Born to Bleed

Season	3
Episode	6
Overall	26
	February 28, 2022
	Tiffany Ezuma
	Leslie Hope
	46 minutes
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Born to Bleed is the sixth episode of the third season of Snowpiercer. It is the twenty-sixth episode of the series overall. The episode aired on TNT February 28, 2022 and then streamed internationally on Netflix the next day.

Synopsis

TNT's: As the bomber is revealed, Layton comes to terms with his past decisions before making an irreversible call.

Netflix's: The search for the person who tried to kill Layton culminates in a deadly confrontation. Roche continues to struggle with his anger toward Wilford.

Intro

“	I've been told over and over that time heals all wounds. But there's one man on Snowpiercer who will never let mine close. (...) Wounds fester. They rot. They don't go away. Maybe it's just me. I pick, unable to let wounds heal. It's in my nature to provoke. Or maybe I was just born to bleed. (...) Layton's moving on from all the wounds he inflicted, but we're still bleeding, even if the trauma's hidden deep, on Snowpiercer, 1,029 cars long.	”
	— Pike

Plot

SPOILERS AHEAD

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Cast

Main Characters

• Daveed Diggs as Andre Layton
• Mickey Sumner as Bess Till
• Alison Wright as Ruth Wardell
• Lena Hall as Miss Audrey
• Steven Ogg as Pike
• Katie McGuinness as Josie Wellstead
• Sheila Vand as Zarah Ferami
• Mike O'Malley as Roche
• Annalise Basso as LJ Folger
• Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra Cavill
• Chelsea Harris as Sykes
• Archie Panjabi as Asha
• Sean Bean as Joseph Wilford

Guest Starring

• Jaylin Fletcher as Miles
• Karin Konoval as Doctor Pelton

Co-Starring

• Miranda Edwards as Lights
• Jane McGregor as Astrid
• Esther Ming Li as Carly Roche
• Emma Oliver as Winnie
• Kurt Ostlund as Strong Boy
• Kwasi Thomas as Z-Wreck
• Andrea Ware as Jackboot Tyson
• Leah Jacksties as Junior Brakeman Charles
• Ryan Mah as Doctor Kanu
• Taylor St. Pierre as Brakeman Elliot

Quotes

Pike: "So you’re an Indian, lived in England, and worked in the Horn of Africa. How’d you wind up there."

Asha: "Migrated. Thousands tried. We heard it was warmer."

Pike: "What’d you find?"

Asha: "New Eden."

Pike: "Layton found you crouched in the hole. Doesn’t exactly sound like greenhouses and sunshine to me."

Asha: "Endurance isn’t pretty everywhere."

Pike: "Yeah. Each of us still living stands on a mountain of dead. It’s something that Layton conveniently forget."

―  Pike discovered that Asha was lying about New Eden.

“	Pike, if you're listening brother, I need you to hear me. This has gone on long enough. We owe it to our friends to make this right. Come and look me in the eye and say your peace, and let's be done with this. (...) I'm calling on you to settle this with honor, Pike. The Tailie way. Old Ivan's way. We'll finish this where we started. I'll be waiting.	”
	— Layton challenges Pike to an old Tailie ritual in order to settle their differences.

Josie: "We were scattered escaping this place, but it's just us here again now. And Tailies know the dark lessons of Snowpiercer better than anyone. We gather like this not out of bloodlust, but to bottle this violent dispute and bind our brothers in an outcome that we all accept. You two will sit together until you reconcile and agree on terms, be it a handshake, punishment, or compensation. If you do not agree--."

Pike: "We call for the knives. Everyone knows."

Josie: "Two must call. Both choose peace, or both choose blood. Do you abide?"

Pike: "Can we just get on with it?"

Layton: "I will."

―  Josie, Pike and Layton begin the ritual

“	I hope you find it frozen.	”
	— Pike's last words to Layton.

“	We lost a member of our family today. In Old Ivan's way there is no winner. Only the one who's left. Layton, you will stay with Pike tonight to reflect and guide him through to whatever comes next.	”
	— Josie brings the ritual to an end.

Trivia

• The title of the episode is a line in Pike's opening dialogue.
• Strong Boy briefly appears in the form of a nightmare that Pike has.
• The sword that Layton shows Pike appears to be the same one that he used in Into the White to kill a Jackboot.
• Miles appears for the first time since A Single Trade. It's revealed that he has continued his apprenticeship and is at the top of his class.
  • Miles mentions that Wilford had continued the apprenticeships during the six months that the Pirate train was away despite the harsh conditions.
• Wilford is shown to have been traumatized by his experiences under the suspension drug, turning him into a shell of what he once was. He now believes that the science supports the Horn of Africa as a possible location for recolonization and no longer shows any immediate desire for power, much to Miss Audrey's frustration.
• Although not explicitly stated, Till appears to have resumed her role as the new Train Detective from Season 2, investigating the bombing from A New Life.
  • She was previously seen investigating the fire in A New Life, further supporting this.
• It's suggested that the Tailie gathering in this episode is the first time that all of the Tailies are back together in the Tail since the end of the revolution in Season 1.
• During the Year Three Rebellion, there was a Tailie War Council and fertilizer bombs created by Lights such as the one that Pike had used to attempt to assassinate Layton. It's suggested that with all of the losses that the Tail has suffered, Layton and Pike are the only surviving members of the War Council from that particular rebellion.
• Born to Bleed is the first episode of the series to not include a single outside shot of either train.
• The concussion that Layton had suffered from Pike's bomb, exacerbated with the fight with Pike, puts Layton into a coma.

Body Count

• Pike (stabbed in the heart by Andre Layton)

Gallery