Black Sails

So, let us assume that the measuring of you

and your proposal are done...

and that we are partners...

in a venture to acquire and reform Nassau.

Jack went to hunt Captain Flint.

Chances are good you've seen the last of him.

When Anne was recruiting spies in Port Royal,

she met a man with an estate in the wilderness.

This man found it profitable to offer his services to wealthy families

with a need to make troublesome family members disappear.

What families?

Flint doesn't need to get far.

All he needs is to bury that gold somewhere unknown and he's won.

Accept the treaty and John Silver lives.

This war, it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight.

Even if you could kill me,

how are you going to explain it to her?

She believes in this.

If it costs a war to save her, you'll have lost her anyway.

Even you cannot construct a story to make her forgive you that.

Is this war more important than her life?

Answer the question.

I wanna hear you say it.

What's to be done with the unwanted ones?

The men who do not fit,

whom civilization must prune from the vine

to protect its sense of itself.

Every culture since earliest antiquity has survived this way,

defining itself by the things it excludes.

So long as there is progress,

there will always be human debris in its wake,

on the outside looking in.

And sooner or later,

one must answer the question...

what becomes of them?

In London,

the solution is to call them criminals.

To throw them in a deep, dark hole

and hope it never runs over.

I would argue that justice demands we do better than that.

That a civilization is judged not by who it excludes,

but by how it treats the excluded.

That is not what I asked.

Many of the men incarcerated here have enemies, sir.

Such is the nature of being anathema to the empire.

And the only way I can protect them

is to ensure that once they walk through these gates,

their anonymity is protected, too.

Here, they must cease to be... to be able to find peace.

I already said I'm not an enemy of his, nor is the man who sent me.

Yes, and I believe you when you say it. But still...

Do you know where I come from, sir?

- No, I don't. - I come from Nassau.

My name is Tom Morgan.

I come on behalf of Long John Silver.

Have you heard of him?

Yes, of course.

Good.

Then I ask you again and for the last time,

is the prisoner we are looking for here...

or isn't he?

Come on!

Come on!

Ready, set.

Come up.

Quick! Get to cover!

Get on the beach!

When we make our landing, pass word to the men I need Flint alive.

If he departed with the money, he's the one who knows its whereabouts.

What of the others, my Lord?

There are no others.

No quarter, Mr. Utley.

Come on, run! Go!

Get to cover!

Give me your hand!

Give me your hand!

- Ready to starboard! - Starboard!

Bring her about!

Back to the ship!

Jesus.

Yeah.

Make ready to take on survivors.

An hour ago,

we were upon a fool's errand to capture Captain Flint

and find an island that does not exist...

you're welcome for that, by the way...

evade a ship full of redcoats,

fight through a ship full of pirates,

and somehow get past Long John Silver.

I don't know if you've noticed,

but this is considerably better luck

than you and I have experienced lately.

And yet somehow, I get the sense

you and I are possessed of different instincts

as to how to react to this.

How would you like to react to it?

Throw him in a sack, sail away from here,

let the Guthrie woman and her lawyers deal with the governor,

and be alive come tomorrow.

He's headed for open water.

I noticed.

He has everything he came for?

We were at the camp.

They told me you brought the cache to ransom for her life.

It's in the ground.

Ashore.

I'm the only one who knows where.

It comes out when Madi is safe,

when the governor is dead or captured,

and when we are ready to return together to the camp

to resume the war to which we all committed ourselves.

Then and only then.

Can you live with that?

She runs or she wants room to fight this out?

You've met the man. What do you think?

He'll never stop until we're all hanging in his square.

Unless we defeat him today, together.

Get us underway and ready the guns.

- Make ready the guns! - We should speak.

The three of us.

Woodes Rogers isn't going to receive a letter

from anyone's lawyer informing him I've beaten him.

I'm going to tell him so.

- Jack... - I want my money back.

If it takes rescuing the girl to get Flint to dig it up,

then, Augustus, you and I are in the rescuing business today.

Get us after that ship.

Well, here I am. What exactly is on the agenda?

Where did you go?

You were to follow us to the camp.

Your ship disappears...

and then you arrive here as though none of it happened.

Before we discuss anything else, I wanna know where you went.

I went to Philadelphia...

to see Joseph Guthrie.

You went to see Joseph Guthrie?

I presented him with a plan to join our cause.

Every rebellion can use a wealthy convert or two early in the game.

What did he say?

He politely passed.

Anne remained to be tended to in the city.

Max with her.

Now that we're all caught up,

might we agree there are more pressing issues at hand?

Namely, what we intend to do from here.

I intend to assume command here,

pursue the governor, and capture his ship whole.

Is that so?

We'll need to take her without the use of our great guns.

It will be technically beyond your capacities.

Without the guns? Why would you...

It would put Madi's life at greater risk.

Securing her alive is all that matters today.

Return her, him,

and the cache back to the camp intact

along with the governor defeated and in chains.

And news of it will travel far and wide.

The war will be fully,

undeniably, and maybe unstoppably underway.

Victory here today changes everything

for everyone forever.

And it is most likely to happen under my direction.

Do you have anything to say about this?

He's right.

And you know it.

You people.

We need to watch him.

The governor is the danger ahead of us.

But if he has a chance

to put knives in our backs for the money, he'll do it.

You don't think I know that?

What the hell is this?

You cannot honestly believe that placating me

is going to repair what's been broken here.

I absolutely think that it is repairable.

And no one is placating anyone.

Then what exactly is it you think you're doing here?

I know what it's like...

to have lost her.

And then seeing a way to have her back.

I understand what that must've felt like.

You asked me once what I would do,

what I would sacrifice

if it meant having Thomas back again.

I honestly don't know... what I would've done.

I honestly couldn't say I wouldn't have done what you did.

I told you I'd see you through this.

Put things back together again so that we can move forward.

I meant it.

Please know...

I was so conflicted about all this when it began.

I knew it would be difficult to separate them...

Flint and Silver.

They'd grown so close, it was hard to know where one ended

and the other began.

I worried that the act of separating them might destroy them both...

when what I wanted was to remove Flint.

And I saw no other way.

But the things I've done in the pursuit of it...

were intended to honor my oath.