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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
in search of Will, Jack, his sailors and Will visit a woman
named Tia Dalma, who can see into the future. Tia
explains to Will that the key opens a chest containing
Davy Jones’s heart and tells him how to find it. Then she
gives Jack a bottle of sand to use to protecthimself against
Jones’s monster, the Kraken.

Summary
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest picks up
where the first movie in the franchise left off, recounting
more adventurous tales of the swashbuckling Captain
Jack Sparrow. In his latest adventure, Jack and his
companions—along with his enemies—are searching the
Caribbean for a chest belonging to the legendary Captain
Davy Jones. Whowill be the first to find the “Dead Man’s
Chest”?
Chapter 1: The story starts with Jack escaping from a
prison. When he returns to his ship, the Black Pearl, he
examines a piece of cloth with a drawing of a key on it.
Later, he is visited by Bootstrap Bill, who tells him that he
has been cursed by the evil Davy Jones. Jack quickly heads
to shore. Meanwhile, his friends, Elizabeth Swann andWill Turner, have been arrested.
Chapter 2: Will agrees to get Jack’s compass for Lord
Beckett in exchange for his and Elizabeth’s freedom. Will
finds the Black Pearl lying on its side on a beach near
Tortuga, but suddenly he is captured by some islanders.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth’s father helps her escape, and she
uses a gun to force Lord Beckett to sign Will’s release
papers. The chapterends with Elizabeth dressed in sailor’s
clothes and sailing away from Port Royal.
Chapter 3: Will is put in a bone cage with Gibbs and
other sailors from the Black Pearl. He finds out that the
islanders have made Jack their chief, and that they are
going to eat him for dinner at sundown in order to free
his soul from his body. However, at the last moment, Will,
Gibbs, the sailors and Jack allescape from the islanders
and return to the Black Pearl.
Chapter 4: Jack agrees to give Will the compass in
exchange for his help in finding the mysterious key
painted on the piece of cloth. As Elizabeth sails to Tortuga

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Chapter 5: Jack tricks Will into boarding an old ship
filled with dead sailors. Will realizes that the ship isn’t
Davy Jones’s ship,the Flying Dutchman, and he is attacked
by several of Jones’s sailors. After he is eventually captured,
he meets Davy Jones, and he tells him that he is there to
pay Jack’s debt. Davy Jones and his men fly over to the
Black Pearl, and Jones and Jack make a deal—Jack has to
give Will to Jones, along with ninety-nine more souls, in
exchange for his freedom.
Chapter 6: Jack and his men try tofind ninety-nine souls
in Tortuga, but they end up getting into a brawl with
Commodore Norrington and several other sailors. Jack
and Gibbs escape, and then meet up with Elizabeth and
Norrington at the port. Elizabeth asks Jack to help her
find Will, and he gives her the compass, explaining that
she must find Davy Jones’s chest to save Will.
Chapter 7: On board the Flying Dutchman, Willmeets
up with his father, Bootstrap Bill. Trying to free him from
Jones’s service, he challenges the evil captain to a game
of cards. Will wins the first game and frees his father’s
soul. He challenges Jones to another game—this time
for the key to Jones’s chest. However, Will’s father insists
on playing instead, and loses, becoming a prisoner once
again. Will is free, and now he knows wherethe key is
located—on a string around Jones’s neck.
Chapter 8: Will steals the key from Jones and escapes to
another ship, the Edinburgh Trader. However, the Kraken
destroys the ship, forcing Will to hold on to the side of
the Flying Dutchman. Meanwhile, Jack, his men, Elizabeth
and Norrington sail to Isla Cruces.
Chapter 9: Jack, Elizabeth and Norrington find the chest
on the island, and...