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12 Monkeys
2015 - 2018 7.4 (1096 votes) 4 Seasons
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Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama
Networks
Syfy
Created By
Terry Matalas
Travis Fickett

12 Monkeys

End at the beginning.

Overview

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

Key Crew

Producer: Sean Tretta

Top Cast

Aaron Stanford
Aaron Stanford

James Cole

Amanda Schull
Amanda Schull

Cassandra Railly

Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa

Katarina Jones

Emily Hampshire
Emily Hampshire

Jennifer Goines

Alisen Down
Alisen Down

Olivia Kirschner

Todd Stashwick
Todd Stashwick

Deacon

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (2015)

No overview available.

17 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Out of Time: Goodbye
2015-01-15

Project Splinter is about to begin. Will the future be erased by changing the past?

Runtime: 1 min
Episode 2: Out of Time: Testing
2015-01-15

Is Project Splinter a failure or a success?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 3: Out of Time: Self Portrait
2015-01-23

Jennifer Goines and the number 12 are a bad combination.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Out of Time: Enemy at the Gates
2015-01-30

Is everyone in danger - from something other than the virus?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 5: Out of Time: Forty Three Minutes
2015-02-06

That's all it takes before we are out of time.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 6: Out of Time: Overdue
2015-02-13

Something with the timeline is wrong. Very wrong.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 7: Out of Time: Message
2015-02-20

The past may hold the key to the future.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 8: Out of Time: Mission Accomplished
2015-02-27

What’s the best way to celebrate the end of existence?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 9: Out of Time: Doubts
2015-03-06

The future of the mission - really, the future of the future - is up in the air.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 10: Out of Time: Goodbye, Again
2015-03-13

A team member leaves a last message.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: Out of Time: Legacy
2015-03-20

Leland Goines has an empire to protect.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 12: Out of Time: The Next Cycle
2015-03-27

When time is broken, it just needs a little help.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 13: Out of Time: The Interview
2015-04-03

Jennifer Goines interviews a potential assistant. Guess how that goes.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 14: Out of Time: Names to Learn
2015-04-10

The old Markridge is dead. Long live Jennifer Goines.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 15: Pre-Apocalyptic
2016-03-28

Jennifer Goines has a few things to say about the end of the world. But what’s truth, and what’s her crazy?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 16: Alone
2016-03-28

Flash forward later in Season 2: Why is Dr. Jones all alone? Where did everyone go?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 17: The Witness
2016-04-05

The Witness brings salvation, or destruction. It’s all a matter of perspective – and time.

Runtime: 43 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2015)

Follow the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Splinter
2015-01-16

27 years after a virus wipes out most of humanity, scientists send a man back to 2015 to stop the plague from ever happening. Cole's only lead is a virologist, who knows the dangerous source of the outbreak.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 2: Mentally Divergent
2015-01-22

The trail of a mysterious organization called the “Army of the 12 Monkeys” leads Cole to a mental institution in 2015, where a patient holds the key to the plague that destroys the world. Meanwhile, despite warnings that her involvement may disrupt the course of history, Dr. Railly risks her life to help him.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 3: Cassandra Complex
2015-01-30

Cole's search for the location of the virus leads him to 2014, and to a devastating moment in Dr. Railly's life involving a dangerous outbreak in Haiti.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Atari
2015-02-06

A fight for the future ensues when a dangerous band of marauders hunting for Cole and Ramse threatens the mission to save the past.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 5: The Night Room
2015-02-13

Cole and Dr. Railly face off with the Army of the 12 Monkeys when both discover the Night Room –- an off-site, black ops lab that houses the virus that will one day destroy the world.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 6: The Red Forest
2015-02-20

When the tragic events of the Night Room create an alternate reality in 2043, Cole risks his future.

Runtime: 41 min
Episode 7: The Keys
2015-02-27

Cole, Dr. Railly and Aaron strive to stop the virus from being deployed as a bioweapon in Chechnya.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 8: Yesterday
2015-03-06

The Core that powers the time machine is fading. To get Cole back from the past, Jones must convince her former colleagues at the military operation "Spearhead" that her mission is worth saving.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 9: Tomorrow
2015-03-13

Cole finds himself in 2017 at the height of the plague. Out of options, Jones faces an impossible choice to replace the Core.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 10: Divine Move
2015-03-20

Forces come to a head when Ramse does what it takes to protect his newfound family, leaving Cole to deal with the aftermath.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: Shonin
2015-03-27

Cole splinters to Tokyo, 1987 in a last chance effort to stop the Army of the 12 Monkeys.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 12: Paradox
2015-04-03

With Cole dying from the effects of time-travel, Railly must find the one person who can save him.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 13: Arms of Mine
2015-04-10

Cole and Railly attempt a final confrontation with their closest enemies, while Jones faces a new threat to all that she's accomplished.

Runtime: 43 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2016)

Season two finds Cole unable to travel back in time due to an unforeseen paradox. Meanwhile, Jennifer appears to be on the brink of unleashing the deadly virus. Every action has history-altering potential in this mind-bending race against time.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Year of the Monkey
2016-04-18

Cole and Ramse repair their broken friendship while on the run; Railly and Jones navigate an uncertain future in 2043.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 2: Primary
2016-04-25

Cole gets stranded in 2016 after an attempt to destroy the virus changes the future. Jones and Railly deal with the consequences of the changed timeline.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 3: One Hundred Years
2016-05-02

Despite the growing tension between them, Cole and Cassie time travel to New York during World War II to track down a dangerous member of the Twelve.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Emergence
2016-05-09

When Cole and Cassie are stranded in 1944, Jones must turn to the person she trusts the least to bring them home -- Ramse. For Ramse, this mission will give him a chance to atone for his sins -- but can he mend the broken relations between Cole and Railly? Meanwhile, Jones visits Old Jennifer Goines to explore the true nature of Time - and the Twelve’s method to destroy it.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 5: Bodies of Water
2016-05-16

In the present, Cassie and Jennifer Goines run from the 12 Monkeys; in 2044, Cole and Ramse face off against Deacon.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 6: Immortal
2016-05-23

Cole and Ramse travel to 1970s New York City to prevent the Twelve from murdering a Vietnam veteran with a connection to the Witness.

Runtime: 42 min
Episode 7: Meltdown
2016-05-30

Cole faces the Witness as Cassie's hallucinations evolve; deadly visitors from the past arrive when the time machine malfunctions and begins tearing apart time and space.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 8: Lullaby
2016-06-06

Jones comes to the disheartening realization that time travel is humanity's true enemy and that as its architect she needs to be stopped, and so she sends Railly back to the year 2020 with orders to undo all of it.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 9: Hyena
2016-06-13

To save the last Primary, Cole must turn to a mortal enemy. Plus: Jennifer Goines, radical revolutionary?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 10: Fatherland
2016-06-20

Cole has his loyalty tested when Ramse and Railly go rogue, embarking on an unsanctioned mission that sends them to 1961 East Berlin. Once there, they have murder on their minds as they search for an unscrupulous German doctor who knows the location of "The Witness."

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: Resurrection
2016-06-27

With the temporal facility on the verge of destruction, Cole and Jones find themselves in the middle of a coup. After a violent encounter ends in an unexpected tragedy, Cole is sent back to 1957 in a last-ditch effort to save humanity while the rest embark on a caravan across the apocalypse to find Titan -- the stronghold of the Witness.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 12: Blood Washed Away
2016-07-11

Cole and Railly attempt to stop the final paradox in the past while Ramse, Jennifer and Deacon struggle to survive the apocalypse in a last ditch effort to find the Witness.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 13: Memory of Tomorrow
2016-07-18

Cole and Railly have finally found peace living in the past. When a mysterious woman with apocalyptic visions of the future tells Cole it's not over, he must do the unthinkable to save the world... and the woman he loves.

Runtime: 43 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (2017)

With the identity of the Witness - the engineer of the reality ending Army of the 12 Monkeys - now known, Cole and his allies must travel through different eras in history to stop him.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mother
2017-05-19

In the apocalypse of 2163, a desperate Cole searches for Titan. Meanwhile, a captive Railly is faced with an impossible choice as the 12 Monkeys await the arrival of The Witness.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 2: Guardians
2017-05-19

While searching for Jennifer Goines in post-WWI France, Cole and Jones encounter a dangerous group of time- travelers - the Guardians.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 3: Enemy
2017-05-19

Bonds of trust are tested when Ramse returns to the facility with an old enemy held captive. How far will Cole and Jones go for the answers they need?

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Brothers
2017-05-19

Ramse and Cole splinter to 2007 expecting either a trap - or a final chance to kill The Witness. But when Cole discovers a heartbreaking truth, he’ll discover that the mission was both.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 5: Causality
2017-05-20

Out of time and in need of answers, Jennifer and Deacon are sent to 1989 to steal the a sacred document. Can Railly and Cole get to the Word first before it reveals the one secret they want kept?

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 6: Nature
2017-05-20

In 1953, Cole and Railly reunite with Agent Gale at the birth of the Army of the 12 Monkeys.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 7: Nurture
2017-05-20

Cole and Railly find themselves at opposite ends of an unspeakable decision. Jones grows suspicious while Railly turns to an emotional ally for advice. All hell breaks loose during a massive fire-fight.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 8: Masks
2017-05-21

Former friends, now enemies, race to find the Witness in 1904, who, at last, reveals his face.

Runtime: 41 min
Episode 9: Thief
2017-05-21

The reason why the Witness wants to destroy time and all reality is revealed.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 10: Witness
2017-05-21

The final battle with the Witness begins.

Runtime: 46 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2018)

In Season 4, James Cole and Dr. Cassandra Railly set out on an epic quest, traveling further back in time than they have ever been before. According to legend, their only hope lies with a weapon capable of stopping the Witness for good. But they'll soon discover that in order to win the final battle and save time itself, they will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The End
2018-06-15

The final conflict with the Army of the 12 Monkeys begins when the Witness returns to Project Splinter.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 2: Ouroboros
2018-06-15

Travelers come face to face with ghosts from their past when they find themselves maneuvering around their own timelines.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 3: 45 RPM
2018-06-15

Cassie travels back in time to confront a younger Olivia; Cole helps Jennifer find the meaning behind her final Primary vision.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 4: Legacy
2018-06-22

Team Splinter goes back in time to the wild, wild frontier in search of a weapon to destroy the Witness.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 5: After
2018-06-22

A clue to breaking the cycle leads Cole and Cassie to the 1960s. Christopher Lloyd returns as Zalmon Shaw, a devoted follower of the Witness.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 6: Die Glocke
2018-06-22

The team infiltrates a Nazi gala to steal an artifact known as 'Die Glocke'. Their operation comes undone when French Resistance interferes and an unexpected guest arrives.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 7: Daughters
2018-06-29

Jones sends Hannah back in time to 2007 on a personal mission that could be the key to everything.

Runtime: 44 min
Episode 8: Demons
2018-06-29

Everything changes when the team finally climbs the steps... and rings the bell in the Middle Ages.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 9: One Minute More
2018-06-29

The beginning of the end as Cole and Cassie embark on their final mission.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 10: The Beginning (1)
2018-07-06

The final battle against the Witness as the fate of time and mankind hangs in the balance. All the pieces finally come together to mark the end of the beginning.

Runtime: 43 min
Episode 11: The Beginning (2)
2018-07-06

When all hope is lost, Cole must complete his cycle so that his younger self will one day arrive at the end with the answer.

Runtime: 43 min

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