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In Season 2, Episode 8 of (titled "XVI" ), the stakes reach a boiling point as Captain Flint reaches Charles Town and Charles Vane executes a brutal and calculated move in Nassau. Key Plot Points

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: In Nassau, Jack Rackham and his crew find the fort suspiciously quiet, only to discover the crucified body of Richard Guthrie inside. Vane leaves a defiant manifesto pinned to the corpse, declaring himself a former slave who will never wear a yoke again and claiming Nassau as a free territory. In Season 2, Episode 8 of (titled "XVI"

: "I have done what I've done and I will live with it. But do not for a moment believe that that defines me." Vane leaves a defiant manifesto pinned to the

: Flint and Miranda Barlow arrive at Charles Town to negotiate with Lord Peter Ashe for Nassau's future. Upon landing, Flint is immediately beaten by guards under the governor's standing orders to kill him on sight. He is saved when Abigail Ashe intervenes, claiming to remember him as an old friend of her father’s to protect him.