Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Page #4

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VADER:

Don't play games with me, Your

Highness. You weren't on any mercy

mission this time. You passed directly

through a restricted system. Several

transmissions were beamed to this

ship by Rebel spies. I want to know

what happened to the plans they sent

you.

LEIA:

I don't know what you're talking

about. I'm a member of the Imperial

Senate on a diplomatic mission to

Alderaan...

VADER:

You're a part of the Rebel Alliance...

and a traitor. Take her away!

Leia is marched away down the hallway and into the smoldering

hole blasted in the side of the ship. An Imperial Commander

turns to Vader.

COMMANDER:

Holding her is dangerous. If word of

this gets out, it could generate

sympathy for the Rebellion in the

senate.

VADER:

I have traced the Rebel spies to

her. Now she is my only link to find

their secret base!

COMMANDER:

She'll die before she tells you

anything.

VADER:

Leave that to me. Send a distress

signal and then inform the senate

that all aboard were killed!

Another Imperial Officer approaches Vader and the Commander.

They stop and snap to attention.

SECOND OFFICER:

Lord Vader, the battle station plans

are not aboard this ship! And no

transmissions were made. An escape

pod was jettisoned during the

fighting, but no life forms were

aboard.

Vader turns to the Commander.

VADER:

She must have hidden the plans in

the escape pod. Send a detachment

down to retrieve them. See to it

personally, Commander. There'll be

no one to stop us this time.

COMMANDER:

Yes, sir.

EXT. SPACE

The Imperial Stardestroyer comes over the surface of the

planet Tatooine.

EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT

Jundland, or "No Man's Land", where the rugged desert mesas

meet the foreboding dune sea. The two helpless astro-droids

kick up clouds of sand as they leave the lifepod and clumsily

work their way across the desert wasteland. The lifepod in

the distance rests half buried in the sand.

THREEPIO:

How did I get into this mess? I really

don't know how. We seem to be made

to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Artoo answers with beeping sounds.

THREEPIO:

I've got to rest before I fall apart.

My joints are almost frozen.

Artoo continues to respond with beeping sounds.

THREEPIO:

What a desolate place this is.

Suddenly Artoo whistles, makes a sharp right turn and starts

off in the direction of the rocky desert mesas. Threepio

stops and yells at him.

THREEPIO:

Where are you going?

A stream of electronic noises pours forth from the small

robot.

THREEPIO:

Well, I'm not going that way. It's

much too rocky. This way is much

easier.

Artoo counters with a long whistle.

THREEPIO:

What makes you think there are

settlements over there?

Artoo continues to make beeping sounds.

THREEPIO:

Don't get technical with me.

Artoo continues to make beeping sounds.

THREEPIO:

What mission? What are you talking

about? I've had just about enough of

you! Go that way! You'll be

malfunctioning within a day, you

nearsighted scrap pile!

Threepio gives the little robot a kick and starts off in the

direction of the vast dune sea.

THREEPIO:

And don't let me catch you following

me begging for help, because you

won't get it.

Artoo's reply is a rather rude sound. He turns and trudges

off in the direction of the towering mesas.

THREEPIO:

No more adventures. I'm not going

that way.

Artoo beeps to himself as he makes his way toward the distant

mountains.

EXT. TATOOINE - DUNE SEA

Threepio, hot and tired, struggles up over the ridge of a

dune; only to find more dunes, which seem to go on for endless

miles. He looks back in the direction of the now distant

rock mesas.

THREEPIO:

That malfunctioning little twerp.

This is all his fault! He tricked me

into going this way, but he'll do no

better.

In a huff of anger and frustration, Threepio knocks the sand

from his joints. His plight seems hopeless, when a glint of

reflected light in the distance reveals an object moving

towards him.

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