Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest
Jack Oi! [he rounds a corner of the island, the cannibals soon follow]
Will Time to go.
Gibbs Cast off those lines!
Ragetti Make ready to cast off!
Jack Oi! [runs past the prison dog] Good doggy. [swims out to the Pearl and clings to a net] Alas, my children, this is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost – [a wave splashes him from head to toe; he continues half-heartedly] – Captain Jack Sparrow.
[the cannibals are lamenting the loss of their meal when the finally hear the dog barking; they turn to it and once it realizes the danger, runs; they run after it]
Gibbs Let’s put some distance between us and this island and head out to open sea.
Jack Yes to the first, yes to the second, but only as so far as we keep to the shallows as much as possible. [Pintel and Ragetti drape Jack’s coat on his shoulders; Pintel salutes when Jack glances at him]
Gibbs Now, that seems a bit contradictory, Captain.
Jack I have every faith in your reconciliatory navigational skills, Master Gibbs. Now, where is that monkey? I want to shoot something. [as on cue, Ragetti’s wooden eye drops in front of them; Ragetti is happy to have it back]
Will Jack.
Jack Ah.
Will Elizabeth is in danger.
Jack [moves off, keeping an eye on the monkey] Have you considered keeping a more watchful eye on her. Maybe just lock her up somewhere?
Will [follows him] She is locked up in a prison, bound to hang for helping you.
Jack There comes a time when one must take responsibility for one’s mistakes.
Will [snatches a sword off a nearby pirate and brings it to Jack’s throat] I need that compass of yours, Jack. I must trade it for her freedom.
Jack [moves the sword away] Mr. Gibbs?
Gibbs Captain?
Jack We have a need to travel upriver.
Gibbs By need, do you, mean a trifling need, fleeting, as in, say, a passing fancy?
Jack No, a resolute and unyielding need. [Gibbs looks worried]
Will What we need to do is make sail for Port Royal with all haste.
Jack William… I shall trade you the compass, if you Will help me… [takes the drawing of a key out of his pocket] to find this.
Will You want me to find this. [indicates the key on the drawing]
Jack No. You want you to find this. Because the finding of this, finds you incapacitorially finding and/or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle ol’ what’s her face. Savvy?
Will [takes the cloth] This is going to save Elizabeth.
Jack How much do you know about Davy Jones?
Will Not much.
Jack Yeah, it’s going to save Elizabeth.
Scene 7: (The stowaway and visiting Tia Dalma)
[on a random ship leaving Port Royal – a Sailor finds Elizabeth’s discarded wedding dress stashed on the side; two Sailors end up bickering over it]
Captain What’s all this? If you both fancy the dress, you’ll just have to share and wear it one after the other. [the Crew laughs]
Sailor #1: It’s not like that, sir. This ship is haunted.
Captain Is it now? [addressing the other one] You?
Sailor #2: There is a female presence amongst us here, sir. All the men, they can feel it. [the Crew agrees]
Sailor #3: Belongs to a lady widowed before her marriage, I figure it. Searching for her husband lost the sea.
Sailor #4: Virgin, too, likely as not. [Elizabeth is shown, lacquering the ship’s railing] And that bodes ill by all accounts.
Sailor #1: I say that we throw the dress overboard and we hope the spirit follows it.
Sailor #2: No! That Will just anger this spirit, sir. What we need to do is to find out what the spirit needs and then just get it back to her – [they start bickering over the dress again]
Captain Enough! Enough! You’re a pair of superstitious goats and it’s got the best of ye. [snatches the dress from them] Now this appears to be as no more that we have a stowaway on board. A young woman, by the look of it. I want you to search the ship and find her. Oh, and, eh, she’s probably naked. [everyone perks up and starts looking for her; Elizabeth joins the search]
[the Black Pearl is anchored and two boats go upriver into an overgrown, gloomy swamp]
Will Why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?
Gibbs Well, if you believe such things, there’s a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that suction your face clean off and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness. The Kraken. They say the stench of its breath is… ooh. [shudders] Imagine, the last thing you know on God’s green earth is the roar of the Kraken and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses. [Ragetti and Pintel cower] If you believe such things.
Will And the key Will spare him that?
Gibbs Now that’s the very question Jack wants answered. Bad enough even to go visit… her.
Will [raises an eyebrow] Her?
Gibbs Aye.
[they finally sail up to a hut, strange people following their progress with their eyes]
Jack [steps onto the landing] No worries, mates. Tia Dalma and I go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable we are. Were. Have been. Before.
Gibbs I’ll watch your back.
Jack It’s me front I’m worried about.
Gibbs [to Will] Mind the boat.
Will [to Ragetti] Mind the boat.
Ragetti [to Pintel] Mind the boat.
Pintel [to Marty] Mind the boat.
Marty [to Cotton and his parrot] Mind the boat.
Parrot [to Cotton] Mind the boat. [and flies off]
[Jack cautiously creeps into Tia Dalma’s house]
Tia Dalma Jack Sparrow.
Jack Tia Dalma. [almost knocks his head against a hanging jar full of eyeballs]
Tia Dalma I always knowed the wind was going to blow you back to me one day. [she approaches Jack, then spots Will and points to him] You. You have a touch a’ destiny about you. William. Turner.
Will You know me?
Tia Dalma You want to know me. [leans closer]
Jack There’ll be no knowing here. [intervenes between them] We’ve come for help and we’re not leaving without it. [leads Tia Dalma away from Will] I thought I knew you.
Tia Dalma Not so well as I’d hoped. [she heads to the back] Come.
Jack Come. [motions Will over]
Tia Dalma [caressing Will’s face] What service may I do ya? [forcefully, directed in Jack’s general direction] You know I demand payment.
Jack I brought payment. [whistles for the cage to be brought closer; unveils it to show the monkey inside] Look… [shoots it] an undead monkey. Top that!
[Tia Dalma lets the monkey out and it runs to a low table]
Gibbs No. [winces] You’ve no idea how long it took us to catch that.
Tia Dalma The payment is fair.
Will We’re looking for this. [lays out the drawing of a key] And what it goes to.
Tia Dalma [to Jack] The compass you bartered from me, it cannot lead you to this?
Jack Maybe. Why?
Tia Dalma Aah. Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Or do you know but are loath to claim it as your own. Your key go to a chest. And it is what lay inside the chest you seek. Don’t it?
Gibbs What is inside?
Pintel Gold? Jewels? Unclaimed properties of valuable nature?
Ragetti Nothing bad, I hope.
Tia Dalma You know of Davy Jones, yes? [the Crew nods] A man of the sea. A great Sailor. Until he run afoul of that which vex all men. [Jack pockets something while no one’s looking]
Will What vexes all men?
Tia Dalma [she teasingly touches Will’s hand] What indeed.
Gibbs The sea?
Pintel Sums.
Ragetti The dichotomy of good and evil. [Gibbs and Pintel give him a look]
Jack A woman!
Tia Dalma A woman. He fell in love.
Gibbs No no no no, I heard it was the sea he fell in love with.
Tia Dalma Same story, different version and all are true. See it was a woman as changing, and harsh and untamable as the sea. He never stopped loving her. But the pain it caused him was too much to live with. But not enough to cause him to die.
Will What exactly did he put into the chest?
