Snowpiercer – Season 4 Episode 6 – Recap – “Bell The Cat”

Wilford and Layton’s life has been destroyed, mainly because of the action done by Wilford. Wilford’s actions, such as kidnapping Layton’s daughter, Liana, affects him in the long run, and influences his decisions. Sykes turns into a raging killer most likely due to Wilford’s machinations while the latter gradually takes over the Pirate fighters one man at the time, from Admiral Milius.

Wilford starts by picking on a scarred soldier, with the name, Wolf. He gives Wolf the hope of being cured by Dr.Headwood, and this arouses curiosity on the marks that the soldier has on his face. But one more important thing to mention is that Admiral Milius is an absolute commander of his men they blindly trust him while Wilford has some kind of a personal charm. By this time, Wilford is telling the soldiers stories about duels that took place inside Big Alice and this changes when . At first the soldiers playing and laughing but as soon as Admiral Milius appears on the scene they are silenced. The Admiral proves this by putting out Wilford’s lit cigar between the hand fingers of one of his followers in an act to emphasize that his power overrules Wilford pretty charm and former military might.

Milius then strikes a second, tactical point when he sends Wilford ashore with the soldiers on a raid, and gives the engineering post, on Snowpiercer, to Alex, Wilford’s protégé. The idea of Alex taking over scares Wilford to death but there is one thing that is even scarier – these ‘incursions’. For all his bluster, Wilford knows very well what these operations involve.

Finally, Dr. Nima Rousseau (Michael Aronov) informs Alex about the fact that nosebleeds are just toxic reactions of her body to Gemini, the substance that decomposes CW-7. After the chemical spill incident, Nima and his people have been conducting experiments on the level 3 residents in order to develop the gemini further. I just love this introduction with Milius declaring back that Melanie has come back and it is time for the mission.

The following scenes are set in Layton – he now is in the lowest level of the silo, which is all dark and poisonous, really. This comes out as a revelation that some years back, there was a chemical spillage from a compound that is used in making of New eden. This led to a situation whereby the lower floors deteriorated while people living in them became live ‘guinea pigs’. The inhabitants of the place are chemic al veterans like the soldiers in the entourage of Admiral Milius. Wilford, now joining the incursion, finds out that these “incursions’ ‘ is nothing but fights to the death, the soldiers hunting the helpless inhabitants of the lower levels as a form of gloom disguised as an humanitarian act.

Wolf aims his gun at Wilford and could have shot him but he did not kill him instead he left him trapped in the silo. This brings Wilford and Layton face to face hence creating a confrontation between the two characters. After that Layton is cornered, he’s become furious. He challenges Wilford upon which he states that he should have killed him when he had a chance. They both get into a fight, and Layton ends up severely ladening Wilford. However, Wilford, as a true anti-hero, is able to slash Layton with a sharp object and flee, running into a room which filled with equipments and locks the door tightly.

In this area which seems well protected, Wilford tries to convince Layton, presenting himself as a good man who wants to help people. He stated that he and his people ‘‘needed’’ to kidnap Liana, and all his subsequent actions were to prevent New Eden from being invaded by Admiral Milius. Wilford then fixes the equipment and informs the Admiral that he has changed the minds of his men especially Wolf to join him.

The Admiral, getting annoyed, dispatches a kill squad to the lower floors, instructing them to kill off everyone down there. Wilford, however, expected such an action, and was prepared for it in any way possible. He knows that no door will open and that his only way out is through the lift which is in the basement. His plan is simple yet cunning: thus, in order to be able to get out, he had to climb up the elevator shaft and wait until he has to use the elevator as his mode of escape.

As the situation getting worse, Alex (Rowan Blanchard) goes down to the basement before the soldiers can get in. Now she is a part of that experiment and wants to watch those tests being done on the inhabitants of the lower floors. Meanwhile, in New eden, Oz learns that Whiggins, who has lost hand as vehicle in the process of betraying them, is the one they’ve been searching through all this. In this scene, Whiggins is interrogated by the soldiers and he finally informs the soldiers that he told them about Dr. Headwood and Zarah Fahrami (Sheila Vand). He also reveals that soldiers have been digging what they believe to be graves, but Oz uncovers a more sinister truth: the Admiral’s men are setting explosives charged with collapsing the whole of New Eden.