Chapter XIII

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《At Port Royal》
Beckett: (Serving rum) The East India Trading Company has need of your services. (Offers him the cup) We wish for you to act as our agent in a business transaction with our mutual friend, Captain Sparrow.
Will: More acquaintance than friend. How do you know him?
Beckett: We've had dealings in the past. (Seeing the material with which he left the pirate mark on Jack Sparrow) And we've each left our mark on the other.
Will: What mark did he leave on you?
Beckett: By your efforts, Jack Sparrow was set free. I would like you to go to him and recover a certain property in his possession.
Will: Recover. At the point of a sword?
Beckett: Bargain. (Takes a Letter of Marque from a little chest) Letters of Marque. You will offer what amounts to a full pardon. Jack will be free, a privateer in the employ of England.
Will: Somehow I doubt Jack will consider employment the same as being free.

Will: Somehow I doubt Jack will consider employment the same as being free

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Beckett: (Laughs) Freedom. (Closes the chest with the Letters of Marque inside) Jack Sparrow is a dying breed. The world is shrinking... the blank edges of the map filled in. Jack must find his place in the New World or perish. Just like you, Mr. Turner. A tight mode awaits you and your girlfriend.
Will: So you want to get back Jack and the Black Pearl?
Beckett: The Black Pearl?
Will: The property you want and that he posses.
Beckett: A ship? Of course not. That object I want is a bit smaller and valuable than a ship. Something that Sparrow wears on his person all the time. A compass.
Will: (Starts thinking and tries to remember)
Beckett: Oh, you remember it. Bring me that object or there's no deal.
Will: Ok, I will go to look for that compass, but after all, can I ask you a question?
Beckett: Of course. You can ask. But I don't promise an answer. It all depends on what you are going to ask.
Will: Why are you arresting James Norrington as well?
Beckett: Don't you think it's obvious? He didn't do anything when Miss Swann and you freed Jack Sparrow.
Will: Of course he did. All his attempts to capture Jack led him to abandon his charge as Commodore.
Beckett: But he did not succeed.
Will: I thought that in some way or another you two were allies. He was the one who tattooed Ruby, practically for you.
Beckett: It's not an official pirate tattoo.
Will: Do you want to talk about Ruby? Why are you looking for her as well?
Beckett: A person, by the simple fact of being an ally or companion of Sparrow, deserves the gallows. Besides... you don't understand what I really want from her. I heard something. If I don't get her power, at least I have to give that woman the death she deserves... if she can be called a woman.
Will: Power? What kind of power are you talking about? And what has she done to deserve death?
Beckett: If you can get me Sparrow's compass, I might consider negotiating with you for her. But I don't think I have the confidence in you to tell you who or what Sparrow's companion really is.

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