Snowpiercer (2020) s04e10 Episode Script

Last Stop

1
Push up!
[GRUNTING]
Hold the door! Hold the door!
Boki!
From the Tail to the
Drawers to the helm,
it's hard not to think of the past.
The battles, the losses,
the compromises we've made
to save as many as we could.
Did they really just abandon ship?
- Why would they do that?
- We have to go check.
They might have left soldiers up there.
We should be prepared.
We could grab something
heavy and swingable
- on the subengine.
- Okay.
From Old Ivan to Mama Grande,
Last Australian to Pike,
one life after another.
One door after the next.
Always moving forward,
hoping that what's in front of us
is better than what's behind.
Come on, people.
We didn't work this hard
just to get on board.
We need to keep moving forward.
Any news from downtrain?
Javi's still working on it.
The door is not responding.
What, we're cut off from Big Alice?
- You get this door open?
- Yeah.
This car-to-car shit reminds
me of the bad old days.
I was never this scared back then.
Andre Layton scared?
- Don't believe that for a minute.
- Believe it.
Never had this much to lose.
What you don't realize
as you're plowing ahead, keeping score,
is that it's not so
much about where you are.
No one home.
But who you're with.
[METALLIC CLANKING]
One train!
[ALL CHANTING] One train!
One train!
One train!
[BEEPING]
Everything's down.
This wasn't a part of the retrofit plan.
He kept this from us.
Big Alice is essentially
now a glorified server.
Under Snowpiercer's control.
So we've lost the Engine.
[METALLIC CLANKING] One train.
Whether we like it or
not, we are all we have,
The survivors who are left,
banding together for one last stand.
ALL: One train!
On Snowpiercer.
ALL: One train!
[SHOUTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Let's go, let's go.
- Keep pushing 'em back.
- Go, go, go.
- Ruth, watch out!
Gas. Everybody run!
Everybody, get back. Get back!
Alex, we might have to shift gears.
Find Layton.
- Go for the rocket?
- No. I can get us back up online.
Nima can't and won't ever
be able to launch the thing
if he can never reach the launch point.
Alex, I don't think
we have time for that.
Mom, I know this engine
forwards and backwards.
Every bolt, every screw.
Yeah, I'm not disputing that.
Well, if we give up on her now,
Wilford will roll in his
grave, if he even has one.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

He's dead?
Yes.
He thought he was still in the Silo.
Why didn't you tell me?
[SIGHS]
I don't know.
Um, maybe because I've been dealing with
my biological father
trying to destroy the world.
Okay, but can we just
talk about it for a minute?
I would really just rather not, okay?
Like you said, we don't have time.
Now, are you going to help me
get this engine back up or what?
Okay, let's try a clean
reboot of the operating system.
[GRUNTING]
- What's going on?
- It's locked.
They used breach sealer.
Well, it's our only way up or downtrain,
so we need to unseal it.
No. We need leverage.
All right. Let's go find some.
[CHATTER]
[METALLIC CLANKING]
Okay, good to go.
Everybody ready?
Yeah, da.
One, two, three, pull!
Pull, pull!
Either they cleared out or
they're planning an ambush.
Or they probably dropped
back to guard the rocket.
Okay. Till, Javi, Josie,
let's go get Melanie downtrain.
If anyone can disarm
that rocket, she can.
Everyone else, head uptrain.
- Clear a path to that Rocket Car.
- All right. Wish us luck.
Hey, what about Ruth?
We gonna to try and find her?
Ruth's tough. She
can take care of herself.
Rocket's the priority.
- Hey.
- I'm going uptrain.
Keep on pushing. It's
where the fight is.
All right.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

What is this?
No, I I I want everyone out.
No one enters but me from now on.
You heard the man.
How close is Layton?
Not close. Maybe 45 cars away.
- He won't be an issue.
- Mm-hmm.
If we need to,
we can use the hostages
to slow Layton down.
No, we're not using the children.
Not them.
The leader of New Eden.
That could be useful.
Let's get to the engine.
I don't want to miss
history when it happens.
So we hit the brakes,
execute a manual shutdown.
We're getting close to the coast.
If we do that, we could send
the entire train spinning.
[DOOR OPENS]
[GASPS]
You made it.
- Yeah, hey.
- Hi, Javi.
Hey, there's no one guarding
the subtrain or the W doors.
- What's going on?
- See for yourself.
They took the throttle?
A little overkill, if you ask me.
So Snowpiercer has complete
control of the system again?
Alice is just a rudder.
- They took both units?
- Yeah.
You know how to disarm that rocket?
I'm familiar with the designs, yeah.
The hard part will be
getting my hands on it.
Mm-mm. We got people
clearing the way for you.
We'll get you there.
[TENSE MUSIC]

We had a ceremony.
Ruth said some really nice things.
We've just reached the
edge of the continent, sir.
Primary drivers are lowering.
Take us out to sea.
[TENSE MUSIC]

Bad track?
No track.
We're in the ocean? How?
Apparently, that's what nine months
of a rolling prison camp gets you.
We have to regain control.
How long have we got?
If we maintain this
speed, about three hours.
Three hours. To fight through,
what, 40-plus cars and disarm
a rocket? Never gonna happen.
Is there any way we can stall them?
Yeah.
The launcher's in a briefcase
that Nima can connect
either in the Mission Control
Car next to the rocket itself
or by a hardline in
the Snowpiercer engine.
My guess is he'll want
to launch from up front
where he can see things play out.
- It's even farther away.
- Yes.
What about the electrical
box in Third Class?
That's the primary junction
box between the Engine
- and the back of the train.
- Exactly.
So if we can sever comms to the engine,
then he can't launch from there.
That way, he has to come to us.
That should buy us time to
get you in that Rocket Car.
- If we make it up there.
- Oh, we gon' make it.
We've gone more than 40
cars before, haven't we?
- If memory serves, you have.
- Yeah. Tilly, axe up.
- Let's get Javi to that panel.
- [SIGHS]
You coming?
We'll be right behind you.
I realize gassing your town
did not make a very
good first impression.
I was hoping we could resolve
this conflict together.
Wouldn't that be nice?
You can start by telling
your forces to stand down.
Well, I can do better than that.
I'll surrender Big Alice,
bring it to New Eden, let you
all live out your lives in peace.
After I've launched the Gemini compound.
With the chemical that's
supposed to destroy the Earth?
Don't believe everything Melanie says.
I take her word over yours.
Oh, really? Has has
Melanie never lied to you?
Mm? Or made a mistake?
From what Wilford said,
she's made quite a few mistakes.
Well, I wouldn't believe
everything Mr. Wilford says either.
Gemini will need a few months to spread,
uh, before the planet begins to warm.
But in the meantime,
the the people will need
someone to restore order
someone they can listen to,
like the leader of New Eden.
- Oh, so you need a puppet.
- No, it's not it's not
I I wasn't built to lead.
I'm just a chemist.
But you, you could get on
that PA system right now,
take control, and calm the masses.
You can end this if you
tell them to just stop.
And you'll surrender Big Alice?
What about Snowpiercer?
All the passengers would
go back with you, of course.
- With the Engine?
- Well, actually, I'd
I'd like to keep the Engine,
um, maybe some support cars.
Do some further testing.
I need a second to think about it.
Well, think quickly, please,
because people are dying.
Okay?
[CHATTER]
[GRUNTING]
Whoa, whoa, hey.
Okay. Hey. Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey. Hey. All right.
I think you got him.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
We found a straggler
setting up gas canisters.
There are more cars rigged up ahead.
Now, that's knockout gas.
They probably got it
throughout the subtrain
to gas the cars above.
What? You mean we can't move up top
unless we disconnect them all?
We found signs of life about 35 cars up.
More soldiers. Waiting for us.
- Let's not disappoint them.
- No, no.
What if they set off the gas down here?
They could just drop the bay doors
and knock us all out
before we even get there.
Actually, that's not a bad idea.
I'm I'm sorry.
I don't have time for
distractions, Doctor.
Layton's people have
made it into the subtrain.
And we're we're approaching
the, um, launch point.
That's precisely why I
asked to see you, Doctor.
I have something I believe
will be of assistance.
I don't understand.
How?
[CHUCKLES] That's the
beauty of science, Doctor.
[GRUNTING]
[KEYPAD BEEPING]
- Sykes?
- [GRUNTS]
- Ruth!
- [GRUNTING]
Welcome to the jailbreak.
What are you doing up here?
Hey.
Well, now I'm looking for a fight.
You've come to the right place.
Alex.
- We're out of time.
- If I can just reconfigure the
- wires on the throttle control
- Alex.
If this was the Snowpiercer Engine
and it was your turf
instead of Wilford's,
would you really give up this easily?
It's just too much to fix right now.
Listen to me.
It was confusing with him, I know.
He was brilliant and charismatic
and he was also cruel.
Parts of me hated him.
And then he saved you,
so parts of me couldn't.
Well, I'm glad that you
got that off of your chest.
Now we should probably get back to work.
Otherwise, you should
maybe leave because
- that rocket is not going to disarm itself.
- Well, come with me.
Do you have any idea what
this engine means to me?
I turned this into a
life-source for New Eden.
I've spent years of my life here.
I was practically raised here.
- I know.
- No, you don't.
So maybe you should go.
Not without you.
Did you know when we walked in here
that there was no saving her?
It looked that way to me.
So why did you stay?
Because you are so damn smart,
maybe you could see
something that I couldn't.
And also,
all I ever did was leave.
I'm just not gonna do it anymore.
So, you were willing to
watch me toil over Big Alice,
knowing that it could cost the world?
No.
'Cause you wouldn't let that happen.
We should go.
Maybe you should stick with me.
- All right.
- Look.
I don't like where your head's at.
You haven't been the
same since the Silo.
That is a brilliant
deduction, detective.
Hey.
I'm sorry, okay? I'm
sorry for what happened.
- I'm sorry that I wasn't there
- Oh, Layton, just stop.
None of this is your
responsibility, okay?
Headwood is not the objective.
I know. Just "one train," right?
Once Javi takes care of the panel,
I'll rally the passengers uptrain,
and we'll make a push
on the Rocket Car, okay?
Just got to convince them to fight.
Yeah, it'd help if we had Ruth.
Yeah, we'll find her.
I'll send you a signal once
we've got the all clear, okay?
You can send everyone else along.
- You should get up top.
- Good luck.
[GAS HISSING]
Incoming!
[SHOUTING]
[CRUNCHING]
[MECHANICAL WHIRRING]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
Arrived. Clearing now.
Copy. Meet you all in the middle.
We're gonna need to blend in.
Finally back in uniform.
- We good.
- You got the door?
Ruth. Ruth, you're here!
Mr. Colvin, pick up a spear.
We've a rocket to stop.
But I thought that
rocket was supposed to,
you know, save the world.
Everyone!
I met the man in charge, face to face.
Asked him directly what his
plans were for Snowpiercer
after the rocket launch.
And it turns out he's not
planning on giving her back
because he's not sure his
experiment is gonna work.
The eyes always reveal the truth,
and I saw nothing but doubt in his.
Yeah. And if he don't
think it's gon' work,
you really want to bet your lives on it?
[CHATTER]
This rocket will kill us
all if we don't stop him.
We need warriors and weapons,
whatever you can find.
The march downtrain begins now.
Are you with me?
[CROWD CHEERING]
Let's go!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

All right, if anyone asks, we're just
just escorting him to the market, okay?
Just keep a low profile.
- Gents, how are ya?
- [CLEARS THROAT]
What did I just say?
What's the matter?
Here it is. It's gonna
take a few minutes.
Easy to get caught with
our knickers down out here.
Yeah, all right.
I'll be lookout downtrain.
Yeah, I'll take uptrain.
Make sure they can't
move in case they wake up.
Don't worry.
If they move, they will hurt.
I'll take the rest
uptrain to meet the others.
Let's go!
Oh. I was starting to wonder.
- Sorry for the delay.
- No, you're just in time.
We were just about to make a
move on top to this Utility Car.
Anyone else feel a chill?
Somebody must have breached the car.
- [SIGHS]
- It's another trap.
Good thing we have a former Breachman.
Hey.
There's a dozen soldiers
marching towards us right now.
- I need more time.
- We're gonna have to fight.
No, no, no. There's too many of them.
- And you don't look the part.
- Come on. Get in this couchette.
Till.
Get in.
What's all this about?
Techie's just fixing
a busted comms panel.
- I didn't hear about this.
- Hence the busted comms.
There was a surge in the CAT nine line.
I think it shorted the router box,
so I'm just bypassing
the input connection.
Okay, whatever.
But you two, get your asses in gear.
Us?
There's a rebellion
brewing in the market.
We have to guard the Rocket Car.
- So fall in.
- Yes, ma'am.
How long before we
reach the launch point?
ETA 30 minutes.
Mission Control's not responding.
What what's going on?
Josie.
Josie, let's go.
Uh, we need to get to the Rocket Car.
This launch will not be delayed.
In in in case we get separated,
I'm I'm gonna need protection.
Um, give give me your gun.
Temperature's rising back to normal.
Come on up!
[GRUNTING, THUDDING]
- Boki, you all right?
- [GRUNTING]
Hang back a sec.
[GRUNTING CONTINUES]
Oh, shit.
Layton?
If you had any bullets left in that gun,
my friend there would be dead by now.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
- Will you shut the blast door?
- Yeah.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[ROARS]
[GASPING SOFTLY]
Ah!
[GRUNTS]
[HEAVY THUDDING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I gotta get uptrain and help the others.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
Guard that door.
Make sure no one gets in.
Breachman Bojan
Boscovic, at your service.
Hey, blueberry. Where you going?
[GRUNTS]
- Nice work.
- Thanks.
Tie him up, get him in a couchette.
- What are you doing here, Javi?
- Javi?
- Where's everyone else?
- It's a long story.
[SIGHS]
Oh, good. I was hoping my
escort would be here early.
- [STEPS POUNDING]
- Today is too historic a day.
Today is too important a day
to be sitting on the sidelines.
We need to be where the action is.
You already are, Doctor.
Josie, how did you find me here?
[METALLIC RINGING]
It wasn't hard.
Josie, listen.
I have only ever tried
to save your life.
I have tried to save the
life of all of my patients
- Nope, you played with my life.
- And I gave Liana back to you and Layton.
Don't you understand?
You've made me numb.
You've made me immune. I
don't give a shit anymore.
Josie, please.
You can feel. You don't want to do this.
Oh. No, I think I do, Doctor.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

They're coming.
Not a soul gets through these
doors, do you understand?
What whatever it takes.
[EXHALES SOFTLY]
[TIMER BEEPING]
Do we really have to
extract them one by one?
Can't just move the braces
and pull the whole thing?
Once the shock absorbers
are locked in, that's it.
It's a failsafe so no
amount of turbulence
can dislodge the payload
when the rocket takes off.
And what happens if
we break one of these?
[EXHALES]
- What's that sensor?
- It's the payload compartment.
It must be a glitch. We
locked the hatch hours ago.
Why are the blast doors closed?
They're they're not supposed to close
for another five minutes.
Has has someone gone in there?
Just the Rat, sir. Per your orders.
He must have shut them.
[DOORS OPENING]
Close this. Go hide.
Did did you really think
I couldn't get in here?
Step step away from the rocket.
Last chance to listen to reason, Nima.
Put your ego aside and
look at the numbers.
Come come out. Alex.
Alex, I know you're in here.
Come out where I can see you,
or or I will shoot your mother.
- You won't shoot me.
- I will.
Okay? I will if you make me.
Oh, good.
Now, uh, open it up.
You have five minutes
to to put the vials back,
all of them.
Whoa.
Last stop. Stand down
and I'll let you live.
What a coincidence.
I was about to make you the same offer.
- This is our train.
- Our train!
- Sorry I'm late.
- No worries.
- We are just getting started.
- Here we go.
I'd think twice about that.
[GASPS, GRUNTS]
I found a friend of yours.
Layton, do me a favor and
kill this guy, will ya?
You know what I think?
I think that team you
were talking about,
they were the top
chemists, climatologists,
geo-engineers in the world,
led by the smartest person in any room.
But somehow, you've still got it wrong.
I I know what you're
trying to do, all right?
I think it wasn't the
team that failed you.
- Finish the job.
- I think it was just you.
Alex, work faster and close
the hatch when you're done.
Keep your cardigan on.
I think you knew that
the CW-7 wasn't ready,
but you couldn't admit that you
were behind schedule or wrong,
even though the smallest
detail could be catastrophic
- and change the whole world.
- Just stop. Stop.
And how wrong was he, Alex?
Well, are we counting flora and fauna
- on top of the seven billion?
- Enough!
Enough! You don't know anything.
You don't know anything!
You weren't there, all
right? It should have worked.
It should have worked, God damn you!
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
Huh.
But it didn't.
And neither will this.
It's okay. Whatever happens, it's okay.
- No, it's not, Till.
- It's okay.
Not for me.
Just take 'em all out. Just take 'em.
T-minus two minutes to launch.
Stop the launch, Nima.
Please, Nima.
I don't know what happened.
It shouldn't have happened.
Well, end this now.
I can't end this now.
Do you understand? I can't end this now
because the the system is
automated after activation.
I'm sorry.
Melanie, I'm sorry,
but it's too late now.
There has to be a way.
There's no other way. You have to go.
You have to get out of
here as fast as you can.
Away from the train, away from Africa.
I'm glad we met.
T-minus 30 seconds to launch.
Run!
[ICE CRACKLING]
Get in that door and control it!
[ALL CLAMORING]
Drop your weapons!
Cracking skulls just like old times, eh?
You know that wasn't
a good thing, right?
- Go on into the next car.
- Right behind you.
Christ.
- Don't even think about it.
- How do we stop the rocket?
- Hey, you shouldn't be in here.
- What how do we do it?
Come on, there's got to be something.
Kill switch, some some launch codes.
There isn't! Nima wouldn't allow it.
Icebreaker is tracking
according to all the models.
That's it then? We're doomed.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[METALLIC POPPING]

[GASPS]
[EXHALES]
[LAUGHS]
Gemini didn't make it
to the stratosphere.
We're safe.
I didn't think the
payload hatch would hold up
to the G-Forces without
anything attaching it.
[LAUGHS]
So it's over?
- It's over.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Apocalypse dodged.
- That's two for two.
Hm!
Josie?
You all right?
[SOBBING SOFTLY]
She just started sobbing.
Not because she was
afraid she was gonna die,
but because I took those shoes from her
and she wanted to cling to the memory
of the man that she loved.
I left you when you
needed me the most
Hey. You don't owe me an explanation.
[SOFT EMOTIONAL MUSIC]

You have the train.
Glad we didn't have to go there.
Care to do the honors?
Sure.
Um
how do I steer?

[CHIMING]
Attention, all passengers.
Good morning.
The temperature in New Eden
is a balmy minus 6 degrees Celsius.
As we disengage the caterpillar
system and return to track,
we remind you, for your personal safety,
be prepared to brace.

They're home!
Winnie, hey! [CHUCKLES]
[PEOPLE CHEERING]
Hey! What took you so long?
- Hey, hey!
- [LAUGHTER]
Look at that!
There she is. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, oh.
[LIANA CRYING]
[SOFT HOPEFUL MUSIC]

- What'd you do to her?
- [LAUGHS] Nothing.
- Thank you very much.
- I didn't do nothing, man.
Ah, it's good to see you, man.
Hey, I think now you can have
a grilled cheese sandwich.
It should only take
Javi and me a day or so
to get Big Alice up and running again.
Then the question is if
we have to pop the clutch
on Snowpiercer or if we
have to make a quick exit.
There's a lot we don't know.
We don't actually know how long
this pocket's going to last.
Do we?
Data was inconclusive.
Could be today or 50 years from now.
But I guess the truth is,
tomorrow's never a promise.
"Carpe diem" it is, then.
We do get to choose how we live, though.
I'm glad that you stayed.
No place I'd rather be.

[SOFT MUSIC]

Oh, I didn't think I was
gonna to see you two tonight.
- Oh, no Liana?
- No, Miles is watching her
so Mom and Dad could have a night out.
Oh, lovely.
- I'll see you inside.
- Yeah, right behind you.
Everything all right?
[CLEARS THROAT]
When that rocket went off
it felt like the end.
I know. Did, didn't it?
For a minute, that almost felt, uh
peaceful?
No more fighting, no more cold.
- No more council meetings.
- [CHUCKLES]
Nuh-uh, you're not
getting off that easy.
Well, you can't blame me for trying.
[CHUCKLES]
Shall we, Council Chair Wardle?
We shall, Council Co-Chair Layton.
Come on, then. [CHUCKLES]
["BRING IT ON HOME
TO ME" PLAYING SOFTLY]
If you ever change your mind ♪
- Hey, not so fast, young lady.
- Come on, Dad.
Technically, there's no
drinking age in New Eden.
Hey, good point. I'm
gonna have to bring that up
at the next Council meeting.
Hey, look who decided to
come down off the mountain
and visit civilization!
- Ah, no, not
- not visiting, actually.
Thought, um, it's
time to move down here,
live amongst some, uh, other people.
Yeah, they got a word
for that, "friends."
[CHUCKLES]
[LAUGHTER]
But now I know I only hurt myself ♪
Sykes, do you have a minute?
Yeah.
Hey.
So Snowpiercer can't idle for that long.
So I'll have to take
her out for a few days
while Alex decides if we're
gonna retrofit her or not
Whoa, whoa, slow down, cowboy.
- You're leaving?
- Yeah.
But I was thinking maybe
you could tag along,
keep me company?
I could show you how to drive the train,
if you're interested.
Yeah.
I'm interested.
Salud.
- [GLASSES CLINK]
- Salud.
You know I'll always ♪
Who's she?
Oh, that's Buffalo.
Turns out she's just an Engineer,
no fan of Milius.
Hm. Good.
I believe in second chances.
You taught me that.
[CHUCKLES, KISSES]
- Where are you going?
- [GIGGLES]
Hey, lover boy.
Will you, uh, tickle the ivories for me?
- Go. Go play.
- Go, man.
- Come on.
- Come on!
Oh, wait. They're gonna
sing, they're gonna sing. Go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SHUSHING]
[PLAYS CHORD]
Everything must change ♪
Nothing remains the same ♪
Everyone must change ♪
No one and nothing remains the same ♪
Young becomes old
Mysteries do unfold ♪
- Hey.
- Hey.
Cause that's the way of time ♪
She's still got it.
Amazing with what she's been through.
Hm. What we've all been through.
You think New Eden can support us all?
We'll figure it out.
Everyone's welcome here.
That's how it should
have been from the start.
We got there eventually.
[CHUCKLES]
In time for Liana to grow up.
Watch out.
It goes by fast.
Yeah. You know, she learned a new word?
"Train."
[BOTH LAUGH]
Long may she roll.
Mm.
BOTH: There is so little ♪
In life you can be sure of ♪
Except rain comes from the clouds ♪
Sunlight from the sky ♪
And hummingbirds do fly ♪
Everything ♪
Must change ♪
Everything ♪
BOTH: Everything ♪
Must ♪
Change ♪

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