Pintel: We don’t want the Kraken to catch us. I’m saving me strength for when it comes. Just don’t think it’s Kraken, anyways. Always heard it says Kray-ken.
Ragetti: What with the long ‘a’?
Pintel: Aha.
Ragetti: No no no no no. “Kroken”’s how it’s pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and “Kraken”’s closer to that.
Pintel: Well, we ain’t original Scandinavians, are we? Kray-ken.
Ragetti: It’s a mythological creature; I can calls it what I wants!
Jack: [puts his coat in the boat and picks up a shovel] Guard the boat; mind the tides… don’t touch my dirt.
[Norrington and Jack follow Elizabeth across the island as she leads them with the compass]
Elizabeth: [starts walking in circles; the compass needle points to Jack once more and she shakes it] This doesn’t work. And it certainly doesn’t show you what you want most. [she sits down cross-legged on the sand]
Jack: [walks over and looks at the compass] Yes, it does, you’re sitting on it.
Elizabeth: Beg pardon?
Jack: [shoos her off] Move. [whistles to Norrington to start digging]
Pintel: Guard the boat, mind the tide…
Ragetti: [balancing the shovel on his hand] I can join the circus.
Pintel: Mind if I shine your shoes, sir? [they are seen by Davy Jones through his telescope]
Davy Jones: They’re here. And I cannot set foot on land for near of a decade.
Hammer-head shark Pirate: Trust us to act in your stead?
Davy Jones: I’ll trust you to know what awaits you should you fail! Down then. [the Crew shouts; Ragetti and Pintel run when they hear the thud of the Flying Dutchman descending below the water]
Scene 15: (The fight over the chest and the key)
[Jack is meditating while Norrington digs, suddenly he hits something solid, they all look down into the hole; the sand is swept off the wooden chest holding the actual chest and Jack breaks it open; on top lie letters and under them, the chest of Davy Jones; they out their ears to it and it thumps]
Elizabeth: It’s real.
Norrington: You actually were telling the truth.
Jack: I do that quite a lot, yet people are still surprised.
Will: [walks up to them] With good reason.
Elizabeth: Will. [runs to him] You’re alright, thank God! I came to find you. [they kiss while Norrington and Jack watch jealously out of the corner of their eye]
Jack: How did you get here?
Will: Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet.
Jack: Not so easy is it?
Will: But I do owe you thanks, Jack.
Jack: You do?
Will: After you tricked me onto that ship, to square your debt with Jones.
Elizabeth: What?
Jack: [in a high-pitched tone of voice] What?
Will: I was reunited with my father.
Jack: Oh, well, you’re welcome, then.
Elizabeth: Everything you said to me, every word was a lie!
Jack: Pretty much. Time and tide, love. [Will unsheathes his father’s knife and kneels next to the chest] Oi, what are you doing?
Will: I’m gonna kill Jones. [Jack takes out his sword and levels it at him]
Jack: Can’t let you do that, William. ‘Cause if Jones is dead, who’s to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh? [Will looks like he’s relented and stand up, key still in hand] Now, if you please. [Jack reaches out for the key] The key.
Will: [snatches Elizabeth’s sword from her] I keep the promises I make, Jack. I intend to free my father. And I hope you’re here to see it.
Norrington: [takes his own sword out and points it at Will] I can’t let you do that, either. So sorry.
Jack: I knew you’d warm up to me eventually.
Norrington: [swings his sword ‘round to Jack; Will now turns his to Norrington – they form a triangle] Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest. I deliver it: I get my life back.
Jack: Ah. The dark side of ambition.
Norrington: Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption. [they start fighting each other]
Elizabeth: Stop it! [she is ignored; Will falls] Will! [she kneels to help him up]
Will: Guard the chest. [runs after the two fighting]
Elizabeth: No! [runs after them; she goes on a tirade while they ignore her and instead fight each other] This is not funny! This is no way for grown men to – Oh, fine! Let’s just pull out our swords and start banging away at each other, that’s all there ever is. I’ve had it! I’ve had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates! [doesn’t notice Pintel and Ragetti just behind her]
Pintel: [watching Norrington, Will and Jack fight and Elizabeth throwing rocks at them] How’d this go all sCrewy?
Ragetti: Well, each wants the chest for hisself, don’t ‘e? Mr. Norrington, I think, is trying to regain a bit of honor. Ol’ Jack’s looking to trade it, save his own skin. And Turner there – I think ‘e’s trying to settle some unresolved business twixt him and his twice-cursed pirate father.
Elizabeth: [in the distance] This is madness!
Pintel: Sad. [Ragetti nods] That chest must be worth more than a shiny penny.
Ragetti: [tsk’s] Terrible temptation.
Pintel: If we was any kind of decent, we’d remove temptation from their path. [they look at each other, laugh and go off to get the chest]
Elizabeth: [still throwing rocks] Enough! Oh. Oh! The heat. [pretends to faint, they continue to ignore her; she sits up and finally spots Ragetti and Pintel making off with the chest; runs after them]
Jack: [falls] Bugger. [gets the key and runs off, the two following still fighting]
Norrington: [pulls Will back and Will falls, then kicks sand in Will’s face] By your leave, Mr. Turner. [mock-bows before him and goes after Jack]
[on the beach, Jones’s pirates are surfacing; they shamble up to the chest and find it gone]
[Norrington is in pursuit of Jack; they fight up the stairs of what used to be a mill; Norrington gets the key and Jack looses his balance and grabs a bell-rope, so he goes down and Will, who’s caught up, goes up and grabs the key from Norrington]
Will: [lands on the top-most level] By your leave, Mr. Norrington. [Norrington takes off after him]
[the Undead pirates on the beach come up to the chest at the precise moment that the bell starts tolling, and figuring that’s where the chest must’ve gone, follow the bell]
[Will and Norrington take their fight outside, Jack following with a cautious step after them at a leisurely pace; Will has the key in the hand not holding his sword and Jack tries to catch it, but as Will is still fighting, it is a little difficult; once he has it, the two turn on him]
Norrington: [Jack is disarmed; to Will] Do excuse me while I kill the man who ruined my life.
Will: Be my guest.
Jack: Let us examine that claim for a moment, former Commodore, shall we? Who was it that at the very moment you had a notorious pirate safely behind bars saw fit to free said pirate and take your dearly beloved all to hisself… aye? So whose fault is it really that you’ve ended up a rum-pot deckhand what takes orders from pirates?
Norrington: Enough! [takes a swipe at Jack who somersaults off the roof and safely lands on the ground] Unfortunately, Mr. Turner… he’s right! [turns on Will]
Jack: [finds his sword and sheathes it] Still rooting for you, mate. [jauntily walks off with the key now around his neck; doesn’t watch where he’s going and falls face first into an empty grave] Oof. [looks around in confusion, it dawns on him where he is] Oh.
[Will jumps off onto a wheel usually used to power mills, Norrington follows; under the weight of their jump, the rotting wood give and the wheel starts rolling; just as Jack tries to hoist himself out of the grave, the wheel rolls over him and his mid-drift gets stuck in it; as the wheel makes a turn, the key slides off Jack’s neck and snags on a nail; the fight is paused for a moment as Norrington and Will have to step around Jack’s protruding legs; Jack slides free and runs for a moment inside the wheel before he is knocked out by a metal bar]
Pintel: [running through the jungle with the chest] We’ve got it! [Elizabeth steps in their path and reaches for a sword that isn’t there; Ragetti and Pintel take out theirs] ‘Ello, poppet. [they pause to stare at the giant wheel rolling by with Norrington and Will still sword-fighting, Jack in close pursuit behind them; they shrug and continue to advance on Elizabeth; that’s when a hatchet thuds into the nearest tree trunk, Davy Jones’s Crew coming upon them; Elizabeth gets the swords handed to her and Ragetti and Pintel shag up the chest; all three make a run for it; the chest meets a tree and is dropped, to protect it, Elizabeth steps into a fight]
[Jack finally catches up with the wheel and decided to have another go at running on the inside; before the key reaches him, Will falls and seeing the key right under him, snatches it; he now fight with Jack, Norrington joining them soon after]
[being one sword short, Elizabeth, Ragetti and Pintel have to share while they fight the Undead pirates]
Elizabeth: Sword! [Ragetti tosses her his sword]
Pintel: Sword! [Elizabeth tosses him her sword]
Ragetti: Sword! [catches the sword, fights a bit; a Conch-headed pirate sees the chest unattended and takes it chuckling]
[Jack manages to break the string the key was attached to and having got his prize, leaves the wheel quickly, latching onto a palm tree; just in time, too, as the wheel rolls off a slope; when the leaf he’s holding breaks off, he lands on the ground along with a few solid looking fruit; he sees the pirate rushing through the trees with the chest in hand]
Jack: Hmm. [hefts one of the fruit and throws it at the pirate; the throw knocks the pirate off his feet and consequently knocks his head off]
Conch-head: Anido. Anido! Follow my voice, follow my voice! [the body stumbles around; Jack takes advantage and walks up to the chest with the key] To the left. No! Other left. Go… [the body walks into a palm tree] No, that’s a tree.
Jack: Oh, shut it. [turns the key in the lock and the chest opens with a clang; he opens the lid and reveals a still beating heart, picks it up and stuffs it down his shirt when Elizabeth and co. run in, slamming the lid of the chest shut before he goes; Ragetti and Pintel resume carrying the now empty chest and they go on running to the beach]
Jack: [runs towards their abandoned boat] Jar of dirt! [finds it and after spilling some dirt out, stuffs the heart inside and covers it with some of the dirt he’s spilled out; just as he closes the lid one of Jones’s Crew comes at him; Jack fights with an oar; Elizabeth and co. make it out onto the beach as well, and Will and Norrington are still rolling around and around in their wheel, which is heading towards the beach; it rolls over a few of the pirates Elizabeth is fighting with and finally, with a groan, stops and falls over; Norrington and Will climb out with some difficulty, very dizzy after their ride; they can’t walk or stand straight and keep falling over]
Will: [sees the fight] Great. [tries to walk to it and falls over and can’t seem to get up; Norrington’s a bit more successful – he runs to the boat, grabs the Letters of Marque out of Jack’s Jacket pocket and notices some spilled dirt, being clever, he realizes what must’ve been done and all we see is his putting something away in his shirt]
[Ragetti and Pintel thinking themselves clever, place the chest into the boat and push off, Will stops them and levels his sword at them; they go for their own before realizing Elizabeth’s got them; they shrug and brandish a net and an oar against him; that’s when Will spots the chest and forgetting the two, picks it up instead; Jack notices his noticing and “accidentally” knocks Will out with his oar]
Elizabeth: Will. [runs over to Will lying half in half out of the boat]
Jack: Leave him lie! Unless you plan on using him to hit something with. [the undead Crew close in on them]
Elizabeth: We’re not coming out of this.
Norrington: Not with the chest. Into the boat. [he grabs the chest]
Elizabeth: You’re mad.
Norrington: Don’t wait for me. [runs off as a distraction with the chest clutched close; the Crew follows]
Jack: I-I say we respect his final wish.
Pintel: Aye! [they push off]
[Norrington runs for a while through the trees before he trips and falls, he reaches for his sword but the pirate who had previously lost his head and is not holding it in his hand steps on it]
Conch-head: Your bravery is wasted. I shall pry the chest away from your cold… dead… hands.
Norrington: Here you go. [throws it to the pirate who drops his head and catches the chest; he runs off; the Crew have a laugh at his expense]
Conch-head: [his body walks away with the chest, leaving the head] What… Anido, Anido! Pirates. [rolls into the conch and a crab emerges from the shell and crawls after the pirates] Come back here. Hey,—??
Scene 16: (The Kraken attacks thrice)
Will: [wakes up on board, Elizabeth staring down on him] What happened to the chest?
Elizabeth: Norrington took it to draw them off.
Pintel: [bickering over the sails] You’re pulling too hard!
Ragetti: You aren’t pulling hard enough. [hangs on the rope]
Gibbs: [to Jack] Where’s the Commodore?
Jack: [clutching his jar of dirt] Fell behind.
Gibbs: My prayers be with him. [shrugs] Best not wallow in our grief. The bright side is: you’re back. And made it off free and clear. [the Flying Dutchman pops out of the water next to the Pearl]
Elizabeth: [in fright] Ah, the F- [doesn’t finish her thought]
Gibbs: Lord, I done that. [crosses himself]
Jack: [pushes Gibbs out of the way] I’ll handle this, mate. Oi, fish face! [holds up his jar of dirt] Lose something, aye?—?? [loses footing and falls a short way down the stairs with his dirt; the whole Crew ‘ooh’s’ and cringes in sympathy at his fall; holds up the jar again] Got it! Come to negotiate, eh, have you, you slimy git. Look what I got. [in a sing song voice] I’ve got a jar of di-irt, I’ve got a jar of di-irt, and guess what’s inside it?
Davy Jones: Enough. [the cannons are slid out and Jack loses his smile]
Jack: Hard to starboard.
Elizabeth: Hard to starboard! [Gibbs turns the wheel frantically to turn the Pearl]
Will: Raise up the foreyard!
Davy Jones: Rack the starboard! Send his beloved Pearl back to the depths. [the cannons fire and some hit the Pearl as it retreats]
Ragetti: [spots the Flying Dutchman in pursuit through a cannonball made hole] She’s on us! She’s on us!
Davy Jones: Let them taste the triple guns.
Undead pirate: Aye, Captain. [triple cannons are rolled out in the front an they fire, further damaging the ship; Jack takes over the steering]
Will: [maneuvering the sails, hand the rope over to another] Make fast!
Pintel: [pets the ship’s railing] Don’t let me down. Show us what you’ve got.
Elizabeth: She’s falling behind!
Gibbs: Aye, we’ve got her.
Will: We’re the faster?
Gibbs: Against the wind the Dutchman beats us, that’s how she gets her prey. But with the wind…
Will: We’ve got her advantage.
Gibbs: Aye.
Blowfish headed pirate: We’re out of range!
Davy Jones: Break off pursuit, run on light and douse canvas!
Hammer-head shark Pirate: We’ve given up, sir? [smiles wickedly and they pirate smiles with him; the call for the Kraken is worked up once more]
Marty: They’ve given up. Yeaaaah! [the Crew cheers; Ragetti and Pintel do a jig]
Will: [to Jack] My father is on that ship. If we can outrun her, we can take her. We should turn and fight.
Jack: Why fight when you can negotiate? All one needs is the proper leverage. [place the jar of dirt on the banister and pets it; the ship shudders to a halt and the jar falls and breaks, scattering his dirt everywhere; he runs down to sift through the dirt, but the heart’s not there] Where is it? Where is the thump thump?
Sailor: We must’ve hit the reef. [points down where the water is bubbling under the hull]
Will: No. It’s not a reef! [grabs Elizabeth] Get away from the rail!
Elizabeth: What is it?
Will: The Kraken. To arms!
Gibbs: Load guns, defend the mast!
Will: It’ll attack the starboard, I’ve seen it before. Roll out the cannons and hold for my signal. [the cannons are loaded and run out; the tentacles of the Kraken begin creeping up the ship’s sides]
Will: Easy boys.
Elizabeth: Will?
Will: Steady! Steady.
Elizabeth: Will?
Will: Hold. Hold!
Pintel: I think we’ve held fire long enough!
Elizabeth: Will!
Will: Fire! [the cannons are fired and the Kraken retreats slightly wounded; the Crew cheers] It’ll be back. We have to get off the ship.
Elizabeth: There’s no boats. [the boats are all broken]
Will: [sees a barrel of powder roll across the deck] Pull the grates; get all the gunpowder onto the net in the cargo hold. [hands Elizabeth a rifle] Whatever you do, don’t miss.
Elizabeth: As soon as you’re clear.
Sailor: [the grates are pulled off and the net and powder readied] We are short-stocked on gunpowder. Six barrel!
Gibbs: [to Will] There’s only half a dozen kegs of powder.
Will: Then load the rum! [everyone get very quiet and stares at Will]
Gibbs: [after some hesitation, the Crew staring expectantly at him now] Aye, the rum, too! [his face contorts in mourning for the rum; the rum is loaded onto the net]
[Jack is rowing away from the Pearl]
Elizabeth: [to Cotton] Step to. [spots Jack in his row boat] You coward. [the ship shudders again]
Marty: Not good.
[the Kraken is much more vigorous this time and smashes its tentacles straight into the ship at both sides]
Will: [with the rum and powder] Haul away!
Gibbs: Heave! Heave like you’re being paid for it! [the Kraken is wreaking havoc, throwing Sailors around and breaking everything in the bottom holds; one is pulled through the porthole with a lot of cracking bones right between Ragetti and Pintel]
[Jack is still rowing away; stops, looks at his groaning ship, then looks to the island he was making for; pulls out his compass to check on his decision, we do not yet see where it pointed]
Gibbs: I gotcha! I gotcha! [holds the arms of a Sailor being pulled away by a tentacle]
Sailor: [gets pulled away] Save me!
[Elizabeth runs to get her rifle and Will founders in the net when the Kraken breaks the wheel that was being turned to lift the net]
Will: Hyah! Come on! [flings his sword around at the Kraken] Come and get me! I’m over here. Come on! [the Kraken upsets the net and Will’s leg gets caught in the netting, he takes out his father’s knife to free himself]
Will: [Elizabeth tries to aim but hesitates as Will is still on the net] Shoot! Elizabeth, shoot! [she still hesitates and her footing is taken out from under her as a tentacle starts dragging her away; Ragetti severs it; she runs back to get the gun, but a foot steps on at she’s about to pick it up – Jack’s returned and he takes aim now as she clings to his legs; Will finally severs the rope holding his leg and falls free of the net; Jack shoots and is successful in blowing the kegs up as the Kraken is tugging at them; it retreats with a groan of pain, charred pieces of tentacles left on deck; the dazed survivors walk over to the railing]
Marty: Did we kill it?
Gibbs: No. We just made it angry. We’re not out of this yet. Captain, orders!
Jack: Abandon ship. Into the long boat.
Gibbs: Jack, the Pearl.
Jack: She’s only a ship, mate.
Elizabeth: He’s right, we have to head for land.
Pintel: It’s a lot of open water.
Ragetti: It’s a lot of water.
Will: We’ll have to try it. We can get away as it takes down the Pearl.
Gibbs: Abandon ship. Abandon ship or abandon hope. [they load the boat with some supplies while Jack says his silent goodbye to the Pearl; Elizabeth follows him]
Elizabeth: Thank you, Jack.
Jack: We’re not free yet, though.
Elizabeth: You came back. I always knew you were a good man. [kisses him and Will chances to see it through a gap in the railing for a moment before Gibbs blocks his view]
Gibbs: Prepare to cast off! No time to lose! C’mon, Will, step to it. [a shell shocked Will climbs down into the boat]
Elizabeth: [backs him up against a mast and chains him to it] It’s after you, not the ship. It’s not us. It’s the only way, don’t you see. [leans in as if she’s going to kiss him again, but refrains] I’m not sorry.
Jack: Pirate. [Elizabeth leaves Jack standing there, chained to the mast]
Will: Where’s Jack?
Elizabeth: He elected to stay behind to give us a chance. [everyone looks up and hesitate to cast off] Go! [they sail off, Elizabeth looking decidedly not well]
Jack: [frantically tries to break the chains] Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger. [there is a groaning underfoot, the Kraken is coming; Jack gets innovative and reaches for a lantern with his sword, breaks it and pours the oil over his chained wrist enabling him to slip it out of the shackle] C’mon. C’mon, that’s it. Ah. [he slips free just as the tentacles of the Kraken rise over the ship, it’s mouth opening wide in a roar, splattering Jack with its saliva and also spitting out his lost hat] Not so bad. [wipes the saliva off his face] Oh. [bends down to pick up his hat, puts it on] Hello, beastie. [takes out his sword and charges at it heroically as it swallows him up and then takes down the Pearl in a tight embrace; the Crew on the long boat watch quietly and Davy Jones watches through his telescope]
Davy Jones: Jack Sparrow, our debt is settled.
Undead pirate: Captain goes down with his ship.
Hammer-head shark Pirate: Turns out not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil.
Davy Jones: Open the chest. Open the chest, I need to see it! [the chest is opened and there is nothing inside] Damn you, Jack Sparrooooow!
Scene 17: (Bargaining and to World’s End)
[in Port Royal] Mercer: The last of our ships has returned.
Beckett: Is there any news on the chest?
Mercer: No. But, one of the ships did pick up a man, adrift at sea. He had these. [holds up the Letters of Marque and lays them down on the table; Beckett unfolds them]
Norrington: I took the liberty of filling in my name.
Beckett: [beckons to Norrington] If you intend to claim these, then you must have something to trade. D’you have the compass?
Norrington: [shakes his head] Better. [thumps down a bag on the table, what’s inside is thumping, too] The heart of Davy Jones.
[in Tia Dalma’s swamp, the long boat makes it’s way to her hut and there are many people standing along their way, all holding candles and humming softly; once inside, Will keeps stabbing his knife into the grain of the wood and taking it out, pieces of the table coming out with it]
Tia Dalma: [brings out a tray of drinks; offers to Elizabeth first] Against the cold. And a sorrow. [Elizabeth takes a cup, looking haunted; Will in next] It’s a shame. I know you’re thinking that with the Pearl, you could’ve—?? and free your father’s soul.
Will: Doesn’t matter now. The Pearl’s gone… along with its Captain. [thuds his knife down into the table again]
Gibbs: Aye. And already the world seems a bit less bright. He fooled us all, right to the end. But I guess that honest streak finally won out. [toasts] To Jack Sparrow!
Ragetti: Never another like Captain Jack. [raises his cup]
Pintel: He was a gentleman of fortune, he was. [raises his cup]
Elizabeth: He was a good man. [drinks; Will says nothing just stares at Elizabeth]
Will: If there was anything to be done to bring him back, Elizabeth…
Tia Dalma: [to Will] Would you do it? Hmm? [to Elizabeth] What would you? Hmm? What would any of you be Willing to do? Hmm? Will you sail to the ends of the earth and beyond to fetch back—(??) Jack and his precious Pearl?
Gibbs: Aye.
Pintel: Aye.
Ragetti: Aye.
Cotton’s parrot: Awk! Aye.
Elizabeth: [nods] Yes.
Will: [nods as well; softly] Aye.
Tia Dalma: All right, but if you’re going to brave the weird and haunted shores at world’s end… then, you Will need a Captain who knows those waters.
Barbossa: [steps down the stairs] So, tell me, what’s become of my ship? [the monkey jumps on his shoulder and he finally takes a bite of his apple, looking well pleased]
END
[after the credits]
[we see the dog with the keys who had been left with the cannibals has now been made the new chief]
