1 00:00:11,145 --> 00:00:12,544 HUDSON: About six months ago, 2 00:00:12,546 --> 00:00:14,480 I was approached by the intelligence department 3 00:00:14,482 --> 00:00:16,181 of the Casa de Contratación. 4 00:00:16,183 --> 00:00:18,951 They offered me a significant amount of money. 5 00:00:18,953 --> 00:00:20,652 I said yes. 6 00:00:20,654 --> 00:00:22,955 The department's spies had learned of an attempt 7 00:00:22,957 --> 00:00:25,424 to walk away with their money without them knowing of it. 8 00:00:25,426 --> 00:00:28,427 If you do not return the entirety of the hidden cache, 9 00:00:28,429 --> 00:00:30,295 know that Nassau will likely burn for it. 10 00:00:30,297 --> 00:00:32,097 With everything I've lost in recent days, 11 00:00:32,099 --> 00:00:33,932 I can't afford to lose the name, too. 12 00:00:33,934 --> 00:00:35,801 We walk into the tavern, we sign our names, 13 00:00:35,803 --> 00:00:38,537 and then not only are we square with the law, our money is, too. 14 00:00:38,539 --> 00:00:41,040 The wound should be far further along towards quietening itself. 15 00:00:41,042 --> 00:00:42,608 If the decay progresses, 16 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:44,209 I'll have to remove more of your leg. 17 00:00:44,211 --> 00:00:45,611 What does a colonial power do 18 00:00:45,613 --> 00:00:47,746 when they see a sitting governor 19 00:00:47,748 --> 00:00:53,419 deposed by an alliance of pirates and slaves bring down Nassau? 20 00:00:53,421 --> 00:00:54,787 Maybe bring it all down. 21 00:00:54,789 --> 00:00:56,088 What happens now? 22 00:00:56,090 --> 00:00:57,890 Now we go find Charles Vane. 23 00:00:59,927 --> 00:01:03,062 ♪ 24 00:02:32,453 --> 00:02:34,419 [ drums beating ] 25 00:02:36,257 --> 00:02:38,891 [ drums continue ] [ rattles ] 26 00:02:58,979 --> 00:03:00,479 [ grunting ] 27 00:03:00,481 --> 00:03:03,248 [ grunts ] 28 00:03:05,519 --> 00:03:09,688 [ chanting in native language ] 29 00:03:17,131 --> 00:03:21,266 [ grunting, chanting ] 30 00:03:24,138 --> 00:03:26,939 [ chanting ] 31 00:03:30,311 --> 00:03:31,610 Where is he? 32 00:03:43,190 --> 00:03:45,190 [ drums continue in distance ] 33 00:03:45,192 --> 00:03:47,759 [ children chanting in native language ] 34 00:03:47,761 --> 00:03:51,463 [ rooster crowing ] [ dog barking ] 35 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:55,867 [ drums continue ] 36 00:04:01,976 --> 00:04:03,809 When you said that you'd be staying behind 37 00:04:03,811 --> 00:04:06,078 to solidify our new compact, 38 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,746 I assumed that meant something. 39 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,982 For you to be seen as uninterested 40 00:04:09,984 --> 00:04:11,850 in what is happening for my father now, 41 00:04:11,852 --> 00:04:13,919 that is not going to help convince anyone here 42 00:04:13,921 --> 00:04:16,221 that you are serious about desiring their friendship. 43 00:04:24,298 --> 00:04:25,864 It'll pass. 44 00:04:27,635 --> 00:04:30,369 It's just a fever from the wound. 45 00:04:33,807 --> 00:04:35,540 I'm fine. 46 00:04:40,414 --> 00:04:43,849 [ men shouting ] 47 00:04:43,851 --> 00:04:47,019 [ shouting, grunting ] 48 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:54,359 [ grunts, shouts continue ] 49 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,166 [ wood snaps ] Christ! 50 00:05:01,168 --> 00:05:03,402 [ yelling ] 51 00:05:05,272 --> 00:05:07,105 I'm all right! MAN: Did you see that? 52 00:05:07,107 --> 00:05:09,641 MAN #2: Swing it down on deck! 53 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:11,310 Fucking idiot! 54 00:05:11,312 --> 00:05:13,312 Listen, if you can't tie a rope, you shouldn't be on this ship! 55 00:05:13,314 --> 00:05:15,147 Get astern. Calm down! 56 00:05:15,149 --> 00:05:18,083 Hey! What's going on here? 57 00:05:18,085 --> 00:05:20,652 His lashing came undone. 58 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:22,788 I fucking showed it to him 10 minutes ago. 59 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:24,256 Someone could have been killed. 60 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:28,160 Then you showed him incorrectly. 61 00:05:30,164 --> 00:05:32,931 It's a fucking lashing. I know how to tie it. 62 00:05:32,933 --> 00:05:35,133 If he tied it wrong, then you instructed him wrong. 63 00:05:35,135 --> 00:05:40,472 MAN: I told you, don't mess with the cable! 64 00:05:40,474 --> 00:05:42,507 You listen to me. 65 00:05:42,509 --> 00:05:45,811 We persuaded them that they need us. 66 00:05:45,813 --> 00:05:47,479 We most certainly need them. 67 00:05:47,481 --> 00:05:49,915 Do you understand what I'm saying? 68 00:05:55,923 --> 00:05:58,590 [ men shouting ] 69 00:05:58,592 --> 00:06:00,258 [ grunts ] [ thuds ] 70 00:06:03,964 --> 00:06:06,098 Don't imagine that will be the last of those. 71 00:06:08,802 --> 00:06:10,268 Neither do I. 72 00:06:11,972 --> 00:06:13,939 So how exactly do you see this working? 73 00:06:15,809 --> 00:06:17,275 They have their orders. 74 00:06:18,645 --> 00:06:20,445 As long as we hold our end of the bargain, 75 00:06:20,447 --> 00:06:21,813 they'll hold. 76 00:06:21,815 --> 00:06:23,115 Yeah, that wasn't what I meant. 77 00:06:25,285 --> 00:06:27,386 I understood a war meant to antagonize England-- 78 00:06:27,388 --> 00:06:28,787 to frighten them, 79 00:06:28,789 --> 00:06:31,089 to prevent them from moving against Nassau. 80 00:06:32,793 --> 00:06:35,794 But that isn't what we're talking about anymore, is it? 81 00:06:35,796 --> 00:06:37,763 Now you're talking about a war meant to be won. 82 00:06:39,967 --> 00:06:42,634 You convinced them. 83 00:06:42,636 --> 00:06:45,771 Convinced Scott, his wife, their people, 84 00:06:45,773 --> 00:06:49,074 our people, even Silver. 85 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:50,609 But not you. 86 00:06:52,312 --> 00:06:54,880 Everyone's wrong but you. 87 00:06:57,985 --> 00:07:00,051 Maybe. 88 00:07:00,053 --> 00:07:02,754 MAN: Captain! Masts! 89 00:07:12,533 --> 00:07:13,765 Captain. 90 00:07:17,805 --> 00:07:21,440 Ocracoke Island. Teach is there. 91 00:07:22,743 --> 00:07:26,044 A few hours' time, assuming he's there, 92 00:07:26,046 --> 00:07:27,479 I'm gonna begin a discussion 93 00:07:27,481 --> 00:07:28,980 in which I'm going to ask him for something 94 00:07:28,982 --> 00:07:31,883 that he can't possibly give. 95 00:07:31,885 --> 00:07:33,885 And the success or failure of this war 96 00:07:33,887 --> 00:07:35,754 will depend upon the outcome. 97 00:07:37,825 --> 00:07:39,324 In a few hours' time, 98 00:07:39,326 --> 00:07:41,593 there's a good chance you're gonna look awfully smart. 99 00:07:55,275 --> 00:07:57,976 [ shouting ] [ laughing ] 100 00:07:57,978 --> 00:07:59,511 MAN: What are you doing? 101 00:07:59,513 --> 00:08:01,179 [ men shouting ] 102 00:08:01,181 --> 00:08:02,647 MAN: Bring him down! 103 00:08:02,649 --> 00:08:04,616 [ laughter ] 104 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:11,423 [ shouting continues ] 105 00:08:22,736 --> 00:08:24,035 WOMAN: You look good. 106 00:08:24,037 --> 00:08:25,904 As handsome as ever. 107 00:08:25,906 --> 00:08:28,039 You always were a gifted liar. 108 00:08:30,911 --> 00:08:33,478 When you were still pirating, 109 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,047 I was the woman who was Blackbeard's woman. 110 00:08:36,049 --> 00:08:39,451 Put my services in great demand-- 111 00:08:39,453 --> 00:08:43,088 all men wanting what notorious men already had. 112 00:08:45,726 --> 00:08:47,158 And then you leave 113 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,394 and my business fades. 114 00:08:51,498 --> 00:08:53,698 It's always the little people who get hurt the worst 115 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,267 when the market turns. 116 00:09:03,744 --> 00:09:06,511 So when are you going to tell me? 117 00:09:06,513 --> 00:09:07,846 Tell you what? 118 00:09:07,848 --> 00:09:09,714 What he's doing here. 119 00:09:10,918 --> 00:09:12,217 Charles? 120 00:09:15,956 --> 00:09:19,291 I remember when he had forced you from Nassau. 121 00:09:19,293 --> 00:09:20,992 I remember how angry you were, 122 00:09:20,994 --> 00:09:23,094 how disappointed. 123 00:09:23,096 --> 00:09:24,329 And I remember you telling me 124 00:09:24,331 --> 00:09:25,997 that you'd never make the same mistake again, 125 00:09:25,999 --> 00:09:28,867 that you had learned the hard way 126 00:09:28,869 --> 00:09:30,835 that only God made sons. 127 00:09:31,872 --> 00:09:33,271 Things are different now. 128 00:09:33,273 --> 00:09:35,307 Different how? 129 00:09:35,309 --> 00:09:37,342 Doesn't need to last long. 130 00:09:45,319 --> 00:09:48,320 A little Spanish shrapnel. 131 00:09:48,322 --> 00:09:52,023 It went in here when I was not much older than him. 132 00:09:52,025 --> 00:09:56,027 Once in a while it migrates, 133 00:09:56,029 --> 00:09:59,965 ticks closer to reaching its terminus 134 00:09:59,967 --> 00:10:02,968 and striking its chime. 135 00:10:02,970 --> 00:10:06,137 Grim little timepiece 136 00:10:06,139 --> 00:10:09,541 whose ticking has grown louder to my ears of late. 137 00:10:12,312 --> 00:10:14,279 Charles doesn't know, does he? 138 00:10:17,751 --> 00:10:19,050 MAN: Captain! 139 00:10:19,052 --> 00:10:21,119 [ man shouting ] 140 00:10:37,471 --> 00:10:38,937 Jesus. 141 00:10:43,977 --> 00:10:45,276 Welcome to Ocracoke. 142 00:10:50,283 --> 00:10:52,984 [ crowd chattering ] [ goat bleating ] 143 00:10:52,986 --> 00:10:55,186 HUDSON: At first I was tempted, 144 00:10:55,188 --> 00:10:57,956 but in the end it felt wrong 145 00:10:57,958 --> 00:10:59,924 to betray the governor in that way. 146 00:11:01,895 --> 00:11:03,895 And it felt dangerous... 147 00:11:05,365 --> 00:11:07,399 so I declined. 148 00:11:07,401 --> 00:11:10,568 Then how did this happen? 149 00:11:10,570 --> 00:11:11,903 How does an honest chambermaid 150 00:11:11,905 --> 00:11:14,239 end up in the employ of the Spanish empire? 151 00:11:21,982 --> 00:11:24,449 A few days after I declined their offer... 152 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:30,655 I came home late from the governor's service. 153 00:11:33,393 --> 00:11:36,327 It wasn't unusual for me to return home 154 00:11:36,329 --> 00:11:40,298 to find my children long since fast asleep. 155 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:44,169 That night, my children were not alone. 156 00:11:44,171 --> 00:11:47,639 The man who had approached me-- 157 00:11:47,641 --> 00:11:50,575 Grandal-- was there... 158 00:11:51,678 --> 00:11:53,278 waiting. 159 00:11:55,382 --> 00:11:56,881 In his left hand, a knife. 160 00:11:56,883 --> 00:11:58,950 In his right, a purse. 161 00:12:02,456 --> 00:12:06,124 He said my children would receive something from him that night. 162 00:12:08,361 --> 00:12:11,096 He asked me to choose which. 163 00:12:14,634 --> 00:12:17,235 These are the people whom I am beholden to. 164 00:12:17,237 --> 00:12:20,305 This is what they are capable of doing. 165 00:12:22,476 --> 00:12:24,309 I cannot imagine what they will do 166 00:12:24,311 --> 00:12:26,411 if the cache is not returned whole. 167 00:12:37,791 --> 00:12:39,124 Ship's manifest, sir. 168 00:12:39,126 --> 00:12:40,458 The entirety of the gold from the fort 169 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:42,460 is now stowed and ready for transport to Havana. 170 00:12:42,462 --> 00:12:44,462 They should be under way within the hour. 171 00:12:44,464 --> 00:12:46,097 Put it in my office, please. 172 00:12:52,305 --> 00:12:53,938 I just left Miss Hudson. 173 00:12:56,576 --> 00:12:59,310 I had the instinct once or twice, 174 00:12:59,312 --> 00:13:01,913 the way she'd been watching me of late. 175 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:03,615 I dismissed it, 176 00:13:03,617 --> 00:13:05,316 assumed it related to some concern 177 00:13:05,318 --> 00:13:08,219 over my relationship with you and its becoming inappropriate. 178 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:12,257 What did she say? 179 00:13:13,860 --> 00:13:15,460 Did she report that we're earnestly attempting 180 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:16,928 to find and return the missing money? 181 00:13:16,930 --> 00:13:20,298 It's not about the money for them, not anymore. 182 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,401 When the gold from the Urca was stolen, it was bad enough. 183 00:13:23,403 --> 00:13:25,303 Now they hear the gold is being converted 184 00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:27,305 into something more easily hidden from them, 185 00:13:27,307 --> 00:13:29,774 more easily smuggled away. 186 00:13:29,776 --> 00:13:33,745 That isn't theft. It's an insult. 187 00:13:33,747 --> 00:13:36,381 And insults to empires require answers. 188 00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:41,719 So it's personal, then? 189 00:13:43,790 --> 00:13:47,292 A binary question of my trustworthiness. 190 00:13:47,294 --> 00:13:51,529 Either I return the full cache and prove it or I fail, 191 00:13:51,531 --> 00:13:54,299 and in trying to excuse the shortfall, 192 00:13:54,301 --> 00:13:55,967 only aggravate their existing suspicion 193 00:13:55,969 --> 00:13:59,304 that I am part of the pirate problem, not its solution. 194 00:13:59,306 --> 00:14:02,240 And the dread fleet in Havana sets sail the very next day 195 00:14:02,242 --> 00:14:04,742 to raze all of Nassau to the ground. 196 00:14:04,744 --> 00:14:08,479 Then we'll fight them, defend the island. 197 00:14:08,481 --> 00:14:10,648 The odds would be dire, but we are not without resources. 198 00:14:10,650 --> 00:14:12,217 No, not "we." 199 00:14:12,219 --> 00:14:14,185 I mean, someone might fight them, but it won't be you and I. 200 00:14:14,187 --> 00:14:16,120 If the result of my endeavor here 201 00:14:16,122 --> 00:14:18,690 is a Spanish attack against British forces, 202 00:14:18,692 --> 00:14:21,292 an act that threatens to drag the empire into a war, 203 00:14:21,294 --> 00:14:23,962 I would be recalled to London and likely debtors' prison 204 00:14:23,964 --> 00:14:26,798 and your capital sentence would be reinstated. 205 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,301 Now, I believe Nassau's best chance at survival is with me guiding it. 206 00:14:30,303 --> 00:14:33,304 But if we cannot find Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny, 207 00:14:33,306 --> 00:14:35,540 if we can't find the cache in their possession, 208 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:38,910 whatever happens to Nassau, you and I are likely finished. 209 00:14:42,883 --> 00:14:44,182 [ metal clanging ] 210 00:14:44,184 --> 00:14:47,485 [ crowd chattering ] [ chickens clucking ] 211 00:14:57,330 --> 00:14:58,963 Pardon me, gentlemen, if you don't mind me asking, 212 00:14:58,965 --> 00:15:00,798 where is this wagon headed? 213 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,568 To the fort. 214 00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:05,136 To do what, exactly? 215 00:15:05,138 --> 00:15:06,604 To fix it. 216 00:15:09,476 --> 00:15:11,276 I see. 217 00:15:13,146 --> 00:15:14,946 Just you two on the job, is it? 218 00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:16,648 A whole gang of us up there. 219 00:15:16,650 --> 00:15:19,017 Governor wants it shipshape by the end of the month. 220 00:15:19,019 --> 00:15:20,318 [ grunts ] 221 00:15:22,789 --> 00:15:25,089 Suppose that fort's not going to rebuild itself. 222 00:15:30,130 --> 00:15:33,331 [ scoffs ] No, I suppose it won't. 223 00:15:43,243 --> 00:15:45,777 [ whistles ] Hold still. 224 00:15:47,747 --> 00:15:49,113 There. 225 00:15:50,417 --> 00:15:52,984 Well? What do you think? 226 00:15:52,986 --> 00:15:56,154 You mean aside from the tit curtains? 227 00:15:56,156 --> 00:15:58,423 It's called a cravat. 228 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:01,225 You want to fit in with them, right? 229 00:16:01,227 --> 00:16:03,962 This is what they wear. "They" who? 230 00:16:03,964 --> 00:16:06,230 Respectable men. 231 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:09,867 [ groans ] 232 00:16:09,869 --> 00:16:11,202 [ speaks softly ] All right, yeah. 233 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,140 [ fiddle playing ] Place of birth? 234 00:16:16,142 --> 00:16:17,308 MAN: Bristol. 235 00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:19,644 [ crowd chattering ] Occupation? 236 00:16:19,646 --> 00:16:21,813 MAN: Ship's carpenter. 237 00:16:21,815 --> 00:16:25,149 Ship served? I used to serve the Buccaneer. 238 00:16:25,151 --> 00:16:26,818 Sign here. 239 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:28,886 [ fiddle continues ] 240 00:16:28,888 --> 00:16:31,556 Move on. Next? 241 00:16:31,558 --> 00:16:33,524 What the fuck are you doing here? 242 00:16:35,628 --> 00:16:37,628 It's a cravat. 243 00:16:37,630 --> 00:16:39,263 It's what respectable men wear. 244 00:16:39,265 --> 00:16:42,467 It's-- never mind what it is. 245 00:16:42,469 --> 00:16:43,768 You're supposed to be long gone by now. 246 00:16:43,770 --> 00:16:44,769 Why'd you come back? 247 00:16:44,771 --> 00:16:46,004 Where we're going, 248 00:16:46,006 --> 00:16:48,806 it seemed better to have one of these than not. 249 00:16:48,808 --> 00:16:50,308 Thought as an added prize, 250 00:16:50,310 --> 00:16:51,809 I'd at least be able to see it for myself, 251 00:16:51,811 --> 00:16:53,478 the new governor up to his ears 252 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,246 in the very same bullshit in which I've been drowning 253 00:16:55,248 --> 00:16:56,247 for the past few months. 254 00:16:56,249 --> 00:16:57,482 And what do I find? 255 00:16:57,484 --> 00:16:59,317 The streets are swept, 256 00:16:59,319 --> 00:17:00,685 industry is in fashion, 257 00:17:00,687 --> 00:17:02,286 you're dressed like a Turkish whore, 258 00:17:02,288 --> 00:17:03,955 and all because a man arrived, 259 00:17:03,957 --> 00:17:07,291 stood on the beach, and said please. 260 00:17:07,293 --> 00:17:09,961 You're angry. I'm confounded. 261 00:17:09,963 --> 00:17:12,163 He offers them less in wages than I offered, 262 00:17:12,165 --> 00:17:13,798 demands more from them in labor, 263 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,333 restricts more from them in license, 264 00:17:15,335 --> 00:17:18,970 and yet despite all of that, 265 00:17:18,972 --> 00:17:21,272 he's won them. 266 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:23,508 How can that be? 267 00:17:23,510 --> 00:17:25,043 I know it may be hard to believe 268 00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:27,412 given my appearance at the moment, 269 00:17:27,414 --> 00:17:30,314 but the experience of it? 270 00:17:30,316 --> 00:17:32,417 It ain't half bad, Jack. 271 00:17:32,419 --> 00:17:33,618 Next. 272 00:17:35,355 --> 00:17:37,522 Next man, please. 273 00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:39,891 Your legal name? 274 00:17:39,893 --> 00:17:41,759 John Rackham. 275 00:17:46,633 --> 00:17:47,865 What? 276 00:17:47,867 --> 00:17:50,601 ♪ 277 00:17:56,476 --> 00:17:58,643 The Lord Governor would like a word with you. 278 00:18:01,181 --> 00:18:04,148 [ people shouting in native language ] [ breathing heavily ] 279 00:18:07,487 --> 00:18:09,120 Watch him, please. 280 00:18:09,122 --> 00:18:10,688 I'll go fetch Fremah to tend to him. 281 00:18:10,690 --> 00:18:11,889 I said no. 282 00:18:11,891 --> 00:18:14,659 I know you did. I don't want help. 283 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:29,373 It'll pass. 284 00:18:29,375 --> 00:18:32,443 I'll just find a place to weather it for the night. 285 00:18:32,445 --> 00:18:37,215 I understand that you do not want anyone to see you this way. 286 00:18:37,217 --> 00:18:38,483 What I don't understand 287 00:18:38,485 --> 00:18:40,818 is why you choose to suffer in the first place. 288 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:42,720 You must have access to better medicines than that. 289 00:18:42,722 --> 00:18:44,622 We've got access to better medicines than that. 290 00:18:44,624 --> 00:18:46,290 This has nothing to do with medicine. 291 00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:47,758 It has something to do with medicine-- 292 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,560 I cannot look weak. 293 00:18:50,930 --> 00:18:54,232 I cannot feel weak. I cannot be weak. 294 00:18:54,234 --> 00:18:56,834 Not in front of my men. Not in front of your men. 295 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:59,070 Not at all. 296 00:18:59,072 --> 00:19:00,505 For some time now, I have been holding 297 00:19:00,507 --> 00:19:03,107 my entire world together with both hands, 298 00:19:03,109 --> 00:19:06,577 keeping my men in line, seeing to their needs, 299 00:19:06,579 --> 00:19:11,315 and the only way that endures is if I look the part. 300 00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:13,985 And I cannot look the part while being poked and prodded 301 00:19:13,987 --> 00:19:15,786 or while drooling through an opium haze 302 00:19:15,788 --> 00:19:17,488 saying who the fuck knows what. 303 00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:21,125 So I will endure this 304 00:19:21,127 --> 00:19:23,928 the way I have been enduring it. 305 00:19:29,135 --> 00:19:32,436 No one prepared you for this, did they? 306 00:19:32,438 --> 00:19:35,339 [ breathing heavily ] 307 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:37,308 For as long as I can remember, 308 00:19:37,310 --> 00:19:39,610 I have been prepared for the day 309 00:19:39,612 --> 00:19:42,680 I would take my mother's place. 310 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,650 To know that from that day forth, 311 00:19:45,652 --> 00:19:48,386 I would forever be the one who tends 312 00:19:48,388 --> 00:19:50,788 as opposed to the one who is tended to. 313 00:19:52,125 --> 00:19:55,126 You're frustrated. You're angry. 314 00:19:55,128 --> 00:19:57,461 You're tired. 315 00:19:57,463 --> 00:19:59,964 Perhaps no one else knows why. 316 00:19:59,966 --> 00:20:02,233 I believe that not even you know why. 317 00:20:03,803 --> 00:20:05,436 But I know why. 318 00:20:11,578 --> 00:20:14,779 The crown is always a burden... 319 00:20:17,317 --> 00:20:21,852 but it cannot be borne if you cannot stand. 320 00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:31,295 [ waves crashing ] 321 00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:33,497 Nearly dismasted in a storm-- 322 00:20:33,499 --> 00:20:35,800 a storm you chased after. 323 00:20:35,802 --> 00:20:38,269 Nearly starved to death in the doldrums. 324 00:20:38,271 --> 00:20:39,637 Nearly executed by them. 325 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:44,442 Either you are unkillable, friend, 326 00:20:44,444 --> 00:20:46,777 or way overdue. 327 00:20:48,481 --> 00:20:51,649 One way or another, I am here, 328 00:20:51,651 --> 00:20:54,685 and there is much to discuss about all our futures. 329 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:58,556 What kind of future do you propose that to be? 330 00:20:59,959 --> 00:21:04,695 I intend to gather forces and move to reclaim Nassau. 331 00:21:04,697 --> 00:21:06,297 The conquest is always weakest 332 00:21:06,299 --> 00:21:09,467 when the conqueror allows himself to believe that it is done. 333 00:21:09,469 --> 00:21:11,936 For Nassau, that point is now. 334 00:21:13,139 --> 00:21:14,639 Now, England may hold the island, 335 00:21:14,641 --> 00:21:16,574 but it still needs supplies brought in. 336 00:21:16,576 --> 00:21:19,810 It is still dependent upon trade. 337 00:21:19,812 --> 00:21:22,146 We will make that impossible for him. 338 00:21:22,148 --> 00:21:24,949 We will harass his ships. We will plunder his supplies. 339 00:21:24,951 --> 00:21:28,152 We will force him to bleed capital and support 340 00:21:28,154 --> 00:21:29,787 and the goodwill of the men surrounding him 341 00:21:29,789 --> 00:21:31,989 until he is weak enough to challenge directly. 342 00:21:31,991 --> 00:21:34,759 Until we can bring the fleet to bear 343 00:21:34,761 --> 00:21:36,260 and retake the bay. 344 00:21:37,563 --> 00:21:39,163 You know, when I called Nassau home, 345 00:21:39,165 --> 00:21:41,766 most of the men on this beach weren't even men. 346 00:21:41,768 --> 00:21:43,968 I sailed with Ben Hornigold. 347 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:46,904 I sailed with Sam Bellamy. I sailed with Henry Avery. 348 00:21:46,906 --> 00:21:50,708 Feuded with them, stole from them, 349 00:21:50,710 --> 00:21:53,144 questioned their motives, 350 00:21:53,146 --> 00:21:56,547 but we all knew what we were. 351 00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:59,150 Then a man arrives who would explain to us 352 00:21:59,152 --> 00:22:01,419 that what we've been doing was wrong all those years, 353 00:22:01,421 --> 00:22:05,790 what Nassau ought to be, what he could make it 354 00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:09,226 if we would all just follow his lead. 355 00:22:09,228 --> 00:22:13,931 Here you are again to do the same. 356 00:22:13,933 --> 00:22:18,135 You let it go well before its time. 357 00:22:18,137 --> 00:22:20,104 It was past its time. 358 00:22:21,607 --> 00:22:25,810 That you cannot see this only makes it clearer to me 359 00:22:25,812 --> 00:22:30,081 that you never even knew it in the first place. 360 00:22:30,083 --> 00:22:33,651 This fleet is all that remains of it, 361 00:22:33,653 --> 00:22:36,420 and as long as it's mine, Nassau shall remain in its past. 362 00:22:36,422 --> 00:22:37,988 It isn't yours. 363 00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:40,491 It never was. 364 00:22:40,493 --> 00:22:44,128 Those ships, their commanders and crews, 365 00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:48,099 they were pledged to my command, not yours. 366 00:22:48,101 --> 00:22:50,801 Oaths were taken, 367 00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:53,304 and I have come to see them honored. 368 00:22:53,306 --> 00:22:56,640 Do you honestly believe that I would just step aside 369 00:22:56,642 --> 00:22:58,309 and let you make that claim? 370 00:22:58,311 --> 00:23:02,246 I honestly don't give a shit what you would or would not do. 371 00:23:03,649 --> 00:23:05,816 The decision isn't yours. 372 00:23:05,818 --> 00:23:07,952 It's his. 373 00:23:13,626 --> 00:23:16,761 I've come to resume our compact, 374 00:23:16,763 --> 00:23:19,530 the one we swore upon our lives to uphold. 375 00:23:19,532 --> 00:23:22,199 If you stand up and acknowledge it, 376 00:23:22,201 --> 00:23:23,401 this fleet will follow us. 377 00:23:23,403 --> 00:23:24,769 I'm certain of it. 378 00:23:26,472 --> 00:23:30,474 You weren't there. No, I wasn't. 379 00:23:30,476 --> 00:23:31,642 But had I been there, 380 00:23:31,644 --> 00:23:34,478 there would be no question about any of this. 381 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,914 Had I been there, we would have mounted 382 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,749 the defense that we'd agreed to mount. 383 00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:41,652 Had you been there, you would have seen their faces, 384 00:23:41,654 --> 00:23:42,953 the ones who laid their arms down 385 00:23:42,955 --> 00:23:44,688 and turned their backs on us. 386 00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:47,458 The ones who took our money for months 387 00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:49,960 and were happy to try and deliver my head to our enemies 388 00:23:49,962 --> 00:23:51,328 for a little more of it. 389 00:23:52,632 --> 00:23:54,965 Nassau is dead. 390 00:23:54,967 --> 00:23:56,967 Doesn't deserve anything else from me 391 00:23:56,969 --> 00:23:59,136 or the men on this beach. 392 00:23:59,138 --> 00:24:01,472 We are finally free from it, 393 00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:03,774 and I see no reason to change that. 394 00:24:09,816 --> 00:24:15,319 If you wish to leave this place, I'll allow it, 395 00:24:15,321 --> 00:24:19,423 although somehow I don't think you have any intention of leaving. 396 00:24:20,626 --> 00:24:22,460 No, I don't. 397 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:24,628 And I think you know that I would never allow you 398 00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:26,263 to call a vote to settle the matter 399 00:24:26,265 --> 00:24:29,967 of who this fleet follows and risk you depleting my force 400 00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:34,305 by luring away some misguided minority. 401 00:24:34,307 --> 00:24:36,774 No, I don't imagine you would. 402 00:24:36,776 --> 00:24:40,110 So we have one fleet and two men claiming it. 403 00:24:42,949 --> 00:24:46,851 There is only one way I know of to resolve that. 404 00:24:49,655 --> 00:24:52,857 Pistols, then swords. 405 00:25:04,303 --> 00:25:06,537 Captain Rackham. 406 00:25:06,539 --> 00:25:08,105 It's a pleasure to finally meet you. 407 00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:10,307 Give us the room, please. 408 00:25:10,309 --> 00:25:12,843 Drink? 409 00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:15,312 Thank you. 410 00:25:15,314 --> 00:25:17,715 I apologize for the strangeness of this meeting. 411 00:25:17,717 --> 00:25:19,483 I know you and I don't know each other. 412 00:25:19,485 --> 00:25:20,985 [ door closes ] 413 00:25:20,987 --> 00:25:24,522 I know you... some. 414 00:25:24,524 --> 00:25:25,923 I read your book. 415 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,059 Did you? 416 00:25:29,061 --> 00:25:30,461 Well, most of it. 417 00:25:30,463 --> 00:25:32,296 I confess, I may not quite have 418 00:25:32,298 --> 00:25:33,364 soldiered through to the end. 419 00:25:33,366 --> 00:25:35,599 But, you know, I got the gist of it. 420 00:25:39,639 --> 00:25:40,971 If you don't mind my asking, 421 00:25:40,973 --> 00:25:43,974 what did you take to be its gist? 422 00:25:43,976 --> 00:25:46,977 Wealthy son of a wealthy man takes to the sea 423 00:25:46,979 --> 00:25:50,981 to prove something to the parents, presumably. 424 00:25:50,983 --> 00:25:54,985 Seeks adventure, finds the limits of his own capacity. 425 00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:57,087 Loses everything in the process 426 00:25:57,089 --> 00:26:01,191 and then stumbles upon a hell of a story in the process. 427 00:26:01,193 --> 00:26:04,295 Please understand, I'm quite particular about my library, 428 00:26:04,297 --> 00:26:07,364 but people seem to have liked it fine, 429 00:26:07,366 --> 00:26:09,466 and it seems to have done wonders for you. 430 00:26:09,468 --> 00:26:12,603 So congratulations on all that. 431 00:26:17,276 --> 00:26:18,442 Thank you. 432 00:26:21,247 --> 00:26:23,914 All of that notwithstanding... 433 00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:29,286 you and I share an experience in this place. 434 00:26:29,288 --> 00:26:32,122 And as such, I'm hopeful that you'll understand 435 00:26:32,124 --> 00:26:34,224 why it is I brought you here today 436 00:26:34,226 --> 00:26:36,260 and what it is I'm about to ask of you. 437 00:26:37,997 --> 00:26:39,163 What's that? 438 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:44,768 I know you removed a significant amount of gold from the fort. 439 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:46,637 I know it is in your possession, 440 00:26:46,639 --> 00:26:48,839 and I need you to give it up... 441 00:26:50,643 --> 00:26:52,810 or we're all dead. 442 00:27:03,322 --> 00:27:06,290 [ men muttering ] [ seagulls screeching ] 443 00:27:11,797 --> 00:27:13,998 You can't win. 444 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,799 [ grunts ] 445 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,135 I hear you spent weeks becalmed, 446 00:27:18,137 --> 00:27:19,770 deprived of food and water. 447 00:27:19,772 --> 00:27:21,972 At your best, it would have been a dogfight, 448 00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:25,142 but diminished... 449 00:27:25,144 --> 00:27:26,944 I'm not that diminished. 450 00:27:30,316 --> 00:27:33,017 He's been off the account for years. 451 00:27:33,019 --> 00:27:35,986 He'll be more vulnerable than he remembers himself being. 452 00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:37,788 He's not that vulnerable. 453 00:27:39,291 --> 00:27:40,958 And for what? 454 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,793 You subject yourself to certain death 455 00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:44,895 for an island full of weaklings and ingrates? 456 00:27:44,897 --> 00:27:47,431 Those men will go where they are led. 457 00:27:50,136 --> 00:27:52,302 Rogers captured their minds before you could, 458 00:27:52,304 --> 00:27:55,472 but let's not pretend that they can't be won again. 459 00:27:55,474 --> 00:27:57,975 And let's not pretend that either of us believes for a moment 460 00:27:57,977 --> 00:27:59,910 that I'm doing this for their sakes. 461 00:27:59,912 --> 00:28:03,313 I gave you my word. 462 00:28:03,315 --> 00:28:05,482 Shook your hand. 463 00:28:05,484 --> 00:28:08,485 Pledged to defend the island with you. 464 00:28:08,487 --> 00:28:12,156 But my pledge to him began a long time before I ever knew your name. 465 00:28:12,158 --> 00:28:14,925 What I owe him-- I don't care. 466 00:28:16,629 --> 00:28:18,896 I don't care that you shook my hand. 467 00:28:18,898 --> 00:28:21,365 I don't care what you feel you owe him. 468 00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:25,135 This is too important to be clouded by any of that. 469 00:28:25,137 --> 00:28:27,871 They took my home. 470 00:28:29,642 --> 00:28:31,442 I can't walk away from that. 471 00:28:32,912 --> 00:28:34,278 Can you? 472 00:28:36,482 --> 00:28:39,717 Forget me, forget Teach, forget loyalty, 473 00:28:39,719 --> 00:28:41,618 compacts, honor, debts, all of it. 474 00:28:42,655 --> 00:28:45,289 The only question that matters is this. 475 00:28:47,626 --> 00:28:49,159 [ whispers ] Who are you? 476 00:28:58,804 --> 00:29:02,473 Spain knows about the exchanges? 477 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:06,043 They do, and they are displeased. 478 00:29:09,415 --> 00:29:11,248 How do you know they know? 479 00:29:20,292 --> 00:29:22,126 So what does that look like? 480 00:29:22,128 --> 00:29:24,561 Return it all or it's the Rosario raid all over again? 481 00:29:24,563 --> 00:29:27,197 [ pouring ] Something like that. 482 00:29:30,936 --> 00:29:32,936 I understand why you did it. 483 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,473 I know what it feels like to lose everything 484 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:39,476 and feel powerless to do anything about it. 485 00:29:39,478 --> 00:29:41,979 The temptation to keep something to show for it all, 486 00:29:41,981 --> 00:29:43,447 I understand it. 487 00:29:44,984 --> 00:29:48,318 But it does not change the reality we face. 488 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,789 That you face. 489 00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:54,625 For I assure you, if Spain invades over this, 490 00:29:54,627 --> 00:29:57,261 yours will be the first face they see. 491 00:30:09,975 --> 00:30:12,643 I heard Henry Avery's name when I was a boy, 492 00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:16,780 heard the way people spoke it-- grown men in awe of it. 493 00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:23,453 I came to this place so determined to do the same. 494 00:30:25,958 --> 00:30:28,592 That's not going to happen the way I thought it was, is it? 495 00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:32,596 It never does. 496 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:39,102 My advice? 497 00:30:41,073 --> 00:30:44,274 You want some say in how they speak of you? 498 00:30:47,646 --> 00:30:49,112 Write a book. 499 00:30:51,317 --> 00:30:52,549 [ laughs ] 500 00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:56,453 Right now, what do you want to do? 501 00:30:58,791 --> 00:31:00,257 Do you have a pen? 502 00:31:01,861 --> 00:31:03,627 ROGERS: He's agreed to cooperate. 503 00:31:03,629 --> 00:31:05,796 One man goes into the interior to deliver this, 504 00:31:05,798 --> 00:31:07,898 instructions written in his hand to his partner 505 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,234 to return to Nassau and surrender the cache. 506 00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:12,469 He said she may be wary, 507 00:31:12,471 --> 00:31:14,972 asked there be only one messenger to deliver the letter. 508 00:31:14,974 --> 00:31:16,807 Give this to Lieutenant Hersey. 509 00:31:16,809 --> 00:31:18,308 Have him prepare to depart for the interior. 510 00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:20,477 I'll pass him details momentarily. 511 00:31:20,479 --> 00:31:22,379 He should be made aware Anne will not be taken lightly. 512 00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:24,781 Well, neither will Lieutenant Hersey. 513 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,754 I understand Jack was arrested today. 514 00:31:30,756 --> 00:31:32,289 I would like to know why. 515 00:31:32,291 --> 00:31:34,591 [ crowd chattering ] 516 00:31:37,296 --> 00:31:40,664 [ waves crashing ] [ men chattering ] 517 00:31:40,666 --> 00:31:43,500 [ seagull screeching ] 518 00:31:51,477 --> 00:31:52,643 [ man mutters ] 519 00:31:52,645 --> 00:31:54,511 What happens if he loses? 520 00:31:54,513 --> 00:31:57,281 If he loses, he dies. 521 00:31:59,818 --> 00:32:01,251 I meant what happens to us? 522 00:32:03,255 --> 00:32:04,454 I don't know. 523 00:32:05,958 --> 00:32:08,558 Probably given a chance to join the fleet, 524 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,128 fold in, and go back on the account. 525 00:32:13,232 --> 00:32:17,301 When your men entreated me to join your crew, 526 00:32:17,303 --> 00:32:19,770 they said your captain was a man worth following. 527 00:32:19,772 --> 00:32:23,173 A strong man, a wise man, they said. 528 00:32:23,175 --> 00:32:24,975 But right now I can't tell 529 00:32:24,977 --> 00:32:27,778 which side of this contest you'd prefer to see prevail. 530 00:32:31,583 --> 00:32:34,318 Can you help me make sense of that? 531 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,453 [ men muttering ] 532 00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:41,191 A few days ago I could make sense of all of it. 533 00:32:43,128 --> 00:32:46,296 He was gonna die and we were going to be free, 534 00:32:46,298 --> 00:32:49,299 from the camp, from him... 535 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,301 [ sighs ] 536 00:32:51,303 --> 00:32:53,537 With all the shit he's done, the things he's gotten away with, 537 00:32:53,539 --> 00:32:54,871 that would have been fair. 538 00:32:54,873 --> 00:32:56,907 That would have been right. 539 00:32:56,909 --> 00:32:58,976 I think part of the reason 540 00:32:58,978 --> 00:33:02,646 I've been able to stand by his side 541 00:33:02,648 --> 00:33:04,481 is that I wanted to make sure I've got a good view 542 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,517 of the moment the world finally catches up to him... 543 00:33:10,089 --> 00:33:12,823 and this story starts to make sense again. 544 00:33:12,825 --> 00:33:15,292 This is a matter of honor 545 00:33:15,294 --> 00:33:17,894 to be settled once and for good in the here and now. 546 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:19,963 The parties have agreed to combat 547 00:33:19,965 --> 00:33:21,832 and have accepted common practice. 548 00:33:21,834 --> 00:33:23,667 The parties have further agreed 549 00:33:23,669 --> 00:33:26,403 there will be no quarter asked nor given. 550 00:33:47,393 --> 00:33:49,092 [ exhales ] 551 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,234 MAN: Cock your pistols! 552 00:33:57,236 --> 00:33:58,802 [ hammer clicks ] 553 00:33:59,972 --> 00:34:01,471 [ hammer clicks ] 554 00:34:01,473 --> 00:34:02,973 From this moment, 555 00:34:02,975 --> 00:34:05,809 there's to be no movement until a count of three. 556 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,414 One... 557 00:34:10,416 --> 00:34:11,915 two... 558 00:34:11,917 --> 00:34:14,251 three! 559 00:34:14,253 --> 00:34:15,318 [ gunshots ] 560 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,620 [ men gasp ] 561 00:34:20,359 --> 00:34:22,392 [ gasps ] 562 00:34:22,394 --> 00:34:24,861 [ men whispering ] 563 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:31,701 [ seagull screeching ] 564 00:34:36,809 --> 00:34:39,509 [ gasping ] 565 00:34:43,982 --> 00:34:47,150 [ gasping ] 566 00:34:51,156 --> 00:34:52,522 [ grunts ] 567 00:34:54,626 --> 00:34:57,094 [ men chattering ] 568 00:34:58,297 --> 00:35:00,664 [ gasping ] 569 00:35:05,304 --> 00:35:07,104 [ groans ] 570 00:35:12,311 --> 00:35:15,712 [ gasping ] 571 00:35:22,321 --> 00:35:23,520 [ exhales ] 572 00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:39,603 [ both grunting ] 573 00:36:11,670 --> 00:36:14,638 [ squelches ] [ shouts, groans ] 574 00:36:20,646 --> 00:36:22,312 [ grunts ] 575 00:36:34,426 --> 00:36:37,727 [ grunting, panting ] 576 00:36:40,499 --> 00:36:42,999 [ grunting ] 577 00:37:21,006 --> 00:37:23,039 [ speaking softly ] Take him. 578 00:37:23,041 --> 00:37:25,275 And get the fuck off my beach. 579 00:37:44,730 --> 00:37:47,464 [ men chattering in native language ] 580 00:37:49,534 --> 00:37:51,968 If you won't take the opium, 581 00:37:51,970 --> 00:37:55,071 at least take this to bite down on. 582 00:37:56,808 --> 00:37:58,675 [ speaks softly ] Just do it. 583 00:38:03,215 --> 00:38:04,614 [ grunts ] 584 00:38:09,655 --> 00:38:10,754 [ gasps ] 585 00:38:10,756 --> 00:38:14,424 [ breathing heavily ] 586 00:38:14,426 --> 00:38:15,925 [ grunts ] 587 00:38:22,734 --> 00:38:25,468 [ squishing ] 588 00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:27,337 [ whimpers ] 589 00:38:30,108 --> 00:38:32,609 [ breathing heavily ] 590 00:38:35,347 --> 00:38:38,982 ♪ 591 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,701 SILVER: The burden I wasn't prepared for... 592 00:38:57,703 --> 00:39:00,303 [ distant drums beating ] 593 00:39:00,305 --> 00:39:02,105 SILVER: ...it isn't the men. 594 00:39:03,542 --> 00:39:05,642 It's him. 595 00:39:07,879 --> 00:39:09,045 Flint? 596 00:39:11,750 --> 00:39:15,652 What he wants, what he needs, 597 00:39:15,654 --> 00:39:17,620 what he fears... 598 00:39:18,990 --> 00:39:20,690 the depths of it... 599 00:39:21,993 --> 00:39:24,928 they are profound and dark. 600 00:39:26,465 --> 00:39:29,699 I serve the crew best by tempering him, 601 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:33,303 steering him where he's needed. 602 00:39:33,305 --> 00:39:35,739 I've descended into those depths and connected with him 603 00:39:35,741 --> 00:39:37,774 so that I might be able to do so. 604 00:39:39,811 --> 00:39:43,179 But I am acutely aware that I'm not the first to have been there... 605 00:39:44,983 --> 00:39:47,317 to have been a partner to him in this way. 606 00:39:48,987 --> 00:39:52,522 And that the ones that have seen those depths before... 607 00:39:55,127 --> 00:39:57,160 they never surfaced again. 608 00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:02,332 Maybe their mistake was in trying to do it alone. 609 00:40:04,302 --> 00:40:06,970 Maybe to go to such a place, 610 00:40:06,972 --> 00:40:09,472 one needs another 611 00:40:09,474 --> 00:40:13,276 to hold the tether and to find a way out. 612 00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:19,783 Maybe. 613 00:40:32,964 --> 00:40:34,931 [ door opens ] 614 00:40:46,077 --> 00:40:48,812 I know this cannot have been easy for you. 615 00:40:48,814 --> 00:40:52,649 I know this is so far from how you thought things would end. 616 00:40:52,651 --> 00:40:55,985 But I wanted you to know that the end of this 617 00:40:55,987 --> 00:40:58,888 may not quite be what you think it is. 618 00:40:58,890 --> 00:41:01,124 How's that? 619 00:41:02,294 --> 00:41:03,693 When Anne receives your letter 620 00:41:03,695 --> 00:41:06,029 and returns here with what remains of the cache, 621 00:41:06,031 --> 00:41:08,865 Nassau will be secured, 622 00:41:08,867 --> 00:41:13,770 and everyone will know that it is because of Jack Rackham 623 00:41:13,772 --> 00:41:15,872 that it occurred. 624 00:41:18,243 --> 00:41:21,411 I'll have spared Nassau... 625 00:41:23,114 --> 00:41:24,581 and you think the story of it 626 00:41:24,583 --> 00:41:26,583 will be told long after I am gone? 627 00:41:26,585 --> 00:41:27,884 I know it will. 628 00:41:27,886 --> 00:41:29,619 I will make sure of it. 629 00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:34,157 Sounds a lifeless story to me, 630 00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:36,793 and one that requires commitments before the fact 631 00:41:36,795 --> 00:41:38,728 to ensure its retelling. 632 00:41:38,730 --> 00:41:43,032 When the current story unfolds, I assure you, 633 00:41:43,034 --> 00:41:46,803 it's going to get around all on its own. 634 00:41:46,805 --> 00:41:48,271 What does that mean? 635 00:41:50,642 --> 00:41:52,041 I walked into this place today 636 00:41:52,043 --> 00:41:55,144 stunned at how quickly that man downstairs 637 00:41:55,146 --> 00:41:57,013 had completed his conquest, 638 00:41:57,015 --> 00:41:58,515 how thoroughly he had seemed to win 639 00:41:58,517 --> 00:42:01,150 just about everyone I know over to his side. 640 00:42:01,152 --> 00:42:05,488 The truth of the matter is there's been no conquest. 641 00:42:05,490 --> 00:42:07,457 It's only the appearance of one. 642 00:42:07,459 --> 00:42:11,127 For conquest is an either/or proposition. 643 00:42:11,129 --> 00:42:13,463 Either you have it or you do not. 644 00:42:13,465 --> 00:42:15,064 It would appear that without that cache, 645 00:42:15,066 --> 00:42:16,666 he most certainly does not. 646 00:42:19,304 --> 00:42:20,670 Jack, what did you do? 647 00:42:22,574 --> 00:42:23,806 I sent word to Anne 648 00:42:23,808 --> 00:42:26,442 to take the cache and disappear. 649 00:42:31,516 --> 00:42:36,085 No, what-- the governor saw your letter to her. 650 00:42:36,087 --> 00:42:38,888 You don't think I can convey a thought to Anne 651 00:42:38,890 --> 00:42:40,523 comprehensible only to her? 652 00:42:40,525 --> 00:42:42,258 A thought as simple as "run"? 653 00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:44,794 A letter that said everything the governor wished it to say 654 00:42:44,796 --> 00:42:46,129 in exactly the way he'd want to say it 655 00:42:46,131 --> 00:42:48,798 would not sound like anything I'd ever say. 656 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,967 A thought here or two between the lines-- 657 00:42:50,969 --> 00:42:52,702 I assure you, she understood. 658 00:42:55,974 --> 00:42:59,142 So I have begun the duel 659 00:42:59,144 --> 00:43:01,177 between myself and our Lord Governor. 660 00:43:01,179 --> 00:43:03,246 The rules are simple. 661 00:43:03,248 --> 00:43:05,181 I will deny him the cache. 662 00:43:05,183 --> 00:43:08,451 No matter what sort of inducements he offers or pain he inflicts, 663 00:43:08,453 --> 00:43:10,253 I will deny him the cache, 664 00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:13,489 and so I will deny him the victory. 665 00:43:13,491 --> 00:43:19,028 And in doing so, I will ensure that whatever Nassau is come Christmas, 666 00:43:19,030 --> 00:43:20,997 English will be not it. 667 00:43:20,999 --> 00:43:23,299 [ silent ] 668 00:43:32,010 --> 00:43:33,509 Do not do this. 669 00:43:33,511 --> 00:43:35,378 It's done. 670 00:43:47,659 --> 00:43:50,159 RACKHAM: So, one of two outcomes will result. 671 00:43:50,161 --> 00:43:52,295 Rogers will understand his defeat 672 00:43:52,297 --> 00:43:54,263 to be ultimately inevitable and leave this place, 673 00:43:54,265 --> 00:43:56,299 in which case I'll have it back. 674 00:43:56,301 --> 00:44:00,336 Or he'll stubbornly refuse 675 00:44:00,338 --> 00:44:03,306 and eventually Spain will raze this place to the ground. 676 00:44:03,308 --> 00:44:05,241 The English flag will burn, 677 00:44:05,243 --> 00:44:08,077 and a second pirate republic will be born 678 00:44:08,079 --> 00:44:09,345 from the ashes of the first. 679 00:44:09,347 --> 00:44:11,314 Only this time, every man who calls it home 680 00:44:11,316 --> 00:44:13,850 will know it came about because of me. 681 00:44:19,190 --> 00:44:22,058 [ crickets chirping ] [ people chattering in native language ] 682 00:44:41,479 --> 00:44:43,913 I worry... 683 00:44:43,915 --> 00:44:46,115 that we have made a terrible mistake. 684 00:44:46,117 --> 00:44:48,484 I see what you see in them-- 685 00:44:48,486 --> 00:44:50,720 Silver and Flint. 686 00:44:50,722 --> 00:44:54,157 But their relationship is so volatile 687 00:44:54,159 --> 00:44:57,126 and we have put our lives in their hands. 688 00:44:58,763 --> 00:45:03,099 Those men rose to their stations 689 00:45:03,101 --> 00:45:06,302 because they are peerless 690 00:45:06,304 --> 00:45:09,305 when it comes to shaping the world to their will, 691 00:45:09,307 --> 00:45:13,309 in creating a narrative and wielding it 692 00:45:13,311 --> 00:45:17,480 to compel men's hearts and minds. 693 00:45:17,482 --> 00:45:21,150 But the most compelling story 694 00:45:21,152 --> 00:45:23,820 requires a villain at its center. 695 00:45:23,822 --> 00:45:29,292 And if either Captain Flint or Mr. Silver 696 00:45:29,294 --> 00:45:30,793 sees the other as a villain-- 697 00:45:30,795 --> 00:45:33,396 or worse... 698 00:45:33,398 --> 00:45:35,832 us as that-- 699 00:45:35,834 --> 00:45:38,768 then all is lost. 700 00:45:40,872 --> 00:45:45,808 They are of great value to us, 701 00:45:45,810 --> 00:45:50,346 but they must be managed by us to avoid that outcome. 702 00:45:51,483 --> 00:45:52,949 How? 703 00:45:56,821 --> 00:45:59,122 I wish... 704 00:45:59,124 --> 00:46:02,959 you and I had not been so separate all those years. 705 00:46:05,563 --> 00:46:08,131 I wish I could have found a way 706 00:46:08,133 --> 00:46:11,601 to be a better father to you. 707 00:46:14,139 --> 00:46:17,974 But over time, I was determined 708 00:46:17,976 --> 00:46:20,276 to leave you something behind, 709 00:46:20,278 --> 00:46:21,978 to give you the one thing 710 00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:25,882 that no one could ever take away... 711 00:46:27,418 --> 00:46:29,485 and that would make you strong enough 712 00:46:29,487 --> 00:46:33,156 to understand their world, 713 00:46:33,158 --> 00:46:35,725 interact with their world... 714 00:46:36,761 --> 00:46:41,230 wage war on their world. 715 00:46:41,232 --> 00:46:44,233 But if their identity lies in their stories, 716 00:46:44,235 --> 00:46:45,768 I wanted you to know them 717 00:46:45,770 --> 00:46:49,138 so that when we are ready to call them enemies, 718 00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:51,941 you would be ready for it. 719 00:46:51,943 --> 00:46:54,510 The villain makes the story. 720 00:46:54,512 --> 00:46:56,279 So to manage our current partners, 721 00:46:56,281 --> 00:46:59,816 we must ensure that we all agree at all times 722 00:46:59,818 --> 00:47:02,385 who our common villain is. 723 00:47:06,257 --> 00:47:08,491 MAN: The fugitive's name is Anne Bonny. 724 00:47:08,493 --> 00:47:10,827 She's going for a capture of £500. 725 00:47:10,829 --> 00:47:13,529 [ chattering ] 726 00:47:13,531 --> 00:47:16,232 MAN: ...several miles away on the road out of town. 727 00:47:16,234 --> 00:47:18,201 [ chatter continues ] 728 00:47:20,605 --> 00:47:22,805 [ horse neighs, hoofbeats depart ] 729 00:47:22,807 --> 00:47:24,473 Earlier today, 730 00:47:24,475 --> 00:47:28,010 before we knew Rackham was still on the island, 731 00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:31,948 you seemed confident that we could locate him and his friend in time. 732 00:47:33,484 --> 00:47:34,817 You said it was possible 733 00:47:34,819 --> 00:47:38,421 because they didn't know that we were looking for them. 734 00:47:38,423 --> 00:47:42,525 Why do I get the feeling, now that they do know, 735 00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:44,627 now that they've made it their personal crusade 736 00:47:44,629 --> 00:47:46,796 to see this regime fail, 737 00:47:46,798 --> 00:47:49,098 that your estimate will be far less optimistic? 738 00:47:51,936 --> 00:47:53,469 The militia will help. 739 00:47:53,471 --> 00:47:55,471 It will keep the pressure on, and perhaps we'll get lucky. 740 00:47:55,473 --> 00:47:57,974 But if we don't, then you may have to be prepared-- 741 00:47:57,976 --> 00:48:00,109 Oh, I'm prepared to do anything. 742 00:48:03,748 --> 00:48:07,483 Anne Bonny must be found. 743 00:48:07,485 --> 00:48:10,786 The cache must be found. 744 00:48:10,788 --> 00:48:12,822 Right now, that is all that matters. 745 00:48:15,326 --> 00:48:17,526 And that said, 746 00:48:17,528 --> 00:48:19,462 the goodwill that we have engendered 747 00:48:19,464 --> 00:48:23,633 among the people of Nassau is not without limits. 748 00:48:23,635 --> 00:48:27,737 The longer this drags out, the riskier it becomes, 749 00:48:27,739 --> 00:48:30,673 because if I find that money only to lose the street-- 750 00:48:30,675 --> 00:48:32,008 You will not. 751 00:48:34,112 --> 00:48:38,147 If you have me, then you have the street. 752 00:48:38,149 --> 00:48:41,117 I am all the reassurance they need. 753 00:48:41,119 --> 00:48:46,555 Yes, Jack and Anne were my partners, my friends. 754 00:48:46,557 --> 00:48:49,659 More. 755 00:48:49,661 --> 00:48:51,060 But now they have made themselves 756 00:48:51,062 --> 00:48:52,862 something else to me. 757 00:48:52,864 --> 00:48:56,098 I have sacrificed too much to build something here. 758 00:48:56,100 --> 00:48:59,268 I will not let them take it away. 759 00:49:12,083 --> 00:49:14,283 [ bell ringing ] 760 00:49:36,908 --> 00:49:41,243 All he ever did was offer me his friendship. 761 00:49:41,245 --> 00:49:45,348 I cast him aside once, spent years regretting it. 762 00:49:46,985 --> 00:49:49,685 And now here we are again. 763 00:49:52,423 --> 00:49:54,457 Tell me I didn't do it for nothing. 764 00:49:56,828 --> 00:49:58,894 Well, I won't lie to you. 765 00:50:00,131 --> 00:50:01,664 It would have helped having the fleet. 766 00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:13,576 We have assets, we have allies. 767 00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:16,679 The question is what we make of them. 768 00:50:16,681 --> 00:50:19,281 I may be able to help in that regard. 769 00:50:20,818 --> 00:50:23,986 Something to add to our pool of assets. 770 00:50:26,157 --> 00:50:30,092 Before Ocracoke, we came upon a prize-- 771 00:50:30,094 --> 00:50:31,961 a Spanish prize 772 00:50:31,963 --> 00:50:35,631 ferrying a significant trove of intelligence. 773 00:50:35,633 --> 00:50:37,967 Most of it was destroyed by the time we found it, 774 00:50:37,969 --> 00:50:42,371 but among the remains was one piece of information, 775 00:50:42,373 --> 00:50:44,440 something everyone else was quick to dismiss 776 00:50:44,442 --> 00:50:47,877 as it held no value to them in that moment. 777 00:50:47,879 --> 00:50:49,678 Information about what? 778 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,314 Money... 779 00:50:52,316 --> 00:50:54,950 separated from the Urca gold within the fort 780 00:50:54,952 --> 00:50:57,420 and rendered into a new form-- 781 00:50:57,422 --> 00:50:59,588 a cache of gems 782 00:50:59,590 --> 00:51:03,492 for which Spain is holding the new governor accountable. 783 00:51:03,494 --> 00:51:07,129 A cache which, if used creatively, 784 00:51:07,131 --> 00:51:11,567 could be the key to defeating British forces in Nassau. 785 00:51:11,569 --> 00:51:13,803 The only question is, 786 00:51:13,805 --> 00:51:16,205 can we find it before he does? 787 00:51:20,378 --> 00:51:23,279 ♪