It’s a child, it’s a mermaid, it’s a siren, it’s a tool used by pirates – no matter what is it, it’s a problem for Mark Harris, the Man from Atlantis, as he tries to solve the mystery of a series of sunken ships. John and Eugene discuss the Siren.
Episode Synopsis
Mark Harris, the Man from Atlantis, is patrolling some waters, looking for something that has been sinking ships. He spies a female diver and follows her as she returns to her boat, the Ambergris. She is Amanda Trevalean, and he father, awaiting her on the boat, is Hugh Trevalean, the brilliant genius that knows more about the US defenses than anyone.
Mark doesn’t know this, of course, as he only observes them momentarily from below the waves. He’s searching for a ship killer, possibly in the form of a killer whale, and certainly not in the form of a submarine, which he completely misses.
He reports back to Jenny on the Cetacean. Wait? Who’s Jenny?
Jenny is Jenny Reynolds, who’s filling in for Elizabeth in the role of person that wrings her hands with worry while Mark is out of sight of the ship, and who acts as the person who asks Mark, “What’s going on?” and as the person who receives the inevitable reply of, “I do not have time to explain.”
Aboard the submarine, Capt Stringer, old-school pirate with a bandana, is plundering unsuspecting boats with his warship designed to sneak up and destroy ships. But he’s not a conventional submarine pirate, oh no! Capt. Stringer has a captured mermaid… errrr Siren aboard his ship. He forces her to sing, and then, using an unwatered speaker, cranks her song up to 11, disabling the crews, and inducing mental breakdowns. He attacks the Ambergris to capture Trevanean, but his attack also disables the Cetacean, and knocks Mark out.
Mark recognized the song and has an idea about what it might be. Jenny poo poos the idea because a myth. She says this with a straight face to man who breaths water.
He finds the Ambergris adrift, with a crazed Amanda aboard, and takes her to the hospital. She will die, and later, Mark cures her by signing to her.
That night, Mark finds the submarine sheltering and break in, singing to the Siren to assure her. He is captured attempting to rescue Trevalean, but uses his super Atlantean powers to play dead and escapes, with Trevalean.
The Cetacean, damaged again, rests on the bottom. Now Stringer tries to depth charge them. Mark goes outside the Cetacean and operates the emergency controls on the outside of the ship to reactivate everything. Mark goes to Stringer’s sub and bends the loudspeaker back towards itself, he then calls Stringer and offers him a deal: Let us go and we’ll let you go… although we will call the navy. Sound fair?
“Sure,” says Stringer, “You have my word of honor.”
Mark orders the Cetacean to leave, and when Stringer goes back on his word, the blasts his own ship with the crippling Siren song. Mark rescues the Siren and leaves her on some rocks. The end.
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