Barbie Pascual seems to be getting over her initial shame about hooking up with Kyle Stillie on camera. She even introduces him to her mom over the phone.
She still has doubts, however, about taking their romance off the boat. “The world’s over there and then here we are in our own little planet called Yacht Life. You’re not thinking long-term, you’re not thinking marriage. You’re not thinking, ‘Are my parents going to like him.'”
She continues, “There is a real connection but I wonder what it’s like in the real world. Off this yacht, I don’t know how it would even work.”
The charter guests arrive and they’re dressed in their yacht finery. They have bougie names like Daly and Noreen. They’re very classy so far and if they complain about service, it’ll be through thinly-veiled insults. Unsurprisingly, they own a boat in Newport Beach.
Fraser Olender is excited because these are the type of people he’s used to serving. “Working for a family, they’ve been yachting for a while. They clearly have lots of money, they’re bringing their kids on board to congratulate them for being their own kids. They are not like other guests we’ve had this season,” he tells the cameras.
“I’m finally happy to have the group on board that really knows how to enjoy themselves politely.”
Too bad Dylan Piérre de Villiers didn’t get the polite memo. He jokes with the young ladies on deck, “So how are you guys enjoying it on the STD?” They politely laugh and he says it stands for the yacht’s name St. David. Know your audience, Dylan.
Cheffy and the interior clash
The “Below Deck” crew is getting ready for a beach picnic and Chef Nick Tatlock is serving sushi, which seems like a salmonella nightmare. Fraser suggests a plate for the sushi and Nick says he doesn’t want to plate the meal because it’s an extra step that’ll take too much time. Fraser gives him judgy eyes.
Nick then asks for two Red Bulls, which hopefully puts some pep in his culinary step.
The guests arrive at the beach via tender and everything is set up beautifully. Two of them immediately start playing pickleball because tennis is for plebians now.
They’re perfectly nice people but quite boring TBH. One says that more people have died from getting bonked by a coconut than killed by sharks. They talk about the probability of that and the daughter insists it’s true because they live in California and there are coconuts everywhere.
Daddy has fallen asleep from the banal conversation.
Nick arrives and Paris Field starts to be quite bossy for a stew. She tells Nick where to set up and he’s like, okay slow your role. He points out that he has three stripes and she has one stripes.
Chef Nick Tatlock vs. Paris Field
Nick and Paris are about to serve the sushi and there’s some confusion as to how it’ll be plated. Paris tells the cameras that Fraser told her the sushi would be plated. Nick just agrees to plate the food, which he could have just done in the first place.
While the guests are enjoying their sushi, Nick is getting the crème brûlée ready. Paris informs him that the guests are still eating so he needs to stop browning them. He tells her that he needs to get back on the boat and she says that she can finish off the dessert. Holy power struggle!
“If Paris wants to take over, I’m not going to stop her. I’d rather that than have an argument in front of the guests,” Nick says in a confessional.
He just wants to get back to the STD to get dinner ready. “I have no time for this f*cking sh*t,” he tells the cameras.
Back on the boat, Nick tells Captain Kerry that he wanted the food served a certain way but Paris stepped in. “You know, at the end of the day the food’s on me. If they complain, it’s me that’s in the sh*t, not her.”
In a confessional, Kerry acknowledges that Nick has more rank than Paris, so she needs to adhere to his requests.
Paris then tells Fraser about the beach picnic and how she had to plate everything while Nick went back to the boat. This is just enough ammo for Fraser to tattle to Kerry. He’s turned into Thomas Barrow of “Downton Abbey.”
Captain Kerry digs for dirt
During lunch in the crew mess, Kerry asks Fraser how the beach picnic went. Fraser is nervously scraping his bowl with his fork, which is just not done according to Miss Manners. He must be really shooketh.
Instead of telling Kerry the truth, he says, “No drama, no tragedy, everything’s fine.” The cap doesn’t look convinced.
“Fraser is being very coy with me. He’s not telling me everything. Little concerned. We’re going to deal with this later,” Kerry tells the cameras.
The “Below Deck” crew has set up a casino night for the guests. Everyone is dressed in their finery and Captain Kerry has joined them for dinner.
Nick prepares an octopus dish that looks delicious but Paris thinks it needs a drizzle of something. This is someone who squeezed a jar of mayo into her mouth whilst eating tacos. Perhaps she should defer to someone with more culinary experience.
Kerry checks up on Nick in the galley and tells him that he and the guests loved his food. Nick goes to his cabin and hugs his “cuddle pillow.” Poor cheffy.
Sarah, the daughter of the primary, and her friends are in the hot tub. They want to play Truth or Dare and they dare Dylan to take off his shirt. They’re clearly not as innocent as they seem.
Dylan accepts and walks around like he’s a Chippendale. He throws water all over himself.
He has no moves but the girls are drunk and they cheer.
Captain Kerry put his foot down
The charter guests, who have been the most pleasant so far of this season of “Below Deck,” have left a hefty tip of $25,000, which amounts to $1,923 per crew.
Kerry chats with Paris about her butting heads with Nick. “I’m seeing some lack of communication between the interior and the chef. He’s got three stripes on his shoulder, you’ve got one. He comes to the beach and says this is the way I want to do it. It’s not your place to argue with him about it.”
Paris argues that she is told one thing by Fraser about plating but another from Nick. “He’s the chef and it’s between him and the chief stew if they want to bat that out,” Kerry says. “You guys are not to be dragged into what’s going between them two.”
The captain then brings in Fraser and Nick to hash things out. He asks them if they can work together and they hastily agree because they don’t want to be fired.
Kyle Stillie is flashy
The crew goes out before the next charter and Kyle is wearing a white button-down with a kilt. Barbie is not feeling it.
They all go bowling and Kyle’s team wins so he flashes his kilt. It turns out that he’s not wearing underwear, like a proper Scottish lad. Barbie, who has a conservative family, is not happy about her potential bf showing off his goods.
“Stop doing that,” Barbie tells Kyle. “Would you like it if I flashed my tits?” she asks him. “Yeah,” he says. She tells him that she doesn’t like him flashing his willie over hill and dale and he agrees.
Surprisingly, they have the most healthy relationship of “Below Deck” thus far but it remains to be seen if Barbie and Kyle will make it. If they do, it’ll be 1-0.
