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The Best Episodes of 12 Monkeys Season 2

Every episode of 12 Monkeys Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 12 Monkeys Season 2!

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 1156 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".

  • Year of the Monkey
    7.9/101,156 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

  • Primary
    8.1/101,071 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

  • One Hundred Years
    8.1/101,027 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

  • Emergence
    8.3/101,020 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

  • Bodies of Water
    8.1/10988 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

  • Immortal
    8.1/10975 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

  • Meltdown
    8.3/101,020 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

  • Lullaby
    9.1/101,456 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

  • Hyena
    8.0/10948 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

  • Fatherland
    8.1/10962 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

  • Resurrection
    8.8/101,217 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

  • Blood Washed Away
    9.0/101,259 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

  • Memory of Tomorrow
    9.1/101,387 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