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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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