Ouroboros

Season	3
Episode	7
Overall	27
	March 7, 2022
	Renée St. Cyr & Tina de la Torre
	Christoph Schrewe
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Ouroboros will be the seventh episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It is the twenty-seventh episode of the series overall. The episode will air on TNT March 7, 2022 and then stream internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

As the train grapples with Layton's status, he's discovering that some dreams aren't worth having; Wilford makes a shocking discovery.

Plot

SPOILERS AHEAD

TBA

Cast

Main Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton Mickey Sumner as Bess Till Alison Wright as Ruth Wardell Lena Hall as Miss Audrey Iddo Goldberg as Bennett Knox Roberto Urbina as Javier De La Torre Katie McGuinness as Josie Wellstead Sheila Vand as Zarah Ferami Mike O'Malley as Roche Annalise Basso as LJ Folger Sam Otto as John Osweiller Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill Chelsea Harris as Sykes Archie Panjabi as Asha Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

Guest Starring TBA Co-Starring TBA

Quotes

“	Hey, buddy. You gotta get your shit together. You're not dreaming, you're dying.	”
	— Dream Till to Layton

Trivia

• An ouroboros is "an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail". It made it's way into Western culture from Greek magical tradition and ancient Egyptian iconography. The symbol is noticeably present in Hermeticism, Gnosticism and alchemy. The ouroboros is commonly used as an interpretation of a cycle of life, death and rebirth (eternal cyclic renewal). The snakes does a kin-sloughing process which symbolizes the transmigration of souls. The snake biting its own tail is in some religions a fertility symbol, and the tail of the snake is a phallic symbol, where the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol.
  • In Layton's dream, Snowpiercer itself is depicted as an ouroboros in Zarah Ferami's map.
• This episode lacks an opening monologue, a first for the series.
• Despite his death, Pike appears in the form of a wrapped corpse and in Layton's dream as a priest.
• Most of the cast only appears in the form of Layton's dream.
• Zarah encourages Josie to pursue a romantic relationship with Layton and makes peace with her, telling Josie that Zarah and Layton work better as co-parents than an actual couple.
• Layton discovers that his vision of the dragon's blood tree came from seeing a picture of it in a calendar in the North Korean bunker while he was near death from the power loss in his suit.
• Wilford reveals to Alex that, based on a signal that he picked up while tracking the Pirate train, he thinks that Melanie Cavill is in fact still alive.

Body Count

• 2 unnamed men (shot by Javier De La Torre and Ruth Wardell; dream)
• Around a dozen people (shot by Jackboots, Miss Gillies and each other; dream)
  • Miss Gillies
  • Javier De La Torre
  • Sam Roche
  • Ruth Wardell
  • Alexandra Cavill
  • 1 unnamed Jackboot
• Joseph Wilford (shot by Jackboots and later bled out; dream)
• 1 unnamed marauder (shot by Andre Layton; dream)
• 1 unnamed marauder (beaten to death by Asha; dream)

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