Scene 6: (Talk of the right match and Port Royal under attack!)
Prisoners: [whistling and waving a bone to a dog that has the keys to the prison in its jaws] Come here, boy. Want a nice juicy bone? Come here. Come on
Jack : You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to move.
Prisoner: Oh, excuse us if we haven’t resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet.
[in the Governor’s house; Elisabeth ‘s room] Estrella: There you go, Miss. [puts a bed warmer between the sheets] It was a difficult day for you, I’m sure.
Elizabeth : I suspected Commodore Norrington would propose but I must admit, I wasn’t entirely prepared for it.
Estrella: Well, I meant you being threatened by that pirate. Sounds terrifying.
Elizabeth : Oh, yes, it was terrifying.
Estrella: But the Commodore proposed. Fancy that. Now, that’s a smart match, Miss, if it’s not too bold to say.
Elizabeth : It is a smart match. He’s a fine man; he’s what any woman should dream of marrying.
Estrella: Well, that Will Turner , he’s a fine man, too.
Elizabeth : That is too bold.
Estrella: Well, begging your pardon, Miss. It was not my place. [leaves]
[meanwhile Will is hammering a new sword, he looks out unto the deserted street]
[on top of the Fort] Governor Swann : Has my daughter given you an answer yet?
Norrington: No, she hasn’t.
Governor Swann : Well, she has had a very trying day. Ghastly weather, don’t you think?
Norrington: Bleak. Very bleak.
Governor Swann : What’s that?
Norrington: Cannon fire! [tackles the Governor] Return fire!
[in the jail] Jack : I know those guns. [looks out of his little window] It’s the Pearl .
Prisoner: The Black Pearl ? I’ve heard stories. She’s been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
Jack : No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?
[the Black Pearl’s guns are destroying the battlements, the pirates are now coming ashore in boats; Will takes up a sword, a hatchet, and a knife to fight the invading pirates; on the battlements;saves a maid by killing a pirate with his hatchet]
Norrington: [shouting orders to soldiers] Sight the muzzle flash!
Soldier: Aim for the flashes!
Norrington: I need a full strike, fore and aft! Let these demons both bite at this! [cannons are shot in the Black Pearl ‘s direction] Governor, barricade yourself in my office. That’s an order!
[the Governor’s house; pirates are running through the gates an knocking on the door] Elizabeth : [to butler] Don’t! [the butler opens the door]
Pintel: Hello, chum. [shoots butler and the pirates swarm into the house] Up there! [points at Elizabeth ]
Pirate: Girl! [ Elizabeth runs upstairs]
Estrella: [they lock the chamber door] Miss Swann , they’ve come to kidnap you.
Elizabeth : What?
Estrella: You’re the Governor’s daughter.
Elizabeth : They haven’t seen you. Hide, and the first chance you get, run to the fort. [distracts Ragetti and Pintel as the maid runs out, hits Pintel in the face with the bed warmer]
Ragetti: Gotcha! [catches Elizabeth and she releases ashes onto his head] It’s hot! You burned me!
Pintel: [to Ragetti] Come on! [Estrella escapes; Elizabeth is cornered on the stairs and while pirates are distracted by one of their own being taken out by a cannon she runs away; Pintel and Ragetti are stopped by a falling chandelier and Elizabeth locks the door and then tries to get a sword out but is unable; Pintel and Ragetti break the door] We know you’re here, Poppet.
Ragetti: Poppet.
Pintel: Come out… and we promise we won’t hurt you. [Ragetti looks at Pintel questioningly who only smiles] We will find you, Poppet. You’ve got something of ours, and it calls to us. The gold calls to us.
Ragetti: Gold calls…
Pintel: [opens door of the closet] ‘Ello, Poppet.
Elizabeth : Parley!
Ragetti: What?
Elizabeth : Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the Code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew , you have to take me to your Captain.
Pintel: I know the code.
Elizabeth : If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete.
Ragetti: To blazes with the code.
Pintel: She wants to be taken to the Captain. And she’ll go without a fuss. We must honor the Code.
[ Port Royal street ; Will is fighting with Grapple] Grapple: [to Will , holding him defenseless] Say goodbye! [signs falls on him]
Will: Goodbye.
Pintel: [to Elizabeth , leading her to the Black Pearl ] Come on!
Elizabeth : Will.
Will : [spots them] Elizabeth . [sees the same pirate he killed with his hatchet and is confused]
Pirate: Outta my way, scum. [knocks Will on the head, he faints]
Scene 7: (No luck and on board the Black Pearl )
[in jail] Prisoner: [a hole is blown in a cell, to Jack ] My sympathies, friend, you’ve no manner of luck at all.
Jack: [picks up the bone and whistles] Come on, doggy. It’s just you and me now. It’s you and ol’ Jack . Come on. Come on, good boy. That a good boy, come on! Bit closer, bit closer. That’s it, that’s it, doggy. Come on you filthy, slimy, mangy cur. [there’s a crash downstairs and the dog runs away] No, no, no, no, no, I didn’t mean it. I didn’t… [a crash as the prison guard is thrown down the stairs]
Twigg: [looks a round] This ain’t the armory.
Koehler: Well, well, well, look what we have here Twigg – Captain Jack Sparrow .
Twigg: [spits] Last time I saw you, you were all alone on a godforsaken island, shrinking into the distance. His fortunes aren’t improved much.
Jack : Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen. The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers. [Koehler grabs Jack ‘s throat; Jack sees skeletal arm] So there is a curse. That’s interesting.
Koehler: You know nothing of Hell. [they leave]
Jack : That’s very interesting.
[ Elizabeth is rowed across with the pirates; on board the Black Pearl ] Bo’sun : I didn’t know we was takin’ on captives.
Pintel: She’s invoked the right of parley with Captain Barbossa .
Elizabeth : I am here to negotiate – [is backhanded by Bo’sun ]
Bo’sun : You will speak when spoken to.
Barbossa: [grabs Bo’sun ‘s wrist] And ye not lay a hand on those under the protection of parley.
Bo’sun : Aye, sir.
Barbossa: My apologies, Miss.
Elizabeth : Captain Barbossa , I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal .
Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we’re naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth : I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa: I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means “no.”
Elizabeth : Very well. I’ll drop it. [dangles medallion over the sea]
Barbossa: Me holds are burstin’ with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?
Elizabeth : It’s what you’ve been searching for. I recognized the ship. I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England .
Barbossa: Did ya, now?
Elizabeth : Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there’s no point in me keeping it. [it drops a bit, the pirates lunge forward]
Barbossa: Ah. [chuckles] You have a name, Missy?
Elizabeth : Elizabeth …Turner. I’m a maid in the Governor’s household. [she curtsies]
Barbossa: Miss Turner …?
Pintel: Bootstrap.
Barbossa: And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that. Family heirloom, perhaps?
Elizabeth : I didn’t steal it, if that’s what you mean.
Barbossa: Very well, you hand it over and we’ll put your town to our rudder and ne’er return.
Elizabeth : [she hands it over] Our bargain? [Barbossa walks away from her]
Bo’sun : Still the guns and stow ’em, Signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port.
Elizabeth : Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren
Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate’s code to apply and you’re not. And thirdly, the code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl , Miss Turner .
Scene 8: (To save Elizabeth and Jack ‘s rescue)
Will : [awakes on the street in the morning; to Norrington] They’ve taken her. They’ve taken Elizabeth .
Norrington: Mr. Murtogg , remove this man.
Will : We have to hunt them down. we must save her.
Governor Swann : And where do you propose we start? If you have any information concerning my daughter, please share it.
Murtogg: That Jack Sparrow . He talked about the Black Pearl.
Mullroy: Mentioned it, is more what he did.
Will : Ask him where it is. Make a deal with him. He could lead us to it.
Norrington: No…the pirates who invaded this Fort left Sparrow locked in his cell ergo they are not his allies. Governor, we will establish their most likely course…
Will : [buries hatchet in the table] That’s not good enough!
Norrington: Mr. Turner , you are not a military man, you are not a sailor. You are a blacksmith and this is not the moment for rash actions. Do not make the mistake of thinking you are the only man here who cares for Elizabeth . [hands him back his hatchet]
[in jail] Jack : [trying to pick the lock with a bone] Please…. [hears footsteps, leaves the bone in the lock and lies down]
Will: You. Sparrow!
Jack : Aye.
Will : You are familiar with that ship – the Black Pearl?
Jack : I’ve heard of it.
Will : Where does it make berth?
Jack : Where does it make berth? Have you not heard the stories? Captain Barbossa and his crew of miscreants sail from the dreaded Isla de Muerta . It’s an island that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is.
Will : The ship’s real enough. Therefore its anchorage must be a real place. Where is it?
Jack : [studies his nails] Why ask me?
Will : Because you’re a pirate.
Jack : And you want to turn pirate yourself, is that it?
Will : Never! They took Miss Swann .
Jack : Oh, so it is that you’ve found a girl. I see. Well, if you’re intending to brave all, hasten to her rescue and so win fair lady’s heart you’ll have to do it alone, mate. I see no profit in it for me.
Will : I can get you out of here.
Jack : How’s that? The key’s run off.
Will : I helped build these cells. These are half pin-barrel hinges. [picks up a bench and places it at the bottom of the cell door] With the right leverage and the proper application of strength… the door will lift free.
Jack : What’s your name?
Will: Will Turner .
Jack : That will be short for William , I imagine. Good, strong name. No doubt, named for your father, eh?
Will: Yes.
Jack : Uh-huh. Well, Mr. Turner , I’ve changed me mind. If you spring me from this cell I swear on pain of death I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass. Do we have an accord?
Will : [they shake hands] Agreed.
Jack : Agreed. Get me out.
Will : [lifts the door free] Hurry. Someone will have heard that.
Jack : Not without my effects.
Scene 9: (Commandeering a ship)
Will : We’re going to steal the ship. That ship? [glances at the Dauntless]
Jack : Commandeer. We’re going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term. One question about your business, boy, or there’s no use going. This girl – how far are you willing to go to save her?
Will : I’d die for her.
Jack : Oh, good. No worries, then.
Will : [under boat underwater with Jack in the lead] This is either madness or brilliance.
Jack : It’s remarkable how often those two traits coincide. [they board the Dauntless] Everyone stay calm! we are taking over the ship.
Will: Aye! Avast! [the men laugh]
Gillette : This ship cannot be crewed by two men. You’ll never make it out of the bay.
Jack : [points his pistol at Gillette ‘s nose] Son…I’m Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?
Groves : [notices Gillette and his men a small boat] Commodore!
Gillette : [waving and screaming from the boat] Sir, they’ve taken the Dauntless. They’ve taken the ship. Sparrow and Turner they’ve taken the Dauntless.
Norrington: [sees the two on board the ship through his spy glass] Rash, Turner, too rash. That is without doubt the worst pirate I have ever seen.
Will : [notices the Interceptor set sail] Here they come.
Gillette : [to his crew about the boat] Bring her around! Bring her around!
Norrington: [he and his men board the Dauntless] Search every cabin, every hold, down to the bilges. [ Jack and Will swing onto the Interceptor and sail away; Norrington notices] Sailors, back to the Interceptor! Now!
Sailor: Quickly men! [they try but are too late]
Jack : Thank you, Commodore, for getting us ready to make way. We’d have had a hard time of it by ourselves.
Norrington: Set top sails and clear up this mess.
Groves : With the wind at quarter astern, we won’t catch them.
Norrington: We don’t need to catch them just get them in range of the long nines.
Groves : Hands, come about. Run out the guns. [to Norrington] We open fire on our own ship, sir?
Norrington: I’d rather see her at the bottom of the ocean than in the hands of a pirate.
Sailor: Commodore, he’s disabled the rudder chain, sir!
Gillette : [the Interceptor bears down on his boat] Abandon ship! [they jump off just in time as the boat is broken up and sinks under the Interceptor]
Groves : That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen.
Norrington: So it would seem.
Scene 10: (Revelations and Tortuga )
Will : [sharpening his sword] When I was a lad living in England , my mother raised me by herself. After she died, I came out here, looking for my father.
Jack : Is that so?
Will: My father, Will Turner . At the jail, it was only after you learned my name that you agreed to help. Since that’s what I wanted, I didn’t press the matter. I’m not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father.
Jack : I knew ‘im. Probably one the few who knew him as William Turner . Everyone else just called him Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill.
Will: Bootstrap?
Jack : Good man. Good pirate. I swear you look just like him.
Will : It’s not true. He was a merchant sailor. A good, respectable man who obeyed the law.
Jack : He was a bloody pirate, a scallywag.
Will : My father was not a pirate. [takes out his sword]
Jack : Put it away, son. It’s not worth you getting beat again.
Will : You didn’t beat me. you ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I’d killed you.
Jack : Then that’s not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it? [moves one of the sails so that the yard catches Will and swings him out over the sea] Now, as long as you’re just hanging there, pay attention. The only rules that really matter are these – what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can’t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you’ll have to square with that someday. Now, me, for example, I can let you drown but I can’t bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesy, savvy? So… [swings him back on board and offers him his sword] can you sail under the command of a pirate? Or can you not?
Will : [takes the sword] Tortuga ?
Jack : Tortuga . [on the island] More importantly, it is indeed a sad life that has never breathed deep this sweet, proliferous bouquet that is Tortuga , savvy? What do you think?
Will : It’ll linger.
Jack : I’ll tell you mate, if every town in the world were like this one, no man would ever feel unwanted.
Jack : Scarlett ! [she slaps him] Not sure I deserved that. Giselle!
Giselle: Who was she?!
Jack : What? [she slaps him] I may have deserved that.
Scene 11: (A proposition)
Gibbs : [ Jack throws a bucket of water at him] Curse you for breathing, you slack-jawed idiot! Mother’s love! Jack ! You should know better than to wake a man when he’s sleeping. ‘S bad luck.
Jack : Ah, fortunately I know how to counter it. The man who did the waking buys, the man who was sleeping, a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking.
Gibbs : Aye, that’ll about do it. [ Will throws another bucket of water at him] Blast! I’m already awake!
Will : That was for the smell.
Jack : [they enter a tavern; to Will ] Keep a sharp eye. [sits at a table with Gibbs ]
Gibbs : Now, what’s the nature of this venture of yourn?
Jack : I’m going after the Black Pearl. [ Gibbs almost chokes on his drink] I know where it’s going to be, and I’m going to take it.
Gibbs : Jack , it’s a fool’s errand. Why, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.
Jack : That’s why I know what Barbossa is up to. All I need is a crew.
Gibbs : From what I hear tell of Captain Barbossa , he’s not a man to suffer fools, nor strike a bargain with one.
Jack : Well, then I’d say it’s a very good thing I’m not a fool then, eh?
Gibbs : Prove me wrong. What makes ye think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?
Jack : Let’s just say it’s a matter of leverage, eh? [nods at Will ]
Gibbs : The kid?
Jack : That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child, savvy?
Gibbs : Is he, now?” Leverage,” says you. “I think I feel a change in the wind,” says I. I’ll find us a crew. There’s bound to be some sailors on this rock crazy as you.
Jack : One can only hope. Take what you can… [toasts Gibbs ]
Gibbs : [they clink their tankards] …Give nothing back. [drain their drinks]
Scene 12: (The origin of the curse)
Pintel: You’ll be dinin’ with the captain. And he requests you wear this. [gives her a dress]
Elizabeth : Well, you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request.
Pintel: He said you’d say that. He also said if that be the case, you’ll be dinin’ with the crew…and you’ll be naked. [she snatches the dress] Fine.
[in the Captain’s cabin, the food is laid out] Barbossa: [ Elizabeth eats daintily] There’s no need to stand on ceremony, nor call to impress anyone. You must be hungry. [gives her a goblet with wine] Try the wine. And the apples? [offers her one] One of those next.
Elizabeth : It’s poisoned.
Barbossa: There would be no sense to be killing ye, Miss Turner .
Elizabeth : Then release me, you have your trinket; I’m of no further value to you.
Barbossa: [takes out the medallion] You don’t know what this is, do ye?
Elizabeth : It’s a pirate medallion.
Barbossa: This is Aztec gold… one of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortez himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortez was insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold…a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity.
Elizabeth : I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa .
Barbossa: Aye. That’s exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale. Buried on an Island of Dead what cannot be found except for those who know where it is. Find it, we did. There be the chest. Inside be the gold. And we took ’em all. We spent ’em and traded ’em and frittered ’em away on drink and food and pleasurable company. The more we gave ’em away, the more we came to realize…the drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner . Compelled by greed, we were, but now we are consumed by it. [ Elizabeth takes a butter knife and hides it] There is one way we can end our curse. All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood repaid. Thanks to ye, we have the final piece.
Elizabeth : And the blood to be repaid?
Barbossa: That’s why there’s no sense to be killin’ ye…yet. [offers her an apple] Apple? Arr. [she stabs him with the knife; he takes it out] I’m curious – after killin’ me what was it you plannin’ on doing next? [she runs out and sees the pirates, all decaying skeletons] Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, and so we cannot die, but neither are we dead. For too long I’ve been parched with thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I’ve been starving to death and haven’t died. I feel nothing – not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman’s flesh. [walks out into the moonlight and reveals a skeleton] You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner . You’re in one! [drinks and it pours over his ribs, laughs and the crew laughs with him] What are ye looking at? Back to work!
Pirates: You heard the Captain. Back to work.
