Black Sails

You want to trade the cache, my cache?

It was the only way we could avoid a fight

we were more than likely to lose.

Mr. Scott? He told me that he feared

for the safety of his wife and his daughter.

- Are they still alive? - Yes, they are.

- They revolted. - A man named Julius started it.

Now he's forming an army out there

with designs on taking Nassau.

The damage done to this alliance was caused by Billy.

It may be that the only way to repair this damage

is to remove that which caused it.

Stop!

What the hell have you done?

If the British Empire will not aid us in fighting our present enemy,

perhaps a different empire will.

Once you land, I envision no confusion.

I'd simply ask that you burn it all to the ground.

*

When your people took this place,

it was they who suffered the consequences.

Reprisals visited upon their mothers,

brothers, children.

Tortured on the other farms as a result of your actions.

I understand.

Which is why I've come here to make that right.

If you had suffered such loss,

is there anything you can imagine

making it right?

No. I can't.

But I imagine getting my hands on the man responsible for it

would be a start.

He completed the raid when my friends tried to stop it.

He chained those he felt most likely to revolt

over the offense.

Though, I imagine they know this.

With what conditions?

Two of them.

They respect you, so they'll listen to you.

I'd ask your help in mending this alliance,

both with the men and women here

and those elsewhere on the island.

I understand there's now a band of armed slaves out there.

I need to know you can broker a peace with them, too.

And the other condition?

That he's alive at the end of whatever happens.

*

You trust him?

Flint.

You've cast your lot with him.

What does it matter to you?

Before this war began, before everyone's roles changed,

your father mistrusted Flint as much as anyone in Nassau did.

I assume you were in some contact with him all that time.

I'm surprised that his feelings didn't influence you.

You were my sister.

There is very little that I remember

from when I was young,

but I remember this.

You were older.

You were beautiful.

I revered you.

When you were told that my mother and I were dead,

I have to believe that it affected you.

You had just lost your mother.

But if things were as I remember,

my mother and I were your family, too.

And yet, through all the years thereafter

that my father cared for you...

counseled you, labored for you...

he never told you that we were alive.

It would have been so easy to lessen your suffering

by divulging the secret.

And yet, he never did.

Have you yet asked yourself why that is?

My father didn't mistrust Flint.

My father mistrusted all of you.

Lieutenant.

*

The cache isn't here, so I am leaving.

And as my collateral to ensure that this deal is consummated,

he'll be coming with me to the fort.

"This deal"?

As in the one in which you walk away with all my money?

It seems the only means I have

of registering any meaningful disapproval

of this deal at this point

is to kill one or the both of you.

How many? 12 total.

Eight ships of force.

They'll be in range in an hour, maybe less.

Grab the ledgers and whatever coin is on hand.

Where are we going?

You're going to inform Mr. Silver what's happening.

We're getting onto the Walrus

and we're getting it and us out of here.

*

If we're still here when they make their landing, none of us will survive the day.

You would surrender our position to the Spanish Navy?

You were prepared to surrender this position

to Long John Silver just a few hours ago.

And in this case, our lives may very well depend upon it.

Spanish forces, sir, will offer no quarter.

We have no choice but to defend ourselves!

Quiet, please.

What is it, Lieutenant?

The lead ship that approaches,

she's just posted a signal to us.

It was Governor Rogers' signal ordering us to stand down.

His signal?

Could it have been stolen?

It's from our most recent signal book.

Then I think our response is obvious.

We will follow his orders.

Obviously, he has enlisted Spanish assistance

in forcing the pirates out of Nassau.

If we stand down, the invasion proceeds around us

and we will remain safe here.

And what about Eleanor?

What about her?

She is out there.

Someone must retrieve her before those troops arrive.

Before we could retrieve her and return,

that invasion would be fully unleashed.

It would be suicide for anyone to attempt it.

Where are you going?

He's in the field with the sign.

I did not want this.

Flint is my friend,

but I know what he is.

I have no illusions about it.

But for all the dangers he presents,

for all his offenses...

the one thing he's never done is force me to choose between him and you.

That, you did.

But it isn't too late to find a way to remedy it.

You made a terrible mistake

and you paid a terrible price.

But we're at war and you're an asset.

Despite what's gone on, you are my friend.

And the men out there have had their pound of flesh.

And our men...

Billy, I could walk out there

and tell them the sky is red

and they'd believe me.

That's the power you've given me.

But I have to know this is over...

your vendetta against Flint,

your need to see him dead or departed from our story.

I have to know you'll never put me to a choice between you again.

Swear it...

and this all ends.

You chose.

Live with it.

They're here.

He speaks for them?

They call him Julius.

- Help me out. - Won't do it by itself.

Over there.

Pretty sight for you.

I came to find Eleanor.

"I betrayed you, Jack.

"Tried to trade your life for my own personal gain.

"Lied to Anne to her face about it.

"Please, Jack. Beg of you.

Is there any way you can forgive me?"

That was the general sense I had

of what I might hear come from your mouth

were I ever this close to you again.

Spain is here.

A fleet of a dozen ships has already opened fire on Nassau Town.

By now, well over a thousand soldiers

will have likely made their landing and begun their invasion.

In a matter of hours, there will be no safe place to stand on this island,

made all the more dangerous by the fact that the harbor has been rendered defenseless.

There will be no resistance to their landing since--

Since Woodes Rogers was the one who invited them in.

How did you know that?

Captain! Sails!

The Walrus.

They escaped the harbor ahead of their landing.

Change of plan! Back to the ship.

Spanish invasion. You're welcome to stay if you like.

You coming?

I won't ask again.

Keeping an eye on us?

Making sure you don't slit my throat out of spite, perhaps.

I suppose I chose the right hostage

if they're that concerned about keeping you alive.

I suppose so.

You know, there was a time not so long ago

when you shared their concern.

When you saw what I saw.

The benefits of being free of British rule.

To make the new world something more than just an extension of the old.

Is it so unthinkable that that might be again?

You were a pirate once.

Stranger things have happened.

We need to get to cover.

Quickly.