Editing The Tortoise and the Hare (section)

== Trivia ==
*The title of the episode is a line in [[Andre Layton]]'s opening dialogue, to metaphor Snowpiercer as the hare and Big Alice as the tortoise.
*This episode picks up six months after "[[Into the White]]."
*The song [[Miss Gillies]] sang and played guitar in the beginning is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E&ab_channel=rich963 Morningtown Ride by The Seekers].
*''[[Snowpiercer]]'' has become a "rolling gulag" 1,023 cars long under Wilford's leadership.
**[[Ruth Wardell]] has become the leader of the resistance aboard ''[[Snowpiercer]]''. [[Pike]] assists her while Wilford appears to be unaware that Ruth is still on the train.
**The train has to deal with low temperatures and freezing issues due to ''[[Big Alice]]'' powering both trains alone.
**''Big Alice'' now acts as the front of the train while First is in the back.
**A whistle is heard blowing in the beginning.
**First Class has been decommissioned and left empty and frozen. Wilford claims that he will restore it when he gets the Engine and Audrey back.
**There are essentially no classes on the train anymore, despite Wilford's intentions to run ''Snowpiercer'' according to the original class system. Every passenger is a part of the working class, and can't be spared from work due to the train's bad condition. No one is allowed to enjoy any kind of privileged lifestyle, due to the lack of energy and resources.
**Wilford has been forced to stop the culling of the passengers that he had planned due to Miss Audrey being a hostage.
**[[Javier De La Torre]] is revealed to still be alive, but he is scarred and hooked up to IVs working as the Engineer on ''Big Alice''.
**[[LJ Folger]] and [[John Osweiller|Oz]] now run the Night Car (a deal by Wilford).
*The [[Pirate Train]] has spent six months following [[Melanie Cavill]]'s climate model without success in search of a habitable place.
**[[Miss Audrey]] remains a prisoner while [[Sykes]] has begun cooperating with the crew as a POW.
**It's revealed that [[Martin Colvin]] is a part of the crew, having accidentally stowed away on board due to falling asleep in his cabin before the hijacking occurred and then not being discovered until afterwards.
**While Alex and Bennett are the Engineers, Till has also been shown to nervously be able to drive the train, suggesting that the crew have all been given at least some basic training, presumably in case Alex and Bennett are unavailable.
*Sulawesi was a location that was searched.
*Layton finds a survivor in a [[Gyeongsang Nuclear Facility|nuclear plant]] in North Korea, and has what appears to be a vision of a Dragon Blood tree in Socotra. Later revealed in [[Ouroboros]], to be from a calendar in Asha's home, when near death.
*Mrs. Headwood is seen experimenting on Layton and Zara's unborn child with enhanced genetic cold treatment which is identified in ''[[Bound by One Track]]''.
*Sykes' loyalty to Wilford appears to be wavering as she refuses to help Audrey and Martin, instead allowing herself to be locked up.
*During the episode, neither ''Big Alice'' or ''Snowpiercer'' are referred to by name with Layton simply calling it "Wilford's rolling gulag" in his opening monologue rather than calling it ''Snowpiercer'' as usual. In contrast, Ruth briefly refers to the Pirate Train as ''Snowpiercer'' while talking to Pike in the opening scene. This suggests that at least the resistance considers the Pirate Train to be ''Snowpiercer'' itself now rather the rest of the train that was left behind with ''Big Alice''.
*It's unknown if Martin was killed or not as he subsequently doesn't appear on the Pirate Train after being hit over the head by Till while Miss Audrey is seen imprisoned once again.