- [First lines]
- Melanie Cavill: [narrating] The cold isn't something we can tame. We did this to our climate. Now only the Earth herself can restart her warm heart. I believe we can find her pulse again. And my biggest fear isn't dying out here. It's that the cold-hearted among us will crush that hope before I can prove it.
- [Melanie's snowmobile stalls as she nears the research station, so she hikes through the snow the rest of the way, dragging a sled. She discovers a body in the snow before forcing her way into the station]
- Melanie Cavill: Breslauer Research Station. The temperature is minus 122.6 degrees Celsius. I'm 11,000 feet above sea level, dangling from a thin umbilical. Many miles from Snowpiercer... 1,034 cars long.
- Joseph Wilford: You can't sugarcoat the end of the world, Melanie. Not everything's going to be fine, but I promise you... you will survive.
- Joseph Wilford: So, with your supplies under that avalanche, all you have left is one ration pack, one bag of sweeties from Ben and an arm.
- Melanie Cavill: I'll manage without the arm.
- Joseph Wilford: Really? That seems a bit optimistic.
- Alexandra Cavill: You gave up everything for us... for the world. You don't have to be sorry anymore... not to me... not to anyone. Snowpiercer couldn't have made it this far without you.
- Melanie Cavill: I found the bodies of two of the scientists stationed here at the Freeze one male, shot in the head... the other a woman who slit her wrists. Must've been a grim place to face the end of the world.