[to Flint] Let me see if I have this right. This is the fourth prize in a row from which the profits will barely exceed the expenses it took to win it. Singleton's out there trying to convince them to torture that poor bastard of a captain simply because he hasn't worked out how to get them to do it to you. But you're happy because you've discovered that the information we can't tell anybody we're looking for exists on a page... that we don't have.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I'm gonna go and see Richard. He can help me recreate the schedule.
Richard Guthrie?
Mm-hmm.
You think he's gonna help you?
Yes. Yes, I do.
Let's just for fun say that he doesn't. What then?
Then I'll forget about the schedule and go back to hunting fat, lazy merchantmen and everyone will be content.
This is one of those times where we pretend that we both don't know that you're lying.
If you want to hunt, my door is open. But if the mere whiff of the Navy is too much for you, then God bless and get the fuck out.
Pleasure should be shared equally. It's the only way to avoid hurt feelings.
[to Gates] You steal cargo at the end of a sword. We sell that cargo to markets that will never have you. When you are strong, you are a necessary evil. When you are not strong, you are likely soon to be dead. But what you are not ever is a sound investment.
Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.
[to Eleanor] You can never forget who these men are. They are not our friends. They are not our subjects. They want your father's business; that is the only reason why we do not find their knives at our throats.
Eleanor, your father sells my cargo. Whatever it is you're so upset about, I doubt he feels the same.
When I tell him you put our biggest earner out of business, he'll -
Remind you that Flint hasn't been your biggest earner in quite some time. You'll also be reminded of what you've always known but never accepted, that if forced, your father will always choose profits over daughters. Hate your father? I wouldn't blame you. Hate me, too, if you'd like. And if you feel the need, cling to Flint, and his legend and a past the rest of us have long outgrown. But make no mistake about it, whatever future this place has left, I'm it. And if you ever challenge me again in front of my crew, I may just forget that I loved you once.
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.
Now with this page securely in our possession, we can begin our hunt. And we will succeed no matter the cost. No matter the struggle, I will see that prize is yours. I'm not just gonna make you rich. I'm not just gonna make you strong. I'm gonna make you the princes of the New World.
What's coming our way can't be outrun. But with the money I strip from the Hulk, we could add fifty guns to the fort. We could build ships to defend our shores and train new man to sail them. We could work the land, grow crops, and raise cattle. Then whoever arrives on our shore first, be it England or Spain, will be in for a most unwelcome surprise. A nation of thieves.
If there is a be a war, that would be Whitehall's choice. I'd settle for a pardon, title on lands, and a governor I could trust. And so would most of the men out there. They're not animals. They're men starved of hope. Give that back to them, and who's to say what could happen?
Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost. The ghost tells him that once he reaches his home, once he... slays all his enemies and sets his house in order, he must do one last thing before he can rest. The ghost tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland, and keep walking until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that's where he'd find peace. In the end, that's all I want: to walk away from the sea and find some peace.
[to Billy] You saw the Scarborough. You know what's coming. We can't thieve forever.
Our crew is less than a day removed from a mutiny. I don't care how much gold you dangle in front of them, that hatred doesn't just disappear.
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