- Captain Crow: Do you dishonor me, boy? As you dishonor all them hunters what come before. All them what died heroes.
- Jacob Holland: Aye, they were heroes. But you can be a hero and still be wrong.
- Captain Crow: [growls]
- [first lines]
- Maisie: [reading to the children] There was a time when children dreaded the night, for the sleeping hours brought visions of horror. The dark times, when those terrible sea beasts would ravage our shores, and no ship was safe on the sea.
- Maisie: But thanks to the hunters, those days are over. Today, these valiant warriors battle the beasts far beyond the horizon, risking their lives to rid the seas of those nightmare creatures. And the greatest of the hunting ships is the Inevitable...
- Boyb: [jumping up with his sword] And the greatest of the hunters is Captain Crow! Yar!
- Maisie: Our books, our history, is a lie. I don't believe the beasts ever threatened our shores. It was just a story.
- [pointing at the king and queen]
- Maisie: A story told by them! For generations, they've taught us to hate the beasts and sent the hunters out to destroy them. And the beasts learned to fear us and hate us, and they fought back!
- King: Who are you to malign your king and queen with such falsehoods? You have no right to speak!
- Maisie: I have every right! I come from a long line of hunters that died your great death! Your kingdom was paid for with their blood,
- [pointing at the beast]
- Maisie: and their blood!