Black Dog's visit and the captain's stroke

1 A January dawn: hoar-frost grips Black Hill Cove and the little grey Admiral Benbow

2 Jim freezes as a pale man with a maimed left hand appears on the threshold

3 Black Dog holds Jim back behind the open door, his cutlass hilt cleared, both listening

4 Billy Bones spins round, face drained, scar white — the look of a man who sees a ghost

5 Extreme close-up of Billy Bones's eyes, ringed with fear, a tear on the lower lid

6 Billy Bones reels against the table as Black Dog stands by the open door

8 As Black Dog runs, the captain swings a last cut that meets the signboard, not his back

9 Billy Bones lies senseless; Jim freezes with spilling rum as his mother comes running

11 The captain's bared forearm shows an old blue tattoo: Billy Bones his fancy

12 The doctor presses the captain down as he cries for Black Dog; Jim holds the basin