On the small speedboat, Keith’s seasickness returns the moment he steps aboard. He takes the center seat and attempts to control his breathing. Kelsey drops beside him and draws a Titanic comparison; Keith reflects on Steffani’s emotional distance, which worsens his nausea. Scotty teases him; moments later, Keith vomits over the side. Fans watching from the larger tender respond with collective sympathy. Shawn rubs his back and offers an Altoid; Sarah hands over water and promises a short trip. Corey arrives on the tender and boards the speedboat last. Once moving, Sarah announces the plan over the motor: wade ashore for volleyball and then karaoke. She hands Keith a referee’s whistle to spare him from playing, and he accepts. Shawn then directs a trash-talking challenge at someone on the opposing team. Keith hopes the target is Terrence rather than Corey—but Corey’s reply confirms that the rivalry is on.

On the beach, Annie reads a fantasy novel in a shaded chair while fans crowd around the volleyball area. Maira is still back on the ship, and Annie misses her company and muses on the events of the previous night: Maira peeled a large decal of Shawn’s face off an elevator floor and took it to their cabin—an act of petty theft that Annie found thrilling.

Alone and still lost in thought, Annie reframes her career situation. She realizes that Geoff has offered her a choice: She can accept working under Kayla, negotiate a new title, or quit outright—an idea that both frightens and excites her. She resolves to be bolder, inspired by Maira’s fearlessness.

When the crowd suddenly rushes toward the water, Annie joins them. Scotty cannonballs off the arriving boat, Terrence wades in with Kelsey balanced on his shoulders, and Shawn jumps in with his phone raised, grinning at the crowd in a way that Annie finds herself instinctively returning. Corey and Keith wade ashore last; Keith drops into a chair looking sick. Annie questions whether the connection she sensed with him the previous night was real or simply the product of the cruise’s manufactured atmosphere.

An hour into volleyball, Sarah watches Keith sit at the net in direct sunlight, barely opening his eyes as he blows the referee’s whistle. Shawn has effectively taken over both sides of the game, making Keith’s role ceremonial. Watching the band suffer strikes Sarah as a personal professional failure. She notes on her phone that Corey and Shawn must always be assigned to the same team for competitive events. Jonathan floats offshore amusing himself, and Sarah distributes water to anyone approaching heat exhaustion. Tyler radios her: He’s assembling the karaoke equipment incorrectly and needs help. Suppressing a rude gesture, Sarah signals him to wait.

At three in the afternoon, the karaoke contest is underway at the seafood shack. The band sits as judges in director’s chairs above the small stage, though in practice, Shawn is performing backup dances for contestants rather than judging. Feeling better, Keith resolves to walk back to the ship rather than board the speedboat again. After two adequate performances, a large man in a “BOY TALK BRO” shirt begins a Garth Brooks song (159). Shawn leans over to Keith and says he wants to talk later, deepening Keith’s unease. Jonathan is lurking in the background. The man turns out to have a strong, controlled baritone. Keith watches Corey grow visibly absorbed. When the song ends, Corey leaps up, knocks his chair over applauding, and then tells the rest of the band that this is the standard.

After drifting through part of the volleyball game, Annie returns to her beach chair and reflects that the cruise’s pull on her emotions weakens on land. As karaoke ends, she heads to the tender. Overhearing a group of women nearby, she learns that they’ve been calling Maira a liar and a “crazy bitch” and that Scotty is afraid of her because she’s a capoeira expert (29).

On the tender, Annie sits across from a man she had privately thought of as “Mr. Beer Pong.” He recognizes her from her Madonna costume and introduces himself as Greg; this is his third Boy Talk cruise. As the boat rocks, their knees knock together, and Annie feels a genuine spark. Realizing that she hasn’t truly flirted in over 25 years, she boldly asks Greg what his pajamas look like for that night’s theme party. He grins and says she will see.

Back at his cabin, Keith lets Shawn and Jonathan in. In his bathrobe, he sits across from them and listens as Jonathan praises his talent and Shawn declares him the most gifted member of the group. Unmoved, Keith lights a cigarette in quiet defiance of Shawn’s distaste and counters that he’s already using his gift by performing on the cruise.

Shawn delivers the pitch for a Boy Talk world tour spanning Japan, Germany, Brazil, and the Philippines. Keith calculates six months of continuous travel, at minimum. When he asks what Bobby thinks, Shawn dismisses Bobby’s vision and signals that the plan involves bypassing him. Jonathan frames the proposal as Keith’s chance to unlock his true potential, adding that he currently only sees glimmers of it. Keith asks whether Corey was approached first and flatly refuses to join the endeavor. Shawn makes a final appeal framed around legacy and family pride, but Keith ends the meeting. After they leave, he lies face-down on the carpet and screams.

That evening, Maira steers Annie past the security guard to better seats on the theater’s floor level. Maira spots footage of Keith being seasick and notes that it has happened on previous cruises. Annie brings up the hostile gossip she overheard on the island. An unsurprised Maira guesses at who spread the gossip and attributes the talk to the women’s jealousy over her work with Scotty during the early days of his SkinSentials business. Annie recognizes SkinSentials as a multilevel-marketing scheme but dismisses her judgment. She orders two Sexy Sunrise cocktails and reopens her dragon novel.

Backstage on Deck 3, Corey paces through vocal warm-ups before his solo show—a set of Broadway standards, which Sarah genuinely appreciates. When Corey asks whether anyone is coming, Sarah misunderstands and thinks he’s referring to the audience; he clarifies that he means the other band members. Sarah knows that they won’t attend; she assumes that Keith is sleeping and that Shawn is working, their usual habits during downtime. Corey sarcastically notes that his teenage face is still on everyone’s merchandise, comparing the distance from that image to outgrowing a childhood belief. He dismisses his bandmates’ indifference to craft and walks onstage before the lights go down.

At the Pajama Night party on the lido deck, Annie finds that most Talkers have treated the theme as an occasion to wear lingerie. In her plain cotton nightgown, she feels conspicuously conservative. Maira claims a headache and says that she will come up later, so Annie starts the party on her own. At the bar, she recognizes that she has developed a genuine crush on Keith—different from teenage fandom and informed by real experience.

Greg appears nearby in a wholesome pointed nightcap and nightshirt. The band arrives onstage in matching costumes modeled on Risky Business. Greg suggests moving to a quieter upper deck. There, he and Annie dance, and Greg kisses her—leaving Annie feeling more alive than she has in years. She stops him and proposes that they continue in her cabin. On her way out, she spots Maira at the tiki bar, but Maira doesn’t notice her leaving.

In Annie’s cabin, Greg and Annie end up in bed. Greg begins to perform oral sex on Annie, and Annie’s imagination replaces Greg with Keith. Then, the door opens, and Maira walks in. Greg makes a negative remark about Maira being erratic and leaves; Maira retorts that he has slept with half the women on the ship. Once he’s gone, Annie tells Maira that she’s sorry for the interruption but not for what she was doing. Maira approves and proposes returning to the party; Annie suggests they smoke first.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Keith lingers at the after-party, still in the Risky Business costume he finds cheap and uninspired. The crowd is thinner than on previous nights. Scotty dances freely; Shawn leads a line dance that he largely invents as he goes. Keith recalls arguing against Pajama Night and being overruled, as he often is. He finds himself longing for the stability of a Las Vegas residency, where the venue would be on solid ground. He remains certain that he won’t agree to the world tour and believes that Boy Talk can’t sustain this kind of operation indefinitely. Jonathan dances awkwardly in the background. Shawn grabs a microphone and urges the crowd to rock the boat; Scotty points at Keith, who points back.