Black Sails Season 2 Episode 9: "XVII" Quotes
The Earl was no friend of yours, yet he grants you gifts from his own home. Why would he do that? All these years, it never sat right with me how Alfred was able to turn the Navy against James. He was far too admired by his superiors for his career to be dashed based solely on heresay. Alfred would have known that. He wouldn’t have gone to them armed only with unfounded suspicions. He would have needed a witness. Someone who knew Thomas and James well enough to give the accusation credibility. Alfred came to you didn’t he?
Miranda
You hate Flint. I hate Flint. But right now he’s talking about how we survive what comes next. And you’re talking about what you think is yours. When the Navy arrives, they aren’t going to give a F**k what belongs to you or what belongs to me. Because to them, there is no difference between you and me.
Billy
It was as if the sea had conjured that man out of nothing, and then taken him back for some unknowable purpose. When I first met Mr. Gates and he asked me my name, I feared the man I was about to create. I feared that someone, born of such dark things, would conceal me were I not careful. And I was determined to wear him only for a while, and then dispose of him when his purpose was complete. And I thought of that story.
Flint
I can not stand before you and claim to be without sin. When we received that letter from you informing us of Thomas' death, the damage wrought by Alfred Hamilton was too much for us to bear. We were angry, and we allowed that anger to drive us to a dark deed. But I ask you not to judge me by that one deed. Judge me by the ends that I have come here in service of. The redemption of Nassau, in accordance with the principles that you, and I, and she, and Thomas Hamilton committed ourselves to all those years ago.
Flint
Jack: How did that go?
Max: I have seen what Eleanor Guthrie can build when she is feeling ambitious. I have seen what she can destroy when she is angered.
Jack: Which of the two was she just now?
Max: She was something else entirely.
