Scene 18: (Misleading negotiations and walking the plank)

 

 

Pintel: [to Jack ’s crew] If any of you as much as thinks the word “parley,” I’ll have your guts for garters.

Elizabeth : [the Interceptor is blown up] Will! [attacks Barbossa] You’ve got to stop it! Stop it!

Barbossa: Welcome back, Miss. You took advantage of our hospitality last time. It holds fair now that you return the favor. [pushes her to the crew]

Will : [leaps up on deck] Barbossa!

Elizabeth : Will.

Will : She goes free. [points pistol at Barbossa]

Barbossa: What’s in your head, boy?

Will : She goes free!

Barbossa: You’ve only got one shot, and we can’t die.

Jack : [to Will ] Don’t do anything stupid.

Will : You can’t. I can. [points gun at himself]

Jack : Like that.

Barbossa: Who are you?

Jack : [to Barbossa] No one. He’s no one. A distant cousin of my aunt’s nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though – eunuch.

Will : My name is Will Turner . My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins.

Ragetti: He’s the spitting image of ol’ Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us.

Will : On my word do as I say, or I’ll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones’ Locker.

Barbossa: Name your terms, Mr. Turner .

Will : Elizabeth goes free.

Barbossa: Yes, we know that one. Anything else?

Will : [sees Jack point at himself] And the crew – the crew are not to be harmed.

Barbossa: Agreed.

Pintel: [to Elizabeth ] Go on, Poppet, go! Walk the plank!

Will: Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she’d go free!

Barbossa: Don’t dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she’d go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. [ Will ’s gagged] Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don’t it lads?

Pirates: Aye.

Barbossa: So I’ll be having that dress back before you go.

Jack : [to pirate] I always liked you.

Elizabeth : It goes with your black heart. [throws him the dress]

Barbossa: [presses it to his face] Ooh, it’s still warm.

Pirate 2: Off you go! Come on!

Bo’sun : Too long! [shakes plank, Elizabeth falls in]

Jack : [is dragged up to the plank] I’d really rather hoped we were past all this.

Barbossa: Jack…. Jack . Did ya not notice? That be the same little island that we made you Governor of on our last little trip. [points out the distant island]

Jack : I did notice.

Barbossa: Perhaps you’ll be able to conjure up another miraculous escape…but I doubt it. [unsheathes his sword and brandishes it at Jack ’s throat] Off you go.

Jack : Last time, you left me a pistol with one shot.

Barbossa: By the powers, you’re right. Were be Jack ’s pistol? Bring it forward. [the pistol is brought]

Jack : Seeing as there’s two of us, a gentleman…would give us a pair of pistols.

Barbossa: It’ll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself. [throws the pistol into the sea, Jack jumps in after it and recovers it]

 

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