Wilford: Sorry about leaving you to die, I suppose, but you know how things are.
Melanie: It was great. I got a little 'me' time.

The closer we get to New Eden, the less you matter.

Alex

Layton: You're going to be foggy for a while. I learned that the hard way.
Melanie: Guess I never apologized for locking you in a Drawer, did I?
Layton: We'll tally all of it up one of these days.

Grief turns us inward. We search our hearts for clues, question if we did enough, what is left, and who we are in this new world.

Ben

Melanie: In a way, lying is a kind of empathy. You protect people from the burdens you don't want them to bear. But... but if you keep people in the dark, you take away their power, so you just have to know that you're right.
Layton: Is that what you told yourself?

Alex: I know that if you showed the data to ten different scientists, you would get ten different conclusions.
Melanie: So what's yours? Do you say 80% chance of survival? 60%? What about the track to the Horn? I mean, the intel is bad or it's absent. We could derail before we even get there.
Alex: Good thing we have our best driver back with us then.
Melanie: I'm serious, Alex.
Alex: I know you are, Mom. But we made the call. You were dead. 100% never coming back, or at least that's what the intel said. Now, if there is one thing Layton taught me, sometimes it's good to take a leap of faith.

Javi: I can't believe Ben lied to me.
Melanie: It's not about the lie, Javi. The data and the facts on the ground don't justify the risk.
Javi: Um, okay. It is about the lie. But, anyway, you threw down the chaos, and it's working.

Ben: How'd you endure it?
Melanie: Well, I'm super stubborn. Plus, I knew you'd find me.

Melanie: I know you're upset. Ben, the turn is coming, I had to do it.
Ben: No, but you did. Unilaterally. I almost forgot that's your move.
Melanie: it is our job to keep these people safe, Ben.
Ben: You betrayed me. And you killed our hope.
Melanie: I'm sorry.
Ben: Goodbye, Mel.

Still, I allow myself to hope that she'll return to us, and our old selves won't hold us back on Snowpiercer, one thousand and twenty-nine cars long.

Ben

Till: Can I ask, is something happening here?
Audrey: Between you and me?
Till: I mean, no, right? You did your thing. We shared some feelings. It's easy to mistake it for something else. Must've happened to you all the time.
Audrey: Not like this.

Melanie: I don't think New Eden is a good idea.
Layton: The idea is everything.
Melanie: Not if the math doesn't add up. Then you need a new idea.

Snowpiercer Quotes

Resistance is never futile but Wilford's train is a fortress to class. Maybe it is perpetual.

Old Ivan

Pike: You know what I think, Layton? I don't think you got the guts to stand with us.
Layton: Pike, you can question my plan if you want. You question my fight and we got a serious problem.