EXT.HARBOR
Will and Sparrow are examining their crew.
GIBBS
Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them,faithful hands before the mast.
Every man worth his salt,and crazy to boot.
WILL
So this is your able-bodied crew?
SPARROW
You, sailor!
GIBBS
Cotton, sir.
SPARROW
Mr Cotton, do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders
and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?
Mr Cotton. Answer, man!
GIBBS
He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained
the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how.
Will and Sparrow are examining their crew.
GIBBS
Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them,faithful hands before the mast.
Every man worth his salt,and crazy to boot.
WILL
So this is your able-bodied crew?
SPARROW
You, sailor!
GIBBS
Cotton, sir.
SPARROW
Mr Cotton, do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders
and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?
Mr Cotton. Answer, man!
GIBBS
He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained
the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how.
SPARROW
Mr Cotton's parrot,same question.
PARROT
Wind in your sails!Wind in your sails!
GIBBS
Mostly, we figure that means "yes".
SPARROW
Of course it does.
Sparrow turns to Will.
SPARROW
Satisfied?
WILL
Well, you've proved they're mad.
ANAMARIA
What's the benefit for us?
Jack walks toward Ana Maria.
SPARROW
Anamaria!
Ana Maria slaps him.
WILL
I suppose you didn't deserve that.
SPARROW
No, that one I deserved.
ANA MARIA
You stole my boat!
SPARROW
Actually... Borrowed without permission, but with every intention of bringing it back.
ANA MARIA
But you didn't!
SPARROW
You'll get another one.
ANA MARIA I will. WILL A better one. SPARROW A better one! WILL That one. SPARROW What one? WILL That one? SPARROW Aye. That one.What say you? ANA MARIA Aye! SAILORS Aye! Sailors prepare to sail. GIBBS No, it's frightful bad luck to bring a woman aboard, sir. SPARROW It'll be far worse not to have her. EXT.INTERCEPTOR A ship is sailing in the heavy storm. Sparrow goes to rescue Elizabeth. WILL How can we sail to an island that nobody can find, with a compass that doesn't work? GIBBS The compass doesn't point north, but we're not trying to find north, are we? GIBBS We should drop canvas, sir. SPARROW She can hold a bit longer. GIBBS What's in your head as puts you in such a fine mood, Cap'n? SPARROW We're catching up. INT.BLACK PEARL Elizabeth is taken on the ship by pirates. PIRATE 1 Time to go, poppet. Pirates head for a cave. PARROT Dead men tell no tales. GIBBS With a mind to find the treasure of the Isla de Muerta. That was before I'd met him, when he was captain of the Black Pearl. WILL What? He failed to mention that. GIBBS He plays things close to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. Three days into the trip, the first mate says, "Everything's an equal share." The location of the treasure, too."So Jack gives up the bearings. That night, there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die. But not before he'd gone mad with the heat. WILL So that's the reason for all the... Will mimics Sparrow's eccentric movements.
GIBBS
Reason's got nothing to do with it.
When a pirate's marooned, he's given a pistol with a single shot. One shot.
That won't do much good hunting,nor to be rescued.
But after three weeks of a starving belly and thirst,
that pistol looks real friendly.
But Jack escaped the island,and still has that single shot.
He won't use it, though,save on one man.
His mutinous first mate.
WILL
Barbossa.
GIBBS
Aye.
WILL
How did Jack get off the island?
GIBBS
I'll tell ye. He waded out into the shallows,and waited three days
and three nights, till all manner of sea creatures became acclimated
to his presence. On the fourth morning, he roped a couple of sea turtles,
lashed them together and made a raft.
WILL
He roped a couple of sea turtles.
GIBBS
Aye.
WILL
What did he use for rope?
GIBBS
Human hair.
They arrive at the island, and Jack talks to them.
SPARROW
From my back.
GIBBS
Let go the anchor!
SPARROW
Gibbs the anchor line!
Young Mr Turner and I are to go ashore.
GIBBS
Captain. What if the worst should happen?
SPARROW
Keep to the Code.
GIBBS
Aye. The Code.
EXT. ISLAND
The Pirates reach Treasure Island.
PINTEL
Ten years of hoarding swag.
RAGETTI
Now we finally get to spend it.
PINTEL
Once we're quit of the curse,we'll be rich men...
and you can buy an eye that fits and is made of glass.
RAGETTI
This one does splinter something terrible.
PINTEL
Stop rubbing it.
EXT. INTERCEPTOR
WILL
What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?
SPARROW
Pirates' Code.
SPARROW
Any man who falls behind is left behind.
WILL
No heroes amongst thieves.
SPARROW
For having such a bleak outlook on pirates you're well on your way to becoming one.
Sprung a man from jail, commandeer a ship of the fleet, sail with a buccaneer crew
out of Tortuga...and you're completely obsessed with treasure.
WILL
That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure.
Will watches Barbossa talk to the pirates. Elizabeth is standing next to Barbossa.
SPARROW
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
BARBOSSA
Gentlemen, the time has come! Salvation is nigh!
Our torment is nearing an end!
The pirates cheer.
WILL
Elizabeth.
BARBOSSA
For ten years we've been tested and tried and each man here has proved his mettle
a hundred times over and a hundred times again!
RAGETTI
Suffered, I have!
BARBOSSA
Punished we were, the lot of us, disproportionate to our crime!
Barbossa opens a treasure chest.
BARBOSSA
Here it is! The cursed treasure of Cortes himself.
Every last piece that went astray,we have returned.
Save for this!
Barbossa holds up the medallion. Sparrow walks away.
WILL
Jack!
SPARROW
Not yet. We wait for the opportune moment.
WILL
When's that? When it's of greatest profit to you?
SPARROW
May I ask you something? Have I ever given you reason not to trust me?
Do us a favour. I know it's difficult for you, but please stay here.
And try not to do anything stupid.
BARBOSSA
Who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?
PIRATES
Us!
BARBOSSA
And whose blood must yet be paid?
PIRATES
Hers!
BARBOSSA
You know the first thing I'm going to do after the curse is lifted?
Eat a whole bushel of apples!
Begun by blood.
By blood undone.
WILL
Sorry, Jack.I'm not going to be your leverage.
Elizabeth's hand is cut by Barbossa.
ELIZABETH
That's it?
BARBOSSA
Waste not.
The blood stained coin is returned to the treasure chest.
BARBOSSA
Did it work?
PIRATE
I don't feel no different. How do we tell?
Barbossa shoots one of the pirates.
PIRATE
You're not dead!
PIRATE
No.
PIRATE
He shot me.
BARBOSSA
It didn't work.
PIRATE
The curse is still upon us!
Barbossa looks at Elizabeth.
BARBOSSA
You! Maid! Your father,what was his name?
Was your father William Turner?
ELIZABETH
No.
BARBOSSA
Where's his child who sailed from England eight years ago? The child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner? Where?
Elizabeth says nothing. Barbossa hits Elizabeth.
BARBOSSA
You two!You brought us the wrong person!
PIRATE 1
No! She had the medallion.She's the proper age.
TWIGG
She said her name was Turner.You heard her.I think she lied to us.You brought us here for nothing.
BARBOSSA
I won't take questioning,not from the likes of you, Master Twigg.
PIRATE 2
Who's to blame him? Your decisions have led us from bad to worse
While shouting.
TWIGG
It was you who sent Bootstrapto the depths!
And it's you who brought us here in the first place!
BARBOSSA
If any coward here dare challenge me,let him speak!
I say we cut her throatand spill all her blood. Just in case.
PIRATES
Yeah!
BARBOSSA
The medallion! She's taken it! Get after her, you feckless pack of ingrates!
PINTEL
Where are the oars? There's no oars!
The oars have gone missing! Find them!
Pintel sees Sparrow.
PINTEL
You! You're supposed to be dead.
SPARROW
Am I not?
SPARROW
Pearlie...Palu-li-la-la-lulu...Parlili...Parsnip... Parsley...
Partner...
RAGETTI
Parley?
SPARROW
That's the one! Parley! Parley!
In the cave.
PINTEL
Parley? Damn to the depths whatever mutton head thought of parley!
SPARROW
That would be the French.
EXT. INTERCEPTOR
Will takes Elizabeth to the Interceptor.
ELIZABTH
Not more pirates.
GIBBS
Welcome aboard, Miss Elizabeth.
ELIZABETH
Mr Gibbs?
GIBBS
Hey, boy, where be Jack?
ELIZABETH
Jack Sparrow?
WILL
He fell behind.
ANA MARIA
Keep to the Code. Weigh anchor! Hoist the sails!
INT. BLACK PEARL
BARBOSSA
Split-quick, you dibbies! How the blazes did you get off that island?
SPARROW
When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land,
you forgot one very important thing. I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.
BARBOSSA
Well, I won't be making that mistake again. Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow?
PIRATES
Aye.
BARBOSSA
Kill him.
SPARROW
The girl's blood didn't work, did it?
BARBOSSA
Hold your fire! You know whose blood we need.
SPARROW
I know whose blood you need.
INT.INTERCEPTOR
Will is bandaging Elizabeth's hand
ELIZABETH
What sort of a man trades a man's life for a ship?
WILL
A pirate. Here. Let me.
ELIZABETH
Thank you.
WILL
You said you gave Barbossa my name as yours. Why?
ELIZABETH
I don't know.
WILL
I'm sorry. A blacksmith's hands.
ELIZABETH
They're rough. No. I mean, yes, they are, but... Don't stop.
WILL
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth gives Will the medallion.
ELIZABETH
It's yours.
WILL
I thought I'd lost it the day they rescued me. It was a gift from my father.He sent it to me. Why did you take it?
ELIZABETH
Because I was afraid that you were a pirate. That would've been awful.
WILL
It wasn't your blood they needed. It was my father's blood. My blood. The blood of a pirate.
ELIZABETH
Will, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me.
INT. BLACK PEARL
Sparrow and Barbossa are talking about the secrets.
BARBOSSA
So you expect to leave me on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need, and watch you sail away in my ship.
SPARROW
No.
Sparrow negotiates with Barbossa.
SPARROW I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship, and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy? BARBOSSA But that still leaves me standing on some beach, with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need. SPARROW Of the two of us, I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny. Therefore, my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die,I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you. CREW Captain! We're coming upon the Interceptor. SPARROW I'm having a thought here, Barbossa. What say we run up a flag of truce,I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the returnof your medallion? BARBOSSA Now that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easier to search when they're dead. Lock him in the brig. EXT. INTERCEPTOR The Black Pearl closes in on Will's ship. GIBBS Hands a loft to loose ta'gallants! ANAMARIA With this wind,she'll carry every sail we've got. ELIZABETH What's happening?- The Black Pearl is gaining on us! This is the fastest ship in the Caribbean. ANAMARIA Tell them that after they've caught us. We're shallower on the draft, right? ELIZABETH Aye. ANAMARIA Then can't we lose them on those shoals? ELIZABETH We don't have to outrun 'em long.Just long enough. Lighten the ship!Stem to stern! GIBBS Anything we can afford to lose,see that it's lost! BARBOSSA Haul on the main brace!Make ready the guns! And run out the sweeps. We're gonna need that. GIBBS It was a good plan, up till now. Will and the crew is in danger. So, Will decides to fight. WILL Gibbs!We have to make a stand.We must fight! Load the guns! GIBBS With what? WILL Anything! Everything! Anything we have left. GIBBS Load the guns! Case shot and langrage! Nails and crushed glass! With a will! The Pearl will luff upon our port quarter. She'll rake us without presenting a target. ELIZABETH Lower the anchor on the right side. On the starboard side! WILL It has the element of surprise. GIBBS You're daft, lady. You both are. ANAMARIA Daft like Jack. GIBBS Lower the starboard anchor! Do it, you gobs, or it's you we'll load into the cannons! Everyone hangs to the preparation. ELIZABETH Let go! BARBOSSA They're club hauling. Hard a port! Rack the starboard oars! CREW Hard a port! WILL Keep her steady, man. Now! BARBOSSA Fire! ELIZABETH Fire all! SPARROW Stop blowing holes in my ship! GIBBS We need more ideas, lass! ELIZABETH It's your turn! ANAMARIA We need us a devil's dowry! GIBBS We'll give them her! WILL She's not what they're after. ELIZABETH The medallion. BARBOSSA Strike your colours,you bloomin' cockroaches! Hands, grapnels at the ready! Prepare to board! Pistols and cutlasses, men! Koehler, Twigg, to the powder magazine! And the rest of you,bring me the medallion! CREW Below! Sparrow comes to the Interceptor. SPARROW Thanks very much. GIBBS Jack! SPARROW Bloody empty!That's not very nice.Where is the medallion? ELIZABETH Wretch! SPARROW Where is dear William? ELIZABETH Will. WILL Elizabeth! Will is trapped below the desk . SPARROW Monkey! ELIZABETH I can't move it!
Will is trapped in the ship. The water level is rising. He can't move a wooden bar.
WILL
Elizabeth!
Sparrow chases the monkey to Barbossa. Barbossa is holding the medal.
BARBOSSA
Thank you, Jack.
SPARROW
You're welcome.
BARBOSSA
Not you. We named the monkey Jack.
He speaks to the crew.
BARBOSSA
Gents! Our hope is restored!
The pirates cheer.
Questions
1. How did Sparrow lose the Black Pearl?
2. Why was Sparrow given a pistol?
3. Why do the pirates chase the Interceptor?
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