Scene 6: (Talk of the right match and Port Royal under attack!)

 

Prisoners: [whistling and waving a bone to a dog that has the keys to the prison in its jaws] Come here, boy. Want a nice juicy bone? Come here. Come on 

Jack : You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to move.

 

 

Prisoner: Oh, excuse us if we haven't resigned ourselves to the gallows just yet.

[in the Governor’s house; Elisabeth ’s room] Estrella: There you go, Miss. [puts a bed warmer between the sheets] It was a difficult day for you, I’m sure.

 

Elizabeth : I suspected Commodore Norrington would propose but I must admit, I wasn’t entirely prepared for it.

Estrella: Well, I meant you being threatened by that pirate. Sounds terrifying.

Elizabeth : Oh, yes, it was terrifying.

Estrella: But the Commodore proposed. Fancy that. Now, that’s a smart match, Miss, if it’s not too bold to say.

Elizabeth : It is a smart match. He’s a fine man; he’s what any woman should dream of marrying.

Estrella: Well, that Will Turner , he’s a fine man, too.

Elizabeth : That is too bold.

Estrella: Well, begging your pardon, Miss. It was not my place. [leaves]

[meanwhile Will is hammering a new sword, he looks out unto the deserted street]

 

[on top of the Fort] Governor Swann : Has my daughter given you an answer yet?

Norrington: No, she hasn’t.

 

 

Governor Swann : Well, she has had a very trying day. Ghastly weather, don’t you think?

Norrington: Bleak. Very bleak.

Governor Swann : What’s that?

Norrington: Cannon fire! [tackles the Governor] Return fire!

[in the jail] Jack : I know those guns. [looks out of his little window] It’s the Pearl .

 

 

Prisoner: The Black Pearl ? I’ve heard stories. She’s been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.

Jack : No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[the Black Pearl’s guns are destroying the battlements, the pirates are now coming ashore in boats;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will takes up a sword, a hatchet, and a knife to fight the invading pirates; on the battlements;saves a maid by killing a pirate with his hatchet]

 Norrington: [shouting orders to soldiers] Sight the muzzle flash!

Soldier: Aim for the flashes!

 

 

 

Norrington: I need a full strike, fore and aft! Let these demons both bite at this! [cannons are shot in the Black Pearl ’s direction] Governor, barricade yourself in my office. That’s an order!

 

 

 [the Governor’s house; pirates are running through the gates an knocking on the door] Elizabeth : [to butler] Don’t! [the butler opens the door]

 

 

 

Pintel: Hello, chum. [shoots butler and the pirates swarm into the house] Up there! [points at Elizabeth ]

 

 

Pirate: Girl! [ Elizabeth runs upstairs]

Estrella: [they lock the chamber door] Miss Swann , they’ve come to kidnap you.

Elizabeth : What?

Estrella: You’re the Governor’s daughter.

Elizabeth : They haven’t seen you. Hide, and the first chance you get, run to the fort. [distracts Ragetti and Pintel as the maid runs out, hits Pintel in the face with the bed warmer]

 

 

Ragetti: Gotcha! [catches Elizabeth and she releases ashes onto his head] It’s hot! You burned me!

Pintel: [to Ragetti] Come on! [Estrella escapes; Elizabeth is cornered on the stairs and while pirates are distracted by one of their own being taken out by a cannon she runs away; Pintel and Ragetti are stopped by a falling chandelier and Elizabeth locks the door and then tries to get a sword out but is unable; Pintel and Ragetti break the door] We know you’re here, Poppet.

Ragetti: Poppet.

Pintel: Come out… and we promise we won’t hurt you. [Ragetti looks at Pintel questioningly who only smiles] We will find you, Poppet. You’ve got something of ours, and it calls to us. The gold calls to us.

Ragetti: Gold calls…

Pintel: [opens door of the closet] ‘Ello, Poppet.

 

 

Elizabeth : Parley!

Ragetti: What?

Elizabeth : Parley. I invoke the right of parley. According to the Code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew , you have to take me to your Captain.

Pintel: I know the code.

Elizabeth : If an adversary demands parley you can do them no harm until the parley is complete.

Ragetti: To blazes with the code.

Pintel: She wants to be taken to the Captain. And she’ll go without a fuss. We must honor the Code.

[ Port Royal street ; Will is fighting with Grapple] Grapple: [to Will , holding him defenseless] Say goodbye! [signs falls on him]

Will: Goodbye.

Pintel: [to Elizabeth , leading her to the Black Pearl ] Come on!

Elizabeth : Will.

Will : [spots them] Elizabeth . [sees the same pirate he killed with his hatchet and is confused]

Pirate: Outta my way, scum. [knocks Will on the head,

 

 

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