Scene 16: (Keeping to the code, revealing the medallion, and talk of negotiation)

 

Elizabeth : [boards the Interceptor] Not more pirates.

Gibbs : Welcome aboard, Miss Elizabeth .

Elizabeth : Mr. Gibbs ?

Gibbs : [Will climbs aboard] Hey, boy, where be Jack ?

Elizabeth : Jack ? Jack Sparrow ?

Will : He fell behind. [leads Elizabeth away]

Gibbs : Keep to the code.

Anamaria: Weigh anchor! Hoist the sails! Make quickly, divvies.

[in the cave] Barbossa: How the blazes did you get off that island?

Jack : When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate. I’m Captain Jack Sparrow .

Barbossa: Ah, well, I won’t be making that mistake again. Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow ? Kill him. [the pirates all point their weapons at Jack ]

Jack : The girl’s blood didn’t work, did it?

Barbossa: Hold your fire! [the pirates reluctantly lower their weapons] You know whose blood we need?

Jack : I know whose blood ye need.

[in the cabin of the Interceptor] Elizabeth : [trying to bandage her palm] What sort of a man trades a man’s life for a ship?

Will: Pirate. Here. Let me. [puts on bandages]

Elizabeth : Thank you.

Will : You said you gave Barbossa my name as yours. Why?

Elizabeth : I don’t know. [she winces and pulls away]

Will : I’m sorry. Blacksmith’s hands - I know they’re rough.

Elizabeth : No…I mean yes, they are but… but don’t stop.

Will: Elizabeth .

Elizabeth : [takes out medallion] It’s yours.

Will: I thought I’d lost it the day they rescued me. It was a gift from my father. He sent it to me. Why did you take it?

Elizabeth : Because I was afraid that you were a pirate. That would have been awful.

Will : It wasn’t your blood they needed. It was my father’s blood…my blood…the blood of a pirate.

Elizabeth : Will, I’m so sorry, please forgive me. [ Will slams down the medallion on the table and she leaves]

[in the Captains cabin of the Black Pearl ] Barbossa: So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it’s the one I need and watch you sail away in my ship?

Jack : No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I’ll shout the name back to you. Savvy?

Barbossa: But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it’s the one I need.

Jack : Of the two of us, I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore…my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although…I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn’t betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you. [bites into an apple] Funny ol' world, innit? [offers him an apple]

Bo’sun : [enters] Captain, we’re coming up on the Interceptor. [Barbossa goes topside]

Jack : [runs out after Barbossa and stands in front of him at the bow, blocking the view of the Interceptor] I’m having a thought here, Barbossa. What say we run up a flag of truce? I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?

Barbossa: Now you see, Jack , that’s exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl . People are easy to search when they’re dead. [to Bo’sun ] Lock him in the brig. [throws away Jack ’s apple]

 

 

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