Xavier and Taina clearly lack trust in their relationship,
so today I'm sending them on a challenge
that will force them to rely on one another
-in order to achieve success. -CHARLIE: Hi, guys. Welcome.
-Hello. -Thank you for your patience.
-XAVIER: Thank you. -CHARLIE: I'm Charlie.
-Hey, Charlie. I'm Taina. -CHARLIE: Taina.
-XAVIER: Charlie. Xavier. -Ah, I been waiting
-for you guys. -Yes.
-TAINA: Okay. -So?
-XAVIER: Um... -I would like--
Hold on one second. Hold on one second.
Jon said you're gonna fill in for me.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
We're gonna fill in for you?
You're gonna fill in for me.
JON: If Xavier and Taina can't find a way
to work together to make a smoothie,
I don't know what hope they have to work
-through their trust issues. -CHARLIE: I just made two
smoothies, you saw me do it. It shouldn't be too hard, ah?
-All right? -TAINA: Okay.
-XAVIER: Okay. -CHARLIE: Hold it down.
XAVIER: I walk in here. I think I'm ordering some food.
And we start taking orders.
TAINA: Okay. Hello. How can we help you?
Hello. How are you doing?
Uh, pineapple and strawberries
or bananas. -TAINA: Okay.
-Okay, um, well-- -TAINA: What about--
XAVIER: To start, you need something to scoop it.
-Shall I use this? -I don't think that's--
-TAINA: No. -Let me use one of these.
XAVIER: All right. So he wants pineapples.
-TAINA: This is weird. -XAVIER: --get something to eat.
TAINA: I thought we were gonna eat. Yeah, I sure did, like...
-Let's get it together. -The line is growing.
JON: Sometimes, the simplest of tasks
can reveal the most about a person.
XAVIER: I can take the next people in line.
WOMAN: [INDISTINCT]
XAVIER: Okay. So you want spinach? Mmm.
Add some of these-- this coconut milk?
XAVIER: Spirulina.
-TAINA: How can we do that? -Spirulina.
TAINA: I don't see any bananas.
[BLENDER BUZZES]
How do I stop it?
Where are the cups?
You let me know if this is enough.
Oh, my goodness. Look at the line.
TAINA: We got to get these things washed out, X.
At home, I'm in charge normally.
All right. Let me just, um--
let me just finish with them.
I think he appreciates that at times [CHUCKLES].
Trying to get this line down now.
Now we got to get this line down.
We should just work together, find out what they want.
I'll-- I'll wash the dishes for now.
-TAINA: Okay? -XAVIER: Hold on.
And then leave me to make everybody?
$15.50. Oh, man.
Um--
[TAINA LAUGHS]
-XAVIER: You don't have cash? -MAN: I don't.
Are you good friends with the owner?
-You know the owner's name? -MAN: Yeah.
XAVIER: He can count on you to come back
-and pay him back, right? -MAN: Yeah.
XAVIER: All right. Cool.
TAINA: Come on. You got to get this going,
now, the line is growing.
XAVIER: Taina was instructing me here.
TAINA: You got to develop a system to--
-to get it going fast. -We were in the heat
of the moment and I was just doing what worked for me.
TAINA: You got to try to make them not so thick, too.
I'm just telling you because if only one person ordered it--
-MAN: Great job. -TAINA: Thank you.
-We're trying. -XAVIER: Look. Look. Look.
TAINA: I didn't say it was bad. [LAUGHS]
-XAVIER: That's the one I made. -TAINA: Well, I guess we can
-work together if we try. -Teamwork.
TAINA: Because we never really do this.
It's either you cook or I cook.
Now, we had to work together and then other times
you're trying to tell me what to do, like,
"I want it done like this," as opposed to, look,
-this is what we need to do. -No, no. I don't say
I want it done like this. I say,
"Why don't we try doing this," or "This is the way it should"--
well, maybe I do say, "This is the way it should be done."
-Yeah. -TAINA: But--
See? Exactly.
But I'm not trying to tell you what to do,
like, you see how when I suggested,
"Let me wash the dishes so we won't be--"
You wash more dishes here than you've ever
-washed at home. -That's not true.
XAVIER: I think that we did this exceptionally well together
considering how we usually work together.
JON: Despite being able to work together,
Taina is still resentful towards Xavier.
I need to figure out what's holding Taina back
from fully embracing Xavier and their marriage.
-XAVIER: Good afternoon. -Hello.
JON: I watched you guys today.
And what was interesting to me
was when this trust thing is gone
and you're in the heat of the moment,
you guys did okay together.
I'm guessing, before this trust issue existed,
-you guys got along pretty good. -Yes.
But there's one serious barrier to getting that good back again.
And somehow, no matter what he says,
he hasn't said enough to get you past it.
Yes.
Uh, it's not words. I need something else.
We have to bring this to some type of a resolution.
The good news is you got a wife who's sitting next to you.
[♪♪]
JON: So, if you don't open up,
in time...
well, you're not gonna get your wife
back the way you used to have her.
But in time, you might lose your marriage completely.
You're right.
JON: So, I wanna offer a solution.
I'd like you to write a list of the questions
that are important to you.
And tomorrow, I wanna sit with the two of you
and I wanna create a safe room for 15 minutes.
And I want you to answer the questions
completely and honestly.
It can be a little bit intimidating knowing that...
"Hey, look, you're not gonna be able to run this time."
And this is gonna be hard, do you agree?
-Yeah. I'm prepared to do it. -JON: Okay.
TAINA: Honestly, I don't know what Xavier's gonna do
regarding, um, coming clean in all the questions
that I have for him.
I hope he will be, but he-- I feel like he hasn't been.
Hopefully, Jon would be able to just call him out on his stuff.
I mean, whatever I need to do that we can have fun
like we just had there.
And you're not even thinking about
broken trust or broken integrities.
I'm willing to do it.
[♪♪]
Hi, this is Jon Taffer.
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