Mr. Cole...
Do you believe in fate?
Three years ago, I sent a traveler
back in time...
Hey, hey!
To stop a plague...
that had killed 7 billion people...
Change history, and save the future.
What's happening?
However, the puzzle was far more complex
than we could have ever imagined.
What the hell?
We discovered the Army of the 12 Monkeys,
a conspiracy spanning centuries,
a cult operating by fierce religious devotion
to the word of its prophet,
a woman from the future who called herself
the Witness.
The world's end, an infinite hell on earth,
are by her design.
Begin.
There's too many!
And our mission to stop her has come at a tremendous cost.
And now, the last remaining survivors of Project Splinter
have lost everything.
I am dying.
Our will...
our hope...
Our friends.
The Witness has already begun her destruction of time,
her Red Forest.
And the puzzle, the one we set out to solve together,
has finally given us an answer.
But not the one we hoped.
What the hell is this?
For, you see, the only way to save the world...
This is a program for a machine.
To save the past...
the present,
the future
is to erase James Cole...
This is every time he has traveled.
Delete him from every moment.
The loops in time out of time...
This war...
It's all a disease
created by the cure.
Primaries didn't send us here to stop the plague.
They sent us here to release it.
The end was the beginning,
the serpent eating its tail.
And now, that beginning
is finally here.
My name is Dr. Cassandra Railly
of the M....
We're working on containment of the Cole...
DDC stations, hear me.
The plague starts with Leland Frost.
Frost...
The true architects of the plague,
they're watching me.
I'm running out of time.
Is among you.
Please, Cole.
Careful.
She's a delicate beast.
I'm not here to harm you.
It's just my own protection, really.
You're wondering how even one scavenger
might be able to remain here,
after Mr. Whitley cleared them all out.
The thought crossed my mind.
Well, it's a sizeable facility, isn't it?
I imagine it'll take you some time
to discover all the hiding places.
- Smoke? - I quit.
Yes, for someone you lost.
Foster sent you. That son of a...
"Project Splinter."
Project Splinter.
Phhbb.
You're going to need a lot of test subjects.
Are you prepared for that?
Sending men to their deaths?
Yes.
Awfully selfish of you, isn't it?
Just to save one daughter?
In saving my daughter, I'll save the world.
But this world is.
And who are you to say it should be any different?
Because Ihave the power to change it.
Yes.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
I just want a chance.
However remote. To do nothing...
would be like killing her yourself.
I understand...
better than most.
Still, there may come a day
when a single life for 7 billion
is one too many.
Consider this then.
No matter what,
save the one.
I wish you luck.
You know...
I have every confidence you'll succeed.
In the beginning,
when we first came to Project Splinter,
I had to recreate these injections,
both for my memory and using my own DNA as a template.
16 people were killed in that machine.
Their bodies rejected the serum.
The machine tore them apart.
We never had a successful splinter until James Cole.
You made time travel work.
But I never knew why,
until now.
I'm the demon.
First time traveler.
I'm the one who drove time insane.
No, Cole...
That's what the Primaries' weapon was for...
To erase me,
completely, forever.
I'm so sorry, Cole.
I didn't know.
It's all right.
Okay.
So, how do we do it? We take their code,
- we put it in our machine... - No.
No.
No, this can't be it.
There has to be another way. Jones?
This is not how it was supposed to end.
How was it supposed to end?
The mission hasn't changed...
Only our feelings.
But if you can erase him, you can erase Olivia.
There has to be another way.
Maybe...
but this is what we have.
We have run simulation after simul...
But I just murdered 7 billion people.
I will not murder 7 billion and 1,
not when the one is worth all the rest.
Time will be reset.
- They will live again. - But he won't.
He can't.
He can't exist at all. It's okay.
- No, it's not okay... - Cassie...
No, it's not okay.
You've given everything to time.
You are owed.
I am owed.
Time owes all of us.
Our time is now.
Yesterday is now.
Tomorrow is now.
Everything always
will soon enough be now.
The beginning of the end is over for them...
While we stand here at the end of time...
The dawn of the endless.
By the time this day is over
and the sun has set...
time itself will be ours,
and the sun will rise
when we sit in our forest of red.
Now! Now!
Now!
Now! Now! Now!
James...
This must be.
We need to complete your cycle,
so that you end up here with the answer.
What the hell are you?
Cole!
The Emerson.
Easy.
Who are you?
That's right.
Take it all in.
Greetings, asshole.
I'm future asshole.
This is a long fight.
You're only halfway there.
It's gonna hurt.
Things inside of you are gonna break,
things you never even knew you had.
I'll tell you something I probably shouldn't.
Probably screwing with all that causality bullshit
Jones used to go on about.
You're gonna have to forgive yourself...
for what you've done,
for what you're gonna have to do.
There's a beginning...
and there's an end to all this...
And all you and I are ever gonna have
is what's in-between.
Wearing this...
means that somehow, somewhere,
you're always gonna find your way back to her.
Time to go.
See you soon.
That was harder than I thought it was gonna be.
You told him there was hope.
I had to get here somehow.
You know there's another way.
No.
There's not.
Ms. Goines, you are on foreign soil
in a time of plague,
hunted, cornered, alone.
I'm not alone.
Wait!
My God, I can't believe that worked!
James!
Wait...
Which Cole are you?
Last one I'm ever gonna be.
Jesus.
I had your back in Prague.
Thanks for making it easy on me.
Thank you.
What's wrong?
There's a problem.
The Primary code has given us
the method to reset the timeline.
Yeah... we're running out of time,
so let's get me in that thing, erase me,
whatever you gotta do.
We can't.
It would take 3 1/2 years for our systems
to compile and assemble the entire code.
Time will collapse in a matter of hours,
12, maybe 13 at best.
So we go back,
give ourselves the code in the past.
Rendering our machine useless for all those years.
We'd halt the mission before it even began.
We'd never reach this point with the answer.
What about Titan? It's a time-traveling city.
It must have a thousand times the processing power we do.
Possibly,
provided one could stop Olivia's final sequence,
and somehow impossibly, mind you,
gain access to her systems.
Even if we could,
we have no idea where or when Titan even is.
I'm sorry.
If I hadn't endeavored to change history,
to rewrite time,
- to manipulate it for personal... - James...
I'll listen to the rest of that speech in 12 hours.
Till then, we got work to do.
- James... - I'm not giving up.
Neither am I.
There's another way.
We can stop Olivia,
kill the Witness, end the storms,
but you don't have to get into that machine.
We can just live.
If time can be rewritten, the world can be remade.
The virus mutates again.
We know that.
There's no one left in 2163.
But maybe we can change all that.
This is what was meant to be.
We can do this, together.
There's still time.
- How? - I have a plan.
We can...
what's that look for?
I've just never heard you say you have a plan.
- I've had plans before. - No, it's just...
I have plans.
It takes the end of the world for you to have a plan.
- You wanna hear it or not? - Yes, I wouldn't miss it...
Plan's this way.
- Come on. - Coming.
There are a lot of variables.
Yeah, and not enough manpower to account for 'em all.
- Man, it's crazy. - Ha.
For this to work, we're gonna have to split up.
- You'll be on your own. - I can manage.
I know the play.
Ramse and I once took out
a militia quarantine zone the same way:
shock and awe.
But like you said, you had Ramse to watch your back.
Yeah.
We were good like that once...
at our best.
No.
Ramse?
I made a promise.
Stop!
Ramse and me,
that story's been written.
- Maybe there's a page missing. - Cassie...
If we do this, we need everyone:
friends...
and family.
Do you understand what you're asking me to do?
Yes.
- What'd you do? - It's not what you think.
What'd you do?
Hey, Ramse... it's all right, just relax.
Stop! Ramse!
Come on.
Come on, brother. It's all right.
It's all right, man.
You're okay.
It's me, brother.
It's over.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, brother.
I'm sorry.
The Witness.
Olivia?
She killed your son...
mine...
and in a few hours, everyone and everything.
You said that I told you
not to undo this.
Yeah, and I won't.
Once this is over, you have to go back,
die that night,
or else we never end up here.
And I have to climb into that machine
and be erased
from everything.
Jesus.
But if we're going out...
we're taking that bitch with us.
I need you for that.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Hi.
Holy shit balls!
Ha!
Mr. Cole, have you lost your goddamn mind?
Not him. Me.
- It was my idea. - 'Sup, bro?
What's up, Cocoa Puffs?
We're going on the offensive.
I can assure you, this is offensive.
The risk to causality?
Won't mean anything if we can't turn this around.
She's his grammy.
- Ms. Goines... - Just filling him in.
We have a plan, and we have a window.
Odds are it's not gonna work,
but it's the only chance we got.
So what is it you wanna do, Mr. Cole?
We're gonna take Titan.
There it is.
She is a beaut, isn't she?
You think it'll still run?
Ain't about the age, brother.
It's about the gas that's left in the tank.
Everything else we can fix, you know?
We gotta go. Almost out of time.
You got your eyes on some keys there?
Be a shame to hotwire a classic,
especially knowing how you feel about her.
What'd you find?
Somebody's reason to keep going.
- Are you ready? - Just watch the paint.
I got it.
You couldn't find a closer car?
It's not just any car.
Then I guess we're ready.
One more thing...
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
I don't have...
forever to promise you.
Most I can give you is this moment...
But it's yours if you'll take it.
This isn't enough.
Look at the sun.
You know why it's so beautiful?
'Cause it sets.
Honey, I'm home!
Whoa! Not-so-fun-house.
Sorry to drop in on you unannounced.
It was foolish of you to come.
Why are you here?
To say, adios, amigo.
You may have destroyed the Primary weapon,
but what it was meant to do, the code,
was in here the whole time.
But before we fire up the machine
and wipe you from time and existence,
there's something I thought you should know.
You know your brand logo thing,
"Copyright, The Witness, TM"?
Well, I get it.
It's Aramaic for the number 12
mirrored to represent the beginning, the end,
blah-blah-blah, yadda-yadda- yadda, such and such.
But with just a few little tweaks...
Looks like a little penis man.
Is that because you're such a dick?
Katarina.
The Red Forest has begun.
You're too late.
Am I?
Auf Wiedersehen, Frau Kirschner.
2043 Manhattan.
Now.
But we're in the midst of the final s...
They have the weapon.
She's coming. She's coming.
It worked.
You good?
Brought some tunes.
Yeah? You got some good shit in here?
My dad was into country and western.
Ah, man.
Are you serious right now, bro?
- ...come on. - Shit!
War's coming!
Come on, man!
Come on, I gotta die to a good song, brother!
Good song!
♪ Now I've had ♪
♪ The time of my life ♪
I dig it, man.
- I dig it, man. - It feels right.
This is it.
Hold on a sec, brother!
♪ I've been waiting for so long ♪
♪ Now I've finally found someone ♪
♪ To stand by me ♪
♪ We saw the writing on the wall ♪
♪ As we felt this magical ♪
♪ Fantasy ♪
Titan? Where?
A quarter-mile east.
The last of our enemies is here.
They are weak, vulnerable.
Find them, kill them.
Leave none to...
♪ Stay with me tonight ♪
♪ Just remember ♪
♪ You're the one thing ♪
♪ I can't get enough of ♪
♪ This could be love ♪
♪ Because ♪
Yeah!
♪ Yes, I swear ♪
♪ This is true ♪
♪ And I owe it all to you ♪
- That got their attention. - Let's make sure.
You're set to pop.
How does it work?
Gimme your hand, Louise.
Oh, God.
♪ And I owe it all to... ♪
My God, that was a rush.
Well, that's unfortunate.
- What happened? - End of an era.
Jones, we're in.
Katarina...
No...
I am standing for this.
Initiate splinter sequence.
Mr. Cole, we are in.
We've walked into a trap.
Splinter Titan.
She's getting ready to splinter.
Initiate temporal disruption pulse.
- What's happening? - We cannot splinter.
Something's disrupted the towers.
Katarina.
Mr. Cole, Mr. Ramse, it's up to you now.
Take out that power station.
That's the only to stop the central spire.
Cassie...
We'll head to the mainframe to finish the Primary code.
See you on the other side.
No matter what, protect the machine.
We'll be back when Titan's ours.
Yeah!
Ready, Freddy?
Okay, we just lost the advantage.
We're outnumbered, outgunned, and on foot...
and probably gonna die.
Let's do this.
The central spire is capable of splintering by itself.
We can run.
All we have to do is stop the sequence and release...
Do not stop the sequence!
It must finish,
or else the process will reverse entirely.
They don't have the numbers.
Take as many faithful as you can get.
Destroy their machine. It's the only weapon they have.
Go!
Hey!
We have visual. Stay in formation!
Lock and load, ladies.
Hey... there!
Go!
We have two of them pinned down in sector seven.
We're in.
Ms. Goines, there should be a processing terminal
where they calculate their splinter jumps.
Communication... Processing, processing!
Found it. Extracting the primary code now.
- We're cut off. - Is there another way?
Back the way we came.
Take us an hour. This'll all be over by then.
Shit!
Here they come!
Drop 'em!
Come on, come on.
James?
Fall back.
Fall back!
James?
Well, this is a quick-ass trip.
Cassie? Jones.
There's too many of them. We're getting out.
Jones, Cole's in trouble. He needs The Daughters.
Cole!
I need more ammo!
Jones!
Jones?
Katarina?
Command, section four secure.
We have the machine.
Katarina.
You know, the sad reality of luck
is that it can only be defined
by how long... it doesn't last.
Please, come on.
Please. Come on.
Max?
"And I come back to you now,
at the turn of the tide."
Holy shit.
Radio Egg, I'd like to request a song.
Copy that, Chicken.
- Yes! - What are you doing?
Yeah.
Good morning, Titan!
This is J.H. Bond coming at you from WKRP in 2043.
I'ma rockin' the time stream from A.M. to P.M.,
from BC to AD.
Now, this one goes out to Tired in Titan,
the sleepy, dulcet tones of Olivia Kirschner.
Long time listener, first-time Witness,
with a face for radio and a voice for NPR.
Surprise, bitch!
♪ Won't you ♪
♪ Come see about me ♪
♪ Pull us apart ♪
♪ When the light gets ♪
♪ Into your heart, baby ♪
♪ Don't you ♪
♪ Forget about me ♪
♪ Don't, don't, don't, don't ♪
♪ Don't you ♪
♪ Forget about me ♪
♪ I say la ♪
Didn't think The Daughters ever came this far east.
What do you want?
An army.
You told Max that you and I are old friends?
We will be...
- One day. - Is that so?
Look, I respect the trades between our two camps...
That's good stuff.
The Daughters pass through, I pay it no mind,
but here you are, the old gypsy,
looking to, what... tell my future?
Spoiler alert, Teddy.
You don't have one.
So you know some things about me.
My family's shit, my Wilson's disease.
We got... we got a knife that looks the same.
- It is the same. - No, no.
"Witness"? "Messengers"?
"Time travel"?
That is some "Twilight Zone" bullshit.
For Christ's sake, I'm too old for this shit.
What the hell is that?
The part where we run.
Oof!
Go!
What is this?
A last chance for you and I to save the world, kiddo.
The old lady said we'd wind up on the same team,
that I should put old business behind me.
Now clearly, she was telling the truth about... well, shit,
look at this.
Who are you two?
Why shouldn't I just drop you right here?
'Cause we're West 7.
Always have been.
We're ride or die.
We gotta take out a power station.
It's at the base of the tower over there.
Might be the only way to stop the apocalypse.
Wanna blow some shit up?
- Lead the way. - Let's do it.
Let's go, boys.
Time to save the world.
- It's done. - Something's wrong
- with the comms. - I got it.
Go check it out.
- We gotta go. - Okay. Okay!
Jones, we processed the code.
We're on our way back.
Cole, where are you?
We're on our way to the power station.
- If we don't make it... - We need a backup plan.
Jennifer and I will head up to the controls.
- Cassie... - We'll be careful.
Take this.
Cassie!
Did you make it?
Cassie, are you all right?
We have to shoot the core.
We gotta rush them.
Yeah. We'll probably get killed.
Let's go.
I envy you, Cassandra.
I've never loved anything.
The Forest has always been for me,
never anybody else.
But you...
You have more need of it
than I do. All I've done is witness.
But you, till this moment,
you've lived.
You took my friend...
My family...
Shoot the core!
My son.
We're running out of time.
Sequence is almost complete.
It's gonna blow! Move!
Can you see it?
The forest... it's nearly here.
Move!
No...
You're too late.
It's drawn all the power it needs.
Now all we have to do is wait
till the end of time.
Soon, you and him will be in that house forever.
I know
it's your perfect moment.
No...
this is.
Hey, the tower's still going.
Cassie, are you there?
I'm here, I'm here, I'm at the controls.
Thank God.
Shut it down.
James...
I'm sorry.
Cassie!
Cassie.
Please.
You can end this.
We can have forever.
Then don't.
You and me,
we can go, we can hide in that house forever.
We can raise a son who never dies.
We can have it all,
until it means nothing, because it never ends.
We'll be together forever...
until we can't even remember
what it feels like to find each other again...
after an hour,
minute, a second apart.
I'll go with you, Cassie.
We can have forever...
or we can have now,
with an ending...
that makes it real.
Please...
Give us an ending.
Titan is ours.
There's something about its eyes.
Its eyes... its eyes...
Her blood contains a dormant form of the Kalavirus.
The origin. Origin... origin...
Inside that old meat, centuries-old virus...
Centuries-old virus... virus...
I was a thing in a box.
Thing in a box... thing in a box...
To ensure the end...
we must preserve the beginning.
Each one of us who have played a part
in getting James to his final moment...
we will need to preserve what's left of causality
or everything will have been for naught.
That means, for each of you,
you must return to your timeline of origin
to continue on.
That was weird.
Gonna get a whole lot weirder.
Deacon.
Hey.
I know you...
From TV, you're the...
you're the doc from the CDC.
You are a good man.
Still got it.
So now what...
I have a cycle to whatever?
You and I
have got a whole lot of shit to do.
I'll coach you through it.
Gonna be a hell of a performance.
Yeah, look.
Say you shoot me.
- I'm sorry? - You shoot me.
Now I'm apologizing.
I... I forgive you.
Just make sure you keep the safety on.
So this is my reward for all this shit?
I get shot?
You know, with my luck, you'd probably miss and
screw this whole thing up, man.
- Listen, I just wanna say... - Don't, don't, don't, don't.
Don't.
I don't wanna waste my good-bye on this you.
I wanna save it
for the one that needs it.
We did the right thing though, didn't we?
In the end.
We did it the right way, brother.
I'll see you soon.
I'll see you soon... see you soon...
see you soon.
Ms. Goines?
The Daughters...
my daughter will be exceptionally lucky.
Hannah was...
will be an amazing woman,
because of you.
The actor does not say good-bye to her audience,
only good-night, and then wakes up,
and does it all over again.
See you, old girl.
You're gonna like this...
I remember... the first night we met.
I was waiting in your car.
I watched you walk across the parking lot,
on your phone,
smiling.
I was already in love with you.
I remember thinking,
"I'm about to ruin her life."
No, no, you didn't.
Now...
I get to give it back to you.
You'll be a doctor again.
You'll be able to stay out in the sun.
You don't have to look over your shoulder anymore.
You and me... we didn't get a lot of time.
But we lived a lifetime together.
I love you.
Go on.
My name is Dr. Cassandra Railly of the Maryland CDC.
We're working on containment of the Kalavirus
at the CDC station in Baltimore.
Jones, if you can hear me,
the plague starts with Leland Goines,
security designation: Frost.
But we are the true architects of the plague.
The Army of the 12 Monkeys... they're watching me.
I'm running out of time.
The answer is among you.
Please, Cole, remember...
death can be undone.
Love cannot.
I thought you said you were done with that thing.
I am now.
Titan's system has processed the code.
Our machine is ready.
How about one more smoke?
Watch it...
All right.
You know,
I always meant to ask you
where you got these things.
At Raritan. I planted tobacco.
Out back.
Next to the cucumbers.
James...
thank you.
You made a promise,
which you kept...
that we see the end together.
And we have.
You know,
I don't think I've ever
told you what you mean to me.
I,
I had two mothers.
I'm glad that you're here with me,
at the end.
Initiate Splinter Sequence.
It's never been about if.
It's always been when...
when we'll face the next epidemic
or the next pandemic.
In Athens, 430 BC, typhoid.
A thousand years later, the Justinian plague
ravages the Byzantine Empire.
In the 14th century, the Black Death
destroys most of Europe.
Ancient history, right?
Not exactly.
Dr. Railly.
You know, I might be getting the hang of this.
I had to push through, though.
I feel kind of out of it today,
like there's something I forgot to do or...
something I'm supposed to do.
I don't know, I'm probably just tired.
I'm gonna go home and crash,
see how I feel in...
Let me call you back.
I'm sorry, ma'am, I got nothing.
No, there... there has to be.
There's no James Cole anywhere.
607.
Suite 607. It's a permanent residence.
Yeah, they stopped selling off those rooms
back in the 1940s.
Ma'am?
You can't get back to a place you've never been.
Can't travel through time,
except second by second.
And if there is a future,
it's because of you,
because of them.
The family I loved,
but never knew.
In this future,
most never met,
but some were meant to.
Brilliant minds,
passing the day with simple routines.
And if you believe in fate,
you might believe that
sons are fated to their fathers...
And brothers to their brothers.
We change some...
And some...
Not at all.
Some just lived for each other...
For their children.
Once,
in another lifetime,
we saved 7 billion.
But in this time,
this life,
I'm happy saving one at a time.
Low dose of antibiotics.
I think she'll be just fine.
And at the end of each night,
for a reason I still can't quite remember...
there's a thing that I say to the sunset...
a hope
that I speak out loud.
See you soon.
Well, it ain't heaven.
Just the Keys.
Jennifer?
Hi, Otter Eyes.
Is this real?
Kind of the wrong one to ask.
What did I always say to you about endings?
The right one...
The one... the one that you choose.
But sometimes,
it's the one someone else chooses for you.
There may come a day when a single life for 7 billion
is one too many.
Consider this, then.
No matter what, save the one.
I thought you said you were done with that thing.
I am now.
Jones.
She scrubbed you from the timeline.
Primary code initiated...
with one minor edit to causality.
This you... the last you...
she made sure time spit you out somewhere.
What use are the unwritten laws of the universe
if you can't break at least one?
What about the risk? What... what about...
manipulating time?
Time knows.
Time... time...
But it also knows
it owes you one.
I'm alive?
You're alive.
You were never crazy.
You were the best of all of us.
Tell her I said hi.
♪ These arms of mine ♪
Where are you right now?
Somewhere safe?
Warm? Next to someone you love?
♪ Lonely and feeling blue ♪
Someday,
all that will be gone.
♪ They are yearning ♪
Time passes how it's meant to.
♪ Yearning from wanting you ♪
All that matters... is now.
Happily ever...
now.