1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Express/Express: The Man Who Wouldn't Die

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Synopsis
Czeslaw Meyer, playing with Mary Beriam, runs into Jacuzzi Splot and listens to Isaac and Miria tell the story of the Rail Tracer. Rachel watches the shootout between the black-suited Lemures, Vicky the white suit, and temporarily Nick from Jacuzzi's gang. Claire Stanfield accidentally finds Rachel, recognizes her as a stowaway, and asks for her ticket. Ladd Russo was dancing with Lua Klein, but decided to see how things were going and bumped into Czes. Czes asked Ladd to kill all the passengers in the dining car so he could find the immortal. However, Czes's lack of fear prompted Ladd to shoot the boy while Claire watched from the shadows.

Chane Laforet meets Ladd on the roof. Claire finds Fred the doctor (the Grey Magician) in Ladd's room and meets Lua's eyes, surprised at her lack of reaction. Czes runs into Claire, who proceeds to kill the boy, then continue torturing him after learning of his immortality. Rachel watches in horror as the Rail Tracer presses Czes against the tracks. Several Lemures discuss their plans to kill Chane, but are interrupted (killed) by Ladd. Ladd returns to the roof to continue his fight with Chane; however, Claire arrives and promises to kill whoever survives.

Lua, who had seen Claire, realizes that Ladd will be unable to survive should the Rail Tracer decide to kill him. On the roof, Claire infuriates Ladd, who attacks him. As Claire easily evades his attacks, he explains to Ladd his belief that he will never die because the world revolves around him.Ladd notices Lua, who has climbed up onto the roof as well. Claire ties a rope around her neck and tells Ladd he will jump off the train to save her. Ladd does so and discovers the rope would have come undone with a pull, then saves Lua from a railside pole by sacrificing his left arm.Claire questions Chane about Huey Laforet. When he brings up Huey's immortality, Chane tries to kill him. Claire decides that if he were to marry Chane, he would be duty-bound to protect Huey, his father-in-law. Chane prepared to respond, but was shot in the shoulder by a Lemures sniper, Spike. She carved her response to Claire's proposal on the roof, then jumped into the river along with Jacuzzi's stolen cargo.

In the engineer's compartment, Claire ensures that the train will continue running while Isaac and Miria explain the situation on the train to the passengers. They discovered the corpse of Czeslaw.The mustached man is about to kill Rachel when Claire arrives. However, she begs him not to kill the man, or anyone else on the train, asking him to kill her if he just wants to kill someone. Claire gives Rachel a ticket instead so she can pretend she wasn't a stowaway. Under the train, Isaac attempts to rescue Czes, but Czes discovers his immortality and causes them to fall from the train. Miria, Rachel, Claire, and Donny save them.

On the roof, Isaac and Miria see Czes's right arm and legs returning to him and try to protect the boy from the "Rail Tracer". When Czes is finished regenerating, he explains to the duo that he lied about going to see his family, causing them to promise to protect him forever.

Claire is confronted by Jacuzzi, who attempts a double suicide with the Rail Tracer and is saved by Claire. Claire returns to the roof and reads Chane's message, saying she will wait for him in Manhattan. The Rail Tracer disappears at sunrise, to uphold his legend.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Czeslaw Meyer

Mary Beriam

Jacuzzi Splot

Natalie Beriam

Nice Holystone

Isaac Dian

Miria Harvent

Rachel

The Mustached Man

Vicky

The Lemures

Nick

Claire Stanfield

Ladd Russo

Lua Klein

Chane Laforet

Quotes
"Your ticket, please." - Claire Stanfield to Rachel

"I am a man who cannot die." - Claire Stanfield