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Lookout (Colonial Dawn)

Vital statistics
Title Pirate
Gender Male
Status Alive
Ships Colonial Dawn
Relationships Jack Rackham (captain)

Augustus Featherstone (quartermaster)

Appearances Only: XIV.
Portrayed by Dylan Esbach

The Lookout is a pirate and crew mate of the Colonial Dawn under the command of Captain Jack Rackham

Biography[]

Season Two[]

The Lookout was one of the 28 members of the Colonial Dawn who followed  their navigator, Augustus Featherstone, in naming Jack Rackham as their captain, with Featherstone being promoted to quartermaster, while they are provided leads on potential prizes by Max, the madame of the Inn

The crew sets sail to capture the True North, a merchant vessel that is heavily insured, and therefore likely to surrender. The Lookout was stationed in a mast, and he pointed out sails north-northwest of the Colonial Dawn, which Rackham told the crew was the True North. The Lookout shouted that he saw sails again, and Rackham tells the Lookout that he heard him the first time. The Lookout replies that it is a second set, and it is west, southwest of them. Rackham asks Featherstone, who trains his spyglass on them, if it is another prize, but Featherstone says it is a pirate crew not from Nassau. 

Rackham leads his crew in successfully capturing the True North. The second crew arrives, led by a Captain Linus Harcourt. The two captains sit down to work out a deal where they split the merchant ship's cargo.  However, the captain offers a terrible deal. Rackham speaks with Featherstone, who says that the crew will take the deal, knowing that they can’t fight Captain Harcourt and his numerically superior crew. 

Rackham feigns acceptance to the deal, but then slashes Harcourt with his dagger. After a brutal fistfight, Harcourt dies after bleeding out from the wound to his neck. Before the pirate crews begin fighting, Rackham begs them to wait. He then says that Harcourt wanted to kill every member of the merchant crew, which Rackham could not allow. He orders Haines to remove the crew of the True North’s restraints and to arm them. Haines follows his captain’s orders. Rackham then asks if there is a member of the Goliath’s crew willing to negotiate a more reasonable deal in light of the overwhelming numbers against them. The Goliath’s Quartermaster then sits down to negotiate with Rackham. 

The Colonial Dawn then goes after the Urca de Lima gold, which is guarded on the beach near the treasure galleon’s wreck by a small number of soldiers, most of which had died of a plague that swept through their camp. The crew is successful, and the gold is taken back to Nassau


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