Black Sails season 4 episode 9 sneak peek: Don’t count Flint out

Moving into Black Sails season 4 episode 9, things aren’t looking exactly great for one Captain Flint. We’re going to be seeing the character seemingly on the move, and getting ever closer to a place where his untimely doom could await him. We know where the character ends up in Treasure Island, and we’re not all that far away from that anymore.

Now that we say that, there are some other considerations that need to be made here. None of these pirates have a crystal ball, or any awareness as to where some of these characters could be ending up. This is the origin for the new sneak peek below from tonight’s new episode, as Billy Bones hands down a rather pointed warning to one Woodes Rogers — don’t just assume that Flint is going to be an easy man to thwart. He’s someone who’s made his way out of a number of precarious positions in the past, and it’s with this in mind that you have to assume that he’s more than capable of doing so yet again. You have to be prepared for any scenario.

One of the things that is so interesting about where we are in the series right now is that we can chart character development from the early days to where we are now. For example, is Bones now far more like Flint than he’d like to realize? Are there similarities between Woodes and Silver? There something that this experience makes you become, and this is a slow transformation that we’re starting to experience more of featuring some of these characters.

This episode Sunday isn’t necessarily one we’d call a turning point, given that we already see the finish line on the horizon. Instead, it’s more of a payoff. It’s the culmination of the characters journeys, and a build towards the inevitable. All in all, it should be thrilling to watch.

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If you head over here, you can check out an additional preview right now for the penultimate episode of the series! Meanwhile, be sure to also check out the latest entry in our ongoing TV Madness series in the event that you do want to vote for Black Sails in its final four showdown against Longmire. The winner there moves on to the final round.

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