last week<\/a>: The primary\u2019s name is spelled the Kardashian way, Kasandra, rather than Cassandra, as I\u2019d written it. It seemed, from her preference sheet, that Kasandra would be bitchy and demanding, but as it turns out, the fussy one is her husband, Jeff, who cannot believe that they can\u2019t leave the dock when he\u2019s paid so much money for this vacation. For her part, Kasandra \u2014 who actually seems fun \u2014 decides to spend her rainy day on a superyacht in the only reasonable way: getting drunk and annoying the hell out of her husband.<\/p>\nA day on the dock means less work for the exterior team and twice as much work for the interior team, who has to keep the guests entertained. But at least, Aesha is back in her rightful post as chief stew, and she\u2019s ready to mobilize her team into seven-star service. Kayley suggests a cooking class with Joy for the guests, and Aesha adds a cocktail-mixing demo to the idea. Meanwhile, to kill time and illustrate how unpleasant it is to cruise on choppy waters, Sandy offers the guests a tender ride. Joe and Kayley take them out, and Kayley tries to comfort Joe by wisely reminding him that he can\u2019t control the facts of his situation with Nathan, only his own reaction to them. It\u2019s what she did when Gen\u2019s anti-Kayley sentiment was at an all-time high, and it worked. Alas, this excellent advice goes into one of Joe\u2019s ears and out the other.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Gen: She drops a whole tray of welcome drinks as they\u2019re waiting for the guests to come back from the tender ride. Apparently, Gen was in an ATV accident in Bali that messed up her wrist, and she\u2019s supposed to be wearing a stabilizing brace (she is not, for the most part). For the rest of the episode, she complains about swelling and pain, but Kat is not exactly buying it. \u201cI think Gen\u2019s wrist does hurt \u2026 a little bit,\u201d she says, emphasizing how difficult it is to separate Gen\u2019s chronic bad attitude from any actual problem; she\u2019s the girl who cried wolf.<\/p>\n
The rain comes down in the afternoon, but the guests barely notice it because they\u2019re having so much fun with Aesha and Joy\u2019s cocktail-mixing and cooking class. Not even Jeff being annoyed at Kasandra\u2019s drunkenness can ruin the mood. The vibes continue to pick up during the guests\u2019 predinner fashion show, for which the crew sets up a red carpet. By the end of it, even Jeff is smiling from ear to ear. Even better, though the interior team had to hustle to switch the dinner d\u00e9cor from outside to inside once it started raining again, the tablescape looks impeccable and the guests love their food. Jeff loves his filet mignon so much that he chokes on it. He runs to the bathroom and proceeds to vomit in the sink. \u201cThe sink is clogged,\u201d he announces to Aesha, matter-of-factly, as if he had nothing to do with it. Aesha sends Kayley to deal with it, but a regular sink plunger can\u2019t do the job \u2014 Nathan has to suction the stuff out with the wet vacuum. Kayley and Nathan\u2019s efforts are intercut with Kasandra opening her birthday present from Jeff (whose airways are now totally clear), a $100,000 diamond necklace. That\u2019s that upstairs-downstairs snark I come to this show for!<\/p>\n
While the guests have dinner, Sandy checks in, again, on the state of Nathan\u2019s relationship with Joe, which is, basically, worse: Nathan is increasingly paranoid that Joe is trying to turn the crew against him. Again, at Sandy\u2019s suggestion, Nathan pulls Joe aside to ask, through a sarcastic grin, if he did or said anything wrong. At first, Joe defaults to his regular stance, which is that he is simply keeping out of Nathan\u2019s way as instructed. But he finally approaches something close to frankness when he admits that Nathan\u2019s aggressive temper makes him hesitant to be truly open. He stops short of admitting that he thinks he should be bosun; instead, he throws Coop in the middle of it, telling Nathan to \u201cgo ask Cooper\u201d what he thinks. But Cooper, being a former football player, has plenty of experience with aggressive guys with huge egos. Confronted by Nathan, he doesn\u2019t deny that the bosun can be aggressive, but he\u2019s also clear that he intends to put his head down and get on with his work without getting in the middle of Nathan and Joe.<\/p>\n
The next morning, crew and guests wake up to better weather. They leave the dock by 8:30 a.m., and, in even better news, Norma has found a \u201cvery experienced\u201d deckhand who will join the crew that same afternoon. Gen, forgetting her swollen wrist, perks up at the thought of having a new person to ruin sheets with. It\u2019s still relatively gray, windy, and drizzly, but nothing that can stop Jeff from having an absolute blast on the Jet Ski. It\u2019s endearing, even, how much fun he has. In other words, everyone is happy except for Nathan and Joe.<\/p>\n
Joe tells Kayley that he\u2019s reaching his limit \u201cfaking a friendship\u201d with Nathan, and that if it were up to him, he\u2019d leave the boat (um, it is up to you, Joe). Nathan overhears a snippet of this exchange, which convinces him that Joe is engaged in an all-out smear campaign against him. When he finds himself sitting in the crew mess alone with Kayley, Nathan asks her if Joe has been talking shit about him to her. Kayley gracefully dodges the question, reminding him that it\u2019s not her place to get involved, which unfortunately only fuels Nathan\u2019s suspicions. He confronts Joe again, which makes it the third time in this episode that Joe and Nathan have a little talk. This time, Joe throws it back at Nathan: Has Nathan been talking shit about him? Joe accuses Nathan of being insecure; Nathan throws the accusation back. They reverse-Uno each other for a bit until their argument is cut short by the arrival of the new, as-yet mysterious deckhand.<\/p>\n
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