Warning! This article contains spoilers for Snowpiercer! Read at your own risk!
Snowpiercer Season 3 is definitely not pulling the brakes as the journey to New Eden pushes through with the Eternal Engine and the remains of humanity goes to a life-and-death decision to follow Melanie’s research on where the people could start a new civilization. However, this is not without any sacrifices on the way as Layton loses one of his most trusted friends, Pike, and he comes back to haunt him in an exclusive clip.
In an exclusive clip released by TNT for the upcoming episode of Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 7, Ouroboros, Layton is in some kind of a dream where he talks to Pike about forgiveness while in a prison cell. Pike asks him to confess his sins to be absolved, stating that there are tons of bodies piled up at the canteen and that Layton has to start with that.
Layton, penitent, said that he just wants to come home but home is nowhere to be found. Layton confronts Pike and the latter says he just wants the truth of New Eden to come out. Layton, on the other hand, said he did not have a choice and in an ominous tone, Pike seeks God’s mercy for Layton’s soul. Layton is still persistent in keeping his secret.
This could be some dream or hallucination of Layton as Pike already died in his hands in Episode 6, Born to Bleed, where they had a confrontation in the way that the Tailies deal with issues, “Old Ivan’s Way,” and Pike rally got to the nerves of Layton when he did not want to cooperate at all after setting the name tree on fire and targeting Layton’s life with an explosion.
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In Episode 5, A New Life, Pike set the name tree on fire and he trapped Layton in the AgSec with an explosion that could have caused his death. Even when Pike seemed penitent at the end of the episode, in the next run of the series, Episode 6, Born to Bleed, Pike was discovered to be the perpetrator and he reasoned that Layton should not be the one leading the train.
Surely, Layton has a lot going on in his life having to juggle being a new father to his daughter to Zarah, Liana, and being the leader of Snowpiercer, and this vision or dream indicates that Layton carries some guilt on the life of Pike lost in his own hands.
The title of the next episode seems to hint that something is not adding up, Ouroboros means a symbol of a snake consuming its own tail and this tells that Layton may not be sure anymore on where he would take Snowpiercer next, or his life in general with all the things that are happening. With a secret that Pike brought with him to his death bed, Layton’s guilt eats him from the inside.
Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 7 releases tonight at 9 PM EST via TNT.
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