12 Monkeys (2015–2018): Season 2, Episode 13 - Memory of Tomorrow - full transcript

Cole and Railly adjust to the past, but a mysterious woman with apocalyptic visions gets them to do the unthinkable to save the world.

["Silent Night" plays]

- ♪ Silent night ♪

- I want to tell you a story...

- ♪ Holy night ♪

[bells tolling]
- About how the world ends.

And the man who came back
through time to stop it...

- Charlie.

- No!

- And failed.

For, you see,
there is another traveler,

one who's both the architect
and witness to our destruction.



- ♪ Jesus, Lord...♪

- And the man cannot see
the other's design...

- ♪ Ah ah ♪

[clock tolls]
♪ Jesus...♪

- The end of the beginning...

- Merry Christmas, James.

- And the beginning

of the end.

- [chuckles]
- For you.

- Oh.

No.

- [laughs]

Please?

I want to see what you
look like under there.



- Nope.
- Come on.

You're not living
in the 2040s anymore.

Please?
- Your turn, come on.

[clears throat]

- Why do you look nervous?

- I've never
done this before.

My dad would give me
a little something, but...

Usually, a train.

I used to love trains.

He was good.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

It's for your, uh...

I just remembered
that thing you said about, uh,

not every cater--

- Caterpillar
becomes a butterfly.

- Yeah.

Anyway, I know it's dumb.

If you don't like it--
- No, it's...

I love it.
Thank you.

I have...
one more for you.

- Mmm...more.
- [giggles]

- Bring it on.

[chuckles]

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

[exhales]

- You're gonna be so good,
too.

- I...

- [whispers]
Hey.

- Wow. Ha.

[laughs]

- [whispers] This is exactly
where we're supposed to be.

Home.

[gentle music]

♪ ♪

[door bells jingle]

- You okay, son?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I, uh...

just found out
I'm gonna be a father.

- [laughing]
Well, congrats, Jimbo!

I tell you,
I got three of my own.

Let me give you some
[voice distorts] advice.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- It's not over, James.

[car horn honks]
[bell ringing]

- Merry Christmas!

Ho, ho, ho!

Merry Christmas!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I asked about getting
an ultrasound machine at work.

I keep forgetting it's 1959.

Not so easy to come by.

I don't know if I'm...
ready either, but...

What is it?

Talk to me.

- What if it's not over?

The Red Forest,
the plague,

The Witness?

I mean, what if Ramse
never got him?

- I think we'd know.

- How?

- Well,
we're still here.

Your words.

Time didn't collapse.

Maybe this is...

just how it's meant to be.

- Time's on our side.

- It hasn't always been.

I'd like to think
we earned this.

[car horn honking]

[background chatter]

[radio playing]

[music distorts, stops]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[horn honking]

[casual background chatter]

[women shrieking distantly]

- Hi.

I'm, uh,
looking for a woman.

Long, dark hair.
Probably a patient here.

- I'm afraid that doesn't
quite narrow it down.

- Her, uh, left wrist.

She cut it.

[woman screams distantly]

- Lillian.

I've been here 17 years.

She's been here twice as long.

And during that time,
she's had exactly one visitor.

You.

- No family?
- She did.

Parents and two
younger siblings...

until she killed them.

Schizophrenic hallucinations...

rare, but it happens.

[distant screaming
continues]

- Who are you?

- Cole.

- Are you real, Cole?

- Yes.

- Hm.

No, you're not him.

I'm insane,
and you're my insanity.

- I saw you outside the market

when everything...stopped.

- Ticktock,

ticktock, ticktock.

- I've seen people
like you before.

I know you're
not schizophrenic.

You're Primary.

- James Cole.

I've waited and waited,

but I didn't think you would
come with the end so close.

- There is no end.

Time didn't collapse.

- Yet, we walk
on frozen streets freely

while the rest of time
is still.

- You know why that happened?

- It's not over, James.

Green to red...

to dead.

- No, if that were happening,
we would know it.

I would know it.

- You're blind,
you can't see it.

There's only one who can.

The Witness.

- The Witness is done.

Ramse stopped him.
He stopped all of it.

It's how I'm even
able to be here.

- Titan.

There was, is,
will be, death there.

Do not mourn them, James.

They're the lucky few.

The ones spared from what
comes last, comes next:

death, chaos.

- Is that what
you think you did?

Spared your family?

- I warned them.

I warned them
that death was coming!

But Mother and Father,
all they cared about

was life, new life.

First my brother,
then my sister, then...

[scoffs]

then I...

I don't even know
what that one was.

Would've been.

Hmm. But I saved them, James.

I freed them from
what's about to come,

and you will do the same.

- You're not connected
to time.

You're just sick.

- Time is collapsing
all around us!

2044, gone.
2016, gone.

1975, gone.

1959!

The storms have come.

James, the Red Forest is here!

Go to the pine barrens,

see what you find
and bring it back here.

And have a Merry Christmas!

[cackles]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[thunder rumbles]

[intense musical build-up]

[thunder booming]

- Green to red,
flesh to blood.

Two things existing at once,

beginning and the end.

- And I can't do anything
to stop it.

- You can.

- The paradox already
happened in 1957.

We failed.

- The final strike
in your strikeout.

You need to back it up
and swing again.

- Oh, you don't get it.

I can't travel
through time anymore.

I don't have a machine.

- James Cole

does not need a machine.

Go down the rabbit hole.

Drink me.

- I've seen
what this does to people.

Their minds are untethered,
they're--

- Out of time,

which is where
you need to be.

- So, what, I drink this
and my consciousness

drifts up the time stream?

- To any moment
you've been before.

Find the you in 1957,

take control,
undo your mistakes,

stop the paradox,

and save us all.

- But everything that's happened
since that moment--

- Will be undone.

- Cassie.

- Or do nothing,
and watch the ones you love

be consumed by the Red Forest
and suffer eternal.

- I'm not like you.

I can't erase her.

Them.

- Some happiness

is better than
a lifetime of anything else.

Death can be undone, James.

Love cannot.

But should you stop
the paradox

and find yourself
in your own time,

do not go to Titan.

- Ramse.

- Let your brother go,
James.

An army awaits there
for you...

the continuation
of a cycle that must end.

If you don't,
your family,

my family...

will all be in vain.

[epic music]

♪ ♪

[door closes]

[Christmas music]

♪ ♪

- Where were you?

The shop called.

I know you didn't go
into work today.

What's going on with you?

- Uh, I just had to go
for a drive,

clear my head.

- Don't bullshit me, Cole.

- Cassie...

- Look, I get it.

This is a lot for you.

It's too much too soon.

- No, no, no.
That's not it.

- Then what?

You've been walking
around in a funk,

and the only thing

that's new with us is...

what's new with us.

I just want you
to feel how I feel.

- I do.

I just had to get
my mind around it.

Believe me,

there's nothing I've ever
wanted more than this.

[sweeping music]

♪ ♪

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[clock chiming]

[continues chiming,
echoing]

[overlapping chiming,
clock ticking rapidly]

[wind whooshing]

[wood creaking, rumbling]

[thunder booming]

[murmuring voices]

[Cole's voice]
Leland Frost.

You know
a man named Leland Frost!

I need to find him.

- Ah!

Oh...

Oh.

[groans]

Oh, yeah,
that is a rush.

Okay.

[phone rings]

- Dr. Railly.

I might be getting
the hang of this.

- Wow.
- When are you coming home?

- [laughs]

You don't you don't even
know who I am yet.

- Well, I was hoping
to see you tonight,

but I guess I can let
you sweep me off my feet

and make it up to me.

- I got to get out of here.

This is too early.

This is not good.

- Feeling better than that.

- Oh, shit...

[intense music]

[overlapping,
disjointed voices]

1957.

Got to find the me in 1957.

Where are you?

[Cole's voice]
Let's get something straight.

You do not give me orders.

I'm not your soldier...

[grunting]

Oh, yeah,
this is where I meet--

- Who are you?

- Hey Jennifer, I'm Cole.

- Are you real, Cole?

- Listen, I'm sorry
I can't stick around,

but do me a favor.

From this point forward,

don't ever call me
otter eyes again.

- You guys gonna pick up
where you left off?

Cassie?

- Ramse.

Yeah, yeah,
her name's Cassie.

- Listen, you need help.

I want you to talk to her.

And I want you
to bring up your friend.

- Right, the one
who eats blondes for breakfast.

- Yes, him.
- [chuckles]

- Seriously.

Take a shot.

It's worth the risk.

- Attention Night Room
shoppers...

[intense music]

♪ ♪

- [breathing hard]

Almost there.
[overlapping voices]

Almost there.

Who are you?

[cracking]

Who are you?

[echoing]
Who are you...

[suspenseful music]

- Hey, we got to take you
to the back.

[muffled voice]

- Where are we going?

- This is it.
1957.

- Oh, my God,
there's a woman here with a gun!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[cocks trigger]

- How did you know?

- I didn't.

Then I did.

- Cole, if I do this,

I can be with her forever
in the Red Forest.

No death, no time clock.

You don't understand.

I love her.

- Cole, he is not
your friend.

He's a Messenger.
Shoot him!

- That's not it.

Charlie...

I do understand.

[exhales]

Good-bye.

[click]
[gunshots]

[power-up whine]

[whine intensifies]

Jones.

[intense music]

♪ ♪

- Welcome home.

[birds chirping]

I remember sending
you back to 1957,

both of you,

and then it's a blur.

The storms overran
the facility.

I remember being
surrounded by the anomalies.

Then...

[thunder rumbling]

It took months,

but I watched
time repair itself.

The Red Forest is gone,
for now.

A memory of tomorrow.

Since it took a year
for you to find the Primary,

I had to wait
for your real-time tethers

to catch up.

It was lonely at first,

but it wasn't long
before I had...

[metal clunking]

Visitors.

[overlapping chatter]
- Scavengers.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Marauders.

- Get her!
You're coming with me!

Holy shit,
this is the mother lode.

- I had to learn to protect
this place on my own.

[gunshots]

Day in and day out,
they would come.

[gunshot]

And I would have
to clean house.

And then one day,
this little shit showed up.

What can I say?

[laughs]

Never had a dog before.

It's been us ever since.

- It took us a year.

A long year.

We went through every single
person at that factory.

We almost didn't
find the Primary.

It was close,

but, at the very last second,

we stopped the Messenger,

Cole did.
He got him.

- There's something else.

Ramse and Hannah--

they die at Titan.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- This woman, this Primary,

she said an army
is awaiting them?

- Ramse's walking
into a trap.

The Witness knows
somehow.

- What are you doing?

- There was a transponder
in one of their vehicles.

I've been tracking
their movements,

but this morning,

the signal ended right here,
west of Titan.

- We need to warn 'em,
stop 'em from going there.

- They're too far to radio.

We'll never be able to...

The machine.

- Dr. Adler's programmed
the machine for Titan.

- Time travel
without the time part.

- We could splinter there
and warn them.

Can you finish
the calculations?

- I programmed the jump
to the woods just outside Titan.

There's only one approach.

Hopefully,
we will find them there.

- Did you just say we?
- The machine is on autopilot.

It will pull
us all back in 12 hours.

That gives us more
than enough time

to radio the caravan

or find them ourselves.

- Are you serious?
- I'm going, Mr. Cole.

I'm not losing
my daughter again.

Now get your ass
in the chair.

[power-up hum]

[electricity charging]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Initiate splinter sequence.

♪ ♪

[percussive
echo]

- Ohh...
[owl hooting]

- Holy shit!

Is that what
that feels like?

- Jones.
- What?

- Ramse's gone.

They all went to Titan.

- Where's Hannah?
- She went with them.

- There's an army
waiting for them.

If we're gonna
have any chance of saving them,

we need the Daughters
to come with us.

- They won't listen to me.

They don't believe in me.

- Then make them.

- [scoffs]

- Daughters of Earth,

I am Jennifer Goines.

[wind howls]

- What is this?

- As we speak,

an army of death

awaits our friends in Titan.

But we...

we can face
that death head-on

and save them!

I see in your eyes
the same fear

that would take
the heart of me.

A day may come

when the courage
of women fails,

and we forsake our friends

and break all bonds
of fellowship,

but it is not this day!

[triumphant music]

This is our chance,

our one chance

to tell our enemies

that they can take
our lives,

but they'll never
take our freedom!

[rousing music]

- I think it's working.

♪ ♪

- Today we celebrate

our Independence Day!

[panting heavily]

[wind howling]]

Oh, screw you.

I'll do it myself.

Lazy...forget it.

Come on, Cole, let's go.

- You're leaving us?

You'd sacrifice
your life for them?

- Yeah.

I would.

I don't know
what old me taught you,

but clearly she forgot
the most important lesson.

- Which is?

- Be excellent to each other.

Come on, guys.

[spirited music]

- Wait!

- Turn around!

[echoing]
Turn around....

Take off the mask.
[echo] Take off the mask.

Take off the mask!

[echoing]
The mask...mask...

[percussive musical build-up]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

[gunshots]

- Uhh!

- Uhh--ohh!

- Aah!

[both grunting]

- Aah!

Aah!
- Ooh!

- Aah!
- Uhh!

[metal clanging]
[woman screaming]

[woman grunting]

Aah!

[exciting music]

♪ ♪

[gunfire continues]

Well, well.

[intense music]

♪ ♪

Well, that took you
long enough, brother.

- Saving your ass takes time.

Bring 'em here.

[bodies thudding]

The Witness.
Where is he?

- You'll never find him,
Traveler.

He's safe.

- Safe.

- Aah!

ah...

Where is he?

- The Witness is safe.

- Safe!

Where?

Where, huh?

- The Witness is safe.

- Aah!
Where?

- All right, enough!
- You!

You brought us here.

You told us to come here.

- Hey! Hey, enough!
Hey, enough!

- I saw him!
He was here.

- Where is he?
- Hey!

Don't make me regret
coming back here for you!

- You know what
this place meant for me.

- I know.

Jones, what is this place?

- I don't know.

But this technology
was pioneered by my husband,

Elliott Jones.

I'm afraid that this,

all of this

could be in service
of another machine.

- If the Witness
has his own machine--

- We need to find it.

- Okay, no.
Hold up.

Flag on the play,
otter eyes.

And, yes, I will always
call you that.

But okay, we got to go.

We came, we saw,
we kicked their ass.

Time will take
what it's owed.

- We're not leaving.

- Boys, crazy's
making sense, here.

The trick-or-treaters
were waiting for you.

They wanted you here.

The "why" is not
something we should

stick around to find out.

- The answer's here somewhere.
- Jesus.

- We need to find it.

Radio back
first sign of trouble.

If the Witness is here,
we need him alive.

Once he tells us
what we need to know,

he's yours.

Let's go.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- I never thought
I'd see Jones packing.

- And not every
caterpillar becomes a...

Butterfly.

You gave me a butterfly.

And the house.
It was cedar and pine.

We lived there together.

It was our home.

- How can you remember that?

- We were in love--

[bass blaring alarm]

- Oh, nothing good
makes that sound.

[bass blaring continues]

- Before, you said
when you came here first--

- Titan wasn't here.

- It wasn't here yet.

James, we need
to get out of here.

Right now.

- No, we need
to find the Witness.

If he has his own machine--

- Look at those towers,
Dr. Railly.

Titan is his machine.

[deep bass power-up
thrumming, groaning]

- Ramse, everyone,
get out now.

This whole place
is about to splinter.

- Let's move.

[bass groaning]

- Ramse, let's go.

[bass groaning]

- No time to explain.

Come with me now.

Do you want the Witness
or not?

[bass groaning continues]

- Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Where are the others?
- I don't know.

Ramse was right behind me.

[intense music]

- Cole!

[power chugging]

[deep bass groaning]

- Shit.

- [mumbles] I--

- Get the hell out of here.

- Deacon, no.

- I'm sorry I killed you.

Go!

Baaah!

[gunfire]

[groaning, shouting]

[Deacon's scream echoes]

- [gasps]

[gunfire]

[electric thrumming]

Uh-oh.

- Ramse!
- Cole, come on.

We got out of here.

[bass groaning continues]

Please.

For me.

[gunfire]

- [grunting]
- Ah!

- Cole!

Cole!

- Cassie!

- Cole!

[power-up whine]

[loud bass groaning]

[electricity crackling,
sizzling]

[sounds fade away]

What happened to Titan?

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- Hello, Traveler.

- You got to be kidding me.

Why don't you kill me,
already?

- She is no longer with
the Army of the 12 Monkeys.

None of us are.

- Bring him.

- Where are you
taking me?

- To your son.

- Dad!

♪ ♪

[explosions]

[gunfire]

[overlapping shouting]

[booming]

[men shouting]

- [speaking French]

- No, I just took a wrong
turn...back there.

- [speaking French]

- French...French, French.

[speaking French]

[boom]

[debris rattling]

[gunfire and shouting
continue]

[speaking French]

[electricity buzzing]

- [groans]

[dog barking]

Charlie...
[murmurs]

[power-up whine]

- [grunts]

- Come on, Cassie.

Come on!

[intense music]

♪ ♪

- We don't have her tether.

She's gone.

- Where did she go?

[keyboard clacking]

Look.
This is our time stream

where we've spent
the last three years

looking for answers:

the past.

But this is not
where Titan went.

They went...here.

The future.

Our future, James.

The year 2163,

based on Titan's
temporal signature.

- What does that mean?

- The past is one thing,

but the future?

We have no way of knowing

what could be
waiting there for you.

- I'm going, Katarina.

I'm gonna find her,

and I'm gonna bring her home.

[rhythmic beeping]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Cassandra...

It is a great honor

to finally have you here.

For you...

To finally join us.

- It was you this whole time.

You're the Witness.

- No, no.

The Witness is far
more special than I,

or than you or James.

And that's why
it was always important

that you, you

come to Titan.

- Where is he?

Where is the Witness?

- He's safe.

Born of two travelers
outside of time.

You brought him here,
Cassandra.

The Witness...

is here.

Mother.

[dramatic notes]

♪ ♪

The Mother!

[overlapping whispers]
Mother.

Mother.

Mother.
- The mother.

all: Mother.
Mother.

Mother.

Mother. Mother.

Mother.

Mother. Mother.

Mother.

Mother!

- I told you,

this is a story
about how the world ends.

One that begins at the end

and ends...

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

At the beginning.

[intense music]

♪ ♪