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[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 degrees Fahrenheit.

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!

- 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]

- 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]

♪