12 Monkeys (2015–2018): Season 2, Episode 6 - Immortal - full transcript

- Previously on "12 Monkeys"...

- She said I was Primary.
- You are Primary.

- Locked up for delusions
and voices in the head.

That sound like anybody we know?

- Jennifer Goines--
Yes, she's crazy too.

- She's not just crazy. She's--

- She's what? Special?

- We help it think Primaries.

Living and breathing gears
in time's wristwatch.

Tick, tock.

- I know why the Messengers
went back in time.



They're destroying Primaries.

- Collapsing time
by creating paradoxes.

- No beginning.
No end.

All of humanity destroyed.

- We know one
of the Messengers' targets.

A Primary named Kyle Slade.
New York City, 1970s.

- It's 1975 to be precise.

We sent two of our Messengers
there after us.

- Something else happen?

- You're walking through
a red forest.

- We're going on another trip
to see The Witness?

- I can't wait to tell him
about how I've been

taking out your Messengers.

- [screams]



- Eight down, four to go.

Who are you?

Aaron?

- You know, the skeptic in me

finds it hard to believe
that all this is the result

of the murder of a few
crazy people back in time.

- It's not just murder.

They're paradoxing a Primary,

removing a vital string
in the fabric of time.

It's unwinding
before our eyes.

This is causality driven insane.

Won't be long before it
will devour past, present,

and future,
destroying all of mankind.

- Hell on Earth?

You're not going all Biblical
on me now are you, Kat?

- We need to find
the next Primary

and stop the Messengers
from destroying them.

- Well then, feast those
beautiful eyes on this.

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

- De-con chamber.

- You sure?

♪ ♪

- Cover me.
- Hold it. Hold it.

This is your problem.

You got no plan.

You rush on
that hallway, naked...

he's gonna get you.

God damn it!

[thuds]

[yelling]

♪ ♪

[clicks]

- Got you. You're both dead.
- Nice job, buddy.

- You're supposed to be
watching my back, man.

You're high-fiving the enemy?
- Dead means no talking.

- Oh, man,
I think I got a flesh wound.

- Avenge me, brother.

[growling]

[laughing]

♪ ♪

What?

He can't play outside.

- We know where to find
the Primary in 1975.

♪ ♪

- Game over.

[rubber band snaps]

- Is Cole going
back in time again?

- Probably.

- You going with him?

- No.

I got a more important job.

- You could've stopped a lot
of people from dying before.

And you didn't.

I know you love me, but it's not
just about my future.

It's about everyone's.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Thanks to Dr. Railly
and Ms. Goines,

we have the name of another
of the Messengers' victims.

- Kyle Slade.

- Died July the 2nd, 1975.

Slade was a drifter.
No permanent address.

Believed to reside near
Greenwich Village.

- Do we know how many Messengers
were sent back to kill this guy?

- There are four
unaccounted for

and, if they are consistent,
at least two assassins

were sent after Mr. Slade.

We believe it's these two men.

Unfortunately, there's no
security footage of the others.

- But there is something
that you should know.

This man, Kyle Slade,
was believed to be The Immortal,

a serial killer responsible
for the murder and dismemberment

of at least 12 people
between 1974 and '75.

- What?

- Staff Sergeant Slade
was dishonorably discharged

from the U.S. Army
after allegedly butchering

several Viet Cong soldiers.

- I'm supposed to
protect this guy?

- How you prevent him from being
paradoxed--that's up to you.

- How do I find him?

- Victoria Mason, The Immortal's
12th and final victim--

the only one police
could identify.

The rest were indigents.

- Murdered July 2nd, 1975.

[punching]
- Oof!

- Same day Slade's body
was found.

- In other words,
paradoxed.

- So I splinter in
before he finds Victoria?

- You follow her to Slade,

wait till the Messengers come,

and we take him out.

- We?

- You're all leap, no look,
little brother.

You're gonna
get yourself killed.

- My hero.

- It's either that or Jonesey
sends me back in time

to save your ass again.

- You're crazy about me.
Just admit it.

- What about the girl?

- I strongly recommend
not getting involved.

- You mean let her die?

- I mean don't alter time
any more than we already have.

♪ ♪

The temporal scanners
have been recalibrated.

I can put you at
the proper coordinates

within seconds
of each other.

July 1st, 1975.

- With that hair,
you're gonna fit right in.

- Just try and stay out
of traffic this time.

- You got to be kidding me.

- Initiate splinter sequence.

[Foghat's "Slow Ride" playing]

♪ Slow ride ♪

♪ Take it easy ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Slow ride ♪

♪ Take it easy ♪

♪ ♪

- You are a real
pain in the ass.

- Ow!

Sedatives for a concussion?

My malpractice case against you
is growing by leaps and bounds.

- You need to rest
so you can recover.

- Ooh, so warm.

Nope, not sleepy.

You know, as a former CEO
of a major biotech company,

I'm used to certain amenities.

This place is old,
and it smells.

It smells like old.

Probably haunted.

♪ ♪

It's definitely haunted.

You know, some people think
that ghosts are just replays.

Traumatic events recorded
into their surroundings...

- [grunts]
[crunch]

- Into time.

- And there are the sedatives.

- You don't believe in ghosts,
do you?

[dramatic music]

- I don't.

- You got to open
your mind, Doc,

before someone opens it for you.

♪ ♪

[chattering]

- Coffee's not bad.
- I'll stick with this.

This is good.
- You ever had coffee?

- Yeah, I used to make coffee
all the time when we were scavs.

- That wasn't coffee.

- What do you mean
"that wasn't coffee"?

What was it?
- She's coming.

- Seriously, what was it?

- Refill?
- I'd love a refill.

[funk music on radio]

♪ ♪

- Your friend there
is putting away flapjacks

like he's never had them before.

- Where we're from,
the pancakes are horrible.

- Oh yeah?
Where you from?

- I'm from Jersey.

- I do love a Jersey boy.

- You like Jersey boys?

So, Victoria, what's, uh,

like, fun, you know,
to do around here?

- It's New York City, man.

Everything's fun
if you're doing it right.

- [scoffs] I know that look.
- What look?

- The look that says you're
about to father

another child and change
the course of history.

Let's not get involved
with the locals, okay?

- You're the authority?

- Mommy!

- How are you?

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Did you have fun
with grandma?

- Jones never said
she had a kid.

- I don't know.

- What's gonna happen to him
when she dies, huh?

- Whatever already happened.

♪ ♪

- Yes, good man.

- She's not gonna win
"mother of the year."

- Thanks, Kenny.

See you tomorrow.

♪ ♪

[thuds]
Oh! [screaming]

- Oh, shit.
- That's our Primary.

- Jesus Christ, that's the guy
we're supposed to protect?

This is me looking
and not leaping.

This sitting right
with you?

- I don't like it
any more than you do.

It's how it has to be.

We go changing things now,
we're gonna make it worse.

We don't want to be here
any longer than we have to.

- We or you?
- It's not the plan, Cole.

♪ ♪

[grunting]

♪ ♪

- [screaming]

- Hey, asshole.

[thuds]

[buzzing sound]

- Argh!
Something's changing.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

[tires squealing]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Looks like
we got a Messenger.

- Okay, okay--so you--

so you guys
came here from the future

to stop some guy
from killing me

in order to stop the guys
who are trying to kill him?

Okay, that is some
"Twilight Zone"

shit right there.

- Maybe honesty's
not the best policy here.

- What about my son?

- Safer with your mother.
You're safer here.

- At least until we find
the Messengers.

- What are you doing?

You're a mother.

Stay off of this shit.

- Yeah?
Look who's talking.

- It's a side effect
from changing time.

- [scoffs]
Why, because you saved me?

- You just got a second chance.

Try not to waste it.

All the cocaine
she's been doing--

she's gonna be dead
in a month.

Little kid is better off.

- The last person
who should be passing judgment

on parenting is you.

- You better watch your mouth.

[funk music playing
in distance]

♪ ♪

- What happened, happened.

Kyle's still out there
somewhere.

We got to get to him
before they do.

- All we got is his name,
and we know what he looks like.

That's it.

- Cops.

We give them the name.
Let them find him.

Piggy-back off them.

I mean they have to
look into it.

They're the cops.

- Not in this time period--
too much corruption.

- Then we'll have to blend in.

- Thank you.
- Not a problem.

- You're the guys
from the "Times"?

- That's right.
- Detective Damato.

This is Franklin.

- Bill Margolis.

This is my associate,
Ethan Seki.

Why don't you
step into our office?

- [sighs]

- So? You said you had some
information on The Immortal.

- We know who he is.
- That so?

- And how exactly do
a couple of newshounds

come upon this information?

- Can't tell you.
Have to protect our sources.

- So who is he?

- Kyle Slade.
Vietnam vet.

Did three tours.
Came home last year.

- Two weeks before you
found your first victim.

- All right, pallies.
We'll look into it.

- We want a ride-along.

Be there when you grab him.

- That way
we get our exclusive.

- No way.

Can't have a couple
of ink-stained dipshits

tagging along
on a serial murder collar.

Thanks for the tip.

Oh, and you guys have yourselves
a beautiful day, huh?

- How about a peek
at the future?

Got an article here I wrote.

Goes to press in an hour.

- "NYPD Bungles
Serial Homicide Case."

Our names are all over this.

What, are you assholes
trying to blackmail us?

- Just trying to help you
catch a killer.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- All right, if we give you
this exclusive,

this gets spiked,
or you do.

♪ ♪

- DOD just sent this over.

- Staff Sergeant Kyle Slade:

survived six months in
a Viet Cong POW camp

until he escaped.

He slaughtered his captors

using a machete
to hack off their limbs.

♪ ♪

According to his psychologist,

Slade said that
voices in the jungle

told him to do it.

Declared Section 8.
Shipped back to the U.S.,

hasn't been seen since.

- This guy's a one man My Lai.

- Let's put a BOLO out on Slade.

♪ ♪

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

[grinds]

[electricity crackles]

- [whispers]
Cass?

♪ ♪

[clatter]

♪ ♪

- Aaron?

- The suspect
we believe to be the killer

is holding a woman hostage.

All available units
report to the scene.

[sirens blaring]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[indistinct commands]

- Officer Rollins?

- I spotted your suspect
moving west on Lincoln.

When I approached
he ran into this store.

Took the cashier hostage.

- Anyone else in there?
- Don't think so.

He's threatening to kill her
if we don't leave the scene.

- Call HNT.
We need a negotiator.

And get ESU down here.

Better reach out
to the Mayor's office too.

We don't need
any more blow-back.

- Hey, Cole!
- Hey, get back here!

- God damn it!
- Hey!

♪ ♪

[bell dings]

- Take one more step!
- Easy.

[woman whimpering]

I'm here to help you,
Kyle.

- How do you know my name?

- I know all about you.

I know you're Primary...

and I know last night
a man from the future

tried to kill you.

- The Messenger?

♪ ♪

It's you.
James Cole.

♪ ♪

- Why don't you put that gun
down so we can talk, all right?

[woman whimpering]

♪ ♪

[bell dings]
- [whimpering]

- Go! Go!
Back it up!

Got to keep
the whole street clear!

- We're coming out.

- You'll be safe
in jail, Kyle.

They can't get to you.

- I've been waiting
for you, Cole.

I can take you
to The Witness now.

- The Witness?

- The one who gave birth
to The Army of the 12 Monkeys.

You want him,
I've got him.

- Go! Go! Move!
- Where is he?

- I can take you right now,
but we don't have time.

- Where is he, Kyle--Hey!
- We don't have time for this!

- Kyle, tell me where he is!
Kyle!

- Shit heel,
hey, back off.

- I need to talk to him.

- Put him in our car.

Thanks for the tip, Serpico,
but your exclusive ends here.

- Hey, asshole,
we need to speak to him.

- I've got the itching
for a real nice

obstruction charge
for you two.

I'll see you soon.

- He knows where
The Witness is.

- What are you talking about?

Cole?

Don't do that.
- Get in.

- Don't do that!
That's a cop car.

[engine turns over]

Oh, I'm an idiot.
Oh, I'm an idiot.

[dramatic music]

- How is this possible?

- They rescued me
from the fire.

Nursed me back to health.

Don't worry, she's safe.

I'm not the enemy, Cass,

and neither are they.

- Aaron?

- We're all fighting
the same war,

just on different fronts.

These people, they have powers
beyond our understanding.

Without them, I'd be dead.

- Without them...

none of this
would have happened.

Not the plague,
not the fire.

- Not Cole.

- You betrayed us.

- Everything I did was--

- You did for me, I know.
I know.

I wish to God that you'd
stayed out of it.

- I thought I was gonna die
in that fire.

I was just waiting
for the pain to stop.

♪ ♪

In those final moments,

the only thing I saw
was you, Cass.

You were the only thing
that kept me going

and the worst part was thinking
that I was gonna die

without ever getting
the chance to tell you...

That I'm sorry.

♪ ♪

[sirens wailing]

[tires squealing]

- Sons of bitches!

- Guns down!
On the ground, now!

- You want to tell me
what the hell you're doing?

- Get in the car.
You too.

- You're in some real shit,
paperboy.

- Shut up.

Don't look at me.
Get in the car.

[dramatic music]

- Cole,
our mission...

is to protect the Primary.

What are you doing?

- Kyle, you take me to him?

- Bronx River Avenue.
I can show you.

- Hold on--
- Hold on?

It's The Witness:

the guy behind the apocalypse,
the anomalies.

If he's here,
we have to find him.

- Cole, this guy...
he jerks off in his basement

and he thinks about
hacking off limbs.

You want to trust him now?

- If there's even a chance

we can find The Witness
I have to take it.

We could end this thing
right now.

- Not by going off
half-cocked!

I got a kid.
- Really?

I haven't heard that before.

- You're just as crazy
as this piece of shit.

Idiot, you don't listen.

You never listen!

You're all leap, no look.

You remember?

- This was always my mission,
not yours.

- Cole!

[sirens wailing]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Who did this?

- Him!

- Traveler.

- How'd you find us?

- Your friend left something
at the cafe.

He's with the Primary now?

- Yeah, your boss...
he's in deep shit.

- The Witness?
- Mm-hmm.

- If that's true you were wise
not to follow him, Traveler.

- [grunting]

♪ ♪

1975 is as good a year
as any to die, Traveler.

♪ ♪

- [grunting]

[clanks]
- Aah!

♪ ♪

- [groans]

- [panting]

- All right, you okay?

- Yeah.

- I need to borrow
your car keys.

You need to get the hell
out of here.

Look at me.

You go home,

you take care of your boy.

Your life
ain't about you anymore.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Let's go.

- They said
I was crazy in 'Nam.

Said that's what
the jungle does to a man.

I knew.

The war wasn't over there,
it was here.

- That how you justify
butchering innocent people?

- I didn't have a choice.

Those people
were just like me.

They could hear the voices.

[suspenseful music]

- You saying they were Primary?

- The Witness wants
to take them out,

bring down this whole
house of cards.

You can't paradox them
if they're already dead.

- What about the waitress,
Victoria?

She wasn't Primary.

- It was a means to an end.

I didn't want to hurt her,

but a soldier's got to make
tough choices, you know.

You've heard of Cyrus the Great,
King of Persia?

- No.

- He had an army.
"The Immortals."

Warriors willing to do whatever
it took no matter how brutal.

It meant no attachments.
No wives, no kids, nothing.

Just the battle.
Like us.

- What battle?

- There's only one true enemy
in this world:

time itself.

I know you feel it,
too, Cass.

Hanging over you
like a shadow.

All those years as a doctor,

how much suffering
have you witnessed?

How many people have you seen
slip away before their time?

- What do you want
from me, Aaron?

- I want you to understand

it doesn't have to be
that way anymore.

There's only one way
to undo the clock, Cass.

- The Witness
is destroying people like me,

the ones that keep time
from falling in on itself,

but we can't
hold it up forever.

Someday Atlas is gonna shrug.

And when that day comes,
this whole city is gonna turn

into a ghost town.
I've seen it.

- Seen what?

- The forest of blood.

It was like hell on Earth.

- It's beautiful.

A place where
time no longer exists.

A place where you can be
with the one you love forever.

What could be more
important than that?

- No.

No, it can't be that way.

- It's the only way.

Don't you understand?

The Red Forest
is the only way to beat death.

- The Witness wants
to be immortal

in his timeless forest,

but can you imagine destroying
time itself,

so everything that's left
is living and dying

in the same moment?
An eternal now?

Everything you've ever known,

anyone that you've ever loved.

There's no future,
no past.

Forever red.

♪ ♪

The Witness is here.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

Careful.

For any curious cats.

Come on.

♪ ♪

What'd I tell you?

The Witness in the flesh.

♪ ♪

- He came for me,
but I was smarter.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[clangs]
Careful. Careful!

This has to be done right.

- What the hell
did you do to him?

- I needed help,

so I sent up a flare.

- Victoria?

That's why she was
the only identifiable victim.

- I knew that you would follow
her through time right to me.

I knew that
you would come here

to finish what I started.

Take down our enemy.

♪ ♪

Once it's done,
we can go home.

- Home?
- To the future, together.

Neither of us belongs here.

[door creaks]

[radio static]

- All units,
stolen undercover vehicle

reported on
Bronx River Avenue.

Be advised,
suspect is Kyle Slade,

wanted for multiple homicides.

Respond, code 1.

- Damato en route.

[siren wailing]

♪ ♪

- He's from there too, you know.

The future.

The Witness is a Traveler
just like you.

He's been doing it far,
far longer.

He's got abilities.
Technology way beyond yours.

He can get inside your head...

But he's just a man.

And a man can be killed.

[tires screech]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[electricity crackling,
whirring]

- [grunts]

You see this?

He came here to kill me
with this.

His dagger made of bone.

It's my bone that they dig up
in the future.

♪ ♪

Cole, you have to kill
The Witness with this.

Time wants you to do this.

It needs you to do it.

It has to be you.

- I've seen you before.

You're not The Witness.

♪ ♪

- Ow.

♪ ♪

You're not Aaron.

- No.

- You're The Witness.

- Perhaps I have chosen
the wrong way to convince you.

♪ ♪

This?

This is the face you prefer?

♪ ♪

[whirring]

- [panting]

[chattering]

- There you are,
birthday girl.

One too many Bombay Breezes
for this one.

Okay, let's get you back
to the room

before you ralph
all over the marble.

You okay?

Sleepwalk much?

I found you down
here going full Nell.

What's going on?

- The Witness was here.

- He's a Messenger.

The other one.
They come in pairs.

They're like hit men
sent through time

to take out people like you.

- You're wrong.
I'm too important.

The Witness wanted
to do me personally,

but I saw him coming,

just like I knew
that you would come here.

Do it!

♪ ♪

Do it!

God!

Come on!

♪ ♪

Take the dagger,
and kill The Witness.

It is why
I brought you here.

It is your fate to do this!

[gun cocks]

- [whistles]

- [whimpers]

- Hey, Cole,
let's do both of these guys,

get the hell out of here.

- What's he doing here?

- Easy,
we're all on the same side.

- Are we?

'Cause I am seriously starting
to doubt your commitment, man.

♪ ♪

Put your gun down.

- You first.

- No, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.

This is not how
this is supposed to go.

It's supposed to be
you and me.

Blaze of glory
into the future

and he's not a part of it!

♪ ♪

- Freeze!
Hands in the air!

- Ramse, down!

[electricity buzzes]

[all scream]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [coughs]

[groans]

[both grunting]

- You're not worthy.

- [gagging]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[gunshot]

♪ ♪

[rifle cocking]

♪ ♪

You're not worthy.

You're just like the others.

You were meant
to protect me.

- Only from a paradox.

- I'm The Immortal.

I'm not supposed to die.

- Everybody dies.

- You're not safe here anymore,
especially around me.

You need to find someplace else
to stay for a while.

Someplace I don't know about.

If The Witness can find me,
he can find you too.

- Okay, please know
that I appreciate the irony

of what I'm about to say,

but what if it was
all in your head?

- We can't take that chance.

It felt real.

- Then if it was real...

that means he's scared,
right?

Of us!

I mean, whatever we're doing
is working, right?

We have to go monkey hunting.

Okay, what's the natural
predator of the monkey?

Hyena,
like a pack of hyenas!

We'll take the fight
to them, Cassie!

- I don't know
what kind of fight I have in me.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- What did he say to you?

♪ ♪

- He, um--

he told me he wants
to destroy time...

So there'd be no more death.

He made it sound
almost beautiful.

♪ ♪

- Well, it's not.

Death is like...

everything.

It's a time clock
that makes us better.

Makes us love harder.

I don't know,

I think it's, like, maybe...

what makes us human.

♪ ♪

- Preventing the paradox

has caused the temporal storms
to recede.

You reversed
some of the damage.

- What's that mean?
- It means you did good, son.

- I was out for blood
back there.

I know
I almost got you killed.

I just thought
we could get him,

so I did what I always do,
rush in.

Anyway, I'm sorry.

- It's all right.

♪ ♪

I used to think
you were insane.

I realized
it's something else, right?

Something in here.

Never gonna change

and it shouldn't.

I think one of these days,

it's gonna help us
out of this mess.

Until then, somebody's got
to have your back.

[rock music]

- Listen, man,
you know I love you.

- Oh, what are you doing?

- What?

- You don't say that.
- Say what?

- You never say that.

- No, I was gonna say
I love whisky,

and we should go find
some and drink it.

- No you weren't--
you were gonna declare

your undying love
for me, brother.

- Don't flatter yourself, okay?
- I heard you.

- You're emotional right now.

I heard that happens
to new parents.

- Listen, I'm not
being emotional.

You're being an asshole,
okay?

♪ ♪

Me too.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- Jennifer?

♪ ♪

[electricity buzzes]
[clock chimes out of tune]

♪ ♪

[thunder rumbles]

[gasps]

[gasps]