Heart of Davy Jones

"What, exactly, did he put into the chest?" "Him heart." "Literally or figuratively?" "He couldn't literally put his heart in a chest...could he?""

- William Turner, Tia Dalma, Ragetti and Pintel

This heart was removed by Davy Jones from his own chest after he was forsaken by his love, the sea goddess Calypso, in order to no longer feel the emotion of love again.

Cutting and burying the Heart
"It was not worth feeling what small, fleeting joy life brings...And so, him carve out him heart, lock it down in a chest, and hide the chest from the world."

- Tia Dalma

After Calypso betrayed Davy Jones, Jones carved out his own heart and locked it into the Dead Man's Chest. He had the chest hidden on Isla Cruces so it could be safe from potential mutineers aboard the Flying Dutchman and away from his haunted sight. He kept the key hidden within his facial tentacles at all times. Whoever controlled the chest was able to control Jones by extortion. Jones was immortal so long as his heart remained safe.

Finding the Heart
"If you intend to claim these, then you must have something to trade; do you have the compass?" "Better...the heart of Davy Jones."

- Cutler Beckett and James Norrington



Many years later, the heart would no longer be safe. For many people, including Jack Sparrow and Cutler Beckett, were willing to search for it to control Davy Jones. During Jack Sparrow's attempt to steal the heart in Isla Cruces, through a fight on the island, the heart was ultimately stolen by James Norrington. Norrington later gave it to Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who wanted to use it for darker purposes. Once in possession, Beckett used the heart to control Jones, as well as the Flying Dutchman, in order to rid the world of piracy.

Fight for the Heart
"I slip aboard the Dutchman, find the heart, stab the beating thing, your father's free from his debt, you're free to be with your charming murderess."

- Jack Sparrow to William Turner



Throughout Beckett's war, the heart was kept in the captain's cabin in the Dutchman. During the Battle of Calypso's Maelstrom, the chest, containing the heart, was recovered by Sparrow. He then helped William Turner, who had been stabbed by Jones, stab the heart to kill Jones. Will Turner then became the captain of the Flying Dutchman, after his father, William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner cut out his son's heart and put it into the Dead Man's Chest. The heart, like Jones, fell into the maelstrom.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game)