Elena Dubaich’s rant toward third stew Bri Muller has been going on for so long that it has spilled over to the next episode.
“Bri, I’m sorry. Your lack of experience shows in you not being aware how a boat works,” Elena tells her. “There’s a chain of command.”
What she’s really pissed off about is Bri’s un-lack of experience with deckhand Joe Bradley and how the chain of command didn’t prevent them from hooking up.
“Sometimes you just make me feel dumb and it hurts,” Bri shoots back. Elena responds, “Well maybe that’s your own insecurity that you feel about yourself. I never said you were dumb.” She then storms off in a huff.
Meanwhile, Chef Jono Shillingford is making sure that the eggs for breakfast are hot, unlike the last charter when he thought it was a good idea to cook them ahead of time. Even IHOP makes eggs to order.
Joe is just innocently trying to bandage a cut on his finger in the crew mess when Elena asks him about Bri sleeping in his cabin. “She’s just creating drama for no reason,” she huffs. “She’s just going out of her way to be like, ‘Oh, I’m a victim.'”
Poor Joe just made out with Bri once and now he’s hosting her in his cabin and Elena is venting to him about interior drama. Dude is just trying not to get an infection like Aesha Scott.
Elena Dubaich vs. Bri Muller
Elena is not done venting. If there’s anything we learned from the last episode is that she has a hard time letting things go.
“This Bri situation is getting out of control. She’s sleeping on a freaking floor in the boys’ cabin,” she tells Aesha. “She’s telling me I’m belittling her.”
“Are you?” Aesha asks, because she got another story from Bri. “I am not,” Elena insists. “I am not that person.” Perhaps she should watch back the tapes of her belittling Bri.
Aesha just tells Elena to deal with it while the charter is still going on. She just wants to focus on the guests, as they all should do, so that they can get their big fat Greek tip.
During the excursion taking the guests to a nearby cave, Elene tells Joe she hopes that he doesn’t think badly of her because of whatever Bri might have told him.
“All I know is this girl coming into my cabin crying,” he tells her.
Meanwhile, Aesha pulls Bri aside and tells her to stop bunking in Joe’s room because it’s creating more tension between her and Elena.
“If you guys can’t sort your sh*t out, then I’m going to have to make some sort of changes,” Aesha warns Bri.
Aesha Scott sees cracks in her crew
Before dinner, Aesha takes a break and leaves Elena in charge. She tells the second stew to make sure the plates are pulled for dinner.
Upon coming back, she finds Bri scrambling and none of the dinner plates are ready. Aesha wonders if Elena is as capable as she tries to make herself seem.
“I just always got to keep an eye on Ellie and Bri and it’s exhausting,” she tells the cameras. “How about doing your job? Work. Just work!”
Aesha then asks Elena why nothing has been pulled for dinner. Elena answers, “Because I was serving the guests the whole time.”
“Can you do it in between serving them?” Aesha asks. Elena says she was cleaning the bar and didn’t get around to it. Bri is in the background gleefully listening to her nemesis get criticized.
Jono Shillingford finally made a good dinner
It’s dinner time and Jono needs to impress the primary guest after she complained that her steak was dry the night before. He has made fried calamari for an appetizer which is always a crowd-pleaser but kind of mid for a yacht appetizer.
At least Jono has made a dairy-free truffle aioli, which the guests love. So far, so good. That is until the primary has had one too many to drink and starts getting loud.
“I will do a split right now!” she yells while her husband looks displeased. She gets up and then does the Pilates 100. Next comes a split, followed by her legs splayed up in the air.
Thankfully (or not), it’s time for the crew to sing happy birthday to charter guests John and Rich. Joe is at the piano and the “Below Deck Med” staff sing like they’re depressed frogs. No one is on key and they’re an octave lower than they should be.
The guests appreciate it anyway and let this be known to future guests — have the Below Deck Med crew sing to you at your own risk.
Captain Sandy is getting ready to leave the next morning but the Nathan is having trouble with the windlass, whatever that is. The noise it’s making doesn’t sound so good so all we know is that it’s bad because it sounds like a dying elephant.
Thankfully, there’s another windlass on another side of the boat but the tender’s battery is dead. Sandy asks Iain who the last one on the tender was and he admits that it was him. They try to get the yacht unanchored but things go awry and we have one unhappy captain.
