.

It's in the tooth.
Right, Bob?

But I fooled 'em, old buddy.

(CACKLING)

They don't have to spy on me.
I'm doing what I'm supposed
to be doing.

You see? Here it is again.

Here, follow this paint trail.

Here. It's here. See?

It's so awful ! l...
No, no, no! Come with me!

Damn it!
The paint trail goes here.

Let go! Let go of my arm.
James, we shouldn't be here.

Goddamn it!

(MAN SHOUTING)

MAN: Leave me alone!

(GRUNTING)

KATHRYN: Let's get outta here.

James, we shouldn't be here.

(SCREAMS)
Hey!

(GROANS)

Please, don't kill me!
Don't, kill me. Please!

Don't kill me. Don't kill me.

(SCREAMS)

Stick around, bitch.

(COLE YELLS)

(PANTING)

KATHRYN: Are you all right?

(GRUNTS)

Is he alive?

Come on.
We're runnin' out of time.
You can't help him !

Oh, Jesus!
James, you killed him !

All I see are dead people.
Come on.

Come on.

You never had a gun before.

I have one now.
Come on. Come on !

"...dragons in their
pleasant palaces."

"The seventh angel poured
out his vial into the air,

"and there came..." You !

You !

You're one of us!

COLE: This is it.

Come on !

(LION ROARING)

(ELEPHANT TRUMPETING)

Can we help you?

(TAPE RECORDER: LION ROARING)

It's just a tape.

I'm looking for
the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

(ANIMAL NOISES CONTINUE)

We don't know anything
about any Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

So you and your friend
just disappear.

I just want some information.

Didn't you hear me. I sa...
KATHRYN: Don't hurt her.

Please, I'm a psychiatrist.
Just do whatever
he tells you to do.

He's disturbed.
He's dangerous.

Please, just cooperate.

What do you want, money?
We only got a few bucks.

COLE: I told you what I want.

Get down. Lock that door!

KATHRYN: James, don't...
Lock it now!

I told you that
fuckhead Goines
would get us...

Shut up!

Goines?

Jeffrey Goines?

Then Jeffrey becomes
a big star, and the media
latch onto him because

he's picketing his own father,
a famous Nobel Prize-winning
virologist.

You must've seen
all that on TV.

I don't watch TV.

Is this him?

FALE: Yeah, that's him.
That's him.

What are you going to
do to us?

Tell me more about Jeffrey.

Jeffrey started getting
bored with the shit we do.

Picketing, leafleting,
letter-writing stuff.

He said we were ineffectual,
liberal jerkoffs.

He wanted to do
guerrilla actions in order
to educate the public.

Like this?

Yeah. That's when he
let 1 00 snakes loose
in the Senate.

TEDDY: But we weren't into
that kind of stuff.

It's counterproductive.
We told him.

FALE: So he and 1 1 guys,

they split off and formed
this underground army.

The Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

See?

They started planning
a "Human Hunt."

TEDDY: They bought stun guns,
nets and bear traps.

They were gonna go
to Wall Street and trap
lawyers and bankers...

They didn't do it, of course.
They didn't do any of it.

Like always, Mr. Big Shot
sold his friends out.

What does that mean?

He goes on TV and gives
a news conference.
Tells the whole world

he just realized
his daddy's experiments
are vital for humanity

and that the use of animals
is absolutely necessary.

And that from now on he,
Jeffrey Goines, is going to
personally supervise the labs

to make sure
the little animals
aren't going to suffer.

What is this?

KATHRYN: People like that
aren't accessible.

You can't just barge
in on them. It's not
how the world works.

Be quiet and drive the car.
I know what I'm doing.

No, you don't.
This car is stolen.

And we are in big trouble.
Big trouble.

If you don't turn
yourself over
they're going to kill you.

They're going to shoot me too,
'cause I'm going to be
the accessory to murder.

You're all going to die.
Nobody is going to die.

You're not going to
save the world.

Okay? You're delusional.

You've made all this up
out of bits and pieces
in your head.

No.
Yes.

Let me give you an example.

You know Jeffrey Goines.
You were both patients
at County Hospital.

Jeffrey Goines
was a fruitcake.

(MIMICKING JEFFREY)

He told you then

his father was
a famous scientist
who worked with viruses.

You've incorporated
that bit of information
to this cockeyed fantasy.

He didn't say his father
was a scientist.
He said his father was God.

This is insane.

MAN ON RADIO:
...prominent psychiatrist and
author, Dr. Kathryn Railly,

has been abducted
by a dangerous mental patient,

James Cole.
Cole was under Railly's
care six years ago

when he made
a dramatic escape from...

(GROANS)

What is the matter
with your leg?

I got shot.

Shot! Who shot you?

I don't know.
It was some kind of war.
Never mind.

You wouldn't
believe me anyway.

COLE: What are you doing?

We don't need gas.

I thought you didn't
know how to drive.

I said I was
too young to drive.
I didn't say I was stupid.

This can't go on. If you
have a bullet in your leg,
I have to take care of it.

I'm a doctor.
I need some supplies.

MAN ON RADIO: Meanwhile,
in Fresno, California

where mining engineers
continue their desperate
attempt to sink a shaft

parallel to the one in which
nine-year-old Ricky Neuman
is believed trapped.

Authorities say
there is still a chance
the boy might be...

You shouldn't put
your weight on it.

You need stitches
and antibiotics.

Lucky for you
it's near the surface.

I love seeing the sun.

Ooh !

Wait!

Let me help you.

(WHISPERING)
You smell so good.

You have to give yourself up.

You know that, don't you?

What are you doing? James?

I'm sorry.

What are you doing?

James, stop it!
What are you doing?

Let go of me!
I have to do this.

They find him?
Who?

That kid.
The one in the pipe.

You believe that?
They're lowering a monkey
down there

and a miniature infrared
camera strapped on him,

and a roast beef sandwich
wrapped up in tinfoil.

You're making it up.
No, I shit you not.
Life is really weird.

A monkey
and a roast beef sandwich.

(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)

DR. GOINES: Would that
I could enjoy this
opulent dinner and this most

stimulatin'
and excitin' company

for itself with
no sense of purpose.

But, alas, I am burdened.

(CHUCKLES)

For with all this excess
of public attention
and cacophony of praise

there comes
great responsibility.

(SNORING)
I don't have to tell you all

that the dangers of science
are a timeworn threat.

From Prometheus stealin'
fire from the gods...

What friend?
I'm not expectin' anyone.
...to the Cold War era

of the Dr. Strangelove terror.
But never before...

This is ridiculous.

My father is giving
a major address.

...to fear the power

we have at hand.

Normally, if we caught
a guy sneakin' around
like this with no l. D. ,

we'd bust his ass.
Excuse my French.

This one says he knows you.

Since you seem to have had
a few unusual associates,

we certainly would not
want to arrest one of
your closest pals.

Never seen him
before in my life.

Feel free to torture this man
or whatever it is you do.

I'm going to listen
to my father's eloquent
discourse on...

I'm here about some monkeys.

Monkeys?
Monkeys. Yes.

Twelve of them.

Arnold.

You look like shit.
You know this man?

I know this man.
Arnold Pettibone.

Gee, Arnie, it's black tie.
I said drop by,

but it's Dad's big do:
V. l. P.s, senators,
secret service.

You hungry, Arnie?

(CHUCKLES)

Killer feast
we're putting on tonight.

Lots of dead lamb,
dead cow, dead pig.

Hi. How are you?
Hello. Very attractive.

"The Great Escape," 1 990.

Watch it!

Huh? County Hospital?
Am I right?

I can't do anything about
what you're going to do.

I can't change anything.

I can't stop you.

I just want the information.
We need to talk. C'mon.

Hi, ladies.
Nice to see you again.

Watch your step
on the way down.

Who blabbed?
Bruhns? Weller?

I just want access
to the pure virus.
Virus?

For the future.
I need to know where it is
and exactly what it is.

I get it.
I see what you're up to.
It's your old plan, isn't it?

What plan?
Your plan. Remember?

I don't know
what you're talking about.

Yes, you do.
We were in the dayroom,
watching television

and you were upset about
the desecration of the planet,
which I understand.

Then you said to me,

"Wouldn't it be great
if there was a germ or virus

"that would wipe out
all of mankind and leave
the animals and trees?"

You're trying
to confuse me.
You were so funny.

I told you my father
was this famous virologist.

And you said,
"He could make a germ
and we could steal it."

Coo-coo-ka-roo,
you were.

They mutate!
We live underground !

The world belongs
to the dogs and cats.

We live like worms.

I just need the information.
Take it easy.

You are a total nut-case!
Completely deranged !
Delusional, paranoid.

Your processor
is all fucked up.

Your information tray
is jammed, man !

Do you know what it is,
the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys?

A collection of
space-case do-gooders
saving rain forests.

I have nothing to do
with those bozos.

I quit being the rich kid
fall guy for a bunch of
ineffective fanatics!

So much for your
grand plot, asshole!

Father's been warning
people about the dangers
of experimentation

with D. N.A. viruses for years.

You've processed
that information

through your addled,
paranoid infrastructure.

Lo and behold,
a nonprofit organization

becomes some sinister,
revolutionary cabal !

This man is complete bat shit!

Ladies and gentlemen,
do you realize where
he thinks he comes from?

ANNOUNCER: Captain Dan Miller,
the man in charge of
the rescue operation,

says he has consulted
with experts,
and they assure us...

If you ask me, the monkey's
going to eat that
goddamn sandwich himself.

Did a man just come
running through here?

...saying his primary
responsibility was to
the missing boy.

Police say that the body
of a woman found strangled
in Knutson State Park

could be kidnapping victim
Dr. Kathryn Railly.

Anybody see someone
come through here?

...discovered less than
an hour ago by hikers.

But we have an unconfirmed
report that the victim,

a woman in her late twenties
or early thirties,
was savagely mutilated.

Earlier in the day,
police located Railly's
abandoned car.

It was found not far...

(SCREAMS)

Any sign of him?

Nothing.

He can't just disappear.

(PANTING)

You bastard !

I could've died in there!
You son of a bitch !

(CRYING)

What were you thinking of,

you twisted sack of shit?

COLE: I'm sorry.
Sorry I locked you
in the trunk.

(KATHRYN CRYING)
I'm sick of you !

What have you done?

Did you kill somebody?
Yes.

A million people.
Five billion people.

What?

Jeffrey Goines said it was
my idea about the virus.

We were in the institution.
It was all so fuzzy
and the drugs and all.

Do you think it was my idea?

Do you think maybe
I've wiped out the human race?

Nobody is gonna wipe out
the human race.

Not you or Jeffrey
or anybody else.

You've created something
in your mind. A... Oh.

Mentally divergent?
A... Whatever!

A substitute reality,

because you don't want to
deal with anything.

(LAUGHS)

I would love
it if that was true.

It can be dealt with,
but only if you want to.
I can help you.

(MEN YELLING)

They're after me.
We have to get outta here.

Who is after you?

I think there were
some policemen at that party.

Party? You went to a par...

Never mind.

It's important you surrender
instead of their catching
you running.

Wouldn't it be great
if I was crazy?

The world would be okay.
I wouldn't have to
live underground.

Gimme the gun.
I lost the gun.

Where is the gun?
I could live right here.

You got water, air, stars.

I'm gonna attract
their attention...
Debris.

...so they know where we are.

(HORN HONKING)

(LAUGHING)

Oh, I love this world !

They're gonna tell you to
put your hands on your head.
Do what they say.

I love the frogs, the spiders.

Remember, I'll be with you.
I'll help you.
I won't let them...

(DOGS BARKING)

Then I said something
about cooperating, and he said
he would do that. So, l...

I got in the car.

Thanks. And when l...

I started honking the horn.
Then when I got out,
he was gone.

I'll tell you somethin'.
You lucked out.

For a while, we thought
you were a body they found
down state, mutilated.

He wouldn't do that.
This the man he attacked?

I wanna be clear
about this, okay?

This man and the other one
were severely beating us.

James Cole didn't start it.
In fact, he saved me.

(CHUCKLES)

Funny thing, Doctor.
Maybe you can help
explain it to me,

you being
a psychiatrist and all.

Why is it that kidnap victims

always try to tell us
about the guys
who grabbed 'em?

And they try to
make us understand

how kind these bastards
really were?

It's a normal reaction
to a life-threatening
situation.

He's sick. Okay?

He thinks he comes
from the future.

He lives in a meticulously
constructed fantasy world,

and that world is
starting to disintegrate.
He needs help.

Okay.

REPORTER: Exhausted
but apparently unharmed
by her thirty-hour ordeal,

Dr. Railly returned to
Baltimore this morning without
making a public statement.

The author and psychiatrist
is currently in seclusion
at her home.

Meantime, police have
pieced together a scenario
of the series of events

that began with escaped
mental patient James Cole...

Sorry.

No, it's okay.
I'm just hyperalert.
I can't sleep.

Did you take your sedative?

I hate those things.
They mess my head up.

...where he went on
a rampage of violence.

With the kidnapping
of the Baltimore woman,

James Cole is now also
wanted in connection with

the brutal slaying
of Rodney Wiggins,
an ex-convict from Ardmore.

(SIREN WAILING)
His body was discovered
in an abandoned theater

not far from where Cole left
three animal rights activists
bound and gagged

in their Second Avenue
headquarters.

Do they really believe
he's going to show up here?
Please.

And in Fresno, California,
the cornfield that was jammed
with spectators...

He's dead, isn't he,
that little boy?

He's fine. It was just a prank
he and his friends pulled.

The dramatic attempt
to rescue Ricky Neuman
from an abandoned mineshaft

ended abruptly
when playmates confessed

that Neuman's disappearance
was merely a prank.

And that, in fact,
the missing child was hiding
in a nearby barn.

SCIENTISTS:
I found my thrill

On Blueberry Hill

When I found you

Congratulations, Cole!

Well done. Well done!
Congratulations.

BOTANIST:
During your interview,
while under the influence,

you told us that
you liked music.

This isn't a prison.
This is a hospital.

Until you recover
your equilibrium.

You're still disoriented.

It is a stressful thing.
Time travel.

You stood up very well,
considering.

You connected the Army
of the Twelve Monkeys

with a famous virologist
and his son.

Others will take over now.

We'll be back
on service in months.

We'll retake the planet.

This is it, James.
What you've been working for.

A full pardon.

You'll be out of here
in no time.

Women will want to know you.

I don't want your women !
I want to get well !

And you will be well, James.

Soon.

(LAUGHING)

You know, you people
don't exist. You're not real.

We can't travel back in time.

Whoop! Whoop! Uh-uh.

You're not here.

You can't trick me.

(LAUGHING)

You're in my mind.

(LAUGHING)

(SIGHING)

I am insane.
And you are my insanity.

(LAUGHING)

He not only used
the word "prank," he said
the boy was hiding in a barn.

Kathryn, Kathryn.
He kidnapped you.

You saw him murder somebody,

and you knew there was
a real possibility that
he could kill you too.

You're under tremendous
emotional stress.

For God's sake, Owen,
listen to me.

He knew about the boy
in Fresno, and he says

five billion people
are gonna die.

No way he could
possibly know that!

Kathryn !

You're a rational person.
You're a trained psychiatrist.

You know the difference
between what's real
and what's not.

What we say is the truth,
is what everybody accepts.
Right?

Psychiatry,
it's the latest religion.

We decide what's right
and wrong. We decide
who's crazy or not.

I'm in trouble here.

I'm losing my faith.

MAN WITH RASPY VOICE:
You sure fucked up, Bob.

But I can understand.

You don't want your mistakes
pointed out to you.

I can relate to that, old Bob.

Hey, I know
what you're thinkin'.

You're thinkin' I don't exist
except in your head.

I see that point of view.

But you could still talk
to me, couldn't ya?

I saw you in 1 996
in the real world.

You pulled out your teeth.

Why would I pull out my teeth?
That's a no-no.

And when did you
say you saw me?

In 1 872?

Leave me alone!

Yellin' won't get you
what you want.

You have to be smart
to get what you want.

And what do I want?

You don't know what you want?

Sure you do, Bob.

You know what you want.

You tell me.
You tell me what I want.

To see the sky and the ocean.

To be topside.

Breathe the air.

To be with her.

Isn't that right?

Isn't that what you want?

Bob?

(MOANING)

(RINGING)

Hello.

Dr. Railly, Jim Halperin,
Philly P. D. Sorry to call you
so early this mornin'.

You found him?

Is he okay?

No, no, au contraire, Doctor.

No sign of your good friend,
the kidnapper.

However, the plot
does thicken.

I've got a ballistics
report on my desk.

It says the bullet
you claim you removed
from Mr. Cole's thigh

is, in fact, an antique.

HALPERIN: And all indications
are it was fired sometime
prior to the 1 920s.

How 'bout I take
a spin down there?

This can't be.

Maybe we can grab
a bite to eat.

Maybe you could revise
or amplify your statement.

Dr. Railly?

No!

You can't trick us, you know.
It wouldn't work.

COLE: No, sir.

You haven't become addicted,
have you, Cole,
to that dying world?

No, sir.

I just want to do my part

to get us back on top,
in charge of the planet.

And I have the experience.
I know the people involved.

He really is
the most qualified.

But all of that behavior.

You said we weren't real,
Cole.

I don't think the human mind
is meant to exist

in two different,

whatever you called it,
dimensions?

It's just too stressful.
You said that yourself.

It's very confusing,
you don't know
what's real and what's not.

MICROBIOLOGIST:
But you know what's real now.

Yes, sir. I do.

DR. GOINES: No, no.
I don't know anything about

a monkey army, Doctor.

No, no. Nothing whatsoever.

Good Lord,
if my son was ever involved
in something like that...

(MICE SQUEAKING)

Well, I'm sorry.
I think it is doubly
inappropriate to discuss

security matters
with you, Dr. Railly.

But if it will ease your mind,

rest assured that
neither my son

nor any other unauthorized
person has access

to potentially dangerous
organisms in my laboratory.

Is that clear to you now?
Thank you so much
for your concern.

(WHISPERING)
Women psychiatrists!

I attended a lecture
of hers once.

"Apocalyptic Visions."

Yes. She was

suddenly struck by
the most preposterous notion

about Jeffrey.

Has she succumbed to her own

"theoretical"
Cassandra disease?

Maybe we ought to review
our security procedures.

Yeah. Perhaps upgrade 'em,
you know?

Beef them up?

BOTANIST: Let's consider again
our current information.

If the symptoms were
first detected in Philadelphia

on December 27, 1 996,
that makes us know that...

It was released in
Philadelphia probably
on December 1 3, 1 996.

And was seen
sequentially after that in...

San Francisco, New Orleans,

Rio de Janeiro,

Rome, Kinshasa,

Karachi, Bangkok, then Peking.

That was very well done, Cole.

KATHRYN: Hello!

Is somebody in there?
If you're in there,
I have to talk to you.

It's the kidnap woman.
Hello?

The one who was with the guy
who tied us up.

Turn off the lights.
Turn off the light!

What's she doin'?
She's drawing attention
to us, that's what.

I don't know
what you're up to
this time, Goines,

but you're going to
get us in deep shit.

Walkies ready,
batteries charged?

I saw you !
I saw somebody in there!
Come on.

Secret experiments.
That's what they do.

Secret weird stuff.

Not just on animals.
I know you.

They do 'em on
people too down at...

Have you seen James Cole?
The man who...

They're watching you.
Takin' pictures.

The police. I know. Look.

(GASPING)

I have to contact James.

It's very, very important
that he's really careful
when he reaches me.

Do you understand that?

Yeah. Yeah.
Good.

Who's James?

He was with me.

He spoke to you
several weeks ago.

He said that you were
from the future and that
you were watching him.

Bolt cutters. Bolt cutters.
Did you get the bolt cutters?

One dozen.
They're in the van.

Got the plans
for the security system?

Right here.
Committed to memory.

Hey! Hey!
You know what she's
doing out there?

What's it say?
I don't know.
I can't see it.

Forget about my psychiatrist
and concentrate on
the task at hand.

Your psychiatrist?

Did you just say
your psychiatrist?

Ex-psychiatrist.

This woman was your
psychiatrist and now she's
spray-painting our building?

MAN: What's it say?

COLE: Kathryn !

James?

James.

What? What?

There's a policemen
over there.
Pretend you don't know me.

No. I want to turn myself in.
Where is he?

James!
Where is he?

Down ! Come on.

No, no. It's okay.
I'm not crazy anymore.

I mean, I am.
I'm mentally divergent.

I know that now.
I want you to help me.

I want to get better.

James!

Let's get outta here!

He's goin'. He's goin'.

(HORN HONKING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(HORN HONKING)

I've see that before.
No, James, you haven't.

A guy in a Ford is
chasing her and some
other guy I can't see.

No problem. It's probably
just another kidnapping

featuring Jeffrey's shrink.
Pardon me.
Make that ex-shrink.

This is your leader?

A certifiable lunatic
who told his
former psychiatrist

all his plans for
God knows what whacko
irresponsible schemes?

God knows what she's written
on that wall.

Who cares what psychiatrists
write on walls?

You think I told her
about the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys, huh?

Impossible!

Do you know why?
Do you know why?

Because,
you pathetically ineffectual

and pusillanimous
pretend friend to animals,
I'll tell you why.

When I had anything
to do with her
six years ago,

there was no such thing,
I hadn't thought of it yet.

Then how come she knows
what's goin' on?

Here's my theory on that.

When I was institutionalized,

my brain was studied
exhaustively in the guise
of mental health.

I was interrogated, x-rayed.
I was examined thoroughly.

(COUGHS)

They took everything about me
and put it into a computer

where they created this model
of my mind. Yes!

Using that model,
they managed to generate

every thought I could possibly
have in the next ten years,

which they then filtered
through a probability matrix
of some kind

to determine everything
I was gonna do in that period.

So you see, she knew
I was gonna lead

the Army of the Twelve Monkeys
into history

before it even occurred to me.

She knows everything
I'm ever gonna do
before I know it myself.

How's that?

Kweskin, you finish here.
I'll meet you there.

And if you forget one thing,
I will have you shaved,
sterilized and destroyed.

KWESKIN: Jeff?
What?

You are a great man.

Fuck the bozos!

(CHUCKLES)

He's seriously crazy.

You know that.

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

There. Over there.

Okay. Come on.

(TV CHATTERING)

I need a room.
Thirty-five bucks an hour.

An hour?

You want quarter hours?
Go someplace else.

(WOMAN GIGGLING)

(COUGHING)

Here's

twenty-five, six,
seven for an hour. Deal?

MAN: Hey! Turn it off!

One hour, honey-babe.
Number sixty-four.

Sixth floor. Up the stairs,
end of the hall.

Elevator's busted.

She's not honey-babe.

She's a doctor.

My psychiatrist.

Understand?

Whatever gets it up
for you, Jack.

Tommy, this is Charlie
over at the Globe.

(CHUCKLES)

You know if Wallace
has a new girl?

Sort of a rookie type?
A little weird?

Does fantasy acts?

Okay, you were standing there
looking up at the moon.

You were splashing
through the water,
and then what?

I thought I was in
prison again.

Just like that,
you were in prison?

No, not really.

Like you said.
It was all in my mind.

(STAMMERING)

You disappeared.

One minute you were there,
the next minute you were gone.

Did you run through
the woods, or...

I don't know.

I don't remember.

The boy in the well.
How did you know
that was just a hoax?

It was?

I didn't know.

You said he was
hiding in the barn !

I think I maybe saw
a TV show about that
when I was a kid,

where a boy...
It wasn't a TV show!
It was real !

Maybe this boy saw
the same TV show that I did,
and he copied it.

Look, you were right.
I am mentally ill.

I imagined all these things,
these people.

I know they're not real.
I can trick them. l...

I can make them do
what I want.

I worked on 'em a little bit.
I got back here to get better.

I can stay here.

What does this mean to you?

I think I had a dream like...

About this.

(STAMMERING)

You had a bullet from
World War I in your leg,
James. How did it get there?

I don't know.
Look, you said
I had delusions.

That I created this world.
You said you could explain...

I can't!

I'm trying to, and...

I can't believe
everything we say or do
has already happened.

We can't change
what's going to happen.

And if five billion people
are going to die, it's...

I want the future
to be unknown.

I want to become
a whole person again.

I want this to be the present.

I want to stay here,
this time

with you.

James,

do you remember six years ago
you had a phone number?

It was the wrong number then.
A woman answered.

It was the wrong number
in 1 990.

It should be
the right number now.

Do you remember it?

The number? Do you...

(BANGING)

This is my territory, bitch !

Is this real, or is it
one of my delusions?
This is definitely real.

KATHRYN: Excuse me.
I think we've got a little
misunderstanding here.

Oh?

Yeah. We...

Gee, really?

Now, you just sit tight!

Now you listen to me,
little Miss Understanding.

You think you can go
around me and peddle your ass
in this part of town?

You bet your life we got
what I would call a major
fuckin' misunderstanding.

Hey!

James, no! Don't!

Put him in the closet.
Take his money first!

You want me to rob him?

We need cash, James!
WALLACE: No, no!

Call the cops! Call the cops!

MAN: What's goin' on?

WALLACE:
I've got friends, man !
Don't fuckin' kill me.

James. James! No, James! No!

No! James!

No! Open the door!

What the fuck are you doin'?

Please don't hurt him.
Open the door.

James, come on.

(GASPS)

(PANTING)

Just in case.

Just in case I'm not crazy.

This is how they find us.

By our teeth.

I don't want them
to find me, ever.

I don't want to go back.

POLICE RADIO: ...calling in
a domestic incident.

POLICEMAN: Get out!

Get back.

You'd better load.

Police!
Throw your weapons out
and come on out!

WALLACE: Hey!

Is that the cops?

Hey, I'm
the innocent victim here!

I was attacked
by a coked-up whore

and a fuckin' crazy dentist.

Try to blend in.

Oh. Jesus!

Come on !

There's gotta be a phone
around here somewhere.

There. Over there. Look.

I'm going to try
that number, okay?
Okay.

Let's hope it's nothing.
Okay.

(LOUD ROARING)

(GASPS)

James! James!

It's okay! We're insane.

We're crazy.
It's a carpet cleaning
company.

A carpet cleaning company?

Yeah. No superiors.
No scientists.
No men from the future.

Just a carpet
cleaning company.
They have voice mail.

You leave a message
telling where you want
your carpet cleaned.

You left them a message?
Yeah. I couldn't resist.

Wait 'til they hear
this nutty woman telling them

to watch out
for the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

I said, "The Freedom
for Animals Association
on Second Avenue...

"...is the secret
headquarters of the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

"They're the ones
who are going to do it.

"l can't do anything
more now. I have to go.

"Have a merry Christmas."

You couldn't have heard me.

They got your message,
Kathryn.

They played it for me.

It was a bad recording,
distorted.

I didn't recognize
your voice.

(POLICE RADIO INDISTINCT)

KATHRYN: This.

This.

(WOMAN ANNOUNCING
ON PA SYSTEM)

And this.

Is everything okay?
You want anything?

(BIRDS FLUTTERING)

SALESWOMAN: Shall I put this
on your account, ma'am?

No. That'll be cash.

Can you tell me
what floor the wigs are on?

KWESKIN: You turned the thing
into a fucking computer.

WELLER: And Fale believed it.
You know Fale.

If you guys get nailed,
which I'm pretty sure you will

(LAUGHING)

I've never seen you before
in my whole fuckin' life!

Yeah !

C'mon. C'mon.

Bring 'im through.
C'mon.

Okay, drive!

KWESKIN: What's the harm in
openin' up the bag?
His eyes are taped, right?

Right?

(ALL LAUGHING)

Okay. Okay.

Hello. Hello.

Wanna hear the monkey speak?
ALL: Yeah !

Aah !

Jeffrey? Jeffrey,
I know that's you.
I recognize your voice.

(IN DISGUISED VOICE)
No, you don't.

I also know all about
your warped little plan.

That lady, your psychiatrist?
She told me.

I didn't believe her.
It just seemed too crazy,
even for you.

But just in case, I took steps
to make sure that you couldn't
go through with it.

I don't have the code
anymore, Jeffrey.

I don't have access
to the virus.

I took myself out of the loop.

Too late! Too late!

We've got plans for you, Dad.

(MAKES MONKEY SOUNDS)

(ALL MAKING MONKEY SOUNDS)

I never let myself believe it.
Now I know it's true. Jeffrey?

You're completely insane.

(ACTIVISTS LAUGHING)

No, I'm not.

There's a cross section
of one of the old trees
that's been cut down.

Here I was born.

And there I die.

It was only a moment for you.

You took no notice.

I think I've seen
this movie before.

Shh.

When I was a kid,
I saw it on TV.

Don't talk.

I did see it before.

Tall tress...
Have you been here before?

Yes.
When?

When were you born?

I recognize this.

Long ago.
Where?

KATHRYN: What's the matter?

Tell me, Madeleine, tell me.
No!

That's just like
what's happening with us.
Like the past.

The movie never changes.
It can't change.

But every time you see it,
it seems different
because you're different.

You see different things.

Please don't ask me.

If you can't change anything,
because it's already happened,

you may as well
smell the flowers.

What flowers?

That's an expression.

MADELEINE: Promise me
you won't ask me again,
please.

Kathryn,

why are you doing this?

I want to know why.
What if I'm wrong?
What if you're wrong?

What if I am crazy?

In a few weeks,
it will have started
or it won't.

If there's still

football games, traffic jams,

TV shows and armed robberies,
we're going to be so glad

that we'll be thrilled
to see the police.

I'm responsible for you now.

The Chinese say
if you save a person's life,

you're responsible
for it forever.

Do you have a plan?

I have to know.

MADELEINE:
There's so little that I know.

You said you'd never
seen the ocean.

(ELEPHANT TRUMPETS)

JEFFREY: Hurry up. Come on.

DR. GOINES: Jeffrey.
JEFFREY: What?

You know I can't see.
Where are we?

Jeffrey?

(ROARING)

(BIRDS FLUTTERING)

Kathryn?

We have 9:30 reservations
for Key West.

I just didn't recognize you.

Well, you look
pretty different yourself.

It was always you.

In my dream. It was al...

It was always you.

I remember you like this.

You do?

I felt I've known you before.

I feel I've always known you.

COLE: I'm so scared.

(SNORING)

(MONKEYS CHITTERING)

(ROARING)

(TRUMPETING)

(GROWLING)

(TRUMPETING)

(GROWLING)

CABBIE:
What time's your flight?

KATHRYN: 9:30.
Might be tight.

Tight?

No, my watch says 7:30.

On your normal mornin', okay.
Plenty of time.

But today you gotta take
into account your Army of
the Twelve Monkeys factor.

What?

What'd you say?

Twelve Monkeys.
Guess you folks didn't turn
on your radio this mornin'.

A bunch of weirdoes
let all the animals
out of the zoo.

Then they locked up
this big-shot scientist
in one of the cages.

Scientist's own kid
one of the ones did it.

They've got animals
all over the place.

Bunch of zebras closed down
the thruway 'bout an hour ago.

And they got some thing
called an emu.

It's got traffic blocked
for miles on 676.

MAN ON RADIO:
...what they think
they're accomplishing

by releasing an animal
into a city like this one?

(LAUGHING)

That's what they were up to,
freeing animals.

On the walls.
It said, "We did it."

They meant the animals.
The animals, yeah.

If I could interrupt
for a moment, Mr. Ginger...

There is going to be
a press conference
from City Hall.

I think it's going
to be all right.

Tell your people
if they spot
either one of them,

not to try
and apprehend them.

They should notify us.
We have people
all over the airport.

We'll take care of it.

PA ANNOUNCER:
Skycap to gate 47, please.

...for Chicago is now ready
for boarding at gate 17.

Flight 623 to Minneapolis
is now boarding at gate...

COLE: I know this place.
Airports all look the same.

This is my dream.

(LAUGHING)

Your moustache.
It's not just my dream.

I was actually here.
I remember now.

About a week
or two before the...
Before everyone started dying.

KATHRYN: Careful.
They might be looking for us.

I was here,

as a kid.
Use this.

I think you were
here then too.

James!

If they identify us,
they're going to
send us someplace.

But it won't be Key West.

Okay.
Okay. Okay.

I'll go fix this.
Okay.

I'm gonna get the tickets.
I'll meet you
in the newspaper stand.

Okay.
Okay.

PA ANNOUNCER:
This is a general
information announcement.

Judy Simmons.
I have reservations
for Key West.

Okay.

Flight 623 to Minneapolis
is now boarding at gate 44.

I don't see a lot of this.
It's cash.

It's a long story.

We'll begin boarding
in about 20 minutes.

You have a nice flight,
Miss Simmons.
Thank you.

WOMAN:
Hello. How are you today?

I don't know whether
you're there or not.

Maybe you just clean carpets.

If you do, you're lucky.
You're gonna live
a long, happy life.

But if you other guys
are out there,
if you are picking this up,

forget about the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys.

They didn't do it.
It was a mistake.
Someone else did it.

The Army of the Twelve Monkeys
is just a bunch of dumb kids
playing revolutionaries.

Listen.

I've done my job.
I did what you wanted.

Good luck.
I'm not coming back.

San Francisco, New Orleans,

Rio de Janeiro, Rome,

Kinshasa, Karachi,
Bangkok and Peking.

This is some trip
you're taking, sir.
Is this all in one week?

Business.

Have a good one, sir.

PA ANNOUNCER:
Any luggage found unattended
will be removed and destroyed.

(FOOT TAPPING)

MAN WITH RASPY VOICE:
Got yourself a prob, Bob?

Leave me alone!

I made a report.
I didn't have to do that.

Point of fact.

You don't belong here.

It's not permitted
to let you stay.

This is the present.

This is not the past.
This is not the future.

This is right now!

I'm not leavin'! Get that?
You can't stop me.

Anything you say, Chief.
It's none of my business.

Passengers for flight...

Hey, Cole.

Leave me alone!
Leave me alone!

Calm down, Cole.
It's me. Cole, it's me.

Jose?

Yeah, right. Jose.

Why'd you pull out your tooth?
That was nuts.

Here, take this.
What?

What for? Are you crazy?
Me? Are you kidding?

You're the one.

You're a hero, man.
They gave you a pardon.

What do you do?
You come back
and fuck with your teeth.

How did you find me?

The phone call, man.
The phone call.

They did their
reconstruction thing on it.

The phone?

The phone call I just made?
Five minutes ago.

Yeah, five minutes ago.
Thirty years ago.
They just put it together.

"Hey, this is Cole, James.
I don't know whether
you're there or not.

"Maybe you just
clean carpets."
Where'd you get that from?

"Forget about the Army of
the Twelve Monkeys."

Man, if only they could've got
your message earlier.

Take it. You could still
be a hero if you cooperate!

Come on, James. It's okay.

(TOURISTS CHATTING
IN JAPANESE)

Here's your change.
Thank you.
Thank you.

(CHUCKLING) Sorry.
No problem.

Hi.
Hi.

PA ANNOUNCER: Flight 784
for San Francisco is ready
for boarding at gate 38.

Flight 784 for San Francisco
is ready for boarding
at gate 38.

Oh, my God !

I got orders.

You know what I'm supposed
to do if you don't go along?
Shoot the lady.

What?
You got that?

They said,
"If Cole don't obey..."

I'll break your fuckin'...
You hear me?

(GAGGING, COUGHING)

PA ANNOUNCER: Volunteers
now boarding at Gate 37.

You see? I had no choice.

These are my orders, man.
Just take it.

Take it!

(COUGHING)

This part isn't about
the virus at all, is it?

It's about followin' orders.

About doin' what you're told.

You got a pardon.
What do you want?

Who am I supposed to shoot?
Who am I supposed to shoot?

James! James!
Dr. Goines' assistant,
he's an apocalypse nut.

I think he's involved.

The next flight
to San Francisco
leaves from Gate 38.

If he's there,
I'm sure he's part of it.

PA ANNOUNCER:
...please go to gate 1 3.

(BUZZING)

Mr. Holtz, you wanna have
a look at this, please?

Excuse me, sir.

Would you mind
letting me have a look
at the contents of your bag?

Me?
We don't have time for this.

Excuse me!

PETERS: Biological samples.

I have the papers right here.

I'm gonna have to ask you
to open this up, sir.

Open it?

Why, yes, of course.

What could be better?
Look over here.
Look at the planes. Hurry up!

Excuse me.
Ma'am,
you have to get in the line.

See?

Biological. Check the papers.

It's all proper.
I have a permit.

It's empty.

Well, yes, to be sure.
It looks empty,

but I assure you, it's not.

You don't understand.
No, I don't
have to understand.

You have to get in line.

There's a man.
He's carrying a deadly virus!

There, you see.

Also invisible
to the naked eye.

It doesn't even

have an odor.

That's not necessary, sir.

There you go. Thank you
for your cooperation.

Have a good flight.

Yeah.

Who are you calling a moron?
I'm calling you
a fucking moron !

Fucking moron?
Get your hands off her!

Hold it. Wait a moment.

(BOTH ARGUING)

Fucking moron?
Well, you're not
getting through.

Now get in that line.

COLE: I said stop!

(ARGUING CONTINUES)

There he is! That man !
He's carrying a deadly virus!

KATHRYN: Stop him !
Somebody, please stop him !

Police Offi...

(ALARM BEEPING)

MAN SHOUTS: He's got a gun !

Watch it!

No!

Freeze!

Excuse me.

ASTROPHYSICIST: It's obscene,

all the violence,
all the lunacy.

Shootings even
at airports now.

You might say that
we're the next
endangered species.

Human beings.

(PANTING)

I think you're right, ma'am.

I think you've hit
the nail on the head.

Jones is my name.

I'm in insurance.

(AIRPLANE ENGINES ROARING)

(WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
PLAYING)

I see trees of green

Red roses too

I see them bloom

Just for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue

And clouds of white

The bright blessed day

The dark sacred night

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow

So pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces

Of people going by

I see friends shakin' hands

Sayin', "How do you do"

They're really saying'
I love you

I hear babies cryin'

I watch them grow

They'll learn much more

Then I'll ever know

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Oh, yeah