The Woman in Cabin 10: Chapter 16 Summary & Analysis

Lo joins Tina and Chloe in the ship’s spa for scheduled treatments. To her surprise, Anne Bullmer arrives, too. She looks “less sallow, her face somehow slightly less drawn,” but she still has deep shadows under her eyes. Lo struggles against a panic attack as the group descends to the lower level of the spa, and she realizes they’re below the ocean’s surface with no apparent exits.

As they walk down the hall, Tina makes a quick apology to Lo for having spoken so sharply to her earlier, but Lo still feels uncomfortable around her. Ulla welcomes Lo into a treatment room, where she’s been booked for a mud wrap. Lo is dubious about the mud wrap, but she’s surprised how soothing it is, and she soon finds herself drifting into much-needed sleep.

While she naps, Lo dreams about the girl from Cabin 10—her dead body drifting far beneath the ocean’s surface. As Lo wakes up, she realizes that the roar in her ears is not part of her dream. She discovers that the shower is running in the next room, and the room is filled with steam. When she turns on the light, she sees words written across the bathroom mirror: STOP DIGGING.

A BBC News website article, dated to a week later, reports that Danish fishermen have found the body of a woman off the coast of Norway, and that it’s speculated to be the body of the missing Laura Blacklock.