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I like the series, but why blatantly ignore 2 murders. They keep talking about the 2 victims, yet completely forget about the 2 people murdered to get to Nikki...

Episode 4: A better episode with a better smoother flow, more enthralling atmosphere, some good acting, some nonsense as always, some violence on the way and a look like Titanic in train form.

All the Tailers would have been jettisoned long ago. They forcibly boarded the train like invaders; worse than stowaways.

Any question about resources and so forth would have been answered by cutting those train cars at the end of the long line loose..

Course they'd also have to be tossed off the track otherwise on the next way around they'd be in the way...

In this episode Layton continues his investigation into the murders of the dismembered men, now with even more bodies on his hands after the crew find dead passengers in the drawers section of the train following Erik's late night activities previously. Meanwhile Melanie is still figuring out how to cope with the loss of resources due to the breach in the agriculture section of the train. Back at the tail, Josie, having been slipped a new access chip from Layton wonders what it is for and how to use it best. Up in first class, all is not as it seems to be.

Klimpt is beside himself by what has happened to those in his care, but Melanie takes his mind off it by giving him a task; she needs a postmortem done on Angela pronto. While most uptrain passengers have been curious about Layton, commander Grey makes it clear that he does not like him one bit as he prefers to do things his way and starts his search of the first class cars.

Everyone else including Melanie and Roche are angered by the murders in the medical car while Layton is equally pissed that they waited until morning to act. He urges that the first class passengers who were at the fight in the previous installment to be woken and gathered for questioning. He also talks with Miss Audrey though she proves to be less than helpful. At the meeting in first Melanie lets Layton do things his way and in hilarious uncouth fashion he does a wonderful job of making everyone uncomfortable as he questions the first class passengers yet it's their personal security he is interested in meeting.

In the tail Josie gets onto the sanitation detail and it is seen how tailie laborers are treated aboard the train, pretty inhumanely actually. Later on break, she manages to get a change of clothes and sneaks up train with her access chip where she finally encounters a fellow tailie, Astrid at lunch. The two talk and Astrid is afraid of losing her position, yet agrees to help Josie contact Layton somehow. Josie must sneak back, and even passes shoulder to shoulder with Miles, but luckily he doesn't see her. She managed to get back to sanitation break room and change just as the guards come back to order them back to work.

Uptrain, Layton learns about the Folgers body guard, Erik who didn't come home following the fight. While tossing his room he finds a j-hook used for the defunct bee colony the train once had which is now in storage. He asks Melanie to send Oz and Till to investigate the bee storage locker while he proceeds to further question LJ Folgers after learning from her parents that she and Erik were close. She reveals that he saved her life, but skirts around any real questions. She tries to distract Layton with her floor to ceiling windows and some music that Erik had saved, but Layton is putting things together in his head. He figures out that LJ used Erik as muscle to hold down the unfortunate men while she tortured and killed them. Once exposed she flies into a rage at Layton trying to stab him, but she is deflected and restrained. All the adult Folgers can do is gawk and gasp at the revelation.

Downtrain, Till and Oz track down Erik in hiding and after he bolts they give chase. As he is a former highly trained military operative Erik manages to escape and evade for a time. When he is found again he panics and takes Jinju hostage who was visiting a friend. The two of them flee into the subtrain where ultimately he is trapped on one side by Till and Oz and the other by the commander and the jackboots. Jinju manages to get away just as he is overwhelmed and hacked to pieces on the spot by the jackboots. So much for a fair trial on this train. Erik had killed his way to get access to murder Angela all the while trying to cover tracks for LJ.

Back in first with all the murders solved, Melanie offers Layton a congratulatory drink. He has done so well Melanie says, but all Layton really wants is to go back to the tail where his friends are. Melanie lets on that he has seen too much just as the drug she slipped him starts to act. Layton loses consciousness and he is placed in the drawers. Back in the tail, rations are being handed out and divided when a message is found. It is to Josie from Astrid only saying that Layton is missing.

A pretty good entry in the series. Layton is shown as a very capable detective with great street sense even on the tracks. Also wonderful performances here by both Mark Murray as Erik and Annalise Blasso as LJ. She seems to be most capable at playing the spoiled brat everyone just loves to hate. Will LJ face justice for her crimes? What are Melanie and Kimpt hiding about the real purpose of the drawers? 8/10.