Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Page #31

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Luke is furious but doesn't have time to think about it for

muted alarms begin to go off down on the hangar deck. Luke

and Leia start off toward the starship hangar.

INT. DEATH STAR - SUBHALLWAY

Han chases the stormtroopers down a long subhallway. He is

yelling and brandishing his laser pistol. The troops reach a

dead end and are forced to turn and fight. Han stops a few

feet from them and assumes a defensive position. The troops

begin to raise their laser guns. Soon all ten troopers are

moving into an attack position in front of the lone

starpirate. Han's determined look begins to fade as the troops

begin to advance. Solo jumps backward as they fire at him.

INT. DEATH STAR - SUBHALLWAY

Chewbacca runs down the subhallway in a last-ditch attempt

to save his bold captain. Suddenly he hears the firing of

laser guns and yelling. Around the corner shoots Han, pirate

extraordinaire, running for his life, followed by a host of

furious stormtroopers. Chewbacca turns and starts running

the other way also.

INT. DEATH STAR - SUBHALLWAY

Luke fires his laser pistol wildly as he and Leia rush down

a narrow subhallway, chased by several stormtroopers. They

quickly reach the end of the subhallway and race through an

open hatchway.

INT. DEATH STAR - CENTRAL CORE SHAFT

Luke and Leia race through the hatch onto a narrow bridge

that spans a huge, deep shaft that seems to go into infinity.

The bridge has been retracted into the wall of the shaft,

and Luke almost rushes into the abyss. He loses his balance

off the end of the bridge as Leia, behind him, takes hold of

his arm and pulls him back.

LUKE:

(gasping)

I think we took a wrong turn.

Blasts from the stormtroopers' laser guns explode nearby

reminding them of the oncoming danger. Luke fires back at

the advancing troops. Leia reaches over and hits a switch

that pops the hatch door shut with a resounding boom, leaving

them precariously perched on a short piece of bridge overhang.

Laserfire from the troopers continues to hit the steel door.

LEIA:

There's no lock!

Luke blasts the controls with his laser pistol.

LUKE:

That oughta hold it for a while.

LEIA:

Quick, we've got to get across. Find

the control that extends the bridge.

LUKE:

Oh, I think I just blasted it.

Luke looks at the blasted bridge control while the

stormtroopers on the opposite side of the door begin making

ominous drilling and pounding sounds.

LEIA:

They're coming through!

Luke notices something on his stormtrooper belt, when

laserfire hits the wall behind him. Luke aims his laser pistol

at a stormtrooper perched on a higher bridge overhang across

the abyss from them. They exchange fire. Two more troops

appear on another overhang, also firing. A trooper is hit,

and grabs at his chest.

Another trooper standing on the bridge overhang is hit by

Luke's laserfire, and plummets down the shaft. Troopers move

back off the bridge; Luke hands the gun to Leia.

LUKE:

Here, hold this.

Luke pulls a thin nylon cable from his trooper utility belt.

It has a grappler hook on it. A trooper appears on a bridge

overhang and fires at Luke and Leia. As Luke works with the

rope, Leia returns the laser volley. Another trooper appears

and fires at them, as Leia returns his fire as well.

Suddenly, the hatch door begins to open, revealing the feet

of more troops.

LEIA:

Here they come!

Leia hits one of the stormtroopers on the bridge above, and

he falls into the abyss. Luke tosses the rope across the

gorge and it wraps itself around an outcropping of pipes. He

tugs on the rope to make sure it is secure, then grabs the

princess in his arms. Leia looks at Luke, then kisses him

quickly on the lips. Luke is very surprised.

LEIA:

For luck!

Luke pushes off and they swing across the treacherous abyss

to the corresponding hatchway on the opposite side. Just as

Luke and Leia reach the far side of the canyon, the

stormtroopers break through the hatch and begin to fire at

the escaping duo. Luke returns the fire before ducking into

the tiny subhallway.

INT. DEATH STAR - NARROW PASSAGEWAY

Ben hides in the shadows of the narrow passageway as several

stormtroopers rush past him in the main hallway. He checks

to make sure they're gone, then runs down the hallway in the

opposite direction. Darth Vader appears at the far end of

the hallway and starts after the old Jedi.

INT. DEATH STAR - MAIN FORWARD BAY

Threepio looks around at the troops milling about the

pirateship entry ramp.

THREEPIO:

Where could they be?

Artoo, plugged into the computer socket, turns his dome left

and right, beeping a response.

INT. DEATH STAR - CORRIDOR - BLAST SHIELDS DOOR

Han and Chewbacca run down a long corridor with several

troopers hot on their trail.

TROOPER:

Close the blast doors!

At the end of the hallway, blast doors begin to close in

front of them. The young starpilot and his furry companion

race past the huge doors just as they are closing, and manage

to get off a couple off laserblasts at the pursuing troops

before the doors slam shut.

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