Tomorrow

"" is the ninth episode of Season 1 of 12 Monkeys. It first aired at 9:00 p.m. on March 13, 2015 on Syfy.

Synopsis
Cole finds himself in 2017 at the height of the plague. Out of options, Jones faces an impossible choice to replace the Core.

Plot
The episode opens with Cole stumbling through the plague ravaged streets in Chechnya. It’s 2017, the peak of the plague that killed most of mankind. He sees a crowd of people gathered around a television and sees Cassie on the screen pleading with people who are immune to come to Baltimore. The CDC has fallen and she is working on a vaccine. Cole follows the massive groups of people trying to get into a safe zone. People who try and break through the guards are shot on site. Cole identifies himself as American and immune and escorted through the guards and put into a vehicle where a US Army officer is waiting for him. She tells him that they have a chopper waiting for him and of course, he’s very confused. There is chaos on the way to the chopper.

Meanwhile in 2043, Jones explains that Foster has lied to everyone about a cure for the plague to try to keep hope alive. She is pleading with her team to acquire Foster’s core to get Cole back and actually solve the plague. Surprisingly, Whitley is super on board, even though that means going against his father. Ramse goes to his lady love, Elena, and begs her to let him take her and their son to the facility to protect them because some major stuff is about to go down between the two groups at Spearhead. Elena agrees to go with him but not before she has to grab something from the lab first. She and Ramse are walked in on by Foster who has Ramse handcuffed to a desk and confronts Elena about what he feels is a betrayal. He wants to know if she’s working for Jones now which she denies. Foster gets called away by a guard and Elena tries to pick the lock on Ramse’s handcuffs. Whitley also confronts his father to tell him the truth about Foster but he wants to hear none of it. Whitely begs him to listen to him.

Later that night, Jones waits for Foster in his office. He’s short with her and tells her to leave but she informs him that she’s not there to negotiate. She tells him he’s going to have his core; whether he gives it to her or she takes it. They talk about art and space, literature and life, but Jones is steadfast. She will not be swayed by their former relationship and she pulls out a gun and shoots him. This week also takes us back to 2041. We see Cole and Ramse wandering through the woods. They are freezing and starving but have escaped the West 7 for a while now. They stumble across a group of people and decide to try and take them on to get their supplies. Instead, they are captured and Whitley is one of the guards who has taken Cole and Ramse into custody. He is essentially kicking the crap out of both of them but Jones enters and makes them stop. She recognizes the name, ”Cole,” as the person she’s been waiting for. The transmission! Jones plays the transmission to Ramse and Cole and Cole is naturally skeptical that he’s the guy for the job. As he points out, ”There are a million Cole’s,” but Jones is sure it’s him. She shows him the machine and explains that the virus will continue to mutate until everyone is dead. He is the key and she needs him. She also explains that there will be a price for their mission. Cole promptly tells her to go to hell.

In 2017, Cole sees the anger in the people who are suffering as he proceeds to the chopper from his vehicle. The masses believe that the people who are immune have access to a cure and that it’s being hidden from them. As we go deeper into the crowd, who should be preaching to a small group of them? None other than Jennifer Goines in full crazy mode. Inside, Cole reunites with Cassie. She is tired and she is sick. Cole asks how she knew where he was and she tells him that a lot has happened, including them meeting again, which unfortunately, Cole hasn’t experienced yet. She also reveals that a lot has happened between the two of them but she collapses before she can go into details.

After Jones kills Foster, all bets are off. Whitley’s dad is on Jones’ side now and he’s helping them lead the assault on Spearhead. Elena frees Ramse but they are trapped in the lab with gunfire exploding in the hallway. They escape and Jones and Whitley continue to shoot their way to the core. Whitley’s father is killed; they sure have put a lot on the line in believing what Jones says. After the assault on Spearhead, Jones radios back to The Facility and tells them to prepare because they have the core.

Elena and Ramse find a hideout and they talk. She’s still convinced that what she saw Foster do by way of finding a cure was real. She suggests that maybe Jones has lied to them to get what she wants. Back in the lab, we watch Jones set fire to a piece of paper. Holy cow; Foster had found a cure. What the heck is going on? Did she do all of this just to get her daughter back or is her mission greater than that? Woof. In 2017, Cassie comes to. The Red Forrest, has he found it yet? Cole is confused and asks her to explain but she refuses saying she can’t change the path that he’s on. She hands him a folded up piece of paper with an address on it. She tells him to keep it with him at all times because his life depends on it. She knows she’s dying and she tells him that he will find the answers that he’s looking for. Then, Cassie dies in his arms. Although we know they will get to spend more time with each other in the past, it’s hard to believe that this is the end of Cassie. Cole sits with her as she lies dead on the floor and realizes he’s about to splinter. After he does, the scratch on her watch disappears. Cole returns to 2043 and tells Jones what happened.

In 2041, we see Ramse and Cole discuss what Jones has told them. Cole wants to leave but Ramse isn’t so sure. They don’t have food, they don’t have shelter or protection. Ramse asks Cole: what if Jones is telling the truth? What if it works? Cole doesn’t listen, he’s decided that he’s leaving but Ramse won’t have it. He fires his gun and guards come running. Ramse tells Cole that he’s saving his soul. Oh boy. How is this all going to work out?

But how the tables have turned in 2043 when Ramse and Cole are reunited. Cole defends Jones’s actions, telling Ramse that she did what she had to do, that the mission is all that matters now. Ramse isn’t convinced and is livid that Jones decided to sacrifice all of those lives and lie because Foster had a cure. He turns to leave and Cole stops him; he won’t let him hurt Jones. Ramse tells Cole that he found Elena and that she has a kid. He also tells Cole that what they’re doing isn’t working and that he needs to stop but Cole refuses. He’s seen what happens in 2017 and he needs to fight but Ramse pushes back: he tells Cole that the plague is always going to happen. They’re going to die with or without him and he needs to stop what he’s doing. Ramse has a reason to fight now and it’s his son but Cole tells him that he’s not going to let him hurt Jones and, more importantly, there isn’t a future.

2017
James Cole walks through a town in Chechnya. He hears Cassandra Railly's voice and sees her being interviewed on television. Cassie says the healthy people should come to he CDC facility in Baltimore to help in research, adding that the Atlanta CDC is closed.

2043
At the Temporal Facility, Katarina Jones tells her staff that Jonathan Foster's cure for the plague is worthless because he has found a cure for a previous mutation of the Kalavirus and that the virus has mutated twice since then. She adds that Project Splinter needs Spearhead's power core.

At Spearhead's headquarters, José Ramse tells Elena that Jonathan Foster cured the wrong virus. Elena disagrees, saying that she saw it happen in the lab. José tries to explain that Foster has started a cult, just as Deacon did with West VII. Ramse is worries because Cole is stuck in the past.

2041
Cole and Ramse through woods, hungry and out or nearly out of ammunition. They discuss going to Florida. Hearing a shot, the find a group of men with a recently killed deer. They decide they can overwhelm the men. The men turn out to be Marcus Whitley and other soldiers from Project Splinter. Cole and Ramse are captured and taken to an unidentified building.

2017
Cole finds a quarantine area and demands entry because he is an American and uninfected. Soldier see his "VII" brand and he is admitted and taken to a U.S. Army officer who tells him a helicopter is waiting to transport him to an airport.

2043
On the front porch of Spearhead's headquarters, Whitley tells his father they need to talk.

Inside the building, José tells Elena they have to hurry. They are interrupted by Jonathan Foster.

Outside, Whitley talks to his father about trusting him instead of Foster.

Inside, Ramse is handcuffed to a table while Elena tries to convince Foster that they have not done anything wrong. Foster says that the only reason he allowed Ramse to return was for Elena and her son. He accuses Ramse of being at Spearhead because Jones sent him. Ramse denies that. Foster is called out of the room with his troops and José asks Elena if she remembers how to pick a lock.

2017
Still in Chechnya, Cole hears Cassie, on television, announce the opening of a new quarantine zone in Manhattan.

2043
Foster finds Jones in his office. They begin another useless conversation about who is right and who is wrong. Jones says she will have Spearhead's power core.

2041
At he Temporal Facility, Whitley beas and interrogates Cole and Ramse until Jones orders him to stop. She tells Cole she has been waiting for him.

2017
In a crowd, Jennifer Goines tells women that men have forfeited the world. She claims women will make what men could not. She refers to the Army of the 12 Monkeys but then speaks of he number thirteen.

A soldier escorts Cole to Cassie's office at the CDC in Baltimore. Cole and Cassie embrace.

2043
Katarina and Foster continue their conversation. Foster compliments Katarina. She responds that he forgot that she was also a mother and shoots him in the heart.

Outside, Whitley's father orders two of soldiers to guard the gate then shoots them in their backs as they walk toward the gate.

Inside, Elena frees José from his handcuffs as shots are fired. The couple and their son duck.

2041
Jones plays the recording of Cassie's voice: "The plague starts with Leland Frost. The true architects of the plague — They're watching me. I'm running out of time here. ...is among you. Please, Cole." Cole refuses to believe that he is the Cole referred to in the recording. Jones shows him the splintering machine an assures him that the plague is not through mutating and that he is the key to stopping the virus. As Jones speaks the attack on Spearhead in 2043 is shown. Cole refuses.

2017
Cole is surprised that they did not stop the virus in Chechnya. He reminds Cassie that she had said a cure was possible. She responds that she had to try. Cassie collapses and Cole calls for a doctor.

2043
After the power core taken from Spearhead is installed at Project Splinter, Jones orders a startup. While unobserved by others, she burns the evidence that Foster had cured the current mutation.

In a remote area of the temporal acility, José and Elena talk. She again re-assures him that Foster had already solved the problem. José says Foster was obsessed and Elena responds would do anything for her mission and that she possibly is doing what she's doing for herself.

2017
As Cole support Cassie, she wakens and asks if he found the Red Forest. She then remembers that he does not know about the forest yet. She tells him he can not change the path he is on and gives him a piece of paper, telling him it contains an address and to always keep it with him. Cassie says that she does not want to die alone. Cole assures her that she is not alone. Cassie dies in Cole's arms.

2043
Jones retrieves Cole. He tells her that he watched happen again and that he lost Cassie.

2041
Cole knocks out a guard and escapes from his cell at the Temporal Facility. Ramse refuses to go with him and alerts the guards. Ramse tells Cole that he has to try to reset the past.

2043
Ramse tells Cole that a lot has happened while he was splintered. Ramse, now that he knows he has a son, wants Cole to stop splintering because he does not want to lose Elena and Sam. Cole says he must go on. He points out that Sam is already as good as dead.