Pirate Train

The Pirate train.

The Pirate train is a small train created out of the first ten cars of Snowpiercer in order for its crew to exist outside of Joseph Wilford's control and fight back.

History

With both Snowpiercer and Big Alice under Wilford's full control, Alexandra Cavill proposed disconnecting the first ten cars of Snowpiercer in order to create a separate pirate train to go after her mother. Bojan Boscovic confirmed that Big Alice could handle powering both trains while they were gone, but that it would hobble Wilford, leaving the smaller, faster pirate train able to outrun him. After agreeing to the plan, Andre Layton began assembling his crew out of his remaining loyalists with Bennett Knox, Boki, Alex, Ruth Wardell and Bess Till agreeing to join him while keeping Miss Audrey as a hostage to ensure Wilford's good behavior while they were away. In addition, the crew also had Wilford's Head of Security Sykes as a prisoner after she was captured by Bennett. However, Zarah Ferami chose to stay behind with Snowpiercer due to the dangers of their plan, confident that Wilford wouldn't dare to harm her due to Zarah's pregnancy.

In order to disconnect the train, Boki began a manual override of the J-Links in the Aquarium, the one car that could be disconnected for safety reasons even during a lockdown while Layton distracted Wilford and laid out his threat to Audrey. However, while Boki succeeded in disabling one J-Link, 7 Jackboots attacked him, preventing him from disconnecting the other while he fought them off. During this time, Wilford sent Josie Wellstead outside to breach the Engine, but Bennett contacted her and redirected Josie to the Aquarium instead. On Bennett's order, Josie breached the Aquarium, causing the destruction of the entire car and killing Boki and the attacking Jackboots but successfully separating the trains. However, Ruth was left behind on Snowpiercer after being delayed by Kevin McMahon, preventing her from reaching the front of the train in time.

The new pirate train returned to the Breslauer Weather Station for Melanie, only to find her gone and the last of her power preserving her vital data. Melanie's data revealed several areas of the Earth that were warming and that could potentially be used for recolonization. Layton ordered his crew to go after Snowpiercer and Big Alice, intending to get Snowpiercer back.

For the next six months, the pirate train searched the globe for a habitable location based on Melanie's data without success. It was eventually discovered that that First Class passenger Martin Colvin had inadvertently stowed away, having fallen asleep in his cabin which was located within the ten cars. Miss Audrey was locked up within a cage in the library car, but Sykes became cooperative as time went on, helping the crew out in small ways which Sykes claimed was simply her doing her part as a prisoner of war. While taking samples in North Korea, Bennett fell through a roof and had to be rescued by Layton and Josie. Due to overheating problems with the Engine, Alex and Till were forced to take the train and leave before the problems prevented the train from ever moving again. As the two women worked to repair the issues and return, Martin released Audrey with the two intending to force Alex to reconnect with Snowpiercer instead of going back. Sykes, who showed a wavering loyalty to Wilford, refused to help them and allowed herself to be locked up instead. Although Audrey and Martin briefly succeeded in taking the Engine, Till escaped, quickly subdued them both and convinced Alex not to give up hope. Upon the pirate train's return, they picked up Bennett and Josie and were soon after joined by Layton who brought with him a survivor that he'd found.

Population

Crew Andre Layton - Leader/Acting Breachman Bennett Knox - Engineer Alexandra Cavill - Engineer Bess Till - Crewman Josie Wellstead - Crewman/Freeze augmented Breachmen Martin Colvin - Accidental Stowaway/Chef Asha - Survivor from the outside

Captives Miss Audrey - Hostage Sykes - Prisoner of war/waitress

Trivia

• According to Bennett, due to being disconnected from Snowpiercer, the Engine is now a Ferrari and will be running hot, leading to noticeably increased temperatures inside the train and steam coming out of the outside while it's parked.
• Due to its smaller size, the train is capable of stopping and starting again, something that Snowpiercer could no longer do often.
• The train (presumably) does not have any Battery Cars, however, because it is so small, the Engine can power the entire train.
• Because of it’s small size, the Engine has more power and when stopped has to vent to prevent a meltdown, or start moving again (and vent), however if it vents to much, it won’t be able to move again.
• To prevent a meltdown, the Engine needs 8 minutes to get up to speed and 10 to 12 minutes to run a discharge sequence, starting at 20km/hour and increasing to 75km/hour. While traveling Alex said, "built to work at speed, under load, but we have nether. We’re a jet engine strapped to a toy wagon. All we have to do is stop on a dime without stalling or burning up twice and once in reverse."
• Both Ruth and Bojan were intended crewmembers of the pirate train. However, Ruth was left behind after being delayed by Kevin and thus taking too long to reach the Aquarium while Boki was killed in the Aquarium's destruction.
  • Both were former Wilford loyalists who sided with Layton after seeing Wilford for who he truly is.
  • In Layton's absence, Ruth has taken up his role as leader of the resistance on Snowpiercer. She also appears to have no hard feelings over being left behind, presumably understanding what had happened and she holds faith in Layton's eventual return.
• It's currently unknown if the pirate train is going to get an official name of its own.
  • However, Ruth calls it Snowpiercer while talking to Pike in The Tortoise and the Hare while the combined train under Wilford's control is never referred to by name, not even in Layton's opening monologue, instead just being referred to as "Wilford's rolling gulag." This suggests that the pirate train is now considered Snowpiercer itself by at least the resistance rather than the rest of the train that was left behind.
  • In The Last to Go, Layton identifies the pirate train as Snowpiercer to Asha while the other train is simply called "Wilford's train." The only time that it's ever referred to as Layton's pirate train is once by Wilford himself near the end of the episode.
• As revealed in The Tortoise and the Hare, along with the Engine, the pirate train has the First Class Library Car and at least some passenger carriages, including Martin Colvin's. Till also mentions a meat locker that she had wanted to imprison Miss Audrey in. It also has at least one cold locker for outside work.
• The presence of the carriages and Martin's accidental stowing away suggests that the crew had most likely triggered some sort of evacuation of the cars before separating that only Martin had missed due to being asleep.
• 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.