Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Movie Quotes

Delivered to Jack aboard the Flying Dutchman as Jones presses him on his overdue debt, framing the film's central bargain.

The trilogy's thesis statement about mortality. Jones offers immortality as a service contract, and the film's whole supernatural economy runs on the fact that men will trade anything — their bodies, their humanity — to avoid the abyss.

Jones's dismissal of any appeal to mercy while dealing with a soul in his power.

A one-line theology of the film's world: there is no redemptive justice at sea, only terms and enforcement. It also quietly explains Jones himself — a man who concluded that feeling anything was a design flaw.

Will's defiance when Jones tells him he remembers him — the one who hopes to be married, whose fate is instead to be married to the ship.

The film's free-will position, immediately punctured by Jones's reply — "Then it wouldn't be fate, would it?" The exchange sets up an entire film in which characters' choices deliver them exactly where prophecy said they would go.

Jack argues he only truly captained the Black Pearl for two years before the mutiny; Jones counts all thirteen.

The moment Jack's self-mythologising becomes a legal liability. He has spent two films insisting on the title Captain; Jones simply reads the title back to him as a signed confession.

Jones's rejection of Jack's attempt to settle his debt by handing over Will Turner in his place.

The film's cold arithmetic of value. It licenses everything that follows — Jack's frantic recruiting, Beckett's trade in human warrants — and denies the comforting idea that people are interchangeable or that any life can simply be swapped for another.

Immediately after watching the Black Pearl go down, Jones orders the chest opened, looks inside, and finds it empty.

The scream that reveals the monster's whole tragedy: Jones has just won — the Pearl is sinking, the debt is settled — and it means nothing, because the one thing he cannot bear to lose is out of his hands. His heartlessness fails him at the exact moment of triumph.