User blog comment:Uskok/Crossbones or: Blackbeard with white beard?/@comment-996391-20140707140228/@comment-996391-20140708135147

I just watched the first three episodes. It turns out in this version of the story Blackbeard's "killer" wasn't Robert Maynard but some guy named William Jagger, who eventually became the governor of Jamaica. But the "Blackbeard" he killed at Ocracoke was actually a double, and 11 years later Jagger knows the truth, and sends a very skilled spy Tom Lowe to kill the real Blackbeard.

As for Malkovich, he's a good actor, and he can be scary even without the beard and long hair.