'Around the World in 80 Days' Recap: Episode 6

As we dive into (pun sort of intended) this week’s installment of Around the World in 80 Days, we surmise that Passepartout and Abigail, as well as Phileas, must have been herded by the gun-toting Mr. Kneedling. We catch up to our trio adrift in a small wooden vessel, left to fend for themselves in a vast and stormy sea.

Poor Mr. Fogg has had quite a run of bad luck lately. It was only last week that the bank wrongfully withheld his funds. Then, Miss Fix’s internationally syndicated newspaper article humiliated him, and he was dragged off to jail, having been falsely accused of stealing a priceless Chinese heirloom from the governor of Hong Kong’s wife.

As Day 47 dawns on our adventurers, all three have somehow survived the destruction of their lifeboat and washed up on a deserted beach which Phileas extrapolates may be in Japan. They decide to walk the shoreline until they reach an outpost of some sort. Alas, they soon come upon their own footprints in the sand and work out that they have circumnavigated an uninhabited and relatively diminutive island. Their strategy changes, and they fan out for essential supplies. Passepartout locates a freshwater source while Abigail forages for what turns out to be the most disgusting fruit ever ingested by humankind. Phineas is in charge of building a shelter which he assembles half-heartedly.