Blood Washed Away

"" is the twelfth episode of Season 2 of 12 Monkeys and the twenty-fifth episode overall. It first aired at 9:00 p.m. on July 11, 2016 on Syfy.

Synopsis
Cole and Railly attempt to stop the final paradox in the past while Ramse, Jennifer and Deacon struggle to survive the apocalypse in a last ditch effort to find the Witness.

Plot
Cassie and Cole have been sent to 1957 with one year to find out how to stop the paradox that destroys time. Wrong. After surveying every single employee at the factory the paradox is supposed to take place, they have no clue who the Primary is or how to stop the cataclysmic event. With only two days left on their timeline, tensions are running high between our heroes and Cole retreats to the hotel bar to keep from fighting with Cassie.

Downstairs, Cole runs into one of his co-workers from the factory, Charlie. Charlie tells Cole to forget any problems that he and his lady friend, Cassie, might be having and just go back upstairs and make nice, cause you never know how much time you have left with the one you love. A sweet sentiment, but very sad considering Charlie’s wife is dying of cancer.

Cole eventually does return to the room to find Cassie in much better spirits. She has some exciting news. Apparently, the factory is hiring day laborers to make some repairs on the day the paradox is supposed to happen meaning one of them could be the Primary!

Back in 2045 (a year has passed while the gang travels to Titan), things are not going so great for the team that stayed behind looking for Titan. On the daily they face encroaching temporal storms, warring militias, and the young Jennifer Goines’ specific brand of crazy, which is not nearly as wise or reasonable as her older, recently deceased self. The Daughters have had it and are starting to refuse orders.

Adding to the growing sense of doom is the fact that returning from a scouting expedition, Hannah reports not seeing any sign of Titan. The Daughters have had it! Jennifer tries to get them on board with the mission but it’s ultimately a fight between the head Daughter and Ramse that stops their near mutiny. Just because they are stopped though doesn’t mean they will help and as Ramse and his squad head out in search of Titan, meanwhile, The Daughters (except Hannah) stay put.

In 1957, Cole scopes out the laborers and sees someone who might just be the Primary! Twitchy? Check. Muttering to himself? Check. Drew a giant screaming monkey on the back of his application!? Check! This has to be our guy! The next day Cole and Cassie are feeling great about their chances of stopping the paradox. Why not? They know who the Primary is and all they have to do is take him out before The Messengers can. So, Cole grabs their man and leads him into an alley. This is it. Except, while Cole has their man cornered, a woman comes into the plant carrying a gun shouting about trying to find her husband. Cassie, always prepared, grabs a gun from her purse and goes to find out what all the commotion is. Turns out, someone paid him to act all weird and twitchy and muttery! This same someone paid the jittery guy to draw the screaming monkey on the application. They’ve been set up by... Charlie!

Charlie is actually a Messenger who fell in love with the Primary, his wife and the woman with the gun, he was tasked with taking out! Cole gets to Cassie, Charlie, and his Primary wife before anything happens. Phew! Everything is gonna be... not OK! Before Cole and Cassie can stop them Charlie paradoxes his wife and the whole plant goes up in flames. And the mission is over, just like that.

Luckily, our heroes survive the explosion. Not so luckily, Cassie is in a coma. Having waited for her to wake up for quite sometime, Cole comes for one last visit. He is saying good-bye and urges her to forget about him when she wakes up and build a life for herself. Try to be happy in this time. He kisses her on the head and walks out.

A couple months later. When Cassie does miraculously wake up, she tries to take Cole’s advice. Given her years of modern medical training, she becomes a nurse, helping the doctor pinpoint and cure diseases that he’s never even heard of. It seems as if she is finally moving on. Until a knock on the door alerts her that her search for someone has finally yielded results. Morris Morrison has been found.

After a drive through the countryside, Cassie comes to the address she was looking for, but the house looks a little too familiar. And by familiar, we mean it looks exactly like the house from Cassie’s red tea hallucinations. She walks around the back and startles Cole, who cuts himself while doing manly building stuff, like sawing wood. He cuts his hand and his blood stains the grass, later Cassie helps him wash the blood away in the kitchen sink. Seems we’ve heard all this before from Olivia, now?

Cole says he bought this house and is fixing it up so the two of them could have a safe place together when she inevitably woke up. When the two enter the house, Cassie realizes that this house doesn’t just look like the house from her hallucinations, it IS the house. Somehow the 12 Monkeys knew that they would be here one day.

Meanwhile in 2045, Ramse and his team have finally found Titan! It was exactly where they thought it would be, which baffles Hannah, as she’s sure she looked in this exact spot. No matter though, the gang goes full speed ahead to find... death. Just like the wise Jennifer Goines predicted. You see, The Witness knew they were coming and was prepared. No one from team Ramse survives the attack.

Back in 1959 Cassie is shaken by the discovery that the 12 Monkeys knew this moment between she and Cole would happen, but after much debate Cassie and Cole decide to forget about what it means that the house is from her hallucinations and they couldn’t stop the paradox. They have no way back to the future and they are safe here. The two decide to (finally) give love a chance and do the deed.

1957
After nearly a year searching for the Primary, tensions are running high between Cole and Railly as the date of the final paradox draws near. They are working in a factory--Cole as a laborer, Railly as a secretary--and still have not found the Primary. After arguing with Railly, Cole has a drink with his coworker Charlie, whose wife is dying of cancer. Charlie advises him to take a chance on happiness with Railly before time runs out.

Railly learns that a new work crew will be brought on at the factory the next day, and suggests that Cole investigate them for the Primary. Among them, Cole notices one man, Reginald, who behaves erratically. Railly checks his employment file and finds a picture of a monkey on the back. Cole confronts Reginald and prepares to kill him. However, Reginald confesses he had been paid to act strangely by someone else.

Back at the factory, Railly confronts a woman with a gun and a box--Charlie's wife, Melinda. Charlie appears and disarms Railly, revealing himself as a Messenger. Cole arrives, and Charlie explains that he paid Reginald to trick Cole. He fell in love with Melinda--his target and the final Primary--and couldn't bring himself to kill her. Melinda opens the box, revealing a knife made of her bone, and urges Charlie to paradox her so they can be together forever in the Red Forest. Charlie does so, causing an explosive temporal paradox that knocks out Cole and Railly.

Cole visits a comatose Railly in the hospital. He says farewell, kisses her, and leaves.

1958
Railly awakens from her coma. The doctors tell her she has been out for over six months. She goes to her and Cole's room at the Emerson Hotel, finding it completely empty and Cole gone.

1959
Railly is working as a nurse and training to qualify as a doctor. She finally tracks down Cole, finding that he bought the house of cedar and pine she had seen in her visions, and is living in it and repairing it. She realizes the 12 Monkeys always planned for her to come there. She and Cole argue over the failure of their mission and what they should do with their lives next. They come to terms with their feelings for one another and make love.

2045
After a year of searching, José Ramse, Marcus Whitley, Hannah Jones, and Adler arrive at Titan and confront a masked figure dressed like the Witness. All four are killed by the figure's confederates. Jennifer Goines and the remainder of the Daughters stay behind after Jennifer undergoes a challenge to her leadership.