Star Wars: The Force Awakens Page #18

YOUNG GIRL:

No, come back!

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

UNKAR PLUTT:

Quiet, girl!

The ship flies towards the desert sun, which is strangely

eclipsed, as if being eaten by darkness. Rey looks around

her to see she is..

In a NIGHTTIME, BARREN, SNOWY WOODS. She's losing her mind,

confounded and lost and she gets to her feet, her breath

seen in the frigid air -- and then: THE SOUND OF CLASHING

LIGHTSABERS! She moves through the woods, toward the sound.

Rey runs, heart pounding, when KYLO REN EMERGES FROM BEHIND

A TREE! She stops, SCREAMS, FALLS BACK and LANDS IN:

INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

She falls back, out of the room, suddenly sitting in the

hall, out of breath, alarmed and perplexed.

She HEARS something and turns to look.

Maz stands at the end of the corridor, realizing what has

just happened.

REY:

What was that? I shouldn't have

gone in there.

MAZ:

That lightsaber was Luke's. And his

father's before him and now, it calls

to you!

Rey stands, fast. Still overwhelmed, emotional, speechless.

REY:

I have to get back to Jakku.

MAZ:

Han told me.

(reaches out, hold

REY'S HAND)

Dear child. I see your eyes. You

already know the truth. Whomever

you're waiting for on Jakku, they're

never coming back. But... there's

someone who still could.

REY:

Luke.

MAZ:

The belonging you seek is not behind

you. It is ahead. I am no Jedi,

but I know the Force. It moves

through and surrounds every living

thing. Close your eyes. Feel it.

(MORE)

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

MAZ (CONT'D)

The light. It's always been there.

It will guide you. The saber. Take

it.

Rey suddenly stands.

REY:

I'm never touching that again. I

don't want any part of this.

And Rey runs off, passing Maz.

Rey's mind is spinning -- she can't take it -- she turns and

heads off, fast. BB-8 follows her. TIGHT ON MAZ, watching

her go. Maz SIGHS, feeling for the young girl.

EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY

Rey exits the castle, needs to run, but doesn't know where.

Heads toward the woods.

EXT. FOREST - DAY

Rey moves through the foliage, heart racing. Over this, we

HEAR a RUMBLING -- intense, an OMEN of something horrible to

come.

EXT. STARKILLER BASE - ASSEMBLY AREA - DAY

A massive rally:
a thousand STORMTROOPERS, TIE FIGHTERS,

OFFICERS and VEHICLES. BRUTALIST STRUCTURES, mountainous

SNOWY LANDSCAPE. Addressing them at a podium, flanked by

RED FIRST ORDER BANNERS, is HUX. His voice ECHOES:

GENERAL HUX:

Today is the end of the Republic!

The end of a regime that acquiesces

to disorder! At this very moment,

in a system far from here the New

Republic LIES to the GALAXY while

secretly supporting the treachery of

the loathsome Resistance. This fierce

machine which you have built, upon

which we stand, will bring an end to

the Senate! To their cherished fleet!

All remaining systems will bow to

the First Order! And will remember

this... as the last day of the

Republic!

INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - DAY

ENGINEERS perform FINAL FIRING PROTOCOL. There's a sense of

nervousness -- WILL THIS MASSIVE WEAPON ACTUALLY WORK?

EXT. STARKILLER BASE - ASSEMBLY AREA - DAY

GENERAL HUX:

FIRE!

And Hux TURNS to give the signal as we CUT BACK WIDE -- a

ROAR OF BOOTS ON PAVEMENT as the thousand Stormtroopers TURN

to face an endless snowy landscape. WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN?!

EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY

A view PAST THE RALLY. For a moment, nothing. Then, eerily

SILENT, AN IMPOSSIBLE BLAST OF FIRE LIGHT -- LIKE AN ATOMIC

BOMB TEST TIMES A ZILLION -- BLASTS FROM MILES AWAY, INTO

THE SKY! Seconds later, a TERRIBLE EXPLOSIVE ROAR!

The Troopers -- everyone -- is nearly PUSHED BACK by the

FORCE of it -- the magnitude! Many have to COVER THEIR EYES!

For MILES around the FIREBEAM, ICE AND SNOW MELTS INSTANTLY!

Runoff tunnels FLOODED with AN OCEAN OF FRESH WATER. AIRBORNE

CREATURES by the thousands burst from trees and take flight.

Hux watches, his eyes WILD WITH POWER AND EVIL. From HIS

eyes, CUT TO:

INT. STAR DESTROYER BRIDGE - DAY

TIGHT ON KYLO REN as he watches the Starkiller firing.

EXT. MAZ' CASTLE - DAY

Finn boards the Alien Freighter. The SOUND FROM THE SKY

makes him turn back. He sees the PATH OF FIRE and his blood

runs cold, his heart sinks.

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