Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest
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]
