Star Wars: The Force Awakens Page #14

Han stands at the navicomputer, hitting switches. Rey enters

fast, moves past him to Chewie's seat.

HAN:

Hey, where are you going?

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

REY:

Unkar Plutt installed a fuel pump

too -- if we don't prime that we're

not going anywhere.

HAN:

I hate that guy.

Han sits as, Rey hitting buttons:

REY:

And you could use a co-pilot.

HAN:

I got one, he's back there.

IN THE LOUNGE, CHEWIE IS IN PAIN --

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY

Han and Rey in the seats:

HAN:

Watch the thrust, we're goin' out of

here at lightspeed --

REY:

(SHOCKED)

From inside the hangar? Is that

even possible?

HAN:

I never ask that question until after

I've done it.

A RATHTAR JUMPS ONTO THE WINDSHIELD -- REY SCREAMS! Its

GIANT MOUTH CHEWING AT THE GLASS! Han works the controls:

HAN (CONT'D)

This is not how I thought this day

was gonna go -- angle the shields --

Hang on back there!

IN THE LOUNGE, Chewie is in pain -- Finn going through a

first aid kit -- the ship is HIT again --

FINN:

(HUGE PROBLEM)

No problem!

INT. CARGO SHIP - HANGAR - DAY

Three GANG MEMBERS race out here and FIRE AT THE FALCON --

hitting FUEL LINES, BLASTING THE SHIP HARD!

The ship is hit.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY

HAN:

Come on baby, don't let me down!

He hits a switch -- but NOTHING.

HAN (CONT'D)

What?!

But Rey reaches over, hits a switch, matter-of-factly.

REY:

Compressor.

Han doesn't like it but she's right -- he hits the switch

again and the HYPERDRIVE FIRES! The hangar is FILLED WITH

LIGHTSPEED BLAST as the ATTACKING GANG MEMBERS ARE BLASTED

BACK LIKE DRY LEAVES. In the cockpit the RATHTAR RIPS AWAY

as THE STARS STRETCH LIKE ELASTIC and we CUT TO:

EXT. CARGO SHIP - DAY

Camera ROTATES as the Falcon DISAPPEARS IN A STREAK, leaving

the cargo ship behind.

INT. CARGO SHIP - DAY

PUSH IN on a HANGAR DOOR where Bala-Tik arrives at the window,

SEETHING. Makes a CALL:

BALA-TIK

Inform the First Order that Han Solo

has the droid they want. And it's

aboard the Millennium Falcon.

EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY

A pair of TIE fighters roar towards a magnificent PLANET,

frozen WHITE. This is the STARKILLER BASE, a natural planet

that has been hacked and modified into something sinister.

Over this we HEAR a DEEP, almost SOOTHING VOICE. A voice

very much in control, of power:

SNOKE (V.O.)

The droid will soon be delivered to

the Resistance...

INT. STARKILLER PLANET - ASSEMBLY ROOM - NIGHT

KYLO REN and General Hux in a dark space, looking UPWARD at

someone addressing them.

We're in a massive and dark ASSEMBLY ROOM. Hundreds of DESKS

in a stadium arc, focused on a platform where we see SUPREME

LEADER SNOKE. Not entirely human, at nearly twenty-five

feet tall. All of him a STONY GREY. Old, wounded, fragile

and powerful, all at the same time.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

SNOKE:

... Leading them to the last Jedi.

If Skywalker returns, the new Jedi

will rise.

GENERAL HUX:

Supreme Leader, I take full

responsibility for th--

SNOKE:

General! Our strategy must now

change.

GENERAL HUX:

The weapon. It is ready. I believe

the time has come to use it. We

shall destroy the government that

supports the Resistance, the Republic.

Without their friends to protect

them, the Resistance will be

vulnerable, and we will stop them

before they reach Skywalker.

Snoke considers. Almost seems to die for a moment. Then:

SNOKE:

Go. Oversee preparations.

GENERAL HUX:

Yes, Supreme Leader.

General Hux, proud, cocksure, exits. Kylo Ren watches him

go. Snoke SITS. A new intimacy in his voice.

SNOKE:

There's been an awakening. Have you

felt it?

KYLO REN:

Yes.

SNOKE:

There's something more. The droid

we seek is aboard the Millennium

Falcon. In the hands of your father,

Han Solo.

Kylo Ren reacts with subtle, but real, surprise.

KYLO REN:

He means nothing to me.

SNOKE:

Even you, master of the Knights of

Ren, have never faced such a test.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

KYLO REN:

(STEELY RESOLVE)

By the grace of your training, I

will not be seduced.

SNOKE:

We shall see. We shall see.

A gentle, satisfied nod from Snoke, and Kylo Ren, obsessed,

filled up, exits. Snoke watches him disappear, a grotesque

evil SMILE growing -- as he DISINTEGRATES -- Snoke has been

a HOLOGRAM all along.

EXT. LIGHTSPEED SPACE - DAY

RACING with the Falcon through the STRINGLIGHT of lightspeed.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY

CHAOS:
INTERCUT between the COCKPIT where Han and Rey pilot,

ALARMS SOUNDING, problems everywhere, and the LOUNGE where

CHEWIE YELPS as Finn nervously works to BANDAGE HIS SHOULDER.

SPARKS!

HAN:

Electrical overload!

REY:

I can fix that!

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