“The Sting of Survival,” the second episode of Snowpiercer’s fourth season, is full of action and drama as people fight for control of the train. At the beginning of the episode, Miss Audrey tells us that her plan to warn New Eden about an impending military attack didn’t work. People in New Eden and on the train were both caught off guard.
After that, the episode goes back nine months. The International Peacekeeping Forces send soldiers to check out a rocket with Till and Ben. They run into each other. As soon as the soldiers get on Snowpiercer, they start making trouble. As Bess Till tries to warn everyone about the danger, a soldier shoots her in the shoulder.
Captain Anton, played by Clark Gregg, is in charge of the soldiers. He makes it clear that their job is to keep the train and its passengers under control. He says he will kill Ben if Melanie, who is in charge of the train, doesn’t give up. Melanie agrees to let go, but she has a plan to get back at them.
Melanie and Ben work together to plan what to do. They use a model of the train as ammunition for a makeshift pressure shooter. They kill a soldier with this and take his gun. And, to their surprise, they find that the soldier’s blood floats in the train’s zero-gravity environment.
Admiral Anton tells his men to break into the market car, putting the lives of 100 people on board at risk because they could freeze to death if Melanie doesn’t give up. Melanie chooses to save the train first and makes a plan for how to fix both issues. The girl chooses to sneak into the train from the outside, go through the air shaft, and return to the engine room. She sets up a way to get the cold air out of the broken-down market car there.
As Melanie carries out her dangerous plan, the episode gets very tense. She gets under the moving train and goes to the engine room through the intake system. Melanie and Ben have to work quickly to save the people on the train and stay alive. Melanie’s plan works, and she keeps the people in the market car from getting too cold.
But their victory doesn’t last long. When the train stops underground, Melanie meets a new person named Nima Rousseau, who is played by Michael Aronov. The International Peacekeeping Forces sent Rousseau and 80 other scientists to the frozen planet to figure out how to fix it. They have made a chemical that might help keep the Earth warm. They made six warm spots, one of which was New Eden, which Melanie already knew about.
Rousseau says that these warm spots only help for a short time and aren’t enough to melt the ice around the whole world. To do this, they need a place to launch rockets all over the world, like Snowpiercer. This idea gives us a small bit of hope that the planet might be able to melt back to normal. But using the train for this mission would mean breaking a lot of things and making the people on board work.
It’s clear that the Peacekeeping Forces are just another harsh government as the episode moves back to the present. The passengers have no choice but to work for them. They try to get away to warn New Eden, but things don’t go as planned. Audrey gets to New Eden by herself and is cold. She learns that someone has died and a baby is missing.
There are still a lot of questions after the episode is over. Layton sets out to find the train and deal with the situation because he wants to know what’s going on. The ongoing fight for power and survival goes on, setting up more drama for the next episodes.
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