7.9/101,161 votes#1 - Year of the Monkey
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/2016
Cole and Ramse repair their broken friendship while on the run; Railly and Jones navigate an uncertain future in 2043.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett
8.1/101,077 votes#2 - Primary
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/25/2016
Cole gets stranded in 2016 after an attempt to destroy the virus changes the future. Jones and Railly deal with the consequences of the changed timeline.
Director: Magnus Martens
Writer: Sean Tretta
8.1/101,031 votes#3 - One Hundred Years
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/2016
Despite the growing tension between them, Cole and Cassie time travel to New York during World War II to track down a dangerous member of the Twelve.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.3/101,027 votes#4 - Emergence
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/9/2016
When Cole and Cassie are stranded in 1944, Jones must turn to the person she trusts the least to bring them home -- Ramse. For Ramse, this mission will give him a chance to atone for his sins -- but can he mend the broken relations between Cole and Railly? Meanwhile, Jones visits Old Jennifer Goines to explore the true nature of Time - and the Twelve’s method to destroy it.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Richard Robbins
8.1/10993 votes#5 - Bodies of Water
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/16/2016
In the present, Cassie and Jennifer Goines run from the 12 Monkeys; in 2044, Cole and Ramse face off against Deacon.
Director: Mairzee Almas
Writer: N/A
8.1/10980 votes#6 - Immortal
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/2016
Cole and Ramse travel to 1970s New York City to prevent the Twelve from murdering a Vietnam veteran with a connection to the Witness.
Director: David Greene
Writer: Ian Sobel
8.3/101,025 votes#7 - Meltdown
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/30/2016
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.
Director: Grant Harvey
Writer: Richard Robbins
9.1/101,466 votes#8 - Lullaby
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/6/2016
Jones comes to the disheartening realization that time travel is humanity's true enemy and that as its architect she needs to be stopped, and so she sends Railly back to the year 2020 with orders to undo all of it.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Sean Tretta
8.0/10955 votes#9 - Hyena
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/13/2016
To save the last Primary, Cole must turn to a mortal enemy. Plus: Jennifer Goines, radical revolutionary?
Director: Bill Eagles
Writer: N/A
8.1/10967 votes#10 - Fatherland
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/20/2016
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."
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Oliver Grigsby
8.8/101,223 votes#11 - Resurrection
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/27/2016
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.
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writer: Richard E. Robbins
9.0/101,269 votes#12 - Blood Washed Away
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2016
Cole and Railly attempt to stop the final paradox in the past while Ramse, Jennifer and Deacon struggle to survive the apocalypse in a last ditch effort to find the Witness.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Sean Tretta
9.1/101,395 votes#13 - Memory of Tomorrow
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/18/2016
Cole and Railly have finally found peace living in the past. When a mysterious woman with apocalyptic visions of the future tells Cole it's not over, he must do the unthinkable to save the world... and the woman he loves.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Terry Matalas
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The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:Syfy
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Year of the Monkey" is the best rated episode of "12 Monkeys" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 1161 votes. Directed by David Grossman and written by Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett, it aired on 4/18/2016. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Primary".