kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXII.  Earlier I told you that I was certain that the pardons would eliminate
all resistance in Nassau and you asked me how I was so certain.
It’s because I helped build them.
Peter Ashe, Miranda, her husband, and I,
we worked to obtain a universal pardon and introduce it to Nassau
to eliminate piracy and restore colonial rule there.
I moved away from those things.
Inch by inch, I forgot it all.
And now, in this cage, in the belly of this thing
that has swallowed us whole… I wonder…
if the civilization of Nassau
isn’t exactly what I tried to achieve all those years ago.
If resisting it doesn’t set me in opposition
to everything I once understood to be good and right.
To forgive. To make order of chaos.
I wonder if the pardons are the victory
and that the most enlightened thing that I can do is sit still.
Accept what appears to be inevitable and let this be the end of Captain Flint.