"The Pearl is just a ship. One of many." It's almost sacrilegious to speak of the Pearl that way -- she is the most legendary ship on the seven seas -- but he's as ruthless as the next pirate when all is said and done. Everybody wants something they can't have.

Still, every man has his reasons. If he has Sparrow, Barbossa, and one of Sparrow's small treasures, that's a potent bargaining chip against Beckett and the ruinous East India company.

"And how does Barbossa propose to find World's End?"

He, after all, holds the only known map.

And he has never used it.