Oscar. Tailie. Seventy-three years old. He'd been a veterinarian Before.
"I'm already dead." The old man smiled, teeth red. "I was dead the day I crawled onto this train. But those children? They'll eat tonight. I've already sent word to the Tail. They're coming."
Behind Layton, Brakeman Osweiller raised his shock-baton. "Step away from the carcasses."
"The laws of the train," Oscar interrupted, "are written by the Engine. And the Engine doesn't care if children starve, as long as they do it quietly."
Zarah's hand paused on the clipboard. "Don't."
Oscar didn't move. "There are 47 children in the Tail. They haven't eaten in five days. Third Class got protein blocks yesterday. The Tail got a single vat of boiled shoe leather."
The train lurched. A violent sideways shift that sent loose tools skittering across the grated floor. Then another. Then a grinding screech of metal on metal.
Oscar. Tailie. Seventy-three years old. He'd been a veterinarian Before.
"I'm already dead." The old man smiled, teeth red. "I was dead the day I crawled onto this train. But those children? They'll eat tonight. I've already sent word to the Tail. They're coming." snowpiercer s01e08 xvid
Behind Layton, Brakeman Osweiller raised his shock-baton. "Step away from the carcasses." He'd been a veterinarian Before
"The laws of the train," Oscar interrupted, "are written by the Engine. And the Engine doesn't care if children starve, as long as they do it quietly." But those children
Zarah's hand paused on the clipboard. "Don't."
Oscar didn't move. "There are 47 children in the Tail. They haven't eaten in five days. Third Class got protein blocks yesterday. The Tail got a single vat of boiled shoe leather."
The train lurched. A violent sideways shift that sent loose tools skittering across the grated floor. Then another. Then a grinding screech of metal on metal.
