Snowpiercer Season 2 Repeats A Season 1 Story But Makes It Better

Snowpiercer Season 2 Repeats A Season 1 Story – But Makes It Better

Snowpiercer season 2 has another murder mystery but its resolution is better than season 1’s killings and deepened the political turmoil of the train.

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Snowpiercer Season 2 Repeats A Season 1 Story But Makes It Better

Warning: SPOILERS for Snowpiercer season 1, episode 7, “Our Answer For Everything”.

Snowpiercer season 2 repeats a season 1 trope with another murder mystery but it’s also a huge improvement that deepened the political and social divide of Snowpiercer’s passengers. As the new Train Detective, Bess Till (Mickey Sumner) conducted the investigation of the murders of Snowpiercer’s Breachmen. Her discovery of the culprit not only revealed how much of the train has sided with Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean), but it was also heartbreaking for Till, who has been shouldering the sins of the train.

A murder mystery is what brought Andre Layton from the Tail into the main body of the train in Snowpiercer season 1. As Train Detective, Layton was given a mandate by Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly) to investigate a series of gruesome murders where the victims had their penises removed. Layton swiftly solved the murders; by episode 4, the sleuth uncovered L.J. Folger (Annalise Basso) and her bodyguard Erik (Matt Murray) as the perpetrators. But Melanie reversed the verdict of L.J.’s trial, and the psychotic teen blackmailed Cavill because she’d learned Melanie’s secret that she was posing as Mr. Wilford. However, L.J. still told Layton, and this prompted Andre to lead the Tail and Third Class’ revolution to dismantle Mr. Wilford’s perfect order. Ultimately, season 1’s murders moved key players into position for the second half of season 1 but the murders themselves didn’t impact Snowpiercer’s main story.

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Snowpiercer season 2’s murders are even more shocking: By the end of episode 5, “Keep Hope Alive”, eight of the train’s Breachmen were brutally executed in a coordinated attack. The Tail was blamed, and the killings further fanned pro-Wilford and anti-Tail hysteria on the train. The murders also weakened Layton’s political power as the elected leader of Snowpiercer; the fact that Layton was a Tailie exposed his loyalties to his “class” and made him seem weak, especially compared to the order promised by the return of Mr. Wilford. However, Layton and Till didn’t believe the Tail did it, because they didn’t. The truth uncovered an insidious conspiracy to give Mr. Wilford power over Snowpiercer.

Till carried the burden of the investigation, and the murders were foreshadowed by how a Tailie named Lights (Miranda Edwards) was brutally maimed. Lights’ thumb and pinkie were cut off so that her hand’s remaining fingers are forced to make the “W” sign of Wilford. Till followed a trail of suspects to Muscle Breach, where the train’s Breachmen work out but they denied responsibility. Meanwhile, Snowpiercer introduced a new character, Pastor Logan (Bryan Terrell Clark), who runs the Tea Room and offered Till spiritual solace. But Logan left behind a clue, the necklaces of St. Christopher, one of which he gifted to Till.

Bess followed the trail of another clue, a button from a Wilford uniform jacket, that led her to a First Class passenger named Eugenia (Amanda Brugel). Eugenia, who wore one of Pastor Logan’s necklaces, murdered one of the Breachmen, and that led Till right to Logan’s door. When he realized he was caught, Logan attempted suicide by Lung of Ice while Bess fought Mia (Carolyn Yu), one of the Pastor’s supporters. But for Till, deducing Logan is behind the murders is tragic. Till had been personally devastated by the Snowpiercer Wars and her resulting breakup with Jinju (Susan Park). Bess is coping with PTSD and she hoped that bringing justice to the murder victims would bring her some catharsis. Instead, Bess was betrayed by Pastor Logan, who singled her out and got close to her in order to recruit her.

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By the end of episode 7, the continuing turmoil the murders created on the train resulted in red lamps lit in the windows of almost all of Snowpiercer’s 1,034 cars – a sign that the train wants Wilford to return. Meanwhile, the hostility the rest of the train feels towards the Tail reached a boiling point. Snowpiercer season 2’s murders of the Breachmen is intricately tied to the train choosing Wilford to restore order after Melanie Cavill denied them their Messiah for seven years. It’s also a nail in the coffin for Andre Layton’s authority on Snowpiercer.

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