To increase his and the East India Trading Company's power in the Caribbean,Lord Cutler Beckett executes anyone,including women and children,suspected of or remotely associated with piracy.Beckett,who now possesses Davy Jones's heart,orders Jones to destroy all pirate ships.Condemned prisoners defiantly sing a song to summon the nine pirate lords comprising the (fourth) Brethren Court to convene at Shipwreck Cove and take action against Beckett.However,Captain Jack Sparrow,pirate lord of the Caribbean,never appointed his successor,and therefore must attend.Captain Barbossa leads Will,Elizabeth,Tia Dalma and Black Pearl crewmen to rescue Jack.Sao Feng,pirate lord of the South China Sea and residing in Singapore,possesses a map to World's End,the gateway to Davy Jones' Locker,where Jack is eternally imprisoned.Elizabeth and Barbossa bargain with Feng for the map and a ship,but Feng is furious that Will already attempted to steal it.The British Royal Navy,led by Mercer,acting under orders from Beckett,make a surprise attack on Feng's bathhouse.During the ensuing chaos,Will strikes a bargain with Feng for the Black Pearl in exchange for Sparrow,who Feng wants to turn over to Beckett,presumably for immunity from Davy Jones' attacks on pirates.Will wants the Black Pearl to rescue his father from The Flying Dutchman.
Although Will has been saved and the Dutchman crew has regained their humanity,he is bound to sail the sea as the Dutchman's captain.Will and Elizabeth have one day together where they consummate their marriage on an island.Will departs at sunset,but first gives Elizabeth the Dead Man's Chest for safekeeping.Shortly after,Barbossa again commandeers the Black Pearl,stranding Jack and Gibbs in Tortuga.Having anticipated Barbossa's deception,however,Sparrow has already removed the map's middle that leads to the Fountain of Youth