Idris Elba returns as Sam Nelson in the Apple TV thriller Hijack, where season 2 opens with another high-stakes hostage scenario on a Berlin train. The episode reveals suspicions of a larger conspiracy tied to the previous plane hijacking. Sam ultimately turns the tables in a shocking declaration.
The season 2 premiere of Hijack, streaming on Apple TV, picks up one year after the events of season 1, where Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) survived a mid-flight hijacking. Now in snowy Berlin, Sam waits at an underground train station, visibly on edge from his past trauma. A man with a red backpack catches his attention, prompting Sam to follow and confront him, warning, "Don't try anything stupid."
Police on the train question the man, who claims harassment due to his skin color and reveals himself as an asylum seeker with nothing suspicious in his bag. Meanwhile, a German SWAT team raids an empty apartment, discovering wires, bomb components, and a photo ID matching a lone worker, Marko, in the train tunnels.
Sam reconnects with Mei Tan, a former colleague who recalls his hijacking ordeal and says, "You've been through a lot." Calls from Olivia remind him of a meeting with a Federal Office of Justice official, while his estranged wife Marsha receives anniversary flowers back home.
Suspicion shifts to conductor Otto, who sweats profusely and requests a "Code 700" to use the bathroom, where he urgently calls Marko: "It's me. I can't do this." An attendant notes Otto's suspension, but he ignores control room orders, refuses to open doors at a station, and speeds past red lights.
In the tunnels, Marko saws wires to redirect the tracks. Sam forces his way into the conductor's cabin with a key, where Otto insists, "You don't understand. There's something going on." Sam replies, "I know," and declares, "I'm hijacking this train," after handling the onboard police.
At the British Embassy, Olivia informs the justice official that Sam believes he has identified the plane hijacker's accomplice. The episode builds tension with everyday riders, including teens on a school trip and a guitarist, aboard the derailed train.