One night in the bedroom, Winslow, in a drunken stupor, harasses Wake and criticizes his cooking skills, leading Wake to verbally curse out Winslow, asking Neptune to strike him dead in a lengthy soliloquy. More nights progress and the two become closer as they drink more and continue to be at each other's throats. Wake says it will likely take a longer time for the ferry to get here due to the storm. The two dig up the giant crate, but it is revealed to only have more alcohol. Wake informs Winslow that they buried a secret stash of rations next to the lighthouse that they will need to get. He runs back into the cottage to find Wake stating that the rations were impacted by the storm.
Winslow approaches the body, which appears to be a naked woman until he looks down and realizes that she is actually a mermaid. This is, however, cut short by a mysterious figure washing up on the shore. The next morning, the ferry is nowhere to be seen, and Winslow decides to continue with his morning routine. As the night progresses and the two get drunker and drunker, Winslow asks to go up to the top level of the lighthouse, which leads to an argument between him and Wake. They board up the windows, and the storm begins. That afternoon, the winds finally stop, and Wake becomes paranoid that a storm is destined to attack the island, and therefore proposes that the two of them drown their sorrows in alcohol before the ferry comes tomorrow. Winslow grabs the seagull and violently beats it to death against a rock. The other seagull who has been tormenting Winslow for the past month flies down to the oil barrack and attacks him. He opens the chamber to see a dying seagull stuck inside. The day before Winslow is slated to leave, he notices a major jam in the oil barrack and goes to see what the fuss is about.
Winslow asks Wake why killing a seagull is a bad omen, and he explains that Seagulls are vessels for the souls of dead seamen, which Winslow also shrugs off. Winslow tells Wake about how he used to work up in the North but decided to change profession, and Wake asks if he was running away from something he did on the mainland, which Winslow quickly shrugs off. Wake says that his previous keeper passed away shortly after losing his sanity. They finally introduce each other by name and discuss the previous wickie. One night at dinner, the two decide to get to know each other. The weeks continue, and Winslow constantly retreats to the supply cabin to masturbate to the figurine of the mermaid, and like clockwork, he sees Wake up on the top level of the lighthouse bare naked.
Wake sees this and encourages Winslow at dinner to leave it alone because it's bad luck to kill a seagull. He constantly is encountered by a strange seagull that constantly seeks to annoy Winslow at every turn. As the weeks progress, Winslow becomes more and more curious as to Wake's obsession with the light. Over the course of his stay, Winslow is allocated the more taxing jobs, refueling the light, stirring the oil barrack, carrying heavy gasoline containers, and disposing of the two men's chamber pots. Then he wakes, revealing this to be a dream. He sees floating tree stumps in the water along with a horrifying image of a mermaid in the deep. Winslow decides to shrug it off but is drawn towards the ocean. Wake is perceived by Winslow as a strange and superstitious fellow, going up to the top of the lighthouse at night and stripping nude. As he digs into it, he finds a small wooden figurine of a mermaid and stuffs it in his jacket. On the first day of the job, Winslow notices that there is a hole in his cot. In the late 1800s, retired timber-man Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) is sent on a boat to serve a contract job as a wickie for four weeks on an isolated island with a gassy elderly man named Thomas Wake (William Dafoe).
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