12 Monkeys (2015–2018): Season 2, Episode 7 - Meltdown - full transcript

Previously
on "12 Monkeys"...

You sore about us?
I trained her to survive.

Dr. Eckland, you were not
a part of my original reality.

Well, that's gonna make it
awkward when you come to bed.

You like that I wasn't
intimidated by you.

The Witness is a traveler.
He's got abilities.

Technology beyond yours.

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

You're walking through
a red forest.

You're The Witness.

Perhaps this is
the face you prefer?



[suspenseful music]

[gasps]

♪ ♪

[upbeat music]

Open the gate!

♪ ♪

♪ I go with you to the moon ♪

♪ And back,
but, darling, that's a long ♪

♪ Way to fly ♪

Hey, what's with the dogs?

Oh, they're tripling
everything up.

Testing that new
experimental equipment.

What is it supposed to do?

It's a blender.



How the hell am
I supposed to know?

I got the same clearance
as you, asshole.

All right,
y'all gonna love this.

Jacks... read them and weep,
you schmucks.

- Queens.
- Shit.

You know, you keep this up
I'm gonna win

that brand-new Chevy
you keep bragging about.

Whatever, man, you...

[static on radio]
[electricity buzzing]

[bangs]

What the hell was that?

[dogs barking]

Why's there no alarm?
What happened to the generator?

♪ Baby, I'll crash
my daddy's car ♪

[electronic whirring]
♪ Just to kill ♪

♪ Your sweet ♪

♪ Heart ♪

[ominous tones]

♪ ♪

[traffic noises]

[clock ticking]

[ghostly whispering]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

[sighs]

♪ ♪

[electricity crackles]

[soothing piano music]

Only the Germans
would invent a card game

where the rules change
halfway through.

Where I come,
we just call it cheating.

That's because
you're losing.

- So, I'm a loser?
- Yes. [laughs]

- You're a loser.
- You say the sweetest things.

Not on purpose.

I'd hate to give you
the wrong idea.

Oh, that must happen
to you a lot.

People mistaking
your overwhelming warmth

and affection
for romantic intent.

Explains the way
Dr. Adler looks at you.

What?
Dr. Adler?

[both laugh]

Do you think
you would have married again?

If the world
hadn't gone to shit?

I prefer
to correct my mistakes,

not repeat them.

Hey, where's the fun
in that?

Where would we be
if we were scared away

by a little failure?

Not in my bed,
that's for certain.

[alarm ringing]

The machine's powering up.

- Who's coming through?
- Doctor Railly.

[dramatic music]

[yells]

[electronic fizzling]

Doctor Railly.

Doctor Railly,
can you hear me?

[suspenseful music]

[muffled]
Dr. Railly.

Damn.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[muffled]
Cassie.

Cassie, you all right?

Cassie.

I saw him.

You saw who?

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

It took me forever,
but it's the entire facility.

Dr. Eckland found me
the blueprints.

See they put the Time Machine
and the Core at opposite ends

so if one explodes,
it won't destroy the other.

And check this out.

When the army build this place
in the 1950s,

they put this part
over the underground river.

We use it
to cool the Core conduits.

And you built
this whole thing yourself?

That is impressive.

I got you some guys.

Where do you want
to put them?

The Splinter Chamber.

[sentimental music]

♪ ♪

[imitating Jones]
Initiate Splinter Sequence.

You sound
exactly like her.

[whooshes]

- Where'd he go?
- Nobody knows.

[laughter]

Cassie's back.

You should hear this.

I'll be back.

It was The Witness.
I'm sure of it.

How do you know for sure?

I could feel it.

Hold up...
"The Witness?"

He appeared in the form
of Aaron Marker, your ex.

So are you sure
you didn't just imagine...

It wasn't a hallucination.

He chose to appear as Aaron,
and no, I'm not crazy.

It happened.

Does this sound
even remotely possible?

Yeah, there's some
pretty trippy shit

going on with that tea.

They would, uh, drink it,
and they would

see him in their heads.

I never tried it.

Wasn't what
I was there for.

If it's
the same hallucinogenic

Ms. Goines consumes,
it is possible.

Could be
a method of communication.

It's properties allow
your consciousness to drift

outside time.

- Mental time-travel.
- Sign me up.

I told you
it wasn't a hallucination.

It was real.
He touched my hands.

I could feel it.
He was there and then he... he...

he splintered.

He splintered?

The Witness has always been
one step ahead of us.

It's possible he could
move through time.

He doesn't have
a time machine.

If he did,
he wouldn't need Elliot Jones

to build him that one.

He could have easily
just sent the Messengers

back in time himself.

But time is broken.
Causality's in flux.

It's possible that what
I've always feared is true.

His capabilities
are equal to our own.

We made progress
against them.

We stopped the paradox
in '75,

slowed the red anomalies
outside.

- Temporarily.
- Yeah,

but I bet it
pissed him off too.

We should be ready
for a counter move.

Agreed.

Dr. Railly?

[suspenseful music]

[clears throat]

To what purpose
do you believe

The Witness contacted you?

♪ ♪

I think...

I think...

- that he...
- All right,

I think the good doctor here
could probably use some rest.

♪ ♪

The blood is washed away.

[sinister music]

Go to him.

A memory of tomorrow.

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[whispers]

♪ ♪

Hello?

♪ ♪

[clattering]

Hey, what are you doing?

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[screams]

[pants]

♪ ♪

Thought you
were getting some rest.

So did I.

Yeah, it's always tough
to sleep after a splinter.

Kind of messes
with your clock.

That's a joke.

[laughs softly]

You ever see weird things
when you splinter?

Yeah, all the time.

Colors, lights, memories.

You ever see a person?

Person? No.

Who did you see?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Listen, this, uh,
thing with you and Deacon...

I get it.

What?

I know you guys
went through a lot

when you first came here,
and, uh,

I don't have to like the guy
to see that he cares about you.

I just want you to know

doesn't bother me.

I didn't think
it did.

Right, I...

I don't even know
why I said that.

[whispers]
It's okay.

I guess we don't really
know each other like we used to.

♪ ♪

[thunder rumbles]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

I want to check
the time-stream data...

♪ ♪

For when Dr. Railly
was in the hotel in 2016.

♪ ♪

[grunting]

Do you believe
what she says?

Look for
bursts of radiation...

♪ ♪

Splinter signatures...

♪ ♪

Anything that might indicate
there was another time traveler

in that room with her.

♪ ♪

The blood has washed away.

Go to him.

The memory of tomorrow.

♪ ♪

[breathing unsteady]

[sinister music]

♪ ♪

[screeching]

♪ ♪

[whirring]

[dramatic music]

- We found something.
- What is it?

Some sort
of pentaquark signature.

Another tether?

- Anchored where?
- Here, to this facility, now.

Impossible.
Recalibrate the machine

and run a test sequence.

[dramatic music]

[whirring]

♪ ♪

This phantom tether
is still here.

It's almost as if...

As if what, Dr. Adler?

[electronic whining]

Shut it down!

- I can't.
- What do you mean?

It's overloading.

- Too much power.
- Why?

[whooshing]

The machines are overloading
splinter radiation.

Disengage from the Core!

I can't.
Not responding.

Power down, now.
All emergency protocols.

♪ ♪

They've been disabled.

There is no way to stop...

[crashing and whirring]

[dramatic music]

[whirring]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Sam!

♪ ♪

[sinister moaning]

[alarm blaring]

[dramatic music]

- Jones, what's happening?
- Get back.

The machine is overloading.

- Someone pull the lens array.
- I'm on it.

[on loudspeaker]
Evacuate the chamber.

- Come on.
- Go, go.

[on loudspeaker]
The machine is unstable.

[alarm blaring]

Shut off
that damn alarm!

Hey, you okay?

I need you
to follow me close, okay?

Come on.

This was no accident.

The fail safes
were disabled.

This was deliberate.

The lens array
is totally fried.

Someone put it in backwards.

Instead of focusing
the temporal stream,

it dispersed it.

[rumbling]

[dramatic music]

Without the lens array
to focus the accelerator beam,

the machine is going to continue
to bleed splinter radiation

throughout the facility.

The machine is locked
into random sequences.

The mainframe's Core is frozen.

I can't access it
from here.

[groans]
Doctor...

[dramatic music]

[grunts]
Jones.

Doctor...

you did this to me.

[gasping for air]

The machine... you...
you put me in there.

♪ ♪

[gurgling]

Oh!

[struggling]

[gunshot]
[grunts]

What the hell
is that thing?

An early volunteer.
He called himself Marshal.

Volunteer?

A scavenger
we put in the machine.

A test subject
before you.

That was five years ago.

The machine
did that to him?

Before we perfected
our tether.

He was lost
in the time-stream.

How is he here?

This explosion of
temporal energy from the machine

must have splintered
him here.

Well, if that's the case,

what else from the time-stream
might be in here with us?

[dramatic music]

[whispers]

Hold on.

[suspenseful music]

What is that?

[growling]

I don't know.

If I say run...

You be ready.

[eerie music]

It was sabotage.

Someone with intimate knowledge
of how our machine works

is trying to create
a temporal meltdown.

Meltdown?
Why?

It would destroy
the facility

and create a chain reaction
which would be catastrophic

to the time-stream.

The Witness.

That's what he told me
he wanted to do...

to destroy time itself.

This is
his counterstrike.

The Witness is here.

[dramatic music]

I thought it was
in my head, but it...

What did you see?

In the corridor,
I saw a man

in a kind of plague doctor mask.

It was him.
I know it.

That could explain
the phantom tether

that Dr. Adler discovered.

All right,
first thing's first.

We need to stop
the meltdown.

I'm gonna go shut down
the Core manually.

- I'm going with you.
- Hey, hey, hey.

Maybe you should stay here.
It's safer.

I'll be fine.

We can replace
the lens array.

Our old one is
in the east warehouse.

The one that burned out
our first Core?

But that's all we've got
right now.

I'll go
with Mr. Deacon.

That's not happening.
I'll go.

- Dr. Eckland, your chivalry...
- Chivalry my ass, Kat.

If anything happens to you,
we're all screwed.

[dramatic music]

- I'm a pacifist.
- You're shitting me.

♪ ♪

How do you know
it was The Witness?

Because I've
seen him before.

After the Night Room,

when they were
holding me captive,

they had me
drink that red tea,

and he was there.

Cass,
that stuff's dangerous.

What else
haven't you told me?

When I saw The Witness
in the hotel room...

Yeah, when he looked
like Aaron?

And then he changed
his appearance to you.

To me, why?

He was trying
to get through to me.

Talking about how they
could stop death

if they destroyed time.

And he thought your face would
have more of an impact on me.

[sinister echoes]

You hear that?

[ominous music]

[moaning]

♪ ♪

[moaning]

Cass.

[growling]

Cassie?

[dramatic music]

[moaning]

I'm sorry.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

This way.

You can't get through
that way.

We can.
I know the way.

- You sure?
- Dad...

Lead the way.

Stop.

Shh.
Go. Go.

[suspenseful music]

[dog panting]

[barking and growling]

Dad!

[struggling]
[dog snarling]

Dad!

Please,
somebody help!

Dad, get him off!

Stop!
Please!

- Dad!
- [grunts]

Dad!

- [grunting]
- Please!

- [groaning]
- Get him off!

[dog barks]
Stop!

Dad!

[gunshots]

[dog whimpering]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Sam, you okay?

[ominous music]

Sam!

Sam!

Sam!

[footsteps approaching]

[gasps]

Ramse,
you all right?

Sam's gone.

I lost him.

Goddamn dog
attacked me.

Come on.

I lost Cassie too.

All kinds of shit
roaming the hallways.

- Where'd they all come from?
- I don't know.

The time-stream must have
pulled them in.

What are you
talking about?

The machine's
melting down.

We got to make it to the Core,
kill the power.

Oh, I got to go
find Sam.

Yeah, we're
gonna find him.

We don't kill the power,
this whole place goes up.

Him with it.

Cassie.

[static]

Deacon, anybody,
over.

[static]

All right,
it's useless.

All the temporal bullshit.

It's cutting off
the signal.

Come on.

[dramatic music]

[static]

Ahh...
we got to hurry.

We still have to haul ass
back to the machine.

Well then
help me look.

Uh-uh, I'm on watch.
You are Jones's errand boy.

Don't knock it.
The job has good benefits.

No details.

Whoo-hoo.
Beautiful.

Oh.

So that piece of shit
is gonna stop this freak show?

[sinister moaning]

Let's go.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

Stop right there!

Hey, it's Deacon.
Who's there?

How'd you get in here?
This is a restricted facility.

Army personnel only.

- Army.
- What?

Hey, friend, um, this sounds
like a weird question.

What year
do you think it is?

It's 1959, shithead.

So, uh, fella,
we've had a little bit

of a time-travel snafu here,

and... brace yourself...
you're in the future...

2044 to be exact.

So if you want
to drop your weapon,

- we can catch up on the last...
- 85?

85 years.

[gunshots]

Take.

Take it.

Dies a pacifist
or lives a man.

Violence doesn't make
a man.

No, but it's a good way
to unmake one.

Point and pull
and watch for the kick.

Don't worry, I'll tell
all your hippie friends

that you fought them off
with flowers and rainbows.

Cover me, now!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Come on.

Okay.

♪ ♪

Oh!
[moaning]

Grenade!

Jesus Christ.
Ahh!

[explosion]

♪ ♪

Oh.
[struggling]

Come on.

[moaning]

- Nice throw, Gramps.
- Gramps?

- I'll kick your goddamn ass.
- [laughs]

[suspenseful music]

Oh, dear God.

♪ ♪

This place
was an army base for 60 years.

The machine must have
splintered them from the past,

but they don't seem
fully present,

so if we're lucky
replacing the array

and stopping the dispersment
might return them to their time.

I'm adjusting it to fit
the energy conduits.

Just a few minutes.
It'll be ready.

[groaning]

It's getting worse
out there.

Just shut down
the machine,

and whatever stowaways
are brought through,

we take out
one by one.

It is not that simple,
Mr. Deacon.

The machine is in perpetual
splinter sequence.

Now that we have the array,
we can stop the machine

from dispersing
more temporal energy.

[sighs]

If we can not
shut down the Core,

that machine is going to turn
this entire place

into a crater
a mile wide.

Crater I understand.

Listen, Mr. Deacon,
you have to see

that they shut it down.

There is no telling
what they may have

already encountered
out there.

[sighs] Okay.

The rest of you
get to the barracks.

You too, Dr. Adler.

I'm almost there.

Please.

[dramatic music]

[electronic sputtering
and whirring]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Sam!
- Dad!

♪ ♪

[sinister music]

♪ ♪

[beeping]

Dad!

♪ ♪

[grandfather clock chiming]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Cassie!
- Open the door!

Sam, you okay?

Dad!

She's trying to stop us
from shutting down the Core.

What the hell
is wrong with her?

I don't know.
I don't know.

Jones said something
about another tether

coming into the facility...
another... another time-traveler.

Where?

I think
we're looking at him.

[sinister music]

♪ ♪

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

[Ramse hitting the door]

- Dad.
- Sam?

Dad!

[sinister music]

She's got a gun
on my son.

It's not her.
Someone else is in control.

It's that other tether.

There's someone else
in her head.

Damn it.

♪ ♪

Sam?
Sam, can you hear me?

Everything's gonna be fine.

I'm gonna get you out of there.
You hear me?

Cassie, listen to me.

You need to open this door.

That thing melts down,
this whole place is gonna go up.

Please.

[dramatic music]

What are you doing?

Hey, he's trying
to tell us something.

What's he saying?

♪ ♪

He's looking
at the floor.

You're right.
The river, good boy.

Cole, there's
a river beneath us.

That's how
we can get in.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[rumbling]

[alarm blaring]

- No.
- What happened?

The Hydronic chamber
has blown open.

What does that mean?

There's no way anyone
can replace the array.

Not without being exposed
to temporal radiation.

[dramatic music]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

- [water running]
- Shit.

♪ ♪

What do you see?

Straight down,
50, 60 feet to the river.

Still got to figure
another way back up.

- Has to be me.
- That's my son.

I got a better chance
of getting through to her.

You know that.

You stay here with him
where he can see you.

Keep him calm.
Trust me.

[suspenseful music]

All right.

♪ ♪

The Core is still active.

Clearly whatever splintered here
is stopping Cole

from shutting it down.

We have to replace
the array regardless.

There's no choice, Kat.

[radio feedback]

The radio.
Is that them?

James?
[echoes]

♪ ♪

James, is that you?
[echoes]

[door slams shut]
[alarm blares]

David!

David!

David...

[speaker beeps]

David, what are you doing?

[electricity cracking]

Idiot.

David, this will kill you!

♪ ♪

But it might save you.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Talk to me, Cole.

Getting close.

Jesus.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[wind howling]

I'm gonna have to cross.

Roger that.

[footsteps approaching]

Ramse, what the hell
are you doing?

Cole's down there.

Cassie?

[suspenseful music]

[grandfather clock ticking]

Where are you?

Hang in there, buddy.
We're coming.

- [clock chiming]
- Let me out!

[screams]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

♪ ♪

Get your hands up.

- Up now.
- Hold on.

- Easy.
- What'd you do to this place?

What'd you do to us?

We got a man down there,
you understand me?

Well, pull him up now!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

Ah!
Whoa, whoa!

What are you doing?

- [crackling]
- David! Get back here!

- Please.
- Oh, it's not so bad.

I dig it actually.

Going out in a wild,
romantic gesture

to a beautiful woman
all in the name of love.

♪ ♪

I don't love you.

You did once,

and that can't be erased.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[struggling]

- [electronic pulsing]
- Ah! [grunts]

♪ ♪

[all struggling]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Cole!
- Oh!

[both grunting]

Cole, are you okay?

[triumphant music]

What the hell's
going on up there?

♪ ♪

[sentimental music]

♪ ♪

No.

♪ ♪

Where are you?

[grunts]

♪ ♪

Sam, it's okay.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Hi, Sam.
Just sit tight.

She's not gonna hurt you.

Are you, Cass?

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Why don't you
put that gun down?

Whatever it is
they did to you,

that's what's causing this.

If you can hear me in there,
you need to fight.

You need to let him go

and let me shut down
the Core.

If you don't,
everybody dies.

Come on, Cass.
I know you're in there.

[clock ticking]

You need to fight, Cassie.
You're strong.

You can beat this.

[dramatic music]
[clock ticking]

Come on, Cassie.
I know you're in there.

- What are you doing?
- Backup plan.

You got to get in there
and do what needs to be done.

'Cause Cole does not
have it in him to stop her.

And neither do I.

♪ ♪

[sinister muttering]

Who are you?

[ominous music]

[distorted voice]
The forest is red.

The grass is tall.

I'm talking to
The Witness, aren't I?

[laughs softly]

Well, it's nice
to finally meet you.

So why don't you tell me,
asshole,

exactly what is it
that you've witnessed?

The end...

The beginning.

♪ ♪

Let him go.

I don't want to
have to kill you.

Ramse, don't.

You hurt him,
you're dead.

[electric fizzling]

Running out of time.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Cassie, look at me.

Come on.

Look at me, Cassie!

Remember when
you said

we didn't really
know each other anymore?

[sentimental music]

You were wrong about that.

[dramatic music]

The truth is,

I don't think anybody's ever
known me like you.

And I know you.

I know you.

♪ ♪

And I know...

you would never
let me die.

♪ ♪

Ramse, shoot me.

♪ ♪

Shoot me!

Come on, shoot me.

Do it, now!

[gunshot]
[thuds]

[gunshot]

[dramatic music]

Cole?

Cole!

[groaning]

Hey, you okay?
[alarm blaring]

Ramse, the Core!

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[beeps]
[electricity whines down]

We did it, buddy.

[sentimental music]

[electronic whirring]

[electronic surge]

[beeping]

James, get out
of the Core Room... now!

There's going to be a feedback
of splinter radiation.

[electronic whirring]
[screams]

Sam.

[dramatic music]

Sam.

♪ ♪

Sam.

♪ ♪

- Ramse...
- Hmm.

♪ ♪

Is he dead?

I don't know.

Could he survive?

Unlikely.

♪ ♪

But maybe...

you were lost in time
once and...

You found your way home.

He was just a boy.

♪ ♪

[breathing shakily]

He was my boy.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[snarls]

[thunder rumbling]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[monitor beeping]

How's James?

He has no
major internal injuries.

With his ability to heal,
he should be fine.

[sighs]

Katarina,
what happened to me?

[sighs]

The tether we detected
was not connected

to another
time-traveler physically

but instead
to a consciousness.

It was a signal

from somewhere in time.

And your mind...

Was the receiver.

This is what
The Witness did to you.

He used you against us.

He took control of you

to sabotage the machine.

[sinister music]

♪ ♪

I've prepared
a series of injections

that will purge
whatever the 12 Monkeys

left in your blood.

He won't be able
to do this to you again.

How can you be sure?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

This is my fault.

Cole...

Eckland...

- Sam.
- No...

it's mine.

And for this,
there is a solution.

♪ ♪

[suspenseful tones]

[digital whirring]

[swelling thud]

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

[thunder rumbles]
[wood cracks]

[footsteps approaching]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪