Scene 1: (Dream sequence of Will's rescue)

Young Elizabeth: [standing at the bow of a ship and singing]...We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack. Drink up - [Gibbs puts his hand on her shoulder which surprises her]

Gibbs: Quiet, missy! Cursed pirates sail these waters. You don't want to bring them down on us, now, do ya?

Norrington: Mr. Gibbs, that will do!

Gibbs: She was singing about pirates. Bad luck to be singing about pirates with us mired in this unnatural fog. Mark my words.

Norrington: Consider them marked. On your way.

Gibbs: Aye, Lieutenant. It's bad luck to have a woman on board, too... even a miniature one.

Young Elizabeth: I think it'd be rather exciting to meet a pirate.

Norrington: Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves - a short drop and a sudden stop. [Elizabeth glances at Gibbs who mimes a hanging]

Governor Swann: Lieutenant Norrington, I appreciate your fervor, but I'm, uh, I'm concerned about the effect this subject will have upon my daughter.

Norrington: My apologies, Governor Swann.

Young Elizabeth: Actually, I find it all fascinating.

Governor Swann: Yes. That's what concerns me.

Young Elizabeth: [sees a parasol and then a piece of wreckage with a boy on it in the water] Look! A boy! There's a boy in the water!

Norrington: Man overboard! Man the ropes. Fetch a Hook! Haul him aboard. [they get him on board] He's still breathing.

Gibbs: [spots burning ship] Mary, Mother of God!

Governor Swann: What happened here?

Norrington: It's most likely the powder magazine. Merchant vessels run heavily armed.

Gibbs: A lot of good it did them. Everyone's thinking it. I'm just saying it. Pirates.

Governor Swann: There's no proof of that. It was probably an accident.

Norrington: Rouse the Captain immediately! Heave to and take in sail. Launch the boats.

Sailor: Heave to!

Governor Swann: Elizabeth, I want you to accompany the boy. He'll be in your charge. Take care of him. [she nods and walks over to the young Will]

Young Elizabeth: [Will awakes, grabbing her wrist] It's ok. My name's Elizabeth Swann.

Young Will: W-W-Will Turner.

Young Elizabeth: I'm watching over you, Will. [Will faints, she notices medallion and examines it] You're a p-pirate. [hides it when Norrington approaches]

Norrington: Has he said anything?

Young Elizabeth: His name is William Turner. That's all I found out.

Norrington: [to sailors] Take him below.

[Elizabeth studies the medallion closer and upon looking up sees a ship with the black flag flying at its mast; she closes her eyes]

[End dream]

Scene 2: (A beautiful dress and an impressive sword)

[Elizabeth awakes and decides to take out the medallion from a hiding place in her bureau drawer; she puts it on; there's a knock on the door]

Governor Swann: Elizabeth? Are you alright? Are you decent?

Elizabeth: [hides medallion in the bodice of her nightgown, throws on a robe] Yes, yes!

Governor Swann: Still abed at this hour? [opens the curtains and the window] It's a beautiful day. I have a gift for you. [reveals dress]

Elizabeth: Oh, it's beautiful!

Governor Swann: Isn't it?

Elizabeth: May I inquire as to the occasion?

Governor Swann: Does a father need an occasion to dote upon his daughter? [to the maids] Go on. Actually, I, um...I had hoped you might wear it for the ceremony today.

Elizabeth: The ceremony?

Governor Swann: Captain Norrington's promotion ceremony.

Elizabeth: I knew it!

Governor Swann: Commodore Norrington, as he's about to become! [the maids lace Elizabeth up into a corset] A fine gentleman, don't you think? He fancies you, you know. Elizabeth? How's it coming?

Elizabeth: It's difficult to say.

Governor Swann: I'm told it's the latest fashion in London.

Elizabeth: Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.

Servant: Milord, you have a visitor.

[Will studies a sconce and upon touching it, a piece comes off in his hand; he buries it in the vase that's holding canes and umbrellas]

Governor Swann: [walks downstairs after the servant] Ah, Mr. Turner, good to see you again.

Will: Good day, sir. I have your order. [opens case and takes out the sword]

Governor Swann: [takes the sword and unsheathes it] Well.

Will: The blade is folded steel. That's gold filigree laid into the handle. If I may. [balances the sword] Perfectly balanced. The tang is nearly the full width of the blade. [flips the sword and presents it gracefully to the Governor]

Governor Swann: [takes the sword] Impressive. Very impressive. Ah, now, Commodore Norrington is going to be very pleased with this. Do pass my compliments on to your Master. Hmm?

Will: I shall. A craftsman is always pleased to hear his work is appreciated.

Governor Swann: [enter Elizabeth] Oh, Elizabeth, you look absolutely stunning.

Elizabeth: Will! It's so good to see you. I had a dream about you last night.

Will: About me?

Governor Swann: Yes, well, is that entirely proper for you to...?

Elizabeth: About the day we met, do you remember?

Will: How could I forget, Miss Swann?

Elizabeth: Will, how many times must I ask you to call me Elizabeth?

Will: At least once more, Miss Swann, as always.

Governor Swann: There. See? At least the boy has a sense of propriety. Now, we really must be going. [gives Elizabeth a parasol] There you are.

Elizabeth: Good day, Mr. Turner.

Governor Swann: Come along.

Will: Good day... [Elizabeth and the Governor exit, Will trailing after them, they leave in a carriage]... Elizabeth.

Scene 3: (A most excellent entrance, the debate, and the proposal)

[Jack stands on the mast of his boat, noticing that it's filling up with water he jumps down to bail it out; notices three pirate skeletons hanging with a sign "pirates ye be warned" and pays homage to them; reaches the port, his boat sinking lower and lower until he is at the dock and is able to simply walk off the boat's mast]

Harbormaster: [to Jack] What - hey. Hold up, there, you. It's a shilling to tie up your boat at the dock. [they both look at the sunken boat] And I shall need to know your name.

Jack: [hands him three shillings] What d'ye say to three shillings... and we forget the name?

Harbormaster: Welcome to Port Royal, Mr. Smith. [Jack sees the Harbormasters money pouch and takes it]

[Norrington's promotion ceremony] Shouted orders to soldiers: Two paces march! Right about face! Present arms! [Norrington walks to get his promotion, unsheathes his new sword]

Murtogg: [spots Jack ] This dock is off limits to civilians.

Jack: I'm terribly sorry. I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform you immediately. [tries to continue on his way but is again thwarted] Apparently there's some sort of high toned and fancy to do up at the fort, eh? How could it be that two upstanding gentlemen such as yourselves did not merit an invitation?

Murtogg: Someone has to make sure this dock stays off limits to civilians.

Jack: It's a fine goal to be sure but it seems to me that a... [shifts again] a ship like that [points out the Dauntless] makes this one here a bit superfluous, really.

Murtogg: Oh, the Dauntless is the power in these waters, true enough, but there's no ship as can match the Interceptor for speed.

Jack: I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast - nigh un-catchable...the Black Pearl.

Mullroy: Well...there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor.

Murtogg: The Black Pearl is a real ship.

Mullroy: No, no it's not.

Murtogg: Yes, it is, I've seen it.

Mullroy: You've seen it?

Murtogg: Yes.

Mullroy: You haven't seen it.

Murtogg: Yes, I have.

Mullroy: You've seen a ship with black sails, that's crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?

Murtogg: No.

Mullroy: No.

Murtogg: But I have seen a ship with black sails. [Jack slips away while they banter]

Mullroy: Oh, and no ship that's not crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black sails therefore couldn't possibly be any other ship than the Black Pearl. Is that what you're saying?

Murtogg: [nods] No.

Mullroy: Like I said, there's no real ship as can match the Interceptor... [notices Jack at the wheel of the Interceptor]

Murtogg: Hey! You! Get away from there.

Mullroy: You don't have permission to be aboard there, mate.

Jack: I'm sorry, it's just - it's such a pretty boat. Ship.

Murtogg: What's your name?

Jack: Smith. Or Smithy, if you like.

Mullroy: What's your purpose in Port Royal, Mr. Smith?

Murtogg: Yeah. and no lies.

Jack: Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out!

Murtogg: I said no lies!

Mullroy: I think he's telling the truth.

Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us.

Jack: Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.

[on the battlements of the Fort] Norrington: May I have a moment? [Elizabeth and Norrington step onto the platform. Elizabeth walks over to steady herself as she fans herself hastily and tries to catch her breath] Uh, you look lovely, Elizabeth. [Elizabeth still fanning herself chuckles softly and half-heartedly] I, uh, apologize if I seem forward, but I... must speak my mind. This promotion throws into sharp relief that which I have not yet achieved. Uh... a marriage to a fine woman. You have become a fine woman, Elizabeth.

Elizabeth: I can't breathe.

Norrington: Yes, I... I'm a bit nervous myself. [she falls over battlement]

Scene 4: (The daring rescue and escape)

Jack: [in boat with guards]...and then they made me their chief.

Norrington: Elizabeth? Elizabeth ! My God. [makes to jump in after her]

Gillette: [stops him] The rocks! Sir, it's a miracle she missed them.

Jack: Will you be saving her then?

Mullroy: I can't swim.

Jack: [glances at Murtogg who stares back at him] Pride of the King's Navy you are. [hands the guards his effects] Do not lose these. [dives in to save her]

Murtogg: [the medallion calls to the Black Pearl] What was that? [helps Jack with Elizabeth] Ooh, I got her. She's not breathing!

Jack: Move! [shoves him aside, cuts open corset and Elizabeth spits out water and gasps for breath]

Mullroy: Never would've thought of that.

Jack: Clearly you've never been to Singapore. [sees medallion, to Elizabeth] Where did you get that?

Norrington: [to Jack, pointing his sword at him] On your feet.

Governor Swann: [helps Elizabeth up] Elizabeth. Are you alright?

Elizabeth: Yes, I'm fine.

Governor Swann: [sees Murtogg holding Elizabeth's corset; Murtogg points at Jack; Swann looks over at Jack] Shoot him!

Elizabeth: Father! Commodore, do you really intend to kill my rescuer?

Norrington: I believe thanks are in order. [offers his hand to shake; reveals 'P' for pirate on Jack's wrist] Had a brush with the East India Trading company, did we, pirate?

Governor Swann: Hang him.

Norrington: Keep your guns on him, men. Gillette, fetch some irons. [sees tattoo of a sparrow in flight] Well, well... Jack Sparrow, isn't it?

Jack: Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please, sir.

Norrington: Well, I don't see your ship...Captain.

Jack: I'm in the market as it were.

Murtogg: He said he'd come to commandeer one.

Mullroy: Told ya he was telling the truth. These are his, sir. [hands him Jack's effects]

Norrington: No additional shots nor powder. A compass that doesn't point north. [unsheathes sword] And I half expected it to be made of wood. You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of.

Jack: But you have heard of me. [is pulled along to be put in chains]

Elizabeth: Commodore, I really must protest.

Norrington: Carefully, Lieutenant.

Elizabeth: Pirate or not this man saved my life.

Norrington: One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness.

Jack: Though it seems enough to condemn him.

Norrington: Indeed. [Gillette moves away from Jack]

Jack: Finally. [throws his irons around Elizabeth 's neck]

Governor Swann: No, don't shoot!

Jack: I knew you'd warm up to me. Commodore Norrington, my effects, please, and my hat. Commodore! Elizabeth. It is Elizabeth isn't it?

Elizabeth: It's Miss Swann.

Jack: Miss Swann, if you'd be so kind. Come, come, dear. We don't have all day. Now if you'd be very kind. [she straps on his sword, puts on his hat, etc.] Easy on the goods, darling.

Elizabeth: You're despicable.

Jack: Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow! [pushes Elizabeth away and escapes, swinging around and landing on a beam above their heads]

Governor Swann: Now, will you shoot him?

Norrington: Open fire! [Jack is shot at] On his heels. [Jack throws his chains about a rope and slides down to the ground] Gillette, Mr. Sparrow has a dawn appointment with the gallows. I would hate for him to miss it.

Soldier: [the soldiers run around searching for Jack] Search upstairs. Look lively, men.

Scene 5: (The duel between Jack and Will)

Jack: [enters smithy, sees drunk and sleeping Mr. Brown and pokes him to see if he'll awaken] Whoa! [tries to get rid of the irons with a hammer but it doesn't work; uses the red hot end of a metal rod to spur the donkey; succeeds in breaking the link between them by putting them on two turning wheels in the machinery powered by the donkey; hides when Will enters]

Will: [calms the donkey; sees Brown] Right where I left you. [sees hammer] Not where I left you. [notices Jack 's hat and reaches for it; enter Jack with sword unsheathed] You're the one they're hunting. The pirate.

Jack: You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?

Will: I make a point of avoiding familiarity with pirates.

Jack: Ah, well, then it would be a shame to put a black mark on your record. So, if you'll excuse me... [turns away and is about to leave when Will gets his own sword] Do you think this wise, boy - crossing blades with a pirate?

Will: You threatened Miss Swann.

Jack: Only a little. [they parry] You know what you're doing. I'll give you that. Excellent form. But how's your footwork? If I step here; [he steps] very good. Now I step again. Ta. [sheathes sword and walks to the door; Will throws sword which gets stuck in the door, barring the exit; Jack tries to pull it out but is unsuccessful] That is a wonderful trick... except, once again you are between me and my way out. And now you have no weapon. [Will takes out a sword with a heated tip; they fight] Who makes all these? [looks pointedly at swords]

Will: I do! And I practice with them... three hours a day!

Jack: You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you? [looks down pointedly]

Will: I practice three hours a day so that when I meet a pirate, I can kill it! [they continue their swordfight jumping onto a cart that sways under them; Will hooks a knife in the irons hanging from Jack's left wrist and throws it up so it is embedded in the beam above, in return Jack hits a loose board which throws Will off the cart; Jack uses his body weight to get the knife out of the wood and falls back on the cart just as Will climbed back on; Will is thrown up into the rafters and cuts free a heavy sack which vaults Jack up into the rafters as well; they fight, jumping from beam to beam; Jack loses his weapon and blinds Will with sand; takes out his pistol while Will protects his eyes] You cheated!

Jack: Pirate! [hears men trying to break the door down] Move away.

Will: No.

Jack: Please move.

Will: No! I cannot just step aside and let you escape.

Jack: This shot is not meant for you. [gets hit on the head with a bottle of alcohol and falls unconscious]

Soldier: [Norrington's men break in the door] There he is. Over here.

Norrington: Excellent work, Mr. Brown. You've assisted in the capture of a dangerous fugitive.

Mr. Brown: Just doing my civic duty, sir.

Norrington: Well, I trust you will always remember this as the day that Captain Jack Sparrow almost escaped. Take him away.

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! Mr. Stevens, more cartridges! [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 your'n?

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 Cortés himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortés 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.

Scene 13: ( Jack 's 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?

Jack: You, sailor!

Gibbs: Cotton, sir.

Jack: 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.

Jack: Mr. Cotton 's... parrot. Same question.

Parrot: Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!

Gibbs: Mostly, we figure, that means "yes."

Jack: O'course it does. [to Will] Satisfied?

Will: Well, you've proved they're mad.

Anamaria: And what's the benefit for us?

Jack: [comes over to the voice and takes off the sailors hat, revealing a woman] Anamaria. [she slaps him]

Will: I suppose you didn't deserve that one either.

Jack: No, that one I deserved.

Anamaria: You stole my boat!

Jack: Actually - [she slaps him again] borrowed. Borrowed without permission. But with every intention of bringing it back to you.

Anamaria: But you didn't!

Jack: You'll get another one.

Anamaria: [points her forefinger at him] I will.

Will: A better one.

Jack: A better one!

Will: That one. [points to the Interceptor]

Jack: What one? That one?! Aye, that one. What say you?

Crew: Aye!

Cotton's Parrot: Anchors aweigh.

Gibbs: No, no, no, no, no, it's frightful bad luck to bring a woman aboard, sir.

Jack: It'd be far worse not to have her.

[a storm breaks upon them at sea] Will: How can we sail to an island that nobody can find with a compass that doesn't work?

Gibbs: Aye, the compass doesn't point north but we're not trying to find north, are we? [to Jack] We should drop canvas, sir.

Jack: She can hold a bit longer.

Gibbs: What's in your head that's put you in such a fine mood, Captain?

Jack: We're catching up.

Scene 14: ( Jack 's past revealed)

[on the Pearl] Pintel: Time to go, Poppet. [Barbossa latches the medallion around Elizabeth 's neck and they all sail to the cave]

Parrot: [singing as they enter a lagoon] Dead men tell no tales.

Gibbs: [the whole crew is looking at the wrecks strewn everywhere in the water] Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage.

Will: [watches as Jack closes the compass when Cotton stares at him too much] How is it that Jack came by that compass?

Gibbs: Not a lot's known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta. That was before I met him, back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl.

Will: What? He failed to mention that.

Gibbs: Well, he plays things closer to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share. That should mean 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: Ah. So that's the reason for all the... [acts like Jack]

Gibbs: Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now Will, when a man is marooned he is a given a pistol with a single shot - one shot. Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of a starvin' belly and thirst, that pistol will start to look real friendly. But Jack - he escaped the island, and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it, though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate.

Will: Barbossa.

Gibbs: Aye.

Will: How did Jack get off the island?

Gibbs: Well, I'll tell ye. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning, he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, lashed 'em together and made a raft.

Will: He roped a couple of sea turtles?

Gibbs: Aye, sea turtles.

Will: What did he use for rope?

Jack: [Jack comes up] Human hair...from my back. Let go of the anchor!

Crew: Let go of the anchor, sir!

Jack: Young Mr. Turner and I are to go ashore.

Gibbs: Captain! What if the worst should happen?

Jack: Keep to the code.

Gibbs: Aye, the code.

Scene 15: (The blood ritual and Jack's not dead)

Pintel: Ten years of hoarding swag.

Ragetti: And now we finally get to spend it. [they empty a trunk and it turns out to be full of ladies' clothes; they both pick up parasols]

Pintel: Once we're quit of the curse, we'll be rich men. And you can buy an eye what actually fits and is made of glass.

Ragetti: This one does splinter something terrible. [rubs it]

Pintel: Stop rubbin