The Last to Go

Season	3
Episode	2
Overall	22
	January 31, 2022
	Marisha Mukerjee
	Christoph Schrewe
	46 minutes
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The Last to Go is the second episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It is the twenty-second episode of the series overall. The episode aired on TNT January 31, 2022 and then internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

TNT's: Layton goes on the hunt, as Wilford works to boost morale; the resistance discovers a threat that could undermine everything they've worked for.

Netflix's: Snowpiercer welcomes a new survivor as Layton tries to make sense of his visions. On Big Alice, Ruth and the resistance plot sabotage during a ceremony.

Intro

“	When the cold comes for you, the blood stops running to your limbs. It pulls up inside to keep your organs warm. My first love told me that. An off-shore roughnecker, he was. Tall and lean and tough as wet leather. He'd say, "Ruthie, your smile keeps me warm, so be sure to wear it 'til I'm home." Next, the cold comes for your mind. And after that, your will. And yet, still, the heart fights on. (...) He left me too soon, my roughneck love. His rig went down with every man aboard. But I know my smile kept him warm as he floated, all alone. Just as I know our hearts will be the last thing to go on Wilford's train, 1,023 cars long.	”
	— Ruth Wardell

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 Steven Ogg as Pike Katie McGuinness as Josie Wellstead Sheila Vand as Zarah Ferami Annalise Basso as LJ Folger Sam Otto as John Osweiller Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill Archie Panjabi as Asha Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

Guest Starring Sakina Jaffrey as Mrs. Headwood Tom Lipinski as Kevin McMahon Karin Konoval as Doctor Pelton Co-Starring Miranda Edwards as Lights RJ Fetherstonhaugh as Jackboot Clifford Emma Oliver as Winnie Kurt Ostlund as Strong Boy Kwasi Thomas as Z-Wreck Fiona Vroom as Miss Gillies Bola Omooara as Jackboot Gibbs Eric Pollins as Cakemaker Abiola Uthman as Jackboot

Quotes

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Asha: "There were 34 of us to start, eking it out on the plant’s residual power. Korean scientists, foreign nuclear technicians like me. Some of our families too. Marauders killed about half of us before they died out. And then the old or radiation poisoning took the rest of us. My nephew, he was 15 years old. He was the last to go. He had thyroid cancer. By the end, he was begging me to kill him. That was about four years ago. After that, I lost time. I stopped hoping, stopped thinking, It’s like someone other than me lived down there. Then I turned my eyes on you."

Layton: "I hate to tell you this, but humankind hasn’t exactly evolved in your absence."

Asha: "You pushed past what was safe, even sane, to rescue me. Why?"

Layton: "I’m just glad I did."

―  Asha told Layton about what happened.

“	Where's Mr.Wilford, the Great Engineer?	”
	— Asha, when is she is introduced to the crew of the Pirate train

Layton: "Electromagnetic?"

Alex: "Triangulating."

Bennett: "Well, that's the signature, it's got to be them."

Alex: "Yes, it is. 520 kilometers west."

Bennett: "They're on the main line."

Alex: "That's a lot better than seeing them on sat."

Till: "Yeah, it means Wilford can't see us."

Josie: "We've got the drop on him."

Bennett: "Well, Wilford hates surprises."

Layton: "Good. Let's go give him one."

―  The pirate train crew made an unexpected discovery.

Trivia

• The title of the episode is a line in Ruth Wardell's opening dialogue, implying about how she would never give up no matter what she has to lose. Later in the episode Asha would also said that her little brother was "the last one to go (die)".
• It's revealed that there's surviving rats on the train which are used as message couriers by Ruth and the resistance.
• Bennett determines that the location checked out in The Tortoise and the Hare won't be habitable for a century "give or take" as, even though it's warming, the trend isn't steep enough to be habitable yet. This is the same as the other four locations that they had checked out, leaving only one possible location left for recolonization. However, the train lacks the resources necessary to make the journey there.
  • The remaining location is in the southern Arabian Peninsula on the Horn of Africa which is stated to look promising.
• The Pirate train is once again referred to as Snowpiercer while the train that was left behind is simply called "Wilford's train" in Ruth's opening monologue and Wilford simply calls it "our train." The only time that it's referred to as Layton's pirate train in dialogue is when Wilford is preparing to freeze Ruth's arm off at the end.
• After Layton tells Asha that she's on Snowpiercer, she isn’t confused what that is and is surprised that it survived, which means the Wilford Industries Global Express was also known as Snowpiercer, before it was secretly turned into a ark.
• LJ and Oz get engaged and married.
  • Oz's full name is revealed to be John Christopher Ozweiler.
• Layton identifies the Dragon's Blood Tree from his vision which he discovers only grows in Socotra, near the Horn of Africa.
• Strong Boy is seen speaking full sentences in English for the first time since regaining the ability to talk after being rescued from the Drawers.
• It's revealed that Wilford had only put in the ports to freeze people's arms off as an idle threat, but that Ruth had used them 13 times.
  • However, Layton said 13 people lost a arm in First, the Weather Changed and Ruth then removed Suzanne's in Prepare to Brace.
• The Earth's satellites are degrading, making navigation much harder for the trains along with tracking each other.

Body Count

• Ruth Wardell's first love and his rig crew (before The Freeze; mentioned only)
• Mr. Headwood (influenza; mentioned only)
• 33 scientists and their families (marauders, the Freeze and radiation poisoning; mentioned only)
• Marauders (mentioned only)
• Asha's nephew (mercy killed by Asha on account of thyroid cancer; mentioned only)

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