Cassandra Complex

## Cast Information

"**Cassandra Complex**" is the third episode of Season 1 of *12 Monkeys*. It first aired at 9:00 p.m. on January 30, 2015 on Syfy.

## Synopsis

A search for the location of the virus leads Cole to 2014, when Haiti once proved a devastating moment in Dr. Railly's life.

## Plot

In 2015, Cole is teaching Cassandra how to shoot a gun. Cassandra is called down to the police station where they are investigating Jennifer Goines’ abduction from the hospital. She gives the police a description of the man with the scar who took Goines. While talking to the police she sees a photo of the lab workers who Goines’ was arrested for murdering. Cassandra recognizes one of them as Henri Toussaint, a doctor who she had worked with during an epidemic in Haiti.

Cassandra returns to the CDC, the same building where Cole found her remains in the future. Jules, her former supervisor invites her to come back to work. She demurs, and instead asks after Dr. Toussaint, claiming she needs his help on a patient. She learns that Toussaint was shot and killed in 2014 right around the time she left Haiti. Cole decides to travel back to 2014 to talk to Toussaint and locate the Night Room. Cassandra warns him to stay away from the earlier version of her.

Cole returns to 2043, where he is debriefed by Jones, who agrees with his idea of sending him back to Haiti to interview Toussaint. Ramse tells Cole that they’ve found signs of scavengers near the facility. Ramse also has words with Whitley, one of the soldiers working for Jones. Jones tells Cole that there were reports of unusual solar flare activity during the part of 2014 they are sending him back to and that this could interfere with him once he travels there. She also warns him against interacting with Cassandra in 2014, lest it ”fracture her timeline”.

In 2014, Cassandra argues with Aaron about going to Haiti. She insist that she can help, but he worries that she is endangering herself over her belief in the pandemic which Cole told her about. She brushes off his concerns, determined to go anyway. In Haiti she meets Jules and Henri Toussaint. When an armed man tries to force them to treat his daughter, Cassandra faces him down. She recommends quarantining the area to prevent any escape of the disease. Jules recommends that she and Toussaint get some rest before they begin working.

That night, Cassandra and Toussaint bond over drinks. He praises her bravery but she brushes it off, saying that death is inevitable. He tells her how the death of his sister from measles inspired him to become a doctor, but that he has learned that it is impossible to control nature, only to bend it. The two of them kiss, and have sex.

In 2043, Ramse and Whitley patrol the perimeter of the facility where Whitley shares his low opinion of scavengers and Ramse shares his low opinion of soldiers. Whitley is attacked by a woman. He wrestles her off a points his gun at her, but is knocked out by Ramse.

Cole arrives in 2014. He discovers that the solar flare activity is causing him to wink in and out of 2014. At the clinic, things are getting worse, and Cassandra learns that all of their medicine has been stolen. Toussaint says that he knows a woman in the area who has a stockpile of antibiotics. Cole poses as a patient and gains entry to the clinic. He tries to convince Toussaint to come with him, claiming that there is a family nearby who needs treatment. But when Cassandra approaches him, he flees in order to avoid being spotted. His escape prompts Cassandra to again recommend a quarantine, fearing that the infection could turn into a pandemic. Toussaint agrees to go out and look for more medicine. Cole follows him.

Toussaint attacks Cole, fearing that he is part of the same group which killed his coworkers. Cole tries to convince Toussaint that he is a friend of Jennifer Goines. Toussaint says that if Cole allows him to treat the patients at the clinic, he will reveal the location of the Night Room.

In 2043, Ramse holds the woman at gunpoint. She is an old acquaintance of his named Max. He asks her whether Deacon and The Seven are in the vicinity. She says she doesn’t know and has left the Seven. Ramse replies that no one leaves the Seven and that Deacon has been hunting him and Cole since they escaped. Max asks about Whitley and the facility. Ramse says that it’s just an abandoned building that they camp in, but when Max begs him to let her stay for a few days he refuses.

In 2014, Toussaint tells Cole that he and Jennifer had been working on developing a powerful virus for Markridge as part of a viral gene therapy. Cole and Toussaint are getting the medicine when The Pallid Man appears with some henchmen. Toussaint escapes, with the Pallid Man chasing after him. Cole kills the two henchmen and then follows after them.

At the clinic, conditions continue to worsen and Cassandra begins to panic. When she learns that an officer was shot at one of the quarantine barricades she becomes convinced that this is the plague that Cole warned her of and recommends that they begin using lethal force to maintain the quarantine. Jules is horrified and worries that she is losing touch with reality.

The Pallid Man corners Toussaint, but Cole attacks him, slashing his face with a broken bottle and giving him the scar which he will later have. The Pallid Man flees. Cole demands the location of the Night Room and Toussaint says that he doesn’t know, that they were transported there blindfolded and that the lab moved around. But he tells Cole that just before the attack, Markridge installed a high end decontamination system and that Cole should track that equipment in order to locate the Night Room.
That night, Cassandra apologizes to Jules, but warns him that if the virus escapes quarantine that everyone is in danger. He tells her that the lab results came back and that it’s river fever, a known disease which they can contain and treat. He tells her to go home and take time to come to terms with her kidnapping. Cassandra sits down and cries, not noticing Cole watching her from the shadows. He disappears.

In 2015, Cole informs Cassandra about what he learned in Haiti. She tells him that Haiti was her lowest moment, but that she has decided to rejoin the CDC in order to help track down the Night Room. She asks him about what happened to Toussaint, saying that his death is her fault for sending him to get the medicine. Cole tells her that they split up and he did not see who shot him. However, a flashback reveals that Cole himself shot and killed Toussaint.

Cole returns to 20143, where Ramse warns him that Deacon is nearby with a potentially large force and might be planning to assault the facility. Max returns to her camp where she informs Deacon that she found a place with shelter and power and that she found Cole.