Original subtitles

- Take your time. Get a feel for it.

If you don't like it, we'll find you something else.

[gentle music]

- Thanks.

- Having a purpose here on Snowpiercer will help.

I promise.

♪

- Green was the first color to disappear outside.

Our crops withered by drought.

Our forests set ablaze.

And then the whole charred ruin locked away in ice.

♪

- [inhales]

[knocking at door] - Asha.

I know you're in there. Can you let me in?

♪

- I-I'd rather you didn't.

- Asha, I know you've been pinching things

from the market.

So you can let me in,

or I can come back with Brakemen--it's up to you.

♪

Layton told me about your time in the reactor

and I can't even imagine.

But all of that, it's behind you now, Asha.

- You think you're safe here, don't you, Ruth?

But you're not.

Andre, he didn't know the whole story.

You know, after--after the marauders died off,

we turned on each other.

I was desperate to keep my nephew safe,

so I poisoned all the others.

And then cancer took my nephew away

and I was left all by myself.

Once you choose survival at any cost,

there's no going back.

[tense music]

- Except there is. I've seen it.

We all find our place here working together as one train.

- Um, I'm just doing some pickling,

and I was wondering if you had anything

with a bit of heat to it. - [chuckles]

Yeah.

- Oh, thank you so much. Ooh.

I'm gonna call it "Ms. Asha's New Eden Hot Batch."

- [laughs]

- Yeah? Yeah? Huh?

- Here among the plants, I'm six again.

Running through the forest of my grandparent's farm

in the Western gardens.

Peppercorn, cardamom, and ginger,

boiled together by the humidity

like a cup of chai.

When anyone would get upset, my grandmother would say,

"Jab sab galat ho raha ho, tab sab sahi ho raha hai."

When everything goes wrong,

perhaps it's setting itself right.

For the longest time,

I couldn't find truth in her words,

how out of so much loss she could find hope.

Enjoy.

But now, I think I see it here with them pulling together

for something more than just survival,

on Snowpiercer, 1,029 cars long.

[dramatic music]

♪

- You were there in the reactor at the beginning.

- When you had this vision of a New Eden.

- Yeah, and that vision

is what has been keeping me going this whole time.

That's why we're here. Just days away.

- It's keeping us all going. It's hope.

So what happened?

- I went back there, Asha.

Somewhere in some dark corner of my mind.

And we were there in the reactor together, and...

now my faith in all of this is gone.

[tense music]

♪

Have you seen this?

- That's your vision?

- You recognize it?

- Yeah.

There was one of these trees in a calendar on my wall.

Reminded me how special the world is.

♪

- I made it all up. - Don't say that.

I'm right out on that limb with you.

Finally feeling like I'm part of the train.

- Oh, there you are, Andre.

Is everything all right?

- Yeah, fine.

- I'm sorry to interrupt, but Ben and Alex

would like to see us in the engine.

- Don't worry about it, Asha, we're good.

[clears throat]

♪

- You think Melanie is alive?

- Well, we can't leap to that.

Something's moving out there.

But first, you need to understand how switches work.

- Track switches operate on battery power.

When Ben and I took a look at the data,

we saw that some of them have lost juice.

- It's because something is moving from switch to switch,

drawing down power.

When we follow the breadcrumbs,

they lead us to the Rocky Mountain Test Track.

- Where we last saw Melanie.

- It's gotta be her then.

- There's a facility on that track.

In theory, she could have reached the hanger

and gotten a maintenance vehicle going

or a track scaler or a plow.

- But these are bare-bones, autonomous machines.

They're not designed to support life.

- But it's moving. You said so yourself.

- Yeah, the vehicle's moving. It could go on for years.

It's just about the person inside of it.

- With no support or water.

And they're barely the size of a broom closet.

- Where is it now? - Northwest.

It's a two-day detour on the Ottoman Spur.

- You guys should know that the only reason

we looked into this is because Wilford told me.

- What? - Yeah.

- Oh, no, no. He's gotta be messing with us.

- Right, but if it's true--

- If it's true, he's still messing with us.

I'll go find out.

♪

- Here he is, the man himself back on the beat.

I trust the information I gave Alex is paying off then.

- We're studying it. - Wonderful.

So while the Engineers crunch the numbers,

you're here to probe my motives, is that it?

- Why would you want Melanie back?

- Well, for self-preservation.

Another Engineer on board is good for us all.

- You left her trackside to die.

- And then I lost and the people decided

to throw in their lot with you.

Yes, I know.

Now, I just happen to think New Eden is a terrible idea

and if that's where we're headed,

our odds of survival are better with Melanie.

- Unless she's dead.

Is that it?

Try to knock us off course, crush our spirit?

- I wouldn't do that to Alex.

[tense music]

♪

You're not quite yourself, are you?

[coughs]

I don't get much news in here,

but I did hear about the showdown

between you and your old friend, Mr. Pike.

Must have been hard on Zarah there,

seeing you at death's door, little Liana in her arms.

[coughs]

- I'm the one who's still standing.

- Oh, barely.

Brush with death will shake a man up.

Believe me, I know.

And by the look of it, you need Melanie's help more than ever.

Why are you pretending there's a choice?

If there's any chance she's out there,

you know what you have to do.

[laughs]

[intercom dings]

- Fellow passengers, now with days to New Eden,

we are detouring.

Detouring in the hopes that Engineer Cavill

is indeed out there.

It's our collective duty to bring her back to the fold

and to continue the quest that she inspired.

Thank you.

[intercom dings]

- About 10 hours until satellite confirmation.

- Uh, no, I'm gonna say longer.

The single-track vehicles are very small,

and there's seismic risk all along the Ottoman Spur.

- What do you think I've been doing over here?

- Exactly the same thing I'm doing over here, Alex.

I wanna believe she's alive too,

but there's a big chance we find that track scaler empty.

♪

- I know that, Ben.

[monitor beeps] There's also a chance

that we just find her body in there.

♪

It's kind of my go-to.

But my friend Carly just lost her mom,

and she said that no matter what, we have to try.

So no matter what, we have to try.

- Then Carly is a good friend.

- She better be, because I haven't had very many of them.

♪

- [breathing deeply]

♪

[electronic chirping]

[baby babbles]

- You don't have to hide your doubts in here, you know.

- Just tired of talking about it.

[somber music]

♪

Are we okay?

- Yeah, of course we're okay.

- I think I went backwards.

When I was away, I was chasing an old version of us.

- Yeah, I wanted that too.

We were just trying our best. There's no shame in that.

You and I, we just share one responsibility now,

and she's right there in your arms.

[knocking on door]

[knocking intensifies]

- Let's go see. Let's go see.

[knocking continues]

[electronic chirping] What is it?

- It's not good.

It's an Atmospheric CCA,

and I'm reading increasing sulfur dioxide.

- Our instruments aren't picking up

any airborne anomalies. - What's with the suit?

- Your compound analyzers aren't as sensitive as mine.

- Well, if we need finer analysis,

we can send a sample to the lab.

- There's no time for that.

May I? - She knows what she's doing.

- I did maintain air quality at a nuclear plant.

All right. The parts are increasing too.

- Hey, uh, I know y'all are busy back there doing science,

but is this what you're looking for?

- Shit. [monitor beeping]

- Bingo.

- It's just coming up as ground fog on the Sat.

- Yeah, well, it isn't.

Look, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide,

carbon dioxide.

Burn your lungs right out.

- I'm slowing us down.

- Damn, it goes forever, Ben.

A couple hundred kilometers. Shit.

[tense music]

♪

- You thinking what I'm thinking?

- That Wilford put us onto this track?

♪

[up-tempo electronic music]

♪

- So!

Os!

[music stops] - Ooh.

- Did you hear the announcement?

We're going to pick up Melanie.

- If it's true, that's--that's great news.

- Oz, she's my arch-enemy, right?

What do you think she's gonna do when

she finds us running the night car?

- Look, but she won't because we won't be.

We're getting off, you just don't

seem to believe it, do you?

- Yeah, because it's insane.

I mean, it's a million degrees below zero

and you think we're gonna survive on pickles.

- No, we're preserving food for a year,

while we set up greenhouses and crop rotation.

- You've lost it.

I mean, where are Wilford's people?

We used to trade in information,

and now I don't even know. - Where are you going?

- To find out what this shit's really about.

[people chattering]

- Bess, is it true?

Wait there.

- Could be her.

But is it likely she's still alive? I mean--

- I just realized I hate noodles.

So much for eating my feelings.

- So spit 'em out, Audrey.

[emotional music]

♪

- Shame.

- All right, shame.

- You told me I had to hit rock bottom.

My problem is I'm comfortable here.

This is me without him.

The shame is Melanie seeing me like this.

Just the train pariah licking his floors.

♪

- That's not who you are.

Whatever.

♪

- Open up. - Let's go.

- Back so soon? What's wrong?

[tense music]

Oh, that's more like it.

He's a man of action all of a sudden.

Either you've recovered your mojo

or you are overcompensating for having none left.

♪

- Wait here.

- Snowpiercer, old girl.

[monitors beeping]

Not very well cared for, though, is she?

- Nobody told me he was coming.

- Lovely to see you too.

And who is this?

Ah, you must be our little survivor.

- And you must be the great Engineer.

- Okay, okay. - [chuckles]

- Any idea what that is?

- Oh, no wonder you slowed, Ben--

- That's close enough.

- What? I didn't know about this.

- No? - No.

- You didn't use the idea of Melanie to get us here?

- To what end? And-and why--why--why should I?

That's obviously volcanic.

Alex, we traveled this far 18 months ago, it was clear.

- All right. Let's talk about air scrubbers.

- Well, what's the chemical composition?

- Here, sit.

Listen to the Engineers.

- It is volcanic. It's mostly hydrogen sulfide.

- Now, whatever it is, it's settled into the valley

and there's only one way through it.

- All right, calm down, Ben.

The HVAC system can handle these concentrations.

- Well, yeah. We can scrub away the toxic--

- But hydrogen sulfide is corrosive.

- Also accounted for in the design.

You know, the shadows on my cave wall

haven't said much about you.

What were you doing in the horn of Africa?

- I couldn't get on your train.

- Okay, Ruth, can you help Asha to her room?

Ben, hold steady.

[intercom dings]

- Snowpiercer, this is the engine.

We are heading into a hazardous environment.

Code yellow. Code yellow.

All non-essential workers,

please return to your quarters and shelter in place.

[intercom dings]

[intense, ominous music]

♪

- Let's go, people. You heard the Engineer.

If you're not essential... - Great.

- Move back to quarters.

- Sorry to break up your lunch date,

but we're clearing the market.

- Oh, it's not a date. Where do you need me?

- No, we're good. We just need bodies in rooms, please.

Doggie bag, if that's still a thing.

- Uh, let's go. You can shelter with me.

- At your place?

- Yeah, you know, until I figure something out.

- Oh. - Let's go.

♪

[knocking on door] - Hello? Hi.

Hi. - What do you want?

- Would you let me in, please? - No, no, no.

- Please. - No. I said no.

[door rattles] I said no!

- I wanna talk about Mr. Wilford.

♪

- Now, why would I share anything with you?

The opportunist. Stabbed Kevin in the throat.

- Because I'm still here,

in the heart of the train where I could be useful.

- To Wilford? - Or his supporters.

Doesn't it bother you a little bit

that Melanie's gonna reboard the train?

- Don't touch those.

- Okay.

[tense music]

♪

- What's your blood type?

It's a test.

- Did I pass?

- Not yet. Local anesthetic.

There we go. I need starter tissue.

If you want in...

this is the price.

♪

Mm, okay. You might want to look away.

- No way.

- Okay.

- [grunts, breathes heavily]

[breathing quickens]

[grunts]

- Okay.

Ooh. - [breath shaking]

Ahh.

- [panting]

[laughs]

[machinery whirring]

[tense music]

♪

[dog sniffing, growling]

- [sighs] - You ready?

[dog growls]

- [muttering in Spanish]

- All right, Halfway there.

You're closer than you were yesterday.

- [mutters in Spanish]

[breath shaking]

- Jupiter, no. You can tell her.

- Jupiter, no. [dog barks]

[gasps] - It's okay. It's okay.

[barking]

Here. Here.

[panel chimes]

[melancholy music]

♪

- Homey.

- Thanks.

- Oh, wow, you can't see a thing out there.

- Engine.

- Hey, it's me. What do you need?

- It's Till. What should I tell her?

- We got it; she can sit tight.

- We're covered. You can shelter.

- Are you sure?

I, uh--I'm ready to help wherever.

- Don't sweat it. - O-okay.

Well, um, you know where I am.

♪

I, uh--I guess we're, uh, riding this out together.

- Great.

Got any board games? - I hate board games.

Uh, but I got, uh, a grapefruit, three oranges.

- Oh.

[glasses clink] - This.

- Oh, uh, I'm on the wagon.

But I can make you something.

♪

- HV 348 is good.

- So far so good. Scrubbers are doing their job.

[device beeping]

- HV 347's good.

- Okay.

[zipper slides]

Come on, let's talk about it.

- I'm supposed to help lead us off train.

How am I supposed to do that

if I shit my pants at a dog barking?

- Well, there's only two or three dogs left

so change your pants.

Come on, I'm kidding.

- Right. Gin martini,

just a whisper of vermouth, and a single olive.

[atmospheric music]

- [chuckles] Cheers. - Cheers.

♪

You know, I hear that you've got quite the green thumb.

- It's, uh-- it's coming back to me.

Mmm.

A lot is, actually.

Memories from before the freeze.

Travel jobs all around the world.

The UK, reactors in Romania, Canada,

finally South Korea.

- I'd never really traveled till I boarded the train.

- Yeah, well, I was-- [chuckles]

I was running away from my mother.

I took it for granted that family would always be there,

and then the reactor felt like karma.

My life would end alone at the bottom of a dark hole.

♪

- But it didn't, did it?

You're part of this magnificent train.

♪

- HVAC's handling the load. Intake is normal.

Heat, air quality is within standard range.

- Much ado about nothing.

- Then we don't need him.

- Oh, come on, Alex, I never get out.

[chuckles] - Goodbye.

- Okay, Willie. Field trip's over.

- Fine.

[monitors beeping]

- Hey, just passing through the neighborhood, you all right?

- Is it really super poisonous out there?

[passerby chatting]

- It's never easy, is it, sweetheart?

- I keep imagining Mum out there with Alex's mom.

I-I know she isn't, but I can't help it.

- Hey, you can think about it any way you want.

You wanna know what I do? It's crazy.

- What?

- I get up in the morning and I tell myself

Anne is in the closet.

I know she's not.

And I know I'll be disappointed,

but I go to the closet anyway.

Start moving clothes around.

"Hello? Anne?"

I look high and I look low.

"Anne?"

- Shitty, Dad. She's not there.

- Right. But then what happens?

Something interrupts.

You farting or snoring or sleeping late.

- Ew, what? - I know.

I'm just saying this is what happens.

But I know if you're still here...

then she is too.

So I make her a fake coffee and I go about my day.

- It's quiet around here without her.

- It's too quiet? - Dad.

- No, we do not like quiet.

Do you know what this is? - Extinct technology?

- Yes, this is extinct technology

that is going to smooth rock your world.

- Dad, please. Don't.

- No, no. Please. - Dad, please.

- Please turn it up? - Don't.

- Sure, no, I'll do that

[Roxy Music's "More Than This"]

♪

Pretty good song.

♪ I could feel at the time

♪ There was no way of knowing

♪ Fallen leaves in the night

♪ Who can say where they're blowing ♪

♪ As free as the wind

- ♪ Hopefully learning - [laughs]

- Whoa!

- ♪ Why the sea on the tide

♪ Has no way of turning

- Shake it. Here we go, here we go.

- ♪ More than this

[dust blowing]

- This is spooky as hell.

- Engineers say we should be fine.

Just take a couple hours to get through.

- Something's not right.

- Wilford couldn't have known

we'd encounter this, I believe that.

- Yeah, but I still don't get why he would

steer us to Melanie though.

- He's bored, trying to stay relevant.

- Yeah, I guess.

- That's why I put him back under house arrest.

[intense music]

At least I'm outta my own head now.

- Putting off your own crisis for a collective one.

- Don't worry, I'll get back to it.

♪

[dust blowing]

[train rumbling]

- Thank you for letting me in, Bess.

- In? Uh-uh.

You're not in.

Make me another.

[tense music]

♪

- Just breathe.

- [sighs]

♪

I don't--I don't wanna do this.

- I know.

Look, I'm not one to talk,

but you've been leaning pretty heavily on alcohol.

- You're right, you're not one to talk.

- Everybody gets by in their own way.

It's perfectly acceptable

to build a fortress around yourself.

- Yeah.

Sure, sure. - [chuckles]

- Okay.

- Okay? - [exhales]

It's okay. It's okay.

- [sighs]

Okay, what happens next?

- Okay, close your eyes.

♪

[glass clatters]

♪

- [breathes deeply]

[breathes deeply] - Just breathe.

You're safe now.

You're safe under the orange sky and the angry eye.

- [breaths shakily]

- Safe to tilt your face to the sun...

and let it melt the ice that encases you.

Come back to the core of who you are.

[eerie music]

♪

- I'm rotten.

♪

- Go there.

[metal thudding] - I'm cruel.

I'm bigoted.

I'm violent. [unsettling tone]

♪

[breathing heavily]

- Step back into it.

- I'm just good at my job.

- Does that make you proud?

[baby crying]

You removed the uniform.

You left what you knew to fight for what is right.

You've changed.

- Have I? Have I?

- You've changed.

- The things we've done, Audrey.

- What we've done cannot be changed.

- [sobs] - Your past may be rotten,

but your core is not.

I see you, Bess.

Feel the sun.

Let the warmth in to the real you.

Open your eyes and look to something new.

[somber music]

♪

[inhales deeply]

- You sure about this?

- We'll be fine. Thank you. [baby babbles]

[knocking on door]

- Oh, well.

It's a busy day.

- I brought someone over to meet you.

- Yes. Hello.

[tense ambient music]

Oh, she glows.

You both do.

- Thank you. - May I hold her?

- Last time I let someone hold my baby, it didn't go so well.

- Well, surely I've earned your trust now, Zarah.

Invested as I am.

- Okay. - Yes? Aww, thank you.

♪

Aww. Oh, you sweet thing.

[chuckles]

I've missed our little chats.

- I'm sure you have.

- I'm curious, has the widow Headwood run any tests on her?

- You mean have we put her in a cold lock?

She's only a week old, Joseph.

- Anecdotally then,

has Mum seen any evidence of our intervention?

- Like what? Fondness for ice cubes?

- Well, she'll surprise us all, won't you?

Hidden talents.

Just like your mother.

Here.

- The only real talent I seem to have

is reading tea leaves to survive.

- Have you got her? - Yeah.

♪

So I think I've figured it out.

- Oh?

- Melanie.

- Uh-huh.

- Everyone's expecting a savior.

But she's a wild card

and you think she'll be divisive.

- Oh, well, that's a very dim view to take of my benevolence.

All I did was provide some facts.

[baby whines] Not even proof of life.

♪

[door rattles]

[devices beeping]

- Smell that?

[device beeping]

[beeping quickens]

- Elevated particulate.

[clears throat]

[tense music]

Javi.

- Oh, shit.

[coughs] Hey, Ben,

I'm reading elevated particulates here.

- Yeah, I got it, Javi. It's gotta be a scrubber.

- All right. Gotta check the scrubbers.

♪

- [grunts] - Got it?

- [grunts]

- Okay, remove filter. Let's go.

- Oh, that's not good.

- Hey, Ben, scrubbers are completely corroded;

we need to seal the envelope.

- Alex, I need eyes on vents.

It's spreading. What's going on down there?

- Checking intakes.

Javi, you're still drawing air. It won't seal.

- If we don't stop this,

it will spread throughout the train.

- Layton, get a breach suit on and head down there.

- Yeah, Asha's with Ruth. Tell her I need her.

- I'm on it.

- Javi, check the exterior intake.

- It's okay.

[dog barks]

- [coughing]

[dog barking]

[gasping for breath]

- Hey, hey!

I got you. I got you.

- [groans]

- [grunts]

[panel chimes]

I got you.

Hey, Sykes. Sykes, breathe.

Wake up. Come on, wake up.

Uno, dos, tres,

quatro, cinco, seis.

Uno, dos, tres, quatro--

- [gasps]

- Okay. You're okay.

Breath, breathe. Breathe.

- [sighs]

[alarm blaring]

[monitor beeping]

- It's spreading to poultry and aquaculture.

- Ben, if we don't contain this,

we're looking at a wholesale resource collapse.

[tense music]

♪

- It's spreading to AG-SEC.

We gotta stop it before it cascades.

[coughs]

[alarm blaring]

Is she okay? - I'm good.

[coughs] - Hey, intake won't close!

You have to do it manually. Go!

[alarm blaring]

- Okay, Ben, we're in. - All right.

The access hatch is in the filter rack

near the end of the unit. [monitors beeping]

- That's this?

We just pull these here?

- [grunts]

- [grunts] Grab that one.

Shit, that's a lot of smoke. [grunts]

All right. - Great.

The intake is in the unit below.

- Copy. Yeah, I see it.

You got a crowbar?

- I'm looking, one minute, one minute.

Here. Here.

- Okay. Thank you.

[grunting]

[tense music]

♪

Nah, it's--it's too small.

Asha and I can't fit in with our suits.

Ben, is there another way in?

- Negative, Layton, that's it.

- I gotta-- I gotta come out of this suit.

- Layton, that is not an option.

You take your breach suit off, you'll be dead in minutes.

- Ben, we don't have a choice.

- Layton, do not take your breach suit off!

- Andre. - Huh?

[grunts] - Layton?

- Asha--Asha, don't.

- I'm going. - Asha.

- [coughs] - Asha, don't!

- Andre, Andre, there's no time, okay?

- Asha. Asha, don't! - [coughs violently]

Asha, don't! Asha!

- [grunts]

- Ben! Ben, she's in.

Asha's in.

[monitors beeping]

- Okay, just ahead you'll see the intake on the left.

The louvers are controlled by electric servos.

- Servo up ahead, intake on the left!

- [grunts]

[metal squeaking]

- Come on.

[rumbling]

- [grunting]

Crowbar! - Gotcha.

- [coughs]

- Here!

- [coughs]

- Come on.

- [grunts]

Asha. - [coughs]

- Come on.

- Come on, Asha.

♪

- [grunts]

[mechanical whirring]

- Intake's closed.

- Reverse flush with internal air.

- Asha, you did it. Come back.

Come back! - [coughing]

- Hey, no, no, no. Asha.

Asha, look at me.

Asha, look at me. Come back.

Here, here, here.

No, no! Come here!

Come on!

- [strained breathing]

- Asha! Look at me.

Get back here.

- [groans]

- Asha, come on. Get up.

- [breathing heavily] Go--

go and help those people fight.

Like you did with the Tail. Like you did with me.

- No, no, no.

Asha! Hey. - [coughs]

- Hey, look at me.

- Tell me about New Eden.

Tell me about New Eden. - I can't.

I made it up. Come on.

- No, describe it to me.

- Come on, please.

Please, Asha, come on. - [coughs]

- No, come on.

- Tell me what it looks like, please.

- Uh, uh...

Rolling hills down to the shoreline.

Um, there--there were shrubs,

low, like sage, you know, green and prickly.

Uh, trees--trees just spotting the beach.

Uh, and, uh, I could smell it.

Yeah, I could smell it.

Vanilla and, uh--and pepper, yeah.

You could hear the, uh-- the breeze

and there were bugs humming.

And the sun...

ooh, Asha, the sun, huh?

Close your eyes and turn towards the sun.

And it heats your whole body

all the way deep down inside.

[emotional atmospheric music]

♪

Asha, you did it.

♪

[breathing heavily]

♪

- Your contribution is appreciated.

- [distant groaning]

- We'll call you when we're ready.

- What was that? - Yes, none of your business.

Now, off you go. Mm-hmm.

[dark, ominous music]

♪

[monitors beeping]

[gasps] Oh.

Patience.

Yeah, your time will come.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, yeah.

[train rumbling]

- Uh, can you, uh, just give us a minute, please?

[somber atmospheric music]

♪

You all right?

She made a decision in the moment, Andre.

A brave one.

- She said we have to keep going.

- Well, she's right.

We do.

♪

- New Eden, Ruth.

We're gonna get there.

- Come on.

♪

- How do you feel?

- Better.

Thank you.

[intercom dings]

- All passengers, shelter in place

has been lifted.

All clear. All clear.

[intercom dings]

- I just wanna sleep.

- Me too.

[emotional atmospheric music]

♪

[monitors beeping]

- We should be close enough to see it.

There! [monitor beeping]

- Holy shit. It's her.

[dramatic music]

♪

[dramatic music]

♪