maybe it's just something that happens to plants in the area of something splintering or paradox'ing, and Cole giving the Monkeys his medallion from the future to merge it with the one from their time is just to prove he is actually from the future

well really, unless someone has the power to see into the future but not travel there or anything, that's how it ultimately will end up being - someone just going further back, again and again each season with a new big bad, or something. feels like it might go that route, but i'm not complaining either way because I…

>"(except the kid in this episode, who seems a better doctor than the entire CDC combined)."