Amanda Schull: Dr. Cassandra Railly

The Keys

Dr. Cassandra Railly

James Cole: Listen, I want to tell you something. It won't make any sense to you now, but it will the next time you see me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Okay. Okay.
James Cole: It's the Keys. Huh... I couldn't tell you before, because I was too embarrassed. It's the Keys in Florida. I saw a... picture of a... beach there in a magazine once. That's where I'd go.

[Cassie is discussing the monkey symbol on a Middle Eastern artifact with Dr. Garret]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Have you ever heard of the Army of the 12 Monkeys?
Edward Garret: You know what? You're a beautiful woman. You should've stuck with that. We're through here.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Put me on the phone with Cole right now.
Michael Pratt: Not happening.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I know there's a virus. It's not going where you sent it. I need to get him to destroy it.
Michael Pratt: Right now, you're looking like an accomplice in this.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You don't understand what you've done. If this is M5-10, and it's released, the symptoms might start innocently enough, a-a cough, a sneeze. But the rate of infection from a single carrier will be exponential. If just one of the people exposed reaches a town, within days, the number of infected people will be in the thousands, then millions. Within weeks, everything collapses. Everyone dies.
[she lets that information sink in for a moment]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: How long since you've heard from your courier? If your op were going as planned, you wouldn't even be speaking to me. You need to know what's going on in Chechnya.

[last lines]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What do you think will happen, when this is over? I know you say that the future will be saved and that you won't exist, but... what do you think happens? To you?
James Cole: I don't know. Wind up a better me in a better place, I hope.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: And what is that, that... place? What does it look like to you?
James Cole: [chuckles] I was in foster care, when I was little. The other kids used to have this game they'd play, talking about where they'd go if they could go anywhere. Exotic places, mostly, just stupid kid stuff.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Where was your place?
James Cole: [from Cassie's memory] "It's the Keys."
[Cole grunts; a soft rumbling starts]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Cole, wait.
James Cole: What is it?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Goodbye.
[he splinters]