In 2044, Jones reads over a passage from Hamlet as Cassie watches over Cole and
Ramse walks closer to the red storm. She then prepares Cassie for a new mission
and sends the doctor through the machine. Deacon then wakes Cole up after
discovering Cassie’s departure, wanting him to find out where she went. Cole
and Deacon march up to Jones just as the other scientists report a glitch in
Cassie’s tether. Jones replies that if Cassie is successful her tether back to
2044 shouldn’t matter. Cole asks Jones where she sent Cassie, and she reveals
that Cassie is in 2020 to stop a worse plague: the creation of time travel. She
sent Cassie back on a mission to kill her younger self following the passing of
Hannah when she was inspired to develop the machine. Cole argues that erasing
the machine isn’t the way, but Jones explains that her machine was part of the
destruction of time itself, believing the world would be better off without the
machine altogether. Cole nevertheless orders Lasky to pull up the time Cassie
was sent to, determined to stop her before assassinating Jones.
Cassie arrives in 2020 wearing a gas mask to protect herself
from the virus but hears a military fire for a fallen soldier. She removes the
mask within the perimeters and attempts to enter the base. The military
immediately accosts her as she introduces herself as Dr. Cassandra Railly from
the CDC. They shout that the CDC is dead, but she replies that she survived and
needs access to the base.
The military check her for infection and take her DNA to
confirm her claim to be Dr. Railly. When asked about her lost I.D., Cassie
claims that she escaped Baltimore. The officer questions how she went around
the West 7 quarantine zone, but Cassie maintains that she escaped despite reports
from the CDC. Lieutenant Foster then leads Cassie through the base, explaining
that they hope that her presence as a virologist will help boost the morale of
the base since they believed that the CDC was taken over by riders. Because
they have seen up to 75% containment rate of outside wanderers, the military
fears a greater infection on the inside, especially since almost a dozen
officers have been buried. With this fear, they have kept all outsiders, known
here as “scabs,” detained. Cassie asks to speak with Jones, but the lieutenant
reveals that she is with her daughter who is in serious condition.
Lieutenant Foster takes Cassie to his office where he
reveals that security measures have changed since the escalation of the virus.
To Cassie’s shock, he reveals that their doctors and security team have stopped
assisting many of the sick out of fear of losing some of their valuable
members. An officer interrupts their talk to inform the lieutenant that Jones’s
daughter had passed. Lieutenant Foster leaves to find Jones while Cassie
secretly steals his gun.
Foster speaks to Jones as she sings her lullaby to daughter.
Despite his insistence to leave, Jones doesn’t respond. Once he leaves, Cassie
sneaks into the room and shoots Jones.
Cassie is then sent back to the outside of the base with her
gas mask on once again. This time, Cole arrives to try and stop her from
killing Jones. Cassie insists that she already killed Jones, but Cole informs
her that he was sent back to the moment she arrived in order to prevent Jones
from dying. Furthermore, nothing has seemed to change. Cassie tries to prove
that she already killed Jones by leading Cole to the military base.
At the base, however, the two are confronted by the military
who once again accost Jones, insisting that the CDC is dead. Cole and Cassie go
through the entrance process when Cole asks Cassie why she wanted to to kill
Jones in the first place. Cassie admits that both she and Jones felt
responsible for the deaths of Sam and Eckland, realizing that their problems
with the Army stemmed from the introduction of time travel. Eliminating time
travel could eliminate the threat and save time from collapsing on itself. Cole
questions what they plan to do about the plague, but Cassie argues that perhaps
the plague was inevitable. Cassie is then once again asked by the military about
how she arrived there. Cassie, confused, tells the officer that she already
explained that she escaped Baltimore, but the officer once again asks how she
went around the West 7 quarantine base, a name Cole recognizes. While the
officers corroborate Cassie’s DNA, they find that Cole’s only connects to an
11-year-old, Cole’s 2020 self. Unsure of their origins, the military place Cole
and Cassie in detainment with the scabs.
In detainment, however, they find 2020 Jennifer Goines who
is excited to see both of them. Before she goes further, Jennifer questions
what they know about the hyenas in order to find out which versions they are. To
Cassie’s surprise, Jennifer remembers that Cassie had already shot Jones only
to have time reset itself. Jennifer insists that she keeps hearing the
situation repeat with Cassie killing Jones only to have the day begin again.
Cole remembers that there was a glitch in the system when Cassie splintered,
possibly finding a reason for the loop. However, Cole and Cassie are then taken
from the compound.
Jennifer: See you soon! They're like my best friends.
Down the hall, Lieutenant Foster then confronts the two,
revealing that he discovered that Dr. Cassandra Railly had died at the CDC. He
demands with soldiers at gunpoint to know who they really are with the threat of
death otherwise. Cole and Cassie then fight back against the soldiers to
escape. Unfortunately, the fight leads to a soldier shooting Cassie in the back
with a fatal wound. In a desperate situation, Cole shoots his way through the
hall to find and kill Jones, leading to another reset.
Cole and Cassie once again arrive outside the base with
Cassie’s bullet wound disappearing. However, both are beginning to falter after
the excessive splinters. Nevertheless, Cassie suggests they split up to try a
different idea in killing Jones. Cole argues that he only killed Jones the
second time to save Cassie from her wound, knowing that it wouldn’t solve their
problem. Instead, he says, they should figure out how to escape the loop, but
Cassie insists that the mission is still the same.
Separately, Cassie enters the base with the military
believing her story and detaining Cole who once again meets with Jennifer.
Cassie then steals Foster’s gun and dons a hazmat suit to sneak into the
hospital room to find Jones. Just as she is about to kill Jones once again,
Cassie notices the readings on Hannah as the girl stirs. Cassie asks Jones
about her daughter’s condition, but Jones insists that her daughter will heal
because she is immune like her mother. Cole, meanwhile, demands Jennifer to
help them out of the loop through her knowledge as a primary. Jennifer offers
that perhaps time does not want Cassie to kill Jones. Time may, in fact, need
time travel. Cassie looks on the records regarding Hannah, but the group is
interrupted by Foster’s arrival. In the chaos, time is reset once again.
Despite the failure, Cassie insists on another try inside
the base with Cole once again being detained. This time, however, she asks
Foster for his files on the virus. Instead of killing Jones, Cassie rushes into
the room with Jones with a plan to help Hannah. She reveals that she noticed
Hannah’s condition had a fluctuating temperature, but the symptoms of the virus
include a steady rise in temperature. With Cassie’s expertise, she discovers that
Hannah might actually be suffering from a bacterial infection rather than the
virus. Hannah is immune to the virus just like her mother. Cassie then injects
Hannah with an anti-biotic vaccine, but Cole and Cassie begin wincing from the
timeline effect. Jennifer warns Cole again that time wants to keep the event
the same.
Cole and Cassie splinter back outside the base with Cole
vomiting at the effort. Cassie reveals that Hannah was immune and only suffered
from meningitis following Foster’s new medical procedures. While Cassie was
able to save her, it made no difference in their loop. Cole remarks that
Jennifer told him how time wants to keep things the same, believing that
includes her daughter’s death. This time, he suggests waiting out the day to
return home.
At night, Cole and Cassie discuss Jennifer’s words. Cole
believes that time needs Jones to invent time travel, a notion that Cassie
believes is ridiculous. Cole then remembers a time when he and Ramse were boys
and came across a gun store armed by five older men with boxes of ammo at their
feet. The two were out in an open area when the men took fire. However, both
Cole and Ramse survived that day without a scratch. Cole argues that perhaps it
wasn’t their day to die, that something was looking out for them to survive. Or
perhaps the boxes were filled with blanks. Cole then admits that he understands
Jones wanting to undo her mistakes since he reveals that he would undo breaking
into Cassie’s car in 2013 if he could. Cassie argues that she made her own
choices, like waiting for him to return for two years at a hotel, and he needs
to stop blaming himself for her actions to save the world. Cole admits that he
doesn’t care about the world and only worked to stop the virus for Cassie’s
safety, revealing his feelings for her.
Cassie: Did she also tell you that Time has a long white beard with commandments "Thou shall not splinter and kill the creator of time travel"?
Despite not doing anything, Cole and Cassie splinter back to
the day’s beginning with Cassie having a brief vision of Titan in the red
forest. Although the situation is fruitless, Cassie and Cole return to the
military base where Cole speaks with Jennifer who is angry at not seeing Cole
and Cassie in the previous loop. She then encourages Cole to “do something by
doing nothing” to escape the loop and save the world. To begin with, Jennifer
encourages him to keep hope like she has, despite her fear of being killed and
leaving her people without a leader. Using Jennifer’s words, Cole comes up with
an idea.
Cole convinces Foster that Cassie and Jones were behind the
smuggling of the virus into the base with Jennifer Goines. After revealing that
Cassie is not really the late Dr. Railly, the lieutenant sentences the four of
them to death. Just as they are being dragged to the firing wall, Cole asks
Jones if a little bit of happiness is better than anything else. When she
responds yes, Cole tells her to hold onto that thought. Cassie grabs onto
Cole’s hand as the soldiers fire, leading to another redo. However, Cole claims
to have another idea.
Back in 2044, Jones and the scientists manage to reach Cole
and Cassie’s tethers and fix the glitch, bringing both of them back to the lab.
Still, Jones is disappointed that everything has remained the same. Cassie and
Cole admit that they tried to kill Jones, but time kept resetting the day.
After speaking with Jennifer there, Cole believes that time needs them and
Jones to set things right in the world against the army of the 12 monkeys. In
other words, time is on their side. Jones scoffs at the idea and insists that
the only thing that happened was a machine malfunction. The glitch in the
system caused them to be sent in a perpetual splinter sequence back to the same
spot rather than time itself causing the act. Cole, however, still has
something else to show Jones.
Cole, Cassie, and Jones walk outside the base to confront
the Daughters and Jennifer. Jennifer is satisfied to see that the future came
but tells Cole to explain what happened to Jones. Cole then reveals that they
couldn’t change the loop by acting or doing nothing, so they did something by
doing nothing. Cole and Cassie, utilizing multiple resets, came up with a new
plan. Cassie explains that Hannah was immune to the virus but succumbed to
bacterial meningitis. In one loop, Cassie had managed to save her, but time
continued to reset itself. Jones blasts the argument since she remembered
seeing her daughter dead. The two then reveal that time needed Jones to believe
that Hannah was dead in order to be inspired to create time travel. Cole broke
Jennifer out of the detainment facility while Cassie smuggled Hannah in a back
room where she cured the girl’s meningitis. They then took Hannah to Jennifer’s
group The Daughters where she has lived for the past twenty-four years. Now,
Jones reunites with her daughter, alive and well, in a tearful embrace.
Amidst the reunion, Jones develops a new sense of hope in
keeping the machine going. Cole and Cassie talk following his earlier
declaration. He claims that, like Jones and her daughter’s reunion, he would
rather have one moment of happiness with her than a lifetime without it.
Unfortunately, Cassie rejects the offer, believing that losing anything is the
greatest thing that haunts them. She tearfully leaves him and returns to her
room.
Notes from 2044
- If you look carefully in the last scene, you can see Cassie is wearing the same watch used in the paradox from the pilot "Splinter"!
- The Witness might be located in a place called Titan. Could the fact that there were 12 Titans be an influence on the 12 Monkeys?
- This episode includes the return of Spearhead and a still-alive Colonel (then Lieutenant) Foster in 2020!
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