Clara Berger, an employee at the German metro control center, is visibly nervous. She has lost communication with train 2600 — and its location. Her supervisor tries to help. After a few seconds of silence, Sam finally responds.

But something has changed.

The communication will no longer be in German. Only in English. And under his rules.

Yes, we now have Sam Nelson, the hijacker — a direct inversion of the first season. This time, he is not the negotiator. He is the one setting the terms. And he has more than 200 passengers as hostages.

His demand is clear: Clara must contact the police to locate John Bailey-Brown. Yes, the villain from the first season. Sam knows Bailey is hiding in Berlin and wants him handed over in exchange for the lives of the metro passengers.

By logic — and by the clues — it seems the Nelsons are being coerced. The question is how far this goes.

At the embassy, Olivia has brought Sam a cake and still does not understand what is happening. Trying to help him, she receives only a blunt response: he wants to be left alone. When she is informed of a terrorist attack on the metro, suspicion comes immediately. But no one shares information with her.

Police superintendent Ada Winter is briefed on who Sam is and who Bailey-Brown is, a British criminal on the run. While waiting for the MI5’s response, they must deal with rush hour and a suspended metro line.

Clara is still astonished by how they managed to make a train “disappear.”

Underground, passengers are tense, unsure of what is happening. Sam forces the conductor, Otto, to speak to them, lying that it is a technical issue. And there is indeed a problem: because the emergency brake was pulled, the train cannot move. Otto must go to the carriage and release it — without raising suspicion.

An impossible task.

Everyone notices that Otto is bleeding. The tension escalates. Sam tries to control the situation, but his presence only fuels suspicion. Ada Winter attempts to negotiate with him. Sam insists that everyone is fine — for now — but reinforces his demand: Bailey must be located, with concrete proof, or lives will be lost.

When the train starts moving again, passengers believe everything has been resolved. Naive.

Otto tries to understand why Sam is hijacking the metro. Calm down — we are still in episode 2.

In England, Marsha, isolated in the mountains, calls her boyfriend — a police officer — to ask if he was the one who sent her flowers. When he denies it, they both conclude it was Sam. We learn that Marsha has not spoken to him for months and has isolated herself in an area with no signal to “reflect.”

Peter Faber contacts Ada Winter — far too quickly for her taste. He claims Bailey has not been seen since the kidnapping of the British Kingdom envoy and does not believe he is in Germany. Sam disagrees.

Meanwhile, Clara discovers how Sam made the metro “disappear”: he is using an old tunnel to move around. Faber becomes increasingly suspicious.

He suggests the line should not be reopened, keeping the train stuck. Under instruction, Clara lies, saying the train is malfunctioning and that Sam will have to wait. The police organize to surround the area but still lack authorization to act.

Otto informs the passengers they will have to stop once again. Nervousness spreads.

Sam realizes something is wrong. He warns Ada Winter that the police’s hesitation will cost lives. And, as predicted, a passenger discovers that everyone is a hostage. Sam manages to silence him temporarily while pressing for the route to be reopened.

Sam says that people will die because of this. Those who know him understand that he is not threatening — he is warning. And while only attentive viewers may suspect Sam’s true motivation, and while he carefully chooses every word, here is my own warning: Sam is a hijacker in the same way the plane’s passengers were terrorists in the first season. Something strange is going on.

He forces the passenger to carefully carry a briefcase to the train blocking their path. It is obvious: it is a bomb. Gradually, passengers begin to receive news, but they still do not grasp the full extent of the situation.

Police officer Zoran Beck searches the home of Marko, the man who helped Sam. There, he finds a forgotten cellphone. When he calls it, he discovers the phone belongs to Sam.

Marsha returns from her walk and finds the cabin door open. Something is wrong.

Faber continues to withhold cooperation from the Germans but is approached by Olivia, who confirms it: Sam is the hijacker.

After intense tension — and despite Sam’s warnings — the police hesitate. The passenger with the bomb “dies.”

But since we do not see the explosion…

Did he really die?

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