Black Sails

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[first lines, the text that appears on screen] 1715 West Indies

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The Pirates of New Providence Island threaten maritime trade in the region. The laws of every civilized nation declare them hostis humani generis. Enemies of all mankind. In response, the pirates adhere to a doctrine of their own...

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War against the world.

Captain Flint:
When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.

Max:
We could have left. We could have been free. He didn't do this to me. You did.

Captain Benjamin Hornigold:
[to Gates] Don't be pleasant with me. I know why you're here.

Gates:
[Referring to Flint] He thinks you don't like him.

Captain Benjamin Hornigold:
He's right! The man's arrogant and presumptuous.

Captain Benjamin Hornigold:
[to Gates] After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.

Gates:
[Exasperated with Flint who has just almost ruined a crucial meeting with Vane that Gates is desperately trying to conciliate] That was my fault. Entirely my fault. I should have been clearer when I prepared you for this meeting. When I said we would need to keep our tempers in check if we were going to make this meeting happen, I should have specified we would need to do so for the duration of the meeting as well. Not to worry. Simple setback. Now we clarity and a unity of vision. I feel good. You? [Flint gives him a hard long look then walks a way without a word]

Captain Charles Vane:
[to Eleanor] Be honest. Are you as surprised as I am that I'm the only one here behaving myself?

Captain Flint:
Let's beach this b*tch.

Captain Flint:
Never was there a Caesar that couldn't sing the tune.

Gates:
I hope you know what you're doing.

Captain Flint:
So do I.

Gates:
[to Flint] Billy wasn't expendable to me. He was a son.

Gates:
[to Flint] I'm tired of the energy it takes to believe you. To believe *in* you.

[during their conversation in the cabin Ned Low's ship was taken by Charles Vane's men]

Ned Low:
Mr. Holmes?

Captain Charles Vane:
Mr. Holmes doesn't work here anymore.

[Rackham interrupts his threesome with Max and Anne when he hears cannon-fire outside]

Rackham:
It would appear we lost track of time.

Captain Flint:
The only thing I'm ashamed of is that I didn't do something to save him when we had the chance. That instead, I listened to you.

Captain Flint:
[Shocked to see Miranda in town while he is preparing to attack the fort] What are you doing here?

Miranda Barlow:
I need to speak with you alone.

Captain Flint:
You need to leave here *right* now. I will see you when I am able.

Miranda Barlow:
[He starts to walk away, but she stops him] I've come upon some information which changes things for you. You must not move against that fort.

Captain Flint:
Miranda, you don't understand what's going on...

Miranda Barlow:
I understand why you need that fort. I understand why you need that gold. I understand why you need this island. I understand it all because I was there the day our lives ended, and all of this began. But, I have been devoted to you since that day. I have been loyal... and protective - *Look* at me! - committed to you since that day. Now, I am *asking* you to come with me so that I can save your life.

Captain Flint:
[Thomas has been committed to a hospital, and he and Miranda are to leave England] We're not leaving.

Miranda Barlow:
James...

Captain Flint:
We're going to get him out of there.

Miranda Barlow:
We can't.

Captain Flint:
Watch me!

Miranda Barlow:
You think you're angry about this?

Captain Flint:
I'm beyond that!

Miranda Barlow:
I am *enraged*! [Softly] He is my husband.

Captain Flint:
[Arguing with Miranda about the possibility of asking Peter Ash for help,] This is too important to put all our fates in the hands of one man. Especially a man so committed to seeing me and everyone else I know hanged in his harbor!

Miranda Barlow:
There is no other way to achieve what you want to achieve.

Captain Flint:
Yes, there *is*! It is sitting on a beach filled with Spanish soldiers, and I am through delaying!

Miranda Barlow:
There is no other way once you're willing to tell the truth about your intentions here!

Captain Flint:
[Grimly] I think that I have made my intentions very clear.

Miranda Barlow:
No! You've been anything but clear. You say you fight for the sake of Nassau, for the sake of your men, for the sake of Thomas! And his memory. But, the truth of the matter is it isn't for any of those things.

Captain Flint:
What the *f**** do you think I am fighting for?

Miranda Barlow:
I think you're fighting for the sake of fighting! Because it's the only state in which you can function. The only way to keep that voice in your head from driving you mad!

Captain Flint:
What are you talking about? What voice?

Miranda Barlow:
[Gently] The one telling you to be ashamed of yourself. For having loved him. [He sits down heavily as memories flood him] You were told that it was shameful. And part of you believed it. Thomas was my husband. I loved him, and he loved me. But, what he shared with you... it was entirely something else. It's time you allowed yourself to accept that.

Captain Flint:
[Voice gruff with grief and shame] The only thing I'm ashamed of... is that I didn't do something to save him... while we had the chance. That instead I listened to you.

Captain Charles Vane:
You know who I am? What you cannot know, is where I come from, what I once was. If you knew that, I imagine you would've made different choices today.

Anne Bonny:
I was at every tavern in that town trying to find us spies, build out this thing we started. And every time I said my name, they knew my name. The first thing they said every time was your name. Like we was two halves of the same thing. I can't be your wife, Jack. But you and I are gonna be partners till they put us in the f***ing ground.

Captain Flint:
I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason, could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.

Captain Flint:
People can say what they like about you, but you're a good man. More people should say that. And someone should be willing to defend it.