I'm gonna be okay.
And you will too.
I need you, Ben.
New Eden can wait.
Admiral Anton Milius, International Peacekeeping Forces.
You're taking me to Melanie Cavill.
Audrey?
- They're coming. - He's a friend.
Give me my daughter.
Don't... Don't fight! They took Liana.
I'm going to find who took Liana,
and I'm going to kill them.
I tried to warn New Eden.
Audrey?
Instead, they were blindsided, just
like we'd been on the train.
Layton? - Yeah. Hey, Audrey.
I'm here. I'm right here.
They took the train.
After Big Alice left us, we circled the globe,
not knowing whether our friends and loved ones
were alive or dead.
And then we were finally close enough to hear from them,
all of us waiting for a sign.
Pre-Freeze, radio station used between 25,000
to 100,000 watts to broadcast.
New Eden, my broadcast, best case scenario, about 400 watts.
Hills, mountains, metals block radio waves completely.
The signal's strength's reduced with every object
it passes through.
So with 400 watts, it's not exactly ideal, is it?
It's been three months.
Shortwave's a crapshoot.
I need to know she's OK.
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, when we pass the turning off for New Eden,
it's our best shot at making contact.
And what if we don't get a signal?
If we don't get a signal, we hear from them
on our next revolution.
You know, for a mind reader, sometimes,
I have no idea what's going on in that head of yours.
OK.
Rock.
Puffy clouds.
Tiny shrub next to a rock.
I feel so much closer to you now.
Mm-hmm.
Come on.
Let's go to bed.
We waited, month after month, the guilt weighing us down.
And when we finally did get a sign of life,
it wasn't from New Eden.
♪ Each time someone speaks your name ♪
Radiation levels, swab, span of the debris field.
Don't ask me.
I'm just a spotter in case you fall in a hole again.
We're approaching drop off.
Once you're out, you'll see a thick, black cloud
hovering over the crash site.
We'll follow it.
Braking full stop.
Snowpiercer, this is Ben.
Do you read me?
Mel? Do you copy? Come in.
Hey, scavengers, you on your way back yet?
Ben, Till, do you copy?
It's Snowpiercer.
Come in.
I'll check the back channels.
Nothing.
Holy shit.
The Engine can't idle for much longer.
Release safeties and all cold locks and bay doors, please.
Their comms must be down.
They're boarding.
OK, then.
They're with us.
Admiral Anton Milius, International
Peacekeeping Forces.
Everyone remain calm.
Everyone except you two.
Take me to Melanie Cavill.
Put that down or you get shot.
Till!
The night before Melanie saw the rocket
was the last we knew of peace.
And with a single shot, the peace ended on Snowpiercer.
879 cars long.
OK.
I'm gonna have to put a lot of pressure on it, OK?
You need to warn Melanie.
No, I'm not leaving you here alone like this.
It's OK.
He barely nicked me.
Hey, what are you doing?
No, sit back down.
You need to go before it's too late.
I have to stop the bleeding.
No.
They're going to take the Engine.
Just go.
Just go!
Hello?
Shit.
Let's reboot the comm system.
Evacuate First Class.
Please and thank you.
As head of hospitality, it's my duty
to inform you that all new passengers must report to the...
Shh.
Where's the panic button?
Panic button?
You know, to the Engine Room.
Under the desk.
Get to your quarters.
Fast.
All passengers, evacuate First Class.
Move along, please.
This is Admiral Anton Milius.
I need you to open that door immediately.
The train has to make a turn coming up.
I'm going to need more information, Admiral.
No, you do not.
I'm on the clock, Miss Cavill.
And now, so are you.
You have 30 seconds.
You're on my train.
My Engine.
This is an international peacekeeping mission.
We are authorized to use force.
It's a vault door.
You can't breach it.
We don't have to breach.
We have a gun to a passenger's forehead.
I'm all right, Mel.
I assure you, he is not going to be all right.
You have 15 seconds.
Don't listen to him.
We've already shot one of your people.
We don't want to shoot another.
Ben?
Ben, who? - No one.
Five seconds.
- Do not open the door. - 4,
3, 2...
Good. Glad we didn't have to go there.
OK.
Admiral.
Escort them out.
You're going to need an engineer to drive.
At least one of us has to stay.
We got it covered. Thank you.
Anyone can accelerate.
You need to balance the expenditure against the intake.
Don't touch me.
Don't touch me!
You're bleeding.
I'm fine.
It was a trap.
Yeah.
They blew up a rocket to lure us.
Who the hell are these people?
How did they even survive?
What turn are they talking about?
I mean, our next switch is New Eden.
That's over 1,000 kilometers away.
They shot Till.
That's who they shot.
Is she OK?
In the shoulder.
I don't know how she's doing.
I was dragged off.
Some peacekeepers.
How do we get out of here?
I don't know.
But I'm thinking.
- What's he doing? - You know what?
Maybe you shouldn't spy on him, just in case he sees or...
I got to get back downtrain.
He's leaving.
Yes.
You coming? - You know what?
I think I'm just going to stay put.
Yeah.
Maybe get some stuff done.
Attention, all passengers in First and Second Class
are to evacuate to Third.
This is only a temporary relocation.
The new passengers want you to know that, um...
that, uh... oh, God...
that as long as you do as you're told, all is well.
Thank you.
Oh, Pelton, we got to get uptrain.
Jesus. Till, your shoulder.
They ambushed us.
They shot you?
There's only a handful of them.
Here.
Interior exit, posterior entry.
No major arteries.
Any dizziness or nausea?
We tried to lead them away from the train.
But they chased us down.
Your heart rate's irregular.
We could take them.
You've lost a lot of blood.
We got to pack that wound.
No, we don't have time.
Your pulse says you're about to pass out, so just shut it.
They took my clinic, so it's not an option.
Yeah. Neither is this hallway.
This way.
Lean on me.
Wartime measures.
Your place is now a clinic.
Are there really survivors out there?
Yeah, but they don't give a shit about us.
Winston, we need to round up anyone who can fight.
We outnumber them.
Not interested.
Sorry, Till.
You started drinking again, right?
Yeah. You mind?
No.
You got anything strong on hand?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll help.
You got any whiskey? - No.
You drink it, and it's just going to thin your blood.
This is to disinfect.
OK, just tell me when you're going to put it on.
Could you bring me that plant?
Now.
Once the bandage is taped on, keep it wet.
I'm soaking it in alcohol.
So hurry it up.
What the hell?
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Sterilizing the dirt.
I can pack the wound.
That's some medieval shit right there, Pelton.
Hell of a view from up here.
I could get used to seeing sunlight again, or the moon.
Red sky at night,
sailor's delight.
Clear for running.
Set switch for our new track.
On target for arrival at 13:15.
Bravo Zulu, Buff.
We are turning.
Is that east?
Can't be. There's no track there.
We're not on Wilford track anymore.
Whoever built that did it quick, too, because that was
not there three months ago.
Shit.
If they have the manpower to lay a new track,
how many more of them are out there?
OK, well, we're going east, so what's east of here?
Well, we turn before the Ethiopian Highlands.
Right, so that's Eritrea.
Or Djibouti.
Djibouti.
International trade hub for the entire continent.
International military hub.
They're going for reinforcements.
We have an hour max before we hit Djibouti.
Well, if this works, we know our train.
We mess with them and we don't let them dock.
Now.
Let's go.
Mel, come on.
Thanks.
We need to buy ourselves some time.
Yeah.
Slow the train.
This way.
It's OK.
Find them.
Till.
Miles, have you seen Audrey?
No.
What happened to you?
Nothing.
I... I sent her uptrain to warn Melanie.
- We did get warned. - Yeah?
Someone signaled us from hospitality.
That's right by the Engine.
I heard people are gathering at the market.
Oh, maybe she's there.
Wow, a whole library for Mr. Joseph Wilford.
Going in circles around the seven wonders
of the world reading English literature while my people work
the mines.
We see he enjoyed the classics.
Me, I prefer murder mysteries.
But there's not much mystery to this murder, is there?
I know who did it.
What remains unknown is your role in all this.
What can you tell me about Melanie Cavill?
She's smarter than you.
Is Ms. Cavill a woman of integrity, honor?
Does she keep her word?
What do you want with Melanie?
To pick her brain.
Through here.
What's all this?
This is where Ruth led the rebellion against Wilford.
She spent six months down here.
Six months?
And I bet she never complained.
Think she knew her foxhole accessed a brake line?
Wouldn't put it past her.
Big Alice was going far too slow for Ruth to grind
her brakes, even as a threat.
No time like the present.
Your friend, Miss Cavill?
Let's make an example.
She's not there.
Audrey.
- Till!
Oh, God, look at you.
You look terrible.
Get down!
It's locked.
Hey! Open the door!
100 passengers are being held captive
in a partially breached car.
In 20 minutes, they will freeze
unless Melanie Cavill surrenders.
They're in the Market car.
They got two guards...
Don't be a hero.
They rarely survive.
Shit.
Two guards.
Two guards in the Market.
That's one in each entrance.
One gunman, we can handle that.
Wait, if there are two at the Market,
one's driving, another at the Ark door,
that means there's only one left to guard the admiral.
This is our chance to take back the Engine.
There's 100 passengers about to freeze to death.
We need to focus on freeing them.
Yes, we will, from the Engine.
The driver's cab has that fail-safe.
If the temperature drops near freezing,
the doors will open to flush out the cold air.
I can rewire the airflow system from the Engine's air shaft.
To freeze the Engine?
The doors will open before it freezes.
That fail-safe's a gamble.
We've never tested it.
Yeah.
But it'll work.
How do you plan to get in the air shaft?
The only access is through the Engine.
Not if you open the intake.
That's completely crazy, Mel.
You're going to crawl through the intake from outside?
I told you not to open the door.
Yeah.
But I did.
I did.
Now we have to get back the Engine.
We better make sure they don't see you coming.
Let's go.
The temperature is dropping fast.
Let us out!
We'll have to seal the hole.
Your lips are blue.
Everybody's lips are going to be blue if we don't get on it.
Help each other.
Go.
OK, everyone, everybody, get in the center, right here.
Really close.
Get up all the blankets you can.
People who are on the outside,
take care of them over there, and...
Hey, hold this.
Why?
You're going to help me plug up that hole.
OK. OK.
OK.
It's not sticking.
It froze on the way up.
Wait, wait, alcohol has a lower freezing temperature.
Shove it in the hole.
Good job.
OK, now go back to where it's warmer.
Everyone, please, get together.
Huddle.
Huddle together.
Everyone together.
Huddle together as tight as you can, please.
When you reach the Engine, I'll open the intakes for you.
Yes. That's why we're arriving late.
She did something to the brakes.
Are 100 people really going to die for that?
That's up to her.
I'll deal with the fallout either way.
You just make sure you hold up your end of the bargain.
Hello?
What's your updated ETA?
Should be there in under 20.
Be ready for us.
Let's move out.
Melanie?
Can you hear me?
Ben?
Are you there?
You know, I've been thinking, reception is pretty
lousy here for a luxury liner.
Remind me when we get home.
I'll file a complaint.
OK, made it.
Intakes are activated.
Intake's open.
Good.
How's it look?
Like if I entered, I'd be sprayed out.
That's very visual.
Thank you.
Ben.
We're going underground.
Nearly there.
Any day now.
Initializing cleaning protocol sequence.
Clear. Clear.
Go, go, go.
It's negative 40.
Jesus mother of goddamn shit, it's cold.
I bet you wish you went to New Eden, huh?
You have a way with people on this train.
I admire that in you.
No, don't do that.
We're going to be OK.
You bought us time by plugging that hole.
When the train was separating and we were standing
on either side of the door,
did it ever cross your mind
to join me in New Eden?
Yes, of course.
I'm at the control panel.
You're making good time.
Airflow rerouted.
Mel, they're decelerating.
I know.
They made it.
Unfortunately.
You can't kill me.
You would have already.
Did they order you not to?
Let's get out of here.
Miles.
Get out of my Engine.
This is your last warning, because I will shoot.
Don't do that, Mel.
Nima?
Can we please just...
Are we connected to the power grid?
Affirmative, sir. Upon arrival.
Gives you time to catch up.
It's nice to see you.
How did you...
how did you survive?
Where were you?
Here?
International Peacekeeping conscripted my research
team when the weather turned.
Your MIT fellowship?
No. Selection wasn't up to me.
Nothing was.
US Air Force flew me here to this bunker,
along with another 80 scientists
and engineers tasked with correcting
the government's mistakes.
Or, as they prefer to say, pioneering
the next age for humankind.
I haven't seen the sky since that flight.
Well, your admiral hijacked my train.
I can explain.
Why didn't he explain?
You were threatening him.
That's bullshit.
It was an ambush from the start.
He shot a passenger.
He held a gun to Ben's head.
He threatened to freeze a car of civilians.
Admiral Milius has a temper.
I don't agree with his tactics, but he's uncompromising,
and Snowpiercer needed to dock here.
Well, we're here.
So, why?
My research team developed a compound that triggers
CW-7 to denature in the upper atmosphere
and fall from the sky.
We've only launched missiles from a single location,
but our compound has followed weather
patterns across half the equator,
creating six warm spots.
Sulawesi, Gujarat...
Managua, Atacama...
Korea, and the Horn.
That was you.
It was my team.
But now, we hit a barrier.
These warm spots, they need to grow and mix
and feed off one another into a web
that extends across the globe.
But with half the equator still in deep freeze,
there's no point.
It's six candles in a blizzard.
It's why we need Snowpiercer to help
launch our compound from the opposite side of the planet.
On the chance it'll work.
It did work.
I'll show you.
We still have one working satellite.
They're living outside.
Well, this is every trial, every test we've run.
Go through it.
We're on the verge of a breakthrough.
This colony living in the Horn, what if we could
make it like that everywhere?
Two floors of supercomputers, engineering
a project of this scope, I mean,
we'd never think to consider it, but it's possible.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd have the computing power
for modeling and simulation, and the labs
for chemical testing.
And shorten the train's revolution.
Come by here monthly to pick up your blueprints and data.
So what about the train?
I mean, say I'm able to engineer the retrofit
to carry out the mission.
Can she handle it?
What do you think?
Remodeling is very likely going
to cause irrevocable damage.
But isn't that the point?
If we're successful, we don't need
a train to stay alive anymore.
It's also asking a lot of the passengers.
No.
I mean, they'd be doing the heavy lifting.
We'd prioritize essential labor and systems.
Still it would be tricky.
We'd have to extend hours.
Yeah, but, you know, when we tell them that the people are
living outside in New Eden, hopefully,
they want to be part of it.
And we'd be boarding a civilian workforce to help.
But no military presence, and no guns.
I have the admiral's word.
That man, we can't trust.
No.
No, I don't trust him.
But I trust the data.
And the proof's in the work.
I mean, it lines up with all of our research.
Dr. Nima Rousseau.
It's no surprise that at the end of the world,
they'd want to keep him around.
He's a serious thinker.
He always has been.
It's a risk.
But what if this is it?
They're alive.
Before Alex left, she told me she couldn't
even remember the Earth.
You have the train, Mr. Knox.
I'll keep her warm for you.
- Move that over this way. - Move it.
I'm gonna miss you.
Track scaler's programmed for New Eden.
Please, don't touch any of the settings.
We are 2 kilometers from the drop.
Till, thank you.
Whatever.
What if Miles misheard the admiral?
The words ambush and New Eden are pretty distinct.
So they were already on their way?
I don't know.
But if there's any chance they're
planning some sort of an attack on our friends,
I gotta warn them.
I owe that to Layton.
You're crazy, you know that?
I wouldn't last three seconds in this thing.
If you die in this thing...
I promise to come back and haunt you.
Parallel track approaching.
Till, you ready? Can I breach?
Not yet.
Audrey's just exiting.
Oh, shit.
Go, go, go!
Hold on, we got a visitor.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Till, do you copy? It's now or never.
Ben, it's me.
You have to send me instead.
All right, all right.
Hold on.
OK. OK.
And then it was just me, alone in the cold,
hoping I'd reach you, warn you.
It's still too late.
I'm sorry.
What would they want with Liana?
I need air.
All this time, I thought Miles was safe.
I thought we were safe.
Melanie surrenders the train to soldiers.
Headwood takes Liana.
Hey, Layton.
Layton, where are you going?
To find them.
I need to fight for my baby girl.
Those voices you're hearing? Those are people watching us.
Our mission is important to the world.
We have to take him down.
The days of hijacking trains are over.
We will not survive without the engine.