Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Page #10

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Owen's face becomes a scowl, although he tries to suppress

it.

OWEN:

You mean the next semester before

harvest?

LUKE:

Sure, there're more than enough

droids.

OWEN:

Harvest is when I need you the most.

Only one more season. This year we'll

make enough on the harvest so I'll

be able to hire some more hands. And

then you can go to the Academy next

year.

Luke continues to toy with his food, not looking at his uncle.

OWEN:

You must understand I need you here,

Luke.

LUKE:

But it's a whole 'nother year.

OWEN:

Look, it's only one more season.

Luke pushes his half-eaten plate of food aside and stands.

LUKE:

Yeah, that's what you said last year

when Biggs and Tank left.

AUNT BERU:

Where are you going?

LUKE:

It looks like I'm going nowhere. I

have to finish cleaning those droids.

Resigned to his fate, Luke paddles out of the room. Owen

mechanically finishes his dinner.

AUNT BERU:

Owen, he can't stay here forever.

Most of his friends have gone. It

means so much to him.

OWEN:

I'll make it up to him next year. I

promise.

AUNT BERU:

Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He

has too much of his father in him.

OWEN:

That's what I'm afraid of.

EXT. TATOOINE - LARS HOMESTEAD

The giant twin suns of Tatooine slowly disappear behind a

distant dune range. Luke stands watching them for a few

moments, then reluctantly enters the doomed entrance to the

homestead.

INT. LARS HOMESTEAD - GARAGE

Luke enters the garage to discover the robots nowhere in

sight. He takes a small control box from his utility belt

similar to the one the Jawas were carrying. He activates the

box, which creates a low hum, and Threepio, letting out a

short yell, pops up from behind the Skyhopper spaceship.

LUKE:

What are you doing hiding there?

Threepio stumbles forward, but Artoo is still nowhere in

sight.

THREEPIO:

It wasn't my fault, sir. Please don't

deactivate me. I told him not to go,

but he's faulty, malfunctioning;

kept babbling on about his mission.

LUKE:

Oh, no!

Luke races out of the garage followed by Threepio.

EXT. TATOOINE - LARS HOMESTEAD

Luke rushes out of the small doomed entry to the homestead

and searches the darkening horizon for the small triped astro-

robot. Threepio struggles out of the homestead and on the

salt flat as Luke scans the landscape with his

electrobinoculars.

THREEPIO:

That R2 unit has always been a

problem. These astro-droids are

getting quite out of hand. Even I

can't understand their logic at times.

LUKE:

How could I be so stupid? He's nowhere

in sight. Blast it!

THREEPIO:

Pardon me, sir, but couldn't we go

after him?

LUKE:

It's too dangerous with all the

Sandpeople around. We'll have to

wait until morning.

Owen yells up from the homestead plaza.

OWEN:

Luke, I'm shutting the power down

for the night.

LUKE:

All right, I'll be there in a few

minutes. Boy, am I gonna get it.

He takes one final look across the dim horizon.

LUKE:

You know that little droid is going

to cause me a lot of trouble.

THREEPIO:

Oh, he excels at that, sir.

INT. LARS HOMESTEAD - PLAZA

Morning slowly creeps into the sparse but sparkling oasis of

the open courtyard. The idyll is broken be the yelling of

Uncle Owen, his voice echoing throughout the homestead.

OWEN:

Luke? Luke? Luke? Where could he be

loafing now!

INT. LARS HOMESTEAD - KITCHEN

The interior of the kitchen is a worm glow as Aunt Beru

prepares the morning breakfast. Owen enters in a huff.

OWEN:

Have you seen Luke this morning?

AUNT BERU:

He said he had some things to do

before he started today, so he left

early.

OWEN:

Uh? Did he take those two new droids

with him?

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