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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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[narrator] In 1717,
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the seas of the Caribbean
are ruled by the Flying Gang.
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[cannon fire echoing]
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- [narrator] Black Sam Bellamy.
- Hoist the black flag!
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[narrator] Edward Thatch.
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Signal Hornigold, ask him
if we're gonna attack, now, now, now!
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[narrator] And Benjamin Hornigold.
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- [pirates cheer]
- Nassau! The new Pirate Republic.
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[narrator] From their base in the Bahamas,
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these pirates steal a fortune
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from the wealthiest empires in Europe...
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Last chance!
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Where are the jewels?
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Hornigold!
You're the Captain! Stop him! Oh!
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[narrator]
...and disrupt the lucrative slave trade.
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[man grunts]
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[narrator] But now
a storm is brewing in England.
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Bloody pirates! Pirates of the seas...
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That is a beast with teeth.
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[narrator] The final straw is the capture
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of the heavily-armed
slave ship, the Whydah.
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Pirates are hitting
Britain's merchants where it hurts:
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their pockets.
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I want them dead!
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[narrator] Enter the pirate terminator.
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Gentlemen! Captain Woodes Rogers.
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[narrator] He is on a mission to destroy
the Flying Gang of the Caribbean.
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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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[gulls crying]
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[somber music]
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[approaching footsteps]
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[somber music]
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Five hundred slaves for nothing!
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A fortune lost,
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and some scum pirate laughing in my face.
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You're not alone.
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The British South Sea Company's
lost two more ships.
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Letters have arrived
from Jamaica, Boston, Charleston...
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Pirates are decimating trade.
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As the Pirate Republic
was gaining in strength,
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the concerns within the Empire,
and certainly back in London,
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were growing as well.
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Because the pirates were starting
to destabilize not only commerce,
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but the security
of the colonies themselves.
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[Fox] There was a fear that
the slave trade would become untenable,
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if the pirate menace wasn't dealt with.
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Because they were
so powerful in the Caribbean.
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And there was no alternative route.
You couldn't just go round the pirates.
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And there are more disturbing
reports that you should be aware of.
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More disturbing than
the theft of my slaves?
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It appears that the Whydah was, in part,
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captured with the assistance of slaves.
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Slaves that had been set free.
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What?
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Impossible!
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Not according to
the communiques I have received.
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There have been several recorded instances
of slaves being employed by pirate crews,
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freely and willingly, it would seem.
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And it is said that Nassau
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is becoming a haven for runaway Negroes.
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Governors complained that the effect of
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the rise of piracy in Nassau
was causing unrest
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among the slave
plantations in the Caribbean.
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[Woodward] Many of these islands,
the slave population outnumbered
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the European population by many times.
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So, the fear that
there would be a slave insurrection,
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or that the slaves would feel
like they had a future or a possibly...
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Hope was
a dangerous thing to these places.
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White men consorting with savages?
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Putting ideas into their heads!
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I will talk to the King.
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I will summon parliament.
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I will give you
everything you need, Rogers.
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But you stamp this cancer out!
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Humphry Morice was a Member of Parliament.
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He was also one of the early
governors of the Bank of England.
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So, he was a very prominent
person in British society.
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Woodes Rogers is the real deal.
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He is an experienced, very tough
seaman who's as salty as they come.
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He was one of the few people
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to have circumnavigated the globe.
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[Fox] When he walked into a room,
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you could see,
before he even opened his mouth,
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that here was a man who knew danger,
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who knew excitement, who knew adventure.
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During his privateering
voyage around the world,
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he'd been shot in the face with a musket.
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[Choundas] Teeth fall out,
skitter all over the deck,
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and he swallows something hard,
and he doesn't know what it is.
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But two months later,
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the doctor discovers that
Woodes Rogers swallowed his own jawbone.
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[somber music]
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Woodes Rogers' plan was
to drive the pirates out of the Bahamas,
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to install himself as the governor,
to restore law and order to the colonies.
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[somber violin music]
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[narrator] But the problem is
about to get a whole lot worse.
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Edward Thatch and Black Caesar
are planning their next move.
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Their leader, Benjamin Hornigold,
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has so far been loyal to the English
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and not attacked their merchant ships.
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The men have been talking.
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- They have...
- [Hornigold grunts]
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[burps]
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[narrator] But he's had a change of heart.
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So, like, worst that I've been thinking.
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[sighs deeply]
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You can tell your crew that we're not
laying off English shipping anymore.
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Are you serious?
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There'll be no wanton destruction.
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No killing.
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But from now on,
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we're taking what we can.
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[male historian] For more than
100 years, English pirates had attacked
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what were traditionally
enemies of England,
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either Spanish or Portuguese ships.
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By the 17-teens,
for really the first time,
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English pirates actively
engaged English shipping.
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[waves splashing]
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[narrator]
Hornigold's decision is a game-changer.
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His gang quickly seizes
a mighty English ship,
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the Bonnet.
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Hornigold makes it his flagship.
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[cannon fire echoing]
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And then Thatch trades up, too,
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when he spots
another heavily-armed merchant ship.
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[Thatch] Hold her steady!
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Telescope, quick!
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She's English.
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Good size, too.
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Come here, lad, come here!
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Signal Hornigold, ask him
if we're gonna attack, now, now, now!
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[Thatch]
Come on, Benjamin. Come on, Benjamin.
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Come on, come on, come on!
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[pirate] Hornigold says we can attack!
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[Thatch] Benjamin Hornigold,
you beautiful bastard!
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- Load your cannons!
- [pirate] Cannon full!
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Prime your weapons!
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[loud splash]
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[men shouting]
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[door splintering open]
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[laughs]
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- [pirates laughing and cheering]
- [pirate] Look at that!
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[narrator] The ship is overflowing
with the profits of slavery.
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- [pirate] Where's the captain?
- [shouts] This is a British ship!
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And you are
violating international treaties!
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The Navy will be informed,
and you will all be imprisoned.
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[pirate]
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
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You don't think we know
you stole this yourself?
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It's the wage of an African life.
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[somber music]
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Tell me, how can we steal from you,
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what you stole from us?
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[coins clinking]
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[Fox] One surprising fact about pirates
is that many of the crews contained
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large numbers of former African slaves.
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Some of those men, we know, were free.
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[captain] I recognize you.
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You're Benjamin Hornigold!
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You realize this is treason!
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What sort of Englishman
attacks his own country,
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and consorts with apes?
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[foreboding music]
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Apes?
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Hold him.
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What are you doing?
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Hornigold, you're the captain,
stop him! Oh, oh, oh!
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[captain grunts, gags]
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What you eat, you shit.
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[pirates laugh]
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[narrator] Hornigold agonizes over
his disloyalty to the English Crown.
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But Black Sam Bellamy has no such qualms.
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That is a beast with teeth!
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[narrator] Bellamy has just taken the
greatest English merchant ship of the age,
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a slave trader called the Whydah.
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The things we could do
with a ship like that.
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[narrator] It makes Bellamy unstoppable.
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[pirate] Fire!
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[cannon fire echoing]
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[hull creaking]
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[waves splashing]
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[Choundas] Sam Bellamy
and Paulsgrave Williams,
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intercept a sloop
captained by a man named Beer.
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Beer is brought aboard the Whydah.
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Bellamy and Williams
have made the decision.
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Beer seems like a decent fellow.
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After they finished plundering,
they were gonna give him his sloop back.
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But the companies disagree.
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So, the men have voted.
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Voted?
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I'm sorry. Your ship's to be burned.
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But you...
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Williams and Bellamy's men
overrule the captain's determination
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and the company, in pirate life, rules.
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Don't you have any control over your men?
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Don't you have any loyalty
toward the Crown, man?
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Which Crown?
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I mean, Quintor, he's Dutch.
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And Julia's Mexican-Indian,
Eric's Danish, Williams, he's a Scot.
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[Williams] Mm.
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And might I add,
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fuck that sausage-eating
ass-wipe King George. [spits]
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[pirates laugh]
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You're a disgrace!
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All of you, gutter trash, cowards!
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Captain Beer is important
in the history of piracy,
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no so much for what he did,
but for what he heard.
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One of the most famous speeches
ever delivered by a pirate.
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I'm sorry we have to sink your ship,
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but this is all on you.
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Men like you,
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you lay down
and you let the rich walk all over you.
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They call us villains.
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But there's really only one difference.
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The rich rob the poor under cover of law.
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We plunder the rich by our own courage.
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Isn't it better to be one of us
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than to sneak after them
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for your work?
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My conscience would never allow me
to break the law of God and man.
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Your conscience? [sniffs]
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Well,
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here's what my conscience tells me.
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I'm a free prince,
and I have just as much right
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to wage war on the whole world,
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as someone with
a hundred sail of ships at sea,
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or an army of 100,000 in the field.
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Farewell, Captain.
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In his speech to Captain Beer,
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Bellamy basically lays out
the credo of the, you know,
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pirates as social revolutionaries.
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Imagine what it was like
for an enslaved person
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in the 18th century to bear witness
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to someone challenging authority...
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[somber music]
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...and describing himself
as his own free prince.
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[birds chirping]
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[waves splashing]
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[gulls crying]
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This is good.
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So, where do we go next?
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To Eastham.
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It's time I saw Mary.
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We should've let that ship go.
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Yeah, but what could you do, huh?
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Democracy rules.
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Have a drink.
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Just think,
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in a few days you'll be back in Eastham,
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the richest pirate that ever set sail.
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And you'll have your Mary there
to meet you with booty of her own.
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[Bellamy chuckles]
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I should go back to the Mary Anne
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before the crew start causing mischief.
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Enough with the long face, Sam.
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We are rich, and you're going home.
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[gulls crying]
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[somber piano music]
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[Williams sighs]
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Looks like a fog is coming in.
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[narrator] The weather threatens
to delay Bellamy getting home
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to the woman he became a pirate for...
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Mary Hallett.
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[somber piano music continues]
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[thunder rumbling, lightning crashing]
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[sobbing]
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[narrator] An unmarried mother,
she's been cast out by her family.
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[sobbing] No.
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Mary Hallett is found with a dead infant
in her arms, her own infant, in a barn.
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I didn't kill her.
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[whispering]
I didn't kill her. I didn't kill her.
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I didn't kill her.
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At the time, the only thing worse
than having a baby outside of wedlock
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was losing one.
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I didn't kill her.
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[policeman] Mary Hallett.
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- You're under arrest.
- No.
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- Come with me.
- I didn't...
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[Cale] She was suspected
of having killed the child herself.
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Father, please don't.
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[somber violin music]
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[man] Mary Hallett,
you are accused before God
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of the heinous crime of infanticide.
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Cotton Mather was a very prominent
person in Massachusetts society.
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He was a Puritan preacher.
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He was very well-known
for his very strict religious views.
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[sobs] A curse on you, Sam.
You didn't come.
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Begin the punishment.
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- [whip cracking]
- [whimpering]
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[screaming and whimpering]
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[Hallett sobbing]
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Mary was publicly flogged,
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she was imprisoned,
and she was eventually driven out of town.
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[somber music]
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[narrator]
Sailors are a superstitious lot.
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Salt over your shoulder
keeps the devil at bay.
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Rats leaving a ship, time to disembark.
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Whistling on board whistles up a storm.
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And that was the real enemy...
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[thunder rumbles, cracks]
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...the weather.
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Upset the gods,
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you'll surely be dragged
to the ocean floor.
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[ship creaking]
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[Bellamy] Paulsgrave!
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Paulsgrave!
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[sighs]
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[somber music]
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It's okay, lad. We'll meet up
with Paulsgrave in the morning,
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once we've cleared this fog.
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Loose sail.
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Steer us northeasterly.
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See if we can get out
from under this blanket.
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[Woodward] So,
as Bellamy's flotilla was sailing along
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the leeward shore of the outer Cape,
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a terrible storm approached
at the worst possible timing.
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- [thunder rumbling]
- [waves crashing]
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- [ships creaking]
- [sailors shouting]
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What Bellamy's hoping will happen
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is that he'll be able to out-pace
the storm, maybe maneuver round it.
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[narrator]
Bellamy's Whydah, with 160 souls on board,
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and a ton of treasure,
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is being driven towards
the shore of Cape Cod.
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Fierce waves started striking the ship.
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- [waves crashing]
- [men shouting]
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Pretty soon it was clear they were
not going to make it around the Cape.
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[dramatic music]
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I'm scared. I don't want to drown.
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[Bellamy] Hold on tight, lad.
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[pirates shouting]
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[thunder crashes]
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[men shouting]
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[deafening splash]
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[somber music]
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By morning,
when any residents of the outer Cape
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came out to see
what had happened during the storm,
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the beach was strewn with the bodies of
almost all of the Whydah's crew and men.
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[Cale]
Anyone that found a wrecked pirate ship,
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must've felt like they won the lottery.
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Most of the time,
these are going to be filled
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with all different kinds of things.
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So, we're not only talking about gold,
but also things that have
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pretty serious monetary value.
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Ivory tusks, jewels,
anything you could think of.
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Of 160 people
aboard the Whydah when it crashed,
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only two of them survived
and made it to shore to survive the night.
347
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[somber music]
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Bellamy was not among them.
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[ravens cawing]
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[Woodward] The sadder moments
is archaeology has shown,
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that the nine-year-old
cabin boy, John King,
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was drowned still wearing
the shoes and silk stockings
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his mother had dressed him in
before he decided to volunteer
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00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,680
to join the pirate crew months earlier.
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00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,680
[gulls crying]
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00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,600
[narrator] At the age of 28,
Black Sam's story is over.
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[somber, dramatic music]
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In just over a year,
he becomes the richest pirate in history.
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He does it all for the love of a woman.
360
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,560
But he never sees Mary again.
361
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She loses her mind...
362
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,360
- [lightning cracks]
- [screams]
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...and becomes known
as the Witch of Eastham.
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[gulls crying]
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The few survivors from Bellamy's fleet
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make it into town,
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where they drown their sorrows.
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00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,720
[Woodward] But the eight
pirates aboard the Mary Anne
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only got as far as the tavern in Eastham
when the local justice of the peace
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had headed them off, knowing
that this was one of the few places
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where strangers from abroad
might acquire horses to escape.
372
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And instead,
they would leave the Cape in irons.
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[somber music]
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[waves splashing]
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[narrator]
As for the Flying Gang back in Nassau,
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Black Sam's death cuts them deep.
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00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,320
Word didn't reach Nassau
until a few weeks later
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00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,520
as to what had happened to the Whydah
and that it had crashed ashore.
379
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,880
But when it did,
it would've been electrifying news.
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00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:15,640
It's all my fault.
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I persuaded him to carry on raiding
when we could have retired.
382
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,560
We'd never seen that much gold.
383
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We were rich.
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And now he's dead, and...
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that is on me.
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00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,200
There's nothing you could've done.
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00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,600
Just thank the gods
you missed the storm and made it home.
388
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,760
[narrator] Captain Henry Jennings
leads a rival pirate gang.
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00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:57,840
May I?
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00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,280
I'm sorry about Bellamy.
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00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,280
He was unusually clever for a man of his
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upbringing.
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00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,440
Most common sailors can't be trusted
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with anything more than
a mop and a shit cloth.
395
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,480
Isn't that right, Vane?
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00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:26,520
I have news.
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00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:29,400
A trader just in from Boston.
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00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:34,000
Apparently, they have eight
of Bellamy's men in the cells there.
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They've passed sentence.
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00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,120
Execution by hanging.
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00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,760
If they so as much as scratch one of 'em,
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00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,920
so help me God,
I'll raze Boston to the ground.
403
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,640
Anyway,
I thought you'd want to know.
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00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,000
[Jennings] To Bellamy.
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00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,160
God rest his soul.
406
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,080
[Jennings chugging pint]
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00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,000
[sniffs] Here.
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00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,640
Next one's on me.
409
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,920
Why couldn't he have drowned?
410
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,320
The devil takes care of his own, Teddy.
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00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,600
[somber music]
412
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,200
- [blow striking flesh]
- [man groaning]
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00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:00,080
Cotton Mather was keen
to stamp out the evils of piracy,
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00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,960
the ungodly criminal ways
that these pirates had.
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00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,480
[pirate groans]
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00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,640
[pirate] Urgh!
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00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,880
[Mather] Enough.
418
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,600
The end is coming for you.
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00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,280
[narrator] Bellamy's men
are strung up like butchered cattle,
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00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,080
in the largest hanging
of pirates in Boston's history.
421
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,800
What is it?
422
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,160
[sniffs]
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00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,920
Sam, he knew a lot, yeah.
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00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,240
And he was the smartest
and luckiest of all of us, you know that?
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00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000
[sighs]
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00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,480
No man...
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00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,200
can beat the sea.
428
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,840
The sea, the Navy, any other bastard,
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00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,960
it's only a matter
of time before they get ya.
430
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,480
From here,
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00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,440
we work faster and harder,
more than any man ever has.
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00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,840
We terrify ships.
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00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,160
We load the holds with gold.
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00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,000
And then we vanish...
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00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,160
before the devil gets us.
436
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:38,840
Nobody beats the devil.
437
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,640
Mm.
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00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,360
What if you become the devil?
439
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,800
[narrator] Thatch is planning
the mother of all revenge,
440
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,040
but he needs more firepower.
441
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,320
[waves splashing]
442
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,960
[narrator] Opportunity beckons when
an unlikely pirate turns up in Nassau.
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00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,440
His name is Stede Bonnet.
444
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,200
Pardon my French, but
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00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,200
what the fuck happened to you?
446
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,440
[narrator] The hapless Bonnet
has just taken a beating
447
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,320
from a Spanish warship.
448
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,040
Thatch was casting about,
looking for a bigger, stronger vessel
449
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,880
than the one he already had,
and Bonnet brought him one.
450
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,200
It's a fine looking ship
you've got there, Mr. Bonnet.
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00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,360
Could be a terror
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00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,840
in the right hands.
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00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,520
[narrator] Known as the Gentleman Pirate,
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Bonnet is from a wealthy family
and has had his own ship built:
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the Revenge.
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00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,120
I would still be captain?
457
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,400
Of course.
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00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,880
Edward here
will be overseeing things for you.
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00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,840
But you can trust him with your life.
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00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,200
Loyal as they come is our Edward.
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00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:23,920
What do you say?
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00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,320
[Fox] It was ideal for Thatch.
463
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960
Bonnet needed somebody to take over,
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00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,680
sort of show him the ropes,
to show him how to be a pirate.
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00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,120
And there was Thatch, so it was
an ideal solution for both of them.
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00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,200
Did you see the ship's name?
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00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,480
The Revenge.
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00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,240
All hell is going to follow after her.
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00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,080
All we need is a devil to captain her.
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00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,600
[dramatic music]
471
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,320
[cannon fire echoing]
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00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,480
Faster! Faster!
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00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,960
[narrator] Thatch wastes no time
in taking his revenge on the British.
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00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,920
No ship out of Boston is now safe.
475
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,840
But Thatch runs his ship
democratically and fairly.
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00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:20,920
[Thatch] We need a doctor.
477
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,040
One of our crew is very sick.
478
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,840
It's very important that the captain is
shown to take every crew member seriously,
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00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,680
and to treat them with respect,
and also to look after them,
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00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,400
because they're all in it together.
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00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:39,720
If you come forward,
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00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,120
you will be rewarded.
483
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,640
[waves splashing]
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00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,560
If, however, you're inclined to lie...
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00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,280
and perhaps you say
you're a clerk or a watchmaker...
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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,480
perhaps even an exotic dancer...
487
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,480
then perhaps I'll make my men strip you
and ride you like a backdoor whore.
488
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,480
And when they've finished with ya,
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00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,960
there won't be nothing
left for the little fishies.
490
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:26,520
What's your name?
491
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,760
Dr. John Howell.
492
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,640
Well, John Howell,
we have one very sick crew member.
493
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,840
All this for a Negro?
494
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,280
This man is
a very important member of my crew,
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00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:50,920
and as they all are.
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00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,600
Do you believe God created man
in his own image doctor?
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00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:56,680
[Howell] Yes.
498
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,240
And this Negro,
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00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,280
does he bleed red blood like we do?
500
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,440
[Howell] Yes.
501
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,720
And when you look at his insides,
are they identical to the rest of us?
502
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,320
Yes.
503
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,880
Well, then,
504
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,760
maybe God is a Black man.
505
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,560
Or maybe He is a She.
506
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,720
Or maybe we're all the same
except some are stronger,
507
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:21,920
and some are weaker.
508
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:26,920
[pirate groans]
509
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,280
We may need to amputate.
510
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,720
I don't think so.
511
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,960
If you don't cure this man, it could
mean I lose out on a small fortune,
512
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,120
and then possibly it could
mean you lose out on your life.
513
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,880
When you're done with him,
514
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,000
come find me in my cabin.
515
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,160
There's another separate matter
I'd like to discuss with ya.
516
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,720
[waves splashing]
517
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,520
[ship creaking]
518
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,920
[Thatch exhales]
519
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,560
[seething] Come on, man,
you're the doctor, diagnose me!
520
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,080
[narrator] Thatch has symptoms of
an illness which is the curse of sailors.
521
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,680
[exhales]
522
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,240
[pained grunt]
523
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,000
Treponema pallidum.
524
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,640
I know what it is, pox syphilis.
Do you have any mercury?
525
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,040
No.
526
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,760
Blackbeard suffered from syphilis.
I don't see how he could've avoided it.
527
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,280
I mean pirates, you know,
they would spend their nights with women,
528
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,200
who they'd either bought or married.
529
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,920
I believe that
Blackbeard married quite a few women,
530
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,160
possibly as many as 14
in different ports all over the Caribbean.
531
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,640
[Cale] Syphilis was particularly brutal.
532
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,600
Syphilis begins to eat at
the soft tissues of a body.
533
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,840
People losing noses,
pieces of their faces.
534
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,600
If you tell anyone about this,
535
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,880
you'll be dead before me.
536
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,240
And it will be very slow.
537
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,280
He would do anything he could
to try to find that medicine,
538
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,400
if he believed that it would cure him.
539
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,760
[narrator] But there was no cure.
540
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,960
Most victims went mad before dying.
541
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,240
Bellamy's death has left Thatch
hell-bent on vengeance.
542
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,920
He terrorizes British shipping.
543
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,280
The very foundations
of the Empire are at stake.
544
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,960
[cannon fire echoing]
545
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,000
As the piracy outbreak
started reaching its zenith,
546
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,280
it was becoming an existential threat
547
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,760
to the Empire,
rather than simply a nuisance.
548
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,960
- [cannon fire]
- [men groaning]
549
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,760
Royal Navy vessels that were
stationed in the Americas
550
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:28,200
were becoming out-gunned
and out-manned by the pirates themselves
551
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,160
[cannon fire echoing]
552
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,000
[narrator] British merchants
are clamoring for action.
553
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,960
They have finally lost patience
with Member of Parliament Humphry Morice.
554
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,360
[man, angrily] Look at me,
I'm reduced to bankruptcy!
555
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,560
What are you going to do about this?
556
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,480
[Morice] Gentlemen!
557
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,360
Gentlemen, a moment, please.
558
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,640
Let's listen
to what Mr. Rogers has to say.
559
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:58,840
Thank you.
560
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,280
I have a proposal for you all.
561
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:10,120
A private company of ships and men armed
to retake the seas and end this villainy.
562
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,240
But with the best of will,
563
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,120
these pirates are formidable sailors,
564
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:19,800
well-armed,
565
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,640
and emboldened
with a common resolve to villainy.
566
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,080
What if your armed expedition
isn't enough to defeat them?
567
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,920
And excellent observation.
568
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,080
Force alone won't be enough.
569
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,840
That's why I have another plan.
570
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,680
We're going to ask
the King to pardon them.
571
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:45,280
What?
572
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,120
I want them dead!
573
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,200
Drowned, hung, quartered!
574
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:54,920
Not fucking pardoned!
575
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,440
I know these men!
576
00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,680
I know them.
577
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:02,640
Let me explain.
578
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,080
They present a formidable front,
579
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:11,360
but in every wall there is always a crack.
580
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,320
A weak spot.
581
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,520
Pick at it long enough,
582
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,920
and the whole building
comes crumbling down.
583
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,640
And what is this weak spot?
584
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,160
Greed.
585
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,360
[narrator]
Rogers plans to divide the pirates.
586
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,480
[gulls crying]
587
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,680
The pardon would have
introduced an element of confusion
588
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,760
and infighting
amongst the pirates in the Bahamas.
589
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,320
When news of the pardon hits Nassau,
590
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,640
this is huge news for everybody.
591
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:48,000
You have to remember, a lot of the people
who've gone into being a pirate
592
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,640
have done so under desperation.
593
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:52,200
[soft music]
594
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,440
[door opens]
595
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:11,080
Wait!
596
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:13,280
Get off!
597
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Vane!
598
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,720
Is this genuine?
599
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,800
Aye.
600
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,000
- Vane!
- What is it?
601
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,440
Go and get Hornigold, now!
Tell him we need to parley.
602
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,800
What does it say?
603
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,000
[Jennings] It's an offer from the King.
604
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,360
A pardon!
605
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,600
[dramatic music]
606
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,200
[Woodward] The King's pardon
presented all of the pirates
607
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,120
with a decision that they never thought
that they would need to contemplate.
608
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,440
They'd all thought that when they
went into piracy it was a one way trip.
609
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,200
Suddenly, there was a choice.
610
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,360
[waves splashing]
611
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,800
[thunder cracks]
612
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,200
[narrator] Edward Thatch
is undergoing a metamorphosis.
613
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,000
[in unhinged voice] I'm Edward Thatch.
614
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,240
[narrator]
One that will seal his name in history.
615
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,600
Do you know who I am? I'm Edward Thatch.
616
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,680
[whispering] I'm Edward Thatch.
617
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,400
You can call it madness
or you can all it genius,
618
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,560
but it was probably a little bit of both.
619
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,400
[echoing] Do you know who I am?
620
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,040
It is possible that
after some time sailing,
621
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,040
his mind became a bit addled
due to effects of syphilis.
622
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,160
My name is Edward Thatch.
623
00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:41,840
[Simon] In some of the later stages,
624
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,040
it can cause peoples'
personality to change.
625
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,320
[eerie, unsettling music]
626
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,160
He created this image for himself,
627
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,720
he became "Blackbeard" instead of Thatch.
628
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,400
These both were
cast alive in a lake of fire.
629
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,040
With which he deceived them.
630
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,320
Burning and brimstone.
That worshiped the image.
631
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,200
He created this kind of rock star
persona before that was even a thing.
632
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,720
[eerie, unsettling music]
633
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,440
Attaching sulfurous fuses
634
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,880
to the end of his beard
and locks of his hair.
635
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,200
With three strands of pistols
and cutlasses upon him...
636
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,960
[fire crackling]
637
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,400
He wasn't any longer a person.
638
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,800
He was an entity,
a different character entirely.
639
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,400
He looked like a wild man. He looked
like he might be possessed by the devil.
640
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,760
[sulfur crackling]
641
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,560
This terrifying vision of hell and fury.
642
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,440
[cannon fire echoing]
643
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,400
[sulfur sparkling]
644
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:55,440
He became the most terrifying person
645
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,360
in the Western world.
646
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,520
My name is Blackbeard!
647
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,080
[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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