All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
OK so this could easily just be my brain fixating on Billy (like ya do) but holy crap I realized I have another reason to be mad at Silver’s manipulative bullshit ala Thomas and James.
Granted the timeline is a little wobbly during quite a bit of this season, but based on the convo between Madi and Silver, he KNEW Thomas was at the Savannah estate before the Spanish raid.
What also happened just before the Spanish raid? His betrayal of Billy: Billy who wanted Flint gone. He’d prefer him dead at his hand, but really he just wanted Flint’s destructive tendencies away from the men. Granted, he was definitely teetering on the edge of his fall after the incident with the slaves, but Billy was still trying to work with Silver and Flint and Madi and the men leading up to that final betrayal.
And Silver still betrayed him, despite knowing that he already had a plan in place for removing Flint from the war and the pirate community completely, and in Silver’s mind, permanently. He could EASILY have convinced Billy of that as well, especially if he spun it as a prison where Flint would be sentenced to hard labor and never heard from again. Billy wanted SO BADLY to believe in him, you know? He might have hated leaving Flint alive, but he could have been convinced.
And instead, Silver still decided to sentence him to death (at first) and then torture and chains at the hands of the slaves.
Like, this boggles my mind a little when you consider the implications. The only reason Madi, Flint, and Eleanor were so unprotected during what they thought would be the exchange was because Silver was convincing Billy that they needed their best men to kill Flint. Had he chosen instead to convince Billy to go along with Flint’s plan only until they could imprison him, then Madi might not have been rounded up with the other slaves. Hell, then ELEANOR might never have died, and might even have rejoined the pirates’ cause after learning without question that Rogers had betrayed her and brought the Spanish. And Billy, Billy bless him would never have joined Rogers and wouldn’t currently be contemplating life alone on Skeleton Island while going even more batshit crazy.
I’m just… I’m so much more angry with the manipulative little shit now that I’ve realized this. Shows where my priorities were, I guess! LOL
So who sent Thomas to the plantation? Was it Alfred, Peter Ashe or the two of them together? Silver says that some of the most prominent London families used this place but didn’t name the Hamilton’s. He did say the Governor of Carolina and the Ashe’s were also a prominent London family. When Ashe visited Thomas in Bethlem, I wonder if it was to tell him of their plans to send him away. Or perhaps Alfred intended to let Thomas stay in Bethlem but then he is killed by Flint, giving Ashe the chance to ease his guilty conscience by having Thomas transferred there on his own.
But then another possible theory of how “the governor of Carolina” could have used it. Abigail is pissed in 410 and defiant and prepared to stand up to her father, to which he says he is sending her to . … wait for it … Savannah. Could he have arranged for Abigail to be kept at the plantation house? Probably not forever but thinking he would send her there until he could reign her in.
There’s been speculation on the clock in the plantation owners office and if it is Miranda’s that was in Ashe’s house. Perhaps Ashe sent that clock with Abigail as a “gift” for housing his daughter, much like Alfred gifted it to him for betraying Thomas. And it gets the clock – proof of his betrayal – out of his house and his sight.
“I’m ashamed that I didn’t save him when I had the chance” said the man who lost his boyfriend and, as soon as it was necessary, went on a storming rescue quest to save his new not-boyfriend’s girlfriend.
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