The HMS Dauntless, aboard which Governor Weatherby Swann and his 12-year-old daughter Elizabeth are travelling, comes upon a shipwreck with the young Will Turner, the only survivor, floating among the debris as they make their way to Port Royal, Jamaica. Elizabeth, worried that Will might be charged with piracy, discovers and conceals a gold medallion she found around the unconscious Will's neck. She then catches a sight of the Black Pearl, a spectral pirate ship, as it vanishes into the fog.
James Norrington, a Captain in the British Royal Navy, is given the Commodore title eight years later. He pops the question to Elizabeth during his ceremony. Before she can respond, she faints and falls down the rampart, landing in the bay as a result of her overly tight corset. She is wearing a medallion that sends an enigmatic pulse across the water.
Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow has come in Port Royal to seize a ship in the meantime. He saves Elizabeth as he sees her fall, but Norrington recognises him as the infamous pirate, and he is then taken into custody. He manages to get away and dives into a blacksmith shop, where he meets Will Turner, a self-taught excellent swordsman who is now a blacksmith's apprentice. Sparrow is knocked out during a sword fight with Turner and taken to jail; the next day, he will be executed. The Pearl invades Port Royal that evening in response to the medallion's enigmatic call. After being captured, Elizabeth invokes parley, a contract that guarantees one's safety up until meeting and negotiating with the other side. Elizabeth says to Captain Barbossa that her last name is Turner since she doesn't want to admit that she is the Governor's daughter. In exchange for the medallion, she strikes a deal with the pirates to end their assault on Port Royal. Barbossa agrees but, taking advantage of a gap in their agreement, imprisons Elizabeth because he thinks she holds the key to removing the curse they are under.
Will, who is in love with Elizabeth, convinces Captain Jack Sparrow to help him save her in exchange for letting him out of jail when Commodore Norrington refuses to act right away. Only after discovering Will Turner's last name does Jack concur. After seizing control of the HMS Interceptor, Jack and Will use the assistance of Gibbs, an old acquaintance and former Royal Navy boatswain, to assemble a crew in Tortuga. They set off towards the enigmatic island of Isla de Muerta, where Jack is certain the pirates will visit in order to lift the curse.
Will discovers Jack's history as they are travelling. Formerly the captain of the Pearl, Jack became marooned on an island after sharing the location of a hidden vault filled with gold coins from the Aztec Empire with First Mate Barbossa. After three days, Jack got away. The pirates discovered and looted the riches but soon realised it was cursed and had transformed them into nearly immortal skeletal monsters whose actual forms can only be seen in the night. The curse can only be broken by returning every coin and drop of every pirate's blood to the chest. Jack's lone backer, William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, believed the crew should continue to be cursed for what they did to Jack, so he sent a penny to his son, Will. Bootstrap was strapped to a cannon and cast overboard by Barbossa, but after realising that his blood is also required to cure the curse, a Turner relative must now step into Bootstrap's place.
Barbossa, thinking Elizabeth is Bootstrap's child, anoints the last coin with her blood and places it into the box in the treasure-filled cave on Isla de Muerta. Unsurprisingly, the curse is still in place.
When Will gets to the island, he knocks Sparrow unconscious because he thinks he might betray him. Elizabeth is saved, and they make their way to the Interceptor. Jack offers Barbossa the Pearl in exchange for information on Bootstrap's real child. However, Jack's attempts to negotiate fail when the Pearl follows the Interceptor, sinks her, and kidnaps the crew. Will says he's Bootstrap Bill's son and insists that Elizabeth and the crew be released or he'll kill himself and fall overboard and be lost forever. Barbossa agrees, but cunningly uses a different loophole to imprison Jack and Elizabeth on the same island they were on ten years earlier and tosses Jack's crew into the brig. For a rite, Will is brought to Isla de Muerta. Elizabeth learns the facts about how Jack actually left the island while she is still on the island. Rum smugglers, who are no longer in business, utilised the island where Jack was imprisoned as a stockpile.
To make a signal fire that Norrington can see, Elizabeth burns a stash of rum that has been abandoned. By accepting his prior marriage proposal, she persuades Norrington to save Will. As they make their way back to Isla de Muerta, Norrington arranges an ambush outside the cave, and Jack enters to convince Barbossa to establish an alliance. When they have captured the Dauntless and slain the crew, he instructs him to put off breaking the curse. Then Jack takes a coin out of the chest and becomes immortal. Whatever Jack's true intentions may be, his scheme fails as Barbossa instructs his crew to board the Dauntless from below the surface. After breaking into the Pearl, Elizabeth releases Jack's crew and kills the two pirates defending it. While Elizabeth goes to the island to help Will, she tries to get the crew to help but they reject and steal the Pearl. While Jack, an immortal, battles Barbossa and reveals his true loyalties, Elizabeth saves Will and together they kill the three cursed pirate guards. Will receives the last two medallions that Jack had stained and returns them to the chest with them after adding his own blood to Jack's, breaking the curse. The shot Jack had been saving for ten years is subsequently used to shoot Barbossa in the heart. The wounded Barbossa loses his immortality and passes away. The now-mortal pirates give themselves over to the navy after realising they are no longer cursed.
Jack is set to be put to death back in Port Royal. Will saves Jack because he thinks he deserves to live. While both are being soon arrested, Elizabeth offers her assistance and professes her love for Will. With the approval of Norrington and Governor Swann, Will is given yet another pardon after being previously exonerated of stealing the Interceptor. Jack makes his getaway by launching himself off the fort and into the harbour. He is saved by his crew, who fled with the Pearl, and is appointed captain. Norrington is sufficiently impressed to give him a one-day head start before starting to pursue.
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