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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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- [pirates cheering]
- Nassau, the new Pirate Republic.
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[pirates cheer]
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[narrator] The Pirate Republic of Nassau,
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founded by Benjamin Hornigold, gets fat...
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[shot echoes]
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...attacking trade between
Britain and the Americas.
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She looks loaded, lads.
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[pirates cheer]
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[cannon fire echoing]
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[narrator] But its foundations are rocked
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by the death of the most
successful pirate who ever lived.
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Black Sam Bellamy,
washed up on a New England beach...
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[screaming madly]
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...with his ill-gotten fortune
at the bottom of the Atlantic.
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But Edward Thatch reinvents himself...
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[in unhinged voice]
Do you know who I am? I'm Edward Thatch.
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[narrator] ...and becomes
the most devilish pirate of all.
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My name is Blackbeard!
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[cannon fire echoing]
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Faster, faster!
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[narrator]
The Crown turns a blind eye to piracy
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so long as it feeds off foreign ships,
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but when the pirates
seize British slave vessels,
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that gets London's attention.
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And when news get back that in Nassau,
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freed slaves enjoy
the same freedom as the white man,
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that is the final straw.
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White men consorting with savages.
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I will give you
everything you need, Rogers,
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but you must stamp this cancer out.
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[narrator]
So, ruthless pirate hunter Woodes Rogers
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comes up with a plan.
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We're going to ask
the King to pardon them.
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- Vane!
- What is it?
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Go and get Hornigold. Now.
Tell him we need to parley.
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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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[narrator]
Any pirate who refuses the pardon
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will face the might of the Royal Navy.
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[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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[suspenseful music]
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[narrator] For more than two years,
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the pirates of Nassau have been
terrorizing shipping in the Caribbean.
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Now, in a shock move,
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the British Crown
has offered to pardon them.
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Captain Jennings,
may I introduce Jack Rackham.
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[dramatic music]
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Where is Hornigold?
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[forced laugh]
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They call him Calico Jack,
'cause he wears...
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"Calico"?
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Where is Hornigold?
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[Rackham]
What's the king thinking? A pardon?
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Does he believe we're so easily bought?
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Perhaps you could explain to your new
companion the delicate calculations,
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the complex issues at play here.
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I fear he's a little lost.
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The pardon was the first stage
in pacifying the pirates of Nassau.
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[Woodward] Suddenly, there was a choice.
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Do you want to come
back into civilization,
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and you can keep all the plunder you took
and be absolved of your past crimes?
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Or do you want
to continue in this uprising?
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Now where the fuck is Hornigold?
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- I don't...
- [Hornigold] Captain Jennings?
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Your nightmare is over.
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Looks like you're free
to go back to Jamaica.
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[Lawrence] Jennings knew
it meant he could return to legitimacy.
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He had a couple of plantations.
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He was an owner of slaves.
He was a gentlemen.
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You're not seriously
considering taking this?
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Poor Vane.
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An ape in the body of a man.
The world must be utterly bewildering.
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My advice?
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Enjoy what little delights
this godforsaken place has to offer
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while you still can.
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[somber music]
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[Lawrence] Charles Vane couldn't
have felt anything other than betrayed
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because here was his old mentor
not giving him a moment's thought.
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He's just a common sailor, no education,
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no status,
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and that's what he would have to
return to should he accept the pardon.
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The question is,
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what does poor Captain Hornigold do
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now he has to give his kingdom
back to the Crown?
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[laughs]
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Well,
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truth is,
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I've grown rather fond of this old place.
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If the Crown sees
an honest future for Nassau,
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they'll need good men
to help realize that.
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[tense music]
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[narrator]
Having made peace with his old enemy...
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[Jennings] Gentlemen.
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...Jennings sails to Bermuda,
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where he is pardoned
and retires from a life of piracy.
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[indistinct tavern chatter]
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[somber music]
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[Vane screams angrily]
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Drink?
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This is all your fucking pardon's worth.
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[foreboding music]
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[Fox] Hornigold wanted
to return to legitimate society.
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That relied on other people
accepting the pardon as well,
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not causing a fuss, not bringing
the authorities down on Nassau
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as a place where
the pirates were unrepentant.
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[wind blowing]
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[somber music]
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[narrator] The British send a mission
led by Captain Vincent Pearse
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into the heart of the pirate lair
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to follow up on
the King's offer of a pardon.
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Jesus.
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[ship creaking]
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[Woodward] This is a very tense moment.
A moment of brinksmanship.
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Right, you have
a Royal Navy vessel for the first time
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coming right into
the lion's mouth of Nassau harbor.
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Steady, men. Steady.
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[indistinct sailors' chatter]
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[tense music]
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I'm Captain Vincent Pearse
of His Majesty's Royal Navy.
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I am here to deliver King George's
proclamation for suppressing pirates.
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We read that. Captain Benjamin Hornigold.
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So, you accept?
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In the main.
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There are complications.
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What do you mean?
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Pirate politics
requires delicate politicking.
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But as fate would have it,
I'll be at your service.
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So, you're in charge?
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[Hornigold] Charge? No.
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This is a republic.
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But I speak for most.
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[Lunsford] Hornigold has
an opportunity to advance himself
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if he plays this just right.
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He knew that they couldn't hold Nassau,
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that eventually
this pirate republic that they had there
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couldn't last forever, it had to end.
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I will need food and lodgings for my men.
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Officer, disembark.
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The last thing I want is
to put down a rebellion here.
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And he knew that the best way
of ending it on good terms
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would be for as many pirates
as possible to accept the pardon.
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[somber music]
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[narrator]
But not everyone is going to give up
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the lucrative pirate life so easily.
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[gulls crying]
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[indistinct sailors' chatter]
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[chuckling]
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Mmm.
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What are they saying?
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- You won't believe it.
- [Blackbeard] Try me.
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A message from your king.
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He's offering a pardon.
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On what terms?
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All debts canceled.
We can keep whatever we have.
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Freedom with no strings.
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[sinister music]
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[Woodward] Blackbeard,
true to form, took news of the pardon
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and made his decisions
in a strategic sense.
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You can see how he was chess-playing.
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How he was planning
many moves ahead in everything he did.
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[sinister music]
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[indistinct chatter]
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[narrator] In Nassau,
Vane is rising as the leader
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of the pirates against the pardon.
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[Woodward] Charles Vane had no interest
in taking amnesty from the King
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or from leaving piracy at all.
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His reactions were
not only defiant but violently defiant.
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This...
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pardon...
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says we're off the hook, yes?
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That you can keep your booty...
and wipe the slate clean.
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Okay.
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So, that's good...
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if you've been raiding...
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if you've been busy.
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But not every one of us here have been
trousering the same level of reward.
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And what we have left from drinking
and whoring isn't worth a damn.
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And now His Majesty's ship has arrived.
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Did he send ships
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to feed us when we were hungry?
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Did he? Fuck no!
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He sends ships to demand
we give up our republic for nothing!
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[scoffs] And here's the best bit.
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If we do it,
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they'll forgive us.
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So much for what this pardon says.
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Here's what I say...
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Charles Vane, you're under arrest.
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Just him.
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[dramatic music]
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This is Hornigold's doing!
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[narrator] With Vane in jail,
the rebellion looks like it's over.
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[men shouting]
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[narrator] But Blackbeard continues
to bring terror to the high seas.
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[growling]
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[cannon fire echoing]
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[male pirate] Slave trader! Starboard.
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Just a sparkly, boys.
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[dramatic music]
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We got another fat rat to catch.
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[narrator] He's playing havoc
with Britain's big money slave trade.
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[people groaning]
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It's impossible to overstate the...
the horror of a slave vessel.
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- [cannon fire echoing]
- [people groaning]
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[man sobbing]
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[Walker] They spend months at sea
in unbelievably cramped quarters...
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[door creaks]
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To have been boarded
by a group of pirates would have been
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yet another confusing moment
in an already confusing time.
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You are no longer slaves!
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You are now subject to the laws of piracy.
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On a vessel where
all men receive fair treatment!
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[chains clinking]
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[Walker] For someone like Black Caesar,
who himself had been enslaved,
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he could understand and relate
to the experience of these captives.
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[chains clinking]
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[emotional music]
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[in African dialect]
What awaits you at the end of this journey
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is a lifetime of hardship, of bondage.
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We offer freedom and equality.
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We won't harm you.
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[solemn music]
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[in English] These men are savages.
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Are you mad?
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[Blackbeard scoffs]
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Ah.
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[unsettling music]
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Mad?
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Why, I'm Blackbeard.
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Of course I'm mad.
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I'm as mad as a fox.
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All hands on deck!
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[footsteps retreating]
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Mad as a fox.
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Tell your friends.
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[somber music]
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[narrator] Blackbeard's
disruption of the slave trade
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is vexing Britain's colonial elite.
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Men like Alexander Spotswood,
the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
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[approaching footsteps]
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Governor.
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Damn them.
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Pirates?
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Blackbeard gets bolder by the day.
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The sight of any ship on the horizon,
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merchant captains are returning to port.
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Without fresh slaves,
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our economy stagnates.
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I ask for gunships,
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they send a pardon.
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I've been warning them for months.
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If London will do nothing,
we must help ourselves.
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[waves splashing]
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[narrator]
In Nassau, the jailed Charles Vane
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has become a figurehead
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for pirates opposed to
the British offer of a pardon.
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- [Hornigold talking indistinctly]
- Was it you?
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- What's happened?
- You've been talking with Pearse.
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- You were seen.
- What has happened?
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How much did he promise you?
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The captain clearly doesn't know
what you're talking about.
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Help him out.
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They've arrested Vane.
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[narrator] The news threatens to undermine
Hornigold's plan to promote the pardon.
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What power has the King's pardon
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if on taking it in good faith
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you still find yourself
dancing at the end of a rope?
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How can honest men be asked
to turn their back on lawlessness
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if they cannot trust the King's word?
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[Woodward] When Vincent Pearse
captured Charles Vane and his crew,
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this presented a problem.
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There was a possibility
that all of the trust would be lost.
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If a number of the pirates were
being arrested at the very moment
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that a pardon was being offered,
could you trust the Crown?
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Could you trust the Royal Navy and
the authorities not to double-cross them?
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[narrator]
Benjamin Hornigold's influence is waning
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as younger pirates
like Anne Bonny question him.
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Anne Bonny.
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Jack Rackham.
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[foreboding music]
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[waves splashing]
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Gently but briskly, men. Bring it up.
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[indistinct sailors' chatter]
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You arrested Vane.
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Best way to deal with a cancer
is to cut it out before it spreads.
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You bloody fool.
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This is Nassau, not a Royal Navy frigate.
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The only thing that
holds this place together is trust.
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Honor amongst thieves?
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The one thing standing between
a pirate captain and death is his word.
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No courts, no army,
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just his word.
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Military support from England
is months away, and believe me,
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if this lot see an injustice,
they don't tend to think that far ahead.
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Hang Vane...
and you're never gonna leave this island.
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Let met me speak to him.
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I'll get you a declaration.
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A public renouncement of villainy
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and a commitment to an honest future.
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Justice is seen to be done,
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and we can get on with transforming Nassau
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into a valuable trading post
for king and country.
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I have your word?
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My future depends on it.
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[somber music]
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[crickets chirping]
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[flies buzzing]
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[lock rattles, door opens]
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[sighs]
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Well, I'll not pretend otherwise,
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I couldn't care if you hang or not,
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but in interest of harmony,
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I've spoken with Captain Pearse
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and you have a route to freedom.
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Take the pardon,
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get the others to follow,
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and you'll be free.
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Free to do what, exactly?
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Free not to choke at the end of a rope.
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Oh, back to servitude?
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To meager pickings?
With Charlie Vane, the whipping boy?
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[laughs] Not anymore.
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From where I stand,
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hanging is my only route to freedom.
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Charles Vane. Born a dog, died a dog.
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Is that to be the total of it?
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Nothing is written, piracy or no.
328
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,320
Nah, I've already seen
the end of my story.
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Eleven years old, I was, Wapping Docks.
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I watched a man who fought
for his country, and hung for his efforts.
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It was at that moment, I knew
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I'd go out like that man.
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Like Captain Kidd.
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You saw Kidd hang?
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- What's it to you?
- I knew him.
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[Lawrence] Paulsgrave Williams'
family is related to Captain Kidd,
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and here's Charles Vane,
who as a boy from Wapping,
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saw the execution of this hero.
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- [crowd clamoring]
- [slow drumming]
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[narrator] Captain William Kidd
was one of the early pirate legends.
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His execution was a major public event.
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[man] The way of transgressors is hard.
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Amen.
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God bless Captain Kidd.
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[crowd]
Here, here! God bless Captain Kidd.
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[Kidd choking]
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[somber music]
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[Lawrence] Even though
they come from enemy camps,
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they're drawn together
by this shared history.
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How did he hold himself on the gallows?
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Be honest.
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He died a hero.
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Course he did.
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When Kidd hanged,
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he stood alone.
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But if you hang,
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the others will follow you.
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Follow me?
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[Williams] Did you not realize?
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Charles Vane,
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you command quite the following.
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You, I dare say,
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are the leader of the anti-pardon faction.
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[scoffs lightly]
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[chuckles softly]
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00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,440
What, I'm the leader of a...
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A faction?
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A faction ready to do your bidding.
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[Woodward]
Many people on the island realize that
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if you wanted to get behind somebody
who was going to go all the way
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and keep attacking the Empire,
Vane was definitely your man.
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If you turn down the pardon,
they will follow you to the gallows.
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But if I sign the pardon,
I'll be a sell-out.
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What kind of leader
would I be then of my "faction"?
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- A smart one.
- [scoffs]
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A strategist.
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- A politician.
- A politician?
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Play the system.
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Take the pardon, bide your time,
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and live to fight another day.
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As Kidd would have done.
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No doubting it.
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Don't give Pearse what he wants.
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Carry your men with you.
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00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,760
And when the King loses interest
in Nassau, as he surely will,
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you'll have a loyal crew
ready to take from the Spanish traders
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the wealth that is rightfully yours.
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00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,880
In a tactical moment,
every once in a while you need to
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retreat a step or two
into a defensive position.
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00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,920
This was one of those times
where Vane allowed himself
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to take a breath and pause
so he could fight again another day.
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Jailer, tell Captain Pearse
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that the leader of the anti-pardon faction
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has accepted terms.
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[thunder cracks]
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[narrator] Charles Vane
may have succumbed for now,
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but not all the up-and-coming
pirates want the pardon.
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00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,960
[Duncombe] Anne Bonny and
Jack Rackham shareda love at first sight.
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00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,440
I think they both sort of
represented a novelty to each other.
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00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,880
You've got Jack,
who's this dashing man in fancy clothes,
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00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,320
and then you have Anne,
who is this fiery woman.
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00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:34,640
What about Anne?
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00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,240
Is there more to you than a bonny face?
404
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:43,240
It makes sense that
they were drawn to one another.
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00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:47,840
Anne Bonny is done with men
that promise her the earth
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and give her dirt.
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00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,120
[somber violin music]
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00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,960
And what would
Anne Bonny do if she were this man?
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If Anne Bonny were dashing Calico Jack,
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he would say...
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[soft laugh]
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He would say
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that the pardon has come too soon.
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00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,840
That England is a long,
long way from the Caribbean,
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and that while the sun is shining,
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he will make hay.
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[narrator] As Anne Bonny and Calico Jack
conspire against the pardon,
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Blackbeard is sailing
up the coast of mainland America.
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With 700 men at his command,
no ship or settlement is safe,
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00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,720
but when he heads to Charleston,
he isn't looking for gold.
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00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,520
He's desperate for a particular medicine.
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00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,560
[somber music]
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00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,880
Blackbeard is hiding a dirty secret.
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Syphilis.
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00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,840
[unsettling music]
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00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,880
Mercury was a thing whichbasically
kills everything, including humans.
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00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,760
It's a very toxic element.
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00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,320
[foreboding music]
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[Lawrence]
They'd put the mercury in a large syringe,
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and that was inserted
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00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,240
straight into the penis.
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00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,520
And they would inject
the liquid metal of mercury
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into the penis and through to the bladder.
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00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:53,120
[foreboding music]
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00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,800
How bad must the pain
of syphilis have to be,
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that this was the cure
that Blackbeard was desperate for?
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00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,560
[tense music]
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[waves splashing]
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00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:25,480
[narrator] Back in the Bahamas,
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Hornigold is negotiating
with Captain Pearse
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00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,400
about the future of Nassau...
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00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:31,480
Thank you, my love.
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00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,440
[narrator] ...once the pardon is accepted.
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00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,560
The fort is key.
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00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:37,240
The King may think
he's at peace with Spain,
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00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,720
but they're as busy
against us as they've ever been.
447
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,680
We need housing, farms,
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00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,520
and it's been a long while since
we had a proper seat of governance.
449
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,120
So, the governor's house
needs renovating, and then
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a town hall
and a court house in due course.
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00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,520
It must have felt
quite good to go from being
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kind of in an outlaw capacity
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to being recognized as almost an equal
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by the representative
of the King of England.
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00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,680
[narrator] But politics is
never plain sailing in Nassau.
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00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,400
Captain Pearse,
Charles Vane and his men are gone.
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00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,840
[foreboding music]
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00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,520
Tell your men to guard the port.
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00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,680
If they're not taking a sloop, they'll
be heading to the jungle and I can...
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00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:18,760
Shut up!
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00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,720
- [Hornigold] I...
- Shut up!
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00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,840
[somber music]
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00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,440
[hits table]
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[Lawrence] Pearse must have
looked at Hornigold and thought,
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"Who is this man?
Is he really who he says he is?"
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00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,680
Immediately, Ben Hornigold's
standing in Pearse's eyes drops.
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00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,760
[narrator] Vane is an outlaw again,
but now he's captain of his own ship.
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[Vane] The seas here
are rich with fat traders
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hauling their fortunes
from the Americas to Europe.
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[crew cheering]
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00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,000
So, let's take our shark navy
into the shoals and gorge ourselves.
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00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,440
Let's get fat, boys.
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00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:02,560
[crew] Yeah!
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00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,120
Fatter than any London merchant.
Fatter than our German king.
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00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,920
[crew] Yeah!
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00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,040
[pirate] Merchant sail on the horizon!
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00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,080
Hoist the black!
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00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,360
We have prey.
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00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,160
[Woodward] Charles Vane,
at this point, could have gone anywhere,
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but he sticks around
preying on the shipping
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00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,440
coming back and forth to Nassau.
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00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,560
He's doing his best
to punch the new regime in the face
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00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,760
over and over again.
484
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,120
It was now
Charles Vane unbound, so to speak.
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00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,640
[clamor of battle above deck]
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00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,520
Search the hold.
487
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,240
I want every barrel, box, crate,
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chest, man, woman searched
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00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,680
for every valuable
this shit-box ship is carrying,
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00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,600
and if anyone gives you any trouble...
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00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,760
kill them.
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00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,680
[woman cries softly]
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00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,160
[woman cries louder]
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00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,320
[sobs]
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00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,280
[whimpers, thuds]
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00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,520
[sound of ransacking]
497
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,360
[indistinct pirates' chatter]
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00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,480
[Woodward]
Charles Vane is now his own captain.
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00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,920
He's not serving under Henry Jennings.
The lid is off, so to speak.
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He becomes less and less restrained.
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00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:28,600
More and more violent.
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00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,160
[shouting] Is this all? Is this it?
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00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,960
[coins clatter]
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00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,680
He starts sadistically
torturing the captives.
505
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,360
No, no, no. No!
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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,720
- Hold him.
- [man groans]
507
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,200
- [Vane] Keep him still.
- [man screams]
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00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,000
[continues screaming]
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00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,760
You can't speak to somebody
at length about Charles Vane
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00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,480
without the word psychopath.
511
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,640
[inaudible taunts, jeering]
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00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,320
Hold him.
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00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,280
Hold him.
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00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,320
[Conniff] This isn't just
a pirate brand designed to create fear,
515
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,040
this is a man in obviously
an extreme mindset
516
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:16,840
inflicting extreme violence.
517
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,920
[somber music]
518
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,800
[narrator]
As word of Vane's rampage hits Nassau,
519
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,760
Captain Pearse flees
to the safety of New York,
520
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,760
his mission in tatters.
521
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,080
[gulls crying]
522
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,360
In London, pirate-hunter Woodes Rogers
523
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,360
is preparing to bring Nassau to heel...
524
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:43,680
[soldier] Sir?
525
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,920
...once and for all.
526
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,280
We'll need more ordnance.
527
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,600
Let us plan for a protracted siege,
528
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,800
though if God is just,
the pardon will have done its worst.
529
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,240
- Very good, sir.
- Carry on.
530
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,160
Rogers would have known that many of them
would have accepted the pardon,
531
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:08,760
and that made his life a lot easier
by reducing the pirate ranks.
532
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,960
But it also introduced an element
of confusion and infighting
533
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,480
amongst the pirates in the Bahamas.
534
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,280
That may have been part of the plan.
Divide and conquer.
535
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,240
You there,
are they the pamphlets I ordered?
536
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,160
[narrator]
Rogers will lead the largest force
537
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,040
ever unleashed on the pirates
538
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,360
and he's confident he has God on his side.
539
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:35,880
[soldier] Sir.
540
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:38,760
Do your duty, gentlemen.
541
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,480
[somber music]
542
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,480
[waves splashing]
543
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,160
[narrator] The Pirate Republic
is more ungodly than ever
544
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:11,880
under the new management of Charles Vane.
545
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,280
[women moaning]
546
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,600
[laughter]
547
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,960
- [men] Come here! Get in!
- [captive] Please!
548
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,480
[pirates] Captain.
549
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:31,680
[Vane] Look at me.
550
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,680
Look at me. Where's Hornigold?
551
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,160
Where's the turncoat?
Look at me when I'm talking to you!
552
00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:42,600
[narrator] Benjamin Hornigold
knows what Vane is capable of...
553
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,120
[man choking, screaming]
554
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,640
...and has gone into hiding.
555
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,080
Go.
556
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,120
[chokes, screams]
557
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,160
- [shot echoes]
- [body thuds]
558
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:57,840
[man gasps final breath]
559
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:58,920
[Vane laughs]
560
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:01,080
[kissing]
561
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,520
[tavern silent]
562
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,480
[Vane] Gentleman Thatch.
563
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,880
Or is it the ferocious Blackbeard?
[laughs jeeringly]
564
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,160
Come, sit with me.
We have a lot to discuss.
565
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,000
[narrator] Vane sees
Blackbeard's return as an opportunity.
566
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,640
[Fox] Vane must have thought
that this was an answer to a prayer.
567
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,200
This was exactly what
they needed to re-enforce the island.
568
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,760
To resist the authorities
when they eventually arrived.
569
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,840
With Blackbeard and his fleet there,
they could hold out perhaps indefinitely.
570
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,160
Jennings has fled.
571
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,920
Hornigold has betrayed us.
572
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,000
But we prevail.
573
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:49,840
Work for me.
574
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,000
Your ships under my ultimate command.
575
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,960
We could turn Nassau into
a formidable base against the Crown.
576
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,440
With my fleet and my men?
577
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,440
Of course.
578
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,280
Sounds like the Crown
have got a problem on their hands.
579
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,080
They will.
580
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,080
Nah, I've got more important business.
581
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,280
[pint clinks]
582
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,480
[tense music]
583
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,160
You're not seriously thinking
about staying with that lunatic?
584
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:45,840
Don't worry,
585
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,320
I'm not long for Nassau.
586
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,160
I set sail soon.
587
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,240
Sail with me.
588
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,040
I've got plans for a new Nassau.
589
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,400
This time
with the protection of a governor.
590
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,120
Thank you, Thatch,
591
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,960
but my future lies in Madagascar.
592
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,720
As far away from this place as I can sail.
593
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,800
[somber, mournful music]
594
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,840
Good luck, my friend.
595
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:24,920
You, too.
596
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,600
[narrator] Paulsgrave Williams
never returns to Nassau.
597
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,520
Blackbeard also sees his future elsewhere.
598
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,560
In mainland North America.
599
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,000
[somber music]
600
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,480
We'll be making our way down here.
601
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,440
North Carolina.
602
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,520
[narrator] Blackbeard has struck a deal
with their governor, Charles Eden,
603
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,080
to take the pardon
and carry on his piracy.
604
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,240
[Woodward] It was a sort of
bastard colony at the time.
605
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,120
There were very few
European settlers there.
606
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,080
This colony in this precarious situation
607
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,000
needed Blackbeard and his core supporters.
608
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,040
They have a lack
of investment, a lack of militia.
609
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,200
We're going to bring it to them.
610
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,200
[narrator]
Unlike their other colonies in America,
611
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,680
the British Crown
doesn't govern North Carolina.
612
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,120
Crown colonies
all report back to the Crown.
613
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,360
They're under
very tight government control,
614
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:39,840
but proprietary colonies
are run by groups of investors.
615
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,240
So, they are much less
interested in law and order,
616
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,240
and much more interested in profit.
617
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,880
We can give that to them.
618
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:50,960
Once we've done that,
619
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,800
we're presented with this.
620
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,400
A pardon.
621
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,680
For us and all of our men.
622
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,960
[Fox] He hand-picked
the people that traveled with him.
623
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,440
The majority of that crew
were Black former slaves.
624
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,560
Everything worked out
absolutely perfectly for him.
625
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:15,760
Helmsman,
626
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,200
set a course for Bath,
627
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,360
North Carolina.
628
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,920
[narrator] And with that,
629
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,240
Blackbeard sets course
for the dirtiest double-cross
630
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,800
in pirate history.
631
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,960
[indistinct chatter]
632
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,240
[door opens]
633
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:52,640
Governor Eden.
634
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:54,440
I can grant you that pardon.
635
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,800
For you and your crew.
636
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,440
I do, however, require a down payment.
637
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,360
A gesture of goodwill
to seal our partnership.
638
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,880
Don't worry, you'll be handsomely paid.
639
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:12,880
[narrator] Blackbeard has
a commodity more valuable than gold.
640
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,080
[somber music]
641
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,720
[Walker]
By the time he ends up in North Carolina,
642
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,880
he has a clear sense of how
to turn these people into money.
643
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,640
[chains rattling]
644
00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:30,920
[Fox] Blackbeard didn't have
great ideas of racial equality.
645
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,520
To him, they were slaves,
and they always were slaves.
646
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,800
[men grunting]
647
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,360
In many ways it seems like
a betrayal of his loyalty to them.
648
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,400
- [chains rattling]
- [men groaning]
649
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,640
[narrator]
Blackbeard goes from liberating slaves...
650
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:50,000
[men grunting]
651
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:51,800
...to selling them.
652
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,040
[somber music]
653
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:07,400
[narrator] The ideals
of the Pirate Republic are falling apart.
654
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,360
It's capital, Nassau, is on the brink.
655
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,280
[waves splashing]
656
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:20,880
[rushing footsteps approaching]
657
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,080
[panting] There are ships off Nassau.
658
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,720
An armada.
659
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,600
It looks like Royal Navy.
660
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,840
[somber music]
661
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,080
Can you write?
662
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:43,200
Yeah.
663
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,840
- [ships creaking]
- [waves splashing]
664
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:53,280
[narrator] It'll take more than
a letter to appease Woodes Rogers.
665
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,600
The pirate-hunter means business.
666
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,480
We have them outnumbered,
667
00:41:58,560 --> 00:41:59,960
outgunned,
668
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:01,760
and trapped.
669
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,320
Gentlemen,
670
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,800
let us rid this port
671
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,480
once and for all
672
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,160
of the godless scum that infest it.
673
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,680
[dramatic swashbuckling music]
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