Oooh I have a plot idea once they reach France, so as you said Blaine is using Elissa’s crew to follow her, maybe they have a smaller ship or boat that’s tracking them (that’s harder for Joseph’s crew to notice), so they can follow stealthily with the main ship. Anyway, Joseph takes off once they moor and have spent the day or so unloading and flogging their loot, and Rhea’s just about to leave too but Elissa stops her - one of her crew has come to speak to her and warn her (against Blaine’s orders), Blaine had caught a good look of Joseph as he alighted (obviously Joseph doesn’t recognise him at the dock), so Blaine uses this to his advantage to corner Joseph in town with a few of his own guys, obviously with the intention to batter/kill him, 1. for kidnapping Elissa and 2. He knows who he is (a bit surprised he isn’t dead but hey, he’ll make sure it’s done properly this time). So anyway Elissa catches a hold of Rhea to tell her Joseph is in danger - I think it’s a good opportunity for them to work together and become more friendly. Obviously Elissa’s crew probably think Joseph is a bad guy, they probably don’t care that Blaine is off to murder him (he was going to go back and collect Elissa once he’d done so), but of course they want Elissa back, and think she might be pleased that Blaine is doing some dirty work, they might also have a plan to escape with Elissa, but some of Blaine’s own men are planted within the crew.
I get the feeling Blaine is probably a sadistic kind of guy, and might enjoy beating Joseph up a bit before he intends to murder him.. of course he’s cowardly enough to bring another 2 or 3 guys with him though.
Perhaps the event is enough for Joseph to start remembering whilst he’s healing? Maybe Blaine alludes to the fact Joseph should’ve been dead (but doesn’t tell him everything).
Sound good?