S. is back on the ship, although the ship and the crew have been completely remade. He notices that the sailors’ mouths are still sewn shut, as if this is an important tradition. S. asks Sola where the crew came from. Sola says, “there’s rarely a shortage of the willing.” Sola says that she is juts a passenger and has no authority over the sailors. She says that S. also has no authority. S. is a bit upset; he feels that all of the work that he has done should have earned him at least something.

Sola leads S. to the chart-room, telling him that he does have one friend here. S. wonders who this could be, considering that none of the sailors were his friends.

Eric compares the crew of the ship to The S. Like the ship’s crew, The S continues to exist. Perhaps Straka expects The S to continue. Meanwhile the New S continues as well. The body that was found in Nova Scotia was identified as a radical Irish writer named Kavanagh. The implication is that subversive writers like Straka are still being hunted down today.

Jen wonders how Kavanagh was identified. The whole purpose of “Santorini Man” is that the body cannot be identified.

Eric writes that someone, possibly the assassin, made a mistake.