Captain Blood Page #7

in our agreement...

forbidding the taking of women prisoners?

That's a foolish article of yours.

I was not aware you regarded it so

when we signed.

Would you care to dispute

my opinion now, your men against mine?

Not this morning, thank you.

As you say, a foolish article.

Heard, my friend.

That is why these are prisoners

of my own, a matter personal.

-And the 20,000 pieces of eight?

-Their ransom.

-That is also a personal matter?

-lt is.

Obviously, these two prisoners,

and particularly the young lady...

must be kept in someone's hands for,

shall we say, safekeeping...

but why your hands?

Why shouldn't Pierre have her,

or Roch, or Jacob...

since she's as much their property

as yours?

Or doesn't that please you?

You'd like to keep her for yourself.

And who might that be, do you suppose?

-That is your Capt. Blood.

-Capt. Blood?

Now, my captain...

since you covet our joint property

of war, you may have her...

providing you're willing to buy her.

-Buy her?

-At the price you yourself have put on her.

20,000 pieces of eight.

The ransom is to be paid by Gov. Bishop.

lt is for division when it comes.

But if the Governor should refuse to pay

the ransom, what then?

No. If you're to keep the girl meanwhile,

pay the ransom.

Let it be your risk to collect it

from the Governor.

Capt. Blood is right.

-lt's in the articles.

-What's in the articles, you fools?

Where do you suppose

I have 20,000 pieces of eight?

-Let someone buy her who has.

-Who?

-l.

-You?

Jeremy, Wolf, bring the prisoners forward.

Here they are, Peter.

I bid 20,000 pieces of eight.

Can you improve on that, Levasseur?

I don't wish to be bought by you.

As a lady once said to a slave...

you are hardly in a position

to have anything to say about it.

-You want the girl?

-Why not?

And I'm willing to pay for what I want.

Cahusac, you boast a knowledge of pearls.

At what do you value each of those?

1,000 pieces each.

They're worth rather more, but very well.

Here are 12.

The three-fifths the value of the prize

due your ship for having made the capture.

For the share due my men,

I make myself responsible.

Now, Wolf, will you be so kind

as to take my property aboard ship?

And that settles that, my captain partner.

-No, you don't!

-Stop, Capitaine!

Wait! You'll not take her while I live!

Then I'll take her when you're dead!

-Capitaine, it has been honorably settled.

-lt has not been settled for me!

What is a girl, more or less?

Do not be a fool, Capitaine!

It's my business.

Two breaches in our articles committed

by you. You should be marooned.

lt's what I intended for you in the end...

but since you prefer it this way,

you muckrake, I'll be humoring you.

Up!

And that, my friend, ends a partnership

that should never have begun.

All these things I've gathered

in my journeys.

I've gone far since I was a slave

on your uncle's plantation...

thousands of restless, hectic miles.

But somehow tonight,

I've got a strange feeling...

that my journey's almost over.

You see these ankle rings?

They came from a ship

that was out from Persia.

And these pearls...

they're the choice from a fleet

we captured off the Azores.

-Have you ever seen such pearls?

-Yes, I have.

They're like the pearls you sometimes

use for making purchases, are they not?

-Yes, they are.

-How many lives did they cost?

As few as possible.

lt wasn't lives I was after.

-What, then?

-I never quite knew.

Some urge that drove me on.

Revenge, I suppose.

But I've had my fill of revenge.

I often wondered

why I bothered to save all these things.

Tonight I know it's because...

one day you'd be here in this cabin

to wear them.

I'll never wear them, never!

Those nor any other plunder gotten

by a thief and pirate.

Thief and pirate.

I've seen your pirate ways.

I've seen myself bargained for

and fought over.

A combat between jackals.

But I thought you understood.

You mean you thought you'd bought me.

I suppose I should have regarded that

as a compliment.

You pirates are used to taking

without the formality of purchase.

I advise you to go back to your ladies

at Tortuga...

who are thrilled by your bold,

lawless ways.

I only hate you and despise you.

I might have expected your thanks

for what I've done this day...

but very well, let it be so.

I'm a thief and pirate and I'll show you

how a thief and a pirate can deal.

Once, you bought me for a miserable 10.

Now I've bought you for considerably

more. The amount's of no matter.

What matters is

now I own you as you once owned me.

You're mine, do you understand?

Mine to do with as I please!

Capt. Blood,

Lord Willoughby sends his compliments...

and requests you to talk with him

at your convenience.

He's been sent by the King himself.

Tell him I'm not convenient

to any friend of the King's.

All I've got to say is good riddance...

as soon as I can get him to his destination.

I shall.

Jeremy. Wolverstone.

-Wolverstone!

-What is it, Peter?

We're changing course.

Draw down every rag of canvas

the yards will hold.

-Aye, aye, Peter, but....

-Jeremy!

All hands on deck!

-Jeremy!

-Coming, Peter!

Forever sleeping when I need you?

-I wasn't sleeping. I was--

-Never mind! Get ready to go about.

-Set the course for Port Royal.

-Port Royal?

But the English fleet is at Port Royal.

Col. Bishop--

Sweet, merciful heaven! Haven't you ears?

Set the course for Port Royal!

-Make speed there, Wolverstone.

-Speed it is, Peter.

-Follow we a helm, west by north.

-West by north, sir.

Make speed there! To your halyards!

Tacks and braces. We head for Port Royal.

Make speed there! That's the order!

Make speed there.

There's a gallows waiting

for each of us at Port Royal...

and no man should be late

to his own hanging.

How you hate the villain.

lf I were a young man,

I'm dashed if I wouldn't be jealous.

But you said you didn't even know him.

He was once my slave.

Slave?

Did you know him well?

I did.

He's not such a bad fellow for a pirate.

When he made his escape,

I was thrilled and happy.

That was before I knew how he would use

his freedom.

But aren't you forgetting...

that a man's bitter heart

may demand revenge?

That is the unforgivable thing:

to have put his revenge above

everything else...

and to have destroyed himself.

That's what he's done.

I've seen pirates. I know their ways.

Cruel, evil, greedy,

plundering peaceful cities...

torturing their captives. Beasts.

Are you so much in love with him?

ln love with him?

That you care so much what he does?

I don't care in the least what he does.

Someone should,

in view of what he's doing now.

But your uncle's with the fleet

at Port Royal. That much is fortunate.

Why? What's this about my uncle

in Port Royal?

He amazes me, this fellow.

That's where he means to take us.

-No, he can't.

-They won't let me near him.

He's alone on his quarterdeck

in a fine Irish temper, I suspect.

-But I learned of it from one of the crew.

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