Ed leads the crew in raiding a French merchant vessel. While on board, he teaches Stede about piracy, while Stede teaches him proper dining etiquette. The French captain insults Ed's lower-class background, enraging him. Ed recalls his mother giving him a piece of red silk she got from a wealthy family. When the younger Ed asks her why they can't have beautiful things like that, his mother says that God decides who gets what, and He has decided they're not the kind of people who get luxuries. Back in the present, Frenchie tells Stede and Ed that he found an invitation to a fancy party during the raid. Ed declares that they are going to attend to give him a chance to practice what he's learned from Stede.
Izzy discovers Lucius and Black Pete having sex instead of working. Sick of the crew's lazy attitudes, Izzy decides to make an example of Lucius by putting him to work. However, Lucius manages to get out of his duties by flirting with Fang, who Izzy ordered to watch him. Izzy tries to blackmail Lucius into working by threatening to tell Pete about Fang, but it backfires as Lucius and Pete are not exclusive and Lucius, who was told by Fang about an embarrassing incident where Izzy became seasick, has blackmail of his own. Izzy is forced to back down.
Stede and Ed attend the party along with Oluwande and Frenchie, who are pretending to be an Egyptian prince and his viceroy. Oluwande and Frenchie scam the aristocrats out of their money with a fake investment scheme, while Ed quickly charms the partygoers but loses their favor after using his cutlery incorrectly at dinner. With help from Frenchie, Stede learns all the aristocrats' dirty secrets from their servants and reveals them to the entire party as payback for humiliating Ed. His revelations of adultery, fraud, and incest cause the aristocrats to utterly melt down, leading to fistfights and fires breaking out across the ship. Ed, Stede, Frenchie, and Oluwande escape on a rowboat. Oluwande tells Frenchie that he gave the money they stole to the aristocrats' servants, who have escaped on a dinghy of their own and are planning to refine the scam. After the rest of the crew has gone to bed, Ed and Stede share a tender moment on the deck of the Revenge wherein Stede compliments the piece of silk Ed got from his mother and, after folding it so that it fits neatly into Ed's breast pocket, tells him that he wears fine things well.
In the court of King George, Admiral Chauncey Badminton, Nigel's identical twin, is granted permission to use the full force of the English Navy to hunt down his brother's murderer.
This episode provides examples of:
- 419 Scam: Oluwande and Frenchie attend the party masquerading as the Crown Prince of Egypt and his steward, respectively. Upon encountering the upper-crust's casual racism, the two decide to have some fun at their hosts' expense by claiming that "Prince Azi's" money is currently locked away and he needs everyone's money to help get it back.
- Almost Kiss: After Stede compliments his red silk, Ed briefly steps in towards him as if going for a kiss before pulling back.
- Asshole Victim: The entire boat of aristocrats. They're petty, rude to the waiters, racist, and make fun of Blackbeard for not knowing their intricate dining rituals. Frenchie and Oluwande spend the episode scamming most of them with a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, and Stede utterly humiliates them with a passive-aggressive series of questions.
- Bilingual Bonus: When Blackbeard demands to know where the loot is on the French ship, the subtitles for the Frenchman only say "speaking French", when he's saying in French that it's down below.
- Blackmail Backfire: Izzy attempts to force Lucius to do chores (swabbing the deck, scraping barnacles) by threatening to reveal the fact that he's slept with multiple people on board the ship. Not only was this already public knowledge and no one that Lucius has slept with cares, but Lucius also has far more embarrassing blackmail material on Izzy.
- Break the Haughty: Stede does this to an entire room of aristocrats.
- Break Them by Talking: Stede is able to reduce the entire group of aristocrats to nothing simply by asking pointed questions.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Oluwande and Frenchie, as they invent the Nigerian Prince con to use against the aristocrats. Frenchie introduces Oluwande as "an Egyptian prince descended from the Pharaohs", and Oluwande does an African accent during the rest of their time on the boat.
- Brother–Sister Incest: The main aristocratic couple's dirty secret at the dinner party Stede and Ed crash. The husband, Gabriel, attempts to defend it, but the wife, Antoinette, breaks down and admits that even she finds their attraction to each other "fucking disgusting".
- Fish out of Water: Blackbeard at the fancy dinner. At first, he enjoys being more popular than Stede's alter ego, but he soon begins to loathe the French high society snobs, actually flat-out asking at one point if they know who he is, and informs them he could kill them all. Ironically, he's rescued by Stede's skill at playing the high society passive-aggression game.
- Formal Full Array of Cutlery:
- When the crew raids a French ship, Stede teaches Ed the intricacies of fine dining.
- Later at the fancy dinner party, Ed gets humiliated by the aristocrats when he uses the wrong spoon for shrimp.Frenchie: Oh, God, they're such dicks about spoons!
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Frenchie and Oluwande give receipts to the aristocrats they scam. Pausing at the right time reveals that the "receipts" are just drawings of cats, since both Frenchie and Oluwande are illiterate.
- Held Gaze: After Stede and Ed's Almost Kiss at the end of the episode, they head in opposite directions, but turn around for one last charged look.
- In with the In Crowd: Ed manages to charm and amuse most of the aristocrats at the party with a rowdy sense of humour and Brutal Honesty. It doesn't last, however, and Stede warns him that they're fickle people — which he finds out the hard way, when he uses the wrong utensils at dinner and they begin to mock him for it.
- Maurice Chevalier Accent: Zig-Zagged. The French merchants' accents at the beginning of the episode are fairly realistic, but the French aristocrats at the party have absolutely cartoonish accents.
- Scenery Censor: Played with when Lucius sketches Fang — his sketchbook covers up the actual nudity, then the camera angle changes and we see a lovingly detailed sketch of Fang's penis.
