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laserwriter 
Registered: Sep '08
Date Posted: 8/28 7:10am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
TITLE: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ, with no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
AUTHOR: laserwriter.
CHARACTERS: The old faves.
FORMAT: Script.
SETTING: An early scene where Han and Chewie are in Jabba's dungeon.
DISCLAIMER: I have taken George Lucas's (and Lawrence Kasdans's) Episode VI and veered off in another direction.

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INT: DUNGEON CELL - JABBA'S PALACE - TATOOINE

The Gamorrean guards lead the blind Han Solo down a dank corridor, the stench of pitiful creatures exuding from darkened cells. The guards stop at a dungeon, open the heavy metal door; they throw the Captain inside and slam the door shut. A thin sliver of light reveals Han's worried face. Han hears the heavy breathing of a large creature in the same cell, his worry turns to alarm. The shadowy creature growls. It is a familiar growl.

HAN: Chewie? Chewie, is that you?

The creature lets out a roar and rushes toward Han, grabbing him. It is a friendly Wookie that holds Han Solo in a tight bear hug, lifting him off the ground.

HAN: Ah! Chew--Chewie!

The giant Wookiee roars with delight.

HAN: Wait. I can't see, pal. What's goin' on?

Chewie barks his reply.

HAN: Luke? Luke's crazy. He can't even take care of himself, much less rescue anybody.

Chewie barks some more.

HAN: A ...Jedi Knight? I--I'm out of it for a little while, everybody gets delusions of grandeur.

Chewie growls like a mama Wookie. He holds Han to his chest and pets his head.

HAN: I'm all right, pal. I'm all right.

VOICE: Hello there!

The rasping voice comes from the next cell.

HAN: What do you want?

VOICE: To get out of this hell-hole, but I'd settle for some human conversation. My name in Teymor. Come closer. I'm not going to hurt you.

Han and Chewy tentatively approach the bars separating the two cells. The shadowy figure steps into the sliver of light. He is a thirty-something man, bearing a weathered face, with a strong jaw and curiously stern eyes.

TEYMOR: What brings you to this private retreat?

HAN: It's a long story. You could say that I offended Jabba's delicate nature. What about you; what's your crime?

TEYMOR: The crime of disobedience. I was head of a colony on Emolin 5. We set ourselves up as Auborum farmers. Thing were going well, we were breaking even, until an outbreak of Netras fever. The children were dying; we needed medicine. So we negotiated with a trader who negotiated with Jabba. We got the med supply, paid the trader off, but he welched on Jabba. Jabba accused us of subderfuge. Demanded triple the price. Wouldn't give any leeway. He sent a collector. A Mandalorian mercenary, in a big booted spaceship-

HAN: -Boba Fett!

TEYMOR: Yes, Fett. Cold blooded scum. He killed seven of my people, two more reduced to paraplegics; seemed to enjoy it. I gave myself up to spare the others. That was two month's ago.

HAN SOLO: Why don't your people buy you out.

TEYMOR: We're poor Outer Rim farmers. Jabba has slapped down a ransom demand that even a spice baron would baulk at.

HAN: Sounds familiar.

TEYMOR: I hate that Bounty Hunter more than I despise that oversized slug.

HAN: I know how you feel.

TEYMOR: Are you Rebels?

HAN: (suspicious) Why do you ask?

TEYMOR: Rumours trickle down, even to the dungeon. I heard that a black-listed pirate and a Wookie were gunning for the Rebellion, until a certain Bounty Hunter delivered them to Jabba. Any man that can befriend a Wookie and take on both the Empire and the King of the Huts is a man to respect.

Chewie growls in agreement.

HAN: Don't know if my current status deserves respect. But like they say, my enemy's enemy is my friend. I'm Han.

Han pushes his hand through the bars and Teymor shakes it.

TEYMOR: I've had some combat training. If there's a rescue in effect, count me in.

*TO BE CONTINUED*

 
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laserwriter 
Registered: Sep '08
Date Posted: 9/15 6:25am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
I should have stated that the opening of 'Redemption of the Jedi', is identical to 'Return of The Jedi'. The previous scene (where Han, freed from Carbonite, is locked in Jabba's dungeon) is where the changes start to occur. The changes are subtle at first but lead to major new developments when the story reaches Endor.


INT: MAIN GATE AND HALL - JABBA'S PALACE

The main gate lifts, sunlight floods into the bowels of Jabba' the Hutt's palace. A silhouetted figure enters. It is Luke Skywalker. He is clad in a dark robe, he walks purposefully. Two giant guards, carrying spears, move to block Luke's path. With barely a pause, Luke raises his hand and using the Force chokes the brutish aliens. They drop their spears and stand aside. The young Jedi lowers his hand and moves on down the hallway.

Bib Fortuna. He hustles toward Luke.

LUKE: I must speak with Jabba.

Bib answers in Huttese, shaking his head in refusal. Luke stares at Bib; he raises his hand.

LUKE: (forcefully) You will take me to Jabba now!

Bib yields to Luke's hypnotic command; leading Luke into the gloomy throne room.

LUKE: You serve your master well. And you will be rewarded.

INT: JABBA'S THRONE ROOM

Jabba the Hutt is asleep on his gaudy throne. The fat monarch of the galactic underworld is surrounded by a hundred creatures, also asleep. Leia is chained by Jabba's side, the chain running from her throat to the King gangster. The princess is attired in the skimpy costume of a dancing girl. Threepio stands behind Jabba as Bib approaches.

THREEPIO: At last! Master Luke's come to rescue me.

BIB: (Huttese) Master.

Jabba awakens with a jolt.

BIB: (Huttese) .Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight.

JABBA: (Huttese) I told you not to admit him.

LUKE: I must be allowed to speak.

BIB: (Huttese) He must be allowed to speak.

Jabba, furious, pushes Bib away.

JABBA: (Huttese) You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind trick.

Luke stares hard at Jabba. Jabba's gruesome entourage awaken from slumber.

LUKE: You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookiee to me.

JABBA: (Huttese) Your mind powers will not work on me, boy.

LUKE: Nevertheless, I'm taking Captain Solo and his friends. You can either profit by this... or be destroyed! It's your choice. But I warn you not to underestimate my powers.

Jabba laughs menacingly.

THREEPIO: Master Luke, you're standing on...

JABBA: (Huttese) There will be no bargain, young Jedi. I shall enjoy watching you die.

Luke reaches out; a laser pistol jumps out of a guard's holster and flies into his hand. A tussle ensues. Jabba hits a button and a trap door opens below Luke, sending him and the hapless guard down a chute and into a dungeon pit. Jabba and his vile courtiers gather over the pit. Leia starts forward but is held back by a human guard -- Lando, recognizable behind his mask.

THREEPIO: Oh, no! The Rancor!

INT: RANCOR PIT

Luke and the Gamorrean guard land in a heap in the dungeon. Luke gets to his feet. A door at the side of the pit rumbles open. The guard screams in panic.

Luke looks up to see a monstrous, fanged Rancor. The Gamorrean tries to run away but the hideous monster catches him, picks him up and crunching him with its powerful jaws. The Rancor then swallows its victim. High above, the blood-thirsty audience laugh and cheer.

The monster now turns its attention to Luke. The trapped Jedi picks up the long arm bone of an earlier victim. The monster grabs Luke and brings him up to his salivating mouth. Luke wedges the bone in the monster's mouth. The monster drops Luke. The monster flails about, knocking the walls of the dungeon in shuddering tremors. It crunches the bone in its mouth and lurches after Luke.

Luke makes a run for a holding cave. It is a dead end. Luke turns to see the monster heading for him. Suddenly Luke notices a control panel on a the opposite wall. As the Rancor moves in for the kill, Luke picks up a skull from the floor and hurls it at the panel. The giant overhead door comes crashing down on the beast's head, impaling its neck and head.

INT. THRONE ROOM

Above the dungeon, Leia is relieved, Jabba's court gasps. They look to Jabba, who is raging.

JABBA: (in Huttese, to the guards) Bring me Solo and the Wookiee. They will all suffer for this outrage.

INT: RANCOR PIT

The Rancor keepers stand over the dead monster. One of them breaks down and weeps.

INT: THRONE ROOM

The creepy courtiers scream insultingly as Han and Chewie are brought into the throne room. Anther guards drags Luke up the steps.

LUKE: Han!

HAN: Luke!

LUKE: Are you all right?

HAN: Fine. Together again, huh?

LUKE: Wouldn't miss it.

HAN: How are we doing?

LUKE: The same as always.

HAN: That bad, huh? Where's Leia?

LEIA: I'm here.

The guards, including Lando, surround Luke, Han and Chewie. Boba is standing behind Jabba. Threepio steps forward and translates for the captives.

THREEPIO: Oh, dear. His High Exaltedness, the great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.

HAN: Good, I hate long waits.

THREEPIO: You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlacc.

HAN: (to Luke) Doesn't sound so bad.

THREEPIO: In his belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested.

HAN: On second thought, let's pass on that, huh?

Jabba'a minions cackle with glee.

LUKE: (defiantly) You should have bargained, Jabba. That's the last mistake you'll ever make.

JABBA: (to his guards) Bring the other prisoners! The Sarlacc has not fed all season. He must be very hungry.

EXT: TATOOINE DUNE SEA

Brilliant sunlight sparkles off the Dune Sea, an arid wasteland stretching to the far horizons. A herd of wild banthas treks across the landscape. Jabba's huge anti-grav Sail Barge glides above the desert accompanied by two smaller skiffs.

INT: BARGE OBSERVATION DECK

Jabba's entire retinue is with him, motley creatures drinking, eating and carousing.

EXT: TATOOINE DUNE SEA

The sail barge and skiffs continue their journey.

INT: BARGE OBSERVATION DECK

Jabba the Hutt rides like a sultan in his pleasure ship. Leia is still chained to him.

EXT: TATOOINE DUNE SEA - SKIFF
The skiff glides close, revealing Luke, Han, Chewie and Tamore -- all in bonds -- surrounded by guards, one of whom is Lando in disguise.

HAN: I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big light blur.

LUKE: There's nothing to see. I used to live here, you know.

HAN: You're gonna die here, you know. Convenient.

LUKE: Just stick close to Chewie and Lando. I've taken care of everything.

HAN: Oh... great!

INT: BARGE OBSERVATION DECK

The chain attached to Leia's neck is pulled tight, The slobbering Jabba speaks to the scantily-clad princes.

JABBA: (in Huttese) Soon you will learn to appreciate me.

Threepio wanders among the Sail Barge aliens, bumping into a smaller droid serving drinks..

THREEPIO: (crashing into a droid) Oh, I'm terribly sor... Artoo! What are you doing here?

Artoo beeps a quick reply.

THREEPIO: Well, I can see you're serving drinks, but this place is dangerous. They're going to execute Master Luke and, if we're not careful, us too!

Artoo whistles a singsong response.

THREEPIO: Hmm. I wish I had your confidence.

EXT: SARLACC PIT

The Sail Barge stops at a large sand pit. The prisoner's skiff moves directly over it's centre. It hovers over the diabolical Sarlacc, its huge beak surrounded by sharp fangs and tentacles. A plank is extended from the edge of the prisoner's skiff. Guards release Luke's bonds and shove him out onto the plank above the Sarlacc's mouth.

EXT: SAIL BARGE OBSERVATION DECK

Jabba and Leia are at the rail, watching. Threepio listens to Jabba's utterances, then conveys them via loudspeakers.

THREEPIO: Victims of the almighty Sarlacc: His Excellency hopes that you will die honorably. But should any of you wish to beg for mercy, the great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas.

EXT: SKIFF

HAN: (defiantly) Threepio, you tell that slimy piece of... worm-ridden filth he'll get no such pleasure from us. Right?

Chewie growls his agreement.

LUKE: Jabba! This is your last chance. Free us or die.

Lando moves unobtrusively along the skiff as Luke shoots a quick look of conspiracy to him.

INT: SAIL BARGE OBSERVATION DECK

The creatures rock with mocking laughter as Artoo zips unnoticed up the ramp to the upper deck. Jabba's laughter subsides as he speaks into the loudspeaker.

JABBA: (in Huttese) Move him into position.

Jabba makes a thumbs-down gesture. Leia looks worried.

EXT: BARGE - UPPER DECK

Artoo waits by the rail of the Sail Barge. Below, in the skiff, Luke is prodded by a guard to the edge of the plank over the gaping Sarlacc. Luke looks up at Artoo, gives a salute: the signal the little droid has been waiting for. A flap opens in Artoo's domed head.

JABBA: (in Huttese) Put him in.

EXT: SKIFF

To the cheers of the blood-thirsty spectators, Luke is prodded to the end of the gangplank. Then, in the blink of an eye, Luke jumps off, grabs the end of the plank and propels himself into the air. He does a flip and, safely landed, catches his lightsaber, which Artoo has sent arcing toward him. Luke ignites his saber and attacks the guards closest to him, sending them overboard. Lando struggles with another guard at the back of the skiff.

EXT: SARLACC PIT

A screaming guard lands in the sandy slope of the Sarlacc pit. the Sarlacc tentacle grabs him and pulls him screaming into the viscous mouth. The Sarlacc swallows him whole, then burps.

INT: SAIL BARGE

Jabba watches all this enraged. He orders his guards to fire their deck-mounted guns.

EXT: SKIFF

Luke knocks another guard off the skiff and into the hungry mouth of the Sarlacc. He starts to untie Chewie's bonds.

LUKE: Easy, Chewie.

Gunners on Jabba's barge fire at the skiff. The skiff shudders. Lando is thrown from the deck. He manages to grab a rope, and dangles desperately above the Sarlacc pit.

LANDO: Whoa! Whoa! Help!

EXT: UPPER DECK - SAIL BARGE

Boba Fett enters the fray. He ignites his rocket pack and flies from the barge to the skiff.

EXT: SKIFF

Boba lands on the skiff and aims his laser gun at Luke. With Jedi reflexes the young Jedi hacks the bounty hunter's gun in half. The skiff takes another direct hit of laser cannon.. Shards of skiff deck fly. Chewie, Han and Teymor are thrown against the rail. Han lands on top of the Wookie.

HAN: Chewie, you okay?

Chewie growls.

Boba fires a cable out of his armoured sleeve, wrapping Luke in a strong cable. Luke angles his lightsaber and cuts though his bonds. Another blast from the Barge's deck gun stuns Boba. He falls next to Teymor. Lando is still hanging over the skiff.

LANDO: Han! Chewie?

HAN: Lando!

Now a second skiff loaded with guards comes in firing. Luke leaps toward the incoming skiff. He lands in the middle of the guards and sets to killing them.

Han tries to lift Chewie up. A few feet away, Boba Fett, still stunned, rises from the deck. He looks over at the other skiff, where Luke is winning his battle. Boba raises his arm, and aims. Seeing what is about to happen, Chewie barks desperately at Han. Han grabs at Boba's left leg. Boba kicks him viciously with his right. Fett aims at Luke again. Suddenly Teymor picks up a blaster and fires point blank at Boba Fett's back. The bounty hunter falls over the skiff, a crush of bones indicate that he is dead. Chewie growls in relief.

INT: SAIL BARGE

Leia tries to throttle the vile Hutt with the very chain that enslaves her. Jabba swats he away.

EXT: SKIFF

Han has found a spear, he outreaches it to Lando, who is still dangling precariously from a rope over the skiff.

HAN: Lando, grab it!

LANDO: Lower it!

HAN: I'm trying!

A violent blast from the barge gunners knocks the skiff on its side, almost throwing Chewie, Han and Teymor over. The rope dangling Lando breaks and he falls to the side of the Sarlacc pit. Han, with Chewie'a help, tries to reach Lando before it is too late.

Luke disposes of the last guard on the second skiff. He now sets his sights on the Sail Barge gunners. The Jedi leaps from the skiff, across a chasm of air, to the sheer metallic side of the Barge. He clambers up the hull.

Chewie holds onto Han's legs as Han, with the spear, tries to save Lando, who is slipping into the Sarlacc pit.

HAN: Grab it! Almost... You almost got it!

Another blast hits the front of the tilted skiff, causing Lando to let go of the spear.

LANDO: Hold it! Whoa!

Again Han extends the spear toward Lando.

HAN: Gently now. All... all right. Now easy, easy.

Hold me, Chewie.

Lando screams. One of the Sarlacc's tentacles has wrapped tightly around his ankle, dragging him down the side of the pit.

HAN: Chewie! Chewie, give me the gun. Don't move, Lando.

LANDO: No, wait! I thought you were blind!

HAN: It's all right. Trust me. Don't move.

LANDO: All right! A little higher! Just a little higher!

Han adjusts his aim, and fires. A direct hit. The tentacle releases Lando, and Chewie starts to pull them on board the skiff.

HAN: Chewie, Pull us up! Come on! Okay... up, Chewie, up!

EXT: SAIL BARGE UPPER DECK

The deck gunners have our skiff heroes in their gun sights. A Jedi has then in his sights. Luke ignites his lightsaber and wades into them. Jabba's henchmen scream as they die.

INT: SAIL BARGE - OBSERVATION DECK

Leia hears the battle on the deck overhead. She screams to Luke.

EXT: UPPER DECK

Luke hears Leia's call. He cuts a circle into the deck and it gives way.

INT: OBSERVATION DECK.

Lightsaber blazing, Luke makes his way to Leia, scattering the cowardly creatures. But Jabba stands his ground. The slug creature grabs Leia, wrapping the chain around her next, threatening to strangle her. Luke hurls his lightsaber at Jabba's throat, the blade entering and exiting with devastating effect. He dies in a gurgle of blood. Luke retrieves his sabre, cuts through the chain holding Leia and, carrying the princess in his arms, leaps up to the top deck, only to find...

EXT: UPPER DECK - SAIL BARGE

...that they are surrounded by armed guards, firing laser pistols. Luke deflects the laser blasts with his lightsaber. A blast hits Luke's mechanical hand. He reels in pain, but manages to swing his lightsaber upward and take out the last of the guards. Luke looks at his wounded, its inner mechanism exposed. But it still works. He calls to Leia.

LUKE: Get the gun! Point it at the deck!

Leia turns toward the barge cannon, climbs on the platform, and swivels the gun around.

LUKE: Point it at the deck!

Scuttling through the commotion Artoo discovers Threepio standing near the rail of the upper deck. He rushes at Threepio, pushing the fearful droid over the edge, then follows him.

Luke runs along the empty deck toward Leia and the barge gun, which she has brought around to point down at the deck.

LUKE: Come on!

Luke catches hold of one of the mast ropes in one hand and Leia in the other. He kicks the trigger of the deck gun. It fires into the deck as Luke and Leia swing out toward the skiff.

EXT: SKIFF

Han leans panting against the rail as Chewie and Teymor help Lando onto the deck. Luke and Leia land on the skiff.

LUKE: Let's go! And don't forget the droids.

LANDO: We're on our way.

EXT: SAND DUNE

Threepio's legs stick up in the sand. Artoo raises his periscope. The skiff floats above the droids. They are hoisted up with electromagnets. Then our heroes make their escape as the Sail Barge is explodes into smithereens.

 
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laserwriter 
Registered: Sep '08
Date Posted: 9/15 6:43am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
EXT: DUNE SEA - LANDING AREA

A ferocious sandstorm. Figures emerge from the tempest of sand: Artoo and Threepio, followed by Leia guiding Han, then Luke, Lando and the towering Chewbacca. Finally there is Teymor. They approach the Millennium Falcon and, parked beside it, Luke's trusty X-wing. They must shout to be heard.

HAN: I don't know. All I can see is a lot of blowing sand!

LEIA: That's all any of us can see.

HAN: (blinking) Then I guess I'm getting better.

The group huddle under the bulk of the Falcon. Threepio hit’s a switch, and the gang-plank lowers with a hum.

HAN: (turning to Luke) I've got to hand it to you, kid, you were pretty good out there.

LUKE: I had a lot of help. Think nothing of it.

HAN: No, I'm thinking a lot about it. That carbon freeze was the closest thing to dead there is. And it wasn't just sleepin'. It was a big wide awake nothing!

Chewie growls affectionately at the young Jedi. Leia hugs Luke.

LUKE: (moving to his ship) I'll see you back at the fleet. Come on Artoo.

HAN: (looking dubiously at Lando, obviously remembering his old friend's betrayal and subsequent aide) Guess I owe you some thanks, too, Lando.

LANDO: Figured if I left you frozen like that you'd only hex me for the rest of my life.

LEIA: He means "You're welcome."

Luke's makes his way to his X-wing. Han turns to Teymor.

HAN: And I am in your debt Teymor. You deserve a spice mine for killing that bounty hunter. Where can we drop you off. Where did you say your colony was.

TEYMOR: I'm through with that life -- slaving away for a few credits, squeezed on all sides by black-market economics. Even I can see that the Empire is the root cause of all the trouble in the galaxy. Let me join your rebellion.

HAN: (looking to Leia) Well, Princess.

LEIA: The Alliance should be assembled by now. We'd be happy to have you along.

Teymor bows, smiling.

LANDO: Come on, let's get off this miserable dust ball.

They enter the Falcon.

EXT: SPACE ABOVE TATOOINE

Luke's X-wing, and the Millennium Falcon emerge from the stratosphere of yellow Tatooine. They veer off in different directions.

INT: X-WING - COCKPIT

Luke, at the controls, reads a message from Artoo, who is nestled in the outer canopy. Luke pulls a black glove on his wounded mechanical hand.

LUKE: That's right, Artoo. We're going to the Dagobah system. I have a promise to keep... to an old friend.

 
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Date Posted: 9/15 6:58am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett) - Date Edited: 9/15 7:06am (1 edits total) Edited By: LittleMissNightsaber
NO EWOKS!!!!!! shock
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I think this might be a good script so if you have a PM list, put me on. I might be wrong, but something about Teymor gives me the creeps.

 

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Registered: Sep '08
Date Posted: 9/16 2:39am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
EXT: SPACE - DEATH STAR AND ENDOR

A Super Star Destroyer along with other Imperial vessels rests in space by the half-completed Death Star, and Endor. Squads of TIE fighters escort an Imperial shuttle toward the Death Star.

INT: DEATH STAR DOCKING BAY

Thousands of Imperial troops stand in rigid formation. Lord Vader and the visibly nervous Death Star Commander, Jerjerrod, await the Emperor's arrival. The Emperor's shuttle glides into the bay and settles. A ramp lowers and the Emperor's Royal Guards emerge. Then, after a pause, the Emperor appears. He is cloaked in black and carries a gnarled cane. He is physically unremarkable but his evil presence is palpable. Jerjerrod and Darth Vader kneel before him..

EMPEROR: (to Vader) Rise, my friend.

Vader rises and walks beside the Emperor. They make their way along the rows of troops, followed by ghoulish Imperial dignitaries.

VADER: The Death Star will be completed on schedule.

EMPEROR: You have done well, Lord Vader. And now I sense you wish to continue your search for young Skywalker.

VADER: Yes, my Master.

EMPEROR: Patience, my friend. In time he will seek you out. And when he does, you must bring him before me. He has grown strong. Only together can we turn him to the dark side of the Force.

VADER: As you wish.

EMPEROR: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

The Emperor cackles with evil intent, his yellow eyes glow with devilish glee.

EXT: YODA'S HOUSE - DAGOBAH

Artoo stands outside Yoda's hut. The sounds of creatures exude from the swampy gloom.

INT: YODA'S HOUSE

Yoda is very frail, his voice weak.

YODA: Hmm. That face you make. Look I so old to young eyes?

LUKE: No... of course not.

YODA: I do, yes, I do! Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?

YODA: (coughing) Soon will I rest. Yes, forever sleep. Earned it, I have.

Yoda hobbles into bed.

LUKE: Master Yoda, you can't die.

YODA: Strong am I with the Force... but not that strong! Twilight is upon me and soon night must fall. That is the way of things... the way of the Force.

LUKE: But I need your help. I've come back to complete the training.

Yoda sighs, and lies back on his bed, struggles to speak.

YODA: I am too weak.

LUKE: I cannot train myself.

Luke has waited to raise the matter of most import; he can wait no longer.

LUKE: Master Yoda... You have not asked me about my battle on Bespin -- the revelation! Master, is Darth Vader my father?

Yoda's eyes are full of weariness and compassion. An odd, sad smile creases his face. He turns painfully on his side, away from Luke.

YODA: Mmm... rest I need. Yes... rest.

LUKE: (insistent) Yoda, I must know.

YODA: Your father he is.

LUKE: (accusingly) Then both you and Obi-Wan deceived me.

YODA: (ignoring the accusation) Told you, did he?

LUKE: Yes.

YODA: Unexpected this is, and unfortunate...

LUKE: Unfortunate that I know the truth?

Yoda opens his eyes, looks at Luke.

YODA: No. Unfortunate that you rushed to face him... that incomplete was your training. Not ready for the burden were you.

LUKE: Well, I'm sorry.

YODA: Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. (beckoning Luke closer) Luke... Do not... Do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor... Luke I fear for you. And I fear to reveal one more truth, for it will surely weaken you, and strengthen the Sith.

LUKE: Tell me Master.

YODA: Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. The father, the son, and... (struggling to breath) another... Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi you will be. Pass on what you have learnt...

Yoda breathes his last. Life ebbs away, and he dies peacefully. Luke watches as the body of the Jedi Master disappears.

EXT: DAGOBAH SWAMP - X-WING

Luke wanders back to his ship. Artoo beeps. Luke's face is wrought in sadness.

LUKE: I can't do it, Artoo. I can't go on alone.

OBi-Wan: (OS) Yoda will always be with you.

Luke looks up to see the shimmering image of Obi-Wan.

LUKE: Obi-Wan! Why didn't you tell me?

The familiar ghost of Ben Kenobi approaches him through the swamp.

LUKE: You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.

BEN: Your father was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He renounced the Jedi way and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was Anakin Skywalker was destroyed. So what I have told you was true... from a Jedi point of view.

LUKE: A 'Jedi' point of view!

BEN: Luke, you are striving to become a Jedi -- a noble philosophy that has stood for a thousand generations. And you are the last that lives and breathes.

Luke is unresponsive. Ben studies him in silence for a moment. Luke looks up, more resolute.

LUKE: I want to know the history -- my father's history.

BEN: Anakin was a prodigy. When I first encountered him on Tatooine, a mere boy, your father was already a great pilot. The Force was unusually strong in him. Induced by my late Master, Qui-Gon, I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. Perhaps in a time of peace he would have fulfilled that noble calling, but it was a time of war. Great conflict rent the heart of the Republic, and my former apprentice yielded to Palpatine -- to the Dark Side. I tried to stop him. We fought in the fiery hell of Mustafar, whilst Master Yoda battled Palpatine on Coruscant. Neither Yoda, or I, succeeded in destroying our enemies, though Vader was mutilated in our battle. And to this day the Emperor and his masked servant hold sway over the Galaxy.

Luke is entranced.

LUKE: And what about my mother?

BEN: (looks into the swamp with faraway eyes) Padme Amidala was a true patriot of the Republic. Anakin and she fell in love. They married in secret and she conceived. She died in childbirth. At you mother's funeral on her homeworld, Naboo, it was conveyed that she died still pregnant. (turns to Luke) In a way, her death gave you life. She was good and kind and strong; but Anakin's descent was too much for her to bear. The sins of the father are great... and inherently dangerous. That is why we kept the truth from you -- to protect you.

LUKE: (accusingly) To protect me.

OBI-WAN: (benignly) And not only you.

LUKE: Yes, Yoda spoke of another.

BEN: The 'other' he spoke of is your twin sister.

LUKE: (incredulous) But I have no sister.

BEN: She, like you, was hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, that if Anakin were to have offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is why your sister remains safely anonymous.

LUKE: (the realization) Leia! Leia's my sister.

BEN: Your insight serves you well. Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. They do you credit but they would surely be twisted by the Emperor, just as he twisted the mind of Anakin.

Luke tries to comprehend all this, almost overwhelmed by so many truths.

LUKE: And so Leia can also use the Force?

BEN: She has not been trained in the ways of the Jedi as you have, Luke. The Force within her lies dormant. (sternly) But Luke, do not foster hope that your father... that Vader, will have any fatherly feelings towards you, or your sister. He is an agent of evil. Twisted and corrupt. Irredeemable. He must be destroyed.

LUKE: Twice you could not kill him, yet you expect me to do so. There is still good in him. He spared my life.

BEN: He wants your allegiance -- Sith allegiance. He wants to overthrow the Emperor.

LUKE: I can't do it, Ben. I can't fight my own father.

BEN: I once felt as you do. My compassion for Anakin blinded me. Luke, you have the chance to save the galaxy. Your mother sowed the seeds of the Rebel Alliance and your sister has carried that mantle. Now you must take the battle to the evildoers. (directly) You cannot escape your destiny.

EXT: SPACE - REBEL FLEET

The rag-tag Rebel Fleet has assembled in deep space. There are frigates and fighters and battle cruisers. A large Star Cruiser is the operational hub.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER HQ - MAIN BRIEFING ROOM

Hundreds of Rebel warriors are gathered in the War room. Among them is Wedge Antilles, Han, Chewie, Lando, Leia and Teymor. Centred in the room is a large hologram of the half-completed Death Star, the Endor moon, and the protective shield that emanates from Endor.

Mon Mothma enters the room. She is a serenely beautiful middle-aged woman in white robes. Accompanying her are other Alliance leaders: General Modine and Admiral Ackbar, a salmon-coloured Mon Calamari. Lando is standing next to Han and Leia and the droids. Han peers at Lando's new Captain's insignia on his chest, amused.

HAN: Well, it's official, your a rebel -- just like me.

HAN: We were always rebels. (turning to Leia) Luke is late.

Mon Mothma signals for attention, the assembled take their seats, and the room falls silent.

MON MOTHMA: The Emperor has made a critical error and the time for our attack has come.
(turning to the hologram) The data brought to us by the Bothan spies pin-points the exact location of the Emperor's new battle station. We also know that the weapon systems of this Death Star are not yet operational. With the Imperial Fleet spread throughout the galaxy in search of us, it is relatively unprotected. But most important of all, we've learned that the Emperor himself is personally overseeing the final stages of the construction of this Death Star.

Excited chatter rumbles through the ranks. Han turns to Leia.

MON MOTHMA: (sadly) Many Bothans died to bring us this information. Admiral Ackbar, please.

ACKBAR: (pointing to the hologram) You can see here the Death Star orbiting the forest Moon of Endor. Although the weapon systems on this Death Star are not yet operational, the Death Star does have a strong defence barrier. It is protected by an energy shield, which is generated from the nearby forest Moon of Endor. The shield must be deactivated if any attack is to be attempted. Once the shield is down, our cruisers will create a perimeter, while the fighters fly into the superstructure and attempt to knock out the main reactor.

There are concerned murmurs.

ACKBAR: Captains Calrissian and Antilles have volunteered to spearhead the fighter attack.

Han looks to Lando with respect.

Lando: (whispering) Someone must have told them about my gun-toting for the rebels at the battle of Orethon.

HAN: (whispering back) Wasn't I gun-running for the opposition?

ACKBAR: General Madine.

Madine moves centre stage.

GENERAL MADINE: We have stolen a small Imperial shuttle. Disguised as a cargo ship, and using a secret Imperial code, a strike team will land on the moon and deactivate the shield generator.

THREEPIO: Sounds dangerous.

LEIA: (to Han) I wonder who gets the assignment.

GENERAL MADINE: Major Solo, is your strike team assembled?

Leia, startled, looks up at Han.

HAN: Uh, my team's ready. I don't have a command crew for the shuttle.

Chewbacca raises his hairy paw and volunteers. Han looks up at him.

HAN: Well, it's gonna be rough, pal. I didn't want to speak for you.

Chewie remonstrates with a growl of loyalty.

HAN: (smiles) That's one.

LEIA: Uh, General... count me in.

TEYMOR: And me.

VOICE: (OS) I'm with you, too!

There are smiles and cheers as Luke Skywalker appears. Leia moves to Luke and embraces him warmly. She senses a change in him as she looks into his eyes.

LEIA: (whispering) What is it?

LUKE: (whispering back) Ask me another time.

GENERAL MADINE: All the finer points will be discussed in due course. That is all for now.

Han, Chewie, and Lando crowd around Luke as the assembly breaks up.

HAN: Luke.

LUKE: Hi, Han... Chewie.

Artoo beeps an observation to a worried Threepio.

THREEPIO: "Exciting" is hardly the word I would use.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER HQ - MAIN DOCKING BAY

A vast docking bay. The Millennium Falcon rests beyond the stolen Imperial shuttle, its clinical geometry out of place among the Rebel ships. Chewie barks a farewell to Lando and leads Artoo and Threepio up the shuttle while the Rebel strike team. is loading weapons and supplies. Lando turns to face Han.

HAN: Look. I want you to take her. I mean it. Take her. You need all the help you can get. She's the fastest ship in the fleet.

LANDO: All right, old buddy. You know, I know what she means to you. I'll take good care of her. She won't get a scratch. All right?

HAN: Right. I got your promise. Not a scratch.

LANDO: Look, would you get going, you pirate.

HAN: Good luck.

LANDO: You, too.

Han goes up the ramp. Lando watches him go and then slowly turns away.

INT: IMPERIAL SHUTTLE - COCKPIT

Luke is working on a back control panel as Han comes in and takes the pilot's seat. Chewie, in the seat next to him, is trying to figure out all the Imperial controls.

HAN: You got her warmed?

LUKE: Yeah, she's comin' up.

Chewie growls a complaint.

HAN: No. I don't think the Empire had Wookiees in mind when they designed her, Chewie.

Leia comes in from the hold and takes her seat near Luke. Chewie flicks some switches. Han gazes at the Millennium Falcon through the cockpit window. Leia nudges him gently.

LEIA: Hey, are you awake?

HAN: Yeah, I just got a funny feeling. Like I'm not gonna see her again.

Leia puts a hand on Han's shoulder.

LEIA: (softly) Come on, Major, let's move.

Han snaps back to life.

HAN: Right. Chewie, let's see what this piece of junk can do. Ready, everybody?

LUKE: All set.

THREEPIO: Here we go again.

HAN: All right, hang on.

EXT: SPACE - THE REBEL FLEET

The stolen Imperial shuttle glides out of the bay of the Cruiser HQ.

 
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INT: EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM

The Emperor of the Galaxy sits in an elaborate control chair before a large window which looks over the green moon of Endor. Darth Vader passes the imposing Imperial guards and the ghoulish retinue and approaches his master.

VADER: What is thy bidding, my Master?

EMPEROR: Send the fleet to the far side of Endor. There it will stay until called for.

VADER: What of the reports of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust?

EMPEROR: It is of no concern. Soon the Rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us! Your work here is finished, my friend. Go out to the command ship and await my orders.

VADER: Yes, my Master.

Vader bows, then turns and exits the throne room.

EXT: SPACE - DEATH STAR - MOON

A flotilla of Imperial craft hover around the Death Star construction. A Super Star Destroyer dominates over all the vessels.

INT: STOLEN IMPERIAL SHUTTLE - COCKPIT

Our heroes approach the Death Star, passing close to the Super Star Destroyer.

HAN: If they don't go for this, we're gonna have to get outta here pretty quick, Chewie.

CONTROLLER: (over radio) We have you on our screen now. Please identify.

HAN: Shuttle Tydirium requesting deactivation of the deflector shield.

CONTROLLER: (over radio) Shuttle Tydirium, transmit the clearance code for shield passage.

HAN: Transmission commencing.

Leia and Chewbacca listen tensely as the sound of a high speed transmission begins.

LEIA: Now we find out if that code is worth the price we paid.

HAN: It'll work. It'll work.

Chewie growls. Luke stares at the Super Star Destroyer. He senses a presence.

LUKE: Vader's on that ship.

HAN: Now don't get jittery, Luke. There are a lot of command ships.

LUKE: I'm endangering the mission. I shouldn't have come.

HAN: It's your imagination, kid. Come on. Let's keep a little optimism here.

INT: VADER'S STAR DESTROYER - BRIDGE

Lord Vader looks out through an observation window at the Death Star. Suddenly his attention turns to the Imperial Shuttle. He walks over to the Bridge Controllers, where Admiral Piett is standing.

VADER: Where is that shuttle going?

PIETT: (into comlink) Shuttle Tydirium, what is your cargo and destination?

PILOT VOICE: (Han, filtered) Parts and technical crew for the forest moon.

VADER: Do they have a clearance code?

PIETT: It's an older code, sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them.

Vader looks upward. He senses Luke's presence.

PIETT: Shall I hold them?

VADER: No. Leave them to me. I will deal with them myself.

PIETT: As you wish, my lord. (to controller) Carry on.

INT: STOLEN IMPERIAL SHUTTLE - COCKPIT

Our heroes wait nervously.

CONTROLLER: (filtered) Shuttle Tydirium, deactivation of the shield will commence immediately. Follow your present course.

Everyone breaths a sigh of relief. Everyone but Luke, who looks more worried.

HAN: Okay! I told you it was gonna work. No problem.

EXT: SPACE - STOLEN IMPERIAL SHUTTLE - ENDOR

The stolen Imperial shuttle glides over Endor. A primeval forest covering almost the entire planet. The shuttle settles in a clearing.

EXT: ENDOR FOREST - DAY

Dwarfed by the giant trees, the Rebel contingent makes its way up a steep trail. They come to a crest in the hill. They halt and drop to the ground. Just below, two Imperial scouts are standing in the valley below, their two rocket bikes parked nearby.

LEIA: Shall we try and go around?

HAN: It'll take time. We need a direct approach. Chewie and I will handle this.

Chewie growls.

LUKE: Quietly, there might be more of them out there.

Han grins a boyish 'Trust me'. Han and Chewie make their way down the hill to the scouts. Han sneaks up behind one of the scouts, steps on a twig and the scout whirls, striking Han. The scout shouts to his companion.

SCOUT #1: Go for help! Go!

The second scout jumps on his speeder bike and takes off, but Chewie gets off a shot on his crossbow laser weapon, causing the scout to crash into a tree. Han wrestles Scout #1 to the ground.

LUKE: (sarcastic) Great. Come on.

Luke and Leia head down the hill their pistols raised. Leia stops and points to where two more scouts are sitting on their speeder bikes, with an unoccupied bike parked nearby.

LEIA: Over there! Two more of them!

The Imperial scouts sees Luke and Leia and speed off. Leia gets onto the parked speeder bike and Luke jumps on the back. They race after the scouts.

EXT: FOREST - THE BIKE CHASE

In hot pursuit, Luke and Leia speed through dense foliage, weaving through huge trees.

LUKE: Quick! Jam their comlink. (pointing to controls) Center switch!

Leia guns it, closing the gap, as the two scouts recklessly veer through a narrow gap in the trees. One of the bikes scrapes a tree, slowing the scout.

LUKE: Get alongside that one!

Leia pulls up close to the scout's bike. Luke leaps from his bike to the back of the scout's, and throes the rider off. The victim hit’s a tree and is killed. Now in control of the speeder, Luke follows Leia in a race to catch the remaining scout.

The speeding chase passes two more Imperial scouts. These two swing into pursuit, chasing Luke and Leia, firing with their laser cannon. Luke's bike takes a glancing hit.

LUKE: (indicating the one ahead) Keep on that one! I'll take these two!

Luke brakes hard and falls behind the two scouts. Now he fire at them. One of the scouts explodes in a fireball. The other scout suddenly shifts into turbo drive, going even faster. Luke keeps on his tail.

Far ahead, Leia and the first scout are doing a treacherous slalom through the trees. Now Leia aims her bike skyward and rises out of sight. The scout turns in confusion. Suddenly, Leia dives down upon him from above, and moves in alongside him. The scout pulls out a handgun and fires at Leia. He blasts her bike, sending it out of control. Leia dives off as her bike explodes against a tree. The victorious scout looks back at the explosion, but when he turns forward again, he impacts into a giant fallen tree. He dies in a fireball.

Behind. Luke and the last remaining scout continue their weaving chase through the trees. They bump and jostle as the path ahead becomes more perilous. Suddenly a wide trunk looms ahead. Luke banks, and just clipping the tree. The speeders collide again, and their front vanes get locked together. Another big tree looms in Luke's path. He dives off his bike. The two bikes come apart a second before Luke's explodes against a tree. The scout sweeps out and circles back to find Luke. When he sees Luke he fires with his laser cannon. Luke ignites his laser sword and deflecting the bolts. The scout' now tries to run Luke down. With JedI reflexes, Luke steps aside and slashes off the bike's control vanes. The scout loses control of his bike and explodes in a fireball.

EXT: SCOUT CAMPSITE - FOREST

Han and the rest of the squad, wait anxiously in a clearing. Artoo's radar antennae scans the forest. He beeps.

THREEPIO: Oh, General Solo, somebody's coming. Oh!

The squad raise their weapons.

Luke steps out of the foliage to find the weapons trained on him. He's too tired to care. He plops himself down on a boulder and looks around.

HAN: Luke! Where's Leia?

LUKE: (concerned) What? She didn't come back?

HAN: I thought she was with you.

LUKE: We got separated.

Luke and Han exchange a silent, grim look.

LUKE: Hey, we better go look for her.

HAN: (to Rebel officer) Take the squad ahead. We'll meet at the shield generator at 0300. You go with them Teymor.

Teymor nods.

LUKE: Come on, Artoo. We'll need your scanners.

Luke, Chewie, Han, and the droids head off in one direction as the squad and Teymor proceeds in another.

THREEPIO: (to Artoo) And you said it was pretty here. Ugh!

EXT: FOREST CLEARING - LEIA'S CRASH SITE

Princess Leia lies on the forest floor beside the wreckage of her speeder, unconscious. Strange winged creatures, no larger than a man's hand, gather around her. The creatures prod at Leia, chattering to one another in high-pitched squeaks, little pixie faces animated. Then the creatures clasp Leia's clothing with little hands and carry her high into the air.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

The elevator opens to reveal Darth Vader. The Imperial guards stand to attention. Vader enters the throne room. All is quiet. Vader's footsteps echo as he approaches the throne and waits. The Emperor sits with his back to the Dark Lord.

EMPEROR: (displeased) I told you to remain on the command ship.

VADER: A small Rebel force has penetrated the shield and landed on Endor.

EMPEROR: (no surprise) Yes, I know.

VADER: My son is with them.

EMPEROR: (calmly) Are you sure?

VADER: I have felt him, my Master.

EMPEROR: Strange, that I have not. I wonder if your feelings on this matter are clear, Lord Vader.

VADER: They are clear, my Master.

EMPEROR: Then you must go to the Sanctuary Moon and await him.

VADER: (sceptical) He will come to me?

EMPEROR: I have foreseen it. His compassion for you will be his undoing. He will come to you and then you will bring him before me.

VADER: (bows) As you wish.

EXT: FOREST CLEARING - LEIA'S CRASH SITE

Our heroes search the dense undergrowth where Leia was last seen. Luke finds Leia's helmet. He picks it up, concern etched on his face.

HAN: (OS) Luke! Luke!

Luke runs with the helmet to where Han has found the charred wreckage of a speeder bike in the grass.

THREEPIO: Oh, Master Luke.

LUKE: There's two more wrecked speeders back there. And I found this.

He tosses the helmet to Han.

THREEPIO: I'm afraid that Artoo's sensors can find no trace of Princess Leia.

HAN: (gravely) I hope she's alright.

EXT: TREE-HOUSE

Leia awakens, bruised and dishevelled. She is startled by the strange creatures surrounding her, Hundreds of them. They squeak and peer at her, seemingly benign in nature. One of the creatures approaches tentatively, its gamine neck supporting a pixie face. It offers Leia food in a bowl - honey. Leia eats the honey, grateful for the sustenance.

Leia realizes that the large pixies must have carried her high up into their tree house, one of many nests secreted in the canopies of the giant conifers. Leia remembers her friends, the imperative mission. She tries to communicate with the creatures.

LEIA: I have to go back to my friends. (no reaction) Can you take me back?

Leia points to the Forest floor far below. The creatures appear to understand. They are clearly primitive yet intelligent.

EXT: FOREST - REBEL CAMP

Out heroes sit beside a large tree stump in their makeshift base camp, the prisoner stormtrooper tied to the stump. Han, Luke and Chewbacca are growing more concerned for the loss of Leia. Artoo has his antennae raised, seeking any sign of the princess.

REBEL COMMANDER: (returning from the woods with his men) Sir, we have scoured the entire area, there is no sign of the Princess.

HAN: Expand your search commander.

COMMANDER: Yes Sir. All right men, let's go.

The strike force disappear in the woods.

HAN: She couldn't have disappeared into thin air. She must have been captured. She could be in danger.

LUKE: I don't sense that.

TEYMOR: (ignoring Luke's Jedi senses). If the Imperial troops have the princess, our mission is compromised.

Han: (curtly) It's more than a 'mission'. And she is more than a princess. (apologetic) I'm sorry.

TEYMOR: I can see that the Princess means a lot to you.

To lead his worried mind from the princess, Han considers the first matter:

HAN: The Imperial base is a stronghold. To get inside we'll need the entry code. (looking over at the stormtrooper). He'll know it!

TEYMOR: Do you want me to get it out of him?

Luke: That won't be necessary. I can use Jedi persuasion.

Luke walks over to the helmeted stormtrooper. Han and Teymor follow on.

LUKE: I won't hurt you. I need to know the entry code.

STORMTROOPER: That information can not be divulged.

Luke concentrates his mind and compels the stormtrooper to divulge.

LUKE: What is the entry code?

STORMTROOPER: (under mind-control) The code is 387AK642.

HAN: That's a neat trick, would be mighty useful in a card game. (anxiously) Where could Leia be?

Artoo suddenly bleeps excitedly.

LUKE: (pointing up) Look!

Han follows Luke's eye line. He sees Leia descending from above, surrounded by fluttering creatures.

The creatures place Leia gently of the forest and flutter away. Some of the men have their guns raised.

LEIA: Don't shoot. They mean no harm.

HAN: What are they? Where have you been?

LEIA: Safe, way up in the trees. They cared for me. I can't communicate with them by words, but they seem to understand on a telepathic level.

HAN: We'll now that your safe, we're back on track. When the men return we'll break camp and get moving. The Imperial base is-

Han stops in mid-sentence. The two remaining pixie creatures hover about Leia, wings fluttering like over-excited humming birds, trying to draw her away.

Teymor: What do they want?

LEIA: I don't know.

LUKE: Threepio, can you communicate with them?

THREEPIO: I am fluent in over-

HAN: Cut the spec-talk, just do it!

THREEPIO: (aggrieved) Certainly.

Threepio selects a primitive galactic language, then another, and another. There is no response from the creatures.

LEIA: Well, obviously they have evolved in isolation. They have their own unique language system.

Artoo whistles.

THREEPIO: Artoo, you are astrotech, not a highly sophisticated translator like me.

LEIA: No, let him try. Artoo's sounds are not so dissimilar to theirs.

Artoo squeaks a singsong at the creatures, in a higher-than-normal pitch. They whistle and squeak back.

LEIA: What did they say?

Artoo whistles at Threepio.

THREEPIO: Apparently, they said hello.

Luke and Leia smile at each other.

The creatures suddenly rush ahead.

HAN: Now what?

LEIA: They seem to want to take us somewhere. Han, let's follow the creatures. It might be something important.

HAN: Look I'm all for inter-special civility, but we've got to get going. I want to scout out the Imperial Base.

LUKE: Han. I'm sure it won't take long. They did care for Leia, after all.

HAN: (giving in) Okay. Teymor, wait for the men. (motioning to the Stormtrooper) Keep him quiet. Get the stove out and we'll be back by suppertime.

TEYMOR: Will do.

HAN: Come on Chewie, I can tell you want to come on this pixie adventure.

Chewie scowls at Han good-naturedly.

EXT: FOREST STREAM - LATE EVENING

They near a forest stream, the idyllic setting is now a hunter's emporium. A dozen birds are caught in a near-invisible net, a pair of large deer-like game hang from hind legs that had inadvertently stepped into deadly traps.

HAN: Looks like the stormtrooper are meat-eaters. Don't touch anything. They mustn't know we have been here.

A baby faun, still alive, whimpers in a wire-trap overhead.

LEIA: Han, we have to free that one.

HAN: (reconsidering) Well, I guess the bad guys won't return tonight. Chewie can you reach it?

Chewie reaches up and, with his powerful arms, tears open the trap. The faun fall to ground and runs away, escaping into the forest.

LEIA: And the birds.

Chewie pulls down the netting and the birds fly away. The pixies flutter about excitedly.

LEIA: Artoo, tell them that the worlds that circle the stars in the night sky have also been invaded by the Empire -- just like this forest -- and that the innocent people are also being captured and killed. Tell them that we are trying to free them all.

Artoo whistles away. The creatures answer. Threepio translates Artoo's response.

THREEPIO: They have agreed to help. And princess, it seems that the creatures call themselves 'Ceele'.

The two Ceele appear to smile at Leia.

LEIA: (smiling back) Then we are friends.

EXT: FOREST STREAM - MAKESHIP CAMP - NIGHT

The sounds of the nocturnal forest fill the soft night air. Han, Chewie are Leia are sleeping on the soft grass by a stream. But Luke is wide awake, a short distance from the others. He is peering into the gently-rippling water that reflects the starry lights. Luke looks up at the large artificial moon over Endor -- the Death Star.

Leia rouses from a dream, looks into the near distance, and sees Luke. She gets up from her bed and approaches him.

LEIA: Luke, what's wrong?

Luke turns and looks at her for a long moment, as if thinking how to respond.

LEIA: Luke, tell me. What's troubling you?

LUKE: Vader is here...now, on this moon.

LEIA: (alarmed) How do you know?

LUKE: I feel his presence. He's come for me. He can sense when I'm near. That's why I have to go. (facing her) As long as I stay, I'm endangering the group and our mission here. (beat) I have to face him.

Leia is distraught, confused.

LEIA: Why?

Luke moves close and his manner is gentle. And very calm.

LUKE: It is my destiny. To try to... undo a great wrong.

LEIA: What kind of an answer is that?

LUKE: Leia, I've learned a terrible truth, several truths. Vader is my father.

LEIA: (disbelieving) Your father?

LUKE: There's more. It won't be easy for you to hear it, but you must. If I don't make it back, you're the only hope for the Alliance.

Leia is very disturbed by this. She moves away, as if to deny it.

LEIA: Luke, don't talk that way. You have a power I... I don't understand and could never have.

LUKE: You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force is strong in my family. My father has it... I have it... and... my sister has it.

Leia stares into his eyes. What she sees there frightens her. But she doesn't draw away. She begins to understand.

LUKE: Yes. It's you Leia.

LEIA: I know. Somehow... I've always known.

LUKE: Then you know why I have to face him.

LEIA: No! Luke, run away, far away. If he can feel your presence, then leave this place. I wish I could go with you.

LUKE: No, you don't. You've always been strong, committed. Like our mother Padme.

LEIA: But, why must you confront him?

Leia holds her brother close.

LUKE: Because...there is good in him. I've felt it. Obi-Wan cannot see it. He cannot see beyond Vader's armour. Vader won't turn me over to the Emperor. I can save him. I can turn him back to the good side. I have to try.

LEIA: (incredulous) But Obi-Wan is dead.

LUKE: His spirit lives.

LEIA: This is too much to take in. (considering) Why doesn't Obi-Wan help us.

LUKE: His essence resides in the netherworld of the Force. He cannot aid me in my battle with the Sith Emperor.

LEIA: But Vader is no better than the Emperor. Luke, what if the Sith turn you to the Dark Side?

The unthinkable notion hangs in the night air. Leia fails to hold back her tears. Luke slowly lets her go and moves away. He disappears into the night.

 
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Date Posted: 9/17 6:16am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
EXT: FOREST - IMPERIAL LANDING PLATFORM

The forest is shrouded in dark, creatures of the night shriek in the gloom. An Imperial shuttle lands gracefully on a huge platform, just as an Imperial walker approaches.

EXT: IMPERIAL LANDING PLATFORM - LOWER DECK

Darth Vader enters the lower deck. The door of the Imperial walker opens and two troopers and a commander step out with their captive - Luke Skywalker. The young Jedi, his hands in binders, gazes at Vader.

COMMANDER: This is a Rebel that surrendered to us. Although he denies it, I believe there may be more of them, and I request permission to conduct a further search of the area.

The commander hands Luke's lightsaber to Vader.

COMMANDER: He was armed only with this.

VADER: Good work, Commander. Leave us. Conduct your search and bring his rebel associates to me.

COMMANDER: Yes, my Lord.

The officer and troops leave. Vader and Luke are alone.

VADER: The Emperor has been expecting you.

LUKE: I know, father.

VADER: So, you have accepted the truth.

LURE: I've accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father.

VADER: (turns on Luke angrily) That name no longer has any meaning for me.

LUKE: It is the name of your true self - a Jedi. You cannot deny it. I know there is good in you. The Emperor hasn't driven it from you fully. That is why you couldn't destroy me. That's why you won't take me to Palpatine.

Vader looks down at the lightsaber in his black-gloved hand.

VADER: I see you have constructed a new lightsaber.

Vader ignites the lightsaber, peering at its brilliant green blade. In the quiet of the platform, in Vader's hand, the laser hums with a menacing ferocity.

VADER: Indeed, your Jedi skills have grown. You are a threat to the Emperor.

Vader extinguishes the lightsaber, the quiet returns, quiet filled with emotions.

LUKE: Come with me.

VADER: Obi-Wan once thought as you do.

Luke steps close to Vader, then stops. Vader is still.

VADER: (resolutely) You don't know the power of the Dark Side. I must obey its voice.

LUKE: What of your inner voice, what of the voices from the past that belonged to those that once cared for you: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan... and Padme.

VADER: The past is no more.

LUKE: Feelings endure. I will not turn... and you will be forced to kill me.

VADER: If that is your destiny.

LUKE: Search your feelings, father. You can't do this. I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate.

VADER: It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now.

Vader signals to some distant stormtroopers. He and Luke stand staring at one another for a long moment.

LUKE: Then my father is truly dead.

EXT: ENDOR - RIDGE OVERLOOKING SHIELD GENERATOR

The rebel strike force arrive at a grassy ridge overlooking the massive Imperial shield generator. Han, with Leis at his side, studies the layout. At the base of the generator is an Imperial landing platform. On the left is a formidable bunker -- the main entrance to the base. Four armed Imperial troops guard the entrance, their speeder bikes parked nearby, keep watch over the bunker entrance.

HAN: Well according to our entranced friend, the rear entrance to the control bunker is on the far side of that landing platform. We'll swing around.

Han retreats from the ridge and the strike team follows.

EXT: SPACE - REBEL FLEET

The vast fleet hangs in space near a blue planet. The Millennium Flacon, the Rebel talisman, Gold Leader of a team of fighters, leads from the front.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando is in the pilot seat. The co-pilot is Nien Nunb. Lando speaks into his comlink.

LANDO: Admiral, we're in position. All fighters accounted for.

ACKBAR: (VO) Proceed with the countdown. All groups assume attack coordinates.

The co-pilot flips some switches and grunts an alien comment.

ACKBAR: (VO) All craft, prepare to jump to hyperspace on my mark. (pause) Engage!

Lando pulls a lever, and the stars outside streak into infinity.

EXT: SPACE - REBEL FLEET

The Millennium Falcon, Ackbar's Star Cruisers and dozens of X-wing and Y-wing fighters disappear into Hyperspace.

EXT: ENDOR - RIDGE OVERLOOKING CONTROL BUNKER

Han and his squad emerges from thick undergrowth. They hug the ground. Just a feet away is the rear bunker. A lone trooper guards the sealed door.

HAN: Just one guard.

LEIA: It only takes one to sound the alarm.

HAN: (with a sly grin) I'll watch out for twigs this time.

EXT: REAR BUNKER - ENTRANCE

Han sneaks up behind the stormtrooper, taps him on the shoulder and lets the trooper chase him behind the bunker into the arms of the waiting Rebel strike team. The captive is bound and gagged. Han returns to the front, and punches the entry code into a panel. The door opens. Han and Leia peek inside and see that all is clear.

HAN: Chewie you stay behind. Keep out of sight but keep a look out. The droids too.

THREEPIO: A wise decision.

With stealth the rebel force enter the bunker.

INT: DEATH STAR - EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM

The elevator opens into an eerie throne room, Imperial guards stand rigid. Vader and Luke enter the room. They walk across the dark space to stand before the throne, father and son side by side beneath the gaze of the Emperor. Vader bows to his Master.

EMPEROR: Welcome, young Skywalker. I have been expecting you.

Luke peers at the hooded figure defiantly. The Emperor looks down at Luke's binders.

EMPEROR: You no longer need those.

The Emperor motions his wrist and the binders fall away, clattering to the floor.

EMPEROR: Guards, leave us.

The red-cloaked guards leave.

EMPEROR: (to Luke) I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time you will call me Master.

LUKE: You're gravely mistaken. You won't convert me as you did my father.

The Emperor rises from his throne and walks up to Luke. The Sith peers down at Luke, yellow eyes aglow with evil.

EMPEROR: Oh, no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken...about a great many things.

VADER: His lightsaber.

Vader offers Luke's lightsaber to his master. The Emperor takes it.

EMPEROR: Ah, yes, a Jedi's weapon. Much like your father's. By now you must know your father can never be turned from the dark side. So will it be with you.

LUKE: You're wrong. Soon I'll be dead...and you with me.

The Emperor cackles.

EMPEROR: Perhaps you refer to the imminent attack of your Rebel fleet.

Luke looks up sharply.

EMPEROR: (gleefully) I assure you we are quite safe from your friends here.

Vader looks at Luke. Luke looks at the Emperor.

LUKE: Your overconfidence is your weakness.

EMPEROR: Your faith in your friends is yours.

VADER: It is pointless to resist, my son.

EMPEROR: Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. (indicates Endor) Your friends up there on the Sanctuary Moon are walking into a trap. As is your Rebel fleet! It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them.

Luke is enraged. He turns from the Emperor to Vader and, finally, to the sword in the Emperor's hand.

EMPEROR: (mockingly) Oh... I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

INT: BUNKER - MAIN CONTROL ROOM

Han, Leia, Teymor and the Rebel troops storm through a door and enter the control room. They order the controllers away from their stations. They plant explosive charges on the control panels. Leia glances at one of the panel screens.

LEIA: Han! Hurry! The fleet will be here any moment.

HAN: (to one of his men) Throw me another charge. Come on! Quickly! Quickly!

Han sets the charges on time-delay. Marching the controllers ahead, the Rebels make their escape.

EXT: SPACE - ENDOR, DEATH STAR, REBEL FLEET

The Rebel fleet comes out of Hyperspace with a great roar. The Millennium Falcon and the fighters bear down on the Death Star.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando flips a s switch, checks his screen, and speaks into the radio.

LANDO: All wings report in.

WEDGE: Red Leader standing by.

GRAY LEADER: Gray Leader standing by.

GREEN LEADER: Green Leader standing by.

WEDGE: Lock S-foils in attack positions.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

Seated in his command chair by an observation window on the bridge of the Rebel Star Cruiser, Admiral Ackbar speaks for the Alliance.

ACKBAR: May the Force be with us.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando confers with his co-pilot, who points to the control panel.

LANDO: We've got to be able to get some kind of a reading on that shield, up or down. Well, how could they be jamming us if they don't know if we're… coming.

Lando looks worriedly at the rapidly approaching Death Star. He yells into the comlink.

LANDO: Break off the attack! The shield is still up.

RED LEADER: (VO) I get no reading. Are you sure?

LANDO: Pull up! All craft pull up!

The Falcon turns hard to the left.

EXT: SPACE - DEATH STAR SHIELD

The Falcon and the fighters of Red Squad veer off to avoid the unseen energy wall. Two of the fighters, failing to act in time, perish in fiery explosions.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

Alarms are screaming, lights flashing as the huge command ship tries to halt its forward momentum, threatening a pile up with the other ships of the fleet.

ACKBAR: Take evasive action! Green Group, stick close to holding sector MV-7.

A Mon Calamari controller turns from his screen and yells to Ackbar.

CONTROLLER: (excitedly) Admiral, we have enemy ships in sector 47.

On the screen can be seen the moon, Death Star, and the incoming Imperial fleet.

ACKBAR: It's a trap!

LANDO: (over comlink) Fighters coming in.

EXT: SPACE

The Millennium Falcon and the Rebel fighters are engulfed by a swarm of TIE fighters. But the enemy fighters ignore their counterparts and strike at the cruisers..

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

REBEL PILOT: (VO) There's too many of them!

LANDO: Accelerate to attack speed! Draw their fire away from the cruisers.

WEDGE: (VO) Copy, Gold Leader.

Fiery dogfights ensue around the giant cruisers.

INT: DEATH STAR - EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM

The Emperor sits imperiously on his throne, Vader stands beside. Through the round window can be seen the distant flashes of the space battle.

EMPEROR: (beckoning Luke) Come, boy. See for yourself.

Luke moves forward, peering through a small section of the window, appalled at what he sees..

EMPEROR: From here you will witness the final destruction of the Alliance, and the end of your insignificant Rebellion.

Luke is in torment. He glances at his lightsaber sitting on the armrest of the throne. The Emperor watches him and smiles, touches the lightsaber.

EMPEROR: You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you make yourself more my servant.

Vader watches Luke in his agony.

LUKE: No!

EMPEROR: It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father, are now mine!

INT: REAR BUNKER

Han and Leia and the rest of the strike team are nearly at the rear bunker exit. Suddenly there is a laser blast from behind, then two more in rapid succession. Han spins around to see three of his men falling to the floor dead - shot in the back. Teymor holds the murder weapon. Before Han can react the Rebel party is surrounded by Imperial troops, weapons trained on them.

BUNKER COMMANDER: Drop your weapons!

HAN: (sensing their desperate situation) Do as they say.

The Rebels drop their guns. Han holds Leia close to him.

BUNKER COMMANDER: (speaking in comlink) Have you de-activated the explosives.

TROOPER (V/O): Yes Sir.

BUNKER COMMANDER: Then inform central command. (turning to Teymor) Good work Teymor.

TEYMOR: (to the Commander) The Wookie is still on the loose.

BUNKER COMMANDER: Not for long. (speaking to troop leader). Take these scum over to the prison compound. Lock them in the cells. Then hunt down that Wookie. I want his pelt and scalp.

HAN: (facing Teymor, angry eyes blazing) Traitor!

TEYMOR: No Captain Solo. I was never on your side.

BUNKER COMMANDER: ((to the captured Rebels) All right, move it! I said move it!

The Rebels are forced out of the bunker at gunpoint.

EXT: REAR BUNKER

The surrounding area, deserted before, is now crowded with two-legged Imperial walkers and hundreds of stormtroopers, blasters ready to blast.

EXT: FOREST UNDERGROWTH

From a distance, Chewie and the droids observe the captured Rebels being led away by stormtroopers.

THREEPIO: Oh My!

Chewie raises his weapon and aims at the storm troopers.

THREEPIO: There are too many Chewbacca.

Chewie is undeterred, even if the act of firing leads to his own death. He is just about to fire when a Ceele lands beside the group, squeaking excitedly. The Ceele flies in front of the Wookie's rifle.

THREEPIO: I think he has another idea.

 
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laserwriter 
Registered: Sep '08
Date Posted: 9/17 6:47am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
INT: MILLENIUM FALCON COCKPIT

The battle is intensifying. Lando blows up a TIE fighter then looks up at the impregnable Death Star.

LANDO: (to himself) Han, where are you?

INT: PRISON ROOM

The windowless room has thick walls. All the surviving rebels: Han, Lea and four men, have been placed in the one holding cell. Stromtroopers stand guard beyond the bars. On a computer screen the battle over Endor plays out: small ships exploding, ferocious cluster blasts, the Death Star shield powered on. Leia looks up at Han.

LEIA: Now what?

HAN: I'm working on it.

The door of the prison room opens. A fully armoured bounty hunter enters - Boba Fett. Fett walks up to Han and slowly takes off his helmet, revealing the face of Teymor (and a weathered face identical to his late father Jango).

BOBA FETT: You fell so easily into my trap. As you see the real Boba Fett is very much alive. It was a clone that I shot on Tatooine. (smirking) You have proved highly profitable for me Captain Solo. But this is the end of our association.

HAN SOLO: Don't count on it.

LEIA: What is the truth about Emolin 5.

BOBA FETT: They were fools! Fools who did not know their place in the Universe. You rebels have made the same error. It will cost you your lives. Goodbye Princess. Goodbye Captain.

Han scowls at the Bounty hunter as he leaves the prison room.

EXT: FOREST

Imperial troops swarm over the area. From behind a massive tree a familiar droid voice…

THREEPIO: Hello! I say, over there! Were you looking for me?

Artoo whistles loudly. The two droids come into view.

COMMANDER: (to his troops) Bring those two down here!

Six Imperial storm troopers, their weapons raised, rush over to the droids, who make no attempt to flee.

THREEPIO: (nervously) Well, they're on their way.

STORMTROOPER: Freeze! Don't move!

THREEPIO: We surrender.

Just as the Imperial troops capture Threepio and Artoo, an influx of Ceeles overwhelm them. The winged creatures snatch the guns from their hands.

More Ceeles - hundreds and hundreds of winged angels - target the army of stormtroopers in a co-ordinated attack, knocking them over, relieving them of their weapons, then flying off.

Confusion reigns on all Imperial fronts. The awesome two-legged walkers fire at the Ceeles, hopelessly missing them. Biker scouts dart about blasting at the flying Ceeles, hitting empty space. The Ceeles knock them off their speeders.

THREEPIO: Oh, My!

EXT: SPACE

Space is a deadly battleground. Dogfights in every direction. The fighters weave through the large ships. The Falcon picks off two Tie fighters.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON, REBEL FIGHTER COCKPITS

LANDO: Watch yourself, Wedge! Three from above!

WEDGE: Red Three, Red Two, pull in!

RED TWO: Got it!

RED THREE: Three of them coming in, twenty degrees!

WEDGE: Cut to the left! I'll take the leader! They're heading for the medical frigate.

Lando tail-chases the rear TIE's, as his crew fires at the fighters from the belly guns.

LANDO: Only the fighters are attacking. I wonder what those Star Destroyers are waiting for.

EXT: SPACE - IMPERIAL FLEET

The giant Imperial Star Destroyer waits silently some distance from the battle, surrounded by other destroyers.

INT: SUPER STAR DESTROYER - BRIDGE

Admiral Piett and two fleet commanders watch the battle at the huge window of the Super Star Destroyer bridge.

COMMANDER: We're in attack position now, sir.

PIETT: Hold here.

COMMANDER: We're not going to attack?

PIETT: I have my orders from the Emperor himself. He has something special planned for them. We only need to keep them from escaping.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

The Emperor, Vader, and a horrified Luke watch the deadly fireworks out the window. Another Rebel ship explodes against the protective shield.

EMPEROR: As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station. (into comlink) Fire at will, Commander.

Luke, in shock, looks out from the Death Star to the Rebel fleet beyond.

INT: DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM

Controllers pull back on several switches. Commander Jerjerrod stands over them.

JERJERROD: Fire!

INT: DEATH STAR - BLAST CHAMBER

A controller reaches overhead and pulls a lever..

EXT: DEATH STAR

The giant laser dish on the completed half of the Death Star begins to glow. Suddenly a powerful beams shoots out toward the aerial battle.

EXT: SPACE

A Rebel cruiser is hit by the Death Star beam and explodes in a fireball.

The shockwaves rattle the Millennium Falcon.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Everything shudders.

LANDO: That blast came from the Death Star! That thing's operational! (into comlink) Home One, this is Gold Leader.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

Ackbar and other Mon Calamari lean on the railing of the bridge, watching the large screen showing the Death Star in the main briefing room.

Ackbar stands amid the confusion on the wide bridge and speaks into the comlink.

ACKBAR: We saw it. All craft prepare to retreat.

LANDO: They won't get another chance at this, Admiral.

ACKBAR: We have no choice, Captain Calrissian. Our cruisers can't repel firepower of that magnitude.

LANDO: Han will have that shield down. We've got to give him more time.

EXT: FOREST

The battle rages on. Stormtroopers, those not disarmed, fire on the Ceele. A walker marches through the undergrowth blasting away at the elusive creatures, hitting trees and undergrowth.

Chewie, high up in a tree, swings on a vine to the roof of one of the walkers, landing with a thud on the top of the lurching machine.

INT: IMPERIAL WALKER

WALKER PILOT #1: What was that!

PILOT #2: Shoot it off, whatever it is!

The walker pilot opens the hatch, blaster at the ready. He is yanked out and tossed overboard, screaming as he falls. Chewie jumps inside, knocking the second pilot unconscious. The walker lurches dangerously until the Wookie gets it under control.

Chewie now navigates the walker through the forest, firing laser blasts at unsuspecting stormtroopers, and destroying other Imperial walkers. He heads for the Imperial Base.

EXT: SPACE - DEATH STAR

Another Rebel cruiser is destroyed by the Death Star's deadly beam. The exploding debris become deadly projectiles that hurling into other ships.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando steers the Falcon toward a Star Destroyer, chased by TIE fighters. He yells into the comlink.

LANDO: Yes! I said closer! Move as close as you can and engage those Star Destroyers at point-blank range.

ACKBAR: At that close range, we won't last long against those Star Destroyers.

LANDO: We'll last longer then we will against that Death Star...and we might just take a few of them with us.

The Rebel cruisers move very close to the Imperial Star Destroyers and begin to blast away at point-blank range. There are blinding explosions of light. In the vastness of the battle a little Rebel fighter is hit.

INT: Y-WING COCKPIT

REBEL PILOT: She's gonna blow!

EXT: SPACE - DEATH STAR

The damaged Y-wing slams into the side of a Star Destroyer, and is no more.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

From the window of the throne room it is clear that the Rebel fleet is being decimated. But in here there is no sound of battle. The Emperor turns to Luke.

EMPEROR: Your fleet has lost. And your friends on the Endor moon will not survive. There is no escape, my young apprentice. The Alliance will die... as will your friends.

Luke's eyes are full of rage. Vader watches him.

EMPEROR: Good. I can feel your anger. I am defenceless. Take your weapon! Strike me down with all your hatred, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete.

Luke can resist no longer. The lightsaber flies into his hand. He ignites it and swings at the Emperor. Vader's lightsaber flashes into view, blocking Luke's strike. The two blades spark at contact. Luke is now forced to battle his father.

EXT: ENDOR - IMPERIAL BASE

Chewie's walker lurches over the roof of the rear bunker and toward the Imperial base. He enters the base - blasting at walls, kicking over rubble - searching for Han. The Ceeles aid that search. They fly through the base, entering chambers and rooms. They discover the prison compound and signal high-pitched squawks to other Ceeles.

INT: IMPERIAL BASE - MAIN CONTROL ROOM

Controllers watch the main viewscreen on which the renegade Imperial walker is wrecking havoc.

CONTROL ROOM COMMANDER: Send all squads to stop that walker.

INT: PRISON ROOM - IMPERIAL BASE

The stormtroopers guarding Han and the others receive their orders to join the battle.

HAN: Something's up.

EXT: IMPERIAL BASE

The creatures lead Chewie's way. The Wookie comes across a group of Stormtroopers, he blasts them away like skittles. He blasts at the walls of the prison compound. The wall collapses in a heap of rubble.

The mist clears. Han and Leia looks up to see an upstanding Imperial walker. The top hatch creaks open and Chewie sticks his furry head out, barking triumphantly.

HAN: Chewie! What kept you.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

Luke and Vader are engaged in a ferocious duel. Since his defeat on Bespin, the young Jedi is stronger, more skilful. He forces Vader back. Vader loses his balance. Luke kicks his armoured chest, knocking him down the stairs. Luke stands at the top of the stairs, ready to fight on.

EMPEROR: Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy! Let the hate flow through you.

Luke looks over at the Emperor, then back to Vader, realizing that he is using the Dark Side. He steps back, turns off his lightsaber, and relaxes, driving the hate from his being.

VADER: Obi-Wan has taught you well.

LUKE: I will not fight you, father.

Vader walks back up the stairs to Luke.

VADER: You are unwise to lower your defences…

Suddenly Vader attacks, forcing Luke on the defensive. They trade saber blows. The young Jedi leaps into the air: an amazing reverse flip, and lands on the catwalk overhead. Vader stands below him, breathing heavily.

LUKE: Your thoughts betray you, father. I feel the good in you.. the conflict.

VADER: There is no conflict.

LUKE: You couldn't bring yourself to kill me before, and I don't believe you'll destroy me now.

VADER: You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny.

Vader hurls his red laser sword toward Luke. The blade misses Luke but cuts through the supports holding the catwalk. Luke tumbles to the ground in a shower of sparks and rolls out of sight under the Emperor's platform. Vader's lightsaber returns to his grasp and the Dark lord moves in.

EMPEROR: (laughs) Good. Good.

EXT: SPACE - AIR BATTLE

The two armadas blast away at each other. A Star Destroyer explodes. A Rebel cruiser implodes. Small fighters veer around the debris engaged in a furious dog fights.

The Falcon and several fighters attack one of the larger Imperial ships.

LANDO: Watch out. Squad at .06.

REBEL PILOT: I'm on it, Gold Leader.

WEDGE: Good shot, Red Two.

LANDO: Now... come on, Han, old buddy. Don't let me down.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

Vader stalks the low-ceilinged area on the level below the throne, searching for Luke in the semi-darkness, his lightsaber held ready.

VADER: You cannot hide forever, Luke.

LUKE: I will not fight you.

VADER: Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for...

Vader senses something. Luke shuts his eyes tightly, in anguish.

VADER: (astonished) Sister! So... you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side, then perhaps she will.

LUKE: (screaming) Never-r-r!

Luke ignites his lightsaber and rushes at Vader in a furious frenzy of strikes. Sabers crash, sparks fly. Luke's hatred forces Vader to retreat out of the low area and across a bridge overlooking a vast elevator shaft. The assault is unrelenting. The Dark Lord is knocked to his knees and Luke slashes his right hand off at the wrist, exposing the inner mechanics. Vader's sword clatters to the ground. Luke stand over Vader, holds the blade of his saber to the vanquished Sith's throat. The Emperor watches with great delight.

EMPEROR: Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfil your destiny and take your father's place at my side!

Luke looks at the mechanical stump that was his father's hand, then to his own mechanical, black-gloved hand, and realizes how much he is becoming like his father. He makes the decision for which he has spent a lifetime in preparation. Luke turns off his sabre and steps away from Vader.

LUKE: Never! I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed, Your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

The Emperor's glee turns to rage.

EMPEROR: So be it...Jedi.

EXT: IMPERIAL BASE

The walker commandeered by Han and Chewie makes for the huge shield-generator radar dish.

EXT: RADAR DISH

Now within range of the target Han fires at the large shield-generator radar dish. It explodes in a fireball. The shock wave almost knocks over the walker.

INT: WALKER

HAN: Mission accomplished.

Chewie growls.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

ACKBAR: The shield is down! Commence attack on the Death Star's main reactor.

INT: MILLENIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

LANDO: We're on our way. Red Group, Gold Group, all fighters follow me. (laughs) Told you they'd do it!

The Falcon, followed by several smaller Rebel fighters, heads toward the Death Star.

EXT: DEATH STAR

Rebel fighters follow the Falcon across the surface of the Death Star to the unfinished portion, where they dive into the super-structure of the giant battle station, followed by many TIE fighters.

WEDGE: I'm going in.

LANDO: Here goes nothing.

Three X-wings lead the chase through the ever-narrowing shaft, followed by the Falcon and four other fighters, plus TIE fighters who continually fire at the Rebels. Lights reflect off the pilot's faces as they race through the dark shaft.

LANDO: Now lock onto the strongest power source. It should be the power generator.

WEDGE: Form up. And stay alert. We could run out of space real fast.

The fighters and the Falcon race through the tunnel, still pursued by the TIE fighters. One of the X-wings is hit from behind and explodes.

LANDO: Split up and head back to the surface. See if you can get a few of those TIE fighters to follow you.

PILOT: Copy, Gold Leader.

The Rebel ships peel off pursued by three of the TIE's, while Lando and Wedge continue through the main tunnel. It narrows, and the Falcon scrapes the side dangerously. Two other TIE fighters continue to blast away at them.

LANDO: That was too close.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

The Emperor walks towards Luke, angered by the young Jedi's resistance and the knowledge that the Death Star shield has been removed.

The Emperor's comlink buzzes.

COMMANDER (VO) Your Highness! The Rebels have managed to destroy the deflector shield.

EMPEROR: Yes, I know. Carry out the contingency plan. Annihilate them.

VOICE: Yes, my lord.

Luke's eyes register the horror of the Emperor's orders.

EMPEROR: (aggressively to Luke) Your rebel friends on Endor have sealed their doom, as you have sealed yours.

INT: WALKER

Through the view hatch of the advancing walker a figure stands in the way. It is Boba Fett.

 
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Date Posted: 9/17 8:05am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
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Date Posted: 9/18 8:01am Subject: Redemption of the Jedi (an alternate ROTJ: no Ewoks and a starring role for Boba Fett)
Well this is the conclusion. Thanks LittleMissNightsaber for the interest. Hope I have not made too many errors. These Star-Warsian names are a devil to spell.


INT: WALKER - COCKPIT

Through the view slit of the advancing walker we see a figure standing in the way. It is Boba Fett.

HAN: Run him down!

EXT: IMPERIAL BASE

The bounty hunter engages his rocket pack and flies at the walker, landing on its exterior hull.
Fett fires into the view slit.

INT: WALKER - COCKPIT

Chewie is struck a glancing blow..

HAN: Chewie, are you hurt?

The Wookiee howls in pain, then falls unconscious. Angered, Han picks up a blaster and opens the top hatch. He climbs up. No one is at the controls -- the walker is a runaway.

EXT: WALKER

Suddenly, Fett attacks, kicking the blaster out of Han's hand, then striking him in the face. Han grabs Fett's leg, pulls him down. The two wrestle atop the lurching walker. Fett hurls Han over his shoulder, fires a cable, it wraps itself around Han. Han is now at the bounty hunter's mercy.

Calmly the bounty hunter raises his blaster and fires at Han at point blank range. In that instant the advancing walker lurches to the left, the blast just misses Han. Boba Fett aims again.

BOBA FETT: Death to you Solo...

Just as he is about to fire an overhead beam strikes the bounty hunter, hurling him from the top of the walker. He slides over the front. He is kicked forward by one of the walker's legs and then the mechanical beast steps on him, crushing him to death. But as a consequence the walker loses its footing. Seeing that the walker is about to topple over, Han dives into the cockpit.

The walker crashes to the ground, its armaments crushed, but its legs flailing about. Though lying on his side, and on top of Chewie, Han manages to get his bearings. He de-activates the walker. Han sees that Chewie is now coming around.

HAN: Chewie, are you O.K?

Chewie answers in a weary growl, as if to say 'I'll live'. The wound in his side is bleeding. With a great effort, Han pulls Chewie out of the fallen walker and collapses in exhaustion.

EXT: SPACE

All around the Death Star the battle rages. Knowing that the Death Star shield is deactivated the Imperial fleet intensifies its attack on the Rebel armada.

EXT: IMPERIAL BASE

Leia has caught up with Han, who is sitting on the fallen walker looking up at the smouldering remnants of an Imperial radar dish - visibly battered from his fight with a deceased bounty hunter.

LEIA: What happened?

HAN: (wryly) We must have trod on something.

LEIA: Well the shield is down. Now the Alliance has a chance.

Han looks up at the Death Star.

HAN: Oh no!

LEIA: What is it?

HAN: The Death Star is turning on us. We've only got a few minutes before they fire and kill everything on this planet. Unless…

Han's eye catches sight of a TIE fighter on a nearby landing platform.

HAN: I have an idea. I can set the Ion drive on that TIE Fighter to self destruct.

LEIA: (incredulous) The Death Star!

HAN: I can fly into the interior, into the heart of the reactor.

LEIA: No, Han! It's a suicide mission.

HAN: We're going to die anyway. It's the only way to save you and Chewie. Leia let me do it, or else more planets will suffer the same fate as Alderaan. Do you want that?

LEIA: (proudly) I love you!

Han Kisses Leis on the lips. He gets up and limps up a stairway to the platform. He opens the hatch of the TIE Fighter and gets inside.

INT: TIE FIGHTER - COCKPIT

Han closes the hatch and, after an agonizing delay when he locates the start button, fires up the engine. Han flies upward.

INT: IMPERIAL BASE

Leia watches the rising TIE fighter, tears in her eyes.

INT: EMPEROR'S TOWER - THRONE ROOM

The Emperor walks towards Luke, his face scowled in anger.

Luke stands his ground.

EMPEROR: (raising his hands like weapons) If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed.

Blinding bolts of energy, evil lightning, shoot from the Emperor's hands at Luke. The young Jedi ignites his lightsaber just in time, the blue blade absorbs the ferocious bolts. The Emperor approaches Luke.

EMPEROR: That has been tried once before.

The Emperor ceases his attack. It is a ruse. Suddenly Palpatine Force-pushes Lukes's lightsaber from his hand, it clatters into the wall behind. The young Jedi is now defenceless

The Emperor expels his Dark Force lightening. The paralyzing bolts of energy strike at Luke, the young Jedi shudders and reels. His knees buckle, and he falls to the floor, dangerously close to the edge of a bottomless pit. The Emperor continues his attack on Luke who screams like a wounded animal. And the wounded Vader struggles to his feet. He moves to stand at his master's side.

EMPEROR: Young fool... only now, at the end, do you understand.

EXT: DEATH STAR

Lando and his fighter squad re-emerge from the Death Star.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

The Mon Calamari bridge controller calls out to Ackbar.

CONTROLLER: Admiral! The Death Star is preparing to fire on Endor!

ACKBAR: (shouting into comlink) All ships disengage! The Death Star is turning on the forest Moon! All craft prepare to retreat!

LANDO: (VO) But Admiral, the shield is down!

ACKBAR: I know, Captain Calrissian, but the Death Star is- (interrupted by static as a TIE fighter crashes into the cruiser) All craft meet at Rendezvous Point Delta-Blue!"

LANDO: (VO) We'll never get another shot at that thing.

ACKBAR: Captain Calrissian, we'll never be able to navigate the debris if Endor is destroyed! This battle is hopeless!

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

LANDO: Not if we get it before it get's us! You can run to your rendezvous point if you want, but I'm through running! It's time we end this while we still have the chance, Admiral! Who's with me?

WEDGE: (VO) I'm with you, Boss.

PILOT 1: (VO) Count me in.

PILOT 2: (VO) I'm with you, Gold Leader.

ACKBAR: (VO) Very well Captain... (to himself) May the Force help us all... (over comlink) Recommence attack on the main reactor! Red Group, Gold Group, work your way into the superstructure! All others, concentrate fire on that Super Star Destroyer.

INT: DEATH STAR

The trailblazing Millennium Falcon flies across the surface of the huge space station followed by the loyal X-Wings. Once again they fly into the superstructure.

INT: SUPER STAR DESTROYER - BRIDGE

Several rebel cruisers are firing at the giant Super Star Destroyer. Admiral Piett and a commander stand at the window, looking out to the battle scene. They look concerned.

CONTROLLER: Sir, we've lost our bridge deflector shield.

PIETT: Intensify the forward batteries. I don't want anything to get through.

The commander is looking out of the window where a damaged Rebel fighter is out of control and heading directly toward the bridge.

PIETT: (shouting) Intensify forward firepower!

COMMANDER: It's too late!

INT: X-WING - COCKPIT

The Rebel pilot screams as his ship hits the Star Destroyer.

EXT: SUPER STAR DESTROYER

The bridge explodes. The giant battleship is out of control, veering toward the Death Star. Suddenly, cataclysmically the Super Star Destroyer explodes.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER - BRIDGE

The bridge personnel cheer as the giant Star Destroyer blows up. Ackbar breathes a momentary sigh of relief.

INT: EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM

Luke is almost unconscious from the Emperor's merciless assault. The Sith lightning tears through his body.

EMPEROR: Your Jedi skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side. You have paid the price for your lack of vision.

Luke writhes on the floor in unbearable pain, reaching weakly up toward Vader.

LUKE: (screaming to be heard over the tormenting bolts) Father, please. Help me.

Vader stands still, watching Luke. He looks at his master, the Emperor, then back to Luke on the floor.

EMPEROR: Now, young Skywalker...you will die.

Although it would not have seemed possible, the outpouring of bolts from the Emperor's fingers and into Luke's body increase in intensity.

Vader senses the life force ebbing from his son. The conflict within him reaches a turning point. The will is regained. Vader grabs the Emperor from behind, struggling to hold him with his one good arm. The Emperor tries to extricate himself from the violent embrace, to repel Vader. Vader clings on. The two robed figures whirl around the throne room like a tempest.

The Emperor manages to release one hand. He shoots bolts into Vader's chest. The blue lightening turns from blue to white, devastating bolts searing through Vader's human heart. Sparks rain off his helmet and flow down over his black cape. Vader summons all his strength - Jedi strength.

Luke watches, enfeebled, as Vader holds Palpatine over his head and walks to the edge of the pit. Vader's strength deserts him at the last moment. The Emperor wrenches himself away. But the Emperor is also weakened.

Luke staggers to the side of Vader and helps his father to his feet.

LUKE: Father. We can defeat him.

Vader glances up at Luke and then at the Emperor, who is also working his way to his feet.

VADER: (repeating softly) We can defeat him.

Luke nods, outstretching his hand. Vader's saber flies up to it. He then hands it to Vader's remaining hand. He calls his own sabre to his hand.

LUKE:(igniting his lightsaber) Together!

The Emperor has got to his feet. Vader ignites his saber and joins Luke in facing the Emperor.

EMPEROR: (regaining his strength) You fools. Do you really believe yourselves to be any match for my power?

A volley of furious lightning erupts from the Emperor's hands. But against two Jedi, it is less effective. The allies advance on Palpatine, The master of the Dark Side finds himself backed against a railing, overlooking the pit. His dark energy is dwindling. In a synchronous move, father and son strike at the cowering Emperor.

Vader force-pushes the Emperor over the railing. The body tumbles helplessly into the abyss. Finally, it explodes, creating an up-rush of air. Vader's cape is whipped by the wind. He staggers and collapses. Luke crawls to his father's side, pulling him away from the edge of the abyss. The room rumbles from explosions.

INT: DEATH STAR - CORE

Han's stolen TIE fighter enters the Core of the Death Star. It is awesome. The little ship approaches the main reactor, where two power globes meet.

INT: TIE FIGHTER - COCKPIT

Han sets the Ion engine to overload. The control flashes red. Han gulps nervously, knowing that he has not long to live.

EXT: DEATH STAR

The Rebel Star Cruisers outside continually bombard the huge station.

INT: DEATH STAR INTERIOR

The Millennium Falcon leads a swerving bomb run through the perilous superstructure of the half-built Death Star. One of the pursuing TIE fighter snags a corner and perishes in an explosion that also claims one of the X-Wings.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUN PORTS

Lando's gunners crew fire at the last TIE fighter on their tail. It explodes into nothingness.

INT: DEATH STAR - CORE

The dashing Baron of Bespin flies the Falcon into the Death Star's Core. Wedge's X-wing follows on.

INT: THE FALCON & WEDGE'S X-WING COCKPITS

WEDGE: There it is!

LANDO: All right, Wedge. Go for the power regulator on... wait -- what's that?

WEDGE: Looks like a sentry TIE, Gold Leader. I'll take it out.

HAN: (VO) If you do you'll blow us all to kingdom come.

Lando and Wedge recognise the unmistakeable voice of Han Solo.

LANDO: Han, what are doing here?

INT: TIE FIGHTER - COCKPIT

HAN: I'm improvising. I've got this ion-drive on self-destruct.

LANDO: (VO) We'll get you out of there, and kill two ducks with one squib.

HAN: Hurry.

INT: DEATH STAR REACTOR

The X-wing, piloted by Wedge Antilles, circles the huge reactor on point duty. The Falcon heads for the small TIE fighter that is dwarfed by the fearsome main reactor.

INT: TIE FIGHTER

The console is blaring a warning signal. The ion drive could explode at any moment. Han puts on a air-helmet and opens the door into space. He propels himself forward, floating to the Falcon.

EXT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - HULL

Han grasps at the exterior of the Falcon.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

LANDO: (on a comlink to the gunners) One of you men, find a helmet and open the top hatch. Nien, inform the Admiral the Death Star is going to blow any second.

EXT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - HULL

Han reaches the ship. A top hatch opens and Han is helped inside and is once more the Captain of the Millennium Falcon.

INT: REBEL STAR CRUISER HQ - BRIDGE

Ackbar receives Nien Nunb's warning.

ACKBAR: Move the fleet away from the Death Star.

INT: DEATH STAR - MAIN DOCKING BAY

The Death Star is rocked by explosions as the Rebel fleet unload a heavy barrage. Imperial troops run around chaotically.

In the midst of this uproar, Luke drags the body of his father toward an Imperial shuttle. Luke collapses from the strain. The explosions cease as Vader draws him closer.

VADER: (a whisper) Luke, help me take this mask off.

LUKE: But you'll die.

VADER: Nothing can stop that now. Just for once... let me look on you with my own eyes.

Slowly, hesitantly, Luke removes the mask from his father's face. There beneath the scars is an elderly man. His eyes do not focus. But the dying man smiles at the sight before him.

ANAKIN: (very weak) Now... go, my son. Leave me.

LUKE: No. You're coming with me. I can't leave you here. I've got to save you.

ANAKIN: You already have, Luke. You were right about me. Tell your sister... you were right.

LUKE: Father... I won't leave you.

With quizzical eyes, Anakin looks behind Luke. Luke turns to see a tall, imposing figure, dressed in Jedi robes. An ethereal figure he has never seen before.

ANAKIN: Qui Gon! How is this possible?

QUI-GON: I have entered the netherworld of the Force. A place of tranquillity, where my eternal companions are Obi-Wan and Yoda. Anakin you have fulfilled your destiny, you have redeemed yourself. Join us.

ANAKIN: (breathless) I do not know how.

QUI-GON: Let me lead you

Qui-Gon's spectre surrounds the dimming life force of Anakin Skywalker - sanctifying it.

Luke watches the spiritual union.

ANAKIN: Farewell my son.

LUKE: I will see you again father.

Then, peacefully, serenely, Anakin Skywalker dies. His withered body disappearing completely, leaving only the shell of Darth Vader.

Luke's feels joy in his heart, a sense of fulfilment. But his predicament remains perilous. A huge explosion rocks the docking bay. Luke rises and, carrying the remnants of Darth Vader, enters the shuttle.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

With Han safely aboard the Millennium Falcon, Lando manoeuvres the ship away from the deadly Death Star interior, hoping that he has enough time to escape the imminent supernova.

LANDO: (to his co-pilot) Inform the fleet.

The escape route is perilously narrow.

LANDO: (on comlink to Wedge) Any narrower and we'll be part of the rigging.

WEDGE: (VO) You'll make it. Just follow me Gold Leader.

EXT: DEATH STAR

The Imperial shuttle, piloted by Luke, flies out of the main docking bay.

INT: DEATH STAR SUPERSTRUCTURE

The Falcon and Wedge's X-wing zoom through the levels, racing to escape in time.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando turns to Nien Nunb and shakes his head.

LANDO: It's going to be close.

EXT: DEATH STAR SURFACE

The two ships emerge from the Death Star and zoom away.

INT: MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

Lando shouts a victory cry just as the Death Star explodes in a supernova.

Han enters the Falcon cockpit.

LANDO: (grinning) Not a scratch!

Han slaps Lando on the back.

EXT: ENDOR FOREST

The glorious cataclysm fills the sky. Leia cheers, Chewie roars. The Ceele squeak excitedly. The burning remnants of the space station streak through the stratosphere of Endor.

EXT: ENDOR FOREST - NIGHT

Luke sets a torch to the logs stacked under a funeral pyre where his father's armour lies; black mask, helmet and cape. The flames consume the last vestiges of Darth Vader.

In the sky above, fireworks explode and Rebel fighters zoom above the forest.

EXT: CLOUD CITY - SUNSET

Fireworks explode above the city as searchlights pan the sky. A twin-pod cloud car zooms in above the festivities.

EXT: TATOOINE - DAY

Sky-hoppers weave around Mos Espa. Thousands of desert folk glory in the demise of the Empire.

EXT: NABOO - SUNSET

The crimson sky above the beautiful cityscape of Naboo is showered in fireworks.

EXT: CORUSCANT PLAZA - NIGHT

The metropolis of Coruscant is a fever of partying. Confetti falls through the giant towers as countless citizens celebrate. Fireworks explode in the full-moon sky.

EXT: ENDOR FOREST - NIGHT

A huge bonfire is the centerpiece of a wild celebration. Rebels and Ceele rejoice in the warm glow of firelight, singing, dancing, and laughing in the communal language of victory and liberation. Artoo whistles along with his new alien friends. Even Threepio is happy.

Han runs in and is enthusiastically hugged by Chewie and embraced by Leia. Wedge joins the party. Then, finally, Luke arrives and the friends rush to greet and embrace him.

The victors continue celebrating. Luke is more reserved, then he feels the power of the Force. He looks off to the side and sees four shimmering, smiling figures: Obi-Wan, Yoda, Qui-Gon and Anakin Skywalker. All appear as they did in their prime.

Luke smiles back, glorying in the redemption of the Jedi.

THE END

 
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