Global Edition
Global Edition
UK Edition
EU Edition
US Edition

Understand the story, not the spin.

Markets

Hijack Season 2 Premieres on Apple TV

Published 14 January 2026

The second season of the Apple TV thriller series Hijack premiered on January 14, 2026, with Idris Elba reprising his role as corporate negotiator Sam Nelson, who finds himself entangled in a hostage crisis aboard a Berlin underground train. The eight-episode installment shifts the high-stakes action from the airborne hijacking of Season 1 to the subterranean confines of the city's U-Bahn system, where authorities race to resolve the standoff and prevent disaster.

In this new chapter, Sam Nelson boards the train amid escalating tensions, serving once again as a key liaison between the hijackers and those on the ground. The plot builds on the unresolved elements of the first season, which concluded with Nelson thwarting a plane hijacking en route to London and uncovering ties to a broader criminal conspiracy aimed at manipulating the justice system. Now, Nelson grapples with personal trauma from those events while navigating suspicions about his own involvement in the train crisis. Early episodes reveal a web of intrigue involving British intelligence, local authorities, and the criminal network that evaded capture previously.

The ensemble cast features returning actors alongside...

Now playing
0:00 / 0:00