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“Nothing exciting ever happens on the U5,” a security officer remarks in Apple TV’s Hijack. That character has clearly never seen the show. After the first season found Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) unwittingly involved in the hijacking of a plane, Season 2 of the show takes things underground, as Sam is part of a hijacking of a U-Bahn subway train in Berlin, specifically on the U5 route. This time, Sam is leading the hijack rather than trying to stop it. That’s because someone else is pulling the strings, forcing Sam to comply with the plan by threatening to kill his ex-wife, Marsha (Christine Adams), if he doesn’t.
Sam has to get the train to the end of the line, where he can exchange the lives of the hostages for John Bailey-Brown (Ian Burfield), who helped organize Season 1’s Kingdom flight hijacking. Bailey-Brown is responsible for the murder of Sam’s son Kai, meaning in order to save his ex-wife, he’ll have to help free the man that killed his son.
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, we discover that the person organizing the hijack is none other than Robert Lang (Arsher Ali), an MI5 agent who’s working with Stuart Atterton (Neil Maskell), who was arrested in his failed effort to hijack the plane in the first season. He was thwarted by Sam two years ago, and Atterton has been desperate for revenge ever since, and has spent his time behind bars planning Sam’s downfall.
In the Season 2 finale, the hijacked train full of hostages has finally reached the end of the line, and the handoff can happen. Though Sam successfully jettisoned dozens of hostages off the train, ensuring their safety, there are still over 100 passengers on board. But Sam hasn’t received an update on Marsha’s well-being; she’s still in danger and being actively pursued by hired hands of Atterton’s Cheapside Firm. Still, Sam agrees to let the passengers off one-by-one.
They all get off safely, but something about…
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