User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110527061300/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110602142915

" Thankfully, it was semi answered thanks to said "deleted scene" and the new book "Price of Freedom". IMO any explanation from any official POTC-related material is better than "no explanation". Savvy? Besides...just because the scenes are deleted doesn't necessarily mean they're not canon(as Gibbs had some dialogue in DMC that Tia Dalma said later in AWE, concerning Davy Jones' Locker). "

Again, I'm not doubting the truth of the information, particularly since we've just seen a whole novel published with that backstory. I've just always been of the opinion that the scene should have been left in the movie, because without it the movies never explain the history Jack had with Beckett (which was the main force behind the plots of DMC and AWE) or the reason Jack was willing to sacrifice so much for the Pearl (which is arguably the driving force of all the movies!)

"Simple; to survive...and be with his ship. It has been shown/implied in the films."

I meant it's difficult to see what motivation Jack would have had *in that particular situation* to lie to Esmeralda about having met Jones in the past. His survival and that of his ship were not at stake. (He didn't even have a ship at that point in the book.) Have you read Price of Freedom yet?