The penultimate episode of Hijack Season 2 landed on Apple TV+ this week, and it finally gives audiences the answers they have been waiting for. Episode 7, titled “Contact,” does not waste any time revealing who survived the shooting at the end of the last episode and pushes the story forward toward what looks like an explosive season finale.
The episode, which arrived on February 25, 2026, picks up right where the cliffhanger left off. Fans can now breathe a sigh of relief as Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) is very much alive, though the same cannot be said for everyone on the train. This episode shifts the focus from survival to uncovering the truth, as multiple storylines finally start connecting the dots for the authorities and the viewers at home.
Sam and Jess Fight for Survival After Tunnel Shooting
The episode opens with the immediate aftermath of the shooting in the U-Bahn tunnels. Contrary to what many feared, both Sam and his reluctant partner Jess (Karima McAdams) survived the encounter with the German tactical unit. However, Jess took a bullet to her shoulder, and Sam grapples with a minor injury .
Jess is furious when she realizes the police shot at her specifically. She quickly figures out that the authorities knew she was one of the hijackers. Otto (Christian Näthe) confesses that he was the one who gave her up to protect Sam, revealing that the security footage from the driver’s cabin clearly showed Jess murdering the passenger Freddie . This creates a major trust issue between the two, especially since Sam had smuggled that USB drive off the train to prove his own innocence.
Jess feels completely betrayed. She believes that Robert Lang (Asher Ali), the MI5 agent who is actually pulling the strings, will detonate the bombs on the train now that the plan has been exposed. For a moment, she stops caring and refuses to cooperate. Sam manages to convince her to stay alive, arguing that they need to finish what they started to save everyone. She eventually takes Lang’s call and lies to him, saying the police missed them both .
Who Is Really Behind The Hijacking Conspiracy?
This is the central question of the season, and Episode 7 provides the clearest picture yet. For weeks, viewers have watched Sam being blackmailed into following orders to free a prisoner named John Bailey-Brown (Ian Burfield) . The person giving those orders is Lang, who is pretending to be a loyal MI5 officer while secretly working for the criminal organization known as the Cheapside Firm .
Lang is the man in the middle. He communicates with Jess on the train while also trying to manipulate the German authorities. In this episode, his cover starts to slip. He gets too confident and tries to pump a German intelligence agent named Linder for information about the police’s next move. But Linder is sharp. He had already noticed Lang making secret calls and figured out that Lang was the one who leaked the train’s destination to the media . When Linder confronts Lang at gunpoint, a struggle breaks out. Lang manages to kill Linder, but the act leaves him exposed and desperate .
Meanwhile, back in London, DCI Zara Gahfoor and DI Daniel O’Farrell continue to pressure Stuart Atterton, the mastermind from the first season’s plane hijacking. They believe he is connected to this new plot. In a major twist at the end of the episode, a female prison guard slips a bar of soap into Stuart’s cell. Hidden inside the soap is a burner phone and an earpiece . This confirms that Stuart is still actively involved in criminal activity from behind bars, though it is unclear if he is working with the Cheapside Firm or pursuing his own revenge against Bailey-Brown for the death of his family .
Marsha’s Call Changes Everything for Sam
While all this is happening, Marsha (Christine Adams) is still running for her life through the freezing Scottish wilderness. Hunters and their dogs are tracking her, but she refuses to give up. She manages to climb to higher ground and gets a signal on her phone. She calls Daniel and tells him she is alive and being hunted. He informs her that she is being used as leverage against Sam .
Before her battery dies, Marsha tries to call Sam. Instead, Olivia Thatcher (Clare-Hope Ashitey) answers Sam’s phone. Marsha leaves a desperate voicemail, warning Sam not to let anyone use her against him and that she loves him . Olivia immediately recognizes the importance of this recording. She rushes to the control center and plays it for Chief Ada Winter (Christiane Paul) . This is the hard proof Winter needed. For the first time, the authorities have clear evidence that Sam is being coerced and is not the mastermind behind the hijacking. It shifts the entire investigation.
The Train Loses Power and Sam Takes a Huge Risk
Back on the train, things are going from bad to worse. The last carriage was destroyed by a bomb, and the train is losing power rapidly. **Sam realizes the damaged rear cars are acting as dead weight, slowing the entire train down . His solution is drastic: detach the rear cars and leave them behind.
He convinces Jess to help him. They move several passengers, mostly children, to the cars that will be left behind for rescue. Jess hesitates, knowing this could ruin the plan, but Sam insists on saving as many innocent people as possible .
As the train slows down to separate, the German strike team moves in. They enter the damaged rear car and find Jess standing at the controls. Seeing something in her hand, they open fire. Jess is shot and falls . The team leader, Wolf, then turns his weapon on Sam.
With the power cut and Sam staring down the barrel of a gun, he grabs the walkie-talkie and begs Clara (Lisa Vicari) at the control center to restore power. He insists he is not a killer and that he needs to finish the mission to save the remaining passengers. Hearing Marsha’s message fresh in her mind, Winter makes the tough call. She orders the team to stand down and the power comes back on. The train pulls away, leaving Jess behind .
Jess is shown on the ground, bleeding heavily. Her fate is left unclear as the episode ends, though most signs point to her not surviving the gunshot wounds .
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Episode 7 Sets the Stage for a High-Stakes Finale
With one episode left in the season, the board is finally set. Lang has killed a German agent and is now a fugitive within the operation. Stuart Atterton has a secret phone in his cell, ready to make a move. The German police have arrested the bomb-maker, Jozef Kaminski, who could potentially identify Lang as the man who hired him .
Sam is now heading toward the handoff point with a smaller group of passengers, knowing that the authorities are finally on his side. The question remains: will they catch Lang before he frees Bailey-Brown, and what role will Stuart play in the finale?
The season has picked up significant momentum in these later episodes, and the action in “Contact” has fans eagerly awaiting the conclusion. The next and final episode, titled “Terminal,” is scheduled to release on March 4, 2026 .
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