Bound by One Track

Season	3
Episode	4
Overall	24
	February 14, 2022
	Renée St. Cyr
	Leslie Hope
	46 minutes
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Bound by One Track is the fourth episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It is the twenty-fourth episode of the series overall. The episode is expected to on TNT February 14, 2022 and then internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

TNT's: Alex finally deals with her parental figures as a track obstruction uncovers a painful past.

Netflix's: Alex, Asha, Roche and Javi each try to deal with personal traumas from the past as Layton and the engineers work to get past a blockage on the track.

Intro

“	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 bound by one track, under the wheels of Snowpiercer, 1,029 cars long.	”
	— Alexandra Cavill

Plot

SPOILERS AHEAD

TBA

Cast

Main 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 Roche Annalise Basso as LJ Folger Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill Archie Panjabi as Asha Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

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 West Jane McGregor as Astrid Esther Ming Li as Carly Roche Kwasi Thomas as Z-Wreck Grace Sunar as Young Alex Andrea Ware as Jackboot Tyson Kristian Bruun as Stu Whiggins Bella Grace as Shilo

Trivia

• 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.
• Melanie Cavill appears for the first time in Season 3, albeit in the form of a hallucination/visualisation of Alex's inner thoughts.
• The trains are now less than two weeks away from the Horn of Africa.
• 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 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.

Body Count

• 3 people (influenza; mentioned only)
  • Mama Grandé
  • Murray
  • Emilia
• Shilo (died in Wilford's Big Alice cull; mentioned only)

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