12 Monkeys (TV Series)

Nature (2017)

Aaron Stanford: James Cole

Quotes 

• James Cole : Go home to your family. In fact, when I call you in '61, just call me a douchebag, and hang up.

  Agent Robert Gale : Well, I don't know what a douchebag is, but I'll definitely call you something.

  James Cole : You're gonna help me anyway, aren't you? Another goddamn loop.

  Agent Robert Gale : I don't know. We'll find out in '61. Good luck.

• Agent Robert Gale : People just want to believe they have control over their own fate.

  James Cole : Good luck with that.

  Dr. Cassandra Railly : What do you think, Gale? About fate?

  Agent Robert Gale : In my experience, Cassie, you can bust down a door on a routine raid, and before you know it, some numbskull with a $30 popgun from Sears Roebuck is either giving you a haircut, or putting your lights out. That's not fate, that's dumb luck. But, either way, when it's time for my dirt nap... yeah, I hope I'd have something to say about it all.

• Agent Robert Gale : [seeing Cole and Cassie]  Holy shit. I guess Santa brought me coal for Christmas after all.

  James Cole : We need your help.

  Agent Robert Gale : Okay.

• Agent Robert Gale : "Sister". You must really have taken me for a dim-witted schmo.

  James Cole : Huh? Oh. Yeah.

  Agent Robert Gale : Had me fooled back in '44. Different this time, though. The way she looks at you. The way you look at her.

  [he chuckles] 

  Agent Robert Gale : That story she told about you having your giggle-stick shot off, you copping to that, too?

  James Cole : Trust me. If that had happened, we wouldn't be in this situation.