- Title Card: nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
- [first lines]
- Captain Grey: You did this! You turned my crew to mutiny.
- Lord Benton: [standing in his cell] You see, a good leader listens to his men. As it happens, yours were disgruntled.
- Captain Grey: What did you promise them?
- Lord Benton: The only things worth having: a fortune and the freedom to spend it.
- McTaggart: [purposely wounding himself] I just got this fuckin' shirt. Oooh! That tickles!
- Charleston: I don't know if that's brave or stupid.
- McTaggart: Sometimes they're one and the same.