Snowpiercer (2020–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - The Time of Two Engines - full transcript
Mr. Wilford has arrived. And as this new threat rattles Snowpiercer to its core, Melanie makes a move that can't be undone.
♪
- On the eve
of our 19th revolution,
the great Mr. Wilford
came out of the cold.
♪
It was the time
of two Engines.
The Tail no longer The Tail,
but a borderland.
♪
A time of great gamesmanship
and great trainsmanship...
♪
Of revolutions interrupted
and fresh track
on new terrain.
♪
- Javi, do you copy?
♪
Javi?
Shit.
♪
If you can hear me,
switch to backup radio.
I'm going to The Connector.
♪
- Hope was our only seedling
in the war of Big Alice,
40 cars long,
versus Snowpiercer,
994 cars strong.
- [panting]
[dramatic music]
♪
[tense music]
[grunts]
♪
- Snowpiercer
is dead in the water.
You will comply
with Mr. Wilford's demands
or we will disconnect
and leave you hear to flounder.
- Tell Mr. Wilford
the people of Snowpiercer
will never surrender.
- Who are you exactly?
- I'm the guy whose backdoor
you just kicked in.
- I'm sure that we can all
accommodate one another.
Mr. Layton means no disrespect.
- Yeah, we can discuss
when we're moving.
- That sounds reasonable, Alex.
Your mother would agree,
I'm sure.
- How do we make that happen?
- Bring me everything
on this list.
♪
- Beer?
- Carrots and cucumbers.
- We have to get all this?
all: [anxious murmurs]
- You have about 12 minutes
before it's too cold to move.
- Hey, hey, hey!
- It's just--it's trifles.
- We don't have a choice.
- Hardlines are down
and the subtrain.
- Okay, we gotta do this
by runner!
From the brewery, we need
six bottles Railman's Ale.
- On it!
Make way!
- From the library,
somebody get a copy
of "Rebecca"
by Daphne du Maurier.
Ruth, you're with me.
- Yeah.
- Roche, hold the line.
- Got it!
- Ag-Sec.
- Here!
- Till, go with.
We need one bunch carrots,
one cucumber,
six eggs, and a hen.
- A hen?
- Yep.
- Ugh.
- Javi, have you
got comms with Mel?
- We're stopped.
- Yeah, I got that.
Have you got comms with her?
- I've got nothing.
Ben Wilford's
got complete control
of Snowpiercer.
- She'll know.
She'll know to go to backup.
♪
- Melanie, Melanie, come in,
this is the Engine.
- [sighs]
Beautiful day out here.
♪
- Yeah, a balmy 118 below zero.
Let's get you back aboard.
- I'm at the connector.
The arms are locked in.
- Hey, Mel,
you can't disconnect us.
- I know.
We drained the banks too low
running from him
to ever get moving
on our own again.
You were right, Ben.
I fell for it.
♪
If I blow the uplink,
at least you get the helm
and life systems back.
- You've got
a sticky charge, yeah?
- Yeah, but I only have one.
- Hey, Mel,
what's your suit temp?
♪
- You'll be going hypothermic,
like, now, Mel.
Mel.
- [grunting]
♪
- Minus ten.
- Everybody stay ready.
Keep your hands warm.
- Something's happening.
- It's just
your train legs, honey.
You've never
been stopped before.
- No, listen.
I hear something.
- Hey, everyone,
quiet a second!
[metal clanking]
- Shit, someone's outside.
- You think it's one of us?
- I got a hunch it is.
Whatever they're doing,
I hope it works.
- Minus 12.
- Tell those runners
to hurry it up!
[chickens clucking]
[suspenseful music]
- Go, I'm coming.
- Come on, move, move, move!
- Make way!
Move, move!
♪
- Get that one.
That right there.
♪
- Come on, let's go.
Come on.
- I'm freezing.
[grunts]
Come on.
[grunts]
- [breathing deeply]
[grunts]
♪
- Make way!
Oh, oh, make way!
Oh, my God.
- You're out of luck.
What do you expect?
We've already treated
170 wounded.
- Sorry, Snowpiercer
ran out of morphine yesterday.
- What?
And what if Mr. Wilford
is in distress back there?
- First class china,
just hand it off
to the next guy;
he's right outside.
- He's really still alive.
- Yeah, the last item
on the list
is a bottle of Mr. Wilford's
favorite Scotch.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- This is just
the beginning, Andre.
He's going to take everything
we just fought for.
- Tell me about it later.
Out of the way.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Melanie, that's threshold.
You know the signs.
You'll get confused.
You'll start losing
your motor skills.
- I'm fine.
[wires crackle]
[computer beeps]
- She's doing it.
She's got us a hand free.
- Mel, you did it.
- [grunts]
- Let's get you aboard.
♪
- [whispers]
I'm not done yet.
[wind howling]
♪
[distorted radio speech]
- Mel.
[distorted radio speech]
[uneasy dramatic music]
♪
[people gasping, murmuring]
- Oh, my God.
- What the hell
happened to that guy?
- Melanie, Melanie, come in.
It's time to come home.
♪
- We got what we could.
Now let's move.
- What's missing?
- There's no morphine,
but we have aspirin.
We make our own, as he knows.
- Look,
it's 20 below zero here.
Can we get moving?
- It's 22.
- I'm sure we can talk about
this while the train is moving.
[knocks]
- Mr. Wilford thanks you
for your cooperation.
- Alex, wait, Alex--
[people clamoring]
- Wait!
Oh, no.
- No!
[metal clanking]
[machinery humming loudly]
- Oh!
all: [scream]
[train rumbling]
[device beeps]
[suit hissing]
- Yes.
- Yeah!
all: [cheering]
- Well, I suppose
that's a good sign.
- Ruth, he's got
his foot on our neck.
You get it?
The majority of us just fought
a war for democracy,
so you need to decide
whose side you're on.
[soft music]
♪
- Melanie.
Melanie, are you
aboard this train?
♪
Melanie, get on the train.
♪
Melanie, are you aboard?
Come in.
♪
Melanie, get on the train!
- [whispers]
There's something here.
I think it's snowing.
- She's losing it, man.
- Melanie, listen to me.
It's too cold to snow anymore.
Get aboard the train.
Melanie, stay with me.
Melanie.
Melanie!
♪
- No.
[dramatic music]
♪
Ben, if you can hear me...
- Yes.
- I'm boarding Big Alice.
♪
- [panting]
[door hisses]
[uneasy music]
♪
[coughs]
- Strip out of the suit
for disinfection.
♪
- Ah, ah.
[gasps]
Ow.
Ugh.
[alarm blares]
Ah!
♪
Oh, oh!
[gasping]
Very funny.
[sighs]
Kevin.
Fancy meeting you here.
You're new, though.
[weapon crackles]
[gasps]
- That's for leaving us to die.
- I know the way.
♪
[machinery buzzing, whirring]
- How many Tailies
we got left down here?
- Only about half, I figure.
- Some have got berths already,
but most are
just camping out uptrain.
- Some of us
don't wanna leave.
- Look, here's where
I'm going with this.
The Tail
is not The Tail anymore.
It's a border, and you have
to control a border,
so keep a force
strong enough back here
to hold the real estate.
- Seven years we've been trying
to get out of this place,
and now the place
is finally worth something.
- Let's get organized.
♪
- I think we should build
a second barricade right here.
- Yeah, good idea.
Keep strengthening this area.
If he's prepared
to stop the train,
we have to assume
that he's prepared to attack.
- I would advise against
assumptions, Mr. Layton.
If we don't talk
to the passengers soon,
I swear the track talk
will eat us alive.
- Hard comms back up.
- Thank you, Ruth.
I will address the train
right after a council meeting
in the Nightcar immediately.
♪
- This is where we bid you
goodbye, Melanie.
- [breathing deeply]
[dog growls]
♪
Hey, Jupiter.
- [grumbles]
- Hey, hey.
Easy, girl.
- [chuckles]
She remembers you.
I was half hoping
she would eat you.
- Wow, your train has dimmers.
- You like her?
Old Alice has done everything
we've asked of her and more.
Not exactly the plan,
though, was it?
♪
Come closer.
Come on.
Let's see what the years
have done to you.
♪
- [sighs]
- Who have you got up there
driving my Engine
while you're outside
chopping firewood, hmm?
Is it Ben?
♪
- Name, rank,
and serial number.
That's all you get.
- Sorry.
[chuckles]
Too eager.
Never expected we'd come
face to face so quickly.
Did you?
It's Ben, though, isn't it?
You've always had an eye
for talent.
♪
- Why don't we talk about you?
How'd you do it?
Come on.
How'd you drop in on us
in Chicago like that?
I know you're dying to tell me.
- Yes, finally.
I love a good swashbuckler,
don't you?
You've probably figured out
some of it.
I got Alice to low idle,
managed to hunker down
in a shed
for a couple of months.
By the time you were on
the other side of the world
out of satellite view,
we were outfitted.
I was always working, Melanie,
waiting for my moment
to pounce.
Voilà.
♪
- And, um, you took a shortcut?
Yeah, you came over
the old Rocky Mountain
test track, didn't you?
♪
- I'll tell you everything
when you give me the keys.
- Ah.
I can't do that.
- Oh, you will.
You may have cut my uplink,
but I can still drop anchor
and grind you to a halt.
♪
- Snowpiercer won't survive
more than 20 minutes
if you disconnect.
- It's ironic, isn't it?
My protégé.
You run away from me
all these years,
and all of a sudden,
you just can't bear
to be apart from me.
I want my train back, Melanie.
- Actually, you still ran her
until very recently.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Means I found it easier
to keep you alive.
I convinced people
you were still in the Engine,
but I lost control.
She's not mine to surrender.
- Then whose is she?
- A Tailie's.
- And what is a Tailie?
- I won't give you anything
no matter what you do to me,
and I know you want me
to suffer.
You can't hurt me anymore,
not really.
♪
[door clicks]
- Hello, Melanie.
[dog barks, growls]
- [gasps]
[breathing shakily]
[whispers]
Alex.
You're--you're alive.
- I am distinctly underwhelmed.
- Life's big moments
are often like that.
- Whatever he told you,
it isn't true.
- You stole a train,
and then you left me.
What's not true about that?
- No, I sent people for you.
For you--for you
and for Grandma and Grandpa,
but they never came back.
I was waiting for you.
- But stealing the future
from me
was more important,
wasn't it?
- Alex, please.
There's--there's too much
to say.
- God, yes, change the subject.
- Their society
is in shambles up there,
but Ag-Sec is working.
- [chuckles]
Oh...
Oh, good.
Poultry, eggs.
First-class dining
hasn't derailed off a cliff.
- They were out of morphine...
- Oh.
- And I didn't see
any Jackboots.
- Must have been painful.
You know what a Tailie is?
- No, but a man named Layton
appears to be in charge,
along with who I assume
is Lead Brakeman Roche
and the blonde
from Hospitality.
- Hmm, never heard
of a Mr. Layton.
Apparently your mother's
been impersonating me up there.
Do they miss me?
- Well, the Hospitality's
still in uniform.
- Oh.
[chuckles]
Miss Audrey...
[sniffs]
Still with us.
- Hello.
Is everyone getting along?
- No.
Take Melanie to the brig.
- Yes, ma'am.
♪
- [whispers]
Look at me, honey.
- Calmly now.
Don't make it worse.
[door opens]
- Please, please!
[indistinct chatter]
Yes, we have
full engineering control,
but Big Alice is like an anchor
controlling our speed.
- The supply train, that's
built for a crew of what, 60?
- Give or take,
but there's no way
for us to know
how she's been retrofitted.
- All right,
what's her maximum crew size?
Guess.
- Guess?
200, but probably less,
and our Engineer
is their prisoner.
- The passengers
are tired of war.
Am I wrong?
[people shouting indistinctly]
- She's clearly not wrong.
Everyone's exhausted.
We need to recover.
- They haven't invaded,
have they?
So let's just have
a cooling-off period.
- Please, yes,
open talks with him.
- Melanie's probably
back there right now
working things out with
Mr. Wilford and her daughter.
[indistinct shouts]
- Mr. Wilford...
doesn't just want control
of his train.
He wants control of all of you,
body and soul.
- That's right,
don't trust him!
[indistinct chatter]
- Hey, quiet down.
Quiet!
A 40-car parasite does not
call the shots around here.
Snowpiercer does!
[cheers and applause]
All right, we hold fast.
Call it a cooling off
if you want to, Ruth,
but we do not start talks until
Wilford turns over Melanie.
- All right, you heard the man.
Our first priority,
our responsibility,
is to keep Snowpiercer
calm and fed and united,
same as it ever was.
[tense music]
- Let's get a force together
quickly, quietly.
Keep Ruth out of it.
- No, we can't attack them.
We basically have no idea
what's behind that door.
- What about Melanie?
- Melanie is the reason
we have to do this.
Okay, look,
I know everyone is tired,
but Wilford's got a plan.
We need to hit him
before he hits us.
- Look who it is.
- [speaking foreign language]
- Whoa, whoa,
where you think you're going?
- Don't touch me.
- Yeah, or what?
- Just a warning, Mr. Layton,
your laundry's about to flap.
- Shit.
- [speaking foreign language]
- That's enough.
- No, no,
you're not going anywhere.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Back up. Come on.
Z-Wreck, Strong Boy,
what's wrong with you?
- Layton, she sold out Josie.
What, she don't gotta pay
for that on your new train?
- Look, Melanie
was threatening her, okay?
- And she cracked.
Now Josie's dead.
- Hey, hey.
- I'm pregnant, all right?
- Is that true?
Zarah?
- Yes, it is.
- A pregnancy on Snowpiercer.
It's hope.
- Melanie was threatening
our child.
- Your child?
- [speaks foreign language]
- Oh, my goodness,
this changes everything.
All right, you two,
go on, shove off.
Leave the woman alone.
- What? No, we still got--
- Back to whatever hallway
where you're sleeping in.
- This ain't right.
Let me tell you something,
Layton.
All this personal shit,
it ain't making
your democracy
any easier to believe in.
[scoffs]
- So you can't stay
in the chains, Zarah.
Carrying your child,
she might be a target.
I will find somewhere
for you uptrain
away from all the ruckus, okay?
Now, we really must
address the passengers.
I am on the side
of Snowpiercer, Mr. Layton.
I work for the passengers,
just like you.
- Good.
- Well, speak your truth.
That's how they seem
to trust you.
[intercom chimes]
- Citizens of Snowpiercer,
it took us seven long years
to cast off
Wilford's class system,
and now the man is back
and latched on to The Tail.
We know he is willing
to stop us cold,
but Brakemen
and the rebel army
have control
of the new border.
Ruth Wardell
and Hospitality
will lead
diplomatic initiatives,
and Snowpiercer will use
all means necessary
to defend
the liberties we've won.
[solemn music]
But...
♪
With everything
we have sacrificed,
it is my great regret
and my reluctant duty
to put our
democratic experiment on hold
and to extend martial law
until further notice.
- [sighs]
[intercom chimes]
- That,
my half-ass warrior friends,
means trouble comes.
- That will not be popular.
- What choice does he have?
- Tunnelmen fought for a vote.
We're supposed to be writing
a constitution.
- Jakes, I wish we were
preparing for elections too,
but there's
a few more miles to go.
We're calling
on your guild again, okay?
[dramatic music]
♪
[door clicks]
- [laughs softly]
- What's it like outside?
Don't get immediately
weird, okay?
I just have some questions.
- Yeah, okay.
Um, what's it like outside?
Um, it's chilly.
[chuckles]
It's horrifying.
And it's really sad
to think about everything that
lived only a few years ago.
- Nematodes will survive.
- Yeah.
Yeah, nematodes will.
- Are you frostbit?
- A little bit, but it's fine.
Just broke the seal on my suit.
- I remember
less and less of it--
the old world.
- That's a shame.
I'm sorry you couldn't
spend more time in it.
- The train is our world now.
We can control this.
What?
- What happened
with Grandma and Grandpa?
- They wouldn't leave
with the men that you sent.
- They wanted to die at home.
- They said I should go,
but I didn't wanna leave them.
- [chuckles]
You know...
[sighs]
I sent you away to live
with them for a reason.
- Why?
Because you had
a train to steal
so you didn't need
a daughter anymore?
- To keep you from him.
- He's the one who saved me
after you left me.
- That's not why he saved you.
- What is this?
It was in your suit.
- It's a snow sample.
- Well, why'd you take
a snow sample?
- Because I haven't been off
Snowpiercer in seven years.
- You are lying to me again.
[dramatic music]
♪
[door chimes]
- Ruth, she can't
be up here in First.
- Why not?
- Come on, Zarah.
How's it look?
- I don't care how it looks.
I care about the baby.
- You are going to need
a place, Mr. Layton,
a base of operations
for day-to-day administration.
You can use this whole floor.
There are separate
accommodations upstairs.
Pregnancy comes with privilege
on Snowpiercer.
- We don't know
how to thank you, Ruth.
I don't know
how you pulled this off.
- Well, everyone's
bending rules these days,
aren't they, Mr. Layton?
- What happened
to the chic owners?
- It was the Schwartz Car.
They were in their 80s.
They took cyanide the morning
the Tailie army took the train,
so it would be nice to let some
joy back in, wouldn't it, hmm?
With a little 'un
running around?
Two security chips.
Your door keys.
You're welcome.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
[door clicks]
- [gasps]
[door closes]
- Turn around.
Hands behind your back.
♪
- Oh.
It is her.
- Yes, it is.
The very one.
- [chuckles]
Not someone else
with a bag on her head.
[chuckles]
Good job, that.
- Good job indeed.
Ms. Cavill herself.
- And I remember you.
You're the doctors.
[together]
Headwood.
- Headwoods.
You retrofitted
all this in here?
- Come.
- You see?
She's angling.
- Digging already,
isn't she?
But we're on our toes.
- [chuckles]
Toes.
- Come, sit.
- Bloody cold outside.
Did Jack Frost
get a few nips in?
- My shoulder.
- Yes, a little bird told us
you've been lung-nipped too.
- Alex?
- Oh.
- Let's take a look.
- Open.
[tense music]
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
- [whimpering]
- Ah, okay.
- There's a bit of business.
- [whimpering]
- Lovely.
- Cryopathy?
- Lovely.
- Cough, please.
- [coughing]
[breathing mask hisses]
- Inhale.
- [breathes deeply]
- Lucky for you, we've made
several breakthroughs
treating our crew.
- Oh!
[chuckles]
[chuckling]
♪
- What--what is that?
- We just call it goop.
- We call it goop.
- [chuckles]
- Synthetic tissue gel.
- [gasps]
- Soothing to the touch.
Yes, by the time
we're finished,
you won't even have a scar.
[indistinct chatter]
♪
[thunking on door]
- Shh, hey!
Get down.
♪
[door creaking]
- Hey, got any fresh food?
- Depends what you got.
[sniffs]
Okay.
Who's got fruit?
♪
Thank you.
We make trade.
- We're speaking English,
douchebag.
- Then me have
a succulent apple,
an organic Floridian orange,
and a--mmm--gourmet tuber.
- One QP Amazing Alice.
♪
[Tailies laugh]
- You can get back in line.
Get back in line.
Everybody keep
their mouths shut,
and you'll all get a cut.
- I finally made it
to the actual Tail,
and it's true.
It stinks.
- It ain't what
it used to be like.
- Oi, Train Psycho
and Brakeman Blowie.
That's far enough right there.
- We're just having a look.
It's an open train.
- It's martial law for you.
- Oh, Mr. Wilford.
- Whatever's beyond that door?
It's equal opportunity,
I think.
- Mr. Wilford's coming.
Mr. Wilford's coming.
Mr. Wilford's coming.
- Hey, LJ!
- ♪ As they ask her
to focus on ♪
♪ Sailors fighting
in the dance hall ♪
♪ Oh, man,
look at those cavemen go ♪
♪ It's the freakiest show
♪ Take a look
- This way.
Herself has arrived.
- Ah, Melanie.
- ♪ Wonder
if he'll ever know ♪
- Make yourself at home.
I'm just having a wallow.
- Why isn't Alexandra
eating with us?
- ♪ Is there life on Mars
- Plenty of time, Melanie.
Plenty of time.
♪
[tense music]
♪
- We've made the decision.
- Layton, it's just
so risky for Mel.
- You wanna get Melanie back?
This is how
we change the terms.
I'll keep the line open.
♪
- Look, we're ready to go,
but first,
they gotta open the door.
We don't know
when that's gonna be.
- I hate waiting on their move.
Hey, you smell that?
[sniffs]
Who is smoking weed?
Pike.
- Oh, seven years
without a blunt, brother,
and this is the kind.
All it cost us
was a fricking potato.
- First you're going to lockup.
- No, wait, no, here, here,
this is all of it.
I swear.
- No, no, no, hey, hey, hey.
This is how
we get the jump on 'em.
Come on.
- Move it.
[dramatic music]
- It's taking way too long.
♪
- You ready?
- Yeah.
40 cars.
I walk that 10 times a day.
- You're not ready.
You're still half Brakeman,
scared shitless
of what's on the other side
of that door.
If you don't
embrace extinction,
you're already dead.
- Hey.
You ready?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
♪
- I got a mango.
Take it to the deal, okay?
♪
[knocking]
Hey, psst!
You got any other
vintage drugs in there--
blow, ether?
I got a mango.
It's perfect.
So soft.
Juice explosion, one might say.
Peel it back--
- Well, Kevin?
Want a mango?
♪
- If he ever found out...
♪
[door creaking]
- Hey, what's your name,
friend?
My name's Pike.
Anything you need...
[dramatic music]
- [gasps]
- [grunts]
[people shouting]
- Grab the suit!
♪
[alarm blaring]
♪
- Everyone in quick!
♪
- [screams]
- Second wave!
- [screaming]
[people shouting]
♪
- Crossbows!
- Take 'em!
♪
[people cheering]
♪
[mellow rock music]
♪
- ♪ You want to know
will the sun keep glowing ♪
♪
♪ Will the rain keep raining
and the wind keep blowing? ♪
♪
- Thank you, Sykes.
- ♪ Can a man
change the mind... ♪
- I essentially kidnapped
a brewpub owner for this ale.
Do you remember?
- I remember.
- ♪ Come ride the train
- In Des Moines.
♪
- Tastes like his stuff.
- I'm not telling you
who our brewer is.
- Drat.
[intercom buzzes]
- Engine.
Sir, Snowpiercer
breached the door.
- What?
How the hell did they do that?
- It's unclear, sir.
- Send in Bob.
- Icy Bob or Oiler Bob?
- Who do you think?
[people screaming]
[suspenseful music]
♪
[rhythmic grunting, clanging]
♪
[people screaming]
♪
- [growls]
[people screaming indistinctly]
♪
[people screaming]
- Wait--
- Go, go!
- Get down!
- Let's go!
- Retreat!
- Fall back!
♪
- [screams]
- Come on, come on.
- [coughing]
- [grunts]
- Come on!
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Let's go!
- Keep moving.
- Come on!
Get through!
[dramatic music]
♪
- He breached that car himself.
- He got it to 70 below
in seconds,
and he didn't even feel it.
- Yeah.
- Hey, I got this.
Go get him.
- How many injured, 20?
In an attack
that I wasn't informed of.
- It was a military decision
under martial law.
Don't take it personally.
- How can I not
take it personally?
You saw fit to inform
the Engine but not Hospitality,
and you got your ass
handed to you, didn't you?
- We didn't lose any ground,
and we got what we came for.
Friend of yours?
- Kevin.
- Good God, Ruth,
you people have gone mad.
- I--well, I can see
how it looks that way, but--
- This is a big mistake.
Wilford doesn't care
if you die,
if Ag-Sec dies.
He can restart everything.
- Let's go.
[soft dramatic music]
Sit down.
♪
- The hostage is Kevin, sir.
- The utter ignorance,
the insult to think
that they could gain
some kind of leverage
with a hostage...
for you.
- What can I say?
They're new at this.
- You stole my train!
Used my name.
- Well, you plastered it
everywhere.
- I built the world!
It's the only one left,
and it's mine!
I run it.
You, you were fixing tractors
on Daddy's farm.
I lifted you
out of pig shit at 17.
I shared everything.
I gave you everything...
the solution.
- There's no solution...
- Oh, for God's sake.
- Until we can
go back out there!
- This is the world!
A rolling steel artery
on a dead marble.
♪
Come on.
You come with me.
♪
- [sighs]
You're an Engineer.
- Engineer, bring Snowpiercer
to a full stop.
- Full stop, gladly.
- Alex.
- [grunts]
Ah.
[people screaming]
[train screeching]
- Reverse.
[train rumbles and screeches]
♪
- He's dropped the anchor.
- No, no, no, we can't stop.
He'll disconnect.
[speaks foreign language]
[tense music]
♪
- I'm taking her back, Mel.
If you can't get this Layton
to surrender my train,
Alex will disconnect,
and we'll take
a short spin in reverse.
When we return,
they'll all be dead,
and your job
for the next several years
will be to compost
every last one of them.
♪
[people coughing]
♪
[people shivering]
♪
[knocks]
Come on!
No hard feelings!
♪
Let's get moving!
[knocks]
- Disconnect Snowpiercer.
Reverse 1/4 speed.
- Don't do it.
- Why?
- It's an order, Alex.
- Because it's right.
Because that train
is our future.
- [chuckles]
Oh, my God.
Get me that whiskey.
Just get it done!
- If you disconnect,
all of those people will die.
A whole world will die.
♪
Believe me,
you don't want that
on your conscience.
- Disconnect now, Alex.
♪
[device beeping]
Come on, now.
Alex, it's all right.
♪
- Wrong choice, honey.
[buttons click]
[device beeping]
[train rumbles]
- I can't disconnect.
- What have you done?
- He overbuilt
the connecting mechanism.
I said so at the time,
remember?
I told you
if something goes wrong
with that central lock,
you'll never be able
to manually undo
the grappling arms.
- Holy shit.
We're stuck together.
- Here we are--permanently.
So you better give Alex
the order to get Snowpiercer
moving again or we'll all die
in a few minutes.
- Never.
- It's kind of
the only solution, really.
We just have to find a way
to work together.
- She got you, Dubs.
- Shut up.
- Really don't have a choice.
♪
- Wait...for the order.
[dramatic music]
♪
[train screeching]
[people yelping, murmuring]
♪
- Oh, thank God.
We're spared.
He spared us.
He spared us.
♪
- It's gonna be a long,
cold war.
♪
- On the eve
of our 19th revolution,
the great Mr. Wilford
came out of the cold.
♪
It was the time
of two Engines.
The Tail no longer The Tail,
but a borderland.
♪
A time of great gamesmanship
and great trainsmanship...
♪
Of revolutions interrupted
and fresh track
on new terrain.
♪
- Javi, do you copy?
♪
Javi?
Shit.
♪
If you can hear me,
switch to backup radio.
I'm going to The Connector.
♪
- Hope was our only seedling
in the war of Big Alice,
40 cars long,
versus Snowpiercer,
994 cars strong.
- [panting]
[dramatic music]
♪
[tense music]
[grunts]
♪
- Snowpiercer
is dead in the water.
You will comply
with Mr. Wilford's demands
or we will disconnect
and leave you hear to flounder.
- Tell Mr. Wilford
the people of Snowpiercer
will never surrender.
- Who are you exactly?
- I'm the guy whose backdoor
you just kicked in.
- I'm sure that we can all
accommodate one another.
Mr. Layton means no disrespect.
- Yeah, we can discuss
when we're moving.
- That sounds reasonable, Alex.
Your mother would agree,
I'm sure.
- How do we make that happen?
- Bring me everything
on this list.
♪
- Beer?
- Carrots and cucumbers.
- We have to get all this?
all: [anxious murmurs]
- You have about 12 minutes
before it's too cold to move.
- Hey, hey, hey!
- It's just--it's trifles.
- We don't have a choice.
- Hardlines are down
and the subtrain.
- Okay, we gotta do this
by runner!
From the brewery, we need
six bottles Railman's Ale.
- On it!
Make way!
- From the library,
somebody get a copy
of "Rebecca"
by Daphne du Maurier.
Ruth, you're with me.
- Yeah.
- Roche, hold the line.
- Got it!
- Ag-Sec.
- Here!
- Till, go with.
We need one bunch carrots,
one cucumber,
six eggs, and a hen.
- A hen?
- Yep.
- Ugh.
- Javi, have you
got comms with Mel?
- We're stopped.
- Yeah, I got that.
Have you got comms with her?
- I've got nothing.
Ben Wilford's
got complete control
of Snowpiercer.
- She'll know.
She'll know to go to backup.
♪
- Melanie, Melanie, come in,
this is the Engine.
- [sighs]
Beautiful day out here.
♪
- Yeah, a balmy 118 below zero.
Let's get you back aboard.
- I'm at the connector.
The arms are locked in.
- Hey, Mel,
you can't disconnect us.
- I know.
We drained the banks too low
running from him
to ever get moving
on our own again.
You were right, Ben.
I fell for it.
♪
If I blow the uplink,
at least you get the helm
and life systems back.
- You've got
a sticky charge, yeah?
- Yeah, but I only have one.
- Hey, Mel,
what's your suit temp?
♪
- You'll be going hypothermic,
like, now, Mel.
Mel.
- [grunting]
♪
- Minus ten.
- Everybody stay ready.
Keep your hands warm.
- Something's happening.
- It's just
your train legs, honey.
You've never
been stopped before.
- No, listen.
I hear something.
- Hey, everyone,
quiet a second!
[metal clanking]
- Shit, someone's outside.
- You think it's one of us?
- I got a hunch it is.
Whatever they're doing,
I hope it works.
- Minus 12.
- Tell those runners
to hurry it up!
[chickens clucking]
[suspenseful music]
- Go, I'm coming.
- Come on, move, move, move!
- Make way!
Move, move!
♪
- Get that one.
That right there.
♪
- Come on, let's go.
Come on.
- I'm freezing.
[grunts]
Come on.
[grunts]
- [breathing deeply]
[grunts]
♪
- Make way!
Oh, oh, make way!
Oh, my God.
- You're out of luck.
What do you expect?
We've already treated
170 wounded.
- Sorry, Snowpiercer
ran out of morphine yesterday.
- What?
And what if Mr. Wilford
is in distress back there?
- First class china,
just hand it off
to the next guy;
he's right outside.
- He's really still alive.
- Yeah, the last item
on the list
is a bottle of Mr. Wilford's
favorite Scotch.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- This is just
the beginning, Andre.
He's going to take everything
we just fought for.
- Tell me about it later.
Out of the way.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Melanie, that's threshold.
You know the signs.
You'll get confused.
You'll start losing
your motor skills.
- I'm fine.
[wires crackle]
[computer beeps]
- She's doing it.
She's got us a hand free.
- Mel, you did it.
- [grunts]
- Let's get you aboard.
♪
- [whispers]
I'm not done yet.
[wind howling]
♪
[distorted radio speech]
- Mel.
[distorted radio speech]
[uneasy dramatic music]
♪
[people gasping, murmuring]
- Oh, my God.
- What the hell
happened to that guy?
- Melanie, Melanie, come in.
It's time to come home.
♪
- We got what we could.
Now let's move.
- What's missing?
- There's no morphine,
but we have aspirin.
We make our own, as he knows.
- Look,
it's 20 below zero here.
Can we get moving?
- It's 22.
- I'm sure we can talk about
this while the train is moving.
[knocks]
- Mr. Wilford thanks you
for your cooperation.
- Alex, wait, Alex--
[people clamoring]
- Wait!
Oh, no.
- No!
[metal clanking]
[machinery humming loudly]
- Oh!
all: [scream]
[train rumbling]
[device beeps]
[suit hissing]
- Yes.
- Yeah!
all: [cheering]
- Well, I suppose
that's a good sign.
- Ruth, he's got
his foot on our neck.
You get it?
The majority of us just fought
a war for democracy,
so you need to decide
whose side you're on.
[soft music]
♪
- Melanie.
Melanie, are you
aboard this train?
♪
Melanie, get on the train.
♪
Melanie, are you aboard?
Come in.
♪
Melanie, get on the train!
- [whispers]
There's something here.
I think it's snowing.
- She's losing it, man.
- Melanie, listen to me.
It's too cold to snow anymore.
Get aboard the train.
Melanie, stay with me.
Melanie.
Melanie!
♪
- No.
[dramatic music]
♪
Ben, if you can hear me...
- Yes.
- I'm boarding Big Alice.
♪
- [panting]
[door hisses]
[uneasy music]
♪
[coughs]
- Strip out of the suit
for disinfection.
♪
- Ah, ah.
[gasps]
Ow.
Ugh.
[alarm blares]
Ah!
♪
Oh, oh!
[gasping]
Very funny.
[sighs]
Kevin.
Fancy meeting you here.
You're new, though.
[weapon crackles]
[gasps]
- That's for leaving us to die.
- I know the way.
♪
[machinery buzzing, whirring]
- How many Tailies
we got left down here?
- Only about half, I figure.
- Some have got berths already,
but most are
just camping out uptrain.
- Some of us
don't wanna leave.
- Look, here's where
I'm going with this.
The Tail
is not The Tail anymore.
It's a border, and you have
to control a border,
so keep a force
strong enough back here
to hold the real estate.
- Seven years we've been trying
to get out of this place,
and now the place
is finally worth something.
- Let's get organized.
♪
- I think we should build
a second barricade right here.
- Yeah, good idea.
Keep strengthening this area.
If he's prepared
to stop the train,
we have to assume
that he's prepared to attack.
- I would advise against
assumptions, Mr. Layton.
If we don't talk
to the passengers soon,
I swear the track talk
will eat us alive.
- Hard comms back up.
- Thank you, Ruth.
I will address the train
right after a council meeting
in the Nightcar immediately.
♪
- This is where we bid you
goodbye, Melanie.
- [breathing deeply]
[dog growls]
♪
Hey, Jupiter.
- [grumbles]
- Hey, hey.
Easy, girl.
- [chuckles]
She remembers you.
I was half hoping
she would eat you.
- Wow, your train has dimmers.
- You like her?
Old Alice has done everything
we've asked of her and more.
Not exactly the plan,
though, was it?
♪
Come closer.
Come on.
Let's see what the years
have done to you.
♪
- [sighs]
- Who have you got up there
driving my Engine
while you're outside
chopping firewood, hmm?
Is it Ben?
♪
- Name, rank,
and serial number.
That's all you get.
- Sorry.
[chuckles]
Too eager.
Never expected we'd come
face to face so quickly.
Did you?
It's Ben, though, isn't it?
You've always had an eye
for talent.
♪
- Why don't we talk about you?
How'd you do it?
Come on.
How'd you drop in on us
in Chicago like that?
I know you're dying to tell me.
- Yes, finally.
I love a good swashbuckler,
don't you?
You've probably figured out
some of it.
I got Alice to low idle,
managed to hunker down
in a shed
for a couple of months.
By the time you were on
the other side of the world
out of satellite view,
we were outfitted.
I was always working, Melanie,
waiting for my moment
to pounce.
Voilà.
♪
- And, um, you took a shortcut?
Yeah, you came over
the old Rocky Mountain
test track, didn't you?
♪
- I'll tell you everything
when you give me the keys.
- Ah.
I can't do that.
- Oh, you will.
You may have cut my uplink,
but I can still drop anchor
and grind you to a halt.
♪
- Snowpiercer won't survive
more than 20 minutes
if you disconnect.
- It's ironic, isn't it?
My protégé.
You run away from me
all these years,
and all of a sudden,
you just can't bear
to be apart from me.
I want my train back, Melanie.
- Actually, you still ran her
until very recently.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Means I found it easier
to keep you alive.
I convinced people
you were still in the Engine,
but I lost control.
She's not mine to surrender.
- Then whose is she?
- A Tailie's.
- And what is a Tailie?
- I won't give you anything
no matter what you do to me,
and I know you want me
to suffer.
You can't hurt me anymore,
not really.
♪
[door clicks]
- Hello, Melanie.
[dog barks, growls]
- [gasps]
[breathing shakily]
[whispers]
Alex.
You're--you're alive.
- I am distinctly underwhelmed.
- Life's big moments
are often like that.
- Whatever he told you,
it isn't true.
- You stole a train,
and then you left me.
What's not true about that?
- No, I sent people for you.
For you--for you
and for Grandma and Grandpa,
but they never came back.
I was waiting for you.
- But stealing the future
from me
was more important,
wasn't it?
- Alex, please.
There's--there's too much
to say.
- God, yes, change the subject.
- Their society
is in shambles up there,
but Ag-Sec is working.
- [chuckles]
Oh...
Oh, good.
Poultry, eggs.
First-class dining
hasn't derailed off a cliff.
- They were out of morphine...
- Oh.
- And I didn't see
any Jackboots.
- Must have been painful.
You know what a Tailie is?
- No, but a man named Layton
appears to be in charge,
along with who I assume
is Lead Brakeman Roche
and the blonde
from Hospitality.
- Hmm, never heard
of a Mr. Layton.
Apparently your mother's
been impersonating me up there.
Do they miss me?
- Well, the Hospitality's
still in uniform.
- Oh.
[chuckles]
Miss Audrey...
[sniffs]
Still with us.
- Hello.
Is everyone getting along?
- No.
Take Melanie to the brig.
- Yes, ma'am.
♪
- [whispers]
Look at me, honey.
- Calmly now.
Don't make it worse.
[door opens]
- Please, please!
[indistinct chatter]
Yes, we have
full engineering control,
but Big Alice is like an anchor
controlling our speed.
- The supply train, that's
built for a crew of what, 60?
- Give or take,
but there's no way
for us to know
how she's been retrofitted.
- All right,
what's her maximum crew size?
Guess.
- Guess?
200, but probably less,
and our Engineer
is their prisoner.
- The passengers
are tired of war.
Am I wrong?
[people shouting indistinctly]
- She's clearly not wrong.
Everyone's exhausted.
We need to recover.
- They haven't invaded,
have they?
So let's just have
a cooling-off period.
- Please, yes,
open talks with him.
- Melanie's probably
back there right now
working things out with
Mr. Wilford and her daughter.
[indistinct shouts]
- Mr. Wilford...
doesn't just want control
of his train.
He wants control of all of you,
body and soul.
- That's right,
don't trust him!
[indistinct chatter]
- Hey, quiet down.
Quiet!
A 40-car parasite does not
call the shots around here.
Snowpiercer does!
[cheers and applause]
All right, we hold fast.
Call it a cooling off
if you want to, Ruth,
but we do not start talks until
Wilford turns over Melanie.
- All right, you heard the man.
Our first priority,
our responsibility,
is to keep Snowpiercer
calm and fed and united,
same as it ever was.
[tense music]
- Let's get a force together
quickly, quietly.
Keep Ruth out of it.
- No, we can't attack them.
We basically have no idea
what's behind that door.
- What about Melanie?
- Melanie is the reason
we have to do this.
Okay, look,
I know everyone is tired,
but Wilford's got a plan.
We need to hit him
before he hits us.
- Look who it is.
- [speaking foreign language]
- Whoa, whoa,
where you think you're going?
- Don't touch me.
- Yeah, or what?
- Just a warning, Mr. Layton,
your laundry's about to flap.
- Shit.
- [speaking foreign language]
- That's enough.
- No, no,
you're not going anywhere.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Back up. Come on.
Z-Wreck, Strong Boy,
what's wrong with you?
- Layton, she sold out Josie.
What, she don't gotta pay
for that on your new train?
- Look, Melanie
was threatening her, okay?
- And she cracked.
Now Josie's dead.
- Hey, hey.
- I'm pregnant, all right?
- Is that true?
Zarah?
- Yes, it is.
- A pregnancy on Snowpiercer.
It's hope.
- Melanie was threatening
our child.
- Your child?
- [speaks foreign language]
- Oh, my goodness,
this changes everything.
All right, you two,
go on, shove off.
Leave the woman alone.
- What? No, we still got--
- Back to whatever hallway
where you're sleeping in.
- This ain't right.
Let me tell you something,
Layton.
All this personal shit,
it ain't making
your democracy
any easier to believe in.
[scoffs]
- So you can't stay
in the chains, Zarah.
Carrying your child,
she might be a target.
I will find somewhere
for you uptrain
away from all the ruckus, okay?
Now, we really must
address the passengers.
I am on the side
of Snowpiercer, Mr. Layton.
I work for the passengers,
just like you.
- Good.
- Well, speak your truth.
That's how they seem
to trust you.
[intercom chimes]
- Citizens of Snowpiercer,
it took us seven long years
to cast off
Wilford's class system,
and now the man is back
and latched on to The Tail.
We know he is willing
to stop us cold,
but Brakemen
and the rebel army
have control
of the new border.
Ruth Wardell
and Hospitality
will lead
diplomatic initiatives,
and Snowpiercer will use
all means necessary
to defend
the liberties we've won.
[solemn music]
But...
♪
With everything
we have sacrificed,
it is my great regret
and my reluctant duty
to put our
democratic experiment on hold
and to extend martial law
until further notice.
- [sighs]
[intercom chimes]
- That,
my half-ass warrior friends,
means trouble comes.
- That will not be popular.
- What choice does he have?
- Tunnelmen fought for a vote.
We're supposed to be writing
a constitution.
- Jakes, I wish we were
preparing for elections too,
but there's
a few more miles to go.
We're calling
on your guild again, okay?
[dramatic music]
♪
[door clicks]
- [laughs softly]
- What's it like outside?
Don't get immediately
weird, okay?
I just have some questions.
- Yeah, okay.
Um, what's it like outside?
Um, it's chilly.
[chuckles]
It's horrifying.
And it's really sad
to think about everything that
lived only a few years ago.
- Nematodes will survive.
- Yeah.
Yeah, nematodes will.
- Are you frostbit?
- A little bit, but it's fine.
Just broke the seal on my suit.
- I remember
less and less of it--
the old world.
- That's a shame.
I'm sorry you couldn't
spend more time in it.
- The train is our world now.
We can control this.
What?
- What happened
with Grandma and Grandpa?
- They wouldn't leave
with the men that you sent.
- They wanted to die at home.
- They said I should go,
but I didn't wanna leave them.
- [chuckles]
You know...
[sighs]
I sent you away to live
with them for a reason.
- Why?
Because you had
a train to steal
so you didn't need
a daughter anymore?
- To keep you from him.
- He's the one who saved me
after you left me.
- That's not why he saved you.
- What is this?
It was in your suit.
- It's a snow sample.
- Well, why'd you take
a snow sample?
- Because I haven't been off
Snowpiercer in seven years.
- You are lying to me again.
[dramatic music]
♪
[door chimes]
- Ruth, she can't
be up here in First.
- Why not?
- Come on, Zarah.
How's it look?
- I don't care how it looks.
I care about the baby.
- You are going to need
a place, Mr. Layton,
a base of operations
for day-to-day administration.
You can use this whole floor.
There are separate
accommodations upstairs.
Pregnancy comes with privilege
on Snowpiercer.
- We don't know
how to thank you, Ruth.
I don't know
how you pulled this off.
- Well, everyone's
bending rules these days,
aren't they, Mr. Layton?
- What happened
to the chic owners?
- It was the Schwartz Car.
They were in their 80s.
They took cyanide the morning
the Tailie army took the train,
so it would be nice to let some
joy back in, wouldn't it, hmm?
With a little 'un
running around?
Two security chips.
Your door keys.
You're welcome.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
[door clicks]
- [gasps]
[door closes]
- Turn around.
Hands behind your back.
♪
- Oh.
It is her.
- Yes, it is.
The very one.
- [chuckles]
Not someone else
with a bag on her head.
[chuckles]
Good job, that.
- Good job indeed.
Ms. Cavill herself.
- And I remember you.
You're the doctors.
[together]
Headwood.
- Headwoods.
You retrofitted
all this in here?
- Come.
- You see?
She's angling.
- Digging already,
isn't she?
But we're on our toes.
- [chuckles]
Toes.
- Come, sit.
- Bloody cold outside.
Did Jack Frost
get a few nips in?
- My shoulder.
- Yes, a little bird told us
you've been lung-nipped too.
- Alex?
- Oh.
- Let's take a look.
- Open.
[tense music]
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
- [whimpering]
- Ah, okay.
- There's a bit of business.
- [whimpering]
- Lovely.
- Cryopathy?
- Lovely.
- Cough, please.
- [coughing]
[breathing mask hisses]
- Inhale.
- [breathes deeply]
- Lucky for you, we've made
several breakthroughs
treating our crew.
- Oh!
[chuckles]
[chuckling]
♪
- What--what is that?
- We just call it goop.
- We call it goop.
- [chuckles]
- Synthetic tissue gel.
- [gasps]
- Soothing to the touch.
Yes, by the time
we're finished,
you won't even have a scar.
[indistinct chatter]
♪
[thunking on door]
- Shh, hey!
Get down.
♪
[door creaking]
- Hey, got any fresh food?
- Depends what you got.
[sniffs]
Okay.
Who's got fruit?
♪
Thank you.
We make trade.
- We're speaking English,
douchebag.
- Then me have
a succulent apple,
an organic Floridian orange,
and a--mmm--gourmet tuber.
- One QP Amazing Alice.
♪
[Tailies laugh]
- You can get back in line.
Get back in line.
Everybody keep
their mouths shut,
and you'll all get a cut.
- I finally made it
to the actual Tail,
and it's true.
It stinks.
- It ain't what
it used to be like.
- Oi, Train Psycho
and Brakeman Blowie.
That's far enough right there.
- We're just having a look.
It's an open train.
- It's martial law for you.
- Oh, Mr. Wilford.
- Whatever's beyond that door?
It's equal opportunity,
I think.
- Mr. Wilford's coming.
Mr. Wilford's coming.
Mr. Wilford's coming.
- Hey, LJ!
- ♪ As they ask her
to focus on ♪
♪ Sailors fighting
in the dance hall ♪
♪ Oh, man,
look at those cavemen go ♪
♪ It's the freakiest show
♪ Take a look
- This way.
Herself has arrived.
- Ah, Melanie.
- ♪ Wonder
if he'll ever know ♪
- Make yourself at home.
I'm just having a wallow.
- Why isn't Alexandra
eating with us?
- ♪ Is there life on Mars
- Plenty of time, Melanie.
Plenty of time.
♪
[tense music]
♪
- We've made the decision.
- Layton, it's just
so risky for Mel.
- You wanna get Melanie back?
This is how
we change the terms.
I'll keep the line open.
♪
- Look, we're ready to go,
but first,
they gotta open the door.
We don't know
when that's gonna be.
- I hate waiting on their move.
Hey, you smell that?
[sniffs]
Who is smoking weed?
Pike.
- Oh, seven years
without a blunt, brother,
and this is the kind.
All it cost us
was a fricking potato.
- First you're going to lockup.
- No, wait, no, here, here,
this is all of it.
I swear.
- No, no, no, hey, hey, hey.
This is how
we get the jump on 'em.
Come on.
- Move it.
[dramatic music]
- It's taking way too long.
♪
- You ready?
- Yeah.
40 cars.
I walk that 10 times a day.
- You're not ready.
You're still half Brakeman,
scared shitless
of what's on the other side
of that door.
If you don't
embrace extinction,
you're already dead.
- Hey.
You ready?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
♪
- I got a mango.
Take it to the deal, okay?
♪
[knocking]
Hey, psst!
You got any other
vintage drugs in there--
blow, ether?
I got a mango.
It's perfect.
So soft.
Juice explosion, one might say.
Peel it back--
- Well, Kevin?
Want a mango?
♪
- If he ever found out...
♪
[door creaking]
- Hey, what's your name,
friend?
My name's Pike.
Anything you need...
[dramatic music]
- [gasps]
- [grunts]
[people shouting]
- Grab the suit!
♪
[alarm blaring]
♪
- Everyone in quick!
♪
- [screams]
- Second wave!
- [screaming]
[people shouting]
♪
- Crossbows!
- Take 'em!
♪
[people cheering]
♪
[mellow rock music]
♪
- ♪ You want to know
will the sun keep glowing ♪
♪
♪ Will the rain keep raining
and the wind keep blowing? ♪
♪
- Thank you, Sykes.
- ♪ Can a man
change the mind... ♪
- I essentially kidnapped
a brewpub owner for this ale.
Do you remember?
- I remember.
- ♪ Come ride the train
- In Des Moines.
♪
- Tastes like his stuff.
- I'm not telling you
who our brewer is.
- Drat.
[intercom buzzes]
- Engine.
Sir, Snowpiercer
breached the door.
- What?
How the hell did they do that?
- It's unclear, sir.
- Send in Bob.
- Icy Bob or Oiler Bob?
- Who do you think?
[people screaming]
[suspenseful music]
♪
[rhythmic grunting, clanging]
♪
[people screaming]
♪
- [growls]
[people screaming indistinctly]
♪
[people screaming]
- Wait--
- Go, go!
- Get down!
- Let's go!
- Retreat!
- Fall back!
♪
- [screams]
- Come on, come on.
- [coughing]
- [grunts]
- Come on!
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Let's go!
- Keep moving.
- Come on!
Get through!
[dramatic music]
♪
- He breached that car himself.
- He got it to 70 below
in seconds,
and he didn't even feel it.
- Yeah.
- Hey, I got this.
Go get him.
- How many injured, 20?
In an attack
that I wasn't informed of.
- It was a military decision
under martial law.
Don't take it personally.
- How can I not
take it personally?
You saw fit to inform
the Engine but not Hospitality,
and you got your ass
handed to you, didn't you?
- We didn't lose any ground,
and we got what we came for.
Friend of yours?
- Kevin.
- Good God, Ruth,
you people have gone mad.
- I--well, I can see
how it looks that way, but--
- This is a big mistake.
Wilford doesn't care
if you die,
if Ag-Sec dies.
He can restart everything.
- Let's go.
[soft dramatic music]
Sit down.
♪
- The hostage is Kevin, sir.
- The utter ignorance,
the insult to think
that they could gain
some kind of leverage
with a hostage...
for you.
- What can I say?
They're new at this.
- You stole my train!
Used my name.
- Well, you plastered it
everywhere.
- I built the world!
It's the only one left,
and it's mine!
I run it.
You, you were fixing tractors
on Daddy's farm.
I lifted you
out of pig shit at 17.
I shared everything.
I gave you everything...
the solution.
- There's no solution...
- Oh, for God's sake.
- Until we can
go back out there!
- This is the world!
A rolling steel artery
on a dead marble.
♪
Come on.
You come with me.
♪
- [sighs]
You're an Engineer.
- Engineer, bring Snowpiercer
to a full stop.
- Full stop, gladly.
- Alex.
- [grunts]
Ah.
[people screaming]
[train screeching]
- Reverse.
[train rumbles and screeches]
♪
- He's dropped the anchor.
- No, no, no, we can't stop.
He'll disconnect.
[speaks foreign language]
[tense music]
♪
- I'm taking her back, Mel.
If you can't get this Layton
to surrender my train,
Alex will disconnect,
and we'll take
a short spin in reverse.
When we return,
they'll all be dead,
and your job
for the next several years
will be to compost
every last one of them.
♪
[people coughing]
♪
[people shivering]
♪
[knocks]
Come on!
No hard feelings!
♪
Let's get moving!
[knocks]
- Disconnect Snowpiercer.
Reverse 1/4 speed.
- Don't do it.
- Why?
- It's an order, Alex.
- Because it's right.
Because that train
is our future.
- [chuckles]
Oh, my God.
Get me that whiskey.
Just get it done!
- If you disconnect,
all of those people will die.
A whole world will die.
♪
Believe me,
you don't want that
on your conscience.
- Disconnect now, Alex.
♪
[device beeping]
Come on, now.
Alex, it's all right.
♪
- Wrong choice, honey.
[buttons click]
[device beeping]
[train rumbles]
- I can't disconnect.
- What have you done?
- He overbuilt
the connecting mechanism.
I said so at the time,
remember?
I told you
if something goes wrong
with that central lock,
you'll never be able
to manually undo
the grappling arms.
- Holy shit.
We're stuck together.
- Here we are--permanently.
So you better give Alex
the order to get Snowpiercer
moving again or we'll all die
in a few minutes.
- Never.
- It's kind of
the only solution, really.
We just have to find a way
to work together.
- She got you, Dubs.
- Shut up.
- Really don't have a choice.
♪
- Wait...for the order.
[dramatic music]
♪
[train screeching]
[people yelping, murmuring]
♪
- Oh, thank God.
We're spared.
He spared us.
He spared us.
♪
- It's gonna be a long,
cold war.
♪