The Below Deck Mediterranean Season 11 finale aired Monday, Oct. 5, wrapping Nathan Gallagher's latest stint as bosun on the superyacht Akira One while charering out of Croatia. In his final confessionals, Gallagher reflected on a rough charter season and his young family. "I will always come out on the other side," he said in one confessional, and later added, "I don't know what the next move is, but I want to focus on my family," per USA Today.

Us Weekly reports the finale's climactic argument now plays as an unsettling preview of the off-screen case. After deckhand Joe Bradley, who had been drinking, quipped it "would be so much easier" if Gallagher wasn't a father to 1-year-old Kayden, Gallagher warned him not to "disrespect my family." When Bradley asked, "Or what? Are you going to f***ing hit me?" Gallagher replied, "Do not tempt me. So keep your mouth shut," and pretended to throw an empty water bottle at him. Page Six reports Gallagher subsequently left the boat, and the next morning the pair amicably said goodbye while acknowledging they would never work together again — a scene Bradley, according to Page Six, endorsed as Bravo parted ways with Gallagher.

The franchise's cast is split over how to respond, and The Tab reports Below Deck's Gen Lillie publicly slammed Bravo's silence, writing on Instagram that "I believe silence is complicity" during October's Domestic Violence Awareness month and that she stopped posting about the show over the network's response. Aesha Scott, per Us Weekly, urged fans to "give Gael some GRACE!?" saying she had been "through hell and back." Meanwhile, a Bravo spokesperson confirmed to USA Today that the network "does not plan on working with Nathan in the future," making the finale his last-ever episode on the franchise.

RadarOnline reports exclusively that Gallagher's own mother, Noreen, claimed in the comments of Joe Bradley's finale post that her son is still in Sydney — a remark some viewers said they would pass to authorities, with others begging her to have him "do the right thing" and turn himself in. Bradley, for his part, derided Gallagher as "Maggot Man" in his Instagram post, RadarOnline says. Gallagher, in an August statement to Rolling Stone cited by Us Weekly and Page Six, said the public hasn't heard "the full story" and claimed to have video footage and messages providing context. Cameron wrote on Instagram, per USA Today, that she has been using the past few months to "quietly heal and rebuild for little man and myself."