Executive chef David McDonald is on the warpath after receiving a complaint about the afternoon teas, and hauls the pastry team into his office for a severe dressing down. New 25-year-old bridge officer Lauren faces a series of tests as she is left in charge of mooring the 330-metre-long ship in a port designed to take much smaller vessels. Hotel services engineer Scott is dealing with a flood from one of the ornamental marble fountains in the busiest area of the ship, and has only a few hours to fix it before passengers start to return from their excursions.

Tonight, on their cruise round the Mediterranean, the ship is heading for the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, where the local monkeys are running riot on the famous rock. With some of their unfriendly antics belying their cute appearance, a few passengers find themselves making an unscheduled stop at the ship's medical centre to be treated for some vicious monkey bites.