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 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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