[S02.E13: Memory of Tomorrow]

Just now, SunShines said:

I would guess it is because both Cassie and Cole drank the tea made from the red forest.

But Cole didn't drink it until after the baby was conceived. I think it's the shots.

Cassie can remember because of the shots, too. Same reason Jones remembers dying in the storm and then she's back.

So now we know there's dozens (if not hundreds) of cultists in the future. So, time didn't stop before then. Doesn't that mean Cole et al. win eventually, in this timeline? Garr! He really should've listened to Madeline Stowe and quit while he was ahead!

[S02.E13: Memory of Tomorrow]

Madeline Stowe! Well done!

So Cole Kitty-Pryde's back to his previous consciousness and stops the paradox. But this begs the question: why didn't they just do that every other time they couldn't stop a paradox, with the machine? Go back a year (or a day for that matter)?

[Mysteries and Conspiracies: Speculation]

15 hours ago, jennenen said:

My new pet theory is that Ramse's son it the Witness; that way Ramse has to "kill" his son to save the world.

I was thinking that too after last week. I was thinking he's either the Witness or, after traveling way back in time, he's the original corpse with the disease. If not somehow both.

[S02.E08: Lullaby]

14 hours ago, caws 727 said:

I thought time needed Jones to regain "hope". She had lost all hope that what she was doing was helping save the world. So time wouldn't let Cassie or Cole kill or change Jones' timeline but would allow them to give her happiness that would renew her hope and "fix" time by stopping the 12 monkeys. 

I'm not convinced time was changed at all. Granted they showed stuff out of sequence, but they didn't do the shakey-cam thing they do like when a change to the timeline has occurred. I think time wouldn't let them move on because they already saved Hannah. The future unfolded the way it did contingent upon them traveling back to 2020 to do that, and each time they didn't do that, the-would-be paradox forced them to loop back to the splinter. It's like an anti-paradox; whereas they can't change things in the past without changing the future, this is a time they had to do something in the past in order to make the future play out as it ought to.

Of course if they drop Hannah from here on out and her only real presence on the show was to cure Jones of her depression, then maybe I'm completely wrong about that. But I suspect that she'll play an important role in the series from here on out, unless they kill her off again.