AVClub: “Primary” begins by echoing the monologues with which James Cole opens and closes 12 Monkeys’ first season. As Cassie Railly—once a doctor devoted to the sanctity of life, now a time-traveling soldier—gears up for a bloody campaign, her voiceover asks the same question Cole did. “Where are you now?” Unlike Cole’s soliloquy, her question marks disappear quickly, giving way to cold statements.