Star Wars: The Force Awakens Page #17

HAN:

Leia doesn't want to see me.

FINN:

Please, we came here for your help.

REY:

What fight?

MAZ:

The only fight:
against the dark

side. Through the ages, I've seen

evil take many forms. The Sith.

The Empire. Today, it is the First

Order. Their shadow is spreading

across the galaxy. We must face

them. Fight them. All of us.

FINN:

There is no fight against the First

Order! Not one we can win. Look

around. There's no chance we haven't

been recognized already. I bet you

the First Order is on their way right--

Finn stops, seeing Maz adjusting her goggles, scrutinizing

him -- her eyes get HUGE.

FINN (CONT'D)

What's this? What are you doing?

Maz adjusts the goggles again. Her eyes get impossibly

BIGGER. She grunts recognition. She hoists herself on the

tabletop, knocking over food and plates, crawling towards

Finn.

FINN (CONT'D)

Solo, what is she doing?

HAN:

I don't know, but it ain't good.

MAZ:

If you live long enough you see the

same eyes in different people. I'm

looking at the eyes of a man who

wants to run.

FINN:

(eyes on Maz)

You don't know a thing about me.

Where I'm from. What I've seen.

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

FINN (CONT'D)

You don't know the First Order like

I do. They'll slaughter us. We all

need to run.

Rey is stunned. Maz, not so much. She crawls back to her

chair. She points to some pirates in the corner.

MAZ:

You see those two? They'll trade

work for transportation to the Outer

Rim. There, you can disappear.

Finn sees them. Considers.

REY:

Finn!

FINN:

Come with me.

REY:

What about BB-8? We're not done

yet. We have to get him back to

your base.

FINN:

I can't.

Finn stands to leave. He offers the gun back to Han.

HAN:

Keep it, kid.

Finn heads off. Rey gets up to follow. Maz dials her lenses

back to normal, and turns to Han.

MAZ:

Who's the girl?

ON FINN:

Who has arrived at the table with the ALIEN SMUGGLERS.

FINN:

I was told you could get me to the

Outer Rim.

Rey barges into the conversation, interrupting.

REY:

What are you doing?

Finn gets up to talk to her.

FINN:

(to Big Head)

Don't leave without me.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

Embarrassed, Finn moves her away.

REY:

You can't just go. I won't let you.

FINN:

I'm not who you think I am.

REY:

Finn, what are you talking about?

FINN:

I'm not Resistance. I'm not a hero.

I'm a Stormtrooper.

(STOPS HER)

Like all of them, I was taken from a

family I'll never know. And raised

to do one thing...

(EMOTIONAL)

But my first battle, I made a choice.

I wasn't going to kill for them. So

I ran.

FINN (CONT'D)

Right into you. And you looked at

me like no one ever had. I was

ashamed of what I was. But I'm done

with the First Order. I'm never

going back. Rey, come with me.

REY:

Don't go.

FINN:

Take care of yourself. Please.

Rey looks at him, crushed. With quiet resignation, Rey

watches Finn return to the aliens...

And all three head off. He gets to the front door and walks

through it.

Rey is heartsick, but she turns as she hears the sound of a

young girl in anguish, crying. She follows the sound into

the castle, turning so she can't see that Finn has looked

back at her one last time.

INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

Rey steps down into the basement corridor. BB-8 follows

her. Walking carefully and confused, she is not sure why

she's down here. She can hear the echoing sounds of a young

girl crying. She heads down the hall... to the very end,

where there is a door. It is almost as if a SOULFUL VIBRATION

draws her closer. She looks at the door lock -- AND THE

DOOR OPENS.

Hesitant, Rey enters.

INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - CRYPT ROOM - DAY

Rey moves into the dark, small, vaulted storage room. Old

treasures line the floors and walls, but there is something

specific Rey is drawn to: on a table, an old wooden BOX.

She moves to it, unsure, afraid, as if an energy from inside

the box has been calling her here. BB-8 nervously follows.

Rey reaches out, very slowly, to touch the box. A moment

heavy with tension.

Rey OPENS THE BOX and sees inside Luke Skywalker's original

lightsaber. With hesitation, she reaches towards it, but

she cannot resist. As her hand makes contact with it, there

is the piercing sound of a lightsaber igniting. She moves

her hand away, as REY HEARS A MECHANICAL BREATHING sound.

The CAMERA MOVES, LIGHTING CHANGES -- and we see behind her

something impossible: a HALLWAY OF FROM DEEP INSIDE CLOUD

CITY. Disembodied voices fill the air.

YOUNG GIRL:

NO!

She stands -- looks around, confused by all she sees and

hears. -- Turns and sees, through a DOORWAY.

We follow Rey and she runs down the corridor, but it all

TILTS -- TURNS -- and she lands on the

WALL -- which is now the GROUND -- dried GRASS.

She turns to look -- we PIVOT -- and see a BURNING TEMPLE AT

NIGHT. We PAN to:

R2-D2 -- who watches the flames -- and a MAN appears (LUKE,

whose face we do not see). He falls to his knees, reaches

out to the droid -- with a MECHANICAL RIGHT HAND.

We PUSH IN ON REY as RAIN BEGINS -- and DAY TURNS TO NIGHT --

and she LOOKS UP -- we TILT UP --

To see we're LOOKING UP AT A WARRIOR as he is STABBED BY A

FIERY LIGHTSABER! He screams and falls to the ground -- we

FOLLOW HIM, revealing Rey again, now in a nighttime

battlefield. She gets to her feet, frightened by what she

sees. We PIVOT AROUND HER to REVEAL KYLO REN, and the six

other KNIGHTS OF REN, who flank him!

Come back around to Rey, soaking now, as the RAIN STOPS and

SUNLIGHT illuminates her -- she turns to look -- we PIVOT --

and see...

A little girl. Rey as a child. She is sobbing, hysterical.

Unkar Plutt's meaty hand holds her thin arm. She is on Jakku,

watching a starship fly into the sky, abandoning her.

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