Hijack Season 2 Episode 3: Who is behind the Berlin train hijacking? Here’s what we know

Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 is titled Baggage. It dropped on Apple TV on January 28, 2026.

If you have been following Idris Elba’s Sam Nelson through Berlin U-Bahn, you probably feel clever by now. However, the latest Episode pulls the floor out from under you and flips everything you thought you knew about who is actually running the show.

Right after that explosion at Alexanderplatz, things get wild. Remember Freddie? The guy Sam supposedly strapped a bomb to and killed? He is still breathing. It was just a smoke show, literally. Sam used smoke bombs to stage a fake attack so he could buy himself some time and move the train. But this wasn’t his brilliant plan. Sam is not the one pulling the strings.

Hijack Season 2 Episode 3: Who is behind the Berlin train hijacking?

In Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, we get to know that Sam’s son Kai is dead. He was killed precisely a year ago. Sam hijacked this train on the death anniversary of his son, as he believes that the same individuals involved in the Kingdom Airlines Flight 29 hijacking were the people who murdered Kai. And he has his target in one name: John Bailey-Brown, the surviving mastermind of Season 1, who Sam thinks was the one who pulled the trigger.

With this discovery, things are reframed. Sam is a father who has lost someone he loved, and he is taken to the limit. Those in command of the German authorities, such as the Police Chief Ada Winter, initially believed that this was revenge: a man who had lost his son taking things into his own hands. Then that would have been easy enough.

The police of Berlin scramble to comply with the demands of Sam as of Hijack Season 2 Episode 3. He wants evidence that Bailey-Brown is in Germany, and a British intelligence officer, Peter Faber, gives him a photo. Sam spots it and makes sure that it is Bailey-Brown, and it appears as though this will actually come to an end. But then Sam’s phone buzzes. Then there is a new photo and another message. This photo is of his ex-wife, Marsha, who is alone in the cabin in the Scottish rural setting. The point is very clear: either take Bailey-Brown to the train or Marsha will die.

In Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, it is no longer Sam who calls the shots.

Peter Faber: Friend or foe?

Peter Faber is sketchy, and Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 does not attempt to conceal it. The intelligence agent of the British has been helpful, but there are too many red flags. All the data between Bailey-Brown’s arrival in Germany via Hamburg is inexplicably lost. It could only have been wiped by someone with the clearance of Faber. Upon questioning, Faber confirms that the British government is hiding Bailey-Brown in a safehouse, which they claim is to extradite him to England.

But that doesn’t add up. The guards that are at the safehouse are not MI5 but Germans. Who is really protecting Bailey-Brown and why? Faber says that he wants what Sam wants: to get Bailey-Brown to face justice. Yet he does not behave like it. He is pulling strings behind it, he is playing with information, and at the climax of Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, he seems to be dumbfounded by the way the situation has gotten out of hand.

He is either playing dumb, or someone is playing him. Our money is on the latter. Faber likely planned a bogus hijacking to sneak Bailey-Brown out of the spot without creating a commotion. However, real hijackers appeared and ruined his well-organized event.

The real hijackers emerge in Hijack Season 2 Episode 3

This is where Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 becomes twisted. Sam, Otto (the train driver), and Freddie have been handling the situation in the best way they could, with an attempt to outwit the authorities. Still, they are not the only ones on that train. A person has been spying on them all this time and mingling with the passengers.

Towards the end of Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, a disguised man in the form of a street performer approaches. He takes a stroll to the driver’s cabin, where Freddie is alone, intending to call attention to the control centre, and kills him.

Then he comes back to his seat like nothing had happened. This is someone professional, and he is not acting on his own. Since the beginning, the actual hijackers have been on that train as they await the appropriate time to seize control. Sam believed that it was he who was hijacking the train. The government believed that they were getting a lone wolf terrorist. It happens that everyone is being played.

To make matters even more tense in Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, another bombshell is revealed in the course of investigations carried out by Detective Zoran Beck. Beck has been digging into the evidence on an empty flat that was being used to make explosives. As he follows the operation to the U-Bahn maintenance facility, he finds the trail of a white powder. When it is lit, it makes sparks, which confirms what he had feared most of all: there is a bomb under the train.

The same thing is realised by Sam when, around the same time, he spots some lights blinking under one of the carriages. It is no longer a hostage situation with the hijacked train. It is a time bomb that is racing under Berlin. Who planted it? Why? And what’s the endgame here? These questions are left suspended in the air, and Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 concludes, and this leads to what is bound to be a splashy season finale.

So who’s really behind this?

That’s the million-dollar question, and Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 does not serve us with a simple answer. What we have learned so far is that Sam is blackmailed by whoever murdered his son and is now threatening Marsha. Peter Faber is peddling something sketchy, yet he may not be the greatest evil. The train contains professional hijackers who have been lurking in the open. And there is a bomb that will blow the entire operation, and all the people on board, to pieces.

We believe that Bailey-Brown is not the finish line. He is bait. Somebody strong needs him out of the way, and they are making Sam the scapegoat. At the time when everything goes wrong, Sam bears the brunt, whilst the actual players escape. Faber is either complicit or ignorant, but in any case, he is now in way over his head. The real hijackers are the cleanup crew, making sure no one walks away who can talk.

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Hijack Season 2 Episode 3 does it impressively: it makes you realise that you have been watching the wrong story. Sam isn’t the hijacker. He is the victim. And the real person behind this has been three steps ahead all the time.

Hijack is preparing to do something big with five episodes remaining in the season. The chess is on the board, the clock is running, and no one is safe. Not Sam. Not Marsha. Not even Faber. And certainly not the people on that train.

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