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- Previously on "12 Monkeys"...

- Did Marion send you? - Who?

- Marion, the boy's mother.

Last time I saw her she was on about some monkey army.

- James? - Hello.

[laughing]

Primaries, we see everything--

past, present, future.

We help time think.

Climb the steps, ring the bell.

[gasps]

- Whatever these are, these symbols,

this is your mission now.

- We shall destroy our enemies where they live.

You wanted the Witness to return.

She has!

[string music]

♪

- What I am about to tell you

is the legend as it was told to me.

There was once a serpent

who only traveled one direction.

Always forward, never backwards.

Until one day,

the serpent came upon a demon.

[horses neighing, hooves pounding]

[dramatic music]

- Stop!

♪

Whoa! Whoa!

[foreboding music]

♪

- I'm sure you will not be surprised to know

we've seen your coming for some time.

- Heretics. Witches and warlocks.

Primaries.

Where is the weapon?

- [chuckles]

You have no idea.

♪

[sword sheathes]

Are you foolish enough to believe

we did not foresee this?

We fear not this end.

We've already covered ourselves in oil.

[dramatic music]

♪

[all screaming violently]

[dramatic music]

[girl screams]

- Hush, child. It's okay.

- I can hear them.

[man screaming]

They're screaming.

- Chorus, listen to me.

There isn't much time.

You must take this now.

[haunting owl call]

I can no longer keep it for you.

It is yours to bear.

[mysterious music]

The legend...

This...

And the name.

[music swells]

- James Cole.

[dramatic music]

♪

[desolate musical note]

- The wound's too deep.

[distantly] Lost too much time.

Mr. Cole!

[gunfire]

[animalistic roar]

- That's all you can do.

Kill yourself.

- I want to go home.

- I'm sending you back to 2017.

- [slurred] Climb the steps, ring the bell.

- I'm afraid I can't leave you here unattended.

- I understand.

- What about Adler?

- He's out, but stable.

- That is not a woman.

It's a chameleon.

And if she smiles at you,

it's because she wants you dead.

[high-pitched ringing]

[gunfire]

- Time to go!

- Wish I could've known you.

- Another life.

- [screams]

- They're coming for us.

[ringing music]

- Cassie.

What do I do?

- Cassie, show me. I can help.

- I don't think she's going to make it.

[heart monitor beeping]

- Jones?

- Cassie. - I'm not a trauma surgeon.

A wound like this is too deep. I can't just fix it.

- Can't or won't?

- Jones...

[gunshots]

- Athan!

- I am sorry about Athan.

She would be too if she could say it.

- Would she?

- Please.

[dramatic music]

- Yeah, you can throw blame around

all you like, but you're a boy.

- Athan wasn't the Witness.

It's always been Olivia.

And right now, we need to be ready.

She knows where we are, she knows when we are.

- Jesus Christ.

How long do we have?

- Hours, minutes.

The Titan belongs to her now.

[Jones coughing]

- K--k--ka

[muttering]

[monitors flatline]

- Cassie!

[tone continues]

- Get adrenaline. If I can't start her heart manually...

One, two, three, four...

[dramatic music]

♪

13, 14, 15, 16,

17, 18, 19, 20.

- [gasps deeply]

[heart monitor beeps]

[Jones breathes raggedly]

- [cries]

[mournful music]

- What are you doing?

- You said it yourself. We have to get out of here.

- No, I said we should be ready. Where would we go?

- Anywhere.

Any whenbut here.

We're not fixing anything. We're making it worse.

- No. - It's over, Cole.

We lost. - Not yet. W--

- I'm not talking about the fight.

[mournful music]

♪

- We saved him.

Maybe not his life, but who he was.

What he could've been.

- I almost let Jones die.

I wanted her to.

We may have saved Athan's soul, but I am losing mine.

Maybe if we go, they'll all go.

Not everybody has to die today.

- Last time we gave up was '57.

And then the storms came.

It was only a moment.

- It was the best of my life.

- The future will find us.

It always does.

- Maybe now needs to be enough.

- You want to run.

- Far and fast.

All of us, in different directions.

We each find a place in the past.

- Yeah, but for how long?

- As long as we get.

[electronic alarms]

- The core is overheating.

Critical levels. The cooling system.

The underground river-- something's happening to it.

- What? - Don't know.

But if we can't stop it, none of us are going anywhere.

[steam hissing]

- Holy shit.

- Hell's going on down there?

- The river is boiling.

- What the hell would cause that?

[rumbling]

[dramatic music]

♪

[thunder]

[eerie horn]

[lightning cracks]

♪

- She's here.

[dramatic music]

♪

.

- We have arrived.

Hours after your escape,

and moments after their return.

Your causality is intact.

How do you wish to proceed?

- Simply.

Kill them all.

- The Witness has spoken.

[foreboding music]

- All right. There's only one way in.

We choke off the entrance, take 'em out.

- Stick with the science, man.

- Lasky, just fix the core.

Otherwise, we got no way out of here.

If they get past us...

- I got his back.

- Let's go.

♪

[eerie music]

[horn blaring]

♪

[horn blares]

♪

- Now!

- Why do you need a radiation suit?

- To cool the core manually.

[distant gunfire]

But I have to stabilize the machine first.

- K--k--Charon...

Charon... - Charon.

- Charon...

Project Charon.

Escape.

- [hopefully] Escape? How?

- We splinter everything.

- But it's not finished.

- It's our only chance.

♪

[gunfire]

[soldiers screaming]

[gunfire]

[dramatic militaristic music]

♪

[music tenses]

♪

[explosion booms, men scream]

- There's too many!

- Cole, get down here. We may have a way out.

- Fall back!

♪

- Lay down those claymores and seal the door.

Nothing gets in.

[foreboding music]

- Project...

Charon...

We'll splinter the facility.

Most of it.

- Where?

- Somewhere safe.

- Time travel without the "time" part.

- How?

- An adaptation of Titan's splinter array.

We modified Elliot Jones' early machine prototypes.

These points are repeaters.

They disperse the beam

across the lower facility to create a perimeter.

Everything inside the beams comes with us.

Everything else-- these sections here--

they stay behind.

- What if Olivia's men cross the beams?

They could just hitch a ride.

- The beams are highly amplified.

They could try,

but they'd combust.

- Painful death on contact.

I like it.

- I knew the Titan

would come someday.

But if we could be like Titan...

- We could save everyone.

- It's theoretical at best.

Even if the core wasn't unstable...

We've never tested those repeaters.

It's not ready.

- Will it work?

- Trust me.

[forlorn music]

One last time.

♪

- We'd have to pull people we can't spare

from a wall we can't defend

with time we don't have.

- What's the choice? Right now,

we're taking on a fortress with a BB gun.

- Then we need something to buy us some time

to get these in place.

- We need a hammer.

A big one.

[dramatic music]

♪

[uneasy music]

♪

[rifle fires]

[gunfire]

[man cries out]

[dramatic music]

[detonator beeps]

♪

[detonator beeps]

♪

- Timber.

[remote beeps]

[detonator primes]

[explosions boom]

[crashing]

[heroic music]

- Clever.

Can our towers turn outward?

- Yes. Why?

- Katarina Jones

taught me the many uses of temporal energy.

- We'll move through space, not time.

- Turn our towers toward their facility.

Splinter it apart.

- But why here, of all places?

- Where else would prey go,

but underground?

- I'll call the men back.

- No. Stay on the offensive.

This war ends today.

[eerie horn]

[detonator beeps]

[explosion booms]

[metal creaking, machine warming up]

[tense music]

[footsteps on metal]

[distant explosion]

♪

[explosion]

♪

[explosion, gunfire]

[distant explosion]

- They're inside?

[eerie horn]

[machines whirring]

- Uh, guys...

New problem.

Olivia's got herself a Death Star.

- Get your ass back here, now.

- The coordinates are set.

I just need to get the core back online.

We can't splinter without it. [gunshot]

- Lasky!

[gunfire]

- Lasky's dead.

Someone get to the core.

[radio cuts out]

♪

[Jones grunts]

[gasps]

[grunts with exertion]

[cocks gun]

[yelling, gunshots]

[blow impacts]

[gunfire]

[gun clicks]

[blow lands, Railly gasps]

[blows, gunfire]

♪

- Jones!

Jones.

- I need to cool the core. Manually.

Or we'll never splinter out of here.

- The radiation will kill you.

- Not today.

[eerie horn]

[beams hiss]

[loud impact]

[sparking, hissing]

- I'll buy you as much time as I can.

Go.

[distant gunfire]

[alarms blaring]

[muffled alarms]

[gunfire]

[metal creaking]

[alarms blaring]

[machine whirring]

[gunfire]

[blade swooshing]

[flesh squelching]

- Ah!

♪

- Ah!

[music calms]

[both breathe deeply]

- Where's Mother?

[groans]

[metal creaks]

[music calms]

[computer beeps brightly]

- The core's stable.

- Start the sequence.

We need to splinter now.

Everyone get inside the perimeter.

[dramatic music]

♪

[labored breathing]

[machines warming up]

- Marcus.

[gasps, groans]

- Was it enough?

- Yes.

- [grunts gently]

[rumbling]

[mournful string music]

[dramatic music]

- Don't you assholes leave without me!

- Deacon.

- I'm at the controls. What do I do?

Someone talk to me, please.

- Hannah...

- Mother...

- Do exactly as I say.

[music reaches climax]

[music fades, becomes tranquil]

♪

[drums pound]

[beam ignites]

[beams hiss, machines whir]

[dramatic music]

♪

[whoosh]

- Deacon!

- [quietly] Don't leave me.

[ambient music]

- We have to go.

Now.

- We can't leave him.

- We already have.

Come on!

♪

[whirring increases]

[rumbling, crashing]

[somber music]

♪

- Their cycle has ended.

A new one begins.

♪

.

[water dripping]

- All living things can travel through time.

It's simple, really.

Just wait a moment.

And then another, and another.

Do this often enough, and you will have arrived

at tomorrow.

Enough tomorrows,

and you'll be dead,

adrift without power or patience.

At the very end of time, you'll ask yourself,

"Where am I right now,

and what have I done?"

- [groans] - Stay with me.

[somber music]

You'll have grown old.

You will have hoped

and let go of hope.

You will have tried

and you will have failed.

♪

Shaped by time until you are that,

which you are not meant, nor wished, to be.

You may be left with someone you love

and all the horrible things you've done for them.

[man grunts]

♪

Until finally,

you will lose the very last thing

you had left.

Yourself.

[metallic sounds echoing]

[doors creaking]

[crickets chirping]

[ethereal music]

[sentimental music]

♪

- The Emerson.

♪

Jones surveyed this place in '44,

when she went Ramse back to get us.

She knew we could make the landing.

She saved us.

- We're not saved.

This is us going in circles.

♪

[blues music on piano]

♪

- ♪ Here we are again

♪ Back at the end

♪ The river's been running, babe ♪

♪ Back where it began

♪

♪ Swear we've been here before ♪

♪ But it feels a little colder now ♪

♪ And we don't need tomorrow, babe ♪

♪ To feel that I'm

♪ Mmm

♪ All these change rearranging ♪

[generator humming]

♪ Same broken pieces, baby

♪ Same broken pieces, baby ♪

[power tools whirring]

♪

[electricity sparking] - Damn it!

- Still not enough power?

- You could bring a hundred generators

and it still wouldn't give us enough power

to re-fire the machine.

Without a working core...

- So fix it.

- We need another Adam Cell to kick-start it.

To get one of those...

[emphatically] You. Need. A time machine.

- Jones have any thoughts?

- None that she's willing to share.

[dramatic music]

♪

[distant thunder]

- Housekeeping dropped the ball, huh?

[nostalgic music]

♪

- What's this?

- They're Jennifer's.

She splintered back here after Jones let her loose.

[foreboding music]

♪

- What's that? [echoing]

♪

- There once was a serpent who only traveled...

- In one direction.

Always forward, never backward.

♪

I know this.

- It's an ouroboros.

Many cultures have it.

- Jennifer often drew that.

Sometimes waking from a nightmare.

- Why?

Why did she draw it?

- She called it "the end and the beginning."

- The secret to the universe is chock full of nuts.

- What are you talking about?

- The future me said

that there was an end to all this,

that Jennifer was the key,

that she had the answer to everything.

- She did.

Guardians. Athan.

- No, there's more than that.

- Ms. Goines wanted to return to her time.

2017.

- Well, we need to find her.

Get the machine back up and running again.

- We can't.

- God damn it.

- Dr. Railly's right, it's impossible.

- We're not giving up!

- Mr. Cole.

- We need the core to get the machine to work.

We had two.

The broken one,

and the one we slaughtered Spearhead for.

We use the old to fix the new.

- The old core was in storage.

Outside the splinter perimeter.

- Which means we know it'll be there.

- Crushed under the rest of the facility we left behind.

- Well, there's one way to know.

- Go back to Raritan?

It's way too dangerous. We lost enough--

- Deacon.

Whitley, Lasky...

Athan.

They died for us.

For this mission!

[sad piano music]

- Cole. There is no mission.

It's over.

♪

[uneasy music]

♪

[music climaxes]

[church bells ringing]

[siren blaring]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Anything else?

- No, thanks.

[mournful music]

[bold rock music]

♪

.

[indistinct chatter]

[door creaks]

[laughs]

[mysterious music]

[whistles]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

[burning hiss]

♪

- Anytime, amigo.

Roger, roger. Initiate shock and awe.

♪

[elevator chimes]

- [over speakers] Before you now, the ouroboros.

The ancient universal depiction

of the beginning and the end.

The self-eating snake, to many cultures,

represents a song of inevitability.

Of fate, inescapable.

To the psychologist,

it is our shared understanding of life and death.

[repeated metallic clinking]

[electric motor whirring]

[uneasy music]

♪

From ancient Egypt to Athens, Greece...

[knuckles cracking]

[intrepid music]

♪

[exhales]

♪

- Yes! Thomas Crown ain't got nothing on us.

- Quiet. I'm working.

- Uh, so am I.

♪

- There it is, Looney Tunes.

Here we go.

[device beeps, whirs]

♪

[bright chime]

Booyah.

- Got it?

[alarm blares]

- Pressure alarm. Shit.

I need an exfil. - Right. Got it.

What's an exfil?

- Ah, shit.

- Hand over the artifact.

- Did someone find you? - Yeah.

I got this.

[scoffs] This guy...

is history.

- Is that a catchphrase?

- Maybe.

- Abort catchphrase!

- No...

[tense music]

♪

- Holy shit! How are you so awesome?

- You tell me.

[tape rewinding]

[double bass playing]

♪

- [wheezily laughs]

[alarm rings]

[laughs]

- I got this. This guy is history.

Uh, was that a catchphrase? Maybe.

Abort catchphrase!

[yells]

- [guard laughing]

- Oof!

- Oh, how is she so awesome?

I don't know. You tell me.

[laughter fades]

[sighs]

[dramatic music]

♪

[Tasers warming up]

- What do I care?

The world's ending anyway, eh?

- Wouldn't sweat it, Czech-y Cheese.

I'm just here to do my part.

- In what?

- Saving it.

♪

[chuckles maniacally]

- Americans.

.

[dogs barking]

[distant sirens]

- Hey! Action Jackson. Where are you?

- On my way in.

- Hurry up! It's almost curfew time.

- Chillax, Nutter Butters.

- "Chillax"?

Okay, this voice needs work.

- Hey, we just crushed a museum heist, kiddo.

Enjoy the moment.

♪

- [sighs]

- I got it.

- That's it.

- Yeah.

Just what we needed.

More useless shit to spruce up the place.

"Rescue me. She's a hoarder."

- Uh...

Imaginary friends aren't supposed to be dicks.

- Yeah, yeah.

Just bustin' your balls, psycho.

- Where does this voice even come from?

- Primary magic and movie popcorn.

- Extra butter.

- Eh. The bucket.

Candy combo.

- [enthusiastically] Oh, yeah.

- All right, kiddo.

You wanted it, you got it,

now what the hell are we going to do

with this thing?

♪

- I don't know.

♪

It's important somehow.

It's meant for us.

- Meant for you.

You saw it. Athan saw it.

It's the key to everything.

Now,

just need to find the door.

♪

- And the name?

- James Cole.

[echoing] James Cole...

[crow caws]

- Just come out already.

[twigs snapping]

- How long have you known?

- A couple miles.

I thought if I ignored you, you'd give up,

but I should've known you'd be too stubborn.

- Mother would say we have that in common.

May I walk with you?

- What for?

- So that you do not walk alone?

♪

- We're close.

- What if Titan is still there?

- Won't be. It's been months.

- [distantly] Don't bother. She's mental.

- Scavs.

- Save my soul, remember?

- Yes. Too late, 'cause I'm going back.

- Your funeral.

What do you need me to watch for, anyway?

- Think she's just going to believe me?

"Hi, I'm Cole.

"I'm from the future.

I came here in a time machine to save mankind."

That's ridiculous.

[eerie music]

♪

- How is that possible?

♪

- We didn't just move the facility.

We went back in time.

- To when?

- The beginning.

[music swells]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪