The story so far, Edgar Maplethorpe, an emotionally complicated luggage carrier who works aboard

the SS Jonathan Franzen, played by Luther Abel in dashing Neo-Edwardian naval uniform,

is on his way to America for the first time, where he intends to meet his betrothed Eloise McCarthy,

played brilliantly by Michael Brendan Dowarty in a feather bower and miniskirt.

But little do they know that beneath the icy waves of the North Atlantic

lies a prototype submarine, staffed entirely by diminutive Jack Butler's, with preposterous

monocles and over-the-top German accents. Meanwhile, aboard the ship, Dr. Prandig von

Hofenstaff, inventor of the bookmark, has lost his favorite

hip flask, a gift from the Empress of Belgium during the last major war. In his search for it,

he is being aided by Dorothy Martin, a pretty young scullery made played to great effect by Noah

Rothman with the help of a second-hand prosthetic leg.

To make matters worse, the captain...

Charlie.

Yes, Luther?

What are you doing, Charlie?

I'm doing my radio play.

What?

My radio play.

You know, the one about Edgar Mapleshorpe and Dr. Prandig von Half and stuff?

No, no, I think not.

You think not?

I think not.

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