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Black Sails Rewatch → 2.01

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XXXVIII. A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to be believe… those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.

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XXXVII. I have earned his trust. I have his true friendship, so he is going to have mine. And as long as that is true, I cannot imagine what is possible.

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XXXVI. What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself?

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XXXV. When you and I are of the same mind, there is nothing we have not yet been able to do. I believe that. I trust it. Do you?

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XXXIV. You know, there was a time… not so long ago, when you shared their concern. When you saw what I saw. The benefits of being free of British rule. To make the new world something more than just an extension of the old. Is it so unthinkable that that might be again? You were a pirate once.

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XXXIII. So many goddamn men here. Too many goddamned men here.

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XXXII. It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.

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XXXI. The threats have been made, the story’s been told, everybody in Nassau knows what Long John Silver’s return means, what’s expected of them when he does return. All that remains to do… is for him to return.

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XXX. I’m no one, from no where, belonging to nothing. I’m a wretch like you. Yet mountains of gold have changed hands because I chose it. Thousands of men in Nassau are living in fear of my return because I decreed it. Hundreds of dead redcoats in a forest not far from here because I made it so. I am the reason grown men lie awake at night. I am a new beginning for Nassau. And you’d trade all of that for, what? 500 pieces?

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XXIX. That’d make a lot more sense if I didn’t need him just as badly as he needs me.

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XXVIII. So to whatever extent you may be concerned that some day we will clash, worried that though today we be friends, some day you will have no choice but to be my end…

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XXVII. You cannot comprehend what you took from me or why it was good, because there is no goodness in you. There is no humanity in you, no capacity for compromise, nor instinct toward repair, nor progress. Nor forgiveness. You are an animal.

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XXVI. Things you leave out because if it got around polite society what you’re capable of when pushed, they might stop inviting you to their dinner parties. All you know about me is what I want you to know.

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XXV. Tomorrow you will join us… or you will all be looking over your shoulders the rest of your lives. My name is John Silver, and I’ve got a long fucking memory.

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XXIV. I serve the crew best by tempering him, steering him where he’s needed. I’ve descended into those depths and connected with him so that I might be able to do so. But I am acutely aware that I’m not the first to have been there… to have been a partner to him in this way. And that the ones that have seen those depths before… they never surfaced again.

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XXIII. What does a colonial power do when the men whose toil powers it lay down their shovels, take up swords, and say, “No more”?