12 Monkeys (2015–2018): Season 3, Episode 1 - Mother - full transcript
The birth of the Witness and the beginning of the end of the world.
- Where are you right now?
- Let me start at the beginning.
The beginning...
Three years ago,
I sent a traveler back in time
to stop a plague
that had killed
7 billion people.
The mission was clear:
kill the man responsible
for destroying the world
before he has a chance
to do so...
Change history
and save the future.
But as fate would have it,
we were hunting the wrong man.
- You're still here.
- How is that possible?
- We changed course
and recruited others
to help us on our mission.
Bonds were forged with allies,
mutual enemies,
and even those of...
unsound mind.
And together, we discovered
a conspiracy spanning centuries:
the Army of the 12 Monkeys...
an organization bent on
not only the destruction
of humankind,
but time itself.
A cult operating by
fierce religious devotion
to the word of its prophet...
Mother!
- A man from the future
who calls himself
the Witness.
The world's end,
an infinite hell on Earth,
are by his design.
And now, our mission to stop him
has come at a tremendous cost.
- Cole!
- Cassie!
- Our friends are lost in time.
- Come on, Cassie.
- She's gone.
- Where did she go?
- Our only clue to
their disappearance is a year:
2163.
A when without a where.
For months,
we've searched the wasteland
for the enemy's machine,
Titan,
chasing its temporal signature.
Scouring the planet,
we found nothing.
Initiate return sequence.
And for our traveler,
James Cole,
I fear this is no longer
a rescue mission,
but something else...
the hopeless endeavor of a man
desperate to save
someone he lost,
someone he loves.
And with each passing day,
hope becomes a distant memory.
- Let me start at the beginning.
The beginning...
Three years ago,
I sent a traveler back in time
to stop a plague
that had killed
7 billion people.
The mission was clear:
kill the man responsible
for destroying the world
before he has a chance
to do so...
Change history
and save the future.
But as fate would have it,
we were hunting the wrong man.
- You're still here.
- How is that possible?
- We changed course
and recruited others
to help us on our mission.
Bonds were forged with allies,
mutual enemies,
and even those of...
unsound mind.
And together, we discovered
a conspiracy spanning centuries:
the Army of the 12 Monkeys...
an organization bent on
not only the destruction
of humankind,
but time itself.
A cult operating by
fierce religious devotion
to the word of its prophet...
Mother!
- A man from the future
who calls himself
the Witness.
The world's end,
an infinite hell on Earth,
are by his design.
And now, our mission to stop him
has come at a tremendous cost.
- Cole!
- Cassie!
- Our friends are lost in time.
- Come on, Cassie.
- She's gone.
- Where did she go?
- Our only clue to
their disappearance is a year:
2163.
A when without a where.
For months,
we've searched the wasteland
for the enemy's machine,
Titan,
chasing its temporal signature.
Scouring the planet,
we found nothing.
Initiate return sequence.
And for our traveler,
James Cole,
I fear this is no longer
a rescue mission,
but something else...
the hopeless endeavor of a man
desperate to save
someone he lost,
someone he loves.
And with each passing day,
hope becomes a distant memory.