The Sacramentum Slasher

**The Sacramentum Slasher** is the fourth episode of the first series.

## Plot

### Flashback

As Pippa is getting ready for a night out, Jamie enters her room with a bruised eye and a bleed above his nose. Pippa cancels her plans and decides to order the pair of then pizza as Jamie notices a brochure for the Velorum.

### Present Day

Jamie keeps a close eye on Sam for the next two days. Lauren finds the door of Jerome's cabin ajar and looks inside to find it dark and messy with no sign of Jerome. Karen arrives and when Lauren explains she hasn't seen Jerome for days, she suggests he is 'probably sowing his oats elsewhere'. Hamish and Bethany-May show up and ask why the water's off before Karen threatens them with the Quacky costume for loitering.

Vivian shows up at Lily's cabin under the guise of room service. They share a kiss but are interrupted by Nile. Meanwhile in his cabin, Jamie finds Rosie and Cormac packing their bags, saying it's not safe on board and that they are leaving at the next port. They hide in the bathroom as Jamie goes to talk to Olly about the two of them not knowing each other. Olly invites him on a date but Jamie gets distracted when he sees Sam enter the prayer room.

Jamie follows suit as the officer reveals that he now recognises him as Pippa's brother. Sam explains that he loved Pippa and that they planned to runaway together, but she found out Sam had a wife back at home. He hands Jamie a duffle bag full of Pippa's HR stuff including reports of her behaviour after they broke up and that she did jump. Jamie still doesn't believe him and tells Sam that he saw Danny's body contradicting reports that he too jumped.

With the water still off in the crew cabins, Sophia shows up at Sam's for a bath. Still feeling sad about what happened with Pippa, Sam calls off his and Sophia's relationship. Upset about this, Sophia later sobs in the crew bathroom where she and Lauren confide in each other about love and loss. In the Promenade, Nile reveals to Vivian that he and Lily have bets on who can 'bed the help' first and that whoever won this year would own Nile's dad's watch. Vivian asks Lily about the watch but walks off when Lily tries to explain.

In the officers' mess Sam asks Karen about Danny but they are interrupted by Sophia and the rest of the entertainers with Lauren in tow. Sophia reveals that they're all on strike unless the water supply is turned back on. Noticing tension between Sam and Sophia, Karen warns him about the last time he got close to an entertainer.

After skimming through Pippa's documents, Jamie and Vivian go to Pippa's old cabin now belonging to Bethany-May. When she leaves the pair sneak in hoping to find any evidence. Jamie gets upset so Vivian hugs him to calm him down, but notices a gap in the carpet with some writing underneath. She pulls back the carpet to reveal a map of the ship covered with numbers and symbols and Jamie takes a couple of photos. Remembering how Pippa use to hide money from their dad back at home, Jamie opens up the cabin's smoke alarm to find a piece of paper with a list of names on it; two of which are crossed out.

Vivian goes back to Jamie's cabin whilst Jamie and Sam return to the prayer room. Jamie hands Sam the list of names; none of them Sam recognises, but nonetheless tells Jamie he'll look into them after looking into Danny. On his way back to his cabin, Jamie sees Olly again and the pair arrange a date at the cinema's projection room. Jamie returns to his cabin and he and the gang discover that the two crossed out names, Felipe and Daniel, both left the same social media update word-for-word on two different dates, and nothing since. Rosie and Cormac decide to stay and help Jamie and Vivian as they think up a plan to try and find the other two names.

With Lauren still in tow, Sophia and the entertainers return to the officers' mess where Karen threatens to fire them for breaching their contracts unless they return to work. They do so as Karen promises Lauren to find Jerome. Whilst Rosie and Cormac distract the HR woman, Jamie and Vivian log into the employee records to find that the people on Pippa's list as well as dozens of other people, have all absconded, including Jerome, despite the ship still being out at sea. Rosie and Cormac go to find Jerome as Vivian comes across Lily, who had snuck away earlier to find her. The pair go to the theatre to talk whilst Jamie goes to see Sam.

In the soft play area, Jamie tells Sam that the people on Pippa's list have all absconded. Sam in turn tells him that people on the ship abscond all the time and that something may have been going on with Daniel, Felipe, and Jerome. A confused Jamie points out that Jerome was not on the list, nor did he once mention his name at all to Sam. In the theatre Lily explains that although she and Nile did have a bet, Nile actually won it on their second day. She apologises and the pair reconcile with a kiss. Realising he slipped up, Sam holds Jamie against a fence and admits that he chased Pippa to the edge of the ship and watched her jump. Jamie attempts to escape but Beaker, Karen, and the rest of the officers show up, as Karen knocks him out and drags his body away.

## Cast

*in order of appearance*

* **Pippa Walsh** - Jodie Tyack
* **Jamie Walsh** - Oscar Kennedy
* **Sam Rhodes** - Louis Boyer
* **Vivian Lim** - Thaddea Graham
* **Lauren Thompson** - Amber Grappy
* **Karen Macintyre** - Harriet Webb
* **Hamish Campbell** - James Phoon
* **Bethany-May Denbrough** - Ali Hardiman
* **Lily Tee** - Ramanique Ahluwalia
* **Nile** - Ned Costello
* **Cormac Kelly** - Peter Claffey
* **Rosie Preston** - Miya Ocego
* **Olly Reyes** - Anthony Rickman
* **Sophia Leigh** - Alice Nokes
* **Steven Cochrane** - Anthony Brophy
* **Abigail Cochrane** - Davina Moon
* **Amy 1** - Melissa Dilber
* **Amy 2** - Merih Dilber
* **Dolce Rodriguez** - Georgia Goodman
* **Anya Connor** - Eva Hein West
* **Officer Beaker** - Warren James Dunning