The First Blow

Season	3
Episode	3
Overall	23
	February 7, 2022
	TBA
	TBA
	47 minutes
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The First Blow will be the third episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It will be the twenty-third episode of the series overall. The episode is expected to air on TNT February 7, 2022 and then internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

It's a game of cat and mouse as both Layton and Wilford vie for the upper hand.

Plot

SPOILERS AHEAD

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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 Chelsea Harris as Sykes Archie Panjabi as Asha Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

Guest Starring TBA Co-Starring TBA

Quotes

“	Damn. Good one.	”
	— Wilford is tricked by Josie and Layton.

“	Andre Layton has the train.	”
	— Wilford publicly surrenders.

“	Citizens of Snowpiercer... We're back.	”
	— Layton and his crew triumphantly return.

Layton: "My fellow passengers... Today, for the first time since our departure... you will have a say in our destination, and your choice will determine our future. By now, you know that Melanie's sacrifice gave us a map. Proof that there are places on the Earth that are warming. Traveling fast and light, we tested each of them. Sulawasi, Gujarat, Managua, the Atacama. And each one of these let us down. I know that you have suffered badly because of our decision to break the train. But there is one more location on which I ask you to stake your hope: the Horn of Africa. The journey to return there will be fraught with risk and the hardships will continue, but we have someone here who can renew our faith. Someone we had given up on believing in."

Alex: "What's he doing?"

Layton: "But I'll let her tell you."

Bennett: "He's bullshitting."

Asha: "My name is Asha. I am a survivor. Layton found me out there, outside. Along with trees, green grass... and life. I come from New Eden."

Layton: "I'm not asking you to choose between me and Wilford. I am asking you to choose between the train we know and the dream we don't. Thank you all so much for your sacrifices."

―  Layton takes a gamble

Layton: "The story needed a hero and we brought one back."

Ruth: "Well, in the wake of that performance, the yeas have it. Almost two-to-one."

Till: "What's one more lie?"

Layton: "The difference is this is the last one we will have to tell."

Ruth: "Well, I doubt that. I've to think this train demands a lie."

Bennett: "Yeah, like an imaginary genius in the Engine."

Alex: "Or Melanie, saving us with perfect science."

Layton: "Or a survivor, to show us the way."

Bennett: "So... we press on."

Till: "Agreed. What else are we gonna do?"

Layton: "Josie?"

Josie: "Well, we better be right."

―  Layton's council discusses their next step.

“	Fellow passengers, our great endeavor continues. You have spoken, and by majority rule, we are heading for New Eden.	”
	— Ruth announces Snowpiercer's official new course.

Trivia

• Strong Boy is shown speaking in a mixture of Mandarin and English, calling a Jackboot "hundan" which means bastard in Mandarin.
• The pirate train is forced to disconnect four cars due to Wilford damaging a wheel with a harpoon, threatening a derailment.
• There is no sign of Martin Colvin since his and Miss Audrey's failed mutiny in The Tortoise and the Hare.
• While contacting Wilford, Layton identifies the pirate train as Snowpiercer while calling Wilford's train Big Alice, the first time that Wilford's train has been called by either designation since the separation.
• Bennett tells Javi in Spanish "abre una cerveza, amigo" which translates to "open a beer, friend."
• Wilford surrenders and Layton takes back both trains which are reconnected.
• Sam Roche and his family are rescued from the Drawers by Bess Till and Doctor Pelton. However, Anne has died.
• Strong Boy is tortured to death by Kevin McMahon whom LJ Folger kills in retaliation in order to be on the right side of history.
• Ruth Wardell reveals that the Horn of Africa has maybe the worst stretch of track in the entire network and that there was a war there when the climate changed.
• Sykes appears to have sided completely with Layton now, confining Miss Audrey to Third and barring her from the Nightcar, stating that Audrey chose the wrong side.

Body Count

• Strong Boy (tortured to death by Kevin McMahon)
• Kevin McMahon (stabbed in the neck by LJ Folger)
• Anne Roche (died in the Drawers)

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