The next morning, Jess puts on a smile and chooses to be happy and not “a miserable shit.” She’s positively amped when talking to Heather in the laundry room, hoping to quell all of her boss’s doubts about her work. The conversation doesn’t throw Jess off after she said she wanted to go through the day normally and not let the news affect her work, and that’s all enough for Heather. Jess says she’s doing okay and lets Heather know that her grandmother had a medical procedure done earlier in the day, which has her a bit shaken up. So Heather pulls Jess aside at the end of the day to see what’s up. Fraser has noticed that she’s “pure misery,” as he tells Heather, after setting up cabins with Jess earlier in the day. Rayna’s not the only one worried about Jess. Wes tells Rayna he doesn’t “do that on boats” but would fuck Jess Eddie, Fraser, and Heather gossip about the budding relationship’s chances in the crew mess Rayna declares, to no one, “Jess needs some dick.” The whole crew, too, is talking about Wes and Jess, who I’ve decided need to become a couple because of their rhyming names. Poor Eddie’s girlfriend, if she’s watching this. “Like, when I was with him, I put his needs and everything else before mine.” Eddie is telling the deck crew about his relationship, too - namely, that his girlfriend is “batshit.” He adds in a confessional that they’re still trying to build trust in their new relationship. “I’m happier now that I’m by myself,” she says in a confessional. Speaking of marriage, Rachel tells Fraser in the galley she thought she and Vincenzo were going to get married before they had some sort of a falling out. I might guess it’s because she wouldn’t have made out with him if she knew!
Let’s cross our fingers that British immigration authorities aren’t watching! Jake adds that his not-girlfriend “understands what I’m like, and she knows I’m gonna be doing all of this crazy shit.” Rayna still doesn’t, though, and wonders why Jake wouldn’t tell her about this before they made out. It’s that Paris, Jake’s fiancée, is a friend who needs a British passport and one who he describes as “not my girlfriend.” “We’re nowhere near ready for marriage,” he says in a confessional. He’s non-monogamous for starts, but that’s not the surprise here. Over on deck, Rayna gets us some answers about Jake.
Heather really is hungover, too - she comes to her team meeting in sunglasses and tells her crew to “pray for no puking.” Fraser is just happy to see a “naughty little bitch” like her finally loosening up. Eddie is telling Fraser about the fallout with his girlfriend over Heather, Heather is telling Rachel how hungover she is, and Rayna is telling Jess, of course, that Jake is engaged. Instead, it’s the next morning, and like me, the crew members are doing some recapping. After last week left us on the cliffhanger that Jake, who’s shown his ass to the whole crew, let multiple people touch it, and kissed multiple crew members (at once!), is engaged, we don’t return to that night after he drunkenly dropped that bomb. Welcome back to Below Deck, where we are not disengaging, at least if our name is Jake.