“ | Though we're leaving civilization far behind, we’ve brought the culture with us. Visit the Night Car for a one-of-a-kind interactive theater experience featuring a rotating troupe of award-winning singers, actors, musicians, dancers, and entertainers. | ” |
— Wilford Industries website description |
History[]
Background[]
The Night Car’s original purpose, was to serve as a brothel for Wilford. When confronted by Melanie Cavill, the resources Wilford was wasting on the brothel could sustain 20 more people that they were going to need.
Season 1[]
- Till took Layton to the Night Car while Miss Audrey was preforming. The three and Clay discussed about the first murder. Layton also talked and have sex with Zarah in the isolation chamber.[1]
- Fight Night between Right Hand Man and Tina was held in the Night Car.[2]
- Miss Audrey and Clay discussed something in the Night Car after knowing that LJ's case will only have First Class jurors.[3]
- Melanie arrived to visit Miss Audrey personally, Audrey told Melanie to change Mr. Wilford's mind and select fair jury panel, one juror from every class, and allow every passengers to spectate the tribunal.[3]
- Osweiller and Till gathered Third Class passengers who wished to spectate LJ's tribunal in the Night Car.[3]
Technology[]
There is an ice tube that can be connected to a pipe, that Kevin McMahon used to torture Strong Boy to death in The First Blow.
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 | ||||||||
Appearances for the interior of the car only. |
Trivia[]
- The Night Car has an Isolation Chamber that Miss Audrey used for therapy sessions with passengers. It was Miss Audrey’s vision to create the Isolation Chamber and shared the vision with Melanie Cavill.
- Occasionally, an event named Fight Night is hosted in the Night Car, where select 3rd Class passengers would fight on a stage set up in the main hall. The winner would win a select prize, 1 of them once being an upgrade into 2nd Class, which Tina Machinist won.
- The Night Car is a muster station for 2nd Class.
- One of the Breachmen was murdered in the Isolation Chamber during the Snowpiercer-Big Alice War.
- During LJ and Osweillers wedding, Wilford spoke into a microphone connected to the public address system and asked them to take the sacred 4 steps in union with the Eternal Engine.
- In Prepare to Brace, there is an individual dancing, wearing a gas mask and angel wings, like in the film from the Night Club Section scene.
- Liana Layton was conceived in an Isolation Chamber in Prepare to Brace.
- Except for a brief scene with Miss Audrey and Bess Till in the Isolation Chamber in The Sting of Survival, the Night Car doesn't appear in Season 4.
- The Night Car takes inspiration from a variety of real places, such as the Beaufort Bar in the Savoy Hotel in London, a section of corridor and stairs from the Encore Theater in Wynn Las Vegas and the night club in Fratelli Studios, Bucharest.[4]
Gallery[]
Daveed Diggs promotional
Train layout blueprint featuring The Drawers and Night Car
Season 2 plans
Ouroboros (behind the scenes)
References[]
- ↑ S01E02 - Prepare to Brace
- ↑ S01E03 - Access Is Power
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 S01E05 - Justice Never Boarded
- ↑ Scene from Snowpiercer: Behind The Scenes Look of the Train video uploaded onto the official TNT Youtube channel on May 21st, 2020, 2:58 mark:
Note the Night Car moodboard on the top left.
Sources for select images on the moodboard:
Encore Theatre, Wynn Las Vegas