The worst episodes of 12 Monkeys
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Forces comes to a head when Ramse does what it takes to protect his newfound family, leaving Cole to deal with the aftermath.
- 02
Cole's search for information about a mysterious organization known as the Army of the 12 Monkeys leads him to a mental institution in 2015, where there's a patient who holds the key to the plague that will destroy the world. Meanwhile, Dr. Railly risks her life and disrupting the course of history to help Cole.
- 03
Cole's search for the location of the virus leads him to 2014, and to a devastating moment in Dr. Railly's life involving a dangerous outbreak in Haiti.
- 04
A fight for the future ensues when a dangerous band of marauders hunting for Cole and Ramse threaten the mission to save the past.
- 05
To rescue Cole from the past, Dr. Jones must convince a former ally that her mission is worth saving.
- 06
Cole finds himself in 2017 at the height of the plague. Out of options, Jones faces an impossible choice to replace the Core.
- 07
Cole and Dr. Railly battle the Army of the 12 Monkeys after they both discover the Night Room, an off-site, black ops lab that houses the virus that will one day destroy the world.
- 08
Cole risks his future to save Dr. Railly after the tragic events of the Night Room create an alternate reality in 2043.
- 09
Cole, Railly and Aaron race to stop the virus from being deployed as a bioweapon in Chechnya.
- 10
In the Season 1 finale, Cole and Railly attempt a final confrontation with their closest enemies, while Jones faces a new threat to all that she has accomplished.
- 11
A drama based on Terry Gilliam's 1995 sci-fi adventure begins when a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future arrives in the year 2015 on a mission to save mankind from a deadly plague that will eventually decimate 93.6% of the human race.
- 12
Cole's last-ditch effort to stop the Army of the 12 Monkeys brings him to Tokyo in the year 1987.
- 13
Railly searches for the one person who can save Cole as the effects of time travel take a deadly toll on his body.
- 14
Jennifer Goines takes her power into her own hands in the year 2016 when she forms the Hyenas, a band of crazy compatriots, to take on the 12 Monkeys. With the help of Cole, an elaborate plot is uncovered to reacquire the virus.
- 15
Cole has his loyalty tested when Ramse and Railly go rogue, embarking on an unsanctioned mission that sends them to 1961 East Berlin. Once there, they have murder on their minds as they search for an unscrupulous German doctor who knows the location of The Witness.
- 16
When an attempt to destroy the virus changes the future, Cole finds himself stranded in 2016 with an unstable Jennifer Goines, who may or may not be his key to getting home. Meanwhile, Jones and Railly must deal with both the consequences of the changed timeline and the temporal facility's newest prisoner -- Ramse.
- 17
Cassie and Jennifer must work together to save the future, while Cole makes a surprising move with Deacon.
- 18
Cole's partnership with Ramse is put to the test when they travel back to the 1970s to try to prevent the Twelve from murdering a disturbed Vietnam veteran with a connection to the Witness.
- 19
Cole faces the Witness as Cassie's hallucinations evolve; deadly visitors from the past arrive when the time machine malfunctions and begins tearing apart time and space.
- 20
With the temporal facility on the verge of destruction, Cole and Jones find themselves in the middle of a coup. After a violent encounter ends in an unexpected tragedy, Cole is sent back to 1957 in a last-ditch effort to save humanity while the rest embark on a caravan across the apocalypse to find Titan -- the stronghold of the Witness.
- 21
Everything changes when the team finally climbs the steps and rings the bell in the Middle Ages.
- 22
Cole and Ramse repair their broken friendship while on the run; Railly and Jones navigate an uncertain future in 2043.
- 23
Despite the growing tension between them, Cole and Cassie travel to 1940s New York during World War II to track down a dangerously seductive member of the Twelve who's plotting an assassination.
- 24
Jones reluctantly places her trust in Ramse to bring Cole and Cassie safely home after they get stranded in the year 1944. As Ramse looks forward to this chance to atone for his sins, Jones explores the true nature of time with old Jennifer Goines.
- 25
Cassie is sent to 2020 by Jones with one mission: Kill the younger Jones and prevent time travel from ever happening.
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