Around The World In 80 Days Episodes 2 and 3

 In episode 2 (Why are there no chapter names?), Fogg and crew set the balloon down that got them out of France in a hurry, near a railroad track. Fogg is sure an Italian rail car will be by soon so they can continue their journey.

It is a long wait, but eventually a train comes, and they hail it like a taxi.  Then, Fogg and Fix get luxury accommodations as if they'd been expected.   Passepartout is in third class, traveling with families and farmers and their chickens.

Passepartout soon wins over the crowd in his section of the car, and is invited to a card game.

In first class, Fogg is bullied by a businessman who had been expounding his economic and political theories before Fogg and company showed up fantastically in their balloon. 

Niccolo Moretti demands to know where Fogg has traveled, getting a rather weak response about their trip so far.

Luckily, the whole episode isn't spent excoriating Fogg.  When a portion of the tracks over a bridge has fallen into a ravine, and Moretti's son is injured, Fogg figures out how the train can make it over the gap and gets the child to a doctor.

Episode 3

After a successful trip by ship from Italy to Egypt, our trio needs to make it through the desert in two days to keep on schedule.

Unfortunately, Fogg hires a man who mostly seems to want to steal Fogg's pocket watch.  Passepartout and Fogg leave Abigail behind, as they are told no one survives the desert journey.  Though the guide will get them to safety, he says.  Instead, he leaves them stranded with only their luggage, which has been rifled through.

Abigail, furious at having been left behind, convinces an adventuring Englishwoman and her spouse to help her follow the men, and rescue them if need be.

 

Thanks to Abigail and her new cohorts, everyone makes it through the desert, though the experience has changed all three travelers and  has shaken them to their foundations.

Arriving at Aden, Passepartout is approached by a man who means to make sure Fogg doesn't make the journey in 80 Days, thus losing the bet made to a man in deep debt who needs the 20,000 in winnings.

He appears to be taking on the task of betrayal, but I have faith Passepartout will come through.