12 Monkeys (2015) s03e10 Episode Script
Witness
1 "There once was a serpent "who only traveled one direction.
"Always forward, never backward.
"Until one day, the serpent came upon a demon.
" What's it mean? I don't know.
I didn't write it.
What's she look like? They say she's pale.
Like a corpse.
Black eyes hidden behind long, stringy hair.
Like in one of those Japanese ghost movies.
In there.
[door hinges creaking.]
[suspenseful musical flourish.]
[eerie crescendo.]
Boo! Oh.
Aw, hell.
Just a bloody bag lady.
Huh.
- [candy clattering.]
- Chocolate ones are good.
We heard you're a spook, not a squatter.
I'm a lot of things, kiddo.
Brainiac mental patient, CEO/corporate terrorist, future-psychic gypsy pirate, but I ain't no squatter, bro.
Okay? I own this place now.
Took me forever to find it.
It's complete shite.
Why do you want it? We all have a purpose.
I'm supposed to be here.
Fate's a real bitch that way Rarely puts you up at the Ritz.
Any day now! What are you waiting for? A dying man.
I think you're too late, lady.
Or too early.
All right, shitheads.
Get out of here! [British accent.]
Off to Hogwarts with ya! [electricity crackling.]
[rumbling.]
[intense music.]
Here's Johnny! [dramatic music.]
12 Monkeys 3x10 Air Date 22 May 2017 [church bells ringing.]
[door clanks open.]
[footsteps approaching.]
Athan Mother, Father, After all this time, here we are together [somber music.]
at the end.
We're not here to hurt you.
This time.
You're too late.
What's done cannot be undone.
I feel nothing for you.
And there is nothing in morality or causality to stop me from killing you.
So go live your lives.
What little you have left of them.
Eliza wouldn't want you to do that.
You may have given me my name, Mother.
You will not take hers.
Mind yourself.
I remember when you came to me.
You tried to save her.
Again and again.
Your red forest No, Athan, it's not salvation.
- It's - The death of a thief! [voice echoing.]
Your words, Mother.
Not mine.
I wanted to be blind.
I didn't want to witness but for her For her, I will return to Titan.
No.
You have a choice.
Tender words spoken by a man just years removed from picking the bones of those weaker than he.
I've denied what I'm supposed to be.
Vile.
Lost.
Lonely.
Angry.
It never felt like me.
[tense crescendo.]
But today, it does.
And you can't stop me.
- Cassie - Now.
- [suits beeping.]
[sudden whoosh.]
[overlapping chatter.]
[sudden whoosh.]
[suspenseful music.]
Clever.
[sudden whoosh.]
[alarm ringing.]
- What is it? - We have new movement.
- Where? - London! I have multiple time signatures.
They found him.
Shit.
Hold! There! God save the king.
[sudden whooshing.]
[air raid siren blaring.]
[gunshots.]
[engine rumbling.]
[rapid gunfire.]
- When are we? - It's The Blitz.
- Where is he? - He didn't splinter.
He's gotta be here somewhere.
- [chamber clicks.]
- Cole.
[explosive boom.]
You'll have seconds to save her.
Or you can follow me.
It's really up to you.
- [suit whirring.]
- No, no! [sudden whoosh.]
- [alarm beeping.]
- We lost them.
What happened? Dr.
Railly's signature just vanished! What about the other two? We don't know their temporal signature.
We only had the one suit in our possession.
So we can't track them anymore? Are you still locked on? - [suit beeping.]
- Yeah.
We go tandem.
We can't just keep chasing him.
[both panting.]
[hip-hop music playing.]
It's all about a dream, you start off with a dollar [electricity crackling.]
You let her die? [tense music.]
[suit sparking.]
You've stopped nothing.
- I will return home.
- You're right.
[whirring.]
[sudden whoosh.]
So what do we do now? Mother? Listen to the voice of your daughter, Katarina.
You're a mother.
Now think like one.
The Guardians are gone.
James and Cassandra have found their son.
What would you do? Where would you go? [sudden whoosh.]
Somewhere safe.
Somewhere The lions are taking their cub back to their den.
[dramatic swell.]
There is place sacred to the men like my brother Their home.
A house.
Of cedar and pine.
The origin of the Witness.
The moment itself exists outside causality.
The house is real, right? Yes.
Where? I can give you the location, but for the exact when I'll need something from you.
[suspenseful music.]
[clock ticking.]
Why don't you sit down, make yourself at home? When are we exactly? December 26, 1959.
Right after I undid our lives here.
This would've been your home.
Chased through time by sentimentalists.
Sit down, you little shit.
So what happens now? A scolding? A lecture, perhaps.
I'm about to be talked wit and wisdom by two people younger and less traveled than myself.
There's a turnout for the books.
I thought you were inevitable.
Written.
Every little kick was like a knife in my heart.
[somber music.]
When you left me, I felt free.
But then I saw you.
Only for a second.
You were crying.
And small.
And I knew that you were Good? Nothing.
You were nothing.
Not yet.
Whoever you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow.
Tomorrow? - Tomorrow? - [chamber clicks.]
But that's all I know.
That's all Magdalena and Sebastian taught me.
"Tomorrow, you will do such things.
" There is nothing that you can say or do, either of you, that will undermine my decision.
[tense music.]
What are you doing? Stop.
We've been here before, you and I.
History's full of second chances.
So get it right this time.
Pull the trigger, or I will kill you both.
No.
Please.
Please, I'm begging you.
Whatever love you have for her is the reason that you must pull the trigger.
Please.
Cole Do it.
Cole, don't! Cole? None of us are getting off that easy.
Pathetic.
You had your chance.
Could've gone out one blink.
One happy family, time victorious.
Now I will take back all the might've-beens time has stolen from us.
[eerie music.]
It's been decades since I've done this, but this is how we were able to communicate with him.
The Witness of the future? The one who has already returned to Titan.
The Witness who gave us orders through time.
He will try and stop me.
When are you gonna reach your threshold for batshit? You want to send her consciousness up the time stream? Can you find them? Yes.
Then proceed.
[tense music.]
[eerie rumbling.]
Where are you right now? When? Show me.
[continuous rumbling.]
- [distant, echoing.]
- Sit down.
Make yourself at home.
When is this moment? When are we exactly? December 26, 1959.
Right after I undid our lives here.
This would've been your home.
[eerie swell.]
[gasps.]
[foreboding music.]
[gasping.]
- I know when they are.
- [echoing.]
Oh, no.
It's now.
It's here.
The end.
They're coming for me.
For you.
[machine whirring.]
Ready the machine for December 26, 1959.
Roughly 1900 hours.
Here.
Mr.
Deacon and I shall go.
Hannah, we need a team of your best.
Let's go! Grab your weapons.
Thank you for everything.
I'm afraid I can't leave you here unattended.
I understand.
Initiate splinter sequence.
[machine whirring.]
You're in great danger.
Nothing is written.
When I was in Titan, there was a room filled with pieces of your life.
[gentle music.]
It's broken.
It's stuck.
She gave it to you to remind you that There's only now.
There's only today.
[overlapping whispers.]
[music swells intensely.]
Too late.
[rapid gunfire.]
[glass shattering.]
Cassie? We're okay.
Mr.
Cole! [suspenseful swell.]
[tense music.]
[chambers clicking.]
[crickets chirping.]
So this is all that is left for us.
Killing one another for what we believe? When I first met you, I had nothing.
You're the one who gave me something to believe in.
Yes! That the life of one is not worth that of seven billion.
Was to you.
Deacon still hasn't splintered in.
Something wrong with the machine? We can't wait for him.
This ends today.
Cass What are you doing? - Upgrading.
- Just use the bloody suit.
They'll never stop chasing us.
Mr.
Cole! What happens next happens last.
Listen to me.
These people are you family.
You've known them a lot longer than I.
Let me go.
I never knew my mother.
My dad used to say a thing "The only failure is giving up.
" What shall it be, Mr.
Cole? You can't have him! [chamber clicks.]
[eerie rumbling.]
[chiming.]
[rumbling intensifies.]
[wind howling.]
[intense music.]
I told you.
My family have come for me.
They're coming for him.
No matter what happens, we have to stop him.
Now! [rapid gunfire.]
Cole? What are you doing? Go someplace safe.
Whoa! Hey [distant gunfire.]
[panting.]
Jones I'm begging you.
Mother to mother.
Don't do this.
[clock ticking.]
[whispers.]
Hannah I'm sorry.
[gunshots.]
Athan! [sudden whoosh.]
We're still here.
What have we done? [tense music.]
Don't come back for me.
[sudden whoosh.]
Cassandra! Cassandra, come out! [door opens.]
Did you find your son? Yes, but he was shot.
The suit malfunctioned, I think it triggered immolation, but we can go back.
- Use Titan to - The Witness is dead? Yes.
Good.
[foreboding tone.]
You wanted me to save him.
No.
I wanted you to find him.
Take them.
Burn down the house.
It's served its purpose.
[glass shatters.]
[intense music.]
Olivia [gentle piano music.]
Olivia.
How? You told me the Witness would always be there for me.
You lied.
I'm afraid I can't leave you here unattended.
I understand.
Initiate splinter sequence.
[machine whirring.]
Match coordinates.
Follow sequence.
[whooshing.]
The Daughters A rather maudlin name for a tribe of savages, don't you think? Mr.
Deacon? Mr.
Deacon, is something wrong? [grunting.]
[fence rattling.]
Agh! That is not a woman.
It's a chameleon.
Whatever you see is what she wants you to see.
That isn't someone who's ever been anywhere she didn't want to be.
Is that what you think I'm doing here? Playing God? Playing God lacks ambition.
Why play at something when you can simply become it? It's unnatural.
No one should have strength like this.
- [grunts.]
- [electricity crackling.]
This isn't science; it's witchcraft.
[alarm ringing.]
Fire alarm.
Olivia's cell.
Nothing stays in a box forever.
[explosive crackle.]
There's an expression I'm fond of One I teach those who follow me.
We honor time With patience.
That's what this was? Just a long con.
[explosive crackle.]
I asked you: What were you made to be? [grunts.]
Agh! Look what they've turned you into.
Weak.
Small.
Everything that you are is wasted on them.
Not on me.
[foreboding music.]
[gunshots.]
I can give you the location.
But for the exact when, I'll need something from you.
[machine whirring.]
Initiate splinter sequence.
[sudden whoosh.]
[electricity crackling.]
It worked? I found him.
[whooshing.]
[rapid gunfire.]
At last, the day is upon us.
The hour of reckoning.
The moment of return.
And I know that many of you have doubted and feared and waited in great anticipation in this timeless place, but wait no more.
For the Witness has returned.
[intense orchestral music.]
Please.
Show me your face.
[dramatic swell.]
Katarina shot Athan Cole just as his suit initiated immolation.
We have confirmed the sequence.
The Witness is dead.
Not long ago, I stood on a hill and watched the skies turn red.
I saw the storms My purpose All I'd ever known Rushing toward me.
For a moment, I was humbled and I closed my eyes, felt the winds of time against my face.
And then it washed away.
Storms weren't proof of the Witness's power.
They were evidence of his failure.
And I thought to myself "Well, shit, if you want something done right" I was a fool to trust you.
No, Katarina.
You were the equal who made me better.
You did what I couldn't.
You killed the Witness.
Ramse, Sam It was all a game to you.
Your brother was proof of concept.
When you returned without him, I knew I'd found the very weapon I needed to eliminate the Guardians.
Only the mother could find the son.
You were never a fool, Katarina.
You were just beaten.
Now I will fulfill my purpose.
Free of you.
- Agh! - No! [grunts.]
[gasping.]
And free of him! From the beginning, the Witness was nothing more than a dying man.
The Witness shall never return.
[electricity crackling.]
[electricity crackling.]
[eerie music.]
[whispers.]
Save the dying man.
[whispers.]
Save the dying man.
Save the dying man.
I'm the dying man.
Athan? I'm the dying man.
Athan? The mausoleum She waits for me there.
[shrieks.]
Athan is the dying man.
[whisper echoes.]
Athan is the dying man.
Go get help! Go! [electricity crackling.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
I'm here.
I'm here.
- I'm - [suit whirring.]
James.
Cassandra No one's gonna die.
Not them.
Not you.
No dying.
I'm here.
[coughs.]
No dying! [suspenseful music.]
What is this? You're Primary.
You can see time, right? Glimpses, windows.
Back to front like me.
So let's fast forward.
Skip to the good part.
It's all right.
Keep going.
Just a little bit further.
We can do the middle later.
You're up? Thank you for everything.
It's time.
[dramatic crescendo.]
[electricity crackling.]
No.
[rapid gunfire.]
[intense music.]
Time to go! [sudden whoosh.]
[rapid gunfire.]
Just had the bloody thing fixed as well.
- Athan, are you okay? - It's just the suit.
- Oh, shit.
- This is the part where we run.
[alarm blaring.]
[yelling.]
[rapid gunfire.]
James, Athan, go! This is yours now.
I'll hold them off.
They'll kill you.
This is where I'm meant to be.
[distant alarm blaring.]
Athan [somber music.]
I wish I could've known you.
Another life.
Go.
Come on! Come on, we're getting out of here together.
Go.
[rapid gunfire.]
- What are you doing? - This is your window.
[rapid gunfire.]
Nothing is written.
Now go.
Now.
Please.
- Athan - Please, Mother, go.
[gentle music.]
I'll see you soon.
Go! Now! [rapid gunfire.]
Go! [intense music.]
Come on! Cassie, come on! [rapid gunfire.]
All right Let's play nice.
You know, it's so hard to tell you guys apart.
Is that Roger? Where are they? Better run.
You two take him to Olivia.
The rest of you, come with me.
[intense whirring.]
Wait! Paradox! [explosive boom.]
Well, I love what you've done with the place.
It's a remarkable collection.
I'm almost flattered.
I've always wondered why the mask? If you're gonna promise death, best look the part.
Now, I supposed that's your job.
Surely you've realized by now.
Took me so long to see it.
The thing I believed I was meant to become A sad, lonely, demon at the end of time was never me.
Ensuring my own creation meant ensuring yours.
The promise of a timeless realm.
The deceiver It was always you, Olivia.
What? [intense music.]
[gasps.]
[baby wailing distantly.]
I haven't done those things.
Not yet.
But you will.
No.
I haven't given orders through time.
I I prayed to you.
I worshipped you! Yes.
You are the Witness.
No, that's where you're wrong.
But I witnessed.
It just took her for me to see.
Life isn't measured by clocks.
And though you have an army at your back You are alone.
That is why you will lose.
Air raid siren This is an international multicast from the American CDC.
Doctors at the Baltimore CDC are working day and night to develop a vaccine.
We won't stop until we have one, but we can't do it alone.
If you're one of the immune, you're vital to our research.
[suspenseful music.]
The suit's repair is complete.
I'm going to have to leave you now.
I must return to Titan.
Tonight.
For James and Cassandra.
You'll need them.
And they'll need you.
[sudden whoosh.]
[fire crackling.]
[dramatic crescendo.]
How does one stop what never began? I think you're the answer, Jennifer.
I'm not like you.
I can't see the whole puzzle.
I don't know what all this means.
You are not like me.
You are better.
Whatever these are These symbols.
This is your mission now.
- [whirring.]
- [whooshing.]
Athan Cole is dead.
[machine whirring.]
His cycle begets our own, and together, we will begin another.
We will have our forest.
Our peace.
Our eternal now.
I will make for you what he could not.
But first We shall destroy our enemies where they live.
You wanted the Witness to return.
She has.
All: The Witness is safe! All: The Witness is safe! All: The Witness is safe! It's the beginning Beginning of the end.
They're coming for us.
[intense crescendo.]
When the four travelers went in search of the witch, "she had seen them coming, and so sent the winged monkeys after them.
" All right, James.
Bedtime for Bonzo.
Keep going.
I know there's more.
Yeah, there's the whole ending here.
What's that? Let's see here.
"There once was a serpent "who only traveled one direction.
"Always forward, never backward.
"Until one day, the serpent came upon a demon.
" What's it mean? I don't know.
I didn't write it.
Who did? Your mother.
[ ROCK MUSIC PLAYS .]
"Always forward, never backward.
"Until one day, the serpent came upon a demon.
" What's it mean? I don't know.
I didn't write it.
What's she look like? They say she's pale.
Like a corpse.
Black eyes hidden behind long, stringy hair.
Like in one of those Japanese ghost movies.
In there.
[door hinges creaking.]
[suspenseful musical flourish.]
[eerie crescendo.]
Boo! Oh.
Aw, hell.
Just a bloody bag lady.
Huh.
- [candy clattering.]
- Chocolate ones are good.
We heard you're a spook, not a squatter.
I'm a lot of things, kiddo.
Brainiac mental patient, CEO/corporate terrorist, future-psychic gypsy pirate, but I ain't no squatter, bro.
Okay? I own this place now.
Took me forever to find it.
It's complete shite.
Why do you want it? We all have a purpose.
I'm supposed to be here.
Fate's a real bitch that way Rarely puts you up at the Ritz.
Any day now! What are you waiting for? A dying man.
I think you're too late, lady.
Or too early.
All right, shitheads.
Get out of here! [British accent.]
Off to Hogwarts with ya! [electricity crackling.]
[rumbling.]
[intense music.]
Here's Johnny! [dramatic music.]
12 Monkeys 3x10 Air Date 22 May 2017 [church bells ringing.]
[door clanks open.]
[footsteps approaching.]
Athan Mother, Father, After all this time, here we are together [somber music.]
at the end.
We're not here to hurt you.
This time.
You're too late.
What's done cannot be undone.
I feel nothing for you.
And there is nothing in morality or causality to stop me from killing you.
So go live your lives.
What little you have left of them.
Eliza wouldn't want you to do that.
You may have given me my name, Mother.
You will not take hers.
Mind yourself.
I remember when you came to me.
You tried to save her.
Again and again.
Your red forest No, Athan, it's not salvation.
- It's - The death of a thief! [voice echoing.]
Your words, Mother.
Not mine.
I wanted to be blind.
I didn't want to witness but for her For her, I will return to Titan.
No.
You have a choice.
Tender words spoken by a man just years removed from picking the bones of those weaker than he.
I've denied what I'm supposed to be.
Vile.
Lost.
Lonely.
Angry.
It never felt like me.
[tense crescendo.]
But today, it does.
And you can't stop me.
- Cassie - Now.
- [suits beeping.]
[sudden whoosh.]
[overlapping chatter.]
[sudden whoosh.]
[suspenseful music.]
Clever.
[sudden whoosh.]
[alarm ringing.]
- What is it? - We have new movement.
- Where? - London! I have multiple time signatures.
They found him.
Shit.
Hold! There! God save the king.
[sudden whooshing.]
[air raid siren blaring.]
[gunshots.]
[engine rumbling.]
[rapid gunfire.]
- When are we? - It's The Blitz.
- Where is he? - He didn't splinter.
He's gotta be here somewhere.
- [chamber clicks.]
- Cole.
[explosive boom.]
You'll have seconds to save her.
Or you can follow me.
It's really up to you.
- [suit whirring.]
- No, no! [sudden whoosh.]
- [alarm beeping.]
- We lost them.
What happened? Dr.
Railly's signature just vanished! What about the other two? We don't know their temporal signature.
We only had the one suit in our possession.
So we can't track them anymore? Are you still locked on? - [suit beeping.]
- Yeah.
We go tandem.
We can't just keep chasing him.
[both panting.]
[hip-hop music playing.]
It's all about a dream, you start off with a dollar [electricity crackling.]
You let her die? [tense music.]
[suit sparking.]
You've stopped nothing.
- I will return home.
- You're right.
[whirring.]
[sudden whoosh.]
So what do we do now? Mother? Listen to the voice of your daughter, Katarina.
You're a mother.
Now think like one.
The Guardians are gone.
James and Cassandra have found their son.
What would you do? Where would you go? [sudden whoosh.]
Somewhere safe.
Somewhere The lions are taking their cub back to their den.
[dramatic swell.]
There is place sacred to the men like my brother Their home.
A house.
Of cedar and pine.
The origin of the Witness.
The moment itself exists outside causality.
The house is real, right? Yes.
Where? I can give you the location, but for the exact when I'll need something from you.
[suspenseful music.]
[clock ticking.]
Why don't you sit down, make yourself at home? When are we exactly? December 26, 1959.
Right after I undid our lives here.
This would've been your home.
Chased through time by sentimentalists.
Sit down, you little shit.
So what happens now? A scolding? A lecture, perhaps.
I'm about to be talked wit and wisdom by two people younger and less traveled than myself.
There's a turnout for the books.
I thought you were inevitable.
Written.
Every little kick was like a knife in my heart.
[somber music.]
When you left me, I felt free.
But then I saw you.
Only for a second.
You were crying.
And small.
And I knew that you were Good? Nothing.
You were nothing.
Not yet.
Whoever you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow.
Tomorrow? - Tomorrow? - [chamber clicks.]
But that's all I know.
That's all Magdalena and Sebastian taught me.
"Tomorrow, you will do such things.
" There is nothing that you can say or do, either of you, that will undermine my decision.
[tense music.]
What are you doing? Stop.
We've been here before, you and I.
History's full of second chances.
So get it right this time.
Pull the trigger, or I will kill you both.
No.
Please.
Please, I'm begging you.
Whatever love you have for her is the reason that you must pull the trigger.
Please.
Cole Do it.
Cole, don't! Cole? None of us are getting off that easy.
Pathetic.
You had your chance.
Could've gone out one blink.
One happy family, time victorious.
Now I will take back all the might've-beens time has stolen from us.
[eerie music.]
It's been decades since I've done this, but this is how we were able to communicate with him.
The Witness of the future? The one who has already returned to Titan.
The Witness who gave us orders through time.
He will try and stop me.
When are you gonna reach your threshold for batshit? You want to send her consciousness up the time stream? Can you find them? Yes.
Then proceed.
[tense music.]
[eerie rumbling.]
Where are you right now? When? Show me.
[continuous rumbling.]
- [distant, echoing.]
- Sit down.
Make yourself at home.
When is this moment? When are we exactly? December 26, 1959.
Right after I undid our lives here.
This would've been your home.
[eerie swell.]
[gasps.]
[foreboding music.]
[gasping.]
- I know when they are.
- [echoing.]
Oh, no.
It's now.
It's here.
The end.
They're coming for me.
For you.
[machine whirring.]
Ready the machine for December 26, 1959.
Roughly 1900 hours.
Here.
Mr.
Deacon and I shall go.
Hannah, we need a team of your best.
Let's go! Grab your weapons.
Thank you for everything.
I'm afraid I can't leave you here unattended.
I understand.
Initiate splinter sequence.
[machine whirring.]
You're in great danger.
Nothing is written.
When I was in Titan, there was a room filled with pieces of your life.
[gentle music.]
It's broken.
It's stuck.
She gave it to you to remind you that There's only now.
There's only today.
[overlapping whispers.]
[music swells intensely.]
Too late.
[rapid gunfire.]
[glass shattering.]
Cassie? We're okay.
Mr.
Cole! [suspenseful swell.]
[tense music.]
[chambers clicking.]
[crickets chirping.]
So this is all that is left for us.
Killing one another for what we believe? When I first met you, I had nothing.
You're the one who gave me something to believe in.
Yes! That the life of one is not worth that of seven billion.
Was to you.
Deacon still hasn't splintered in.
Something wrong with the machine? We can't wait for him.
This ends today.
Cass What are you doing? - Upgrading.
- Just use the bloody suit.
They'll never stop chasing us.
Mr.
Cole! What happens next happens last.
Listen to me.
These people are you family.
You've known them a lot longer than I.
Let me go.
I never knew my mother.
My dad used to say a thing "The only failure is giving up.
" What shall it be, Mr.
Cole? You can't have him! [chamber clicks.]
[eerie rumbling.]
[chiming.]
[rumbling intensifies.]
[wind howling.]
[intense music.]
I told you.
My family have come for me.
They're coming for him.
No matter what happens, we have to stop him.
Now! [rapid gunfire.]
Cole? What are you doing? Go someplace safe.
Whoa! Hey [distant gunfire.]
[panting.]
Jones I'm begging you.
Mother to mother.
Don't do this.
[clock ticking.]
[whispers.]
Hannah I'm sorry.
[gunshots.]
Athan! [sudden whoosh.]
We're still here.
What have we done? [tense music.]
Don't come back for me.
[sudden whoosh.]
Cassandra! Cassandra, come out! [door opens.]
Did you find your son? Yes, but he was shot.
The suit malfunctioned, I think it triggered immolation, but we can go back.
- Use Titan to - The Witness is dead? Yes.
Good.
[foreboding tone.]
You wanted me to save him.
No.
I wanted you to find him.
Take them.
Burn down the house.
It's served its purpose.
[glass shatters.]
[intense music.]
Olivia [gentle piano music.]
Olivia.
How? You told me the Witness would always be there for me.
You lied.
I'm afraid I can't leave you here unattended.
I understand.
Initiate splinter sequence.
[machine whirring.]
Match coordinates.
Follow sequence.
[whooshing.]
The Daughters A rather maudlin name for a tribe of savages, don't you think? Mr.
Deacon? Mr.
Deacon, is something wrong? [grunting.]
[fence rattling.]
Agh! That is not a woman.
It's a chameleon.
Whatever you see is what she wants you to see.
That isn't someone who's ever been anywhere she didn't want to be.
Is that what you think I'm doing here? Playing God? Playing God lacks ambition.
Why play at something when you can simply become it? It's unnatural.
No one should have strength like this.
- [grunts.]
- [electricity crackling.]
This isn't science; it's witchcraft.
[alarm ringing.]
Fire alarm.
Olivia's cell.
Nothing stays in a box forever.
[explosive crackle.]
There's an expression I'm fond of One I teach those who follow me.
We honor time With patience.
That's what this was? Just a long con.
[explosive crackle.]
I asked you: What were you made to be? [grunts.]
Agh! Look what they've turned you into.
Weak.
Small.
Everything that you are is wasted on them.
Not on me.
[foreboding music.]
[gunshots.]
I can give you the location.
But for the exact when, I'll need something from you.
[machine whirring.]
Initiate splinter sequence.
[sudden whoosh.]
[electricity crackling.]
It worked? I found him.
[whooshing.]
[rapid gunfire.]
At last, the day is upon us.
The hour of reckoning.
The moment of return.
And I know that many of you have doubted and feared and waited in great anticipation in this timeless place, but wait no more.
For the Witness has returned.
[intense orchestral music.]
Please.
Show me your face.
[dramatic swell.]
Katarina shot Athan Cole just as his suit initiated immolation.
We have confirmed the sequence.
The Witness is dead.
Not long ago, I stood on a hill and watched the skies turn red.
I saw the storms My purpose All I'd ever known Rushing toward me.
For a moment, I was humbled and I closed my eyes, felt the winds of time against my face.
And then it washed away.
Storms weren't proof of the Witness's power.
They were evidence of his failure.
And I thought to myself "Well, shit, if you want something done right" I was a fool to trust you.
No, Katarina.
You were the equal who made me better.
You did what I couldn't.
You killed the Witness.
Ramse, Sam It was all a game to you.
Your brother was proof of concept.
When you returned without him, I knew I'd found the very weapon I needed to eliminate the Guardians.
Only the mother could find the son.
You were never a fool, Katarina.
You were just beaten.
Now I will fulfill my purpose.
Free of you.
- Agh! - No! [grunts.]
[gasping.]
And free of him! From the beginning, the Witness was nothing more than a dying man.
The Witness shall never return.
[electricity crackling.]
[electricity crackling.]
[eerie music.]
[whispers.]
Save the dying man.
[whispers.]
Save the dying man.
Save the dying man.
I'm the dying man.
Athan? I'm the dying man.
Athan? The mausoleum She waits for me there.
[shrieks.]
Athan is the dying man.
[whisper echoes.]
Athan is the dying man.
Go get help! Go! [electricity crackling.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
I'm here.
I'm here.
- I'm - [suit whirring.]
James.
Cassandra No one's gonna die.
Not them.
Not you.
No dying.
I'm here.
[coughs.]
No dying! [suspenseful music.]
What is this? You're Primary.
You can see time, right? Glimpses, windows.
Back to front like me.
So let's fast forward.
Skip to the good part.
It's all right.
Keep going.
Just a little bit further.
We can do the middle later.
You're up? Thank you for everything.
It's time.
[dramatic crescendo.]
[electricity crackling.]
No.
[rapid gunfire.]
[intense music.]
Time to go! [sudden whoosh.]
[rapid gunfire.]
Just had the bloody thing fixed as well.
- Athan, are you okay? - It's just the suit.
- Oh, shit.
- This is the part where we run.
[alarm blaring.]
[yelling.]
[rapid gunfire.]
James, Athan, go! This is yours now.
I'll hold them off.
They'll kill you.
This is where I'm meant to be.
[distant alarm blaring.]
Athan [somber music.]
I wish I could've known you.
Another life.
Go.
Come on! Come on, we're getting out of here together.
Go.
[rapid gunfire.]
- What are you doing? - This is your window.
[rapid gunfire.]
Nothing is written.
Now go.
Now.
Please.
- Athan - Please, Mother, go.
[gentle music.]
I'll see you soon.
Go! Now! [rapid gunfire.]
Go! [intense music.]
Come on! Cassie, come on! [rapid gunfire.]
All right Let's play nice.
You know, it's so hard to tell you guys apart.
Is that Roger? Where are they? Better run.
You two take him to Olivia.
The rest of you, come with me.
[intense whirring.]
Wait! Paradox! [explosive boom.]
Well, I love what you've done with the place.
It's a remarkable collection.
I'm almost flattered.
I've always wondered why the mask? If you're gonna promise death, best look the part.
Now, I supposed that's your job.
Surely you've realized by now.
Took me so long to see it.
The thing I believed I was meant to become A sad, lonely, demon at the end of time was never me.
Ensuring my own creation meant ensuring yours.
The promise of a timeless realm.
The deceiver It was always you, Olivia.
What? [intense music.]
[gasps.]
[baby wailing distantly.]
I haven't done those things.
Not yet.
But you will.
No.
I haven't given orders through time.
I I prayed to you.
I worshipped you! Yes.
You are the Witness.
No, that's where you're wrong.
But I witnessed.
It just took her for me to see.
Life isn't measured by clocks.
And though you have an army at your back You are alone.
That is why you will lose.
Air raid siren This is an international multicast from the American CDC.
Doctors at the Baltimore CDC are working day and night to develop a vaccine.
We won't stop until we have one, but we can't do it alone.
If you're one of the immune, you're vital to our research.
[suspenseful music.]
The suit's repair is complete.
I'm going to have to leave you now.
I must return to Titan.
Tonight.
For James and Cassandra.
You'll need them.
And they'll need you.
[sudden whoosh.]
[fire crackling.]
[dramatic crescendo.]
How does one stop what never began? I think you're the answer, Jennifer.
I'm not like you.
I can't see the whole puzzle.
I don't know what all this means.
You are not like me.
You are better.
Whatever these are These symbols.
This is your mission now.
- [whirring.]
- [whooshing.]
Athan Cole is dead.
[machine whirring.]
His cycle begets our own, and together, we will begin another.
We will have our forest.
Our peace.
Our eternal now.
I will make for you what he could not.
But first We shall destroy our enemies where they live.
You wanted the Witness to return.
She has.
All: The Witness is safe! All: The Witness is safe! All: The Witness is safe! It's the beginning Beginning of the end.
They're coming for us.
[intense crescendo.]
When the four travelers went in search of the witch, "she had seen them coming, and so sent the winged monkeys after them.
" All right, James.
Bedtime for Bonzo.
Keep going.
I know there's more.
Yeah, there's the whole ending here.
What's that? Let's see here.
"There once was a serpent "who only traveled one direction.
"Always forward, never backward.
"Until one day, the serpent came upon a demon.
" What's it mean? I don't know.
I didn't write it.
Who did? Your mother.
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