Anna’s anguished screams announcing Seamus Callahan’s apparent demise reached the survivors in Car 12, signaling a fresh crisis. The reactions varied across the neighboring compartments, each character processing the news against their own immediate stakes.

In Room C, Dante Wentworth intensified his efforts to escape the bindings Anna had used to restrain him as part of her ruse. After sustained straining, he managed to loosen a restraint by a millimeter, enough to slip his left hand free. He quickly untied his right hand, fully freeing himself and feeling a surge of triumph at his escape.

In Room B, Jack Lapsford paced anxiously, heart pounding as he relived Seamus towering over him with a pillow during the earlier attack that Anna had interrupted. He reflected on how he had successfully faked a second heart attack by forcing physical exertion to create convincing symptoms, which had fooled Seamus. Now alone, he tried to think of a new plan to get off the train.

In Room A, Sally Lawrence’s body remained seated by the window under a sheet where Anna had left it after the shooting. Wind from the open window gradually dislodged the covering as time passed.

As the sheet finally slipped away, a shocking change occurred: Sally opened her eyes, indicating she was not dead despite the earlier assumption that she had been shot fatally.