Unsinkable

Alfie and the girls hide in the shadows. Paddy enters the room and begins searching the cargo. When he finds a specific trunk, he picks its lock, looks inside, and then carries it from the room. Juliana insists on following him, and Sophie tentatively agrees. Alfie follows because he can’t let anything happen to the girls or Paddy, realizing that “somehow, he ha[s] intertwined his fate with a group of strangers, and it [i]s too late to untangle himself” (127). The group catches up to Paddy as he tosses the contents of the trunk into the ocean, including a pistol.

Juliana works out that Paddy is a stowaway. Paddy explains how he got there, winning over Sophie but not Juliana. Paddy tells Juliana that she can report him if she wants and continues emptying the trunk, except for one shirt, on which he writes “murderer” in black ink.

The next morning, Paddy is woken from a dream about Danny ordering him to look at his diagram of the Titanic and urging him to realize what it means. A few crew members discover Paddy hiding in the car in the cargo hold. The men are distracted from punishing Paddy with the realization that they forgot the cargo manifest in the quartermaster’s office.