{"id":166,"date":"2010-05-24T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starwarz.com\/starkiller\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:49:54","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-first-draft-by-leigh-brackett-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starwarz.com\/starkiller\/the-empire-strikes-back-first-draft-by-leigh-brackett-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back &#8211; First Draft by Leigh Brackett (Transcript)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarz.com\/starkiller\/wp-content\/uploads\/Star-Wars-Sequel-Brackett.pdf\">The Empire Strikes Back &#8211; Scanned First Draft by Leigh Brackett (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarz.com\/starkiller\/wp-content\/uploads\/TESB_1stdraft_transcript_LB.zip\">The Empire Strikes Back &#8211; First Draft by Leigh Brackett (transcript)<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>STAR WARS sequel<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Screenplay<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>by<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>LEIGH BRACKETT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Notes on the transcription<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Italics<\/i> represent handwritten lines in the script or in the margins<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Cross-outs<\/span> represent typed lines which were XXX-ed out with the typewriter or crossed out by hand, but which were still legible (totally illegible XXX-ed out lines have been left out of the transcription)<\/li>\n<li>Double cross-outs represent typed lines which were XXX-ed out with the typewriter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> crossed out by hand<\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Italicized cross-outs<\/span><\/i> represent handwritten lines that were crossed out by hand, but which were still legible<\/li>\n<li><i>[unreadable]<\/i> represents illegible handwritten words in the middle of otherwise legible handwritten lines (totally illegible handwritten lines have been left out of the transcription)<\/li>\n<li>[Missing]\u00a0 represents a line, or lines, that were cut off by the person who scanned the script from the original<\/li>\n<li>(sic)\u00a0 denotes misspelled or incorrect words in the original<\/li>\n<li>{<i>notes<\/i>} represent handwritten notes from an editor, that are not part of the story<\/li>\n<li>Please excuse the formatting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Leigh Brackett \u2013 feb 17, 1978<\/i><\/p>\n<p>FADE IN<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0 EXT PLAIN OF ICE PLANET \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>A sweeping dramatic shot of LUKE SKYWALKER, mounted on a white snow-lizard, racing across a white snowy landscape.\u00a0 Luke\u2019s scarlet cloak flies in the wind.\u00a0 Curving plumes of snow rise from beneath the speeding paws of the lizard.\u00a0 All about in the distance, snow-wraiths blow on the wind across a cruel and beautiful landscape, in the light of a strange sun.<\/p>\n<p>2\u00a0 EXT LOW RIDGE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The low ridge rises from the plain like a long-backed dune of snow.\u00a0 Luke gallops up the slope into CLOSE SHOT and reins his lizard to a halt.\u00a0 Luke\u2019s face is protected by a masking helmet and goggles, but now he pushes up the goggles so that we can see that it is indeed Luke.\u00a0 He looks keenly about at the land beyond the ridge.\u00a0 <i>He carries a blaster on his right hip and his light-saber on the left. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>3\u00a0 LUKE\u2019S POV<\/p>\n<p>More of the lovely, cruel, white country, apparently deserted except for the blown veils of snow.\u00a0 Dimly there appears through these veils a formation of rocks or perhaps ice of exceptional beauty, catching points of fire from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>4\u00a0 BACK TO LUKE<\/p>\n<p>He smiles and activates his helmet radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han.\u00a0 Come in, Han Solo.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO<\/p>\n<p>5\u00a0 EXT PLAIN \u2013 DAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HAN SOLO<\/p>\n<p>Han is also mounted on a white snow lizard.\u00a0 He is galloping along on another part of the plain, distinguished perhaps by some tumbled <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rock<\/span> <i>ice<\/i> formations.\u00a0 He pulls up.<\/p>\n<p>6\u00a0 HAN SOLO<\/p>\n<p>He speaks into his helmet radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yeah, Luke.\u00a0 What is it?<\/p>\n<p>7\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Nothing.<\/span> No sign of life.\u00a0 I\u2019m at the north ridge.\u00a0 How about you?<\/p>\n<p>8\u00a0 HAN SOLO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m at the cliffs.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t seen anything either.\u00a0 I guess <i>the survey was right \u2013 the<\/i> planet\u2019s clean.\u00a0 <i>We<\/i> might as well go back to Base.\u00a0 I\u2019ll wait for you.<\/p>\n<p>9\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio, looking o.s.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, you go on\u2026no use freezing to death.\u00a0 There\u2019s a real pretty ice formation on the other side of the ridge\u2026want to get a closer look at it.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019ll<\/span> Follow you in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>10\u00a0 HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio, big-brother style)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now wait a minute, Luke.\u00a0 Orders said just to the ridge.\u00a0 Don\u2019t take any chances\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">helmet<\/span> radio makes some angry squawking noises that cause Han to wince.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Okay, okay, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">break your fool neck<\/span>.\u00a0 I was just asking you if you were\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The mike makes one final snarl and goes dead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(shrugs)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>\u2026All right<\/i>.\u00a0 I guess he\u2019s all right.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to lizard)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come on, my animated ice-berg, let\u2019s get back where it\u2019s warm.\u00a0 Or at least, warmer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He prods the lizard into motion and races away, cloak flying.<\/p>\n<p>11\u00a0 EXT RIDGE \u2013 DAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p>Luke readjusts his helmet and goggles, looks off at the alluring ice-formation, and starts jauntily off along the farther slope of the low ridge, angling his mount in a graceful curve.\u00a0 The scene is one of sheer beauty, both in motion and setting.<\/p>\n<p>12\u00a0 CLOSER ANGLE<\/p>\n<p>A veil of snow blows across the slope\u2026no different from any of the others.\u00a0 It momentarily obscures Luke and his mount\u2026and suddenly, without warning, a gigantic form explodes out of the snow almost under the feet of the lizard, which screams and rears, throwing Luke.\u00a0 The monstrous shape\u2026white on white against the snow-cloud, we do not see it clearly except that it is huge and menacing\u2026utters a weird and bestial groaning like <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rocks<\/span> boulders grinding together in the bowels of a mountain.\u00a0 It strikes the lizard dead with one horrendous blow, breaking its neck.\u00a0 Half stunned by the fall, Luke staggers up and attempts to draw the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">light-saber<\/span> <i>blaster<\/i> holstered at his hip.\u00a0 The snowman fetches him a blow across the face that would have taken part of his head off if it had not been for the helmet.\u00a0 Luke falls.\u00a0 <i>Loses blaster.\u00a0 He also has his light-saber. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>13\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p>He lies motionless in the snow, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bleeding<\/span>, his helmet torn, goggles gone, one side of his face a mass of blood.\u00a0 Above him, obscure in the snow-cloud, the white monster looks down at him, then bends and grasps him by one ankle and drags him away.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO<\/p>\n<p>14\u00a0 EXT ICE CASTLE AND APPROACHES \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The ice castle is a natural structure of great beauty with fantastic domes and spires, much akin to the one that lured Luke into trouble only larger.\u00a0 No banners fly from its \u201cbattlements\u201d.\u00a0 There are no visible sentries and the wind-scoured ice of the approaches shows no tracks.\u00a0 Yet Han Solo gallops his snow-lizard confidently toward the blank glittering wall of the structure.\u00a0 <i>In upper natural caves hollowed out there are hooded gun emplacements and radar installations all constructed to be invisible from above.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>15\u00a0 THE ICE CASTLE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>As Han approaches the seemingly blank wall, a section of the ice slides open and he disappears inside, the wall closing behind him.<\/p>\n<p>16\u00a0 INT ICE CASTLE \u2013 DAY OUTER COURT<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the ice has been hollowed out into a series of chambers and halls.\u00a0 In this, the outer court, Han dismounts and gives his lizard to an attendant.\u00a0 Stripping off helmet and goggles, he hurries on toward an inner door.\u00a0 Here he is stopped by a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">SOLDIER<\/span> JUNIOR OFFICER on duty with several SOLDIERS.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han Solo, with a report for <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span>.\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Princess<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Captain Solo, the Princess Leia wishes you to report to her immediately.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, that\u2019s what I just\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>17\u00a0 INT INNER HALL \u2013 DAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AT DOOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">She\u2019s in the War Room on the Third Level.\u00a0 Soldier, escort Captain\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know the way.<\/p>\n<p>He turns and strides impatiently across the inner hall, which is large and busy, with people and robots going back and forth on errands.\u00a0 There are corridors opening off the hall, and a bank of lifts.\u00a0 Han Solo steps into one of these and is taken down.\u00a0 <i>The officer meanwhile turns to an intercom.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>18\u00a0 INT THIRD LEVEL \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>This level has been blasted out of solid <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rock<\/span> <i>ice<\/i> and is huge in extent.\u00a0 Stretching away on either side, as Han steps out of the lift, we see a hangar deck with rebel ships ranked in line.\u00a0 An X-wing fighter is being towed into place.\u00a0 Mechanics and mech-robots work among the ships.\u00a0 In other places are banks of indicators with flashing lights showing the status of various life-support systems.\u00a0 Men, women, and robots monitor these indicators.\u00a0 Huge pipes snake across the roof overhead.\u00a0 The scene is one of great activity, planned and orderly.<\/p>\n<p>Han Solo crosses toward a door that says WAR ROOM Authorized Personnel Only.\u00a0 He hesitates briefly, then strides on past along the hangar deck.<\/p>\n<p>19\u00a0 INT HANGAR DECK \u2013 THIRD LEVEL \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han approaches the battered, unorthodox shape of the MILENNIUM FALCON, looking out of place among the sleek war-craft.\u00a0 He runs up the gangway.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>20\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>CHEWBACCA, the Wookie, answers with growling pleasure from the control cabin as Han enters the main cabin.\u00a0 Chewie comes in wiping his paws on oily waste and talking a blue streak.\u00a0 Han laughs and pats his huge chest.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re not any more bored than I am, Chewie.\u00a0 I never thought I\u2019d go for a sojer, and I doubt if <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it\u2019ll last long<\/span> <i>I can put up with it much longer<\/i>.\u00a0 You just keep the old Falcon in\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>They both break off as a heavy BOOMING SOUND interrupts, and the ground shakes.\u00a0 Chewbacca roars.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Calm down\u2026they\u2019re just blasting more space to put more ships as they come in.\u00a0 You <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">just<\/span> keep the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">old<\/span> Falcon in <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">top<\/span> shape, Chewie.\u00a0 <i>Never know when we may want to jump.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(moving his shoulders uneasily)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019ve got that funny old itch again, just like when the hot breath of the law was puffing down the back of my neck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls understandingly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">21\u00a0 INT WAR ROOM \u2013 DAY<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">FEATURING a huge map or three-dimensional galactic model occupying one entire wall of a good-sized room.\u00a0 The model shows the heavily-clustered stars at the central core, thinning out along the outflung spiral arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>20\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls a question and Han shrugs, shaking his head.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How should I know?\u00a0 Nobody\u2019s likely to find us in this forsaken hole.\u00a0 I doubt if even God remembers where He hung this star.<\/p>\n<p>21\u00a0 INT WAR ROOM \u2013 DAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 THE PLOTTING TANK<\/p>\n<p>At first we think we\u2019re in space looking down from above at the entire galaxy\u2026the burning core of stars at the center, the outflung spiral arms.\u00a0 It is dizzying.\u00a0 Then a single point of light brightens\u2026green light\u2026and a man\u2019s voice speaks OVER.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MAN\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We are here\u2026the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">second<\/span> fourth planet of this detached system at the edge of the Granida Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The green light is indeed close to a great hive of suns, burning with many colors.<\/p>\n<p>22 INT WAR ROOM \u2013 DAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FULL SHOT<\/p>\n<p>We see now that the galaxy is a three-dimensional model occupying a huge tank in the center of a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rock hewn<\/span> great ice chamber.\u00a0 Men and women stand or move about on a catwalk that surrounds it.\u00a0 Lining the walls are control panels, indicator panels, computers, and <i>communicators<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The man who has spoken, COMMANDER WILLARD, stands on the walk with PRINCESS LEIA, GENERAL DODONNA, and some other brass, looking down at the plotting tank.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It is to be<\/span> <i>We<\/i> hoped that the massive energy output of the cluster will <i>mask<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">hide<\/span> our comings and goings from the Empire radar sweeps, which we know will eventually quarter the entire galaxy.\u00a0 See Threepio\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>23\u00a0 INT WAR ROOM \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>At one of the control panels, C3PO stands ready, with R2D2 beside him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, Commander.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let us have the display, based on our latest calculations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Right away, sir.\u00a0 (officiously to Artoo)\u00a0 Artoo, you have your orders.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo whistles derisively and does things to the panel.<\/p>\n<p>24 \u00a0THE TANK<\/p>\n<p>Princess Leia, Willard, and others in f.g. looking down.\u00a0 The galaxy model now shifts color.\u00a0 Part of it, the largest part, is engulfed in red.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That is the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas begin to glow green, first a <i>small<\/i> well-defined center and then scattered patches or single lights.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Since we destroyed the <i>Empire\u2019s<\/i> Death Star, many more systems have found courage to join the rebellion.\u00a0 At the last count, one thousand and twenty-six.\u00a0 But as you see, <i>we\u2019re<\/i> widely scattered and still vastly inferior in ships and men.\u00a0 This base, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">if we can establish and hold it<\/span>, is strategically placed for\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>He breaks off and looks up, as they all do, as Han Solo flings the door open and enters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Captain Solo, I believe you were ordered to report at once.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Where have you been?<\/span> <i>Something more important delayed you no doubt.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Han reddens.<\/i> Princess Leia puts a hand on Willard\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll handle this.\u00a0 Please continue, gentlemen.\u00a0 <i>Han\u2014<\/i><\/p>\n<p>24\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>She walks quickly to Han, whose mouth is open on an angry retort.\u00a0 He shuts it as she smiles at him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let\u2019s go outside.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They go<\/span><\/p>\n<p>25\u00a0 THREEPIO AND ARTOO<\/p>\n<p>They have watched this; they see Han and Leia go out, and Threepio gives the robotic equivalent of a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For a moment I <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">really<\/span> thought Captain Solo was going to simply fuse all his circuits.\u00a0 He\u2019s as undisciplined as you, Artoo.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a rude noise and continues to manage the board as men\u2019s voices continue behind them at the plotting tank.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(serious now)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I have to admit I\u2019m worried. \u00a0What the commander says is true.\u00a0 The Empire is so powerful even without the Death Star, and we\u2019re taking an awful chance with this base\u2026putting all our eggs in one basket, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a series of whistling sounds.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">don\u2019t have<\/span> <i>haven\u2019t got<\/i> enough eggs for two baskets?\u00a0 That\u2019s a profound remark, Artoo.\u00a0 I\u2019ll treasure it.<\/p>\n<p>26\u00a0 EXT DOCKING BAY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Leia <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">has drawn<\/span> <i>is leading<\/i> Han into a quiet area of the hangar.\u00a0 Han has recovered his good humor and is bending over Leia with a smile.\u00a0 But her small face is serious and intent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">So you saw no signs of any inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Shaking his head)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hostile or otherwise.\u00a0 Leia\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Where\u2019s Luke?<\/p>\n<p>26\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019ll be along.\u00a0 He had to go look at something pretty on the other side of the ridge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(halts)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia, I\u2019ve been meaning to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She holds up her hand imperiously, every inch a princess.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I want you to<\/span> Listen to me.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And you\u2019re not going to like what I have to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a beat)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019ve been in touch with your stepfather.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han\u2019s face changes, hardens.\u00a0 He steps back from her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019s not my stepfather.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, whatever he is.\u00a0 He was fond of you once\u2026of all the people in the galaxy, you\u2019re the only one he might listen to.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 And anyway, he <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">won\u2019t<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019s agreed to talk to you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He has.\u00a0 Well, that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t know why you quarreled <i>with him <\/i>and ran away <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">from him<\/span>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care.\u00a0 All that matters is that Ovan Marekal is the most powerful man in the galaxy next to the Emperor himself\u2026and Darth Vader.\u00a0 Through <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span> <i>his<\/i> Transport Guild he controls\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(impatiently)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2026<i>he controls<\/i> all the pilots and navigators in commercial space, and wars aren\u2019t won <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">entirely<\/span> with weapons.\u00a0 I know that.\u00a0 I also know that Ovan Marekal goes with the winning side, and that\u2019s the Empire.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t exactly love it, but that\u2019s where the power is.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">26\u00a0 (cont.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>27\u00a0 INT ICE CORRIDOR \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia have stopped now in an unfinished side corridor away from the noise and activity of the docking area.\u00a0 The corridor stretches away into dimness beyond where the light strip ends.\u00a0 Leia is looking up at Han, and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he at her<\/span> neither of them see what might be vague shadowy motion, white-on-white, at the far dim end of the corridor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You might change his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I might.\u00a0 And all this ice might melt and become a tropical garden.\u00a0 Leia\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(ignoring his tone)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">When<\/span> <i>If<\/i> the Emperor crushes the rebellion and comes to full power, how long does Ovan Marekal think his precious Guild will last?\u00a0 Han, we must have him on our side.\u00a0 You must try to win him for us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han puts his hands gently on either side of the (sic) Leia\u2019s face, turning her lips toward his his (sic).\u00a0 He bends over her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026for you\u2026I\u2019d try even that\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You would?\u00a0 <i>For me?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She smiles.\u00a0 Now his arms go around her.\u00a0 He pulls her closer to him and for a moment it seems that she is melting in his arms, ready for his kiss.\u00a0 In the background, unnoticed, the dim white shapes move and watch.\u00a0 At the very last minute, Leia slaps Han\u2019s face with a resounding crack and he starts back, letting her go, thoroughly startled.\u00a0 Coldly angry, she faces him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Captain Solo, a great war is raging.\u00a0 What you would do for me, or I for you, are matters of no consequence.\u00a0 The mission is vital.\u00a0 The success or failure of the Rebel Alliance may depend on it.\u00a0 As an officer of that Alliance, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">do you<\/span> will you or will you not accept the mission?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(rigidly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll think about it.\u00a0 Your Highness.<\/p>\n<p>27\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>She turns and stalks away and he follows her.\u00a0 Behind them at the end of the corridor the white-on-white shadows seem also to have departed.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>28\u00a0 INT SNOWMAN CAVE \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">DAY<\/span> NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke Skywalker lies on the floor of an ice cave, alone.\u00a0 Somewhere in the recesses of the cave we can hear voices; the deep growling unhuman voices like the grinding <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">of rocks<\/span> together of rocks, the cadence very slow, the rise and fall of tones very limited.\u00a0 We can understand no single word; perhaps there are no words.\u00a0 Yet there is menace in the voices, chillingly alien and incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>Luke stirs.\u00a0 The cave is suffused with a strange light, as of starlight but much brighter.\u00a0 Luke\u2019s face is covered in dried or frozen blood on one side.\u00a0 He sits up, touching himself to discover the extent of his injuries, looking about him, listening to the muttering voices.\u00a0 His light-saber is still holstered at his side.\u00a0 He can see no one.\u00a0 Gathering himself, <i>moving unsteadily<\/i>, he steals toward what appears to be the cave mouth.<\/p>\n<p>He has almost reached it when, through glittering shapes of ice at one side, a gigantic white form emerges and bars the way.\u00a0 It reaches for Luke with huge amorphous paws, grating and grumbling, and for a moment Luke stands appalled\u2026and then a voice seems to speak to him very softly and quietly, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a remembered voice<\/span> a familiar and well-loved voice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN\u2019S VOICE (over)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Remember the Force, boy.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Let the Force be with you<\/span>.\u00a0 Open your mind to it, open your heart\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben\u2026<i>Ben!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Stepping back from the monstrous form, only half glimpsed in the starlight, Luke seems to grow taller, to take on stature, <i>his weakness leaving him<\/i>.\u00a0 He draws the light-saber, and when the beast lunges at him he moves expertly, slashing with the beam\u2026and the beast with one strange cry vanishes <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in a burst of vapor<\/span> <i>back into the icy formations<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Luke runs out of the cave.<\/p>\n<p>29\u00a0 EXT ICE PLANET PLAIN \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke runs across the snowy plain under a night sky of incredible magnificence, with the great star cluster burning overhead.\u00a0 At the mouth of the cave behind him there are groanings and grumblings and moving shapes but the<\/p>\n<p>29\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>creatures do not attempt to follow.<\/p>\n<p>30\u00a0 EXT ICE PLANET PLAIN \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke runs on, a small figure in the vastness of snow and cluster-light.\u00a0 His pace begins to slow and his track weaves from side to side.\u00a0 He stumbles, goes to his hands and knees.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben\u2026help me.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I can\u2019t control<\/span>\u2026The Force.\u00a0 It\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>There is no help.\u00a0 Luke drags himself erect.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And stagger<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Please help me, Ben.\u00a0 Please help\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He staggers on, toward the foot of a long slope of snow.\u00a0 He essays the ascent, falls again, and lies still for a moment, then begins painfully to crawl upward.<\/p>\n<p>31\u00a0 HAN SOLO, LEIA, AND OTHERS<\/p>\n<p>A search party <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">pulls up<\/span> mounted on snow-lizards pulls up at to (sic) top of the slope some distance away and Han points <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">to the still figure of Luke lying in the snow<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There he is!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thank God.<\/p>\n<p>They race down the slope toward Luke.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>32\u00a0 INT BASE <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">SICK BAY<\/span> \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">DAY<\/span> NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Threepio and Artoo hurry together down a long corridor cut from the ice of the base.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Poor Master Luke!\u00a0 If I\u2019d been with him, this might never have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps and whistles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Certainly my joints would have frozen, but not at once, <i>and I might have been able to<\/i> -what is it now?<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>32\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Passing the mouth of a side corridor, Artoo has halted and turned, apparently caught by something he sees or senses in the side corridor.\u00a0 He takes a few tentative steps into the side corridor, beeping uncertainly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What do you mean, you saw something?\u00a0 It\u2019s only storage space, and not even finished yet.<\/p>\n<p>He follows Artoo into the corridor.<\/p>\n<p>33\u00a0 INT SIDE CORRIDOR \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the corridor, where the light does not reach, there is a suggestion of movement, white-on-white.\u00a0 Artoo begins making urgent noises, halting abruptly.\u00a0 Threepio peers into the dimness.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nonsense, you silly collection of spare parts!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Your sensors are<\/span> You\u2019d better have your sensors checked\u2026the cold here seems to be affecting them.\u00a0 Come along now\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(but Artoo is way ahead of him, scooting back into the main corridor)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!\u00a0 Wait for me!<\/p>\n<p>34\u00a0 INT MAIN CORRIDOR \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>But Artoo is waiting for no man, nor robot.\u00a0 Beeping furiously, he hurries on, with Threepio lumbering in his wake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!\u00a0 Wait..!<\/p>\n<p>35\u00a0 INT BASE SICK BAY \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke lies in a bunk in the small sick bay, his face <i>roughly<\/i> bandaged.\u00a0 Leia <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">hovers<\/span> sits on the side of the bunk, holding his hand, her face showing her concern.\u00a0 Han Solo, standing at the foot of the bunk, does not miss this.\u00a0 Commander Willard is also there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I don\u2019t know what they are<\/span>.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t get a good look <i>at them<\/i>, even at the one I killed <i>or drove away<\/i>.\u00a0 It just\u2026vanished.\u00a0 I only know they\u2019re <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">big<\/span> <i>huge<\/i> and white, and <i>cold<\/i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">they seem to live in the snow and ice the way sharks do in water<\/span>.\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And they\u2019re just about as friendly.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>35 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Could you make any estimate as to their number?<\/span> <i>Were there many of them?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">No<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I heard strange voices.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>An inner door of the bay opens and a DOCTOR and NURSE enter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DOCTOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your Highness\u2026Commander.\u00a0 This man has lost an awful lot of blood, and his wounds need attention.\u00a0 I must ask you\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">One moment, Doctor.\u00a0 This is vital.\u00a0 Skywalker\u2026do you believe that these snow-creatures pose any threat to the base?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I can\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He is interrupted by a beeping and whistling o.s. outside.\u00a0 The outer door opens.\u00a0 Artoo and Threepio enter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!\u00a0 Threepio!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Master Luke.\u00a0 Oh, Master Luke!\u00a0 If I\u2019d only been there to help\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Force helped me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(derisively)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Force!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Yes<\/span>.\u00a0 I heard old Ben\u2026or I thought I did\u2026telling me to open my mind to the Force, and I must have because suddenly I was strong and able to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">fight<\/span> <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">kill the thing<\/span> fight<\/i>.\u00a0 That\u2019s how I got away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>HAN<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>You only got one of them.\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t the others follow you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Maybe they\u2019re afraid of the night sky, the cluster of [unreadable] the Force.<\/span><\/i> <i>The Force held them.<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">But after that I lost it.<\/span> <i>But after I lost it<\/i>, I couldn\u2019t get it back.\u00a0 If you hadn\u2019t found me, I\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he shakes his head, then starts up in alarm)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My sabre.\u00a0 My father\u2019s light-sabre.\u00a0 Where is it?<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>35\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Right here, Master Luke.<\/p>\n<p>The saber lies on a table nearby.\u00a0 Luke reaches out for it and Threepio picks it up\u2026fumbles it\u2026grasps the hilt\u2026<\/p>\n<p>36\u00a0 CLOSE SHOT<\/p>\n<p>On Threepio\u2019s hands with the light sabre.\u00a0 As he grips the hilt awkwardly there is a sharp click and something crystalline and shiny pops out of a hidden recess in the hilt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>36\u00a0 BACK TO SCENE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, dear, what have I done?\u00a0 I\u2019ve broken it, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Master Luke<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, wait a minute, wait a minute, calm down.<\/p>\n<p>He takes the sabre from Threepio and studies it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Stupid contraption<\/span><\/i><i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019d do better to throw the thing away and get yourself a good blaster<\/span>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a miracle he could do anything with this antique<\/i>.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see \u2013 There\u2019s a little stud <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">here<\/span> hidden here.\u00a0 It activates a spring and\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(almost feverishly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let me have it\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DOCTOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Skywalker, if you want\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let me have it, Han!<\/p>\n<p>The Doctor shrugs and Han gives Luke the saber.\u00a0 Luke looks at the crystal projecting from the hilt.\u00a0 He works it gently with his fingers, and it comes free.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes.\u00a0 It belongs there.\u00a0 It fits.\u00a0 But what is it?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo, who has kept up a steady, if subdued, beeping, now gives a shriller whistling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I could have told him that, Artoo.<\/p>\n<p>36\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A memory cell\u2026like from a computer?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke\u2026put it away now and let the doctor\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>But Artoo, having finally managed to get people\u2019s attention, goes into a renewed burst of urgent noises.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What is he babbling about?\u00a0 He hasn\u2019t shut up once since he came in <i>here<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He claims he saw something big and white moving at the end of a corridor.\u00a0 Sheer nonsense, of course, and I\u2019ve told him to have his sensors\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Threepio suddenly becomes aware of the frozen stares he is getting from everyone in the room.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It is nonsense\u2026isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess\u2026I think we\u2019d better continue this <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span> discussion outside <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and let the doctor get on with his work<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DOCTOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">That would be nice<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>I\u2019d appreciate it<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026if those things are in the base\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019ll be careful.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n<p>She kisses him quickly on his unbandaged cheek.\u00a0 They all go out, Artoo giving one final triumphant beep.\u00a0 Doctor and nurse approach Luke\u2019s bed.\u00a0 He is still holding the saber and the crystal.\u00a0 Staring at the crystal, he starts to replace it in the sabre-hilt, fumbling a bit from weakness.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DOCTOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps you\u2019d better let me do that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 I\u2019ll manage.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated, he stares at the enigmatic crystal.\u00a0 CAMERA MOVES IN TO A CLOSE on the glittery thing and<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVES TO<\/p>\n<p>37\u00a0 CLOSE SHOT<\/p>\n<p>A moving beam of light reflects splintered radiance from knobs and spikes of ice <i>on a rough ice wall<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(over)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No sign of anything here now.<\/p>\n<p>38\u00a0 INT SIDE CORRIDOR \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Willard, holding a torch in one hand and a blaster in the other, Han and Leia each armed with a blaster, stand in a wary group <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">of<\/span> with Threepio and Artoo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s possible Artoo was mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a noise like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hmph!<\/span> They start to move back into the main corridor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m afraid we have to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">believe that\u2026Artoo<\/span>\u2026assume <i>that \u2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He breaks off and they all pause a moment as the dull booming shock of an explosion <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">somewhere<\/span> reaches them from somewhere in the base.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll be glad when they stop that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We all will.<\/p>\n<p>39\u00a0 INT MAIN CORRIDOR \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>As they come back into the main corridor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We have to assume that Artoo saw exactly what he said he did.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But how in the world could these creatures get into the base?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>WILLARD<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>There\u2019s no rock around us \u2013 just ice.\u00a0 They could tunnel.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And<\/span> What could they do, anyway?\u00a0 They sound very primitive\u2026just animals.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nevertheless, until we know a little more about it I\u2019m going to<\/p>\n<p>39 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly alarm hooters begin to SOUND all through the base and mechanical voices <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">speak through<\/span> boom through speakers mounted in the corridor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE FROM SPEAKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Red alert!\u00a0 Red alert!\u00a0 Security squads Six and Eight to Sector K-12 on the double!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">All other personnel evacuate the area immediately<\/span>.\u00a0 I repeat, Red Alert.\u00a0 All personnel report to assigned stations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">K-12\u2026that\u2019s where they\u2019ve been blasting.<\/p>\n<p>He starts to run.\u00a0 Leia and Han follow.\u00a0 The mechanical voice and the hooting continue as a blurred background as they go.\u00a0 Threepio and Artoo hesitate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Report to assigned stations.\u00a0 Thank heaven ours is nowhere near K-12!\u00a0 Come on, Artoo!\u00a0 We\u2019re needed.<\/p>\n<p>They take off <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in<\/span> along the corridor.<\/p>\n<p>40\u00a0 INT SECTOR K-12 \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Several<\/span> A number of bodies are sprawled around like dolls hurled and broken by giant children.\u00a0 Heavy equipment is smashed.\u00a0 The security people are standing around looking baffled, with nothing to shoot at.\u00a0 Willard, Leia, and Han are looking at the death and destruction, their faces grim.\u00a0 At one side a WOMAN in <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">uniform<\/span> <i>coveralls<\/i> stands weeping, a security man beside her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(to Han)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You were asking what they could do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(Han nods)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Corporal<\/span>, Bring <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the sergeant<\/span> <i>her<\/i> over here.<\/p>\n<p>The security man brings the weeping woman to Willard.\u00a0 <i>He looks at her shoulder patches<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Sergeant<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>Technician, First Class<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The woman straightens up and controls herself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">WOMAN SERGEANT<\/span> <i>WOMAN<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Yes, sir.\u00a0 Monitoring the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">blasting<\/span> excavation procedures<\/i>.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sir<\/span>.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that I saw them\u2026great white <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">things<\/span>.\u00a0 All of a sudden they were here, and this all happened\u2026in seconds.\u00a0 So fast!<\/p>\n<p>40 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And how did they get away?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SERGEANT WOMAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They <i>seemed to<\/i> just\u2026disappear<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ed<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I see.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 Dismissed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(the woman goes; Willard looks at Han)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You were asking what these primitive animals could do.<\/p>\n<p>Han nods.\u00a0 He and Leia and Willard leave the area as clean-up operations begin and paramedics arrive.<\/p>\n<p>41\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Leia, Han, and Willard walking across the main hangar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m putting the base on a 24-hour Red Alert\u2026maximum precautions, <i>everyone to go armed at all times \u2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Can we control these creatures?\u00a0 Do we dare to take the risk?<\/p>\n<p>They halt, and Willard looks around at the ships, a haggard and tired man.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess, we <i>don\u2019t<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">do not<\/span> dare <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> to take the risk.\u00a0 If we move, searching for another base\u2026with all this to do over again\u2026there\u2019s no chance we\u2019d get away with it.\u00a0 This base is our best hope.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to hold onto it.\u00a0 At least here, so far, we\u2019re safe from the Empire.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(turns to look at Han)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Has Captain Solo granted us a decision yet on whether <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he will<\/span> he\u2019ll undertake the mission to Ovan Marekal?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why don\u2019t you just order me to go, Commander?<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>41\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Because I have Princess Leia\u2019s orders not to do that.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Either you go of your own free will, Han, or there\u2019s no point in your going at all.\u00a0 Good night, gentlemen.\u00a0 <i>If you need me, Commander, I\u2019ll be in the sickbay<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Where are you going?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Back to the sickbay, to make sure Luke\u2019s all right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She strides away, her back straight and uncompromising.\u00a0 Han looks after her with a peculiar expression.<\/p>\n<p>Secretly, tired as he is, Willard smiles.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>42\u00a0 EXT TON MUUND \u2013 DAY\u00a0 ESTABLISHING<\/p>\n<p>View of an enormous city, covering all we can see of a planet.\u00a0 CAPTION:\u00a0 TON MUUND, THE CITY-PLANET, ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE EMPIRE.<\/p>\n<p>43\u00a0 EXT BUILDING \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>(Ton Muund should have an odd sort of day<i>light<\/i>; perhaps a blue star)<\/p>\n<p>One of a complex of mighty, squat, towering buildings with a look of cold efficiency about them, totally devoid of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>44\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 TON MUUND \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">office<\/span> room is large, Spartan in its furnishings, with a bank of communicators and computer terminals indicating that it is an office devoted to the business of the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>DARTH VADER, huge, black-clad and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">caped<\/span> cloaked, his face hidden by the black breathing mask, stands <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in<\/span> watching as two of his minions interview an <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">alien<\/span> ALIEN\u2026a very alien-looking alien who speaks in quick chittering bursts, glancing uneasily at Vader\u2019s menacing height.\u00a0 One of the minions is an INTERPRETER, who listens to the alien speech and then relays the translation to Vader and the other minion, who is recording <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it<\/span> <i>the conversation<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>44\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">INTERPRETER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This individual <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is a native of one of<\/span> <i>says it is a<\/i> small trader <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the worlds of the Granida Cluster<\/span> makes occasional <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">small trader<\/span> voyages into the Granida Cluster, where he has several contacts\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thief, smuggler, and slaver.\u00a0 No one else goes into the Granida.\u00a0 Continue.<\/p>\n<p>There is another brief exchange of chittering and squeaking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">INTERPRETER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As <i>the individual was approaching <\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he was leaving<\/span> the Cluster, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">still<\/span> at <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">light speed<\/span> normal velocity, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he<\/span> <i>it<\/i> saw a number of ships <i>drop<\/i> out of hyper-space <i>and head away from the cluster<\/i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He<\/span> <i>It<\/i> counted twenty-three, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">all<\/span> <i>most of these<\/i> bearing rebel insignia.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Because of the intense glare of the cluster, they did not see him<\/span>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He<\/span> <i>It<\/i> did not dare to follow them, but <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he<\/span> <i>it<\/i> was able to get a fix <i>on the direction of flight \u2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The coordinates, man!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Give me<\/span> the coordinates!<\/p>\n<p>More chittering and squeaking.\u00a0 The interpreter looks unhappy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">INTERPRETER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lord Vader, the individual believes that this information is of considerable value to the Empire.\u00a0 It desires a reward\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Naturally.\u00a0 Whatever it requests.<\/span> <i>The Empire is gracious to its friends<\/i>.\u00a0 Give me the coordinates.\u00a0 <i>Or the name of the solar system.\u00a0 Anything<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>More chittering.\u00a0 The interpreter writes down a series of numbers.\u00a0 Vader gestures to him to hand the paper to the second man.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Put it on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The second man sets up a pattern on a keyboard.\u00a0 A huge screen lights up, showing the lower segment of the Granida Cluster.\u00a0 A light-pointer appears in the area where the rebel ships were sighted.\u00a0 It begins to move, away from the cluster.\u00a0 The picture moves with it, leaving the cluster farther behind.\u00a0 Vader watches tensely.\u00a0 A spot of light appears\u2026a star\u2026planets.\u00a0 The pointer zeroes in on the solar system, and stops.\u00a0 Vader\u2019s great gauntleted hand crashes down on a table-top in triumph.<\/p>\n<p>44\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to interpreter)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Remove this unpleasant lump of protoplasm <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">from my sight<\/span>.\u00a0 Give it whatever its heart desires, if it has a heart\u2026but see that it\u2019s kept under lock and key until we\u2019re sure it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span> information is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>And he sweeps out of the office, striding like a man with a mighty purpose.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>45\u00a0 INT SICKBAY \u2013 THE REBEL BASE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke is up and around the sickbay, convalescent.\u00a0 He still looks a bit shaky and his face shows some scarring.\u00a0 Leia is with him.\u00a0 They <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">speak<\/span> are in the midst of a tentative, and very tender love scene.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">must have<\/span> spent a lot of time here, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Leia<\/span> <i>Leia<\/i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It seemed to me that<\/span> whenever <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">every time<\/span> I woke up <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">you<\/span> I could see you, sitting beside the bed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">All the time I could spare<\/span>.\u00a0 You very nearly didn\u2019t make it.\u00a0 The doctor said if it hadn\u2019t been for your helmet\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(she shivers)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You were lucky.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And those snow-things are inside the base.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There hasn\u2019t been another attack since that night.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Perhaps they\u2019ve been scared off<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia, I wish you\u2019d go somewhere safe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There isn\u2019t any safe place for me, you know that.\u00a0 Not as long as Darth Vader and the Empire\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>45\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He takes her in his arms and kisses<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I love you.\u00a0 I want to keep you safe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He kisses her and she returns it\u2026a sweet and tender kiss.\u00a0 Then she pushes him gently away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Dear Luke.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Please<\/span> Try to understand.\u00a0 Whether I will it or not, I\u2019m the Princess Leia Organa, a leader of the rebel forces\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(sadly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And I\u2019m just the farmboy from Tatooine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re Luke Skywalker, the fighter pilot who destroyed the Death Star.\u00a0 You have duties, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke<\/span>, just as I have.\u00a0 \u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">much greater ones than we can could possibly have owe to each other.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t that I couldn\u2019t love you<\/span>\u2026<i>there isn\u2019t any place for love \u2013 not now<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(tries to take her in his arms again)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Do you, Leia?\u00a0 Say it<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>Might there be \u2013 later?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(unhappily, backing off)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke\u2026I wish\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">She is interrupted by a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">brisk<\/span> knock on the door.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes\u2026come in.<\/p>\n<p>Han Solo enters, looking very brisk, brash, and pleased with himself.\u00a0 Leia seems relieved to see him.\u00a0 Luke is somehow, subtly, relegated to the background.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh\u2026hello, Han.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I was looking for you<\/span>, <i>Hello<\/i>, Leia.\u00a0 They told me I\u2019d find you up here.\u00a0 How\u2019s it going, Luke?\u00a0 <i>You\u2019re looking great<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>I\u2019m<\/i> Fine, thanks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Good.\u00a0 We thought for a while there you were going to leave us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>CONTINUED <\/i><\/p>\n<p>45\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019re looking great, kid<\/span>.\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019m<\/span><\/i> Glad to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">see<\/span> <i>hear<\/i> it.\u00a0 Leia, I wanted to tell you\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019ve decided to undertake the mission.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How did you\u2026?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(smiling)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know you better than you know yourself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(wincing)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A man always hates to hear a woman tell him that.\u00a0 It might just be true, and what a catastrophe that would be!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span> LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(eagerly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Can I go with you, Han?\u00a0 I\u2019m strong enough <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">now<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, I can\u2019t take anyone, Luke.\u00a0 Just me and Chewbacca.\u00a0 Chewie\u2019s been there before, and anyway, Wookiees don\u2019t get involved much with politics.\u00a0 See, Ovan Marekal knows he\u2019s a prime target for assassination <i>or kidnapping.\u00a0 I\u2019m one of the very few people in the galaxy who knows where to find him.<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019m one of the few people in the galaxy who knows where to find him.\u00a0 He lives a very private life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But he\u2019s head of the Transport Guild.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He must<\/span>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A face on the vidscreen.\u00a0 He even attends board meetings by remote control.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019m one of the very few people in the galaxy who know where to find him<\/span>.\u00a0 Anyway, those were his orders.\u00a0 Chewie and me, alone.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, Luke.\u00a0 I\u2019d really like to have you <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">along<\/span>.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not going to be any pleasure jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>45 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s going to be <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">very<\/span> <i>extremely<\/i> dangerous.\u00a0 That\u2019s another reason I couldn\u2019t order you to go.\u00a0 I\u2019m very grateful, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">too<\/span>.\u00a0 When do you plan to leave?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve got a list of stores we\u2019ll need.\u00a0 As soon as we get them loaded\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come on.\u00a0 I\u2019ll see that the requisitions are put through right away.\u00a0 Luke, why don\u2019t you get some rest?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Chewie and I\u2019ll be up to see you before we go<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">She smiles at him and goes out arm in arm with Han Solo<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Leia and Han go out together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">46\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He looks after them, dejected.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If I were a Jedi knight, <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">she\u2019d<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">she\u2019d<\/span>\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">look at me the way she looks at him<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Full of anger and hurt pride, he goes to where the saber lies and picks it up, as if it holds the answer to all his problems if only he can find it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why can\u2019t I learn to control the Force?\u00a0 If only old Ben had waited a little longer\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(very softly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But I\u2019d waited long enough, Luke.\u00a0 It\u2019s your time now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben!\u00a0 Ben, tell me what to do.<\/p>\n<p>He has not noticed that the door has opened and the nurse is watching him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">NURSE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll tell you what to do, young man.\u00a0 You climb right back into that bed, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">where you<\/span> while I go and call the doctor.\u00a0 You\u2019re hallucinating again, hearing voi\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She breaks off, her jaw dropping, as Luke abruptly turns toward her, adopting an almost ritual pose with the light-saber [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>46\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>She makes a brave attempt to stand her ground.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">NURSE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now, you stop.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Stop right there<\/span>, Luke.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke<\/span>\u2026\u00a0 <i>You stay \u2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Luke is neither seeing nor hearing her.\u00a0 His face is remote and strange.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">NURSE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke, you can\u2019t\u2026 The doctor<\/span>\u2026 Doctor!\u00a0 Doctor\u2026!<\/p>\n<p>She is running down the corridor, calling for the doctor.\u00a0 Luke leaves the room, paying no attention.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO<\/p>\n<p>47\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">DAY<\/span> A DESERTED AREA \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">In a<\/span> Threepio and Artoo are hurrying rather furtively along a corridor.\u00a0 <i>Threepio looks about nervously<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You don\u2019t sense anything, do you, Artoo?\u00a0 I haven\u2019t felt safe for one minute since\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>He breaks off as Artoo beeps, stops and looks at him in horror.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You do <i>sense something<\/i>?\u00a0 Oh, my..!<\/p>\n<p>He is turning around, on the verge of running, when Artoo beeps some more, impatiently.\u00a0 Threepio calms down at once.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, why didn\u2019t you say so, instead of frightening the titanium out of me?<\/p>\n<p>They go round a bend in the corridor and find Luke waiting in a kind of recess.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We came as soon as we could, Master Luke.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re looking for you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know they are.<\/p>\n<p>He presses the stud in the hilt of his sabre and lifts out the crystal.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>47\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo, you said this was a memory cell.\u00a0 Can you read it?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo beeps.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He says he\u2019ll try.\u00a0 Insert it there, Master Luke.<\/p>\n<p>He points to a slot that Artoo has opened on his front.\u00a0 Luke inserts the crystal.\u00a0 Artoo stands quietly humming for a moment, digesting.\u00a0 Then he beeps and whistles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He says it appears to contain the coordinates of a star-system in <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the north-west quadrant<\/span> <i>a<\/i> <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">distant<\/span> remote part of the galaxy<\/i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Very far away, and neither of us is familiar with it<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Luke removes the crystal and stares at it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps it\u2019s where my father <i>was<\/i> trained.\u00a0 Perhaps if I went there\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">{<i>cut this down<\/i>}<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But Master Luke\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">even if it were<\/span>, there are no more Jedi knights.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Obi-Wan<\/span> <i>Ben<\/i> Kenobi, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">or Ben as you call him<\/span>, was the last.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps and whistles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">All right, yes, I know.\u00a0 Darth Vader <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is a<\/span> <i>is really the last<\/i> Jedi <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">knight<\/span>, but Master Luke can hardly go to him for lessons!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Luke)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There\u2019s no one left to teach you <i>now<\/i>.\u00a0 Besides, we can\u2019t leave our posts <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">now<\/span> <i>here<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Luke sighs and replaces the crystal in the hilt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I suppose you\u2019re right.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just have to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A distant rumbling shock interrupts him; he stops until it has passed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2026do the best I can myself.<\/p>\n<p>47\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Threepio follows him with Artoo.\u00a0 As they go away, CAMERA PANS to show white shadows in the far depths of the corridor.\u00a0 Faintly, like a menacing whisper, comes the SOUND of deep, grinding, grumbling voices.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>48\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">EXT SPACE<\/span> IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The<\/span> An Empire fleet moves swiftly through space in the cluster light.<\/p>\n<p>49\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S SHIP \u2013 THE BRIDGE<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader stands with a high-ranking OFFICER looking out the forward port.\u00a0 Others are present in b.g.; the PILOT, NAVIGATOR, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">NAVIGATOR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If the coordinates are accurate, Lord Vader, we should make star-fall in approximately two-and-a-half time units.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">then<\/span> we still won\u2019t know which planet the rebels have occupied\u2026 and you can be sure they\u2019re well hidden.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll know.\u00a0 Already I can sense a disturbance in the Force.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke Skywalker?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">DARTH VADER<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Obi-Wan\u2019s <\/span>prot\u00e9g\u00e9e<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> apprentice knight who disabled my ship and sent me spinning off into space, <\/span>to drift for days until I was rescued<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> just before he blew up the Death Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(Vader laughs)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I should be grateful to him, at that.\u00a0 He saved <\/span>me from<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> my life.\u00a0 Perhaps I can find a suitable way to repay him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The Officer look at him sidelong, uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">49\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(half to himself)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Obi-Wan\u2019s fledgling.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He<\/span> {<i>Rewrite \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Han did this<\/span><\/i>.} disabled my fighter and sent me spinning off into space with all systems dead, even the radio\u2026but I knew.\u00a0 I knew when he destroyed the Death Star, using the Force to find the target.\u00a0 I had much time to consider Master Skywalker while I was waiting to be rescued.\u00a0 He\u2019s too much like his father\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader pauses, remembering old betrayals.\u00a0 The Officer glances sidelong at him, uneasily; he does not break the silence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">His control is still rudimentary, but his potential is strong.\u00a0 It must not be allowed to develop into a weapon for the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>50\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 THE HANGAR \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>By the Millenium (sic) Falcon.\u00a0 Chewie and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">some others<\/span> <i>a couple of WORK MEN<\/i> are finishing a loading operation.\u00a0 A little distance away, Han Solo is <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shaking hands<\/span> <i>talking<\/i> with Willard, while Luke and Leia look on.\u00a0 Luke has the light-saber holstered at his side.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t need to stress again the importance of this mission.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN SOLO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But you\u2019re doing it anyway.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you trust me?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I have to, Captain Solo.\u00a0 Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>He goes.\u00a0 Han goes to Leia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(smiling at him)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I know you\u2019ll<\/span>\u2026 <i>He\u2019ll listen to you.\u00a0 I know he \u2013<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A distant but very powerful explosion BOOMS.\u00a0 Things shake and fall.\u00a0 Everyone reacts, startled.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>50\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If they\u2019re not careful they\u2019ll have the whole place down around our ears.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie and the men start working again.\u00a0 Han turns again to Leia.\u00a0 And the lights go out.\u00a0 There is a moment of intense quiet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The air-duct fans have stopped, too.<\/p>\n<p>One of the workmen switches on a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">flashlight<\/span> <i>hand lamp<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019ll have the emergency generators on in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>The second workman turns on <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a flashlight<\/span> <i>his hand lamp<\/i>, making two wavering beams of light in the intense darkness.\u00a0 From elsewhere in the base come sudden shouts and cries and the sound of blasters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">51\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK \u2013 FULL SHOT<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sounds like an attack in force.\u00a0 Chewie, turn on the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But Chewie growls an urgent warning.\u00a0 It is answered by deep, grinding voices.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There\u2026over there!\u00a0 Something moving!<\/p>\n<p>51\u00a0 THE HANGAR<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">wavering<\/span> swinging flashlight beams show huge, dim white shadows moving in the darkness, sliding swiftly just beyond the edges of the light.\u00a0 Suddenly one of the workmen <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">who has moved incautiously away from the Falcon in the effort to see<\/span>, goes flying with a scream, broken by a huge paw.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He drops his<\/span> His flashlight goes too.\u00a0 Chewie fires his blaster.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia!\u00a0 Get inside the ship!<\/p>\n<p>He draws his light-saber and activates it.\u00a0 The blade sheds its strange radiance.\u00a0 Everybody <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">else<\/span> is pulling blasters.\u00a0 The white shapes move very swiftly, elusive targets.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The fighter<\/span> The ship next to the Falcon in the bay goes over with a crash.\u00a0 The Falcon itself begins to shake.\u00a0 Chewie runs forward, firing at a white shape by the stern.\u00a0 A flying piece of wreckage knocks the blaster from his hand.\u00a0 Roaring, he grapples with the beast.\u00a0 {<i>Fight with Chewie\/beast} <\/i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Han seems to have killed one of the things<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>More wreckage and containers are hurled.\u00a0 Leia is firing<\/i>.\u00a0 The second workman is killed.\u00a0 Han runs toward Chewie and the beast; Chewie is huge himself, but he looks child-sized by<\/p>\n<p><i>CONTINUED<\/i><\/p>\n<p>51 \u00a0(cont.)<\/p>\n<p>comparison with his adversary.\u00a0 He is also becoming covered with frost where the snow-creature touches him.\u00a0 A human would have been dead by now; Wookiees are made of tougher stuff, but Chewie is not long for the world.\u00a0 Han runs toward him for a close shot at the creature.\u00a0 As he does so, another one of the creatures attacks Luke.\u00a0 Luke wields the light-saber.\u00a0 The beast easily eludes it and knocks Luke spinning, a glancing blow.\u00a0 It rears over him for the death-blow.\u00a0 Leia screams.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke!<\/p>\n<p>She runs toward him, firing, but misses as she is knocked down by a piece of debris hurled by the third creature.\u00a0 Han perforce turns aside to help Luke.\u00a0 The snow creature <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">attacks him but he fires<\/span> turns to attack him but he fires and the creature vanishes back into the darkness, whether hit or not.\u00a0 Han hauls the half-stunned Luke to his knees, snarling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Force is not with you today, kid.\u00a0 Get out of this.<\/p>\n<p>He runs back toward Chewie.\u00a0 Leia, unhurt, is now firing coolly from a kneeling position.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Over here, Luke.\u00a0 I\u2019ll cover you.<\/p>\n<p>But Luke, crushed and humiliated, stays where he is, the shining saber lying on the ice beside him.\u00a0 Han runs in and gets off a close shot into the dim white body of the snow-creature.\u00a0 There is a sound like an avalanche of boulders.\u00a0 Both Chewie and Han go flying.\u00a0 When they look up the creature has vanished and everything around them is quiet, though there are still sounds of turmoil in the distance.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t believe those things.\u00a0 Just one of them shook the Falcon\u2026?!\u00a0 <i>And yet they\u2019re like phantoms<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He scrambles up and goes to Chewie, who is picking himself up growling, wincing, and saying bad things in Wookie.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Leia goes to<\/span> Luke picks up the saber and gets unsteadily to his feet.\u00a0 Leia comes to him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke, are you hurt?<\/p>\n<p>Luke is staring at the saber and does not look at her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, I\u2019m fine.<\/p>\n<p>51\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Luke turns and starts away.\u00a0 Leia looks worried.\u00a0 Han has been brushing the frost from Chewie\u2019s fur.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">A little moth-eaten, but I guess you\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Chewie growls)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Get the lights on and we\u2019ll check for damage.\u00a0 Hey, Luke, where are you going?\u00a0 Wait a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie climbs into the Falcon.\u00a0 Han catches up with Luke.<\/p>\n<p>52\u00a0 LUKE, HAN, AND LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Listen, I\u2019m sorry I was so rough. \u00a0I didn\u2019t mean it.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that\u2026Luke, those light-sabers were ceremonial weapons, even for the Jedi knights.\u00a0 They\u2019re deadly, sure they are, but only at close quarters, hand to hand, and that snow-creature was just too fast for you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke hasn\u2019t recovered yet, Han.\u00a0 He\u2019s still weak.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You don\u2019t have to defend me, Leia.\u00a0 He\u2019s right.\u00a0 I almost got all three of you killed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The point is, you\u2019re going to get yourself killed.\u00a0 I know old Ben got you all excited about the knights and the Force and all that stuff.\u00a0 But you\u2019ve got to stop daydreaming, kid.\u00a0 You\u2019re not a Jedi knight, and you never will be.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon\u2019s landing lights come on, illuminating a part of the hangar deck.\u00a0 Leia, sorry for Luke\u2019s distress and anxious to break up the talk, interrupts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, that\u2019s better.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD\u2019S VOICE (o.s.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess Leia!<\/p>\n<p>Willard, with a hand-lamp, now comes running into the deck area from the war-room, calling.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">WILLARD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>CONTINUED<\/i><\/p>\n<p>52\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m here, Commander.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thank Heaven.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019ll take you<\/span> You\u2019ll be safer in the war room\u2026if there\u2019s any safety anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Luke deactivates the saber, watching the light die.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Willard)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Everything.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(starts to lead her away)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve got (sic) check out the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He goes and Leia motions Willard to stop.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">She looks at Luke<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come on, Luke.<\/p>\n<p>Her gentle sympathy is more humiliating to Luke than <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a slap in the face<\/span> blow.\u00a0 It is the ultimate wound.\u00a0 He holsters the saber.\u00a0 Willard and Leia start on again and he trails after them, looking as if he had been whipped.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">51\u00a0 (cont.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(as Han goes)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Come on, Luke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Her gentle sympathy <\/span>and pity is more painful<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> is more humiliating to Luke than a blow.\u00a0 It is the ultimate wound.\u00a0 He <\/span>holsters the<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> deactivates the sabre, watching the light die.\u00a0 Holstering the weapon, he follows Leia, looking as if he had been whipped. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">DISSOLVE TO<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">52<\/span> <i>53<\/i> IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The Empire fleet, approaching the system of the ice-planet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">53<\/span> <i>54<\/i> INT DARTH VADER\u2019S SHIP \u2013 THE BRIDGE<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader and the officer are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">stand<\/span> on the bridge, looking through the forward port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There is the system, Lord Vader.\u00a0 There are four planets.\u00a0 Which one?<\/p>\n<p>Vader\u2019s black gauntlet rises and points like the hammer of doom.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The outermost\u2026there!<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA ZOOMS in on the port, on the little icy ball glittering in the light of its primary.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFF SCREEN VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Attention all <i>fleet<\/i> units.\u00a0 Assume attack formation.\u00a0 Attack formation.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">54\u00a0 INT WAR ROOM \u2013 THE BASE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">54\u00a0 INT BASE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>55\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 SERIES OF SHOTS<\/p>\n<p>In dark corridors, men and women with handlamps run, the wildly-tossing beams glittering off the icy walls.\u00a0 There is a confusion of voices, shouts, cries, screams, the deep grinding grumbling voices of the snow-creatures. A white-on-white spectre emerges from a side-corridor and tosses a man screaming to the roof of the corridor down which he has been running.\u00a0 Men clatter down emergency ladders.\u00a0 The sound of shots <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">echo<\/span> echoes irregularly from o.s.<\/p>\n<p>56\u00a0 BASE \u2013 THE GENERATOR LEVEL<\/p>\n<p>Bodies lie about amid wrecked equipment and debris.\u00a0 There is a portal completely blocked with fallen ice; from this ice-fall a pair of boots protrudes stiffly.\u00a0 Above the portal a sign hangs drunkenly: GENERATOR ROOM.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">An<\/span> Several engineering-maintenance <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">technicians<\/span> CAPS run about, through other doorways, blasters in hand.\u00a0 An ENGINEER speaks into a portable, self-powered radio unit.\u00a0 He is understandably in shock.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chief Engineer, Squad Three, Generator Level.\u00a0 I have a damage report\u2026<\/p>\n<p>57\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 THE WAR ROOM<\/p>\n<p>Lighted by handlamps, the war-room resembles the catatonic ward of a mental hospital.\u00a0 Technicians with nothing to do stand to (sic) beside their blacked-out panels.\u00a0 Everything is dead.\u00a0 Threepio and Artoo stand quietly.\u00a0 Various officers and orderlies stand by, along with Princess Leia.\u00a0 Luke looks on.\u00a0 Willard is speaking into one of the self-contained walkie-talkie units.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Commander Willard here.\u00a0 Go on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">INTERCUT with Engineer on Generator Level.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sir, the main generators\u2026there isn\u2019t even a generator room left.\u00a0 Relays are burnt out right across the board\u2026cables fused\u2026power surge of some kind\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">probably what blew the<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Let\u2019s skip the technical speculations for the moment<\/span>.\u00a0 Have you checked the emergency generators?\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They should cut in automatically<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ENGINEER<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">My men are doing that now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>57\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Haven\u2019t had time yet.\u00a0 It\u2019s cold here.\u00a0 Getting colder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Engineer\u2026we need those air pumps going again.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Check out those generators.\u00a0 Jury rig anything you have to but get those air pumps going again<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Sir<\/span>\u2026The main pumps\u2026they\u2019re wrecked.<\/p>\n<p>He is looking through another portal at a mass of twisted metal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The back-up system, then, get on it, man.\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">We\u2019re going to run out of breathable air pretty quick now<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ENGINEER<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Yes, sir<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>58\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 GENERATOR LEVEL<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The engineer<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>He beckons to his squad and they hurry after him <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">into an adjoining chamber and begin<\/span> into an adjoining corridor.<\/p>\n<p>59\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 GENERATOR LEVEL<\/p>\n<p>The engineer and his squad enter a chamber containing the emergency generators and a bank of pumps.\u00a0 They walk around quickly, inspecting the equipment.\u00a0 The engineer speaks into his radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">ENGINEER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It looks all right, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sir<\/span>.\u00a0 Power packs intact.\u00a0 Pumps haven\u2019t been damaged.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to start the generators manually\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly there are ghostly white shapes all around and a man screams, and the deep grinding voices blot out human speech.<\/p>\n<p>60\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 GENERATOR LEVEL<\/p>\n<p>Running for his life, a man comes out of the generator room.\u00a0 As he runs, an overhead pipe bursts suddenly, drenching the man with water which instantly freezes, encasing him in ice.\u00a0 The water itself freezes into a gigantic icicle.<\/p>\n<p>61\u00a0 WAR ROOM<\/p>\n<p>In utter silence, everyone listens horrified to the sounds issuing from Willard\u2019s radio\u2026screams, the deep grinding voices, then another explosion.\u00a0 The radio goes dead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DODONNA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">WILLARD<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">That explains<\/span> This is why the creatures have been so quiet since that first attack.\u00a0 They were <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">making<\/span> planning a concerted effort to drive us off their world completely.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it<\/span> They\u2019ve succeeded <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">very well<\/span>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Without power and an air supply<\/span>\u2026 <i>With no power and no air, we won\u2019t survive long<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>People are running past the room outside, onto the hangar deck.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">A MAN runs in<\/span>.\u00a0 the vanguard of people fleeing the terror below.\u00a0 A MAN comes in unceremoniously, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shouting<\/span> panicky.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The water pipes are bursting.\u00a0 The water\u2019s freezing everything\u2026people <i>freezing<\/i> right where they stand.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">water freezing everything..people<\/span> The lower levels are filling up with ice.\u00a0 And those creatures\u2026they\u2019re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Get on to your evacuation area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to OFFICER)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Pass the order\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">immediate evacuation<\/span>.\u00a0 clear the base, immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He turns to Dodonna and Leia and the senior officers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now we have to make a decision.\u00a0 Do we evacuate to the surface and try to find some way of combating these <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">beasts<\/span> \u2026these\u2026I don\u2019t know what to call them, mere beasts would be incapable of doing what they\u2019ve done, and they\u2019re certainly not human\u2026or shall we bow to them and abandon the base entirely?<\/p>\n<p>Luke, who has been sitting quietly in his corner, with an increasingly strange look on his face as if he listens to something far away, now speaks up.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia.\u00a0 Leia, tell them to go.\u00a0 Now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They stare at him, and Leia puts her hand out to him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why, Luke?\u00a0 What is it?<\/p>\n<p>61\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I can\u2019t explain it.\u00a0 I just feel\u2026danger.\u00a0 Dark.\u00a0 Reaching\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DODONNA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(not unkindly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019m afraid<\/span> This is too big a decision to be made on the basis of a hunch.\u00a0 We\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The radio comes alive abruptly, a man\u2019s voice sharp with panic.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MAN\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(on radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Condition Red!\u00a0 Condition Red!\u00a0 Does anyone read me?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Commander Willard <i>here<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>62\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 UPPER RADAR INSTALLATION<\/p>\n<p>In one of the hollowed-out ice towers of the castle, two RADAR TECHNICIANS stare at a screen.\u00a0 The screen shows a large number of unmistakable blips.\u00a0 One of the men has the radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">RADAR MAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sir, this is Radar Installation Six.\u00a0 Operating on power-pack.\u00a0 Our screen shows ships approaching\u2026attack formation\u2026a whole fleet, heading straight for us.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">63\u00a0 THE WAR ROOM<\/span> INTERCUT with Willard in the war room.<\/p>\n<p>A wave of shock has gone around the room as this news penetrates.\u00a0 White-faced, Willard asks a question.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How long do we have?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">RADAR MAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Estimate\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">no more than<\/span> <i>contact in<\/i> twenty minutes <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">before contact<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>63\u00a0 INT WAR ROOM<\/p>\n<p>Leia looks at Luke, who shakes his head as if not quite believing it.\u00a0 Willard puts down the radio.\u00a0 Dodonna is already barking orders to subordinates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DODONNA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Find out how many guns we\u2019ve got operative up there.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Tell the crews to hold<\/span> We\u2019ll hold out as long as we can to cover the evacuation.\u00a0 And get those people moving!<\/p>\n<p>An OFFICER comes up.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sir, shall I scramble the fighters?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DODONNA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 We can\u2019t stop to pick them up.\u00a0 And there\u2019s no point in wasting good men.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to lose enough as it is.<\/p>\n<p>Willard has gone to Leia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess, you must go now, at once.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Wait a minute<\/i>.\u00a0 Luke\u2026in case of evacuation, you and Artoo and Threepio were supposed to go with Han, <i>weren\u2019t you<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yeah\u2026we were <i>all<\/i> kind of extra personnel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, you can\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">now<\/span> do that now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WILLARD<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>And<\/i> I\u2019m afraid some of the \u2018droids will have to be left behind.<\/p>\n<p>A shudder goes through Threepio, and Artoo whistles plaintively.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(fiercely)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Not these two.\u00a0 <i>Unless you want to leave me with them<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My spacer will hold five if Artoo doesn\u2019t mind being crowded a little.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo indicates that he won\u2019t mind it at all.\u00a0 Threepio all but faints.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[Missing]<\/p>\n<p>63\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(looks around)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sedge!<\/p>\n<p>A PILOT in a flying suit shoulders his way to Leia, and salutes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, there you are.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to warn Han\u2026he must get away.<\/p>\n<p>They all move out of the war room, into the increasing tumult and confusion beyond.<\/p>\n<p>64\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 THIRD LEVEL<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The group hurrying toward the hangar deck.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke, how did you know that<\/span> You couldn\u2019t have known the fleet was coming.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I didn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s crazy\u2026what I felt was like the Force, but\u2026The dark side of the Force.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Ben called it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Could be.\u00a0 We knew he\u2019d been picked<\/span> Could be.\u00a0 We know he was picked up by an Imperial ship <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">after the Death Star blew up<\/span>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I guess<\/span> Hey, you\u2019ve got to get away.\u00a0 If he takes you again\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han\u2019s more important than I am right now, and\u2026look there!<\/p>\n<p>65\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>In the distance the Falcon stands in the bright pool of its lights.\u00a0 Han and Chewbacca, with welding equipment, are working on one of the after lifting vanes.\u00a0 <i>Leia runs<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>CONTINUED<\/i><\/p>\n<p>65\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>toward the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Threepio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Help Sedge get Artoo into the spacer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(starts after Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SEDGE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I can manage.\u00a0 There\u2019s a magnetic <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">lift<\/span> <i>hoist<\/i> right over there.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no power to open bays.\u00a0 See if you can operate the manual controls.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The Falcon<\/span> Leia\u2019s spacer, <i>much smaller than the Falcon<\/i>, is <i>in<\/i> another bay, across from the <i>Falcon<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">one where the Falcon is<\/span>.\u00a0 Men are already straining to open <i>the doors of the Falcon\u2019s bay<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">these doors<\/span>.\u00a0 Reluctantly, Luke looks after Leia and goes with Threepio in the opposite direction.\u00a0 The two of them begin to heave on the manual controls wheel, which resists.<\/p>\n<p>66\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 SERIES OF QUICK SHOTS<\/p>\n<p>Men with battery-powered loud-hailers run along the corridors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MEN WITH LOUD-HAILERS<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Condition Red!\u00a0 All personnel to evacuation areas!\u00a0 Move!<\/p>\n<p>And the people are moving.\u00a0 running through the corridors, swarming up ladders.\u00a0 Bodies lie about here and there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MAN WITH LOUD-HAILER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Get to your evacuation areas!<\/p>\n<p>He turns a corner and skids to a halt, staring in horror.\u00a0 The people in the corridor ahead are frozen, encased in ice.\u00a0 Huge icicles depend from the pipes.\u00a0 The man turns to run.\u00a0 The pipe overhead ruptures and he too is frozen.<\/p>\n<p>67\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>At the Falcon.\u00a0 Han and Leia are shouting at each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Imperial fleet or not, we can\u2019t fly until we get this fixed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, hurry up!<\/p>\n<p>67\u00a0 EXT BASE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>On the snow-plain in front of the ice-castle, Imperial ships land.\u00a0 The transports disgorge great tank-type crawlers and armored troopers.\u00a0 Gun-emplacements in the upper castle open up.\u00a0 The tank guns fire back.\u00a0 Troops and tanks attack the ice-castle.<\/p>\n<p>68\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013 THE HANGAR<\/p>\n<p>The rumblings and shocks of heavy gunfire are transmitted from above.\u00a0 Men and women pour into the hangar deck, into the ships.\u00a0 Loud-hailers bellow.<\/p>\n<p>69\u00a0 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Leia, hugging herself with cold and impatience, watches Han and Chewie.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Aren\u2019t you finished yet.\u00a0 I could do better with a needle and thread.<\/p>\n<p>70\u00a0 LUKE AND THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p>In the opposite bay.\u00a0 They\u2019re still wrenching at the wheel, the bay doors have begun to open.\u00a0 Luke is looking nervously at the Falcon.\u00a0 The pilot, Sedge, has just finished lifting Artoo into the spacer with a magnetic hoist.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Is it very cold here, Master Luke?<\/span> This mechanism appears to be partly frozen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>No wonder.\u00a0 So am I.<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019s cold<\/span>.\u00a0 There\u2026I think it\u2019ll go now.\u00a0 Threepio, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">go and<\/span> get <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span> Princess Leia.<\/p>\n<p>Threepio sets off.\u00a0 The pilot begins to back the hoist away.\u00a0 Luke heaves on the door, looking after Threepio, who disappears into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>71\u00a0 EXT BASE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Imperial troops and tanks hammer at the ice castle.\u00a0 Tank guns and castle guns carry out a vicious duel.\u00a0 Casualties mount on both sides.\u00a0 Part of the ice castle collapses, shattered by cannon-fire.<\/p>\n<p>72\u00a0 INT BASE<\/p>\n<p>Quick SHOTS of corridors collapsing, people running to escape.<\/p>\n<p>73\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>At the Falcon.\u00a0 Threepio runs up to Leia.\u00a0 Chunks of ice begin to fall from the roof.\u00a0 People are struck, injured, killed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess Leia!\u00a0 Master Luke says to come now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Just a minute!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Han and Chewie)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hurry!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019re doing our best.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you just get out?<\/p>\n<p>Threepio tries to protect Leia from falling ice.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Water<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">74\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/span><\/p>\n<p>74\u00a0 THE ROOF<\/p>\n<p>CAMERA ponders for a moment on the network of pipes.<\/p>\n<p>75\u00a0 SEDGE<\/p>\n<p>In another part of the bay, he has parked the lift out of the way and is climbing down to return to the spacer when a pipe overhead bursts and he is frozen in the act.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">of<\/span><\/p>\n<p>7<i>6<\/i> LUKE<\/p>\n<p>He sees this, horrified.\u00a0 The bay is open now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sedge\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He begins to run toward the Falcon.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">As he<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">76 <i>77<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke fights his way toward the Falcon<\/span>.\u00a0 He sees Han and Chewie jump down at last, their repairs completed.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He runs toward them, <\/span>They<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> and Leia and Threepio<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia!<\/p>\n<p>Another overhead pipe lets go, spurting water in a curtain between him and the Falcon.\u00a0 Some people are caught and frozen.\u00a0 Han snatches Leia out of the way, but Threepio is frozen in a thin casing of ice by the edge of the spray.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>77\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Luke halts, cut off.\u00a0 Dimly he can see Han thrust Leia up the steps into the Falcon.\u00a0 Chewie picks up the rigid Threepio and carries him after.\u00a0 The hatch slams shut.<\/p>\n<p>78\u00a0 EXT BASE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The battle continues.\u00a0 Imperial troops are forcing an entrance.<\/p>\n<p>79\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon takes off through the bay doors.\u00a0 Luke runs for Leia\u2019s spacer, as more of the ceiling falls in.<\/p>\n<p>80\u00a0 INT COCKPIT \u2013 SPACER<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke<\/span> Artoo is beeping wildly as Luke straps himself into the pilot\u2019s seat and scans the controls.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie took <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">him<\/span> <i>Threepio<\/i> into the Falcon.\u00a0 I think he\u2019ll be all right.\u00a0 Quiet down.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to figure these controls.<\/p>\n<p>He figures them quickly and starts punching buttons.<\/p>\n<p>81\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>The spacer takes off.<\/p>\n<p>82\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Luke is dropping the ice-planet behind him as fast as he can\u2026which is very fast indeed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into helmet mike)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Han<\/span> Falcon, do you read me?<\/p>\n<p>83\u00a0 INT. FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewbacca at the controls.\u00a0 Leia looks out of a port.\u00a0 The frozen Threepio reposes stiffly where Chewie put him.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He is beginning to drip<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yeah, Luke.\u00a0 You okay?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Off like a skyrocket.\u00a0 This thing <i>really<\/i> [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>83\u00a0 (cont,)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">All healthy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(on radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Threepio?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019ll be all right when he thaws.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He (sic) already beginning to drip<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now that\u2019s all settled, we\u2019d better move.\u00a0 Look there.<\/p>\n<p>84\u00a0 HER POV<\/p>\n<p>Imperial ships are rising from the planet, pursuing the ships which are taking off, including the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p>85\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie see the ships and Chewie growls.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(into radio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2018Ware ships, kid.\u00a0 How\u2019ll we find you again?<\/p>\n<p>86\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Never mind that now\u2026just go!\u00a0 Out.<\/p>\n<p>He cracks on more speed.<\/p>\n<p>87\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hang on!<\/p>\n<p>He pours on the coal.\u00a0 Leia, hanging on, watches the distant ships through the port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Can\u2019t you go into hyper-space?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Not till we get farther out.\u00a0 There\u2019s a thing called gravity.\u00a0 <i>There\u2019s also a thing called [Missing]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>87\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Well, there\u2019s <\/span>also<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> a thing called an Imperial destroyer, and it seems to be coming our way<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>88\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke is nursing every last ounce of speed out of the fighter.\u00a0 Artoo beeps a questioning note.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If you\u2019re asking where we\u2019re going, little friend, I don\u2019t know yet.\u00a0 At least we don\u2019t seem to have anybody on our tail.<\/p>\n<p>89\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The spacer <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">screams (figuratively)<\/span> <i>streaking<\/i> through space at tremendous speed.<\/p>\n<p>90\u00a0 INT BASE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Darth Vader stands amid the shambles of the base, speaking to an unhappy-looking officer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">OFFICER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We haven\u2019t found him among the prisoners, Lord Vader.\u00a0 Unless he\u2019s buried in one of the tunnels\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No. \u00a0He lives.\u00a0 Leave me, you incompetent idiot.<\/p>\n<p>The officer is glad to scuttle away.\u00a0 Darth Vader stands and the pattern of his breathing changes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(very softly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n<p>91\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Luke shakes his head.\u00a0 It is suddenly difficult for him to breathe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s the matter?\u00a0 I can\u2019t breathe\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(checks the oxygen system)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>91\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He checks the oxygen system<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No malfunction\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(his face changes; realization, horror)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 No, I won\u2019t.\u00a0 I won\u2019t\u2026!<\/p>\n<p>But inexorably he is losing consciousness.\u00a0 With the last of his strength he unholsters the light saber; desperately he releases the crystal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He sags in the harness, unconscious\u2026or dead?\u00a0 Artoo extends an auxiliary arm and picks up the crystal, beeping and whistling the while in a general tone of, \u201cWhy does everything happen to me?\u201d and, \u201cHumans are the oddest contraptions.\u201d\u00a0 Placing the crystal in the slot, he punches out some coordinates on the little navigational computer and then flips a toggle.<\/p>\n<p>92\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The spacer vanishes, into hyper-space, leaving only a brief flicker behind.<\/p>\n<p>93\u00a0 INT BASE \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader relaxes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Good bye, Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n<p>He turns and stalks from the room.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>94\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon racing through space.\u00a0 Some distance behind it, a much larger ship is closing fast.<\/p>\n<p>95\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There\u2019s an Imperial destroyer closing on us.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon lurches as a shot from the destroyer bursts astern.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[Missing]<\/p>\n<p>87\u00a0 (sic) (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Can\u2019t you go into hyper-space?<\/p>\n<p>Another blast rocks the ship.\u00a0 Han takes evasive action.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Need a destination.\u00a0 Can\u2019t jump blind, <i>and<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They must have<\/span> I can\u2019t take you to Ovan Marekal.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Marekal\u2019s out unless you want to stay<\/span> Weren\u2019t you given a rendezvous point for your group?\u00a0 <i>I can drop you there and go on<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Leia pulls a cord from around her neck; a small metal <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">cylinder<\/span> <i>container like a locket<\/i> depends from it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes.\u00a0 Just a minute.\u00a0 These things have to be opened <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">right<\/span> the right way \u2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know.\u00a0 They\u2019re anti-personnel bombs in case they get into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(taking evasive action as the destroyer closes in)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Don\u2019t blow it but don\u2019t fiddle around, either.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Here it is.<\/p>\n<p>She extracts a metal <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">strip<\/span> <i>chip<\/i> to and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">She<\/span> starts to give it <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">to<\/span> (sic) Han when a near miss, or a glancing hit, almost throws the Falcon over.\u00a0 Red lights glow on the panel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Just a second too late, Princess.\u00a0 That one <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shook the teeth<\/span> <i>{Some corrections}<\/i> out of our overdrive generator.\u00a0 Keep her going, Chewie!\u00a0 I\u2019ll see what I can do.<\/p>\n<p>He crowds back past Leia toward the generator hatch, passing Threepio on the way; <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he is<\/span> the \u2018droid is still encased in ice but visibly dripping.\u00a0 Muffled sounds come from Threepio\u2019s voice box, but Han ignores them.\u00a0 He disappears <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">down the<\/span> through the hatch while the Falcon dances and leaps wildly.\u00a0 Leia clings close to Chewbacca, who is outdoing himself <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">as a pilot<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>88\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 RUNNING BATTLE \u2013 FALCON AND DESTROYER<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon darts and swerves as the larger and faster destroyer inexorably overhauls it.\u00a0 Bolts of energy from the destroyer\u2019s guns burst brightly.<\/p>\n<p>89\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 LEIA AND CHEWBACCA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s he doing down there?<\/p>\n<p>Chewbacca makes a series of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">grunts and growls<\/span> growling noises, as if wishing that Han would get the lead out of his spanners.\u00a0 On the other hand, if the damage is too severe\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What if he can\u2019t fix it?<\/p>\n<p>Again the Falcon leaps and yaws.\u00a0 Chewie grunts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Even I can understand that.<\/p>\n<p>90\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 RUNNING BATTLE \u2013 FALCON AND DESTROYER<\/p>\n<p>The destroyer pressing hard after the Falcon.\u00a0 Her time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>91\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Threepio is moaning and muttering through the ice, unintelligibly, as his still partially-rigid body is thrown about.\u00a0 Leia is still with Chewie.\u00a0 There is a particularly violent lurch, and Chewie\u2019s grumblings <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">indicate that<\/span> accompanied by an anxious look around at the fabric of the ship, mean that the ship won\u2019t hold together too much longer.\u00a0 Suddenly, on the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">board<\/span> <i>panel<\/i>, the red lights go off.\u00a0 Chewie <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">growls insistently at<\/span> turns demandingly to Leia, talking a blue streak, holding out one paw urgently.\u00a0 She hesitates, then hands him the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">metal strip<\/span> metal chip.\u00a0 He thrusts it into the computer.\u00a0 Han emerges from the hatch just as Chewie slams in the overdrive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Okay, let\u2019s go!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Chewie slams in the overdrive<\/span>.\u00a0 The blazing stars become streaks of light as <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">they go into hyperspace<\/span> <i>the Falcon makes the<\/i> jump into hyperspace.\u00a0 It\u2019s suddenly quiet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie\u2026just supposing that that had been a false reading on the panel, and I hadn\u2019t really finished the repairs?<\/p>\n<p>Chewie gives the Wookie equivalent of a shrug.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yeah.\u00a0 I guess you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<p><i>continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>91\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Shaken by the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">suddenness<\/span> swiftness and violence of everything that has happened, and the abrupt cessation, for the moment anyway, of danger, everybody <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">relaxes<\/span> undergoes a reaction.\u00a0 Han sinks down in the pilot chair.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Chewie)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nice going.<\/p>\n<p>Leia sinks down in the cabin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nice going for both of you.\u00a0 For a while there, I didn\u2019t think\u2026What is it, Threepio?<\/p>\n<p>He is still making muffled noises.\u00a0 Leia goes to him and with her fingers cracks the mask of ice covering his face.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, that\u2019s much better.\u00a0 Thank you, Princess Leia.\u00a0 Do you think it would be too great an annoyance if I were to ask for <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">some<\/span> <i>a little bit of<\/i> oil, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">before my joints rust<\/span> to prevent my joints rusting?<\/p>\n<p>FADE OUT<\/p>\n<p>FADE IN<\/p>\n<p>92\u00a0 EXT BOG PLANET \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>This is an eerie place, full of drifting mists and the distorted shapes of trees and undergrowth clawing upward out of mud and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">stagnant<\/span> stagnant water.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">There are pools, lakes, bogs<\/span>.\u00a0 Bubbles of marsh gas rise and burst with plopping noises.\u00a0 Things slither and gubble (sic) through the mud, flap with weird screamings through the murky air.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">An object appears in the sky<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>93\u00a0 EXT BOG PLANET \u2013 SKY AND <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LAKE<\/span> <i>POND<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the sky above a fair sized pond, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">or lake<\/span>, an object appears, moving swiftly\u2026Leia\u2019s spacer.<\/p>\n<p>94\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke is still comatose.\u00a0 Artoo is flying the spacer, making noises both irritable and doubtful; this is not his job, and he\u2019s making a botch of it.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Obviously he\u2019s coming in too fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>95\u00a0 EXT <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">BOG PLANET<\/span> <i>POND<\/i> \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The spacer comes in for a crash landing in the pond.\u00a0 There is a mighty splash.<\/p>\n<p>96\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke starts up, still dazed but roused by the shock.\u00a0 The spacer is volplaning (sic) forward on momentum, sinking as it goes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What the\u2026What\u2019re you doing, Artoo?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps and whistles furiously.\u00a0 The spacer, scudding forward, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">piles onto a muddy beach and comes to a jarring halt.\u00a0 It settles<\/span> comes to a jarring halt with its nose buried in a mudbank.\u00a0 It settles gently into the water, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">remaining in<\/span> its upper half remaining clear.\u00a0 Artoo cuts the power.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That was <i>a<\/i> great <i>landing<\/i>.\u00a0 What happened to me?\u00a0 Where are we?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps and produces the crystal.\u00a0 Luke takes it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You brought me <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span>?\u00a0 <i>And I\u2019ve been out ever since<\/i>.\u00a0 Artoo, I owe you an apology.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Hadn\u2019t been for you<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He gropes about for the light saber.<\/p>\n<p>96\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Doesn\u2019t look like much. \u00a0Let\u2019s go see.<\/p>\n<p>He rises and staggers back to the hatch.<\/p>\n<p>97\u00a0 EXT <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">BOG PLANET<\/span> SPACER AND POND \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The hatch opens.\u00a0 Luke falls into the water and starts to flounders ashore.\u00a0 Artoo appears in the hatch.\u00a0 He beeps, then steps forward and disappears with a splash into the water.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!<\/p>\n<p>He starts to go back.\u00a0 But a small periscope appears above the water, turns till it gets a fix on him, then moves steadily through the water.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">as the submerged Artoo trundles toward him we watch the periscope<\/span><\/p>\n<p>98\u00a0 ARTOO<\/p>\n<p>We watch the periscope as the submerged \u2018droid trundles toward the muddy beach.\u00a0 Artoo emerges, retracting the periscope.\u00a0 He <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">swivels stands besides Luke\u2019s prostrate form<\/span> looks around for Luke, then moves to stand beside a prostrate body; Luke has passed out again.\u00a0 Artoo bubbles electronic profanity and ejects a stream of muddy water.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>99\u00a0 CLOSE SHOT \u2013 DAY LUKE<\/p>\n<p>On Luke\u2019s face as he lies on the muddy ground.\u00a0 There is a shadow across it.\u00a0 He stirs and opens his eyes, blinks upwards.<\/p>\n<p>100\u00a0 LUKE\u2019S POV<\/p>\n<p>A darkish blur is hanging over him\u2026something watching him.<\/p>\n<p>101\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo?<\/p>\n<p>He strives for a clearer focus.<\/p>\n<p>102\u00a0 LUKE\u2019S POV<\/p>\n<p>The dark blur wavers, then begins to clear.\u00a0 A strange face <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">peers down<\/span><\/p>\n<p>102\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>peers down at him\u2026wizened, froglike, totally unhuman, with <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">with eyes that show a curious<\/span> bright, intent eyes that show a curious mixture of intelligence and what could be madness.\u00a0 Luke yells.\u00a0 CAMERA PULLS BACK TO A WIDER ANGLE as he flounders away from the creature in fear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!<\/p>\n<p>Artoo is nearby.\u00a0 He beeps <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">placidly<\/span> irritably and the froglike creature, which is quite small and has a shiny slippery-looking skin, laughs <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">at him<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Skywalker.\u00a0 Skywalker.\u00a0 And why <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">do you walk my sky<\/span> do you come to walk my sky, with the sword of a Jedi knight?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(astounded)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How do you know my\u2026?\u00a0 How is it you speak my\u2026\u00a0 Who are you?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My name, or part of it, is Minch.\u00a0 As for the language, I\u2019ve always been ugly by your standards, but I haven\u2019t always been old.\u00a0 I\u2019ve travelled the starways in my time.\u00a0 And your name\u2026that was easy.<\/p>\n<p>He points to Luke\u2019s communications belt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My communications belt.\u00a0 ID.\u00a0 All right, Minch.\u00a0 What do you know about the Jedi knights?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I knew them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(brightening)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You served them?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(with an odd smile)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, I served them.\u00a0 I served them well.\u00a0 I remember another Skywalker.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>My father<\/i>.\u00a0 Did you know Ben\u2026Obi-Wan Kenobi\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a wave of weakness comes over him; he finishes [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>102\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You need food\u2026and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a certain [unreadable]<\/span> restoratives.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had a close brush with the Force\u2026the wrong side of it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he hops away)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Wait!\u00a0 Why do you say that?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I can smell it.<\/p>\n<p>He disappears into the muddy, misty swamp-growth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Artoo)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I remember now.\u00a0 Just before I passed out, I felt\u2026but this is weird.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t know.\u00a0 He\u2019s just guessing, or making it up, trying to impress me.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a sour comment.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t like Minch.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>103\u00a0 CLOSE SHOT &#8211; DAY<\/p>\n<p>On a wooden bowl in Luke\u2019s hands.\u00a0 There is a wooden spoon.\u00a0 The bowl is filled with a highly unappetizing-looking mess.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What is this glop?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH\u2019S VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Better eat it, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Skywalker<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>104\u00a0 LUKE, MINCH, ARTOO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If I do, it\u2019ll come right up again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s all there is on this world.\u00a0 So unless you mean to fly away\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Luke looks sadly at the half-sunk spacer.\u00a0 Minch laughs)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Obi-Wan Kenobi ate it\u2026he and all the other <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">boys<\/span> young ones who came here to learn to be knights.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then this was a training center!\u00a0 Is anyone left?\u00a0 Anyone who can [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>104\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(with mocking amusement)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Eat, Skywalker.\u00a0 Eat, and dream.\u00a0 And when you feel strong enough, you\u2019d better wade out and find an oil-can for your bad-tempered friend.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">This climate eats \u2018droids<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a rude noise.\u00a0 Minch hops away, laughing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Crazy little\u2026\u00a0 Well, how can you blame him, living in a place like this?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(looks at the bowl and steels himself)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I wonder if Ben was ever really here?<\/p>\n<p>He raises a spoonful to his mouth, hesitates, shuts his eyes, forces the stuff in, and swallows.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s not too bad, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">really<\/span>, if you just don\u2019t look at it.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>105\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">IN SPACE<\/span> INT FALCON \u2013 IN HYPERSPACE<\/p>\n<p>Chewie is in the cockpit.\u00a0 In the cabin, Han Solo and Leia are playing the three-dimensional chess game, or what you prefer.\u00a0 Threepio sits quietly in the background.\u00a0 Han is watching Leia closely; she seems distracted, occupied with thoughts of her own which she is finding disturbing.\u00a0 She makes a misplay, and Han shakes his head.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your mind\u2019s not on it, Princess.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I guess it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 We\u2019re almost there, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(she rises and moves around the cabin)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yeah.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have you at your rendezvous point and among friends in no time.\u00a0 You don\u2019t seem too happy about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps it\u2019s a mistake to have an interlude of peace and quiet like this.\u00a0 You lose your fighting pitch\u2026begin to think about other things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>105\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Worried about Luke?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Naturally.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I, too, Mr. Solo.\u00a0 And Artoo.\u00a0 I do hope they\u2019re all right.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But that\u2019s not the whole story, is it?<\/p>\n<p>Chewie barks from the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I think Chewbacca wants you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Mm.\u00a0 Time to go sublight.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(rising, he puts his hand gently on her shoulder)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026if you think I\u2019m going to enjoy leaving you behind, not knowing if I\u2019ll ever see you again, you\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>He goes into the cockpit.\u00a0 Leia looks after him briefly, then looks down at her hands locked very tightly in her lap.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>106\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The blackness of space, the glory of stars.\u00a0 There is a wink and a shimmer as the spatial fabric is disturbed and Falcon drops out of hyper-space.<\/p>\n<p>107\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie in the cockpit.\u00a0 Leia <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is close behind them<\/span> still sits in the cabin, with Threepio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Deflector screens up.\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 Okay, Chewie, that\u2019s it.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Now we get a<\/span> Get me a fix on the star.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">THREEPIO<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>107\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Chewbacca growls suddenly and points to the tracking screen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No matter how many times I do it, going in and out of jump makes all my circuits simply leap with shock.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(looking into screen)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You want a really good shock?<\/p>\n<p>Leia rouses up, the warrior princess again, and joins Han.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Look there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Empire ships?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Do we have a fleet in this area?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 But how did they find out\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>An imperious voice suddenly speaks over the cockpit radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Imperial cruiser <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Darkason<\/span>.\u00a0 Identify yourself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(improvising swiftly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Deep-space trader <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Verrill<\/span>, out of Terrix, Empire Sector Seven.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Maintain constant speed, Verrill.\u00a0 Prepare for boarding.\u00a0 We\u2019re coming alongside.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>Motioning the others to caution, Han yanks a locket identical to Leia\u2019s from his neck and gingerly opens it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(whispering)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What are you doing?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>107 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We need a new destination, real quick.\u00a0 They gave me a rendezvous point, too, before this Marekal mission came up.\u00a0 See what it is.<\/p>\n<p>He extracts the metal chip, places it in the nav computer, and looks disgusted.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Same as yours.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie grunts and indicates the radar screen.<\/p>\n<p>108\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>An Imperial cruiser, a great ominous shape against the stars, approaches the much-smaller Falcon, still some distance away.<\/p>\n<p>109\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE ON RADIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Screens down, Verrill.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, sir.\u00a0 Right away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to others)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, here we go again.\u00a0 Hang on.<\/p>\n<p>He <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">punches<\/span> hits the control board and Falcon takes off in a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">screaming (figuratively speaking)<\/span> <i>streaking<\/i> curve away from the cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>110\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>As Falcon speeds away.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">In a moment<\/span> Much more slowly, the cruiser alters course to pursue, and begins firing.<\/p>\n<p>111\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Han is taking evasive action, the Falcon bouncing and swerving as bolts from the cruiser burst nearby.\u00a0 Leia and Threepio are hanging on.\u00a0 Chewbacca is operating a scanner, grumbling.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(plaintively, to Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I remember how peaceful things used to be when I was just a low-down rotten smuggler, involved with people like Jabba the Hut, who might try to kill me, but it was on a kind of person-<\/p>\n<p><i>(cont.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>111\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">to-person level.\u00a0 I could handle it.\u00a0 But since I\u2019ve been treading the straight-and-narrow\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a particularly violent shock interrupts him)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I mean.\u00a0 Entire fleets thrown at me?\u00a0 I\u2019m giving away too much weight!<\/p>\n<p>112\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 THE CRUISER<\/p>\n<p>From open bays, fighters are being launched from the cruiser.\u00a0 They outspeed the larger ship in pursuit of the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p>113\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019re dropping fighters now.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie says something, pointing to the scanner.\u00a0 Han looks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What would I do without you, my hairy friend?<\/p>\n<p>Again he hits the controls, and Falcon darts away on a new course.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">An asteroid swarm.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Must be a million of \u2018em<\/span>.\u00a0 Try and find a place to hide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Isn\u2019t that dangerous?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You think it\u2019s safe out here?<\/p>\n<p>Change of course and a very near miss dump Leia on the deck, to make his point very thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>114\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">IN SPACE \u2013 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/span> THE RADAR SCREEN<\/p>\n<p>A swarm of glittering points of light.<\/p>\n<p>115\u00a0 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>The shattered fragments of some nameless world <i>lighted by a distant sun (the one the Falcon was [unreadable]),<\/i> still travelling in company, bound by gravitational attraction.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Some are the size of <\/span>pebbles<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> rocks, some of large buildings, some as <\/span>large<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> great as little planets<\/span>.\u00a0 They range in size from rocks to big planetoids.\u00a0 The Falcon plunges toward the swarm, out- [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>116\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Leia is manning the turret gun, firing in erratic bursts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Getting<\/span> <i>Hitting<\/i> anything, Princess?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">they\u2019re still too far away<\/span>.\u00a0 But maybe I\u2019m slowing them down a little.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019ll be inside the swarm in a minute.\u00a0 That\u2019ll make their radars useless.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But they can still pick up the heat and ionization stream from our drive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s why I have to find a place to roost\u2026and quick.<\/p>\n<p>The edge of the asteroid swarm rushes past the forward port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">All right, Chewie.\u00a0 Here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie roars.<\/p>\n<p>117\u00a0 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon threads its way into the swarm.\u00a0 Deflector screens ward off the small ones.\u00a0 Pilot skill evades the large ones.\u00a0 It is a very hairy trip.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial fighters follow.<\/p>\n<p>118\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Leia has left the gun and is watching speechless as asteroids blunder by, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">them<\/span> seeming to miss the Falcon by a hair\u2019s breadth.\u00a0 Astern, doggedly, a couple of fighters still follow.\u00a0 One of them <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is struck<\/span> collides with a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span> small asteroid and there is an annihilating burst of flame.\u00a0 A thing the size of the Empire State Building bears down on Falcon; Chewie sees it and roars.\u00a0 Han evades by a cat\u2019s whisker; beyond the large asteroid a second burst of flame is seen as the other fighter collides.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I do think Artoo will miss me, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>119\u00a0 EXT BOG PLANET \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke, with Artoo giving unintelligible advice, is setting up a light but very strong collapsible hoist on the mudbank <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">where<\/span> by the spacer; it is complete with cable, a small motor and powerpack.\u00a0 Minch hovers about, watching.\u00a0 Luke is quite himself again <i>physically, but very bitter and downcast with disappointment<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Found this in the ship.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s standard emergency equipment for spacers of this class.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">In a hurry to leave, Skywalker?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(bitterly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As soon as I can.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Haven\u2019t I fed you, brought you back to health?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You have, and I thank you.\u00a0 But there\u2019s nothing for me here.\u00a0 Ben was the last of the Jedi knights.\u00a0 There\u2019s no one left to teach.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Suppose I told you that I taught Obi-Wan Kenobi?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019d say that you were lonesome and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">wanted<\/span> <i>trying to con me so you can have<\/i> someone to talk to.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you have any people?\u00a0 All right, Artoo.\u00a0 Start the motor.<\/p>\n<p>He has made the grapple fast on the nose of the spacer.\u00a0 Artoo starts the motor.\u00a0 The winch drum turns, taking up the slack.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019re a solitary folk.\u00a0 Probably why we haven\u2019t killed each other off.\u00a0 Not coming, is she?<\/p>\n<p>She isn\u2019t.\u00a0 She\u2019s stuck, hard and fast.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You really did a good job, Artoo.\u00a0 We may be here for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 Try again.\u00a0 Gently\u2026don\u2019t snap the cable!<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>119\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>The spacer remains firmly stuck.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why don\u2019t you use the Force to help you?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Force!\u00a0 I\u2019ll never learn to use it now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Won\u2019t hurt you to try.\u00a0 Open your mind to it, boy\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(startled)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You sounded almost like old Ben.\u00a0 All right, I\u2019ll try.\u00a0 But it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>He faces the spacer and concentrates.\u00a0 Minch has dropped behind him.<\/p>\n<p>120\u00a0 MINCH<\/p>\n<p>He watches Luke, his strange face both cunning and abstracted.\u00a0 His eyes glow.\u00a0 He seems to grow in stature.<\/p>\n<p>121\u00a0 THE SPACER<\/p>\n<p>Reluctantly, it sucks free of the mud, rises, and slides onto the bank, the winch chugging merrily.\u00a0 Luke walks over and stares at it while Artoo whistles triumphantly and kills the motor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It did work!\u00a0 It did!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Minch, having regained his normal appearance, hops up and peers at the spacer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Told you it was worth trying.\u00a0 Trouble with you, Skywalker, you\u2019re too impatient and too easily discouraged.\u00a0 Both diseases of faith<\/i>.\u00a0 From the looks of that hull, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">you\u2019re<\/span> <i>you\u2019ll<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">going to<\/span> be <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">around<\/span> <i>here<\/i> for a while yet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Mm.\u00a0 Okay, Artoo.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see how much damage we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n<p>They converge on the spacer while Minch watches, grinning.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>122\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>Moving through space, lighted by the distant sun <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">as they turn<\/span>.\u00a0 Everything seems peaceful\u2026except for the cruiser hovering above.<\/p>\n<p>123\u00a0 PLANETOID<\/p>\n<p>One of the larger masses.\u00a0 What appears to be a shadow on its surface becomes a cave as we move in closer.<\/p>\n<p>124\u00a0 INT PLANETOID CAVE \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The Millennium Falcon nestles comfortably in the wide, flat cave, gun-ports closed so that no light escapes.\u00a0 It is invisible, as is the cave, except at very close range.<\/p>\n<p>125\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Lights are on<\/span> Cabin lighting is at a minimum.\u00a0 Falcon is like a sub hiding on the bottom, powered down.\u00a0 Only the life-support system is functioning, and a small worklight in the cockpit where Chewie is working on some of the electronic gear.\u00a0 Threepio is with him, but is looking into the cabin.\u00a0 Typical old gossip, he nudges Chewie in the ribs with his elbow and points.\u00a0 Chewie turns to look.\u00a0 In the cabin, Han and Leia are in a close embrace.<\/p>\n<p>126\u00a0 HAN AND LEIA<\/p>\n<p>He holds her tight, kissing her.\u00a0 She <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is<\/span> reciprocates.\u00a0 Then, as if coming to her senses, she pulls back and half raises her hand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re not going to do that again, Princess!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(she turns from him)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he studies her)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Are you in love with Luke?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m not in love with anybody, and I don\u2019t want to be!\u00a0 You\u2019re forgetting something.\u00a0 Since we don\u2019t know where the other <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">secret<\/span> rendezvous points are, we have to think of somewhere we can go\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019re not going anywhere as long as that cruiser\u2019s up there.\u00a0 In the meantime\u2026<\/p>\n<p>127\u00a0 THE CRUISER \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The bays open, the fighters drop and flash in toward the asteroid swarm.<\/p>\n<p>128\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Han has moved in on Leia again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019re two people, alone in the immensity of space\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(stops, shakes his head)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, no, hold it.\u00a0 That\u2019s too much even for me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia suddenly doubles up with laughter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s a great line, Han, and well-polished with use.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 Matter of fact, you\u2019re the only woman who\u2019s ever flown in Falcon.\u00a0 Trouble is, I can\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">make<\/span> seem to make anything sound convincing.\u00a0 Leia\u2026<\/p>\n<p>129\u00a0 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>The fighters dart and wheel among the asteroids; more cautiously this time since they\u2019re not pursuing.\u00a0 Methodically they fire and drop <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bombs<\/span> shining pellets that explode with considerable violence against the larger asteroids\u2026silently, of course.<\/p>\n<p>130\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>There is no outside atmosphere to carry sound, but the Falcon shudders and the air inside picks up a dull booming.\u00a0 Things rattle and quake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019re <i>still<\/i> just quartering, trying to shake us out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he and Leia sit down)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Mind if I hold your hand?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why?\u00a0 Are you frightened?<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>130\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You bet I am.\u00a0 Aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>They sit together, holding hands, while the booming and shaking go on.\u00a0 Chewie gives a disgusted grunt and returns to his work.\u00a0 Threepio sighs audibly.<\/p>\n<p>131\u00a0 THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>The fighters move on in their charted path, pounding away.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>132\u00a0 EXT BOG PLANET \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Artoo<\/span> The spacer is partly suspended by the hoist.\u00a0 Artoo works away at repairing the hull.\u00a0 From time to time he looks around at Luke and Minch, and beeps softly but sarcastically.<\/p>\n<p>Luke is practicing with the light-saber.\u00a0 Minch capers <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">nearby in an<\/span> about, jeering at him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Skywalker!\u00a0 Farmboy!\u00a0 That\u2019s not <i>an<\/i> axe to chop your wood with.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There was precious little wood on Tattooine to chop.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nor it\u2019s not a sickle, either, to reap your grain.\u00a0 Lightness, Skywalker!\u00a0 Grace.\u00a0 Speed.\u00a0 Skill.\u00a0 That was how the Jedi knights used the saber.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">not like a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artoo practically snorts.\u00a0 He moves farther in under the hull.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I suppose you had a lot of chance to watch them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, I did.\u00a0 I did indeed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You know, Minch, I\u2019m going to be so glad\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Whatever he was going to say is cut short by a sudden burst of shrill whistling from Artoo.\u00a0 The note of urgency spins Luke around.\u00a0 The hull has shifted and Artoo is in trouble, pinned beneath.\u00a0 Luke deactivates the saber and puts it down on a [Missing]<\/p>\n<p>132\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Minch goes to the stump, looks at the saber with strange pride and affection.\u00a0 He puts out a tentative hand.<\/p>\n<p>Luke starts the hoist motor and lifts the spacer a bit higher.\u00a0 He manages to tilt the hull <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a bit<\/span> enough to free Artoo, who comes waddling out from under doing the \u2018droid equivalent of breathing hard.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You all right?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo lets go a string of sounds that might mean, \u201cI think so.\u00a0 Checking circuitry now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, be more careful, will you?<\/p>\n<p>He turns and sees Minch.\u00a0 Minch has the saber now, activated, and is flourishing it.\u00a0 Luke yells.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hey!\u00a0 Put that down!<\/p>\n<p>He runs back to Minch to take the saber away from him, but Minch holds him off with it, and Luke is afraid of being killed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You want to watch the swordplay of the Jedi knights?\u00a0 Very well, young Skywalker.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Stand and<\/span> I\u2019ll show you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He moves quickly away from Luke.\u00a0 In a voice quite unlike his usual one, a voice of dignity and power, he calls out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">In the name of the Force<\/span> By the Force I call you!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke gasps.\u00a0 Suddenly Ben is there\u2026Obi-Wan Kenobi, with a saber in his hand.\u00a0 He is there, but not quite; the swamp woods are partially visible through him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben!\u00a0 Is it really\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It is.\u00a0 Stand clear, Luke, and watch.<\/p>\n<p>He brings the saber to the formal salute.\u00a0 So does Minch.\u00a0 They begin a fencing match which develops into a thing of breathtaking skill and beauty\u2026and Minch is clearly the superior.\u00a0 His skill with the light-blade is dazzling.\u00a0 Luke watches, still not quite believing.\u00a0 At last Ben breaks off,<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>132 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>brings his saber again to the salute and deactivates it.\u00a0 He bows to Minch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The victor, as always.<\/p>\n<p>Minch smiles, salutes, and deactivates his saber.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Luke)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Minch was my teacher.\u00a0 He was a Jedi knight, one of the best of them.\u00a0 We came from many worlds, each with our special talents.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And you did this because otherwise I\u2019d never have believed him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(ashamed)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 Ben, there are so many <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">things I want to ask you<\/span> <i>questions<\/i> \u2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">When you\u2019re able to call me here yourself, I\u2019ll come and talk to you.\u00a0 But I must warn you <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">of one thing, Luke<\/span>.\u00a0 Darth Vader believes you dead.\u00a0 But as you learn to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">control<\/span> <i>use<\/i> the Force <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and use it<\/span>, he\u2019ll find you again.\u00a0 And he\u2019ll do his best to destroy you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But\u2026why?\u00a0 I\u2019m nobody.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He senses in you the same potential I did\u2026though from the other side.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I don\u2019t understand<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">BEN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Be careful, Luke.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben!<\/p>\n<p>But Ben has gone.\u00a0 Minch comes up to him and salutes with the hilt of the deactivated saber, then holds it out to Luke.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your saber, young Jedi.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(he produces his own from a hiding place nearby and activates it)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now shall we get to work?<\/p>\n<p>133\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">IN<\/span> THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>The fighters are pursuing their methodical shake-down bombing and strafing.<\/p>\n<p>134\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Again the shaking, rattling, and muffled booming.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">One accidental hit and we\u2019re done.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how much more of this I <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">can take<\/span>\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019ll get tired of it; figure we\u2019re dead, or somehow managed to slip away.\u00a0 As soon as they quit, we\u2019ll go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes, but where?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ll think of someplace.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n<p>Over in the far corner of the cabin, a game forgotten between them, Chewie and Threepio sweat through the attack and watch Han and Leia.\u00a0 Han takes her in his arms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span> HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re trying to make me say what I don\u2019t want to say.\u00a0 Han, if we live through this, there\u2019ll still be your mission, and mine.\u00a0 We may never see each other again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Will not saying that you love me make that any easier?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(after a moment)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I guess not.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then why waste what little time we have?\u00a0 You do, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>Leia sighs\u2026what\u2019s the use of denying it?\u00a0 It shows, unmistakably.\u00a0 She kisses him.\u00a0 The kiss is interrupted by a large hairy paw shaking Han.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>134 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What is it, Chewie?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie growls and rumbles, gesticulating.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">All right.\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 You\u2019re bored with this, you don\u2019t want to hang around while I\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Wookie is sometimes difficult to translate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Chewie)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I will think, Chewie.\u00a0 I will think very hard, of a place we can go to be safe from the Empire.\u00a0 And any time we haven\u2019t had a raid for two days, we\u2019ll get going.\u00a0 Okay?<\/p>\n<p>Chewie nods and goes grumbling back to Threepio.\u00a0 Leia laughs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He makes a great chaperone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, forget him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(listens)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I think they\u2019ve gone on.<\/p>\n<p>They kiss again.\u00a0 Over in the corner Chewie and Threepio watch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve never been able to understand the pleasure human beings get from placing their mouths together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">O, Han\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She begins to weep, hugging him closer, burying her face against him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They<\/span> And they <i>seem to<\/i> get <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">so much<\/span> <i>an equal amount of <\/i>sorrow from it as well. \u00a0{<i>very confusing<\/i>}\u00a0 Sometimes I\u2019m thankful that I\u2019m not <i>a <\/i>human, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">or\u2026<\/span> <i>being or an<\/i> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(looks at Chewie, who is daring him to say it)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, that I am what I am.\u00a0 Your move, I believe?<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>135\u00a0 EXT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 THE BOG PLANET \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The house, scaled to Minch\u2019s size, sits on a hummock on the swamp.\u00a0 It\u2019s a small gem, beautifully constructed of reeds rather in the fashion of the Marsh Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>136\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>It is spotlessly clean.\u00a0 The floor is covered with reed mats.\u00a0 Various exotic items hang on the walls, mementos of Minch\u2019s years as a Jedi.\u00a0 Luke sits on the floor\u2026even so, the roof is close over his head\u2026listening to Minch, who crouches on a small bed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For the novice, the body must be comfortable, neither hungry not overfed, neither hot nor cold.\u00a0 You must not be sleepy or tired, and your mind must be clear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Luke nods; <i>Minch assumes a posture of intense concentration)<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Very well<\/span>.\u00a0 Close <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Shut your eyes if you like<\/span>.\u00a0 Let your mind go free.\u00a0 <i>I\u2019ll help you <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">as much as I can<\/span>.<\/i> Reach out <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">with it<\/span>.\u00a0 Reach for the Force\u2026the Force that runs between the stars, between the galaxies.\u00a0 The Force that lights the suns, and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sparks the life in all of us\u2026tree and fish, bird and animal, man and creatures such as I<\/span> <i>surrounds all living things<\/i>.\u00a0 Reach for it, Luke.\u00a0 Reach\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(whispers)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m trying.<\/p>\n<p>CUT TO<\/p>\n<p>137\u00a0 EXT DARTH VADER\u2019S CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>A grim castle of black iron that squats on a rock in the midst of a crimson sea.<\/p>\n<p>138\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>In a tower room, grim and darkling, lighted by the red glow outside.\u00a0 Vader is at home, at ease.\u00a0 He has companions; several small gargoyles that perch or caper on the massive furniture.\u00a0 He is feeding them tid-bits from a golden bowl, enjoying their ugliness and their greed.\u00a0 Abruptly he stiffens.\u00a0 He sweeps the gargoyles aside and stands up, his fists on the table.\u00a0 The gargoyles skitter away, fightened (sic).<\/p>\n<p>139\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Minch and Luke.\u00a0 Luke\u2019s face glistens with sweat.\u00a0 Minch is staring at him in amazement.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I think\u2026 \u00a0I think\u2026<\/p>\n<p>140\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader, feeling the disturbance in the Force, knowing it can only derive from one source, hurls his own dark power against Luke.<\/p>\n<p>141\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke, in semi-trance, shows signs of distress.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Dark.\u00a0 Dark.<\/p>\n<p>Minch is instantly alert.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come back, Luke.<\/p>\n<p>But Luke straightens and something unfamiliar comes into his face.\u00a0 When he speaks his voice is harsh and deep, and he is not speaking to Minch but to someone far away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No!\u00a0 Fight.\u00a0 Dark\u2026with dark!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Minch, frightened, bends all his efforts to bring Luke<\/span><\/p>\n<p>142\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>The gargoyles cower.\u00a0 Darth Vader recoils as if from a blow.\u00a0 And then he laughs, AS IF HE HAS DISCOVERED something that bodes no good for Luke.<\/p>\n<p>143\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Minch, frightened, bends every effort to call Luke back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke!<\/p>\n<p>Luke\u2019s eyes open and he looks <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">dazedly around<\/span> at Minch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Darth Vader knows <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Touched me<\/span> struck at me<\/i>.\u00a0 And I felt\u2026power.\u00a0 I struck back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The dark side of the Force.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You must never use it, Luke<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>143\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Why not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019ll destroy you, as it destroyed Darth Vader<\/span>.\u00a0 Luke, you\u2019re in greater danger than I realized.\u00a0 Even untrained, you\u2019re far more powerful than I, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">more<\/span> far more powerful than Obi-Wan.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I was trying to show you the way, and you outran me<\/span>.\u00a0 You don\u2019t just touch the Force, you rend it.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You tear it.\u00a0 No wonder Darth Vader knew<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(taking this in)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But why should that be dangerous?\u00a0 I mean, to be strong?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The more strength, the greater the temptation.\u00a0 Skywalker, if your ship could fly, I\u2019d order you off my world right now.\u00a0 You\u2019re too great a burden.<\/p>\n<p>144\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S CASTLE<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader has sat down, lost in thought, and the small gargoyles are taking courage, coming back to him.\u00a0 Abruptly a communications device shrills a summons.\u00a0 He rises and goes to it, flips a switch.\u00a0 The screen comes to life.\u00a0 The man revealed is draped and hooded in cloth-of-gold, so that we cannot see his face, but the figure is instinct (sic) with power and Darth Vadar (sic) bows before it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your Imperial <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Majesty<\/span> <i>Highness<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The voice that speaks is silken and deadly as a strangler\u2019s cord.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">EMPEROR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You are aware of the disturbance in the Force?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I am.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">EMPEROR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then you know that Skywalker is not dead.\u00a0 <i>And he is more dangerous than [unreadable] I had realized<\/i>.\u00a0 Remove him <i>this time<\/i>, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Lord Vader<\/span>\u2026\u00a0 Or I shall remove you.<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader bows.\u00a0 The screen goes blank.\u00a0 Vader turns away.\u00a0 From his posture and the rhythm of his breathing, he is <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in a rage because he is afraid of the Emperor<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>144 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>angry because of his fear of the emperor.\u00a0 He knocks the golden bowl off the table with a mighty clang, and once more the gargoyles cower.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>145\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">INT FALCON<\/span> THE ASTEROID SWARM<\/p>\n<p>It looks peaceful and deserted.<\/p>\n<p>146\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Han is pacing up and down the cabin, deep in thought, while the others watch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Trouble is, the places I know are just not suitable for leaving Princesses in.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">If nothing else, they\u2019re full of <\/span>people<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> characters who\u2019d sell you to the Empire for the price of a drink<\/span>.\u00a0 Need a place that\u2019s safe for you, somebody dependable to\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(scowls)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hey, Maybe I\u2019ve got it.\u00a0 Chewie, you remember Lando Kadar?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Chewie does)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We used to be friends years ago.\u00a0 I think his family were refugees from the Clone Wars.\u00a0 Anyway, he was kicking around and we flew some\u2026well, trips together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You mean he was a smuggler?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But an honest one.\u00a0 And the last time I saw him, he\u2019d gone respectable on a world <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">gone<\/span> called Hoth.\u00a0 Chewie and I <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">visited him<\/span> dropped in on him once.\u00a0 Lando\u2019s all right.\u00a0 Lando\u2019s the man.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>LEIA<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>How does he stand on the Empire?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>HAN<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Never had any more politics than a frog.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Han goes to the cockpit and consults the computer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hoth.\u00a0 Hoth.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">What are<\/span> Need the coordinates for Hoth.<\/p>\n<p>He waits for the readout, then begins to set it up on the console.\u00a0 Chewie and Leia join him.<\/p>\n<p>145 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Are we going now?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I said, when we had two clear days with nobody shooting at us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Chewie says something)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know they may be <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sitting out there<\/span> standing off, waiting for us to do just this.\u00a0 But we can\u2019t sit here forever, wondering.<\/p>\n<p>He begins to flip switches.\u00a0 Chewie slips into the copilot\u2019s seat.\u00a0 Leia goes back to the cabin, looking apprehensive.\u00a0 Threepio somehow manages to display extreme nervousness.\u00a0 The Falcon throbs to life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Okay.\u00a0 Here we go!<\/p>\n<p>146\u00a0 EXT THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>As it lifts and moves out of the asteroid cave.<\/p>\n<p>147\u00a0 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Threading its way as swiftly as possible through the swarm.<\/p>\n<p>148\u00a0 THE ASTEROID SWARM AND ADJACENT SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Falcon comes clear of the swarm <i>and speeds away<\/i>.<i> <\/i>Immediately, Imperial fighters which have been stooging (sic) around the swarm hoping for something to come out of it, begin to converge.<\/p>\n<p>149\u00a0 SHOTS OF FIGHTERS<\/p>\n<p>Still at a distance, but having sighted their quarry, closing in.\u00a0 The cruiser hovers <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">at a<\/span> in b.g.<\/p>\n<p>150\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie pouring on the coal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yep\u2026there they are.\u00a0 Figured if they stopped making a noise we\u2019d poke our heads out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(makes an insolent gesture at the enemy)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sorry, friends, but this time we really are in a hurry.\u00a0 Chewie\u2026!<\/p>\n<p>151\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid swarm <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is<\/span> has already <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">far<\/span> been left behind.\u00a0 As the fighters dive in on Falcon, there is a ripple and flicker in the fabric of space, and Falcon vanishes.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>152\u00a0 EXT BOG WORLD \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>In the ghostly, glimmering night we see the spacer, repaired and positioned for take-off, ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>153\u00a0 EXT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Pale light spilling from the doorway shows Artoo standing vigil.<\/p>\n<p>154\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>By the light of a dim lamp, Luke and Minch face each other as before; Luke seems indefinably older, more sober, intent.\u00a0 Minch is restless, not entirely happy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It would have been easier to teach you if you\u2019d started younger, like Obi-Wan.\u00a0 You\u2019re going too far, too fast.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But I\u2019m beginning to understand, Minch.\u00a0 Beginning to get control.<\/p>\n<p>A plaited basket holds strange fruit.\u00a0 Luke holds out his hand and one of the things levitates into it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Before you can <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">truly<\/span> control the Force, you have to be able to control yourself.\u00a0 And that you haven\u2019t learned <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">yet<\/span>.\u00a0 I know you think you have, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You think I won\u2019t be able to hold out against Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he wills the fruit back into the basket <i>making it do [unreadable] on the way; Minch watches sourly<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yet you tell me I\u2019m stronger than Obi-Wan\u2026and he held out.<\/p>\n<p>154\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Obi-Wan had already won his battle.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">With the dark side of the Force.\u00a0 You\u2019ve never told me exactly what that is, Minch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s the dark side of you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a pause while Luke grapples with this)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019s<\/span> <i>The dark side<\/i> in all of us.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes the temptation so great.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019s not an external thing<\/span>.\u00a0 The Force is power.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to the individual how he uses <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it<\/span> <i>that power<\/i>.\u00a0 Most of the Jedi knights were honorable men, faithful to their vows.\u00a0 But sometimes\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What happened to the bad ones?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There were none during my long service, until Darth Vader.\u00a0 I think <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">they\u2019d<\/span> <i>the knights had<\/i> forgotten and grown careless.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How soon will I be able to call Ben from\u2026wherever he is?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019ve still got a few lessons <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">yet to go<\/span> ahead of you.<\/p>\n<p>Resignedly, Luke settles into his student posture.<\/p>\n<p>155\u00a0 EXT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Artoo makes a small, sad, lonely beeping.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>156\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN HYPERSPACE<\/p>\n<p>In the cabin, Han and Leia have their heads together, talking quietly as lovers do.\u00a0 In the cockpit, Chewbacca is grumpily minding the store, with Threepio, who is not above peeping.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They do make a handsome couple.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls, rather nastily, Threepio looks at him.<\/p>\n<p>156 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewbacca!\u00a0 Are you jealous?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he growls again)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Afraid the Princess may lure your friend into domesticity and away from your rather\u2026how shall I say it? \u2026raffish adventurings?<\/p>\n<p>Chewbacca rises, slowly and awesomely, turning toward Threepio, who retreats <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">hastily<\/span> into the other seat.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m sorry, Chewbacca.\u00a0 Truly I am.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t mean\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Chewbacca sounds as if he might be saying, \u201cWell, keep your smart mouth shut, then.\u201d\u00a0 But he sits down again.\u00a0 Threepio quivers.\u00a0 Han and Leia have noticed none of this.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>156\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>SHOT of the Falcon, back in normal space and sweeping in toward a planet shrouded in clouds.\u00a0 The primary burns in b.g.<\/p>\n<p>157\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Han is showing Leia the planet through the forward port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s Hoth.\u00a0 I think the name means \u201cCloud\u201d, and that\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sensible<\/span> appropriate.\u00a0 Never see the sun, but otherwise it\u2019s a pretty world.\u00a0 Very old native cultures, ruined cities everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>158\u00a0 IN CLOUDS \u2013 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">whipping down<\/span> descending through layers of curling, whipping clouds.<\/p>\n<p>159\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">EXT<\/span> INT FALCON \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon, moving slowly now, drops below the cloud layer.\u00a0 Ahead, through the port, there is an expanse of green landscape with a ruined city, alien and picturesque.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>159\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lando fixed up one of the old buildings here and built a big trader\u2019s compound.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The natives<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Gets along fine with the natives because he treats them right<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t see any compound.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie rumbles agreement, and Han is now staring at the city.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Neither do I.\u00a0 Set her down, Chewie.\u00a0 Let\u2019s have a look.<\/p>\n<p>160\u00a0 EXT RUINED CITY \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon lands at the edge of the city.\u00a0 Han, Leia, and Chewbacca emerge from the craft;\u00a0 Threepio remains in the hatch.\u00a0 They look around.\u00a0 Everything is silent and deserted, including what has obviously been a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">not too long ago abandoned<\/span> dwelling and a compound.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How long as (sic) it been since you were here?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, it\u2019s only been\u2026\u00a0 Well, a while.<\/p>\n<p>They start <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">forward<\/span> toward the city.\u00a0 Threepio, looking upward, gives a sudden shrill cry of warning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Look up there!<\/p>\n<p>161\u00a0 EXT RUINED CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Out of the clouds a strange group materializes; tall noble-looking warriors who carry a pneumatic dart weapon.\u00a0 They are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ride<\/span> white-skinned and white-haired.\u00a0 They ride through the sky on creatures that resemble pale giant manta-rays.\u00a0 They swoop toward the Falcon, weapons leveled.\u00a0 Han has his small blaster holstered at his hip.\u00a0 Chewbacca carries his big one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie!\u00a0 Give \u2018em a warning blast\u2026don\u2019t hit anybody.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(grabs Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Back in the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia run up the steps.\u00a0 The warriors sheer off from Chewie\u2019s blast, fired straight up.\u00a0 Chewie follows into the ship.\u00a0 The landing stair folds upward, the hatch slams.\u00a0 <i>The leader of<\/i><\/p>\n<p>161\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>he takes a communications device from his belt and speaks into it.\u00a0 the warriors (sic) motions his people back; the manta-rays circle.\u00a0 The warriors watch the Falcon take off <i>into the clouds<\/i>.\u00a0 Then they <i>too<\/i> disappear back into the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>162\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon flying through the clouds <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rises swiftly into the cloud layer<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Well,<\/span> I guess that settles <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">what<\/span> the question of what happened to your friend.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The natives aren\u2019t exactly friendly<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(shakes his head)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 They\u2019re a peaceable people, and Lando got on fine with \u2018em.\u00a0 The old chief practically adopted him.\u00a0 I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What do we do now?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Give me a minute to think!<\/p>\n<p>163\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">EXT<\/span> THE CLOUD LAYER \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Falcon emerges from a vast bank of cloud into a clear space among other towering clouds\u2026and is surrounded by scout craft.<\/p>\n<p>164\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The occupants see the scout craft as the radio comes to life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE ON RADIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hold your fire!\u00a0 We\u2019re friends.\u00a0 Are you the Milennium (sic) Falcon, Han Solo, captain?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE ON RADIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Follow us, please.\u00a0 We\u2019ll escort you to your landing area.<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie look at each other.\u00a0 The scout craft are fast and well-armed.\u00a0 They shrug.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thank you.\u00a0 We\u2019ll follow.<\/p>\n<p>165\u00a0 THE CLOUD LAYER &#8211; HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The scout craft and the Falcon disappear into the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>166\u00a0 THE CLOUD LAYER \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Something is moving, slowly, majestically, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a huge mass<\/span> through the clouds.\u00a0 It is huge, and as it <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shows<\/span> is seen more clearly through thinning vapour, it shows windows, lights, symmetry, a soaring beauty.<\/p>\n<p>167\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 THE CLOUDS \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The occupants watch amazed as the apparition swings toward them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Look at that!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">An orbital city.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t here before.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VOICE FROM RADIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You will pick up your landing beam in five seconds.\u00a0 Mark.\u00a0 Five, four, three, two, one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a flat whining SOUND clicks in and holds)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Follow it in.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">making<\/span> flipping some switches)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Locked on.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls uneasily.<\/p>\n<p>168\u00a0 EXT ORBITAL CITY \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The scout craft stand off and watch as Falcon approaches the city.<\/p>\n<p>169\u00a0 EXT ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The grand concourse, with a landing area and above it a wide terrace reached by a flight of steps.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">A number of<\/span> people stand on the terrace watching as the Falcon lands.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They include<\/span> A number of them are natives, tall folk in long robes.\u00a0 Others swoop overhead on their flying mounts.<\/p>\n<p>170\u00a0 INT FSLCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie are switching off the engines.\u00a0 Leia and Threepio look anxiously out the port.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Looks like quite a reception.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Well,<\/span> We might as well go face it.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie goes to open the hatch.\u00a0 Han catches Leia by the arm.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Remember, you never heard of the Princess Leia Organa.\u00a0 You\u2019re Ethania\u2026uh\u2026uh, what did I say your last name was?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ardith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.\u00a0 It was Erith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Excuse me, sir.\u00a0 It was Eredith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t care what it <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is<\/span> <i>was<\/i>, but let\u2019s make up our minds!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">If<\/span><\/p>\n<p>172\u00a0 EXT CONCOURSE \u2013 ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia, Chewbacca and Threepio disembark and walk toward the steps.\u00a0 Han pauses at the bottom, looking up, and\u00a0 a man steps forward on the balcony, flings out his arms, and comes running down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO KADAR<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(embraces him)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And Chewbacca.<\/p>\n<p>He gives the Wookie a hearty slap on the shoulder, and turns to look at Leia.\u00a0 Lando Kadar is no particular age, though he looks younger than he is.\u00a0 He is richly dressed in impeccable taste, and incredibly handsome; so handsome that, like Rudolph Valentino, he seems not quite real.\u00a0 Yet when Han introduces Leia, his smile is warm and his welcome seems genuine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Ethania Eredith, <\/span>a young lady from<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> I found her stranded <\/span>I met in my travels<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> on a very unpleasant world\u2026her father was in my line of work and came<\/span><\/p>\n<p>172\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ethania, this is Lando Kadar.\u00a0 Ethania Eredith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(they exchange acknowledgements)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I found her stranded on a really unpleasant world.\u00a0 Her father was in my line of work, and came to grief.\u00a0 I promised to bring her back to civilization.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If this can qualify as civilization, you are most welcome.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Thank you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And this<\/span> Travelling with your own \u2018droid now, Han?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(laughs)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Haven\u2019t reached those levels yet!\u00a0 He\u2019s far too valuable for the work he was doing, but his owner didn\u2019t know it.\u00a0 Picked him up cheap.\u00a0 Reckon I can sell him at a good profit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps I can use him.<\/p>\n<p>Threepio goes rigid with shock.\u00a0 Lando doesn\u2019t see this.\u00a0 He and Han have started up the stairs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019ve certainly come up in the world, Lando.\u00a0 Literally.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(touches Threepio reassuringly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come on, Threepio.<\/p>\n<p>She and Chewie and Threepio follow.\u00a0 <i>Leia is obviously not taken with Lando.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>173\u00a0 ON THE TERRACE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(lightly)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Baron Kadar now, if you please. <\/i>Yes, I\u2019ve been very lucky the last few years.\u00a0 Han, you remember my old friend Bahiri, chief of the White Bird clan of the Cloud People?<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>173\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>A particularly noble-looking elder steps forward to greet Han.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Of course I do.\u00a0 Hello, Bahiri.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han Solo\u2026Chewbacca\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(bows to them and to Leia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My people meant you no harm.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Since the compound has gone<\/span> They merely wished to know why you were there.\u00a0 Since the compound has gone, people sometimes come to rob the ancient cities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No harm done.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, shall we go inside?<\/p>\n<p>He courteously ushers them through an imposing doorway.\u00a0 Threepio toddles along behind them, looking nervously about.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(as the doorway swallows him)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, dear.\u00a0 I wonder if Artoo will ever be able to find me.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>174\u00a0 EXT BOG WORLD \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Threepio<\/span> Artoo, standing disconsolately apart from Luke and Minch in the clearing by the pond, seems to be wondering the same thing.\u00a0 Minch has also retired to the background.\u00a0 Luke, with a new strength and authority in his voice and manner, calls out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben.\u00a0 Obi-Wan.\u00a0 By the Force, I call you.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment nothing happens, and Luke wonders if he has failed.\u00a0 Then, as before, Ben materializes <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in a ghostly fashion<\/span> <i>out of the mist<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And I am here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ben\u2026I\u2019m so glad to see you!\u00a0 Are you real\u2026or are you a ghost?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">BEN<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>174\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(laughs)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m as real as you are, only my \u2018reality\u2019 has changed a little.\u00a0 There are no ghosts.\u00a0 Those are only names we put to things we can\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then Darth Vader didn\u2019t kill you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It was my time to move on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">To move on where?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">To a different part of the universe.\u00a0 It\u2019s all one, if you know the way.\u00a0 Or rather, if you understand the laws that govern the way.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Physical laws<\/span>.\u00a0 One day <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">you\u2019ll understand, Luke<\/span> <i>you will<\/i>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019ll be able to glimpse, as I have, the beautiful symmetry of the perfection of this creation we all belong to\u2026<\/span> Luke, I\u2019ve brought someone with me.<\/p>\n<p>Another half-ghostly form emerges from the mists; a tall fine-looking man who approaches Luke slowly, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">looking at him<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<br \/>\nYour father.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My father.<\/p>\n<p>Even with his new-found maturity, Luke finds this an awesome, not to say shattering, moment.\u00a0 They look at each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SKYWALKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019ve grown well, Luke.\u00a0 I\u2019m proud of you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Luke, not knowing what to say, says nothing)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Proud, and afraid for you.\u00a0 You\u2019re going into battle untried<\/span>.\u00a0 Did your uncle ever speak to you about <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Nellith?<\/span> <i>your sister?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Nellith?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Who is she?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">SKYWALKER<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Your sister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>174\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My sister?\u00a0 I have a sister?\u00a0 But why didn\u2019t Uncle Owen\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SKYWALKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It was my request.\u00a0 When I saw the Empire closing in, I sent you both away for your own safety, far apart from each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Where is she?\u00a0 What\u2019s her name?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SKYWALKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If I were to tell you, Darth Vader could get that information from your mind and use her as a hostage.\u00a0 Not yet, Luke.\u00a0 When it\u2019s time\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he looks gravely at his son)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke.\u00a0 Will you take, from me, the oath of a Jedi knight?<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, proudly, Luke draws his light saber and activates it, bringing it to the salute.\u00a0 Skywalker does the same.\u00a0 Ben and Minch also raise their sabers, standing by as witnesses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SKYWALKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I, Luke Skywalker\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Luke repeats after him at suitable intervals)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">do swear on my honor, and on the faith of the brotherhood of knights, to use the Force only for good, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">denying<\/span> <i>turning always from<\/i> the Dark Side; <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">dealing in all matters with justice and compassion,<\/span> to dedicate my life to the cause of freedom, and justice.\u00a0 If I should fail of this vow, my life shall be forfeit, here and hereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The four sabers touch, a kind of ceremonial amen.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Then Ben and Skywalker fade back into the mists.\u00a0 Ben\u2019s voice sounds softly, almost as an echo<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">SKYWALKER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That is the only armor I can give you, son.\u00a0 The rest is yours to do.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BEN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Good bye, Luke.<\/p>\n<p>Ben and Skywalker fade back into the mists.\u00a0 Luke looks after them, his face at once ennobled and fearful.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">MINCH<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Your test is yet to come, and Darth Vader will do the testing.\u00a0 At that time, you may regret your vow <i>that vow<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>174\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your real test is yet to come, and Darth Vader will do the testing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s he waiting for?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You.\u00a0 Because you were afraid, you\u2019ve kept your mind closed to the dark side.\u00a0 But sooner or later you must open it, and he\u2019ll know.\u00a0 You may wish you hadn\u2019t taken that vow.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>175\u00a0 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 HOTH \u2013 <i>DAY<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The city moves majestically through the cloudy layers.<\/p>\n<p>176\u00a0 INT <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">MACHINE SHOP<\/span> REPAIR DOCK \u2013 THE CITY<\/p>\n<p>Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and Threepio stand with Lando in the dock where men are swarming over the Falcon with tools and testing equipment.\u00a0 Some of her outer panels have been removed, showing her ribs.\u00a0 Chewbacca does not look happy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You took a little more structural damage than you realised (sic), Han.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">When are you going to<\/span> In fact, it\u2019s a miracle you got here.\u00a0 When are you going to settle down and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">get rich<\/span> make an honest living?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ask me again in twenty years!\u00a0 Come on, Chewie, they\u2019ve got the heavy equipment, let \u2018em do it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s beyond there?<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s pointing at heavy steel doors.\u00a0 Lando shrugs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">More docks.\u00a0 Warehouses.\u00a0 Supply and maintenance areas.\u00a0 Nothing of interest.\u00a0 Ever been in one of these orbital cities before?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then I have something <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">of interest<\/span> to show you that I think will interest you.<\/p>\n<p>He ushers them on, toward a lift.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Do you trade much with the Empire, Baron Kadar?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I trade with anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The lift door closes behind them.<\/p>\n<p>177\u00a0 THE REACTOR SHAFT<\/p>\n<p>Looking down a tremendous vertical shaft with various apertures in its sides.\u00a0 Far down, the bottom of the shaft is closed by a dome of some opaque material.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">This is the shaft that goes<\/span> At the bottom of this shaft is the reactor that powers the city and keeps us in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>178\u00a0 MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL AREA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">At the top of the shaft<\/span> At the center is a railing, where the humans are standing looking down, Threepio staying back.\u00a0 Around the circumference of the walls are instrument panels, indicators, a communications panel, and racks of varied equipment.\u00a0 This is literally the heart of the city, and the area is spacious.\u00a0 Various \u2018droids preside over the panels.\u00a0 A roaring draft sucks down the shaft, which continues upward for some distance.\u00a0 Just the edge of it blows their hair and garments and the roar makes conversation difficult.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The shaft itself is part of the ventilating system.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The<\/span> We use specialist \u2018droids here <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">because<\/span> instead of humans because of the constant noise; their auditory sensors can be adjusted.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Mine are giving way.<\/p>\n<p>All, especially Chewbacca, are uncomfortable.\u00a0 The Wookie growls.\u00a0 Lando nods and leads them away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Perhaps a stroll in one of the gardens.<\/p>\n<p>179\u00a0 EXT GARDEN \u2013 ORBITAL CITY \u2013 <i>DAY<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The garden is a kind of balcony, open to the cloudy sky, on the outer circumference of the city.\u00a0 It is filled with exotic flowers and fruit trees, which Chewbacca is enjoying with childlike pleasure; Wookies like growing things.\u00a0 Leia is hugging herself, finding the air at this altitude rather chilly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Do you own this city, Baron?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LANDO<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>179\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hardly!\u00a0 It belongs to a shipping conglomerate.\u00a0 They decided that my business had outgrown the compound and required better facilities.\u00a0 Hoth, you see, is\u2026\u00a0 But my dear, you\u2019re shivering.\u00a0 Shall we go in?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, it\u2019s nice here.\u00a0 Threepio, would you fetch me a wrap?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">from the<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Of course, Miss Eredith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he goes)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He goes<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As I started to say, Hoth is very strategically situated with regard to trade routes.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to develop it into a center of distribution\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>180\u00a0 INT ORBITAL CITY<\/p>\n<p>Threepio hurries along through a maze of corridors, complaining to himself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Well, we have come down in the world, haven\u2019t we?\u00a0 From protocol \u2018droid at galactic embassies to ladies\u2019 maid, and the further prospect of being sold off to that\u2026that what?\u00a0 Why do my sensor relays positively crinkle when I get close to him?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(halts, bewildered)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, dear, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ve lost my way; all these corridors look alike.\u00a0 What shall I do?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(draws himself up)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now then, See Threepio\u2026no panic.\u00a0 Think.\u00a0 Visualize the door to the suite.\u00a0 It can\u2019t be very far from here.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Yes, I have it<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He starts off along a corridor, looking for the doorway.\u00a0 A couple of twists and turns, and he sees it\u2026or thinks he does.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ah!\u00a0 There it is!<\/p>\n<p>He hurries on to the doorway, made distinctive by mouldings, etc.,<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>180\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>and believing the suite to be unoccupied, he flings the door open.\u00a0 We cannot see past him into the room beyond, but he freezes instantly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I beg your pardon.\u00a0 I seem to be lost.\u00a0 Please forgive the intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>He turns and starts to run back the way he came.<\/p>\n<p>181\u00a0 EXT GARDEN \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(shivering)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m going to have to go in.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine what\u2019s happened to Threepio.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>182\u00a0 EXT BOG WORLD \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke and Artoo walk toward Minch\u2019s house, where Minch is waiting.\u00a0 Artoo crackles a steady stream of what sounds like protest.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Doesn\u2019t it ever shut up?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Artoo turns on Minch and his terminals fairly smoke.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo!\u00a0 I have to do this.\u00a0 Then we\u2019ll go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Don\u2019t tell me you can really understand <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">him it<\/span> that gibberish.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Not the words, no.\u00a0 But it\u2019s pretty obvious that he doesn\u2019t like <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it here<\/span> <i>this place<\/i>, that he blames you for keeping me here\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(blast from Artoo)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And I believe he thinks you\u2019re a danger to me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">another<\/span> corroboratory beep from Artoo)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Unfortunately, he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Minch goes inside.\u00a0 Luke speaks to Artoo.<\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>182\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Please, little friend.\u00a0 Be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo waddles aside, disconsolate, beeping softly.\u00a0 Luke enters Minch\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>183\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke sits down.\u00a0 Minch is already on the bunk, head and shoulders bowed by the importance and the danger of the occasion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There\u2019s nothing more I can tell you.\u00a0 No way I can help you.\u00a0 This you must do yourself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Suppose I go on the way I am\u2026keeping my mind closed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Nobody ever conquered a thing by ignoring it.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019ll only<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019s there, and part of you.\u00a0 It\u2019ll only wait until you\u2019re off guard, and then<\/span>\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">(Luke nods)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">All right<\/span>.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m as ready as I ever will be.<\/p>\n<p>He shuts his eyes and leans back against the wall.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Open your mind, Luke, to the dark side of the Force.<\/p>\n<p>184\u00a0 EXT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>The clearing in the swamp, wreathed <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">by<\/span> with the ever-present mist.\u00a0 Artoo stands at one side of the house.\u00a0 Abruptly, his metal housing begins to twitch with a kind of eerie brush discharge.\u00a0 Beeping, he looks around, and falls silent.\u00a0 A <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">tall<\/span> shape of darkness, much taller than a man and having no visible features, yet still giving an impression of Darth Vader\u2019s shape and form, towers in the clearing, outlined in little flickering <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">tongues of force flames<\/span> <i>darts<\/i> of energy.\u00a0 Phantom-like, there seems to be an echo of heavy breathing.\u00a0 Presently, much smaller, a second form manifests itself.\u00a0 This too is featureless but suggests Luke; it is light in color, almost white, but the flickering <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">flames<\/span> <i>energy<\/i> that outline it <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">are much less strong<\/span> <i>is<\/i> weaker than Vader\u2019s.\u00a0 <i>Strange ghostly voices speak now.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>184\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re still afraid.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You tried twice to kill me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That was before I knew your strength.\u00a0 Now I\u2019d prefer to have you as an ally.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ally!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Look.<\/p>\n<p>The swamp clearing has vanished.\u00a0 They seem to stand now in interstellar space, with glory all around them, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">stars, nebulae, the shining spirals of distant galaxies.\u00a0 The great companies of stars that march forever stride the paths of the galaxy.\u00a0 Nebulae dark and bright.\u00a0 There are novas and distant nebulae<\/span>.\u00a0 The Darth Vader figure reaches out a huge shadowy hand as if to grasp a star-field; the stars seem to run through his fingers like sand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I can no longer go as a man among men.\u00a0 What is left of my body survives only because of the life-support system that sustains it.\u00a0 But my brain lives, and my will lives, and power lives.\u00a0 Have you never wanted power, Luke?\u00a0 Power to strike back at your enemies, to avenge wrongs, to keep those you love safe from harm?\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Of course you have.\u00a0 You think the \u00a0You\u2019ve been \u00a0that the dark side of the Force is evil<\/span>.\u00a0 What about the Princess Leia?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve sworn an oath.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Other men\u2019s words, other men\u2019s shackles.\u00a0 Will you be a child all your life?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve sworn an oath.<\/p>\n<p>But the lightness of the smaller form seems to be darkening, the flickers of energy getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re in love with Leia.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to lose her to Han Solo\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and<\/span> but you will, if you lack the courage to use the strength that\u2019s in you.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n<p><i>(cont.)<\/i> CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>184\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">strength as great as mine, Luke.\u00a0 If you join with me, nothing can stand against us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What about the Empire?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Empire is a passing phase.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Not even<\/span> We would rule instead.\u00a0 You and I.\u00a0 The Emperor is a harsh master.\u00a0 You would not be.\u00a0 You could restore the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">republic<\/span> peace, put a stop to the killing.\u00a0 How much good you could do, Luke!\u00a0 Don\u2019t be afraid.\u00a0 Reach out <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and<\/span> Grasp the stars.\u00a0 They\u2019re yours for the taking.<\/p>\n<p>Tentatively, the Luke image reaches a cloudy hand toward the starfield.\u00a0 The image has gone quite dark now; the pulse of energy around it is very bright.\u00a0 The cloudy fingers <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">gather up<\/span> seem to gather up stars.\u00a0 There is a whisper of a laugh\u2026which turns suddenly into a wailing cry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They burn.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve sworn an oath.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The cloudy hand is snatched back, the Luke image dwindles and fades, pursued by the booming laughter of Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Run, then, Luke!\u00a0 But you\u2019ll come back.\u00a0 The dark side in you won\u2019t let you rest.<\/p>\n<p>185\u00a0 INT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke is hugging himself, shivering, half sobbing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I ran, Minch.\u00a0 I ran away.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t fight him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(he looks at his hand with <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in<\/span> a kind of horror)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Because I wanted.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I wanted<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Minch looks at him sombrely (sic), unsurprised.<\/p>\n<p>186\u00a0 EXT MINCH\u2019S HOUSE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Artoo, still standing outside, surveys the deserted clearing and gives a heartfelt beep of relief.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>187\u00a0 INT <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">CORRI<\/span> SUITE <i>LIVING ROOM<\/i> \u2013 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 HOTH \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>CLOSE SHOT on a large container <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">containing Threepio<\/span> holding the remains of Threepio; all the pieces are there, but dismembered, with the head piled carefully on top, mute and reproachful.\u00a0 Han, Leia, and Chewie are looking at the wreckage mournfully.\u00a0 Lando explains.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He was found jammed in the gears of a recycling chute.\u00a0 He must have opened the wrong panel.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie rumbles and touches the head.\u00a0 Leia is close to tears.\u00a0 Han puts a comforting arm around her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to Lando)<\/p>\n<p>But you can rebuild him.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Surely you<\/span> With all the \u2018droids <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">you<\/span> I\u2019ve seen around, you must have the facilities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I\u2019m sorry<\/span>.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid My workshops are already running overtime <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">now, with orders and repairs<\/span>.\u00a0 Perhaps in a week or two\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I see.\u00a0 And what <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">How<\/span> about the Falcon?\u00a0 How is that job coming?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han and Chewbacca are keeping a close eye on it.\u00a0 Falcon should be spaceworthy very shortly now.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">May I expect you all for lunch?<\/span> Well\u2026I must go.\u00a0 See you all later.<\/p>\n<p>Lando goes.\u00a0 Han looks at Leia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I see<\/span> Little Ethania Eredith hasn\u2019t forgotten how to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bristle like the<\/span> <i>crack the whip like the<\/i> Princess Leia.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Why all the hostility?<\/span> <i>What was all that about?<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If you trust your friend so much, why <i>must<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">do<\/span> we have this ridiculous masquerade?<\/p>\n<p>In b.g. Chewbacca is hunkered down by the container, gently handling the pieces of Threepio.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">187\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve already told you, it\u2019s because I don\u2019t know the people around him and the less temptation\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Is he a clone?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Is he a what?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You said his <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">people<\/span> family were refugees from the Clone Wars. \u00a0Is he a clone?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t know, he never told me, I never thought about it.\u00a0 What is all this anyway?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I think your friend is lying.\u00a0 I think Threepio was smashed deliberately.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span> HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Why would anybody want to do that?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How do I know?\u00a0 Perhaps he saw something he wasn\u2019t supposed to see.\u00a0 But the Baron could get him repaired if he wanted to, and don\u2019t tell me he couldn\u2019t.\u00a0 And don\u2019t tell me they\u2019re not dragging their feet on the Falcon,<i> and don\u2019t tell me he couldn\u2019t find me a passage out on one of his trading ships.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Just what are you trying to say?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m not trying to say it, I\u2019m saying it.\u00a0 We\u2019re being kept here, and the Baron is up to something.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Leia.\u00a0 Leia, please listen to me.\u00a0 I know you\u2019re all upset, but please listen.\u00a0 I\u2019ve known Lando for years\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You knew a young man<\/span>.\u00a0 But you never knew the Baron Kadar.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>187 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ah, that\u2019s just hair-splitting.\u00a0 You\u2019re letting your imagination run away with you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Chewie interrupts)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What is it, Chewie?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Chewie talks)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hey, did you hear that?\u00a0 Chewbacca thinks he might be able to put Threepio back together again.\u00a0 <i>All the pieces are here.<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He\u2019s going to try<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(together he and Chewie pick up the box)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Wookies are very good with electronics.\u00a0 <i>You\u2019ll see.\u00a0 Everything will be all right.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Han is glad to escape. <\/i>As Han and Chewie carry the box into an adjoining room, Threepio\u2019s head <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">watches<\/span> looks back with blank mournfulness.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Leia turns away in mingled sadness and anger<\/span> <i>Angry<\/i> at Han\u2019s refusal to listen <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">She<\/span> <i>Leia<\/i> goes into her room and slams the door.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>188\u00a0 EXT BOG WORLD \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>By the pond.\u00a0 The spacer is ready for take-off.\u00a0 Artoo is inside, standing in the hatch, impatient for Luke to come aboard.\u00a0 But Luke is saying goodbye to Minch.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I ran away, Minch\u2026not because I was afraid of Darth Vader, but because I couldn\u2019t trust myself.\u00a0 What will I do next time?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">MINCH<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Remember you\u2019re a Jedi knight!<\/p>\n<p>He draws his saber and activates it, bringing it to the salute.\u00a0 Luke <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">does the same<\/span> activates his saber, speaking softly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And if I am foresworn of this oath, may my life be forfeit, here and hereafter.<\/p>\n<p>He brings the saber to the salute.\u00a0 He and Minch look at each other.\u00a0 Then Luke deactivates the saber and climbs quickly into the spacer.\u00a0 Minch, still holding his saber, watches the spacer take off and disappear into the misty sky.\u00a0 He lets the saber drop.\u00a0 The light dies out of it, and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Minch\u2019s face is<\/span> he turns away into his <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">misty<\/span> <i>foggy<\/i> swamp.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>189\u00a0 INT CHEWBACCA\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 HOTH \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>On an improvised workbench, with a multitude of small tools scattered about, Chewbacca has Threepio\u2019s head remounted on a partial assembly of Threepio\u2019s upperworks, just the head and shoulders.\u00a0 He is working carefully to complete a connection.\u00a0 There is a rap on the door.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN\u2019S VOICE (o.s.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie!<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls and ignores the summons.\u00a0 The door opens.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Everybody\u2019s waiting.\u00a0 Time to go to dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls and indicates his work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s great, Chewie, but you can finish <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">him<\/span> it after dinner.\u00a0 Come on.<\/p>\n<p>Reluctantly, Chewie drops his tools and follows Han, grumbling.<\/p>\n<p>190\u00a0 INT SUITE LIVING ROOM \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Lando and Leia are waiting; all are dressed for dinner, and Chewie pauses by a pier-glass to slick down his hair.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie says he can have Threepio talking with a couple more connections.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Splendid.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry I couldn\u2019t be of more help to you.<\/p>\n<p>He seems perfectly unruffled and at ease as he stands back for Leia at the door into the corridor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Miss Eredith.\u00a0 I suppose Han has told you that the Falcon is <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">repaired<\/span> ready to fly\u2026<\/p>\n<p>191\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>They all come into the corridor, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and<\/span> <i>they<\/i> walk along <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">it<\/span> <i>the corridor<\/i>.\u00a0 <i>The doorway into the suite is identical with the one 3PO opened by mistake<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>191\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And I have a ship going into the general sector<\/span> And in a few days I\u2019ll be able to find you passage <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">out<\/span> to the sector where you wished to go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You see?\u00a0 I told you everything would work out.<\/p>\n<p>Leia can\u2019t very well dispute this, yet she seems unconvinced.\u00a0 As they walk along the corridor, she watches Lando.\u00a0 He smiles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re wondering, Miss Eredith.\u00a0 You\u2019re too polite to ask, but still you wonder.\u00a0 So I\u2019ll tell you.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I am<\/span> I\u2019m a clone.\u00a0 Of the Ashardi family.\u00a0 My great-grandfather wanted many sons and he produced them from the cells of his own body.\u00a0 His sister, a remarkable woman, produced many daughters by the same means.\u00a0 Thus we keep the blood pure.\u00a0 But since the wars, there are not many of us left, and we try not to attract attention.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(a sadness comes into his voice, a remembering)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">did not<\/span> didn\u2019t seem strange to us to see our own faces endlessly repeated in the streets of our cities.\u00a0 It gave us a sense of oneness, of belonging.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I<\/span> Now, when every face is <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">that of a stranger<\/span> new and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">unknown<\/span> <i>different<\/i>\u2026I feel truly alone.<\/p>\n<p>They are approaching a large and imposing doorway, which is closed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m sorry, Baron Kadar.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t mean to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>He brushes her protestations aside with a light hand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No matter.\u00a0 Oh\u2026I should tell you that we have a guest this evening.\u00a0 I believe you all know him.<\/p>\n<p>Lando throws open the door with a flourish.<\/p>\n<p>192\u00a0 INT DINING SALON \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>As Leia, Han, and Chewbacca, ushered in by Lando, stop to stare in shock at the dinner guest, rising in black enormous menace from the seat at the head of the table.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The Princess Leia Organa\u2026Lord Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(bowing)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess.<\/p>\n<p>Han, stammering with fury, turns on Lando.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2026you\u2026you sold us out!<\/p>\n<p>He is about to go for Lando\u2019s throat, but Chewie grabs and holds him by main force, growling.\u00a0 He indicates a couple of Imperial troopers standing unobtrusively, but armed and ready.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I guess you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>193\u00a0 INT DINING SALON \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is at table, Darth Vader presiding at the head; he is neither eating nor drinking.\u00a0 Lando eats with a good appetite.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The others<\/span> Chewbacca sits quiet, not touching anything.\u00a0 Han and Leia have lost their appetites but both\u2026and especially Han\u2026are drinking wine.\u00a0 Looking at Lando and contemplating murder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You see, Han, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I had no choice<\/span>.\u00a0 I knew who the Princess was the moment you landed, I knew that the Empire wanted you both\u2026and the Empire is important to me.\u00a0 I suppose that I <i>really<\/i> owe my comfortable existence here to the Empire, though I\u2019m not a part of it, and I continue to trade with both sides.\u00a0 So I really had no choice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I hope you were well paid.\u00a0 You know what\u2019s going to happen to us.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>193\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lord Vader assured me that nothing would happen to any of you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ha!\u00a0 I\u2019ve enjoyed Lord Vader\u2019s hospitality before.\u00a0 What\u2019s the matter, Lord Vader?\u00a0 Have you gone so far beyond humanity that you no longer need to eat, or drink?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I have had to forego those simple pleasures, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">like an<\/span> <i>along with<\/i> many others; but <i>there are compensations<\/i> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I survive<\/span>.\u00a0 And you\u2019re forgetting something, Princess.\u00a0 When we entertained you aboard the Death Star, you had information that we needed. \u00a0Now you have nothing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then\u2026I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">What about him?<\/span> But I don\u2019t know where he is\u2026or even if he\u2019s still alive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019s alive.\u00a0 And he\u2019ll find you, because he loves you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s ridiculous.\u00a0 He could search for\u2026.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019ll find her.\u00a0 And until then, we wait.\u00a0 I would advise you against any rash moves.\u00a0 I\u2019ve set a guard on the Falcon so there\u2019s no escape that way.\u00a0 <i>I shan\u2019t lock your doors unless you make it necessary.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">It\u2019s impossible<\/span>.\u00a0 Luke hasn\u2019t the faintest idea where we are.\u00a0 You must be out of your mind.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then there\u2019s no need to worry, is there?<\/p>\n<p>193\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Anytime the Empire is around, I worry.<\/p>\n<p>She rises and strides out, not excusing herself or looking back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Guess I\u2019ll go, too.\u00a0 The air\u2019s bad in here.\u00a0 Coming, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Chewie<\/span> <i>Chewbacca<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Chewie growls.\u00a0 They go out.\u00a0 Darth Vader looks after them.\u00a0 Lando glances at him uneasily, then goes on with his meal.\u00a0 <i>But he too seems to have lost his appetite.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>194\u00a0 INT CHEWIE\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">On<\/span> Threepio\u2019s head; remounted on his shoulders, <i>is propped up<\/i> on Chewie\u2019s workbench.\u00a0 Chewie, Han, and Leia stand round listening.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s what I saw, when I opened the wrong door.\u00a0 Imperial troopers.\u00a0 I tried to get away to warn you\u2026oh, dear, what a headache!\u00a0 \u2026but they caught me and\u2026<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">well, you see what they did<\/span>.\u00a0 <i>I can\u2019t bear to think of it<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s why Lando wouldn\u2019t have him repaired.\u00a0 So he couldn\u2019t talk.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t <i>know<\/i> what to say, Leia.\u00a0 Except that I should have listened to you.<\/p>\n<p>She puts her hand out to him, he takes her in his arms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">That doesn\u2019t matter now<\/span>.\u00a0 Darth Vader\u2019s setting <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">up some kind of<\/span> a trap for Luke, with me as the bait.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">But that\u2019s foolish. <\/span>He couldn\u2019t<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> Luke can\u2019t possibly find you.\u00a0 Vader couldn\u2019t <i>possibly<\/i> have found you if Lando <\/span>hadn\u2019t<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LEIA<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Darth Vader\u2019s a lot of things, but he\u2019s no fool.\u00a0 I\u2019m <\/span>worried<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> frightened, Han.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They go out, Han\u2019s arm comfortingly around her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>194\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But I don\u2019t see how <i>Luke can find us<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It doesn\u2019t matter <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">if<\/span> whether we can see.\u00a0 If Darth Vader says he can do it, he can do it.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing, they go out of Chewie\u2019s quarters.<\/p>\n<p>195\u00a0 INT SUITE \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke\u2019s just a kid!\u00a0 Why would <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">he\u2026<\/span> Vader want \u2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke dropped the bomb <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">down the slot<\/span> that blew up the Death World.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s it, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">just revenge<\/span>, or maybe it\u2019s something more, something we don\u2019t know about.\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">But<\/span> I\u2019m frightened, Han.<\/p>\n<p>Han puts his arms around her, draws her to him.<\/p>\n<p>196\u00a0 INT CHEWBACCA\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Threepio speaks to Chewbacca, who\u2019s working with more wiring in Threepio\u2019s torso.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My friend.\u00a0 My.\u00a0 friend, you will <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">help me?<\/span> Put me back together again?<\/p>\n<p>Chewie pats Threepio awkwardly on his metal head, and growls softly.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>197\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>Luke\u2019s spacer speeding through a star-shot void.<\/p>\n<p>198\u00a0 INT SPACER<\/p>\n<p>Artoo flies the ship while Luke exercises his mind powers, sitting remote and still in his chair.\u00a0 Artoo watches him.\u00a0 From time to time, Artoo beeps <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">interrogatively<\/span> questioningly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Wait<\/span> <i>Patience<\/i>, little friend, It\u2019s a long search.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo waits, not patiently.\u00a0 Eventually, Luke smiles.<\/p>\n<p>198\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know where she is now.\u00a0 <i>A world called Hoth.<\/i> But there\u2019s something else, a dark shadow\u2026\u00a0 Darth Vader.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Darth Vader<\/span> He\u2019s there too.\u00a0 And he knows <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">that<\/span> that because of Leia I have to come <i>to him<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo starts twittering furiously,\u00a0 Luke silences him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I wondered what would happen next time we met.\u00a0 Might as well go and find out.\u00a0 <i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Prepare for jump.<\/span> Set the coordinates for Hoth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He begins to set up coordinates on the computer while Artoo makes doleful noises.<\/span> <i>Luke begins to push switches preparatory to jump, while Artoo consults the computer, making doleful noises. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>199\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">On<\/span> Lando Kadar walks toward the doorway which Threepio mistook for the one to Leia\u2019s suite.\u00a0 It is partly ajar and a rumble of men\u2019s voices comes from inside.\u00a0 Lando hesitates, then gives a perfunctory knock and enters.<\/p>\n<p>200\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S COMMAND HQ \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>A number of Imperial troopers stand guard.\u00a0 Lando is inspected briefly\u2026which does not please him\u2026and he is then waved on to where Darth Vader discusses plans with two or three officers, bending over a table whereon <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is<\/span> are spread schematic diagrams of the orbital city.\u00a0 Lando waits a reasonable interval, then speaks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I believe you wished to see me, Lord Vader.<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader turns toward him, brusque and impatient.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I am sealing off the city.\u00a0 Access will be through the main portal only.\u00a0 Instruct your patrols to keep a five-mile radius clear of all this native clutter\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">These are my people.\u00a0 They come and go as they will.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>200 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Inform your \u2018people\u2019 that any who approach the city <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">on any other path<\/span> without my authorization will be summarily shot.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(as Lando reacts angrily)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You have your orders, Baron.<\/p>\n<p>Lando looks back angrily at Darth Vader and the cold arrogant faces of the officers; he has not missed the hint of threat in the title Vader has flicked him with\u2026the Empire giveth, and the Empire taketh away.\u00a0 His own face becomes impassive.\u00a0 He turns on his heel and stalks out.\u00a0 The others return to their diagrams.<\/p>\n<p>201\u00a0 IN SPACE<\/p>\n<p>There is a blink and a quiver in the fabric of space, and Luke\u2019s spacer drops out of jump.<\/p>\n<p>202\u00a0 INT SPACER<\/p>\n<p>Luke looks out of the port at the tiny distant ball of Hoth, glittering brightly.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He is frowning, concentrating hard<\/span>.\u00a0 He checks various instruments and scanners.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If Imperial ships are waiting for us, they\u2019re waiting very quietly.\u00a0 We\u2019ll head for the planet\u2019s shadow, come in on the night side.<\/p>\n<p>203\u00a0 IN SPACE \u2013 HOTH<\/p>\n<p>The cloudy planet casts a cone-shaped shadow, thrown by its sun.\u00a0 The bright speck of Luke\u2019s spacer vanishes into <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the<\/span> it.<\/p>\n<p>204\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 IN PLANETARY SHADOW AND CLOUD<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">cock<\/span> spacer is dark, showing <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">no<\/span> neither running lights nor <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">interior<\/span> cabin lights except for the dim glow of the instrument panels.\u00a0 Luke\u2019s face, as he flies the ship, is intent and withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Darth Vader <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">is<\/span> <i>and Leia are<\/i> not on the planet.\u00a0 Somewhere above it.\u00a0 In a ship\u2026.?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Larger than a ship.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">point<\/span> indicating one of the scanners.\u00a0 Luke leans over.\u00a0 The scanner shows the bulk of the planet with one bright spot just <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">passing<\/span> <i>[unreadable] <\/i>its upper limb.\u00a0 Luke adjusts the scanner for long focus; the city springs into view, glittering with lights.<\/p>\n<p>204\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">An orbiting city.\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep well clear of it, drop down to the surface.\u00a0 See if we can find someone to talk to, before we go barging in.<\/p>\n<p>205\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">THE NIGHT SURFACE<\/span> EXT HOTH \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>A dark landscape.\u00a0 Something passes overhead with a whoosh and a soft groan, down below the cloud layer.<\/p>\n<p>206\u00a0 INT SPACER \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Luke flies on, peering into the darkness, while Artoo watches the indicators.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We\u2019re awfully low.\u00a0 Keep your eye out for molehills.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo beeps.\u00a0 Luke peers forward.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Not very thickly populated.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t seen a sign of\u2026\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 Artoo\u2026are those lights up ahead?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">peer<\/span> clicks knowledgeably, swiveling his headpiece, then begins to twitter excitedly.<\/p>\n<p>207\u00a0 EXT RUINED CITY \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>As the spacer lands in the open space where the Falcon landed before.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">A fair number of torches burn<\/span> Many torches burn in the city, indicating that the clans have gathered.<\/p>\n<p>208\u00a0 THE SPACER<\/p>\n<p>The engines shut off.\u00a0 In a moment the hatch opens and the stairs are run down.\u00a0 Luke stands in the doorway, looking out.<\/p>\n<p>209\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">EXT CITY AND SPACER \u2013 NIGHT<\/span> LUKE<\/p>\n<p>He reacts to what he sees o.s.<\/p>\n<p>210\u00a0 HIS POV<\/p>\n<p>White-haired warriors of the Cloud People are drawn up in stern ranks, with their pneumatic-dart weapons ready.\u00a0 There is a sudden murmur as they react to the sight of Luke; a sharp word of command; and they fire.<\/p>\n<p>211\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p>In the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">door<\/span> hatchway, with Artoo behind him.\u00a0 His face is set but not alarmed.\u00a0 The darts rattle like hail against an invisible barrier and fall to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>212\u00a0 THE SPACER, THE NATIVES<\/p>\n<p>The natives clap their hands over their mouths in astonishment.\u00a0 Luke raises his own hand in the gesture of peace.\u00a0 He descends the steps and walks toward a (sic) old man who has stepped forward\u2026Bahiri.\u00a0 The Cloud People, though awed by Luke\u2019s power, are still hostile.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I come in peace.\u00a0 Why did you order your people to fire on me?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Off-worlders are not welcome here now.\u00a0 And you carry at your hip the strange weapon as the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">black giant who has taken over the city<\/span> Imperial chief who has taken over the city.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">And<\/span> I hope to destroy him with it.\u00a0 Tell your men to put down their weapons; I\u2019m on your side.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Bahiri eyes him, unconvinced)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m looking for friends.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re captives in the city.\u00a0 A man named Han Solo.\u00a0 A girl with brown hair.\u00a0 A very tall person named Chewbacca.\u00a0 And a \u2018droid <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">man-shaped<\/span>.\u00a0 I want to get them free.<\/p>\n<p>Bahiri motions to his warriors, who <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">let their weapons<\/span> relax from the firing position.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come with me.<\/p>\n<p>He turns and Luke follows him into the city.<\/p>\n<p>213\u00a0 THE SPACER<\/p>\n<p>Artoo stands grumbling in the hatchway, debating whether or not to try the steps, which are not suited to his build.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>214\u00a0 EXT RUINED CITY \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Amid the ruins, torches burn and the Cloud People are about their cooking fires.\u00a0 Luke and Bahiri sit beside a small fire, talking earnestly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re determined to walk into this trap.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I have to.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re a powerful shaman.\u00a0 Perhaps you\u2019ll survive.\u00a0 In any case, we can help each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">How?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As I told you, the city is sealed except for the single path, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and twice now I have been forbidden to enter<\/span>.\u00a0 My foster-son Lando is also a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">prisoner of sorts<\/span> captive there, <i>being<\/i> forced to do things that are without <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">honor.\u00a0 I want to talk to him<\/span> honor.\u00a0 If I could only talk to him, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">there<\/span> <i>I<\/i> might be <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">something I could do<\/span> <i>able to help<\/i>\u2026but three times now I\u2019ve been forbidden to enter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">If you brought me as a captive, though, they\u2019d have to let you in?<\/p>\n<p>Bahiri looks at Luke and nods.\u00a0 Luke smiles.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>215\u00a0 INT CHEWBACCA\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 THE ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Chewie now has Threepio\u2019s upper torso pretty well reassembled.\u00a0 He works away on more wires and circuits.\u00a0 Threepio talks.<\/p>\n<p>215\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re doing that all wrong!\u00a0 How many times have I told you, those are the negative terminals\u2026\u00a0 Oh!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019re shorting<\/span> You\u2019ll short all my circuits, you hairy idiot.\u00a0 I can\u2019t stand it\u2026Agh!<\/p>\n<p>Chewie has begun to growl ominously.\u00a0 Abruptly he reaches out and does something to Threepio\u2019s neck which brings instant silence.<\/p>\n<p>216\u00a0 EXT GARDEN BALCONY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia stand close together on the garden balcony, looking at the cloudy sky.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s going to happen, Han?\u00a0 I can\u2019t quite see Darth Vader letting us go, no matter what he says.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But I\u2019ll tell you, if I ever get my hands on Lando Kadar\u2019s throat\u2026!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Save some for me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(sees something o.s.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Han!<\/p>\n<p>217\u00a0 THEIR POV<\/p>\n<p>A flight of snowy mantas appears out of the clouds, heading for the city.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA\u00a0 (over)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I thought the natives were forbidden\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN\u00a0 (over)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They must have had clearance.\u00a0 They\u2019re heading straight down the slot.<\/p>\n<p>218\u00a0 IN THE SKY<\/p>\n<p>The flight of Mantas, bearing natives including Bahiri.\u00a0 Luke rides on one, and two of the Cloud People carry Artoo in a net between their mounts.<\/p>\n<p>219\u00a0 THE BALCONY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia are now able to recognize Luke and Artoo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s Luke\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">And Artoo.\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 We have to warn them.<\/p>\n<p>She and Han turn and run for the doorway, only to be met by several troopers.\u00a0 Han tries to fight them and gets a blaster barrel under his jaw for his pains; Leia picks up a tub with an ornamental plant in it and throws it at the troopers, but one of them simply grabs her and carries her off.<\/p>\n<p>220\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The troopers, rough-handling Han and Leia, approach the doorway of their suite and toss them unceremoniously inside.\u00a0 One of the troopers bends to lock the door.<\/p>\n<p>221\u00a0 INT SUITE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han tries the door, shakes it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019ve locked us in.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(pounds on the door)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Hey, you\u2026!\u00a0 Open up!<\/p>\n<p>Chewie comes <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">running<\/span> in from his quarters.\u00a0 Taking in the situation at a glance, he stretches his arms over his head and approaches to batter the door down.\u00a0 Leia stops him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, not yet!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">There are too many of them<\/span>.\u00a0 They won\u2019t leave that many on guard\u2026give them time to go.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie looks at Han, who nods.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">She\u2019s right, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie nods and hurries back into his quarters.<\/p>\n<p>222\u00a0 INT CHEWIE\u2019S QUARTERS \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Quickly Chewie picks up Threepio\u2019s upper portion and puts it <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">back<\/span> in the box with the legs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>223\u00a0 EXT ORBITAL CITY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The main landing area.\u00a0 The Mantas settle down.\u00a0 Luke and Bahiri go toward Lando, who waits for them, with Artoo tagging behind.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke notes there are some of the city\u2019s security men<\/span> Luke notes the troopers drawn up around the area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This is my foster-son, Lando.\u00a0 Lando, this is Han Solo\u2019s friend, Luke Skywalker.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Princess Leia and Han\u2026are they safe?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Yes.\u00a0 Come.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take you to them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lando.\u00a0 I wish to speak to you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Father<\/span> Bahiri\u2026friend\u2026please go.\u00a0 I know you want to help me but there is no help.\u00a0 Please, because I love you\u2026go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lando has been speaking very softly.\u00a0 Now he turns with Luke and goes in through the portal.\u00a0 A couple of troopers fall in behind them.\u00a0 Bahiri looks after them.\u00a0 He makes his decision; he attempts to follow with his principal men, but troopers bar the way.\u00a0 Roughly.\u00a0 The old man looks at them contemptuously.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">BAHIRI<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We are free men.\u00a0 We take no orders from the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Pneumatic weapons appear from beneath the flowing robes of the Cloud People.\u00a0 They are largely futile against the troopers\u2019 armour (sic).\u00a0 Blasters fire.\u00a0 A number of the natives go down, Bahiri among them.<\/p>\n<p>224\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the blasters, Lando turns and breaks back, looking out the door at the crumpled bodies beyond.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They\u2019ve killed Bahiri<\/span>.\u00a0 He was an old man.\u00a0 How could he have hurt them?<\/p>\n<p>The troopers catch up with him and one of them rams a blaster into his middle.\u00a0 Lando turns docilely enough and rejoins Luke.\u00a0 But his face is the face of a stricken man.\u00a0 <i>He looks at Luke.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>224\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019m not taking you to your friends.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I know.\u00a0 You\u2019re taking me to Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p>225\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 DOORWAY OF SUITE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>A single trooper stands guarding the door, his back to it, his blaster across his arm.<\/p>\n<p>226\u00a0 INT SUITE \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Han and Leia stand close to the door, but clear of it so as not to get in Chewie\u2019s way.\u00a0 Also nearby is the box containing Threepio.\u00a0 Chewie listens carefully, his ear to the door.\u00a0 He nods to the others and steps back to get a good run, his huge arms lifted.<\/p>\n<p>227\u00a0 INT CORRIDOR \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>The locked door of the suite suddenly bursts outward.\u00a0 It knocks the guard flat and falls on top of him, followed instantly by the Wookie, Who pounds the guard into insensibility.\u00a0 Han scoops up the blaster.\u00a0 He starts off along the corridor with Leia, but Chewie runs back in and picks up the box with Threepio in it; it\u2019s no light load even for Chewie, and Han looks at him as if he\u2019s about to say something.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We can\u2019t just leave him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Let\u2019s go find Luke.<\/p>\n<p>They hurry along the corridor, into another corridor, searching.<\/p>\n<p>228\u00a0 INT CORRIDORS \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke, Lando, and troopers, with Artoo following.\u00a0 They reach an intersection of corridors and Lando indicates a door at the far end of one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019s waiting for you <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">there<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke looks at the ominous door.\u00a0 But suddenly there is a distraction; Leia, Han, and Chewie, with Threepio, come running along a side corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONTINUED<\/p>\n<p>228\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>The group begins to turn into the corridor with the ominous door at the end\u2026but Lando whirls abruptly, whipping a small weapon from beneath his coat.\u00a0 Quiet bolts leap from it.\u00a0 The troopers, taken by surprise, fall down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But we\u2019re not going there.<\/p>\n<p>He scoops up the blasters, hands one to Luke, pockets the small weapon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">An extremely powerful shocker, only good at short range, but quite useful on occasion.\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 We\u2019ll get Han and the Princess.<\/p>\n<p>They hurry on.\u00a0 But at another intersection of corridors they see Han and Leia, and Chewie with his box, running toward them.\u00a0 Instantly they halt and Han lifts his weapon to cover Lando.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lando!\u00a0 Stop right there.\u00a0 Drop the blaster.\u00a0 Luke, it\u2019s all a trap.\u00a0 He\u2019s working for Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He was, but he just changed sides.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They killed Bahiri.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t like what I was doing, and I\u2019m not doing it any more.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie has put down the box.\u00a0 Artoo has seen it.\u00a0 With an outburst of beeping and whistling, indicative of shock, Artoo scuttles to the box and begins to mourn over Threepio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LANDO<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">There are guards on the Falcon, but I think we can get through them<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>229\u00a0 EXT CORRIDOR \u2013 DARTH VADER\u2019S DOOR<\/p>\n<p>The door opens and a number of troopers run out.\u00a0 They run past the two fallen ones at the end of the corridor, then go after Luke and Lando.<\/p>\n<p>230\u00a0 LUKE, LANDO, AND GROUP<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There are guards on the Falcon, but I think we can get around them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(taking Luke\u2019s shoulder)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come on, kid.\u00a0 We\u2019ll find a way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019ll find a way.<\/p>\n<p>Luke shoves the blaster into Chewie\u2019s hands and glances at Threepio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Poor Threepio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019ll be all right if we can get him away.\u00a0 But Luke, you must come with us.\u00a0 Darth Vader\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Luke kisses her.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">That\u2019s why I have to stay.\u00a0 Go now and don\u2019t wait for me.\u00a0 As soon as you\u2019re aboard, take off.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But Luke\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Luke, walking away, does not look back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Ah, the kid\u2019s out of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s not happy.\u00a0 He starts after Luke.\u00a0 And suddenly the troopers appear at the intersection of the corridors.\u00a0 Luke is between them and the fugitives, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">but they have a<\/span> and they know that Luke is not to be killed.\u00a0 But they have a clear field of fire past him and there\u2019s no place for the others to duck.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">TROOPER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lay down your arms or we kill the Princess Leia.<\/p>\n<p>Luke continues to move toward them, unarmed except for the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sword<\/span> sabre.\u00a0 The others watch him, frozen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Luke..!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(to himself)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">May the Force be with me.<\/p>\n<p>230\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the saber is out and blazing, and Luke\u2019s face is no longer that of the farmboy from Tattoine (sic).\u00a0 An ancient and powerful wisdom dwells there.\u00a0 The light saber dances, slashes, flickers like lightning.\u00a0 The troopers fire, but they seem <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bemused<\/span> dazed and their shots go wild.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">One<\/span> By ones and twos they fall.<\/p>\n<p>231\u00a0 HAN, LANDO, AND GROUP<\/p>\n<p>They stare in amazement.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What happened to the kid?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Never mind that now.\u00a0 Follow me.<\/p>\n<p>He leads them away, Chewie shouldering his box and Artoo scuttling along beside, <i>beeping plaintively<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>232\u00a0 LUKE<\/p>\n<p>Saber in hand, he passes the fallen troopers <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">and<\/span> goes toward the door.\u00a0 He flings it open.<\/p>\n<p>233\u00a0 INT DARTH VADER\u2019S APARTMENT \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader, alone now, stands facing Luke as he enters, huge and menacing, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">the <\/span>his own light saber in his hand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Your friends are wasting their time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Luke shrugs)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Once more.\u00a0 Luke.\u00a0 Will you join with me?\u00a0 Together we could rule the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Then I have no choice.<\/p>\n<p>He brings the sabre to the salute.\u00a0 So does Luke.\u00a0 They begin to fence.\u00a0 Darth Vader is much larger and stronger, and twenty years more experienced.\u00a0 But Luke is young and agile\u2026and he has studied with Minch.\u00a0 They fight, a breathtaking and deadly passage of arms, which takes them out of the room and into the corridors.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Darth Vader<\/span> Luke holds his own, but just barely.<\/p>\n<p>234\u00a0 INT LITTLE-USED STAIRWAY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Lando leads the others down a stairway that obviously is only there for emergencies.\u00a0 They go quietly, helping Artoo along, pausing often to listen.\u00a0 Leia is agitated, Han is unhappy but realistic.\u00a0 They speak in hurried whispers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We can\u2019t go off without Luke!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He<\/span> Those were his orders, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Leia<\/span>, and I think he knew what he was doing.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to understand, Leia.\u00a0 He\u2019s not the same Luke we knew.<\/p>\n<p>Lando motions them to silence, halts to listen, then moves on again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">235\u00a0 LUKE AND DARTH VADER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They are fighting down a broad staircase now.\u00a0 Luke, <\/span>growing angrier<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">, is on the defensive.\u00a0 He stumbles.\u00a0 Vader moves in.\u00a0 But Luke sees a piece of statuary above, at one side.\u00a0 By the power of the Force, he hurls it at Vader, who <\/span>steps aside<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> <i>deflects it <\/i>laughing, <\/span>and hurls it at Luke, who narrowly evades it<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">.\u00a0 <i>But it gives Luke a respite.<\/i> They stand for a moment, looking at each other, the anger deepening in Luke\u2019s face, changing it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">VADER<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">You\u2019re forgetting, little Jedi, that I\u2019m 20 years older and stronger in the use of the Force than you and 20 years ago your father was helpless against me.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>{insert}<\/i><\/p>\n<p>INSERT<\/p>\n<p>235\u00a0 LUKE AND DARTH VADER<\/p>\n<p>They are fighting down a broad staircase now.\u00a0 Luke is on the defensive.\u00a0 He stumbles.\u00a0 Vader moves in.\u00a0 Luke sees a piece of statuary above, at one side.\u00a0 By the power of the Force, he hurls it at Vader, who deflects it, laughing.\u00a0 But it gives Luke a respite.\u00a0 They stand for a moment, looking at each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re very good, Luke.\u00a0 But I\u2019m twenty years older and stronger than you in the use of the Force.\u00a0 You haven\u2019t a chance with me\u2026any more than your father had.<\/p>\n<p>The anger deepens in Luke\u2019s face, changing it.\u00a0 Vader laughs <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">softly and<\/span> <i>as Luke furiously<\/i> attacks again.<\/p>\n<p>236\u00a0 INT LITTLE \u2013USED STAIRWAY \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Lando and the group have now reached the landing on the stairway which has a door that says HANGAR DECK \u2013 EMERGENCY ONLY.\u00a0 They check their weapons, tensing themselves for the fray.<\/p>\n<p>237\u00a0 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon sits waiting patiently, with a guard of troopers drawn up around it.\u00a0 The troopers are facing away from the emergency door.<\/p>\n<p>238\u00a0 INT EMERGENCY STAIRWELL \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Lando pushes at the door.\u00a0 Nothing happens.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s the matter?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Against all <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">orders<\/span>, <i>regulations<\/i>, it\u2019s locked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">238\u00a0 (cont.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Han brings up his blaster but Lando stops him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LANDO<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">No\u2026wait!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He motions them to silence and quickly remounts the stairs.\u00a0 Leia looks after him doubtfully, but it (sic) sees they must trust him<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>238\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Han brings up his blaster to blow the door open, but Lando stops him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No, wait!\u00a0 Let me try.<\/p>\n<p>He motions them to silence and quickly runs back up the stair.\u00a0 Leia looks doubtful, but they have no choice but to trust him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">239\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">They have fought their way deeper into the bowels of the city.\u00a0 Luke is a brilliant swordsman, yet it is apparent that Vader is somewhat better.\u00a0 He seems to be almost playing with Luke, driving him into corners where Luke must use some trick of the Force to get free.\u00a0 He erects barriers, such as he used against the Cloud People; Vader smashes them contemptuously.\u00a0 They are in a maintenace (sic) area far below the living quarters.\u00a0 With increasing fury, Luke hurls things at Vader.\u00a0 His face is dark and contorted.\u00a0 He wants to kill Vader, to kill him for his own selfish ends, <i>for revenge<\/i>.\u00a0 Vader seems ro (sic) be well pleased<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>239\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/p>\n<p>They have fought their way deeper into the bowels of the ciy (sic).\u00a0 Luke is a brilliant swordsman, and it seems now that his youth and agility may be telling just a bit on Vader, and Luke drives him mercilessly.\u00a0 But he can\u2019t quite corner him.\u00a0 He hurls things at Vader by mind-poer (sic), but somehow Vader always evades\u2026and Vader sends objects hurtling back at Luke, almost braining him.\u00a0 Luke fights with increasing ferocity, his one blind objective to destroy Darth Vader, but something has come into his face, something dark and unfamiar (sic).<\/p>\n<p>240\u00a0 INT HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>Lando, coming from the main entrance to the deck, approaches the guard around the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lord Vaders orders.\u00a0 The prisoners have escaped and may make an attempt on the ship.\u00a0 They may already be hiding somewhere on the hangar deck.\u00a0 I want four of you to go and search.\u00a0 The rest of (sic) remain here while I check the doors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(the men hesitate)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Would you care for me to inform Lord Vader?<\/p>\n<p>Four of the troopers move away into the hangar.\u00a0 Lando goes to the emergency door mot (sic) far away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">TROOPER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It\u2019s locked, sir.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Is it indeed!<\/p>\n<p>He pulls it open.\u00a0 Han and Chewie come out shooting.\u00a0 Lando retrieves his blaster.\u00a0 A fierce gun-battle breaks out, the troopers fall or run for cover.\u00a0 Dragging the box with Threepio, the party makes a run for the Falcon.<\/p>\n<p>240\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>But through another doorway farther along, fresh troopers pour in.\u00a0 The gun battle cpntinues (sic), growing hotter.\u00a0 Cursing at the aswkard (sic) box, with Artoo doing all he can to push, the party gains the Falcon with all hands including Threepio, and the hatch slams hut (sic) with a bang.\u00a0 Shots continue to ricochet from the hull.<\/p>\n<p>241\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 THE HANGAR DECK<\/p>\n<p>Han and Chewie bolt for the cockpit.\u00a0 Leia looks out the cabin port.\u00a0 Artoo, hovers over Threepio\u2019s box.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The troopers are bringing up some kind of a small weapon\u2026look like rocket launches.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Armor piercing.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to get out of here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The bay door <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">opens on the right<\/span> responds to the right frequency.\u00a0 Where\u2019s your transmitter?<\/p>\n<p>He begins to punch out a signal.<\/p>\n<p>ARTOO activates Threepio, who looks at him.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Artoo\u2026my little friend!\u00a0 You came to me!\u00a0 Where are we?\u00a0 What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n<p>Artoo goes off into a stream of beeps and whistles.<\/p>\n<p>Up in the cockpit, the men see the bay doors begin to open.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Full power\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Abruptly then an inner set of doors, the blast doors, much heavier, snap shut with a booming crash.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">They\u2019ve closed the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">crash<\/span> blast doors.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon lurches wildly, slewing around to avoid collision.\u00a0 Shots rattle on her hull.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, no.\u00a0 I can\u2019t stand any more.\u00a0 <i>I\u2019ve been through too much. <\/i>Good bye, Artoo.\u00a0 <i>Good bye, world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He reaches up his own hand and deactivates himself.<\/p>\n<p>242\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/p>\n<p>They are in a large space in the lower pendulum of the city, where the great roaring ventilator shaft runs down to the reactor.\u00a0 Vader now pours on the coal, and it is obvious that Luke is tired and losing, <i>no matter how he uses the dark Force.<\/i> Suddenly the scene changes as it did before in the clearing by Minch\u2019s house; we see the blackness of space <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">roiled and dusted with stars<\/span> burning with stars and we see the large black shadow of Darth Vader towering against the starfields.\u00a0 The smaller form of Luke is there as well, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">but<\/span> <i>and<\/i> this time the shadow it casts is almost as dark a (sic) Vader\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You see, my little Jedi, you\u2019re beaten.\u00a0 You <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">have<\/span> used the dark side of the Force against me, as I knew you would\u2026and powerfully.\u00a0 Very powerfully, Luke.\u00a0 With training, you could be as strong as I.<\/p>\n<p>He reaches out for a handful stars (sic) and plays with them idly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But you\u2019ve had no training in the dark side, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Luke<\/span>.\u00a0 You simply felt more power in it, and you used it for revenge, for hate, for the sake of being able to say that you, Luke Skywalker, had destroyed the great Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(looking down at himself)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But I didn\u2019t realize\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Of course you didn\u2019t.\u00a0 I simply led you along so that at each point you had a choice to make, and you always made the right one\u2026or the wrong one.<\/p>\n<p>He tosses a handful of stars over Luke\u2019s shadowy form, where they run over him like sparks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">So, once more, little Jedi.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Or<\/span> Will you join with me, and let me teach you the uses of the dark side of the force\u2026or will you at the last minute remember your oath and die?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">LUKE<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I think I would prefer to die<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>242\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p>Luke stands silent, watching the stars trickle away and vanish.\u00a0 His shadowy form is growing intangibly lighter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I\u2019ve wasted and thrown away all the careful teaching I was given.\u00a0 I betrayed my trust, I broke my oath.\u00a0 I would prefer to die.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re a fool, Luke.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it can be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>The illusion dissolves back in to the maintenance area <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">around them<\/span> around the shaft.\u00a0 Luke, himself again, stands facing Vader with his light saber.\u00a0 Vader, some distance away, laughs softly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">VADER<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You\u2019re weak, little Jedi, without the dark side.\u00a0 But I warn you that if you use it once more, you are lost\u2026forfeit in this world and the next.<\/p>\n<p>He lunges forward and the battle is on again.<\/p>\n<p>243\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Sounds of weaponry outside.\u00a0 Lando has manned one of the Falcon\u2019s guns and is holding off the attak (sic) as best he can.\u00a0 In the cockpit, Han and Chewie are conferring furiously.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">All right, everybody, Down on the deck. \u00a0I\u2019m going to try to\u2026..<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We can\u2019t go without Luke!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Can you give me any practical ideas on how to find hm (sic) and bring him here?\u00a0 Besides, weren\u2019t you the one who told me that the mission to Marekal was more important that (sic) any individual?<\/p>\n<p>Defeated, Leia turns away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>243\u00a0 (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">We\u2019re going to try to<\/span> We\u2019re going to try to blow out these blast doors with the Falcon\u2019s main jets.\u00a0 Don\u2019t know if it\u2019ll work or not, but it\u2019ll make the devil of a bang.\u00a0 Hang on now.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(They all get down, except Artoo, who stays protectively by Threepio)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Full brakes, Chewie.\u00a0 Reverse forward thrusters.\u00a0 Okay, here we go.<\/p>\n<p>He thrusts down on a main lever.<\/p>\n<p>244\u00a0 INT HANGAR<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon, slewed with her main tail tubes facing the blast door, lets go her jets at maximin (sic) power.\u00a0 The roar is stunning.\u00a0 Smoke and flame billow.\u00a0 Troopers are bowled over by the concussion; they drop their weapons, they roll on the floor deafened and half stunned; those who can, run.<\/p>\n<p>245\u00a0 THE BLAST DOORS<\/p>\n<p>They buckle, crumple, and go flying out <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">into the sky<\/span> <i>outward<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>246\u00a0 INT FALCON<\/p>\n<p>Wild cries of triumph and thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Swing her around, Chewie!\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p>247\u00a0 INT HANGAR<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">begins to turn<\/span> <i>turns swiftly<\/i> to face the open doors.\u00a0 It takes off.<\/p>\n<p>248\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/p>\n<p>They continue their fight in the maintenance area.\u00a0 Luke, now eschewing the dark side of the Force, is fighting with amazing power, but Darth Vader is more than holding his own.\u00a0 Little by little, Luke is forced back to the railing that protects the terrible shaft.<\/p>\n<p>249\u00a0 EXT CITY \u2013 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon is free of the city, but not of trouble.\u00a0 Scout boats are closing in from their patrol positions.\u00a0 This is not an immediate menace.\u00a0 But Vader\u2019s men have mounted heavy gun emplacements on the balconies of the city and the fire is hot.<\/p>\n<p>250\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Lando has taken over the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rear<\/span> stern gun, and is firing away.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Down below the curve of the city.\u00a0 They can\u2019t reach us there.<\/p>\n<p>251\u00a0 EXT CITY \u2013 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>It dives down under the top-shaped bulge of the city, screened at least from the gun emplacements.<\/p>\n<p>252\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/p>\n<p>Forcing Luke steadily back, Vader gets him p9nned (sic) agains (sic) the rail.\u00a0 Fighting valiantly but without hope, Luke glances down the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>253\u00a0 HIS POV<\/p>\n<p>The dreadful shaft, sucking its torrent of air.\u00a0 Here and there the blowholes are visible, air vents, and here and there a (sic) stout metal bars thrust out from the sides, probably for maintenance work in the vent-holes.\u00a0 At the far bottom, the dim glare of the reactor glows beneath its shielding.\u00a0 It is altogether a heart stopping sight.<\/p>\n<p>254\u00a0 LUKE AND VADER<\/p>\n<p>Luke turns bakc (sic) to the fight to see that Vader is rushing at him to deal the death-stroke.\u00a0 Valiantly Luke lifts his saber to parry; then as Vader\u2019s blade comes streaking down, Luke deactivates his sabre and darts aside.\u00a0 Thrown momentarily off balance because the unexpected ruse and the lack of opposition to his blade, Vader is overbalanced.\u00a0 Luke leaps aside and over the railing into the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>255\u00a0 VADER<\/p>\n<p>He is hanging in an effort not to follow Luke, staring down.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">266\u00a0 VADER\u2019S POV LUKE IN TUNNEL<\/span><\/p>\n<p>256\u00a0 LUKE IN SHAFT<\/p>\n<p>He catches one of the protruding steel bars.\u00a0 He is almost torn loose, but he manages to swing his body into one of the vent holes.\u00a0 He disappears.<\/p>\n<p>256 (sic)\u00a0 LUKE IN VENT HOLE<\/p>\n<p>Being carried along at dizzying speed.\u00a0 At the end there is a steel grating to catch larger pieces of debris.\u00a0 Luke is a large piece of debris.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">He takes out his saber<\/span> He lies there a moment hugging the grate, wondering what to do next\u2026and he sees the Falcon approaching on a path that will bring it close to and under the mount of the tube.\u00a0 Frantically he hauls out his sabre and activates it, begins o (sic) cut the mesh, kicking at it to loosen <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">at<\/span> it, yelling perfectly useless pleas to the Falcon to slow down, watch, wait, etc.\u00a0 Inexorably, the Falcon comes closer.<\/p>\n<p>257\u00a0 EXT CITY \u2013 THE FALCON<\/p>\n<p>It is now passing close to and a little below the vent.\u00a0 The mesh is red hot but still holding.\u00a0 A series of wild kicks from inside kocks (sic) it loose enough so that Luke can wriggle through.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t hesitate, but leaps for the back of the Falcon landing by the upper hatch and clinging for dear life.<\/p>\n<p>258\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LANDO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Something hit us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie.\u00a0 Take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Chewie picks up his blaster and mounts the ladder.\u00a0 He opens it a crack, sticking the blaster through.<\/p>\n<p>259\u00a0 EXT FALCON \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n<p>Luke peers in to to crach (sic) with the blaster and Chewies fierce eyes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Chewie, let me in.\u00a0 It\u2019s Luke.<\/p>\n<p>260\u00a0 Int FALCON<\/p>\n<p>As Luke is being hauled bodily inside.\u00a0 He is greeted by a babble of questions, exclamations of joy, etc.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Bat<\/span> Dog down that hatch, Chewie!\u00a0 All the rest of it can wait.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">We\u2019ve got to<\/span> If we don\u2019t get out of here <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">or<\/span> we\u2019re all goners.\u00a0 I\u2019ll think of a place to jump to.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">You will not\u2026not this time!\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I\u2019ll<\/span> think of a place to jump to.<\/p>\n<p>Artoo has activated Threepio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Master Luke!\u00a0 Master Luke!\u00a0 I can\u2019t begin to tell you what terrible things I\u2019ve been through.\u00a0 Did you beat Darth Vader?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No (sic) this time, Threepio.\u00a0 But perhaps <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">there is a<\/span> the next time, if there is one.<\/p>\n<p>Leia has gone forward and bending over Han by the computer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I hope you know what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Prepare for jump!<\/p>\n<p>The stars become streaks of brilliant light through the port.<\/p>\n<p>260 (sic)\u00a0 THE ORBITAL CITY<\/p>\n<p>Left behind, wheeling on its way around the planet Hoth.<\/p>\n<p>DISSOLVE TO<\/p>\n<p>262\u00a0 INT FALCON \u2013 IN JUMP<\/p>\n<p>Han, Leia, and Luke are deep in conversation.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Threepio<\/span> Artoo has all of Threepio\u2019s component parts spread out on the deck, in the order they belong and is working to assemble them.\u00a0 Threepio is awake and talkative.\u00a0 Chewie in the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Continued<\/i><\/p>\n<p>263 (sic) (cont.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">HAN<\/span> LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I almost beat him at that, but the wrong way\u2026the more I was winning, the more I was losing.\u00a0 I was so full of hate, and rage, and the desire for revenge.\u00a0 I was using the dark side of the force without even realizing it, and he was making me destroy myself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LUKE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">No (sic) quite.\u00a0 He asked me again to join with him\u2026he said that together we could rule the galaxy.\u00a0 I said no, so he came in for the kill.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got an awful lot to learn yet.<\/p>\n<p>They are interrupted by an angry outbrust (sic) angry gowling (sic) mingled with furious beepings and twittering.\u00a0 Chewie has come from the cockpit to stand over Threepio.\u00a0 After all, he\u2019s done a lot of work on the \u2018droid and has certain proprietary rights.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THREEPIO<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, no.\u00a0 Not his tender ministrations again!<\/p>\n<p>Artoo is warning Chewie off.\u00a0 He attacks the big Wooky (sic), running up as if he intends to bite him on the knees, like an irate small dog.\u00a0 He can\u2019t bite, of course, but his under pinnings are heavy when he treads on Chewie\u2019s feet.\u00a0 The others laugh.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Better let him alone, Chewie.\u00a0 After all, he\u2019s a \u2018droid and he probably knows more about repairing one than you do.<\/p>\n<p>Grumbling, Chewie retreats, and Artoo commences to work on Threepio.<\/p>\n<p>264\u00a0 VIEW OF THE PLANET BESSPIN KAALIEDA FROM SPACE<\/p>\n<p>An extremely beautiful planet revolves jewl-like (sic) in space.<\/p>\n<p>265\u00a0 EXT GARDEN \u2013 BESSPIN KAALIDA \u2013 NIGHT<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant moons illuminate beautiful gardens.\u00a0 In one of them, with the Falcon visible in b.g., our people are saying their farewells.\u00a0 Han and Leia stand alone, Chewie waiting in the background.\u00a0 Threepio, now fully restored, and Artoo, stand together at one side.\u00a0 Luke is by himself, his face set but quiet and controlled.\u00a0 Lando is nearby.<\/p>\n<p>266\u00a0 HAN AND LEIA<\/p>\n<p>Lovers; close together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Come back to me, Han.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">As soon as I\u2019ve <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">won over<\/span> persuaded Ovan Marekal to join us.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LEIA<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Even if you don\u2019t persuade him.<\/p>\n<p>They kiss, and Han turns toward the ship, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">waving a farewell salute to Luke<\/span> stopping to shake hands with Luke.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">HAN<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Take care of her, Luke.\u00a0 And yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Luke waves acknowledgement.\u00a0 Lria (sic) runs to Chewie and throws her arms around him.\u00a0 He rumbles, patting her 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