Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Page #23

MEDICAL DROID:

It's a boy.

Padme looks at her firstborn child.

PADME:

I’ll call him Luke...

Padme can only offer up a faint smile. She struggles totouch the baby on the forehead.

MEDICAL DROID:

...and a girl.

PADME:

Leia.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

They’re beautiful, Padme.

PADME:

(struggling)

Thank you, Obi-Wan.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

You’re most welcome.

R2-D2, Threepio and Bail Organa watch from an adjoining

space.

INT. IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER

VADER, dressed in his black body armor, lies on thetable. Nose plugs are inserted and the mask drops fromabove, sealing tightly. The helmet is fitted and Vader

begins breathing.

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INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER

Obi-Wan leans over Padme and softly speaks to her.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

I don’t know if you can hear me, Padme.

You have given birth to healthy twins.

Padme struggles to speak. Her voice still a whisper.

PADME:

Take care... of them. I beg you.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

No harm shall befall them. I swear it.

PADME:

I could have... saved him, but... I was

weak.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

It’s not your fault or mine, Padme.

Anakin chose his own path. We all tried

to reach him and reason with him.

Padme winces again and takes Obi-Wan's hand. She’s

clutching Anakin's japor snippet.

PADME:

I can’t... believe... what’s happened.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

Save your energy.

PADME:

Obi-Wan... there is good in him. I know

there is... still...

A last gasp, and she dies. Obi-Wan studies the necklace.

INT. IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER

Darth Sidious hovers around the periphery of a group ofMEDICAL DROIDS operating on his apprentice. Even his

extraordinary powers cannot make Vader whole again, butthe technologies available to the Dark Lord can help makeVader into something else altogether...

A DROID approaches the Dark Lord.

MEDICAL DROID:

My Lord, the reconstruction is finished.

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DARTH SIDIOUS:

Good.

The DROID moves back to the table where Darth Vader lies.

The table begins to move upright.

Sidious moves in next to Vader.

DARTH SIDIOUS:

Lord Vader, can you hear me?

Darth Vader, with his dark mask and helmet, moves up intothe frame until he is in a CLOSEUP.

DARTH VADER:

Yes, My Master.

Darth Vader looks around the room.

DARTH VADER:

Where is Padme? Is she safe, is she all

right?

Darth Sidious moves closer to the half droid/half man.

DARTH SIDIOUS:

I'm afraid she died. In your greatanger, you killed her.

A LOW GROAN emanates from Vader's mask. Suddenlyeverything in the room begins to implode, including someof the droids under the awesome power of Vader’s Forceabilities.

Vader SCREAMS, breaks his bonds to the table, and stepsforward, waving his hands, causing objects to fly aroundthe room.

Sidious deflects the objects, but some of the droids

aren't so lucky.

Lord Vader's PAINFUL SCREAMS echo throughout the Center.

He is now more machine than man, an unfortunate result of

his tremendous pride and overconfidence.

Darth Sidious grins a wicked grin, satisfied his newapprentice is alive. Yet even the Dark Lord now has

doubts as his vision of what would be his apprentice isgreatly altered.

EXT. NABOO - ALDERAAN STARCRUISER

Bail Organa's Starcruiser approaches the city of Theed.

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INT. ALDERAAN STARCRUISER - CONFERENCE ROOM

Bail, Yoda, and Obi-Wan sit around a conference table.

YODA:

Pregnant, she must still appear. Hidden,

safe, the children must be kept.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

We must take them somewhere the Sith will

not sense their presence.

YODA:

Split up, they should be.

BAIL ORGANA:

My wife and I will take the girl. We've

always talked of adopting a baby girl.

She will be loved with us.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

And what of the boy?

YODA:

To Tatooine. To his family, send him.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

I will take the child and watch over him.

Master Yoda, do you think Anakin's twinswill be able to defeat Darth Sidious?

YODA:

Strong the Force runs, in the Skywalkerline. Hope, we can... done, it is.

Until the time is right, disappear wewill.

Bail leaves the conference room. Yoda stops Obi-Wan.

YODA:

Master Kenobi, wait a moment. In yoursolitude on Tatooine, training I have for

you.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

Training?

YODA:

An old friend has learned the path toimmortality.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

Who?

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YODA:

One who has returned from the netherworld

of the Force to train me... your oldMaster, Qui-Gon Jinn.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

Qui-Gon? But, how could he accomplishthis?

YODA:

The secret of the Ancient Order of the

Whills, he studied. How to commune with

him. Teach you, I will.

OBI-WAN KENOBI

I will be able to talk with him?

YODA:

How to join the Force, he will train you.

Your consciousness you will retain, whenone with the Force. Even your physicalself, perhaps.

INT. ALDERAAN STARCRUISER - HALLWAY

Bail Organa, followed by Artoo and Threepio, approaches

Captain Antilles and TWO CREW MEMBERS.

BAIL ORGANA:

Captain Antilles.

CAPTAIN ANTILLES

Yes, Your Highness.

BAIL ORGANA:

I'm placing these droids in your care.

Treat them well. Clean them up. Have

the Protocol Droid's mind wiped.

C-3PO

Oh, no.

EXT. NABOO - MAIN SQUARE - DAWN

Padme’s funeral procession.

LARGE CROWDS line the street as a flowered, covered

coffin is drawn by SIX BEAUTIFUL WHITE BEASTS.

SIO BIBBLE walks with other MOURNERS.

SOLDIERS, FAMILY and DIGNITARIES follow the casket.

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Padme's hand clutches the japor snippet.

A MAN standing in the crowd swiftly departs as theprocession passes.

EXT. DAGOBAH - DAY

A small escape pod hurls toward the swamp planet anddisappears in the mist. The pod has landed, and Yodadescends the ramp, surveying the unfamiliar terrain.

INT. DARTH VADER’S QUARTERS - STAR DESTROYER

Lord Vader sits in a command chair, his helmeted head

hanging low.

DARTH VADER:

Padme, forgive me. I never meant to harm

you.

There’s a BEEP that gets Vader’s attention

DARTH VADER:

Enter.

The Man from Padme’s funeral enters, he’s actually anIMPERIAL AGENT.

IMPERIAL AGENT:

I attended the funeral as you asked, LordVader. And I saw the body.

DARTH VADER:

Was Padme still with child?

IMPERIAL AGENT:

Yes, my Lord.

DARTH VADER:

That will be all.

The Imperial Agent exits the chamber.

EXT. IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER - SPACE

A Star Destroyer is surrounded by ATTACK CRUISERS.

On the bridge of the Star Destroyer stands the EMPERORand GOVERNOR TARKIN.

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Darth Vader walks along the bridge to join the Emperorand Governor Tarkin.

The camera PANS to reveal the huge frame structure whichis the beginning of the DEATH STAR.

EXT. ALDERAAN - STARCRUISER - SPACE

The ship approaches the surface of Alderaan.

EXT. ALDERAAN - LATE AFTERNOON

The QUEEN OF ALDERAAN sits on a balcony looking out overthe awesome mountains of Alderaan.

Bail Organa brings a small baby to her. She takes her

and rocks her.

EXT. TATOOINE - SUNSET

Obi-Wan rides up to the moisture farm homestead on anEOPIE. He dismounts, takes BABY LUKE out of a papoose onhis back, and walks toward AUNT BERU, who walks over to

greet him.

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