Black Sails

The only way to truly ensure that the Urca gold doesn't return here

is to eliminate everyone with the knowledge of where it is and how to retrieve it.

Are you angry with Anne for leaving

or are you angry with me for offering her the opportunity?

You think there's something valuable enough

to make the British Navy forget that you and I are pirates?

Not what, who.

Acquiring the partnership of a plantation the size of Mr. Underhill's

could help bolster commerce on my side of the island.

Richard Guthrie betrayed Nassau.

As far as you and I, I was warned about you.

Warned you would betray me.

I made clear the price for the girl.

You should know me well enough to know I will claim it.

My father said there would be law in the Americas

the day Captain Flint swung over Charles Town.

- You're Captain Flint? - I am.

And you wish an audience with Lord Ashe?

Welcome to Charles Town.

I can't say enough, miss,

how saddened we all are by this loss.

All my life I was a pauper.

With your father's help I plied a trade.

I'll always be grateful for that.

Do you need a respite, ma'am?

Some bread and fruits from the girls.

May I sit?

Thank you.

I can imagine how difficult this must be.

Being the daughter they expect you to be.

I would think that at least with me,

you would know that I know the truth

about how complicated the situation is for you.

Your relationship with him.

Your relationship with Captain Vane.

And because of that, you would not pretend otherwise.

And that that might bring some small measure of comfort.

There is no part of this that is complicated.

I crossed Charles, he retaliated.

That is what happens in a war.

A war?

A state of affairs in which resolution only comes

when one side has suffered enough pain

it's willing to concede its principles.

I presume you've heard Charles's manifesto.

I heard it's been read aloud on the beach.

Everyone must take a side, he says...

with him against reconciliation with England

or with me.

Those people out there heard him

and they came to my door not to pay their respects,

not because they loved my father...

but because when this war begins,

they want to make sure I don't mistake them for enemies.

Is that why you've come?

Or have you yet to choose a side?

I'm interested to see what she does now.

How did that go?

I have seen what Eleanor Guthrie can build

when she is feeling ambitious.

I have seen what she can destroy when she is angered.

Which of the two was she just now?

She was something else entirely.

How soon can you be ready to sail?

Just finalizing the route, sorting out supplies.

I assumed we'd depart tomorrow at some point.

Leave as soon as possible.

There are foul things brewing here.

Yes?

They're here.

Do you know why you're here?

Yes, ma'am.

Good.

Then we move at sundown.

The proposal that I have come all this way to make

is one that may at first strike you as implausible.

However, I ask that you remember that...

I love my daughter.

More than life itself.

When I received that despicable letter

I was given to dark thoughts, rage.

A desire to visit revenge upon those men

that put her through that ordeal.

It would seem only reasonable, then,

that I bear an equal measure of gratitude

to the man who rescued her from it.

Were it not for that gratitude, you and I would not be speaking like this.

You and Colonel Rhett would be having a very different conversation.

Because while I knew you once,

called you friends once,

I cannot fathom

how those people I knew turned into you.

Ask me, then.

Anything you want to know.

I will be truthful.

Anything?

When did you first arrive in Nassau?

Two months after we saw you last in London.

February, thereabouts.

The first accounts of Captain Flint raiding

shipping in the area began in June.

You became the captain of a pirate crew in four months?

I became the captain of a pirate crew faster than that.

It took us four months to secure our first significant prize.

How did you manage that so quickly?

I met a man in a tavern.

Quartermaster of a well-respected crew.

I persuaded him

that I was someone worth listening to.

A crew followed shortly thereafter.

And how long after that was it

that you decided to murder Alfred Hamilton?

I received a letter from a former servant.

She mentioned innocently

that Alfred was travelling in secret.

And she mentioned the name of the ship.

I encouraged James to find him.

And to kill him.

If you're going to blame anyone for it,

please, blame me.

The governor may know who you are.

I only know what you are.

Let us agree that if either one of you

gets any closer to the governor than you just did,

I will be forced to consider that a threat to his person

and I will shoot you where you stand.

I cannot stand before you

and claim to be without sin.

When we received that letter from you

informing us of Thomas's death,

the damage wrought by Alfred Hamilton

was too much for us to bear.

We were angry.

We allowed that anger to drive us to a dark deed.

But I ask you not to judge me by that one deed.

Judge me by the ends that I have come here in service of.

The redemption of Nassau

in accordance with the principles that you and I

and she and Thomas Hamilton

committed ourselves to all those years ago.

I ask nothing from you but your ear.

I'm listening.

Footrope. Bitch of a spot.

Fucking death trap if it isn't fixed before we set sail.

Let's try this again.

You idiots are the fucking riggers of this ship.

So which of you would like to volunteer

to repair our topsail yard footrope

so that when Captain Flint returns, he returns to a ship

that can hoist its fucking sails without fatalities?

It's a bad omen.

A man died on them ropes.

Can't touch it till it's fixed.

You're all good people.

Tell me something.

Is he going to find anything up there?

What would he find?

An indication that the rope didn't just fray on its own.

No. Absolutely not.

It'd be almost impossible.

What?

What is it?

I thought I saw something in the water.

Tell the watch on the main so they can keep an eye on it.

I'm sure it was nothing.

Tell them anyway.

The Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing.

He makes me lie down in green pastures.

Leaves me beside the quiet waters.

Refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right path

for His name's sake.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley,

I will fear no evil, for You are with me.

Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil.

My cup overflows.

Surely Your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life

and I will dwell in the house of the Lord evermore.

- Amen. - Amen.

Mr. Underhill.

All his wealth, all his ambitions,

yet here he rests.

One might see a lesson in that.

Before you return home,

I had hoped that you and I might share a word.

Privately.

What do you wish to speak about?

Ambition, sir.

Yours and mine.

Total reconciliation?

This is what you're suggesting?

A return to colonial rule

with an existing power structure in place.

And I am to believe that 500 hardened pirate raiders

will voluntarily step down,

fall in line with this plan of yours and volunteer their labor?

Not all of them. A lot of them. Most of them.

Enough to resist those that won't.