12 Monkeys Season 3 Trailer

For fans anticipating 12 Monkeys season 3 on Syfy, speculation doesn’t stop during the long hiatus. The season 2 finale promised the show’s first leap into the future, and if the latest trailer coming out of New York Comic Con is any indication, the setting in which the city of Titan finds itself is not only a grim post-apocalyptic vision; it’s a complete wasteland.

12 Monkeys has gone from a movie adaptation of a classic film which explored the immutability of time during a post-apocalyptic, virus-ravaged future to a grand story in its own right that went far beyond the prevention of a plague. As season 1 laid the groundwork for causality loops and interference creating the very circumstances characters sought to avoid, the conspiracy surrounding the plague grounded the mission around a central secretive organization, the Army of the 12 Monkeys.

Take a look at the new promo, which uses a combination of familiar quotes from many of the show’s characters, including Jennifer Goines talking about the city of Titan and Cassie Railly speaking about the Witness. With Cassie trapped in 2163, fans can only imagine what it will take to mount a rescue mission to the type of future depicted here.

But the future isn’t the only new location the time travelers in 12 Monkeys will visit! Creator, executive producer, and showrunner Terry Matalas told Entertainment Weekly that the distant past is also in the mix. “In Season 3, the stakes have never been more personal for our time travelers,” Matalas says. “The adventure will take them to their own future as well as further back in time than they’ve ever been before. They’ll face their darkest hour — an all-new threat with deeply emotional consequences for heroes and villains alike.”

12 Monkeys will return for season 3 in 2017 on Syfy.