It’s a strange decision for the primary villain of At World’s End, Cutler Beckett, to keep Davy Jones’ heart aboard The Flying Dutchman. It’s a foolish idea, but to be fair to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, this sort of short-sighted stupidity is consistent with Beckett’s cruelty. However, in what seems like an obvious Pirates of the Caribbean plot hole, Beckett kept Jones’ heart aboard Jones’ own ship, The Flying Dutchman. Played to creepy perfection by Bill Nighy, the octopus-faced nautical legend Davy Jones was a heartless villain introduced in 2006’s Pirates of the Caribbean sequel Dead Man’s Chest. And that's quite literally heartless, as by the third film At World’s End, the slimy East India Company representative Cutler Beckett had stolen the chest containing Jones’s heart and used this newfound bargaining chip to force the man-monster to do his bidding. Related: Pirates of the Caribbean 6: Why Disney Is Rebooting The Franchise The Pirates of the Caribbean sequels may not have been able to keep the first film’s momentum going thanks to their inconsistent tone and knotty plotting, but the series did introduce some compelling, if under-utilized, new villains in the later films such as Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones. The movie also made an overnight icon of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow and won over both critics and audiences alike. Beginning in 2003 with the phenomenally successful The Curse of the Black Pearl, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise managed to revive the swashbuckling adventure sub-genre after Cutthroat Island flopped eight years earlier. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise features its fair share of plot holes, but there is a surprisingly satisfactory answer to the question of why human villain Cutler Beckett kept Davy Jones’ heart aboard his ship the Flying Dutchman in the third installment, At World’s End.

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