Papa tells young Everly fantastical stories about Lilly Forsyth and the Pulaski shipwreck.

Oliver visits Everly at work and asks her to curate a new museum exhibit about the Pulaski.

Lilly boards the Pulaski with her daughter Madeline and enslaved nursemaid Priscilla.

The Pulaski's boiler explodes at night, sending the ship into chaos.

Lilly grabs her jewelry bag and escapes toward the promenade deck with Priscilla and Madeline.

Everly meets deep-sea diver Maddox Wagner, who discovered the Pulaski wreckage.

Lilly stays silent as Adam calls for help from the water, leaving him to drown.

Augusta's lifeboat capsizes, and she saves Thomas but cannot reach her drowning niece Eliza.

Henry is found barely alive draped over a log and pulled onto the floating wreckage.

Lilly and Priscilla survive the dangerous surf and reach the North Carolina shore with Madeline.

Lilly learns Adam survived the wreck and immediately flees with Priscilla and Madeline.

Everly, Oliver, and Maddox dive together to the site of the Pulaski wreck.

Everly experiences nitrogen narcosis, hallucinates Mora underwater, and chooses to live.

Everly and Oliver discover Augusta's memoir hidden among the Longstreet family papers.

Oliver confesses his love for Everly at the exhibit opening, and she agrees they belong together.

When historian Everly Winthrop is asked to curate an exhibit about the newly discovered Pulaski shipwreck, she is forced to confront the grief and guilt she carries over her friend Mora's death. In 1838, Lilly Forsyth boards the ill-fated steamship with her daughter and enslaved nursemaid, secretly planning to escape her abusive husband. When the Pulaski explodes, both women face life-or-death decisions that will change everything. Lilly chooses survival over Adam, staying silent as he drowns while she fights to reach the North Carolina shore with Priscilla and Madeline. In the present, Everly dives to the wreck and is forced to choose between joining the dead and embracing life. The discoveries she makes about the Pulaski survivors ultimately help Everly open her heart to love again.

The Pulaski disaster and Everly's journey back to life.

Everly visits her mother Harriet and notices an oil painting of the Pulaski in the family library.

Augusta boards the Pulaski and struggles to conceal her attraction to engineer Henry MacMillan.

Adam drags Lilly to her cabin and assaults her before the night of the explosion.

Augusta wakes Charles and Thomas and forces their blocked cabin door open as fire spreads through the ship.

Everly and Maddox walk through Savannah together; Everly spots Oliver on a date with an unfamiliar woman.

Augusta finds floating wreckage to cling to and is pulled aboard by her brother Lamar.

Thomas dies of dehydration and exposure while stranded at sea, devastating Augusta.

Charles is rescued and returns to the floating wreckage, giving Augusta renewed hope for survival.

Augusta and the remaining survivors are rescued by a passing ship after five days and nights at sea.

Everly travels to North Carolina and meets Maddox's dive crew aboard his boat.

Oliver and Everly visit Mora's mother and grandmother; Josephine hints at a family connection to the Longstreets.

Oliver and Everly find boxes of Longstreet family papers in the attic of Ingrid Morgan's former home.

Augusta reads about Charles's slave trading on the Wanderer and reads Lilly's letter describing life in Michigan.

Police arrest the drunk driver who killed Mora after Everly reports her encounter at the cemetery.

Everly gives an inspirational speech at the Pulaski exhibit opening about survival, choice, and history.

The secondary events of Surviving Savannah flesh out the full journey of Everly, Lilly, and Augusta as the disaster unfolds and its mysteries are unraveled in the present. Augusta fights to keep her family alive on the sinking ship, losing her nephew Thomas to exposure while stranded at sea for five days. In the present, Everly rebuilds her life by researching the wreck with Maddox and tracing the survivors' descendants across generations. Across both timelines, the characters grapple with grief, guilt, and the weight of choices made under impossible circumstances. The connection Everly uncovers between Mora's family and the Longstreets transforms the exhibit into a deeply personal mission. Justice for Mora's death arrives when the drunk driver is arrested, and Everly delivers a triumphant speech at the exhibit opening.

Survivors and secrets: the full arc of the Pulaski story.

Oliver shows Everly the engraved Pulaski candlestick to convince her to curate the exhibit.

Lilly and Augusta briefly meet on deck; Augusta notices bruises left by Adam's abuse.

Everly formally accepts the curation job and learns that Pulaski survivor Charles Longstreet became the Red Devil.

Lilly and Priscilla push through the chaos of the sinking ship and reach Mr. Couper's partly filled lifeboat.

Augusta confesses to Henry that she chose to save Thomas over Eliza, and he consoles her.

Everly and Maddox visit the Georgia Historical Society and discover Adam searched for Lilly for days after the wreck.

Everly sees the Pulaski pocket watch for the first time, its hands frozen at the moment of the explosion.

Rescued survivors on the North Carolina shore are separated by race; Lilly refuses to leave Priscilla's side.

At the Wilmington docks, Augusta discovers that both Lilly and Lamar survived the wreck.

Everly returns to Savannah and discovers that an unknown person has been leaving flowers at Mora's grave.

Harriet reveals that the Pulaski painting was given to the family by Mora's grandmother Josephine.

Everly spots the Longstreet family crest carved on Mora's grandfather Percival's gravestone.

Everly and Oliver trace the family crest and confirm that Mora was descended from the Longstreet family.

Everly confronts the drunk driver leaving flowers at Mora's grave; he flees after she lunges at him.

Everly finds Lilly's letter to Augusta hidden inside a Bible, revealing that Lilly and Priscilla built new lives in Michigan.

Pool 3 follows the pivotal moments of decision, discovery, and emotional reckoning that drive the story forward across both timelines. In 1838, Lilly, Augusta, and Henry are each forced into impossible choices that will define the rest of their lives, from Lilly's silent act of self-liberation to Augusta's agonizing split-second decision to save Thomas over Eliza. In the present, Everly pieces together the hidden connections between the Pulaski survivors and her friend Mora through a trail of clues: a frozen pocket watch, a family crest on a gravestone, and a reluctant grandmother's hints. Each revelation deepens Everly's conviction that the past and present are inseparable. A confrontation with the drunk driver who killed Mora marks a turning point in her healing. The discovery of Lilly's letter to Augusta confirms that both women escaped their old lives and built new ones entirely on their own terms.