[bloodrayne]

The briny deep is definitely not my forté, and I know nothing of writing scripts, but I'll give it a shot.


This is a modern-day version of a very old legend.

A man and his girlfriend set out on an adventurous vacation to Acapulco.

They decide to go deep-sea diving...While looking for a place to rent scuba equipment they chance upon a coastal maritime curiosity shop that's run by a creepy looking old man...The old man shows them a treasure map that marks a sunken ship, supposedly sunk by pirates...The story the old man tells them says that the pirates set the ship on fire (as was common) after pillaging it and killing everyone on board, but before they could escape the fire, a keg of gunpowder in the ship's hold exploded, and all of the pirates, except one,died before they could escape.

The one surviving pirate made it back to shore, barely alive, and created the map that was now in the possession of the shop owner...However, the pirate never recovered the treasure (gold dubloons) on the ship because he went crazy (either from exposure while floating adrift before coming to shore, some sort of mental trauma from the entire ordeal, or something else)...Because the pirate was clearly insane, no one really took him seriously, so the treasure was never searched for, and according to the shop owner, could still be there...If the event really happened, and if the treasure even existed...It's all based on the story of a crazy old pirate, so who knows?

Anyway, the man is intrigued and his girlfriend thinks it would be fun even if they don't find any treasure, plus they like the look of the old treasure map and the fact that it has an interesting story to go with it, so even if they find no treasure, they have this awesome map to keep...They buy it and set out, chuckling at the old man's warning that "All pirate treasure is cursed, they say".

In the water, at the correct location, the couple actually DO come across a sunken ship...They explore but find no skeletons, and no treasure...A little disappointing, but still fun...As they are about to swim to the surface the man sees something gleaming in the light of his flashlight...It's a gold coin....He picks it up, examines it, shows it to his girlfriend...They look around the spot for more, find none, and head to the surface...Back on the boat they look at it closer, it looks very old, and it's clearly gold, but neither of them have ever seen anything like it before...They are excited, and they've had a great trip.

They get ready to call it a day...But...the boat won't start (typical, right?)...No big deal, this is modern-day, they pull out their cell phones...No reception...Ship's radio...Static...They try the bright red, blinky mayday beacon, and THAT actually works...So, they decide they'll just wait until someone sees it...They have a galley below deck with some food and bottled water, so they can sit for a whole week if they have to, they are upset but not exactly panicking...Not yet, anyway.

After about an hour, as they sit on the deck eating lunch, they see a ship...It's headed toward them, and they are relieved...3 men board their boat, but, as it turns out, they aren't exactly rescuers...Modern-day pirate story, with modern-day pirates...They kill the man and his girlfriend, quite gruesomely, remove all valuables from the boat and burn it...Right over the very spot where the pirates died many years before.

However, that's not the end of the story...Or the man.

The man 'wakes up' at the bottom of the ocean, inside what he recognizes as the sunken ship that he and his girlfriend had explored earlier...He has no gear on, but he isn't drowning...That's likely because, as he notices, he isn't BREATHING...As he looks around to try to figure out what's going on, he sees his girlfriends mutilated corpse...He freaks out and tries to get out of the ship, but a hellish figure appears in front of him...The figure speaks and identifies himself as Davy Jones...The man is stunned that he can hear the man speak clearly, as if they weren't underwater...He tries to speak as well, and finds that he also is speaking clearly...He asks Davy what is happening and why.

Davy Jones explains that the man is a pirate, and that he (Jones) is the keeper of 'Pirate Hell'...The man insists that he is not a pirate, and Jones points out that the coin he possesses (the man forgot it was still in his pocket) was clearly that of a pirate, as was the map that was also in his pocket (oddly not damaged at all by the water).

The man explained the entire situation, insisted that he was innocent, and also wanted to know why his girlfriend was just a mutilated corpse in the water, instead of ending up like him...Davy explained "She's not a pirate, she will be judged by another".

Anyway, Davy Jones ends up believing that the man is clearly not a pirate, and as such he cannot enter 'Pirate Hell'...Since the man was innocent, Davy made a deal with him (your typical 'deal with the devil')...He told the man that he could release him, but he would still be dead OR he could actually restore the man's life, if he would carry out some tasks...Things that the man would clearly NOT want to do, but restoration to life comes with a steep price.

Davy Jones wanted the souls of 10 pirates' decendents...He gave their names and locations to the man, and told him that he would have to kill them, and remove their hearts...Davy Jones also told him that 2 of the men were the same ones who killed him and his girlfriend...That was enough to make him agree to the deal

The next thing he knew, he was in his hotel room in Acapulco, completely dry...Now he thought he must have just been dreaming or something, but when he looked in the mirror above the bathroom sink, saw that he had blood on his face and shirt, when he reached to touch the blood on his face, he saw that it was also on his hands...He reached in his pocket to see if the coin or map was there, but instead he pulled out the list of names and locations...It wasn't a dream.

He filled the sink to wash his face and hands, and when he looked into the water, he saw Davy Jones's face...He told him, "This time is borrowed, you haven't earned your life back yet. You have only one week to finish the task, or you will be dead"

So, he locates the 10 people (one of whom happens to be the creepy store owner), and also the 2 that killed him and his girlfriend (easy, one was leaving a bar, the other was on a boat at the marina)...He takes pleasure in torturing those 2...He removes all of the hearts and puts them in the freezer, figuring Jones will tell him what to do with them when the week is over...He makes quite a bloody, gutty mess at the scene of each 'soul collection', and of course the police are hot on his trail.

They find him at his hotel, covered in blood, screaming into the sink "Answer me!"...They also find the hearts in the freezer...He tells the police that he's innocent, that he had no choice...As they sit in the hotel room, he tells them everything that happened, and he asks them how they found him...They tell him that they've been looking for him since they found his boat...He said his boat was set on fire and sank...They informed him that his boat was perfectly fine. in the marina, and his girlfriend's mutilated corpse was found on board, as well as the map, which led them to the murdered curiosity shop owner because some of the locals had seen the map at the shop before.

The man was clearly insane...They lead him out of the hotel room...As the door closes, an evil chuckle is heard from the bathroom sink, and water gurgles down the drain.