Matt Ryan credited as playing...
Edward Kenway
- Ah Tabai: And what do you think of our Creed?
- Edward Kenway: It's hard to say. For if Nothing is true, then why believe anything? And if everything is permitted... why not chase every desire?
- Ah Tabai: Why indeed?
- Edward Kenway: It might be that this idea is only the beginning of Wisdom, and not its final form.
- Ah Tabai: That's quite a step up from the Edward I met here many years ago.
- Edward Kenway: For years I've been rushing around, taking whatever I fancied, not giving a tinker's curse for those I hurt. Yet here I am... with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home. Yet when I turn around, and look at the course I've run... there's not a man or woman that I love left standing beside me.
- Edward Kenway: What the hell happened here?
- Adéwalé: You happened here, Edward. The damage you caused six years ago has not been undone.
- Edward Kenway: I'm not an easy man to call a friend, am I?
- Mary Read: We're Assassins and we follow a creed, aye. But it does not command us to act or submit - only to be wise.
- Edward Kenway: Oh, do tell. I'd love to hear it.
- Mary Read: Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. This is the world's only certainty.
- Edward Kenway: Everything is permitted? I like the sound of that. Thinking what I like and acting how I please.
- Mary Read: You parrot the words, but you do not understand them.
- Edward Kenway: Is this my reward for believing the best about men? For thinking that a bilge rat like you could muster up some fucking sense, once in a while? Maybe Hornigold was right. Maybe the world does need men of ambition to stop the likes of you from mucking it all up.
- Charles Vane: Or maybe you just don't have the stones to live with no regrets.
- Edward Kenway: Don't save me a spot in hell, shanker. I ain't coming soon.
- Bartholomew Roberts: Ah... all Men desire to live by a Code, or a Creed, yes? Yet when pressed, most defer to their instincts rather than the Laws that bind them. But what is the appeal of a creed if it does not yoke all men to like behaviour?
- Edward Kenway: Might make a man feel like... he belongs to something. What's your answer?
- Bartholomew Roberts: Ah... that all Men are sheep. And that an old wolf like me deserves every ounce of blood he draws.
- Edward Kenway: Jesus! You've lost your head, man!
- Charles Vane: It's a fair exchange for finding these flintlocks and grenadoes!
- Edward Kenway: Listen Vane! We could hunt with those guns!
- Charles Vane: And I mean to! You and your bloody fairy stories got us into this mess, Kenway. And I'll be damned if I let you drag me into another!
- [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.
- Charles Vane: I'll gut you, Jack Rackham! I'll open you up, I'll tear out your organs, and string a bloody lute with 'em!
- Edward Kenway: Stop your goddamn howling, Vane! There's no bloody use!
- Charles Vane: Well, well! The fearsome Edward Kenway speaks, eh? Pray tell us, captain, how to quit this predicament! And tell us what genius you have for sailing a boat with no sails and no rudder!
- Edward Kenway: SHUT YOUR GOB!
- [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.
- Tavern Patron #1: Fancy meetin' a Welshman deep in dago country. I'm English meself. Bidin' my time 'til the next war calls me to service.
- Edward Kenway: Lucky King George, havin' a pisspot like you flyin' his flag.
- Tavern Patron #1: Oi! Skulk! I seen your face before! You's mates with them pirates down in Nassau!
- Edward Kenway: Shut your fucking gob or I'll fill it with shot, you hear me?
- Tavern Patron #1: [laughing] Edward, is it?
- [he pulls Edward's hood off, but Edward headbutts him and body-slams him through a table]
- Tavern Patron #2: You bastard!
- Edward Kenway: Hey, I warned him!
- [a huge fight breaks out]