Anne of the Indies Page #6

Here, wait.

Pierre, is this true?

It's true...

...that once I held a commission

in the French Navy.

You lied to me.

No, Captain.

Everything I've told you

has been the truth.

I merely neglected to mention

my commission because...

...the memory of that chapter

in my life is painful to me.

I was cashiered from

the Navy in disgrace.

Talk. Nothing but talk.

I didn't hang Sam Austin.

I wasn't on the ship that took him

nor the court that tried him.

I was on the wharf because...

...all the officers in port

were ordered to be there.

Talk. And bilge at that.

I've a stopper here

for your lying mouth.

Captain, you're in command here.

We're not on his quarter-deck now.

I appeal to you.

I've signed your articles.

He's right. He did sign the articles.

And I am Captain here.

You're...

-Wait!

You learned me that...

...a captain's bound by

the articles like this men.

You've heard the charges, Mister.

Have you anything further to say?

Only this. Since we

sailed from Nassau...

...I have served you

loyally and well...

...as I will serve you well in

the ventures we have planned...

...for the future together.

I ask only to be judge

by what I have done...

...not by what he says I've done.

You're my Captain, I put my fate

in your hands, without fear...

...with confidence in your justice.

Put away your blade.

I believe him innocent.

Annie, lass, he's turned your

head with his smooth tongue.

Put it away, I say! I'm Captain here!

You're Captain because

I made you Captain.

I was a fool to think that a wench

could be other than a wench.

But what I've made I can blast.

You've given your judgement.

Now witness mine.

Annie, lass.

I did it for your own good.

You murdering brute.

You'll pay for that.

Mr. Dougal, disarm his men

and put them in their long boat.

Jump!

Doctor, see to Mr. Franois.

If he's dead, you die here

on the sand beside him.

No, he's not dead, yet.

I give you your life for past favours.

Get back to the 'Revenge'.

If I see your tops'ls...

I'll blast you out of the water.

The sea is wide, lass.

Keep the width of it between us...

...for unless you've forgotten

everything I ever learned you...

...you'll remember that Blackbeard

never forgives an insult.

Will he live?

Yes.

Doctor, you believe him?

Long ago, my dear,

I gave up all beliefs.

Pierre.

Land ho!

Land ho!

Right on the starboard.

It's Jamaica.

Keep her up to windward, Mr. Dougal.

Stand well off shore till it's dark.

Aye, Captain.

Hands to the bracers.

Brace up sharp.

Ahoy there, Blackbeard.

Do I look as bad as that, Doctor?

No.

-No.

We've raised Jamaica.

-Good.

How do you find him, Doctor?

Sound as a gold doubloon...

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