12 MONKEYS {TWELVE MONKEYS}: THE RED FOREST (TV)
Summary
One in this science-fiction television series based on the film of the same name about a man from a post-apocalyptic future who travels back in time to prevent a global pandemic from devastating humanity.
Upon arriving in the future, Cole makes his way around the facility, now occupied by the West Seven. He keeps experiencing visions of the facility as it was the way he left it. The occupants take him to a holding area where Jones is being kept, but she does not recognize him. She explains that the West Seven took over the facility two years ago. Cole tries to convince her that he participated in her experiments, and keeps experiencing fluctuations in his own memory. He proves this by providing her with a sample of his blood, and she observes that his molecules are in a state of quantum flux induced by her injections. She theorizes that history was somehow altered and he ended up in an alternate timeline. She insists that the initial virus outbreak took place in Chechnya in 2015 as part of something called “Operation Troy,” but this contradicts the history that Cole remembers. Cole also finds that Jones does not recognize Cassandra’s name, indicating that her message was never received. They inspect old news files and discover that Cassandra was shot and murdered in 2015, thus leaving her unable to send the message. Cole believes she died after he went back to the future, and Jones believes that her death caused history to diverge from its original timeline. Jones also explains that Cole is experiencing memories from multiple timelines, thus disorienting him; she says he will die unless the past is altered again.
Cole is brought to speak to the leader of West Seven, who in this timeline is Ramse. Ramse is surprised to see him, as he says that Cole is dead. Ramse nearly kills Cole until Cole proves his identity by revealing that he knows personal information about him. Ramse tells him that after being repulsed from the facility and burying Cole he went back to the West Seven, challenged and killed Deacon, and assumed control. Cole attempts to convince him to send him back in time, but Ramse hesitates, unwilling to risk draining the remainder of their power. He consents, but Whitley (now a member of the West Seven) protests and holds him at gunpoint. Ramse is unable to get him to stand down and he shoots Jones before Ramse runs up and breaks his neck. As she bleeds out, Jones calibrates the machine and Cole promises to save her and everyone else. Cole arrives in a department store in 2015 and discovers he arrived at his intended date, July 6th, 2015.
Meanwhile, Senator Royce upbraids Aaron for probing too deeply into the investigation surrounding Leland’s death. He picks up a CIA file labeled “Operation Troy.” Cole ambushes Aaron in a parking garage and kidnaps him, instructing him to drive him to Cassandra’s bookstore, claiming that she is in danger. Aaron rams his car into a parked vehicle in an attempt to kill Cole, but he fails and follows Cole’s instructions. Once there, Cole attempts to tell Aaron about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys and that he and Cassandra are currently being held by them in the “night room.” He tries to convince Aaron to go save Cassandra from the Twelve Monkeys, explaining that it would be disastrous if he were ever to encounter another time-displaced version of himself. Aaron becomes curious when Cole mentions Operation Troy. Before they can do anything else the police arrive, as Aaron had secretly called them earlier. They escape through the back door and travel to Westminster, Maryland, just outside the “night room.” They wait outside until the Twelve Monkeys and Cassandra exit the building. Aaron attempts to shoot the mysterious man, but ends up hitting the previous incarnation of Cole in the shoulder. The other Cole briefly feels the pain of this injury, but suddenly recalls a memory of Jones treating his wound and finds that it has already healed. The Twelve Monkeys manage to escape with Cassandra. Markridge security officers arrive and find Jennifer standing there alone.
Aaron attempts to track the license plate number of the van that carried off Cassandra. Cassandra is deposited in an unknown building and overhears a conversation between the mysterious man and a woman about how the vault in the “night room” was a “dead end.” They also indicate that Cassandra is to be kept alive for the time being, as the previously-mentioned “Witness” has deemed her important for some reason. Aaron and Cole find a landscaping company the van is licensed to and search for clues. Cassandra is brought before the unknown woman and the mysterious man, who force her to ingest an unknown substance. This substance, coupled with a hypnotic suggestion, causes her to hallucinate that she is walking through a forest. The woman intones that another individual wishes to meet her. Cole finds a photograph of a broken plate bearing an insignia similar to that of the Twelve Monkeys, but his altered memory makes him unable to recognize it. They ambush two men and incapacitate them, and Cole attempts to coerce Cassandra’s location from one of them. Aaron manages to persuade him to tell them where Cassandra is.
Cassandra is confronted by a robed individual in a mask while still suffering from hallucinatory effects, ostensibly the Witness. She flees and the Twelve Monkeys men give chase. Cole and Aaron find her and Cole shoots the mysterious man, incapacitating him. Cassandra insists that they stay and kill the Witness before they leave. Cole gives Cassandra the photograph he found earlier and sends Cassandra and Aaron away while he stays behind. Suddenly Cole is pulled back to the future before their eyes, much to Aaron’s shock. He finds that everything has been restored to how it was before the timeline was altered. In 2015, Aaron takes Cassandra back to the bookstore as she recovers from her hallucinations. Aaron apologizes for not believing her and not supporting her for the past two years. He believes that Operation Troy is somehow significant, but he is unsure of what it is. In 2043, Cole recovers from his injuries after relaying information about the alternate timeline. Jones decides to refocus their mission in order to determine the importance of Operation Troy. Cole speaks to Jones about a comment the other version of her made, and deduces that each instance of time travel has a deleterious effect on his body, and that the process may kill him before he can accomplish his mission. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syfy Channel
- DATE: November 30, 1999 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:40:31
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 125875
- GENRE: Drama, fantasy/science fiction
- SUBJECT HEADING: Hispanic Collection - Drama; Drama, fantasy/science-fiction
- SERIES RUN: Syfy Channel - TV series, 2015-2018
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Richard Suckle … Executive Producer
- Natalie Chaidez … Executive Producer
- Charles Roven … Executive Producer
- Terry Matalas … Co-Executive Producer, Developed by
- Travis Fickett … Co-Executive Producer, Developed by
- David Grossman … Co-Executive Producer
- Rebecca Kirsch … Producer
- Jake Kurily … Producer
- Michael Wray … Producer
- Richard E. Robbins … Co-Producer
- Livia Hanich … Co-Producer
- Alex Zakrezewski … Director
- Christopher Monfette … Writer
- David Peoples … Based on the motion picture “12 Monkeys” screenplay by
- Janet Peoples … Based on the motion picture “12 Monkeys” screenplay by
- Chris Marker … Inspired by “La Jetée” by
- Trevor Rabin … Music by
- Paul Linford … Music by
- Aaron Stanford … Cast, James Cole
- Amanda Schull … Cast, Dr. Cassandra Railly
- Kirk Acevedo … Cast, José Ramse
- Noah Bean … Cast, Aaron Marker
- Barbara Sukowa … Cast, Katarina Jones
- Emily Hampshire … Cast, Jennifer Goines
- Demore Barnes … Cast, Whitley
- Alisen Down … Cast, Striking Woman
- Ari Millen … Cast, Adam Wexler
- Tom Noonan … Cast, The Pallid Man
- Bill Timoney … Cast, Senator Royce
- Adam Bogen … Cast, Keller
- Diane Johnstone … Cast, Box Store Clerk
- Michael Orr … Cast, Scav #1
- Bryan Edwards … Cast, Witness