Editing Pilot Episode (section)

== Characters & Factions ==

=== Layton Well ===
A prisoner barely surviving the harsh conditions in the tail end of the train. A quiet thinker who spends his days sniffing the industrial-waste-turned-drug Chronole and tending to his cage full of rats. He is a former homicide detective who hated his job. He later becomes a reluctant participant in a struggle that could upend life on the train 7 years after departure to solve a murder.

He would be one of the few characters that made it to the final show as [[Andre Layton]], albeit being slightly changed.

=== Melanie Cavill ===
A First Class passenger who makes the daily announcements over the system, known as the Voice of the Train. Unlike how the rich passengers at the front(?) of the train don’t pay attention to the working class and poverty-stricken ones in the back, she is fascinated by them. She may or may not be trying to have a lesbian relationship with Lilah, seemingly scratching or breaking her nails on purpose to meet her again in the beauty salon. Her father and husband is dead.

She is one of the few characters that made it to the final show as [[Melanie Cavill|the same character]], albeit being slightly changed.

=== Bess Till ===
A brakeman onboard the ''Snowpiercer.'' She's part of the train's security force, but she's thoughtful and empathetic, and she finds herself caught in the center of a mystery that disrupts the train's uneasy status quo.

She is one of the few characters that made it to the final show as [[Bess Till|Bess Francis Till]], albeit being slightly changed.

=== Fergus McConnell ===
A boy who lives in the back of the train amongst poverty. He helps his mother care for his sick father, and does his best to contribute to the daily struggles of life in this part of the train. He is later taken uptrain for the Engineer’s Apprenticeship Test against his will.

He would be one of the few characters that made it to the final show as [[Miles]], albeit being slightly changed.

=== Josie McConnell ===
A strong, no-nonsense woman who lives in poverty at the tail of the train. Josie cares for her sick husband as well as their precocious son. She would do anything for her family, and when unforeseen circumstances turn their lives upside down, she'll learn exactly how far she'll go.

She would be one of the few characters that made it to the final show as [[Josie Wellstead]], albeit being slightly changed.

=== Ian McConnell ===
Father to Fergus and husband to Josie. He is an ill prisoner in the tail that works all night in dirty and harsh conditions.

=== Lilah Andreson ===
A careful and quiet but a pragmatic and independent thinker of a woman. Lilah lives with her husband and daughter in a fourth-class cabin and works in the train’s nail salon. Lilah doesn’t know how strong she is, but she’ll soon be forced to find out.

She seems very similar to [[Lilah Folger]] in the final show.

=== Lilah Anderson Junior (LJ) ===
A quiet, diligent, Midwestern girl who lives with her parents in a fourth-class cabin and works in the greenhouse car. Poor but not as desperate as those that live in the tail of the train, LJ has made peace with her daily routine until a major event shakes up her world.

She seems very similar to [[LJ Folger|Lilah Folger Junior]] in the final show.

=== Jack Anderson ===
A 42 year old 4th class worker, husband to Lilah and father to LJ. He used to work alongside Silva and Bolger to look after, feed and butcher the cows. He freezes to death in car 56 after the window breaks and Osweiller uses the bolt gun to obliterate his hand off. 

He seems very similar to [[Robert Folger]] in the final show.

=== Silva ===
Silva is a 4th class worker who used to work alongside Jack and Bolger in cars 54-58, helping look after, feed and butcher. He freezes to death after his bolt gun accidentally smashes the window before it completely breaks in car 56. 

=== Bolger ===
He is a 4th class worked who used to work alongside Jack and Silva, helping look after, feed and butcher the cows. He freezes to death alongside Jack, Silva and the cows in car 56.

=== '''Pixi Aairak''' ===
A strange, mysterious, and inscrutable, a charismatic chameleon and probably inspired by the expression “still waters run deep.” She returns to the front of the train after a three-year sentence in the prison car and struggles to acclimate to her old life.

She seems very similar to [[Nikki Genêt|Nikki]] in the final show, and judging by the events of Season 1, she probably would've been proven not guilty.

=== Avi ===
A man in his late 20s, part of a polyamorous relationship that's reeling from a personal tragedy. He also works on the Breach Team as a Breach Soldier. He is a resident of car 37.

=== Cleo ===
Layton's ex-wife who abandoned him. She is a resident of car 37 and is in her 30s.

She seems similar to Zarah in the final show, albeit less caring of Layton.

=== Turner ===
A man in his 40s, resident of and part of the "family" in car 37. 

=== Bo ===
Resident of car 37. She is in her 20s. 

=== Eduardo Raggio ===
One of the two murdered people in the second murder, who was a resident of car 37. He is murdered and tied up in the meat locker car.

=== Valerie 'Val' Childress ===
A former third-class passenger that came to the Night car to replace Pixi after she was drawered. She is murdered alongside Eduardo.

=== Miss Audrey ===
Miss Audrey is an ageless woman (in her 60s) who seems to be the lead performer of the Nightcar. She helps Pixi re-stabilize back into her old life and occasionally helps out others on questions about her. 

She seems similar to [[Miss Audrey]] from the final show. 

=== Jinju ===
An elite First Class passenger who also works as a fine dining chef at the train’s sushi bar and looks after the fish in the aquarium. 

=== Mrs. Wright ===
A no-nonsense woman in her 60s who works in the agriculture car C57. She seems to be a higher ranking passenger that manages the car. 

=== Wilford Industries & Transport ===
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Wilford Industries & Transport is Mr. Wilford's transportation empire that built the ark train. 

Mr. Wilford's father and grandfather worked in automobile factories but they lost their jobs when the factories closed. Mr. Wilford’s father went in search of a job but he never returned. Mr. Wilford’s mother lost her home. They lived in shelters and in the streets. They later lived in a railyard in empty train cars. All the while Mr. Wilford’s mother insisted that he'd go to school, and she made whatever sacrifices needed for that to continue. He was a natural and despite his hardships, he had opportunity. He was a bright light, and given the chance, he shined, leading up to him presumably graduating school successfully and founding the company. He later built the '''Engine Eternal''' and the great ark train to preserve humanity, however he was presumably left trackside and kept hidden he was still onboard.

Not much else is known as this is everything given to us about Mr. Wilford and his company in this singular episode. A-lot of theories could be made about the background of the company and/or where Mr. Wilford actually ended up.

=== Brakemen ===
A loose lot who spend more time mediating drunks than solving real crime. Beat cops in a nice neighborhood. They are a part of the train’s fairly swiss clockworks, being the main form of security. Most of them consist of former military or Wilford security. They wear maroon uniforms.

'''Known members''':

* Roche (Lead Brakeman)
* Bess Till
* Osweiller