The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Memory of Tomorrow"

A voice describes the events of the previous episode when Cole failed to stop the paradox as well as the deaths of Ramse, Whitley, Hannah, and Deacon at the hands of the Witness. Now, Cole and Cassie live in 1959 where they celebrate Christmas in what the voice calls the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning.

Cole and Cassie exchange presents for the holiday. Cassie gets Cole a shaving razor, joking about how she wants to see what’s under his shadow. Cole then nervously watches Cassie open her present, remarking how he only ever really exchanged gifts with his father who always got him a toy train. It’s revealed that he got Cassie a diamond butterfly clip for her hair after remembering her saying that not every caterpillar becomes a butterfly. She remarks that she loves it but also reveals she has another gift for him. Cassie hands him an envelope which he quickly opens. After reading the card inside, the two embrace as the truth of the matter sinks in at their home.

At a local store, Cole walks in a daze before a cashier takes notice. Cole admits that he is going to be a father. As the cashier speaks, however, time around him begins to still. He walks outside the store to see the world frozen except for one women. With one arm bleeding down, she stares at him and remarks that it’s not over just yet. Suddenly, she disappears, and the world moves again.

At night, Cassie remarks how difficult it is to remember certain products don’t exist in 1959. Cole reveals that he saw a woman who claimed that it wasn’t over yet. He brings up the possibility that Ramse did not succeed in his mission. Cassie states that, like he said, there aren’t any red forests or messengers to worry about, but Cole believes they would have noticed if Ramse succeeded. Cassie then says that perhaps the reason nothing happened is because they were meant to be there. After everything they’ve been through, they deserve it.

The next day, Cole drives a truck through the street. Suddenly, time stops once again around him. This time, however, he sees the sign for a hospital called St. Mary’s Mercy Asylum for the Insane. He walks inside the building and requests to meet a woman he saw. The receptionist, at first, refuses to help him, but, once he remarks on the woman’s bleeding from her left arm, she recognizes her as Lillian.

Lillian has been a patient at the asylum for years without any visitor besides Cole. Previously, she had killed both of her siblings as well as her parents and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Nevertheless, Cole meets with Lillian who instantly recognizes him as James Cole. He reveals that she knows she is a primary. Lillian then admits that his mission is not over, though Cole argues that Ramse stopped time from collapsing as well as the Witness. She fires back that the Witness is the only one who could notice the cycle continuing. Now, she has a chance to warn him just as she warned her family. When they didn’t believe her, she killed them to spare them of the suffering. Cole initially ignores her ravings, but Lillian shouts back that time is at risk of collapsing on itself, referencing 1975, 1944, and even 1959 and their paradoxes. She advises him to go to the pines if he doesn’t believe her.

Lillian: Death can be undone. Love cannot.

After the visit, Cole drives out into the forest. At the edge of woods, he finds a red tree. Surrounding it, more trees begin turning under a red storm.

Cole then returns to the asylum to receive help from Lillian who advises him to change fate. He reminds her that there is no time machine to help him travel, but she states that James Cole does not need a machine to travel through time. Instead, he could simply use the red leaves in the tea to move his consciousness through the time stream. With that, he can return to 1957 and prevent the paradox. However, everything that occurred after the paradox, including his new relationship with Cassie, will be erased. Lillian also warns him that should he return to the future he must not rescue Ramse in Titan since it can only lead to death. With that in mind, Cole needs to make a choice.

Cole returns to the cabin where Cassie is waiting and wondering where he has been. The store had informed her that he hadn’t shown up for work, leaving Cassie to feel that he has been uncertain about the newest change in their lives. Cole embraces Cassie and tenderly tells her that this is all he wanted.

At night, Cole sits up, watching Cassie. He then finally makes the decision to brew a tea from the red leaves to travel back. Before he can erase everything, he makes a mark on the wall of the cabin reading “1957-1959 This Was Home.”

In his visions, he appears to return to the facility in 2044 where he sees a figure wandering the halls. In his shifting, he arrives in 2013, the time when he first met Cassie. In her car, he watches her walk towards him, musing how she doesn’t yet know who he is. Focusing again, he attempts to splinter back to 1957. However, his next stop takes him to 2015, the time when he first met Jennifer Goines in the asylum. Stopping there, he informs her to never call him “otter eyes” again before he keeps shifting back. Suddenly, he returns to 2043 in the middle of a conversation with Ramse about Cassie. Ramse tells Cole to take a chance in being with Cassie. In his many attempts to return to 1957, he sees many different past experiences such as the trip to the Night Room, the time-loop, and his dance with Cassie. Between each time, he returns to the facility where he now recognizes the figure in the halls as the Witness. He confronts the figure, shouting at it to reveal itself.

Finally, Cole manages to return, right at the moment when he confronted Reginald at gunpoint. Thinking quickly, he makes his way back to the factory to find Charlie approaching his wife and Cassie. Charlie pleads for Cole to let the paradox occur so that he can be with his wife forever in the red forest while Cassie urges Cole to shoot. Cole admits to Charlie that he understands Charlie’s desire to be with someone he cares about deeply. Turning to Cassie, Cole wishes her a goodbye before shooting Charlie. The death of the messenger prevents the paradox and sends the two back to the facility in 2044 with a greeting Jones.

Jones reveals that, although it remains a blur to her, after they prevented the paradox, the storm began to recede. While the facility was initially engulfed by the storm, time apparently began to repair itself before her eyes, restoring the place and the machine to bring them back. Since the two waited through eleven months in 1957, she was forced to wait alone, forced to defend the grounds against scavengers by herself. Eventually, her skills improved, and she eventually took up a lost dog as her companion. Cassie then fills Jones in on the details, explaining that after months of investigating they found nothing.  Cole, however, came just in time to stop the paradox. Instead of answering how he knew, Cole quickly reveals that Ramse and the team with him will die in Titan. Fortunately, with Jones’s help, they manage to reconfigure the time machine to the location based on Adler’s programming. Essentially, they can teleport to Titan’s location about twelve hours before the group’s death. This time, however, Jones offers to join in the splinter, reminding the two that her daughter is among those near Titan as well. She refuses to lose Hannah again.

The three splinter their way to the location outside Titan where they meet Jennifer and the Daughters. Jennifer reveals that Ramse, Deacon, Whitley, and Hannah went to Titan despite her warning. Cole advises her to take charge of the Daughters to lead them to Titan and rescue the others, but Jennifer mourns that they won’t listen to her. Cole inspires her to take charge, leading Jennifer to give and inspiring speech to crowds. However, none of the women listen to her words. Regardless of the Daughters, Jennifer agrees to go with Cole. The Daughters react to this choice, seeing that Jennifer would sacrifice herself for Cole or Ramse. Jennifer responds that her older self must have forgotten to teach them the most important rule. They then agree to help Jennifer.

Jennifer: Be excellent to each other.

At Titan, the events play out the same as Ramse and the others confront the Witness but then are captured by his army. Before they are killed, however, the four are rescued by Cole, Cassie, Jennifer, and the Daughters as they begin an ambush. The remaining soldiers are taken down by the group as the team reunites.

With the army in custody, Ramse interrogates each one of them on the location of the Witness. Each one of them simply reply that the Witness is safe before Ramse kills them for their non-answer. Eventually, he begins killing the soldiers at random in his anger and even turns on Cassie for bringing them to a dead end. Cole tries to get him to calm down, but Ramse refuses to leave until he finds the Witness. Jones realizes that the technology around Titan was pioneered by her husband Elliot Jones. Without knowing what it is, she fears it could be for a bigger machine. Jennifer advises against risking their lives any further with Deacon seconding her notion, but Cole agrees that the Witness is somewhere in Titan. The groups split up to search Titan.

Cole, Cassie, Jones and Hannah search one end. Cole remarks how he never believed that Jones would handle a weapon like that, leading Cassie to respond that not every caterpillar becomes a butterfly. At that statement, she suddenly remembers saying that to him earlier. She recalls the time in 1957 through 1959 where they lived together in the house of cedar and pine. She even remembers that they were in love. Then, Titan begins to roar alive. Jones looks up and understands why Hannah didn’t see Titan earlier: Titan is the Witness’s time machine.

The groups scramble to evacuate before the place can splinter. Ramse breaks away from the group to continue the search while Cole and Cassie make it out of the city. However, when Cole doesn’t see Ramse in the leaving crowd, Cole runs back to find his friend with Cassie quickly following. Ramse’s search leads him to fight off a soldier without any bullets, but, to his surprise, another soldier saves his life. The figure unmasks himself and tells him to follow if he wants to stop the Witness.

Deacon and Jennifer, meanwhile are surrounded by an army. Deacon sacrifices himself for Jennifer to escape, leading himself to be stabbed multiple times by the figures. Jennifer fights off some remaining soldiers but, in the crossfire, shoots the edge of a machine. This causes a temporal fire to engulf her, making her disappear from this time.

Cole continues to search for Ramse, but Cassie urges him to leave for her. Cole follows her to leave the city before the two are ambushed by remaining soldiers. The soldiers fight off Cole and manage to grab Cassie and pull them apart. They shove Cole outside the city, and, just as Cole is about to jump back, the city splinters.

In the forest, Ramse is brought to a group of followers outside Titan. There, he meets up with Olivia, who has aged significantly since their last meeting. Instead of killing him, however, Olivia reveals that she as well as the followers behind her have abandoned the Army of the 12 Monkeys. They plan to find a way to take down the Witness. First, though, they plan to reunite Ramse with his son, who had met with a younger Olivia.

In France 1917, Jennifer splinters in the middle of World War I. Shocked at her surroundings, she asks the nearest soldier in French to bring her to a phone.

In 2044, Cole and Jones manage to splinter back to the lab. Cassie, however, does not. Cole demands that Jones find a way to bring Cassie back, but Jones finds that her tether has been cut. Fortunately, though, she is able to track Cassie’s shift to the year 2163. Cole orders Jones to send him to the future, an act that Jones cautions against since they have no way of knowing what could be facing him. Regardless, Cole splinters forward, desperate to save Cassie.

In 2163, Cassie is brought before a large auditorium full of members of the Army of the 12 Monkeys. At the center, she comes face-to-face with the Pallid Man. Cassie accuses him of being the Witness, but he reveals that the Witness is a being beyond them. He proclaims to her that the Witness is safe since she was the one who brought him there. He presents to the crowds Cassie, the Mother of the Witness.

Notes From 2044

• Madeleine Stowe who plays Lillian most notably played the role of Dr. Kathryn Railly in the film Twelve Monkeys. That sounds oddly familiar.
• In Cole's visions to the past, we see moments from "Splinter," Mentally Divergent," "The Night Room," and "Lullaby."
• Jennifer's speech to the Daughters contain references to Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Independence Day, and, of course Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Blood Washed Away"

In January 1957, Cole and Cassie put together everything they know about the paradox. Since the paradox occurs on November 7th, they have about eleven months to locate the primary at the Maxwell Rigfield factory or at the very least stop the messenger. To achieve that, they both get jobs at the factory to sift through the more than 200 workers to find who could be a messenger or a primary. In eleven months, both Cole and Cassie find a suspect in a doodling employee and a forceful executive. However, Cole confronts the employee who reveals to only be doodling women instead of monkeys while Cassie, on a date with the executive, finds that he is only a pervert. With every worker narrowed down, they find that they have no suspects with only two days before the paradox.

With the limited amount of time left, Cole and Cassie argue over whether or not the employees were checked carefully. Cassie questions Cole’s judgement with the employees while Cole fires back that she may be enjoying her position too well, especially since she cannot recognize if any of them looked like one of the messengers. Cassie tells him to stop saying something he may regret. Cole, to his part, leaves before he can finish.

Cole makes his way to the bar where he finds a fellow co-worker named Charlie. Charlie admits that his wife asked him to leave her alone for a while after a day of chemotherapy. Her hair has already begun to fall out, and Charlie implies that her time is not looking well. Meanwhile, he only believes that Cole is paranoid about one of the co-workers being a commie. He suggests Cole go back to Cassie, though Cole insists that their relationship is not like that. Nevertheless, Charlie tells him that there is no point in stopping from being together. From his own experience with his wife, he informs Cole that the first thing he would want is more time together.

Cole: There's never enough time.

Cole then returns to the hotel room while Cassie is on the phone. She informs him that after taking part in the company’s party line, she’s learned that the drainage system is in need of repairs. In order to do that, they will be hiring day workers over the next few days, one of which could be their primary. After informing him, Cassie then apologizes for their tension over the past few months. While she has hoped that Ramse would come through for them by finding Titan and killing the Witness, it’s too late to hope in that now. With two days left, they have no time.

In 2044, Ramse, Whitley, Deacon, and the Daughters take part in a gun war against a group of shooters. Chaos breaks out as one of the Daughters takes a bullet to protect Jennifer and slowly dies. Jennifer cradles her body and murmurs musings to the woman as the fight continues. After a bloody battle, most of the shooters, as well as a few Daughters, are dead. Ramse confronts one of the shooters who is a member of a group called the Bleeders, scavengers who shoot and eat anyone who comes their way. Ramse interrogates the man on Titan, which should be located only thirty miles west of their location. The man reveals that they sent a scout over in that direction, but he never returned. With no more information, Ramse kills the man as the Daughters regroup. The Daughters’ lieutenant tries to move Jennifer, but Jennifer is still shocked that one of them had died for her. Whitley ascertains that they have a day before the red storm catches up with them, but Ramse is determined to continue without rest. Descon comes to lead out the Duaghters, though many of them are distrustful of him. Jennifer rebukes the women for being shifty towards Deacon, but the lieutenant responds that, unlike their old mother, this Jennifer spouts nonsense.

At night, the group pools their resources. Despite coming across the Bleeders, they have little food to survive. In the distance, a horse arrives with Hannah returning from the scout mission. Unfortunately, she reveals that Titan was not there. With their mission coming to a dead end, the Daughters begin to rebel against the men since they have already lost two of their own. Ramse fires back that they would have nowhere else to go with the storm at their heels and calls for Jennifer to control the women. However, the lieutenant denounces Jennifer as their leader and challenges Ramse to a fight. The two struggle against one another until Ramse finally gets the upper hand. Before he slits her throat, Jennifer intercedes, begging him to stop killing. The Daughters take her lead by acknowledging that the lieutenant chose to fight. Ramse, for his part, spares her life.

In 1957, an executive goes over the day workers for the drainage system. From there, Cole notices one of them, a man named Reginald Dupuy, muttering to himself. Cole convinces the executive to let him supervise the workers while claiming that he knows Dupuy to throw suspicion away from Charlie. Before he goes to the roof, however, Cole informs Cassie that he may have found the primary in Dupuy. Cassie advises him to do what he has to in order to prevent the paradox. On the roof, Cole talks with Dupuy. Meanwhile, Cassie searches through files in order to learn about Dupuy. The pervert executive confronts her on taking files, leading Cassie to secretly smuggle Dupuy’s file. Cole further presses Dupuy on his knowledge on primaries, paradoxes, red forests, monkeys, or time. At first, Dupuy seems to respond to time but instead states it is time for him to go.

At the hotel, Cole confirms to Cassie that he believes that Dupuy is a primary. Cassie reveals that behind Dupuy’s file is a drawing of a monkey. He is the primary.

As the storm approaches closer, Ramse and Whitley go over their map once again, finding the coordinates to Titan. Although Hannah states that she saw nothing, Ramse and Whitley believe that there was a chance that she took a wrong path with a faulty tracking system. Now they have a clear destination. Jennifer, however, argues for Hannah to stay out of the journey after the previous deaths. Hannah states that she wants to follow her advice, but Jennifer rebukes her own leadership, revealing her words of wisdom are only phrases from fortune cookies. She admits that she has none of the experience of her older self, and, after seeing this group, she’s not sure if she wants that leadership. With that in mind, however, she can’t let the Daughters die for her decision. Hannah nevertheless rejects the offer, stating that she had taught them to be willing to give their lives for each other. Now, she will do the same for the group.

Jennifer: Spoiler alert! I'm not wise old me, am I? And if I'm being frank, my daughters are assholes! Knife fights, ridiculous eye shadow, and serious, serious mommy issues.

In 1957, Cole and Cassie then return the factory on the day of the paradox to find Reginald. Despite Cassie’s concern, Cole insists that he can handle this situation and will return to the hotel if things go south. Cole leads the man away from the factory down an alley at gunpoint to ensure the people’s safety while Cassie remains in the office. At that time, though, a woman walks into the factory carrying a box and a gun. The news reaches the office, leading Cassie to take her own gun to confront what she believes could be the messenger.

Cole confronts Reginald revealing that he is aware of him being a primary. In the factory, Cassie confronts the woman, asking what she wants. The woman replies that she wants to see her husband. Reginald then admits to Cole that took money from a man to react to Cole, leading Cole to realize that the messenger is someone in the factory.

At the factory, the woman’s husband arrives to find her: Charlie. Charlie reveals that he is one of the messengers while his wife Melinda was one of the primaries. Although Charlie was sent to paradox Melinda, he found that he had fallen in love with her, leaving him conflicted whether to kill her. He also reveals that he had killed the fellow messenger who traveled with him, admitting that not everything the Witness said was true. Inside the box turns out to be the bone of the primary, ready to cause the paradox. His wife reaffirms him that she knows today is the day that she will die and reassures him that they will meet each other again in the red forest. Cole arrives to see Charlie, but Charlie tells Cole that he of all people would understand. Charlie stabs his wife, causing the massive paradox.

Ramse, Deacon, Adler, and Hannah walk through the woods following the coordinates to Titan. After a decent time of walking, they see the outline of a city on the horizon, something that wasn’t there earlier: Titan.

In 1957, doctors look over Cassie in a hospital. After nineteen days, she has still not awoken from her coma, and they are unsure if she will wake up at all. When the doctors leave, Cole, who now sports a broken arm, approaches the bed and speaks to Cassie. Though he knows she can’t hear him, he apologizes for the pain he has put her through and being unable to stop the paradox. He tells her that the best thing she can do now is wake up and forget she knew him. He softly kisses her on the forehead and then leaves her.

Cassie, in her coma, dreams about the house in the red forest. She suddenly wakes up in the hospital as the doctors tend to her. They inform her that they doubted she would wake up, but she instead asks about Cole. They tell her that they haven’t treated anyone from the explosion in six months, and it is now 1958.

Cassie returns to the hotel to find the room completely cleared of anything from Cole. She is now completely alone. With no other plans, Cassie returns to the medical field and, in six months, is in the process of completing course to re-earn her doctorate. Although she is only referred to as a nurse, doctors continually come to her for advice with advance knowledge of certain cases such as “Lyme disease.”

In 1959, Cassie continues to make her life while still musing on Cole’s whereabouts to the point of looking back when a man orders a whiskey sour. Once she returns to her room, however, a bellboy informs her that he has located an address for the name that she had given him: Morris Morrison. He is located on 10 Old Pines Road in Binghamton, New York which is a driving distance away from the hotel. Once she arrives at that address, though, she is shocked to see the same house of cedar and pine from her dream.

Cole is in the back of the house sawing pieces of wood before accidently sawing part of his finger, leading to drops of blood landing on the grass. Cassie finally confronts him on where he’s been as she notices his wound. He admits that he found this place with a for sale sign while driving around one day. Now she can be safe from the plague and any red forests. Cassie remarks that they can’t run away from the future, but Cole responds that there isn’t anything else they can do. She just believes that means he was afraid. Suddenly, it begins to rain, another event that triggers Cassie’s memory of the cabin. Regardless, she leads him inside to treat his wound.

Cassie washes the blood off his hand and begins to wander around the cabin. She then recognizes the main room and grandfather clock from being taken over by the Witness. She informs Cole that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys as well as the Witness were aware of this place and this moment.

The group then enters Titan, each one on edge expecting someone to emerge. As they keep walking, old-fashioned music begins playing in the distance. Against better judgement, Ramse leads the group in the direction of the music. Through that direction, they find a circle of symbols surrounding a figure. That figure is the Witness.

Cassie: You coward, you know that's not why you left me. You left me because you're in love with me. I've always known, Cole.

Cole reiterates to Cassie that she can be free now, but Cassie reminds him that she is still meant to die at the CDC in 2018. Cole tells her to forget about that destiny since he would rather choose to have hope in Ramse than attach to an already failed plan. She insists on leaving, but he admits that the reason he left in the first place was to protect her. Cassie fires back that she knows why he did it: he is in love with her. She has known for some time. He tells her that now, with no backup plan and no primaries, she has nothing left to lose. Cassie then finally consummates her relationship with Cole by kissing him which leads to them having sex in the bedroom.

At Titan, the group is then surrounded by guards for the Witness who wield katar blades. Each one stabs Ramse, Whitley, Hannah, and Ramse as the Witness survives.

Notes from 2044

• The cabin is revealed to be owned by Cole, but the Witness also wrote of the cabin "This Was Home 1957-1959."
• Cole also used the name Morris Morrison in "Lullaby."
• Katar blades originated in India and are traditionally used in worship ceremonies. Could there be more to the group's deaths?
• What were the symbols that surrounded the Witness?

The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Resurrection"

 An older Jennifer Goines burns the remains of his past including a newspaper of her breakout, her old identification, and a drawing of a monkey. Hannah rushes in and demands to know why she isn’t doing anything for the group during the storm’s descent. Jennifer simply muses that this is the end of the beginning, another cycle. Hannah pleads with Jennifer to lead them out from this storm rather than wait for Cole, but Jennifer replies that there are many endings. This is one of them.

Jones tells Cole that they only have about six or seven hours before the facility itself is engulfed by the storm. Cole offers to splinter away immediately, but Jones remarks that would have no way to predict where he would land at that time. At this point, she states that they are moving more on hope than calculations which may have been prevented by a better physicist. Cole reassures her that he trusts in her abilities. Using a reluctant Dr. Lasky, they find that they can make a calculated jump in approximately six hours, right when the storm would be upon them. Though Jones is aware of the situation, she notes that it was Adler who was more versed in setting locations. Meanwhile, a figure breaks Ramse and Adler out from their rooms.

Jones: The worst thing about betrayal is that it never comes from one's enemies.

Ramse and Adler meet up with Cassie, revealing that there are other members of the military who have lost their faith in Jones. With the piece of the map that Ramse ripped, Adler traces the location of Titan to Colorado. He theorizes that he could use the machine to splinter Ramse and Cassie almost instantly to that spot. There, Ramse believes that they can exact their revenge and use the Witness’s form of time travel to escape, hopefully undoing everything that he has done. Cassie asks about what they should do about Cole, but Ramse instead insists that they shouldn’t bet on Cole being on their side. Cassie wonders what should happen if they are wrong. Ramse approaches her and asks if she’s sure the Witness is in Titan. Remembering her vision, Cassie replies yes. Ramse tells her that she can’t think twice on that belief.

The military and scientists pack up the evidence in hopes of evacuating, though they are still unsure about what to do with Cassie, Ramse, and Adler. Suddenly, one of their soldiers is shot, bleeding out in the hall. With the situation critical, they require the help of a doctor: Cassie. Cassie tends to the soldier’s wounds, though she remarks it is only delaying the inevitable. Cole offers Cassie a chance to go back to 1957 with him, but Cassie responds that he is only running away from the real problem. Cole claims that Cassie is only shutting him and everyone out, truly running away. They are interrupted by another shot in the hall. Unable to trust her, Cole handcuffs Cassie to a table as he goes to explore what the noise was.

In the hall, Cole confronts Ramse at gunpoint as they stand at odds with each other. Ramse reveals that they are after the time machine against Jones and Cole’s wishes. Cole warns his old friend that this move could lead to the deaths of everyone in the facility, but Ramse replies that he’s already dead. Cole, who no longer has a family, couldn’t understand. Cole retorts that he always considered Ramse part of his family, making their standing that much more tragic. Instead of killing him, however, Ramse leaves Cole alive as his men move for the machine.

Cole informs Jones that Ramse is after machine, imploring her to start the splinter sequence as soon as they are ready. In the meantime, Cole searches and finds Deacon who sits naked drinking extensively as he sings “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” Cole asks Deacon for his help in fighting back Ramse and his men. Deacon lashes out against Cole, replying that everyone who asks him for help ends up deserting him after they are done just like his men and Cassie. Cole implores him that after making it through the virus and the scavengers that he can’t simply give in to a storm, a remark that reminds Deacon of his brother. Cole reminds Deacon that he is a survivor, someone who is needed on this mission. Deacon then agrees to help Cole but quickly vomits in the hall after joining. To make matters worse, Cole believes that Ramse will be headed to the core power system and proven right when the lights go out. When Deacon arrives at the core, he finds the electrical system has been taken.

Whitley then reveals that he has joined with Ramse as he allows the men to seize control of the machine from Jones. Jones reminds Ramse that they would not be able to splinter without the power core he stole, but Ramse says that they don’t have to worry about that. Jones tries to appeal to Adler after their experience together. Adler, however, throws back that all their work has led to nothing. Now, they can go on the offense. Ramse releases Cassie who asks about what happened to Cole. While Ramse admits that he did not shoot Cole directly, he advises not to be concerned about him since he is now on an opposing side. Just as Adler works on the machine, Cole arrives to hold the man at gunpoint. With the military surrounding his friend, Ramse advises Cole that he can’t take out all of them. Cole actually agrees, saying he doesn’t have to take all of them out. Cassie tackles Cole, diverting his shot to Adler’s leg as the rest move out. Cassie fights Cole to submission, but Cole understands what she’s doing. He tells her that, although she can kill the Witness or him, she’ll still be afraid of herself for letting the Witness into the base in the first place. Cassie doesn’t answer him but leaves and locks the room behind her.

Near the machine, Cassie tends to Adler as they reprogram the coordinates. Jones confronts Whitley about his betrayal, especially since it means a betrayal of his father’s dedication. Whitley ultimately believes that this was only her mission rather than his, meaning he had no attachment to it. Ramse then threatens her to keep quiet by holding her at gunpoint. Undeterred by the threat, Jones then slams her head against Ramse. Despite the attack, they leave Jones handcuffed to a table, though Whitley threatens Ramse should he ever really try to kill Jones.

Soldiers outside the building spot a vehicle leaving, discovering that Cole has escaped. To their knowledge, Cole has left to meet up with the Daughters. In the forest, the women implore Cole to speak with Jennifer since she has refused to leave. Once Cole arrives, Jennifer correctly deduces that he needs her help to take back the facility. However, she also remarks that in the times that they have shared together, even the ones they haven’t yet, she has noticed a change in him. He is becoming a leader. Unfortunately, she adds, being a leader requires sacrifice, even sacrificing someone he cares about most. She asks him if he is willing to sacrifice someone to save the world. Once he replies yes, she agrees to join him, since she has never said no to him.

Whitley and his fellow soldiers watch outside the facility and spot the Daughters marching down the south loading dock. Ramse and Whitley then deplore their men to the location, but Whitley is stopped by a reappearing Deacon. Deacon kills the lookout soldiers but spares Whitley as he fires a flare to the others. Instead of moving to the loading dock, Cole, Jennifer, and the Daughters sneak in over the wall while the rest of the Daughters, including Hannah, move to the machine.

Cole and the Daughters then ambush the lab, releasing Jones and Lasky to reprogram the machine by holding the others at gunpoint. Deacon arrive, perfectly content with seeing Cassie and Ramse put in their place. When Ramse makes a remark, however, Deacon turns on him, raising his gun. In the chaos, he accidentally shoots the older Jennifer. Cassie quickly runs to tend to the woman, but prospects are looking grim. The Daughters then threaten that if Jennifer will die, everyone inside the base will die as well.

Cole and Cassie move Jennifer to the back as Cole recognizes this as the sacrifice Jennifer had mentioned. She was aware that the day would arrive, but she is also aware that the Daughters will destroy the facility if she would die. The only way to change that path is for a resurrection of sorts through her younger self, the one who lost her way in 2016. Cole then rushes to Jones to ask for a splinter. While Jones reminds him that they don’t have the power or coordinates yet, Cole adds that they don’t need those features when making a return jump, a splinter back to the place he just left.

In 2016, Jennifer speaks with Cole just as he was about to splinter back to the future. He reminds her that there are many endings, but the right one is the one that you choose. He then splinters away, just as the present Cole arrives to ask for her help. Jennifer reminds Cole that she has never said no to him and agrees to his plan.

Cole returns to 2044. However, this time, he brings along the present Jennifer in the splinter. Recognizing their leader, the Daughters kneel before their resurrected Mother.

Cole brings Jennifer to the back where she sees her older self. Though they cannot approach each other to closely for fear of paradox, the two can speak with each other as older Jennifer requests some privacy with herself. Jennifer realizes that this is September 23, 2044, the day she dies. With that date in mind, the older Jennifer tells her younger self that her Daughters will need a leader as she vowed a resurrection. Jennifer doubts her strength, but her older self offers a new choice. Jennifer can take the Daughters on a path to fight at Titan, a path that leads to death, or lead the group far away from the storm in hopes that Cole can stop the paradox. Jennifer asks what decision she made, leading the dying figure to reveal that she lead the Daughters away from the base. However, she remarks, she would have lead the women to Titan if she had been braver. She also reminds Jennifer that there are many endings, but the right one is the one that she will choose. Before finally dying, the older Jennifer reminds her self that she loves her.

Jennifer: Hello egg. I'm chicken.

Jennifer returns to the crowd, ordering the Daughters to lower their weapons. With her older self’s guidance, she forms a new plan. Cole will splinter back to 1957 to stop the paradox while Cassie, Ramse, and the Daughters will take the fight to Titan. Jones reminds her that the machine does not have enough power for two trips, but Jennifer responds that they will not splinter to Titan. Using her guidance, the Daughters will navigate through the storm to Titan on land.

The groups prepare for their separate missions. Cole reminds Ramse and Cassie that the Witness is always one step ahead of them, so they must be careful. Ramse reminds him that they know what to do, but Cassie leaves without looking at Cole. As the storm reaches its peak, Jones preps Cole to be sent back to the beginning of 1957 with nearly a year to track down and stop the paradox. However, without the base, she warns, there will be no way of bringing him back. Nevertheless, Cole plans to leave before Jones calls back her thanks for his belief in her. The two then share a hug before Cole splinters to 1957.

Cassie, Ramse, Jennifer, and the Daughters begin their trek to Titan. Looking back, Cassie and Ramse spot the storm engulfing the facility. Without sharing a word, Cassie immediately runs back to the base. Before the storm settles, Cassie has Jones splinter her to follow Cole in the past.

The storm finally takes over the base as the building crumbles under the temporal force. Lasky is incinerated by the force as Jones and Hannah try to find another way out of the lab. The two are separated by a blast. With no time left, Jones orders Hannah to leave without her. Despite her own wishes, Hannah obliges, finally referring to Jones as her mother. Now alone, Jones stands by her machine as the storm engulfs her as well.

In 1957, Cole arrives at the Emerson Hotel. There, he is surprised to find a just-arriving Cassie who tells him that she doesn’t want to be afraid anymore.

Notes from 2044

• Anyone spot that brief moment between 2016 Jennifer and Deacon? Perhaps there may be another connection on the horizon.
• For those who didn't catch Jennifer's reference, the line about “Mayday mayday! Terrorists have taken over the Natakomi building in Century City!” is from the original Die Hard.
• Apparently, Deacon was a fan of The Breakfast Club after endlessly singing "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
• The director of this episode, Kevin Tancheron, should be a familiar name. He has also directed episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl!

The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Fatherland"

In 2016 Berlin, Olivia enters a building that, according to her guide, had been abandoned for fifty years. When he questions what happened to the place, she responds it was a betrayal.

In 2044, a group led by Deacon and Whitley searches around the area for more data on the storm. Deacon questions Whitley if he’s sure that this will help Jones, but Whitley instead remarks how most Deacon’s men have already gone AWOL. He questions why Deacon chooses to stay. Suddenly, they spot a young boy wandering around the area. They ask him where his parents are, but he replies that they are gone, likely caught up in the storm. The red storm then rages further, forcing the party to retreat back to the base. Whitley tries to grab the boy, but Deacon pulls him back. The boy then wanders towards the red storm.

Back at the base, Jones calculates that they have approximately five days before the red storm engulfs their lab as well. She tells Cole that she believes they can push back the storm by preventing the last primary paradox in 1957. Through her research, she believes that the event took place at a factory explosion in New York, a disaster that caused the deaths of hundreds. Such destruction could have been caused by a paradox.

Cole relays this new mission to Ramse and Cassie who are less optimistic about the plan. Cole believes they could prevent the explosion, but the two argue that they have no clear way to locate the primary or a guarantee that the storms will stop. Instead, they offer a new plan using the Keeper’s research. They have tracked Dr. Kirshner as a man who previously worked on Nazi experimentation and taken by foreign services in 1961. According to the redacted files, he was linked to both Titan and the Witness. With this time, Ramse and Cassie argue that they could end the mission altogether. Although Adler argues that they could have enough power for both missions, Cole insists that they work on 1957 first since they have no time to consider the possibility of 1961’s options. Ramse and Cassie argue their option, leading Jones to finally yield to Cole. Jones ultimately supports Cole’s plan of bringing hope back to the base as opposed to Ramse and Cassie’s plan of vengeance. They plan for 1957.

Jones: If I were being forced to bet my life on a mission, I’d prefer it would be one of hope rather than revenge.

Down the hall, Ramse speaks with Adler, questioning why he would oppose helping them stop the Witness himself. Adler remarks that he understands Ramse’s desire for revenge, having lost a son himself to the plague. However, he reiterates that he doesn’t make the decisions. He only programs the machine.

As Cassie prepares for the trip, Deacon enters her room. After hearing that she is about to leave once again, he has decided to give her a real goodbye. He recalls when he first saw her on television as a kid providing hope to the masses in the midst of the plague. Cassie, however, sees through Deacon’s goodbye and discourages his advances. She reminds him that they have only spent one night together after being surrounded by scavengers and her gas mask had broken. In the end, she emphasizes that they cannot have anything in the midst of the turmoil. Disappointed, he leaves.

Cole, Ramse, and Cassie then splinter to the past. As they wait to consider their next move, the three go to the bar of the Emerson Hotel. Cole apologizes for his attitude towards their plan and thanks Cassie and Ramse for agreeing to his mission. The three toast to their work, but Cole’s drink causes him to stir. He then hears a report on a television remarking on the year 1961. He passes out just as he realizes that Cassie and Ramse have changed the plan.

Cole then reawakens in the hotel room. He finds that their guns and identification has been taken, leaving him behind. Frustrated, Cole then spots the picture of himself and Cassie from 1944. From that memory, he then contacts FBI agent Robert Gale for help. An older Gale reveals that he has been tracking the female messenger from 1944, but the search has caused his wife to leave him as well as a developing drinking problem. Still, he has also found Ramse and Cassie’s fake identification in Berlin. However, he notes that, with the construction of the Berlin Wall, it will be more urgent for them to find Kirshner as he is wanted by the governments within the area. Gale offers advice as an old friend, though Cole remarks that they have supposedly only met once, that he should distance himself from his loyalty for this case. Despite Cole’s insistence to follow his friends, Gale agrees to help.

In East Berlin, Cassie and Ramse track Kirshner to an opera. Reports state that he was killed by government forces from this night, so they must sneak him out before that happens. Cassie secretly sends a message for him to meet them outside the building, but the two quickly spot officers looking to capture Kirshner. Cassie distracts the agents while Ramse sneaks the man out the show. However, once they leave the building, they are surrounded by officers at gunpoint, forcing them to give up the man.

The officers immediately interrogate and torture Kirshner for his crimes, though he claims to be innocent. To Cassie and Ramse, they question why they wanted to evacuate Kirshner. They respond that they only want to question Kirshner about Titan and the Witness. Once that happens, they will gladly let him die. The officers, however, only become more suspicious upon seeing their fake identification. If they are not a part of the CIA, they could be part of something worse.

Gale: Nefarious characters coalesce around you like bum hairs in a drain.

Meanwhile, the FBI, including Gale, track down the Mossad agents as well as Cassie and Ramse. Unfortunately for Cole, the agency also considers Cassie and Ramse to be Nazi sympathizers after their attempted rescue of Kirshner. When Gale shows him the FBI file on the event, Cole recognizes the information from Cassie and Ramse’s redacted file. He asks Gale to find a way in, but Gale reminds him that it’s not possible to legally sneak his friends out the country. Still, Cole plans to find his friends.

In 2044, Adler admits to Jones that he changed the location to 1961, though the tether only gives the three four days until they return. Jones denounces Adler for betraying them, but Adler responds that she has forced him to wait ten years for revenge for the death of his son. Nevertheless, Jones orders him to be seized and confined to his room for his defiance.

In 1961, the Mossad officers continue to question Ramse and Cassie’s motives since they are not members of the CIA or FBI. They move to torture Ramse and eventually Cassie, who reiterates that they just want to ask Kirshner a question. Before they can go further, Cole and Gale arrive to take out the officers and free Cassie and Ramse. Cole orders them to leave, but Cassie insists they stay for Kirshner’s connections to Titan. Cole remarks that the only reason Titan and the Witness appeared on the redacted file was because of this very moment from her comments on Titan and the Witness. They were chasing their own tails. Cassie refuses to believe there’s no connection and moves to speak with Kirshner herself. There, they discover Kirshner wearing a medallion with the same symbol from Titan.

Kirshner then explains his connection with the symbol. As a young man, he came across a man who “witnessed the future” and told him about his potential. When the Witness predicted the events and experiments of the war, Kirshner grew more fascinated by the development and assisted in Nazi organizations under the eugenics program. After the Witness predicted the plague, Kirshner began experimenting on breeding not only immunity but a stronger human being. In other words, he was designing a new humanity. Cole recognizes that Kirshner might have been discovered to create the messengers. Kirshner, recognizing Cole’s name from the words of the Witness, confirms that he has a lab in East Berlin where he is currently conducting a new experiment as the “father” of a new humanity. If they can take out this experiment, they can eliminate the messengers and stop the paradoxes altogether. Kirshner warns that they would have to hurry since he is being watched, and they still need to sneak past the wall.

Cole, Cassie, Ramse, Gale, and Kirshner sneak by the wall where officers are watching the area. Ramse then distracts the guards while the others attempt to escape. However, Kirshner knocks against their hiding spot, causing a noise that alerts the guards to start shooting. In the chaos, Gale moves the others out by taking the bulk of the shots himself, effectively killing him before Cole’s eyes. Ramse reminds Cole that they can still complete what they want: stopping the messengers.

The rest of the group find the lab, located in the same building Olivia visits more than fifty years later. There, Kirshner reveals that he has created and kept a young girl. He states that the Witness had given him a woman whom he used to cultivate the eggs to create a new human. With the girl’s blood, the Army can effectively create the messengers. Off to the corner, however, the three spot something more surprising: the Word of the Witness, including their names. Before they can go further, they are interrupted by gun-wielding soldiers led by the female messenger from 1944, the woman who assisted in the experiment. Because of Kirshner’s betrayal, she proceeds to shoot against the crowd, planning to evacuate the girl. Kirshner is shot as Cassie tries to revive him. Just as she tries to move, however, she splinters back to the future. In the chaos, Ramse has a clear shot to take out the girl. Instead, against Cole’s wishes, he uses this time to rip a piece of the Word, one that details the location of Titan. The two then splinter back to the future as the army escapes.

Following the escape, the messenger takes the girl, a young Olivia, to a house where she will be protected. The messenger reassures her that she has a purpose to fulfill, and, under the Witness, she will be safe. In 2016, the present Olivia remembers these words as she regains the strength to walk with her developed system. She visits the grave of the female messenger, marked with a plaque reading “Our Mother.” At that moment, she renounces her dedication to the Army since they have forsaken her.

In 2044, the three return to the lab, awaiting Cassie and Ramse to be taken for their tampering. This time, Cole orders them to be taken since they made the call to betray him. Cassie and Ramse are then taken from the base. Because of their diversion, the base only has hours before the red storm engulfs them all.

Notes from 2044

• According to the timeline, Olivia was created using the eggs of the female messenger. In turn, Olivia's blood was used to create the messengers who were sent back in time to create Olivia. Talk about a chicken vs. egg scenario.
• According to the location, Titan is located somewhere in Colorado.

The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Hyena"

At the J.D. Peoples Psychiatric Facility, the Pallid Man receives a message. As soon as he makes his way to a room, he receives a call from Dr. Barbara. Dr. Barbara turns out to be Jennifer Goines who taunts the man with her own plans. She marches through the building with weapons purchased from her father’s money to set the female patients free as revenge for keeping her trapped. The women trap and kill the doctor that secured their incarceration along with Jennifer’s father Leland, splattering his blood everywhere. As a final mark against the man, Jennifer hangs the body of the dead doctor near a splattered painting of the monkey’s natural enemy: the hyena.

In 2044, Whitley reports more casualties of the red storm. Camps surrounding the area are filled with skeleton bodies or men turned into infants as time shifts around them. Cole remarks that preventing the paradox death in 1973 succeeded in pushing back the storm, but Whitley believes it was just a coincidence since no one can explain what is happening. Nevertheless, Jones believes that they have tracked another paradox occurrence between 1951 and 1973. If they can track down the primary in that time period, they can likely push back the storm. Cole decides to ask Jennifer for any knowledge on the primaries.

As Cole gathers weapons, he meets with a returning Ramse. Cole takes this time to express his condolences on what happened to Sam but continues to go after Jennifer. Ramse reveals that Cassie informed him on a place called Titan where they could find the Witness. Cole questions why Ramse would know this since Cassie never informed him, but Ramse insists on going on this path for revenge.

Cole speaks to the older Jennifer who, in her usual form, provides only vague details of the past. She informs him that the way they see things now with him, Cassie, Ramse, Jones and her daughter might only be a distraction from the real trick. However, she reveals that the Pallid Man, the new leader of the 12 Monkeys, would know of the primary between 1951 and 1973. She tells him to go back to 2016 where he and her present self will work to capture the man for this knowledge. Cole questions why she should be vague since she likely knows how everything will end anyway. Jennifer responds that there are many endings. The right one is the one you choose. Cole finally brings up Titan, leading Jennifer to experience a brief flash of shock and death. She orders him to avoid anything regarding Titan since that only leads to pain and death for his friends. For the time being, he, Cassie, and Ramse must stay the course of protecting the primaries.

Jennifer: A wise man once told me there are many endings, but the right one is the one you choose.

Cole reiterates this advice to Cassie and Ramse who are not too happy about having their revenge shelved for another wild goose chase. Cole reminds Cassie that she didn’t even inform him on seeing Titan in the Witness’s head, though Cassie just replies he would have thought she was crazy. Regardless of the connection, he states that it has to wait while he goes back in time to secure the location of the last primary. Cassie remarks that, while their revenge is put on hold, Cole gets his chance to seek revenge against the man who killed his father. Cole then splinters back to 2016.

In 2016, Jennifer’s group, now known as the Hyenas, set up their supplies in a warehouse. Jennifer gladly encourages the disturbed women to fight as they track down the source of their anger: the Pallid Man. On their security footage, they spot Cole wandering the facility. One of the Hyenas, Vanessa, takes her weapon to fight off Cole, but he fights back before they are found by Jennifer who welcomes him. She informs him on her progress in tracking down the army of the 12 Monkeys and gathering the women from the psychiatric wards. Cole questions Jennifer’s choice to release several socially disturbed women, but Jennifer merely calls them misunderstood. The women respond in kind since Jennifer had liberated, fed, and armed them like their mother.

In 2044, the grown Hannah confronts her mother Jones by returning the baby blanket. Jones protests that it belongs to her, but Hannah insists that Jennifer has taught them not to care for sentimental attachments. Jones then informs her that she was born in New York City, and the name on the blanket was hand-stitched by Jones’s father, Hannah’s grandfather. Hannah asks about her father whom Jones then describes as a man about self-preservation. However, he was the creator of the time machine they now use to try and save the past. Hannah informs Jones that Jennifer told her as a child that she was rescued off the back of a swan. Now, she is told that she was a product of an attempt to cheat death. Jones informs her that she tried to change the past to save her as well as billions, but Hannah maintains she prefers the swan story. No one has to die from the machine that caused the red storm.

In the back, Cassie and Ramse pour over their limited research but cannot find any mention of Titan. Cassie mourns the loss of a database to find more information prior to the virus, leading a listening Hannah to bring up the Keeper. She refers to the Keeper as a having a database of knowledge just as Cassie has described, but he is considerably questionable in his behavior. Jennifer has forbidden the Daughters from meeting with him due to the intensity in his trade in truth. Ramse prepares to search for the Keeper with Cassie planning to join him through her own need for revenge. Ramse warns her that it’s dangerous outside the base with the virus in the air. Despite this, Cassie takes a gun and a gas mask and follows him.

In 2016, Jennifer reveals that they have tapped into the Pallid Man’s phone in order to listen in on his conversations. From there, they hear the man mentioning Oliver Peters, the man who created the virus. Cole remembers that Cassie had found the man and told him to hide, but Jennifer informs him that the army was tracking him. While Peters was adopted to another family, he had a brother. That brother came into Peters’s money which is now being used in a particular way. Jennifer deduces that Peters now works as a janitor at the Hudson University hospital. From there, the hyenas make their move.

At the university, Cole and Jennifer successfully find Peters working as a janitor but also transporting a mysterious vial into the supplies. The hyenas hold him at gunpoint where he persists that he is only a janitor now. When Cole brings up the vial, Peters reluctantly reveals that he has been creating a vaccine for the virus despite Cassie’s insistence to run and hide. The product in the vial is only an experiment, but he continues to work secretly in the hospital. Cole informs him that they have destroyed the virus, setting the army back years in their plan, but Peters is still being tracked for his knowledge of the virus. Peters fears that the hyenas will kill him, but Cole informs him that he is only bait for the Pallid Man.

In 2044, Ramse and Cassie drive out into the woods to search for the Keeper. In her frustration, Cassie removes her gas mask, despite Ramse’s warning of the virus. Cassie throws back that she’s meant to survive to leave the message that will set the entire mission into motion. The two wonder what would happen if she were to die in the forest. As they walk closer, they pass a tree with bloody bodies hung on crosses. On their chests are Latin signs reading “Liar.” Despite this warning, Cassie and Ramse continue to follow the path until they reach an old observatory. There, they are confronted by an armored man who holds them at gunpoint and orders them to drop their weapons. Reluctantly, they obey him.

In 2016, a wheelchair-bound Olivia looks on The Word of the Witness as she questions their mission. The Pallid Man replies that in the changing times they needed to develop to the technology. He believes that the future is still secure according to the Witness, though Olivia is uncertain after what happened to her. On the news, the two watch a report that reveals that Oliver Peters, a member of the controversial Markridge Group, will be holding a press conference. Olivia notes that this was likely not foreseen by the Witness, fearing that Peters will reveal the virus to the public. The Pallid Man does not respond but nearly strangles Olivia before finally leaving to secure the future.

At the lab, the hyenas prepare Peters for the press conference to reveal the virus to the world. Meanwhile, Cole and Jennifer watch the security footage to wait for the Pallid Man. Cole insists to the others that they must remain calm when the Pallid Man arrives, but the other women grow impatient. He then reveals to the hyenas that the press conference was only a ruse to draw out the man, having no intention to reveal the virus to the world. Cole insists that if they were to reveal an extinction-level virus to the public, the public will turn on each other in the fear and chaos. Jennifer argues that they have to fight back, but Cole responds that the people need to be protected. Furious, Vanessa then aims her gun at Cole, believing he is corrupting their mission. To stop her, Jennifer uses an old EKG machine to shock the girl. The remaining hyenas then turn on Jennifer and Cole. Their new plan is to kill the Pallid Man once he arrives and reveal the virus to the world after that.

Jennifer: Don't point the gun at my friend!

In 2044, the Keeper secures Cassie and Ramse to chairs as well as an old polygraph machine. He reveals that in the wake of the virus he secured copies of books and digital information to protect history. Now, he only records and demands the truth from the people he meets. Cassie immediately requests information regarding a location called Titan, causing Ramse to scoff. The Keeper then questions why the two seem to hate each other. When Ramse claims to not understand, the Keeper shocks Ramse, warning the man that lies are what destroyed society in their fruitless attempts to pacify fears. Cassie then jumps in and claims that she hates Ramse because he is selfish and sacrificed billions of lives for only one. The polygraph, however, alerts the Keeper to the lie, and he demands the true reason. Cassie then admits that the reason she hates Ramse is because the person she cares for most in the world, the one whom she sacrificed everything for, chose him over her. Ramse responds the same. The polygraph confirms that they speak the truth.

In 2016, news broadcasts prepare for the press conference as the hyenas spot the Pallid Man headed into the building. The group move to find the man while one stays behind to guard Jennifer and Cole. In this time, Cole insults Jennifer for recruiting crazy people and losing control. Jennifer responds that she couldn’t trust him. Just as the argument reaches its peak, Jennifer knocks out the guard and steals her gun. The two then head out to secure the Pallid Man before the hyenas.

Using their guard’s communicator, Cole and Jennifer succeed in tracking down the Pallid Man and take him back to the headquarters. There, Cole beats the man as revenge for killing his father. Cole demands to know the location of the remaining primary, but the man claims he doesn’t know. Cole responds by breaking the man’s kneecaps. Meanwhile, the hyenas decide to hold the press conference.

In the midst of the torture, the Pallid Man reveals that the last primary is in Upstate New York in 1957. The death will create a paradox so large that it will destroy the fabric of time and give birth to the red forest. The Pallid Man then reveals that they already had a plan for Peters. While Peters gives his announcement to the public, the man secretly placed a bomb in the basement that is set to explode at precisely eight. Cole and Jennifer attempt to warn the hyenas to escape, but, in the women’s attempt to evacuate the building, the hospital explodes. The Pallid Man also reveals that they were aware of the women’s use of the cell phone. The army uses the phone to track down the headquarters, leading to a shoot-out that Cole and Jennifer barely survive.

In 2044, the Keeper gives Cassie all remaining references to a place called Titan from CIA classified documents. Before the two leave, he warns them that the lies they tell to cover their hatred will be a greater threat to their mission than their hatred alone. The documents reference 1961 East Germany and a doctor named Kirchner, giving the two a new mission. Cassie insists on staying with Ramse to exact their equal revenge on the Witness. Ramse responds by handing Cassie her gas mask for her protection.

In 2016, Cole and Jennifer return to the hotel as Jennifer drinks to console herself. Cole reveals that he rescued her turtle to cheer her up, but Jennifer is still depressed. She mourns the loss of her group as well as the people of the hospital, believing that she was unable to help anyone. Jennifer asks if this is how she ends up in the future. Cole responds, using her words from the future, that there are many endings. The right one is the one you choose. Cole then splinters back to the future. However, moments later, Jennifer answers a knock from the door. She is then greeted by a returning Cole who bears new scratch marks on his face.  

In 2044, a meeting between Jones and Adler is interrupted by Hannah. Adler exits the room as Jones reveals that the two used to share an experience in losing a child. Hannah apologizes for her response earlier, acknowledging that it was likely too direct for ordinary people. Jones, however, responds that they have lost enough time to not be direct. Instead, she asks what Jennifer called her as a child. Hannah reveals that she was called Zeit, the German word for time. Jones then shares with her daughter a picture of her father, Jones’s former husband. Jones explains that her ex-husband gave her two things: Hannah and the time machine. Her daughter was the only one of those things that she loved. Jones’s daughter replies that she would like her mother to call her Hannah.

Back in 2016, Jones’s ex-husband Elliot mourns the loss of his machine and life’s work. The Pallid Man, bruised but still alive, consoles the man by bringing him on a new project: Titan.

Notes from 2044

• Jones's ex-husband Elliot returns and apparently has some connection to the Pallid Man. Could his creation of the time machine have something to do with Titan?
• The last primary is located in 1957 while the only known mention of Titan takes place in 1961. Between the two was the splinter of the military men in 1959 as seen in "Meltdown." Perhaps there is a connection.
• J.D. Peoples Psychiatric Facility makes another appearance since its introduction in the second episode "Mentally Divergent." It is named after Janet and David Peoples, the original screenwriters behind the movie Twelve Monkeys.

The Geekcap: 12 Monkeys "Lullaby"

 In 2020, doctors and military figures walk around and guard rooms in hazmat suits from the spread of the virus. A younger Jones sings a lullaby to her passing daughter Hannah. Behind her, Cassie enters. She immediately shoots Jones.

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.

There she finds Ramse carrying a half-drained glass of scotch and a gun with two bullets. Despite what happened, he believes that Cassie is responsible for what happened to Sam and plans to kill her and then himself. Cassie understands his anger but offers to help him go after the real culprit: the Witness. Ramse doubts that he’s a real figure, but Cassie recalls seeing the metal city Titan inside the Witness’s head while he was inside hers. Together, Cassie believes they can go to Titan and kill the Witness.

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!