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.

 

 

 

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