Did Yasmin Really Kill Her Father in ‘Industry’ Season 3 Episode 6? Marisa Abela, Myha’la, and Co-Showrunner Konrad Kay Break That Twisted Death Scene Down

Industry Season 3 Episode 6 “Nikki Beach, or: So Many Ways to Lose” finally explains what Yasmin ( Marisa Abela ) meant when she told Robert ( Harry Lawtey ) last week that she killed her own father. Technically, Yasmin is responsible for the untimely death of the disgusting predator/publishing magnate Charles Hanani ( Adam Levy ). That said, she also technically is not. It’s a messy situation that begs you to consider multiple perspectives, including Harper’s ( Myha’la ). You know, the sort of drama that HBO ‘s Industry delights in mining.

So what exactly happened on the boat all those months ago? And what was it like for Industry stars Marisa Abela and Myha’la to tackle those complex scenes at sea?

**Spoilers for Industry Season 3 Episode 6 “Nikki Beach, or: So Many Ways to Lose,” now streaming on Max**

From the beginning of Industry Season 3, we’ve gotten flashbacks to what went down on Charles Hanani’s boat, lovingly (?) named Lady Yasmin , and now we finally have the full picture. After walking in on her lecherous father having sex with one of the yachties in her cabin, Yasmin and her father have a blow out fight where they lay bare the truly grotesque toxicity of their relationship. He’s a sexual predator, going so far as to embrace his own daughter with a hard on, and he tells Yasmin that people see her as a “whore” and that she is “spectacularly talentless” aside from her sexual worth to men.

Yasmin tells him that she wishes he would die. It would be the most meaningful thing he would ever do. “Well, maybe I will,” Charles taunts. Yasmin shrugs it off. “Oh, fucking do it then,” she says, walking away. Charles jumps in and the boat speeds past him. Yasmin is dumbstruck, frozen in her absolute shock, as her father yells at her to stop the boat and to help him.

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When she finally gains her senses, Yasmin calls for her father and struggles to free a life preserver. After it’s finally free, she looks out and he’s already fallen beneath the surface.

Industry co-creator and co-showrunner Konrad Kay explained to Decider that Yasmin and Charles’s relationship is essentially the Rosetta Stone of why Yasmin is the way she is. Although he and co-creator and co-showrunner Mickey Down try to inject every character with nuance, Charles Hanani is “the most obviously reprehensible character in the whole show.”

“You know, he’s a monster really,” Kay said. “And we wanted something very dramatic to happen in their relationship which should explain how she was behaving in the third season. That explained various pressure points on her.”

Kay also revealed that their senior producer Jane Tranter was initially skeptical of saving the reveal of what happened to Charles until Episode 6, for fear that the scrambled timelines might confuse audiences. “The mystery element and the split timeline is something the show hasn’t traded in before and we felt it was a sign of a growing, rising ambition on our part,” Kay said.

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“There were many versions of what could have possibly gone down in the boat, but we felt we were arriving on something, that we wanted to push against some sort of accidental death with a knife or something,” Kay said. “We wanted to do something that we’d never seen before. This sort of botched, egotistical, narcissistic attempt to get his daughter’s attention, which actually ends up being a kind of murder suicide.”

When Decider spoke to Industry star Marisa Abela about the episode, she admitted that although “being on a boat in Majorca was luxury to the max,” the logistics of shooting those intense scenes on the open sea were not exactly fun.

“You know, I would say that in a way working downstairs is harder because it does make you feel sick,” Abela said. “But upstairs is also hard because you’re dealing with the volume. I mean, I lost my voice the day after that fight scene because I was screaming, anyway, but over those waves. And then it was all day. You can’t really ground yourself and support yourself because the boat’s chucking you all over the place.”

“So it was hard, but I think it was some of the most important work we’ve done,” she added. “If that parent is fighting them in the way that Yasmin is fighting with her father in those days, I think it was the most I felt like we had a glimpse into why Yasmin is the way that she is.”

So what does Yasmin do next? Does she stop the yacht? Scream for help? She hides in her cabin until a coked-up Harper arrives. Soon, Harper hatches a plan to keep the whole nasty affair quiet, finally explaining the characters’ strange, taut bond all season.

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“We always knew that episode was going to be about Yasmin and Harper’s relationship, too,” Konrad Kay said, further explaining the choice to hold back the truth about Charles Hanani’s death until Episode 6. “There was something about holding it back, which to us just felt very satisfying, especially in terms of what Harper knows, Harper’s involvement in it, all that sort of stuff.”

Industry star Myha’la told Decider that while she wasn’t on the boat as long as Abela, she also found the circumstances luxurious, but tiring.

“The boat is fun for like the first hour. Then after that I was like, ‘Damn, it’s like hot,’ and I was stuck on this boat. It’s like a lot of trouble,” Myha’la said. “It’s very luxurious to be on like a very expensive boat — it was a lovely boat — but you are stuck in open water for hours on end and it does get very hot. I think somebody got sun poisoning while we were out there. Like, you need to be safe.”

“But what was more fun was dinner in the port after the shoot,” she revealed, inspiring both her and Abela to laugh. “[We had] hours upon hours doing these, like, very difficult scenes — mostly Marisa — but then we got to go eat and decompress together. And I loved those days. That was truly like a glorified — I mean, weird to be like, ‘ I’m on vacation! ’ and then do like some of the most atrocious scene work ever. But it was really fun. I had a great time.”

Well, at least someone had fun filming the untimely death of Charles Hanani.

So did Yasmin kill her father? Or was it all an accident? That’s up to you to figure out.

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