Written by
Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
Transcript by
Nikki M, Dorothy/silentpawz, Jerome S, Tobias K & Courtney VP.
[view looking straight down at rolling swells, sound of wind
and thunder, then a low heartbeat]
PORT ROYAL
[teacups on a table in the rain]
[sheet music on music stands in the rain]
[bouquet of white orchids, Elizabeth sitting in the rain holding
the bouquet]
[men rowing, men on horseback, to the sound of thunder]
[EITC logo on flag blowing in the wind]
[many rowboats are entering the harbor]
[Elizabeth sitting alone, at a distance]
[marines running, kick a door in]
[a mule is seen on the left in the barn where the marines enter]
[Liz looking over her shoulder]
[Elizabeth drops her bouquet]
[Will is in manacles, being escorted by red coats]
ELIZABETH SWANN
Will...!
[Elizabeth runs to Will]
ELIZABETH SWANN
Why is this happening?
WILL TURNER
I don't know. You look beautiful.
ELIZABETH SWANN
I think it's bad luck for the groom
to see the bride before the wedding.
[marines cross their long axes to bar Governor from entering]
[Beckett, in white hair and curls, is standing with Mercer]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Governor Weatherby Swann, it's been
too long.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
His Lord now... actually.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
In fact, I *do*. Mister Mercer! The
warrant for the arrest of one William
Turner.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Oh, is it? That's annoying. My mistake.
Arrest her.
ELIZABETH SWANN
On what charges?
WILL TURNER
No!
[Beckett takes another document from Mercer, who is standing
with Beckett, craggy face and pony tail]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Ah-ha! Here's the one for William Turner.
And I have another one for a Mister
James Norrington. Is he present?
ELIZABETH SWANN
*What are the charges?*
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
I don't believe that's the answer to
the question I asked.
WILL TURNER
Lord Beckett! In the category of questions
*not* answered...
ELIZABETH SWANN
We are under the jurisdiction of the
King's governor of Port Royal, and you
will tell us what we are charged with.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
For which the punishment, regrettably,
is *also* death. Perhaps you remember
a certain pirate named Jack Sparrow.
ELIZABETH SWANN
*Captain* Jack Sparrow.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Captain Jack Sparrow. Yes, I thought
you might.
BLACK PEARL
[views of rigging ropes and blocks aboard a ship at night]
[Gibbs walks the deck alone at night, singing and drinking from
a bottle]
GIBBS
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho, and a *bottle* of rum. Drink
and the devil had done for the rest.
Yo ho ho, and a *bottle* of rum. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
[a bell tolls, Gibbs is interrupted from his drinking by the
sound]
[Gibbs looks up to see a flock of crows flying in the foggy night
sky]
TURKISH PRISON
[tolling of bells, camera pans to show the crows flying toward
a coastal island]
[pinnacle-like island off the coast at night, connected to the
mainland by thin, lighted bridge]
[cages with men inside line the bridge]
[prisoners are being marched across the bridge]
[a male prisoner with bloody legs is muttering, and is dragged
across the bridge by guards]
[a crow is seen reflected in the eye of one male prisoner in
a cage, the crow attacks and pecks his eye out, he screams]
[the prisoner who was being dragged is taken down a hatch-like
door in the ground, he also screams]
[rocky shoreline, lit with torches]
[men toss caskets into the sea]
[numerous caskets are floating out to sea, vertical streaks in
the distant clouds are seen]
[a crow lands on one casket, begins pecking at the top]
[sudden gunblast from inside the casket blows the crow away,
along with much wood]
[hand holding flintlock pistol emerges, pans about, points it
at audience for a moment]
[Jack breaks out of the top of the casket, puts his captain's
hat on]
JACK SPARROW
Sorry, mate.
[Jack breaks the skeleton's leg off]
JACK SPARROW
Mind if we make a little side trip?
I didn't think so.
[Jack uses the skeleton leg as an oar, rows toward the full moon
and a waiting ship in the distance to the right of the moon]
BLACK PEARL
[Jack arrives at the Black Pearl in his coffin rowboat]
[Gibbs holds out his hand to help Jack aboard, Jack puts the
skeleton leg in Gibbs' hand]
[Cotton drapes a coat onto Jack's back]
GIBBS
Not *quite* according to plan.
JACK SPARROW
Complications arose, ensued, were overcome.
GIBBS
You got what you went in for, then?
JACK SPARROW
Mm-hmm!
GIBBS
Captain, I think the crew, meaning me
as well, were expecting something a
bit more... *shiny*. What with the Isla
de Muerta going all pear shaped, reclaimed
by the sea, and the treasure with it.
LEECH
And the Royal Navy chasing us all around
the Atlantic.
MARTY
And the hurricane!
Aye.
CREW
Aye.
Aye.
GIBBS
All in all, it's seems some time since
we did a speck of honest pirating.
JACK SPARROW
Shiny?
GIBBS
Aye, shiny.
JACK SPARROW
Is that how you're all feeling, then?
Perhaps dear old Jack is not serving
your best interests as captain?
COTTON'S PARROT
Awk! Walk the plank!
[Jack grabs his pistol and points it at the bird]
JACK SPARROW
What did the bird say?
LEECH
Do not blame the bird. Show us what
is on that piece of cloth there.
[the monkey snarls, seizes the cloth, scampers off with it]
JACK SPARROW
Ohhh!
[Jack attempts to shoot the monkey with his pistol, his pistol
misfires]
[Jack grabs a pistol from another crewman and blasts the monkey
while it's on the deck]
[the monkey drops the cloth, but is unharmed, and scurries into
the rigging]
GIBBS
Know that don't do no good.
JACK SPARROW
It does me.
[Marty picks up the cloth that the monkey dropped]
MARTY
It's a key!
JACK SPARROW
No! Much more better. It is a *drawing*
of a key.
[Jack holds up the cloth, the crew crowd forward]
[Among the crew:
Chinese man, black man with a black
beard, white bearded man with large
black hat]
JACK SPARROW
Gentlemen, what do keys do?
LEECH
Keys... unlock... *things*?
GIBBS
And whatever this key unlocks, *inside*
there's something valuable. So, we're
setting out to find whatever this key
unlocks!
JACK SPARROW
No! If we don't have the key, we can't
open whatever it is we don't have that
it unlocks. So what purpose would be
served in finding whatever need be unlocked,
which we don't have, without first having
found the key what unlocks it?
GIBBS
So - We're going after this key!
JACK SPARROW
You're not making any sense at all.
Any more questions?
MARTY
So... Do we have a heading?
JACK SPARROW
Hah! A heading. Set sail in a... mmm...
a general... in *that* way - direction.
GIBBS
Cap'n?
JACK SPARROW
Come on, snap to and make sail, you
know how this works. Come on, ?oy/?quick,
?oy/?quick, hey!
[Marty and Gibbs gather alone by the railing]
MARTY
Have you noticed lately... The captain
seems to be actin' a bit strange...
-er.
GIBBS
Settin' sail without knowing his own
headin'? Somethin's got Jack vexed.
Mark my words, what bodes ill for Jack
Sparrow bodes ill for us all.
[the Black Pearl is shown at night in a thunderstorm]
PORT ROYAL: EITC HEADQUARTERS
[a painter is painting a detail on a mural of a world map]
[a guard brings Will in manacles into Beckett's office]
GUARD
Lord Beckett. The prisoner as ordered,
Sir.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Those won't be necessary.
[Will's manacles are removed]
[Beckett pours some liquor]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
The East India Trading Company has need
of your services. We wish for you to
act as our agent in a business transaction
with our mutual friend: Captain Sparrow.
WILL TURNER
More acquaintance than friend. How do
you know him?
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
We've had dealings in the past. And
we've each left our mark... on the other.
WILL TURNER
What mark did he leave on you?
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
By your efforts Jack Sparrow was set
free. I would like you to go to him,
and recover a certain property in his
possession.
WILL TURNER
Recover. At the point of a sword?
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
*Bargain*!
[Beckett goes over to a wooden box on a table and opens it]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Letters of Marque. You will offer what
amounts to a full pardon. Jack will
be free, a privateer in the employ of
England.
WILL TURNER
Somehow I doubt Jack will consider employment
the same as being free.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Freedom. Jack Sparrow is a dying breed.
The world is shrinking, the blank pages
of the map filled in. Jack must find
his place in the new world or perish.
Not unlike you, Mister Turner. You and
your fiancée face the hangman's noose.
WILL TURNER
So you get both Jack *and* the Black
Pearl.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
The Black Pearl?
WILL TURNER
The property you want that he possesses.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
A ship? Hardly. The item in question's
considerably smaller and far more valuable.
Something Sparrow keeps on his person
at all times. A compass. Ah, you know
it. Bring back that Compass, or there's
no deal.
BLACK PEARL
[Jack is using calipers on a map, using his left hand, a "P"
brand mark is seen on his right arm]
[an hourglass is in the background, Jack taps the Compass]
[Jack looks in his bottle, turns the bottle upside-down, only
a few drops spill out]
JACK SPARROW
Why is the rum always gone?
[Jack rises to his feet, staggers]
[Jack picks up his hat off the top of a globe]
JACK SPARROW
Oh! *That's* why.
[Jack walks past the crew sleeping on hammocks, Jack is carrying
a lantern]
[some of the crew are snoring, and Cotton is among those sleeping]
JACK SPARROW
As you were, gents.
[Jack goes downstairs to the hold, an animal bleats, Jack unlocks
the door, goes in]
[Jack sees eerie filter feeder creatures festooning a beam of
wood]
[Jack spots a rack of bottles, with the bottles stored sideways
like in a wine rack]
JACK SPARROW
Ah!
[Jack pulls a sideways bottle from the rack]
[Jack pours sand out of the bottle]
[Jack drops bottle of rum in fright, the bottle breaks on the
floor]
[Jack walks over to see who spoke]
JACK SPARROW
Bootstrap. Bill Turner.
[Bootstrap looks up from where he's sitting on a barrel, crabs
scuttle across his face]
JACK SPARROW
Is this a dream?
JACK SPARROW
I thought not. If it were, there'd be
rum.
[Bootstrap immediately hands Jack a bottle of rum]
[Jack pries the bottle from Bootstrap's hand with a crackling
sound]
JACK SPARROW
I had some help retrieving the Pearl,
by the way.
[Jack tinks the lip of the bottle with his fingers, then blows
across the top of the bottle]
JACK SPARROW
Your son.
[Jack takes a drink from the bottle]
JACK SPARROW
And to what do I owe the pleasure of
your carbuncle?
JACK SPARROW
Who?
JACK SPARROW
Ah. So it's you, then. He shanghaied
you into service, eh?
[a small hermit crab scuttles by Bootstrap, on top of the barrel
where Bootstrap sits]
[Bootstrap grabs the hermit crab, pops it into his mouth, and
crunches on it]
[Jack moves his mouth, jaw, and tongue around in revulsion while
watching]
[Jack hands the bottle back to Bootstrap]
JACK SPARROW
It's funny what a man will do to forestall
his final judgment -
[Jack starts to walk off, but Bootstrap stands up at the same
time and intercepts Jack, blocking him]
JACK SPARROW
Technic -
JACK SPARROW
Yes, but the Flying Dutchman already
*has* a captain, so there's re -
JACK SPARROW
Any idea when Jones might release said
terrible beastie?
[Jack looks at the palm of his left hand, where a black spot
boils into view]
[Jack looks up, but Bootstrap has disappeared]
BLACK PEARL: ON DECK
[Jack runs across a wooden deck that has a shallow covering of
water]
JACK SPARROW
On deck all hands! Make fast the bunt
gasket! On deck! Scurry! ?Scurry-on/?Marty,
I want movement!
JACK SPARROW
*I want movement!*
GIBBS
Lift the skin up!
JACK SPARROW
All on deck! Run! And keep running!
Run as if the devil himself and itself
is upon us!
GIBBS
Do we have a heading?
JACK SPARROW
Ah! Ooh! Run! Land.
[Jack rises from where he was ducked behind the base of the mast,
sees Gibbs again]
JACK SPARROW
Oh! Euh!
GIBBS
Which port?
JACK SPARROW
Didn't say port. I said land. Any land.
[the monkey in skeleton form swings down, grabs Jack's hat]
JACK SPARROW
Agh!
[the monkey snarls at Jack, Jack snarls back at the monkey, in
imitation]
[the monkey throws Jack's hat overboard
GIBBS
Jack's hat! Bring 'er about!
JACK SPARROW
No no! Leave it! Run!
GIBBS
Back to your stations! The lot o' ya!
[Jack stands stiffly in the shadows under some steps, between
two lighted windows]
[Gibbs walks up to Jack]
GIBBS
Jack?
JACK SPARROW
Shhh!
GIBBS
For the love of mother and child, Jack,
what's coming after us?
JACK SPARROW
Nothing.
small fishing vessel
[Jack's hat floats toward a small fishing vessel around sunrise]
[a Turkish crewmember pulls Jack's hat out of the water with
a hook]
[the first sailor tries the hat on, jokingly pretending to be
a captain]
TURKISH FISHERMAN
Heh-heh-heh.?tupayHey! ?Fo
?pes ?sa ?kapazun kapitan ?de ?la ?mezande,
huh?
GREEK FISHERMAN
?Etora.
?Fetsoran ?ipitos. ?Ferinte.
arrive, huh?
[the Greek sailor takes the hat, tries it on next]
GREEK FISHERMAN
Ah! ?Vangas ?da ?eroro ###
[a large object is seeing moving underwater toward their vessel,
creating a disturbance on the ocean surface as it moves]
kapitan ###
###
[a loud thumping sound occurs, the two sailors freeze in fright]
[a third sailor sleeps on deck]
[one sailor presses the hat against the other's chest, indicating
he doesn't want it anymore]
Port Royal prison
[Will and the governor rapidly descend stone steps into the prison]
[the guard at the bottom of the steps holds a long gun with a
bayonette on the end]
CARRUTHERS
Here now. He can't be here.
CARRUTHERS
Mister Swann, -
ELIZABETH SWANN
Jack's Compass. What does Beckett want
with that?
WILL TURNER
Does it matter? I'm to find Jack and
convince him to return to Port Royal.
In exchange the charges against us will
be dropped.
WILL TURNER
Is that lack of faith in Jack, or in
me?
ELIZABETH SWANN
I have faith in you. Both of you. Where
will you find him?
WILL TURNER
Tortuga. I'll start there, and I won't
stop searching 'til I find him. And
then I intend to return here, to marry
you.
ELIZABETH SWANN
Properly?
WILL TURNER
Eagerly, if you'll still have me.
ELIZABETH SWANN
If it weren't for these bars I'd have
you already.
[the governor accidentally knocks a candleholder off the wall]
[the governor tosses the candleholder aside, onto the floor]
ELIZABETH SWANN
I'll wait for you.
WILL TURNER
Keep a weather eye on the horizon.
[Will walks back up the prison steps]
Tortuga
WEATHERED SAILOR
*Captain* Jack Sparrow? Owes me four
dubloons. Heard he was dead.
HALF-BLIND FISHERMAN
Singapore. That's what I heard. Drunk
with a smile on his face. Sure as the
tide, Jack Sparrow... will turn up in
Singapore.
[Scarlett is a redhead, Giselle is a blonde, both are standing
together, answering Will's questions]
GISELLE
Jack Sparrow!
SCARLETT
I haven't seen 'im in a month.
GISELLE
When you find him, will you give him
a message?
[Giselle slaps Will in the face]
[a black man who is a shrimper is sitting on a dock, mending
his nets]
[in the background is a bunch of bananas on the dock, and a goat
being loaded aboard a ship]
SHRIMPER
Cannot say about Jack Sparrow. But dere's
a island, just south of de straits,
where I trade spice for... mmm... delicious
long pork. Cannot say about Jack. But
you find a ship dere. A ship wit' black
sails.
CANNIBAL ISLAND
beach
[Black Pearl seen stranded on a beach, through a spyglass]
SHRIMPER
My brother will take you ashore.
[the shrimper's brother is rowing Will toward the shore]
[the rower stops rowing]
WILL TURNER
What's wrong? The beach is right there.
SHRIMPER'S BROTHER
?: Ne bougeais pas, c'est trop dangereux.
WILL TURNER
What?
SHRIMPER'S BROTHER
?: Je ne peux, c'est trop dangereux,
j'avais le dit. Bon voyage, monsieur.
[Will jumps off the rowboat, swims ashore, wearing his sword]
[aerial view, flying over jungle toward beach, showing Will wading
ashore]
[Will walks alongside the Black Pearl, which is tied with ropes
to stakes in the sand]
WILL TURNER
Jack! Jack Sparrow!
WILL TURNER
Marty! Cotton! Anybody?
[Will wanders into the palm jungle bordering the beach]
[Cotton's parrot flutters up and lands atop a palm stump]
COTTON'S PARROT
Awk!
WILL TURNER
Ah! A familiar face!
COTTON'S PARROT
Rawk! Don't eat me!
WILL TURNER
I'm not gonna eat you.
COTTON'S PARROT
Don't eat me! No! Don't eat me! Akkk!
[Will finds Gibbs' husk canteen hanging on a plant, trailing
a long string]
WILL TURNER
Gibbs.
[Will follows the string attached to the canteen, over toward
a large tree]
[human eyes open in the background, from a man camouflaged against
a nearby tree]
[the camouflaged cannibal shouts and jumps out from the tree
at Will]
[Will is yanked back by a snare, and dangles upside-down from
a rope]
[cannibals charge out of the bushes from all directions, Will
keeps them at bay with his sword]
WILL TURNER
Euh! Unh! Ya! Come on! Let's go! Euh!
Ya! Come on! Who wants it? Unh! I could
do this all day! Euh! Euh! Hah!
[a cannibal with a bone through his nose uses a blowgun to shoot
a dart into Will's neck]
[Will drops his sword to the ground]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
throne
[aerial view of flying over the island's mountaintops, toward
hilltop throne area]
[Will is carried while hung from a bamboo pole, his head hanging
back]
[human skulls line the path along which Will is taken]
[Will is carried over a roap bridge]
[one cannibal is wearing an English white wig and using a Western
style fan]
?
Hurry-hurry tan daga!
[Will is brought before Jack, who sits on a throne]
[the music stops, Jack pops his eyes open, revealing that his
closed eyelids were painted to look like open eyes]
WILL TURNER
Jack? Jack Sparrow! I can honestly say
I'm glad to see you!
[Jack says nothing, arises from his throne, walks over to Will]
[Jack pushes one finger into Will's shoulder, as if testing how
much meat Will has on him]
WILL TURNER
Jack! It's me! Will Turner!
JACK SPARROW
?: Wa-say kohn.
?
Een dah-lah. Eeseepi.
CANNIBAL CROWD
Eeseepi.
WILL TURNER
Tell 'em to let me down.
JACK SPARROW
Kay-lay lam. Lam piki-piki. Lam eensy
weensy. Lam say-say... eunuchy. Snip-snip.
CANNIBAL CROWD
Ahhh... eunuchy!
[Jack begins to walk away, as if disinterested, his Compass hangs
from his waist]
WILL TURNER
Jack! The Compass! That's all I need,
Elizabeth is in danger. We were arrested
for trying to help *you*. She faces
the gallows!
[Jack halts, pauses, turns around and casually walks back]
JACK SPARROW
Say-say lam shoop-shoop sha smalay-lama
shoo-koo. Savvy? Ball licky-licky.
Ball licky-licky!
CANNIBAL CROWD
Ball licky-licky!
[the cannibals begin chanting, repetitiously]
CANNIBAL CROWD
?Boom-shoo-boom, ?boom-shoo-boom, ?boom-shoo-boom...
JACK SPARROW
Save me!
WILL TURNER
Jack, what did you tell them? No! What
about Elizabeth? *Jack...!*
[Will is carried across a rope bridge, still hanging underneath
the bamboo pole]
Port Royal
[Elizabeth sits alone in her prison cell, male prisoners in the
next cell whistle and beckon her]
PRISONERS
...we don't bite...Come on...
] Prisoners: Where you goin'...?)
ELIZABETH SWANN
Why don't you tell me what's happening?
ELIZABETH SWANN
No! Will has gone to find Jack!
ELIZABETH SWANN
He's a better man than you give him
credit for.
[a horse and carriage are waiting, the governor opens the door
to the carriage for Elizabeth]
ELIZABETH SWANN
A fair trial for Will ends in a hanging.
[the horse and carriage quickly ride off]
[the horse and carriage arrive at a dock]
[Captain Hawkins stands silently on the dock facing out to sea]
[the captain's body soon falls, revealing Mercer, who was standing
behind the body, long knife in hand]
MERCER
Evening, Governor. Shame, huh? He was
carryin' this. It's a letter to the
King. It's from *you*.
[horses and soldiers arrive to cut off the governor from fleeing
from the dock]
[the carriage door is opened, but the carriage is empty, Elizabeth
is gone]
MERCER
Where is she?
[Mercer grabs the governor by the lapels, pushes him up against
the side of the carriage]
PORT ROYAL
EITC headquarters
[darkened room]
[Beckett walks in from the balcony, carrying a lantern]
[Beckett walks to a table, opens a wooden box, finds the Letters
of Marque missing]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
No doubt you've discovered that loyalty
is no longer the currency of the realm,
as your father believes.
[Elizabeth slips into the dark room from an interior door, hands
held behind her]
ELIZABETH SWANN
Then what is?
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
I'm afraid that *currency* is the currency
of the realm.
ELIZABETH SWANN
I expect then that we can come to some
sort of understanding. I'm here to negotiate.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
I'm listening.
[Elizabeth pulls a pistol, points it at Beckett's head]
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
I'm listening *intently*.
ELIZABETH SWANN
These Letters of Marque, they are signed
by the King?
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Yes, and they're not valid until they
bear my signature and my seal.
ELIZABETH SWANN
Or else I would not still be here. You
sent Will to get you the Compass owned
by Jack Sparrow. It will do you no good.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Do explain.
ELIZABETH SWANN
I have been to Isla de Muerta, I have
seen the treasure myself. There is something
you need to know.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Ah, I see. *You* think the Compass leads
only to the Isla de Muerta, and so you
hope to *save* me from an evil fate.
But you mustn't worry. I care not for
cursed Aztec gold. My desires are not
so provincial. There's more than one
chest of value in these waters. So perhaps
you may wish to enhance your offer.
[Elizabeth cocks her pistol]
[Beckett signs the document]
ELIZABETH SWANN
Consider into your calculations that
you robbed me of my wedding night.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
So I did. A marriage interrupted. Or
fate intervenes. You make great efforts
to ensure Jack Sparrow's freedom.
ELIZABETH SWANN
These aren't going to Jack.
LORD CUTLER BECKETT
Oh really. To ensure Mister Turner's
freedom, then? I'll still want that
Compass. Consider that in your calculations.
Longboat
[Ragetti appears to be reading a Bible in the back of the longboat,
but the Bible is upside-down]
RAGETTI
Well I say it was divine providence
what escaped us from jail.
PINTEL
And I say... it was me bein' *clever*.
Ain't that right, poochie?
[the dog goes to the bow, looking forward, keys in its mouth]
RAGETTI
?: Well how'dya know it ?weren't/?wasn't
divine providence what inspired you
to *be* clever? Anyways, I ain't stealin'
no ship.
PINTEL
It ain't stealin'. It's *salvagin'*!
And since when did you care?
RAGETTI
Since we're not immortal no more. We
gotta take care of our immortal souls.
PINTEL
You know you can't read.
RAGETTI
It's the Bible. You get credit for trying.
PINTEL
Pretendin' to read the Bible's a *lie*!
*That's* a mark against ya! Look! There
it is!
[the dog jumps overboard and swims toward shore]
RAGETTI
What's got into *'im*?
PINTEL
Must've seen a catfish. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.
[both laugh, the dog reaches shore and looks back at them]
RAGETTI
Stupid mongrel!
[the dog on shore shakes off water, looks back at them, still
holding keys in its mouth]
[their boat capsizes in a wave, they wade ashore]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
beach
...
PINTEL
Come on! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha-ha...
###
PINTEL
It's ours for the taking!
RAGETTI
Tide's comin', that should help. Well,
salvagin' is saving, in a manner of
speaking.
PINTEL
There's the truth of *it*! ###
[cannibal drums sound]
RAGETTI
Suppose we be'er... save it as soon
as we can. What with our souls in such
a vulnerable state, and all.
PINTEL
Amen to that.
[the dog barks]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
throne
[cannibal drums are pounding]
[Jack is on the throne, a cannibal hands Jack a necklace of human
toes]
JACK SPARROW
Thank you.
[Jack looks at the toe, bites off part of the nail to trim it]
[Jack spits out the piece of nail, reexamines the toe]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
cages
[two spherical cages of six Black Pearl crewmen apiece hang from
ropes over a deep chasm]
[Will is in the same cage with Gibbs, Cotton, Marty, and two
others]
WILL TURNER
Why would he do this to us? If Jack
is their chief.
GIBBS
Aye, the Pelegostos made Jack their
chief. But he only remains chief as
long as he *acts* like a chief.
WILL TURNER
So he had no choice. He's a captive
then as much as the rest of us.
GIBBS
Worse... as it turns out. See, the Pelegostos
believe that Jack is a *god* in human
form, and they intend to do him the
honor of releasing him from his fleshy
prison.
[Cotton bites Gibbs' fingers to illustrate]
GIBBS
?Argh! They'll roast him and eat him.
WILL TURNER
Where's the rest of the crew?
GIBBS
These cages we're in... weren't built
'til *after* we got here.
[Will was gripping the bars made of human bones, but quickly
pulls his hand away]
GIBBS
The feast is about to begin. Jack's
life will end... when the drums stop.
WILL TURNER
Well, we can't just sit here and wait
then, can we?
CANNIBAL ISLAND
throne
[cannibal drums are pounding]
JACK SPARROW
?No/?Oup! No no! ?Oy!/?Wait! No no!
More wood! Big fire! *Big* fire! I am
chief! Want big fire! Come on!
JACK SPARROW
?Oy!/?Boy! Maboogie snickel-snickel.
Tout de suite! Come on! More wood!
[the cannibal standing next to Jack leaves to put more wood on
the fire]
[the cannibals put large pieces of wood on the fire]
[the cannibals turn around to find that Jack is gone]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
Jack
[Jack is running across a foot bridge]
[Jack runs up to a cliff edge, totters at the edge, looking down]
[Jack examines a length of bamboo pole he finds lying there]
[Jack goes into a hut, sees various supplies, the sound of buzzing
flies is heard]
[Jack picks up a rope, starts to exit, halts, looks back inside]
[Jack goes back in, picks up a can of paprika with the EITC logo
on the bottom]
[Jack walks outside the hut, the entire tribe is waiting silently
outside, staring at him]
JACK SPARROW
Oh bugger.
[Jack drops his coil of rope, sprinkles paprika on his armpits]
JACK SPARROW
Little seasoning. Eh?
[Jack is now tied up to a bamboo pole and hanging face down over
a pile of wood]
[cannibals are dancing wildly]
JACK SPARROW
Well done.
CANNIBAL ISLAND
cages
[the men begin swinging the cages with increasingly wide arcs]
[both cages finally come within reach of the cliff, they grab
vines and hang on to the cliff]
GIBBS
Put your legs through, start to climb!
Agh!
WILL TURNER
Come on men! It'll take all ?of-us/?the-rest
to crew the Black Pearl!
LEECH
Actually, you won't need everyone. 'Bout
six would do! Ohhh... dear.
[Gibbs nods]
WILL TURNER
Hurry!
[each cage group begins racing against each other up the cliff]
Come on! Go! Go! Go!
Come on! Give it all you got!
[a cannibal crosses the rope bridge]
Hey! Hey ###
WILL TURNER
Stop!
Stop! Stop!
Shhh! Shhh!
[the cannibal crosses rope bridge]
LEECH
Shhh!
[one cage group decides to take the risk of climbing, despite
the nearby cannibal]
What's he doing?
Stop!
...
[one of the men in the climbing cage grabs a coral snake from
the cliff instead of a vine] [p. 50]
[when the man holding the snake lets go, their cage falls, the
rope breaks, and their cage falls to the bottom]
?WILL TURNER
?Move!
CANNIBAL ISLAND
throne
[drums pounding, a cannibal crosses a bridge to the bonfire area]
Ahhh! Fye-fye!
CANNIBAL CROWD
Ahhh! Fye-fye!
[the cannibal from the bridge arrives to tell the tribe of the
men in cages escaping]
?Da ?latazo! ?Da ?litozo! Hay la paka say-say.
[the crowd stands silently, not knowing whether to stay or to
chase the escapees]
JACK SPARROW
Well, go on! Go get them! Hay ala!
CANNIBAL CROWD
Hay ala!
Ala, ala!
[cannibals run off to chase after men who escaped from cages]
[in their haste one cannibal drops a lighted torch need the pile
of wood under Jack]
JACK SPARROW
No! No no! Oy! No no!
[the edges of the wood begin to catch fire]
JACK SPARROW
Not good.
[Jack blows futilely at the igniting wood]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
cage
[the remaining cage reaches the top of the cliff]
WILL TURNER
Cut it loose! Find a rock!
[Will manages to sever the cage's cable by hammering it with
a rock]
[the men in Will's cage are unable to the cage open in time before
the cannibals will reach them]
WILL TURNER
Roll the cage!
[the cage rolls down the hill]
[the cage falls over the edge of a tiny cliff]
[the cage rolls down the hill, rolls up a coconut palm trunk,
crashes to the ground, unbroken]
WILL TURNER
Lift the cage! Hurry!
GIBBS
Come on, men! Lift it like a lady's
skirt!
[the men begin running with their legs protruding from the cage,
holding up the cage]
[Marty's short legs make a running motion but are unable to reach
the ground]
Come on!
CANNIBAL ISLAND
hut
[Jack is running off with the bamboo pole tied to his back]
[Jack encounters the cannibal boy, standing silently with a fork
and a knife, one in each hand]
[Jack grabs the knife from the boy, and begins cutting his rope
off]
[two cannibal women appear]
[Jack charges, but the bamboo pole on his back spears a coconut
in a pile near the cliff edge]
[Jack turns suddenly, which flings the coconut off the end of
the pole into a cannibal's face]
[the cannibal slowly lifts the dripping coconut off his face,
scowling at Jack]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
cage
[the cage rolls over a ledge into a small chasm holding a river]
[cannibals throw spears and shoot arrows at the men in the water,
the men swim underwater]
...
GIBBS
This way, lads!
...
CANNIBAL ISLAND
Jack
[the two cannibal women throw numerous fruits at Jack while the
pole is still on his back]
[several of the fruits become impaled along the pole, making
Jack look like he's part of a shish-ka-bob]
?CANNIBAL BOY
Da litozo! Da litozo!
...
...
[Jack pole vaults across the chasm, barely lands on the other
edge safely]
[but the fruit slides down to the end of his pole, putting weight
on the end over the chasm]
[Jack falls into the chasm, screaming]
[Jack's pole catches between the two walls of a chasm]
[two native women watch Jack fall into the chasm, with disinterest]
CANNIBAL WOMAN
?A-geev-nee. Uh-boogie?
[the two cannibal women walk off, disinterested]
JACK SPARROW
Bugger.
[Jack's pole slips loose, he falls into the chasm, screaming]
[As Jack falls through the first rope bridge, the rope comes
undone but is still attached to the bamboo pole and to Jack]
[Jack is hung upside-down in the chasm when the bamboo pole catches]
[Jack falls through a total of six rope bridges]
[Jack lands on his back on grass]
[bamboo pole comes down at him, spears the ground near his head]
[fruits tumble down afterwards]
CANNIBAL ISLAND
beach
[only Ragetti and Cotton's parrot are aboard the Black Pearl,
Pintel is on the beach below]
PINTEL
?Pull-loose/?Unloose the mooring lines!
The mooring lines!
[the monkey chatters, grabs Ragetti's wooden eye]
RAGETTI
?Thief/?Thing! Little hairy ?thief/?thing!
Give it back! Don't bite it!
PINTEL
?Unloose the mooring lines!
RAGETTI
He's got me eye! He won't give it back!
PINTEL
Well, how'd you get it back last time?
GIBBS
Excellent work! Work's half done!
PINTEL
We done it for you! Knowin' you'd be
comin' back for us.
GIBBS
?Make/?Making ?ready ?to?sail/?cast-off
###, boy.
WILL TURNER
What about Jack? I won't leave without
him.
JACK SPARROW
Hey!
[Jack appears at a distance, running down the beach toward the
crew and ship]
[a crowd of cannibals suddenly run down on the beach behind Jack,
pursuing him]
WILL TURNER
Time to go.
GIBBS
*Cast off those lines!*
[Jack screams while running down the beach]
Make ready to cast off! ###!
[the dog is down the beach with Jack, barking at him]
JACK SPARROW
Good doggie! ?Doggie.
[Jack grabs ahold of rigging on the side of the departing ship]
JACK SPARROW
*Alas*, my children! This is the day
you shall always remember as the day
that you almost -
[big wave splashes Jack from behind]
JACK SPARROW
...Captain Jack... Sparrow.
[the crowd of cannibals falls silent as the ship leaves]
[the dog barks excitedly at the departing ship]
[all heads in the crowd of cannibals turn toward the dog]
[the dog falls silent, whimpers, then flees back down the beach]
[the cannibals chase the dog, shouting]
Black Pearl
GIBBS
Let's put some distance between us and
this island, and head out to open sea.
JACK SPARROW
Yes to the first, yes to the second,
but only insofar as we keep to the shallows
as much as possible.
GIBBS
Uh, that seems a bit contradictory,
Captain.
JACK SPARROW
I have every faith in your reconciliatory
navigational skills, Master Gibbs, now
where is that monkey? I want to shoot
*something*.
[the monkey screams, drops Ragetti's eye, Ragetti grabs his eye,
spits on it, rubs the spit around on it]
[the monkey chatters and climbs into the rigging]
[Jack is ready to shoot the monkey with his pistol]
WILL TURNER
Jack.
JACK SPARROW
Ah.
WILL TURNER
Elizabeth is in danger.
JACK SPARROW
Have you considered keeping a more watchful
eye on 'er? Maybe just lock her up somewhere.
WILL TURNER
She *is* locked up, in a prison, bound
to hang for helping *you*!
JACK SPARROW
There comes a time when one must take
responsibility for one's mistakes.
[Will pulls a sword from the waistband of a pirate who is turned
around, points it at Jack]
WILL TURNER
I need that Compass of yours, Jack.
I must trade it for her freedom.
[Jack pushes Will's sword aside]
JACK SPARROW
Mister Gibbs!
GIBBS
Cap'n.
JACK SPARROW
We have a need to travel upriver.
GIBBS
By need, d'you mean a... trifling need,
?uh/?a... fleeting, as in say in a passing
fancy?
JACK SPARROW
No, a... resolute and unyielding need.
WILL TURNER
What we need to do is make sail for
Port Royal with all haste.
JACK SPARROW
William... I shall trade you the Compass,
if you will help me... to find *this*.
WILL TURNER
You want me to find this?
JACK SPARROW
No. *You* want you to find this. Because
the finding this finds you incapacitorially
finding and/or locating and your discovering
the detecting of a way to save your
?dolly/?dotty belle ol'... what's-her-face.
Savvy?
WILL TURNER
This... is going to save Elizabeth?
JACK SPARROW
How much do you know about Davy Jones?
WILL TURNER
Not much.
JACK SPARROW
Yeah, it's gonna save Elizabeth.
Edinburgh Trader
[a crewman swabbing the deck happens to notice a white dress
tucked in a corner, pulls it out]
[the crewmen are arguing loudly about the newfound dress]
BELLAMY
What's all this? If you both fancy the
dress, you'll just have to share, and
wear it one after the other.
BURSAR
It's not like that, Sir. This ship is
haunted.
BELLAMY
Is it now? 'N' you?
QUARTERMASTER
The... female presence... amongst us,
yes... all the men... they can feel
it.
The ghost of a lady, widowed before her marriage, I figure it.
Searching for her husband, lost at sea.
A virgin, too, likely as not.
And that bodes ill by all accounts.
BURSAR
I say... that we throw the dress overboard,
and we hope the spirit finds it.
QUARTERMASTER
No! That - that will just anger the
spirit, Sir. What we need to do is find
out what the spirit needs, and then
just get it back!
BELLAMY
Enough! Enough! You're a pair of superstitious
goats and it's got the best of you.
Now this appears to be no more as we
have a stowaway aboard. A young woman,
by the look of it. I want you to search
the ship and find 'er. Oh, and uh...
she's probably naked.
[the crew enthusiastically rushes off in search of the stowaway]
Pantano River
[aerial view of the mouth of the Pantano River, two longboats
are beginning their way up the river]
[the longboats are in a swampy area with twisted roots]
WILL TURNER
Why is Jack afraid of the open ocean?
GIBBS
Well, if you believe such things, there's
a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones.
A fearsome creature with giant tentacles
that suction your face clean off. And
drag an entire ship past the crushing
darkness. The Kraken!
[Marty turns around at mention of the word, Pintel and Ragetti
look at each other]
GIBBS
They say the stench of its breath is
like - ooh! Imagine: The last thing
you know on God's green earth is the
roar of the Kraken, and the reeking
odor of a thousand rotting corpses.
If you believe such things.
WILL TURNER
And the key will spare him that?
GIBBS
Now that's the very question Jack wants
answered. Bad enough even to go visit...
*Her*.
WILL TURNER
Her?
GIBBS
Aye.
BAYOU
Tia's shack
[bayou with fireflies, and an iguana on a tree trunk on the left]
[the iguana eats a firefly with a quick slurping sound]
[people are occasionally seen standing quietly in the darkness
among the trees]
JACK SPARROW
No worries, mates. Tia Dalma and I go
way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable
we are. Were. Have been. Before.
GIBBS
I'll watch your back.
JACK SPARROW
It's me front I'm worried about. Mind
the boat.
GIBBS
Mind the boat.
?WILL TURNER
Mind the boat.
PINTEL
Mind the boat.
MARTY
Mind the boat.
COTTON'S PARROT
Awk! Mind the boat!
[Cotton is left alone in the longboat]
[Jack cautiously enter's Tia's shack, pushing the door open slowly]
[near the inside of the shack door hangs a live snake, moving
slowly]
[Tia is sitting at a table, looks up from her crab claws, sees
Jack in the doorway]
TIA DALMA
Jack Sparrow!
JACK SPARROW
Tia Dalma!
TIA DALMA
I always know de wind was goin' blow
you back to me one day.
[Tia sees Will standing in the doorway, goes up to him]
TIA DALMA
You. You have a touch of... destiny
about *you*, William Turner.
WILL TURNER
You know me?
TIA DALMA
You want to know *me*.
JACK SPARROW
There'll be no knowing here. We've come
for help and we're not leaving without
it.
JACK SPARROW
I thought *I* knew you.
TIA DALMA
Not so well as I had hoped. Come.
JACK SPARROW
Come.
TIA DALMA
What... service... may I do you? Hmmm?
You know I demand payment.
JACK SPARROW
I brought payment.
[Jack whistles once, a crewmember brings in the monkey in a cage]
JACK SPARROW
Look!
[Jack cocks his pistol, shoots the monkey, the bullet has no
effect, but the monkey chatters in fright]
JACK SPARROW
An undead monkey! Top that!
[Tia lifts the cage door, the monkey scampers off]
GIBBS
No! You've no idea how long it took
us to catch that.
TIA DALMA
The payment is fair.
JACK SPARROW
We're looking for this. And what it
goes to.
TIA DALMA
The Compass you bartered from me. It
cannot lead you to dis?
JACK SPARROW
Maybe. Why?
TIA DALMA
Ayeee... Jack Sparrow does not know
what he wants! Or... do know, but are
loathe to claim it as your own. Your
key go to a chest, and it is what lay
inside the chest you seek, don't it?
GIBBS
What *is* inside?
PINTEL
Gold! Jewels? Unclaimed properties of
a valuable nature?
RAGETTI
Nothing... bad, I hope.
[a jar of eyeballs is hanging next to Ragetti's face as he speaks]
TIA DALMA
You know of... Davy Jones, yes? A man
of de sea. A great sailor, until he
ran afoul of dat which vex all men.
WILL TURNER
What vexes all men?
TIA DALMA
What, indeed.
GIBBS
The sea?
PINTEL
Sums!
RAGETTI
Dichotomy of good and evil.
JACK SPARROW
A *woman*.
TIA DALMA
A wo-*man*. He fell in love.
GIBBS
No-no-no-no, I heard it was the *sea*
he fell in love with.
TIA DALMA
Same story, different versions, and
all are true. See, it was a *woman*,
as changing, and harsh, and untamable
as the sea. Him never stopped loving
her. But the pain it cause 'im was too
much to live wid. But not enough to
cause him to die.
WILL TURNER
What... exactly did he put into the
chest?
TIA DALMA
Him heart.
RAGETTI
Literally, or figuratively?
PINTEL
He couldn't li'erally put his heart
in a chest! Could he?
TIA DALMA
It was not wort' feeling what... small
fleeting joy life brings, and so...
he carved out him heart, lock it away
in a chest, and hide de chest from de
world. De keys, he keep wid him at all
times.
WILL TURNER
You knew this.
JACK SPARROW
I did not. I didn't know where the key
was. But now we do. So all that's left
is to climb aboard the Flying Dutchman,
grab the key, you go back to Port Royal
and save your bonnie lass, hey!
TIA DALMA
Let me see your hand.
[Jack shows his right hand is untouched, but Tia unwraps the
bandage on his left hand]
[the black spot on Jack's left hand is revealed]
GIBBS
Uhhh! The black spot!
[Gibbs quickly wipes his hands on his chest, spins around once
to the left, and spits]
Black spot!
Black spot!
[Pintel and Ragetti copy Gibbs' ritual, in synchrony]
JACK SPARROW
My eyesight's as good as ever, just
so you know.
[pushing aside cloth door beads, Tia goes into a back room, and
searches for something]
TIA DALMA
I am justMy little ###, where
are you? ###
[Jack steals a ring off of one of Tia's tables, beside the ring
is a silver locket]
[Tia comes back with an object from the back room]
TIA DALMA
Davy Jones cannot make port. Cannot
step on land but once every ten years.
Land is where you are safe, Jack Sparrow.
And so you will carry land wid you...
[Tia hands Jack a jar of dirt]
JACK SPARROW
Dirt. This is a jar of dirt.
TIA DALMA
Yes?
JACK SPARROW
Is the... jar of dirt going to help?
TIA DALMA
If you don' want it, give it back.
JACK SPARROW
No.
TIA DALMA
Den it helps.
WILL TURNER
It seems... we have a need to find the
Flying Dutchman.
[Tia is sitting, she holds several crab shells between her cupped
hands and closes her eyes]
TIA DALMA
A touch... of destiny!
[Tia throws the crab claws down on the table to see how they
fall]
[fade to aerial view of rocky islands whose positions match the
positions of the crab claws]
Black Pearl
[pan beyond the rocks to the Black Pearl just offshore, in stormy
weather]
[the Black Pearl crew look at the scuttled ship on the rocks]
WILL TURNER
That's the Flying Dutchman? She doesn't
look like much.
JACK SPARROW
Neither do you. Do *not* underestimate
her.
[Jack gives Gibbs a meaningful glance, elbows Gibbs]
GIBBS
Must've run afoul of the reef.
JACK SPARROW
So what's your plan, then?
WILL TURNER
I row over, search the ship until I
find your bloody key.
JACK SPARROW
And if there are crewmen?
WILL TURNER
I cut down anyone in my path.
JACK SPARROW
I like it. Simple, easy to remember.
RAGETTI
Your chariot awaits you, sire! Ha, ha-ha-ha,
ha-ha!
JACK SPARROW
Hey! If you *do* happen to get captured,
just say Jack Sparrow sent you to settle
his debt! Might save your life!
RAGETTI
Bon voyage! Ha-ha-ha!
JACK SPARROW
Douse the lamps.
[Marty douses a lamp, then Cotton douses a lamp, then Pintel
douses a lamp]
[Will sets off in a rowboat, alone, toward the scuttled ship]
SCUTTLED SHIP
before attack
[Will goes aboard the ship, lantern in hand]
[Will passes one dead crewman at deck level, proped up behind
net-like rigging]
[Will comes across a wounded sailor, who seems to be in shock]
[the wounded sailor is pulling on a pulley desperately, muttering
to himself]
WOUNDED SAILOR
...up the...
WILL TURNER
Sailor!
WOUNDED SAILOR
...the stench...capsized...
WILL TURNER
Sailor!
WOUNDED SAILOR
...bring a...
WILL TURNER
There's no use. You've run aground.
WOUNDED SAILOR
No! Beneath us! Foul breath!
[behind Will, a crewmember's body falls from a height, splashing
into the water]
[Will goes to investigate]
WILL TURNER
Hey! Hey!
[Will turns the man's body over to see his face]
[the man's face is gone, his face is just a puckered piece of
skin, which bulges outward]
[the real Flying Dutchman suddenly rises from the sea, nearby
the scuttled ship]
[the sea creature-like crew emerge from the surfaces of the Flying
Dutchman]
[crewmembers from the Flying Dutchman attack the remaining crew
of the scuttled ship]
GREENBEARD
Down on your marrowbones, and pray.
[Will engages in a swordfight against several invaders]
[Will dips his sword in oil, causing it to flame, and waves it
at the men surrounding him]
WILL TURNER
Get back! Back!
[Will slices open the stomach of one of the invaders, fish spill
out of it onto the deck]
[Will battles the invading crewmembers, but one of them knocks
Will unconscious]
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
SCUTTLED SHIP
after attack
[the prisoners of the scuttled ship cower in fear, lined up,
sitting in a row on deck along the railing]
[Jack is at the end of the row of five survivors total, on the
right-side when facing the survivors]
[Davy Jones stomps aboard with his peg leg, underwater view of
his departing feet]
[Maccus is on deck, turned so that his back is shown, showing
lobster legs on his back]
MACCUS
Five men still alive. The rest have
moved on.
[Jones pauses to clench his left hand, which is a large lobster
claw]
[Jones casually lights a pipe in front of one of the cowering
crewmen]
DAVY JONES
Do you fear death? Do you fear that
dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare.
All your sins punished. I can offer
you... an escape-uh.
CHAPLAIN
Don't listen to him!
[Jones walks over to the chaplain, takes the chaplain's head
in his claw]
DAVY JONES
Do you not fear death?
CHAPLAIN
I'll take my chances, Sir.
DAVY JONES
To the depths.
[the chaplain's throat is slit, two crewmembers throw his body
overboard]
Ah, ha-ha-ha...!
[unidentified crewman] Cold blooded - !
DAVY JONES
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife
be any *different*? I offer you a choice.
Join my crew, and postpone the judgment.
One hundred years before the mast. Will
ye serve?
HELMSMAN
I - I will, serve.
DAVY JONES
?Grand.
[Jones looks pleased, then sees Will at the end of the line of
people]
[Jones stomps over to Will]
DAVY JONES
*You* are neither dead nor dying. What
is your purpose here?
WILL TURNER
Jack Sparrow sent me to settle his
debt.
DAVY JONES
What is your purpose here?
WILL TURNER
Jack Sparrow. He sent me to settle his
debt.
DAVY JONES
Huh! Did he, now? I'm sorely tempted
to accept that offer.
[through a spyglass, Jack sees Jones turn to look directly at
him]
Black Pearl
[suddenly Jones is standing aboard the Black Pearl, directly
in front of Jack and his spyglass]
[Cotton and Gibbs have knives to their throats from other Flying
Dutchman crewmembers who teleported over]
JACK SPARROW
Oh.
DAVY JONES
You have a debt to pay. You've been
captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen
years. *That* was our agreement.
JACK SPARROW
Technically, I was only captain for
two years, then I was viciously mutinied
upon.
DAVY JONES
Then you were a poor captain, but a
*captain* nonetheless! Have you not
introduced yourself all these years
as *Captain* Jack Sparrow?
JACK SPARROW
You have my payment. One soul to serve
on your ship is already over there.
DAVY JONES
One soul is not equal to another.
JACK SPARROW
Aha! So we've esta
