One of the pirates sticks his head into the hole looking for the kid and Max. He then starts to walk down the stairs and then the scene cuts to a close up, up shot of the pirate as he walks down.
You’ll probably have noticed that the majority of my layouts are pretty simple. I don’t like to clutter up the backgrounds with a lot of meaningless information unless it’s actually going to help put across a specific message about the location. I learned this from working on series work that less is better. Too much detail can distract from the characters and it also costs a lot more in time to do the layout as well as to paint the final Background.
Try watching The Secret of N.I.M.H. and see how much detail they put into those backgrounds... wow!