Scene 18: (Misleading negotiations and walking the plank)
Pintel: [to Jack ‘s crew] If any of you as much as thinks the word “parley,” I’ll have your guts for garters.
Elizabeth : [the Interceptor is blown up] Will! [attacks Barbossa] You’ve got to stop it! Stop it!
Barbossa: Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair now that you return the favor. [pushes her to the crew]
Will : [leaps up on deck] Barbossa!
Elizabeth : Will.
Will : She goes free. [points pistol at Barbossa]
Barbossa: What’s in your head, boy?
Will : She goes free!
Barbossa: You’ve only got one shot, and we can’t die.
Jack : [to Will ] Don’t do anything stupid.
Will : You can’t. I can. [points gun at himself]
Jack : Like that.
Barbossa: Who are you?
Jack : [to Barbossa] No one. He’s no one. A distant cousin of my aunt’s nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though – eunuch.
Will : My name is Will Turner . My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins.
Ragetti: He’s the spitting image of ol’ Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us.
Will : On my word do as I say, or I’ll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones’ Locker.
Barbossa: Name your terms, Mr. Turner .
Will : Elizabeth goes free.
Barbossa: Yes, we know that one. Anything else?
Will : [sees Jack point at himself] And the crew – the crew are not to be harmed.
Barbossa: Agreed.
Pintel: [to Elizabeth ] Go on, Poppet, go! Walk the plank!
Will: Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she’d go free!
Barbossa: Don’t dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she’d go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. [ Will ‘s gagged] Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don’t it lads?
Pirates: Aye.
Barbossa: So I’ll be having that dress back before you go.
Jack : [to pirate] I always liked you.
Elizabeth : It goes with your black heart. [throws him the dress]
Barbossa: [presses it to his face] Ooh, it’s still warm.
Pirate 2: Off you go! Come on!
Bo’sun : Too long! [shakes plank, Elizabeth falls in]
Jack : [is dragged up to the plank] I’d really rather hoped we were past all this.
Barbossa: Jack…. Jack . Did ya not notice? That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last little trip. [points out the distant island]
Jack : I did notice.
Barbossa: Perhaps you’ll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape…but I doubt it. [unsheathes his sword and brandishes it at Jack ‘s throat] Off you go.
Jack : Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot.
Barbossa: By the powers, you’re right. Were be Jack ‘s pistol? Bring it forward. [the pistol is brought]
Jack : Seeing as there’s two of us, a gentleman…would give us a pair of pistols.
Barbossa: It’ll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself. [throws the pistol into the sea, Jack jumps in after it and recovers it]
Scene 19: (Marooned again)
Jack : [looks back at the Pearl ; wades out onto the beach shaking off the ropes that bound his wrists] That’s the second time I’ve had to watch that man sail away with my ship.
Elizabeth : [follows Jack as he walks] But you were marooned on this island before, weren’t you? So we can escape in the same way you did then.
Jack : To what point and purpose, young missy? The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice – unlikely young Mr. Turner will be dead long before you can reach him.
Elizabeth : [follows him as he knocks on a tree trunk then takes four steps and jumps up and down a few times] But you’re Captain Jack Sparrow . You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot. Are you the pirate I’ve read about or not? How did you escape last time?
Jack : Last time…I was here a grand total of three days, all right? Last time [opens a secret cellar door] …the rumrunners used this island as a cache. Came by, and I was able to barter a passage off. From the looks of things, they’ve long been out of business. Probably…have your bloody friend Norrington to thank for that. [climbs out with two bottles of rum in his hands]
Elizabeth : So that’s it then? That’s the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow ? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum?!
Jack : Welcome to the Caribbean , love. [hands her a bottle]
Elizabeth and Jack : [singing and dancing around a fire] We’re devils and black sheep and really bad eggs. Drink up me ‘earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate’s life for me.
Jack : I love this song! Really bad eggs! Ooh. [falls] When I get the Pearl back, I’m gonna teach it to the whole crew, and we’ll sing it all the time!
Elizabeth : And you’ll be positively the most fearsome pirate in the Spanish Main .
Jack : Not just the Spanish Main , love. The entire ocean. The entire wo’ld. Wherever we want to go, we’ll go. That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom.
Elizabeth : Jack …it must be really terrible for you to be trapped on this island.
Jack : Oh, yes. [puts his arm around her shoulder] But the company is infinitely better than last time, I think. The scenery has definitely improved.
Elizabeth : Mr. Sparrow …I’m not entirely sure that I’ve had enough rum to allow that kind of talk.
Jack : I know exactly what you mean, love. [curls his moustache]
Elizabeth : [toasts] To freedom.
Jack : To the Black Pearl . [drinks and loses consciousness; wakes in the morning to the smell of smoke; sees the island burning and runs to Elizabeth ] No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You burned all the food, the shade! The rum!
Elizabeth : Yes, the rum is gone.
Jack : Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth : One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there is even the slightest chance that they won’t see it?
Jack : But why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth : [she sits to stare at the horizon] Just wait, Captain Sparrow. You give it one hour, maybe two, keep a weather eye out and then you will see white sails on that horizon.
Jack : [takes out pistol, thinks better of it and puts it back, stalks off, imitates Elizabeth ] “Must’ve been terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack . Must’ve been terrible for you.” Well it bloody is now! [spots the Dauntless] There’ll be no living with her after this.
Scene 20: (A future wedding and Bootstrap’s bootstraps)
Elizabeth : But we’ve got to save Will .
Governor Swann : No. You’re safe now. We will return to Port Royal immediately, not go gallivanting after pirates!
Elizabeth : Then we condemn him to death.
Governor Swann : The boy’s fate is regrettable, but, then, so was his decision to engage in piracy.
Elizabeth : To rescue me. To prevent anything from happening to me.
Jack : If I may be so bold as to inject my professional opinion. The Pearl was listing near to scuppers after the battle. It’s very unlikely she’ll be able to make good time. Think about it. The Black Pearl . The last real pirate threat in the Caribbean , mate. How can you pass that up?
Norrington: By remembering that I serve others, Mr. Sparrow , not only myself.
Elizabeth : Commodore, I beg you, please do this. For me. As a wedding gift.
Governor Swann : Elizabeth . Are you accepting the Commodore’s proposal?
Elizabeth : I am.
Jack : A wedding! I love weddings…drinks all around! [extends his arms] I know. “Clap him in irons,” right?
Norrington: Mr. Sparrow , you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with the bearing to Isla de Muerta . You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase “silent as the grave.” Do I make myself clear?
Jack : Inescapably clear.
[in the brig of the Black Pearl ; Pintel and Ragetti are swabbing the floor] Parrot: Awwk, shiver me timbers.
Gibbs : Cotton ‘ere says you missed a bit.
Will : [to Pintel] You knew William Turner ?
Pintel: Ol’ Bootstrap Bill . We knew him. Never sat well with Bootstrap what we did to Jack Sparrow , the mutiny and all. He said it wasn’t right with the Code. That’s why he sent off a piece of the treasure to you as it were. He said we deserved to be cursed… and remain cursed.
Ragetti: Stupid blighter.
Gibbs : Good man.
Pintel: Well, as you can imagine that didn’t sit too well with the Captain.
Ragetti: That didn’t sit too well with the Captain, at all. Tell him what Barbossa did.
Pintel: I’m telling the story! So…what the Captain did, he strapped a cannon to Bootstraps’ bootstraps.
Ragetti: Bootstraps’ bootstraps.
Pintel: The last we saw of ol’ Bill Turner , he was sinking to the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones’ Locker. ‘Course it was only after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse.
Ragetti: That’s what you call ironic.
Barbossa: [comes down and throws the key to Will ‘s cell to Ragetti] Bring him!
[in a boat with the rest of the soldiers and Jack ] Norrington: I don’t care for the situation. Any attempt to storm the caves could turn to an ambush.
Jack : Not if you’re the one doing the ambushing. I go in, I convince Barbossa to send his men out with their little boats. You and your mates return to the Dauntless and blast the bejesus outta them with your little cannons, eh? [puts an arm on Norrington’s shoulder] What do you have to lose?
Norrington: [peels off the arm] Nothing I’d lament being rid of.
Jack : Now, to be quite honest with you, there’s still a slight risk for those aboard the Dauntless which includes the future Mrs. Commodore .
[on the Dauntless] Gillette : [pulling Elizabeth along with another soldier] Sorry, but for your own safety.
Elizabeth : Coward! The commodore ordered – I have to tell him! The pirates! They’re cursed! They cannot be killed!
Gillette : Don’t worry, miss, he’s already informed of that. A little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story. [shuts the doors]
Elizabeth : This is Jack Sparrow ‘s doing! [she is locked in]
Scene 21: (The blood ritual, again, interrupted)
[on the way to the Aztec gold] Pintel: [to Will ] No reason to fret. It’s just a prick of the finger, a few drops of blood.
Twigg: No mistakes this time. He’s only half-Turner. We spill it all!
Pintel: Guess there is reason to fret.
Jack : [pushing through the crowd of pirates] Beg your pardon.
Barbossa: [is ready to slit Will ‘s throat] Begun by blood…
Jack : Excuse me.
Barbossa: …by blood un –
Will: Jack !
Barbossa: S’not possible.
Jack : Not probable.
Will : Where’s Elizabeth ?
Jack : She’s safe, just like I promised. She’s all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we’re all men of our word really except for Elizabeth who is, in fact, a woman.
Barbossa: Shut up! You’re next. [leans in to slit Will ‘s throat again]
Jack : You don’t want to be doing that, mate.
Barbossa: No, I really think I do.
Jack : Your funeral.
Barbossa: Why don’t I want to be doing it?
Jack : Well, because [pushed a pirate’s arm off his shoulder] …because the HMS Dauntless, pride of the Royal Navy, is floating just offshore. Waiting for you.
[in the boats] Murtogg: What are we doing here?
Mullroy: The pirates come out, unprepared and unawares, we catch ’em in the crossfire, send them down to see Old Hob.
Murtogg: I know why we’re here. I mean why aren’t we doing what it was – what Mr. Sparrow said we should do. With the cannons and all?
Norrington: Because it was Mr. Sparrow who said it.
Murtogg: You think he wasn’t telling the truth?
[in the cave] Jack : Just hear me out, mate. You order your men to row out to the Dauntless. They do what they do best. Robert ‘s your Uncle, Fannie ‘s your Aunt, there you are with two ships. The makings of your very own fleet. ‘Course you’ll take the grandest as your flagship, and who’s to argue? But what of the Pearl ? Name me Captain, I’ll sail under your colors, I’ll give you ten percent of me plunder and you get to introduce yourself as…Commodore Barbossa. Savvy?
Barbossa: I s’pose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp.
Jack : No, no, not at all by all means, kill the whelp. Just not yet. Wait to lift the curse until the opportune moment. For instance… [picks up a few medallions] after you’ve killed Norrington’s men… [throws them back as he speaks] every… last… one. [pockets one]
Will : [sees Jack take a piece of the gold] You’ve been planning this from the beginning. Ever since you learned my name.
Jack : Yeah.
Barbossa: I want fifty percent of your plunder.
Jack : Fifteen.
Barbossa: Forty.
Jack : Twenty-five. And I’ll buy you the hat. A really big one…Commodore.
Barbossa: We have an accord. [they shake hands]
Jack : All hand’s to the boats! [sees Barbossa look at him askance] Apologies. You give the orders.
Barbossa: Gents…take a walk. [the pirates walk away]
Jack : Not to the boats? [the cursed pirates walk on the sea’s floor to the Dauntless, the moonlight revealing their true form]
Scene 22: (Just like Troy and an epic battle)
[in the boats] Norrington: [sees women in a boat] Hold fire.
Ragetti: [dressed in a dress and holding a parasol] This is just like what the Greeks done at Troy . ‘Cept they was in a horse…instead of dresses. Wooden horse. [while they’re distracting the soldiers and sailors the pirates are boarding the Dauntless]
[on the Dauntless] Governor Swann : [to guard] A moment, please. Elizabeth ? I just want you to know I, uh, I believe you made a very good decision today. Couldn’t be more proud of you. [while he talks she throws down a makeshift rope and climbs out into a waiting boat] But, you know, even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.
Sailor: [spots boat with two women] Lieutenant?
Ragetti: Yoo-hoo!
Governor Swann : Elizabeth ? Are you there? Elizabeth , are you even listening to me? [enters and sees makeshift rope] Oh, what have you done?
Ragetti: Oooh!
Pintel: Stop that! Already feel like a fool.
Ragetti: You look nice, though.
Pintel: I look nice?! [they fight and are revealed; the soldiers on board spot the invading pirates and they fight]
[in the cave; Jack examines the treasure] Barbossa: I must admit, Jack , I thought I had ye figured. But it turns out that you’re a hard man to predict.
Jack : Me? I’m dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid. [unsheathes a pirate’s sword and throws it to Will ; Jack starts fighting with Barbossa]
Barbossa: You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.
[on the Black Pearl ; Elizabeth comes on board] Grapple: Right. What would you pick to eat first?
Pirate Guard: I think we should decide now. Just so we’re ready when the time comes.
Both: [monkey falls on cannon] What was that?
[down in the hold] Gibbs : Shh! [sees Elizabeth ] It’s Elizabeth !
[Ragetti and Pintel board and load the cannons, firing them at the approaching boats with the soldiers]
Norrington: [hears bell tolling] Make for the ship! Move!
[the Governor’s wig is being taken by a cursed pirate, he ends up fighting with a severed arm]
[in the cave] Barbossa: You can’t beat me, Jack . [Jack impales him, Barbossa sighs and, taking out the sword, impales Jack ]
Jack : [staggers into the moonlight to reveal a skeleton] That’s interesting. [reveals the medallion] I couldn’t resist, mate. [Barbossa and Jack fight; Jack runs upsets an end table] Sorry.
Barbossa: So what now, Jack Sparrow ? Will it be it two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound? Hmm?
Jack : Or you could surrender.
Barbossa: Arr. [laughs and runs after Jack ]
[on the Black Pearl ; having just thrown both guards into the sea] Elizabeth : [runs out from the hold with crew] All of you with me. Will is in that cave and we must save him. Ready? And heave! Please, I need your help! Come on!
Parrot: Any port in the storm.
Gibbs : Cotton ‘s right, we’ve got the Pearl .
Elizabeth : And what about Jack , you’re just going to leave him?
Sailor: Jack owes us a ship.
Gibbs : And there’s the code to consider.
Elizabeth : The code? You’re pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules! They’re more like guidelines anyway. [rowing the boat alone to the cave] Bloody pirates.
Ragetti: hEY.
Pintel: What?
Ragetti: Is it supposed to be doing that? [points to the Pearl that’s sailing away]
Pintel: They’re stealing our ship!
Ragetti: Bloody pirates! [is knocked on the head and his wooden eye pops out] Ah, me eye! [crawls after it]
Scene 23: (One last shot)
[in the cave] Pirate: [to Will ] I’m gonna teach you the meaning of pain.
Elizabeth : [enters] Do you like pain? [knocks the pirate with heavy staff] Try wearing a corset. [helps Will up and sees Jack as a skeleton] Whose side is Jack on?
Will : At the moment? [they string 3 pirates together, stick a grenade into the middle one and push them out of the moonlight]
Pirate: No fair. [they explode]
Jack : [cuts his hand and bleeds on medallion, tosses it to Will ; Barbossa aims pistol at Elizabeth ; Jack shoots Barbossa while he’s looking at Elizabeth ]
Barbossa: Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot.
Will : He didn’t waste it. [drops both medallions into the chest]
Barbossa: [drops his sword and looks at the blood spreading from his wound] I feel…cold. [falls dead, an apple rolling from his hand; the curse now lifted]
[on board the Dauntless; Koehler suddenly falls dead after being run through by Norrington] Pintel: Parley? [while all the crew realize the curse has been lifted and surrender]
Norrington: The ship is ours, gentlemen.
Sailors and soldiers: Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! [the Governor joins them]
[in the cave] Elizabeth : We should return to the Dauntless.
Will : Your fiancee will be wanting to know you’re safe. [ Elizabeth turns away]
Jack : [swaggers over to Will ] If you were waiting for the opportune moment…that was it. Now, if you’ll be so kind, I’d be much obliged if you’d drop me off my ship.
[Will rowing them in a boat to the Dauntless] Elizabeth : I’m sorry, Jack.
Jack : They done what’s right by them. Can’t expect more than that.
Scene 24: (The interrupted hanging and the escape)
Official: [reading a proclamation] Jack Sparrow , be it known that you have…
Jack : [standing on the gallows] Captain, Captain Jack Sparrow .
Official: …for your willful commission of crimes against the crown. Said crimes being numerous in quantity and sinister in nature, the most egregious of these to be cited herewith – piracy, smuggling…
Elizabeth : [standing with her father and her future husband] This is wrong.
Governor Swann : Commodore Norrington is bound by the law. As are we all.
Official: …impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, impersonating a cleric of the Church of England…
Jack : [smiling] Ah, yes. [looks over at the executioner who glares at him]
Official: …sailing under false colors, arson, kidnapping, looting, poaching, brigandage, pilfering, depravity, depredation, and general lawlessness. And for these crimes you have been sentenced to be, on this day, hung by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your soul.
Will : [walks through the crowd to the raised ground on which they stand] Governor Swann . Commodore. Elizabeth . I should have told you every day from the moment I met you. I love you. [walks away; the noose is put around Jack ‘s neck]
Elizabeth : [notices Cotton’s parrot] I can’t breathe. [falls backward; the drums sound]
Governor Swann : Elizabeth . [he and the Commodore help her]
Will: Move! [throws sword as Jack falls through, the sword sticks in the wood and Jack has a foothold; he fights to the gallows and there cuts Jack free; they fight all the way up to a tower where they are cornered by Norrington’s men]
Norrington: [to Will ] I thought we might have to endure some manner of ill-conceived escape attempt but not from you.
Governor Swann : On our return to Port Royal , I granted you clemency. And this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He’s a pirate!
Will : And a good man. [Jack points to himself proudly, mouths “That’s me.”] If all I have achieved here is that the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it. At least my conscience will be clear.
Norrington: You forget your place, Turner.
Will : It’s right here…between you and Jack .
Elizabeth : [stands next to Will ] As is mine.
Governor Swann : Elizabeth ! Lower your weapons. For goodness’ sake put them down! [the weapons are lowered]
Norrington: So this is where your heart truly lies, then?
Elizabeth : It is.
Jack : [notices the parrot] Well! I’m actually feeling rather good about this. [to Governor Swann ] I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually…Ecumenically…Grammatically? [to Norrington] I want you to know that I was rooting for you, mate. Know that. Elizabeth …it would never have worked between us, darling. I’m sorry. Will …nice hat. Friends! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that – [falls over battlement]
Gillette : Idiot. He has nowhere to go but back to the noose.
Sentry: Sail ho!
Gillette : What’s your plan of action? Sir?
Governor Swann : Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy, piracy itself can be the right course?
Norrington: Mr. Turner .
Will : [to Elizabeth ] I will accept the consequences of my actions.
Norrington: [unsheathes his sword] This is a beautiful sword. I would expect the man who made it to show the same care and devotion in every aspect of his life.
Will : Thank you.
Gillette : Commodore! What about Sparrow?
Norrington: Well, I think we can afford to give him one day’s head start. [the soldiers leave with Norrington]
Governor Swann : So, this is the path you’ve chosen, is it? After all…he is a blacksmith.
Elizabeth : No. [takes off Will ‘s hat] He’s a pirate. [the Governor walks away; Elizabeth and Will kiss]
Jack : [is heaved onboard the Black Pearl ; to Gibbs ] I thought you were supposed to keep to the Code.
Gibbs : We figured they were more actual…guidelines. [helps Jack up]
Jack : [ Cotton hands him his hat] Thank you.
Anamaria: Captain Sparrow [puts his coat around his shoulders] …the Black Pearl is yours.
Jack : [walks over to the helm and looks around fondly] On deck, you scabrous dogs! Man the braces! Let down and haul to run free. Now…bring me that horizon. [hums and takes out his compass] And really bad eggs…drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
END
[After the credits]
[ Jack the monkey emerges from the water and scampers over to the chest with the Aztec gold; he takes one of the medallions and is cursed once more; the moonlight shows the monkey as a skeleton and screeching, he jumps at the camera]
