User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110527061300/@comment-4898132-20110527231640

''Exactly--a deleted scene. It's not in the film. I understand that other sources have explained Jack's employment by the EITC, but the films show Jack as a longtime pirate with a pirate father, with no indication that he had been anything but a pirate. I've always been slightly annoyed that this part of Jack's backstory was cut from the films, since it leaves one wondering what history Beckett and Sparrow had.''
 * Well, since there has been no dialogue whatsoever in all the films suggesting that Jack has not worked with the EITC...what other saying it there? So unless if you can magically make it to where "Jack Sparrow was always a pirate" is canon, things stay the way they are. Jack was a pirate as a child, but became part of the EITC in his twenties until the "Wicked Wench" incident.

Price of Freedom, page 251: "'You are saying that there is a real Davy Jones, that he is not just a sailor's legend? Not merely a...what is the English term...a figure of speech?' 'I've never seen him, but he's real,' Jack replied softly."
 * I was thinking of more of...Jack/Jones dialogue. But thanks for that, it could be something worth looking into...though if it's just this dialogue present, it is possible that Jack's telling the truth by "lying".