Disclaimer: I still don't own anything, and I still wouldn't mind owning Johnny…

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DESERT

Jack is still stuck in the sand.

Jack: "Bugger, Bugger, Bugger. Oi, ouw, get off."

He pulls his hand out of the sand and shakes off a big black scorpion.

Jack: "nice try…but Elizabeth killed me first."

He shook off the scorpion, pulled himself out of the sand, stuck his hand back in the holes and pulled out his pistol, his hat, his sword and his compass. He stood up, looked around…paused looking at the horizon and sunk to the floor.

Jack: "BUGGER."

TIA DALMA'S SHACK (outside)

Barbosa bursts through the door.

Barbosa: "So ye scallywags. Lets set sail…where be my ship?"

Elizabeth whips her tears and avoids looking at will.

Elizabeth: "you were serious?"

Barbosa & Tia: "Yes"

Elizabeth's face lights up slightly.

Elizabeth: "So, we're going to save Jack?"

Will looks at her, disgusted. Everyone else talks excitedly.

Gibbs: "This all sounds great 'n' all, but we have no ship, 'n' worse, no rum."

Barbosa: "The Pearl?"

Gibbs: "Kraken…"

Barbosa: "Damn that Davy Jones."

Will (bitterly): "Looks like ye can't save Jack after all"

Tia: "Not so fast William"

She looks to Barbosa.

Both: "Sao"

Everyone else: "Sao?"

Barbosa: "Aye, Sao, the best pirate of the Asian seas, born in Singapore to Calypso herself.

Tia looks at him with a strange look on her face, no one notices.

Will: "and how do ye propose we get to Singapore?"

Voice: "Ye don't"

A door swings open revealing a giant Asian man: Sao Feng.

Gibbs (to Barbosa): "Sao?"

Barbosa: "Sao" (to Sao) "Best be castin' off there…er…mate"

Sao: "Mate? ...Tia, this wasn't in our agreement. I'm captain of the Empress and…"

Tia: "Sao, Darlin', ye don't know nothing about world's end. We need a captain who knows those waters."

Sao looks hatefully at Barbosa.

Sao: "Fine"

The walks out of the cabin followed closely by will who passes by Elizabeth without even glancing her way. She starts crying again.

Tia: "come now dear"

She pulls Elizabeth to her feet and the two walk out after Pintel and Ragetti who look curiously at Sao.

EMPRESS (deck)

Barbosa: "hoist the anchor, man the braces"

Gibbs looks angrily at Sao as he takes the role of first mate. Elizabeth moves to the front of the ship and stares out to the horizon. Will looks at her, visibly heart broken but still angry.

Tia: "William…"

Will (annoyed): "What?"

Tia: "William, do ye love her?"

Will: "does it matter any more? She obviously doesn't love me!"

Tia: "That's not true, and ye know it"

Will sinks down and sits on a barrel

Will: "I don't know anything anymore"

Tia: "She did it to save you"

Will "What?"

Tia: "She kissed Jack so she could chain him to the ship and secure a safe escape fer herself, 'n' you.

Will: "Then why is she so upset?"

Tia: "Because ye don't believe her, and she just killed a good man…"

Will "Whom she loved"

Tia: "Whatever she may have felt fer Jack was still over come by her feelings fer you. She sent him to his death fer you. She loves you"

Will looks up to a sobbing Elizabeth. Tia looks from Elizabeth to will as she walks away. She knew she had mended their relationship, but if what she'd said was true was another story.

Will walks up to Elizabeth.

Will: "I'm sorry. Tia told me everything. Thank you."

Elizabeth flings her arms around will.

Elizabeth: "I love you. Will"

They kiss and then hug, but whilst Will's eyes are closed, Elizabeth searches the horizon for any sign of Jack.

EMPRESS DECK (dawn)

Gibbs: Land ho.

Sao walks into the cabin where Elizabeth was asleep.

Sao: "Oi, Wench, get movin'."

Elizabeth, "I'm no Wench"

Sao: "Shut up, move"

He grabs Elizabeth by the arm and drags her to a long boat against Will's protests.

Pintel and Ragetti row the group to an immense desert.

DESERT (group)

Barbosa: "Well, by me calculations, Jack should be somewhere here."

The group looked around the endless desert.

Elizabeth (under her breath): "It's Hopeless"

Tia: "And the Pearl?"

Barbosa: "The other side of this here…um…dune; The Sea of Wrecks."

DESERT (Jack)

Jack stands up, puts his hat on and suddenly freezes, his eyes focused on the horizon. He spots the large grey sails of the empress.

Jack: "Well, Well, what have we here?"

He looks to his compass and looks in the direction it points.

Jack: "It can't be"

He looks back at the compass it still points to the grey sails of the empress

Jack: "bugger"

He throws his compass to the floor.

DESERT (group)

The group is walking led by Tia Dalma. Elizabeth and will are holding hands. Will bends to kiss her but she lets go.

Elizabeth: "What's that?"

She started running and within a few seconds could make out the shape of Jack Sparrow.

Elizabeth (low): "Jack"

They all start running. Soon Elizabeth is feet away from Jack; however he doesn't look at her.

Jack looks at the compass and sees the needle pointing to Elizabeth; he quickly reaches for it and closes it.

Barbosa: "Jack, ye look good, how've ye been"

Jack: "Well, well, Barbosa, death did ye good too. How've I been?"

He looks to Elizabeth

Jack: "Fine, Just Fine."

Shakes off another scorpion from his leg and squishes it.

Jack: "Gibbs…"

Gibbs: "Aye Capn'"

Jack looks at Gibbs' hand

Gibbs: "Ha, right"

Gibbs hands him a bottle of rum.

As he goes to take a swig, Jack spotted Sao.

Jack: "Well, One, (looks at Barbosa) Two, (looks at Sao) Three (looks sharply at Elizabeth). Three people who've tried to kill me. Did Fishface tag along too? Perhaps Beckett or Norrington?"

Elizabeth: "Jack"

He ignores her. And starts moving away taking a swig of rum.

Jack: "Where be my ship?"

Barbosa looks annoyed at Jack's words"

Gibbs: "That be our next stop capn'"

They set off towards the pearl following Jack's compass which after several shakes turned away from Elizabeth and towards the horizon. (But not soon enough to stop Elizabeth and Tia from seeing it). Elizabeth keeps trying to talk to Jack but he just moves on, Will grabs her hand again.

Eventual after yelling "Pearl" at the compass several times he stops.

Jack: "Gibbs"

Gibbs: "Capn'"

Jack: "I think it best we stop here fer now"

He looks to Tia.

Jack: "I don't think we're getting anywhere tonight."

Then he looks quickly at Elizabeth and turns away.

DESERT (night)

Jack is sitting on a heap of sand about ten meters from the group looking at his compass which sill points to the group. Everyone else is lying on a sand bank, Elizabeth next to Will who is sleeping; however, she's looking at Jack. Tia Dalma walks up to Jack.

Tia: "Problems locating the pearl?"

Jack closes his compass and throws it at Tia's feet.

Tia: "What be the Trouble Jack Sparra'?"

Jack: "Stupid thing doesn't work."

He kicks some sand onto it. Tia bends down and grabs the compass, it points to the horizon to the right.

Tia: "Some months ago me tell ye that ye knew what ye wanted but were loathed to claim it as yer own…I rarely make mistakes"

Jack: "What?!"

Tia looks from the compass to the camp to Jack

Jack: "Elizabeth?! No!"

Tia looks at him sharply

Jack: "No, what I want most is to find the pearl, yer compass is broken,'s all."

Tia: "Jack, notice ye knew who I was talkin' about before I said her name. There has to be more in yer life then the sea, even Davy Jones had a woman"

Jack (under his breath): "lot of good it did him" (then to Tia) "That's what makes me a better Captain, I…"

Tia: "Jack, no one would think any less of ye"

Jack looks at her, makes a face lies down and faces the other way. Tia places the compass next to him and walks away.

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