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12 Monkeys- Great series finale! So the ep starts with Jones and her team opening up Project Splinter. Athan shows up to talk to Katarina alone- she thinks he's some random scav. Anyways, he gives her some advice which boils down to one day there'll come a time where sacrificing one life for 7 billion just won't do, that that's too high a price to pay. This is important later, obviously.
And as an aside, I am an idiot. When Old Jennifer showed up last week, I thought it had to do with future Cole plucking her from the timeline or whatever. I totally forgot since they're in the "past" of 2043, Old Jennifer is still alive at this point in time.
So yeah, the team has the code, only it will take too long for their systems to compile, certainly not enough time before the Red Forest takes over. So Cole says they could do it if they take Titan. But since we're at the end point, he has a couple of things to do first- grab himself at the end of Season 2 in order and have that conversation, and of course also save Jennifer at the train station in 2017.
Anyways, taking Titan will take more manpower than they have, so Cassie comes up with a crazy idea, grab Ramse before Cole kills him, so they can get his help, Which 1) so in the forest, not only was Katarina secretly watching, Ramse and Cole were jumping back and forth as well? 2) To avoid a paradox, Ramse will have to be brought back here to his death after all this is done. But it does make sense now why he was all, "Don't ever undo this!" as his dying words. Because that was him who knew a lot more than that Cole knew, and that events had to happen as they did for Cole to get to the point he was now.
So yeah, Ramse and Cole grab the car Cole's dad restored with Hannah, and Cole finds the engagement ring Matthew was going to propose with. Which he uses to propose to Cassie with. He may be doomed, but at least they can have that moment.
Now onto their plan- Jennifer takes the tea to taunt Olivia, who possesses her and see Katarina sitting amongst the swirl of markings. So Olivia freaks, thinking they've found a weapon to use against her, and splinters Titan to 2043 Manhattan. Only, its a trap, and Cole and Ramse charge in in the Camaro (heh, Ramse wanted some good music to fight and possibly die to, and they end up settling for "Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing!) and fight their way in. Jones then splinters their base into Titan so their machine can put up interference to prevent Titan from splintering away.
Cassie and Jennifer use the distraction to sneak in to upload the program into Titan's computers to get it compile. Meanwhile, the Daughters have to hold off Titan's forces from getting to the Machine room. Only, they're overwhelemed, and they all die, as well as Adler, who was also fighting until he ran out of bullets. So Katarina is about to get killed, Cole and Ramse are pinned down as well.
Jennifer hopes for a miracle, and well I guess engineers one, reminding herself to come up with a plan in her future (which is their present). And Old Jennifer had apparently gone to 2043 Deacon, told him about time travel and got the West VII to help. So Max saves Katarina, while Deacon saves Cole and Ramse. The latter group goes to destroy the generator, but its not enough, as the reaction is too far gone that the process is powering itself.
Cassie and Jennifer go to confront Olivia at the tower. Its a knock down, drag out fight between Cassie and Olivia, and at one point the splinter lenses are just going haywire. And so Cassie kicks Olivia into one of the beams, cutting her in half. And her upper body ends up in the past, where she's the corpse they got the virus from (ah, guess I was wrong about it being Cole)
With Olivia defeated, they win, right? Well, Cassie refuses to shut the device off at first, thinking she and Cole and Athan can be in the Red Forest together forever. But Cole manages to get through to her at the last second and they stop the apocalypse.
With the 12 Monkeys defeated, everyone has to finish their cycles to get Cole to the point he is so they can scrub him from the timeline. Which is kinda confusing at first, but I guess they have to play out this timeline in order to undo things.
So apparently, Deacon was just playing a role this whole time (Cassie gives him a hug and assures him he's a good man), being coached by Jennifer about what he needs to do. Which seems kinda crazy, but it does explain his change of heart from being an evil warlord, if he was always a secret good guy from the beginning.
Ramse goes back to get shot, Jennifer goes back to become old Jennifer, and Cassie goes back to succumb to the disease to make the recording (which we finally here the whole version of) and be found by Cole so he can get he watch.
Cole spends one last moment with his grandma, saying she was like a mother to him, before she dies of the Splinter-Cancer. And so he runs the program to scrub himself from time.
So cut back to 2013, where we go back to the pilot, only when Cole doesn't show up, Cassie gets her memories back and goes looking for him. Only he's not at the Emerson, and she realizes he's gone for good. Not that she doesn't hope- in fact, she buys their house and goes to live there, waiting for him. Which, heh, at that point in time she was still engaged to what's his name! Won't he be all confused that she suddenly broke up with him, seemingly out of nowhere?
But yeah, because everything was undone, there's no plague, and everyone else lives happy lives. Lasky and Adler play chess in the park. Jennifer genetically engineers a unicorn (heh, the headline in the newscast is "Scientific Community says 'Why!?'") and when she gets older, she's hanging out at he Deacon brothers bar. Ramse still has Sam, and the Jones are a happy family. Though what's up with the lack of Whitley's fate?
So everyone is happy except for Cassie and Cole. Only, Jones made a last minute change to the splinter program, thanks to Athan's words to her in the beginning. He's still scrubbed from time, only instead of disintegrating him, the machine sends "the last him" to 2017 Florida, where Jennifer is waiting to tell him what Jones did for him. And so Cassie isn't waiting in vain, and Cole does eventually show up at the house so they can live happily ever after.
It may be schmaltzy for them to end up together, but whatever, like Jennifer said, "time owes them!"
12 Monkeys- Great series finale! So the ep starts with Jones and her team opening up Project Splinter. Athan shows up to talk to Katarina alone- she thinks he's some random scav. Anyways, he gives her some advice which boils down to one day there'll come a time where sacrificing one life for 7 billion just won't do, that that's too high a price to pay. This is important later, obviously.
And as an aside, I am an idiot. When Old Jennifer showed up last week, I thought it had to do with future Cole plucking her from the timeline or whatever. I totally forgot since they're in the "past" of 2043, Old Jennifer is still alive at this point in time.
So yeah, the team has the code, only it will take too long for their systems to compile, certainly not enough time before the Red Forest takes over. So Cole says they could do it if they take Titan. But since we're at the end point, he has a couple of things to do first- grab himself at the end of Season 2 in order and have that conversation, and of course also save Jennifer at the train station in 2017.
Anyways, taking Titan will take more manpower than they have, so Cassie comes up with a crazy idea, grab Ramse before Cole kills him, so they can get his help, Which 1) so in the forest, not only was Katarina secretly watching, Ramse and Cole were jumping back and forth as well? 2) To avoid a paradox, Ramse will have to be brought back here to his death after all this is done. But it does make sense now why he was all, "Don't ever undo this!" as his dying words. Because that was him who knew a lot more than that Cole knew, and that events had to happen as they did for Cole to get to the point he was now.
So yeah, Ramse and Cole grab the car Cole's dad restored with Hannah, and Cole finds the engagement ring Matthew was going to propose with. Which he uses to propose to Cassie with. He may be doomed, but at least they can have that moment.
Now onto their plan- Jennifer takes the tea to taunt Olivia, who possesses her and see Katarina sitting amongst the swirl of markings. So Olivia freaks, thinking they've found a weapon to use against her, and splinters Titan to 2043 Manhattan. Only, its a trap, and Cole and Ramse charge in in the Camaro (heh, Ramse wanted some good music to fight and possibly die to, and they end up settling for "Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing!) and fight their way in. Jones then splinters their base into Titan so their machine can put up interference to prevent Titan from splintering away.
Cassie and Jennifer use the distraction to sneak in to upload the program into Titan's computers to get it compile. Meanwhile, the Daughters have to hold off Titan's forces from getting to the Machine room. Only, they're overwhelemed, and they all die, as well as Adler, who was also fighting until he ran out of bullets. So Katarina is about to get killed, Cole and Ramse are pinned down as well.
Jennifer hopes for a miracle, and well I guess engineers one, reminding herself to come up with a plan in her future (which is their present). And Old Jennifer had apparently gone to 2043 Deacon, told him about time travel and got the West VII to help. So Max saves Katarina, while Deacon saves Cole and Ramse. The latter group goes to destroy the generator, but its not enough, as the reaction is too far gone that the process is powering itself.
Cassie and Jennifer go to confront Olivia at the tower. Its a knock down, drag out fight between Cassie and Olivia, and at one point the splinter lenses are just going haywire. And so Cassie kicks Olivia into one of the beams, cutting her in half. And her upper body ends up in the past, where she's the corpse they got the virus from (ah, guess I was wrong about it being Cole)
With Olivia defeated, they win, right? Well, Cassie refuses to shut the device off at first, thinking she and Cole and Athan can be in the Red Forest together forever. But Cole manages to get through to her at the last second and they stop the apocalypse.
With the 12 Monkeys defeated, everyone has to finish their cycles to get Cole to the point he is so they can scrub him from the timeline. Which is kinda confusing at first, but I guess they have to play out this timeline in order to undo things.
So apparently, Deacon was just playing a role this whole time (Cassie gives him a hug and assures him he's a good man), being coached by Jennifer about what he needs to do. Which seems kinda crazy, but it does explain his change of heart from being an evil warlord, if he was always a secret good guy from the beginning.
Ramse goes back to get shot, Jennifer goes back to become old Jennifer, and Cassie goes back to succumb to the disease to make the recording (which we finally here the whole version of) and be found by Cole so he can get he watch.
Cole spends one last moment with his grandma, saying she was like a mother to him, before she dies of the Splinter-Cancer. And so he runs the program to scrub himself from time.
So cut back to 2013, where we go back to the pilot, only when Cole doesn't show up, Cassie gets her memories back and goes looking for him. Only he's not at the Emerson, and she realizes he's gone for good. Not that she doesn't hope- in fact, she buys their house and goes to live there, waiting for him. Which, heh, at that point in time she was still engaged to what's his name! Won't he be all confused that she suddenly broke up with him, seemingly out of nowhere?
But yeah, because everything was undone, there's no plague, and everyone else lives happy lives. Lasky and Adler play chess in the park. Jennifer genetically engineers a unicorn (heh, the headline in the newscast is "Scientific Community says 'Why!?'") and when she gets older, she's hanging out at he Deacon brothers bar. Ramse still has Sam, and the Jones are a happy family. Though what's up with the lack of Whitley's fate?
So everyone is happy except for Cassie and Cole. Only, Jones made a last minute change to the splinter program, thanks to Athan's words to her in the beginning. He's still scrubbed from time, only instead of disintegrating him, the machine sends "the last him" to 2017 Florida, where Jennifer is waiting to tell him what Jones did for him. And so Cassie isn't waiting in vain, and Cole does eventually show up at the house so they can live happily ever after.
It may be schmaltzy for them to end up together, but whatever, like Jennifer said, "time owes them!"
