The Cape of Good Hope has always been the place where the world feels unfinished. Where two furious oceans collide, where storms are born with teeth, and where — somewhere in the fog and lightning and silence — a ghost ship has been sailing for centuries without ever making port. The Flying Dutchman legend begins with a real man, or at least a man real enough for legend to need. Hendrick van der Decken — Dutch East India Company captain, cold-eyed and unbreakable — encounters the Cape in full murderous fury. His crew begs him to turn back. He refuses. And in the howling, black-throated heart of the worst storm of his life, he speaks an oath so reckless, so proud, so perfectly designed to offend both God and ocean that the world holds him to it forever. But this episode doesn't stay at the Cape. It follows the legend across centuries and continents — ...