Blackout.
Something brushes her leg. Not a fish. Not debris. the bay s02e03 bdmv
The lapping water stops.
The victim: , 34, fisherman. His throat isn’t cut — it’s unzipped . Clean. Surgical. Maddy kneels. The BDMV close-up reveals: no blood spray on his collar. Someone held him down. Wiped him after. Blackout
Maddy freezes. "Play that back." Lena rewinds the audio from the room’s ambient mic. Foghorn again. Two short. One long. MADDY "That’s not a navigation buoy. That’s a call. Someone’s still out there." EXT. BAY CITY DOCKS – LATE AFTERNOON [BDMV NOTE: Golden hour, no diffusion filter. Grain from native ISO. Every rivet on boats visible.] Not debris
(30s, precise, exhausted) points to Derek Vance’s hyoid bone. LENA "Broken in three places. But here’s the strange part — he was alive when his throat was opened. No struggle. Paralysis agent in his blood. Someone wanted him to watch ." Maddy stares at the victim’s hands. Calloused. But clean under the nails. No defense wounds. MADDY "He knew his killer. Didn’t fight. Didn’t run." LENA "Or he couldn’t feel fear. Tetrodotoxin. Pufferfish venom. Old-school. Someone with deep maritime knowledge." [BDMV audio track: distant foghorn. Unmistakable. Two short, one long. A signal.]