What about the virus in 12 Monkeys?
Near the end of 12 Monkeys, the terrorist mad man OPENED one of the vials of virus at the screening, so wouldn't that have initiated the collapse of society anyway, by starting the death of all who were in the airport at that time, and wouldn't that have traveled everywhere those travelers were going?
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Because the plan was never to change the past but to obtain the original virus, as he told to Railly:
COLE: I just have to locate the virus in its original form before it mutates. So scientists can come back and study it and find a cure. So that those of us who survived can go back to the surface of the earth.
The issue was in current time virus was mutating and they needed the original form to craft a cure.
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How did the virus spread in 12 Monkeys?
The world believes that The Army of the Twelve Monkeys was responsible for the virus. This is from a broken voice transmission saying something about the Army. Cole (Bruce) is a prisoner who the scientists want to train and send back in time to get more information on the virus.Who started the virus in 12 Monkeys?
Kathryn Railly (played by Madeleine Stowe), his once doubtful psychiatrist who has become his coconspirator in investigating a group run by Jeffrey Goines (played by Brad Pitt) called the Army of the 12 Monkeys and their role in unleashing the virus on the planet.Do they stop the virus in 12 Monkeys TV show?
We told you the plague was the least of Cole and Railly's worries in season 2! During Monday's episode of 12 Monkeys, Cole (Aaron Stanford) and Railly (Amanda Schull) did the unthinkable: They prevented the plague from killing off most of the world's population in 2016. They actually changed the past!12 Monkeys (1995) - About the Virus.
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The goal of the scientists of the future was never to stop the outbreak (their past cannot be changed) it was to develop a cure.
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