Editing Bound by One Track


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|title         = Bound by One Track
|season        = 3
|number        = 4
|overall       = 24
|image         = [[File:Big Alice Culled cars.png]]
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|airdate       = February 14, 2022
|writer        = [[Renée St. Cyr]]
|director      = [[Leslie Hope]]
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|runtime       = 46 minutes
|previous      = [[The First Blow]]
|next          = [[A New Life]]
|transcript    =  
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'''Bound by One Track''' is the fourth episode of the [[Season 3|third season]] of ''[[Snowpiercer (TV Series)|Snowpiercer]]''. It is the twenty-fourth episode of the series overall. The episode aired on TNT February 14, 2022 and then streamed internationally on Netflix the next day.

== Synopsis ==
'''TNT's:''' [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] finally deals with [[Melanie Cavill|her parental figures]] as a track obstruction uncovers a painful past.

'''Netflix's:''' [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]], [[Asha]], [[Sam Roche|Roche]] and [[Javier De La Torre|Javi]] each try to deal with personal traumas from the past as [[Andre Layton|Layton]] and the engineers work to get past a blockage on the track.

== Intro ==
{{Quote|I've been here before. Where memories turn on to you. Even the good ones. (…) Wilford said, "The weakest are those who suffer from memories." "The strongest carry the past like fuel to ignite a path forward." He wasn't wrong. (…) My continuous inescapable loop. Our past and future <u>bound by one track</u>, under the wheels of ''Snowpiercer'', '''1,029 cars long'''.|[[Alexandra Cavill]]}}

==Plot==
<center><big>'''SPOILERS AHEAD'''</big></center>
With ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' less than 2 weeks to approach the [[New Eden|Horn of Africa]], the train had taken a shortcut into a secondary track. One morning Alex was waken up by [[Bennett Knox|Bennett]]. He told Alex that there is a blockage of 3 train cars a few kilometers away. Alex suddenly realized it was the three cars leftover from the event of [[The First Year Cull of Big Alice]]. Two engineers asked Layton what should the next move be since reversing back to the main line would take around 23 days. The team agrees that they couldn't afford to lose that much time since people might discover [[Asha]] is lying about [[New Eden]].

[[Doctor Pelton]] found [[Andre Layton|Layton]] in the [[3rd Class Mess Hall]] and told him that she realized something suspicious about Dr. Headwood's treatment for [[Zarah Ferami|Zarah]], the chemicals used are the same as when she turned [[Josie Wellstead|Josie]] into "ice woman." Layton confronts [[Mrs. Headwood]] in the [[Headwoods' Lab (Big Alice)|Headwoods' Lab aboard Big Alice]]. Headwood told Layton that Zarah already approved the actions. Layton was so frustrated but Zarah told him that it's for the greater good of [[Liana Layton|the baby]].

Meanwhile, as Bennett and Alex were trying to connect to the leftover cars, Alex had a lot of memories running in her head of how bad Wilford was and still is. Alex recalling [[The First Year Cull of Big Alice]] that the cars were disconnected in the middle of the night with 100 crews but Alex was rescued by Wilford. Making she feels thankfully to him but he actually divided families and couples including her best friend [[Shilo]].  

Wilford eventually figures out in his cell how Snowpiercer's dropping off the clearing crew to clear the blockage and reversing for them to work. He knows exactly that it was the cars leftover from [[The First Year Cull of Big Alice]]. He also realized that Javier was driving since he could feels hesitance all along the train, which means Alex is indeed out there with the bodies. The man, once the Eternal Engineer, is truly sadden for Alex having to revisit her best friend as a frozen corpse. 

Two engineers have to disengages the rail clamps, which acts like an anchor. So that ''Snowpiercer'' could push the cars out of the way easily. However, the hydraulic ferrofluid line was blocked. However, the problem is that there's over 1000 feet of line on the cars. Alex mentioned that Wilford might've known what happened in the car as one of them is a lemon and keeps broken, which is why he disconnected the car. Meanwhile [[Sam Roche|Roche]] approached to Wilford's cell, dismissed [[Brakeman Michael West]] who was guarding the cell. Roche shot [[Suspension Drug|suspension drug]], which he had retrieved earlier from Big Alice's Drawers, to Wilford directly into his heart. Layton who came to Wilford to ask for help realized that the eternal engineer is no longer an option. Roche collapsed to the ground, Till quickly proceeded to help him. Layton told Alex and Bennett to abort the mission. 

Alex, keeping [[Melanie Cavill|Melanie]] alive inside her head, think of what her mother would do in this situation. She learned a valuable lesson that everyone'd have a good and bad side all in the same person. Alex had to use the skill Wilford taught her and overlook about the cull. She successfully disengage the rail clamps. Allowing the train to proceed its journey to [[New Eden]]. 

Layton update the crew that Wilford is in critical condition, but [[Doctor Pelton]] think he would pull through. At the end of the day, [[Andre Layton|Layton]] visits [[Zarah Ferami|Zarah]] and [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]] visits [[Joseph Wilford|Wilford]]. Overall it's another normal busy day aboard the magnificent train, all 1029 cars long. 

== Subplot ==

* Carly is upset with her [[Sam Roche|Father]] all moaning about [[Anne Roche|Anne]] and couldn't stand strong when she needed him. She escapes from the Couchette and roams around the train.

* Layton started to doubt himself about the lie to [[New Eden]], but Zarah kept his faith up.

* Ruth gets a new hospitality uniform made by a Tailor in the market. Ruth and Pike join briefly to share banana foster together, keeping the promise in the first month aboard [[Wilford's Rolling Gulag]].

* Asha is still struggling adjusting. She's scared to eat beef, and she is not used to the party in the Night Car. Till had to comfort Asha and thanks her for continuing to lie about being a survivor from [[New Eden]]. Asha said she knows how much the warm spot means to the passengers so she would gratefully keep doing it.

==Cast==
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===Main Characters===
*[[Jennifer Connelly]] as [[Melanie Cavill]]
*[[Daveed Diggs]] as [[Andre Layton]]
*[[Mickey Sumner]] as [[Bess Till]]
*[[Alison Wright]] as [[Ruth Wardell]]
*[[Iddo Goldberg]] as [[Bennett Knox]]
*[[Roberto Urbina]] as [[Javier De La Torre]]
*[[Steven Ogg]] as [[Pike]]
*[[Sheila Vand]] as [[Zarah Ferami]]
*[[Mike O'Malley]] as [[Sam Roche|Roche]]
*[[Annalise Basso]] as [[LJ Folger]]
*[[Rowan Blanchard]] as [[Alexandra Cavill]]
*[[Archie Panjabi]] as [[Asha]]
*[[Sean Bean]] as [[Joseph Wilford]]
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===Guest Starring===
*[[Sakina Jaffrey]] as [[Mrs. Headwood]]
*[[Karin Konoval]] as [[Doctor Pelton]]

===Co-Starring===
*[[Ian Collins]] as [[Tristan]]
*[[Miranda Edwards]] as [[Lights]]
*[[Matthew Mandzij]] as [[Brakeman Michael West|Brakeman West]]
*[[Jane McGregor]] as [[Astrid]]
*[[Esther Ming Li]] as [[Carly Roche]]
*[[Kwasi Thomas]] as [[Z-Wreck]]
*[[Grace Sunar]] as Young [[Alexandra Cavill|Alex]]
*[[Andrea Ware]] as [[Jackboot Tyson]]
*[[Kristian Bruun]] as [[Stu Whiggins]]
*[[Bella Grace]] as [[Shilo]]
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==Quotes==
{{Dialogue|Till|Asha? It's Till. Sorry, you looked a little lost out there.|Asha|Who I was… How I got here… I don't think I was worth saving.|Till|No. We all feel that guilt.|Asha|I might implode.|Till|Listen, I know you got a lot of pressure on you right now.|Asha|Don't worry, I won't spill the lie. I can see what an Eden does for their souls.|Till|If you get that, then you're one of us.|attr=[[Bess Till|Till]] comforts [[Asha]].}}

==Trivia==
*In the intro of the first 3 episodes of Season 3, the ''[[Pirate Train]]'' and ''[[Wilford's Rolling Gulag]]''<nowiki/>'s running infographic was running separately.
*The title of the episode is a line in [[Alexandra Cavill]]'s opening dialogue, explaining how the problem would still come back sooner or later because there's only the main tracks and secondary tracks.
*Both of the Last Australian's died of influenza while Layton was away, as did [[Mama Grandé]].
*''[[Big Alice]]'' was originally 43 cars long before Wilford detached 3 cars during the first year. The cars contain the bodies of those that Wilford had culled for resources which Alex had previously mentioned happening in ''[[The Show Must Go On]]''.
*Layton mentions cows being extinct, something that had occurred in ''[[Prepare to Brace]]''.
* [[Doctor Pelton]] discovers that the Headwoods were performing gene therapy on Layton and Zarah's baby, some of which was also used on [[Josie Wellstead]] for cold treatment. [[Mrs. Headwood]] admits that Wilford had them experiment on the baby with enhanced genetic cold treatment and calls them a gift as her treatments are going to work. 
**[[Zarah Ferami|Zarah]] is revealed to have consented to the treatment, much to Layton's fury.
*A romance begins developing between Ruth and Pike.
*Pike owns a Pied-a-terre in the Market.
*Javi is shown to still be suffering from PTSD due to his experiences with Wilford while the [[Pirate Train]] was away. This includes hallucinations of [[Jupiter]]. At the end of the episode, he is once again wearing his parka even though it's no longer necessary.
*First class is now opened again after the trains have reconnected, and full energy is avalible from both engines on ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' and ''[[Big Alice]]''.
*''[[Snowpiercer]]'' is seen going in reverse for the first time (other then the Pirate Train in ''[[The Tortoise and the Hare]]''.

==Body Count==
* 3 people <small>(influenza; mentioned only)</small> 
**[[Mama Grandé]]
**[[Murray]]
**[[Emilia]]
*[[Shilo]] <small>(died in Wilford's ''[[Big Alice]]'' cull; mentioned only)</small>

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==References==
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