Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest
Elizabeth Persuasion.
Jack Friendly?
Elizabeth Decidedly not.
Jack Will strikes a deal for these and upholds it with honor, yet you are the one standing here with the prize. [reads] “Full pardon, commissioned as a privateer on behalf of England and the East India Trading Company…” [Norrington overhears this; Jack puts the letters away] As if I could be bought for such a low price.
Elizabeth Jack, the letters, give them back.
Jack No. Persuade me.
Elizabeth [comes up behind him and leans in] You do know Will taught me how to handle a sword.
Jack [turns to face her] As I said… persuade me. [Elizabeth walks away]
Norrington [walks up to Elizabeth standing at the ship’s rail with a smile on her lips] It’s a curious thing, there was a time I would give anything for you to look like that while thinking about me.
Elizabeth I don’t know what you mean.
Norrington Oh, I think you do.
Elizabeth Oh, don’t be absurd, I trust him, that’s all.
Norrington [laughs and walks away before turning back for another word] So you never wondered how your latest fiancé ended up on the Flying Dutchman in the first place. [shakes his head and continues walking]
[Elizabeth takes out the compass and opens it; its direction changes to point to Jack; she shakes her head and closes the compass, looking a little disturbed]
[on the ship that had taken Elizabeth to Tortuga; Will is sitting with a blanket around his shoulders and a hot cup in his hands] Captain: Strange thing, to come upon a long boat so far out in open water.
Will Just put as many leagues behind us as you can. As fast as you can.
Captain And what are we running from?
Will [spots Elizabeth’s wedding dress draped on a chair; walks to it] That dress… where did you get it?
Captain It was found aboard this ship. The Crew thought it was a spirit bringing some omen of ill fate.
Will [picks up the dress lovingly] That’s foolish.
Sailor #2: Ah, yes, exceedingly foolish.
Sailor #1: It brought good fortune. The spirit told us… pull in at Tortuga. And we made a nice bit of profit there.
Captain Off the books, of course.
Will I imagine… some of your Crew may have jumped ship there.
Captain Why do you ask?
Sailor [runs down into the cabin] Captain, a ship’s been spotted.
Captain Colors?
Sailor She isn’t flying any.
Captain Pirates!
Will Or worse.
[on the Flying Dutchman – Davy Jones has discovered the ruse and is holding the drawing of his key in his hand]
Davy Jones [grabs Bootstrap by his throat, the ship with Will on board in their sight] You Will watch this. [a few of the Crew are cranking a wheel and being lashed while doing so] Let no joyful voice be heard. Let no man look up at the sky with hope. And let this day be cursed by we who ready to raise… the Kraken!
Bootstrap Nooooo! [is held back by a few of the pirates; the crank booms as it crashes down once it reaches maximum capacity and the boom spreads through the water, calling the Kraken]
[there is a commotion on the ship and everyone comes out to see the Fling Dutchman]
Will I have doomed us all. It’s the Flying Dutchman! [the ship shudders from a blow and Will falls out of the crow’s nest, hanging by a line; the Crew flops down as well]
Sailor #1: Mother Clarice’s chickens, what happened?
Sailor #2: Must’ve hit a reef.
Captain [water is bubbling on the side of the ship] Reel the rudder, help the port the—(??) starboard.
Sailor #4: Reel in rudder!
Sailor #5: Help the port! [the Captain is snatched by a tentacle clean off the ship; then he reappears briefly, screaming, and is pulled underwater]
Sailor #4: Kraken! [there is mayhem on board; the tentacles of the Kraken creeping up the sides and snatching Sailors off the deck; Will slides down a sail with the help of his knife once the mast he’s on collapses; the ship is cracked in two and dragged down in a slimy embrace; Will survives and slings to a piece of the deck floating on the water, the Flying Dutchman coming up alongside the wreckage; Elizabeth’s dress floats on the water]
Hammer-head shark Pirate: The boy’s not here, he must’ve been claimed by the sea.
Davy Jones I am the sea. [walks up to Bootstrap] You need time alone with your thoughts. Brig!
Hammer-head shark Pirate: What of the survivors? [they are lined up as before; Will peaks in, clinging to the side of the ship]
Davy Jones There are no survivors. [the survivors are killed; Davy Jones senses Will’s presence and goes to investigate, but Will cannot be seen] The chest is no longer safe, chart a course to Isla Cruces. Get me there first or it’ll be the devil to pay.
Blowfish headed pirate: First?
Davy Jones Who’s shoved that thieving charlatan onto my ship. Who told them of the key? Jack Sparrow. [Will is riding in the open mouth at the bow of the ship; Elizabeth’s dress sinks into the sea]
Scene 14: (A good man and the pursuit)
[on the Black Pearl; Elizabeth is sitting on the stairs where Jack joins her]
Jack My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are… troubled.
Elizabeth I just thought I’d be married by now. I’m so ready to be married.
Jack [Jack pops open a bottle of rum, hands it to her and she takes a drink, looking upset] You know… [clears throat] Lizzie, I am Captain of a ship and being Captain of a ship I could, in fact, perform a marriage right here. Right on this deck. Right now.
Elizabeth [Elizabeth looks even more disgusted, hands him the bottle and walks away] No, thank you.
Jack [follows her] Why not? We are very much alike you and I. I and you… us.
Elizabeth Except for a sense of honor and decency and a moral center. And personal hygiene.
Jack Trifles. You Will come over to my side, I know it.
Elizabeth You seem very certain.
Jack One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it’s like. One day… you won’t be able to resist.
Elizabeth Why doesn’t your compass work?
Jack My compass works fine.
Elizabeth Because you and I are alike. And there Will come a moment when you have a chance to show it. To do the right thing.
Jack I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.
Elizabeth You’ll have the chance to do something… something courageous. And when you, you’ll discover something. That you’re a good man.
Jack All evidence to the contrary.
Elizabeth [laughs] No, I have faith in you. You want to know why?
Jack Do tell, dearie.
Elizabeth [leans in close with each sentence] Curiosity. You’re going to want it – a chance to be admired – and gain the rewards that follow. You won’t be able to resist. You’re going to want to know what it tastes like.
Jack I do want to know what it tastes like.
Elizabeth [Jack caresses her cheek] But seeing as you’re a good man, I know that you’d never put me in a position that would compromise my honor. [Jack is ready to kiss her when he sees the black mark return to the palm of his hand and snatches his hand away] I’m proud of you, Jack.
Gibbs Land-ho!
Jack I need my jar of dirt. [goes to look for it]
Pintel [Ragetti and Pintel are rowing the boat with Jack and his jar of dirt in it, Norrington at the prow] You’re pulling too fast.
Ragetti You’re pulling too slow.
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?
