Cole: Of course, this is where you get the virus.
Leland: Virus? There's a virus in that thing?
Cole: Yeah and you're going to help me destroy it.

James, we're out of time. 1987 is the endgame. You must find the source of the plague and you must eliminate it.

Jones

There's only one who truly knows. Sees. Did see. Will see. The witness.

Jennifer

Wait, there's something you need to know. Today something happens that will change things for you. Not everything is preordained, no matter how it may seem. They say things happen for a reason. That is a lie. Death can be both cause and effect. That's how it works. No straight lines. You're ready, it's time to go.

Jennifer

If Peters is recreating M-510 for the 12 Monkeys, he'll need animals to test it on. The CDC can get a list of suppliers and then I'll be able to track him down. Just like the Big Burn, and the Night Room. And Splinter, apocalypse; rinse/repeat.

Cassie

Cole: The virus is still out there. The 12 Monkeys got their hands on it somehow.
Cassie: We destroyed M-510 in Chechnya, we burned it; all of it.
Aaron: The CIA has satellite photos that prove that.
Cassie: The Night Room is destroyed. The remains, the Origin, is gone. Leland is dead.
Cole: We missed something.
Aaron: We? No you. You missed something. How is this still happening?
Cassie: Because it was never just Leland. It was Oliver Peters. He was at the CIA during operation TROY. He gave them the virus.
Cole: We need to find him.

Cassie: James, I don't want to be alone when I...
Cole: You're not alone, I'm right here with you.
Cassie: James?
Cole: Yeah?
Cassie: You're going to find the answers you're looking for; keep going.
Cole: I don't know if I can.
Cassie: You can, you will.
Cole: No matter what I do, you always die.
Cassie: See you soon.

Cole: What the hell is that thing?
Jones: That is our salvation. The virus is not yet done with us Mr. Cole. It will mutate again and again until not even the immune are left standing. There's only one way to end it, and you are the key. I want to send you back to stop the plague before it ever happens.
Cole: That's immpossible.
Jones: Nothing is impossible. Difficult, yes, dangerous; not impossible. But there will be a price. If we are to reset time, all this before you will vanish. This world will cease to exist. This dark time must be sacrificed to restore a brighter one. We've no other choice, and if all this disappears so too shall we. You and I, we will start anew.

Jones: Do you remember the first year underground? No windows, no sunshine; I lost all sense of time. I felt as though I was choking.
Foster: It was a coffin.
Jones: Yes exactly, and we would sneak upstairs and look at the stars. Casiopea, Andromeda; whole constellations untouched by disease, oblivious to our suffering. And I told Hannah no matter what will happen to us, the stars will remain and I promised her...
Foster: Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong.
Jones: My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Foster: Shakespeare; you see Kat it's not gone, it doesn't die. Those days we spent trapped underground surrounded by all those books. Human beings gone, but their voices were still with us; thriving. We had hope, they were better times.

We daughters shall make from twelve what man could not. Yes, an army.

Jennifer

Cole: The soldier you sent, how did you know where I was?
Cassie: You told me. You don't remember because you haven't done it yet.
Cole: I see you again?
Cassie: Yes. It's been two years since we bombed the compound. A lot has happened since then, with you and me.
Cole: Tell me, I need to know everything. How did they get the virus? The witness? Cass...

Jones: Jonathan, let me show you the machine and then you will see...
Foster: Seeing a machine is not going to make me believe in blasphemy.
Jones: Time has not changed you.
Foster: Go home Kat, consider my offer, but don't ask again for my Core.
Jones: I am not here to ask. I will have your Core. The only thing undecided is, whether you will give it to me or if I must take it.

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