: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.
:35:00
- But I don't favor losing
a good sea lawyer.
- Thank you.
:35:04
I know Cutler, Steve.
:35:06
You wouldn't stand any more chance
than a rat in a tar barrel.
:35:09
Confound it,
if they kill him,
:35:11
- he's not the man for the job.
- Very aptly put, sir.
:35:14
Perhaps Jack Stuart could
sail south with me.
:35:17
The Southern Cross is refitting
in Havana. If you recall...
:35:20
You'd give the Southern Cross to the man
who just lost us the Jubilee?
:35:23
Gentlemen,
we're in business!
:35:25
Capt. Stuart has increased the earnings
of every vessel he's commanded.
:35:28
Twice he's weathered typhoons
in the China Sea.
:35:31
And he's broken the record
from Rio to Martinique.
:35:33
I personally don't like him,
but he gets the most out of a ship.
:35:37
Mmm, and then throws it away
on a Florida reef.
:35:41
I expect to get proof that Cutler,
not Stuart, wrecked the Jubilee.
:35:44
- Hmph! You expect!
- Don't you?
:35:51
Ormsby, order Capt. Stuart to proceed
to Key West immediately...
:35:55
as mate of the Pelican.
:35:58
There he'll be set ashore
without pay... to await orders.