During the meeting, it becomes clear that the virtual reality
built by the rail mogul is set to replay the events of the night of the recent
train collision, which was the fault of the four executives. They indirectly caused the wreck by skimping
on safety to protect profits. Plus ca
change. After reassuring the boss that
the company and the executive board had covered all the angles, that no legal
repercussions were possible, and that the four executives felt no guilt over the
deaths of the nineteen, the billionaire reveals that one of the nineteen was
his own wife.
A debate rages as to whether the train car is really in the
yacht or had been coupled to an engine and was actually hurtling towards the
still mangled tracks at the site of the wreck.
They have no way of knowing which it could be, as the railcar is built
of steel, and locked up tight as a drum.
The four men know that they are in the hands of a madman. He has locked
them up either on a yacht steaming through fog shrouded harbor or on a train
hurtling towards badly damaged tracks.
At the precise moment they would have reached the site of
the accident, the yacht is inadvertently rammed by a large cargo vessel and
sinks. They were steaming through the
fog the whole time.
The setup is great, but the deus ex machina ending is more
punchline than anything else. This one is
a definite miss. At least it was short.
