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Feb 19, 2024 · In the final season, the characters find themselves caught in a never-ending cycle of time travel, paradoxes, and determinism. The central mystery revolves around the existence of a parallel world, known as the “origin world,” which holds the key to breaking the cycle and saving humanity from destruction. **Ending Explained**
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By Jacob Bryant
Posted: Jul 7, 2018 3:05 am
This interview contains spoilers for series finale of Syfy's 12 Monkeys.
Syfy’s 12 Monkeys has finished its loop. The finale saw Team Splinter gather its forces -- including a few familiar (and recently dead) faces -- to stop The Witness and Titan from destroying time.
And, spoiler alert, they did. The Witness was killed, our heroes re-wrote the timeline, and surprisingly, everyone got a happy ending. But just because all of time and reality was saved, doesn’t mean there aren’t still questions to be answered.
IGN spoke to showrunner Terry Matalas to talk about the mind-bending twists in the series finale, including whether Cole truly made it to the new timeline, how long Deacon knew about his fate, and more. Read on for all the answers.
IGN: You’ve said in the past that you always had the ending in your head. Was it just that final scene or was it multiple parts of the finale?
Matalas: From the very beginning there were certain things, like Cole’s mom; him being at the center of all these loops in time; and that he would have to be erased. And then, after we had a coda of what happened to everybody in the new timeline, that he would find his way back to Cassie in the very last moment of the series.
The inverse of that I suppose would be, was there anything that you thought would end up happening in the finale that didn’t? Whether it be an event or a character doing something you later realized they wouldn’t do?
There weren't any big moments like “Darth Vader is Luke’s brother. No, wait, he’s his father!” But certainly these brilliant actors and their performances dictate a lot of who these characters become. I think Alisen Down’s Olivia being the evil queen of time was something that definitely evolved organically as we were telling her story.
I’m sure there will be tons of speculation about the final shot of the red leaf on the tree outside Cole and Cassie’s reunion. Did Cole make it to the new timeline, or is he in his own personal Red Forest?
Well, what do you think?
Speaking of that montage of Cassie looking up where everyone ended up in the new timeline, which one were you most excited for?
They all have different emotional payoffs to me. I think the shot of Jones, Elliott, and Hannah is it. It was hard-fought but they did get a happy ending and I thought that was a nice surprise.
The show does a great job of seeding hints from the future very early in the show. Are there any from the last episodes you’re excited for people to realize?
One of the big ones was Hannah being Cole’s mom. Behavior-wise we really started hitting it hard in the Season 3 premiere, called “Mother,” which was a team-up between Hannah and Cole. At one point, Jones calls Hannah a little s**t, and then Hannah calls Cole a little s**t, and later in the season he calls his own son a little s**t.
Getting to end a show on your terms must be a great feeling, but knowing an episode will be the series’ last still has to be bittersweet. Was there a moment writing or directing the finale where it set in that everything was just about finished?
There was a lot of tears writing the scripts, but there was a very long mourning process. We shot the series finale in Toronto and then went to Prague to shoot previous episodes. We had a very long post process, so getting each one of those sequences right, I was emotionally responding to every one of them. The big one was, once the score was finished, we watched the coda with Cassie looking everyone up in the new timeline in totality. Those were gut punches.
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