Calico Jack

**Calico Jack** was the victim in Mutiny Onboard (Case #14 of Graecita).Prior to his death, he made a couple of minor appearances in Season 4.

## Profile

Jack was a 37-year-old pirate and former captain of *The William* who had black hair, black eyes, a tin mustache and defined sideburns. He wore a white-open shirt under a brown calico jacket and a belt around his waist and shoulder where he kept his weapons.

## Murder details

While Anne was dealing with Ophelia, Chet and Madelina, the rest of the team started discussing where they would sleep now that they lost their rooms and Mia agreed that she and Zachary should go down the orlop and hang more hammocks for their friends where they would sleep temporarily until Anne and her pirates leave. While they were at the orlop, they noticed something off with one of the rum barrels and when they come closer, they found a pirate drowning his face into the barrel and when they checked his pulse, he was not breathing. Zachary and Mia were shocked to learn that they allowed a murderer into a ship and while they were talking, Mary walked in on them to check how they’re going and was surprised to see a dead body on the orlop. The duo interrogated her and from speaking with her, they learned that the man is called **Calico Jack**, a name they instantly recognized as the former captain of *The William* and the husband of Anne Bonny.

## Killer and motives

Eventually, the killer turned out to be Cordaro according to the evidence. Cordaro acted shocked and confused by the allegation, claiming that he would never kill his “best mate” but after the evidence was presented to him, he was forced to confess, revealing that he killed Jack as he was plotting to assassin Anne. Cordaro explained that Jack was growing irritated being ordered around by Bonny and the teasing he’s been receiving from their fellow crewmen over him allowing his wife to “boss him around”. However, he never dared to open up to Anne until last week when a prisoner laughed at him for letting Anne “emasculate him”. This seriously angered Jack who didn’t like how low he “fell in grace” and confronted Anne, begging her to let him run the ship again and when she refused, he gathered his loyalest friends to plot a mutiny, Cordaro being one of them. Cordaro didn’t hate Anne but he held Jack in high regard so he agreed on the plan and the rest did too, as just like Jack they were tired of having a woman as their boss. However, after spending days thinking about it, Cordaro realized that the mutiny wasn’t a good idea as he didn’t want to be forced into killing his crew mates and so he tried to talk sense into Jack. But Jack refused to call off the plan as it’ll make him look cowardly and when Cordaro threatened to tell Anne, Jack laughed at him, claiming that Anne wouldn’t believe him as its his words over her husband. Cordaro knew this was true and decided against telling Anne, thinking of other ways to stop the mutiny. Fast forward to today, the pirates were having lunch at the *Hamilton Laurent’s Revenge* and suddenly Jack got sick from drinking his soup. Cordaro took him to the orlop to rest and the two started drinking rum together and it didn’t take a lot of jugs for Jack to get drunk. Cordaro looked at the dizzy Jack and at the rum barrel they were drinking from and this is when Cordaro thought the best way to stop the mutiny is by killing Jack and he drowned him in the rum barrel. Zachary and Mia took Cordaro to Anne for judgement, who was offended that Cordaro thought she stood no chance in the mutiny and decided to punish him by locking him up in the ship’s cells until they are done with the quest and come back to *The William*. Suddenly, a pirate barges onto Anne’s cabin and when she demanded to know why he’s here, he told her that the crew found a mermaid in the sea.

## Case appearances

* Into The Rabbit Hole (Case #8 of Graecita).
* Quiver In Death (Case #9 of Graecita)
* Magical Beasts (Case #13 of Graecita)
* Mutiny Onboard (Case #14 of Graecita)

## Trivia

* Jack was a real-life pirate from the early 18th century.
	+ Furthermore, he was modeled after Australian actor, Toby Schmitz who played the part of the character in the adventure series *Black Sails*, which ran between 2014-2017z

## Gallery

Anne Bonny, Jack’s wife.Cordaro, Jack’s killer.