User blog comment:Mrcharlton/YJS books may not be canon/@comment-71.114.230.148-20110527061300/@comment-15328-20110527170638

"There has been no dialogue in the films that show that Jack was always a pirate. There was a deleted scene in AWE which kinda assists in revealing that Jack once worked with the company."

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.

"Could you please present dialogue from the book to support this theory?"

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."

So we do have some contradictions between the Jack Sparrow books and other POTC sources...the Rob Kidd/Secret Files explanation is one easy way of reconciling them.