Tension and intrigue continue to mount surrounding the unique hostage situation on the Berlin subway in the Apple TV+ thriller series, Hijack, after the protagonist's conscience was finally cleared in the previous episode. While it initially appeared that the heroic Sam Nelson had hijacked a Berlin subway train to catch the person responsible for his son's murder, last week's episode 3 confirmed that there was actually a second layer to the hijacking, as a group of villains was forcing Sam to commit the terrible crime. Episode 4 of the second season features a major decision made by the Berlin police and also reveals the identity of the real killer of the only victim so far, Freddie.
Episode 3 of Hijack season 2 ended with the most devastating event for the German authorities, as the hijacked train had left behind its first corpse, that of a passenger named Freddie. British intelligence agent Peter Faber had gone to the station to negotiate with the supposed hijacker, Sam Nelson, but had to return empty-handed, or worse, with the body of the first victim of the hijacking.
Creators: Jim Field Smith, George Kay
Stars: Idris Elba, Max Beesley, Christine Adams
Just as the bomb at Alexanderplatz, which was later discovered to be only a smoke bomb used as a decoy, had terrified the authorities, Freddie's corpse also terrifies the Berlin police and their chief, Ada Winter, as she fears for the safety of the other passengers. While she might have questioned Sam's claims under other circumstances, the corpse obviously leaves no room for doubt.
Therefore, the authorities believe that the best way to handle the situation is to follow Sam's orders and try to fulfill his demands as quickly as possible. Ada's subordinate, Roland Murnau, warns her that handing John Bailey-Brown over to the hijacker could be considered state-sanctioned murder, as Sam will surely kill the man as soon as he gets his hands on him. But Ada believes that refusing the hijacker's request would cause even more chaos and bloodshed, so she thinks it would be best to at least begin the process of bringing Bailey-Brown to the train.
Her plan is to tell Sam that arrangements are being made for him to apprehend his target, thus buying time to devise different countermeasures. Ada contacts her team and orders them to pick up John Bailey-Brown from the MI5 safe house and prepare him for handover to Sam on the train. However, before that, she needs to find a station on the subway network where the handover can take place, as this delicate operation must be carried out away from the prying eyes of the public and the media.
Since news of the bombing and the possible kidnapping is already being covered by major news outlets, Ada doesn't want them to discover that the authorities are simply handing a man over to the perpetrator, giving in to the kidnapper's demands. The railway control center manager, Edward Diehl, finds a solution to this problem, suggesting that the handover take place at an old station called Bergmanstrasse, which had been closed many years ago. Since the station was already closed before technological advancements were implemented on the subway network, there are no security cameras on site, and definitely no chance of any passengers or employees being there.
Therefore, it is decided that Bergmanstrasse will be the location where the authorities will hand over Bailey-Brown to Sam, hoping that the protagonist will end the hostage situation and allow the passengers to leave the train safely. Sam is also informed of the plan, while a team from the Berlin police, led by Deputy Commissioner Roland Murnau himself, picks up the convict from the MI5 safe house. Interestingly, Peter Faber makes one last desperate attempt to stop this from happening and get Bailey-Brown onto his private plane before the German officials intervene.
He keeps insisting that the real perpetrators aboard the hijacked train only want the criminal to free him and get him to safety, so he wants to ensure the man is extradited to England. But Murnau arrives first, and he is taken to Bergmanstrasse. Olivia Thatcher, the British embassy employee, informs Ada Winter that Sam Nelson had contacted her and had been about to pursue the Bailey-Brown situation through legal channels, wondering why he suddenly acted on his own, but the police chief believes he must have changed his mind. For now, it seems most likely that someone found out about Sam's personal vendetta against Bailey-Brown and convinced him to take matters into his own hands.
Mei shares her theory with another passenger, a medical professional named Jess, who dismisses it as far-fetched and insists that Sam is the only culprit. Shortly after, an elderly woman warns Mei to be more careful, suggesting that her theory about the long-haired man being the culprit might not be entirely accurate. Seemingly confused and somewhat irritated, she enters the empty compartment alone and finds bloodstains under a seat.
She immediately tries to investigate and manages to pull out a small bag, but is cornered by the long-haired man. When everything becomes clear, it's evident that Mei (and we, too) had been wrong, or misled, about the culprit's identity. The man was simply carrying several illegal drugs in his bag, and upon hearing about the kidnapping, he feared the police would board the train to investigate, so he ended up hiding the bag under the seat. Like Mei, he had also cut his hand on the sharp grate under the seat, which explains the bloodstains. It was only for this reason that he went to the empty compartment, meaning that he is not the killer after all.
In the previous episode, Marsha's cabin in the woods, somewhere in rural Scotland, suddenly received an unwanted visitor, whom she bravely attacked with a metal bar before finally being subdued by him. In this episode, it is revealed that the visitor is a kind man named Nick, sent by her boyfriend, Daniel, the Metropolitan Police officer. After Marsha called him to ask if he had sent her the flowers, Daniel suspected something was wrong, so he contacted an old friend in Scotland, Nick, asking him to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Therefore, Nick informs Daniel about what just happened, and the situation calms down for a while. But things become tense again very quickly when Daniel learns of Sam Nelson's involvement in the train kidnapping in Berlin. Convinced that Sam would never commit such a horrible crime and that he's under pressure from dangerous criminals, Daniel deduces that Marsha is in danger, so he asks Nick to get her away from the cabin. However, since Sam had already received a threatening photo of his wife at the cabin, and Nick isn't the villain, there's definitely someone at the location working with the perpetrators. Finally, it's revealed that the seemingly friendly neighbors who regularly crossed paths with Marsha are the real culprits, as they kill Nick. Although Marsha has already left the cabin, she's still in the woods, meaning she's still in grave danger.
Berlin police detective Zoran Beck continues his investigation after discovering the bomb on the train in the previous episode. He now reviews security camera footage from the Berlin train station looking for more clues, while railway police employee Leon continues to annoy him with his insistence on becoming a detective. Suddenly, Zoran stumbles upon a strange little detail that had struck him as suspicious in the first episode of this season.
After entering the Berlin U-5 subway station, and before following the criminals' orders and boarding the train, Sam Nelson bought a can of soda from a vending machine, only to throw it in the trash without even opening it. To make matters worse, Sam had chosen that particular vending machine because it was near a security camera. Zoran sees the footage and immediately heads to the machine to investigate further, with Leon following him.
The detective believes Sam might have done something, possibly left a clue, with the soda can, so he retrieves it from the trash can, but it's Leon who, luckily, finds the key. Sam had hidden an important message inside the dispenser tray, which he was able to access for a few seconds while buying the soda. He then threw the unopened can in the trash to draw the authorities' attention, basically indirectly indicating to them to search the area. Inside the dispenser tray is a coaster from a Berlin bar called The Foxhole, where Sam was possibly forced to work for the real culprits. This means that Detective Zoran Beck will head to the Foxhole bar in the next episode, and he will most likely be the first to discover that Sam is being forced to participate in the kidnapping.
Especially in episode 4 of the second season of Hijack, passenger Jess, who is also a doctor, becomes almost the representative of all the train passengers, as the hijacker, Sam Nelson, trusts her enough to involve her in certain important situations. Sam is also preoccupied with finding out who murdered Freddie in the driver's cab while he and Otto were outside.
Although the cab has a security camera, the recordings can only be viewed on specific machines capable of decrypting the data. Therefore, for now, Sam has to rely on his intuition, and after interacting with Mei, he realizes that whoever murdered Freddie must have gotten off the train from the driver's cab and then reboarded through the last car. He's certain of this because Mei only saw the long-haired man returning from the direction of the driver's cab, and he had obviously gone to hide his drug stash in the empty car.
Therefore, Sam is searching for the culprit when he notices two crucial details: the first is a sharp piece of metal protruding from the side of the train near the driver's cab door. The second is a tear on the shoulder of Jess's jacket, which apparently wasn't there before. This almost confirms that it was Jess who must have murdered Freddie, gotten off the train, and then reboarded from the back to avoid suspicion. This not only puts Sam in danger but, more importantly, puts Mei in a difficult position, as she was wrong to trust Jess, the real culprit.
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