(WOMAN ANNOUNCING ON PA SYSTEM)
(EXCITED CHATTING, SHOUTING)
(EXPLOSION, BEEPING NOISE)
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
PA ANNOUNCER: Passengers for flight 841 to Rome, come to gate seven.
(ANNOUNCER CONTINUES INDISTINCT)
Flight 784 to San Francisco is now ready for boarding at...
PA, FEMALE WARDEN: Inmate number 87645, Cole, James.
27631,Johnson.
84743, Innis.
(WARDEN CONTINUES INDISTINCT)
Jose.
Jose, what's going on? Bad news, man.
Volunteers? Yeah, and they said your name.
Hey, maybe they'll give you a pardon, man.
Yeah. That's why none of the volunteers come back. They all get a pardon.
Some came back, I heard. (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
Please put me back! Don't take me.
They got 'em up on the seventh floor. They hide 'em up there.
They're all messed up in the head. Brains don't work.
You don't know they're all messed up. Nobody's seen 'em.
Maybe they're not messed up. That's a rumor. Nobody knows that.
I don't believe that.
Good luck, man.
Volunteer duty.
COLE: I didn't volunteer.
You causing trouble again?
No, no trouble.
PA, FEMALE WARDEN: These are the instructions for the first time probe.
Listen carefully, they must be followed exactly.
All openings of your garment must be sealed completely.
If the integrity of the suit is compromised in any way,
if the fabric is torn or a zipper not closed,
re-admittance will be denied.
(WIND HOWLING)
(GROWLING)
(SILENT NIGHT PLAYING)
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
(HOOTING)
(ROARING)
PA, MALE WARDEN: If there are any indications of contamination by germs,
the subject will be denied reentry to secure population.
FEMALE WARDEN: Please place blood sample in receptacle provided.
There will be a socialization class in room 700
for citizens cited for deviations 23-A and 96-A
per subchapter six of the Permanent Emergency Code.
MAN: James Cole, cleared from quarantine.
Thank you. You two wait outside.
He's got a history, Doctor. Violence.
Anti-social six. Repeated violations of the Permanent Emergency Code.
Insolence. Defiance.
Disregard of authority. Doing 25 to life.
I don't think he's gonna hurt us.
You aren't gonna hurt us, are you, Mr. Cole?
No, sir.
Why don't you sit down, Mr. Cole?
We appreciate your volunteering. You're a very good observer.
Thank you.
GEOLOGIST: We have a very advanced program. Something very different.
MICROBIOLOGIST: Opportunity to reduce your sentence.
ZOOLOGIST: And possibly play an important role
in returning the human race to surface of the earth.
ASTROPHYSICIST: We want tough-minded people. Strong mentally.
We've had some misfortunes with unstable types.
ENGINEER: For a man in your position, an opportunity.
Not to volunteer could be a real mistake.
MICROBIOLOGIST: Definitely a mistake.
WOMAN: "Yet among the myriad microwaves,
"the infrared messages, the gigabytes of ones and zeros,
"we find words, byte-sized now,
"tinier even than science, lurking in some vague electricity.
"But if we but listen,
"we hear the solitary voice of that poet telling us,
(BEEPING)
"yesterday this day's madness did prepare
(BEEPING CONTINUES) "tomorrow's silent triumph ordespaw.
"Drink, for you know not whence you came, nor why.
"Drink, for you know not why you go, nor where."
(CHATTING)
...wandering around in nothing but his underpants
and one of those plastic, see-through lady's raincoats.
So, they get there, they ask the guy real nice for some kind of ID.
He gets agitated, starts screaming about viruses.
Totally irrational, totally disoriented.
Doesn't know where he is, what day of the week it is.
Lemme see.
All they got was his name. Thanks.
Of course, they figured he's stoned out of his mind.
Some kind of psychotic episode.
He's been tested for drugs? Negative for drugs.
But he took on five cops like he was dusted to the eyeballs.
No drugs. You believe that? He's in restraints.
Yeah. Weren't you listenin'? I've got two police officers in the hospital!
The medic gave him enough Stelazine to kill a horse. Look at him. Rarin' to go.
That would explain the bruises, I guess. The struggle.
Yeah. You wanna go in there, examine him, what?
Yes, please.
Is this all you have? Ran it through your system?
No matchup. No license, no prints, no warrants. Nothing.
I should probably go in with you.
No, thank you. That won't be necessary.
All right. He'll be right here, just in case.
Mr. Cole, my name is Kathryn Railly. I'm a psychiatrist.
I work for the county. I don't work for the police.
So my concern is for your well-being. Do you understand that?
Need to go! Need to go!
I can't make the police let you go.
But I do want to help you, sol...
I need you to tell me exactly what happened tonight.
Do you think you can do that, James?
May I call you James?
James.
Nobody ever calls me that.
Have you been a patient at County? No.
Have I seen you someplace? Not possible.
I need to go. I need to... I'm supposed to be gathering information.
What kind of information? Won't help you.
Won't help anyone. Won't change anything.
James, do you know why you're here?
'Cause I'm a good observer. Got a tough mind.
I see.
You don't remember assaulting a police officer?
Why am I chained? Why are these chains on me?
You've been in an institution before, haven't you?
Or hospital? No! Now I need to go!
Need to go!
Have you been in prison, James? Underground.
Hiding?
I love this air.
Oh, it's such wonderful air.
What's wonderful about the air, James? Very fresh. No germs.
Why do you think there aren't any germs in the air?
This is October, right? April.
What year is this? What year do you think it is?
1996.
That's the future, James. Do you think you're living in the future?
1996 is the past. No, 1996 is the future.
This is 1990.
(LOUD CHATTING)
Shut up, ladies.
Where're you taking me?
South of France, buddy. Fancy hotel. You'll love it.
I can't go. I just need to make a telephone call.
Yeah, yeah. Zip it, daisy. You fooled the shrink, but you don't fool us.
Let's go, ace.
All right. Come on, come on.
There you go. Now, lemme see your head, Jimbo.
See if you got any creepy crawlers.
I need to make a telephone call.
Got to take you over to the doctor, Jimbo. Can't make no calls 'til the doctor says.
It's very important! What you got to do, Jimbo, is take it easy.
Relax into things. And we'll all get along fine if you just relax.
Wow! Whoo!
Let's go. Come on, let's go.
Hey, Goines!
Yo. Goines!
Yo. Jeffrey!
Goines! What?
Look here. This here's James.
Now, do me a favor. Why don't you show him around?
Tell him the TV rules. Show him the games and stuff. Okay?
How much you gonna pay me? How much? I'd be doin' your job.
Five thousand dollars, my man. That enough?
JEFFREY: Five thousand.
I'll wire a check to your account as usual.
Five thousand dollars! Five thousand dollars!
Five thousand dollars.
I'll give him the deluxe mental hospital tour.
My man! Kid around, makes 'em feel good.
We're pals. I love you. You're the prisoners. No, you're the guards.
Now you got it.
Okay, it's all in good fun.
Here's some games here. And there's...
Get out! Get out!
(WHIMPERING)
He was in my chair.
Games. Games.
Here's some games. Games that wanna get out.
See? More games. Games, they vegetize you.
See?
If you play the games, you're voluntarily taking a tranquilizer.
I guess they gave you some chemical restraints.
Drugs!
What'd they give you? Thorazine? Haldol? How much? How much?
Learn your drugs. Know your doses. It's elementary.
I need to make a telephone call. A telephone call?
That's communication with the outside world.
Doctor's discretion. No.
If all of these nuts could just make phone calls,
it could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables,
oozing to the ears of all these poor, sane people, infecting them.
Wackos everywhere. A plague of madness.
In fact, very few, Jim...
Jim, very few of us here are actually mentally ill.
I'm not saying you're not mentally ill.
For all I know you're crazy as a loon.
But that's not why you're here.
That's not why you're here! That's not why you're here!
You're here because of the system.
There's the television. It's all right there.
All right there.
Look, listen, kneel, pray. The commercials!
We're not productive any more. Don't make things any more.
It's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers, Jim.
Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen.
But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, what are you then?
What? You're mentally ill!
Fact, Jim. Fact.
If you don't buy things: toilet paper, new cars,
electrically operated sexual devices,
stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones,
screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices,
voice-activated computers...
Take it easy, Jeffrey. Be calm.
JEFFREY: Right. That's right. You're a very attractive woman.
(EXCLAIMS)
If you want to watch a particular television program, like All My Children,
you can go to the charge nurse and tell her the day,
the time the show you wanna see is on.
But you have to tell her before the show is scheduled to be on.
There was this guy and he was always requesting shows that had already played.
Yes. No. You have to tell her before.
He couldn't quite grasp the idea
that the charge nurse couldn't make it be yesterday.
She couldn't turn back time! Thank you, Einstein.
Now he, he was nuts. He was a fruitcake, Jim.
Okay, that's it, Jeffrey.
You're going to get a shot.
I warned you.
Right. Right, right, right. I got a little carried away
explaining the inner workings of the institution to Jim.
I don't really come from outer space.
L.J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer space.
Don't mock me, my friend.
(LAUGHING)
(GROWLING) Get outta my chair!
It's a condition of mental divergence.
I find myself on the planet Ogo.
Part of an intellectual elite
preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto.
But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way,
nevertheless, Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche.
I am mentally divergent
in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities
that plague my life here.
When I stop going there,
I Will be Well.
Are you also divergent, friend?
This is a place for crazy people.
I'm not crazy.
We don't use that term, "crazy," Mr. Cole.
You've got some real nuts here!
I know some things that you don't know.
It's gonna be very difficult for you to understand it.
Hey! Hey, hey.
Hey, I'm not going to hurt anyone.
All right.
Look,
have any of you heard of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys?
They, they paint this.
They stencil this on the sides of buildings everywhere.
Have you seen this?
Mr. Cole? Have you seen this?
Why don't you take your time
and try to explain this from the beginning?
Right, right. It's 1990.
Okay, that makes sense. They wouldn't've been active yet.
(SHOUTS)
(SIGHS)
Five billion people died in 1996 and 1997.
Almost the entire population of the world.
Only about one percent of us survived.
Are you going to save us?
How can I save you? This already happened.
I can't save you. Nobody can.
I am simply trying to gather information
to help the people in the present trace the path of the virus.
We're not in the present now, Mr. Cole? No.
1990 is the past. This already happened. That's what I'm trying...
Mr. Cole? Mr. Cole?
You believe 1996 is the present then, is that it?
No! 1996 is the past too. Listen to me. What I...
What I...
What I need to do is make a telephone call.
I can straighten this out if I make a telephone call.
Who would you call? Who would straighten everything out?
The scientists. They'll want to know that they sent me to the wrong time.
I can leave a voice-mail message that they monitor from the present.
Can I just make one telephone call, please?
Please?
What are you doing in the dog bowl? Get out of there!
(PHONE RINGING) Who put those Doritos in there anyway?
Yes? What? Voice mail?
Look, I don't know... Stop makin' that noise!
I don't know what you're talkin' about.
Is this a joke? I don't know any scientists.
Duanne, get out... James who?
(DIAL TONE)
Wasn't who you expected?
No. It was some lady. She didn't know anything.
Well, maybe it was the wrong number.
No. That's why they chose me. I remember things.
James, where did you grow up?
Dr. Railly.
KATHRYN: I have the strangest feeling I've met you before.
(CLEARS TH ROAT)
Wait, this is 1990.
I'm supposed to be leaving messages in 1996!
It's not the right number yet! That's the problem!
COLE: We have a message for them.
No!
(GUNSHOT)
Won't work. You can't open it.
You think you can remove the grill, but you can't. It's welded.
See? Told you. All the doors are locked too.
They're protecting people on the outside from us
when the people on the outside are as crazy as us.
Do you know what "crazy" is? Crazy is majority rules. Yeah.
Take germs for example.
Germs?
In the eighteenth century, no such thing.
Nada. Nothing. No one even imagined such a thing!
No sane person, anyway.
Along comes this doctor...
Semmelweisl Semmelweis.
Semmelweis comes along and he's trying to convince people,
other doctors mainly,
that there are these teeny, tiny, invisible bad things called germs
that get into your body and make you sick.
He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands.
What is this guy? Crazy?
Teeny, tiny, invisible, "what do you call 'em? Germs? What?"
Now, cut to the twentieth century.
Last week as a matter of fact right before I got dragged into this hellhole!
I go in to order a burger in this fast-food joint.
The guy drops it on the floor.
Jim, he picks it up, wipes it off.
He hands it to me like it was all okay.
"What about germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs.
"Germs are just a plot they made up
"so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps."
Now, he's crazy, right? See?
There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.
You, you, you believe in germs, right?
I'm not crazy.
Of course not! You want to escape, right? That's very sane.
I can help you. You want me to, don't ya? Get you out?
You know how to get outta here?
(LAUGHING)
Yes, my son! Then why don't ya?
Why don't I try to escape? That's what you were gonna ask.
Good question. Very good question. Intelligent.
Because I would be crazy to escape. I have sent out word.
I am all taken care of.
What does that mean?
I've managed to contact certain underlings, evil spirits,
secretaries of secretaries, and other assorted minions
who will contact my father.
And when my father finds out I'm in this kind of place,
he'll have them transfer me to one of those classy joints,
where they treat you properly, like a person, a guest!
With sheets and towels like a big hotel,
with great drugs for all of us nut-case, lunatic, maniac devils!
(ALL GROANING)
JEFFREY: Sorry. Sorry.
I got a little agitated.
The thought of escape crossed my mind. And suddenly...
Suddenly, I felt like bending the fucking bars back!
And ripping out the goddamn window frames and eating them!
Yes, eating them!
And leaping, leaping, leaping!
Colonies for everyone!
All right! You dumb assholes, I'm a mental patient.
I'm supposed to act out.
Wait till you morons find out who I am! My father's gonna be really upset.
And when my father gets upset, the ground shakes.
My father is God! I worship my father!
NARRATOR ON TV: These dramatic videotapes, secretly obtained
by animal-rights activists, have aroused public indignation.
But many scientists vehemently disagree.
Torture experiments.
We're all monkeys.
They hurt you?
Not as bad as what they're doing to the Easter Bunny.
(JEFFREY CHUCKLING)
COLE: Look at them.
They're just askin' for it.
NARRATOR: Animals inside the lab...
Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.
Wiping out the human race?
It's a great idea! It's great!
But more of a long-term thing.
First we have to focus on more immediate goals.
I didn't say a word about you-know-what.
What are you talking about?
Your plan. Emancipation!
What are you writing? You a reporter? It's private.
A lawsuit? It's private.
You gonna sue 'em? Yo, Jimbo. Time for your meds.
TV ANNOUNCER: Take a chance. Live the moment.
Sunshine. Gorgeous beaches.
The Florida Keys.
WOMAN: We'll return you to the Marx Brothers in Monkey Business.
Monkey Business.
Fetch!
(LAUGHING)
Get it? Monkey. Monk key.
Monk key.
What?
Shh.
TV ANNOUNCER: If you see a bearish future in the decade ahead,
consider the changes sweeping the world and the opportunities they offer.
"And the opportunities they offer."
They really dosed you. Jim!
JEFFREY: Major load. Danger, Will Robinson, danger.
You got to get it together. Focus, focus, focus.
Remember the plan. I did my part!
What?
Shh.
Not "what," when.
When? Yes.When.
Now! Now, Jim! Now!
Yes! Now! Buy! Sell!
Stocks! Bonds! Purchase! Sell! Yes!
No more monkey business! No
more monkey business! I am getting dizzy.
JEFFREY: Yes, enhance your portfolio now.
Five hundred dollars. I got $500. I'm insured!
Yeah! Window of opportunity is opening now.
Now is the time for all good men to seize the moment. The moment!
Now is the time for all good men to seize the day!
WARDEN: God damn it, Jeffrey! Quit playin' the fool!
MasterCard! Visa!
The key to happiness!
Jim, seize the moment!
WARDEN: Jeffrey, come back here!
For God's sake! Jeffrey!
(YELLING)
Go, Jim!
(GROANS)
Get out. Out! Come here, Jeffrey!
JEFFREY: The future can be yours! Last chance! Last chance!
Last chance! Last...
(GROANS)
The best place to go would be Florida.
The Keys are lovely this time of year.
GROUCHO MARX: ...it's the only way to travel.
I was gonna bring along the wife and kiddies,
but the grocer couldn't spare another barrel.
CHICO: I was gonna bring my grandfather, but there's no room for...
Two's not working today. Use one.
Kathryn, this was in my box!
But I have a slight suspicion it wasn't meant for me.
"You are the most bootiful woman I have ever sin.
"You live in a bootiful world, but you don't know it.
"You have freedom, sunshine, air you can breathe..."
James Cole, right?
(LAUGHING)
"I would do anything to stay her, but I must leave.
"Please help me." Okay, okay, okay.
Poor man. Hey, Kathryn?
James Cole is one of yours, right?
He eloped. Last seen, he was up on two.
Shit!
(ALARM RINGING)
We have to know exactly what's there so we can fix it.
Doctor, we have a visitor.
DOCTOR: May I help you? Excuse me?
May I help you? Excuse me?
Jim? Jim?
Hey, Jimbo.
What's up, man?
Hey, Jimbo.
All right, it's okay. Take it easy.
It'll be all right. Take care. Take it easy.
We'll work this out, okay?
Send you back to your room. A little milk and cookies,
you'll be all right.
Just take it easy, okay?
(GRUNTING)
Come on, calm down!
Take him down! Take him the fuck down!
(SCREAMING)
I'm not gonna hurt anyone.
Dr. Railly, help me please.
We're gonna give you something to calm you, James.
No! No more drugs!
James, we have to do this. You're very confused.
No drugs! Stop it!
(GRUNTING)
Kathryn, we've been working together for four years.
I've never seen you like this.
So please stop being so defensive. This isn't an inquisition.
I didn't think I was being defensive.
I was trying to explain exactly what...
He should've been in restraints.
It was bad judgment on your part, plain and simple. Why not own up to it?
Okay, it was bad judgment. But I have the strangest feeling about him.
I've seen him someplace. And I'm...
Two policemen are already in the hospital.
Now we've got a security guard with a skull fracture.
I said it was bad judgment! What else do you want me to say?
You see that? See what I mean?
You're being defensive. Isn't she being defensive?
Dr. Fletcher? What?
We have another situation.
He was fully restrained and the door was locked?
Yes, sir. I did it myself.
And he was fully sedated?
He was fully sedated.
Then, are you trying to tell me a fully sedated, fully restrained patient
somehow slipped out that vent, replaced the grill behind him
and is wriggling his way through the ventilation system?
(BEEPING NOISE)
Watch it!
MAN WITH RASPY VOICE: You sure fucked up!
Where are you? You can talk!
What'd you do, Bobby boy, volunteer?
My name's not Bob. Not a prob, Bob.
Where'd they send you?
Where are you? Another cell.
Maybe.
What do you mean "maybe"? What's that supposed to mean?
Maybe means
maybe I'm in the next cell.
Another volunteer like you.
Or maybe I'm in the Central Office
spying on ya for all those science bozos.
Or hey, maybe I'm not even here.
Maybe I'm just in your head.
No way to confirm anything.
(CACKLES)
Where did they send you?
90! How was it? 1990
Good drugs? Lots of pussy?
Hey, Bob, you do the job?
Did you find out the big info?
Army of the Twelve Monkeys?
It was supposed to be 1996.
Science ain't an exact science with these clowns.
But they're getting better.
You're lucky you didn't end up in Ancient Egypt.
Shh.
They're comin'.
(KATHRYN'S VOICE: DISTORTED) The Freedom for Animals Association on Second Avenue
is the secret headquarters of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
They are the ones who are going to do it.
I can't do any more. I have to go now.
Have a merry Christmas.
ASTROPHYSICIST: Well? What?
Did you or did you not record that message?
MICROBIOLOGIST: It's a reconstruction of a deteriorated recording.
BOTANIST: Weak signal.
We have to put them together one word at a time.
ASTROPHYSICIST: We just finished rebuilding this.
Did you or did you not make this call?
I couldn't make any call.
You sent me to the wrong year. It was 1990.
1990? 1990?
You're certain of that?
What did you do with your time, Cole?
Did you waste it on drugs? Women?
They forced me to take drugs.
Forced you? Why would someone force you to take drugs?
I was in trouble. I got arrested.
L...
I did what you wanted. I got a specimen, a spider.
I didn't have anyplace to put it, so I ate it.
But you sent me to the wrong year, so it really doesn't matter.
ZOOLOGIST: Did you see this when you went back?
No, sir, I don't think so.
ASTROPHYSICIST: What about these people? Did you see any of these?
No.
Oh, wait, wait.
Him?
You saw that man?
Maybe in the... Maybe in the mental institution.
MICROBIOLOGIST: You were in a mental institution?
Oh, God!
ASTROPHYSICIST: Cole, you were sent back to make some very important observations.
BOTANIST: You could've made a real contribution.
GEOLOGIST: Helped us to reclaim the planet.
ZOOLOGIST: As well as reducing your sentence.
The question is, Cole, do you want another chance?
(INDISTINCT CHATTING)
Good.
Last connection going on.
Stand clear.
He was your choice. Nothing we can do about that now.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
GEOLOGIST: No mistakes this time, Cole.
Stay alert. Keep your eyes open.
Good thinking about the spider.
Try and do something like that again.
Just relax now. Don't fight it.
MICROBIOLOGIST: We're sending you to the third quarter of 1996. Right on the money.
(EXPLOSIONS)
(SOLDIERS SPEAKING FRENCH)
(SOLDIER SCREAMING)
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
What? I don't understand!
Where am I?
I gotta find 'em! I gotta find 'em!
(MACHINE GUNS FIRING) Help! I don't know where I am!
You gotta help me find 'em!
Jose? Jose!
Cole! Cole, where are we? Where are we?
JOSE: Cole! Jose!
Help me, Cole! Oh, God! Wait!
(SCREAMS)
KATHRYN: "In a season of great pestilence, there are omens and divinations.
"And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels
"seven golden vials full of the wrath of God
"who liveth for ever and ever."
Revelations.
In the fourteenth century, according to the accounts of local officials of that time,
this man appeared suddenly in the village of Wyle near Stonehenge
in April of 1362.
Using unfamiliar words and speaking in a strange accent,
the man made dire prognostications about a pestilence
which he said would wipe out humanity in approximately 600 years.
Obviously, this plague-doomsday scenario is more compelling
when reality supports it with a virulent disease,
whether it's the bubonic plague, smallpox or AIDS.
Now we have technological horrors, such as chemical warfare,
which first reared its ugly head
during the deadly mustard gas attacks of World War I.
During such an attack in the French trenches in October of 1917,
we have an account of this soldier,
who, during an assault, was wounded by shrapnel
and hospitalized, apparently in a state of hysteria.
Doctors found that he had lost all comprehension of French,
but that he spoke English fluently,
albeit in a regional dialect they didn't recognize.
The man, though physically unaffected by the gas,
was beside himself.
He claimed that he had come from the future,
that he was looking for a pure germ
that would ultimately wipe mankind off the face of the earth
starting in the year 1996.
(AUDIENCE CHUCKLING)
Though injured, the young soldier disappeared from the hospital,
no doubt trying to carry on his mission to warn others,
and substituting for the agony of war,
a self-inflicted agony, we call the "Cassandra Complex."
Cassandra in Greek legend was condemned to know the future,
but to be disbelieved when she foretold it,
hence, the agony of foreknowledge
combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
(CHATTING, LAUGHING)
I'm going right out to get vaccinated.
KATHRYN: Hi.
I think, Dr. Railly, you've given the alarmists a bad name.
I have?
Surely there is very real and very convincing data
that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race.
This is true.
Proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits,
pollution of land, sea and air, the rape of the environment.
In this context, isn't it obvious that Chicken Little represents the sane vision?
And that Homo sapiens' motto, "Let's go shopping,"
is the cry of the true lunatic?
Kathryn, it's time. My name is Troy.
Please. Dr. Railly, I wonder if you're aware of my own studies.
MAN: See you at work tomorrow.
WOMAN: Give you a call tomorrow.
(SCREAMS) No! No!
Get in the car. Get in the car!
I have got a gun. Get in the car.
(COUGHING)
All right, drive.
Take my purse. I've got a lot of cash and credit cards.
Take my keys! Start the car!
No!
Here, turn right. Turn right here!
(COUGHING)
Wh-Where are we going? Philadelphia.
That's more than a hundred miles!
That's why I can't walk there.
Just let me go. (COUGHING) Just drive!
You can take the car. I don't know how to drive.
I went underground when I was eight years old.
I told you that before.
(COUGHING) At the next corner, turn right.
Cole. James Cole.
You escaped from a locked room six years ago.
(CARS HONKING) Six years for you.
Turn around, get goin'! Okay.
I can't believe that this is a coincidence, Mr. Cole.
Have you been following me?
You said you would help me. I know this isn't what you meant,
but I don't have any money.
I hurt my leg. And I've been sleeping on the street.
I'm sure I smell bad.
Do you have any food in this car?
You have been following me, haven't you?
No.
No, I saw this
in a store window.
I can read, remember?
Yeah.
Why do you want to go to Philadelphia?
I checked out the Baltimore information. It was nothing.
It's in Philadelphia. That's where they are, the ones who did it.
The Twelve Monkeys.
Is that a radio? Yeah.
Can you turn it on?
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
RADIO ANNOUNCER: This is a personal message to you.
Are you at the end of your rope? Are you dying to get away?
The Florida Keys are waiting for you.
Ocean waves... I've never seen the ocean.
It's an advertisement, Mr. Cole.
What is?
It's an advertisement. You do understand that?
It's not really a special message to you.
Mr. Cole.
You used to call me James. You prefer that?
James, you don't really have a gun.
Can you turn this up? Can you make this louder?
(MAN SINGING) I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
When I met you
(LAUGHING)
I love the music of the twentieth century!
I love this air! Love to breathe this air!
(LAUGHING)
(HUMMING)
MAN ON RADIO: WXBX news break. News as it happens. Roger Pratt reporting.
A story breaking with us now
is emergency crews are converging on a cornfield where playmates
of nine-year-old Ricky Neuman say they saw him disappear right before their eyes.
Young Neuman apparently stepped into an abandoned well shaft,
and is lodged somewhere in the narrow 150-foot pipe.
Possibly alive, possibly seriously injured,
playmates claim they heard him cry out faintly.
Never cry wolf. What?
My father said that to me. He said, "Never cry wolf."
'Cause then people won't believe you if something really happens.
If something really happens like what, James?
Something bad.
Can we have some more music? I don't wanna hear this stuff.
Can we hear more music?
(MAN SINGING) I see trees of green
Oh, that's good.
Red roses too
I've seen them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
(YAWNING)
What a wonderful world
(TURNS ANSWERING MACHINE ON)
Hello, Dr. Railly? Yeah, this is Wikke from Psych Admitting.
Do you remember James Cole? The paranoid who pulled the Houdini in '90?
Well, he's back and...
(WOMAN WHISPERING)
Sorry about that. He's looking for you. I thought you ought to know.
All right, take care.
It's just like I told you.
Me and my husband went ahead and she never showed.
That is totally unlike her.
Do you know the make of her car?
Cherokee. '94 Cherokee, silver.
(TV CHATTERING)
I have "doed-it!" I have "done doed-it!" Ja.
I, Professor Grossenfibber, have invented the time tunnel!
Oh, boy!
(WOODY WOODPECKER PECKING ON TREE)
WOODY WOODPECKER ON TV: Oh, excuse me, mister. Have a cigar.
(GROANING)
Excuse me, mister. Have a cigar.
No!
GROSSENFIBBER: Now my time machine is ready for experiments.
The Woodpecker! Ja.
Yoo-hoo, Woodpecker! Come back!
(BLOW5)
You were in my dream just now.
Your hair's different. Different color.
I'm sure it was you.
What was the dream about?
About an airport
before everything happened.
It's the same dream I always have. When I was a kid.
KATHRYN: And I Was in it?
What did I do?
(SIGHS) You were very upset.
You're always very upset in the dream.
Just never knew it was you.
It wasn't me before, James.
It's become me now because of what's happening.
Could you please untie me?
No, I think it was always you.
Very strange.
KATHRYN: You're flushed, and you were moaning.
I think you're running a fever.
What are you doing?
(WHIMPERING, GRUNTING)
In Fresno, California,
crews continue to attempt to rescue nine-year-old Ricky Neuman.
And closer to home, in Baltimore, Kathryn Railly,
prominent psychiatrist and the author of a newly released book on insanity,
disappeared mysteriously last night after a lecture at the university.
Former mental patient, James Cole, is wanted for questioning
regarding Dr. Railly's disappearance.
Authorities warn that Cole has a history of violence,
and advise anyone spotting him to notify authorities at once.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
Love this music.
We don't have this. We don't have anything like this.
What are all those?
These?
My notes. Clues.
What kind of clues?
It's about the secret army. The Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
They're the ones that spread the virus. That's why I'm here.
I have to find them. That's my mission.
I just have to locate them because they have the virus in its pure form
before it mutates.
When I locate them, they'll send a scientist here.
That scientist will study the virus.
Then when he goes back to the present,
he and the rest of the scientists will make a cure.
MAN ON RADIO: police officers from three jurisdictions,
including special tactical unit personnel,
have now been mobilized to control the growing thousands of onlookers
in Fresno, California...
Does that disturb you? No.
I thought it was about us.
I thought maybe they'd captured us and arrested me.
Just a joke.
I remember being very afraid for that little boy.
All alone, down that well, not knowing if anybody's gonna get him out.
The first time I was ever really afraid when I was a kid.
What do you mean, when you were a kid?
Never mind. Just a prank, a hoax. That boy's hiding in a barn.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
Well, the earth died
EVANGELIST: "There are omens and divinations.
"One of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels
"seven golden vials full of the wrath of God
"who liveth for ever and ever."
You won't think I'm crazy when people start dying next month.
First they'll think it's just some weird fever.
Then they'll find out.
They'll catch on.
Wait! Stop here! Stop the car! Stop right here!
I was right! They're here!
You see? Twelve monkeys.
Twelve Monkeys. Do you believe me now? Come on!
Come on!
They're here! You see? Twelve Monkeys!
Twelve Monkeys. Come on.
Twelve monkeys.
Wait, wait, wait. Wait, here.
Here. Do you see it? Do you see?
I see some red paint, some marks.
Marks? Marks? Do you think that...
Oh, this is ridiculous.
Hey! Hey! What?
Don't you do anything crazy
or I'll hurt somebody.
I am not gonna do anything crazy. But none of this is what you think it is.
MAN WITH RASPY VOICE: You can't hide from them, Bob.
I said you can't hide from them.
No, sir, 0l' Bob.
Don't even try.
They hear everything.
They got that tracking device on ya.
They can find you anywhere, anytime.
It's in the tooth. Right, Bob?
But I fooled 'em, old buddy.
(CACKLING)
They don't have to spy on me. I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
You see? Here it is again.
Here, follow this paint trail.
Here. It's here. See?
It's so awful! I... No, no, no! Come with me!
Damn it! The paint trail goes here.
Let go! Let go of my arm. James, we shouldn't be here.
Goddamn it!
(MAN SHOUTING)
MAN: Leave me alone!
(GRUNTING)
KATHRYN: Let's get outta here.
James, we shouldn't be here.
(SCREAMS) Hey!
(GROANS)
Please, don't kill me! Don't, kill me. Please!
Don't kill me. Don't kill me.
(SCREAMS)
Stick around, bitch.
(COLE YELLS)
(PANTING)
KATHRYN: Are you all right?
(GRUNTS)
Is he alive?
Come on. We're runnin' out of time. You can't help him!
Oh, Jesus! James, you killed him!
All I see are dead people. Come on.
You never had a gun before.
I have one now. Come on. Come on!
"...Dragons in their pleasant palaces."
"The seventh angel poured out his vial into the air,
"and there came..." You!
You!
You're one of us!
COLE: This is it.
Come on!
(LION ROARING)
(ELEPHANT TRUMPETING)
Can we help you?
(TAPE RECORDER: LION ROARING)
It's just a tape.
I'm looking for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
(ANIMAL NOISES CONTINUE)
We don't know anything about any Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
So you and your friend just disappear.
I just want some information.
Didn't you hear me. I sa... KATHRYN: Don't hurt her.
Please, I'm a psychiatrist. Just do whatever he tells you to do.
He's disturbed. He's dangerous.
Please, just cooperate.
What do you want, money? We only got a few bucks.
COLE: I told you what I want.
Get down. Lock that door!
KATHRYN: James, don't... Lock it now!
I told you that fuckhead Goines would get us...
Shutup!
Goines?
Jeffrey Goines?
Then Jeffrey becomes a big star, and the media latch onto him because
he's picketing his own father, a famous Nobel Prize-winning virologist.
You must've seen all that on TV.
I don't watch TV.
Is this him?
FALE: Yeah, that's him. That's him.
What are you going to do to us?
Tell me more about Jeffrey.
Jeffrey started getting bored with the shit we do.
Picketing, leafleting, letter-writing stuff.
He said we were ineffectual, liberal jerk offs.
He wanted to do guerrilla actions in order to educate the public.
Like this?
Yeah. That's when he let 100 snakes loose in the Senate.
TEDDY: But we weren't into that kind of stuff.
It's counterproductive. We told him.
FALE: So he and 11 guys,
they split off and formed this underground army.
The Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
See?
They started planning a "Human Hunt."
TEDDY: They bought stun guns, nets and bear traps.
They were gonna go to Wall Street and trap lawyers and bankers...
They didn't do it, of course. They didn't do any of it.
Like always, Mr. Big Shot sold his friends out.
What does that mean?
He goes on TV and gives a news conference. Tells the whole world
he just realized his daddy's experiments are vital for humanity
and that the use of animals is absolutely necessary.
And that from now on he, Jeffrey Goines, is going to personally supervise the labs
to make sure the little animals aren't going to suffer.
What is this?
KATHRYN: People like that aren't accessible.
You can't just barge in on them. It's not how the world works.
Be quiet and drive the car. I know what I'm doing.
No, you don't. This car is stolen.
And we are in big trouble. Big trouble.
If you don't turn yourself over they're going to kill you.
They're going to shoot me too, 'cause I'm going to be the accessory to murder.
You're all going to die. Nobody is going to die.
You're not going to save the world.
Okay? You're delusional.
You've made all this up out of bits and pieces in your head.
No. Yes.
Let me give you an example.
You know Jeffrey Goines. You were both patients at County Hospital.
Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake.
(MIMICKING JEFFREY)
He told you then
his father was a famous scientist who worked with viruses.
You've incorporated that bit of information to this cockeyed fantasy.
He didn't say his father was a scientist. He said his father was God.
This is insane.
MAN ON RADIO: prominent psychiatrist and author, Dr. Kathryn Railly,
has been abducted by a dangerous mental patient,
James Cole. Cole was under Railly's care six years ago
when he made a dramatic escape from...
(GROANS)
What is the matter with your leg?
I got shot.
Shot! Who shot you?
I don't know. It was some kind of war. Never mind.
You wouldn't believe me anyway.
COLE: What are you doing?
We don't need gas.
I thought you didn't know how to drive.
I said I was too young to drive. I didn't say I was stupid.
This can't go on. If you have a bullet in your leg, I have to take care of it.
I'm a doctor. I need some supplies.
MAN ON RADIO: Meanwhile, in Fresno, California
where mining engineers continue their desperate attempt to sink a shaft
parallel to the one in which nine-year-old Ricky Neuman is believed trapped.
Authorities say there is still a chance the boy might be...
You shouldn't put your weight on it.
You need stitches and antibiotics.
Lucky for you it's near the surface.
I love seeing the sun.
Ooh!
Wait!
Let me help you.
(WHISPERING) You smell so good.
You have to give yourself up.
You know that, don't you?
What are you doing? James?
I'm sorry.
What are you doing?
James, stop it! What are you doing?
Let go of me! I have to do this.
They find him? Who?
That kid. The one in the pipe.
You believe that? They're lowering a monkey down there
and a miniature infrared camera strapped on him,
and a roast beef sandwich wrapped up in tinfoil.
You're making it up. No, I shit you not. Life is really weird.
A monkey and a roast beef sandwich.
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
DR. GOINES: Would that I could enjoy this opulent dinner and this most
stimulatin' and excitin' company
for itself with no sense of purpose.
But, alas, I am burdened.
(CHUCKLES)
For with all this excess of public attention and cacophony of praise
there comes great responsibility.
(SNORING) I don't have to tell you all
that the dangers of science are a timeworn threat.
From Prometheus stealin' fire from the gods...
What friend? I'm not expectin' anyone. ...to the Cold War era
of the Dr. Strangelove terror. But never before...
This is ridiculous.
My father is giving a major address.
...To fear the power
we have at hand.
Normally, if we caught a guy sneakin' around like this with no I.D.,
we'd bust his ass. Excuse my French.
This one says he knows you.
Since you seem to have had a few unusual associates,
we certainly would not want to arrest one of your closest pals.
Never seen him before in my life.
Feel free to torture this man or whatever it is you do.
I'm going to listen to my father's eloquent discourse on...
I'm here about some monkeys.
Monkeys? Monkeys. Yes.
Twelve of them.
Arnold.
You look like shit. You know this man?
I know this man. Arnold Pettibone.
Gee, Arnie, it's black tie. I said drop by,
but it's Dad's big do: V.I.P.s, senators, secret service.
You hungry, Arnie?
(CHUCKLES)
Killer feast we're putting on tonight.
Lots of dead lamb, dead cow, dead pig.
Hi. How are you? Hello. Very attractive.
"The Great Escape," 1990.
Watch it!
Huh? County Hospital? Am I right?
I can't do anything about what you're going to do.
I can't change anything.
I can't stop you.
I just want the information. We need to talk. C'mon.
Hi, ladies. Nice to see you again.
Watch your step on the way down.
Who blabbed? Bruhns? Weller?
I just want access to the pure virus. Virus?
For the future. I need to know where it is and exactly what it is.
I get it. I see what you're up to. It's your old plan, isn't it?
What plan? Your plan. Remember?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, you do. We were in the dayroom, watching television
and you were upset about the desecration of the planet, which I understand.
Then you said to me,
"Wouldn't it be great if there was a germ or virus
"that would wipe out all of mankind and leave the animals and trees?"
You're trying to confuse me. You were so funny.
I told you my father was this famous virologist.
And you said, "He could make a germ and we could steal it."
Coo-coo-ka-roo, you were.
They mutate! We live underground!
The world belongs to the dogs and cats.
We live like worms.
I just need the information. Take it easy.
You are a total nut-case! Completely deranged! Delusional, paranoid.
Your processor is all fucked up.
Your information tray is jammed, man!
Do you know what it is, the Army of the Twelve Monkeys?
A collection of space-case do-gooders saving rain forests.
I have nothing to do with those bozos.
I quit being the rich kid fall guy for a bunch of ineffective fanatics!
So much for your grand plot, asshole!
Father's been warning people about the dangers of experimentation
with D.N.A. viruses for years.
You've processed that information
through your addled, paranoid infrastructure.
Lo and behold, a nonprofit organization
becomes some sinister, revolutionary cabal!
This man is complete bat shit!
Ladies and gentlemen, do you realize where he thinks he comes from?
ANNOUNCER: Captain Dan Miller, the man in charge of the rescue operation,
says he has consulted with experts, and they assure us...
If you ask me, the monkey's going to eat that goddamn sandwich himself.
Did a man just come running through here?
...Saying his primary responsibility was to the missing boy.
Police say that the body of a woman found strangled in Knutson State Park
could be kidnapping victim Dr. Kathryn Railly.
Anybody see someone come through here?
...Discovered less than an hour ago by hikers.
But we have an unconfirmed report that the victim,
a woman in her late twenties or early thirties, was savagely mutilated.
Earlier in the day, police located Railly's abandoned car.
It was found not far...
(SCREAMS)
Any sign of him?
Nothing.
He can't just disappear.
(PANTING)
You bastard!
I could've died in there! You son of a bitch!
(CRYING)
What were you thinking of,
you twisted sack of shit?
COLE: I'm sorry. Sorry I locked you in the trunk.
(KATHRYN CRYING) I'm sick of you!
What have you done?
Did you kill somebody? Yes.
A million people. Five billion people.
What?
Jeffrey Goines said it was my idea about the virus.
We were in the institution. It was all so fuzzy and the drugs and all.
Do you think it was my idea?
Do you think maybe I've wiped out the human race?
Nobody is gonna wipe out the human race.
Not you or Jeffrey or anybody else.
You've created something in your mind. A... Oh.
Mentally divergent? A... Whatever!
A substitute reality,
because you don't want to deal with anything.
(LAUGHS)
I would love it if that was true.
It can be dealt with, but only if you want to. I can help you.
(MEN YELLING)
They're after me. We have to get outta here.
Who is after you?
I think there were some policemen at that party.
Party? You went to a par...
Never mind.
It's important you surrender instead of their catching you running.
Wouldn't it be great if I was crazy?
The world would be okay. I wouldn't have to live underground.
Gimme the gun. I lost the gun.
Where is the gun? I could live right here.
You got water, air, stars.
I'm gonna attract their attention... Debris.
...So they know where we are.
(HORN HONKING)
(LAUGHING)
Oh, I love this world!
They're gonna tell you to put your hands on your head. Do what they say.
I love the frogs, the spiders.
Remember, I'll be with you. I'll help you. I won't let them...
(DOGS BARKING)
Then I said something about cooperating, and he said he would do that. So, I...
I got in the car.
Thanks. And when I...
I started honking the horn. Then when I got out, he was gone.
I'll tell you somethin'. You lucked out.
For a while, we thought you were a body they found down state, mutilated.
He wouldn't do that. This the man he attacked?
I wanna be clear about this, okay?
This man and the other one were severely beating us.
James Cole didn't start it. In fact, he saved me.
(CHUCKLES)
Funny thing, Doctor. Maybe you can help explain it to me,
you being a psychiatrist and all.
Why is it that kidnap victims
always try to tell us about the guys who grabbed 'em?
And they try to make us understand
how kind these bastards really were?
It's a normal reaction to a life-threatening situation.
He's sick. Okay?
He thinks he comes from the future.
He lives in a meticulously constructed fantasy world,
and that world is starting to disintegrate. He needs help.
Okay.
REPORTER: Exhausted but apparently unharmed by her thirty-hour ordeal,
Dr. Railly returned to Baltimore this morning without making a public statement.
The author and psychiatrist is currently in seclusion at her home.
Meantime, police have pieced together a scenario of the series of events
that began with escaped mental patient James Cole...
Sorry.
No, it's okay. I'm just hyper alert. I can't sleep.
Did you take your sedative?
I hate those things. They mess my head up.
...Where he went on a rampage of violence.
With the kidnapping of the Baltimore woman,
James Cole is now also wanted in connection with
the brutal slaying of Rodney Wiggins, an ex-convict from Ardmore.
(SIREN WAILING) His body was discovered in an abandoned theater
not far from where Cole left three animal rights activists bound and gagged
in their Second Avenue headquarters.
Do they really believe he's going to show up here? Please.
And in Fresno, California, the cornfield that was jammed with spectators...
He's dead, isn't he, that little boy?
He's fine. It was just a prank he and his friends pulled.
The dramatic attempt to rescue Ricky Neuman from an abandoned mineshaft
ended abruptly when playmates confessed
that Neuman's disappearance was merely a prank.
And that, in fact, the missing child was hiding in a nearby barn.
SCIENTISTS: I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
When I found you
Congratulations, Cole!
Well done. Well done! Congratulations.
BOTANIST: During your interview, while under the influence,
you told us that you liked music.
This isn't a prison. This is a hospital.
Until you recover your equilibrium.
You're still disoriented.
It is a stressful thing. Time travel.
You stood up very well, considering.
You connected the Army of the Twelve Monkeys
with a famous virologist and his son.
Others will take over now.
We'll be back on service in months.
We'll retake the planet.
This is it, James. What you've been working for.
A full pardon.
You'll be out of here in no time.
Women will want to know you.
I don't want your women! I want to get well!
And you will be well, James.
Soon.
(LAUGHING)
You know, you people don't exist. You're not real.
We can't travel back in time.
Whoop! Whoop! Uh-uh.
You're not here.
You can't trick me.
(LAUGHING)
You're in my mind.
(LAUGHING)
(SIGHING)
I am insane. And you are my insanity.
(LAUGHING)
He not only used the word "prank," he said the boy was hiding in a barn.
Kathryn, Kathryn. He kidnapped you.
You saw him murder somebody,
and you knew there was a real possibility that he could kill you too.
You're under tremendous emotional stress.
For God's sake, Owen, listen to me.
He knew about the boy in Fresno, and he says
five billion people are gonna die.
No way he could possibly know that!
Kathryn!
You're a rational person. You're a trained psychiatrist.
You know the difference between what's real and what's not.
What we say is the truth, is what everybody accepts. Right?
Psychiatry, it's the latest religion.
We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not.
I'm in trouble here.
I'm losing my faith.
MAN WITH RASPY VOICE: You sure fucked up, Bob.
But I can understand.
You don't want your mistakes pointed out to you.
I can relate to that, old Bob.
Hey, I know what you're thinkin'.
You're thinkin' I don't exist except in your head.
I see that point of view.
But you could still talk to me, couldn't ya?
I saw you in 1996 in the real world.
You pulled out your teeth.
Why would I pull out my teeth? That's a no-no.
And when did you say you saw me?
In 1872?
Leave me alone!
Yellin' won't get you what you want.
You have to be smart to get what you want.
And what do I want?
You don't know what you want?
Sure you do, Bob.
You know what you want.
You tell me. You tell me what I want.
To see the sky and the ocean.
To be topside.
Breathe the air.
To be with her.
Isn't that right?
Isn't that what you want?
Bob?
(MOANING)
(RINGING)
Hello.
Dr. Railly, Jim Halperin, Philly P.D. Sorry to call you so early this mornin'.
You found him?
Is he okay?
No, no, au contraire, Doctor.
No sign of your good friend, the kidnapper.
However, the plot does thicken.
I've got a ballistics report on my desk.
It says the bullet you claim you removed from Mr. Cole's thigh
is, in fact, an antique.
HALPERIN: And all indications are it was fired sometime prior to the 1920s.
How 'bout I take a spin down there?
This can't be.
Maybe we can grab a bite to eat.
Maybe you could revise or amplify your statement.
Dr. Railly?
No!
You can't trick us, you know. It wouldn't work.
COLE: No, sir.
You haven't become addicted, have you, Cole, to that dying world?
No, sir.
I just want to do my part
to get us back on top, in charge of the planet.
And I have the experience. I know the people involved.
He really is the most qualified.
But all of that behavior.
You said we weren't real, Cole.
I don't think the human mind is meant to exist
in two different,
whatever you called it, dimensions?
It's just too stressful. You said that yourself.
It's very confusing, you don't know what's real and what's not.
MICROBIOLOGIST: But you know what's real now.
Yes, sir. I do.
DR. GOINES: No, no. I don't know anything about
a monkey army, Doctor.
No, no. Nothing whatsoever.
Good Lord, if my son was ever involved in something like that...
(MICE SQUEAKING)
Well, I'm sorry. I think it is doubly inappropriate to discuss
security matters with you, Dr. Railly.
But if it will ease your mind,
rest assured that neither my son
nor any other unauthorized person has access
to potentially dangerous organisms in my laboratory.
Is that clear to you now? Thank you so much for your concern.
(WHISPERING) Women psychiatrists!
I attended a lecture of hers once.
"Apocalyptic Visions."
Yes. She was
suddenly struck by the most preposterous notion
about Jeffrey.
Has she succumbed to her own
"theoretical" Cassandra disease?
Maybe we ought to review our security procedures.
Yeah. Perhaps upgrade 'em, you know?
Beef them up?
BOTANIST: Let's consider again our current information.
If the symptoms were first detected in Philadelphia
on December 27, 1996, that makes us know that...
It was released in Philadelphia probably on December 13, 1996.
And was seen sequentially after that in...
San Francisco, New Orleans,
Rio de Janeiro,
Rome, Kinshasa,
Karachi, Bangkok, then Peking.
That was very well done, Cole.
KATHRYN: Hello!
Is somebody in there? If you're in there, I have to talk to you.
It's the kidnap woman. Hello?
The one who was with the guy who tied us up.
Turn off the lights. Turn off the light!
What's she doin'? She's drawing attention to us, that's what.
I don't know what you're up to this time, Goines,
but you're going to get us in deep shit.
Walkies ready, batteries charged?
I saw you! I saw somebody in there! Come on.
Secret experiments. That's what they do.
Secret weird stuff.
I know you Not just on animals
They do 'em on people too down at...
Have you seen James Cole? The man who...
They're watching you. Takin' pictures.
The police. I know. Look.
(GASPING)
I have to contact James.
It's very, very important that he's really careful when he reaches me.
Do you understand that?
Yeah. Yeah. Good.
Who's James?
He was with me.
He spoke to you several weeks ago.
He said that you were from the future and that you were watching him.
Bolt cutters. Bolt cutters. Did you get the bolt cutters?
One dozen. They're in the van.
Got the plans for the security system?
Right here. Committed to memory.
Hey! Hey! You know what she's doing out there?
What's it say? I don't know. I can't see it.
Forget about my psychiatrist and concentrate on the task at hand.
Your psychiatrist?
Did you just say your psychiatrist?
Ex-psychiatrist.
This woman was your psychiatrist and now she's spray-painting our building?
MAN: What's it say?
COLE: Kathryn!
James?
James.
What? What?
There's a policemen over there. Pretend you don't know me.
No. I want to turn myself in. Where is he?
James! Where is he?
Down! Come on.
No, no. It's okay. I'm not crazy any more.
I mean, I am. I'm mentally divergent.
I know that now. I want you to help me.
I want to get better.
James!
Let's get outta here!
He's goin'. He's goin'.
(HORN HONKING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(HORN HONKING)
I've see that before. No, James, you haven't.
A guy in a Ford is chasing her and some other guy I can't see.
No problem. It's probably just another kidnapping
featuring Jeffrey's shrink. Pardon me. Make that ex-shrink.
This is your leader?
A certifiable lunatic who told his former psychiatrist
all his plans for God knows what whacko irresponsible schemes?
God knows what she's written on that wall.
Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?
You think I told her about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, huh?
Impossible!
Do you know why? Do you know why?
Because, you pathetically ineffectual
and pusillanimous pretend friend to animals, I'll tell you why.
When I had anything to do with her six years ago,
there was no such thing, I hadn't thought of it yet.
Then how come she knows what's goin' on?
Here's my theory on that.
When I was institutionalized,
my brain was studied exhaustively in the guise of mental health.
I was interrogated, x-rayed. I was examined thoroughly.
(COUGHS)
They took everything about me and put it into a computer
where they created this model of my mind. Yes!
Using that model, they managed to generate
every thought I could possibly have in the next ten years,
which they then filtered through a probability matrix of some kind
to determine everything I was gonna do in that period.
So you see, she knew I was gonna lead
the Army of the Twelve Monkeys into history
before it even occurred to me.
She knows everything I'm ever gonna do before I know it myself.
How's that?
Kweskin, you finish here. I'll meet you there.
And if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized and destroyed.
KWESKIN: Jeff? What?
You are a great man.
Fuck the bozos!
(CHUCKLES)
He's seriously crazy.
You know that.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
There. Over there.
Okay. Come on.
(TV CHATTERING)
I need a room. Thirty-five bucks an hour.
An hour?
You want quarter hours? Go someplace else.
(WOMAN GIGGLING)
(COUGHING)
Here's
twenty-five, six, seven for an hour. Deal?
MAN: Hey! Turn it off!
One hour, honey-babe. Number sixty-four.
Sixth floor. Up the stairs, end of the hall.
Elevator's busted.
She's not honey-babe.
She's a doctor.
My psychiatrist.
Understand?
Whatever gets it up for you, Jack.
Tommy, this is Charlie over at the Globe.
(CHUCKLES)
You know if Wallace has a new girl?
Sort of a rookie type? A little weird?
Does fantasy acts?
Okay, you were standing there looking up at the moon.
You were splashing through the water, and then what?
I thought I was in prison again.
Just like that, you were in prison?
No, not really.
Like you said. It was all in my mind.
(STAMMERING)
You disappeared.
One minute you were there, the next minute you were gone.
Did you run through the woods, or...
I don't know.
I don't remember.
The boy in the well. How did you know that was just a hoax?
It was?
I didn't know.
You said he was hiding in the barn!
I think I maybe saw a TV show about that when I was a kid,
where a boy... It wasn't a TV show! It was real!
Maybe this boy saw the same TV show that I did, and he copied it.
Look, you were right. lam mentally ill.
I imagined all these things, these people.
I know they're not real. I can trick them. I...
I can make them do what I want.
I worked on 'em a little bit. I got back here to get better.
I can stay here.
What does this mean to you?
I think I had a dream like...
About this.
(STAMMERING)
You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James. How did it get there?
I don't know. Look, you said I had delusions.
That I created this world. You said you could explain...
I can't!
I'm trying to, and...
I can't believe everything we say or do has already happened.
We can't change what's going to happen.
And if five billion people are going to die, it's...
I want the future to be unknown.
I want to become a whole person again.
I want this to be the present.
I want to stay here, this time
with you.
James,
do you remember six years ago you had a phone number?
It was the wrong number then. A woman answered.
It was the wrong number in 1990.
It should be the right number now.
Do you remember it?
The number? Do you...
(BANGING)
This is my territory, bitch!
Is this real, or is it one of my delusions? This is definitely real.
KATHRYN: Excuse me. I think we've got a little misunderstanding here.
Oh?
Yeah. We...
Gee, really?
Now, you just sit tight!
Now you listen to me, little Miss Understanding.
You think you can go around me and peddle your ass in this part of town?
You bet your life we got what I would call a major fuckin' misunderstanding.
Hey!
James, no! Don't!
Put him in the closet. Take his money first!
You want me to rob him?
We need cash, James! WALLACE: No, no!
Call the cops! Call the cops!
MAN: What's goin' on?
WALLACE: I've got friends, man! Don't fuckin' kill me.
James. James! No, James! No!
No! James!
No! Open the door!
What the fuck are you doin'?
Please don't hurt him. Open the door.
James, come on.
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
Just in case.
Just in case I'm not crazy.
This is how they find us.
By our teeth.
I don't want them to find me, ever.
I don't want to go back.
POLICE RADIO: ...calling in a domestic incident.
POLICEMAN: Get out!
Get back.
You'd better load.
Police! Throw your weapons out and come on out!
WALLACE: Hey!
Is that the cops?
Hey, I'm the innocent victim here!
I was attacked by a coked-up whore
and a fuckin' crazy dentist.
Try to blend in.
Oh. Jesus!
Come on!
There's gotta be a phone around here somewhere.
There. Over there. Look.
I'm going to try that number, okay? Okay.
Let's hope it's nothing. Okay.
(LOUD ROARING)
(GASPS)
James! James!
It's okay! We're insane.
We're crazy. It's a carpet cleaning company.
A carpet cleaning company?
Yeah. No superiors. No scientists. No men from the future.
Just a carpet cleaning company. They have voice mail.
You leave a message telling where you want your carpet cleaned.
You left them a message? Yeah. I couldn't resist.
Wait 'til they hear this nutty woman telling them
to watch out for the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
I said, "The Freedom for Animals Association on Second Avenue...
"...is the secret headquarters of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
"They're the ones who are going to do it.
"I can't do anything more now. I have to go.
"Have a merry Christmas."
You couldn't have heard me.
They got your message, Kathryn.
They played it for me.
It was a bad recording, distorted.
I didn't recognize your voice.
(POLICE RADIO INDISTINCT)
KATHRYN: This.
This.
(WOMAN ANNOUNCING ON PA SYSTEM)
And this.
Is everything okay? You want anything?
(BIRDS FLUTTERING)
SALESWOMAN: Shall I put this on your account, ma'am?
No. That'll be cash.
Can you tell me what floor the wigs are on?
KWESKIN: You turned the thing into a fucking computer.
WELLER: And Fale believed it. You know Fale.
If you guys get nailed, which I'm pretty sure you will
(LAUGHING)
I've never seen you before in my whole fuckin' life!
Yeah!
C'mon. C'mon.
Bring 'im through. C'mon.
Okay, drive!
KWESKIN: What's the harm in openin' up the bag? His eyes are taped, right?
Right?
(ALL LAUGHING)
Okay. Okay.
Hello. Hello.
Wanna hear the monkey speak? ALL: Yeah!
Aah!
Jeffrey? Jeffrey, I know that's you. I recognize your voice.
(IN DISGUISED VOICE) No, you don't.
I also know all about your warped little plan.
That lady, your psychiatrist? She told me.
I didn't believe her. It just seemed too crazy, even for you.
But just in case, I took steps to make sure that you couldn't go through with it.
I don't have the code any more, Jeffrey.
I don't have access to the virus.
I took myself out of the loop.
Too late! Too late!
We've got plans for you, Dad.
(MAKES MONKEY SOUNDS)
(ALL MAKING MONKEY SOUNDS)
I never let myself believe it. Now I know it's true. Jeffrey?
You're completely insane.
(ACTIVISTS LAUGHING)
No, I'm not.
There's a cross section of one of the old trees that's been cut down.
Here I was born.
And there I die.
It was only a moment for you.
You took no notice.
I think I've seen this movie before.
Shh.
When I was a kid, I saw it on TV.
Don't talk.
I did see it before.
Tall tress... Have you been here before?
Yes. When ?
When were you born?
I recognize this.
Long ago. Where?
KATHRYN: What's the matter?
Tell me, Madeleine, tell me. No!
That's just like what's happening with us. Like the past.
The movie never changes. It can't change.
But every time you see it, it seems different because you're different.
You see different things.
Please don't ask me.
If you can't change anything, because it's already happened,
you may as well smell the flowers.
What flowers?
That's an expression.
MADELEINE: Promise me you won't ask me again, please.
Kathryn,
why are you doing this?
I want to know why. What if I'm wrong? What if you're wrong?
What if I am crazy?
In a few weeks, it will have started or it won't.
If there's still
football games, traffic: jams
TV shows and armed robberies, we're going to be so glad
that we'll be thrilled to see the police.
I'm responsible for you now.
The Chinese say if you save a person's life,
you're responsible for it forever.
Do you have a plan?
I have to know.
MADELEINE: There's so little that I know.
You said you'd never seen the ocean.
(ELEPHANT TRUMPETS)
JEFFREY: Hurry up. Come on.
DR. GOINES: Jeffrey. JEFFREY: What?
You know I can't see. Where are we?
Jeffrey?
(ROARING)
(BIRDS FLUTTERING)
Kathryn?
We have 9:30 reservations for Key West.
I just didn't recognize you.
Well, you look pretty different yourself.
It was always you.
In my dream. It was al...
It was always you.
I remember you like this.
You do?
I felt I've known you before.
I feel I've always known you.
COLE: I'm so scared.
(SNORING)
(MONKEYS CHITTERING)
(ROARING)
(TRUMPETING)
(GROWLING)
(TRUMPETING)
(GROWLING)
CABBIE: What time's your flight?
KATHRYN: 9:30. Might be tight.
Tight?
No, my watch says 7:30.
On your normal mornin', okay. Plenty of time.
But today you gotta take into account your Army of the Twelve Monkeys factor.
What?
What'd you say?
Twelve Monkeys. Guess you folks didn't turn on your radio this mornin'.
A bunch of weirdoes let all the animals out of the zoo.
Then they locked up this big-shot scientist in one of the cages.
Scientist's own kid one of the ones did it.
They've got animals all over the place.
Bunch of zebras closed down the thruway 'bout an hour ago.
And they got some thing called an emu.
It's got traffic blocked for miles on 676.
MAN ON RADIO: ...what they think they're accomplishing
by releasing an animal into a city like this one?
(LAUGHING)
That's what they were up to, freeing animals.
On the walls. It said, "We did it."
They meant the animals. The animals, yeah.
If I could interrupt for a moment, Mr. Ginger...
There is going to be a press conference from City Hall.
I think it's going to be all right.
Tell your people if they spot either one of them,
not to try and apprehend them.
They should notify us. We have people all over the airport.
We'll take care of it.
PA ANNOUNCER: Skycap to gate 47, please.
...for Chicago is now ready for boarding at gate 17.
Flight 623 to Minneapolis is now boarding at gate...
COLE: I know this place. Airports all look the same.
This is my dream.
(LAUGHING)
Your moustache. It's not just my dream.
I was actually here. I remember now.
About a week or two before the... Before everyone started dying.
KATHRYN: Careful. They might be looking for us.
I was here,
as a kid. Use this.
I think you were here then too.
James!
If they identify us, they're going to send us someplace.
But it won't be Key West.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
I'll go fix this. Okay.
I'm gonna get the tickets. I'll meet you in the newspaper stand.
Okay- Okay-
PA ANNOUNCER: This is a general information announcement.
Judy Simmons. I have reservations for Key West.
Okay.
Flight 623 to Minneapolis is now boarding at gate 44.
I don't see a lot of this. It's cash.
It's a long story.
We'll begin boarding in about 20 minutes.
You have a nice flight, Miss Simmons. Thank you.
WOMAN: Hello. How are you today?
I don't know whether you're there or not.
Maybe you just clean carpets.
If you do, you're lucky. You're gonna live a long, happy life.
But if you other guys are out there, if you are picking this up,
forget about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
They didn't do it. It was a mistake. Someone else did it.
The Army of the Twelve Monkeys is just a bunch of dumb kids playing revolutionaries.
Listen.
I've done my job. I did what you wanted.
Good luck. I'm not coming back.
San Francisco, New Orleans,
Rio de Janeiro, Rome,
Kinshasa, Karachi, Bangkok and Peking.
This is some trip you're taking, sir. Is this all in one week?
Business.
Have a good one, sir.
PA ANNOUNCER: Any luggage found unattended will be removed and destroyed.
(FOOT TAPPING)
MAN WITH RASPY VOICE: Got yourself a prob, Bob?
Leave me alone!
I made a report. I didn't have to do that.
Point of fact.
You don't belong here.
It's not permitted to let you stay.
This is the present.
This is not the past. This is not the future.
This is right now!
I'm not leavin'! Get that? You can't stop me.
Anything you say, Chief. It's none of my business.
Passengers for flight...
Hey, Cole.
Leave me alone! Leave me alone!
Calm down, Cole. It's me. Cole, it's me.
Jose?
Yeah, right. Jose.
Why'd you pull out your tooth? That was nuts.
Here, take this. What?
What for? Are you crazy? Me? Are you kidding?
You're the one.
You're a hero, man. They gave you a pardon.
What do you do? You come back and fuck with your teeth.
How did you find me?
The phone call, man. The phone call.
They did their reconstruction thing on it.
The phone?
The phone call I just made? Five minutes ago.
Yeah, five minutes ago. Thirty years ago. They just put it together.
"Hey, this is Cole, James. I don't know whether you're there or not.
"Maybe you just clean carpets ." Where'd you get that from?
"Forget about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys."
Man, if only they could've got your message earlier.
Take it. You could still be a hero if you cooperate!
Come on, James. It's okay.
(TOURISTS CHATTING IN JAPANESE)
Here's your change. Thank you. Thank you.
(CHUCKLING) Sorry. No problem.
Hi. Hi.
PA ANNOUNCER: Flight 784 for San Francisco is ready for boarding at gate 38.
Flight 784 for San Francisco is ready for boarding at gate 38.
Oh, my God!
I got orders.
You know what I'm supposed to do if you don't go along? Shoot the lady.
What? You got that?
They said, "if Cole don't obey..."
I'll break your fuckin'... You hear me?
(GAGGING, COUGHING)
PA ANNOUNCER: Volunteers now boarding at Gate 37.
You see? I had no choice.
These are my orders, man. Just take it.
Take it!
(COUGHING)
This part isn't about the virus at all, is it?
It's about followin' orders.
About doin' what you're told.
You got a pardon. What do you want?
Who am I supposed to shoot? Who am I supposed to shoot?
James! James! Dr. Goines' assistant, he's an apocalypse nut.
I think he's involved.
The next flight to San Francisco leaves from Gate 38.
If he's there, I'm sure he's part of it.
PA ANNOUNCER: ...please go to gate 13.
(BUZZING)
Mr. Holtz, you wanna have a look at this, please?
Excuse me, sir.
Would you mind letting me have a look at the contents of your bag?
Me? We don't have time for this.
Excuse me!
PETERS: Biological samples.
I have the papers right here.
I'm gonna have to ask you to open this up, sir.
Open it?
Why, yes, of course.
What could be better? Look over here. Look at the planes. Hurry up!
Excuse me. Ma'am, you have to get in the line.
See?
Biological. Check the papers.
It's all proper. I have a permit.
It's empty-
Well, yes, to be sure. It looks empty,
but I assure you, it's not.
You don't understand No, I don't have to understand.
You have to get in line.
There's a man. He's carrying a deadly virus!
There, you see.
Also invisible to the naked eye.
It doesn't even
have an odor.
That's not necessary, sir.
There you go. Thank you for your cooperation.
Have a good flight.
Yeah.
Who are you calling a moron? I'm calling you a fucking moron!
Fucking moron? Get your hands off her!
Hold it. Wait a moment.
(BOTH ARGUING)
Fucking moron? Well, you're not getting through.
Now get in that line.
COLE: I said stop!
(ARGUING CONTINUES)
There he is! That man! He's carrying a deadly virus!
KATHRYN: Stop him! Somebody, please stop him!
Police Offi...
(ALARM BEEPING)
MAN SHOUTS: He's got a gun!
Watch it!
No!
Freeze!
Excuse me.
ASTROPHYSICIST: It's obscene,
all the violence, all the lunacy.
Shootings even at airports now.
You might say that we're the next endangered species.
Human beings.
(PANTING)
I think you're right, ma'am.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Jones is my name.
I'm in insurance.
(AIRPLANE ENGINES ROARING)
(WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD PLAYING)
I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
Just for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands
Sayin', "How do you do"
They're really saying' I love you
I hear babies cryin'
I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Then I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh, yeah