Black Sails

Rogers and his forces come for the pirates. Rackham and Bonny face impossible odds. Silver demands answers from Flint. Billy crowns a king.

The safest place lives outside the realm

But hearing him use it just now,

it is still a stranger to me.

Six ships. British colors.

Three tall ships!

Concentrate on the mortars!

Not yet. Fire!

Is everything all right?

and it's no less a bullshit story now.

But to remove it in this moment

Any and all of them.

which makes it such an easy label

You asked me where it began,

but because of it.

Which is why I find myself unnerved by the thought

I chose Mr. Dobbs.

to betray us...

It was Mr. Gates who first told me about the spot.

Until I know how this game will unfold,

I suppose Flint's come to see that there might be

There's only 100 men, more or less, left behind to guard it.

but something, perhaps.

Sir! It's the Orion!

feels compelled to rally around.

to oust the English from the island,

I've watched her follow madmen.

Eleanor puts everything on the line to save Rogers. Billy recruits allies. Flint and Silver prepare for war.

But it is not the treasure that concerns me most.

of a public trial,

we both know how empty the victory would be,

You're not a man.

before we can assume that he's failed to seize Captain Flint's ship?

I told you it was just a suggestion.

Let fall the stern anchor.

Getting that kind of information again

Then we have much preparation to do

I had three men hold him down while Dooley and Wayne administered a beating.

Eleanor is there.

If you took this information to her,

Will you please make sure, when the governor's men visit the inn,

His task is to start reminding everyone

that if he's to be tried, it must be here, in the open,

You should be careful.

Really? Would you like to tell me why I did it, then?

Now...

to assemble a gallows in the square.

An opportunity to find some measure of peace.

but beasts governed by the base instinct,

will be done again in Nassau.

Now. Go.

Even with defensive positions engineered in the bluffs,

I will be our Charles Vane.

Rogers comes under attack while moving a prisoner. Violence erupts on the Walrus. Silver and Madi are put to a test. Billy sees a new role for himself in the coming battle.

all so goddamn fragile.

Consider that your share.

Spain has demanded I deliver you along with the cache.

but the beach has no view of him or us.

as there are men on this ship.

what with your responsibilities.

When did she realize?

The gems are theirs.

in the hope of slowing you down for even a moment.

I'm suggesting that simply because the governor

sell his information without your knowledge?

Now that is all going up in smoke

I watched it depart, the Walrus.

but Flint and I have unfinished business

begins to wither and die.

claiming to hold debts belonging to my father.

But, Jesus, did I make up a lot of ground to catch you.

his sacrifice and his love to my mother, to me.

eager to see more blood spilled today,

Lower the courses!

if something happened and Hornigold's cavalry weren't in time to stop it,

We had no choice but to run.

I'll go back and address the situation.

The challenges I see ahead for both you and I

is about to be at its strongest.

So I will tell you the absolute truth

Flint and Silver return to Nassau, and a legend is born. A change in terms put Rackham and Bonny in jeopardy. Vane's mission evolves. Eleanor confides in Rogers.

[whickering]

He refuses, so I am asking on his behalf.

Jack Rackham? Who is Jack Rackham?

is to find the cache and return it.

Here?

These people know their lives are about to change.

in preparation for a day such as this.

If the street would hear you were being mistreated,

and that the only way she could end it

You never mentioned this.

if, when the gold is surrendered in Havana...

losing half of herself this way.

Two longboats will ferry the landing party to shore.

You're returning from the dead.

Now that soldiers visit the inn...

and also how near those dangers may very well be.

[gasps]

"except for her."

if it served my ambition.

It will not come without risk.

Every last rotten fuck on this island

This was hers, wasn't it?

now belongs to me.

in the dead of night to deliver a threat as weak as this.

[men groan]

FLINT: Are you all right?

What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness.

Only his agents, including one claiming to be John Silver.

but she won't be able to stop all of them from going down there.

If you have any questions as to how to proceed,

and the awful and lonely compromises it demands.

40 barrels of powder, half as much in shot,

SILVER: Is that the governor?

You offer me a pardon, I accept it, this all ends?

and spiteful of anyone who would find happiness under her rule.

any man participating in the act of high seas piracy

assuming you can get to Anne first...

to a ship waiting somewhere off the southern coast.

Flint challenges Teach over the future of piracy. Rogers makes an arrest. Rackham finds new purpose. Madi comes to Silver's aid.

Now you're talking about a war meant to be won.

Put my services in great demand

Doesn't need to last long.

It wasn't unusual for me to return home

And insults to empires require answers.

if we can't find the cache in their possession,

[scoffs] No, I suppose it won't.

What the fuck are you doing here?

It ain't half bad, Jack.

I'll just find a place to weather it for the night.

No one prepared you for this, did they?

[waves crashing]

until he is weak enough to challenge directly.

that you never even knew it in the first place.

of who this fleet follows and risk you depleting my force

Did you?

you and I share an experience in this place.

They took my home.

- [pouring] - Something like that.

That's not going to happen the way I thought it was, is it?

which side of this contest you'd prefer to see prevail.

there will be no quarter asked nor given.

And get the fuck off my beach.

[squishing]

they are profound and dark.

[silent]

- [crickets chirping] - [people chattering in native language]

requires a villain at its center.

to give you the one thing

among the people of Nassau is not without limits.

I may be able to help in that regard.

Facing certain death, Silver pushes Flint to take action. Teach shows Vane a way forward. A new threat puts Eleanor and Rogers on notice. Max makes her play.

That was the first moment

Should be arriving in Ocracoke in three days' time.

to leave her marks on you.

A pardon was offered,

against Richard Guthrie and his growing pirate empire.

I encouraged it so that I might manage

He said that?

and make it clear

Before any of that, it was home to a long line of governors.

My lord.

And with the stroke of a pen, it's all gone

would be too strong to be denied by a king,

You were wise to come to me.

Jack, Anne...

Captain?

I wanted to know it, at least a little.

And if he tries and comes up short,

in which I am still on the outside of it looking in.

Not as far as Spain knows.

the villain you fear you are.

hidden from the harsh realities

start taking things back,

They pledged to follow me when they thought I was alive.

when the men whose toil powers it

The reports from the Bahamas.

How did you get that scar?

I said... yes.

I found myself faced with two choices...

You'll relay this to your contact.

They had pardons for unrepentant murderers back there.

Civilization returns to Nassau, and sets its sights on Vane. Flint, Silver and Billy encounter a new enemy. Rackham takes a stand against his crew. Scott finds his place in the new regime.

(Birds chirping)

Less so.

the introduction of a universal pardon?

In the 30 days that follow,

MAN: £10,000 they're paying for Vane's head, Jack.

But whatever the reason, the men behind that door

Then I suggest we manufacture a new exit.

Freed a lot of them. Won't that put us in good stead with them?

Yes?

captured whilst careening on the windward side of the island.

Finding it hard to believe there is near enough material in that magazine

but I've come too far to go back.

(Indistinct chatter)

My appointment as your advisor.

I imagine she's next in line.

I admit, I have my reservations with the new regime,

Couldn't find a way out.

We were so close to accomplishing something

No.

as to which of the two of us is in need of protection.

To provoke me into making a mistake.

How the hell did she get so close?

MAN: Fire ship!

but it is there to be exploited.

to eliminate piracy and restore colonial rule there.

I wonder if the pardons are the victory

with our own kind of lie.

The men in that cage are deceitful men.

Come.

Thank you.

(Groaning)

Stranded at sea, Flint pushes Silver to his limit. As Nassau prepares to repel an invasion, Rackham takes the reins, while Max gets her house in order. To stave off defeat, Vane makes a difficult choice.

Oh!

and defend the Constitution of the United States

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Who in God's name built this?

Oh.

[sighs] Section Five.

that, um, certain emergencies require the, uh...

He's a ghost, sir. No face. No identity.

_

I hope you like Girl Scout Cookies.

Now you truly understand your oath

You wouldn't like me very much without a cigarette.

I know something you don't know.

GRAY: We combed our databases,

Not your only hope, sir.

and I have no idea what I'm doing.

He works for me now.

Unfortunately, completed or not, the Russian construction site

[shouting continues]

- [gunshots] - Go!

And yet here you are.

- [both grunting] - You know, Olga,

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The Walrus crew battles the elements. Teach and Rackham have a disagreement. Rogers and Eleanor set terms for their partnership. Bonny fears for her future with Max.

I'll pull all hands from below.

I understand why they would rather do battle with that storm

150 soldiers, 60 guns.

The moment i believe you are no longer necessary to this endeavor,

I need to know everything you know of nassau.

It weren't where i put it.

That so long as that gold is sitting

All the shit we been through the last few months,

At first, when my father left, i only watched.

A young captain he had groomed in his image,

Betrayed his mentor,

And because i have history with charles vane,

Across eight years and as many wives and...

What happened between she and i,

Who's "ours"?

Like the people you've loved.

But this is your third partner?

And sam bellamy gave nassau life.

You want us to fight each other for this?

I see captains who ought to have been deposed months ago

I don't like how any of this looks,

The storm'll blow us right to him.

Certain details of your grand voyage,

Respectfully, that woman is not to be trusted.

Flint and his crew wage war against the world. Eleanor receives an offer of clemency. Vane objects to Rackham's methods. One of Nassau's most notorious returns.

Caleb, Tom, and...

the less a sane man would let a promise

and survive the experience.

they were corrupt men, dishonest men.

I imagine you would've made different choices today.

I assume this is your production.

- He said he would see this done. - I know.

- It's a process. - I'm not fuckin' around. I need to know.

of approaching unannounced may also be at an end.

Thank you for your concern,

And they've granted you authority over them because of it.

It's five different crews, it's hundreds of men,

It's quite the opposite.

These days any man who can sew a black flag

And when the day comes when that foundation shifts,

Gun crews, prepare to return fire!

your names cleared and your accounts squared.

displayed her body for their amusement.

that we have shown them what we are capable of

Then he'd be mad to follow us into it, then, wouldn't he?

There. Hold her there.

The more people know of you,

someone who understands Nassau

Hmm.