The Tortoise and the Hare

Season	3
Episode	1
Overall	21
	January 24, 2022
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The Tortoise and the Hare will be the first episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It will be the twenty-first episode of the series overall. It is expected to air on TNT January 24, 2022 and then internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

While Wilford emphasizes his rule aboard his icy train, Layton's pirate train continues its dangerous quest for warm spots, and comes across something entirely unexpected.

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 Katie McGuinness as Josie Wellstead Archie Panjabi as Asha Chelsea Harris as Sykes Steven Ogg as Pike Sheila Vand as Zarah Ferami Mike O'Malley as Roche Annalise Basso as LJ Folger Sam Otto as John Osweiller Roberto Urbina as Javier De La Torre Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

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Co-Starring

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Trivia

• This episode picks up six months after "Into the White."
• Snowpiercer has become a "rolling gulag" 1,023 cars long under Wilford's leadership.
  • Ruth Wardell has become the leader of the resistance aboard Snowpiercer. Pike assists her.
  • The train has to deal with low temperatures and freezing issues due to Big Alice powering both trains alone.
  • First Class has been decommissioned and left empty and frozen. Wilford claims that he will restore it when he gets the Engine and Audrey back.
  • Wilford has been forced to stop the culling of the passengers that he had planned due to Miss Audrey being a hostage.
  • Javier De La Torre is revealed to still be alive, but he is scarred and hooked up to IVs working as the Engineer on Big Alice.
  • LJ Folger and Oz now run the Night Car.
• The pirate train has spent six months following Melanie Cavill's climate model without success in search of a habitable place.
  • Miss Audrey remains a prisoner while Sykes has begun cooperating with the crew as a POW.
  • It's revealed that Martin Colvin is a part of the crew, having accidentally stowed away on board.
• Layton has what appears to be a vision of a tree in Africa.
• Layton finds another survivor in a bunker in North Korea.
• The Headwoods are seen doing something to Layton and Zara's unborn child.

Body Count

• None

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