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was a loyal employee of the East India Trading Company. Born in Scotland, Mercer served as the personal assistant of the Company's governor, Lord Cutler Beckett. Despite serving faithfully in his official capacity as a clerk, Mercer also carried out some of Beckett's more sinister agendas as an assassin and a spy. Mercer would stop at nothing to further his employer's pursuit of power.

As Lord Beckett's merciless and ruthless enforcer, Mercer came to Port Royal, Jamaica, in the Caribbean during Beckett's search for the Dead Man's Chest. He aided Beckett in taking over Port Royal as well as helped in manipulating the Swann family, which eventually, and inadvertently, lead to his employer's control of the heart of Davy Jones. Throughout Beckett's war against piracy, Mercer had led EITC soldiers in an attack against the crew of the Black Pearl in Singapore, and made a deal with the Chinese pirate Sao Feng, which allowed Beckett's flagship, the Endeavour, to temporarily capture the Black Pearl and the infamous Jack Sparrow. Towards the end of the war, Mercer was placed in charge of Jones' supernatural ship, the Flying Dutchman.

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• … that Ian McShane has portrayed another pirate besides Blackbeard? He voiced Captain Hook in the Shrek series.

• … that the name for Sao Feng's navigational charts is the Mao Kun Map?

• … that the Sunset, the real world ship that portrayed the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, portrayed the Queen Anne's Revenge in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?

• … that USA Network has the cable broadcasting rights for the first three Pirates films?

• … that Ian McShane's Blackbeard had temporarily replaced Bill Nighy's Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and Disney World?

• … that Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio wrote the first draft for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film in the 1990s?