Pirates of
the Caribbean Script
Screenplay by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott
For everyone's reading pleasure, here it is, the script
for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl".
It took me hours to complete typing it all up by ear. So there will
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- There has been
more discrepancy in the word 'parley', 'parlay', or a French version.
The Disney book uses 'parley' so that's the one I'll be using.
- Of course, a
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- [NEW] This
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SCRIPT LAST
UPDATED: April 22nd, 2004 (8:05 pm EST)
-
Nevoreiel
*****
Scene
1: (Dream sequence of
Will
?s
rescue)
Young
Elizabeth
: [standing
at the bow of a ship and singing] ?We pillage, we plunder, we
rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and
don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's
life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack. Drink up ? [
Gibbs
puts his hand on her shoulder which surprises her]
Gibbs
:
Quiet, missy! Cursed pirates sail these waters. You don?t want to
bring them down on us, now, do ya?
Norrington:
Mr.
Gibbs
, that will do!
Gibbs
:
She was singing about pirates. Bad luck to be singing about pirates with
us mired in this unnatural fog. Mark my words.
Norrington:
Consider them marked. On your way.
Gibbs
:
Aye, Lieutenant. It?s bad luck to have a woman on board, too? even a
miniature one.
Young
Elizabeth
: I think
it?d be rather exciting to meet a pirate.
Norrington:
Think again,
Miss
Swann
. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them.
I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag
or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves ? a short drop and a
sudden stop. [
Elizabeth
glances at
Gibbs
who mimes a hanging]
Governor
Swann
:
Lieutenant
Norrington
, I appreciate your
fervor, but I?m, uh, I?m concerned about the effect this subject
will have upon my daughter.
Norrington:
My apologies,
Governor
Swann
.
Young
Elizabeth
:
Actually, I find it all fascinating.
Governor
Swann
: Yes.
That?s what concerns me.
Young
Elizabeth
: [sees
a parasol and then a piece of wreckage with a boy on it in the water]
Look! A boy! There?s a boy in the water!
Norrington: Man
overboard! Man the ropes. Fetch a Hook! Haul him aboard. [they get him on board] He?s still breathing.
Gibbs
:
[spots burning ship]
Mary
, Mother of God!
Governor
Swann
: What
happened here?
Norrington:
It?s most likely the powder magazine. Merchant vessels run heavily
armed.
Gibbs
:
A lot of good it did them. Everyone?s thinking it. I?m just saying
it. Pirates.
Governor
Swann
:
There?s no proof of that. It was probably an accident.
Norrington:
Rouse the Captain immediately! Heave to and take in sail. Launch the
boats.
Sailor:
Heave to!
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
, I want you to
accompany the boy. He?ll be in your
charge. Take care of him. [she
nods and walks over to the young
Will
]
Young
Elizabeth
: [Will
awakes, grabbing her wrist] It?s ok. My name?s
Elizabeth
Swann
.
Young Will:
W-W-Will
Turner
.
Young
Elizabeth
: I?m
watching over you,
Will
. [
Will
faints, she notices medallion and examines it]
You?re a p-pirate. [hides it
when Norrington approaches]
Norrington:
Has he said anything?
Young
Elizabeth
: His
name is
William
Turner
. That?s all I
found out.
Norrington:
[to sailors] Take him below.
[
Elizabeth
studies the medallion closer and upon looking up sees a ship with the
black flag flying at its mast; she closes her eyes]
[End
dream]
Scene
2: (A beautiful dress and an impressive sword)
[
Elizabeth
awakes and decides to take out the medallion from a hiding place in
her bureau drawer; she puts it on; there?s a knock on the door]
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
? Are you alright?
Are you decent?
Elizabeth
: [hides
medallion in the bodice of her nightgown, throws on a robe] Yes,
yes!
Governor
Swann
: Still
abed at this hour? [opens the
curtains and the window] It?s a beautiful day. I have a gift for
you. [reveals dress]
Elizabeth
: Oh,
it?s beautiful!
Governor
Swann
: Isn?t
it?
Elizabeth
: May I
inquire as to the occasion?
Governor
Swann
: Does a
father need an occasion to dote upon his daughter? [to the maids] Go on. Actually, I, um?I had hoped you might wear
it for the ceremony today.
Elizabeth
: The
ceremony?
Governor
Swann
:
Captain
Norrington
?s promotion
ceremony.
Elizabeth
: I knew
it!
Governor
Swann
:
Commodore Norrington, as he?s about to become! [the maids lace
Elizabeth
up into a corset] A
fine gentleman, don?t you think? He fancies you, you know. Elizabeth?
How?s it coming?
Elizabeth
: It?s
difficult to say.
Governor
Swann
: I?m
told it?s the latest fashion in
London
Elizabeth
: Well,
women in
London
must?ve learned not to breathe.
Servant:
Milord, you have a visitor.
[
Will
studies a sconce and upon touching it, a piece comes off in his hand;
he buries it in the vase that?s holding canes and umbrellas]
Governor
Swann
: [walks
downstairs after the servant] Ah,
Mr.
Turner
, good to see you
again.
Will:
Good day, sir. I have your order. [opens
case and takes out the sword]
Governor
Swann
: [takes
the sword and unsheathes it] Well.
Will
:
The blade is folded steel. That?s gold filigree laid into the handle.
If I may. [balances the sword] Perfectly balanced. The tang is nearly the full
width of the blade. [flips the
sword and presents it gracefully to the Governor]
Governor
Swann
: [takes
the sword] Impressive. Very impressive. Ah, now, Commodore
Norrington is going to be very pleased with this. Do pass my compliments
on to your Master. Hmm?
Will
:
I shall. A craftsman is always pleased to hear his work is appreciated.
Governor
Swann
: [enter
Elizabeth
] Oh,
Elizabeth
, you look absolutely
stunning.
Elizabeth
: Will!
It?s so good to see you. I had a dream about you last night.
Will
:
About me?
Governor
Swann
: Yes,
well, is that entirely proper for you to??
Elizabeth
: About
the day we met, do you remember?
Will
:
How could I forget,
Miss
Swann
?
Elizabeth
: Will,
how many times must I ask you to call me
Elizabeth
?
Will: At
least once more,
Miss
Swann
, as always.
Governor
Swann
: There.
See? At least the boy has a sense of propriety. Now, we really must be
going. [gives
Elizabeth
a parasol]
There you are.
Elizabeth
: Good
day,
Mr.
Turner
.
Governor
Swann
: Come
along.
Will:
Good day? [Elizabeth and the
Governor exit,
Will
trailing after them, they leave in a carriage]
?
Elizabeth
.
Scene
3: (A most excellent entrance, the debate, and the proposal)
[Jack stands on the mast of his boat, noticing that it?s filling up
with water he jumps down to bail it out; notices three pirate skeletons
hanging with a sign ?pirates ye be warned? and pays homage to them;
reaches the port, his boat sinking lower and lower until he is at the
dock and is able to simply walk off the boat?s mast]
Harbormaster: [to
Jack
]
What ? hey. Hold up, there, you. It?s a shilling to tie up your boat
at the dock. [they both look at the sunken boat] And I shall need to know your
name.
Jack
:
[hands him three shillings] What d?ye say to three shillings?
and we forget the name?
Harbormaster: Welcome to
Port Royal
,
Mr.
Smith
. [
Jack
sees the Harbormasters money pouch and takes it]
[Norrington?s promotion ceremony] Shouted orders to soldiers: Two paces march! Right
about face! Present arms! [Norrington
walks to get his promotion, unsheathes his new sword]
Murtogg: [spots
Jack
]
This dock is off limits to civilians.
Jack
:
I?m terribly sorry. I didn?t know. If I see one, I shall inform you
immediately. [tries to continue on his way but is again thwarted] Apparently
there?s some sort of high toned and fancy to do up at the fort, eh?
How could it be that two upstanding gentlemen such as yourselves did not
merit an invitation?
Murtogg:
Someone has to make sure this dock stays off limits to civilians.
Jack
:
It?s a fine goal to be sure but it seems to me that a? [shifts
again] a ship like that [points
out the Dauntless] makes this one here a bit superfluous, really.
Murtogg:
Oh, the Dauntless is the power in these waters, true enough, but
there?s no ship as can match the Interceptor for speed.
Jack
:
I?ve heard of one, supposed to be very fast ? nigh un-catchable?the
Black Pearl.
Mullroy:
Well?there?s no real ship as can match the Interceptor.
Murtogg:
The Black Pearl is a real ship.
Mullroy:
No, no it?s not.
Murtogg:
Yes, it is, I?ve seen it.
Mullroy:
You?ve seen it?
Murtogg:
Yes.
Mullroy:
You haven?t seen it.
Murtogg:
Yes, I have.
Mullroy:
You?ve seen a ship with black sails, that?s crewed by the damned and
captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?
Murtogg:
No.
Mullroy:
No.
Murtogg:
But I have seen a ship with black sails. [
Jack
slips away while they banter]
Mullroy:
Oh, and no ship that?s not crewed by the damned and captained by a man
so evil that Hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black
sails therefore couldn?t possibly be any other ship than the Black
Pearl. Is that what you?re saying?
Murtogg: [nods]
No.
Mullroy:
Like I said, there?s no real
ship as can match the Interceptor? [notices
Jack
at the wheel of the Interceptor]
Murtogg:
Hey! You! Get away from there.
Mullroy:
You don?t have permission to be aboard there, mate.
Jack
:
I?m sorry, it?s just - it?s such a pretty boat. Ship.
Murtogg:
What?s your name?
Jack
:
Smith. Or Smithy, if you like.
Mullroy:
What?s your purpose in
Port Royal
,
Mr.
Smith
?
Murtogg:
Yeah. and no lies.
Jack:
Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these
ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and
otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out!
Murtogg:
I said no lies!
Mullroy:
I think he?s telling the truth.
Murtogg:
If he were telling the truth, he wouldn?t have told us.
Jack
:
Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn?t believe the truth even if he
told it to you.
[on the battlements of the Fort] Norrington:
May I have a moment? [Elizabeth
and Norrington step onto the platform. Elizabeth walks over to steady
herself as she fans herself hastily and tries to catch her breath]
Uh, you look lovely, Elizabeth. [Elizabeth
still fanning herself chuckles softly and half-heartedly]
I, uh, apologize if
I seem forward, but I? must speak my mind. This promotion throws into
sharp relief that which I have not yet achieved. Uh? a marriage to a
fine woman. You have become a fine woman,
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth
: I
can?t breathe.
Norrington:
Yes, I? I?m a bit nervous myself. [she
falls over battlement]
Scene
4: (The daring rescue and escape)
Jack
:
[in boat with guards] ?and then they made me their chief.
Norrington:
Elizabeth
?
Elizabeth
! My God.[makes to jump in after her]
Gillette
:
[stops him] The rocks! Sir, it?s a miracle she missed them.
Jack
:
Will you be saving her then?
Mullroy:
I can?t swim.
Jack
:
[glances at Murtogg who stares back at him] Pride of the King?s
Navy you are. [hands the guards
his effects] Do not lose these. [dives
in to save her]
Murtogg: [the
medallion calls to the Black
Pearl
]
What was that? [helps
Jack
with
Elizabeth
] Ooh,
I got her. She?s not breathing!
Jack
:
Move! [shoves him aside, cuts open corset and
Elizabeth
spits out water and gasps for breath]
Mullroy:
Never would?ve thought of that.
Jack
:
Clearly you?ve never been to
Singapore
. [sees medallion, to
Elizabeth
] Where
did you get that?
Norrington:
[to
Jack
,
pointing his sword at him]
On your feet.
Governor
Swann
: [helps
Elizabeth
up]
Elizabeth
. Are you alright?
Elizabeth
: Yes,
I?m fine.
Governor
Swann
: [sees Murtogg holding
Elizabeth
's corset; Murtogg points at
Jack
; Swann looks over at
Jack
] Shoot
him!
Elizabeth
: Father!
Commodore, do you really intend to kill my rescuer?
Norrington:
I believe thanks are in order. [offers
his hand to shake; reveals ?P? for pirate] Had a brush with the
East India Trading company, did we, pirate?
Governor
Swann
: Hang
him.
Norrington:
Keep your guns on him, men.
Gillette
, fetch some irons. [sees
tattoo of a sparrow in flight] Well, well?
Jack
Sparrow
, isn?t it?
Jack
:
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
, if you please, sir.
Norrington:
Well, I don?t see your ship?Captain.
Jack
:
I?m in the market as it were.
Murtogg:
He said he?d come to commandeer one.
Mullroy:
Told ya he was telling the truth. These are his, sir. [hands him
Jack
?s effects]
Norrington:
No additional shots nor powder. A compass that doesn?t point north. [unsheathes
sword] And I half expected it to be made of wood. You are without
doubt the worst pirate I?ve ever heard of.
Jack
:
But you have heard of me. [is
pulled along to be put in chains]
Elizabeth
:
Commodore, I really must protest.
Norrington:
Carefully, Lieutenant.
Elizabeth
: Pirate
or not this man saved my life.
Norrington:
One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness.
Jack
:
Though it seems enough to condemn him.
Norrington:
Indeed. [
Gillette
moves away from
Jack
]
Jack
:
Finally. [throws his irons around
Elizabeth
?s neck]
Governor
Swann
: No,
don?t shoot!
Jack
:
I knew you?d warm up to me. Commodore Norrington, my effects, please,
and my hat. Commodore!
Elizabeth
. It is
Elizabeth
isn?t it?
Elizabeth
: It?s
Miss
Swann
.
Jack
:
Miss
Swann
, if you?d be so
kind. Come, come, dear. We don?t have all day. Now if you?d be very
kind. [she straps on his sword, puts on his hat, etc.] Easy on the goods,
darling.
Elizabeth
:
You?re despicable.
Jack
:
Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we?re
square. Gentlemen, m?lady, you will always remember this as the day
that you almost caught
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
! [pushes
Elizabeth
away and escapes, swinging around and landing on a beam above their
heads]
Governor
Swann
: Now,
will you shoot him?
Norrington:
Open fire! [
Jack
is shot at]
On his heels. [
Jack
throws his chains about a rope and slides down to the ground]
Gillette
,
Mr.
Sparrow
has a dawn
appointment with the gallows. I would hate for him to miss it.
Soldier: [the
soldiers run around searching for
Jack
]
Search upstairs. Look lively, men.
Scene
5: (The duel between
Jack
and
Will
)
Jack
:
[enters smithy, sees drunk and sleeping
Mr.
Brown
and pokes him to see
if he?ll awaken]
Whoa! [tries to get rid of the
irons with a hammer but it doesn?t work; uses the red hot end of a
metal rod to spur the donkey; succeeds in breaking the link between them
by putting them on two turning wheels in the machinery powered by the
donkey; hides when Will enters]
Will
:
[calms the donkey; sees
Brown
] Right
where I left you. [sees hammer]
Not where I left you. [notices
Jack
?s
hat and reaches for it; enter
Jack
with sword unsheathed] You're
the one they're hunting. The pirate.
Jack
:
You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?
Will
:
I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates.
Jack
:
Ah, well, then it would be a shame to put a black mark on your record.
So, if you'll excuse me? [turns
away and is about to leave when
Will
gets his own sword]
Do you think this wise, boy ? crossing blades with a pirate?
Will
:
You threatened
Miss
Swann
.
Jack
:
Only a little. [they parry]
You know what you?re doing. I?ll give you that. Excellent form. But
how?s your footwork? If I step here; [he
steps] very good. Now I step again. Ta. [sheathes
sword and walks to the door;
Will
throws sword which gets stuck in the door, barring the exit;
Jack
tries to pull it out but is unsuccessful]
That is a wonderful trick? except, once again you are between me and
my way out. And now you have no weapon. [
Will
takes out a sword with a heated tip; they fight]
Who makes all these? [looks
pointedly at swords]
Will
:
I do! And I practice with them? three hours a day!
Jack
:
You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you
practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are
otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are
you? [looks down]
Will
:
I practice three hours a day so that when I meet a pirate, I can kill
it! [they continue their
swordfight jumping onto a cart that sways under them; Will hooks a knife
in the irons hanging from Jack?s left wrist and throws it up so it is
embedded in the beam above, in return Jack hits a loose board which
throws Will off the cart; Jack uses his body weight to get the knife out
of the wood and falls back on the cart just as Will climbed back on;
Will is thrown up into the rafters and cuts free a heavy sack which
vaults Jack up into the rafters as well; they fight, jumping from beam
to beam; Jack loses his weapon and blinds Will with sand; takes out his
pistol while Will protects his eyes] You cheated!
Jack
:
Pirate! [hears men trying to break the door down] Move away.
Will: No.
Jack
:
Please move.
Will: No!
I cannot just step aside and let you escape.
Jack
:
This shot is not meant for you. [gets
hit on the head with a bottle of alcohol and falls unconscious]
Soldier: [Norrington?s
men break in the door]
There he is. Over here.
Norrington:
Excellent work,
Mr.
Brown
. You?ve assisted in the capture of a dangerous fugitive.
Mr.
Brown
:
Just doing my civic duty, sir.
Norrington:
Well, I trust you will always remember this as the day that
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
almost escaped. Take
him away.
Scene
6: (Talk of the right match and
Port Royal
under
attack!)
Prisoners:
[whistling and waving a bone to a
dog that has the keys to the prison in its jaws] Come here, boy.
Want a nice juicy bone? Come here. Come on
Jack
:
You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to move.
Prisoner:
Oh, excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet.
[in the Governor?s house;
Elisabeth
?s room]
Estrella: There you go,
Miss.
[puts a bed warmer between the sheets] It was a difficult day for
you, I?m sure.
Elizabeth
: I
suspected Commodore Norrington would propose but I must admit, I
wasn?t entirely prepared for it.
Estrella:
Well, I meant you being threatened by that pirate. Sounds terrifying.
Elizabeth
: Oh,
yes, it was terrifying.
Estrella:
But the Commodore proposed. Fancy that. Now, that?s a smart match,
Miss, if it?s not too bold to say.
Elizabeth
: It is a
smart match. He?s a fine man; he?s what any woman should dream of
marrying.
Estrella:
Well, that
Will
Turner
, he?s a fine man, too.
Elizabeth
: That is
too bold.
Estrella:
Well, begging your pardon,
Miss.
It was not my place.
[leaves]
[meanwhile
Will
is hammering a new sword, he looks out unto the deserted street]
[on top of the Fort]
Governor
Swann
:
Has my daughter given you an answer yet?
Norrington:
No, she hasn?t.
Governor
Swann
: Well,
she has had a very trying day. Ghastly weather, don?t you think?
Norrington:
Bleak. Very bleak.
Governor
Swann
:
What?s that?
Norrington:
Cannon fire! [tackles the
Governor] Return fire!
[in the jail]
Jack
: I know
those guns. [looks out of his
little window] It?s the
Pearl
.
Prisoner:
The Black
Pearl
? I?ve heard stories. She?s been preying on ships and
settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
Jack
:
No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?
[the Black Pearl?s guns are destroying the battlements, the pirates
are now coming ashore in boats; Will takes up a sword, a hatchet, and a
knife to fight the invading pirates; on the battlements;saves a maid by
killing a pirate with his hatchet]
Norrington:
[shouting orders to soldiers]
Sight the muzzle flash!
Soldier:
Aim for the flashes!
Norrington:
I need a full strike, fore and aft! Let these demons both bite at this! [cannons
are shot in the Black
Pearl
?s direction]
Governor, barricade yourself in my office. That?s an order!
[the Governor?s house;
pirates are running through the gates an knocking on the door]
Elizabeth
: [to
butler] Don?t! [the butler opens the door]
Pintel:
Hello, chum. [shoots butler and
the pirates swarm into the house] Up there! [points
at
Elizabeth
]
Pirate:
Girl! [
Elizabeth
runs upstairs]
Estrella:
[they lock the chamber door]
Miss
Swann
, they?ve come to
kidnap you.
Elizabeth
: What?
Estrella:
You?re the Governor?s daughter.
Elizabeth
: They
haven?t seen you. Hide, and the first
chance you get,
run to the fort. [distracts
Ragetti and Pintel as the maid runs out, hits Pintel in the face with
the bed warmer]
Ragetti:
Gotcha! [catches
Elizabeth
and she releases ashes onto his head]
It?s hot! You burned me!
Pintel: [to
Ragetti] Come on! [Estrella
escapes; Elizabeth is cornered on the stairs and while pirates are
distracted by one of their own being taken out by a cannon she runs
away; Pintel and Ragetti are stopped by a falling chandelier and
Elizabeth locks the door and then tries to get a sword out but is
unable; Pintel and Ragetti break the door] We know you?re here,
Poppet.
Ragetti:
Poppet.
Pintel:
Come out? and we promise we won?t hurt you. [Ragetti
looks at Pintel questioningly who only smiles] We will find you,
Poppet. You?ve got something of ours, and it calls to us. The gold
calls to us.
Ragetti:
Gold calls?
Pintel: [opens
door of the closet] ?Ello, Poppet.
Elizabeth
: Parley!
Ragetti:
What?
Elizabeth
: Parley.
I invoke the right of parley. According to the Code of the brethren, set
down by the pirates
Morgan
and
Bartholomew
, you have to take me to your Captain.
Pintel: I
know the code.
Elizabeth
: If an
adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is
complete.
Ragetti:
To blazes with the code.
Pintel:
She wants to be taken to the Captain. And she?ll go without a fuss. We
must honor the Code.
[
Port Royal street
;
Will
is fighting with Grapple] Grapple: [to
Will
,
holding him defenseless]
Say goodbye! [signs falls on him]
Will:
Goodbye.
Pintel: [to
Elizabeth
, leading her to the Black
Pearl
]
Come on!
Elizabeth
: Will.
Will
:
[spots them]
Elizabeth
. [sees the same pirate he killed with his hatchet and is confused]
Pirate:
Outta my way, scum. [knocks
Will
on the head, he faints]
Scene
7: (No luck and on board the Black
Pearl
)
[in jail]
Prisoner: [a hole is blown in a cell, to
Jack
]
My sympathies, friend, you?ve no manner of luck at all.
Jack: [picks
up the bone and whistles] Come on, doggy. It?s just you and me
now. It?s you and ol?
Jack
. Come on. Come on,
good boy. That a good boy, come on! Bit closer, bit closer. That?s it,
that?s it, doggy. Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cur. [there?s
a crash downstairs and the dog runs away] No, no, no, no, no, I
didn?t mean it. I didn?t... [a
crash as the prison guard is thrown down the stairs]
Twigg: [looks
a round] This ain?t the armory.
Koehler:
Well, well, well, look what we have here Twigg ?
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
.
Twigg: [spits]
Last time I saw you, you were all alone on a godforsaken island,
shrinking into the distance. His fortunes aren?t improved much.
Jack
:
Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen. The deepest circle of Hell is
reserved for betrayers and mutineers. [Koehler
grabs
Jack
?s
throat;
Jack
sees skeletal arm]
So there is a curse. That?s interesting.
Koehler:
You know nothing of Hell. [they
leave]
Jack
:
That?s very interesting.
[
Elizabeth
is rowed across with the pirates; on board the Black
Pearl
]
Bo?sun
:
I didn?t know we was takin? on captives.
Pintel:
She?s invoked the right of parley with
Captain
Barbossa
.
Elizabeth
: I am
here to negotiate ? [is
backhanded by
Bo?sun
]
Bo?sun
:
You will speak when spoken to.
Barbossa:
[grabs
Bo?sun
?s wrist]
And ye not lay a hand on those under the protection of parley.
Bo?sun
:
Aye, sir.
Barbossa:
My apologies, Miss.
Elizabeth
:
Captain
Barbossa
, I am here to
negotiate the cessation of hostilities against
Port Royal
.
Barbossa:
There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we?re naught but humble
pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth
: I want
you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa:
I?m disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means ?no.?
Elizabeth
: Very
well. I?ll drop it. [dangles
medallion over the sea]
Barbossa:
Me holds are burstin' with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?
Elizabeth
: It?s
what you?ve been searching for. I recognized the ship. I saw it eight
years ago on the crossing from
England
.
Barbossa:
Did ya, now?
Elizabeth
: Fine.
Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there?s no point in me keeping
it. [it drops a bit, the pirates
lunge forward]
Barbossa:
Ah. [chuckles] You have a
name, Missy?
Elizabeth
:
Elizabeth
?Turner. I?m a
maid in the Governor?s household. [she
curtsies]
Barbossa:
Miss
Turner
??
Pintel:
Bootstrap.
Barbossa:
And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that. Family heirloom,
perhaps?
Elizabeth
: I
didn?t steal it, if that?s what you mean.
Barbossa:
Very well, you hand it over and we?ll put your town to our rudder and
ne?er return.
Elizabeth
: [she
hands it over] Our bargain? [Barbossa
walks away from her]
Bo?sun
:
Still the guns and stow ?em, Signal the men, set the flags and make
good to clear port.
Elizabeth
: Wait!
You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the
Brethren -
Barbossa:
First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our
agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for
the pirate?s code to apply and you?re not. And thirdly, the code is
more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome
aboard the Black
Pearl
,
Miss
Turner
.
Scene
8: (To save
Elizabeth
and
Jack
?s
rescue)
Will
:
[awakes on the street in the morning; to Norrington] They?ve taken
her. They?ve taken
Elizabeth
.
Norrington:
Mr.
Murtogg
, remove this man.
Will
:
We have to hunt them down. we must save her.
Governor
Swann
: And
where do you propose we start? If you have any information concerning my
daughter, please share it.
Murtogg: That
Jack
Sparrow
. He talked about the
Black Pearl.
Mullroy:
Mentioned it, is more what he did.
Will
:
Ask him where it is. Make a deal with him. He could lead us to it.
Norrington:
No?the pirates who invaded this Fort left Sparrow locked in his cell
ergo they are not his allies. Governor, we will establish their most
likely course?
Will
:
[buries hatchet in the table] That?s not good enough!
Norrington:
Mr.
Turner
, you are not a
military man, you are not a sailor. You are a blacksmith and this is not the moment for rash actions. Do not make the mistake of thinking
you are the only man here who cares for
Elizabeth
. [hands him back his hatchet]
[in jail]
Jack
: [trying
to pick the lock with a bone] Please.... [hears
footsteps, leaves the bone in the lock and lies down]
Will:
You. Sparrow!
Jack
:
Aye.
Will
:
You are familiar with that ship ? the Black
Pearl?
Jack
:
I?ve heard of it.
Will
:
Where does it make berth?
Jack
:
Where does it make berth? Have you not heard the stories?
Captain
Barbossa
and his crew of
miscreants sail from the dreaded
Isla
de Muerta
. It?s an island
that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is.
Will
:
The ship?s real enough. Therefore its anchorage must be a real place.
Where is it?
Jack
:
[studies his nails] Why ask me?
Will
:
Because you?re a pirate.
Jack
:
And you want to turn pirate yourself, is that it?
Will
:
Never! They took
Miss
Swann
.
Jack
:
Oh, so it is that you?ve found a girl. I see. Well, if you?re
intending to brave all, hasten to her rescue and so win fair lady?s
heart you?ll have to do it alone, mate. I see no profit in it for me.
Will
:
I can get you out of here.
Jack
:
How?s that? The key?s run off.
Will
:
I helped build these cells. These are half pin-barrel hinges. [picks
up a bench and places it at the bottom of the cell door] With the
right leverage and the proper application of strength? the door will
lift free.
Jack
:
What?s your name?
Will:
Will
Turner
.
Jack
:
That will be short for
William
, I imagine. Good,
strong name. No doubt, named for your father, eh?
Will:
Yes.
Jack
:
Uh-huh. Well,
Mr.
Turner
, I?ve changed me
mind. If you spring me from this cell I swear on pain of death I shall
take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass. Do we have an accord?
Will
:
[they shake hands] Agreed.
Jack
:
Agreed. Get me out.
Will
:
[lifts the door free] Hurry. Someone will have heard that.
Jack
:
Not without my effects.
Scene
9: (Commandeering a ship)
Will
:
We?re going to steal the ship. That ship? [glances
at the Dauntless]
Jack
:
Commandeer. We?re going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term. One
question about your business, boy, or there?s no use going. This girl
? how far are you willing to go to save her?
Will
:
I?d die for her.
Jack
:
Oh, good. No worries, then.
Will
:
[under boat underwater with
Jack
in the lead]
This is either madness or brilliance.
Jack
:
It?s remarkable how often those two traits coincide. [they
board the Dauntless] Everyone stay calm! we are taking over the
ship.
Will:
Aye! Avast! [the men laugh]
Gillette
:
This ship cannot be crewed by two men. You?ll never make it out of the
bay.
Jack
:
[points his pistol at
Gillette
?s nose]
Son?I?m Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?
Groves
:
[notices
Gillette
and his men a small boat] Commodore!
Gillette
:
[waving and screaming from the boat] Sir, they?ve taken the
Dauntless. They?ve taken the ship. Sparrow and Turner - they?ve
taken the Dauntless.
Norrington:
[sees the two on board the ship
through his spy glass] Rash, Turner, too rash. That is without doubt
the worst pirate I have ever seen.
Will
:
[notices the Interceptor set sail] Here they come.
Gillette
:
[to his crew about the boat] Bring her around! Bring her around!
Norrington:
[he and his men board the
Dauntless] Search every cabin, every hold, down to the bilges. [
Jack
and
Will
swing onto the Interceptor and sail away; Norrington notices]
Sailors, back to the Interceptor! Now!
Sailor:
Quickly men! [they try but are too
late]
Jack
:
Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way. We?d have had
a hard time of it by ourselves.
Norrington:
Set top sails and clear up this mess.
Groves
:
With the wind at quarter astern, we
won?t catch them.
Norrington:
We don?t need to catch them just get them in range of the long nines.
Groves
:
Hands, come about. Run out the guns. [to
Norrington] We open fire on our own ship, sir?
Norrington:
I?d rather see her at the bottom of the ocean than in the hands of a
pirate.
Sailor:
Commodore, he?s disabled the rudder chain, sir!
Gillette
:
[the Interceptor bears down on his boat] Abandon ship! [they
jump off just in time as the boat is broken up and sinks under the
Interceptor]
Groves
:
That?s got to be the best pirate I?ve ever seen.
Norrington:
So it would seem.
Scene
10: (Revelations and
Tortuga
)
Will
:
[sharpening his sword] When I was a lad living in
England
, my mother raised me
by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father.
Jack
:
Is that so?
Will: My
father,
Will
Turner
. At the jail, it was only after you learned my name that
you agreed to help. Since that?s what I wanted, I didn?t press the
matter. I?m not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father.
Jack
:
I knew ?im. Probably one the few who knew him as
William
Turner
. Everyone else just
called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill.
Will:
Bootstrap?
Jack
:
Good man. Good pirate. I swear you look just like him.
Will
:
It?s not true. He was a merchant sailor. A good, respectable man who
obeyed the law.
Jack
:
He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag.
Will
:
My father was not a pirate. [takes
out his sword]
Jack
:
Put it away, son. It?s not worth you getting beat again.
Will
:
You didn?t beat me. you ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair
fight, I?d killed you.
Jack
:
Then that's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?
[moves one of the
sails so that the yard catches
Will
and swings him out over the sea] Now, as long as you?re just hanging there, pay
attention. The only rules that really matter are these ? what a man can
do and what a man can?t do.
For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good
man or you can?t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you?ll have
to square with that someday. Now, me, for example, I can let you drown
but I can?t bring this ship into
Tortuga
all by me onesy,
savvy? So? [swings him back on
board and offers him his sword] can you sail under the command of a
pirate? Or can you not?
Will
:
[takes the sword]
Tortuga
?
Jack
:
Tortuga
. [on the island] More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has
never breathed deep this sweet, proliferous bouquet that is
Tortuga
, savvy? What do you
think?
Will
:
It'll linger.
Jack
:
I?ll tell you mate, if every town in the world were like this one, no
man would ever feel unwanted.
Jack
:
Scarlett
! [she slaps him] Not sure I deserved that. Giselle!
Giselle:
Who was she?!
Jack
: What? [she
slaps him] I may have deserved that.
Scene
11: (A proposition)
Gibbs
:
[
Jack
throws a bucket of water at him] Curse you for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot!
Mother?s love!
Jack
! You should know better than to wake a man when he?s sleeping. ?S
bad luck.
Jack
:
Ah, fortunately I know how to counter it. The man who did the waking
buys, the man who was sleeping, a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks
it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking.
Gibbs
:
Aye, that'll about do it. [
Will
throws another bucket of water at him]
Blast! I?m already awake!
Will
:
That was for the smell.
Jack
:
[they enter a tavern; to
Will
] Keep a
sharp eye. [sits at a table with
Gibbs
]
Gibbs
:
Now, what?s the nature of this venture of yourn?
Jack
:
I?m going after the Black Pearl.
[
Gibbs
almost chokes on his drink] I know where it?s going to be, and I?m going to take
it.
Gibbs
:
Jack
, it?s a fool?s
errand. Why, you know better than me the tales of the Black
Pearl.
Jack
:
That?s why I know what Barbossa is up to. All I need is a crew.
Gibbs
:
From what I hear tell of
Captain
Barbossa
, he?s not a man to
suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one.
Jack
:
Well, then I?d say it?s a very good thing I?m not a fool then, eh?
Gibbs
:
Prove me wrong. What makes ye think Barbossa will give up his ship to
you?
Jack
:
Let?s just say it?s a matter of leverage, eh? [nods
at
Will
]
Gibbs
:
The kid?
Jack
:
That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only
child, savvy?
Gibbs
:
Is he, now?? Leverage,? says you. ?I think I feel a change in the
wind,? says I. I?ll find us a crew. There?s bound to be some
sailors on this rock crazy as you.
Jack
:
One can only hope. Take what you can? [toasts
Gibbs
]
Gibbs
:
[they clink their tankards] ?Give nothing back. [drain
their drinks]
Scene
12: (The origin of the curse)
Pintel:
You'll be dinin' with the captain. And he requests you wear this. [gives
her a dress]
Elizabeth
: Well,
you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his
request.
Pintel:
He said you?d say that. He also said if that be the case, you'll be
dinin' with the crew?and you'll be naked. [she
snatches the dress] Fine.
[in the Captain?s cabin, the food is laid out]
Barbossa: [
Elizabeth
eats daintily] There?s no need to stand on ceremony, nor call to impress anyone.
You must be hungry. [gives her a
goblet with wine] Try the wine. And the apples? [offers
her one] One of those next.
Elizabeth
: It?s
poisoned.
Barbossa:
There would be no sense to be killing ye,
Miss
Turner
.
Elizabeth
: Then
release me, you have your trinket; I?m of no further value to you.
Barbossa:
[takes out the medallion] You
don?t know what this is, do ye?
Elizabeth
: It?s
a pirate medallion.
Barbossa:
This is Aztec gold? one of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a
stone chest to Cortés himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter
he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortés was
insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold?a terrible curse.
Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall
be punished for eternity.
Elizabeth
: I
hardly believe in ghost stories anymore,
Captain
Barbossa
.
Barbossa:
Aye. That?s exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale.
Buried on an
Island
of
Dead
what cannot be found
except for those who know where it is. Find it, we did. There be the
chest. Inside be the gold. And we took ?em all. We spent ?em and
traded ?em and frittered ?em away on drink and food and pleasurable
company. The more we gave ?em away, the more we came to realize?the
drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the
pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed
men,
Miss
Turner
. Compelled by greed, we were, but now we are consumed by
it. [
Elizabeth
takes a butter knife and hides it] There is one way we can end our curse. All the
scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood
repaid. Thanks to ye, we have the final piece.
Elizabeth
: And the
blood to be repaid?
Barbossa:
That?s why there?s no sense to be killin? ye?yet. [offers her an apple] Apple? Arr. [she stabs him with the knife; he takes it out] I?m curious ?
after killin? me what was it you plannin? on doing next? [she runs out and sees the pirates, all decaying skeletons] Look!
The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the
living, and so we cannot die, but neither are we dead. For too long
I?ve been parched with thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I?ve
been starving to death and haven?t died. I feel nothing ? not the
wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman?s
flesh. [walks out into the
moonlight and reveals a skeleton] You best start believing in ghost
stories
Miss
Turner
. You?re in one! [drinks
and it pours over his ribs, laughs and the crew laughs with him]
What are ye looking at? Back to work!
Pirates: You
heard the Captain. Back to work.
Scene
13: (
Jack
?s
crew)
Gibbs
:
Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, faithful hands before the mast,
every man worth his salt. And crazy to boot.
Will
:
So this is your able-bodied crew?
Jack
:
You, sailor!
Gibbs
:
Cotton, sir.
Jack
:
Mr.
Cotton
? do you have the
courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of
danger and almost certain death?
Mr.
Cotton
! Answer, man!
Gibbs
:
He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the
parrot to talk for him. No one?s yet figured how.
Jack
:
Mr.
Cotton
's... parrot. Same
question.
Parrot:
Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!
Gibbs
:
Mostly, we figure, that means ?yes.'?
Jack
:
O?course
it does. [to
Will
]
Satisfied?
Will
:
Well, you?ve proved they?re mad.
Anamaria:
And what?s the benefit for us?
Jack
:
[comes over to the voice and takes off the sailors hat, revealing a
woman] Anamaria. [she slaps
him]
Will
:
I suppose you didn?t deserve that one either.
Jack
:
No, that one I deserved.
Anamaria:
You stole my boat!
Jack
:
Actually - [she slaps him again] borrowed. Borrowed without permission. But
with every intention of bringing it back to you.
Anamaria:
But you didn?t!
Jack
:
You?ll get another one.
Anamaria:
[points her forefinger at him]
I will.
Will: A
better one.
Jack
:
A better one!
Will:
That one. [points to the
Interceptor]
Jack
:
What one? That one?! Aye, that one. What say you?
Crew:
Aye!
Cotton?s Parrot: Anchors aweigh.
Gibbs
:
No, no, no, no, no, it?s frightful bad luck to bring a woman aboard,
sir.
Jack
:
It?d be far worse not to have her.
[a storm breaks upon them at sea]
Will
: How can
we sail to an island that nobody can find with a compass that doesn?t
work?
Gibbs
:
Aye, the compass doesn?t point north but we?re not trying to find
north, are we? [to
Jack
] We
should drop canvas, sir.
Jack
:
She can hold a bit longer.
Gibbs
:
What?s in your head that?s put you in such a fine mood, Captain?
Jack
:
We?re catching up.
Scene
14: (
Jack
?s
past revealed)
[on the
Pearl
] Pintel:
Time to go, Poppet. [Barbossa
latches the medallion around
Elizabeth
?s neck and they all sail to the cave]
Parrot: [singing
as they enter a lagoon] Dead
men tell no tales.
Gibbs
:
[the whole crew is looking at the wrecks strewn everywhere in the water]
Puts a chill in the bones how
many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage.
Will
:
[watches as
Jack
closes the compass when
Cotton
stares at him too much] How is it that
Jack
came by that
compass?
Gibbs
:
Not a lot?s known about
Jack
Sparrow
before he showed up
in
Tortuga
with a mind to go
after the treasure of the
Isla
de Muerta
. That was before I
met him, back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl.
Will:
What? He failed to mention that.
Gibbs
:
Well, he plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson
it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him
and says everything?s an equal share. That should mean the location of
the treasure, too, so
Jack
gives up the
bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned
Jack
on an island and left him to die but not before
he?d gone mad with the heat.
Will
:
Ah. So that's the reason for all the? [acts
like
Jack
]
Gibbs
:
Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now
Will
, when a man is marooned he
is a given a pistol with a single shot ? one shot. Well it won't do
much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of a starvin?
belly and thirst,
that pistol will start to look real
friendly. But
Jack
? he
escaped the island, and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use
it, though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate.
Will:
Barbossa.
Gibbs
:
Aye.
Will
:
How did
Jack
get off the island?
Gibbs
:
Well, I?ll tell ye. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited
three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature ?came and
acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning, he roped himself
a couple of sea turtles, lashed ?em together and made a raft.
Will
:
He roped a couple of sea turtles?
Gibbs
:
Aye, sea turtles.
Will
:
What did he use for rope?
Jack
:
[
Jack
comes up]
Human hair?from my back. Let go of the anchor!
Crew: Let
go of the anchor, sir!
Jack
:
Young
Mr.
Turner
and I are to go
ashore.
Gibbs
:
Captain! What if the worst should happen?
Jack
:
Keep to the code.
Gibbs
:
Aye, the code.
Scene
15: (The blood ritual and
Jack
?s
not dead)
Pintel:
Ten years of hoarding swag.
Ragetti:
And now we finally get to spend it. [they
empty a trunk and it turns out to be full of ladies? clothes; they
both pick up parasols]
Pintel:
Once we?re quit of the curse, we?ll be rich men. And you can buy an
eye what actually fits and is made of glass.
Ragetti:
This one does splinter something terrible. [rubs
it]
Pintel:
Stop rubbing it. [
Bo?sun
walks by and rolls his eyes at them]
[in the boat]
Will
: [sees
a skull] What Code is
Gibbs
to keep to if the
worst should happen?
Jack
:
Pirate?s
Code. Any man that falls behind?is left behind.
Will
:
No heroes amongst thieves, eh?
Jack
:
You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates you?re well on
your way to becoming one. Sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of
the Fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of
Tortuga
[they both look at the gold on the bottom of the little river]
?and you?re completely obsessed with treasure.
Will
:
That?s not true. I am not obsessed with treasure.
Jack
:
[looks in on the gathering] Not all treasure is silver and gold,
mate.
Barbossa:
Gentlemen, the time has come! Our salvation is nigh! Our torment is near
at end.
Will:
Elizabeth
.
Barbossa:
For ten years we?ve been tested and tried, and each man jack of you
here has proved his mettle a hundred times over and a hundred
times again! [the men cheer]
Ragetti: Suffered,
I have.
Barbossa:
Punished, we were. The lot
of us - disproportionate to our crimes! Here it is [throws off the chest?s lid] ?the cursed treasure of Cortés
himself. Every last piece that went astray, we have returned?save for
this. [points to the medallion on
Elizabeth
?s neck]
Will
:
[scrambles up, upsetting some of the treasure]
Jack
!
Jack
:
[pulls him down] Not yet. We wait for the opportune moment.
Barbossa:
881 we found but despaired of ever finding the last.
Will
:
When?s that? When it?s of greatest profit to you?
Jack
:
May I ask you something? Have I ever given you reason not to trust me?
Do us a favor ? I know it?s difficult for you, but please stay here
and try not to do anything stupid.
Barbossa:
And who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?
Pirates:
Us!
Barbossa:
And whose blood must yet be paid?
Pirates:
Hers!
Barbossa:
You know the first thing I?m goin? to do after the curse is lifted?
Eat a whole bushel of apples. [takes
up the knife] Begun by blood?by blood undone.
Will
:
[hits
Jack
with oar]
Sorry,
Jack
. I?m not going to
be your leverage.
Elizabeth
: [her
palm is cut] That?s it?
Barbossa:
Waste not. [drops the medallion;
there is an anticipation to see if it worked]
Koehler:
Did it work?
Ragetti:
I don?t feel no different.
Pintel:
How do we tell? [Barbossa shoots
him]
Koehler:
You?re not dead.
Pintel:
No. He shot me!
Ragetti:
It didn?t work.
Twigg:
The curse it still upon us!
Barbossa:
You, maid! Your father, what was his name? Was your father
William
Turner
?
Elizabeth
: No.
Barbossa:
Where?s his child? The child that sailed from
England
eight years ago, the
child in whose veins flows the blood of
William
Turner
. Where? [backhands her and she falls down]
Bo?sun
:
You two! You brought us the wrong person!
Pintel:
No! She had the medallion. she?s the proper age.
Ragetti: She said her name was
Turner
? you heard
her! [
Will
motions for
Elizabeth
to follow him into the water; she takes the medallion with her]
I think she lied to us.
Twigg:
You brought us here for nothing.
Barbossa:
I won?t take questioning and no second guesses, not from the likes of you,
Master
Twigg
.
Koehler:
Who?s to blame? Every decision you?ve made has led us from bad to
worse.
Pirate:
It was you who sent Bootstrap to the depths!
Bo?sun
:
And it?s you who brought us here in the first place.
Barbossa:
If any coward here dare challenge me, let him speak! Hmm?
Koehler:
I say, we cut her throat and spill all her blood, just in case.
Barbossa:
[sees the monkey pointing] The
medallion! She?s taken it! Get after her! You feckless pack of
ingrates!
Pirates:
No oars here. Where?s the oars?
Bo?sun
:
The oars have gone missing. Find them!
Ragetti: [spots
Jack
]
You.
Pintel:
You?re supposed to be dead!
Jack
:
Am I not? [looks down at himself] Oh. [finds
pistols pointed at him] Palulay?palu-li-la-la-lulu, parlili?
parsnip, pasley, par - partner,
partner?
Ragetti:
Parley?
Jack
:
Parley! That?s the one. Parley! Parley!
Pintel:
Parley? Down to the depths whatever man that thought up ?parley!?
Jack
:
That would be the French.
Scene
16: (Keeping to the code, revealing the medallion, and talk of
negotiation)
Elizabeth
: [boards
the Interceptor] Not more pirates.
Gibbs
:
Welcome aboard,
Miss
Elizabeth
.
Elizabeth
:
Mr.
Gibbs
?
Gibbs
:
[Will climbs aboard] Hey, boy, where be
Jack
?
Elizabeth
:
Jack
?
Jack
Sparrow
?
Will
:
He fell behind. [leads
Elizabeth
away]
Gibbs
:
Keep to the code.
Anamaria:
Weigh anchor! Hoist the sails! Make quickly, divvies.
[in the cave] Barbossa: How the blazes
did you get off that island?
Jack
:
When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one
very important thing, mate. I?m
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
.
Barbossa:
Ah, well, I won?t be making that mistake again. Gents, you all
remember
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
? Kill him. [the pirates all point their weapons at
Jack
]
Jack
:
The girl?s blood didn?t work, did it?
Barbossa:
Hold your fire! [the pirates
reluctantly lower their weapons] You know whose blood we need?
Jack
:
I know whose blood ye need.
[in the cabin of the Interceptor]
Elizabeth
: [trying
to bandage her palm] What sort of a man trades a man?s life for a
ship?
Will:
Pirate. Here. Let me. [puts on
bandages]
Elizabeth
: Thank
you.
Will
:
You said you gave Barbossa my name as yours. Why?
Elizabeth
: I
don?t know. [she winces and
pulls away]
Will
:
I?m sorry. Blacksmith?s hands - I know they?re rough.
Elizabeth
: No?I
mean yes, they are but? but don?t stop.
Will:
Elizabeth
.
Elizabeth
: [takes
out medallion] It?s yours.
Will: I
thought I?d lost it the day they rescued me. It was a gift from my
father. He sent it to me. Why did you take it?
Elizabeth
: Because
I was afraid that you were a pirate. That would have been awful.
Will
:
It wasn?t your blood they needed. It was my father?s blood?my
blood?the blood of a pirate.
Elizabeth
: Will,
I?m so sorry, please forgive me. [
Will
slams down the medallion on the table and she leaves]
[in the Captains cabin of the Black
Pearl
]
Barbossa: So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with
nothing but a name and your word it?s the one I need and watch you
sail away in my ship?
Jack
:
No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name
at all, watching me sail away on my
ship and then I?ll shout the name back to you. Savvy?
Barbossa:
But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach
with naught but a name and your word it?s the one I need.
Jack
:
Of the two of us, I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny,
therefore?my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although?I
suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn?t
betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that
curse, same as you. [bites into an
apple] Funny ol' world, innit? [offers
him an apple]
Bo?sun
:
[enters] Captain, we?re coming up on the Interceptor. [Barbossa goes
topside]
Jack
:
[runs out after Barbossa and stands in front of him at the bow, blocking
the view of the Interceptor] I?m having a thought here, Barbossa.
What say we run up a flag of truce? I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What
say you to that?
Barbossa:
Now you see,
Jack
, that?s exactly the attitude that lost you the
Pearl
. People are easy to search when they?re dead. [to
Bo?sun
] Lock
him in the brig. [throws away
Jack
?s apple]
Scene
17: (The chase and the fight)
Gibbs
:
Hands aloft to loose t'gallants! With this wind at her stern, she'll
carry every sail we've got.
Elizabeth
: [the
crew is running around] What?s happening?
Anamaria:
The Black Pearl, she?s
gaining on us. [looks out at the
Pearl
]
Elizabeth
: This is
the fastest ship in the
Caribbean
.
Anamaria:
You can tell them that after they?ve caught us.
Elizabeth
: We?re
shallow on the draft, right?
Anamaria:
Aye.
Elizabeth
: Well,
then can't we lose them amongst those shoals?
Gibbs
:
We don?t have to outrun them long, just long enough.
Anamaria:
Lighten the ship, stem to stern!
Gibbs
:
Anything that we can afford to lose?see that it?s lost.
[on the Black
Pearl
]
Jack
:
[is locked in the brig by
Bo?sun
; he sloshes in the water] Apparently there?s a leak.
Barbossa:
Haul on the main brace! Make ready the guns! And run out the sweeps. [the
gun ports are opened and the Jolly Roger is hoisted up]
[on the Interceptor, barrels are tossed over the side]
Will
:
[looks out at the Black
Pearl
and sees the oars;
stops a cannon from being thrown off] We?re gonna need that.
Anamaria:
[sees the oars] It was a good
plan?up ?till now.
Will:
Gibbs
! We have to make a
stand. We must fight! Load the guns!
Anamaria:
With what?
Will:
Anything. Everything! Anything we have left.
Gibbs
:
Load the guns! Take shot and langrage. Nails and crushed glass! With
a will! [they stuff cutlery and other assorted items into the cannons including
Gibbs
? canteen]
The
Pearl
is going to luff up
on our port quarter. She?ll rake us without ever presenting a target.
Elizabeth
: Lower
the anchor on the right side. On the starboard side!
Will
:
It certainly has the element of surprise.
Anamaria:
You?re daft, lady! You both are!
Gibbs
:
Daft like
Jack
! Lower the starboard
anchor! Do it, ye dogs, or it?s you we?ll load into the cannons! [the anchor is lowered]
Elizabeth
: [to
Anamaria] Let go. [she
lets go of the wheel and the ship swings about]
Barbossa:
They're clubhaulin'! Hard
to port! Rack the starboard oars.
Bo?sun
:
Hard to port! [the two ships come
up side by side]
Will
:
Keep us steady now. Now!
Barbossa:
Fire!
Elizabeth
: Fire
all! [the ships exchange cannon
fire]
Jack
:
[a whole is blown in the hull] Stop blowing holes in my ship! [notices
that the shot from the cannon destroyed the lock on the cell door]
Gibbs
:
We could use a few more ideas, lass.
Elizabeth
: Your
turn.
Gibbs
:
We need us a devil?s dowry.
Anamaria:
We?ll give them her. [points her
pistol at
Elizabeth
]
Will
:
She?s not what they?re after.
Elizabeth
: [notices
that it?s not at her throat] The medallion. [
Will
goes to search for it below]
Barbossa:
Raise yer colors ya bloomin? cockroaches! Hands, grapnels, at the
ready. Prepare to board! [Ragetti
and Pintel fire a shot that severs the mast and it falls over; grapple
hooks are thrown as pirates board the Interceptor] Blast all to
carcasses, men! Forward clear to the powder magazine. And the rest of
you, bring me the medallion! [pirates
board the Interceptor]
Will
:
[is trapped when the mast falls] Hey! Hey! Below!
Jack
:
[emerges from the hold and takes a rope from a pirate] Thanks very
much. [swings onto the
Interceptor]
Gibbs
:
Jack
!
Jack
:
[hands him canteen] Bloody empty. [helps
Elizabeth
]
That?s not very nice. Where?s the medallion?
Elizabeth
: Wretch!
[is about to slap him]
Jack
:
[catches her wrist] Ahh. Where?s dear
William
?
Elizabeth
: Will
? [sees him under a grate]
Will!
Will:
Elizabeth
!
Jack
:
[sees monkey with medallion] Monkey! [runs after it]
Elizabeth
: I
can?t move it. [is dragged away]
Will!
Will:
Elizabeth
!
Barbossa:
[gets medallion from monkey]
Why, thank you,
Jack
.
Jack
:
You?re welcome.
Barbossa:
Not you. We named the monkey ?
Jack
.? Gents, our hope is restored! [the pirates ignite the powder leading to the collection of powder kegs
while
Will
struggles to escape the cabin that is full of water]
Scene
18: (Misleading negotiations and walking the plank)
Pintel: [to
Jack
?s
crew] If
any of you as much as thinks the word ?parley,? I?ll have your
guts for garters.
Elizabeth
: [the
Interceptor is blown up] Will! [attacks
Barbossa] You?ve got to stop it! Stop it!
Barbossa:
Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It
holds fair now that you return the favor. [pushes
her to the crew]
Will
:
[leaps up on deck] Barbossa!
Elizabeth
: Will.
Will
:
She goes free. [points pistol at
Barbossa]
Barbossa:
What?s in your head, boy?
Will
:
She goes free!
Barbossa: You?ve
only got one shot, and we can?t die.
Jack
:
[to
Will
]
Don?t do anything stupid.
Will
:
You can?t. I can. [points gun at
himself]
Jack
:
Like that.
Barbossa:
Who are you?
Jack
:
[to Barbossa] No one. He?s no one. A distant cousin of my aunt?s
nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though ? eunuch.
Will
:
My name is
Will
Turner
. My father was
Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins.
Ragetti:
He?s the spitting image of ol? Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us.
Will
:
On my word do as I say, or I?ll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy
Jones? Locker.
Barbossa:
Name your terms,
Mr.
Turner
.
Will
:
Elizabeth
goes free.
Barbossa:
Yes, we know that one. Anything else?
Will
:
[sees
Jack
point at himself] And the crew ? the crew are not to be harmed.
Barbossa:
Agreed.
Pintel: [to
Elizabeth
] Go on,
Poppet, go! Walk the plank!
Will:
Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she?d go free!
Barbossa:
Don?t dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she?d go free, but it was
you who failed to specify when or where. [
Will
?s
gagged]
Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don?t it lads?
Pirates:
Aye.
Barbossa:
So I?ll be having that dress back before you go.
Jack
:
[to pirate] I always liked you.
Elizabeth
: It
goes with your black heart. [throws
him the dress]
Barbossa:
[presses it to his face] Ooh,
it?s still warm.
Pirate 2:
Off you go! Come on!
Bo?sun
:
Too long! [shakes plank,
Elizabeth
falls in]
Jack
:
[is dragged up to the plank] I?d really rather hoped we were past
all this.
Barbossa:
Jack?.
Jack
. Did ya not notice?
That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last
little trip. [points out the
distant island]
Jack
:
I did notice.
Barbossa:
Perhaps you?ll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape?but I
doubt it. [unsheathes his sword
and brandishes it at
Jack
?s throat]
Off you go.
Jack
:
Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot.
Barbossa:
By the powers, you?re right. Were be
Jack
?s pistol? Bring it
forward. [the pistol is brought]
Jack
:
Seeing as there?s two of us, a gentleman?would give us a pair of
pistols.
Barbossa:
It?ll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot
the lady and starve to death yourself. [throws
the pistol into the sea,
Jack
jumps in after it and recovers it]
Scene
19: (Marooned again)
Jack
:
[looks back at the
Pearl
; wades out onto the beach shaking off the ropes that bound his wrists]
That?s the second time I?ve had to watch that man sail away with my
ship.
Elizabeth
: [follows
Jack
as he walks]
But you were marooned on this island before, weren?t you? So we can
escape in the same way you did then.
Jack
:
To what point and purpose, young missy? The Black
Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden
in that bodice ? unlikely - young
Mr.
Turner
will be dead long before you can reach him.
Elizabeth
: [follows
him as he knocks on a tree trunk then takes four steps and jumps up and
down a few times] But you?re
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
. You vanished from
under the eyes of seven agents of the
East India
Company. You sacked
Nassau
Port
without even firing
a shot. Are you the pirate I?ve read about or not? How did you escape
last time?
Jack
:
Last time?I was here a grand total of three days, all right? Last time
[opens a secret cellar door]
?the rumrunners used this island as a cache. Came by, and I was able
to barter a passage off. From the looks of things, they?ve long been
out of business. Probably?have your bloody friend Norrington to thank
for that. [climbs out with two
bottles of rum in his hands]
Elizabeth
: So
that?s it then? That?s the secret grand adventure of the infamous
Jack
Sparrow
? You spent three
days lying on a beach, drinking rum?!
Jack
:
Welcome to the
Caribbean
, love. [hands her a bottle]
Elizabeth
and
Jack
:
[singing and dancing around a fire] We're devils and black sheep and
really bad eggs. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's
life for me.
Jack
:
I love this song! Really bad eggs! Ooh. [falls]
When I get the
Pearl
back, I?m gonna
teach it to the whole crew, and we?ll sing it all the time!
Elizabeth
: And
you?ll be positively the most fearsome pirate in the
Spanish Main
.
Jack
:
Not just the
Spanish Main
, love. The entire
ocean. The entire wo?ld. Wherever we want to go, we?ll go. That?s
what a ship is, you know. It?s not just a keel and a hull and a deck
and sails that's what a ship needs but what a ship is?what the Black
Pearl really is?is freedom.
Elizabeth
:
Jack
?it must be really
terrible for you to be trapped on this island.
Jack
:
Oh, yes. [puts his arm around her shoulder] But the company is infinitely
better than last time, I think. The scenery has definitely improved.
Elizabeth
:
Mr.
Sparrow
?I?m not entirely
sure that I?ve had enough rum to allow that kind of talk.
Jack
:
I know exactly what you mean, love. [curls
his moustache]
Elizabeth
: [toasts]
To freedom.
Jack
:
To the Black
Pearl
. [drinks and loses consciousness; wakes in the morning to the smell of
smoke; sees the island burning and runs to
Elizabeth
] No! Not
good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You burned all the food, the
shade! The rum!
Elizabeth
: Yes,
the rum is gone.
Jack
:
Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth
: One,
because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into
complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The
entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there
is even the slightest chance that they won?t see it?
Jack
:
But why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth
: [she
sits to stare at the horizon] Just wait, Captain Sparrow. You give
it one hour, maybe two, keep a weather eye out and then you will see
white sails on that horizon.
Jack
:
[takes out pistol, thinks better of it and puts it back, stalks off,
imitates
Elizabeth
]
?Must?ve been terrible for you to be trapped here,
Jack
. Must?ve been
terrible for you.? Well it bloody is now! [spots
the Dauntless] There?ll be no living with her after this.
Scene
20: (A future wedding and Bootstrap?s bootstraps)
Elizabeth
: But
we?ve got to save
Will
.
Governor
Swann
: No.
You?re safe now. We will return to
Port Royal
immediately, not go
gallivanting after pirates!
Elizabeth
: Then we
condemn him to death.
Governor
Swann
: The
boy?s fate is regrettable, but, then, so was his decision to engage in
piracy.
Elizabeth
: To
rescue me. To prevent anything from happening to me.
Jack
:
If I may be so bold as to inject my professional opinion. The
Pearl
was listing near to
scuppers after the battle. It?s very unlikely she?ll be able to make
good time. Think about it. The Black
Pearl
. The last real pirate threat in the
Caribbean
, mate. How can you
pass that up?
Norrington:
By remembering that I serve others,
Mr.
Sparrow
, not only myself.
Elizabeth
:
Commodore, I beg you, please do this. For me. As a wedding gift.
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
. Are you accepting
the Commodore?s proposal?
Elizabeth
: I am.
Jack
:
A wedding! I love weddings?drinks all around! [extends
his arms] I know. ?Clap him in irons,? right?
Norrington:
Mr.
Sparrow
, you will accompany
these fine men to the helm and provide us with the bearing to
Isla
de Muerta
. You will then spend
the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase
?silent as the grave.? Do I make myself clear?
Jack
:
Inescapably clear.
[in the brig of the Black
Pearl
; Pintel and Ragetti
are swabbing the floor] Parrot: Awwk, shiver me
timbers.
Gibbs
:
Cotton
?ere says you
missed a bit.
Will
:
[to Pintel] You knew
William
Turner
?
Pintel:
Ol? Bootstrap
Bill
. We knew him. Never sat well with Bootstrap what we did to
Jack
Sparrow
, the mutiny and all.
He said it wasn?t right with the Code. That?s why he sent off a
piece of the treasure to you as it were. He said we deserved to be
cursed? and remain cursed.
Ragetti:
Stupid blighter.
Gibbs
:
Good man.
Pintel:
Well, as you can imagine that didn?t sit too well with the Captain.
Ragetti:
That didn?t sit too well with the Captain, at all. Tell him what
Barbossa did.
Pintel:
I?m telling the story! So?what the Captain did, he strapped a cannon
to Bootstraps? bootstraps.
Ragetti:
Bootstraps? bootstraps.
Pintel:
The last we saw of ol?
Bill
Turner
, he was sinking to
the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones? Locker. ?Course it was
only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse.
Ragetti:
That?s what you call ironic.
Barbossa:
[comes down and throws the key to
Will
?s
cell to Ragetti]
Bring him!
[in a boat with the rest of the soldiers and
Jack
] Norrington:
I don?t care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the caves could
turn to an ambush.
Jack
:
Not if you?re the one doing the ambushing. I go in, I convince
Barbossa to send his men out with their little boats. You and your mates
return to the Dauntless and
blast the bejesus outta them with your little cannons, eh? [puts
an arm on Norrington?s shoulder] What do you have to lose?
Norrington:
[peels off the arm] Nothing
I?d lament being rid of.
Jack
:
Now, to be quite honest with you, there?s still a slight risk for
those aboard the Dauntless which includes the future
Mrs.
Commodore
.
[on the Dauntless]
Gillette
: [pulling
Elizabeth
along with another soldier] Sorry, but for your own safety.
Elizabeth
: Coward!
The commodore ordered ? I have to tell him! The pirates! They?re
cursed! They cannot be killed!
Gillette
:
Don?t worry, miss, he?s already informed of that. A little mermaid
flopped up on deck and told him the whole story. [shuts
the doors]
Elizabeth
: This is
Jack
Sparrow
?s doing! [she is
locked in]
Scene
21: (The blood ritual, again, interrupted)
[on the way to the Aztec gold] Pintel: [to
Will
]
No reason to fret. It?s just a prick of the finger, a few drops of
blood.
Twigg: No
mistakes this time. He?s only half-Turner. We spill it all!
Pintel:
Guess there is reason to fret.
Jack
:
[pushing through the crowd of pirates] Beg your pardon.
Barbossa:
[is ready to slit
Will
?s
throat]
Begun by blood?
Jack
:
Excuse me.
Barbossa:
?by blood un ?
Will:
Jack
!
Barbossa:
S?not
possible.
Jack
:
Not probable.
Will
:
Where?s
Elizabeth
?
Jack
:
She?s safe, just like I
promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she
promised. And you get to die for her, just like you
promised. So we're all men of our word really except for
Elizabeth
who is, in fact, a
woman.
Barbossa:
Shut up! You?re next. [leans in
to slit
Will
?s throat again]
Jack
:
You don?t want to be doing that, mate.
Barbossa:
No, I really think I do.
Jack
:
Your funeral.
Barbossa:
Why don?t I want to be doing
it?
Jack
:
Well, because [pushed a pirate?s
arm off his shoulder] ?because the HMS
Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just offshore.
Waiting for you.
[in the boats] Murtogg: What are we doing
here?
Mullroy:
The pirates come out, unprepared and unawares, we catch ?em in the
crossfire, send them down to see Old Hob.
Murtogg:
I know why we?re here. I
mean why aren?t we doing what it was ? what
Mr.
Sparrow
said we should do.
With the cannons and all?
Norrington:
Because it was
Mr.
Sparrow
who said it.
Murtogg:
You think he wasn?t telling the truth?
[in the cave]
Jack
: Just
hear me out, mate. You order your men to row out to the Dauntless. They do what they do best.
Robert
?s your Uncle,
Fannie
?s your Aunt,
there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet.
?Course you?ll take the grandest as your flagship, and who?s to
argue? But what of the
Pearl
? Name me Captain, I?ll sail under your colors, I?ll
give you ten percent of me plunder and you get to introduce yourself
as?Commodore Barbossa. Savvy?
Barbossa:
I s?pose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp.
Jack
:
No, no, not at all by all means, kill the whelp. Just not yet. Wait to
lift the curse until the opportune moment. For instance? [picks
up a few medallions] after you?ve killed Norrington?s men? [throws them back as he speaks] every? last? one. [pockets
one]
Will
:
[sees
Jack
take a piece of the gold] You?ve been planning this from the beginning. Ever since
you learned my name.
Jack
:
Yeah.
Barbossa:
I want fifty percent of your plunder.
Jack
:
Fifteen.
Barbossa:
Forty.
Jack
:
Twenty-five. And I?ll buy you the hat. A really big one?Commodore.
Barbossa:
We have an accord. [they shake
hands]
Jack
:
All hand?s to the boats! [sees
Barbossa look at him askance] Apologies. You give the orders.
Barbossa:
Gents?take a walk. [the pirates
walk away]
Jack
:
Not to the boats? [the cursed
pirates walk on the sea?s floor to the Dauntless, the moonlight
revealing their true form]
Scene
22: (Just like
Troy
and
an epic battle)
[in the boats] Norrington: [sees
women in a boat] Hold fire.
Ragetti: [dressed
in a dress and holding a parasol] This is just like what the Greeks
done at
Troy
. ?Cept they was in
a horse?instead of dresses. Wooden horse. [while
they?re distracting the soldiers and sailors the pirates are boarding
the Dauntless]
[on the Dauntless]
Governor
Swann
:
[to guard] A moment, please.
Elizabeth
? I just want you to
know I, uh, I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn?t be
more proud of you. [while he talks
she throws down a makeshift rope and climbs out into a waiting boat]
But, you know, even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be
a wrong decision.
Sailor: [spots
boat with two women] Lieutenant?
Ragetti:
Yoo-hoo!
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
? Are you there?
Elizabeth
, are you even
listening to me? [enters and sees
makeshift rope] Oh, what have you done?
Ragetti:
Oooh!
Pintel:
Stop that! Already feel like a fool.
Ragetti: You
look nice, though.
Pintel: I
look nice?! [they fight and are
revealed; the soldiers on board spot the invading pirates and they
fight]
[in the cave;
Jack
examines the treasure] Barbossa: I
must admit,
Jack
, I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out that you?re a hard man
to predict.
Jack
:
Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be
dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for,
because you can never predict when they're going to do something
incredibly? stupid. [unsheathes
a pirate?s sword and throws it to
Will
;
Jack
starts fighting with Barbossa]
Barbossa:
You?re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.
[on the Black
Pearl
;
Elizabeth
comes on board] Grapple: Right. What
would you pick to eat first?
Pirate Guard: I think we should decide now. Just so we?re ready when the time
comes.
Both: [monkey
falls on cannon] What was that?
[down in the hold]
Gibbs
: Shh! [sees
Elizabeth
] It?s
Elizabeth
!
[Ragetti and Pintel board and load the cannons, firing them at the
approaching boats with the soldiers]
Norrington:
[hears bell tolling] Make for
the ship! Move!
[the Governor?s wig is being taken by a cursed pirate, he ends up
fighting with a severed arm]
[in the cave] Barbossa: You can?t beat
me,
Jack
. [Jack impales him, Barbossa sighs and, taking out the sword, impales
Jack
]
Jack
:
[staggers into the moonlight to reveal a skeleton] That?s
interesting. [reveals the
medallion] I couldn?t resist, mate.
[Barbossa and
Jack
fight;
Jack
runs upsets an end table]
Sorry.
Barbossa:
So what now,
Jack
Sparrow
? Will it be it two immortals locked in an epic battle
until Judgment Day and trumpets sound? Hmm?
Jack
:
Or you could surrender.
Barbossa:
Arr. [laughs and runs after
Jack
]
[on the Black
Pearl
; having just thrown both guards into the sea]
Elizabeth
: [runs
out from the hold with crew] All of you with me.
Will
is in that cave and we must save him. Ready? And heave! Please, I need
your help! Come on!
Parrot: Any
port in the storm.
Gibbs
:
Cotton
?s right, we?ve
got the
Pearl
.
Elizabeth
: And
what about
Jack
, you?re just going
to leave him?
Sailor:
Jack
owes us a ship.
Gibbs
:
And there?s the code to consider.
Elizabeth
: The
code? You?re pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules! They?re
more like guidelines anyway. [rowing
the boat alone to the cave] Bloody pirates.
Ragetti:
hEY.
Pintel:
What?
Ragetti:
Is it supposed to be doing that? [points
to the
Pearl
that?s sailing away]
Pintel:
They?re stealing our ship!
Ragetti:
Bloody pirates! [is knocked on the
head and his wooden eye pops out] Ah, me eye! [crawls after it]
Scene
23: (One last shot)
[in the cave] Pirate: [to
Will
]
I?m gonna teach you the meaning of pain.
Elizabeth
: [enters]
Do you like pain? [knocks the
pirate with heavy staff] Try wearing a corset. [helps
Will up and sees
Jack
as a skeleton] Whose side is
Jack
on?
Will
:
At the moment? [they string 3
pirates together, stick a grenade into the middle one and push them out
of the moonlight]
Pirate:
No fair. [they explode]
Jack
:
[cuts
his hand and bleeds on medallion, tosses it to
Will
; Barbossa aims pistol at
Elizabeth
;
Jack
shoots Barbossa while he?s
looking at
Elizabeth
]
Barbossa:
Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot.
Will
:
He didn?t waste it. [drops both
medallions into the chest]
Barbossa:
[drops his sword and looks at the
blood spreading from his wound] I feel?cold. [falls
dead, an apple rolling from his hand; the curse now lifted]
[on board the Dauntless; Koehler suddenly falls dead after being run
through by Norrington] Pintel: Parley? [while
all the crew realize the curse has been lifted and surrender]
Norrington:
The ship is ours, gentlemen.
Sailors and soldiers: Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! [the Governor joins them]
[in the cave]
Elizabeth
: We
should return to the Dauntless.
Will
:
Your fiancé will be wanting to know you?re safe. [
Elizabeth
turns away]
Jack
:
[swaggers over to
Will
] If you
were waiting for the opportune moment?that was it. Now, if you?ll be
so kind, I?d be much obliged if you?d drop me off my ship.
[Will rowing them in a boat to the Dauntless]
Elizabeth
: I?m
sorry, Jack.
Jack
:
They done what?s right by them. Can?t expect more than that.
Scene
24: (The interrupted hanging and the escape)
Official:
[reading a proclamation]
Jack
Sparrow
, be it known that
you have?
Jack
:
[standing on the gallows] Captain,
Captain
Jack
Sparrow
.
Official:
?for your willful commission of crimes against the crown. Said crimes
being numerous in quantity and sinister in nature, the most egregious of
these to be cited herewith ? piracy, smuggling?
Elizabeth
: [standing
with her father and her future husband] This is wrong.
Governor
Swann
:
Commodore Norrington is bound by the law. As are we all.
Official:
?impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, impersonating a
cleric of the Church of England?
Jack
:
[smiling] Ah, yes. [looks over
at the executioner who glares at him]
Official:
?sailing under false colors, arson, kidnapping, looting, poaching, brigandage,
pilfering, depravity, depredation, and general lawlessness.
And for these crimes you have been sentenced to be, on this day, hung by
the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your soul.
Will
:
[walks through the crowd to the raised ground on which they stand]
Governor
Swann
. Commodore.
Elizabeth
. I should have told
you every day from the moment I met you. I love you. [walks
away; the noose is put around
Jack
?s neck]
Elizabeth
: [notices
Cotton?s parrot] I can?t
breathe. [falls backward; the drums sound]
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
. [he and the Commodore help her]
Will:
Move! [throws sword as
Jack
falls through, the sword sticks in the wood and
Jack
has a foothold; he fights to the gallows and there cuts
Jack
free; they fight all the way up to a tower where they are cornered by
Norrington?s men]
Norrington:
[to
Will
]
I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape
attempt but not from you.
Governor
Swann
: On our
return to
Port Royal
, I granted you
clemency. And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with
him? He?s a pirate!
Will
:
And a good man. [Jack points to
himself proudly, mouths ?That?s me.?] If all I have achieved
here is that the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so
be it. At least my conscience will be clear.
Norrington:
You forget your place, Turner.
Will
:
It?s right here?between you and
Jack
.
Elizabeth
: [stands
next to
Will
]
As is
mine.
Governor
Swann
:
Elizabeth
! Lower your weapons.
For goodness? sake put them down! [the
weapons are lowered]
Norrington:
So this is where your heart truly lies, then?
Elizabeth
: It is.
Jack
:
[notices the parrot] Well! I?m actually feeling rather good about
this. [to
Governor
Swann
] I
think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh?
Spiritually?Ecumenically?Grammatically? [to
Norrington] I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate.
Know that.
Elizabeth
?it would never
have worked between us, darling. I?m sorry.
Will
?nice hat. Friends! This is the day that you will
always remember as the day that ? [falls
over battlement]
Gillette
:
Idiot. He has nowhere to go but back to the noose.
Sentry:
Sail ho!
Gillette
:
What?s your plan of action? Sir?
Governor
Swann
: Perhaps
on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy,
piracy itself can be the right course?
Norrington:
Mr.
Turner
.
Will
:
[to
Elizabeth
] I will
accept the consequences of my actions.
Norrington:
[unsheathes his sword] This is
a beautiful sword. I would expect the man who made it to show the same
care and devotion in every aspect of his life.
Will
:
Thank you.
Gillette
:
Commodore! What about Sparrow?
Norrington:
Well, I think we can afford to give him one
day?s head start. [the
soldiers leave with Norrington]
Governor
Swann
: So,
this is the path you?ve chosen, is it? After all?he is a blacksmith.
Elizabeth
: No. [takes
off
Will
?s hat]
He?s a pirate. [the Governor
walks away;
Elizabeth
and Will kiss]
Jack
:
[is heaved onboard the Black
Pearl
; to
Gibbs
]
I thought
you were supposed to keep to the Code.
Gibbs
:
We figured they were more actual?guidelines. [helps
Jack
up]
Jack
:
[
Cotton
hands him his hat] Thank you.
Anamaria:
Captain Sparrow [puts his coat
around his shoulders] ?the Black
Pearl is yours.
Jack
:
[walks over to the helm and looks around fondly] On deck, you
scabrous dogs! Man the braces! Let down and haul to run free.
Now...bring me that horizon. [hums
and takes out his compass] And really bad eggs?drink up, me 'earties,
yo ho.
END
[After
the credits]
[
Jack
the monkey emerges from the water and scampers over to the chest with
the Aztec gold; he takes one of the medallions and is cursed once more;
the moonlight shows the monkey as a skeleton and screeching, he jumps at
the camera]