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| “ | Attention all passengers. Wilford Industries wishes you a good morning. The temperature outside is minus-119.6 degrees Celsius. As we enter the Yukon Territory of the former Canada, we remind you, for your personal safety be prepared to brace. We are 6 years, 9 months, and 26 days from departure. At the tone, the exact time will be 0800 hours. | ” |
| — Melanie Cavill, former Head of Hospitality, First, the Weather Changed | ||
The Hospitality Car is where members of Hospitality Department perform their administrative duties while caring for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class. There is at least 1 room in the Hospitality car, named the Radio Room, where the hospitality members make announcements to the passengers of Snowpiercer.
History[]
Season 1[]
- Melanie Cavill, as head of hospitality, made daily announcements in the morning. She also joined Ruth in the evening in the room to announce that the track condition will be worse in the next 24 hours and remind passengers to prepare and brace.[2]
- Melanie edited Joseph Wilford's old speeches and announces the opening of the Fight Night.[3]
- Melanie came to the car and announced that the investigation for the murder case is successfully done.[4]
- Melanie, Ruth, Tristan and The Notary randomly select one juror for each class to make the jury panel for LJ's trial, later Edith Gusterfeld, Miss Gillies and Walter Flemming arrived in the car and rested there while waiting for the tribunal.[5]
- Before the trial began, Martin Colvin privately meets with Melanie to tell her that some First Class passengers and Commander Grey is discussing whether Wilford is suitable to run the train's politics and the usual stuff.[5]
- After LJ's testimony, Melanie privately discussed her next move with Jinju in the Hospitality Car.[5]
- After the trial, Melanie privately talked to LJ and asked her to keep secret about the Drawers in the hospitality car.[5]
- During the Torretta Canyon Crisis, Ruth Wardell arrived and made two announcements to keep the passengers calm.[6]
- Miles was taken to meet Melanie and was asked to become an Engineer apprentice.[6]
- The morning after the Torretta Canyon Crisis, Melanie made an announcement honoring the death of Electrical Engineer Peter DiMarco and announcing that Miles had been fast-tracked to the Engine as a result.[7]
- Melanie used Hospitality to imprison and torture Josie Wellstead. In the struggle, a hose that Melanie was using to pull outside in air in as a torture device was yanked out of the wall, letting the Freeze in. Melanie escaped, leaving Josie to die as the car froze over. Josie she was presumed to have perished, and Melanie ordered the Jackboots to take her to Compost.[7] However, Zarah Ferami later discovered that Josie had actually survived with severe frostbite and she was taken for treatment by the Jackboots instead of to Compost.[8]
- Ruth announced the surrender of Layton's forces from the repaired Hospitality Car.[9]
Season 2[]
- Ruth prepares a communique for Mr Wilford using supplies contained within the Radio Room.
- Ruth returned to Hospitality for her teal uniform before leaving on the Pirate Train, only to be confronted and attacked by Kevin McMahon. Although Ruth defeated Kevin and escaped, it caused her to miss the Pirate Train.[10]
Season 3[]
- Ruth Wardell directed Pike to launch the New Year's fireworks from the abandoned Hospitality Car in order to signal the train's position to the Pirate Train. This allowed the Pirate Train to cut off the escape of Wilford's Rolling Gulag.[11]
- After nearly going to war with each other, Melanie and Layton made a joint announcement from Hospitality about their intentions to split the trains with Big Alice going to New Eden and Snowpiercer continuing circling the globe.[12]
- As Ruth was going to New Eden, she left Hospitality in the care of Tristan.[12]
Season 4[]
- As the International Peacekeeping Forces took over the train, Miss Audrey made her way to Hospitality where Tristan was hiding out and used the panic button to warn the Engine of the danger.[13]
- Admiral Anton Milius and the Animal Squad forced Tristan at gunpoint to make two announcements for them. Tristan used the second one to pass on vital information to Melanie and Bennett Knox.[13]
- Nima Rousseau apologized to Ruth for the things the International Peacekeeping Forces had done to New Eden proposed a deal to her; Big Alice will be surrendered back to New Eden if the Gemini compound is launched and she gets on the public address system and calms the masses. Ruth refuses.
Technology[]
The radio room features a large clock, along with a public address system which allows announcements to be made to the whole train. There is a pneumatic tube system which allows messages to be sent back and forth between The Engine. Below the window, there is an ice tube that can be connected to a pipe for when the room is used by officers for interrogations to scare the interrogated by freezing their fingers. The radio room features a panic button underneath the desk; this informs the Engineers to lock down the engine room in the event of an emergency. There’s also a drawer with controls for fireworks, used for New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Interior[]
The interior consists of a modern 1920s style, mostly of wooden wall paneling with rose gold metal trims. A map of the world adorns one of the walls, outlining the track route Snowpiercer travels on. The walls are adorned with 2 other advertisement posters and lights in the corners as well. There are 3 chairs outside the public address booth in the Radio Room, 2 in the corners and 1 at a table next to the window. There is also a small glass table in-front of the map on the wall, adorned with books, Wilford Industries advertising memorabilia, a potted plant and a lamp. By the window sits a bigger wooden table with some paperwork, a lamp, a corded telephone and a stand of Wilford Industries advertisement cards.
The walls and door separating the public address booth from the rest of the Radio Room is made mostly of glass and the Wilford Industries 'W' is printed on the door. In the public address booth, a large and minimalistic clock overlooks the equally curvy table. Besides Wilford Industries memorabilia and paperwork, there's a modern desk lamp and the public address system controls, including the microphone. The table also has drawers containing folders, a New Years Protocol handbook and a fireworks console for celebrating Christmas, New Years and Chanukah.
Appearances[]
| Appearance | EP1 | EP2 | EP3 | EP4 | EP5 | EP6 | EP7 | EP8 | EP9 | EP10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Season 2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Season 3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| Season 4 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||||||
| ✔ = Appeared | Did Not Appear | F = Flashback | ||||||||
| Note: Appearances for the interior of the car only. | ||||||||||
Trivia[]
- The Public address system was connected to Big Alice's at some point, presumably after Wilford took control.
- When a baby is about to be born, baby bells are rung on the public address system, on the hour, every hour, until born. As well as updates on how many hours have passed. A Klezmer band and confetti were once used.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 On-screen evidence in Bound by One Track, 10:25 mark.
If the lost cars of Snowpiercer are added up, the dining car (used in the CGI scene of the train reversing away) becomes C0017. Combined with evidence from First, the Weather Changed when Melanie Cavill walks from the Hospitality car to the Dining Car (which is the location of the next scene where she appears again), the Hospitality car becomes C0016.
However, the CGI of the Snowpiercer TV Series can be inconsistent at times, so this may be debatable. - ↑ First, the Weather Changed
- ↑ Access Is Power
- ↑ Without Their Maker
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Justice Never Boarded
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 S01E06 - Trouble Comes Sideways
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Universe Is Indifferent
- ↑ Smolder to Life
- ↑ The Train Demanded Blood
- ↑ Into the White
- ↑ The First Blow
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Original Sinners
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 The Sting of Survival