I think you misunderstand. I wasn't asking you to help me; I was granting you the opportunity to help me.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I don't know how else to say this but 'no.' I suppose there's 'fuck no.' Or 'fuck you.'
You've never seen a mob turn, have you? Funny thing. The people most surprised when it happens are usually the ones who gave rise to it in the first place.
Guilt is natural. It also goes away it you let it.
They have a chance at something better than that, but it isn't going to happen unless someone makes it happen.
If I don't lie to them, who will? Everyone's lied to for their own good--every mother who tells their child that everything will be all right, every soldier who's told by his commander that courage will see them through.
If no one knows, then everyone wins. Absent their worst instincts, their pride, their greed, their suspicion, in the light of pure reason, who says no to this? They'll be rich men in a safe place rather than dead thieves on a long rope. I'm gonna deliver them. I'm gonna deliver them into something better.
[to Flint] I know what happened on the Marie Aleyne. You told me the man you killed was reaching for a weapon. You told me it was self-defense. But there were no weapons in that cabin. I went and I looked. And I still kept my mouth shut. I don't know why, but I know you used the crew to assassinate those people. Men died that day. Our men. And I suspect there's been other times when we've been expendable to you. And if yesterday was one of those days, then you and I have a problem, because Billy wasn't expendable to me. He was a son to me.
[to Flint] I'm tired of this. I'm tired of the energy it takes to believe you. To believe in you.
[to Mr. Scott] My life is my own. It's not Benjamin Hornigold's, it's not Charles Vane's, it's not my father's, and it's not yours.
[to Flint] The outcome is only uncertain to those who disbelieve. I believe in this place. I believe if there's anyone who can do what's necessary to make it something better, it's you.
If I wanted to kill you, I'd've done it already.
No man is rich who could have a lot more by doing less.
You don't know me, but you once did, when I was the lowest among you. Now I've returned. And I offer you a chance to be free of this place. I'm Charles Vane. And you were a strong crew once, proper pirates. Feared as you should have been, before he dragged you away from the sea, before he convinced you to live here like animals. Because it suits his weaknesses. There is a place not far from here where strong men live lives of pleasure, not labor, a place where you could be feared and respected once again. Follow me, and I will show you what life is.
I'm sorry. You know I would never intentionally put you in any kind of danger.
What was your intent? What was it? To destroy everything we've tried to build here for the past ten years? Or was it just to embarrass me?
To show you a way out of all this. To free you.
A way out? Have you no memory of how we got here? What they took from us?
What does it matter now?
What does it matter?
What does it matter what happened then if we have no life now? Because there is no life here, there is no joy here, there is no love here!
What are you talking about? What do you think I'm out there fighting for if not to make all those things possible here?
You'll fight a war so we can make a life?
You don't get one without the other, my sweet.
No. You're wrong. I sent that letter to show you that you're wrong. There is a life in Boston. There is joy there, and music, and peace. The door is open. I've opened it for you. And it requires no war and no blood and no sacrifice.
It requires an intolerable sacrifice.
To accept a pardon?
To apologize.
Apologize? Who will you be apologizing to?
To England. They took everything from us. And then they called me a monster. The moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right. This ends when I grant them my forgiveness. Not the other way around.
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