Mark Bonnar credited as playing...
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Caution's nothing without charisma! For if a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the devil, and all men will submit.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Are you not loved at home? Are you not wanted by your wives and families and countrymen? How else to explain your government's complete disinterest in your well-being? Hostages for medicines, these were my only terms! And yet, six days of pure fucking silence! So I must conclude that you men are the pariahs of Charles-Towne, and I would profit better by using your organs for chum and your bones for char!
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: It's all a big show. Give your quarry something to fear, some hellish thing from a fever dream, and men will drop to their knees pleading for their Lord before all else!
- Benjamin Hornigold: When I look on the fruits of our years of labor, all I see is sickness, idleness, and idiocy.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Not a sunbeam of difference between here and London, then.
- [after the successful raid on Charles Towne]
- Edward Kenway: We should quit these waters, Thatch. The governor is bound to muster more soldiers.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Nah, you go on ahead. I... I got some... business in the north.
- Edward Kenway: You're done, aren't you? Giving up on us? On Nassau?
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Look, lad. I'm late into my fourth decade on this earth. And if I don't find some means to make the fifth a quiet and cozy voyage, I'd rather sink to the Devil's doorstep than call myself cap'n another year.
- [Edward doesn't answer]
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Ah, we'll meet again, lad. In this world... or the one below.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: We fly no colours out here, but praise the lack of 'em. So let the black flag signal nothing but your allegiance to man's natural freedoms.
- [Edward has just come back up from diving a shipwreck while looking for medicine]
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Ahoy! Any luck?
- Edward Kenway: I found one crate hidden beneath a school of sharks. Sadly, the elixir inside is...
- [he produces a bottle and pours out a foul green liquid]
- Edward Kenway: ... quite spoilt.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Plague and perish! Will we steal medicines now?
- Edward Kenway: Remember the pardon, Thatch. We're to be subtle.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Says Hornigold, a pirate now too proud to call himself one!
- Edward Kenway: Ah, he prefers caution to cannons.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Caution's nothin' without charisma! For if a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the Devil... and all men will submit.
- Edward Kenway: And would you be the Devil?
- [Thatch dons a hat with smoldering matches tucked into it and smiles wolfishly]
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: For an audience, aye. It's all a big show.
- [he turns to Bonnet, towering over him, his voice a fierce growl and his appearance terrifying]
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: Give your quarry something to fear... some hellish thing from a fever dream... and men will drop to their knees, pleadin' for their Lord before aught else!
- Stede Bonnet: [cowering in terror] Oh, God...
- Edward Kenway: [amused] Looks fine.
- Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch: [in a normal voice] 'Course it does. If you can find a quiet way to acquire medicines, tell me soon. Otherwise, I'll handle it meself.