12 Monkeys (TV Series)

The Keys (2015)

Aaron Stanford: James Cole

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Quotes 

• James Cole : Listen, I want to tell you something. It won't make any sense to you now, but it will the next time you see me.

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : Okay. Okay.

  James Cole : It's the Keys. Huh... I couldn't tell you before, because I was too embarrassed. It's the Keys in Florida. I saw a... picture of a... beach there in a magazine once. That's where I'd go.

• Adam Wexler : Maybe a plague is precisely what the world needs. The liars die out. The living forget the lies. Society's great reset switch.

  James Cole : It won't reset anything. Just turns us all back into animals.

  Adam Wexler : I expose the truth to the world, and for that, I have been labeled a traitor. A monster. Maybe I should upload this plague to the masses. An analog solution for a digital problem. Give 'em a real virus this time. It'll be chaos, but then, order. Tell me, Cole. What about this world is worth saving if they would risk extinction to swat a fly?

• Server : [Cole is obsessively staring at a random painting during the party]  Excuse me, sir? Would you like a tandoori skewer?

  James Cole : [Cole awkwardly takes every skewer off the plate he was offering]  Thanks.

• Adam Wexler : The Army of the 12 Monkeys.

  James Cole : You know them?

  Adam Wexler : CIA monitors groups all over the world. I always liked the weird ones. I remember him. A briefing. Cryptic. 1987. A war with the Yakuza in... Tokyo. Place called The White Dragon.

  James Cole : 1987. Leland said... What do they want? Why a plague?

  Adam Wexler : Death, time, rebirth. Monkeys. Like hours on a clock.

• Adam Wexler : You know, the CIA can murder and lie with impunity, in exchange for what? Order? Progress? Cell phones and the illusion of safety?

  James Cole : I don't know what your deal is. But if you or anybody else who's infected walks outta here alive, it's over. For everyone.

  Adam Wexler : I never thought that I would meet anyone more nihilistic than me.

• Adam Wexler : Why are you so willing to die?

  James Cole : I got it comin'. Other people don't. Order from chaos, it isn't real.

• Dr. Cassandra Railly : Cole?

  James Cole : I'm here. I'm still here.

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : Okay.

  James Cole : I'm glad I got to know you, Cassie.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : What do you think will happen, when this is over? I know you say that the future will be saved and that you won't exist, but... what do you think happens? To you?

  James Cole : I don't know. Wind up a better me in a better place, I hope.

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : And what is that, that... place? What does it look like to you?

  James Cole : [chuckles]  I was in foster care, when I was little. The other kids used to have this game they'd play, talking about where they'd go if they could go anywhere. Exotic places, mostly, just stupid kid stuff.

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : Where was your place?

  James Cole : [from Cassie's memory]  "It's the Keys."

  [Cole grunts; a soft rumbling starts] 

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : Cole, wait.

  James Cole : What is it?

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : Goodbye.

  [he splinters]