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Creme brulee for dessert every night!
Down comforters on Hastens mattresses with Frette sheets!
Appointments to sweat out the toxins in that long fought-over sauna!
Its a lovely fantasy that the superrich might ever yield their stuff, let alone their power.
(See: all of human history.)
Theres theGame of Thrones-like scorpion assembled in the subtrain to keep Nolans forces from moving forward.
TheBraveheart-blue facepaint Layton and his comrades don to duke it out with the jackboots in the Night Car.
The head in a box a la Brad Pitts unfortunate delivery at the end ofSe7en.
There is surely more to come next episode.
The engine is under assault from virtually every passenger onboard, just as Layton hoped.
And they want access to that engine, to trigger the train and thereforerun the train.
He was an empty suit, a ball of money with no integrity or genius inside it.
She built the train.
Shes kept the order for six long years.
Shes sacrificed every smidgen of her emotional life including her daughter and parents to keep humanity going.
Melanies scheduled execution the next day is a sign of how quickly the tables turn in an autocracy.
Her ideology is order and balance.
She couldnt see a way towards that if the Tail was freed from their sunless prison.
But were meant to see her as far more complicated than a simple villain.
But Layton is now up against Nolan, a paragon of brute force and nothing else.
When all you have is an ax, everything looks like it ought to be chopped down.
Till brings Layton through the train to the Tail.
Lights and Walter blow communications.
(Why did two people need to cut some wires?)
John and crew head to the subtrain.
Audrey leads the last Aussie (whose real name is Murray!)
to Dr. Klimpt to wake up the three Tailies put in drawers at the last insurrections.
While the effort is there in the big battle scene, it doesnt quite deliver.
Cutting it in half creates lag, and the dimensions of it all just dont work out.
Are they fighting for total annihilation?
To make it to the next door?
Until one of their leaders falls?
Layton is a schemer and a smooth-talker, a revolutionary leader, but not a battle commander.
Another, Pike, has taken Laytons place as a devourer of gourmet first-class cuisine.
