The Moving Picture Girls at Sea: Or, a Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real

The DeVere sisters are back, and this time the cameras are rolling on the open sea. Ruth and Alice have traded the studio lights for salt air as the Comet Film Company sails to capture their greatest production yet: a dramatic shipwreck scene. But when they hire Old Jack Jepson, a weathered sailor with haunted eyes, to advise on the film, the line between reel and reality begins to blur. Jack carries a secret - years ago, he was branded a mutineer and imprisoned by the British, though he insists he was framed. Now, far from shore, he fears his past has caught up with him. When Jack mysteriously goes overboard, Alice watches too much in the faces of Captain Brisco and the strange sailor Lacomb. Someone on this ship knows more about Jack's history than they're saying. As the film crew captures wave after wave of dramatic footage, Alice finds herself investigating a very different kind of drama - one that could prove far more deadly than anything the director could stage.