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Last Passenger
Last Passenger is a 2013 British suspense thriller film directed by Omid Nooshin. Starring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon and Iddo Goldberg, this film follows the man; a doctor and a widower, and their commuters' efforts to stop the train after it was discovered to have been hijacked by an unknown, mysterious driver.
In December 2004, Lewis Shaler is a doctor and widower heading home with his young son Max on a late-night train from London Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells. Max accidentally causes fellow passenger Sarah Barwell to spill coffee on her coat, prompting Shaler to apologize to her. The interaction is the beginning of a romantic connection between the two.
Later, while the train is stationary, Shaler notices an unidentifiable man wearing a high-visibility jacket walking along the outside of the train. As the train begins to move again he sees another man crawling across the tracks. On investigation, Shaler discovers the guard has vanished.
Soon after, as the train approaches Tonbridge, Barwell kisses Shaler and asks him to call her, however Shaler is distracted by the train bypassing his stop. Shaler leaves Max in the care of fellow passenger Elaine Middleton while he tries to contact the driver on the intercom. However, the driver only speaks to ask how many passengers are left on board and hangs up. Shaler and fellow passenger Peter Carmichael pull numerous emergency brake cords to no effect. It dawns on Shaler and Carmichael that the driver intends to kill himself and his passengers. Along with fellow passenger Jan Klimowski (who originally attracted suspicion as he is under the influence), they attempt to stop the train using the rear handbrake, initially with success, but are later thwarted when the driver speeds up, overwhelming it.
Carmichael is able to alert the police to the runaway train by phone, but after it continues past Tunbridge Wells, they are unable to arrive at an unbarricaded level crossing in time to prevent a vehicle being rammed full on, completely destroying it. This causes Middleton to go into cardiac arrest, and Shaler is unable to revive her. Klimowski and Shaler then attempt to break into the driver's cab using fire extinguishers; breaching the first door, they discover the guard's corpse. Shaler recognises the driver, wearing a motorcycle helmet, as a passenger he earlier saw at London Bridge. He realises that the man he saw on the tracks was the original driver, and that the man in the high-visibility jacket had tampered with the brakes before assaulting the driver. They attempt to break through the second door to no avail, and the driver responds by continuously sounding the loud horn to fend them off.
Klimowski attempts to uncouple the train carriages by climbing outside, but this dangerous gambit is cut short by an approaching single-track tunnel. Shaler saves Klimowski by pulling him back on board seconds before the train enters the tunnel. It transpires that the police have laid an ineffective blockade out of sandbags which only momentarily stops the train, and none of the passengers can open the doors due to the tunnel's narrow clearance.
Suspecting that they are now close to a deadly crash at the Hastings station buffers, Shaler creates an improvised explosive using the last remaining fire extinguisher. The explosion destroys the floor panels, allowing the rest to access and detach the coupler, but Carmichael is killed when he accidentally falls through the gap. The burning carriages separate as they speed through a suburban station where police officers watch helplessly. Shaler is left in the front car whilst Klimowski and Barwell manage to stop their carriage with the rear handbrake. With the train leaking fuel and continuing to burn around him, Shaler takes a moment to compose himself, before running and leaping from the carriage just as the entire engine explodes. It dislodges the driver's hand from the dead man's switch which immediately engages backup brakes. The remains of the train finally screech to a stop just in front of the camera and shows the headlight going off for good.
Shaler is discovered alive and conscious by Barwell, Max and Klimowski while a helicopter circles the burning train overhead. The film ends with no further exposition.
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Last Passenger
Last Passenger is a 2013 British suspense thriller film directed by Omid Nooshin. Starring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon and Iddo Goldberg, this film follows the man; a doctor and a widower, and their commuters' efforts to stop the train after it was discovered to have been hijacked by an unknown, mysterious driver.
In December 2004, Lewis Shaler is a doctor and widower heading home with his young son Max on a late-night train from London Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells. Max accidentally causes fellow passenger Sarah Barwell to spill coffee on her coat, prompting Shaler to apologize to her. The interaction is the beginning of a romantic connection between the two.
Later, while the train is stationary, Shaler notices an unidentifiable man wearing a high-visibility jacket walking along the outside of the train. As the train begins to move again he sees another man crawling across the tracks. On investigation, Shaler discovers the guard has vanished.
Soon after, as the train approaches Tonbridge, Barwell kisses Shaler and asks him to call her, however Shaler is distracted by the train bypassing his stop. Shaler leaves Max in the care of fellow passenger Elaine Middleton while he tries to contact the driver on the intercom. However, the driver only speaks to ask how many passengers are left on board and hangs up. Shaler and fellow passenger Peter Carmichael pull numerous emergency brake cords to no effect. It dawns on Shaler and Carmichael that the driver intends to kill himself and his passengers. Along with fellow passenger Jan Klimowski (who originally attracted suspicion as he is under the influence), they attempt to stop the train using the rear handbrake, initially with success, but are later thwarted when the driver speeds up, overwhelming it.
Carmichael is able to alert the police to the runaway train by phone, but after it continues past Tunbridge Wells, they are unable to arrive at an unbarricaded level crossing in time to prevent a vehicle being rammed full on, completely destroying it. This causes Middleton to go into cardiac arrest, and Shaler is unable to revive her. Klimowski and Shaler then attempt to break into the driver's cab using fire extinguishers; breaching the first door, they discover the guard's corpse. Shaler recognises the driver, wearing a motorcycle helmet, as a passenger he earlier saw at London Bridge. He realises that the man he saw on the tracks was the original driver, and that the man in the high-visibility jacket had tampered with the brakes before assaulting the driver. They attempt to break through the second door to no avail, and the driver responds by continuously sounding the loud horn to fend them off.
Klimowski attempts to uncouple the train carriages by climbing outside, but this dangerous gambit is cut short by an approaching single-track tunnel. Shaler saves Klimowski by pulling him back on board seconds before the train enters the tunnel. It transpires that the police have laid an ineffective blockade out of sandbags which only momentarily stops the train, and none of the passengers can open the doors due to the tunnel's narrow clearance.
Suspecting that they are now close to a deadly crash at the Hastings station buffers, Shaler creates an improvised explosive using the last remaining fire extinguisher. The explosion destroys the floor panels, allowing the rest to access and detach the coupler, but Carmichael is killed when he accidentally falls through the gap. The burning carriages separate as they speed through a suburban station where police officers watch helplessly. Shaler is left in the front car whilst Klimowski and Barwell manage to stop their carriage with the rear handbrake. With the train leaking fuel and continuing to burn around him, Shaler takes a moment to compose himself, before running and leaping from the carriage just as the entire engine explodes. It dislodges the driver's hand from the dead man's switch which immediately engages backup brakes. The remains of the train finally screech to a stop just in front of the camera and shows the headlight going off for good.
Shaler is discovered alive and conscious by Barwell, Max and Klimowski while a helicopter circles the burning train overhead. The film ends with no further exposition.