" Where are you right now?" " Let me start at the beginning." "The beginning..." "Three years ago," "I sent a traveler back in time to stop a plague that had killed 7 billion people." "The mission was clear:" "kill the man responsible for destroying the world before he has a chance to do so..." "Change history and save the future." "But as fate would have it, we were hunting the wrong man." " You're still here." " How is that possible?" " We changed course and recruited others to help us on our mission." "Bonds were forged with allies, mutual enemies, and even those of... unsound mind." "And together, we discovered a conspiracy spanning centuries:" "the Army of the 12 Monkeys... an organization bent on not only the destruction of humankind, but time itself." "A cult operating by fierce religious devotion to the word of its prophet..." "Mother!" " A man from the future who calls himself the Witness." "The world's end, an infinite hell on Earth, are by his design." "And now, our mission to stop him has come at a tremendous cost." " Cole!" " Cassie!" " Our friends are lost in time." " Come on, Cassie." " She's gone." " Where did she go?" " Our only clue to their disappearance is a year:" "2163." "A when without a where." "For months, we've searched the wasteland for the enemy's machine," "Titan, chasing its temporal signature." "Scouring the planet, we found nothing." "Initiate return sequence." "And for our traveler, James Cole," "I fear this is no longer a rescue mission, but something else... the hopeless endeavor of a man desperate to save someone he lost, someone he loves." "And with each passing day, hope becomes a distant memory."