Blackbeard suspects Edwina's crime and breaks open one of her chests but discovers only letters in which Edwina implicates Morgan as Bellamy's cohort. A grateful Edwina admits to Maynard that she agreed to marry Bellamy to escape from Morgan, from whom she has stolen treasure, which is now hidden in a clothes chest. Maynard then defends Edwina against the unwanted advances of a lecherous pirate, killing him with his dagger. Before Blackbeard discovers him, Maynard manages to rip out the book's incriminating pages. Later, while Blackbeard is up on deck, Maynard slips into the captain's quarters and locates Bellamy's logbook, which he hopes will contain evidence that Bellamy gave Morgan stolen goods. Unknown to Blackbeard, Gilly is in league with Maynard and slips him a note begging him to slit the pirate's throat, but Maynard declines. Blackbeard then orders Maynard to remove a bullet from his neck, and ever-suspicious, demands that sailor Gilly watch the newcomer during the operation. Beautiful passenger Edwina Mansfield, a pirate's daughter, is furious at Blackbeard because she had planned to marry Bellamy, but Blackbeard, who wants Morgan dead, knows that the nobleman is infatuated with her and will pursue her. As soon as Maynard and fellow spy Briggs board the ship, they learn that the notorious pirate Blackbeard has murdered Bellamy and taken over as captain. The governor has offered a reward to anyone who can prove that Morgan is receiving pirate loot. Maynard has turned spy because Jamaica's governor suspects that Bellamy is in league with Sir Henry Morgan, a former pirate who has been assigned by the King of England to protect the seas. In Port Royal, Jamaica, in the early eighteenth century, Robert Maynard poses as a surgeon in order to board pirate Charles Bellamy's ship.
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