Miranda tries to save the island; Eleanor opens old wounds; Vane deals with a problem.
Tropes
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Vane trying to assassinate Flint and the two men locked in a death struggle.
- Decapitated Army: Vane attempts to assassinate Flint using this logic, reasoning that the alliance arrayed against him would fall apart without Flint.
- R-Rated Opening: The episode opens with Jack, Anne and Bonny engaged in a passionate three-way, which is interrupted by the Spanish Man O' War beginning its bombardment on the fort.
- The Reveal: Flint had a homosexual affair with Thomas Hamilton, which was exposed to both Hamilton's father and Flint's superiors in the Navy and is the reason he and Eleanor were banished to the Bahamas.