After finding Rose's letter and outsmarting Nenna who betrayed a deal of mutual silence, Tom Lowe is arrested by Charlie and eagerly put on trial as traitor. His conviction execution might be instant hadn't he appealed to testimony from Blackbeard, which means awaiting his awakening. The deliriously recovering Commodore remembers how Charlie lead his rescue from prison after William Jagger told him how his desperate wife Angelique punished his absence by throwing his kids into the sea from a cliff. James confides into Kate that he set up Tom believing him to be the English master spy who caused him to be tortured after his Stuart rebellion was put down. She convinces James to retract his accusation and confess the set-up, exposing him to a whipping that might well kill him. Grateful for his life, Tom volunteers to take the flogging in his place and instructs Tim to prepare nursing the horrible wounds. Teach awakes and works out Lowe's plans to save both Santa Compana from Jagger and Jamaica from the bomb attack, as well as Selima's traitorous affair with Charlie, yet decides to let all three off on account of good intentions and reassures Tom his plan is not mad bloodshed, 'just' piracy. Both his wand Jagger's fleet set out for Spain's.
—KGF Vissers