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RAMSE: Previously on 12 Monkeys...

My father had plans for me.

I was a thing in a box.

CASSIE: The Witness in my head.

I saw a place called Titan.

Titan only leads to death.

Your friends, their rage is blinding.

THE KEEPER: It's a CIA Intelligence Report.

The only record with a place called Titan.

East Germany. 1961. And a doctor named Kirschner.

James Cole is loyal. To a fault.

COLE: You and Deacon?

I don't have to like the guy to see that he cares about you.

Paradox Primaries. There's one more we don't know.

1957. Upstate New York.

A paradox so powerful, it destroys the fabric of time.

(PLANE ENGINES ROAR)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

It took us some time to find it.

No one in our organization has set foot in here in over 50 years.

I had no idea it was so important to our history.

To our future.

(OLIVIA WHISPERING) The Witness has spoken. The Witness has spoken.

What happened here?

Betrayal.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

DEACON: Christ, Whitley. What are we doing out here?

WHITLEY: Jones needs more data.

DEACON: Yeah. You really think that more data is gonna stop that?

(RUMBLING)

DEACON: Your silence is deafening.

WHITLEY: No one's forcing you to stay, Deacon.

You could always join the rest of your men.

How many was it went AWOL this week?

I'd ask what's keeping you here, but we both know, don't we?

Does she?

Let's hurry this up.

(LOUD RUMBLING)

Easy, easy. It's just a kid.

Hey, you came from the camp near here?

They're all gone.

Your parents... They get caught in it?

(EXPLOSIONS)

Shit.

We gotta move.

Come on, kid.

Hey!

Whitley!

(EXPLOSIONS)

Mister Whitley's team encountered another temporal storm.

At this rate, these anomalies will consume this facility

in just five days.

If we're lucky.

So, what are our options?

We must prevent this last paradox.

The Primary in '57?

You sure that'll stop all this?

These paradoxes...

They're like gunshot wounds in time.

We can survive the one from 1944,

but this last paradox will bleed us out.

And everything we know about '57

comes from the enemy.

And we've picked up an enormous amount

of temporal fallout between 1956 and 1958.

The highest readings coincide with a single event.

An explosion at the factory in New York on November seventh, 1957.

Hundreds of people were killed.

(ELECTRONIC BEEPING)

The temporal signature indicates a massive paradox.

COLE: We'd have a full year to complete the mission.

We go back, do whatever we can to locate the Primary,

before the remaining Messengers can paradox them.

But if the facility is going to be destroyed in days,

our real time tethers will break,

and everyone will die here.

But if you succeed and stop the paradox,

time will shift

and undo all the destruction that has occurred here.

RAMSE: It won't work.

Nothing ever does when she plays God.

We got something better.

What's that?

CASSIE: A CIA document.

Most of this is redacted.

Read what's not!

CASSIE: Dr. Albert Kirschner,

a war criminal captured in East Berlin on August 13, 1961 by Mossad.

Mossad?

Israeli Intelligence.

They were hunting down former Nazis in '61.

CASSIE: The report mentions a place called, "Titan,"

and a man called, "The Witness."

This is it.

RAMSE: We go back to 1961, we find Kirschner

before the Mossad does.

We find Titan. We find the Witness.

We cut the head off of the snake.

That's not gonna stop the storms out there.

Save the world by killing the one who destroys it.

Yeah. Or we die trying.

We choose the wrong mission now,

we don't get a second chance.

We're going back to '57.

You're gonna make that call now?

You know, we're always a step behind.

For once, why don't we take the fight to them?

Look who's all leap and no look now?

You know what the difference is, brother? I earned it.

So has she.

If I may interject, the Core has enough power for both jumps.

But we don't have the time, Dr. Adler!

Look, I need you. Both of you.

I can't do this alone. One last mission to stop the paradox.

After that, we will come back, find the Witness, and make him pay.

I promise.

Jones, you're willing to die here

on the chance that maybe we can undo it?

If I were being forced to bet my life on a mission,

I'd prefer it would be one of hope, rather than revenge.

Are you with Mr. Cole, or are you not?

Yeah.

We'll go.

KATARINA: Good.

Dr. Adler, Splinter calculation

for January 1957 will take several hours.

Let's go.

Ramse, you sure caved quickly.

Adler, what do you think?

Ha! Since when did that matter to you?

You know what the Witness did to her? To my son.

Don't patronize me like I'm some fool, Mr. Ramse.

I lost my son as well in the plague.

I, too, know what it's like to be denied retribution, every single day.

So, help me. Help me right that wrong.

(SCOFFS) Well, I'm sorry to inform you,

but I'm not in charge of these missions.

I only program them.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Cassie?

Hey. Hi.

I, uh, heard you're taking a trip to 1957. (CHUCKLES)

I just wanted to say good-bye, I guess.

Uh...

Um...

There's something I never told you.

(DEACON INHALES)

I remember you

from before, when I was a kid.

Dr. Cassandra Railly from the CDC.

When the plague hit, you were on the TV, 24/7.

And...

And many lonely nights were spent watching those emerald greens.

It was enough to make you forget

that the whole planet was going to shit.

So, I just wanted to say that I...

(MUMBLES)

That you mean a lot...

Deacon, stop.

It was just one night.

You came to me.

Because we were trapped out there.

Surrounded by scavs. My respirator had a hole in it, and...

Oh.

Look, that part of me is long gone. It has to be.

It's the only way I can do this.

Got it.

I will say this.

You finally fit in around this place.

(LOCK CLICKS)

(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

ADLER: Coordinates are set.

Emerson Hotel, New York City. January 3rd, 1957.

One year, James.

One year.

I...

Don't worry. We got this.

Initiate Splinter Sequence.

(BUZZING)

(MACHINE REVVING)

(RATTLING)

(SIGHS) We need new clothes. We're getting looks.

(SIGHS) Wanna drink?

Why not?

(INDISTINCT LAUGHING) (MUSIC PLAYING)

Hey, listen, uh...

I'm sorry about before.

I know I made the call, but thank you both for being here.

Yeah. No worries. Of course.

I know we've had our differences in the past,

but having you two here at the end of all this means a lot to me.

I'll drink to that.

Cheers, buddy. (GLASS CLINKS)

Cheers.

Whoa! (LAUGHS)

Didn't know it was that kind of party.

Bottoms up, Cole.

Ah, that's smooth.

Good, huh? Yeah.

Beats what we used to drink with the West 7, that's for sure.

Uh, Prune. Prune.

Booze made from prunes, right? It's like 180 proof.

(CHUCKLING)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(INDISTINCT VOICE ON TV)

So, how did you...

(WINCES)

You all right?

No.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY: The people of West Berlin today have that freedom.

The general problem that the United States faces

in the security field in the summer of 1961...

What year is this? (GRUNTS)

Cole.

RAMSE: Hey, it's okay.

You're okay.

(VOICE ON TV CONTINUES)

What did you do to me?

I'm sorry, Cole, but we had to.

(ECHOES) We had to.

(COLE GROANS)

(WINCES)

(GROANS)

(swans) Shit.

(RATTLING)

FEMALE OPERATOR: Operator. How can I direct your call? COLE: FBI, please.

New York office. FEMALE OPERATOR: One moment, please.

Christ, look at you.

You haven't aged a goddamn day. I wish I could say the same.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

Okay, that woman from '44.

The "genetically-enhanced Messenger."

I got a lead on her a couple of years ago,

but I lost the trail somewhere in Europe.

And, yeah, I took it hard.

Wife left. I got a grandkid I don't see.

She's probably better off.

Knowing the world's gonna end, makes a man gloomy.

Yeah.

Listen, my friends...

Yeah, I ran a trace on passports out of Idlewild.

Two came up phony.

They touched down at Berlin Tempelhof Airport an hour ago.

Can you spot me a ticket and a passport?

Not enough to drug me, they had to rob me, too.

Nefarious characters seem to coalesce around you

like bum hairs in a drain.

That's colorful.

Look, Cole, these so-called friends of yours

are running headlong into a bad situation.

This doctor they're after, Kirschner, the former Nazi.

He's been on the run since Nuremberg.

Mossad wants him to pay badly for his war crimes.

They got a bead on him last month in East Berlin.

They pulled the trigger on him.

He's headed back to Israel for trial.

Now that the Wall's going up, that's not gonna be so easy.

What do you mean?

The East Germans are building a wall

straight through the middle of the city.

If they can't get him out, capture may turn to kill for Mossad.

And if your friends get between

the Israelis and this asshole...

We better hurry. (SIGHS)

You know, Cole, I've known you a long time now.

What do you mean? We met once in '44, right?

Right.

My point is,

I'm afraid your loyalty

is gonna bite you in the ass one of these days.

Sometimes, you gotta go it alone.

You might be right.

But right now, I'm broke and I don't speak German.

Will you help me?

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

(CHUCKLES)

Let's go get these sons of bitches.

(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)

Keep your eyes open. He could be anywhere.

Here.

You wanna wake up? We did what we did.

(SIGHS)

The report says Mossad grabs Kirschner when the show lets out.

We need to get to him before they do. Here.

Excuse me.

(OPERA SINGER SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

USHER: Dr. Voland?

CASSIE: See? It worked.

Those two aren't a happy couple.

Mossad.

Stay here. What are you doing?

Buying you time to grab Kirschner.

No wonder they get along.

Excuse me, do you speak English?

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

I'm sorry. It's just, I'm terribly confused. I don't speak German.

Keep moving, asshole. Keep moving.

Is this the Staatsoper Unter den Linden?

Move. We don't have time.

Go!

(TIRES SCREECH)

(GUN CLICKS)

Put it down.

CASSIE: Ramse.

(SCREAMS AND GRUNTS)

We have to do something. They're gonna kill him.

TALIA: Shut up. (RAMSE GRUNTS)

Sit.

(SIGHS)

(KIRSCHNER STRUGGLES)

(EITAN GRUNTS)

(EITAN GRUNTS) (KIRSCHNER SCREAMS)

(GUN CLICKS)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Do you speak Hebrew?

English?

Yeah.

Anything but German. I despise it.

I don't know those people!

You've made a mistake. My name is Dr. Stef fen Voland.

I work at a clinic. I help children.

And what about the children at Mauthausen? Auschwitz? (KIRSCHNER GROANS)

We don't want Kirschner. You can have him.

We just want to ask him a question.

He knows about a place called "Titan,"

and a man who calls himself, "The Witness."

You just let us talk to him and then you can do whatever you want.

You are Kirschner.

(STRUGGLING)

You're not CIA. We put in a call. They've never heard of you.

So, now what we will find out is, who do you work for,

and how did you find the doctor?

There are two types of trial.

Ones that take place in a court of law.

(GROANS)

(CALEB GRUNTS)

And ones that take place in rooms like this.

(GRUNTING) (CHOKING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

My contact says your friends stumbled onto

a Mossad surveillance op in East Berlin.

They've been detained.

Shit.

Mossad and the CIA station chief

have been going back and forth all day.

They've got your friends pegged as Nazi sympathizers.

What's gonna happen to 'em?

Mossad's gonna make Kirschner disappear.

My guess is, your friends disappear with him.

Can you get me across the border?

I got visas for you and me,

but getting your friends out isn't gonna be so easy.

I have to try.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

KATARINA: 1961?

What have you done?

I've encrypted their return sequence. They'll be back in four days.

But then we are out of time!

Our best option is to find and kill the Witness.

So, you'll just have to wait.

As I've waited for 10 years for what you promised...

To save my son. Save all of us.

Not kill us first.

Lock Dr. Adler in his quarters.

(GRUNTING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

You kill him?

Not yet. He's resting.

We asked the CIA about this Titan.

They have never heard of it.

So, what is it? Code?

Buenos Aires? Sào Paulo? Bogotá?

Locations for his Nazi friends?

We don't have anything to do with them.

Hmm.

(WINCES)

(EITAN CHUCKLES)

You have a high tolerance for pain.

What about your partner?

(CLICKS TONGUE)

There's something about men and women in fieldwork.

The closeness. The danger. Gets the blood up.

You get attached.

She is very beautiful. No one would fault you.

You hurt her, I kill you.

(GASPS)

Who are you working for?

No one.

(GRUNTS)

Where were you taking Dr. Kirschner?

We're hunting someone, same as you.

(GRUNTS) (GROANS)

Hey!

(CASSIE COUGHS AND SPITS)

Someone who's killed a lot of people.

And that man in there can tell us where to find him.

(coughing)

I'm gonna hurt you real bad.

(LAUGHS) (GLASS SHATTERS)

(SPEAKING IN GERMAN)

Caleb, check it out.

(CALEB GASPS)

(THUDS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTING)

Cole. Save it, we have to go.

We found Kirschner. He's here.

Good. He can stay. We're leaving.

We gotta find Titan first. COLE: He doesn't know!

You ain't getting in my way.

Hey, I saw the report. Unredacted.

The only reason it mentions Titan is because you two said it.

You created your own clue, genius. You're chasing your own tail.

Titan. Hey. Hey, look at me!

Titan. Where is it?

I don't know what that is, please. COLE: Hey.

Hey. Come on. Cassie!

What is wrong with you? Okay. I get it. The Witness got in your head.

He used you. You're out for blood,

but you're blind.

You can't even see this guy doesn't know anything!

He has to. Hey!

(CASSIE GASPS)

Who's blind now?

It's the mark of the Witness.

Almost a lifetime ago,

I was a student.

A man who witnessed the future came to me,

urged me to continue my work in eugenics.

Promised me insights to further my research.

And then,

(SCOFFS)

He warned me of the war.

Of the things I would be asked to do in the camps.

(SHIVERS) It's horrible.

Didn't stop you.

It was my purpose.

A means to an end. For the good of the world.

Doesn't sound like Nazi doctrine to me.

You see, there is a great plague coming.

(CHUCKLES) So I've heard.

KIRSCHNER: In this next century,

the survival of mankind will depend on immunity.

Immunity is random, there's no genetic marker.

(CHUCKLES)

For most, in the natural world, perhaps.

But for those who are bred,

created to be stronger, faster,

immune to all disease,

aging, the effects of time itself.

AGENT GALE: Created?

You made a human being?

H. G. Wells? Or Mary Shelley.

You remember in '44, the Messenger,

she mentioned someone called, "The Father"?

He made us too well.

AGENT GALE: "He made us."

Your work creates The Messengers,

and The Messengers destroy the world.

Please! No. Hey!

He'll lead us to the Witness.

No, please. The Witness...

He lied to you.

No, you're wrong. He wouldn't.

Cole...

James Cole?

You know my name?

The Witness spoke of you a great deal.

Where is your research now?

In my lab in West Berlin. The sample is there.

Unfinished, but safe.

If we could destroy it...

We could keep The Messengers from ever existing in the first place.

Stop the paradoxes. All of it.

If you spare me, I will take you to it. But we must hurry.

The Witness has people, people who watch me.

To them, my work is everything.

If they think I am missing,

they will come.

Gotta figure out a way to cross the wall.

There's a way.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Shit.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

They must have just posted these assholes.

They're still building the wall here.

We can get through. Just stay low. Follow me.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Okay. Somebody's gotta go in first.

Pry it open. You'll be exposed.

I'll go. I'll do it.

I said, I got it.

Jesus Christ! You two swinging dicks. Enough with the bravado.

Here, don't make a goddamn sound.

Go. Go. Go.

(MAN SHOUTING)

Okay, you two are up.

Go. Go. Go.

(KIRSCHNER SCREAMS) (CLATTERS)

(RATTLES)

(GUNSHOTS)

Shit.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING) (GUNSHOTS)

CASSIE: Move! Go! Go!

(GUNSHOTS) (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

You go. I'll cover you.

I got a granddaughter. Two years old.

You know what I see when I look at her?

I see a little girl who's already dead.

Her world dies,

and there's not a goddamn thing I can do about it.

But you can, Cole.

Sometimes, you just have to go it alone.

Gale!

(GUNSHOTS)

(GROANS)

(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)

Fire!

LASKY: Coordinate, 27 degrees.

KATARINA: How long?

Minutes now. It's rebooting.

Prepare for Splinter retrieval.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Where's Gale?

You can still get what you want, Cole.

We put a bullet in Kirschner. We destroy all his research.

We all win here.

Yeah, why don't I go back and tell Gale how lucky we are?

My lab is through here.

What you are about to see...

if what you say is true,

do not be weakened by sympathy.

Phew.

(CLICKS SWITCH)

What is this?

My work.

The sample.

CASSIE: This child?

Why is she in a box?

This is no mere child. No child should have strengths like this.

We needed to teach her discipline. Control through confinement.

You made her?

KIRSCHNER: My research was just theory,

then the Witness sent me a woman.

She was different.

Perfect.

I used her eggs as research.

Gm GERMAN)

Father?

There is something else you need to see.

What is that?

KIRSCHNER: The written word of the Witness.

If there's anything about your Titan, it would be here.

(GIRL SPEAKS)

Father?

Yeah?

Have you come to say goodbye?

Mother said you would.

(GUNSHOT) (KIRSCHNER GROANS)

(GUNSHOTS)

(GIRL SCREAMS)

The Witness will be disappointed by your betrayal, Father.

(GUNSHOTS) (GRUNTING)

My love, some people want to hurt you, but I won't let them.

Where's father?

Mother is here now.

You have a purpose, dear. A very special one.

(GROANS)

I can't stop the bleeding.

We can't let them take her.

We need that!

The girl is everything.

(ALARM BEEPS)

Back online!

Initiate return sequence.

(COMPUTING)

(GUNSHOT) (SHATTERS)

It's happening-

(MACHINE REVVING)

We're outta time, Ramse. I need your help.

(MAN GROANS)

(MAN SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

Get the girl out now!

She's getting away!

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

God damn it, Ramse!

MANTIS: This will be your home now.

What do you think?

Where's father?

His cycle has ended, sweetling.

But he wanted you to have this.

Mother will take care of you now.

And you'll have a big brother to look after you, too.

How does that sound?

Don't fret, my love. We are in his hands now.

Who?

The Witness.

He will show you a world without pain.

Without death.

No beginning. No end. Doesn't that sound beautiful?

He will take care of you. And he will never, ever leave you.

I don't understand.

Hmm.

YOU Will.

Your father did many important things.

But do you know what his greatest accomplishment was?

Hmm.

Why, it's you, Olivia.

You have a purpose, Olivia. You're special.

The blood in your veins makes you stronger.

Immune.

You'll age slower and heal faster.

It is you who will lead us to a world without time.

Without death. You.

The Witness has spoken.

The Witness has spoken. The Witness has spoken.

OLIVIA: There was a time I longed for the day I would see you again.

When the forest was red.

You told me the Witness would always be there for me.

You lied.

What other lies did you tell?

My place in the great cycle ends today. At least with Him.

Good-bye, Mother.

We lost days! Now, we are out of time!

The Red Forest is at our door!

Do you realize that we have only hours left

before that storm destroys this entire facility!

We found Titan. KATARINA: There is no time.

Lock them up.

Hang on, Cole. This isn't right.

Do it! CASSIE: Cole.

Your mission is over.

Hey. You can't make that call.

You made the call in '61. You're done. Both of you!

Whitley, do your job.

Cole, I'm sorry I lied to you, but we can still do this.

There is no "we."

Not anymore.

(GUN CLICKS)

CASSIE: Cole.

(THUNDERING)

(SIGHS)

Here it comes. (LIGHTNING SIZZLES)

Here it comes.