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 given a pistol with a single shot - one shot . Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued . But afther 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 fore 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.