Welcome back, Below Deck Mediterranean fans! Last week, a firing on the deck team felt imminent. Between Christian and Tessa, someone needed to go. In contrast, the interior team nailed everything they touched, as did the chef, minus a truffle or two. But now, hard calls need to be made, as evidenced on Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10 Episode 4, “Tough Divisions.”
What happened in Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10 Episode 4?
The deck team is in trouble, complete with one deckhand floating out to sea and the other one acting like a ghost. Likewise, the demanding charter guests continue to give Aesha and the chef a run for their tip money. Thankfully, these teams master their roles. But once their guests depart, Captain Sandy realizes that the deck team will never pull it together, so now, she must task Nathan with making his first tough decision of the season.
Christian and Tessa are failing on deck
The guests are ready for the jet skis, but Christian is currently occupying one, and it is floating far away into the sea. To explain, the night before, Nathan asked Tessa to fill the skis with gas. Tessa, however, failed to do so, and now, Christian is stranded.
Max rescues Christian. “The team feels kinda, like, weak,” Tessa admits. YOU THINK, TESSA?
Thankfully, Aesha has a promising crew. But she does feel a “bit guilty” that her team is shining while Nathan’s is sinking. Speaking of her team, V has experience on deck, which Captain Sandy realizes. The foreshadowing is high here.
That said, V still has a bad relationship with the sea, since her boyfriend passed away while diving. For now, the interior is her home. But she does know that it would make him proud if she tried to move forward, she confesses.
Downstairs, Christian and Tessa bond over their clueless natures. In their minds, Nathan, with a side of Max, is at fault for their failings.
Josh wows in the galley
Josh has an eight-course tasting menu to prepare. The pressure is on. Aesha praises V for being a quick study. But Kizzi wants praise too, she stresses in her interview.
As night falls, the deck team works to bring up the tender. But Max grows frustrated and needs a beat to breathe. Once the tender is back on board, Nathan tells Max that he understands his frustrations, but moving forward, he needs to keep his emotions at bay.
Josh starts sending dishes out of the galley, relating this night to a musical concert, where all eight courses behave as a song. Luckily for Josh, all eight courses are a hit. But as Jack, their primary charter guest, notes, in a few hours, he will likely be hungry again. So, a very drunken Jack places an order for an extra round of chicken.
Josh is exhausted. So, they settle on a round of truffle fries instead. But once they arrive, Jack is, naturally, not even hungry anymore.
Christian makes another critical error on deck
In their cabin, Tessa complains to V. Several floors above, Kizzi tells Nathan that V has experience on deck. Ending his shift, Nathan warns Christian that these guests are not to enter the water. It’s dark, they are drunk, and the current is strong, he says.
From his seat in the hot tub, Jack asks Kizzi if he can swim in the ocean. Kizzi answers no. Nathan heads to bed as Christian approaches the hot tub, where Jack next begs him for a late-night swim. Horribly relenting, Christian gives Jack the yes he so desperately desires, but tells him that he can only dangle his feet in the water.
But, instead of dipping his feet, Jack slides all the way into the ocean. Nathan sees this happening from an interior camera and rushes outside. Nathan quietly admonishes Christian, who places the blame solely on their guest. Likewise, in Christian’s mind, nothing happened, “so it was a successful night.”
The next morning, Nathan tells Max what happened. In the crew mess, Captain Sandy feels V out for her deck experiences. Then, V gets called to the primary cabin to pack for Jack. Throughout all of this, Tessa remains asleep in her cabin.
Nathan has a choice to make
Nathan heads to the wheelhouse to speak with Captain Sandy. She feels just as upset as Nathan and realizes that a change is in order. In her cabin, Kizzi speaks on the phone with her boyfriend. In her talking head, she admits that this season is making her question being in this relationship.
On deck, Max asks Christian to uncoil and recoil a line. Christian flicks him off from the safety of his confessional. As the deck team prepares to dock, Nathan doles out easy-to-understand directions, but Tessa fails to answer when asked if she tied her line tight. Sure enough, her line breaks once she tosses it to the shore.
Then, Tessa and Christian take their time tying off the yacht, upsetting the entire docking process. In heated tones, Max delegates instructions, but Christian grows angry, which Captain Sandy overhears. She radios for Nathan to head to the bow to sort them out. He does as told, and several beats later, their guests depart, leaving a tip of $20,000.
As the teams scatter to turn over the boat, Captain Sandy calls Nathan to the bridge. He has to let either Tessa or Christian go. So, who will it be, she asks, right as Below Deck Med Season 10 Episode 4 ends.
Below Deck Mediterranean continues Mondays at 8/7c on Bravo. It streams on Peacock.
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