Setting Itself Right

Season	3
Episode	8
Overall	28
	March 14, 2022
	Marisha Mukerjee
	Leslie Hope
	46 minutes
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Setting Itself Right is the eighth episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It is the twenty-eighth episode of the series overall. The episode aired on TNT March 14, 2022 and then streamed internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

As the train detours from New Eden, an environmental catastrophe threatens everyone onboard.

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 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 Sakina Jaffrey as Mrs. Headwood Co-Starring Esther Ming Li as Carly Roche Andrea Ware as Jackboot Tyson Ava Johnson as Ag-Sec Worker Alyssa Litowsky as Jenny Adam Zulkifli as Ag-Sec Worker

Quotes

Layton: "You think Melanie's alive?"

Bennett: "Well, we can't leap to that. Something's moving out there. But first, you need to understand how track switches work."

Alex: "Track switches operate on battery power. When Ben and I took a look at the data, we saw that some of them had lost juice."

Bennett: "It's because something is moving from switch to switch, drawing down power. When we follow the breadcrumbs, they lead us to the Rocky Mountain Test Track."

Ruth: "Where we last saw Melanie."

Till: "It's gotta be her then."

Alex: "There's a facility on that track. In theory, she could've reached the hangar and gotten a maintenance vehicle going or a track scaler or a plow."

Bennett: "But these are bare-bones, autonomous machines. They're not designed to support life."

Ruth: "But it's moving. You said so yourself."

Alex: "Yeah, the vehicle's moving. It could go on for years. It's just about the person inside of it."
Bennett: "With no support or water. And they're barely the size of a broom closet."

―  Bennett and Alex reveal what they've learned about Melanie's possible survival

“	Hey, uh, I know y'all are busy back there doing science, but is this what you're looking for?	”
	— Layton spots the problem that Bennett, Alex and Asha are trying to find

Wilford: "You must be our little survivor."

Asha: "And you must be the Great Engineer."

―  Wilford meets Asha

“	Holy shit! It's her.	”
	— Bennett as he and Alex spot Melanie's vehicle on satellite

Trivia

• Asha reveals that in her desperation to protect her nephew after the marauders died off, she had poisoned the other survivors in the North Korean bunker.
• Asha confirms that Layton really did see the dragon's blood tree in a picture on a calendar on her wall. Asha explains that she had kept the picture to remind herself of how special the world is.
• The Track switches operate on battery power (presumably once connected to the grid).
• Bennett and Alex discover a path of something moving, leading to Neckbreaker where Melanie Cavill had last been seen. Neckbreaker has a hangar that Melanie could've reached in theory and gotten a vehicle of some kind going. However, they are bare-bones autonomous machines that are not designed to support life.
• Sam Roche has returned to work as the Lead Breakman.
• According to Sykes, there's only 2 or 3 dogs left in the world, including Jupiter who has been locked in a cage ever since Wilford's defeat.
• Mrs. Headwood is shown to have someone hidden in her lab that she's working on in secret. She takes blood and a piece of skin from LJ Folger, possibly for her treatment of this person.
• At the end of the episode, Snowpiercer picks up the signal from Melanie's vehicle, in Hungary.

Body Count

• Asha (inhalation of volcanic gas)

Gallery