12 Monkeys season 2: Jay Karnes and Brendan Coyle join the Syfy series in recurring roles | EW.com 

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) will recur as a savvy FBI agent in the 1940s named Robert Gale, who believes a series of grisly murders may have something to do with a man named James Cole (Aaron Stanford) — an outsider who Gale suspects might not be from this time.

Meanwhile, Coyle (Downton Abbey) will first appear in the season premiere as Dr. Benjamin Kalman, a former Markridge bioengineer racked with guilt over the deadly virus his team gave birth to. Cole and Ramse (Kirk Acevedo) find him in Budapest and recruit him in their efforts to stop the Army of the 12 Monkeys.

Karnes and Coyle join the previously cast Michael Hogan (

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