The Eternal Engineer

Season	2
Episode	8
Overall	18
	March 15, 2021
	Renée St. Cyr
	Rebecca Rodriguez
	47 minutes
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The Eternal Engineer is the eighth episode of the second season of Snowpiercer. It is the eighteenth episode of the series overall.

Synopsis

An engineering catastrophe forces Layton to make a difficult choice that might cost him everything.

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 Katie McGuinness as Josie Wellstead Sheila Vand as Zarah Ferami Mike O'Malley as Roche Roberto Urbina as Javier De La Torre Annalise Basso as LJ Folger Sam Otto as John Osweiller Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill Sean Bean as Mr. Wilford

Guest Starring Sakina Jaffrey as Mrs. Headwood Damian Young as Mr. Headwood Tom Lipinski as Kevin McMahon Elaine Kao as Anne Roche Karin Konoval as Doctor Pelton Aleks Paunovic as Bojan Boscovic

Co-Starring

• Steve Baran as Brakeman Ames/Brakeman 1
• Miranda Edwards as Lights
• RJ Fetherstonhaugh ... Jackboot Clifford
• Esther Li as Carly Roche
• Matthew Mandzij ... Brakeman West
• Kelly-Ruth Mercier ... Annie
• Anup Sehdev ... Tunnelman #1
• Brent Stait as Tunnelman Jakes Carter
• Andre Tricoteux as Icy Bob
• Andrea Ware as Jackboot Tyson
• Garfield Wilson as Jackboot Kaffey

Quotes

“	Wilford gave me this himself. He said "Breachmen risk their lives for me. With this, I pledge the same to you." Take it. Maybe you can shove it up his ass one day, huh? Sir.	”
	— Boki gives Layton his Wilford pin and switches sides

Trivia

• Big Alice has The Drawers aboard. Sam Roche was imprisoned in them with his family.
• Josie is shown to have mostly healed from her frostbite and is starting to develop abilities similar to Icy Bob.
• It's stated that there is a rumor that the surviving Jackboots have rebuilt a command. At the end of the episode, they are shown active again, working for Wilford.
• Snowpiercer appears to have been partially repaired as the train is moving on at least some of its own power rather than relying completely on Big Alice for movement. This is further indicated by Javier De La Torre telling Layton that the Engine "still isn't running at full capacity," suggesting that its running at least somewhat on its own again.
• The events of this episode are why Snowpiercer was late returning for Melanie in Many Miles From Snowpiercer: the train had to slow down as a result of the problems from Icy Bob's sabotage.
• Bojan Boscovic changes sides after realizing that Wilford had Snowpiercer sabotaged and did in fact betray him.
• Wilford regains control of the train while Layton is arrested and Roche and his family are placed into the Drawers.
• Miss Audrey is reading Speak, Memory, an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. At the same moment they listen to the song What I Got, I Got form Maurice Rice.
• Miss Audrey, while in the bathtub aboard Big Alice, is singing “Joey” from the 1990 album “Bloodletting” by Concrete Blonde, written by Johnette Napolitano.

Body Count

• Icy Bob (died of injuries from going out into the Freeze)

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