Top 50 Quotes From Dr. Cassandra Railly

Dr. Cassandra Railly: What just happened?
James: Something comes back in time, comes in contact with itself, Mother Nature doesn't like it when you rearrange her furniture.

James: [Cassie has found him in 1959] What are you doing here?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What are you doing here?
James: The house? It's mine. I bought it.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Why this house?
James: I was driving by, saw the "for sale" sign. It needs a lot of work. The hospital; they weren't sure if you were ever gonna wake up. But I knew you would.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I shot Ramse.
Katarina: I imagine that was quite difficult for you, being a doctor.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: It wasn't.
Katarina: That's good. Grieving over who we were only gets in the way of who we need to become.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're willing to do what is needed and I'm not. I can't. I just want to heal people. Fix things.
James: That's good. You don't wanna be like me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No.

James: You came.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I had to see if you were real.
James: Here I am.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Here you are. You know, you're late.
James: It's not an exact science.

[Chechnya, in 2015]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [on the phone] Aaron, it's me. Cole's not here, I'm sure. I've bribed officials, talked to locals, and now I'm standing in front of the blast site. No one survived. And there's no body. He did it. He saved the future. He was erased. It's over.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I hope I'm wrong.
Dr. Henri Toussaint: [debonair] I imagine you rarely are.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [smiles] It depends on who you ask.
Dr. Henri Toussaint: I don't need to ask.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: If the meds are preventing you from seeing primaries, taking you off of them might bring back the visions.
Jennifer: You know that's not how it works, right? Hallucinations don't come with an on/off switch. You sure you're a real doctor?

Zalmon: They tell us time heals all wounds. Yet I believe it creates them. Tell me. For whom do you grieve?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: My husband. He was killed inside the mine.
[flashback]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: We were married for 15 years. He slaved away in that mine day in and day out. We didn't have much... but we had each other. A perfect life. Or as perfect as it could be.
Zalmon: I've been to many services. Encountered grief in many forms. Tears, laughter, and stony faces. But yours confounds me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I don't understand.
Zalmon: You wear the mask of loss, but you do not feel it. At least not for your husband. I'm afraid what I have to offer... isn't for you.
[...]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're right. I don't feel it. My husband died in the mine, but... I lost him long before. Time was our enemy. We spent so much of it apart... But there was a moment, when it was just the two of us. About to be the three of us. And it felt like we were exactly where we were supposed to be. I've never been so happy.
[she gasps]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [emotionally] But it had to end. And we ended up apart. And we lost our child. I guess I thought we would find our way back to each other. But I'm still stuck, in that moment. Every day, I wake up wondering... what our family would have been like, if we had the chance to actually be one.
Zalmon: [giving her a card] Join us at the Wake. We offer you a chance to live in that perfect moment... forever.

Jennifer: You have no idea how exhausting it is being crazy.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Maybe that crazy can help save the world.
Jennifer: Wow. There's some manipulation for you.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're not safe here anymore, especially around me. You need to find someplace else to stay for a while, someplace I don't know about. If the witness can find me, he can find you too.
Jennifer: Okay, please know that I appreciate the irony of what I'm about to say, but what if it was all in your head?

Katarina: It's definitely M5-10.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: We never knew how it was released.
James: We do now.
Katarina: If they only had one remaining sample.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Well, this this is how you maximize its impact: turn a building of innocent people into traveling time bombs.

Jennifer: Don't know about monkeys, don't know about primaries. Wasted trip. Next time, vet your sources better.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: YOU were my source, in 2044. You sent me here. Said you could tell me everything about the other primaries. You conveniently left out the part about your BFF pulling a gun on us.
Jennifer: Maybe every version of me thinks you're kind of a bitch.

[Deacon has ordered Cassie to stab the guard in the neck]
Deacon: Don't hesitate, don't miss, or we die. Clear?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I'm a doctor.
Deacon: Believe me when I tell you: 'Do no harm' died 30 years ago.

Dr. Ed: We weren't sure if you'd ever wake up. You sustained quite a few injuries. The trauma to your head was...
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What happened?
Dr. Ed: The factory. Some kind of explosion.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Cole. Where's Cole?
Dr. Ed: We haven't had any patients from the explosion besides you for six months. It's a miracle you're still alive.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Six months?
Dr. Ed: You were out for quite some time. The explosion happened in 1957. It's now 1958.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: How did you survive the paradox at the book store?
Pallid: Oh, me? Um... I have really good genes.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: What do you think Jennifer really meant?
James: She said time knows Jones invented time travel, and it needs her to do it.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Did she also tell you that time has a long, white beard and a list of commandments - "Thou shall not splinter and kill the creator of time travel"?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Why did you go?
James: I couldn't do it. Not after.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: So you ran?
James: I did what I always told you I was gonna do. I found a place for you to be happy. I mean, look around. There's no plague here. There's no Red Forest. You're safe. You can live a life.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: So that's it? After all of that, we just forget about the future?
James: I don't know what else to do. I'm done trying to figure out the answer to everything. We failed. For some reason, we're still here.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You being... here doesn't make sense.
James: I'm also done trying to make sense of everything. You should be, too. You can hate me for leaving. But I did it for you.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No, you didn't. You did it for you because you're afraid.
[seeing his cut]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You're bleeding.
James: It's nothing.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Do you have running water, at least?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: You look good.
James: Thanks. You, uh... You look like the women we used to see in old magazines.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Which magazines?
James: I mean, uh... you look... clean.

James: You didn't know me before. Before we met, I killed people for nothing. For scraps. Families. I did whatever I had to do.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: But you did it to survive.
James: Did I? I just killed the only conscience I've ever had. And now I find out that the man behind the apocalypse is my son. So I get it now.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Get what?
James: If there's something wrong with him. something inside that makes him... he got it from me.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I know this is crazy, traveling halfway around the world to make sure someone *isn't* there.

Hannah: My mother once said that time travel was both the cause and the effect of all of this.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: But none of that matters anymore. We have the virus. The Primaries sent us here to destroy it.
Hannah: Once Olivia turns on her weapon, begins her Red Forest, she'll exist outside of causality. Destroying the plague won't stop her.
James: But it will rob of us of the only weapon we have to use against her... Time travel. The Primaries didn't send us here to stop the plague. They sent us here to release it.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: This is a relationship I will never understand.
James: You should hear what you just said.
Deacon: Oh, you're sore about us? I trained her to survive, just like I trained you. I'll tell you something - she's got a lot of talent.
James: Except for that blind spot when it comes to pieces of shit like you.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What is that suppose to mean?

Magdalena: You know, today is the most special of occasions. Your unveiling. A chance to show the faithful that the Witness is safe and growing strong inside you. And a chance for you to show your love for him.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: He's mine. Why wouldn't I?
Magdalena: You've shown doubt.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Because I fear for him.
Magdalena: Love for the child inside you is incidental. The love you must show is for the man he becomes.

[to Jennifer Goines]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You know, you are a pain in the ass in every time period.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Hey, we need to come up with a game plan for when we find Leland Goines.
James: We find him, I kill him. That's it.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No! No, you can't just walk in there and murder someone.
James: 1 for 7 billion? That math works for me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: That might not solve the problem. Whatever this guy's done to create this plague might already be under way. No, let's say you stop him, how will you know if the future is changed?
James: Oh, we'll know. I'll be erased.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You mean you'll... You're gonna die?
James: No, it's... It's not death. It's something else. It's... this me will never have been from that moment forward. It's complicated. It's okay - I knew this was a one-way trip coming in.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: And then what about the future?
James: It'll be rewritten into something better. Plague will never have happened. My time will be gone. Trust me, there's nothing there worth saving.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Notice anything weird about that place?
James: I'm from the apocalypse. Everything here looks weird to me.

[an FBI agent is asking James about his - alleged - time in the war]
James: Listen, I really don't want to talk about it.
Agent: As former G.I.s, we have an obligation to share our stories here.
James: Listen, ass-hole, I'm just trying to have a drink.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [butting in] There you are, James!
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [to the agent] Is my brother troubling you?
Agent: Not at all. I just wanted to hear about this Seventh he was stationed with, what with him being a war hero and all.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [matter-of-factly] My brother was in the Philippines, in '42.
Agent: [taken aback] Bataan?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: He fought the Japanese for three months straight, before he was taken prisoner and forced to march 60 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando. When he finally escaped, he was shot twice, including... down there. So you will forgive him if he doesn't want to share his stories.
Agent: I'm sorry, kid. Goddamn Japs. No hard feelings?
James: No hard feelings.
[he shakes the man's hand and leaves with Cassie]
James: Why did it have to be "down there"?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I know this room.
James: How?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: [hearing echoes of Olivia] Most of the blood has washed away. I've been here before. Like a memory of tomorrow. They knew this place. This moment. You.
James: What are you talking about?

Katarina: The Primary code has given us the method to reset the timeline.
James: Yeah... we're running out of time, so let's get me in that thing, erase me, whatever you gotta do.
Dr. Julian Adler: We can't. It would take 3 1/2 years for our systems to compile and assemble the entire code.
Katarina: Time will collapse in a matter of hours, 12, maybe 13 at best.
James: So we go back, give ourselves the code in the past.
Dr. Julian Adler: Rendering our machine useless for all those years. We halt the mission before it even began.
Katarina: We'd never reach this point with the answer.
James: What about Titan? It's a time-traveling city. It must have a thousand times the processing power we need.
Dr. Julian Adler: Possibly, provided that one could stop Olivia's final sequence and somehow - impossibly, mind you - gain access to her systems.
Katarina: Even if we could, we have no idea where or when Titan even is. I'm sorry. If I hadn't endeavored to change history, to rewrite time, to manipulate for personal...
Dr. Cassandra Railly: James...
James: I'll listen to rest of the speech in 12 hours. Till then, we got work to do.

James: Deacon has a plan. We can get the bell.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Where is it?
James: It's below, in the tunnels.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Then we need to move. We only have fifteen minutes.
James: What happens in fifteen minutes?
[Jennifer pantomimes an explosion]
James: What?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I need to know about the primaries you see.
Jennifer: No, I'm good now. I'm fully medicated, gluten free. You are not gonna screw that up for me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Medicated like, through a licensed physician?
Jennifer: Turns out my condition can be managed when my doctor isn't being paid by my father to keep me locked up in an institution. No more voices, no more visions.

James: Maybe the Seers have a plan to get us out of all this.
Katarina: Not with a legend, or with a fairy tale. Where did you hear that again?
James: Something I heard as a kid.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I interned in pediatrics, heard a lot of children's stories, but... never that one.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I guess you really know what you're doing here. I'll leave you to it.
James: Cassie!
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What? I'm leaving you alone. That's what you want.
James: That's not why I left.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Then what was it?
James: I wanted you to be free, of me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I never asked to be free of you. You coward, you know that's not why you left me. You left me because you're in love with me. I've always known, Cole.
James: And you kept pushing me away, so that in the end, you wouldn't have anything to lose. And now, you don't.
[she kisses him]

James: I had him. Why'd you stop me?
Dr. Cassandra Railly: I told you, you can't just kill someone.
James: He's already dead! Don't you understand that? Everybody is already dead. You are already dead because of him! 7 billion people dead. I had a chance to stop him.

James: Listen, I want to tell you something. It won't make any sense to you now, but it will the next time you see me.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Okay. Okay.
James: It's the Keys. Huh... I couldn't tell you before, because I was too embarrassed. It's the Keys in Florida. I saw a... picture of a... beach there in a magazine once. That's where I'd go.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: What's your name? You know mine already.
James: Cole.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: All right... Cole, let's talk about this.
James: Nothing to talk about. You don't know who Leland Frost is. That means they sent me back too early.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: What do you mean "too early"?
James: Too far back in the past.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: This is the present.
James: No, this is the past. 2043 is the present.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You think you're from the future. Okay, why did they send you back in time, Cole?
James: About four years from now, most of the human race is gonna be wiped out by a plague, a virus, that it's because of a man named Leland Frost. I have to find him.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: You saw my lecture. Okay, listen to me, Cole. I know you really believe these things, but they're not real.
James: [shows her a watch] I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: That's just like mine.
James: It's not just like yours. This is your watch... from my time, your future. This is your watch.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I know this, Fear City. This is New York City in the 1970s. Fiscal crisis, high crime. Police made pamphlets to give to tourists. I saw it in a documentary about the origins of hip-hop.
Jennifer: Well, aren't you full of surprises?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Kyle Slade, New York City, 1970s...
Pallid: It's 1975, to be precise. We sent two of our Messengers there after him. Or we will send. It's all this time travel, it's tricky to follow. It's rewarding when you do.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: No, no, no! This whole mission has been about saving 7 billion people, not killing them. You can't ask me to do this. For what?
James: Either 7 billion people die today... Or everyone dies forever.

Deacon: Don't leave me.
James: We have to go!
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No, we can't leave him!
James: We already have. Come on!

James: What is it?
Dr. Julian Adler: Titan - it's splintered to England, 1491. She's done it.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Jones.
Dr. Julian Adler: Thanks to Elliot Jones' data, we can use Titan's signature as an anchor, and with Katarina's tether telemetry as a beacon...
James: We can lock on.
Dr. Julian Adler: And send you to 1491.
James: [to Cassandra] You ready to get medieval?

Dr. Cassandra Railly: Holy shit. You've got some balls on you, Jones.

Katarina: There once was a serpent who only traveled in one direction; always forward, never backward, until one day, he encountered a demon.
Hannah: It's a story about time. The serpent is time. The demon, Olivia. Devouring its tail, the endless loops. It's insanity.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: The Red Forest.
James: The Seers are Primaries. So that means if the story's true, they have a weapon to fix all this, break the cycles. We need to go back to 1852 to get it.
Jennifer: Uh, pioneer town? Death by dysentery? That's a wagon train of nopes.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: [when learning that Cole has killed Henri] I trusted you. I had a good life before I met you. A full life. Now there's just... death.

[Cassie is discussing the monkey symbol on a Middle Eastern artifact with Dr. Garret]
Dr. Cassandra Railly: Have you ever heard of the Army of the 12 Monkeys?
Edward: You know what? You're a beautiful woman. You should've stuck with that. We're through here.

James: [teaching Cassandra to shoot] That's good. You're steady. First time I shot a gun, the kickback knocked me on my ass. You're steady.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: That's because I'm tougher than you.
James: [chuckles] I believe that.

[last lines]
James: They were one step ahead of us the whole way. Now I know why.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: How?
James: I know who the Witness is.

James: Okay. So how do we do it? We take their code, we put it in our machine...
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No. No. No, this can't be it. There has to be another way. Jones? This is not how it was suppose to end.
Katarina: How was it suppose to end? The mission hasn't changed... Only our feelings.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: But if you can erase him, you can erase Olivia. There has to be another way.
Katarina: Maybe... but this what we have. We have run simulation after simul...
Dr. Cassandra Railly: But I just murdered 7 billion people. I will not murder 7 billion and 1, not when the one is worth all the rest.
Katarina: Time will be reset. They will live again.
Dr. Cassandra Railly: But he won't. He can't. He can't exist at all.
James: It's okay. Cassie...
Dr. Cassandra Railly: No, it's not okay. No, it's not okay. You've given everything to time. You are owed. I am owed. Time owes all of us.

Dr. Cassandra Railly: I hate time travel.