Jones: This whole time. This entire mission. All of it. It's been about them.
Deacon: You do know what we have to do, right?
Jones: Yes.
Deacon: May God have mercy.

You want to pull people together, you put them through hell. You want to pull them apart, you give them a secret.

Deacon

Aethan: The symbols. You see them too?
Jennifer: What do they mean?
Aethan: I don't know. You're like me.
Jennifer: I don't think I've ever been like anybody. I don't think I'm like you at all. I think you're better.
Aethan: But one day, I think you will be the best of us all.

Cassie: James?
Cole: There's nothing to say.
Cassie: They made him. That's nurture, not nature.
Cole: That's not what I saw, neither did you.
Cassie: I know what we're supposed to do, but I can't.
Cole: I can.

Cole: Go home to your family. In fact, when I call you in '61, just call me a douchebag and don't help.
Agent Gale: I don't know what a douchebag is, but I'll definitely call you something.
Cole: It won't matter anyway. You're still gonna help me, aren't you? Another goddamned loop.

Agent Gale: That story she told about havin' your giggle stick shot off. You coppin' to that, too?
Cole: Trust me, if that were true, we wouldn't be in this situation.

Deacon: I am not a goddamned red shirt! I have a purpose!
Olivia: Are you certain? I recognize a lost soul.

Agent Gale: Holy shit. I guess Santa brought me Cole for Christmas, after all.
Cole: We need your help.

Cassie: If I hadn't remembered on my own, would you have told me what we lost?
Cole: You didn't need to know that.

If there's something wrong with him, something inside? It came from me.

Cole

Jones: Dr. Railly, in all your time at Titan, were you ever able to discover the identity of the Witness, learn his origin?
Cassie: No.

When I was a kid, I used to keep a diary. All the rules I wanted to break and all the wacky shenanigans I needed for success. But, I always, always got caught. Everywhere I'd go she'd turn up, Mommy Not-so Dearest. Hmpf. How did she know? My diary. Turns out, I was writing about the future in the past tense. Hashtag primary problems.

Jennifer

12 Monkeys Quotes

About four years from now, most of the human race is gonna be wiped out by a plague; a virus. All we know is that it's because of a man named Leland Frost. I have to find him.

Cole

What if you could take it back? All of it? A reset switch? You'd hit it right? You'd have to.

Cole