12 Monkeys (TV Series)

Ouroboros (2018)

Barbara Sukowa: Katarina Jones

Quotes 

• James Cole : All right, you prep for me and Cassie. Once we're gone, you delete the files, preserve some bit of causality, and then you head back to the Emerson.

  Katarina Jones : And then what? Wait for the world to change, as it once did with you tomorrow? James, we are echoes here... following ourselves, hoping that the figure in front of us is smarter than we are. First Leland, then Athan, then each other, now Olivia. How high a wall of bodies must we build to see the curve of history? Same loops, same mistakes, over and over and over. The snake.

  James Cole : Eating its own tail. Jennifer's drawings... visions, voices in her head. She was on to something.

  Katarina Jones : We are stuck here. We are blind. Ms. Goines is the only one of us who can see.

  James Cole : We need to get back in the game. But we can't do anything without a machine.

  Katarina Jones : Mr. Ramse is right. At this moment in time, I hadn't perfected it. I was then lost as I am now, trusting only... Wait here for Dr. Railly. Stay out of sight until I find you. There's something I need to do.

• Young Katarina Jones : I'll be curious... someday to know what just occurred to you.

  Katarina Jones : Maybe there is a way. Maybe... You realize that you cannot remember this moment.

  Young Katarina Jones : Benzodiazepine and a half bottle of whiskey? By morning, you're a dream - a hallucination at best. Go. Fix it. Oh, wait, wait! Before you leave, dear God - tell me this: how do I get these damn tethers working?

  Katarina Jones : Stop thinking about machine programming so linearly. Time isn't a straight line. It's a curve. It bends around itself, growing while it turns. Programming with an algorithmic spiral. Just a warning: I'm about to make your life very difficult.

  Young Katarina Jones : You always have.