Editing Melanie Cavill (section)

==Memorable Quotes==

===[[Season 1]]===
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=== [[First, the Weather Changed]] ===
{{Quote|Attention all passengers. Wilford Industries wishes you a good morning. The temperature outside is minus 119.6 degrees Celsius. As we enter the Yukon Territory of the former Canada, we remind you, for your personal safety, be prepared to brace. We are 6 years, 9 months, and 26 days from departure. At the tone, the exact time will be 0800 hours.|Melanie Cavill's daily announcement.}}
{{Quote|Good evening, passengers. Be advised, track conditions will deteriorate over the next 24 hours. Remain safe and prepare to brace. From Mr. Wilford and all of us at Wilford Industries. Good night.|Melanie's announcement before Tailie rebellion.}}
{{Quote|You want justice, Detective, clear her. And if you catch the killer, we'll make you Train Detective and move you to Third Class.|Melanie asking [[Andre Layton|Layton]] to help solving the case.}}
{{Dialogue|Bennett|It's gonna be bumpy tomorrow.|Melanie|Yeah. I hate this stretch of track. Thanks, Ben.|Bennett|You have the train... Mr. Wilford.|Melanie|I have the train.|attr=[[Bennett Knox|Ben]] revealing Melanie is [[Joseph Wilford|Mr. Wilford]].}}

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=== [[Prepare to Brace]] ===
{{Dialogue|Jinju|We can’t ration any more power to Ag-Sec unless we start canceling crops.|Melanie|We’re not breaking rotation.|Bennett|Water won’t flow for a couple days at least. Not until the crack in the hull is seal.|Jinju|Then we only have what’s in the reservoir for Third, Ag-Sec and Tail.|Melanie|[ sighs] We ration the people, not the crops. Third and Second will get 15 minutes of running water a day, and the Tail will have to survive on what they’ve hoarded.|Bennett|Is this what the start of a resource crash feels like? Starving the train from the tail up.|Jinju|It’s not just the beef. It’s manure for fertilizer. It’s bovine cultures. We use their methane.|Melanie|I know. It’s bad. But how bad stays between us. In the meantime, we press ahead with selecting the new apprentice and we bolster faith in Wilford to get them through.|attr=[[Jinju Seong]], [[Bennett Knox]] and [[Melanie Cavill]] discussing the damage to ''Snowpiercer''.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|What do you see...when you look at this train?|Layton|I see a fortress to class.|Melanie|Is that all? Well, I see 3,000 souls surviving on a planet that's determined to freeze all life in place. We're still in motion, alive and kicking, and it's not thanks to chance or fate or God. It is thanks to order, meticulously maintained by Mr. Wilford. A balance of need and greed and speed, and you Tailies, who seem to have forgotten that it is 117 degrees below zero outside of this metal tube, and Mr. Wilford is awake 21 hours a day just to keep the Goddamn heat on.|Layton|Guess that's why it needs informants like Sean Wise. Wise was a Wilford rat. He got paid in perks...like the rigged Baby Lottery. Why else would you care so much about a Thirdie's murder? So, what you really want to know is, when he was tortured, what Wilford secrets did he spill? Y'all got killers and cannibals and God-knows what else up here. So don't lecture me about balance. My people found ours years ago.|Melanie|Okay. Very perceptive. No wonder Mr. Wilford wants you as Train Detective. But that's the only reason you're still here now.|attr=Melanie to Layton after Layton tried to make contact with The Tail.}}

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=== [[Access Is Power]] ===
{{Quote|We all know it’s been a tough 48 hours. It seems the events have been on Mr. Wilford’s mine as well. He’s written a personal message for us all. To my loyal and trusted crew, without whom this mission could never succeed. In this time of adversity, I ask you, the lead stewards of humanity, to remain unshaken in spirit and resolve, as you’ve done so nobly these past seven years. By your steady hand, we will ride out this hardship, and outlive the ice. Bound by our cause and our need. Wilford.|Melanie reading Mr. Wilford's letter to the First Class, after the train has been damaged.}}

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=== [[Without Their Maker]] ===
{{Dialogue|Bennett|So... have you thought of a workaround for the methane shortage?|Melanie|Yup. Goat farts.|Bennett|Very good! MIT.|Melanie|[chuckles] I know it would pay off.|attr=We learned Melanie graduated from MIT}}
{{Quote|Layton, I was born on a dirt farm in eastern Pennsylvania. I came from nothing. I know a thing or two about class. That anger that you feel when you look at all of this? It's justified. Let's use it. Whoever the killer is, First is going to protect their own, so you be their worst nightmare from the Tail. I'll do the rest.|Melanie to [[Andre Layton|Layton]] when he see the arts hanging on The First's wall.}}
{{Dialogue|Lilah|On behalf of everyone here, I demand to speak to Mr. Wilford. It's time, Melanie.|Bennett|[TELEPHONE RINGS] This is Bennett.|Melanie|I'm sorry. I need you to put me through to him. It's urgent.|Bennett|Oh, hey, are we doing this again?|Melanie|Thank you. I'll wait.|Bennett|Anything to put a smile on your face.|Melanie|Mr. Wilford. Good news first. We may have identified the killer.|Bennett|Is that for real? Or is that part of the act?|Melanie|Yeah, a bodyguard from First. But the family's reluctant to let your Detective in to investigate, and they would like a word.|Bennett|Well, that would piss me right off. Huff, huff, huff.|Melanie|The Folgers. It's their man. Yes, Lilah Folger, sir. I know, but she's demanding it. Very good.|Lilah|[ MURMURING ] For the investigation, we will allow him in, but only if you accompany him.|Melanie|Mr. Wilford, my apologies. It seems everything is sorted.|Bennett|I miss you, Mel.|Melanie|Thank you for that. Goodbye, sir.|attr= Melanie calls [[Joseph Wilford|Mr. Wilford]] for [[Lilah Folger]] as she insists to have [[Andre Layton|Layton]] investigate their quarters.}}
{{Quote|Attention all passengers. On behalf of Mr. Wilford, I share this news... the murderer who hid among us is dead, and a second suspect is in custody. Thanks to a successful investigation, order has been restored, and Mr. Wilford assures you justice will prevail. From all of us at Wilford Industries, thank you.|Melanie through the P.A. system.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|You figured it out, Layton. I know you did.|Layton|A myth's a powerful thing.|Melanie|Pray you never know the weight of it. I'm sorry, Layton.|attr=Melanie and Layton discuss her true identity.}}

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=== [[Justice Never Boarded]] ===
{{Dialogue|Melanie|That stunt was beneath you, Audrey.|Miss Audrey|No, it really wasn't.|Melanie|I'm sorry about Nikki. I am. But one suspect is dead, and the other is standing trial for murder. What am I missing?|Miss Audrey|You know the trial is a joke. It's five miles uptrain, where a jury of First and Second get to judge one of their own for killing three of us.|Melanie|Us? The Nightcar is supposed to be Switzerland. Why are you politicizing it?|Miss Audrey|Third has the right to petition Wilford in labor disputes and matters of jurisprudence. We want a new tribunal drawn... one representative from each class and a delegation to observe the trial.|Melanie|For Christ's sake, Audrey.|Miss Audrey|You've grown callous doing Wilford's bidding. You used to try to make a difference, too.|Melanie|And I stood right here when you shared your vision of the Nightcar. Wilford saw a brothel. And you saw a higher purpose.|Miss Audrey|And you persuaded him I was right.|Melanie|And I am asking you to stay true to your vision. You give us a place to work through our grief, and the train depends on it!|Miss Audrey|And we depend on you, on your voice to Wilford's ear. Recommend a new tribunal.|Melanie|Or what?|Miss Audrey|Don't make me threaten you, Melanie. Third touches every system on this train. We will be heard.|attr=Melanie and [[Miss Audrey]] conversation about a new tribunal.}}
{{Dialogue|Bennett|We haven't done that since the bees died. I'm sensing a bit of a pattern.|Melanie|God, I wish I could open a frigging window. You remember fresh air? Mm? You remember... going for walks?|Bennett|Rain. I miss the sound of rain.|Melanie|I miss so many things.|Bennett|Are you gonna do this? Draw a new tribunal?|Melanie|I just want to breathe.|attr=Melanie and [[Bennett Knox|Bennett]] after hooking up.}}
{{Quote|Attention, passengers. Mr. Wilford has accepted a Third Class petition to redraw the tribunal for today's trial. One name has been drawn randomly from each class. If your name is called, please report immediately to your Hospitality representative. From First Class, our jurist is [[Edith Gusterfeld]]. From Second Class, [[Miss Gillies|primary teacher Mary-Elizabeth Gillies]]. And representing Third Class... [[Walter Flemming|Papermaker Walter Flemming]]. Again, Edith Gusterfeld, Mary-Elizabeth Gillies, and Walter Flemming... Let's go! ...please report to Hospitality. Thank you.|Melanie announcing the jurists from there classes.}}
{{Dialogue|Ruth|Doesn't Mr. Wilford understand that you can't just change the rules?|Melanie|I guess they're his rules to change. He chose the will of the people.|Ruth|We don't have will. We have order.|attr=Ruth to Melanie about changing the rules.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Lilah. Whatever you're doing behind closed doors, don't.|Lilah|Let me tell you a Folger family story. When LJ was 7, she put out Robert's eye. Lashed out with a fork and punctured it all over his face. And even as the jelly was running down his cheek, he held her through the tantrum, protecting her. So you go ahead with your Hospitality show trial and prepare to suffer the consequences. Because you're fucking with my bloodline.|attr=Melanie confronts [[Lilah Folger|Lilah]].}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Before I release you to your parents...[[Joseph Wilford|Mr. Wilford]] has asked me to stress the importance of discretion.|LJ|Oh. Oh, so don't spill all of his Drawer secrets?|Melanie|What did Sean Wise tell you exactly?|LJ|That's between me and Mr. Wilford, isn't it?|Melanie|He's taking an extraordinary risk in helping you.|LJ|Third Class? I think they'll get over it.|Melanie|I mean you, LJ. I mean letting you walk free.|LJ|Wilford looked out for me, so... I'll look out for him.|attr=Melanie talking to [[LJ Folger|LJ]] before releasing her to her parents.}}

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=== [[Trouble Comes Sideways]] ===
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Look. They’re circulated all through Third. It’s blowback from the trial.|Jinju|Shit. They can cripple every system on the train.|Melanie|Yes they could.|Jinju|They’d suffer along with the rest of us. They’re putting the gun to their own head.|Melanie|Well, it seems like to pull the balance of power their way, they’re willing to risk it.|Jinju|What do you gonna do?|Melanie|I’m going to crush it.|attr=Melanie and Jinju discuss The Third's Strike at [[the Engine]].}} 
{{Quote|It has come to Mr. Wilford's attention that a work stoppage is planned for today. Mr. Wilford would like to remind you that your labor is sacred! As non-paying passengers, it is also your ticket aboard. These are the terms. We all have our places and our jobs, and Mr. Wilford expects...If this work stoppage goes ahead, Mr. Wilford will seize 10 striking workers at random and send them to the Tail. He will bring 10 Tailies forward to fill their posts. You think life in Third is bad? There are 400 souls downtrain who would kill for what you have! Protect it! Call off the strike. Thank you.|Melanie to The Thirdies.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Ruth, remember. Calm Hospitality... |Ruth|...Calm Train.|Melanie|...Calm Train.|attr=Melanie reminding Ruth to stay calm.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Layton!|Layton|Hello, Mr. Wilford. I know what you're doing. The hundreds of names, your lists! Anyone has a bad word, has an unsanctioned thought, they get thrown in a drawer, yeah?|Melanie|No, you don't understand.|Layton|Look at my face. It was a Tailie that got you, in the end.|Melanie|Unh! Layton, let me go. The train needs me. The drawers aren't what you think.|Layton|The drawers are hell and my people are still in there!|Melanie|They're not a prison! They're a lifeboat. We're hanging by our nails. Layton, we're hanging by our nails. The whole goddamn human experiment, it can be undone by a bloom of mold. If the social order collapses, if resources fail, if mechanics fail, our best hope is to keep life in suspension, to keep people in stasis while we ride out this Freeze. 400 people. They were selected for diversity, for health, for skills, to give us a fighting chance on the other side!|Layton|You decide who lives and who dies.|Melanie|No. We all made that choice, when we boarded this train and we left people behind. This train's dying, Layton. Please, let me fix her.|attr=[[Andre Layton|Layton]] confronting [[Melanie Cavill|Melanie]] about the Drawers.}}
{{Quote|I designed her. I'll fix her.|[[Melanie Cavill|Melanie]] to [[Bennett Knox|Bennett]].}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Hey. Do you know what this is?|Miles|A caliper.|Melanie|Every Engineer needs one. Mr. Wilford gave me this. I want you to have it. There's something Mr. Wilford needs from you, Miles.|attr=[[Melanie Cavill|Melanie]] asking [[Miles]] for a favor.}}

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=== [[The Universe Is Indifferent]] ===
{{Quote|Attention all passengers. Wilford Industries wishes you good morning. Yesterday, during the Torreta Canyon Crisis, Electrical Engineer Peter DiMarco paid the ultimate price for our survival. Let us all observe a moment for his spark. As crops must grow, new blood will flow. So as is our custom, we will now announce an apprentice replacement. Today, the greatest of honors...The young man known as Miles and Miles will be fast-tracked to the Engine! Thank you for your faith and your labors. As always, our Great Engineer, Mr. Wilford, wishes you a pleasant day.|Melanie announcing the apprentice replacement.}}
{{Quote|I understand you're pregnant. Congratulations. That's wonderful news. You know it's a privilege to have a child on Snowpiercer? It's not a right. And privileges... well, they can be taken away just as easily as they're given.|Melanie threatening [[Zarah Ferami|Zarah]].}}
{{Quote|My name is Melanie. You don't know me, but I speak for Mr. Wilford. You've rebelled against the order of this train many times. Your brothers and sisters...have died. Your children have died. And you have nothing to show for it. I'm here to tell you, if you try again, you will fail again.|Melanie to the Tailies.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|You know, once you pass through that door, there's no turning back. You'll be an Engineer. But to be an Engineer on Snowpiercer, you have to make sacrifices. And that can be hard.|Miles|Are you happy as an Engineer?|Melanie|The needs of the train are more important than our own happiness. We're Engineers. We keep the world alive.|attr=Melanie talking to [[Miles]].}}

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=== [[These Are His Revolutions]] ===
{{Dialogue|Melanie|This is Chicago, and we should be there in a day and a half.|Miles|This is our slowest revolution, isn’t it? Twenty-two hours off average.|Melanie|We lose a little bit of time each revolution. So it’s on us to reverse that.|Miles|Because if Snowpiercer stops, we all die.|Melanie|That’s right.|Miles|Melanie, what was your daughter like?|Melanie|She was… smart. Like you. Sweet. Much nicer than me.|Miles|What happened to her?|Melanie|She was with my parents at the end, Allie was supposed to get on the train with them... but she didn’t make it.|Miles|My parents didn’t made it either, but I had my tail mom Josie.|attr=Melanie let [[Miles]] control the train.}}

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=== [[The Train Demanded Blood]] ===
{{Dialogue|Layton|You knew I'd have to cut them.|Melanie|I knew the choice would be yours. It's what we live with, Layton. Every second of our existence. You have the train, Layton.|attr=[[Andre Layton|Layton]] wins at a terrible cost.}}

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=== [[994 Cars Long]] ===
{{Quote|Attention, all passengers. The temperature outside, is minus 121.9 degrees Celsius. As we approach Chicago, Mile Zero of our cycle life, be prepared to brace. We’re all haunted by our choices, the personal choices we all made when we boarded this train, and the collective choices that brought us to that day. Choices made over decades, even when we knew climate change was real. And finally, my own choice to pirate this ark, and lie to you all, which has brought us to where we are now, May we all move forward with greater awareness, of the choices that we make. We are one train. And today, that train chooses change. I hereby relinquish governance of Snowpiercer to the rebel forces. These are our revolutions, 994 cars long.|Melanie's opening dialogue, announcing the new train leader.}}

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===[[Season 2]]===
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=== [[The Time of Two Engines]] ===
{{Dialogue|Wilford|You stole my train! Used my name.|Melanie|Well, you plastered it everywhere.|Wilford|I built the world! It’s the only one left and it’s mine. I run it! You? You were fixing tractors on Daddy’s farm. I lifted you out of pig shit at 17. I shared everything. I gave you everything. The solution…|Melanie|There’s no solution…|Wilford|There’s no solution…|Wilford|Oh, for God’s sake!|Melanie|… until we can go back out there!|Wilford|This is the world. A rolling steel artery on a dead marble.}}{{Dialogue|Melanie|You’re an engineer…|Wilford|Engineer, bring Snowpiercer to a full stop.|Alex|Full stop, gladly.|Melanie|Alex...|Wilford|Reverse.|Bennette|He dropped the anchor.|Javi|No. We can’t stop. He’ll disconnect.|attr=Melanie learned [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] is an engineer.}}
{{Dialogue|Wilford|11=Wilford|18=Wrong choice, honey. [Bomb exploded]|17=Melanie|16=Disconnect. Now. Alex… Come on now… Alex… It’s alright…|15=Wilford|14=If you disconnect, all of those people will die. A whole world… will die. Believe me. You don’t want that on your conscience.|13=Melanie|12=[chuckles] Oh my god, get me that whiskey. (To Alex) JUST GET IT DONE!|10=Because it’s right, because that train is our future.|I’m taking her back, Mel. If you can’t get this Layton to surrender my train, Alex will disconnect, and we’ll take a short spin in reverse. When we return, they’ll all be dead. And your job for the next several years, will be to compost every last one of them.|9=Melanie|8=Why?|7=Alex|6=Don’t do it.|5=Melanie|4=Disconnect Snowpiercer, reverse one-quarter speed.|Wilford|attr=[[Joseph Wilford|Wilford]] stopping ''Snowpiercer '' for the second time.}}
{{Dialogue|Alex|13=Melanie|line2=Wait… For the order… [nods]|line1=Wilford|20=Really don’t have a choice… [Approaches to the lever.]|19=Alex|18=Shut up!|17=Wilford|16=She got you, Dubs.|15=Alex|14=It’s kind of the only solution, really. We’ll have to find a way to work together.|12=Never.|I can’t disconnect.|11=Wilford|10=Yeah, we are, permanently. So, you better give Alex the order to get Snowpiercer moving again or we’ll all die in a few minutes.|9=Melanie|8=Holy shit. We’re stuck together.|7=Alex|6=He overbuilt the connecting mechanism. I said so at the time, remember? I told you if something goes wrong with that central lock we won’t be able to manually undo the grappling arms.|5=Melanie|4=What have you done?|Wilford|attr=Melanie's plan saved ''Snowpiercer''.}}

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=== [[Smolder to Life]] ===
{{Quote|Every year before the snow came, my father would burn slash piles. Mounds of deadfall and brush, flames as high as the barn… I’d hold my face up to the hear and dare myself closer, like I was walking into the sun. (…) When Alex was old enough, she helped me hose down the ash pits. And I’d warn her, like my dad warned me, of the heat lurking inside. Ready to smolder to life, like a visit from a ghost. These are her revolutions now, On Snowpirecer, 1,034 cars long.|Melanie's opening dialogue.}}
{{Dialogue|Layton|Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Snowpiercer, I would like to welcome Mr. Wilford and his crew aboard.|Wilford|Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Layton. I look forward to, uh, the Aquarium, First Class Dining, My Nightcar!|Layton|[chuckles] I’m afraid we have graver concerns to address today, Mr. Wilford.|Layton|Concerns that must be address together, as one train. Head engineer Cavill?|Melanie|Thank you. [clears throat] [sighs] People of Snowpiercer and Big Alice, the Earth is warming. CW-7 in the upper atmosphere is dissipating. Instead of a 1,000-year timeframe. The planet may create warm spots that could support recolonization in our lifetime. Now… we have a lot to learn. A lot to prepare for. And we have to do it together…|attr=Melanie made an important announcement.}}

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=== [[A Great Odyssey]] ===
{{Dialogue|Alex|Leave once, it’s a decision. Then you leave me twice, and then that becomes a choice.|Melanie|Yes, I’m choosing to go. But only because there’s not much chance of a world for you if I don’t.|Alex|Okay, so… what do you wanna know?|Melanie|Everything. What do you love to do? Who pierced your ears? Where you sleep? Will you ever laugh?|attr=Melanie told [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] she loves her but she had to go.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|It’s a nice bunk.|Alex|We get to decorate then, but they’re all the same. Except for Wilford’s.|Melanie|Well, you made it nice. [Looks at the cotton ropes on the wall.]|Alex|I use this to visualize our route.|Melanie|Yeah. Me, too. Same trick.|Alex|Well, we did have the same teacher. [Picks up a paper] I used to draw you… to picture what you looked like. [Gives it to Melanie.]|Melanie|I pictured your face too, all the time.|Alex|Wilford says you’re the best driver he’s ever seen.|attr=[[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] shows Melanie her bunk.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Look, I... I think I know what your priorities are.|Layton|Yeah, you want me to run it by you to see if I got it? Protect the science.|Melanie|Number one.|Layton|Yeah, to do that, I'll have to hold off the megalomaniac who created this world and wants to get power back again and has already got some supporters on his side.|Melanie|Yeah, that's about the size of it.|Layton|Which leads me to believe that maybe he didn't want anybody to get off this train and recolonize the Earth in the first place.|Melanie|Just so we're clear, the success of this mission will be measured in data, not my survival. Good luck, Andre.|Layton|Good luck, Melanie.|attr=Melanie and [[Andre Layton|Layton]] lay out their priorities and say goodbye}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|You can trust Layton. He's a good man. He's just, and so are you.|Ruth|Well, good men and women don't seem to stay good long doing this, do they?|Melanie|Please promise me you'll look after Alex. I just... I wanna know someone's... there for her. It would mean a lot to me if it was you.|Ruth|Of course I will. You have my word.|Melanie|Thank you.|attr=Melanie and Ruth say an emotional goodbye}}
{{Quote|Engineer. We'll all be waiting for you right here when you get back.|[[Ruth Wardell|Ruth]] makes Melanie a promise.}}

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=== [[Many Miles From Snowpiercer]] ===
{{Quote|In the Old Time, the future seemed multi-faceted. 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.|[[Melanie Cavill|Melanie]] thinking about times before the freeze.}}
{{Quote|Alex? I have the climate model. Allie… [sighs] I tried. I really tried. And I thought this time would be different. I thought I would get back to you. So… please forgive me.|Melanie crying when ''Snowpiercer'' didn't come back to get her on time.}}
{{Quote|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 got this chance.|[[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]]'s hallucination to Melanie.}}

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=== [[Into the White]] ===
{{Quote|I had nothing here to return to. I'm only human, so of course I used up my resources. Ate my rats to extinction, and the cold crept in. There isn't enough power to keep me alive more than a few hours but on a trickle charge, the drives could last months for you. I knew when the train blew past in sparks and flame, ''Snowpiercer'' breaking and ''Big Alice'' pushing, that Wilford was sabotaging it all somehow. But you were there in the window, Alex. I knew you'd come back. I can feel your reading this as I write, so now I can put on my helmet and walk into the white at peace. You are my hope, Alex. Learn to love the people that got us this far, and together, one day, you will build a better world.|Melanie's goodbye letter to [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]].}}
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===[[Season 3]]===
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=== [[A Beacon for Us All]] ===
{{Quote|Day 91. Second revolution. 42.85 degrees north, 106.32 degrees west. So... that puts me somewhere outside Casper, Wyoming. Battery is at 57%. Temperature is... Not warm. Still no sign of ''Snowpiecer''. No snow displacement. No change in tracks, which is... Either she isn't rolling anymore, or they're off the mainline. Once I cross the Bering Strait, I'll switch to secondary track, expand my search. Until then, signing off. (...) Day 172. Last of my stimulant's gone. I don't think my body is strong enough to wake from suspension without it. If this is my last entry, it's with thoughts of you, Alex. Outside. In sunlight and warmth.|Melanie's journals as she travels}}
{{Dialogue|Wilford|Sorry about leaving you to die, I suppose. But you know how things are.|Melanie|It was great. I got a little me time.|attr=Melanie and Wilford reunites.}}
{{Quote|Attention, passengers. This is Melanie Cavil. Tonight, I witnessed a ''Snowpiercer'' unlike any I'd seen before. United. Borderless. Free of class and greed. The dream of New Eden made that possible, but a dream left unchecked can be a dangerous thing, and we cannot forget what got us this far. Reason, discipline... And truth. The journey to the Horn of Africa is not safe. The track is unsound. If we knew what we would find when we got there, it might be worth the risk, but we don't. New Eden is a fiction invented by Layton. He and his crew have never been there. He lied to you. It's 8:42 pm and the temperature outside is -98 degrees. Goodnight, ''Snowpiercer'', and long may you roll.|Melanie betrays Layton and reveals the truth.}}

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=== [[The Original Sinners]] ===
{{Dialogue|Alex|I heard stories about you, About how ruthless you can be.|Melanie|Can we sit?|Alex|Congratulations, mom. Who knew you’d make your move literally right after we saved you.|Melanie|We have to look at it objectively. If you can’t do that, you’ve lost your ways as an engineer.|Ruth|Melanie, don’t lose your cool.|Alex|All I need you to do is speak to Layton before this goes any further.|attr=[[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] confronting Melanie.}}
{{Dialogue|Layton|Thank you for meeting with me.|Melanie|I appreciate the opportunity to discuss facts.|Layton|The fact is, most of us accept the risk.|Melanie|You never disclosed the risks. You’re putting all our eggs in one basket. The track is not tested.|Layton|Melanie, take the turn, or the Tail Army will do it for you.|Melanie|Really? We both know it’s a long march to the Engine.|Tills| You don’t have the forces to defend.|Melanie|I can hold you off long enough.|Ruth|And then what? Endless seesaw battles for control?|Melanie| No, we wait. We just wait until we know we’re right.|Alex|Don’t do that, Mom., Change course. The young people wanna get off.|Melanie|How can I let you, if it’s not safe? I want you with me.|Alex|Then you’ll have to take the turn.|Melanie|''[Gets on the sub-train]|Ruth|Oh, come on, For pity’s sake. Both of you.|Melanie|In or out, Ruth|Ruth|I’m not letting you go on your own. Hey this isn’t over. Figure something out.|attr=Melanie and [[Ruth Wardell|Ruth]] trying to figures the way out with [[Andre Layton|Layton]], [[Bess Till|Till]] and [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]].}}
{{Dialogue|Ruth|Layton took Ag-Sec, without firing a shot. His people stuck with him. He holds all the cards now, Melanie.|Melanie|Can the Brakemen hold him?|Ruth|Roche won’t fight your war. He serves the people. You don’t have the pull you once did, you know.|Melanie|I need an ally.|Ruth|Not Wilford.|Melanie|I can control him.|Ruth|That’s not the point.|Melanie| No... The Point. The point is this. [points at Snowpiercer’s blueprint] It’s everything. Every last soul on Earth. It I have to sell mine to protect theirs… so be it, right?|Ruth|Well, I’m sorry. But I’ve spent too long redeeming myself to go back now.|attr=[[Ruth Wardell|Ruth]] says goodbye to  Melanie and joins [[Andre Layton|Layton]]'s side.}}
{{Dialogue|Wilford|The problem is, Melanie, you’re a legend. So you do have support. Former Firsties, some guilds, etc. But you’re both militarily outmatched and down in the polls. So, you need me. Two legends are better than one.|Melanie|I believe if we were seen as united, then the majority of passengers would choose the train, yes.|Wilford|Well, of course. But it still comes down to fear, Fear of Layton’s colony, or fear of the train that got them this far.|Melanie|There’s only one way that this works.|Wilford|[chuckles] Here it comes.|Melanie| I’m Head Engineer. And you retire from Engineering altogether. It’s my train.|Wilford|Assuming generous comforts. Meaningful consultation, and if I maintain control of certain interests of mine. Cold treatment, for example.|Melanie|Assuming all that. And all my shame at cutting a deal with you, if that helps.|Wilford|Yes. [Both shakes their hands]|attr=Melanie forming alliance with [[Joseph Wilford|Wilford]].}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Getting close to the bell, huh?|Layton|Yeah, it tolls for you too. Look, this isn't to surrender or to bargain. It's just to acknowledge.|Melanie|All right. Thanks for letting Alex cross over.|Layton|It was her choice. And I knew she'd be a double-edged sword.|Melanie|Yeah. I'll probably lose her by trying to save her.|Layton|Yeah, we both got enough ego to believe we can save everyone. We set ourselves up in an impossible role.|Melanie|Once you get the job, it's so hard to let it go.|Layton|You really wanna let Wilford be a part of that? You're falling right back into using fear to keep order.|Melanie|You picked up the sword. Right back to shedding blood.|Layton|Fear or blood?"<br>'''Melanie''': "And either way... he wins."<br>'''Layton''': "And we both lose.|attr=Melanie and [[Andre Layton|Layton]] realize that they are only playing into Wilford's hands by refusing to change}}
{{Dialogue|Wilford|This was you, wasn't it Melanie?|Melanie|Actually, Andre and I came up with it together. I made it six months in here. There's suspension fluid. Stimulant. Timer. You can only stay under for so long before you have to wake yourself up and figure out where you are.|Wilford|You're too weak to simply cut my throat, Layton. Cowards. All of you.|attr=[[Wilford]] is exiled on the [[Track Scaler]] by Melanie and Layton.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|It's a good way forward.|Layton|The ones we love, that'll be the cost.|attr=Melanie and Layton prepare to move forward}}
{{Dialogue|Layton|Citizens of ''Snowpiercer'', as the fork to New Eden approaches, I am proud to say that we have found a way through our impasse. We agree the only course is compromise, and the answer is individual choice.|Melanie|The train will be divided at Ag-Sec. Every passenger will be allowed to choose between the train with me and New Eden with Andre Layton.|Layton|Those who choose New Eden need to understand we don't know what we'll find there. The journey will be dangerous. And, yes, it will require a leap of faith. But more importantly, desire to build a new society.|Melanie|Those of you who remain, we know that life will continue to be hard on ''Snowpiercer''. Bit by bit, the train is breaking down. But we will no longer add to that hardship with oppression. The train will run on science and truth. And we will share the burden of our limited resources together.|Layton|Thank you. Whatever your choice, find hope and respect in your neighbor's fate. Talk to your families. Say goodbye to your friends. The train will separate in just under six hours.|attr=[[Andre Layton|Layton]] and Melanie lay out their new plan together.}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|So how long do you think she will she can keep going?|Bennett|If you’re lucky, you hop from crisis to crisis for another decade, maybe two.|Melanie|I need you, Ben.|Bennett|I needed you too. I followed your science to the decision of getting off. You nearly killed that|Melanie|It’s still alive, It’s just down the line. And if we’re together I know we can get there.|Bennett|I will serve with you ‘till the end of the world. But that’s only half of it. You want me to stay, I need the rest of you.|Melanie|I’m here. [sighs] I’m yours.|
Bennett|Then New Eden can wait.|attr=Melanie staying on ''Snowpiercer'' with [[Bennett Knox|Bennett]].}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|Um… I may or may not have put a lot of socks in there. There’s a first aid kit, and my jacket. You probably don’t want it, but it’s the one I survived in.|Alex|I love you [both sobbing] I have to go. (…) I don’t remember what the Earth is like and I, I wanna find out.|Melanie|It’s your choice. I’m just so happy that you’re here now.|Alex|Mom.|Melanie|Yeah?|Alex|The train is falling apart. The track is deteriorating.|Melanie|You know you don’t have to worry about me, huh? I’m gonna be okay. And you will too. I love you.|Alex|I love you too.|Melanie|I love you so much. I’m so proud of you. I’m so sorry I’m so sorry for all the things that I did, I’m so sorry for—|Alex|It’s okay. It’s okay.|Melanie|Okay. Okay. [Both chuckles].|attr=Melanie packing things for [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]].}}
{{Dialogue|Melanie|I guess we're guardians of each other's loved ones now.|Layton|Well, that gives me hope. I'll take care of her.|Melanie|I know you will. Good luck, Andre.|Layton|Godspeed, Melanie.|attr=Melanie and [[Andre Layton|Layton]] say their last goodbyes.}}
{{Dialogue|Miles|Solid numbers. Energy distribution’s improved.|Melanie|It’s the loss of weight. [To Ben] Can you still see them?|Bennett|No, they’ve got weather.|attr=Snowpiercer's Engineers in the Engine.}}
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