Snowpiercer (2020) s02e06 Episode Script

People of Snowpiercer and Big Alice
the Earth is warming.
Instead of 1,000-year timeframe,
the planet may create warm spots
that could support recolonization
in our lifetimes.
Previously on "Snowpiercer"
We need to boot up the
Breslauer Research Station
in the Rocky Mountains.
For this to work,
it'll need to be manned.
It has to be you, Melanie.
It's just unfortunate that your projects
always seem to require
leaving someone behind.
Tonight, we'll be launching
the first weather balloon
that will transmit data
to our own Melanie Cavill.
Melanie hasn't made contact.
And what should we tell the passengers?
They're expecting an announcement.
Melanie's the one thing that's
been keeping us all together.
So then we lie.
This cold isn't something we can tame.
We did this to our climate.
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.
All right, all right.
Breslauer Research Station.
The temperature is minus 122.6 Celcius.
I'm 11,000 feet above sea level,
dangling from a thin umbilical.
Many miles from Snowpiercer
1,034 cars long.
There you are.
Okay.
Mommy? Are you there?
There's a monster under my bed.
Mommy.
Where are you? Mommy?
Mommy, there's a monster.
Mom?
All right. All right.
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.
Okay.
Thank you.
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.
Whatever your investors
need to hear, Joseph.
Oh, they heard it.
My "Engine Eternal."
Depends how we define "eternal."
Now, now
let's not ruin the moment.
That's not possible,
because now
we finally get to drive her.
Okay.
Mommy? Where's the food?
Did you go to the store?
I'm hungry.
Ah, so that's where that arm went.
You're exhausted.
Or is it this thin mountain air
that's playing tricks on your mind?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Keeps your mind off the hunger.
Yes!
Yes!
Seems a long way to Eden.
It's a start.
Lost your biscuit?
I must've eaten it.
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?
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.
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?
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.
It's been ten days since I arrived.
If I had food
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.
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.
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.
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.
So they put him out of his misery.
Shot to the head.
She sacrificed him, Melanie
Like you did to me.
She made the right decision.
I knew you'd say that.
What else could she do?
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.
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.
Who the hell is this?
We're scientists! We have tickets!
- You're real.
- Yes!
Way to go, Mel.
I know a great recipe for her.
Him.
I have a better idea.
Frickin' amazing.
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.
It's a miracle.
It's life, Mom.
Yum.
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.
Mom?
I think I understand now
Why you had to leave me in Chicago.
What are your orders, sir?
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.
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.
Come on.
Ping.
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.
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?
They should be with four bodyguards.
My par
My parents are elderly.
Drop those, now!
Yes, my my daughter is eight.
If they're not checked in,
I need you to look for them.
Hello! Hello!
I don't think they're here yet.
Engine, come in. Engine, come in.
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.
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.
All aboard.
All ticketed passengers, please board.
Snowpiercer departs
at precisely 0000 hours.
Release the brake.
Disengaging brakes.
Snowpiercer departs in ten
nine, eight, seven,
six, five
- Off the train!
Throw 'em off the train!
Three, two, one
departure.
Engaging the Engine.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
Shit.
Yeah.
It's working. It's working.
Time to turn around
and hurry back, Snowpiercer.
Snowpiercer.
Snowpiercer, come in.
You should be in range by now.
Do you copy? It's Melanie.
Snowpiercer, Snowpiercer.
Do you copy?
Snowpiercer.
I'm prepared to rendezvous for pickup.
Ben?
Alex?
I have the climate model.
Allie
I tried.
I r-really tried.
And
I thought this time would be different.
I thought I would get back to you.
So
Please forgive me.
You gave up everything for us
for the world.
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.
Snowpiercer.
Snowpiercer! Do you hear me?
Snowpiercer.
You need to slow your roll.
You need to slow your roll!
Do you hear me?
Stop!
Mom! Mom!