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[waves splashing]

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[narrator] July 1715.

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A 12-year war against England
leaves Spain broke.

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[cannon fire echoing]

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[narrator]
A Spanish fleet sets sail from Cuba,

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laden with enough gold and silver
to bail out the bankrupt superpower.

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[wind howling, thunder rumbling]

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[narrator] But it never arrives.

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Spain's wealth lies scattered
on the sea bed off Florida.

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The windfall attracts hordes
of rogues, privateers and buccaneers

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along the Eastern Seaboard
of the Americas.

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These pirates of the Caribbean
gorge on treasure.

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They make merry…

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and they change the world.

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They liberate slaves…

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You are no longer slaves.
You are now subject to the laws of piracy.

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[narrator]
Create their own democratic republic…

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[all] Aye!

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-Nassau, the new Pirate Republic.
-[pirates] Nassau!

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[narrator] And pave the way
for the American revolution.

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[dramatic swashbuckling music]

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[narrator] The biggest winner
from the Spanish bonanza

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is the pirate town
of Nassau in the Bahamas.

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There had been other pirate settlements
in different places,

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but none of them had worked
quite the same way that Nassau did.

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-[wind blowing]
-[dogs barking]

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There was a fort there. People stayed,
they built a community on the land,

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and that's more or less
unique in pirate history.

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[light rock music]

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[narrator] Fat on the Spanish bullion,
Nassau becomes a boomtown.

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Larger and larger numbers

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of pirate-minded people
were showing up there

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and starting to develop
an economy around themselves.

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A lot more demand
for people working in taverns,

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as well as a lot more sex workers.

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[women moaning]

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We are talking
a pretty serious boom in prostitution.

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[narrator]
But pirates are not the stuff of fiction.

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They are real people.

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Men like Edward Thatch,
later known as Blackbeard,

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his sidekick,
Black Caesar, a former slave,

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and the pied pirate
that led them all there,

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Captain Benjamin Hornigold.

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Hornigold sees himself a bit
as the Godfather of the whole scene

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and this was his ideas that
have led to the formation of Nassau.

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[prostitute moaning]

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[narrator] It seems that every rogue,
sailor, and adventurer in the Americas

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is being drawn to his pirate haven.

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Nassau was a place
that existed outside of the law.

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You could leave your old life behind
and become sort of who you wanted to be

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if you had the courage

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and the determination
to make your own way.

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[woman laughing]

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[jaunty Celtic music]

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[narrator]
Some come to Nassau just to be themselves.

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Anne Bonny is just 16,

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but she's had
a tough upbringing in Ireland.

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Her father was
a very successful lawyer in Cork,

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and her mother was the maid
that he was having an affair with.

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For a while,
to try to cover up that affair,

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he actually dressed her as a boy

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and tried to pass her off
as a legal clerk.

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[narrator]
She is tainted from birth, an outsider.

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Growing up for Anne, as a bastard,

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she'd be called a bastard from a baby.

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People would look down on her.

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[distant woman laughing]

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Who can tell us about fishing the wrecks?

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-My husband here is eager for work.
-You need to speak to Captain Hornigold.

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Anne Bonny was a young woman
who must have loved adventure.

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She moved from place to place.

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She moved from man to man.

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She had a reputation
as being a bit of a hellcat.

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[narrator] Anne Bonny has come to Nassau
with her wannabe pirate husband.

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James Bonny, as far as we can tell,

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was just someone
interested in making money

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and didn't particularly
care where it came from.

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He married Anne, possibly for her money,

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and then Anne was disinherited,
so that didn't pan out.

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[screams]

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[Cale] This is a pirate haven.

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Other women would have been horrified,

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but Anne really seems
to have come into her own.

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[squeals]

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You disrespect me,
and I'll cut your stinking moneymaker.

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[narrator] Captain Hornigold
holds the key to Anne's future.

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He controls the pirate business,
alongside his trusted lieutenants.

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They didn't have any authority, but
other pirates naturally looked up to them

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because they were successful.

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[male pirate] Mr. Hornigold.

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-What?
-[pirate at door] It's Jennings.

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[lock clicks]

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-[Hornigold] What?
-He's taken your ship sir.

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[narrator] Hornigold's reputation has been
damaged by Captain Henry Jennings,

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a highfalutin privateer…

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Fuck!

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[narrator] …and his arch enemy.

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Hornigold is unaware
of murmurings in his own camp.

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I hear that Jennings stole his ship
from right underneath his nose.

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[scoffs]

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Apparently, he was asleep on watch.

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Makes me wonder, though…

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what kind of protection

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is he gonna offer us?

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Well, if you wanna be taken as governor,

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you better be up to the job.

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And I'm not the only one
to be asking questions.

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[light, tense music]

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[narrator] Captain Jennings has been
getting rich robbing the Spanish.

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When he drops anchor in Port Royal

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with a hull bulging with Spanish gold,

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he expects Jamaica's governor,
Lord Hamilton,

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to be a happy man.

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Secure this. Take that to the store.

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Yes, sir.

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[narrator] But it turns out that now
the war between Spain and England is over,

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attacking the Spanish
is no longer legitimate.

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[hushed] Henry, you damn fool.

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What were you thinking of?

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I have received a letter
of complaint from the Spanish,

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and your name is mentioned.

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You were contracted to hunt pirates.

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Really?

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I understood there was a fair amount
left unwritten between the lines.

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If some of this stolen treasure
falls into our hands…?

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Well, I see no act
against the Spanish in that,

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and between ourselves, well,
who's to say where the treasure was taken.

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[sinister music]

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[narrator] So, Jennings went ahead
and helped himself to the Spanish booty.

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-[Jennings] On your feet.
-[men clamoring]

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-[kicks]
-[body thuds]

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[choking wetly]

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Men, take everything.

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Leave nothing.

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[neck snaps]

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Gracias.

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[in Spanish] Yes.

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[in Spanish] It's war.

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[Woodward]
To actually attack the Spanish soldiers

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and their admiral at their base
and take their treasure from them

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was something that
the Spanish government couldn't ignore.

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They responded by demanding his arrest,

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demanding the arrest of all of his men…

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And they're demanding my head on a plate

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and the return of their silver?

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The question is,

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how do we respond?

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[scoffs, hushed]
There is no we, God damn you.

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You haven't whipped a cabin boy, Jennings,
you have committed an act of fucking war.

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Yes, I see what you mean.

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I'll tell you what I'll do,
for an old friend.

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I'll pop off back to sea
while all this blows over.

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Then you can tell them I've been expelled

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and stand a fighting chance
of saving your reputation.

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My reputation? How dare you?

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It's a deal then. See you when
the Spaniards have calmed down.

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[Fox]
Hamilton's reputation was in tatters.

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He had potentially brought the wrath

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of the Spanish empire down on Jamaica,
and that was too much for people.

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[narrator] Leaving Hamilton
to smooth things out with the Spanish,

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Jennings and his crew returned to sea

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hell-bent on attacking
Hornigold's pirate ships

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operating out of Nassau.

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[cannon fire echoing]

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[narrator]
Just of the coast of Southern Florida,

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Paulsgrave Williams,
a silversmith on the make,

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and his hired skipper, Samuel Bellamy,

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are hunting down the Spanish wrecks
without any luck so far.

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[sighs] This blasted coast.

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-Goes on forever.
-Blessed wrecks must be here somewhere.

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Maybe we should be searching
the inlets more thoroughly.

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[narrator] Bellamy's crew are rapidly
burning through Williams' cash.

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The crew need paying,

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and my funds are running perilously low.

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-I swore to the men they'd be well paid.
-Yeah.

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[narrator] Paulsgrave Williams
sees the Spanish wrecks

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as a chance to get rich quick,

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but Sam Bellamy's quest is driven
by his love for a woman.

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You're not worthy of my daughter!

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[narrator]
A woman, by all accounts, worth dying for.

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Bellamy wants the money,
so he can go back to his sweetheart

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and woo her and convince
her parents that he's a good bet.

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[gulls crying]

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[fire crackling]

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[narrator] But Sam Bellamy has left
his beloved Mary with more than a promise.

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[sniffling]

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[narrator]
And if a sailor's life is tough,

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it's as nothing…

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to an unmarried woman with child.

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[panting]

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[Cale]
This was a very strict religious society

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and this is not a society
that has any kind of tolerance

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for anything like premarital sex.

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[narrator]
Mary's father has kicked her out.

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If Bellamy doesn't
make good on his promise,

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his new family
are doomed to a life of poverty.

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[hull creaking]

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Pass me your scope.

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[action music]

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[Williams] It's a merchant ship.

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Sam, tell me again,

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what are your thoughts
on merchant captains?

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They treat their crew worse than the Navy.

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They've taken more of my crewmates than
the Spanish, French and Dutch combined.

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Merchants captains.

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[spits]

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This merchant ship

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is flying an English flag.

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Take a look.

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[narrator] It's a choice most sailors
face after the end of the war.

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Die poor or live rich as a pirate.

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Are you ready to hoist the black flag?

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Or would you let the rights
of rich English merchants

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stand between you and your Mary?

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To hell with it.

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Hoist the black flag!

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[narrator] And so naval seaman
Sam Bellamy becomes Black Sam Bellamy,

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the raven-haired pirate,

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and history will record
that one of his very first victims

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is an English merchant vessel.

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[grappling hook clatters]

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[men shouting]

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Where's your captain?

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[suspenseful music]

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[distant clamor of battle]

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[gunshots echo]

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[clamor of battle continues above deck]

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-[men grunting]
-[Williams] Pull your strike!

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That's enough. I said take him alive!

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[clamor of battle continues]

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[coins clinking]

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Well, what have we got here?

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[thuds]

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Get out, or I'll have you whipped!

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I think you're a bit late for that.

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Search the ship!

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Your manifest.

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-Be quick about it.
-[scoffs]

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I've often wondered
what causes a man to risk hanging…

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Think of me as a, uh, Robin Hood.

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Redistributing wealth
from those that owed the debt

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to those that owe a debt.

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[coins clinking]

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People like me.

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Bellamy saw himself
as fighting a social rebellion

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on behalf of the oppressed
underclass of merchant sailors.

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[sinister music]

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[narrator] Enter Jennings and his gang.

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Officially, they're on the hunt
for pirates looting Spanish silver.

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00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,920
[sailor] Pirates starboard side!

251
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,160
[narrator] But they run into Bellamy
and Williams looting an English merchant.

252
00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,040
Ethical question for you, Vane.

253
00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,280
If you take a pirate's bounty,

254
00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,040
does it still belong to
the English merchants they took it from?

255
00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,800
Or is it somehow absolved,

256
00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:21,640
purged,

257
00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:22,720
cleansed

258
00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,960
by its passage through
the bowels of a pirate's sloop?

259
00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,560
If it's accepted by an innkeeper

260
00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,200
or a whore,

261
00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,680
what's the difference?

262
00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,920
Captain Bellamy, we have company.

263
00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,600
[narrator] Jennings is spotted.

264
00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,600
Who is it?

265
00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,200
[sailor] No idea, Captain.

266
00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,960
Prepare to cast loose.

267
00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:45,480
Cast loose!

268
00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,720
Captain, seems like it's your lucky day.

269
00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,040
Your support's arriving.

270
00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,720
They'll hang you for this.

271
00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,360
I'll be back.

272
00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,920
[dramatic, suspenseful music]

273
00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,000
[ship hull creaking]

274
00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,640
He advocates
the sense of justice and fairness

275
00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,680
and tirades against Church,
Government and State.

276
00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,960
Yet, he's a thieving bastard, right?

277
00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,240
And then steals a phenomenal
amount of wealth for himself.

278
00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,840
[narrator] Bellamy has no idea
he's up against Jennings.

279
00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,800
He assumes they're English gunships.

280
00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,160
Black Sam and Paulsgrave just go, "Ugh!"

281
00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,680
And they scarper
as quickly as possible. Run away.

282
00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,240
[narrator] Captain Bellamy
uses all his skills to fly like the wind.

283
00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,960
[narrator] Before Jennings
has time to change course,

284
00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,680
Bellamy is out of range of his cannon.

285
00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,200
[waves plashing]

286
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,520
[Jennings] They've outrun us.

287
00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,800
Stand down.

288
00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,240
[sailor] Aye-aye, Captain.

289
00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:06,880
Goodbye, whoever you are.

290
00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,920
You deserve a drink, Captain.

291
00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,800
[dramatic music]

292
00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,880
[narrator] And then, a few hours later…

293
00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,920
[sailor] Ship ahead, portside.

294
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,120
My God.

295
00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,760
[narrator] Further south in the Florida
Straits, just off the coast of Cuba,

296
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,040
Jennings happens upon an even
bigger prize than catching Bellamy.

297
00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,480
[Lawrence] He notices
a French merchant ship with cannon.

298
00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,600
Presumably,
where there is cannon, there is gold.

299
00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,680
Jennings, deep in his soul, is a pirate

300
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,320
and so he thinks, "I might get that ship."

301
00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,280
Get the captains.

302
00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,160
[narrator] Since the peace of 1714,

303
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,120
the French
are no longer enemies of the British,

304
00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,360
but Jennings is no respecter of the peace.

305
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,440
Now, he needs to get
the captains of his fleet on-side.

306
00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:09,280
Gentlemen.

307
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,800
Just a few hundred yards across that bay

308
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,520
sits temptation.

309
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,760
A gift.

310
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,120
I suggest we take it.

311
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,600
That is a merchant vessel, not a pirate.

312
00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,200
So, what do you propose? Get this far
and sit with our hands in our pockets?

313
00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:33,200
-I've seen--
-She's French, for fuck's sake!

314
00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,040
Our enemy for centuries.

315
00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:38,160
We're not at war.

316
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:41,800
Fair game, I say.

317
00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,400
I'm setting sail for Port Royal.

318
00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:48,400
Au revoir.

319
00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,280
To practicalities.

320
00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,000
Our prize packs 32 guns
and a crew of 100 men.

321
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,040
To launch a direct attack
while it's still light would be suicide.

322
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,280
So, we wait.

323
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,480
[waves splashing]

324
00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,600
[narrator] And while Jennings waits,

325
00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,680
his enemy, Hornigold,
is having trouble in his pirate republic.

326
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,560
The honest people of Nassau

327
00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,640
have taken it
upon themselves to fight back.

328
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,200
[Woodward]
By early 1716, the situation for

329
00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:33,440
people who saw themselves as respectable
members of the old order on the Bahamas

330
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,720
started getting increasingly untenable.

331
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,960
[man] Where's Hornigold?

332
00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,720
I'm here to arrest him.

333
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:42,840
[narrator] Thomas Walker fears
the taking of Spanish silver

334
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,640
will provoke Spain to wreak vengeance

335
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:46,800
against his hometown.

336
00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,560
You'll get us all killed.

337
00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:53,880
[narrator] Truth be told,
Walker is uneasy sharing Nassau

338
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:55,720
with a bunch of pirates.

339
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,040
Hornigold! Draw black!

340
00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,360
-Show yourself!
-[narrator] Walker has a problem.

341
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,360
Once the war ends,
Britain loses interest in the Caribbean.

342
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,120
Show yourself!

343
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,560
Walker and the other legitimate
colonists were essentially helpless.

344
00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,760
Um, there was nobody
who they could turn to.

345
00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,680
[somber music]

346
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:22,760
-[gulls crying]
-[bell tolling]

347
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:28,120
[narrator] The biggest threat to Hornigold
isn't from Walker, but from within.

348
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,720
[women laughing]

349
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,200
[Hornigold] Lads.

350
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,680
We have a problem needs dealing with.

351
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,240
I would strongly suggest
that last haul be made scarce and quick.

352
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,360
There may be moves against us.

353
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,600
Thomas Walker,
that puffed up pigeon, is on the prowl.

354
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,280
But it's not just Walker, though, is it?

355
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,680
Because Jennings
is out there patrolling the sea,

356
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,040
hunting down pirates

357
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,640
and he is doing all of that in your ship.

358
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,480
Now, when a captain loses his ship,

359
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,480
well,

360
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,160
we start to wonder if he's still
gonna be in charge in the morning.

361
00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,560
Leadership was a charismatic affair

362
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,800
and you had to win over your men

363
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,320
and keep their respect and trust.

364
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,840
Uncertainty truly is
the enemy of enterprise.

365
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,320
I think we need some more certainty!

366
00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:38,680
[narrator]
Hornigold's been wounded by Jennings,

367
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,640
and Thomas Barrow can smell blood.

368
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,160
If you're a pirate captain,
and you want to remain a pirate captain,

369
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,480
the only way to do that,
really, is to be successful.

370
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,640
-As I was saying…
-[pint clinks]

371
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,640
Make that last haul scarce.

372
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,680
We're going out.

373
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:57,920
[man] Yeah, too right.

374
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,480
Time to trim that bastard Jennings' sails

375
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,080
and take back what is

376
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:06,880
wrongfully mine.

377
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,520
Will you be joining us, Mr. Barrow?

378
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,560
We could use a mouth such as yours.

379
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,720
If for nothing better than to pleasure
the crew before they go to sleep.

380
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,800
[guffaws and snickering]

381
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:29,800
No?

382
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,840
[chugging]

383
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,840
Well, it looks like we'll have to
complete this mission without the…

384
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,120
gentle aid of Mr. Thomas Barrow.

385
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,400
Round up the crew.

386
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,480
Men only.

387
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,560
[somber music]

388
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,880
[narrator] Hornigold
doesn't have to look far to find Jennings.

389
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,320
He's just off the coast of Cuba,

390
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,040
waiting to seize
the French ship, the St. Marie.

391
00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:21,840
What Jennings doesn't know

392
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,120
is that he's being watched
by Bellamy and Williams.

393
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,240
[Williams] They fly the English flag

394
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,640
but they're not behaving like Navy.

395
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,960
What if they're up to no good?

396
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:36,720
Pirates.

397
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,600
Perhaps they could do with
two ambitious young coves like us.

398
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,880
-[indistinct sailors' chatter]
-[hull creaking]

399
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,280
Any sign of movement in the last hour?

400
00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,120
No.

401
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,520
[Jennings] What the fuck's that?

402
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,080
[wind blowing]

403
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,000
[narrator] This will be the first time

404
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,200
that Jennings has ever set eyes
on Bellamy and Williams.

405
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,080
[Bellamy]
Paulsgrave Williams and Samuel Bellamy.

406
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:33,440
We wish you no harm.

407
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,600
We're here to talk.

408
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,120
I think you'll want to take that vessel,
worried about how you're gonna do it

409
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,280
without getting smashed to smithereens.
Well, I'll tell you how we're gonna do it.

410
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,280
[Bellamy]
How about we take that ship for you?

411
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,440
[narrator]
Their offer is too good to be true.

412
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,040
'Tis they who risk their lives.

413
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,960
See how things play out?

414
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,480
Mm.

415
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,720
Certainly there's no appetite

416
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,400
to risk our ship
against the French cannon.

417
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,840
And, I must be honest,

418
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,440
I'm rather intrigued to see your work.

419
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,280
Very well.

420
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,400
But…

421
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,760
let's be clear.

422
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,080
Play me…

423
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,400
and he'll cut you to ribbons.

424
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,400
[sinister music]

425
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,920
Right, lads, let's see what
these French sailors are made of.

426
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,440
Bellamy and Williams
use an interesting tactic

427
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,440
in their assault on the St. Marie.

428
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,880
[metal clinking]

429
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:56,400
What the…?

430
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:01,520
[Vane chuckles softly]

431
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,040
[chuckles softly]

432
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,480
Bellamy and Williams
strip themselves naked,

433
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,200
you know,
adorn themselves in guns and pistols

434
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,680
to make the most
terrifying image you can, like,

435
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,880
psychopathic naked pirates.

436
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,880
[ship hull creaking]

437
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,560
[suspenseful music]

438
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,680
[grappling hook whooshes, clatters]

439
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,240
[gunpowder roaring]

440
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,760
[men shouting]

441
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,080
[musket fire echoing]

442
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,520
[narrator] A new weapon is about
to be unleashed on the French ship.

443
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,040
[cannon fire echoing]

444
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,040
[narrator] Naked terror.

445
00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:56,560
What are they meant to think?
Maybe they're possessed,

446
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,000
maybe had too much rum,
what on Earth is going on?

447
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,160
[Bellamy] Stop.

448
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,520
You're purpose on this ship
is not to cause harm, but to get rich.

449
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,720
Never forget that, sailor.

450
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,960
[Conniff]
Through the drama and the theater

451
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,080
and the fear that they've then caused,

452
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,840
they've got the entire ship to surrender.

453
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,160
This must be
such a formative moment for Bellamy.

454
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,080
[narrator]
But then Jennings takes control.

455
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,200
Because the French captain
is keeping schtum.

456
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,320
It's very simple.

457
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,200
This is your ship's inventory,

458
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,680
half of which is not on board your ship.

459
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,080
So, I ask again.

460
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,360
What other vessels are you traveling with?

461
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,800
Ah, gentlemen, join us.

462
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,480
Captain.

463
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,520
It's your choice.

464
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,760
This poor man's misery can end.

465
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,640
You just have to tell me where I might
find the rest of the consignment.

466
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,240
[pained grunt]

467
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:22,920
Oh dear.

468
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,320
[panicked breathing]

469
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,280
Vane.

470
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:28,800
Captain.

471
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:31,240
You need me?

472
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,720
Jennings was quite
willing to torture people

473
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,320
if he felt that
they were hiding something from him.

474
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,640
See if you can teach our French friends
the value of communication.

475
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,680
[sinister music]

476
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,920
[metal clinks]

477
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,440
[panicked breathing]

478
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,040
[Vane] This one?

479
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,120
-[prisoner grunts]
-Or this one?

480
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,760
What we see on this ship
appalls Samuel Bellamy.

481
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,040
[mumbling] No. No. Stop.

482
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,640
[prisoner screams]

483
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,320
What are you doing? Stop!

484
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,800
[prisoner's screams stop]

485
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,560
-[metal clicks]
-[screaming]

486
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,680
Stop, the second ship,
the second ship, Marianne.

487
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,680
Thirty miles to the north.

488
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,640
You do care about your crew after all.

489
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,560
Vane, stand down.

490
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,600
[narrator]
There is a second ship, the Marianne.

491
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,400
The world probably became
quite stark in its contrast

492
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,120
and from that point forward,
you see Bellamy

493
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,920
not use those same methods at all.

494
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,560
Captain Jennings,
leave the Marianne to us.

495
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,360
[sinister music]

496
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,920
[action music]

497
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,280
[narrator] Bellamy and Williams
set out along the Cuban coast

498
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,080
to take the Marianne.

499
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,160
But someone has beaten them to it.

500
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,920
[Bellamy]
That small sloop, she's flying the black.

501
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,640
[narrator] A pirate.

502
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,120
But not just any old pirate.

503
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,280
It's the Benjamin.

504
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,400
That's Hornigold's sloop.

505
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,400
[chuckles softly]

506
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,200
[narrator] Hornigold inspired Williams
and Bellamy to become pirates,

507
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,080
and now their hero stands in their way.

508
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,480
The two men move in for a closer look.

509
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,240
[dramatic music]

510
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,920
[narrator] Thirty miles back
around the coast at Bahia Honda,

511
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,360
Captain Jennings
is dreaming of the fortune

512
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:05,000
Williams and Bellamy will soon
deliver to him from the Marianne.

513
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:11,000
Who'd have thought a French merchant
could acquire so much wealth?

514
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,800
I mean, the French.

515
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,520
[laughs]

516
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,400
We are going to be so rich.

517
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,160
We lost it.

518
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,160
So, this heavily-laden hulk outran you?

519
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,120
No. A pirate ship beat us to her.

520
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,840
Did you happen to notice a name?

521
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,920
It was dark.

522
00:31:59,080 --> 00:31:59,920
The Benjamin.

523
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,160
Ugh! Hornigold!

524
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,200
Get after the bastard!

525
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,120
[sailor] Sail portside, Captain!

526
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:09,960
Right.

527
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,600
[action music]

528
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,920
Ben Hornigold, his enemy,

529
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,920
the lowlife sailor who's turned pirate.

530
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,120
[narrator] The two toughest
pirates in the Caribbean

531
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,480
are on a collision course.

532
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,320
[action music]

533
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,800
[sailor] Ship ahead, portside!

534
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,320
They see a ship on the horizon,
and it's in fact two ships.

535
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:54,880
The Benjamin.

536
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,400
Get after the fucker!

537
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,360
Vane.

538
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,760
When we catch him, he's all yours.

539
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,480
You two, get back to the St. Marie.
Wait for us there.

540
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,920
[sailors shouting indistinctly]

541
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,600
[narrator] Jennings goes in for the kill.

542
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,240
[dramatic music]

543
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,320
Come on!

544
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,360
[action music]

545
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,680
He sails straight for Hornigold.
He's gonna capture that ship.

546
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,560
Leaving Bellamy and Paulsgrave
aboard the St. Marie.

547
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,840
Well, good luck to him,
catching the Flying Gang.

548
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,240
The luck is all ours today.

549
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,520
-Our just desserts.
-[chuckles softly]

550
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,120
He's outrun us.

551
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,760
[victorious music]

552
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,440
Stand down.

553
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,240
I'll get you in Nassau, you fucker.

554
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,640
Set course for the St. Marie.

555
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,760
Get out of the way.

556
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,920
It's an absolute nightmare.
He's frustrated.

557
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,560
He's annoyed, so he turns back
and he rejoins the St. Marie.

558
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,560
[waves splashing]

559
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,480
[suspenseful music]

560
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,280
[narrator] But there's no sign
of Williams, nor of Bellamy.

561
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,320
[steps creaking]

562
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,120
Quartermaster?

563
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,280
[quartermaster grunts]

564
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,800
[quartermaster, muffled] Over here.

565
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,840
They've taken everything, sir.

566
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,400
[narrator]
Jennings has been seriously played.

567
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,000
[exhales harshly]

568
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,080
Bastard.

569
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,920
All of his treasure has been taken.

570
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,160
He's been tricked by Black Sam
and Paulsgrave Williams.

571
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:33,960
[spits]

572
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,520
[narrator] But things are about
to get worse for Jennings and his crew.

573
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,680
Much, much worse.

574
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,480
[talking indistinctly]

575
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,440
[narrator]
Spain has finally forced the King

576
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,040
to deal with Jennings' paymaster,

577
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,800
Lord Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica.

578
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,040
My Lord, I have a warrant for your arrest.

579
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:06,920
On whose authority?

580
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,640
Your king's, sir. You are to be
returned to England for trial.

581
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,320
[sighs]

582
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:26,560
[narrator] And as Jennings arrives
in Nassau to confront Hornigold,

583
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:31,680
he discovers Lord Hamilton's name
isn't the only one on the arrest warrant.

584
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,800
[Jennings] Hornigold!

585
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,480
[man snickering]

586
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,800
-Where's Hornigold?
-[man] Haven't you heard?

587
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,400
Your lord and protector's been arrested.

588
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,400
[laughs]

589
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,800
He's on his way to London in chains.

590
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,600
And now they're looking for you. [laughs]

591
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,880
[somber music]

592
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:06,520
[Woodward] For Jennings, it resulted
in a royal proclamation from the King

593
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,120
declaring Jennings
and his men to be wanted pirates

594
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,920
who were to be captured
and brought home for execution.

595
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,480
[narrator] In that moment,
the world turns upside down

596
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,560
for Jennings and his crew.

597
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,920
Now, Jennings found himself

598
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,200
with the surfs above him.

599
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,360
People like Ben Hornigold,
a man of no birth at all,

600
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,720
dictating what he was
and wasn't allowed to do.

601
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,320
[gulls crying]

602
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,560
[indistinct pirate chatter]

603
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,440
[hornpipe music]

604
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,480
[narrator] There is only one place
for these outlaws to seek refuge.

605
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,000
The pirate lair of their enemy,
Benjamin Hornigold.

606
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,160
[sinister music]

607
00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:59,200
Jennings' gang is cornered,

608
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,360
making them more dangerous than ever.

609
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,640
It's all set to end bloodily.

610
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:06,280
Very bloodily.

611
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,200
Until…

612
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,280
Hornigold diffuses the tension

613
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,840
with an earth-shattering speech.

614
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:17,720
Lads.

615
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:24,520
Hornigold has this very interesting idea
that changes the course of history.

616
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,080
At sea, you'll be treated decently enough.

617
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,040
And by that, I mean our takings.

618
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,960
Pirates got to choose their own rules.

619
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,680
They got to choose
what was important them to them.

620
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:40,160
These sets of rules,
or "articles" as they called them,

621
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:44,920
contained clauses about the…
the division of their profits,

622
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
their plunder.

623
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,480
Small bonus for the captain.

624
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,440
And I mean small.

625
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,120
And the rest will be distributed equally.

626
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,760
One set of articles even guarantees

627
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,920
that every man will have a vote
in affairs of the moment,

628
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,200
and so there's a sense of democracy,
and of collective decision making.

629
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,520
No sailor can get punished
without the agreement of the crew,

630
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,360
and that goes for the captain, too.

631
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,200
If you think he's on the take,

632
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,680
or too quick with the lash,

633
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,600
then together…

634
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,600
you can vote him off his ship…

635
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,480
and name his replacement.

636
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,040
[narrator]
Hornigold's declaration is revolutionary,

637
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:37,840
taking the democratic rules of a ship
to create a republic on land.

638
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,000
[Woodward]
He was intentionally egalitarian

639
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,560
and this is all occurring many decades
before the American Revolution

640
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,640
or the Storming of the Bastille.

641
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,800
[narrator] Jennings has no riposte
to Hornigold's bold vision…

642
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:53,800
for now.

643
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,360
So, can we all drink to that?

644
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,960
[victorious music]

645
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,080
-[pirates] Aye!
-Nassau!

646
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,680
-The new Pirate Republic.
-[all] Nassau.

647
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:14,160
[narrator] The Golden Age
of Piracy is about to begin.

648
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,160
[dramatic swashbuckling music]