Pirates of the Caribbean 3 – At World’s End
This is a transcript written by and used with courtsey of the wonderful Whatsername, here still with her introduction.
Key -The character speaking is noted by the initial on the left aka if Jack is talking, it’ll be JS: Barbossa: B and so forth -If a word was indecipherable, it’ll be followed by a (‘) as to being unsure or ______ if the statement was incoherent. -I’ll update with corrections after recording (bad, I know) again; the final part has not been added because I haven’t gotten it yet, but it’ll be soon! -I call it a “loose transcript” because it is strictly dialogue; hardly any actions included (if at all) – scenes are separated by ————
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END TRANSCRIPT (Loose) L: In order to put forth a more timely halt to the deteriorating conditions and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency has been issued for these territories by the decree of Lord Cutler Beckett; duly appointed representative of his majesty the King. For the time being, the following individual rights have been temporarily amended: Right to assembly ‘ suspended; right to habeas corpus ‘ suspended; right to legal council ‘ suspended; and right to a verdict by a jury of peers ‘ suspended. Any person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.
LB: The king and his men stole the queen from her bed. And bound her in her bones. The seas be ours and by the powers where we will, we’ll roam.
BM: Yo ho, all hands, hoist the colours high.
REST: Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die. Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colours high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars
LG: Lord Beckett, they’ve started to sing, sir.
CB: Finally.
BOY: Never shall we die.
Coin drops and title appears on screen
—————————- E: Some men have died and some are alive, others sail on the sea. With the keys to the cage and the devil to pay, we lay to Fiddler’s Green. The bell has been raised from its watery grave. Hear its sepulchral tone. A call to all, pay heed to the squall and turn your sails toward home. Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colours high. Heave ho ?
TH: Thief and beggar! Never say we die. A dangerous song to be singing for anyone ignorant of its meaning. Particularly a woman. Particularly a woman alone.
B: What makes you think she’s alone?
TH: You protect her?
E: And what makes you think I need protected?
B: Your master’s expectin’ us. And an unexpected death would cast a slight pall on our meetin’.
-Incoherent EITC orders- Crew of BP underwater, Tia Dalma setting up’..
E: Have you heard anything from Will?
B: I trust young Turner to acquire the charts and for you to remember your place in the presence of Cap’n Sao Feng.
E: Is he that terrifying?
B: He’s much like myself, absent my merciful nature and sense of fair play.
TH: Hoy.
G: We’re through! Make quick!
TH: Do you think because she is a woman we would not suspect her of treachery?
B: Well, when you put it that way.
TH: Remove, please.
B: *smirk*
TH: Remove, please.
SF: Captain Barbossa, welcome to Singapore. More steam.
G: None of that! If things don’t go the way we want, then we’re the only chance they’ve got!
SF: I understand you have a request to make of me.
B: More of a proposal to put to ye. I’ve a venture underway, and I find meself in need of a ship and a crew.
SF: It’s an odd coincidence.
E: Because you happen to have a ship and a crew you don’t need?
SF: No, because earlier this day, not far from here, a thief broke into my most revered, uncle’s temple and tried to make off with these: the navigational charts; the route to the farthest gate. Would it be amazing if this venture of yours took you to the world beyond this one?
B: It would strain credulity at that.
SF: This is the thief. Is his face familiar to you’ Then I guess he has no further need for it. You come into my city, and you betray my hospitality.
B: Sao Feng, I assure you, I had no idea ?
SF: That he would get caught! You intend to attempt a voyage to Davy Jones’ Locker, but I cannot help but wonder: why?
B: The song has been sung. The time is upon us. We must convene the Brethren court. As one of the nine pirate lords, you must honor the call.
SF: More steam. More steam! There is a price on all our heads. It is true; it seems the only way a pirate can turn profit anymore is by betraying other pirates.
G: Wait for the signal.
R: It’s Elizabeth!
B: ‘.And now that rule is being challenged by Lord Cutler Beckett.
SF: Against the East India Trading Company, what value is the Brethren court’ What can any of us do?
E: You can fight! Get off me. You are Sao Feng, the pirate lord of Singapore.
P: *looks up to see a man’s belly instead.*
E: You command in the Age of Piracy where bold captains sail free waters; where waves aren’t measured in feet, but increments in fear and those who pass the test become legend. Would you have that era come to an end on your watch’ The most notorious pirates from around the world ‘ they’re uniting against our enemy ‘ and yet you sit here, cowering in your bathwater!
SF: Elizabeth Swann, there is more to you than meets the eye, isn’t there’ And the eye does not go wanting. But I cannot help but notice you have failed to answer my question. What is it you seek in Davy Jones Locker?
W: Jack Sparrow. He’s one of the pirate lords.
SF: The only reason I would want Jack Sparrow returned from the Land of the Dead is so I can send him back myself!
B: Jack Sparrow holds one of the nine pieces of eight. He failed to pass it along to a successor before he died, so we must go and get him back.
SF: So, you admit, you have deceived me. Weapons!
G: Weapons!
B: Sao Feng, I assure you, our intentions are strictly honorable!
SF: Drop your weapons or I kill the man!
B: Kill him, he’s not our man.
W: If he’s not with you and he’s not with us, who’s he with?
EITC bursts through; fighting ensues.
SF: Sow! (exit command in Chinese’)
——————– SF: Is it surprising that the East India Company finds me’ That they should show up here in Singapore?
W: It is coincidence only. If you want to make a deal with Beckett, you need what I offer.
SF: You crossed Barbossa. You’re willing to cross Jack Sparrow. Why should I expect any better?
W: I need the Black Pearl to free my father; you’re helping me to get it.
CP: Uh oh! Fire in the hole!
B: Thank you, Jack!
CP: Thank you, Jack!
B: Do you have the charts?
W: And better ‘ a ship and a crew.
E: Where’s Sao Feng?
W: He’ll cover our escape.
TH: This way.
E: There’s no place left for Sao Feng to cower. Do you think he will honor the call?
TD: I cannot say. There’s an evil in these seas that even the most staunch and bloodthirsty pirates have come to fear.
——————— Shots of the Dutchman attacking
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CB: A piece of eight. Nine of them, you say?
M: Our new friend in Singapore was very clear ‘ nine pieces of eight.
CB: What’s the significance of that, I wonder?
M: Does it matter’ There’s nothing as can outrun the Armada, not with the Flying Dutchman at the lead.
CB: Nothing we know of. Did your friend happen to mention where the Brethren court are meeting?
M: He was mum on that, sir.
CB: Mm, then he knows the value of information. Better keep this between ourselves. We don’t want anyone running off to Singapore, do we’ Ah, Admiral.
N: You summoned me, Lord Beckett.
CB: Yes. Something for you there. Your new station deserves an old friend.
GS: Not more requisition orders.
MAN: No sir, execution.
CB: The Brethren know they face extinction. All that’s left for them to decide is where they make their final stand.
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P: No one said anything about cold.
R: I’m sure there’s a good reason for our suffering.
P: Why don’t that obay woman bring back Jack the same way she brought back Barbossa.
TD: Because Barbossa was only dead. Jack Sparrow is taken ‘ body and soul ‘ to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring by themself. Stretching on forever. That’s what awaits at Davy Jones’ Locker.
R: Well, I knew there was a good reason.
W: Nothing here is set. These can’t be as accurate as wooden charts.
P: No, but it leads to more places.
W: Over the edge over again. Sunrise sets flash of green. Do you care to interpret, Captain Barbossa?
B: Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?
G: I reckon I’ve seen my fair share. Happens on rare occasion ‘ the last glimpse of sunset, a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without ever seeing it, some claim to have seen it who ain’t, and some say ?
P: It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead! Sorry.
B: Trust me, young Master Turner. It’s not gettin’ to the land of the dead that’s the problem; it’s gettin’ back.
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CB: Bloody hell, there’s nothing left.
M: Jones is a loose canon, sir.
CB: Fetch the chest.
M: And the Governor’ He’s been asking questions about the heart.
CB: Does he know’ Then perhaps his usefulness has run its course.
DAVY JONES playing organ and hears EITC arrive
N: Steady, men.
DJ: Go. All of you. And take that infernal thing with you. I will not have it on my ship!
CB: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Because I will. Because it seems to be the only way to ensure that this ship do as directed by the Company. We need prisoners to interrogate, which tends to work best when they’re alive.
DJ: The Dutchman sails as its Captain commands.
CB: And its Captain is to sail it as commanded! I would’ve thought you’d learned that when I ordered you to kill your pet. This is no longer your world, Jones. The immaterial has become immaterial.
LT.: Charge your bayonets!
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W: How long do we continue not talking?
E: Once we rescue Jack, everything will be fine.
W: Then we rescue Jack.
TD: For what we want most, there is a cost must be paid in the end.
W: Barbossa! Ahead!
B: Aye! We’re good and lost now.
E: Lost?
B: For certain, you have to be lost to find a place as can’t be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was.
G: We’re gainin’ speed!
B: Aye.
W: To stations! All hands to stations! Rudder full! Hard to port! Gather way!
B: Nay! Belay that! Let her run straight and true!
R: Blimey.
E: You’ve doomed us all!
B: Don’t be so unkind. You may not survive past this way again and these be the last friendly words you’ll hear.
W: Tie her off!
TD *incantation*
W: Hold on!
-intermission of theme park sounds- DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
JS: My peanut. All hands! Slacken braces!
J: Aye, Captain! Slacken braces!
J: Step lively! With a will!
J: Help.
J: Man the yards, you filthy toads!
J: *chicken*
J: Ho! Ho! Ho!
J: *incoherent*
JS: Mr. Sparrow.
J: Aye, captain.
JS: What say you about the condition of this tack line?
J: It be proper to my eye, sir.
JS: Proper’ It is neither proper, nor suitable, sir. It is not acceptable nor adequate. It is an obvious fact and abomination.
J: Beggin’ your pardon sir, but perhaps if you gave a man another chance.
JS: Shall I’ That is what our thinking got us into this mess. We have lost speed, and therefore time, precious time. Which cannot be recovered once lost, do you understand’!
J: Aye aye, captain!
J: Aye aye, captain.
JS: Do you, now’ It will all have to be redone. All of it! And let this serve as a lesson to the lot of you.
J: Doldrums sir, has the entire crew on edge.
JS: I have no sympathy for any of you feculent maggots and no more patience to pretend otherwise. Gentlemen! I wash my hands of this weirdness. No wind. Of course there’s no bloody wind! My soul, I do swear for a breeze. A gust. A whisper. A tiny, miniscule lick. But why’ Why would he do that’ Because he’s a lummox, isn’t he’ Well, we shall have a magnificent garden party and you’re not invited. Shoo. Rock. Now we’re being followed by rocks. Never had that before. Oh! A rope.
CRAB MORSE CODE Pearl begins its trek
G: This truly is a god forsaken place.
E: I don’t see Jack. I don’t see anyone.
B: He’s here. Davy Jones never once gave up that what he took.
W: And does it matter’ We’re trapped here by your doing. No different than Jack.
TD: Witty Jack is closer than you think.
TH: Impossible.
R: Boat.
G: Slap me thrice and hand me to my momma. It’s Jack! It’s the Captain! Jack!
JS: Mr. Gibbs!
G: Aye, captain!
JS: I thought so. I expect you’re able to account for your actions then?
G: Sir?
JS: There has been a perpetual and virulent lack of discipline aboard my vessel. Why’ Why is that, sir’!
G: Sir, you’re- you’re in Davy Jones’ locker, cap’n.
JS: I know that. I know where I am. And don’t think I don’t.
B: Jack Sparrow!
JS: Ah, Hector! It’s been too long, hasn’t it?
B: Aye, Isla de Muerta, remember’ You shot me.
JS: No I didn’t. Tia Dalma! Out and about, eh’ You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
W: He thinks we’re a hallucination.
JS: William, tell me something. Have you come because you need my help to save a certain distressing damsel’ Or rather damsel in distress’ Either one.
W: No.
JS: Well, then you wouldn’t be here, would you’ So you can’t be here. QED ‘ you’re not really here!
E: Jack, this is real. We’re here.
JS: The locker, you say?
G: Aye.
E: We’ve come to rescue you.
JS: Have you now’ How very kind of you. But it would seem as I possess a ship and you don’t, you’re the ones in need of rescuin’ and I’m not sure as I’m in the mood.
B: I see my ship. Right there.
JS: Can’t spot it. Must be a tiny little thing hiding somewhere behind the Pearl.
W: Jack! Cutler Beckett has the heart of Davy Jones. He controls the Flying Dutchman.
E: He’s taking over the sea.
TD: The song has already been sung. The Brethren Court is called.
JS: Leave you people alone for just a minute, look what happens! Everything’s come to part!
G: Aye, Jack, the world needs you back somethin’ fierce!
W: And you need a crew.
JS: Why should I sail with any of you’ Four of you have tried to kill me in the past, one of you succeeded. Oh, she’s not told you. Then you’ll have loads to talk about while you’re here. As for you.
TD: Now, don’t a maiden enjoy it all the time?
JS: Fair enough. Alright. You’re in. Don’t need you, you scare me. Gibbs, you can come. Marty. Eeee. Cotton! Cotton’s parrot, I’m a little iffy, but at least I’ll have someone to talk to. Who are you?
TH: Tai Huang. These are my men.
JS: Where do your allegiances lie?
TH: With the highest bidder.
JS: I have a ship.
TH: That makes you the highest bidder.
JS: Good man. Weigh anchor! All hands! Prepare to make sail.
B: Jack. Which way you goin’, Jack? Trim that sail!
JS: Trim that sail!
B: Slack windward brace and sheet!
JS: Slack windward brace and sheet!
B: Haul that pennant line!
JS: Haul the pennant line!
B: What are you doin’?
JS: What are you doing’!
B: No, what are you doin”!
JS: What are you doing’!
B: No, what are you doin”!
JS: What are you doing’! Captain gives orders on the ship!
B: The captain of this ship is givin’ orders!
JS: My ship, makes me captain.
B: They be my charts!
JS: That makes you’.chartman!
P: Stow it, the both of you! That’s an order! Understand’! Sorry. I just thought with Captain issue and that, I’d throw in my name for consideration.
R: I’d vote for you.
P: Yeah?
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W: You left Jack to the Kraken.
E: He’s rescued now, it’s done with.
W: You chose not to tell me.
E: Will, I had no choice. It wasn’t your burden to bear.
W: But I did bear it, didn’t I’ I just didn’t know what it was. I thought’.
E: You thought I loved him.
W: If you choose to make your decisions alone, how can I trust you?
E: You can’t.
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P: Eerie. That’s downright macabre.
R: I wonder what would happen if you dropped a cannonball on one of them.
P: Be disrespectful, it would.
TD: They should be in the care of Davy Jones. That was the duty him was charged with by the goddess Calypso ‘ to ferry those who die at sea to the other side. And every ten years, him could come ashore to be with she who love him truly. But the man has become a monster.
R: So, he wasn’t always tentacle-y?
TD: No. Him was a man once.
R: Now there’s boats comin’.
W: They’re not a threat to us. Am I right?
TD: We are nothing but ghosts to them.
B: It’s best just let them be.
E: It’s my father, we’ve made it back. Father! Father here! Look here!
JS: Elizabeth, we’re not back.
E: Father!
GS: Elizabeth! Are you dead?
E: No. No.
GS: I think I am.
E: No you can’t be.
GS: There was this chest, you see. I thought’..At the time it seemed so important.
E: Come aboard!
GS: And the heart ‘ I learned that if you stab the heart, yours must take its place and you will sail the seas for eternity. The Dutchman must have a Captain. Silly thing to die for.
E: Someone! Cast a line! Come back with us!
TD: A touch of destiny.
E: Take the line!
GS: I’m so proud of you, Elizabeth.
E: Take the line! Take the line!
TD: She must not leave the ship!
E: Come with us! Come with us! Please, come with me!
GS: I’ll give your love to your mother, shall I?
E: Please! I won’t let you go!
W: Is there a way?
TD: Him at peace.
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P: No water. Why is all but the rum gone?
G: Rum’s gone too.
TD: If we cannot escape these doldrums before night, I fear we will sail on trackless seas, doomed to roam the reach between worlds, forever.
G: And with no water, forever seems to be arriving a mite too soon.
W: Why doesn’t he do something?
R: Me eye! Give it back!
G: There’s no sense to it.
W: And the green flash happens at sunset, not sunrise.
G: Over the edge. It’s driving me over the bloomin’ edge. Sunrises don’t set.
JS: Up is down. Well that’s just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?
J: Clear as mud, Jackie.
JS: What’ Eh?
J: Stab the heart.
J: Don’t stab the heart.
JS: Come again?
J: The Dutchman must have Captain.
JS: Well that’s even more than less than unhelpful.
J: Sail the seas for eternity.
JS: I love the sea.
J: What about port?
JS: I prefer rum. Rum’s good.
J: Making port. Where we can get rum and salty wenches once every ten years.
J: What did he say?
JS once ever ten years.
J: Ten years is a long time, mate.
JS: Even longer given the deficit of rum.
J: But eternity is longer still.
J: And how will you be spending it’ Dead’ Or not?
J: The immortal Captain Sparrow.
JS: Oo, I like that.
J: Come sunset, it won’t matter.
JS: Not sunset. Sundown and rise up! What’s that’ What is that’ I don’t know. What do you think’ Ooo!
W: Where?
JS: There! Ah!
E: What is it?
P: He’s rockin’ the ship!
G: We’re rockin’ the ship!
B: Aye! He’s on to it!
P: He’s rockin’ the ship.
R: We tie each other to the mast, upside down, so when the boat flips, we’ll be right side up!
B: Time it with the swell! Loose the canon, you filthy bilge rats! Un-stow the cargo! Let it shift!
JS: Now up is down.
P: This was your idea!
G: Blessed sweet westerlies. We’re back!
E: It’s the sunrise.
All whip out guns
CP: Parlay!
P: We need our pistols! Get untied! Hurry!
B: *laughs*
JS *laughs*
W: *laughs*
E: *laughs*
B: Alright then! The Brethren Court is a-gatherin’ at Shipwreck Cove; and Jack, you and I are a’goin’ and there’ll be no arguing that point.
JS: I is arguing the point. If there’s pirates a-gathering, I’m pointing my ship the other way.
E: The pirates are gathering to fight Beckett and you’re a pirate.
W: Fight or not, you’re not running, Jack.
B: If we don’t stand together, they’ll hunt us down one by one ’till there’ll be none left but you.
JS: Quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate.
B: Aye. And you’ll be fightin’ Jones alone. Now, how does that figure into your plan?
JS: I’m still working on that. But I will not be goin’ back to the locker, mate. Count on that.
G: Wet powder.
P: Wait! We can still use ’em as clubs!
R: Sorry. Effective though.
W: There’s a fresh water spring on this island. We can re-supply there and get back to shooting each other later.
JS: You lead the shore party; I’ll stay with my ship.
B: I’ll not be leavin’ my ship in your command.
W: Why don’t you both go ashore and leave the ship in my command’ Temporarily.
R: Full tide!
P: Criminey.
R: Careful, careful!
P: You stupid fish!
R: Actually, it’s a cephalopod.
P: Serves you right!
R: *something*”.sketch of us sitting on top.
P: Pintel and Ragetti ‘ Kraken slayers.
B: Still thinkin’ of runnin’, Jack’ Think you can outrun the world’ You know the problem with bein’ the last of anythin’, by and by there’ll be none left at all.
JS: Sometimes things come back, mate. We’re livin’ proof, you and me.
B: Aye, but that’s a gamble of long odds, aint’ it’ There’s never a guarantee of comin’ back, but passin’ on, that’s dead certain.
JS: Summoning the Brethren Court then, is it?
B: It’s our only hope, lad.
JS: That’s a sad commentary in and of itself.
B: The world used to be a bigger place.
JS: World’s still the same. There’s just’.less in it.
B: Poison. Fouled by the body.
P: Hey, I know him. He was in Singapore.
MARTY: Captain!
R: We’ve got company!
TH *spoken in language*
JS: He’s the captain.
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B: Sao Feng, you showing up here is truly a remarkable coincidence.
SF: Jack Sparrow. You paid me great insult once.
JS: That doesn’t sound like me. So we’ll just call it square, then?
W: Release her. She’s not part of the bargain.
B: And what bargain be that?
SF: You heard Captain Turner. Release her.
JS: Captain Turner?
G: Aye, the perfidious rotter led a mutiny against us.
W: I need the Pearl to free my father. That’s the only reason I came on this voyage.
E: Why didn’t you tell me you were planning this?
W: It was my burden to bear.
JS: He needs the Pearl. Captain Turner needs the Pearl. And you felt guilty. And you and your Brethren Court. Did no one come to save me just because they missed me’ I’m standing over there with them.
SF: I’m sorry, Jack. But there is an old friend who wants to see you first.
JS: I’m not certain I can survive anymore visits from old friends.
SF: Here is your chance to find out.
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CB: Curious. Your friends appear to be quite desperate, Jack. Perhaps they no longer believe a gathering of squabbling pirates can defeat the Flying Dutchman, and so despair leads to betrayal. But you and I are no strangers to betrayal, are we’ It’s not here, Jack.
JS: What’ What isn’t?
CB: The heart of Davy Jones’.is safely aboard the Dutchman and so unavailable for use as leverage to satisfy your debt to the good captain.
JS: By my reckoning, that account has been settled.
CB: By your death’ And yet here you are.
JS: Close your eyes and pretend it’s all a bad dream. That’s how I get by.
CB: And if Davy Jones were to learn of your survival?
SF: My men are crew enough.
M: Company ship, company crew.
W: We agreed. The Pearl was to be mine.
SF: And so it was.
CB: Might you consider an alternative arrangement’ One which requires absolutely nothing from you but information.
JS: Regarding the Brethren Court, no doubt’ In exchange for fair compensation, square my debt with Jones’ Guarantee my freedom?
CB: Of course. It’s just good business.
JS: Were I in a divulge-itory mood, what then might I divulge?
CB: Everything. Where are they meeting’ Who are the pirate lords’ What is the purpose of the nine pieces of eight?
SF: Beckett agreed. The Black Pearl was to be mine!
M: Lord Beckett’s not going to give up the only ship as can outrun the Dutchman, is he?
B: A shame they’re not bound to honor the code of the Brethren, isn’t it’ Because honor’s a hard thing to come by nowadays.
SF: There is no honor remaining with the losing side, leaving is for the winning side. It’s just good business.
B: The losing side, you say?
SF: They have the Dutchman. Now the Pearl! What do the Brethren have?
B: We have Calypso.
SF: Calypso. An old legend.
B: No, the goddess herself bound in human form. Imagine all the power of the seas brought to bear against our enemy. I intend to release her, but for that, I need the Brethren chords. All the chords.
JS: You can keep Barbossa. The belligerent maculate and his friend with the wooden eye, both. And Turner ‘ especially Turner. The rest go with me on the Pearl and I’ll lead you to Shipwreck Cove where I will hand you the pirates and you will not hand me to Jones.
CB: And what becomes of Miss Swann?
JS: What interest is she to you?
SF: What are you proposing, captain?
B: What be acceptin’, cap’n?
SF: The girl.
E: What?
CB: Jack, I just recalled, I’ve got this wonderful compass which points to whatever I want. So for what do I need you?
W: Elizabeth is not part of any bargain.
B: Out of the question.
SF: Was not the question!
JS: Points to the thing you want most, which is not the Brethren Court, is it?
CB: Then what is, Jack?
JS: Me, dead.
E: Done.
W: Not done.
E: You were the one who got us into this mess. If this is what frees us, then done.
CB: Damn. Although, if I kill you, then I can use the compass to find Shipwreck Cove, is it’ on my own. Cut out the middle man, as it were.
W: Elizabeth, they’re pirates.
E: I’ve had more than enough experience dealing with pirates.
B: Then we have an accord?
JS: With me killed, you’d arrive at the Cove, find its stronghold nigh impregnable ‘ able to withstand blockade for years ‘ and then you’d be wishing, ‘Oh, if only I hadn’t killed someone inside to ensure that the pirates then come outside.?
CB: And you can accomplish all this, can you?
JS: You can kill me, but you may never insult me. Who am I’ Captain Jack Sparrow! Done!
CB: You’re mad!
JS: Thank goodness for that because if I wasn’t, this would probably never work. And that was without even a single drop of rum. Send this pestilent, traitorous, cow hearted, yeasty cod-piece to the brig.
LG: Which ship do we follow?
CB: Signal the Dutchman to track down Sao Feng. We follow the Pearl. How soon can we have the ship ready for pursuit?
LG: Do you think he plans it all out or just makes it up as he goes along?
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SF *Chinese speak* By this time tomorrow, we will arrive at Shipwreck Cove and you will be free, Calypso.
E: Excuse me?
SF: Not the name you’d fancy, I imagine, out of the many that you have. But it is what we call you.
E: We being who?
SF: You confirm it’
E: Confirm what’ You’ve told me nothing.
SF: The Brethren Court ‘ not I ‘ the first Brethren Court whose position I would have opposed. They bound you to human form so that the rule of the seas would belong to men and not-
E: To me.
SF: But one such as you should never be anything less than what you are.
E: Pretty speech for a captain. But words whispered through prison bars lose their charm.
SF: Can I be blamed for my efforts’ All men are drawn to the sea, perilous though it may be.
E: And some men offer desire as justification for their crimes.
SF: I offer simply my desire.
E: And in return?
SF: I would have your gifts, should you chose to give them.
E: And if I should chose not?
SF: Then I will take your fury.
Canon blasts
E: Sao Feng?
SF: Here. Please. With all nine pieces of eight, you will be free. Take it! You are captain now.
E: Me?
SF: Go in my place to Shipwreck Cove.
TH: Captain, the ship is taken. We cannot-
SF: Forgive me, Calypso.
TH: What did he tell you?
E: He made me captain.
TH: You are not my captain.
N: Elizabeth!
E: James. James!
N: Thank god you’re alive. You’re father will be overjoyed to know you’re safe.
E: My father’s dead.
N: No, it can’t be true; he returned to England.
E: Did Lord Beckett tell you that?
DJ: Who among you do you name as Captain?
TH: Captain ‘ her!
CREW: Her!
DJ: Captain-
N: Tow the ship! Put the prisoners in the brig. The captain shall have my quarters.
E: Thank you sir, but I prefer to remain with my crew.
N: Elizabeth, I swear, I did not know.
E: Know what’ Which side you chose’ Well, now you do.
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E: Bootstrap?
CREWMAN *laughs*
E: Bootstrap?
CREWMAN: Huh?
E: Bill Turner?
BB: Bootstrap. You know my name?
E: Yes, I know your son. Will Turner.
BB: William! Ha! He made it! He’s alive! And now he sends you to tell me that he’s coming to get me. Ha! God spoons, he’s on his way!
E: Yes, Will is alive. And he wants to help you.
BB: He can’t help me. He won’t come.
E: But you’re his father.
BB: I know you. He spoke of you. He can’t save me, he can’t come because of you.
E: Me?
BB: You’re Elizabeth.
E: Yes, I’m Elizabeth.
BB: If Jones be slain, he who slays him must take his place. Captain forever. The Dutchman must always have a captain. And if he saves me, he loses you.
E: I see.
BB: He won’t pick me. I wouldn’t pick me. Tell him not to come. Tell him to stay away. Tell him it’s too late. I’m already a part of the ship’.and the crew.
E: Bootstrap?
BB: You know my name’ You know my name?
E: Yes, I know you’re son.
BB: William! He’s coming for me! Wait and see! You’ll see. He promised.
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LGreit Sir.
CB: A bread crumb trail and we’re meant to follow.
LGreit A traitor among them?
CB: A gambit by a skilled opponent. Adjust course, lieutenant.
LGreit Sir?
CB: We can only hope to reach our destination before they run out of bodies.
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JS: You escaped the brig even quicker than I expected. William, do you notice anything’ Rather, do you notice something that is not there to be noticed?
W: You haven’t raised an alarm.
JS: Odd, isn’t it’ Not as odd as this. Come up with this all by your lonesome, did you?
W: I said to myself, ‘Think like Jack.?
JS: This is what you arrived at’ Lead Beckett to Shipwreck Cove so as to gain his trust, accomplish your own ends’ It’s like you don’t know me at all, mate. And how does your dearly beloved feel about this plan’ Ah, you’ve not seen fit to trust her with it.
W: I’m losing her, Jack. Every step I make for my father is a step away from Elizabeth.
JS: Mate, if you chose to lock your heart away, you lose it for certain. If I may lend a machete to your intellectual thicket, avoid the choice all together. Change the facts. Let someone else dispatch Jones.
W: Who’ You?
JS: Death has a curious way of re-shuffling one’s priorities. I slip aboard the Dutchman, find the heart, stab the beating thing, your father goes free from his debt and you’re free to be with your charming murderess.
W: And you’re willing to cut out your heart and bind yourself to the Dutchman’ Forever?
JS: No, mate. I’m free forever. Free to sail the seas beyond the edges of the map, free from death itself.
W: You have to do the job though, Jack. You have to ferry souls to the next world or end up just like Jones.
JS: I don’t have the face for tentacles. But immortal has to count for something, ay’ Oh!
W: What’s this for?
JS: Think like me, it’ll come to you. My regards to Davy Jones!
W: I hate him!
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N: Come with me. Quickly!
TH *order*
E: What are you doing?
N: Choosing a side. Quickly! Do not go to Shipwreck Cove. Beckett knows of the meeting of the Brethren. I fear there may be a traitor among them.
E: It’s too late to earn my forgiveness.
N: I had nothing to do with your father’s death. That does not absolve me from my other sins.
E: Come with us. James, come with me.
BB: Who goes there?
N: Go. I will follow.
E: You’re lying.
N: Our destinies have been entwined, Elizabeth. They’ve never joined. Go now! Back to your station, sailor.
BB: No one leaves the ship.
N: Stand down. That’s an order.
BB: That’s an order. Part of the crew, part of the ship. Part of the crew, part of the ship. Part of the crew, part of the ship!
N: Steady, man!
BB: Part of the crew, part of the ship! All hands! Prisoners escape!
N: Belay that!
E: James! James! No! No!
CREW: The admiral’s dead’ The admiral’s dead. The admiral’s dead. To the Captain’s Cabin!
DJ: James Norrington, do you fear death’ I take that as a no. Nice sword.
M: The Dutchman is under my command.
DJ: For now.
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G: Look alive and keep a weather eye! Not for naught it’s called Shipwreck island, where lies Shipwreck Cove in the town of Shipwreck!
P: You heard him! Step lively!
JS: You know for all that pirate’s are clever clogs, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things. I once sailed with a geezer who lost both of his arms, part of his eye.
G: What did you call him?
JS: Larry.
B: I do not renege a bargain once struck, but we agreed on ends only. The means are mine to decide.
TD: Caution, Barbossa. Do not forget it was by my power you returned from the dead or what it mean if you fail me.
B: Don’t you forget why you had to bring me back .Why I could not leave Jack to his well-deserved fate. It took nine pirate lords to bind you, Calypso, and it’ll take no less than nine to set ya free. Masters Pintel and Ragetti ‘ take this fishwife to the brig.
P: Right this way, Mrs. Fish.
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DJ: I cannot be summoned like some mongrel pup.
CB: Apparently you can. I believe you know each other.
DJ: Ah, come to join my crew again, Master Turner.
W: Not yours, his. Oh, Jack Sparrow sends his regards.
DJ: Sparrow?
W: You didn’t tell him’ We rescued Jack from the Locker along with the Black Pearl.
DJ: What else have you not told me?
CB: There is an issue far more troublesome. I believe you are familiar with a person called Calypso.
DJ: Not a person; a heathen god. One who delights in cursing men with their wildest dreams and then revealing them to be hollow and naught but ash. The world is well rid of her.
W: Not quite so well, actually. The Brethren Court intends to release her.
DJ: No. They cannot. The first court promised to imprison her forever. That was our agreement.
CB: Your agreement?
DJ: I showed them how to bind her. She could not be trusted. I’.she gave me no choice. We must act before they release her.
W: You loved her. She’s the one. And then you betrayed her.
DJ: She pretended to love me. She betrayed me!
W: And after which betrayal did you cut out your heart, I wonder?
DJ: Do not test me.
W: I hadn’t finished that. You will free my father. And you will guarantee Elizabeth’s safety along with my own.
CB: Your terms are steep, Mr. Turner. We will expect full value in return.
DJ: The only price I will accept is Calypso ‘ murdered.
W: Calypso’s aboard the Black Pearl. Jack has sailed the Black Pearl to Shipwreck Cove.
CB: And with you no longer aboard her, how do you propose to lead us there?
