Though Tom was initially defensive about whether he was responsible for the anchor situation, after some time, he was able to acknowledge that he should have gotten Captain Glenn up sooner to help deal with the issue.

At the end of the March 28 episode and before the fourth charter commenced, Tom briefly spoke with Captain Glenn in their room about his regrets regarding the night watch mishap.

"I need to speak with you at some point... Ultimately, I want to prove to you on this charter that I should stay," Tom told his bunkmate at the end of the episode.

"We'll talk about it a bit more, but there's other stuff going on, so I've got to figure it all out," Captain Glenn replied. "But we will talk about it, probably a bit more."

Tom recognized that the captain was deciding whether to keep him on board or not.

"It's never good when somebody says, 'We'll chat later,'" Tom admitted in his confessional.

Captain Glenn also told Tom that he would be off of anchor watch for a while.

"I don't think you'll be on anchor watch for the time being," Captain Glenn continued. "I need people that I can trust, whatever it is... But, anyway, we'll talk more about it."

In the closing minute of the episode, Tom seemed to think that his fate was sealed.

"I picked myself right up, and I was ready to smash it, and then telling your boss what you think he'd want to hear, and you don't see that look on his face that he's happy about it," the 24-year-old added in his interview. "We don't need to talk later, I know exactly what he's thinking."

"Might be f-----g sacked," Tom said in his room during the final seconds of the episode.

One-on-one meetings with the captain for disciplinary purposes are never good, and Captain Glenn made his final decision shortly after their awkward bunk room discussion.