:33:01
- Drink this.
- I'm all right, Doctor.
:33:04
[Doctor] That'll do you
a world of good. Here, here.
:33:08
[Commodore]
D-D-Don't coddle me!
:33:11
- I'm no derelict.
- You look as strong as a bull, sir.
:33:14
- Come down first thing next week...
- Jack Stuart has cost us...
:33:17
It wasn't Jack Stuart who
cost us the Jubilee, sir.
:33:20
It was those
Florida reefs.
:33:23
- Am I to remove the reefs,
or the captains who can't miss 'em?
- Yes!
:33:27
Perhaps you should
remove the Key West pirate wreckers...
:33:30
who swarm those reefs like
a school of killer whales.
:33:33
And get rid of the man
who's behind them all, King Cutler.
:33:37
Are we to go out of business
'cause we can't hang Cutler?
:33:40
Well, he got 50%% %
of the Jubilee's cargo.
:33:42
Cutler or no Cutler,
I'll get my ships through...
:33:46
- if I have to hire and fire...
- Commodore! Please!
:33:48
Don't coddle me.
:33:50
Gentlemen, I asked Lieutenant Farragut
to sit with us today,
:33:55
hoping the United States Navy
may give us protection...
:33:59
against Cutler
and his kind.
:34:01
We need some sort
of protection.
:34:03
Better than one ship a week
is piling up on those reefs.
:34:05
At a cost of $5 million
a year!
:34:08
- [Man] Yes, sir, and more.
- Gentlemen,
:34:11
the Navy is more anxious than you are
to blast those vultures out of the Keys.
:34:15
Good!
:34:16
But you present no evidence
against this man Cutler!
:34:20
Give us proof
of deliberate wrecking.
:34:23
- We'll do the rest.
- Proof?
:34:25
No one dares testify
against Cutler.
:34:28
We sent men down there
to find witnesses.
:34:31
- What became of them?
- I don't know, sir.
:34:35
But I suggest that
you send one man more.
:34:38
- Who, for instance?
- Well... me, for instance.
:34:42
You?
Why, Tolliver,
:34:44
you wouldn't last fifteen minutes
in that pirate's nest.
:34:46
You're a lawyer,
not a gunboat.
:34:50
But the gunboats won't come
until we get proof.
:34:53
Gunboats or no gunboats,
if we don't stop that gang mighty soon,
:34:57
the American flag
won't be at many mastheads.