‘Hijack’ Trailer Hints Idris Elba’s Becoming the Bad Guy in Season 2 (VIDEO)

Please make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position because it’s almost time for Hijack to return for Season 2. The Idris Elba-led thriller series will return for another season on January 14, 2026, Apple TV has announced. Plus, we now have a first look at the series’ return. This time, the action is hitting the tracks instead of the runway, and it looks like Sam Nelson might be the bad guy … or, at least, some investigators seem to think he is.

Yes, the newest trailer for the series’ return indicates that Sam is possibly responsible for the hijacking of a Berlin train, as the investigators question whether he’s responsible in seeking “justice or revenge.”

The show, which debuted on the streamer in the summer of 2023, was renewed by the streamer in January after initially being billed as a limited series.

Additional details about how and when the series will take off once again are here, so here’s a look at everything we know about Hijack Season 2 so far.

When will Hijack Season 2 premiere?

Hijack Season 2 will premiere on January 14, 2026, with its first two episodes. From there, new episodes will arrive weekly until the season finale on February 25.

Who will star in Hijack Season 2?

Idris Elba will return to his role as Sam Nelson and will executive produce alongside Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Tom Nash, George Kay, and Jim Field Smith. Christine Adams, Max Beesley, and Archie Panjabi also return. Joining the cast this season are Christian Näthe, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Lisa Vicari, Toby Jones, Karima McAdams, and Christiane Paul.

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What will Hijack Season 2 be about?

The second season will move from the skies to the ground in Germany. The logline reveals, “A Berlin underground train and its commuters are taken hostage, while authorities scramble to save hundreds of lives. Sam Nelson (Elba) is at the heart of the crisis on board, where one wrong decision could spell disaster.”

Judging by the trailer (embedded above), Sam might just be a suspect, as investigators wonder if he’s involved in the hijacking.

Executive producer Jim Field Smith hinted that Elba’s Sam might face a new challenge like this, telling TV Insider, “I think Sam as a character is really compelling, I think the way Idris portrays him is really compelling, and I think it would always be interesting to see how he would react in other situations, of course.”

The Sun reports that the second season storyline is inspired by the Speed franchise, with an insider reporting, “Producers have clearly adopted the approach of the creative team who gave us the movie Speed, which dropped 30 years ago and featured a terrorist threat on a bus full of passengers. Then when the sequel, Speed: Cruise Control, came along a year later in 1997, it was essentially the same story but lifted lock, stock and barrel on to a ship.”

What happened in Hijack Season 1?

The first season centered on the hijacking of flight KA29, an international flight from Dubai to London, with Elba’s Sam and other characters as the passengers endangered by the terrorists. Sam, a corporate business negotiator by trade, tries to negotiate with hostage-takers and key officials on the ground and avoid an all-out catastrophe.

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