Ramse and Jones plan to have Ramse place a classified ad in
the paper for the team to find in the future. Jones has a theory that by
tracking the paper, they can bring all three back home. Ramse instead accuses
her of being afraid of the events happening outside the base in the disaster.
Nevertheless, he agrees to help and is sent back in time to 1944, only to be
hit by a car once he arrives.
Ramse: I can only fix one of your mistakes at a time.
The team explore the outside area where the forests have
turned red. The soldiers who stayed have been ravaged by time hundreds of
years, becoming skeletons in the process. Whitley questions why if this
happened because of Cole and Cassie’s travel. Jones meanwhile states that the
cause will devastate the base in a matter of months. Whitley asks why it’s
affecting them now, but Jones is mostly at a loss to her dismay. Whitley
remarks that they are being watched by the Daughters and believes they know of
what’s happening. Jones instead returns to the base.
Ramse wakes up in a 1944 hospital just as Cassie has arrived
at the Emerson Hotel. The nurse takes his vitals and remarks that he heals
rapidly despite also suffering from osteoporosis, unusual for a young man. He’s
assured that this is September 1, 1944 and works to find Cole. However, the
nurse refuses to let Ramse leave with his injuries. Ramse sneaks out of his
room to reach a nurse’s counter. There, he finds a phone and calls the Emerson
Hotel for James Cole, revealing to be the mysterious person who rang for him in
the previous episode. Before he can speak to Cole, the nurse and security find and
sedate Ramse for surgery.
Jones and Eckland watch the red storm draw closer to the
base without any knowledge of what it is. Eckland also notices the Daughters
spying on them. With no other option, Jones goes out to the forest to speak to
an older Jennifer Goines about the events. Jones tries to get answers from the
woman, but Jennifer proves to be more elusive. She refers to people as ants in
a line who only know of three ants: the one in front, behind, and itself. Once
the ant steps outside the line, however, it can truly witness time. Jennifer
understands this as a primary and tries to explain it with a red leaf. Jones
fires back that the leaf is just a reaction to the temporal anomaly and storms
out after not receiving any clear answer.
In 1944, Cole and Cassie’s events play out as usual while
Ramse tries to escape the hospital. He knocks out a visiting man, steals his
clothes, and makes his way to the mental hospital just as Cole and Cassie
arrive. Unfortunately, he crosses paths with the female messenger. She
recognizes Ramse as the traveler and threatens to kill him since his cycle has
completed. Ramse tries to convince her that he is on her side for the sake of
protecting his son asked by the Witness to return. The messenger is touched by
his story since hearing it from her childhood and realizing that he had
something she will never have: a child. She states that she is destined to die
on this day and doesn’t believe Ramse’s story, remarking that the Witness would
not ask for anyone. The male messenger than handcuffs Ramse to a heater as the
two continue their plans. Meanwhile, in 2044, Jones becomes even more
frustrated with their inability to understand what’s happening. The events
occur the same despite Ramse’s presence, though he follows the FBI taking Cole
and Cassie.
The FBI agents take Cole and Cassie to a motel to find out
what happened. The agent from the night before, Gale, questions Cole, who stays
obstinate and instead believes that they should have splintered by now. He then
tries Cassie by appealing to her less pleasant company after being caught
killing Thomas Crawford and his son. Cassie simply states that they were trying
to save the two and failed. Gale reveals the picture from the night as evidence
that they were tracking the Crawfords and demands an answer for the term
“splintered.” Before they can go further, Ramse steps in to rescue the two and
beat Gale. Ramse calls for them to run, but Cole states they have to find out
what happened to the female messenger. Cassie states that they have to return
to 2044, a statement Gale hears in shock. Cole thanks him for his service and
knocks the agent in the nose.
The three gather at the Emerson Hotel where Ramse explains
the feeble plan. In the midst of their waiting, Cole still plans on searching
for the female messenger to find out the army’s plan. Cassie questions why they
should since she likely died in the paradox explosion, and they have nothing to
work with at this point. Ramse, despite previous misgivings, ends up agreeing
with Cassie and suggests they simply wait at the point he advertised for Jones
to find them. He then leaves the room with Cassie following.
Cole: I was just starting to like this place.
At the base in 2044, Eckland confronts Jones on why she is
acting like an asshole. Jones simply replies that they know nothing about
what’s happening, but Eckland has a different theory. He responds that she is
more than a scientist: she is an explorer. Whenever she faces the unknown, she
charges head-on, trying to understand and be right. It was one of the things he
admired about her.
In 1944, Ramse and Cassie wait for the splinter time in the
hotel bar. Ramse replies to Cassie that he understands that she hates him.
However, she doesn’t have to hate Cole. Cassie says that she doesn’t hate Cole,
and Ramse reveals that Cole is just beating himself over for what happened to
her, that he considers it to be her fault. Ramse feels that Cole is loyal to a
fault, showing that with both him and Cassie. Meanwhile, Cole tracks the female
messenger and finds that she had survived the paradox.
Cole tracks her down to a hospital where crosses paths with
Gale once again. Gale states that he knows Cole and Cassie didn’t kill Crawford
and instead questions their real mission. He found that the jewelry Cole gave
the receptionist is from a design that won’t premiere until next year and then
found Ramse’s mysterious medical records. Cole then tells Gale part of the
truth and convinces Gale to help him find the female messenger. They find her
laying in a hospital bedroom, recovering from her injuries. The woman wakes
also bemused by the situation. She had been raised to die that day in 1944 and
now is free to do as she pleases, to have a child. She fights the men and
nearly knocks out Cole. However, she says she is not meant to kill Cole as
stated by the Witness. The woman escapes.
Jones returns to Jennifer for definite answers. Jennifer
then gives Jones a special herbal tea to give her visions of her explanations.
Jennifer, both old and young, explains that time works with men rather than
around it. Special people, known as primaries, work as the gears of time to
support the movement. However, if these primaries are killed, time is
fractured. The world will be plummeted to a red forest where there is no past
and no future. This is the goal of the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
Gale returns with Cole to the hotel to meet up with Cassie
and Ramse. Despite the strangeness, Gale wants to help Cole on his mission.
Cole states that he can’t right now but perhaps in the future. In 2044, Adler
finds Ramse’s ad in the paper and is able to lock onto the group’s location.
The three then says their goodbyes to Gale as they splinter in front of him
back to 2044.
Jones fills in the group on what they learned. Cassie
deduces that the messengers used bones from the primaries’ past to kill them,
which Jones refers to as using time against itself. Although the thought is not
scientific in the least, the cause of nature still presents firsts. If the
messengers continue their plans, they are destined to a red forest, a hell in
time. Cassie, meanwhile, also questions why Ramse is still here. Jones argues
that Ramse had helped him that time, but Cassie still argues on what Ramse had
done, causing a larger argument. Cole silences them stating that they have
already failed in stopping the army from the fracture. However, they agree to
continue as they always had, taking clues piece by piece on the messengers’
actions.
In 1944, Gale examines room 607 after the three’s departure.
He signs the back of the picture of Cole and Cassie with the date they needed
and places it on a desk for the future. In 1971, the female messenger, now an
old woman, speaks with her son. Upon her death, he will now carry on the
mission for the army. She drops a handful of flower petals, signifying her own
death. Finally, in 2016, Jennifer walks herself to a clinic and asks to put an
end to the voices. There, she is spotted by the messenger’s son, the Pallid
Man.
Notes from 2044
- The army's plan is revealed: to kill all of the primaries. But what do they have to gain?
- The Pallid Man makes his return from season one! If you notice following the paradox explosion, his mother, the messenger, bears the same scar on her face as he has from his paradox encounter!
- The tea Jennifer gives Jones looks eerily similar to the mix given to Cassie in episode six "The Red Forest."
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