and that the use of animals is absolutely necessary.
And that from now on he, Jeffrey Goines, is going to personally supervise the labs...
to make sure the little animals aren't going to suffer.
What is this?
People like that aren't accessible, okay? You can't just barge in on them.
- It's not how the world works. - Be quiet and drive the car. I know what I'm doing.
No, you don't. This car is stolen.
And we are in big trouble. Big trouble.
If you don't turn yourself over, the police are going to kill you. They're going to shoot me too,
- 'cause I'm going to be the accessory to murder. - You're all going to die.
Nobody is going to die.
[Sighs] You're not going to save the world.
Okay? You're delusional.
- You've made all this up out of bits and pieces in your head. - No.
Yes. Let me give you an example.
You know Jeffrey Goines. You were both patients at County Hospital.
Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake.
He told you then his father was a famous scientist who worked with viruses.
You've incorporated that bit of information to this cockeyed fantasy.
He didn't say his father was a scientist. He said his father was God.
- This is insane. - [Radio]... prominent psychiatrist and author,
Dr. Kathryn Railly, has been abducted by a dangerous mental patient, James Cole.
Cole was under Railly's care six years ago when he made a dramatic escape from...
[Groans]
- What is the matter with your leg? - I got shot.
Shot! Who shot you?
I don't know. It was some kind of war. Never mind.
You wouldn't believe me anyway.
[Cole] What are you doing?
- We don't need gas. - I thought you didn't know how to drive.
I said I was too young to drive. I didn't say I was stupid.
This can't go on. If you have a bullet in your leg, I have to take care of it.
I'm a doctor. I need some supplies.
[Radio] Meanwhile, in Fresno, California,
where mining engineers continue their desperate attempt to sink a shaft...
parallel to the one in which nine-year-old Ricky Neuman is believed trapped.
Authorities say there is still a chance the boy might be...
You shouldn't put your weight on it.
You need stitches and antibiotics.
Lucky for you it's near the surface.
I love seeing the sun.
- Ooh! - Wait.
Let me help you.
[Whispering] You smell so good.
You have to give yourself up.
Y-You know that, don't you?
W-What are you doing? James?
- I'm sorry. - What are you doing?
- James, stop it! What are you doing? - I'm sorry.
- Let go of me! - I have to do this.
- They find him? - Who?
- That kid. The one in the pipe. - You believe that?
They're lowering a monkey down there and a miniature infrared camera strapped on him,
and a roast beef sandwich wrapped up in tin foil.
- You're making it up. - No, I shit you not. Life is really weird.
A monkey and a roast beef sandwich.
[Applause]
[Dr. Goines] W-W-Would that I could enjoy this opulent dinner...
and this most, uh, stimulatin' and excitin' company...
for itself with no sense of purpose.
But, alas, I am burdened. [Chuckles]
For with all this excess of public attention and cacophony of praise...
there comes great responsibility.
- I don't have to tell you all that the dangers of science... - [Snoring]
are a timeworn threat.
- From Prometheus stealin' fire from the gods... - What friend?
- I'm not expectin' anyone. - to the Cold War era of the Dr. Strangelove terror.
- But never before... - This is ridiculous.
My father's giving a major address.
...to fear the power... we have at hand.
Normally, if we caught a guy sneakin' around like this with no I.D., we'd bust his ass.
Excuse my French.
This one says he knows you.
Since you seem to have had a few unusual associates,
we certainly would not want to arrest one of your closest pals.
Never seen him before in my life.
Feel free to torture this man, or whatever it is you do.
I'm going to listen to my father's eloquent discourse on...
I'm here about some monkeys.
- Monkeys? - Monkeys. Yes.
Twelve of them.
Arnold.
- You look like shit. - You know this man?
I know this man. Arnold... Pettibone. Mm-hmm.
Gee, Arnie. It's black tie. I said drop by,
but it's Dad's big do... V.I.P.s, senators, Secret Service.
You hungry, Arnie? [Chuckles]
Killer feast we're putting on tonight. Lots of dead lamb, dead cow, dead pig.
[Jeffrey] Shall we?
Hi. How are you? Hello.
Very attractive. "The Great Escape," 1990.
Watch it! Huh? County Hospital? Am I right?
I can't do anything about what you're going to do. I can't change anything.
- I can't stop you. I just want the information. - We need to talk. C'mon.
Hi, ladies. Nice to see you again. Watch your step on the way down.
Who blabbed? Bruhns? Weller?
- I just want access to the pure virus. - Virus?
For the future. I need to know where it is and exactly what it is.
Ahh, I get it. I see what you're up to.
- It's your old plan, isn't it? - What plan?
- Your plan. Remember? - I don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, you do. We were in the dayroom watching television...
and you were upset about the desecration of the planet, which I understand.
Then you said to me, "Wouldn't it be great if there was a germ or virus...
that would wipe out all of mankind and leave the animals and trees?"
- You're trying to confuse me. - You were so funny.
I told you my father was this famous virologist, and you said,
"He could make a germ, and we could steal it." Coo-coo-ka-roo, you were.
They mutate! We live underground!
The world belongs to the dogs and cats. We live like worms.
I just need the information.
- Take it easy. - You are a total nutcase! Completely deranged!
Delusional, paranoid. Your process is all fucked up.
Your information tray is jammed, man!
Do you know what it is, the Army of the Twelve Monkeys?
It's a collection of space-case do-gooders saving rain forests.
I have nothing to do with those bozos.
I quit being the rich kid fall guy...
for a bunch of ineffective fanatics!
So much for your grand plot, asshole!
Father's been warning people about dangers of experimentation with D.N.A. viruses for years.
You've processed that information through your addled, paranoid infrastructure.
Lo and behold, a nonprofit organization becomes some sinister, revolutionary cabal!
This man is complete bat shit!
Ladies and gentlemen, do you realize where he thinks...
he comes from?
[Announcer] Capt. Dan Miller, the man in charge of the rescue operation,
says he has consulted with experts, and they assure us...
If you ask me, the monkey's gonna eat that goddamn sandwich himself.
Did a man just come running through here?
[TV]... saying his primary responsibility was to the missing boy.
Police say that the body of a woman found strangled in the Knutson State Park...
could be kidnapping victim...
Dr. Kathryn Railly.
Anybody see someone come through here?
[TV]... discovered less than an hour ago by hikers.
But we have an unconfirmed report that the victim,
a woman in her late twenties or early thirties, was savagely mutilated.
Earlier in the day, police located Railly's abandoned car.
It was found not far...
- [Screams] - Any sign of him?
Nothing.
He can't just disappear.
[Panting]
You bastard!
I could've died in there! You son of a bitch! [Crying]
What were you thinking of,
- you twisted sack of shit? - I'm sorry.
Sorry I locked you in the trunk.
[Kathryn Crying] I'm sick of you.
What have you done? Did you kill somebody?
- Yes. A million people. Five billion people. - What?
Jeffrey Goines said it was my idea about the virus.
We were in the institution. It was all... so fuzzy, and the drugs and all.
[Groans] Do you think it was my idea?
Do you think maybe I've wiped out the human race?
Nobody is gonna wipe out the human race.
Not you or Jeffrey or anybody else.
You've created something in your mind. A... Oh.
- Mentally divergent? - A... Whatever!
A substitute reality...
because you don't want to deal with anything.
- [Laughs] - I would love it if that was true.
It can be dealt with, but only if you want to.
- I can help you. - [Men Yelling]
- They're after me. We have to get outta here. - Who is after you?
I think there were some policemen at that party.
Party? You went to a par...
Never mind.
It's important you surrender instead of their catching you running.
Wouldn't it be great if I was crazy? The world would be okay.
- Gimme the gun. - I wouldn't live underground. I lost the gun.
I could live right here.
You got water, air, stars.
- I'm gonna attract their attention... - Debris.
- so they know where we are. - [Horn Honking]
[Laughing] Oh, I love this world!
They're gonna tell you to put your hands on your head. Do what they say.
I love the frogs, the spiders.
Remember, I'll be with you. I'll help you. I won't let them...
[Dogs Barking]
[Barking Continues]
Then I said something about cooperating, and he said he would do that.
So, I, um... I got in the car.
Thanks. And when I... I started honking the horn.
- Then when I got out, he was gone. - I'll tell you somethin'.
You lucked out. For a while, we thought you were a body found downstate mutilated.
- He wouldn't do that. - This the man he attacked?
I wanna be clear about this, okay?
This man and the other one were severely beating us.
James Cole didn't start it. In fact, he saved me.
[Chuckles] Funny thing, Doctor.
Maybe you can explain it to me, you being a psychiatrist and all.
Why is it that kidnap victims always try to tell us about the guys that grabbed 'em?
And they try to make us understand...
how kind these bastards really were.
It's a normal reaction to a life-threatening situation.
He's sick. Okay?
He thinks he comes from the future. He's been living in...
a meticulously constructed fantasy world, and that world is starting to disintegrate.
He needs help.
Okay.
[Reporter] Exhausted but apparently unharmed by her thirty-hour ordeal,
Dr. Railly returned to Baltimore this morning without making a public statement.
The author and psychiatrist is currently in seclusion at her home.
Meantime, police have pieced together a scenario of the series of events...
that began with escaped mental patient James Cole...
- Sorry. - No, it's okay. I'm just... hyperalert.
- I can't sleep. - [TV Continues: Volume Lower]
- Did you take your sedative? - I hate those things. They mess my head up. Uh-uh.
[TV]... where he went on a rampage of violence.
[Volume Louder] With the kidnapping of the Baltimore woman, James Cole...
is now also wanted in connection with the brutal slaying of Rodney Wiggins,
- an ex-convict from Ardmore. - [Siren Wailing]
His body was discovered in an abandoned theater...
not far from where Cole left three animal rights activists bound and gagged...
in their Second Avenue headquarters.
Do they really believe he's going to show up here? Please.
And in Fresno, California, the cornfield that was jammed with spectators...
He's dead, isn't he, that little boy?
He's fine. It was just a prank he and his friends pulled.
The dramatic attempt to rescue Ricky Neuman from an abandoned mine shaft...
ended abruptly when playmates confessed that Neuman's disappearance was a prank...
and that, in fact, the missing child was hiding in a nearby barn.
[Scientists] # I found my thrill #
# On Blueberry Hill #
# When I found you #
Congratulations, Cole!
- Well done. Well done! - Congratulations.
[Botanist] During your interview, while under the influence,
- you told us that you liked music. - This isn't a prison.
- This is a hospital. - Until you recover your equilibrium.
- You're still disoriented. - It is a stressful thing.
- Time travel. - You stood up very well, considering.
You connected the Army of the Twelve Monkeys with a famous virologist and his son.
- Others will take over now. - We'll be back on service in months.
- We'll retake the planet. - This is it, James. What you've been working for.
- A full pardon. - You'll be out of here in no time.
- Women will want to know you. - I don't want your women! I want to get well!
And you will be well, James.
- Soon. - [Laughing]
You know, you people don't exist. You're not real.
We can't travel back in time. Whoop! Whoop! Uh-uh.
You're not here. You can't trick me.
[Laughing] You're in my... You're in my mind.
[Laughing]
[Sighs] I am insane.
And you are my insanity. [Laughing]
He not only used the word "prank," he said the boy was hiding in a barn.
Kathryn, Kathryn. He kidnapped you.
You saw him murder somebody,
and you knew there was a real possibility he could kill you too.
You're under tremendous emotional stress.
For God's sake, Owen, listen to me.
He knew about the boy in Fresno, and he says five billion people...
are gonna die.
No way he could possibly know that!
Kathryn!
You're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist.
You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts. Right?
Psychiatry... it's the latest religion.
We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not.
I'm in trouble here.
I'm losing my faith.
[Man, Raspy Voice] You sure fucked up, Bob.
But I can understand. You don't want your mistakes pointed out to you.
I can relate to that, old Bob.
Hey, I know what you're thinkin'.
You're thinkin' I don't exist except in your head.
I see that point of view.
- But you could still talk to me, couldn't ya? - [Cole] I saw you...
in 1996, in the real world.
- You pulled out your teeth. - Why would I pull out my teeth?
That's a no-no. And when did you say you saw me?
- In 1872? - Leave me alone!
Yellin' won't get you what you want.
You have to be smart to get what you want.
And what do I want?
You don't know what you want?
Sure you do, Bob. You know what you want.
You tell me. You tell me what I want.
To see the sky and the ocean.
To be topside.
Breathe the air.
To be with... her.
Isn't that right? Isn't that what you want?
Bob?
[Moaning]
[Ringing]
Hello.
Dr. Railly, Jim Halperin, Philly P.D.
- Sorry to call you so early this mornin'. - You found him? Is he okay?
No, no. Au contraire, Doctor.
No sign of your good friend, the kidnapper. However, the plot does thicken.
I've got a ballistics report on my desk.
It says the bullet you claim you removed from Mr. Cole's thigh is, in fact, an antique.
[Halperin] And all indications are...
it was fired sometime prior to the 1920s.
- [Halperin] How 'bout I take a spin down there? - This can't be.
Maybe you and I can grab a bite to eat.
Maybe you could revise or amplify your statement. Dr. Railly?
No!
You can't trick us, you know.
- It wouldn't work. - No, sir.
You haven't become addicted, have you, Cole,
to that dying world?
No, sir.
I just want to do my part to get us back on top,
in charge of the planet.
And I have the experience. I know the people involved.
He really is the most qualified.
But all that behavior.
You said we weren't real, Cole.
I don't think the human mind is meant to exist in... t-two different...
uh, whatever you called it... dimensions?
It's just too stressful. You said that yourself.
It's very confusing. You don't know what's real and what's not.
- [Microbiologist] But you know what's real now. - Yes, sir. I do.
[Dr. Goines] No, no. I don't know anything about...
a monkey army, Doctor.
No, no. Nothing whatsoever.
Good Lord, if my son was ever involved in something like that...
Yeah? Well, I'm sorry.
I think it's doubly inappropriate to discuss...
security matters with you, Doctor, uh, Railly.
But, uh, if it will ease your mind,
rest assured that neither my son nor any other unauthorized person...
has access to potentially dangerous organisms in my laboratory.
Is that clear to you now? Thank you so much for your concern.
[Whispering] Women psychiatrists!
I attended a lecture of hers once.
"Apocalyptic Visions."
Yes. She was suddenly struck...
by the most preposterous notion about Jeffrey.
Has she succumbed to her own...
"theoretical" Cassandra disease?
Maybe we ought to review our security procedures.
Yeah. Perhaps upgrade 'em, you know?
Beef 'em up, hmm?
[Botanist] Let's consider again our current information.
If the symptoms were first detected in Philadelphia...
on December 27, 1996, that makes us know that...
It was released in Philadelphia, probably on December 13, 1996.
And was seen sequentially after that in...
San Francisco, New Orleans,
Rio de Janeiro, uh,
Rome, Kinshasa,
Karachi, Bangkok, then Peking.
That was very well done, Cole.
[Kathryn] Hello!
Is somebody in there? If you're in there, I have to talk to you.
- It's the kidnap woman. - Hello?
The one who was with the guy who tied us up.
- I have to talk. - Turn off the lights. Turn off the light!
- What's she doin'? - She's drawing attention to us, that's what.
I don't know what you're up to this time, Goines, but you're gonna get us in deep shit.
- Walkies ready? Batteries charged? - Mmm.
I saw you! I saw somebody in there!
- Come on. - [Man, Raspy Voice] Secret experiments.
That's what they do.
Secret weird stuff.
- Not just on animals. - I know you.
- Do 'em on people too, down at... - Have you seen James Cole?
- The man who... - They're watching you.
- Takin' pictures. - The police.
I know. Look.
[Gasping] I have to contact James.
It's very, very important that he's really careful when he reaches me.
- Do you understand that? Good. - Yeah. Yeah. Who's James?
He was with me. He spoke to you... several weeks ago.
He said that you were from the future and that you were watching him.
Bolt cutters. Bolt cutters.
- Did you get bolt cutters? - One dozen. They're in the van.
- Got the plans for the security system? - Right here.
- Committed to memory. - Hey! Hey!
- You know what she's doin' out there? - What's it say?
- I don't know. I can't see it. - Forget about my psychiatrist and concentrate on the task at hand.
Your psychiatrist?
- Did you just say your psychiatrist? - Ex-psychiatrist.
This woman was your psychiatrist, and now she's spray-painting our building?
[Man] What's it say?
[Cole] Kathryn!
James?
James!
- James. - What? What?
- There's a policeman over there. Pretend you don't know me. - No. I want to turn myself in.
- Where is he? Where is he? - James! Down!
- Come on. - No, no. It's okay. I'm not crazy anymore.
I mean, I am. I'm mentally divergent. I know that now.
I want you to help me. I want to get better.
James!
Let's get outta here.
He's goin'. He's goin'.
[Horn Honking]
- [Tires Screeching] - [Horn Honking]
[Honking Continues]
- I've seen that before. - No, James, you haven't.
A guy in a Ford is chasing her and some other guy I can't see.
No problem. It's probably just another kidnapping...
featuring Jeffrey's shrink.
Pardon me. Make that ex-shrink.
This is your leader?
A certifiable lunatic...
who told his former psychiatrist all his plans for God knows what whacko irresponsible schemes?
God knows what she's written on that wall!
Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?
You think I told her about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, huh?
Impossible! Do you know why? Do you know why?
Because, you pathetically ineffectual and pusillanimous pretend friend to animals,
I'll tell you why. Because when I had anything to do with her six years ago,
there was no such thing, I hadn't thought of it yet.
- Then how come she knows what's goin' on? - Here's my theory on that.
When I was institutionalized, my brain was studied inexhaustibly in the guise of mental health.
I was interrogated, x-rayed. I was examined thoroughly.
[Coughs]
They took everything about me and put it into a computer where they created a model of my mind.
Yes! Using that model,
they managed to generate every thought I could possibly have in the next ten years,
which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind...
to determine everything I was gonna do in that period.
So you see, she knew I was gonna lead the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into history...
before it even occurred to me.
She knows everything I'm ever gonna do before I know it myself.
How's that?
Kweskin, you finish here. I'll meet you there.
And if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized and destroyed.
- Jeff? - What?
You're a great man.
Ahh, fuck the bozos!
[Chuckles] He's seriously crazy.
You know that.
[Police Radio] On the lookout for...
[Radio] The name is Cole.
There. Over there.
Okay. Come on.
[TV: Indistinct]
[TV Continues: Indistinct]
- I need a room. - Thirty-five bucks an hour.
- An hour? - You want quarter hours? Go someplace else.
[Woman Giggling]
[Coughing]
Uh, here's...
twenty-five, six, seven for an hour.
- Deal? - [Man] Hey! Turn it off!
One hour, honey babe. Number sixty-four.
Sixth floor. Up the stairs, end of the hall.
Elevator's busted.
She's not honey babe.
She's a doctor. My psychiatrist.
Understand?
Whatever gets it up for you, Jack.
Tommy, this is Charlie over at the Globe.
[Chuckles] You know if Wallace has a new girl?
Sort of a rookie type? A little weird? Does fantasy acts?
Okay, you were standing there looking up at the moon.
You were splashing through the water, and then what?
I thought I was in prison again.
Just like that, you were in prison?
No, not really.
Like you said. It was all in my mind.
[Stammering] You disappeared.
One minute you were there, the next minute you were gone.
Did you run through the woods, or...
I don't know. I don't remember.
The boy in the well. How did you know that was just a hoax?
It was? I d-didn't know.
You said he was hiding in the barn!
I think I maybe saw a TV show about that when I was a kid,
where a boy...
It wasn't a TV show! It was real!
M-Maybe this boy saw the same TV show that I did,
and he c-copied it.
Look, you were right. I, I am mentally ill.
I imagined all these things, these people.
- Ooh. - I know they're not real.
I can trick them. I, I...
I can make them do what I want. I worked on 'em a little bit.
- I got back here to get better. - Ah!
- I can stay here. - What does this mean to you?
- I think I had a dream like... about this. - [Stammering]
You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James. How did it get there?
I don't know. Look, you sa... You said I had delusions.
- That I created this world. You said you could explain. - I can't!
I'm trying to, and...
I, I can't believe that everything we say or do has already happened.
We can't change what's gonna happen.
And if five billion people are gonna die, it's...
I want the future to be unknown.
I want to become a whole person again.
I want this to be the present.
I want to stay here... this time...
with you.
James,
do you remember six years ago you had a phone number?
- It was the wrong number then. - A woman answered.
It was the wrong number in 1990. It should be the right number now.
Do you remember it?
- The number? Do you... - [Banging]
This is my territory, bitch!
- Is this real, or is this one of my delusions? - This is definitely real.
[Kathryn] Uh, excuse me.
- I, I think we've got a little misunderstanding here. - Oh?
- Yeah. We... - Gee, really?
Now, you just sit tight!
You listen to me, little Miss Understanding.
You think you can go around me and peddle your ass in this part of town?
You bet your life we got what I would call a major fuckin' misunderstanding.
Hey!
James, no! Don't!
- Uh, put him in the closet. Take his money first! - You want me to rob him?
- We need cash, James! - [Wallace] No, no!
Call the cops! Call the cops!
[Man] What's goin' on?
[Wallace] I've got friends, man.
- Don't fuckin' kill me. - James! James!
No, James! No!
No, James!
No! Open the door!
What the fuck are you doin'?
Please don't hurt him. Open the door.
James, come on. [Gasps]
[Panting]
Just in case...
Just in case I'm not crazy. This is how they find us.
By our teeth.
I don't want them to find me... ever.
I don't want to go back.
- [Police Radio] ...calling in a domestic incident. - [Policeman] Get out!
Get back. You'd better load.
Police! Throw your weapons out and come on out!
[Wallace] Hey! Is that the cops?
Hey, I'm the innocent victim here.
I was attacked by a coked-up whore and a, a fuckin' crazy dentist.
Try to blend in.
Oh, Jesus! Come on.
There's gotta be a phone around here somewhere.
There. O-Over there. Look.
- I'm gonna try that number, okay? - Okay.
- Let's hope it's nothing. - Okay.
[Loud Roaring]
[Gasps]
James! James! It's okay!
We're insane. We're crazy. It's a carpet cleaning company.
- A carpet cleaning company? - Yeah. No superiors.
No scientists. No men from the future.
It's just a carpet cleaning company. They have voice mail.
You leave a message telling where you want your carpet cleaned.
- You left them a message? - Yeah. I couldn't resist.
Wait 'til they hear this nutty woman telling them to watch for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
I said, "The Freedom for Animals Association on Second Avenue...
[Together] ...is the secret headquarters of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys."
They're the ones who are gonna do it.
I can't do anything more now. I have to go.
Have a merry Christmas."
You couldn't have heard me. I...
They got your message, Kathryn.
They played it for me.
It was a bad recording, distorted.
I didn't recognize your voice.
[Police Radio: Indistinct]
## ["Silent Night"]
- [P.A. Announcer] For the perfect Christmas gift... - Mmm, and this.
Is everything okay? You want anything?
[Birds Fluttering]
[Saleswoman] Shall I put this on your account, ma'am?
No. That'll be cash.
Uh...
Can you tell me what floor the wigs are on?
[Kweskin] You turned the thing into a fucking computer.
- [Weller] And Fale believed it. - You know Fale.
If you guys get nailed, which I'm pretty sure you will,
[Laughing] I've never seen you before in my fuckin' life.
- Aha! - Yeah!
C'mon, c'mon.
Bring 'im through. C'mon.
Okay, drive!
[Kweskin] What's the harm in openin' the bag? His eyes are taped, right?
Right?
[All Laughing]
Okay. Okay.
Hello. Hello.
- Wanna hear the monkey speak? - [Together] Yeah!
Ahh! Jeffrey? Jeffrey, I know that's you.
- I recognize your voice. - [In Disguised Voice] No, you don't.
I also know all about your warped little plan.
That lady, your psychiatrist? She told me. I didn't believe her.
It just seemed too crazy, even for you.
But just in case, I took steps to make sure you couldn't go through with it.
I don't have the code anymore, Jeffrey.
I don't have access to the virus.
I took myself...
- out of the loop. - Too late! Too late!
We've got plans for you, Dad. [Makes Monkey Sounds]
Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo! Agh! Agh! Agh!
[All Making Monkey Sounds]
I never let myself believe it. Now I know it's true.
- Jeffrey? - Hmm?
You're completely insane.
[Activists Laughing]
No, I'm not.
There's a cross section of one of the old trees that's been cut down.
Here I was born.
And there I died.
It was only a moment for you.
Y-You took no notice.
- I think I've seen this movie before. - Shh.
- When I was a kid, I saw it on TV. - Don't talk.
- I did see it before. - [Woman On Screen] Tall trees.
Have you been here before?
- Yes. - When?
- I don't... recognize this. - [Man On Screen] When were you born?
- [Woman] Long ago. - [Man] Where?
[Kathryn] What's the matter?
- Tell me. Madeleine, tell me. - No!
It's just like what's happening with us.
Like the past.
The movie never changes. It can't change.
But every time you see it, it seems different because you're different.
- You see different things. - Please don't ask me.
If you can't change anything because it's already happened,
you may as well smell the flowers.
What flowers?
- That's an expression. - [Man] Shh.
[Madeleine] Promise me you won't ask me again. Please?
Kathryn,
why are you doing this?
I want to know why.
What if I'm wrong? What if you're wrong?
What if I am crazy?
In a few weeks, it will have started or it won't.
If there's still...
football games, traffic jams, TV shows and armed robberies,
we're going to be so glad that we'll be thrilled to see the police.
I'm responsible for you now.
- [Man On Screen] The Chinese say once you've saved a person's life, - Shh.
- you're responsible for it forever, so I'm committed. - Do you have a plan?
I have to know.
[Madeleine] There's so little that I know.
You said you'd never seen the ocean.
- [Elephant Trumpets] - [Jeffrey] Hurry up. Come on.
- [Dr. Goines] What? - [Jeffrey Whispering]
[Dr. Goines] Jeffrey? You know I can't see.
Where are we? Jeffrey? Please.
Kathryn?
We have 9:30 reservations for Key West.
I, uh... just didn't recognize you.
Well, you look pretty different yourself.
[Sighs] It was always you.
In my dream. It was al...
It was always you.
I remember you like this.
You do?
I felt I've known you before.
I feel I've always known you.
[Cole] I'm so scared.
[Snoring]
[Monkeys Chittering]
[Roaring]
[Trumpeting]
[Trumpeting Continues]
[Growling]
[Cabbie] What time's your flight?
- [Kathryn] 9:30. - Might be tight.
Tight? No. My watch says 7:30.
On your normal mornin', okay. Plenty of time.
But today you gotta take into account your Army of the Twelve Monkeys factor.
What? What'd you say?
Twelve Monkeys. In case you folks didn't turn on your radio this mornin'.
Bunch of weirdos let all of the animals out of the zoo.
They locked up this big-shot scientist in one of the cages.
Scientist's own kid one of the ones did it.
They've got animals all over the place.
Bunch of zebras closed down the thruway 'bout an hour ago.
And they got some thing called an emu.
It's got traffic blocked for miles on 676.
[Radio] ...what they think they're accomplishing by releasing an animal like this...
- into a city like this one. - [Laughing] Oh.
- That's what they were up to, freeing animals. - On the walls.
- It said, "We did it." They meant the animals. - The animals, yeah.
[Radio] If I could interrupt for a moment, Mr. Ginger...
- [Laughing] - [Radio] There is going to be a press conference from City Hall.
I think it's gonna be all right.
Tell your people if they spot either one of them, not to try and apprehend them.
They should notify us. We have people all over the airport. We'll take care of 'em.
[P.A. Announcer] Skycap to gate 47, please.
[P.A.]... for Chicago is now ready for boarding at gate 17.
Flight 623 to Minneapolis is now boarding at gate...
- [Cole] I know this place. - Airports all look the same.
This is my dream.
[Laughing] Your mustache.
It's not just my dream.
I was actually here. I remember now.
I... About a week or two before the... before everyone started dying.
Oh. Uh, careful.
[Kathryn] They might be looking for us.
- I was here... as a kid. - Use this.
- I think you were here then too. - James!
If they identify us, they're going to send us someplace,
but it won't be Key West.
- Okay. - Okay. Okay.
- I'll go fix this. - Okay.
I'm gonna get the tickets. I'll meet you in the newspaper stand.
- Okay. - Okay.
[P.A.] This is a general information announcement.
- Judy Simmons. I have reservations for Key West. - Okay.
[P.A.] Flight 623 to Minneapolis...
is now boarding at gate 44.
- I don't see a lot of this. It's cash. - It's a long story.
We'll begin boarding in about 20 minutes.
- You have a nice flight, Miss Simmons. - Thank you.
[Ticket Agent] Hello. How are you today?
I don't know whether you're there or not.
Maybe you just clean carpets.
If you do, you're lucky. You're gonna live a long, happy life.
But if you other guys are out there, if you're picking this up,
forget about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
They didn't do it. It was a mistake. Someone else did it.
The Army of the Twelve Monkeys is just a bunch of dumb kids playin' revolutionaries.
Listen. I've done my job. I did what you wanted.
Good luck. I'm not coming back.
Whoo-ee! San Francisco, New Orleans,
Rio de Janeiro, Rome,
Kinshasa, Karachi, Bangkok and Peking.
This is some trip you're taking, sir. Is this all in one week?
- Business. - Hmm.
Have a good one, sir.
[P.A.] Any luggage found unattended will be removed and destroyed.
[Foot Tapping]
[Man, Raspy Voice] Got yourself a prob, Bob?
Leave me alone!
- [Cole] I made a report. I didn't have to do that. - Point of fact.
You don't belong here.
It's not permitted to let you stay.
- This is the present. - [Toilet Flushes]
This is not the past. This is not the future.
This is right now! I'm not leaving'! Get that?
You can't stop me.
Anything you say, Chief. It's none of my business.
[P.A.] Passengers for flight...
- Hey, Cole. - Leave me alone!
Calm down, Cole. It's me. Cole, it's me.
- Jose? - Yeah, right. Jose.
Why'd you pull out the tooth? That was nuts.
- Here, take this. - What? What for? Are you crazy?
Me? Are you kidding? You're the one. You're a hero, man.
They gave you a pardon. What do you do? You come back and fuck with your teeth.
- How did you find me? - The phone call, man.
They did their reconstruction thing on it.
The phone? The phone call I just made?
- Five minutes ago. - Yeah, five minutes ago.
Thirty years ago. They just put it together.
"Uh, hey, this is Cole, James.
I don't know whether you're there or not. Maybe you just clean carpets."
Where'd you get that from? "Forget about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys."
Man, if only they could've got your message earlier.
Take it. You could still be a hero if you cooperate!
Come on, James. It's okay.
[Tourists Chatting In Japanese]
- Here's your change. Thank you. - Thank you.
- [Chuckling] Sorry. - No problem.
- Hi. - Hi.
[P.A.] Flight 784 for San Francisco is ready for boarding at gate 38.
Flight 784 for San Francisco is ready for boarding...
Oh, my God!
I got orders. You know what I'm supposed to do if you don't go along? Shoot the lady.
- What? - You got that? They said, "If Cole don't obey..."
- I'll break your fuckin'... You hear me? - [Gagging, Coughing]
[P.A.] Volunteers now boarding at gate 37.
You see? I had no choice.
These are my orders, man. Just take it. Take it!
- [Coughs] - This part isn't about the virus at all, is it?
It's about followin' orders. About doin' what you're told.
Hey, man. You got a pardon. What do you want?
- Who am I supposed to shoot? Who am I supposed to shoot? - James! James!
Dr. Goines's assistant. He's an apocalypse nut. I think he's involved.
The next flight to San Francisco leaves from gate 38.
If he's there, I'm sure he's part of it.
[P.A.] ...please go to gate 13.
[Buzzing]
Mr. Holtz, you wanna have a look at this, please?
Excuse me, sir. Would you mind...
- letting me have a look at the contents of your bag? - Me?
We don't have time for this.
Excuse me.
[Peters] Biological samples.
- I have the papers right here. - Yeah.
I'm gonna have to ask you to open this up, sir.
Open it?
Why, yes, of course.
What could be better? Look over here.
Look at the planes. Hurry up.
- Excuse me. - Ma'am, you have to get in the line.
See? Biological. Check the papers.
It's all proper. I have a permit.
- It's empty. - Well, yes, to be sure.
It looks empty; but I assure you, it's not.
- You don't understand. - No, I don't have to understand. You have to get in line.
This is very important. There's a man. He's carrying a deadly virus.
There, you see? Also invisible to the naked eye.
It doesn't... even have an odor.
That's not necessary, sir. There you go.
Thank you for your cooperation. Have a good flight.
Yeah.
- Who are you calling a moron? - I am calling you a fucking moron!
- Fucking moron? - Get your hands off her!
Hold it.
Wait a moment.
[Arguing Continues]
Fuckin' moron? You're not gettin' through. Now get in the line!
[Male Officer] I said stop!
[Arguing Continues]
There he is! That man! He's carrying a deadly virus!
[Kathryn] Stop him! Somebody, please stop him!
Police Offi...
[Alarm Beeping]
[Man Shouts] He's got a gun!
Watch it!
No!
Freeze!
Excuse me.
[Astrophysicist] It's obscene, all the violence, all the lunacy.
Shootings even at airports now.
You might say that we're the next endangered species.
Human beings.
[Panting] I think you're right, ma'am.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Jones is my name.
I'm in insurance.
[Airplane Engines Roaring]
[Louis Armstrong] # I see trees of green #
# Red roses too #
# I see them bloom #
# Just for me and you #
# And I think to myself #
# What a wonderful world #
# I see skies of blue #
# And clouds of white #
# The bright blessed day #
# The dark sacred night #
# And I think to myself #
# What a wonderful world #
# The colors of the rainbow #
# So pretty in the sky #
# Are also on the faces #
# Of people going by #
# I see friends shakin' hands #
# Sayin', "How do you do" #
# They're really saying I love you #
# I hear babies cryin' #
# I watch them grow #
# They'll learn much more #
# Then I'll ever know #
# And I think to myself #
# What a wonderful world #
# Yes, I think to myself #
# What a wonderful world #
# Oh, yeah ##