Ramse: It took time travel, to create time travel. That’s how it works. There are no straight lines brother.
Cole: And now you want to destroy it.
Ramsey: I want to go home to my son. I’m done here.

Olivia: Today is a great day, but we must still be cautious. Your anonymous investments and their research made your existence here possible, but now their role in this is finished. The circle is completing, tightening with each action.
Ramsey: It’s not complete till I get to that machine. Its been a long time.
Olivia: We had to allow their research to progress without interference. That meant sacrificing influence. It’s a delicate balance and it ends today.

Lab tech: Distortion of time and space and its effect on plants is considerable. Right, green to red? Organic matter in states of flux. You could kill anything that...
Jones: It'll work. It'll work.

Cassie: I don't have time for your crazy bullshit. There's too much at stake and my patience is gone.
Jennifer: Ethan Seki; venture capitalist, genius. That's who you're looking for. Has a gift. Knows things. When to invest. When not to.

Cassie: Who are they?
Aaron: There's a woman, she's the only one I ever saw. They know it's coming. They're planning for it.
Cole: How do they release the virus?
Aaron: I don't know. They're preparing for something. She said it was the coming of the twelve.

It was Aaron, that's how they found us.

Cassie

Mr. Cole is just a memory now, as the past was intended to be. This morning, yesterday or thirty years; it's all just a million firing neurons given meaning by the human mind.

Jones

Cassie: Cole, there's someone here to see you.
Cole: Huh?
Matthew: James?
Cole: Dad?

Jones: How'd you meet him?
Cassie: I told you. They found a recording that I make and the future you sent him here to find me.
Jones: And you believed his story?
Cassie: No, he brought my watch with him from the future and he broke time.
Jones: The same watch from his time?
Cassie: Yes.
Jones: That's profoundly risky.
Cassie: I know, it caused a paradox. It almost killed us.
Jones: Yeah, mother nature doesn't like it if you rearrange the furniture.
Cassie: Right.
Jones: That must have been extraordinary to see; matter coming in contact with itself.

Cassie: Katerina Jones?
Jones: Do I know you?
Cassie: My name is Dr. Cassandra Railly. I need your help. We have a mutual friend who is very sick, maybe dying.
Jones: Who?
Cassie: Cole, James Cole.
Jones: You are probably looking for my mother. I am not this kind of a doctor, I'm a physicist.
Cassie: Please listen to me, we need to talk.
Jones: Maybe you call my office in the morning.
Cassie: There is no time. If you don't help me Cole will die, and I won't let that happen.

The cycle must happen exactly as it has. Otherwise, the traveler would have never come.

The Striking Woman

The Pallid Man: Your father was right.
The Striking Woman: Yes, he has come.

12 Monkeys Season 1 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