We’re back with the recap for Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 8. Last week, Daisy and Captain Glenn both urged Chef to step up his game, and he finally took their advice to heart. On the crew night out, Danni tried to flirt with Keith, but he wasn’t interested in Gary’s sloppy seconds. Gary had a chat with Emma about her lack of initiative. And the Parsifal III was endangered by another boat that drifted too close late at night, forcing Gary to take emergency measures. Here’s exactly what went down in BDSY Season 5, Episode 8: “An Eye for a Decline.”
What happened in Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 5, Episode 8?
In this week’s episode, the crew manages to avert a collision with the boat drifting in the night, and Glenn and Gary agree that Emma has to go. On the crew night out, Gary gets a little too drunk because he’s feeling bad about Emma. When the horseplay gets out of hand, Davide is injured and bleeds all over the white couch (it’s not the first time somebody’s made a mess of that couch). Glenn’s gonna be so pissed about that. Here are some of the highlights from BDSY Season 5, Episode 8.
A near-collision provides late-night excitement
When last we left BDSY, another boat was drifting into the Parsifal III in the dark of night. Gary was trying to get the attention of the occupants, but meanwhile, he sent Danni to wake Captain Glenn and Emma. It’s all hands on deck to prevent a collision.
It’s a near miss, but no contact. The crew manages to avoid a crash this time, and the other boat drifts off into the night. As much as Gary tries to raise someone by whistling and yelling, either no one’s awake or there’s just no one aboard. That’s an expensive boat to just let it drift onto the rocks.
As everyone is trying to avert a crash, even Danni, who’s not on the deck crew, lends a hand, Emma’s just dawdling in her cabin. “Where’s Em?” Gary asks. Once again, Emma’s “lack of urgency” rears its lazy head.
About that time, Keith returns from shore with the guests who’d been out clubbing. Gary tells him to go knock on the hull of the drifting boat and see if he can wake anyone.
Finally, Keith’s able to rouse someone, and they come up onto the deck. “Your anchor’s dragging. You almost hit us,” he tells them.
“Smells like pot,” observes Brandon, one of the primaries. They decide that the guy is high as a kite and doesn’t understand the seriousness of the situation.
“Mate, you nearly t-boned a $20 million super yacht,” Keith interviews. “Like, that’s not a bill you wanted to be picking up in your tighty-whiteys or whatever.”
So, a little extra excitement for the guests at 3:30 in the morning. No extra charge.
Glenn and Gary make a decision about Emma
The next morning, everyone’s short on sleep and patience. Talking to Gary about the close call during the night, Glenn says, “It’s a struggle with the people that we have to stay properly manned, right? [Emma] doesn’t seem to be keen to be here.”
“What’s going to happen if that happens, and she’s on nights?” Gary asks. “She still can’t manage to control the tender.”
“Let’s see what I can do,” Glenn says, suggesting he’ll try to replace her.”
Emma can feel Gary’s impatience with her. She can’t seem to do anything right and tells Danni she thinks Gary wants to replace her.
Danni thinks she’s in her head, but then we see Glenn texting the staffing agent: “Hi, do you have any available deckhands to start ASAP?”
Poor Emma is really struggling. She can’t seem to remember anything Gary’s shown her so far. She can’t remember how to tie off the tenders, how to throw the heaving line, or anything else. Focus, Em! Gary’s getting really frustrated with her. She’s also very frustrated with herself.
Emma’s “overthinking everything and making stupid mistakes.”
Even the chief engineer, Davide, notices, “Emma’s her own worst enemy … She’s so scared of messing up, that’s preventing her [from doing] everything.”
At the tip meeting, Gary announces that tomorrow, the crew will have the whole day off. What a treat!
They’re going to explore some local caves, and Glenn will be joining them because he “loves caves.” Afterward, Glenn will return to the boat while the crew enjoys the rest of the day at the O Beach Club. That should put everybody in a better mood. Danni’s hoping she’ll run into Anthony, who she met when they were there with the guests on Charter One.
Glenn finally drops the hammer on Emma
Gary asks if he can meet with Captain Glenn. “I think you know the problem I’m having with Emma,” he says.
“Yeah, I’ve noticed it,” Glenn replies. “I’m trying to show her stuff, too, but it’s not getting through. She’s struggling.”
“At this point, she’s not a capable deckhand on this boat,” Glenn concludes. “I think we only have one choice … We just have to move forward and get somebody else in.”
“I feel that Gary and I have given Emma ample opportunities to prove her value,” Glenn interviews. “I just think she hasn’t taken them.”
Gary gets emotional when he realizes he has to talk to Emma, but he pulls her from her cabin anyway and takes her to talk to Glenn.
“You’re not delivering what we need in Gary’s department,” Glenn says. “For me, you’re not showing the initiative that I would expect and that we really need to do this job. People have to pick up the slack. We need somebody in your position that has more skills than you’re showing now. I’m gonna have to let you go.”
“In the nicest way possible, I really don’t want to carry on this conversation,” Emma says. She knows she’s getting emotional, and she doesn’t want to embarrass herself by crying in front of Gary and Glenn.
Saying she appreciates everything, she really can’t do this anymore. And she practically runs from the room, even though Glenn’s not done talking.
“We have to talk,” he says. “You can’t just run away.”
But she’s over it and heads out the door, sniffling. She runs back to her cabin and tells Daisy, “They fired me.”
“I feel like I’ve been the scapegoat,” she says, still not taking any accountability for her own poor job performance.
Emma’s goodbye tour (except for Gary and Keith)
When Emma tells Danni and Diana that she’s been fired, she says, “I’m going to go have a cigarette, calm down, and go speak to Glenn again.”
When she returns to Glenn, she says, “I’m really sorry. I am ready.”
“This is not something rash,” Glenn explains. “This is something that [both Gary and I] have been observing. There is an expectation of ability. There’s an expectation of experience. It’s something that you have to get on your own … You just need to go out and get some more [experience].”
Gary has to call his mommy for comfort. “I feel like such a d*ck,” he tells her.
“This isn’t how I wanted the season to end,” Emma says in a confessional. “I do feel a bit at a loss. I feel like I need a few days to actually absorb everything … I’ve met some really amazing people … I’m gonna be forever grateful.”
Glenn calls a meeting in the lounge and explains that he’s had to let Emma go. “She just wasn’t able to do the job the way she needed to,” he says.
Keith’s a little bothered that he had no clue. He was napping, and she didn’t even tell him goodbye. He and Gary are in the same boat. She didn’t tell him goodbye either.
There will be blood
At dinner, Gary’s feeling down. When he and Daisy go for a smoke, he tells her, “I feel like maybe I could have been a better teacher and a better leader.”
“You can only manage somebody who wants to be managed,” Daisy responds. Despite their past differences, Daisy still cares about Gary and hates to see him upset.
“Deep down inside, I know it’s the right choice,” he says. “But it was f*cking hard.”
Daisy says that “deep down,” Emma knows he did the right thing. “Stop being so hard on yourself. You’re gonna learn, and you’re gonna grow, but the important thing is that you’re trying.”
When they return to the boat, Gary’s feeling better, mostly because he’s drunk. A little horseplay with Davide ends with the chief engineer getting bashed in the eye when Gary lobs a sucker at him.
Though they’re both laughing hysterically, Davide’s actually bleeding. He not only gets blood on the floor of the lounge, but he gets it all over the white couch. Uh oh. Captain Glenn’s not going to be happy about that.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Below Deck Sailing Yacht airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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