Rats are various medium-sized, long tailed rodents. They are considered pests, eating food and spreading disease.
History[]
Season One[]
Randall , the ships cook aboard the Walrus, keeps a cat named Betsy in order to keep the ship’s rat population in check.
Season Two[]
Rats can be heard squeaking in Abigail Ashe’s cell in Fort Nassau.
Season Three[]
When the Walrus crew investigates the abandoned Straight Arrow, they find rats running wild belowdecks, eating whatever they can find.
While Jack Rackham awaits his transfer in his cell in Fort Nassau, a rat begins nibbling on his scraps of bread and chicken bones. Rackham waxes poetically about striving for more than the world gives you, and tells the rat “today the crumbs, tomorrow the loaf, perhaps some day the whole damn boulangerie.”