‘Hijack’ Boss Explains [Spoiler’s] Death as Sam’s Motivation

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Hijack Season 2 Episode 3, “Baggage.”] What could motivate Sam Nelson (Idris Elba), who stopped a hijacking in the first season of this Apple TV thriller, to be the one holding hostages on an underground train in Berlin? The Wednesday, January 28, episode of Hijack reveals just that. As is revealed, Sam and Marsha’s (Christine Adams) son, Kai (Jude Cudjoe), was killed in a car accident exactly one year ago. He believes that John Bailey-Brown (Ian Burfield), whom he wants, killed him. As creator Jim Field Smith tells TV Insider, there needed to be something that would explain Sam’s behavior and this was one of the few things that could have been the reason.