Dream Cruise

Jack is haunted by a childhood nightmare about his younger brother Sean, who drowned when their rowing boat capsized as Sean tried to retrieve a baseball cap. The memory lingers, coloring Jack's survivor's guilt and his sense that his attempt to save Sean was incomplete. This event sets up the emotional core that shadows the present-day story.

Jack travels to Tokyo Bay with Eiji and Yuri, hoping for a calm day that will let Eiji work through a difficult matter. Tension threads through the boat, with Jack wrestling his fear of the sea even as he is drawn to Yuri. The voyage foreshadows that danger lies beneath the surface of this seemingly ordinary trip.

On the surface, cordiality masks a dangerous truth: Yuri and Jack are having an affair, a secret that Eiji may sense. Yuri's trust begins to crack as the relationship strains the couple’s dynamic. The atmosphere grows increasingly unstable as the truth looms over them.

The voyage reveals a darker history: Eiji had married Yuri after his first wife Naomi vanished under suspicious circumstances. The mystery behind Naomi’s disappearance hangs over the boat and foreshadows a link to the current danger. The past intrudes on the present with a quiet, ominous weight.

The ship's screw stalls and Eiji dives under the boat to clear the blockage. Instead of seaweed, he pulls at hair tangled in the machinery, a clue that something far more sinister lies beneath. The hair yanks him down, and he disappears, only to reappear minutes later drenched and alive.

Moments after, the radio crackles with a voice that isn’t theirs—Sean's—calling Jack by name. The eerie signal deepens the sense that something supernatural is steering events. The boundary between fear and reality becomes increasingly blurred on the water.

Naomi's vengeful spirit seems to possess Eiji, driving him to attack Yuri. A brutal confrontation ensues as Jack is overpowered and a severed arm floats in the flooded bathroom. The line between protector and danger collapses as the horror escalates.

Yuri experiences a vision that Naomi attacked Eiji's first wife to secure an inheritance, reframing the danger. The revelation links Naomi's past actions to the current peril, intensifying the stakes as the waterlogged cabin becomes a chamber of truth. The past and present collide in a single moment of clarity.

With the radio ruined and no ordinary means of rescue, Naomi's influence intensifies, pushing a cruel trap to drive Jack into harming Yuri. Sean's ghost intervenes again, countering Naomi's ploy and showing that help may come from beyond the living. The tension tightens as the trio fights for survival.

In a desperate bid to escape Naomi's vengeance, Jack and Yuri leap overboard as the boat sinks into the distance. The jump shifts the danger from a standoff to a perilous pursuit through the waves, with the supernatural threat flickering at the edges of reality. The immediate crisis becomes a fight for air and distance.

Naomi reappears to drag Yuri under once more, but Sean returns to intervene, pulling Naomi back toward the depths where she belongs. The spectral intervention unsettles the last grip of the vengeful spirit, giving Jack and Yuri a chance to regroup. The immediate danger gives way to a fragile pathway to safety.

Jack and Yuri survive the ordeal and choose a life together, a fragile peace earned through fear and courage. Jack finally accepts that Sean never blamed him for his brother's death, allowing his future to begin anew with Yuri by his side. The memories of hell recede as they look toward a calmer horizon.