Pirates of the Caribbean 3 – At World’s End
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!
