You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of 12 Monkeys.

You're a very good observer call.

We have a very advanced program, something very different.

An opportunity to reduce your sentence considerably.

And possibly play an important role in returning the human race to the surface of the earth.

No license, no prints, no warrants.

But he took on five cops like he was dusted to the eyeballs.

What year is this?

What year do you think it is?

1996.

That's the future, James.

Do you think you're living in the future?

I am simply trying to gather information think you're living in the future?

I'm simply trying to gather information to help the people in the present trace the path of the virus.

We're not in the present now.

This is a place for crazy people.

I'm not saying you're not mentally ill. I know you're crazy as a loon.

The army of 12 monkeys are the ones that spread the virus. Monkeys? He's been living in a meticulously constructed fantasy world, and that world is starting to disintegrate. You haven't become addicted to that dying world? No, sir. He needs help. I think I'm crazy when people start dying next month. I don't belong here. You're here because of the system? I know some things that you don't know. Yes, my son. You sent me to the wrong year. You're certain of that? Science ain't an exact science. You had a bullet from World War I in your leg, James. How did it get there? I don't know. You're a trained psychiatrist. You know the difference between what's real and what's not.

You said that I had delusions. You said you could explain it.

I'm trying to.

I want the future to be a dog.

Believe!

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