SNOWPIERCER Season 4 Episode 7, starts with a scene that goes back to three years in the past. Admiral Kari Chang (Sumalee Montano) chastises Milius (Clark Gregg), a commander at the time, for suggesting cruel experiments to stop the Freeze. Screenplay writer Milius who think that is effective to use people since lab animals failed, is removed from his post and told to go back to his room. Milius ashamed of the Indian betrayal restrains his two sons from spying on Chang but Mandakini secretly follows him and learns that his wife Linda played by Sarah Edmondson has been spying for Chang.
Stressfully, Milius takes the whole of Level 3 which is a poorly-occupied floor and releases lethal chemical gas on them. The gas results to the death of Linda while Chang survives but is badly injured. Milius then bars all the doors to the Level three so that no one will come out alive. After this he takes Chang’s admiral stars and pose as her making him even more cruel as a character.
In the present day Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) comes back to the Silo and meets Milius there. She has a lot of issues with Gemini as to how it impacts the atmospheric condition; she argues that new data should be analyzed before deployment. Snowpiercer is only few hours away Milius tells her and she needs to get the data to Nima. She explains to him that if the data reveals that Gemini is dangerous, that the launch could be put on hold.
At the same time, Joseph Wilford (Sean Bean) gets back to the control of the elevator on Level 3 and tries to prepare the people for the further battle with Milius. Alex (Rowan Blanchard) gives Nima a wrist device from where its battery is dead so it cannot have access to several systems.
Milius says to his men that they would be moving to the third level of the building. The protagonist named Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs), is convinced that the only possibility to leave the building is the elevator. Layton and Chang are informed to take on the soldiers while Wilford and Alex deal with the engineering stuff. Nima (Michael Aronov) informs Milius that Melanie will most likely stumble upon Alex in Level 3 and, seeing the conditions in which he lives, she will stop the launch; therefore, it is necessary to deceive her a few more times.
Wilford constructs an object to distract or interfere with Milius’s men. He orders Alex to crawl through the air vent to get into Snowpiercer. Melanie acquires some shocking data on radiation and gets it confirmed from Nima that Alex is in the Silo. As Layton fights Milius’s man, a container with gas falls through the platform that is the ceiling of the elevator, making things worse for them.
New Eden, Javi (Roberto Urbina) and his team receive information about a bomb threat around the compound. Unless they disarm the bombs, and let the residents know their plan before Big Alice shows up, it will be impossible. Bess (played by Mickey Sumner) and Ruth (Alison Wright) are told that they should not cross the bridge till the bombs are supposedly dismantled.
Mel confronts Nima where she finds out that Alex has taken a wrist device and went to Level 3 to search for Wilford. Melanie then chooses to go on with her individual strategy. Alex crawls through the vents and Layton and Chang deal with Milius’s people. Wilford’s device triggers a sound that the soldiers find excruciating; they all pass out from the pain, thus giving Layton and Wilford ;the slip. The breach alert is prompted and the emergency sets in where Milius has to shut down lower levels of the Silo.
And so, Mel gets to Level 3 to be with Layton and Wilford again. Wilford then informs them that Alex is alright and tells Melanie and Layton not to reveal the state of Snowpiercer to the rest until he gets on board. He also reveals that Josie and Liana are on the Level 17 in the infirmary. In the episode New Eden, Bess and Ruth talk to Javi who enlightens them on the bomb threat incidence. Before Big Alice comes back Javi and his team intend to sweep the bridge for safety.
Mel and Alex meet again and then Mel is told by Alex about the death of her husband Ben. Alex tells a revelation that her research indicates that Gemini is more impactful to the atmosphere than previously thought. Mel seizes the train control of Snowpiercer and orders Alex to become a pilot of the train. While Mel expects something terrible to happen Nima is in training for the Gemini launch and disregards Mel’s fears. He tests the compound on Melanie which puts her into coma and imprisons her.
Layton confronts Wilford, who is revealed to have survived the freezing conditions due to his proprietary treatment. Wilford uses this to his advantage, leading to a confrontation with Milius. He ultimately kills Milius by removing his mask, causing him to freeze.
Nima continues with the launch preparations, directing his soldiers to overcome any obstacles. Layton, Josie, and Liana find themselves in a locked car on the tracks as Snowpiercer unlocks, suggesting sabotage. Javi and his team find and manually deactivate a bomb on the bridge, but an explosion occurs, complicating their efforts.
As Melanie and Alex work to delay the launch, they face Nima’s insistence on proceeding despite the new data indicating dangerous radiation levels. Wilford, having smoked a poisoned joint, dies, making his dramatic exit. Meanwhile, Layton, Josie, and Liana encounter a masked soldier, resulting in a tense standoff.
The episode ends with a cliffhanger: the subtrain is stranded, and Melanie is incapacitated. SNOWPIERCER faces immediate threats from within and outside as the train’s survival hangs in the balance.
SNOWPIERCER Season 4, Episode 7, titled “A Moth to a Flame,” marks the 37th episode in the series overall. Directed by Leslie Hope and teleplay by Michael Bhim, this chapter aired on September 1, 2024.
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