Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Page #4

STORMTROOPER 1:
Citizens of the Empire, Imperial forces...

A partisan throws a thermal detonator underneath the tank accompanying the transport. The tank explodes and Partisans begin fighting the stormtroopers. Chaos begins as people run away and firing begins. Jyn and Cassian hide behind a wall, blasters ready.

JYN ERSO:
Tell me you have a backup plan.

STORMTROOPER 1:
Incoming!

STORMTROOPER 2:
Put your guns down.

STORMTROOPER 1:
Behind us!

JYN ERSO:
Looks like we found Saw’s rebels.

Jyn sees a small child standing under a tall tower, crying. She runs to save her and covers her with her body as the two fall to the ground. A partisan shoots the stormtroopers from the top of the tower.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
Jyn, no!

The child’s mother quickly arrives and takes her daughter.

MOTHER:
Thank you.

STORMTROOPER:
Hit the tower!

CITIZEN:
Get out of there!

A stormtrooper aims a rocket at the tower and fires. Jyn barely makes it out and runs to cover. Next to the ruins of the tank, partisans gather to take out something from the transport.

PARTISAN:
Quickly, the kyber, get it. Here, take the kyber. Take the kyber. Come on!

CASSIAN ANDOR:
This way!

They are surprised by an Imperial droid that looks exactly like K-2SO. Jyn shoots it and it falls to the ground. K-2SO walks out from behind it. K-2SO looks startled.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Did you know that wasn’t me?

JYN ERSO:
Of course!

CASSIAN ANDOR:
I thought I told you to stay on the ship.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: You did, but I thought it was boring, and you were in trouble. There are a lot of explosions for two people blending in.

A grenade sails towards K-2SO, but he catches it without looking and throws it backwards towards a group of stormtroopers.

STORMTROOPER:
Freeze right there...

The grenade explodes, killing the entire squad of stormtroopers. Jyn and Cassian exchange looks.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: You’re right, I should just wait on the ship.

Cassian, Jyn and K-2SO walk into a clearing with multiple stormtroopers.

STORMTROOPER:
Halt! Stop right there!

STORMTROOPER:
Where are you taking these prisoners?

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: These are prisoners.

STORMTROOPER:
Yes. Where are you taking them?

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: I am taking them... to imprison them. In prison.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
He’s taking us to...

K-2SO slaps Cassian.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Quiet! And there’s a fresh one if you mouth off again!

STORMTROOPER:
We’ll take them from here.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: That’s okay. If you could just point me in the right direction, I can take them, I’m sure. I’ve taken them this far…

The stormtroopers grab Jyn and Cassian and cuff them to take them away. The two struggle to break free.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
Hey, wait a second.

STORMTROOPER:
Take them away.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Wait!

STORMTROOPER:
Hey, droid. You can’t take them away! You stay here. We need to check your diagnostics.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Diagnostics? I’m capable of running my own diagnostics, thank you very much.

Chirrut emerges from a doorway, drawing the attention of stormtroopers, and walks towards them, tapping his staff on the ground.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
Let them pass in peace! Let them pass in peace. The Force is with me, and I am with the Force. And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it.

STORMTROOPER 1:
Hey! Stop right there!

STORMTROOPER 2:
He’s blind.

STORMTROOPER 1:
Is he deaf?

STORMTROOPER 2:
I said: Stop right there!

Chirrut stops, listening closely to the stormtroopers’ movements. As they begin firing, he waits for the right moment and springs into action, easily beating up the stormtroopers. He is impossible to hit and dodges every shot directed at him, covering himself with other

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
Is your foot all right?

Chirrut knocks down the last stormtrooper, but many more surround him. Suddenly, rapid blaster fire kills all the stormtroopers. It has come from Chirrut’s friend, Baze Malbus.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
You almost shot me.

BAZE MALBUS:
You’re welcome.

Cassian, Jyn and K-2SO emerge from a hiding spot.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Clear of hostiles!

Baze aims his blaster at K-2SO at the sight of an Imperial droid.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: One hostile!

Jyn jumps out in front of K-2SO with her arms in the air.

JYN ERSO:
He’s with us!

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
They’re all right.

K-2SO removes their handcuffs.

JYN ERSO:
Thanks.

K-2SO [KAY-TUESSO]: Cassian, I’m sorry about the slap.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
Go back to the ship. Wait for my call. 

K-2SO leaves obediently. Cassian turns to Baze, rubbing his wrists. 

CASSIAN ANDOR:
Is he a Jedi?

BAZE MALBUS:
There are no Jedi here anymore. Only dreamers like this fool.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
The Force did protect me.

BAZE ÎMWE:
I protected you.

JYN ERSO:
Can you get us to Saw Gerrera?

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
Can’t you see we are no friends of the Empire?

The Partisans suddenly surround the group. The rebels are disarmed and handcuffed again.

EDRIO TWO TUBES:
Tell that to the one who killed our men.

JYN ERSO:
Anyone who kills me or my friends will answer to Saw Gerrera.

EDRIO TWO TUBES:
And why Is that?

JYN ERSO:
Because I am the daughter of Galen Erso.

EDRIO TWO TUBES:
Take them!

Sacks are put over everyone’s heads.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
Are you kidding me? I’m blind!

INT. PARTISAN BASE (Inside the prison cells in the Partisan base.)

Chirrut, Baze and Cassian are thrown into a cell all together. In the next cell is Bodhi Rook, silently staring into space.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me. I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me.

BAZE MALBUS:
You pray?

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me.

BAZE MALBUS:
Really?

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
I’m one with the Force and the Force is with me.

BAZE MALBUS:
He’s praying for the door to open.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
It bothers him, because he knows it is possible. Baze Malbus was once the most devoted Guardian of us all.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
I’m beginning to think the Force and I have different priorities.

BAZE MALBUS:
Relax, Captain. We’ve been in worse cages than this one.

CASSIAN ANDOR:
This is a first for me.

CHIRRUT ÎMWE:
There is more than one sort of prison, Captain, I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.

Outside of the prison, Jyn is taken to meet Saw Gerrera in his command room.

SAW GERRERA:
Jyn. Is it really you? I can’t believe it.

JYN ERSO:
Must be quite a surprise.

SAW GERRERA:
Are we not still friends?

JYN ERSO:
The last time I saw you, you gave me a knife and loaded blaster and told me to wait in a bunker until daylight.

SAW GERRERA:
I knew you were safe.

JYN ERSO:
You left me behind.

SAW GERRERA:
You were already the best soldier in my cadre.

JYN ERSO:
I was sixteen.

SAW GERRERA:
I was protecting you!

JYN ERSO:
You dumped me!

SAW GERRERA:
You were the daughter of an Imperial science officer! People were starting to figure that out. People who wanted to- to use you as a hostage. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you. But today, of all days? It’s a trap, isn’t it?

JYN ERSO:
What?

SAW GERRERA:
The pilot! The message. All of it. Did they... send you? Did you come here to kill me? There’s not much of me left.

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