When she suspected that he might be deserting the ship, she incapacitated him with her hand-held stun gun.The gremlin-like pygmies killed most of the intruders with blow-gun darts, spears, daggers and traps (such as quicksand), but feared and backed away from Imhotep (who was protecting Anck-su-namun behind him).Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies.But the greed of Cortes was insatiable.So the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse.Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity" - after Barbossa located the chest and stole the Aztec gold coins (and wastefully spent all of them), the ancient curse was placed on him and his greedy crew ("We are cursed men") - they were doomed to sail the seas as living corpses.It moves past reporters typing, speaking on phones or writing at their desks.One editor calls out to a "copyboy," as the scene dissolves to a shot of female telephone operators at a switchboard in the outer office.