Snowpiercer Season 3 Confronts Wilford's Greatest Sin [Exclusive Clip]
Screen Rant has an exclusive clip from Snowpiercer season 3, episode 4, "Bound By One Track," as Alex Cavill (Rowan Blanchard) confronts the greatest sin of Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean). Snowpiercer's action-packed third season has just seen the Great Ark Train reunited after six months. Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs) and his loyalists aboard Snowpiercer's stolen pirate train traveled around the world looking for New Eden, the warm spots theorized by Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly). In the 3rd episode of Snowpiercer season 3, "The First Blow," Layton returned and took control of Snowpiercer back from Mr. Wilford. Layton then lied to the train in order to get everyone to follow his quest to find New Eden.
Mr. Wilford and Alex were introduced at the start of Snowpiercer season 2. The charming but diabolical Wilford is Snowpiercer's uber-villain while Alex was Melanie's estranged teenage daughter. As Snowpiercer season 2 progressed, startling details were revealed about what happened during the 7 years when Wilford and a few hundred survivors of the Freeze boarded Big Alice and chased after Snowpiercer, which was stolen by Melanie with 3,000 souls aboard. One of the most harrowing revelations is that Wilford ordered a Cull on Big Alice; in order to conserve resources, the billionaire Messiah ordered a hundred passengers to be left behind to die. No one aboard Big Alice was allowed to speak about the Cull when the 40-car supply train docked with Snowpiercer but eventually, the truth about Wilford's crimes came out. Mr. Wilford has done innumerable terrible things, including abandoning his nemesis Melanie out in the cold to die, but the Cull stands perhaps as the gravest of his sins.
In Screen Rant's exclusive clip from "Bound By One Track," Snowpiercer's long journey to New Eden in the Horn of Africa faces a literal roadblock. Layton quickly identifies the three train cars blocking the track ahead as abandoned parts of Big Alice. But Alex realizes what it means - The Cull - and she volunteers to face the gravest crime of her adoptive "father," Wilford. You can watch the clip below.
Alex was only 10 years old when Mr. Wilford ordered the Cull. Why the teenage Cavill needs to see what the Cull left behind for herself is a question "Bound By One Track" will answer, but part of it must involve Alex's need to resolve her feelings about Wilford. The billionaire raised Alex for 7 years after she believed her mother abandoned her, but Wilford also poisoned her mind against Melanie. When Alex and Melanie reconnected, the daughter realized how much she loved and needed her mother, only for Wilford to betray Melanie and leave her to die in the Freeze. What Alex finds on the remains of Big Alice is bound to help her cope with her conflicting emotions toward Wilford and her tragic loss of Melanie.
Meanwhile, Layton has his own major concerns about the Cull blocking Snowpiercer's progress toward New Eden. The former Train Detective used Asha (Archie Panjabi), a survivor he found living alone in Korea, as the key to his Big Lie to the train, with Asha claiming that she is from New Eden. Layton worries, rightly, that the longer Snowpiercer is delayed from finding New Eden, the sooner the passengers may discover Layton's lie and turn their support back towards Wilford. Snowpiercer season 3 is escalating the palpable drama and tension on the train as Alex revisits the Cull and Wilford's greatest sin in episode 4, "Bound By One Track."