Greitzer

Greitzer
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Title(s)	Lieutenant
Statistics
Weapon(s) owned	Flintlock pistol Knife
Ship(s) captained or crewed	HMS Endeavour
Battles	Battle of Calypso's maelstrom
Affiliation	East India Trading Company Crew of the HMS Endeavour
Behind the scenes
First appearance	At World's End
Latest appearance	At World's End
Portrayer	David Meunier

"A betrayer among them? Or a trap?"

―Greitzer to Lord Cutler Beckett

Greitzer was a lieutenant serving in the East India Trading Company around the time of the conflict with the Pirate Lords of the Fourth Brethren Court. He served as one of Cutler Beckett's officers aboard the HMS Endeavour.

Biography

Following the escape of the Empress and the Black Pearl after Sao Feng's betrayal, Lord Beckett ordered that the HMS Endeavour pursue the Black Pearl, which had sailed off in in the hopes of reaching Shipwreck Cove. While pursuing the Black Pearl, the Endeavour happened upon a floating barrel with the body of a dead Company soldier tied atop. Greitzer assisted Lord Beckett, using a knife from his pocket, to cut a bottle from the wrist of one of the corpses.

Greiter and Cutler Beckett examining the trail.

Greitzer then noticed another body in the water, a trail left by William Turner, a crewmember of the Flying Dutchman, for Beckett to follow. Greitzer questioned rather or not there was a betrayer among the Black Pearl's crew or if it was simply a trap set by the pirates. Lord Beckett told him that it was no more than the gambit of a skilled opponent and ordered Greitzer to adjust the Endeavour's course, hoping to catch up to the Black Pearl before they ran out of bodies.

He was aboard the Endeavour during the battle of Calypso's maelstrom. When they prepared for the final stand to destroy the Black Pearl along the Pirate Armada of the Brethren Court, the Flying Dutchman emerged from the waters, but Davy Jones was gone and Turner's son Will was the new Captain of the ship. Following the captains' orders, both the Pearl and the Dutchman started to fire against the Endeavour. It's assumed that when Beckett became incapacitated to give an order, he chose to abandon ship under the orders of Lieutenant Theodore Groves with the rest of the crew. His further fate is unknown.

Behind the scenes

• Greitzer was played by the uncredited David Meunier in At World's End.
• In the revision screenplay draft of At World's End, Greitzer was initially going to not be present, or at least without any lines, during the scene of the destruction of the HMS Endeavour.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End