William Encounters Proof…and Responds Poorly

…Wherein, William Munro discovers that the mermaid he feared was only a vision is very real—and currently trapped in a net he himself cast. Confronted with impossible proof and seized by the certainty that he cannot allow anyone else to see her, William paces the deck in mounting panic, weighing every option and rejecting them all. Ultimately, he does the only reasonable thing and throws himself overboard.