Something in the Water

The next day, the storm has blown over. Mark goes to set up another scuba session. While he’s gone, room service brings a bottle of wine to the room. It’s from Eddie Bishop. Erin’s initially disturbed that Eddie knew where she was, but she rationalizes that anyone could have found her. She keeps the wine and decides “not to tell Mark” (94).

The storm dropped a lot of debris in the main beach, so Mark brings Erin to a different location to scuba dive. On their way back, they come across a bunch of paper floating in the ocean, and something bumps their boat. It’s a duffle sealed with both a combination and pad lock. Mark and Erin immediately think it’s a body but decide it can’t be because “the sharks would have had it by now” (102). They head back to the hotel, where they’ll turn in the duffle and be done with it.

Mark and Erin hand the bag in to the hotel, and Mark will talk to the dive instructor about it. While Mark waits at breakfast, Erin goes back up to the room, where she finds the bag “Sitting neatly on the floor at the end of our bed” (105).