Snowpiercer (2020–…): Season 2, Episode 6 - Episode #2.6 - full transcript

Melanie fights for survival in treacherous conditions, vying to do what others before her could not.

[wind howling]

- This cold isn't something
we can tame.

We did this to our climate.

[dramatic music]

Now only the Earth herself
can restart her warm heart.

I believe we can find
her pulse again.

And my biggest fear...

isn't dying out here.

It's that the cold-hearted
among us will crush that hope

before I can prove it.





[engine buzzing]

[engine revving]

[sighs]

[grunting]



[beeping]

All right, all right.



[grunting]



Breslauer Research Station.

The temperature

is minus 122.6 Celcius.

I'm 11,000 feet
above sea level,



dangling
from a thin umbilical.

[panting]

Many miles from Snowpiercer...

1,034 cars long.

[breathing heavily]

[dramatic music]



[door closes]

[unsettling music]



[breathing heavily]



There you are.

Okay.

[grunts]

[breathing quickens]



- Mommy?
Are you there?

There's a monster
under my bed.

Mommy.

Where are you?
Mommy?

Mommy, there's a monster.

Mom?

- [breathing heavily]

All right. All right.



[grunts]

[dramatic music]



[pneumatic hiss]

I found the bodies
of two of the scientists

stationed here
at the Freeze...

one male, shot in the head...

the other a woman
who slit her wrists.

Must've been a grim place
to face the end of the world.

But at first light,
I have to power it back up,

patch my batteries
into the solar array.

Then I'll go back down

for the sled
I left behind with my rations.

[wind howling]

[suspenseful music]



[gasping]



[beeping]

Okay.

[groans]

[grunts]

[grunts]

[machinery whirring]

[exhales sharply]

Thank you.

[rumbling]

[wind howling]



[sighs]

[ethereal music]

- In the old time,

the future
seemed multifaceted.

We had careers, families,
personal aspirations,

places to go, friends to see,
bucket lists--

the hum of human dreams
we took for granted.

But we were sleepwalking,

just one step away

from trading
all those possible futures

for the shared fate
of the Freeze.

- I thought I'd find you here.

- It's a beautiful thing
we've created.

- Ah. Depends how we
define "created."

Well, I suppose you might
deserve a little credit.

You're the glue.

You put all Snowpiercer's
pieces together.

She's just as much yours
as she is mine.

And you will never hear me
repeat that in public.

[cork pops]

- Whatever your investors
need to hear, Joseph.

- Oh, they heard it.

My "Engine Eternal."

- Depends how
we define "eternal."

- [chuckles]
Now, now...

let's not ruin the moment.

- That's not possible,

because now...

we finally get to drive her.

[exhales deeply]

[dramatic music]

[pneumatic hiss]

[sighs]
Okay.

[scoffs]



[sighs]



[scoffs]

- Mommy? Where's the food?

Did you go to the store?

I'm hungry.



- Ah, so that's where
that arm went.



[chuckles]



You're exhausted.

Or is it this thin mountain air

that's playing tricks
on your mind?

- [exhales deeply]

- So, with your supplies
under that avalanche,

all you have left
is one ration pack...

one bag of sweeties from Ben...

and an arm.

- I'll manage without the arm.

- Really?
That seems a bit optimistic.

According to the logbooks,

our fine young cannibals
out there

were climate scientists.

They came out
at the start of the Freeze

looking for a way
to survive CW-7--

well, the effects of it.

Apparently
they didn't succeed,

though she did hang on
for five months.

- I only have to make it one.

- Hmm.

- [panting]



[beeping]

[electronics whirring]



[unsettling music]

- Afraid to look upon
your predecessors' visage?

- Just don't want to see it.

- Because they had
a little girl.

You've acquired a...
sentimental streak, Melanie.

You're a lot more useful

when you're
naive and ambitious.

- Snowpiercer
should be releasing

the first of her weather
balloons

right about now.

I am...

patched into
the climate-modeling program.

Just need to link
to the balloon

from the radio tower.

Feed it enough data points
to extrapolate a model.

- [echoing] Well, if anyone
can kludge together

a heuristic climate model,
it's you, my dear.

Shame you have to rely
on Ben, though, hmm?

And his balloons.

And that Spaniard.

[laughing]
Come on.

- You know Javi's Colombian.

- Oh, well,
perhaps that's where

you'll find our fabled Eden.

- And he didn't know we were
stealing the train from you.

- Hmm.

- Actually, we were two days
down the track

before he figured it out.

- This is nice, isn't it?

Jousting?

[echoing]
Keeps your mind off the hunger.

[laptop chirping]

[laptop beeping]

[computer chimes]

Yes!

Yes!

- Seems a long way to Eden.

- It's a start.



[device beeping]

[unsettling music]



- Lost your biscuit?

- I must've eaten it.

- [echoing] I know
you don't believe that.

- No.

I didn't eat that cracker.

- Which begs the question...

who did?

Perhaps our cannibals
are hungry.

Either that, or you're
cracking up, Engineer.

- Tell me you
aren't really doing this.

With everything else we need,
you're working on your brothel?

- Not a brothel.
A Nightcar!

- This train is now an ark
for humanity,

not your personal indulgences.

- Can't it be both?

[chuckles]

Art onstage...

and entertainment in the back.

It sustains the soul,
Melanie...

and it's a release valve
to keep everyone under control.

- The resources
that you're wasting on this

could sustain 20 more people
that we're going to need.

Ticketing says you removed
half of my geneticists

from the passenger list.

- We have
more important priorities.

- Like what?

Like...your security?

- I promised you--
all guns will be confiscated

and thrown from the train.

But the Jackboots
will keep order.

3,000 souls stuffed
into a 10-mile steel tube--

you think they're all
gonna suddenly

start singing "Kumbaya"?

- I think that if we are going
to save humankind,

we need people
who actually know

how to save humankind.

- How many?
- Six geneticists...

and next of kin--12 total.

Just cut 12 Jackboots.

- I'll cut six.
- [scoffs]

Joseph, please...

There are gonna be more
important things than order.

- Nothing's more important
than order.

- Do you even believe
in any of this?

- Clearly, I've been
working you too hard...

which is why I will forgive
what you just said.

Snowpiercer has only one
Head Engineer--her creator.

She runs on my order.

And if you can't accept that,
then...

your family can stay behind.

Is that clear?

[chuckles]
You can't--

you can't sugarcoat
the end of the world, Melanie.

Not everything's going
to be fine,

but I promise you...

you will survive.



- Thank you, Joseph.

[computers humming]

- It's been ten days
since I arrived.

If I had food...
[chuckles]

This would be
a glowing report.

With each new probe,
the system has more data,

and I coax a climate model.

The picture's
far from complete.

Now the question...

is whether I can survive
long enough

to finish painting it.

[wind howling]

[unsettling music]



- Hunger's a bitch, ain't it?

You're getting a little taste

of what you did to us
back in the Tail.

Not to rub it in.

- No, you're rubbing it in.

- Yeah, I am.

Those bodies might have
a little freezer burn,

but I wouldn't let that
put you off.

No judgment here.

- I'm not resorting
to cannibalism.

- Give yourself another week
with no food.

- I've got food.

[distant clatter]

[suspenseful music]



- [squeaking]

- [gasps]



[grunting]

- You know
this is crazy, right?

- Yep.

- It's been seven years.
How could anything be alive?

- It shouldn't be.

- So either something
did survive out there,

which is a miracle, or...

- I'm losing it?

- You said it, not me.



- Oh! Very nice.

Looks like something a Tailie
would've cooked up.

- That's what
I'm talking about.

[panting]

[wind howling]

I've been thinking
about the three bodies I found.

- Torrid affair.

Arthur was the first to go.

The fellow with the bullet
in his brainpan.

The other two got rid of him.

- He was her husband.
- Really?

- The woman who killed herself.
- How'd you find that out?

- He's the guy
on the screensaver.

- Oh, I like that twist.

- Maybe he got sick.
- Yes.

She and the other fellow
knew he was a goner.

Every day he lingered on
was another day

he was consuming food
they needed.

- [softly] So they put him
out of his misery.

- Shot to the head.

She sacrificed him, Melanie...

Like you did to me.
- [sighs]

She made the right decision.

- I knew you'd say that.

- What else could she do?

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

[suspenseful music]

- There's thousands of 'em.

We need reinforcements
at the main gate.

- Where's Javi?

- Engine room.

How did they find out
departure time?

- It's 45 below and getting
colder by the minute, you know.

[phone rings]
Where else are they gonna go?

It's Engineer Cavill again.

Has the transport
with my family arrived yet?

I need to know the moment
they're on the train.

- What the hell's going on
downtrain?

- Wait.
- I told you.

- Can you get me Tail Command?
- Both of you!

More security!
- Hold on.

- We're about to be overrun
before we leave the station.

- Commander Grey's on the line.

- Right.

Is that you,
old Blood and Thunder?

What's the story back there?

- The perimeter fence
is holding, sir,

but more just keep coming.

We fired live rounds,

but it won't hold much longer.

- If they break through...
you unleash hell on them.

You do whatever it takes
to hold them back.

Is that clear?
- Yes, sir.

All necessary force.

- Last train
to Clarksville, people.

- My family isn't on board yet.

- And we still need 30 minutes

to finish
cycling up the engine, sir.

[man shouting indistinctly
outside]

- Who the hell is this?

[tense music]

- We're scientists!
We have tickets!

[rat squeaking frantically]

[trap clacks]

- [gasps]

You're real.
- Yes!

Way to go, Mel.

I know a great recipe for her.

Him.

- I have a better idea.

[dramatic music]



[rat squeaking]



[grunting]

[saw whirring]



Frickin' amazing.

[gasps]

- It's a geothermal vent.

- The warmth kept them alive?

- That fissure looks like
it has a fresh crack in it.

Must have opened up
in the Freeze.

- I bet you're right.

I guess the rats came
with the people,

but they found it first.

- But then you found them.

- [exhales sharply]
It's a miracle.

- [scoffs]

It's life, Mom.

[Melanie humming]

- Yum.
- [chuckles]

- Seven years
hiding and procreating

in a steam vent, and now
straight into our stomachs.

- Yeah, well...

zero regrets.

- I like your chances
better now.

The vent can supplement
your heat

and allow more power
for your databases.

- Doing everything I can.

Still a lot of track
between us.

- What will you do
without your sled to meet us?

- I'll walk
back to the track...

pack a battery
and the hard drive on the sled.

I could make it there and back
if I had to.

[wind howling outside]

- Mom?

I think I understand now...

Why you had to leave me
in Chicago.

[tense music]



- What are your orders, sir?

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

They say they're ticketed.

They've got chips!

- They are my geneticists.

You agreed to have them...
- What?

- On board,
and we need them.

- I agreed you could have six.

Right now
we need six Jacks more.

- I am not going
without all of them, Joseph.

You know what? We don't have
time to discuss it.

Let's just
get everyone on board.

- You're right.

There's no time.

Terminate them.

[group screaming]

[dark music]



Never forget, Melanie.

The train runs on my order.

Estimated time of departure?

- 28 minutes.
- Good.

Now I'm going downtrain.

And we're going to open fire
on the main gate, too.

You just finish
the damn cycle-up...

and be ready to depart.

- She'll be ready.

- Good.

We'll take the Jeep.

- [stammers]



[sighs]

[device beeping]

[laptop beeping]

[laptop chirps, chimes]

[distant clatter]

Come on.

[wind howling]

[metal rattling]

Ping.

[distant clang]

[gasps]

[suspenseful music]

[panting]



[wind whistling]



- You're having quite the day,
aren't you?

Now you've lost
your balloon data.

- No, no, no, no, no!

- I bet you're feeling a bit

like our friend
out in the snow.

You know,
the woman who, uh...

- Oh, shut up.

- Suicide in that manner,
I've--I've grown to respect...

depending on the circumstances,
of course.

Sometimes it--it transforms.

- What are you
even talking about?

- Ah, you wouldn't understand.

I've no respect
for her, though.

She left her child behind,
you know.

- She did it
to be with her child,

because she thought that
they would be reunited.

- Sentimentality.

Same reason she couldn't eat
her husband.

And for what?
Her mission failed.

She sacrificed her family,
her humanity, everything,

just like you.

- This mission is not done.

Alex is meeting me
at the cold lock.

- Ah, yes. Get back to Alex.

Save her from the monster.

[scoffs]
- I'll catch another rat.

I'll make it two more weeks,
you sack of shit.

- I find it telling,
this notion

you're such a better human
than me.

I saved the daughter
you left behind.

Perhaps a-a little gratitude
is in order?

- [yells]

[exhaling deeply]

[wind howling]

[tense music]



- [grunts]

They should be
with four bodyguards.

My par--

my parents are elderly.

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

- Drop those, now!

- Yes, my--my daughter
is eight.

If they're not checked in,
I need you to look for them.

Hello! Hello!

[receiver clatters]

I don't think they're here yet.

- Engine, come in.
Engine, come in.

[static crackling]
Engine, come in.

- This is the Engine.

- I've lost contact
with Commander Grey.

I'm driving uptrain
to see him.

As soon as I get off,
we leave.

- Roger that.
Ready to leave in six minutes.

We can roll in one minute, Mel.

- [scoffs]
I'm going down there.

- You have to make the call
to go.

- Alex might be trying
to get on board.

- You can't get
off this train, Mel.

I am not leaving you here.
- Ben, let me go.

- I have to go.
- We can't let that monster

be in charge of what's left
of humanity.

You want to steal the train
and save the future?

We have to go now.

[distant gunfire]

[distant crowd screaming]



- All aboard.

All ticketed passengers,
please board.

Snowpiercer departs
at precisely 0000 hours.



Release the brake.

[keys clacking]
- Disengaging brakes.

- Snowpiercer departs
in ten...

nine, eight, seven,

six, five...

- Off the train!
Throw 'em off the train!

- Three, two, one...

departure.



[voice breaking]
Engaging the Engine.

[somber music]



[sobs softly]

[whispering]
Forgive me.



Forgive me.



[wind howling]

[metal rattling]

[grunts]

[groans]

[grunting]

[suit alarm beeping]

[suspenseful music]



[grunts]

Shit.



[computer beeping]

[hopeful music]

[crying]

Yeah.

It's working. It's working.



[sobs]

[laughs]

Time to turn around
and hurry back, Snowpiercer.

- [panting]

[wind howling]

[grunting]

[dramatic music]



[radio clicks]

Snowpiercer.

Snowpiercer, come in.

You should be in range by now.

Do you copy?
It's Melanie.

[static crackling]



[radio clicks]

Snowpiercer, Snowpiercer.

Do you copy?

[static crackling]

Snowpiercer.

I'm prepared to rendezvous
for pickup.

[radio clicks]
Ben?

[static crackling]

[radio clicks]
Alex?

[static crackling]

[radio clicks]
I have the climate model.

[static crackling]

[radio clicks]

Allie...

[sighs]

I tried.
[scoffs]

[voice breaking]
I r-really tried.

And...

I thought this time
would be different.

I thought I would get
back to you.

So...

Please forgive me.

[static crackling]

[sighs]

[sighs]

- You gave up everything
for us...

for the world.

[softly] You don't
have to be sorry anymore...

not to me...

not to anyone.

Snowpiercer couldn't have made
it this far without you.

And you and I would never
have gotten this chance.

- Thank you.

[somber music]



[crying softly]



[static crackling]



[rumbling]

[panting]

Snowpiercer.
[gasps]

Snowpiercer!
Do you hear me?

[dramatic music]

Snowpiercer.

You need to slow your roll.



You need to slow your roll!
Do you hear me?

Stop!
[electricity crackling]

[brakes squealing]



- [muffled]
Mom! Mom!



[breathing quickens]