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12 Monkeys

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12 Monkeys	comment	12 Monkeys is a television series adaption of the 1995 film of the same name and the classic 1962 French short film it was based on. It was produced by Syfy and premiered in January 2015. The story, which loosely follows the plot of the film, has been updated to the present day.Time traveler James Cole (Aaron Stanford) travels from the year 2043 to the present day in order to stop the release of a deadly virus by the enigmatic Army of the Twelve Monkeys. That virus, in Cole's original timeline, caused the death of 93.6% of the world population. Cole seeks help from the virologist Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull).The show ran for four seasons.
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12 Monkeys / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
12 Monkeys / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: Overlaps with When It All Began thanks to time-travel. In the fourth and final season, the Project Splinter facility is transported from 2046 to 2043, the year in which they were based in Season 1. In fact, in the episode "Ouroboros", the Season 4 versions of Cole, Cassie and Jones visit the earlier version of the Splinter facility just before the very first splinter, that led into the events of the pilot. In the series finale after the timeline is reset, there is a return to one of the earliest scenes of the pilot, with Cassie getting into her car after giving a speech in 2013 - except that in this Alternate Timeline, there is no Cole to abduct her.
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12 Monkeys / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
12 Monkeys / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: Despite the death of 7 billion people, there are hordes of perfectly healthy "Scavs", examples of The Immune crawling the land, looting and murdering all too weak to stop them. A lot of them are roaming around near the time machine facility for some reason...
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12 Monkeys / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
12 Monkeys / int_19b6f396	comment	In the series finale after the timeline is reset, there is a return to one of the earliest scenes of the pilot, with Cassie getting into her car after giving a speech in 2013 - except that in this Alternate Timeline, there is no Cole to abduct her.
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12 Monkeys / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
12 Monkeys / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: All four of the Impractical Jokers have made appearances on the show.
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12 Monkeys / int_1b89151e	type	Forgotten Phlebotinum
12 Monkeys / int_1b89151e	comment	Forgotten Phlebotinum: At the end of the second season Cole learns how to do Mental Time Travel to different points of his own personal timeline. This ability is used to resolve the situation in the season finale and never comes up again for the rest of the series.
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12 Monkeys / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
12 Monkeys / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Evidently the future scientists thought this operation would be so simple they didn't bother explaining early 21th century social manners to Cole. Cole needs to get information from Cassandra, so he decides to hide in the back of her car and interrogate her. He then drags her around a bit and does some confusing things without even trying to speak to her normally. Because of this, he gets shot. He also doesn't try simply coming clean to his captor in hopes that this plague thing was just a misunderstanding or an avoidable lab accident.
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12 Monkeys / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
12 Monkeys / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: Cassandra Railly lives the two years between her initial encounter with Cole in 2013 and his re-appearance in 2015 naturally, while for Cole the transition is instantaneous owing to time travel. Cassandra is understandably bothered by this, since things haven't gone well for her in the past two years. In "Divine Move", Ramse meets Jennifer Goines in 2043, after she has naturally lived out the decades between the 2010's (where we normally see her) and 2043. In "Shonin" Ramse, after being stranded in the past, lives out the decades between 1987 and 2015.
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12 Monkeys / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
12 Monkeys / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the movie, the Army of the 12 Monkeys was a Red Herring which had nothing to do with the virus. Here they are the ones behind the virus and are the main antagonists.
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12 Monkeys / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
12 Monkeys / int_21d70919	comment	Colonel Jonathan Foster, the leader of 'Spearhead' in 2043. He's a tyrant who came to power in a bloody coup, but has provided his subjects with an oasis of peace and hope in the chaotic Crapsack World, and genuinely believes that his actions will lead to the development of a cure for the virus. Jones ends up raiding Spearhead to get their core so she can bring back Cole, and in the process it's revealed he had in fact cured the virus.
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12 Monkeys / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
12 Monkeys / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Mandatory, given the transition from a 2-hour feature film to a 13-episode television season. The significant expansions include a conspiracy surrounding the Army of the Twelve Monkeys and the assassin known as Pallid Man, greater exploration of the post-apocalyptic future, and many more time-travel missions for Cole.
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12 Monkeys / int_24067bb9	type	Related in the Adaptation
12 Monkeys / int_24067bb9	comment	Related in the Adaptation: In "One Minute More" it is revealed that Hannah is Cole's mother, making Jones his grandmother. In the movie, there was absolutely no familial relationship between Jones and Cole.
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12 Monkeys / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
12 Monkeys / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Multiple references to the original film. Familiar lines of dialogue from the movie are repeated in the show, such as time travel not being "an exact science", Jones saying "right on the money" when commenting on the accuracy of the time machine, and Cole's assertion that everyone in the past is "already dead". In both the film and the show, there is a recording made by Railly which provides important information to the scientists in the future and thus drives the plot. In both the film, as well as the pilot episode "Splinter", Cole infiltrates a dinner party/event thrown by Leland Goines, though for very different reasons. In the film, Cole is accidentally sent back to WW1 before being sent to 1996. In 1996, Railly finds a photograph of him from WW1, which convinces her that he's a time-traveler. In "Mentally Divergent", Cole is accidentally sent to North Korea in 2006, before being sent to 2015. In 2015, Railly finds photographs of Cole from the 2006 incident, including a picture of a note Cole was carrying which allows her to track him in 2015. In the early part of the film, Cole ends up in a mental institution after being considered insane by local authorities, where he meets fellow inmate, Jeffrey Goines. In "Mentally Divergent" too, Cole ends up in a mental institution, albeit this time, he deliberately infiltrates it to find fellow inmate Jennifer Goines. "Mentally Divergent" itself references a mental patient explaining he's this, and then asking if Cole is as well. In "The Keys", Cole tells Cassandra before he seemingly dies that the Florida Keys was a place he used to fantasize about going to when he was a child and where he hopes to be in his new life if the future is successfully altered. In the original film, Cole and Railly were planning to flee to the Keys to live out their last days before the outbreak of the virus, and it is during this attempted journey that Cole is shot dead. For much of Season 1, Cole is haunted by fragmented memories of his past. In "Paradox", we learn that these are his repressed memories, from when he was a child, of seeing his father murdered by the Pallid Man, an event for which the time-traveling adult Cole was also present. This is similar to the movie, where Cole being haunted by memories from his childhood is a major plot point, albeit, in the movie, it was his own death as an adult that he witnessed. In "Hyena", the theme music of the original film plays during a sequence where Cole breaks into the hideout of Jennifer Goines' gang of female misfits, the titular "hyenas", which in itself reminiscent of the sequence in the film in which Cole breaks into the hideout of Geoffrey Goines' misfit Army of the Twelve Monkeys. Towards the end of "Memory of Tomorrow" Jennifer is accidentally splintered to 1917 and finds herself in the middle of a battlefield during WWI in a sequence reminiscent of what happens with Cole in the film. "Memory of Tomorrow" also stars Madeline Stowe, who played Railly in the original film. In a Actor Allusion, Stowe plays a character called Lillian who's an inmate in an asylum, as opposed to playing a psychiatrist treating patients in an asylum as was her role in the film. In "Nurture," we meet Cassie's mother. Cassie only calls her by her first name once, but she is the psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly - both the name and occupation of Madeleine Stowe's character in the original film. Jennifer Goines wears a yellow shirt with a black stripe running down the sleeves, the same as the shirt Brad Pitt wore as Jeffrey Goines in the movie. In "One Minute More" Cole and Cassie travel to JFK airport in 2018 to prevent the release of the virus where they hear someone getting shot - in a sequence very reminiscent of the ending of the film. However, unlike the film, Cole isn't shot dead but is saved at the last moment by Hannah, and Cassie is the one to release the virus, rather than Oliver Peters. Cassie's ex-boyfriend Aaron Marker is named after Chris Marker, the creator of the short film La Jetee, that inspired the original '12 Monkeys' film.
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12 Monkeys / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
12 Monkeys / int_286eaf85	comment	The Witness appears to be this for the overall Twelve Monkeys conspiracy in 2015 and onwards. Considering that he isn't actually seen throughout Season 1, Olivia (AKA The Striking Woman) more directly fulfills this role until she's crippled by Jennifer, at which point the Pallid Man takes over.
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12 Monkeys / int_287865ea	type	Help Yourself in the Future
12 Monkeys / int_287865ea	comment	Help Yourself in the Future: Young James Cole from 2015 unwittingly does this in "Paradox". His cell samples are harvested so that they may be used to cure his future self of his Temporal Sickness. As far as James knows though, he's only helping "a friend". An interesting example in Season 2. Old Jennifer is dying in 2044, which she knows will result in her Daughters going berserk and killing everyone at the Splinter base. So she asks for Jennifer from 2016 to be brought to 2044 to replace her as the 'Mother' and lead the Daughters after her death.
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12 Monkeys / int_28c40e81	type	Trapped in the Past
12 Monkeys / int_28c40e81	comment	In "Guardians", we learn that Jennifer hilariously attempted this during the five years she was Trapped in the Past in post-WW1 France. She became a singer and actress, and wrote plays and songs about the adventures of Team Splinter, hoping to attract the team's attention in the future so that they'd pick her up!
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12 Monkeys / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
12 Monkeys / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Ramse is disgusted with Jones when he finds out she ruined any chance of the virus being cured & all the deaths she was responsible for because she just wants her daughter back. Yet one episode later he goes back in time to make sure the plague happens so that his son exists
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12 Monkeys / int_2d395ee9	type	Autobots, Rock Out!
12 Monkeys / int_2d395ee9	comment	Autobots, Rock Out!: Played for laughs in the series finale. As Cole and Ramse are preparing to storm Titan by car for the Final Battle, they decide they need some music playing to set the mood, and end up settling on, of all things, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Which leads to a hilarious scene of Olivia psyching up some Mooks, only to trail off in confusion as the music reaches them, right before the car comes roaring out of a tunnel, triggering a gunfight.
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12 Monkeys / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
12 Monkeys / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: In Season 4, the team recieves a message in the form of the story of a Demon that drove a Serpent (Time) mad, causing it to eat its own tail (Stable Time Loops). In the episode "One Minute More" Cole discovers that he is 'the Demon' - the source of all the causality loops that have twisted time into knots, causing The Witness, the plague, and the entire events of the series.
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12 Monkeys / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
12 Monkeys / int_37690091	comment	Discussed by Cole and Ramse in "Atari", where Cole argues that perhaps some things happen for a reason and are simply meant to be. Earlier in the same episode, Cole hallucinated about Cassandra telling him that the future cannot be changed. It is worth noting that this episode features a Stable Time Loop and thus strongly suggests that this trope is in play, despite the series' premise of Cole attempting to alter the past.
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12 Monkeys / int_37c95f05	type	Asleep for Days
12 Monkeys / int_37c95f05	comment	Asleep for Days: Cole for three days recovering from a gunshot wound in "Splinter". He also hops right up ready to go - and also invokes Nobody Poops unless Cassandra cleaned him and just happened to forget a bedpan today.
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12 Monkeys / int_37f9376a	type	Barrier Maiden
12 Monkeys / int_37f9376a	comment	Barrier Maiden: The Primaries, humans to whom time is inexorably linked. Jennifer is one. They are important because the Messengers are trying to paradox these people out of existence to collapse time, and when they kill one it creates a time storm.
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12 Monkeys / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
12 Monkeys / int_392372f9	comment	"Memory of Tomorrow" also stars Madeline Stowe, who played Railly in the original film. In a Actor Allusion, Stowe plays a character called Lillian who's an inmate in an asylum, as opposed to playing a psychiatrist treating patients in an asylum as was her role in the film.
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12 Monkeys / int_3b2df269	type	Ripple Effect Indicator
12 Monkeys / int_3b2df269	comment	Ripple Effect Indicator: Cassandra's wristwatch. Cole finds the 2043 version of it and brings it back to the past with him. When he scratches the present-day version of the watch, a scratch simultaneously appears on the future version. Cole actually plans himself to be one. By his reasoning, if he wipes himself from existence, that means the virus never got released. In one instance, his past self is shot when that didn't happen in the original timeline, and the timeline automatically adapts by having him patched up in the future before he's sent back again, which appears on his shoulder. "The Red Forest" indicates this isn't reliable, as Cole does in fact technically erase himself (beaten to death before ever going back), but still exists. Whenever a time-traveler does something which alters his/her personal timeline, they suffer from nose bleeds and they get flashes of new memories.
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12 Monkeys / int_3b3d8430	type	The Constant
12 Monkeys / int_3b3d8430	comment	The Constant: The Emerson Hotel. Cole purchases Room 607 in the hotel in perpetuity on a trip to 1944 (having discovered that he'd already done so in 2016. Since then, its been used by Cole and the other time-travelers from Project Splinter as their base during missions in the past. In Season 4 we learn that the structure is still standing in the post-apocalyptic world of the 2040's - and the entire Splinter facility is splintered to the basement of the hotel after the Army of the 12 Monkeys attacks and destroys Raritarn Labs.
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12 Monkeys / int_3b7ba342	type	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy
12 Monkeys / int_3b7ba342	comment	Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: The Army of Twelve Monkeys. At this point, they appear to be a terrorist organization that has influences in the government as well as corporations. People who get too close to finding out who they are often dead.
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12 Monkeys / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
12 Monkeys / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed in some episodes where a minor nosebleed seems to indicate nothing more than that a minor change has been made to the past (Cassandra gaining new memories of going to the museum as a child after her adult self basically browbeats her mother into making her go; Olivia after time-travel shenanigans change her past from "bought something from an auction house" to "bought something at an auction").
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12 Monkeys / int_42d7e928	type	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦
12 Monkeys / int_42d7e928	comment	Meanwhile, in the Futureâ€¦: The 2043 scenes, while Cole is in the past.
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12 Monkeys / int_462eee5d	type	My Own Grampa
12 Monkeys / int_462eee5d	comment	My Own Grampa: Olivia is revealed to be this in the Season 2 episode "Fatherland". She was genetically engineered using the DNA of Mantis, one of the Messengers who was sent back in time by the Army of the 12 Monkeys. Years later, Olivia would use her DNA to genetically engineer the Messengers, one of whom was her future mother, Mantis. Needless to say, this trope logically applies to Mantis as well. A non-human example with the virus. The virus was genetically engineered by Markridge scientists from centuries old skeletal-remains discovered in the Himalayas, referred to as the 'Precursor'. The series finale "The Beginning" reveals that the remains were of Olivia, after the upper half of her body was splintered to the past, killing her. Olivia's blood contained a dormant strain of the virus to give her immunity. Thus, the virus was its own origin point.
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12 Monkeys / int_4797a4ce	type	Tricked Out Time
12 Monkeys / int_4797a4ce	comment	Tricked Out Time: Cole and Cassie do this in "Lullaby". After realizing that it is impossible to either kill Jones in 2020, or alter her timeline in any way by saving her daughter Hannah's life, they save Hannah's life but fake her death, handing her over to Jennifer and the Daughters. As a result, Hannah lives, but since Jones believes her daughter is dead for the next 24 years, her timeline is preserved. However, the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" reveals that Hannah is Cole's mother, which means that her survival in "Lullaby" was always part of a Stable Time Loop. In the Season 3 finale "Witness" Olivia tries to do this - by orchestrating the death of Athan Cole before he returns to Titan to assume leadership of the Twelve Monkeys as the Witness, and taking the identity for herself. But it appears that she was always meant to become the Witness - her actions merely fulfilled yet another Stable Time Loop. In the Season 4 episode "After" it is revealed that this is how FBI Agent Gale survived his 'death' in 1961 while crossing the Berlin Wall, as shown in the Season 2 episode "Fatherland". Having been warned off his fate, he made sure to wear a bulletproof vest while at the Berlin Wall so that he would survive.
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12 Monkeys / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
12 Monkeys / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Dr. Leland Goines who is killed in the first episode, which Cole believes should complete his mission.
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12 Monkeys / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
12 Monkeys / int_4a852458	comment	In "The Night Room", we learn that Jones, who is the closest thing the series has to a Big Good, subjected a number of men to horrifying experiments in an attempt to perfect the time-travel process — and some of these were lost in time. She justifies her actions as being necessary to restore human civilization. Later, in "Tomorrow", she murders Foster in cold blood and has her troops carry out a massacre of Spearhead's scientists and defense forces simply to steal their energy core. Moreover, she destroys evidence that Spearhead was on the verge of developing a cure to the virus in order to manipulate her followers into believing that her time-travel plan was the only possible hope for humanity's survival. The only redeeming factor left for her character appears to be that she's motivated primarily be a desire to undo the death of her infant daughter.
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12 Monkeys / int_4c663897	type	You Will Be Beethoven
12 Monkeys / int_4c663897	comment	You Will Be Beethoven: In the Season 3 finale "Witness" Olivia, after decades off warring against the Witness, believing him to be Athan Cole, discovers that she in fact is the one destined to become the Witness - a mantle she assumes by the end of the episode. In "One Minute More" Hannah is sent back to 2009 to learn more about Cole's mother Marion Woods, and her knowledge of the weapon built by Primaries in medieval times. She encounters Marion, who turns out to be Olivia's daughter Emma living under an alias. However, when Emma is killed after an attack by the Army of the 12 Monkeys, Hannah assumes the identity of Marion Woods and ends up becoming Cole's mother.
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12 Monkeys / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
12 Monkeys / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Among the changes caused by delaying the plague two years:
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12 Monkeys / int_501de366	type	Temporal Paradox
12 Monkeys / int_501de366	comment	Temporal Paradox: Discussed frequently by the characters. Most notably, Cole must avoid 'corrupting' Cassandra's timeline too much because that would prevent her from recording the message that led to his time-travel mission. Then again the paradox that would be caused by preventing the plague seems to concern no one, precisely because that's the change they're trying to effect, knowing that it would wipe them out of existence.
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12 Monkeys / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
12 Monkeys / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The Pallid Man serves as this to Olivia (The Striking Woman), Ramse, and ultimately, the Witness, in the present-day. The Season 3 finale reveals that Mallick has been carrying out orders for the true Big Bad (Olivia), essentially taking the actions necessary to create the Witness. Then in Season 4 he outlives his usefulness and is then replaced with the nameless Advisor.
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12 Monkeys / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
12 Monkeys / int_54d6f53f	comment	In Season 2, its revealed that the drug Jones developed which enables people to travel through time (and heal faster and age slower) also gives them Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, enabling them to be immune to changes in the timeline (irrespective of whether they have time traveled or not). Consequently, after the events of "Primary" following the creation of an Alternate Timeline in which the virus was only released in 2018, among other changes, Cole, Cassie, Ramse and Jones are the only ones who remember the original timeline in which the plague was released in 2016.
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12 Monkeys / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
12 Monkeys / int_588d766f	comment	Jones herself might count as one. She has conducted horrifying experiments on several 'Scavengers' in an attempt to perfect her time travel process, and she slaughters Spearhead to get their core when they won't relinquish it willingly. They also had a working cure, which she burned. However, she has done so out of a genuine conviction that her actions will successfully restore pre-virus human civilization. See Black-and-Grey Morality above.
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12 Monkeys / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
12 Monkeys / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In Season 2, Deacon effectively becomes a member of the Splinter group - offering West 7's protection to the facility, in return for safe haven and Cassandra treating him for his illness. Cole and Ramse understandably aren't happy about this arrangement at first.
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12 Monkeys / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
12 Monkeys / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: Played with. Oliver Peters may have developed the virus, but unlike the movie, he is not the one who released it and caused the plague. Peters did provide the Army of the Twelve Monkeys with the virus, but only because his husband's life was threatened by them. In the Season 4 episode "One Minute More" Cole and Cassie end up at an airport, much like at the end of the film, where someone is shot and the virus is released. However, unlike the film, Cole isn't shot dead but is saved at the last moment by Hannah (who dies instead), and the virus is not released by Oliver Peters, but by Cassie herself in order to maintain the Stable Time Loop.
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12 Monkeys / int_5a6182b6	type	The Time Traveller's Dilemma
12 Monkeys / int_5a6182b6	comment	The Time Traveller's Dilemma: Starts to become a factor after "Tomorrow", albeit, not so much for Cole himself (who is hell-bent on rewriting history), but rather for others such as Ramse, who knows that if Cole succeeds, it will erase an entire generation born after plague, including Ramse's newly-discovered son Sam. Briefly touched upon in the Season 2 finale "Memory of Tomorrow" as well. Cole, living in 1959 with Cassie having failed to stop a time-destroying paradox in 1957, is given the chance to use Mental Time Travel to go back to 1957 and correct his mistake - at the cost of erasing the timeline where he and Cassie consummate their relationship and conceive a child. Cole however doesn't take long to make his decision - choosing to sacrifice his unborn child and relationship with Cassie in order to save time. This becomes a very real concern for Cole and Cassie in Season 4. They are painfully aware that, if they succeed in breaking the various loops and cycles and resetting the timeline, the current versions of themselves will likely be erased from existence, along with their relationship. As Cassie puts it - "We can either save the world, or we can save ourselves."
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12 Monkeys / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
12 Monkeys / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: The Time Machine involved runs on Applied Phlebotinum which human scientists were working on when everything went bad. It's not from a long time ago, but it is pre-plague tech they got running.
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12 Monkeys / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
12 Monkeys / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Max, who goes from working for the Scavs to working with Jones. It gets her killed, when Ramse has his Despair Event Horizon and shoots her while making his escape from the Facility.
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12 Monkeys / int_61e3b6ae	type	It's a Small World, After All
12 Monkeys / int_61e3b6ae	comment	It's a Small World, After All: The series is set in Baltimore, which was not only looted clean of food and supplies decades earlier, but far enough North to have regular three-inch snows. Despite this, it's crawling with vicious bandits. In "Cassandra Complex", Cole's friend Ramse finds a hunting knife with the numeral VII on it, which he identifies as belonging to a "scout" for the West 7. They're the reason Baltimore is all but swarming with "Scavs" — they're looking for Cole, as they never let anyone leave.
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12 Monkeys / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
12 Monkeys / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Combined with Foreshadowing in the series finale, there's a computer screen showing PRIMARY CODE v1.1, indicating that the Primaries made v1.0 and Jones made an alteration to insert Cole into the new timeline. Also in the series finale, the playlists on Jennifer's iPod have names such as as "Audiobooks (Illustrated)" and "Songs Jones Would Hate". The one she does play from is named "We're All Going To Fucking Die".
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12 Monkeys / int_6369571f	type	Never the Selves Shall Meet
12 Monkeys / int_6369571f	comment	Never the Selves Shall Meet: Invoked by Cole in the pilot, and played with when he brings both the 2015 and 2043 versions of Cassandra's wristwatch together. The result is a 'paradox', depicted here as a slowing down of time in the immediate vicinity that affects everyone present except Cole. In "Atari", Cole seems to experience physical discomfort when he is in close proximity to a two-day-younger iteration of himself. In "Shonin", the Pallid Man's 1995 medallion and its 2043 counterpart are intentionally brought together, causing a 'paradox' explosion that turns the surrounding shrubbery red, and leads to the seeming disintegration of the 2043 medallion. In "Paradox", this is actually used to Cole's advantage. Cole is dying in 2015 as a side-effect of repeated time-travel. The 2015 Jones theorizes that if cell samples were harvested from Cole's younger self and brought into contact with his cell, the resultant paradox might be able to cure him of the cellular breakdown he is suffering. It works, and the 'paradox' energy generated causes Cole to levitate, and to blast away the Pallid Man and another attacker. In "Emergence", the Messengers murder a man with a future iteration of his collar bone. This creates a paradox of such scale that the future is beset by a time storm which threatens to engulf the Earth if allowed to spread.
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12 Monkeys / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
12 Monkeys / int_6439de78	comment	In "Daughters" Deacon sensed a shift in the timeline while on Titan. In "Demons" this leads him to give Jennifer his knife during their mission in 1491, shortly before his Heroic Sacrifice. Finally, in the series finale "The Beginning" it is revealed that the older 2043!Jennifer used the knife to get Deacon's younger self to trust her, and was thus able to enlist the help of West 7 to take control of Titan. Deacon was retroactively aware of these events all along, and played along to maintain the timeline - culminating in his giving the younger Jennifer his knife to complete the cycle.
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12 Monkeys / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
12 Monkeys / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: This is discussed when Cassie finds out that the man who made the plague did it because the Army was threatening to kill his husband. Aaron thinks love is the only thing that matters in the end; Cassie bluntly tells him no, that's not true, the world-ending plague is a little bit more important. He made a deal with the Army to keep Cassie alive, and at the end of the episode Ramse goes back in time to stop Cole from changing the past, which would erase his son.
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12 Monkeys / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
12 Monkeys / int_7241785e	comment	Moving into Season 4, this actually becomes a central focus of the plot. The protagonists are painfully aware of the fact that You Can't Fight Fate, and that all their actions are merely part of Stable Time Loop. Which is why they are focused on 'ending the cycle' by finding a weapon that will help them break out of the loops and defeat the Army of the Twelve Monkeys once and for all.
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12 Monkeys / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
12 Monkeys / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: In the mental hospital, Cole and Jennifer can enter each other's rooms without being detected.
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12 Monkeys / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
12 Monkeys / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: A significant part of "Shonin" involves replaying scenes from earlier episodes involving Cole and his actions in 2014-15, except that this time, we learn that Ramse was monitoring Cole the whole time and ensuring that all his missions played out as they always did to preserve the Stable Time Loop.
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12 Monkeys / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
12 Monkeys / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: James Cole. The movie famously ends with Cole being shot dead at an airport, an event witnessed by his younger self. In the show however, Cole not only avoids getting shot and killed at the airport (in the episode "One Minute More"), but ultimately, he survives to the end of the story altogether and gets a Happy Ending.
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12 Monkeys / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
12 Monkeys / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Season 1 brings several into the fold. "Twelve Monkeys", "Night Room", "Red Forest", "The Witness", "The Precursor", "Where are you right now?"... Season 2 adds "Primary", "Titan" and "Paradox"... The name "Morrison" seems to have taken on special significance as well, as "Morris Morrison" becomes Cole's go-to alias during Season 2 (even though he's used other aliases before, and he is first identified as Morris Morrison by Jennifer), and Cassie calls herself "Amelia Morrison" in Season 3 when she goes back to 1990 to consult with her mother on the Word of the Witness. Season 3 adds "Athan" and "the Djinn".
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12 Monkeys / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
12 Monkeys / int_762b9223	comment	In "Die Glocke" Jennifer detonates a bomb that kills Hitler in France, in 1940. Hitler's premature death seemingly has no impact on the timeline, as Himmler simply takes over for him. The whole thing is simply Played for Laughs. According to Word of God however, had there been more time, there might have been a subplot exploring how Hitler's death affected history.
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12 Monkeys / int_7679415d	type	Paradox Person
12 Monkeys / int_7679415d	comment	Paradox Person: James Cole himself is ultimately revealed to be one in "One Minute More". This is largely due to the fact that Cole's very existence is dependent on time-travel, as his mother was a time-traveler from the future. As a result, Cole is considered to be the 'Djinn' - the central point from which all the causality loops originated.
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12 Monkeys / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
12 Monkeys / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: In "Shonin", Ramse becomes this after he's Trapped in the Past. He shares this trait with the Pallid Man and Striking Woman. It is implied to be a side-effect of either time travel, or of the serum that facilitates the process. This was later confirmed. Season 2 elaborates on this a bit more. It seems like the serum doesn't prevent ageing as much as slow it down considerably, and even so, it isn't fool-proof. For instance, Ramse, despite outwardly looking youthful, has osteoporosis of the sort which a man in his sixties or seventies would have, which is of course his actual age now. As far as the Pallid Man and Striking Woman go, their slow ageing is not due to them being time-travelers, but rather owing to them being the children (natural-born and cloned respectively) of one of the genetically-engineered Messengers.
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12 Monkeys / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
12 Monkeys / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: In "The Red Forest", the premature death of Cassandra in 2015 results in an alternate reality where the virus is released a year earlier under different circumstances, Cole is never recruited into the 'Splinter' project and is instead killed during the unsuccessful attempt to break into the facility, Ramse ends up killing Deacon and taking over West 7 and rallying its members to eventually take over the facility and imprison Jones.
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12 Monkeys / int_7a614b0c	type	San Dimas Time
12 Monkeys / int_7a614b0c	comment	San Dimas Time: Time moves in the 2043-44 scenes at roughly the same pace as it moves for the time-travelers in the corresponding scenes in the past. Justified by the fact that the travelers in the past are linked to the machine by "tethers" which maintain a synchronization between the travelers in the past and the machine in the present.
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12 Monkeys / int_7cc7ff15	type	Mental Time Travel
12 Monkeys / int_7cc7ff15	comment	Briefly touched upon in the Season 2 finale "Memory of Tomorrow" as well. Cole, living in 1959 with Cassie having failed to stop a time-destroying paradox in 1957, is given the chance to use Mental Time Travel to go back to 1957 and correct his mistake - at the cost of erasing the timeline where he and Cassie consummate their relationship and conceive a child. Cole however doesn't take long to make his decision - choosing to sacrifice his unborn child and relationship with Cassie in order to save time.
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12 Monkeys / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
12 Monkeys / int_7cdfe326	comment	Ultimately, the series finale reveals that you can fight fate - it just takes a Cosmic Retcon. Specifically, in this case, Cole's entire existence had to be wiped from the timeline using the Primary's weapon in order to unravel all the loops and eliminate time-travel (and its consequences - including the entire 12 Monkeys conspiracy and the plague).
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12 Monkeys / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
12 Monkeys / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: Implied to be the case with Cole, who appears to have greater strength and endurance than normal men (from 2015 anyway). Goines' scientists, upon running tests on him, describe him as a 'molecular computer'. This would seem to be a side effect of the injections and treatments Cole receives in the future before he is sent back in time, which are primarily meant to make sure he survives the trip. In "The Red Forest", we're told that Jones' injections have caused Cole's molecules to be in a constant state of flux, "shifting at a quantum level". The effect of this apparently is that time moves 'around' Cole, in addition to the fringe benefits. The Pallid Man probably counts as well, since he is even stronger than Cole, and pretty fast for an old guy. It's revealed to be because he's the son of one of the Messengers, who were genetically engineered to be biologically perfect. In "Shonin", we learn that Jones' serum apparently renders time-travelers ageless (or at least, causes them to age extremely slowly). After traveling to 1987, Ramse spends decades in the past and doesn't seem to age, and neither do the Striking Woman or the Pallid Man, who are also implied to be time-travelers. Presumably, the same effect also applies to Cole.
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12 Monkeys / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
12 Monkeys / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Adam Wexler has moments of this when he realizes that the CIA has used a plague capable of depopulating the planet to assassinate him. It's actually just him having a Heroic BSoD — discovering that his Unfettered employers are capable of such a thing is kind of like discovering the neighborhood bully is actually the neighborhood ax murderer. He ultimately makes a Heroic Sacrifice trying to save Cole and the human race.
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12 Monkeys / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
12 Monkeys / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Cole in the series has a much better working relationship with the scientists running the time travel project than in the film. The film version was held prisoner and considered little more than a tool. In the series Cole is allowed a great deal of personal freedom, the shelter allows his best friend to live with them to make him amicable, and he is kept in the loop about their plans and they hear his opinion on them.
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12 Monkeys / int_85fc8aa3	type	Reset Button Ending
12 Monkeys / int_85fc8aa3	comment	Reset Button Ending: The series finale has Cole using the Primary's code in the machine to erase himself completely from the timeline - thus unraveling all the causality loops and creating a new Alternate Timeline with no time-travel, no plague, and no Army of the 12 Monkeys.
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12 Monkeys / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
12 Monkeys / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Appears to be the norm in the future. Invoked specifically by Ramse in "Atari". He is prepared to resort to violence and murder to the extent he needs to in order to survive; in contrast, Deacon and the rest of the West 7 gang kill for the sake of power and pleasure. In "The Night Room", we learn that Jones, who is the closest thing the series has to a Big Good, subjected a number of men to horrifying experiments in an attempt to perfect the time-travel process — and some of these were lost in time. She justifies her actions as being necessary to restore human civilization. Later, in "Tomorrow", she murders Foster in cold blood and has her troops carry out a massacre of Spearhead's scientists and defense forces simply to steal their energy core. Moreover, she destroys evidence that Spearhead was on the verge of developing a cure to the virus in order to manipulate her followers into believing that her time-travel plan was the only possible hope for humanity's survival. The only redeeming factor left for her character appears to be that she's motivated primarily be a desire to undo the death of her infant daughter.
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12 Monkeys / int_899cc5c1	type	Drinking Game
12 Monkeys / int_899cc5c1	comment	Drinking Game: Cole is shown to have made a drinking game in the future about Jones's speechifying. It includes at least taking a drink every time she uses the word "mission".
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12 Monkeys / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
12 Monkeys / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Understandable, given the Time Travel premise of the series. Cole, as a time-traveler, experiences a number of crucial events leading up to the outbreak of the plague in a very different order from other significant characters, and indeed, the rest of the world. As a result, he ends up either encountering people he hasn't met who remember meeting him or being the hitherto unknown cause of events he'd previously learned about in the future. "The Keys" contains a noteworthy example of this trope in play, as rather than Cole experiencing events out of sequence, it is the audience that watches Cole's story in the episode out of sequence. We follow a later version of Cole on a mission in Chechnya through most of the episode, and at the very end, there is a coda with the earlier version of Cole receiving the information that leads to that mission.
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12 Monkeys / int_8cbf89af	type	Shot to the Heart
12 Monkeys / int_8cbf89af	comment	Shot to the Heart: Averted, as Cassie tells Aaron to shoot the adrenaline into Cole's thigh when he goes into cardiac arrest in "Paradox," although the miraculous reviving without chest compressions is still present.
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12 Monkeys / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
12 Monkeys / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Cole is only chosen for the time-travel mission because there is a recording of Cassandra recovered in 2043 where she mentions him by name, implying some kind of Stable Time Loop is involved (Jones herself says that Cole's destiny is "preordained"). Yet, the entire premise of the series ( unlike the original film) is that history is mutable and that the past can be re-written (which is clearly demonstrated when Cole scratches Cassandra's watch, causing a scratch to simultaneously appear on its future counterpart). This is compounded in "Cassandra Complex" and "Atari", in which Cole's actions merely fulfill predestination paradoxes (see the Stable Time Loop entry above). However, in "The Night Room", Cole's actions in 2015 do somehow create an alternate reality in 2043, though he fixes it by the next episode. Things only get more complicated in Season 2. Cole saving Ramse in the Season 1 finale in turn led to him stopping Jennifer from releasing the virus in 2016. This creates an Alternate Timeline where the virus was instead released in 2018, among a host of other minor changes, but ultimately history played out the way it 'originally' did, including presumably all the time-jumps of the previous season. However, despite operating in what is supposedly a new timeline, the actions of the time-travelers still form part of a number of StableTimeLoops, including some that were the cause of events from the 'original timeline' of Season 1. And then, the Season 2 finale "Memory of Tomorrow" reveals that the Witness, the architect behind all the events of the series that resulted in all the time-travelling to begin with (not to mention the invention of time travel itself) is the child of Cole and Cassie conceived in 1959 in a timeline that was subsequently erased even before the child was born. This means that the Witness is the product of a Stable Time Loop, but bizarrely, was also conceived in an erased Alternate Timeline...his very physical existence is a paradox in every sense. It's implied by several statements and events (various assertions that Time is conscious, time travelers who supposedly exist "outside of time" still appearing in primary visions, Athan himself being primary, and Olivia seeing the "1957-1959. This was home" message while communicating with the Witness in a vision of the house of cedar and pine, even though Cole wrote the message right before erasing that timeline, for starters) that even if something is undone, Time is still aware of it and stores the information in the timestream, which is what the Machine accesses to do its thing; taking that to the logical conclusion, it might be better to think of alternate versions of time travelers not as being "erased" but as merging. In short, after your body has been prepped and splintered, if it happens to one version of you, regardless of the time travel method or whether or not the Alternate Timeline it happens in is erased, it happens to every version of you. An exception to this seems to be death, but that's more Plot Armor (or lack thereof) than anything else.
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12 Monkeys / int_8f4380d1	type	Deadly Nosebleed
12 Monkeys / int_8f4380d1	comment	Deadly Nosebleed: Cole's nosebleeds indicate that the time travel is killing him. Downplayed in some episodes where a minor nosebleed seems to indicate nothing more than that a minor change has been made to the past (Cassandra gaining new memories of going to the museum as a child after her adult self basically browbeats her mother into making her go; Olivia after time-travel shenanigans change her past from "bought something from an auction house" to "bought something at an auction").
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12 Monkeys / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
12 Monkeys / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: The number "607" has popped up in a few different contexts over the course of the series so far. It's part of present-day Jones' phone number, it's the room number for Cole's permanent residence at the Emerson Hotel, and it's the number of times Athan tried to save Eliza.
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12 Monkeys / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
12 Monkeys / int_92cca75b	comment	Or at least, you shouldn't unless you're prepared for Fate to fight back. It's repeatedly stated that Cole should take every effort to avoid interfering with known events; otherwise, he could Ret-Gone the intelligence they've gathered up to that point. A big no-no is Cole meeting Cassandra prior to 2015, as interfering with that meeting would almost certainly result in him dying of the gunshot wound he received at their first meeting in 2013.
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12 Monkeys / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
12 Monkeys / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Cole's mission throughout the series is to somehow prevent the release of the plague in 2017 that decimates most of humanity and brings the species to the brink of extinction by 2043. In "The Red Forest", Cole has to fix the worse Bad Future he created when Cassandra was kidnapped, setting it back to his slightly better Bad Future. In Season 2, the mission is significantly changed, but the trope basically in play. Instead of preventing the plague, Cole, Cassie and Ramse's missions are to prevent the Messengers from killing Primaries in the past with their own bones, causing massive paradoxes that eventually lead to a Time Crash originating in 2044 that will destroy reality in its current form.
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12 Monkeys / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
12 Monkeys / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: For Cassie, with Cole being the Veronica and Aaron being the Betty.
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12 Monkeys / int_95befc94	type	Terminator Twosome
12 Monkeys / int_95befc94	comment	Terminator Twosome: After the events of "Divine Move", Cole and Ramse have become this. Cole travels back to 1987 to prevent the events leading to the creation of the virus, while Ramse seeks to stop him to preserve the post-apocalyptic world. In Season 2, the Messengers use the time machine to travel back in time to kill the 'Primaries' in a bid to cause paradoxes that will unravel the fabric of time and space; with Cole, Cassie and Ramse tracking them in time and attempting to stop them. In Season 3 the Splinter team travels through time in a bid to kill Athan Cole, whom they believe to be the Witness, while Cole and Cassie travel through time to protect their son from their former allies.
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12 Monkeys / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
12 Monkeys / int_970c790a	comment	The Season 3 finale reveals that Mallick has been carrying out orders for the true Big Bad (Olivia), essentially taking the actions necessary to create the Witness. Then in Season 4 he outlives his usefulness and is then replaced with the nameless Advisor.
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12 Monkeys / int_97ddee3e	type	My Skull Runneth Over
12 Monkeys / int_97ddee3e	comment	My Skull Runneth Over: Happens to Cole in "The Red Forest" because of his new memories of the alternate timeline forcefully entering his mind. Jones says that the strain could have eventually killed him.
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12 Monkeys / int_98c95895	type	Time Crash
12 Monkeys / int_98c95895	comment	The Army is also trying to break the loop, but instead of saving the world, they want to engineer a Time Crash.
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12 Monkeys / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
12 Monkeys / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Combined with Foreshadowing in the series finale, there's a computer screen showing PRIMARY CODE v1.1, indicating that the Primaries made v1.0 and Jones made an alteration to insert Cole into the new timeline.
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12 Monkeys / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
12 Monkeys / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Cole and Jones, as well as Cole and Cassandra as revealed in "Paradox". Cole, as a 6 year old boy, met Jones and Cassie in 2015, when they approached him and his father to get a sample of his cells which was used to cure his future self. The adult Cole however doesn't remember this meeting. Presumably, the shock and trauma of seeing his father shot dead led him to repress his memories of these meetings.
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12 Monkeys / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
12 Monkeys / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Jones, just another one of the future scientists in the original film who's name is only mentioned once the mastermind of the time travel project with a backstory and character arc which significantly influences the overall story. Also, JosÃ© Ramse, who in the original film, was just Cole's cellmate and a fellow time-traveler who pops up at certain moments in the story, is here Cole's best friend and partner, and later one of the principal antagonists, with his own story that is connected to the release of the virus.
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12 Monkeys / int_aadcbbe4	type	Close-Enough Timeline
12 Monkeys / int_aadcbbe4	comment	Close-Enough Timeline: The Alternate Timeline created during "Primary". The virus was released in 2018 rather than 2016, there were a greater number of survivors, one of Jones' colleagues wasn't killed in the attack on Spearhead in 2043 and she has a lover named Dr. Eckland. Other than that, events seemed to have played out more or less as they did in the original timeline. Jones even comments on how similar the new timeline is despite the potential for exponential change via the Butterfly Effect. When Jennifer and Deacon break Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act, Himmler takes over and World War 2 presumably proceeds normally.
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12 Monkeys / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
12 Monkeys / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: The Army of the 12 Monkeys, who unleash the plague that devastates the world, and who are planning to collapse time entirely, because the Witness tells them it will lead them to paradise.
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12 Monkeys / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
12 Monkeys / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Unintended, but has the same effect. In "Mentally Divergent", Cole was carrying a note with the address of a mental institution he intends to infiltrate in 2015, when he accidentally ends up in North Korea in 2006. In 2015, Cassandra sees a nine year old photograph of the note (which was left behind at the North Korean military base when Cole was transported to 2015) and concludes that Cole will be at the mental institution right now. At some point in 2017, prior to her death, Cassandra made a recording for the scientists in the future, telling them about Leland Goines, the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and mentioning Cole by name. In "Emergence", due to time shenanigans breaking the tether that would normally allow travel back, Jones has Ramse drop a coded classified ad in 1944 detailing a specific place and time so she can grab him, Cole, and Cassandra. In "Guardians", we learn that Jennifer hilariously attempted this during the five years she was Trapped in the Past in post-WW1 France. She became a singer and actress, and wrote plays and songs about the adventures of Team Splinter, hoping to attract the team's attention in the future so that they'd pick her up! An interesting example occurs in "Ouroborous". Cassie is wandering the Splinter facility in 2043, the night before Cole's very first splinter. She watches the earlier Cole watching an interview of her from 2018 (which from her perspective, occurs in the future). During the interview, 2018!Cassie looks straight the direction of 2043!Cassie, as though addressing her younger self, and gives her a message about a loop being a 'second chance'. This gets Bonus Points for being an example of Write To The Future where a future version of a character is actually communicating with her past self! In "One Minute More" Hannah writes a letter to Cole in 2018 which she leaves behind in her room at the Emerson Hotel, and which Cole finds in 2043 - in which she reveals that she is his mother.
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12 Monkeys / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
12 Monkeys / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: After a fashion. Ramse leaves the facility and Cole, choosing the Spearhead team (and his girlfriend and son) over Cole going back and time to stop the virus - which would prevent Ramse and Elena from ever meeting. This eventually leads to him traveling back in time and become the Traveler-mistaken as the Witness but proven not to be in the Season 1 finale - one of the masterminds behind the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
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12 Monkeys / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
12 Monkeys / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: In Season 4, Deacon seemingly sells out to the Army of the 12 Monkeys after being left behind when Project Splinter relocates. But it turns out he's still loyal to the team and is trying to sabotage the Monkeys from within.
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12 Monkeys / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
12 Monkeys / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Lullaby" implies that Jennifer, being a Primary, also has this, as she's able to remember the previous iterations of a "Groundhog Day" Loop, just like the time-travelling Cole and Cassie.
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12 Monkeys / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
12 Monkeys / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures: Cole has one in "Paradox," complete with foaming at the mouth.
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12 Monkeys / int_bac8c0fa	type	Reset-Button Suicide Mission
12 Monkeys / int_bac8c0fa	comment	Reset-Button Suicide Mission: This is essentially what Cole and everyone else from Project Splinter have been on throughout the series. If their time-travel missions succeed in preventing the plague and erasing the Army of the 12 Monkeys from history, then the current versions of them will all simply cease to exist. Ultimately in Cole's case, this becomes a suicide mission, given that resetting the timeline means erasing him from existence completely and permanently.
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12 Monkeys / int_bdcf86f3	type	Disaster Scavengers
12 Monkeys / int_bdcf86f3	comment	Cole. He grew up in a post-apocalyptic world following the release of the plague in 2017, and spent some time as part of a particularly destructive group of Disaster Scavengers known as the West 7, stated to strip entire communities bare like a swarm of locusts — and they're still looking for him. It's strongly suggested that he committed several violent and horrifying acts in order to survive, and became emotionally and mentally scarred as a result.
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12 Monkeys / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
12 Monkeys / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Cassie tells Cole a variation of this after he declares that anything "wrong" (morally speaking) with their son is inherited from him. Cassie also tells alternate Deacon that he is a good man near the end of "The Beginning, Part II" - this confuses him, because at that this point in his timeline, he only knows her from the CDC recording, whereas she has had considerable history with him earlier along her timeline.
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12 Monkeys / int_c433b323	type	Implied
12 Monkeys / int_c433b323	comment	Implied to be the case with Cole, who appears to have greater strength and endurance than normal men (from 2015 anyway). Goines' scientists, upon running tests on him, describe him as a 'molecular computer'. This would seem to be a side effect of the injections and treatments Cole receives in the future before he is sent back in time, which are primarily meant to make sure he survives the trip. In "The Red Forest", we're told that Jones' injections have caused Cole's molecules to be in a constant state of flux, "shifting at a quantum level". The effect of this apparently is that time moves 'around' Cole, in addition to the fringe benefits.
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12 Monkeys / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
12 Monkeys / int_c63e7d67	comment	Invoked by Cole in the pilot, and played with when he brings both the 2015 and 2043 versions of Cassandra's wristwatch together. The result is a 'paradox', depicted here as a slowing down of time in the immediate vicinity that affects everyone present except Cole.
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12 Monkeys / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
12 Monkeys / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The Season 2 finale "Memory of Tomorrow ends with The Reveal that the Witness is Cole and Cassie's son - who is later named Athan Cole. However, by the end of Season 3, it is revealed that Athan wasn't really the Witness, but only believed to be so by the Army of the 12 Monkeys. A much more straight example occurs in the Season 4 episode "One Minute More". It is revealed that Cole's mother, Marion Woods, is in fact Hannah, Katarina Jones' daughter! Hannah traveled back in time to the late 2000's on a mission to find Marion Woods, encountered Cole's future father Matthew Cole, fell in love with him, and thus ended up becoming 'Marion Woods' and conceiving Cole via a Stable Time Loop. She reveals the whole story to Cole in a letter she writes to him that he picks up in the future.
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12 Monkeys / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
12 Monkeys / int_cc4b45f6	comment	In "The Beginning" after the timeline is completely reset with no plague, Army of the 12 Monkeys and time-travel, its revealed that Cassie, Jennifer and Jones still retain their memories of the previous timeline and all the series' events. Word of God says that all the other major characters remember the previous timeline as well.
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12 Monkeys / int_ccfe1fc7	type	Have We Met Yet?
12 Monkeys / int_ccfe1fc7	comment	Have We Met Yet?: Dr. Leland Goines, as well as the Pallid Man, have already encountered future versions of Cole at the time Cole first meets them. Cole is understandably confused by their familiarity with him. Jones has to remind him that he is "experiencing time out of order". In "Divine Move" Jennifer Goines cryptically suggests to Ramse that they have met before, in his future and her past. In "Lullaby" 2020 Jennifer is unsure about which version of Cole she is encountering and asks him if the term "hyena" means anything to him. She was obviously referring to the events of the later episode "Hyena", which from Cole's perspective happens a bit later. Lampshaded by Cole in "45 RPM" when he meets Interpol officer Bonham who seems to know him. Of course, in this case, neither Cole nor Bonham have met before from either of their perspectives, with Bonham only knowing of Cole through legends. Cole does go onto meet Bonham's medieval-era ancestors in a later episode though.
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12 Monkeys / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
12 Monkeys / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Played straight, for the most part. Due to You Already Changed the Past being in effect, attempts to assassinate people in the past to prevent the future apocalypse are doomed to fail. The very first episode of the series has Cole killing Leland Goines, only to discover that Goines death does not change anything. Later in the series, repeated efforts are made to assassinate the Witness (the leader and messiah of the Army of the 12 Monkeys) before he/she rose to power, but all those efforts simply contribute to convoluted Stable Time Loop that ensures the Witness' rise. And then, hilariously averted in Season 4 with the real Hitler. In "Die Glocke", during a mission in 1940 France, Jennifer detonates a bomb that kills Hitler with Deacon casually stating that they simply "had to". It turns out that killing Hitler seemingly had no real impact on the timeline, with Himmler simply taking over. Needless to say, the whole thing is simply Played for Laughs.
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12 Monkeys / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
12 Monkeys / int_ce75a983	comment	Cassie giving Cole her watch is itself rather ironic since she does it, at least in part, to say Screw Destiny (immediately after insuring a different Stable Time Loop, no less; she also seems to be using it as an indicator of the time they have left). Cole apparently didn't tell her about meeting his future self.
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12 Monkeys / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
12 Monkeys / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Referenced in Dr. Railly, whose first name is Cassandra here - no one believed her story that Cole vanished right before her eyes.
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12 Monkeys / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
12 Monkeys / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: At the end of "Splinter", Cole successfully kills Leland Goines in 2015, but this has no effect on the future, as his work is continued by others — most likely, the titular '12 Monkeys'. Of course it's also possible that Leland Goines was never the one directly involved in the creation and release of the virus, which would void this trope. In "Primary" Cole, Ramse and Cassie stop Jennifer Goines' from releasing the virus in 2016 and destroy all her supplies of the virus. However, this merely creates an Alternate Timeline where the virus was released in some other manner in 2018 instead, the number of human survivors was slightly greater, and one of Jones' colleagues survived the raid on Spearhead at which he'd originally died last season. Apart from these changes, everything is more or less identical to the original timeline. In "Die Glocke" Jennifer detonates a bomb that kills Hitler in France, in 1940. Hitler's premature death seemingly has no impact on the timeline, as Himmler simply takes over for him. The whole thing is simply Played for Laughs. According to Word of God however, had there been more time, there might have been a subplot exploring how Hitler's death affected history. In "The Beginning" despite the timeline being completely reset and the plague and the post-apocalyptic world that followed being wiped from history, Ramse's son Sam is still born - implying that despite their wildly different circumstances, Ramse and Elena still got together.
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12 Monkeys / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
12 Monkeys / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded by Cole in "45 RPM" when he meets Interpol officer Bonham who seems to know him. Of course, in this case, neither Cole nor Bonham have met before from either of their perspectives, with Bonham only knowing of Cole through legends. Cole does go onto meet Bonham's medieval-era ancestors in a later episode though.
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12 Monkeys / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
12 Monkeys / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The Daughters, a group of nomad women in the future led by an older version of Jennifer Goines.
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12 Monkeys / int_d9d6ae49	type	I Am Not Him
12 Monkeys / int_d9d6ae49	comment	I Am Not Him: In the Season 1 finale. Cole accuses Ramse of being the Witness. Ramse responds in surprise that Cole thought it was him. In Season 3 Cole and Cassie's son Athan comes to the realization that he's not the Witness, despite having been raised to believe that was his destiny all his life.
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12 Monkeys / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
12 Monkeys / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Max in Season 1 and Cassandra from Season 2 onward. Hannah and the rest of the Daughters also qualify.
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12 Monkeys / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
12 Monkeys / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Dr. Kathryn Railly from the film becomes Dr. Cassandra Railly on the show. Word of God is that the show began as an original project called Splinter which had absolutely no relation to 12 Monkeys other than that it involved time travel and a civilization-ending disaster, and "Cassandra/Cassie" is the only character name that survived after Executive Meddling demanded it be turned into an adaptation.
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12 Monkeys / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
12 Monkeys / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Cassandra was trying the "my name must be on there" gambit and her ex-boyfriend happens to notice her just then. She's doing that in order to get him to notice her, as she knows he's on the guest list and has already spotted him.
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12 Monkeys / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
12 Monkeys / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: With Cassandra and Cole.
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12 Monkeys / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
12 Monkeys / int_de143e97	comment	Whenever a time-traveler does something which alters his/her personal timeline, they suffer from nose bleeds and they get flashes of new memories.
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12 Monkeys / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
12 Monkeys / int_deb39de3	comment	In "The Red Forest", Cole has to fix the worse Bad Future he created when Cassandra was kidnapped, setting it back to his slightly better Bad Future.
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12 Monkeys / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
12 Monkeys / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Jones is gradually revealed to be one, starting with "The Night Room". It is an interesting case in that her child actually already died decades ago, but Jones is prepared to do whatever it takes, be it subjecting people to horrifying time-travel experiments, or murdering a rival leader and a number of his followers to steal their energy core, to ensure that history is rewritten and her child is retroactively saved.
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12 Monkeys / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
12 Monkeys / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: (James) Cole and (Jose) Ramse are called almost exclusively by their last names by most other characters (and each other), although Jones begins to call Cole "James" a lot in the latter half of season one.
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12 Monkeys / int_e5421161	type	Expy
12 Monkeys / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Adam Wexler is an obvious expy of Edward Snowden, though the government is rather more reckless in taking him out than Americaâ€™s is in dealing with Snowden.
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12 Monkeys / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
12 Monkeys / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Cole seems to believe this, which is his motivation for agreeing to participate in the time-travel missions. If he succeeds, he (or at least, this particular version of him) will be erased from existence, along with all the violent actions he committed as a 'Scavenger' in order to survive in the harsh post-apocalyptic world. Many future characters share his Death Seeker attitude, despising the people they've become after the apocalypse.
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12 Monkeys / int_f355be61	type	Get Back to the Future
12 Monkeys / int_f355be61	comment	Get Back to the Future: Ramse's objective, as revealed in the Season 1 finale "Arms of Mine". In fact, his attempts to return to the future, by investing in Project Splinter, results in the very invention of time travel, completing a Stable Time Loop.
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12 Monkeys / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: In "Atari", the West 7 assault the Project Splinter facility to take its resources for themselves and take revenge on Cole and Ramse for quitting the group. In "Arms of Mine", the West 7 return, now allied with the Messengers, and attack the facility again. In "The End", the 12 Monkeys launch a full-scale invasion of the facility, parking Titan right outside and unleashing an army of minions.
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12 Monkeys / int_f5c92fe0	comment	Amnesiac Lover: In Season 2 Jones becomes one as a result of Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory. She doesn't remember Dr. Eckland, her lover in the altered timeline, which understandably upsets him.
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12 Monkeys / int_fcc06c9c	comment	Wrong Time-Travel Savvy: Cole's time-travel mission is based on the premise that the past can be altered. The scientists, and by extension Cole, believe that if he succeeds in preventing the plague, the future will be re-written and he will be Ret-Gone. However, thus far, all Cole's time-travelling has done is to fulfill Stable Time Loops, which would seem to suggest that the scientists are wrong about how time-travel works. Cole himself is clearly starting to question the initial premise, at least sub-consciously, since in "Atari", he hallucinates about Cassandra telling him that the future cannot be changed. Discussed in Season 2, on two occasions, both with regards to the issue of Cassie having to survive to return to the 2010's, rejoin CDC, attempt (unsuccessfully) to control the spread of the virus, fulfill the Stable Time Loop by recording the message that leads to Cole beginning his mission, and ultimately die (as seen in the Season 1 episode "Tommorow"). However, in "Year of the Monkey", when the Messengers threaten Cassie's life in order to force Jones into letting them use her machine, Jones argues that killing Cassie would cause a Temporal Paradox since it was her message that led to the completion of the machine. The Messengers however suggest that this would not necessarily be the case and claim that "causality is [Jones'] religion". Later, in "Blood Washed Away", when Cole and Cassie are both Trapped in the Past, Cassie argues with Cole that they eventually will return to the future and complete the mission, because she's destined to die at the CDC in 2018.. To be fair, Cassie consistently states that she doesn't believe in fate (or Stable Time Loops, for that matter, even though she's lived through several), and she has absolutely no problem with being Trapped in the Past by the time the very next episode rolls around. By Season 4 the characters have come to realize that they are doomed to failure because all their actions simply lead to a Stable Time Loop, and are now aiming to find a weapon that will help them break free of the cycles. However, it seems that their attempts to find that weapon are causing quiet a few causality loops as well...
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12 Monkeys / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Colonel Jonathan Foster, the leader of 'Spearhead' in 2043. He's a tyrant who came to power in a bloody coup, but has provided his subjects with an oasis of peace and hope in the chaotic Crapsack World, and genuinely believes that his actions will lead to the development of a cure for the virus. Jones ends up raiding Spearhead to get their core so she can bring back Cole, and in the process it's revealed he had in fact cured the virus. Jones herself might count as one. She has conducted horrifying experiments on several 'Scavengers' in an attempt to perfect her time travel process, and she slaughters Spearhead to get their core when they won't relinquish it willingly. They also had a working cure, which she burned. However, she has done so out of a genuine conviction that her actions will successfully restore pre-virus human civilization. See Black-and-Grey Morality above. Following the events of "Divine Move' Ramse becomes one, in a bid to sabotage the Splinter project and preserve the current timeline, and his son. He hijacks the time machine and takes a one-way trip back to 1987, and becomes a key part of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. Ramse orchestrates events to ensure that the virus is released and human civilization is destroyed in 2017. His actions cause/will cause the deaths of billions of people, but he justifies this by arguing that he is preserving the existence of the entire generation born after the plague. The Witness, and by extension, all his followers in the Army of the Twelve Monkeys and the Messengers, see themselves as this. Their goal, revealed in Season 2, is to destroy time itself through massive paradoxes, creating a reality where there is no birth or death, only a state of eternal existence within a single repeating moment. Several of the Witness' followers are said to be motivated by the prospect of being able to live forever with their loved ones in this state.
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12 Monkeys / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the Season 2 finale, Cole's Mental Time Travel briefly lands him back at his first meeting with Jennifer. He asks her not to call him "otter eyes" anymore. Later, Jennifer calls him "otter eyes" again and adds off his annoyed reaction, "Yes, I will always call you that."
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