A potential catastrophe looms when a near-fatal dish is serve; interior challenges come to a head as Aesha's team remains in disarray; after the storm, the crew manages to fix the leak in the uninhabitable cabin.

The stew dynamic gets further shaken up, sparking tension in the interior; two deckhands have a heated confrontation; a deckhand's flirting widens the divide onboard; a stew finds a solution to the mounting laundry problems.