Actually... Barbossa chuckles. Undead or no undead, he is one mean bastard and has always been.

"I never thought about that when I shouted 'To the Locker with ye!' as we threw him overboard." A thoughtful pause, then "So old Bootstrap is one of our enemies now?"

Well, of course, being a part of Jones's crew -makes- Bootstrap one of the bad guys in Barbossa's book. And it explains a lot. Oh, yes, it does. So young Mister Turner isn't just tagging along his lass. There's more to the mutt than seems at first.