Jones: We need you to go back to 1944, find them and bring them home safely.
Ramse: You trust me now?
Jones: I trust your relationship with Mr. Cole enough to know that you will help him.

Jones: Mr. Cole and doctor Railly are lost in time. This anomaly is threatening to kill us all. I don't have the time to break on through to the other side with you.
Jennifer: Jim Morrison. Primary.

Ramse: You know what Cassie? I can say one thing with absolute certainty.
Cassie: And what's that Ramse?
Ramse: James Cole is loyal. To a fault. That's a rare thing.

Jones: Mr. Cole is in jeopardy and so is doctor Railly.
Ramse: What are you talking about? What did you do now?
Jones: They're both stuck in the past. Their tethers were broken and we have no way of bringing them back.

Some catastrophic event in 1944 disrupted the fabric of space time causing temporal anomalies in the here and now.

Jones

Cassie: So what's Jones' plan for getting us back without a tether?
Ramse: I have to place a classified ad in the paper. Give her an exact time. Specific location. She then reads it in 2044. She thinks that she can lock on to us that way.

Cassie: I don't hate him.
Ramse: Forgive him. Like he did me. Like he would for you.

Time needs us, and some of us more than others. Primaries.

Jennifer

Cole: Jones, we know what the 12 Monkeys are doing.
Jones: They're trying to destroy time.

12 Monkeys Season 2 Episode 4 Quotes

Jones: Mr. Cole and doctor Railly are lost in time. This anomaly is threatening to kill us all. I don't have the time to break on through to the other side with you.
Jennifer: Jim Morrison. Primary.

Jones: We need you to go back to 1944, find them and bring them home safely.
Ramse: You trust me now?
Jones: I trust your relationship with Mr. Cole enough to know that you will help him.