- Batten down the hatches.
The crew from
"Below Deck" is reunited.
If things get heated,
not allowed to dive overboard.
You're not serving me
resting bitch face today.
- It's early.
- [laughs]
- Who sent the first text?
- That was probably me
that sent the first text.
But things happened
before that.
- Is this the first time
you've shared a room
with a gay crew member?
- h*m*.
- Worst thing about life
on a yacht?
- Being stuck with the crew.
You're not the easiest person
to get along with.
- This isn't about getting
along--this is a job.
- Were you hoping to rekindle
things with Ben?
- You have some cocktails.
You make bad decisions.
That's all it ever was.
- Leon could have been a little
more passionate about his job.
- He's a great guy.
- I'm calling bullsháá
on that.
- I really did think we were
friends, so that was a shocker.
- I'm not saying
we're not friends.
You can have friends
that are annoying.
- There was a mug with wine in
it that Kate had been drinking.
- So wait. You're accusing Kate
of drinking on charter?
Emile, do you think Rocky
kind of led you on?
- Yes.
- You didn't have to--
- So I didn't work at all?
- No, you're done.
You've been talking a lot.
- Hold on.
You're not my chief stew
right now, baby.
- But I didn't, like,
have any kind
of sexual interaction
with her anymore.
- What about two times
after the show?
- Ooh!
[laughter]
- Are you denying that?
- Anybody knows that your ass
would have been on a boat
and out of there
in a heartbeat.
- Are you gonna hold on to this
for the rest of your life?
[dramatic music]
- Hi!
- Hi!
- Look at you.
- Who's Captain Lee?
- They are the best known,
best-looking yachties
on all the high seas,
the crew of motor yacht "Eros."
Captain Lee, great to see you.
- Good to see you, Andy.
- I feel like you've called
us all to the bridge.
- You think?
- A little bit.
Emile, you're in a suit.
Is that your suit, Emile?
- It's actually
my grandpa's suit.
- It's your grandpa's suit?
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
- You're over-indexing
on the adorable scale. Kate?
- Hi.
- You look great.
You're not serving
me resting bitch face today.
- It's early.
- It's early.
- Yeah.
- Connie.
I almost didn't recognize you
with your top on.
- Well, I can--No.
- You love to have
the girls out, don't you?
- It's just comforting.
I think I'm just claustrophobic.
- Hi, Amy.
- Hi, there.
- Your hair's
pretty high today.
- Thank you.
- I like it.
- I kind of had a hair moment
for a minute, but...
- Okay.
- I'm glad it went up.
- Rocky, great to see you.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- You look fantastic.
- Thank you.
You also.
- If things get heated,
not allowed to dive overboard.
- Well, there's no water.
- Right.
Good point.
- [laughs]
- Eddie, I'm so happy that
you got the mint-green memo.
- Great minds think alike,
you know?
- You guys
had an intense charter season,
to say the least.
You had fires in the galley,
secret hookups
in the laundry room,
and crew members
literally jumping ship
during charters.
The viewers and I have a lot
of questions for you,
so I want to ask, what are
the best and worst things
about life on a yacht?
- Traveling, destinations.
- Traveling.
Worst thing about life
on a yacht?
- Being stuck with the crew.
- There you go.
- Constipation.
- What?
- Constipation.
- Constipation?
- Yeah.
- Are you constipated
on the boat?
- It's a definite problem.
- Would you guys
agree with that, or--
- Why don't you tell him about
kicking your girl roommate out
so you could jerk off
every morning?
- Excuse me, Connie?
- He asked me to get on deck a
few minutes early every morning
because he said he was young and
needs to handle his business.
- Is that the same business
as the constipation?
- No.
There's constipation
in the front
and constipation in the back.
- Exactly, and it's got
to be handled.
- The next time little Rocky
decides to get your attention,
I don't know
what you got to do.
- It's called w*nk*ng.
- Were you w*nk*ng in that sh*t?
- Yeah.
Every guy has to wank.
Why lie about it?
I mean, everybody does it.
Why hide it?
- Kate, who was your favorite
charter this season?
- I loved Punkass TapouT.
- Punkass Caldwell.
- Dan is not my typical type
but those tattoos, those eyes.
There's, like, a quiet strength
about him.
He's just so handsome
but tough but sweet.
Oh.
He's cute.
God, he was so gorgeous,
but he was also sweet
and kind and powerful,
and he's just amazing.
- In my opinion,
the best charter guest
was Steve,
the "More foam, bosun" guy?
- Ohh!
- So much fun!
- Oh, stop!
- Hey!
More foam, bosun!
- Get in on it!
- More foam, bosun!
[both screaming]
- Eddie, it seemed
like Steve and Jennifer
were giving you some extra
attention during their charter.
- Want this in your room?
Sleep well.
- Come on!
- Oh, here.
I can't blame them for trying,
but I really don't want to be
a part of their ménage à trois.
Tres.
Whatever they say in Spanish.
She really wanted
me to come inside and--
- "Ooh, Eddie, come inside.
Come inside.
Bring it inside and by the bed."
- Yeah, yeah.
- More foam, bosun.
- More foam, bosun.
- I want to ask, how hard
is it doing your actual jobs
when there are camera crews
and sound guys and lighting?
- Ah!
Aah! Aah!
- Just keep--
[smoke alarm beeping]
- sh**ting super tight.
Aah!
- Stop talking!
- Sorry, guys.
I'm gonna move this.
- I love it.
It makes it more interesting.
I've been doing yachting
for so long,
this added a new dimension
to it.
Something already know how to
do, it made it exciting again.
- I have to think,
for the deck crew,
does it get in the way of you
guys the most?
- I think so, 'cause, I mean,
there's a lot of times where,
you know, the guests
want to go off the boat.
They want to go
do something onshore,
something like that,
and, you know, usually
you can be like,
"Okay, let's jump in the tender,
and let's go."
But when there's
audio and camera and gaffers--
- It's like doing your job
but five times over.
So you do it, like--
- We're literally
doing two jobs,
two full-time jobs at once.
- Rocky, there's one question
that everyone on social media
wants answered.
During your interviews,
who are you looking at?
- Eddie's so hot.
If he didn't have
a girlfriend...
[whistles]
Yep, I said that.
[clicks tongue]
It's hard to, like, push through
and be your awesome self
when everyone's telling you,
like, "You suck,"
or "Your dishes suck."
Uh-uh.
I think they put little
butterflies in the corner,
and they kept just,
like, sparkling at me.
- Really?
- Or dolphins, I don't know.
- Sparkly butterflies
and dolphins.
- Sparkly butterflies.
When I think, I look up,
and that's just what it is.
- Oh, so that's what it is.
When you think, you look up.
- Yeah, it's like I'm thinking.
I don't know.
Yeah. I'm just thinking.
- All right, see if there's
butterflies up there.
- Hi, Eddie, how you doing?
- Oh, good, how you doing?
- What's up?
- Oh, just chilling.
- You want to get
into some stuff?
- No, I was just saying.
Did you--
- Let's do it.
- Yeah, sure.
I was just saying, did you--
- Is your girlfriend here?
Can I meet her?
I have a lot to share.
- [chuckles awkwardly]
Never mind.
- That shut you up.
- The main duty of the stews
is to cater
to the guests' every whim.
Kate, Amy, and Rocky,
you ladies did a great job
keeping the guests happy,
despite the fact, at times,
that you were
at each other's throats.
- You know what you're
really good at, Kate?
Sharp little jabs.
You're a jabber.
You just jab, jab, jab.
- You know
what you're really good at?
- Tell me.
- Showing no respect.
- I know you guys think
that I'm not doing my job,
but I am doing my job.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're
putting words in my mouth.
- I'm sorry, I'm getting
frustrated, and it's like--
- Well, I'm frustrated too,
so you're right.
- Amy, what do you think of Kate
as a manager?
- Yeah, I think Kate
has, like, a no-nonsense
type of management.
She's got a job ahead of her.
She wants to get it done,
and the thing is,
with charters, there's no time.
There's no extra time.
- I think there are different
ways you can lead people,
and I don't think
you have to be...
rude or a bitch
to get the point across,
and she just didn't want
to have anything to do with me.
And it was, like, that's it.
Raquel's off, and it
was really, really hard.
- That's not what I would call
an accurate portrait
of the situation that I saw.
I saw Amy spend
a lot of time with you,
showing you what to do,
exactly how to do it,
and you going, "It is so much.
It is too much work.
It is so much this
and so much that."
And you just didn't want
to hear it anymore.
- You want to pay attention
to this corner.
Like, see, you don't want
to see it folded back up.
And then this needs to be--
Like, tucks in there.
So you kind of just give it
a fluff and a chop.
And then
you want to hold this.
- Listen, I need
a minute right now,
'cause this is, like...
I'm just breathing again.
- You didn't pull
it together,
and you didn't set
your personal feelings aside
and just plow through it,
and that's what I expected.
And that's what I expect
out of everybody.
- Okay.
- Period.
- Well, I hear that.
- But it didn't happen.
- Why is it any different
hearing it
from Captain Lee than me?
'Cause I am technically
also your boss.
- I just think it's funny
that you guys think
I didn't work at all
this season.
I worked my ass off.
- You did a fair amount
of complaining
while you were doing it all.
- Yeah.
- First of all, you said you
had stewardess experience,
which I could tell
that you did not.
And so I took you around,
and you said, "I don't want to--
I don't want you to show me.
Give me a list."
And I think everyone remembers,
I said, "You're not ready
for the list."
- Okay.
- Okay, so don't tell me
that I never tried showing you,
'cause I did.
- What do you want
to hear, Kate?
Do you want to hear, Kate,
"Okay, Kate,
I didn't do my job"?
You guys all want to hear
I didn't partake?
- No, I just would like
to have you not slander
my professional reputation
and my character because
I asked you to do your job.
- Kate, you are the queen.
You are the best.
Thank you.
- Do you really need to love
laundry the way
that Kate says, Amy?
- Yes, you spend a lot of time
in the laundry room.
So it's a good thing.
- It's a good thing to love--
- It's nice.
You get peace and quiet.
It's one of the, you know,
places that you can get away.
- Well, we all know laundry
rooms are great for sex.
- Apparently.
- But we'll get
into that in a little bit.
- Got to be better
than the bunks.
- Eddie, Connie succeeded
as a newbie,
while Rocky struggled.
Did that have anything to do
with the fact that Connie
had you as a teacher
and Rocky had Kate?
- I don't know.
You know, I mean,
Kate and I definitely have
different leadership styles,
and I guess just the way
that Connie and I worked
together definitely jived.
You know, I can't really
put two cents into how Kate
and Rocky worked together
'cause I didn't work with them.
- I think I lead by example.
I never spoke to you
in any of those ways,
although I was tempted.
- Kate, the way you're talking
to me right now...
- [sighs]
- It's like--
it's really hard, like--
- I know.
It's hard for you.
- You're not the easiest person
to get along with.
Let's get that out there.
- This isn't about getting
along--this is a job.
- I think the hard part
is, like,
Rocky's so capable of the job,
but you just didn't want to.
It was like, "How can we
motivate her to do the job?
'Cause we need the third stew."
That was the hard part.
- Well, I think it's interesting
that the two of you,
Amy and Kate, fought like
cats and dogs last season,
and this season you got along.
Rocky, were you disappointed
that you didn't get more support
from Amy in the whole
Kate training moment?
- Well, I thought Amy
was actually a--
She was a good friend,
and she was a really awesome
person to teach me how to do--
become a professional stew.
But then, you know,
I felt like--
'cause she would confide in me
and be like, "Yeah, I know.
"Kate's a total bitch.
Don't worry about it."
And, "I get it, I get it."
But then she would be,
you know, "Hey, Kate."
And it's like, you know,
why not just be real?
- See, I think
that's completely ridiculous.
- I'm sorry. I'm losing it.
- Don't apologize.
- I know what
you're going through.
I sympathize for Rocky.
I've worked with Kate before
where we have been
on opposing ends.
Here's the thing--I enjoyed
sharing a room with you.
The things that I love
about you and your spirit
are also the hard things
to work with you.
You're a spitfire.
You're fun.
You're energetic.
That's so great.
But sometimes that's hard
to work with.
- Rocky, you called Kate
a bully on Twitter.
Did you feel bullied by her
during this season?
- Absolutely.
She is so good
at hurting people's feelings,
it's amazing.
She should get medals.
Medals.
- Kate, you are very active
on social media.
- I am.
I really enjoy it.
- Why do you dig so hard?
Why do you go so deep and dark?
- What's the deepest
and darkest that I've gone?
Because--
- You've done so many things,
and the--
- Tell me. I will stand
behind whatever I've tweeted.
- Okay, well,
I have some tweets...
- Ready.
- That you've sent.
"Rocky thinks her job is being
sexual with every male on board.
There's a name for that job,
and it's not stewardess."
- Yeah.
- "I was so surprised when
I found Rocky's mermaid tail."
"She just doesn't seem
like a girl
that enjoys keeping her legs
together."
Did any of those tweets
that I just read irritate you?
The--
- Yeah, it's just funny, yeah.
- Okay.
Well, anyways...
I am so sorry if my menial
Twitter following offended you.
- You're just evil.
You are just straight up evil.
- Coming up...
- I wasn't into my boss.
Eddie's an assáááá.
I'm over this ship.
- Why is she getting to talk?
Nobody wants to hear it.
I mean, it's all bullsháá.
It's annoying as hell.
- Hold on. You're not
my chief stew right now, baby.
but two deckhands mid-charter
at the same time
you were training
a brand-new deckie, Connie.
- Mm-hmm.
- And you were trying
to fix your relationship
with your girlfriend.
- [chuckles]
- Do you think
you let your personal problems
at home distract
you at all from the--
- Yes.
- From doing your job?
- Yeah, absolutely.
I definitely think so.
I think you can't let your--
you know, your personal issues
get involved with work.
And I definitely
failed in that aspect
of letting my problems back home
and my personal problems
during charter affect
my work ethic this season.
- On a scale of one to ten,
how was your job performance?
- Overall, I don't know.
Seven.
- Captain Lee?
- Yeah, I would say a seven.
- Okay. Could you tell
from the beginning of the season
that Eddie
was struggling personally?
- Not from the very beginning,
but it became apparent
that it wasn't the same Eddie
that I'd had before.
- Connie, this was your first
time as a deckhand on a yacht.
- Yes.
- Is Eddie a good teacher?
- Eddie was
a fantastic teacher.
He never made me feel
like an idiot, ever.
- You really want to make sure
that nothing is going to catch.
- Now.
- Dropping.
- Anchor's on the bottom.
I'm proud of myself right now.
I'm gonna lock it up.
- All right.
- You're my lead deckhand.
- Yeah, right.
Locked.
- You are.
You're the only one I trust.
- Eddie, what was
your first impression of Emile?
- This boy's pretty.
- It's tough being pretty,
ain't it?
- Oh, man.
- Is it hard to be pretty,
Emile?
- It is, actually,
because a lot of times
when a captain hires you,
you're called pretty boy.
- Oh, I never
called you pretty boy.
- No, no, not Captain Lee.
- Right.
- But, I mean, I've had captains
that actually--
because of the way I look,
I've been told that,
"You can't work hard.
You don't know that."
So you work against that.
If I was ugly or whatever,
I didn't look like this,
maybe I would have been
treated differently.
- Do you sometimes wish
you were ugly, Emile?
- Yeah, I do sometimes.
- No, you don't. No, you don't.
- Maybe, maybe.
I don't know.
- I mean, we could hit him
in the face or something.
- Are you gonna be able to fit
out of the door
out of here
with your head just so big?
- You're very handsome,
and you're a very hard worker.
Just say how you are.
- It's, like, haters gonna hate,
taters gonna tate,
gators gonna gate.
- Emile, did you get proper
credit for your deckhand skills?
- I probably took the job
too serious,
because if your crew
can't do the required job,
it's putting the rest
of the crew in danger.
So I might have put
in extra hours
because you'd rather
do it yourself than explain it.
And then when you put
in extra hours,
you are a little bit more
off of your game.
- Are you saying Connie
couldn't do the job?
- No, no, no, no.
- You got so frustrated
that you called Connie a whore.
- You talk way too much.
- I completely understand
why Rocky gave up on you,
'cause you really are
a little bitch.
- Jesus Christ.
Give me sháá?
I know what the fááá I'm doing.
So why don't you
do your fáááing job, you whore?
- Go fááá yourself.
I'm done.
- I can't justify that.
I don't even try
to justify that. That's wrong.
- We did get along great,
but we also had--
We were put in a lot
of frustrating positions.
We're both two siblings.
I have a brother.
He has a sister.
- Yes.
So we try to get each other--
- It was like we were--
- We try to get each other to
go, like--You know what I mean?
This is, like,
very just, like, lighthearted.
It's nothing that's serious.
- We got really good
at pushing each other's buttons.
- Yes.
- But inside,
I know we were both smirking.
- Emile, is yachting a way
for you to kind of
run away from home
in a weird way?
- Well, South Africa
is dangerous.
It's a third-world country with
socioeconomic problems, okay?
You have really nice houses,
and then you've got people
that are, like,
fighting for a piece of bread.
That's why you get so many
South Africans that want to do
something for themselves.
You know, there's something
else out there.
We don't want to fight.
We just want to roll our own
and survive.
- Captain Lee, what did you
think of Emile as a deckhand?
- I thought he was great.
He always kept his focus,
and he was always
trying to do his job.
Even when he, you know,
had some errors
that he committed,
you know, he didn't
give up on it.
- Do you regret following Rocky
up to the radar mast?
- Did he say crew on the mast?
- God damn it.
- Do something gangster.
Be like--
- All right, you guys
need to come down off of there.
- We're in trouble.
- I should have not.
I should have kept my eye
on the ball,
not been distracted
by a female co-worker.
She's a very pleasant
distraction.
She's got a very nice,
mysterious ass.
[laughter]
Rocky, you've got an asset.
- I've got one asset.
- Rocky, when you did get
a chance to cook the crew meal,
Eddie was very miffed that you
served undercooked chicken.
- Does that look raw to you?
- The chicken
should be cooked--
- Fááá.
- That was a valid concern?
- Yeah.
I guess I did,
and you know what?
Things happen.
- Besides the possible
salmonella,
how was that crew meal?
- Chicken sushi?
- I had a salad.
You made a b*mb--
It was a good salad.
- Connie,
how did you like that lunch?
- The parts that were cooked
were healthy and good.
- It was good. Yeah, yeah,
what I had was--I liked it.
- Rocky, what is your specialty
in the kitchen?
- k*lling people.
[laughter]
- Cynthia from Toms River,
New Jersey, said,
"Unlike Rocky,
I'm an actual chef,
"and I can promise you
that no culinary school
would ever teach anyone
to pour grenadine on oysters."
- Boom, little oysters.
Ooh, I have a great idea.
I've got my ideas.
Mmm, it's gonna taste amazing.
They're gonna love it.
- What's in there?
- Grenadine.
It's a little strange.
- I didn't pour it on.
I was doing a little dot
just for color,
but you know what?
I don't really care
what anyone thinks
because I know
what I'm capable of.
- But that's the kind
of attitude, like,
when we were trying to show
you something, and you're like,
"I don't care what y'all think,"
or "I don't care what you say.
I know what I'm gonna
be able to do."
- I had to whip up a dinner
in 45 minutes,
and I think I did a great job.
The guests absolutely loved it.
- Just put a little bit
of lemon on hre.
- You can eat that,
whatever that is.
- So...
- Emile, do you think
that Rocky
would be a better chef
or a stew?
- If she really listened
and took advice
from other people around her,
just trust them.
- Thank you.
- Because no one
really wants to demean you.
No one wants you
to make you look bad.
- Well said.
Amazing.
- It's true, we did.
We wanted you to do well,
and when you gave us attitude,
it's kind of like,
"But we're here for you.
"We want you to succeed.
"We want you to stay a part
of the crew.
We want to teach
you these things,"
and that was a hard part,
you know?
- I learned a brand-new job.
I wasn't into my boss.
Eddie's an assáááá.
My best friend, Leon, leaves?
I'm over this ship.
- All right.
- Why is she getting
to talk so much?
- Well, I'm happy for you--
- Why? Nobody wants to hear it.
- Oh, my God.
- I mean, it's all bullsháá.
It's annoying as hell.
She didn't work
the whole season.
We gave you money.
I earned you money,
and you didn't even have to--
- So I didn't work at all--
- No, you're done.
You've been talking a lot.
- I didn't work at all?
- You need to take it--
- Hold on, you're not my chief
stew right now, baby.
- Coming up...
- We would be given
specific instructions,
but, "No, no, no,
I'm gonna do it my way."
And it's like, "No, they tell
you what to do, you do it."
Whether you agree
with it or not,
they're in that position
for a reason.
- She didn't work
- She didn't work
the whole season.
- So I didn't work at all.
- No, you're done.
You've been talking a lot.
- Hold on, you're not
my chief stew right now, baby.
- It didn't matter when I was.
- You're not my chief stew.
- It didn't matter when I was.
- Hold on.
- You didn't want to do
what I asked you then either.
- Okay, what do you want to say?
- Keep talking, Rocky.
- What do you want to say?
- Let's just keep talking.
- No, I want to know
what you want to say.
- I want to say that it
was not about a personal att*ck.
We were all there to do a job,
and we pulled your weight
for a long time.
- Okay.
- And you made equal parts
money.
- I didn't do any--
so I didn't do any work,
and I didn't deserve my tip?
- No.
- Okay.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you for your opinion.
- And so now I prefer,
since we already
pulled your weight then,
if you didn't just keep talking
and using all of our time.
- You claim
you hate being a stew,
but aren't you now working
as a stew on a charter boat...
- Yeah.
I--
- That is captained by Alex
from season one?
- I do work for Captain Alex.
He has, like, ten yachts
that he's in charge of,
and I do charters with him.
- Are you a stew on those?
- Yeah.
I'm stewing right now,
and sometimes I cook for the
family, and I'm really happy.
- I'm assuming that Alex
didn't ask Kate for a reference.
- [laughs]
- Okay, there is a question
that's been
all over social media.
"Emile, you are so handsome.
Why do you eat
so aggressively?"
- You're an animal,
the way you eat.
You deep-throat your finger.
- You've got stuff
all over your mouth.
- Oh, my gosh.
When you're on a charter yacht,
sometimes you don't want
to sit down and eat.
I can go to
a nice little dinner now,
and we can have proper cutlery,
have a great, nice,
sophisticated dinner,
but when I'm working
like a peasant,
I will eat like a peasant.
[laughter]
- Where do you come up
with these?
- God damn, man.
- We should not have worked
him so hard.
- I know, right?
- Alex from Hudson, New York,
says, "Rocky and Emile's 'date'
"is a lesson for guys
in how not to get laid.
One, get really drunk."
- Do you think we can start with
a bottle of the Red Diamond?
And then would you
like a whiskey?
- Yeah, why not?
I'll have
a Jaegermeister, please.
- Yeah.
Okay, I've lost him.
I've lost him.
- "Two, say mildly
creepy/threatening things."
- Who was the last girl
you dated?
- I don't date.
I mate.
- Oh.
- Wine and dine, 69.
What?
- "Three, creep out your date
so much,
she dives overboard
to get away from you."
- Ouch.
- Get me out of here.
- Emile, how did it feel
to hear Rocky say
that she was looking
for a real man
and that's why
she didn't want to date you?
- Why would you think
I'm not a real man?
- I don't think I was ever
looking at you to date,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- I think I looked at you,
and I was like, "Hey,
you want to go on a date?
Let's go have fun,
enjoy each other's company."
- Connie, you mentioned
a few times over the course
of the season
that you would be happy
if Emile and Rocky were banging.
Why did you root
for them so much?
- I mean, who doesn't feel
good after a good bang?
And with her constantly
being upset and him--
he needs a little bit more
than his right hand.
A good bang--
that's what it does.
- I always enjoy when two hot
people are sleeping together.
Emile, do you think
Rocky kind of led you on?
- Yes.
It was like I'm being
pulled on this path,
and there was just
no real end destination.
Maybe I was naive.
Maybe I was being immature.
- Don't blame yourself.
I was convinced that you were
romantically interested in him,
You were very excited
when Emile asked you out.
- I was.
I was stoked.
- You went to the Sky Lounge,
and you were like, "Ooh!"
- Emile just asked
me out on a date.
[both cheering and laughing]
- I think that she
did value his friendship,
but I think
she also values attention.
- I'm sorry if I misled you,
and I just think
you're an awesome person,
and I'm glad that
we can be friends.
- Do you regret
giving him the letter?
- Ooh, the letter.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- I don't know how to get
any more clear than that.
Well, I was frustrated,
'cause I told him a few times,
and he wasn't getting it.
- Did it hurt your feelings?
- It did upset me,
definitely.
It was embarrassing
to do that
in front of
the other crew members.
- Well, I texted you
a million times, saying,
"Hey, I'm not interested
in you."
So I don't know how I could get
that out there any more.
- I think
that's bullsháá.
I think Emile went
down the rosy path,
and I think you were definitely
leading him there.
- I'll tweet all
the messages tonight.
- No, I don't want
to see your tweets.
I don't want
to see your texts.
You need to own things
that you do.
When you get caught with your
tit in the wringer, guess what.
It's because
you put it there.
If you need to own it, then
you should step up to the plate.
Emile's done it.
Eddie's done it.
Everybody here has done it.
The only one that I haven't
seen do it is you.
- Let's talk
about something else.
The first deckie to bite
the dust this season was Don.
- Don, I understand your forte
is in engineering,
but on this boat,
when you're on deck,
you're a deckhand.
- Why would you use me
in such a small aspect?
Use me to my advantage, put me
here, let me fix a tender.
Whatever you need me to fix,
I'll do it.
Let me do something
that's actually hard,
not sit there
and wash the decks all day.
- Let's bring him out.
Hey, Don.
- How you doing, sir?
- How you doing?
- Nice to meet you.
- Good to see you.
- How you doing, Cap?
- Hi.
- How's it going, guys?
- From the beginning, it seemed
like you didn't understand
that you were doing double-duty
as a second engineer
and a deckhand.
- If I tell you, "Listen,
I need to take it,"
don't tell me to
go talk to somebody
if I tell you about it.
For me, it was so
out of left field.
- About what?
- Like, "I'm your boss
'cause I'm the deckhand"--
I mean, for me,
that was just insulting.
- But I am your boss.
When you're working
the deck, I am your boss.
- Were you in denial about that,
or did you just think
the second-engineer thing
was more important?
- I was confused.
I was just so confused what
was going on in that moment,
so maybe I kind of got
a little hot.
- And the boat needs its tools
to work.
- Was that some low-key shade
right there?
- No.
- I think he just
called him a tool.
- So usually how this whole
thing works with the engineer
is you engineer first,
and you do deckhand second.
That's the more important aspect
of it, right?
I was just so confused
about what was going on,
and like I said--
- I know you were confused,
clearly,
but sometimes you need to step
back and fall into place.
- We would be given
specific instructions,
like, laid out, really simple
things to do,
but, "No, no, no.
I'm gonna do it my way."
- Put these over
and actually tie these up.
Everything's on.
They're out of our way.
So we're not hopping over each
other and getting stuck.
I'll take the blame for it.
Just put it on me.
Think about it.
What am I doing right now?
Bro, you're just not right
for this, man.
You know that, right?
And it's like, "No,
they tell you what
to do, you do it."
Whether you agree
with it or not,
they're in that position
for a reason.
- You have how many years'
experience on boats?
- Almost ten.
- So why would you follow Rocky
into the water?
- [chuckles]
- Oh, I want to go in.
I don't know.
I was in lust.
- You were in lust?
- Yeah, she's cute.
- To be fair,
you weren't the only one
to be lured in by Rocky.
- I know.
Emile was in love, huh?
- Actually, talk about that
a little bit later, Eddie.
Janet from Minneapolis says,
"Don, I can't believe you quit.
Captain Lee was just gonna
give you a warning."
- You're here to work, period.
Every time I see you
standing around doing nothing,
I'll tell you about it,
and I'm the only person
you've got to please
on this boat.
- I don't think this scenario's
gonna be good for me,
and I think at this point,
I'm gonna have to give
my notice.
I'm sorry, but--
- It is what it is.
- It is what it is.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- As soon as I got on land,
I was like,
"What'd I just do?"
- Some of you may have
celebrated Don's departure,
but in a classic case of
"be careful what you wish for,"
Don's replacement was Dane,
and he turned out to be
one of the most
dysfunctional deckhands ever.
I should say that Dane
was invited
to join us for this reunion,
but since leaving the boat, he
has cut off all communication.
- I actually would've
loved that.
- I thought it would have been
pretty entertaining.
- I think it would be
entertaining.
- I'm interested
to hear what he thinks.
- Yeah.
- We would have had a bottle
of Crown available, right?
- Kate, Amy, and Connie,
you were initially
attracted to Dane.
You were happy to see him.
- Is that really him?
- Do you see him?
- Cute.
- Oh, yeah.
- Oh, gosh.
Totally caught us.
- We were two decks up,
four weeks in.
- Yeah, it's always nice to get
a new crew member.
- It was, like...
- Dude.
- When did you first know that
Dane was gonna be a problem?
- Might have been
when he drove the jet ski
into the side of the boat.
- All right,
shut it off.
[crash]
- Sháá.
- God damn it.
Or it might have been
when he sucked down
a half of bottle
of Crown Royal by himself.
Endless list.
- Dane's dysfunction
reached its peak
on your night off
at Lubbers' Landing.
Terry from
Jacksonville, Florida, said,
"Eddie, I can't believe how
drunk and belligerent Dane was.
"How close did you come
to punching him?
"Were you secretly hoping that
he would throw the first punch
so you could knock him out?"
- Dude, fáááing slow down.
- Fááá, dude, do not--
- Get your finger
out of my face.
- He has no boundaries.
- Get off it.
Get off it, now!
Back off.
- What--
- Eddie,
what happened that night?
- Well, we were having
a great night.
The hosts--or the owners of the
resort were really nice to us,
and they--you know,
it was getting later at night,
and they said, "You guys
can make a drink if you'd like.
"You know, just make sure
you write it down
so that we can
charge you for it."
Well, Dane took that as
him having free reign of
whatever he wanted from the bar,
and so at that point
he was already sháá-faced.
Excuse me.
He was very drunk.
And it's disrespectful
to these owners
that are being
so generous to us.
You know, I would never
have thrown the first punch.
- Right.
- But if he tried anything,
I probably
would have reacted.
[laughter]
- Yeah.
- Captain Lee,
now that you've seen the footage
of what happened,
how do you think Eddie
handled things that night?
- Well.
- Don, when you
watched Dane's story unfold,
were you relieved or satisfied?
- I giggled.
- You giggled.
- [laughs]
It felt good.
- Anything you want to say
to Captain Lee?
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
To the whole crew.
You know, I kind of
left them at a hard time.
I've been kicking my ass for
that from the day it happened.
Hopefully one day I can make it
to this guy, and thank you guys.
I apologize for leaving,
and thank you so much.
- No problem, buddy.
- All right.
Thank you, my friend.
Give me some love.
- Yeah, thank you.
- Don, thanks for joining us.
Coming up...
- During the fire,
there was a mug with wine in it.
- So wait, you're accusing Kate
of drinking on charter?
- Yeah.
You were drunk and hammered.
I was like, "Hey, I'm having
a really hard time here.
- We're gonna have a sleeping
pretty boy in a second.
Can you do me a favor?
- Oh, my God.
- There you go.
- Chug.
- Thank you.
- Shotgun.
- All right.
Don't chug the whole thing.
Just--it's okay.
- You're gonna
have a heart att*ck.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
- That was quick.
- I mean, this kid
is so hopped up on the--
- Yeah.
I need to go the restroom again.
- Now wait a minute.
I'm sitting next to you.
- Can I go to the toilet?
- Five minutes.
- Oh, my God.
- Emile, did
you wash your hands?
Now are you all normalized?
- That's way better.
- Kate, the biggest battle that
- Kate, the biggest battle that
raged on the yacht this season
was between you and Chef Leon.
You hated bunking together.
You couldn't work
with one another.
And his obsession
with beef cheeks
almost drove you over the edge.
- Do you want to cook?
Would you like to cook?
Are you any good at cooking?
- I told you I make--
- Then don't come out
with that bullsháá to me, yeah?
Please, don't.
Don't insult me.
I just want to say something.
I don't like you one bit.
Is that okay?
It's not like
you say it to other people?
- I--
- I do not like you one bit.
- How you spoke to me
was a personal att*ck.
- I really don't give a fááá.
Will we be friends?
Never.
Thank you.
- Have you ever had such
a toxic working relationship?
- No. I was looking for any kind
of workable quality with Leon,
but from the moment I met him,
I was like, "So we're gonna
be roommates, best friends!"
He was like, "Do you keep
a clean bathroom?"
He was just so aggressive
from the get-go.
- Kate, it seems
like you have a thing
with people who you
don't consider real yachties.
- Leon is a great guy.
He's been on 12 yachts before.
- He worked
on the "Queen Elizabeth II,"
which is not actually a yacht.
It's actually a very small
cruise ship.
- But he's worked
on 12 different yachts.
- Okay.
That makes sense.
I don't have a problem
with people not being a yachtie,
but I have a problem with people
not being a team player
and, like, a control freak
and not going with the flow.
'Cause that's needed--
- It seems like you do have
a problem with people
not being a yachtie.
- A yachtie, to me, is somebody
who goes with the flow,
is a team player
and a hard worker.
Those are great qualities.
I'm proud to be a yachtie.
- Sarah from Raleigh,
North Carolinam said,
"Kate, be honest.
"Right off the bat,
your real issue with Leon
was that he wasn't Ben."
- Actually, I knew that
this question would come up,
so I was trying extra hard
to like anybody,
look for some kind of glimmer
of something to, like--
'cause I didn't want
to be accused of that.
I was self-conscious of that.
But he made
it pretty much impossible.
- I should mention we invited
Chef Leon to join us today,
and he declined our invitation.
You're still in good touch
with him, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- He's a good
friend of mine.
- What's he saying
about the season?
- I think when he left
the yacht, he was done.
You know?
And...
I just feel like
it's really hard to share
'cause I just feel, like...
Yeah.
Um...you know?
- Do you think
he was treated unfairly?
- I think it's really hard
after working in kitchens
and being a chef and cooking
and putting your art out there
and having somebody talk bad
about your food and your art
constantly behind your back--
- You talked bad about it too.
- You used to say that.
You were the one
who was talking so much--
because you were like, "I could
do so much better than this,
and I could k*ll it."
- Traditionally, the scallop--
it needs to be seared
on high, high heat,
and the top needs
to have a nice, good sear on it,
and it was kind of,
like, out of time,
so it was just like
a one hit, boom.
And it should have been
longer.
Should have been
longer on that.
A good scallop has a nice
golden sear on it.
- I love scallops, yeah.
- Oh, it turns me on.
- I actually
respect your passion
for cooking more than Leon's,
'cause you were like, "I'll
try something new and crazy."
At least you're
trying something new.
- What's your evidence that he
didn't have a passion for it?
- He served the same things
every single charter.
- But let me ask you--
what is the problem with that?
- Okay, I'll explain that.
- The guests
aren't repeating meals.
And by the way, every time
the guest got the beef cheeks,
they said, "Oh, my God.
This is amazing.
This couldn't be better."
- It's kind of like a magician
that has two tricks only.
- But if all that's required
of you is two tricks...
- But that's symptomatic.
- Maybe that's enough.
- No, because then
if somebody asks--
order a quesadilla,
he'd be like,
"Mm, not one of my tricks."
He just would put
the beef cheeks--the beef--
[all talking at once]
He would put them
in a sous vide...
- We had to make the food
late night.
- The first day,
and let it sit for 36 hours.
It was a trick,
and he would serve it 36 hours
on the second night,
because if you put a protein
in a crock pot for that long,
eventually it's gonna be like,
"I surrender. I'm tender."
It was not even skill.
- I'm friends with Leon.
I still am in contact with him.
He's on a boat now.
He's doing well for himself.
He was just--
- Yeah, he's the executive chef
on a really, really big boat.
- Yeah, yeah.
Can I quickly finish?
- I'm sure it's very large.
- Can I just quickly finish?
He's really good
at what he does.
He was just
on the wrong boat.
I agree with what
everybody says.
He didn't want to be there.
- Well, Eddie, you've worked
with Kate for two seasons now.
You've seen how
she can be confrontational
with some of the crewmates.
Whose side were you on
in this Kate versus Leon?
- Looking back on it,
I mean, I do have to say,
I think, you know,
that Kate was right on
a lot of things,
and Leon's a good chef.
I liked working
with him.
I liked rooming with him,
but he just--
He didn't care much.
I think that Leon
could have been
a little more
passionate about his job,
and had been
more respectful.
- He's a great guy.
He's a great guy.
- He told me to be careful.
He said he liked
to make girls cry.
- I come from hard kitchens.
So, when I opened my own
restaurants,
I'd be screaming at girls,
screaming, making 'em cry.
- You can put anything
in an interview.
- Nobody said, "Hey, Leon.
Tell the world
you love to make girls cry."
- The things
that I overheard from Leon--
which, by the way,
I know you're
a fan of his--
nobody prompted him
to say.
He said all on his own,
of his own volition.
I didn't appreciate and wouldn't
appreciate from anybody.
- I just think I gravitated
towards Chef Leon
because that's
what I have been doing,
and that's what I do on yachts,
and so, yeah, of course
I'm gonna support him.
- Why?
- Because I know how hard it is
to put out your art
and your energy out there
and get constantly criticized.
- It wasn't art.
- No, oh, no, no.
- It was paint by numbers
every trip.
- No. I'm calling
bullsháá on that.
Leon sat right there
in the g*dd*mn galley,
and he said,
"I could really
knock their socks off
if I wanted to."
- "If I wanted to."
- Yeah.
- "I just don't want to."
And when he was called
up to the galley,
he goes, "I don't want to see
these fáááing assáááá,"
when they called him up to pay
him a compliment on his food.
- That's not a charter chef.
- And you're gonna sit there
and go like, "Poor Leon"?
- I love that guy.
- Like, he didn't
own any of that? Bullsháá.
- Kate and Leon's combustible
relationship resulted
in literal sparks when a fire
broke out in the galley.
Leon was napping.
Kate was cooking,
and everybody had an opinion
about who was at fault.
[smoke alarm going off]
- It's a fire--that's a fire.
- Where?
- It's in there.
- Oh, my eyes.
[smoke alarm continues]
- What is going on?
- There's an actual fire
in the oven.
[smoke alarm continuing]
- Close the door.
- Here.
- My opinion--and I was the one
to go attend the fire first--
There were two pans
in the oven,
and then there was
a pizza in there,
and I just would have
pulled out the pans
before I would put something
else in the oven.
- Now I'm not culinary trained,
but pans are meant
to go in ovens, right?
- [giggling]
- But then there's,
like, drippings from the pizza
that can get on that,
and then--
- No, no, no, no.
The pizza was still frozen
when it came out of the oven.
- Yeah.
- There was no drippings.
The stuff that caught fire
was from three days prior,
and, if you remember correctly,
you had pulled out
a grate in the oven
and commented on how dirty
the oven was at that time.
And it was smoking.
- Captain Lee,
why did you ultimately
decide that Leon was at fault?
- The fire was a direct result
of a dirty--dirty oven.
Plain and simple.
That's his responsibility,
and it was also
his responsibility
to be up cooking for the guests,
not having a stew
or a sous-chef do it.
Whether it's 2:00 in the morning
or 2:00 in the afternoon,
his job.
- Now that you've all seen
the fire
and how it started, does anyone
here think Leon got a bad rap?
- No, it was definitely
'cause of a dirty oven.
- Actually, during the fire,
there was a mug with wine in it
that Kate had been drinking.
- So wait, you're accusing Kate
of drinking on charter?
Coming up...
- That's fine.
I'm not gonna win this one.
- I was in the galley--
- I get it.
- If you could just stop
talking for a second.
I was in the galley making
popcorn for the guests.
You didn't know
how to work the DVD player,
so I said, "I'll leave you
in the galley,"
and I came back down,
and everything was on fire.
does anyone here
think Leon got a bad rap?
- No, it was definitely
'cause of a dirty oven.
- Actually, during the fire,
there was a mug with wine
in it...
- Oh, my God.
- That Kate had been drinking,
and I go to Eddie--
and he's obviously not
gonna back me on this one.
And I said, "Eddie, there's
a mug over there with wine,
"and that's Kate's,
and she had been drinking in it.
What should we do?"
And he goes, "Don't worry.
I'll take care of it."
And he goes over,
grabs the mug,
and slyly pours out
the alcohol,
and then he comes to me,
and he says,
"We take care of our own."
And I was like, "Oh, okay."
- Eddie?
- I don't remember.
- You don't remember that?
- Oh, you don't remember?
That's better than a no.
- So, Captain, if this is true,
what's your reaction to this?
- I'm sure I would have dealt
with it accordingly at the time.
- Is that a plane ticket?
- We would have
a serious confrontation
about it.
- Were you drinking on charter?
- No,
and we've never had an issue,
and Leon said the same thing.
- So there's two people
that have said that.
- Leon admitted
that he lied about it.
- He did not lie about it.
- What really happened was--
- That's fine.
I-I'm not gonna win this one.
- I was in the galley--
- I get it.
- If you could just stop
talking for a second.
I was in the galley making
popcorn for the guests.
You didn't know
how to work the DVD player,
which you should have.
"The guests want popcorn
to watch their movie,
but I don't know how to do it."
So I said, "I'll leave you
"in the galley
where you're comfortable,
"where you're trained,
and I'll go
do what I'm good at,"
and I came back down,
and everything was on fire.
- The pointing the fingers
about the drinking
and this and that is--
it's petty.
It really is.
Like, it's ridiculous.
- Get a backbone.
- Next week, it's part two
of the "Below Deck" reunion.
Chef Ben, let's bring him out.
- Whoo!
- Dave's here too.
- Whoo!
- You were featured in
my favorite Bravo promo.
What'd your wife think of it?
- It's still working for her.
- Yeah.
- Oof.
- You and Eddie kind of
gave new meaning
to the term "dirty laundry."
- Usually friends with benefits
act like friends.
- Diving off the boat was
the dumbest thing
you possibly could have done.
- In the middle of the ocean,
read my phone.
"Your dad d*ed."
Six months later,
"Your grandma d*ed."
- Does Kate get along
with anybody?
- You were picking fights.
- I think you may have been
a little tired,
honey bunny.
- You should have been fired.
You should never have been
back there--I had enough of it.
- Was there a part
of you that was jealous?
So did you cut things off then?
- I definitely didn't have
any kind of sexual interaction
with her anymore.
- What about two times
after the show?
- Ooh!
- [laughs]
- Are you denying that?
03x14 - Reunion Part 1
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Show chronicles the lives of the crew members who work and reside aboard a superyacht during charter season.
Show chronicles the lives of the crew members who work and reside aboard a superyacht during charter season.