exchange<\/a> in the crew mess, a few moments earlier, when Daisy said she didn\u2019t appreciate being booted off the galley during service. Ben hears Ellie out, but he\u2019s skeptical: If anyone has a reputation for outbursts, it\u2019s Ellie. He promises to speak to Daisy but reminds Ellie that they should avoid being \u201cat war\u201d with the interior department, since their success depends on the stews.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, Daisy goes over Ellie\u2019s gaslighting tactics with Jenna and Alesia. Jenna tried to eavesdrop on Ellie\u2019s conversation with Ben in the galley, but Betul, still blissfully unaware of any issue that doesn\u2019t involve a fender or a line, was trying to talk to her about something else. The women all agree that Ellie is trying to make Daisy seem insane about their shrimp skirmish, while also setting out to disrupt the interior department by spreading rumors about Jenna and pitting Alesia against her colleagues. In their first night sharing a cabin, Jo\u00e3o tells Daisy that Ellie has made it so uncomfortable for him in the galley that he hardly ever goes in there anymore.<\/p>\n
At least this disaster gives Ben something to talk to Eddy about on their first awkward night as roommates. Ben knows that Daisy can be an intimidating presence in the galley,\u00a0but he also knows that Ellie is\u2026 intense, so in the morning, he gets Daisy\u2019s side of the story while Vinod gets a tour of the bridge from Jason. Daisy tells Ben that she would\u2019ve let the shrimp incident slide if Ellie hadn\u2019t confronted her in the presence of other crew members. Though Ben promises Daisy that he won\u2019t let Ellie create a problem between them, he mostly placates Ellie. He doesn\u2019t sit her down to go over the situation, only tells her that they\u2019ve learned from it when, later, she asks if he spoke to Daisy. When Ellie protests that she has no lessons to learn, Ben corrects himself: Daisy learned not to touch the food. He advises Ellie, again, to \u201cpick her battles wisely.\u201d The interior team is in a position to make the galley\u2019s life difficult, so it would be in both of their interests to have Daisy on their side.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s his way of telling Ellie not to be so hostile towards Daisy without prompting a reaction, but I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s wise. By siding with her and acting as if she did nothing wrong, he\u2019s only encouraging Ellie\u2019s inflated ego and widening the rift between the stews and the galley. Presenting as a united front with Daisy would be a step toward shaking Ellie out of her delusional trance. Instead, she is emboldened; during dinner service that night, Ellie gives Daisy serving instructions (she reiterates the orientation of the lamb shank bone, and Daisy retorts: \u201cThe way we\u2019ve done it this whole time?\u201d). It appears that Ben is still too scared of Ellie to manage her. He only calls her out when her shenanigans directly affect him via the Jenna-Jo\u00e3o-hot-tub rumor, which Jenna vehemently denies. Confused about who to believe, Ben asks Ellie if Jo\u00e3o and Jenna were actually \u201call over each other.\u201d He feels silly for making a thing out of it if it\u2019s not true. This is making me feel insane. Didn\u2019t he go up to the hot tub to scope out the situation himself? Why can\u2019t he draw his own conclusions? They were literally just talking!<\/p>\n
Eddy picks Barbie up from the dock while the guests are on a fishing trip with Alesia, who is relieved to be among \u201cnormal, wholesome\u201d people. Barbie immediately piques Eddy\u2019s interest. In a confessional, she tells us she has reflected a lot since her last season, and this time, she\u2019s \u201cnot going to be the problem.\u201d As she\u2019s waiting for Barbie to arrive, Daisy texts with Fraser, who warns her that Barbie is a \u201cgood worker\u201d but \u201cstubborn,\u201d and \u201cnot [his] favorite employee.\u201d Jenna worries that Barbie won\u2019t respect her rank because she\u2019s close with Ellie. Still, Daisy asks Jenna to unite forces with her to bring positivity into the department. There has been a lot of negativity floating around, some of it coming from Daisy herself, but this is an opportunity to reset and start anew.<\/p>\n
It seems, at least at first, that Barbie\u2019s mindset is aligned with Daisy\u2019s: Her goal\u00a0is to redeem herself from a bad dynamic with Fraser by making good friends with the chief stew. That\u2019s bad news for Ellie, who\u2019s counting on Barbie\u2019s combativeness as an asset in the fight against the interior department. And, as Jenna points out, it\u2019s a relief to have a stew who actually knows what she\u2019s doing. Barbie is fast, proactive, and reliable. But that she\u2019s a good professional doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019ll pass up the opportunity to be involved in drama. She immediately identifies an issue with Jenna, especially after she asks her for the rundown of the boatmance landscape. Clearly threatened, Jenna tells Barbie the truth, which is that basically, she is the center of it. She\u2019s had \u201ca thing\u201d with Eddy and Ben, and now there\u2019s a rumor circulating about her and Jo\u00e3o. That only firms up Barbie\u2019s impression that Jenna is conceited, and later, she relays that impression to Ellie. \u201cJo\u00e3o and Jenna: two biggest snakes,\u201d Ellie explains, using her favorite expression. She tells Barbie that she \u201cput [Jo\u00e3o] in his place a couple of charters ago\u201d \u2013\u2013\u00a0lady, you were broken up with \u2013\u2013\u00a0and since then, he\u2019s been \u201con a mission to get\u201d to her. Barbie decides that Jenna is not \u201chumble\u201d enough, so she\u2019ll flirt with Eddy to take her down a notch.<\/p>\n
But before all of that can happen, this messy crew has to get through dinner service. The guests brought back massive fish from their expedition, and Ben cuts them up for dinner. The theme is \u201cAround the World,\u201d so each course pays homage to a different country. Barbie takes over the tablescape, which Jenna doesn\u2019t mind. Meanwhile, in the crew mess, Jo\u00e3o massages Daisy\u2019s shoulders, which Ellie interprets as a targeted attack. She closes the door that separates the kitchen from the crew mess. After dinner, she thanks Jo\u00e3o for \u201ctoning it down\u201d during service, as they were being \u201creally distracting.\u201d Jo\u00e3o deadpans: \u201cWe didn\u2019t tone it down; the door was closed.\u201d Ellie\u2019s repeated attempts to engage with Jo\u00e3o aside, that she speaks to him condescendingly is another instance of her power trip. It\u2019s like she has lost perspective on the boat\u2019s chain of command.<\/p>\n
In their cabin later that evening, Daisy talks to Jo\u00e3o about the Ellie Problem, but his mind is somewhere else. He asks if Daisy was offended by his sitting with Jenna in the hot tub. Daisy is so far from offended, it worries Jo\u00e3o \u2014\u00a0does that mean she\u2019s not thinking of him in romantic terms? \u201cJo\u00e3o, we\u2019ve cuddled once,\u201d Daisy laughs. She\u2019s treading carefully: his reputation precedes him, and the last thing she needs is to escalate the tension with Ellie. The next night, when they\u2019re out at the club, Jo\u00e3o tries to have a \u201cwhat are we\u201d talk with Daisy. She basically tells him that a fling is not a priority for her right now. Her team is falling apart! With the season inching towards its end, I\u2019m finding it ever more unlikely that anything will happen between these two \u2014\u00a0Daisy\u2019s hands are too full, and her eyes are on the ball.<\/p>\n
On drop-off day, Jo\u00e3o has Betul call in the docking for the first time. She is excited, but also a little overwhelmed. She worries that her nerves will make her stutter, even more so because she has to work through them in English. But she takes her time, relies on Jo\u00e3o\u2019s guidance when needed, and knocks it out of the park. Afterwards, both Jason and Jo\u00e3o congratulate her on a job well done. In fact, even though their personal relationships were imploding throughout, the charter is an unqualified success. Brenna, Sujay, and his sweet, sweet parents leave elated with their experience \u2014 they rate it six stars on their feedback cards. At the tip meeting, Jason singles out Betul and Barbie for praise, commanding the former for docking and the latter for transitioning with ease. The tip is $22,000 ($1,692 each), and no one gets the helmet. It\u2019s what the crew needed to get their morale back up.<\/p>\n
During the charter, Eddy couldn\u2019t help but flirt with Jenna here and there. He told Jo\u00e3o that it hurt his feelings to see her flirting with Ben and to hear about the hot tub thing. As it happens, Barbie\u2019s arrival makes Jenna more inclined to indulge Eddy. The sight of Barbie drinking a Michelada with Ben in the galley is enough to send Jenna looking for Eddy, to whom she sends a bad, bad text that reads, \u201cCan\u2019t stop looking at you. Like I miss you way more than I\u2019m supposed to.\u201d Understandably confused, Eddy decides to put his cards on the table with Ben. He says that he wouldn\u2019t be upset with Ben for pursuing things with Jenna, only with her for leading him on. Ben tells him that Jenna came to him when she realized things wouldn\u2019t work out with Eddy. A flashback to the day Jenna and Eddy went on their fateful date reminds us it was only a week ago, though it feels like we\u2019ve been going over this issue since the last Obama administration. Eddy shows Ben the text Jenna sent him, and Ben worries he\u2019s getting played.<\/p>\n
At first, it seemed that Eddy, lover-boy that he is, would come crawling back to Jenna. But he feels a little scorned and a little vengeful, and when Barbie starts flirting with him at dinner, he reciprocates. Jenna throws daggers across the table with her eyes. She is so mad, it makes the whole dinner awkward. \u201cYou can\u2019t almost have everyone,\u201d Jo\u00e3o tells Jenna, using the wary tone of an older brother. But she only gets more incensed when, at the club, both Ben and Eddy seem to be having a great time with Barbie. When she makes a face at Eddy after he refuses one of her shots, Ellie interjects, \u201cOh my God,\u201d as if Jenna is crazy. It boggles the mind.<\/p>\n
Even Betul, who up until here had never uttered a word about her colleagues, notices that \u201cJenna is kind of killing the vibe.\u201d Ben sits Jenna down to say maybe they should just be friends; it\u2019s all too much drama for him. The more he talks, the more riled up he gets. Jenna barely gets a word in \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s like we\u2019re seeing his train of thought develop in real time. He starts the conversation calmly enough, but by the time he gets to the text Jenna sent Eddy, in which she \u201cregrets\u201d breaking up with him, Ben is livid. Jenna tries to fight him on the wording, but she knows her defense is weak \u2014\u00a0that was, more or less, what the text said. Ben walks away before she can explain herself. From the looks of next week\u2019s preview, things will only go down from here. Was it just me, or did that hug between Eddy and Jason give \u201cI\u2019m quitting\u201d vibes\u2026?<\/p>\n
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