Cutler Beckett (also known as: Lord Beckett) is the secondary antagonist of the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the main antagonist of it's 2007 sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He is the head of the East India Trading Company. The company wants to kill all pirates and control the seas by finding the heart of Davy Jones, and using it to manipulate Jones into doing as they command. He and Jack Sparrow have had encounters in the past that leave both of them with permanent engravings on their skin. Beckett seeks to obtain order in the new world, as well as make Britain grow more powerful.