Star Wars: The Force Awakens Page #8

STORMTROOPER:

Call in the air strike!

REY, FINN AND BB-8 duck into another tent:

INT. NIIMA OUTPOST - TENT - DAY

Rey, Finn and BB-8 move through RUSTY WARES and take cover.

Quiet, urgent:

REY:

They're shooting at both of us!

FINN:

Yeah, they saw you with me! You're

marked!

REY:

Well, thanks for that!

FINN:

I'm not the one who chased you down

with a stick! Does anyone have

blasters around here?!

REY:

(TO BB-8)

Are you okay?

Finn QUIETS HER WITH A GESTURE, HEARING SOMETHING.

PUSH IN ON FINN -- whatever he hears alarms him greatly --

he GRABS HER HAND AGAIN -- PULLS HER AWAY --

REY (CONT'D)

Stop taking my hand!

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - TENT - DAY

Finn pulls Rey from the tent -- BB-8 FOLLOWS --

As they race from the tent a TIE FIGHTER SCREAMS INTO VIEW

FROM BEHIND THE TENTS! A SECOND FOLLOWS CLOSE BEHIND. IT

FIRES AT THEM -- A MASSIVE BLAST SENDS REY AND FINN FLYING --

BB-8 ROLLING!

WIDE SHOT:
TWO TIE FIGHTERS SCREAM OVER the town, the

EXPLOSION throws sand and debris fifty feet into the air.

Rey is thrown HARD to the ground -- she is rattled, truly

afraid. Then she turns: FINN lies nearby, unconscious.

Suddenly afraid, she scrambles to him, rolls him over. BB-8

ROLLS OVER, BEEPING in concern.

REY:

Hey!

As Finn comes to, he sees her. Through his fog:

FINN:

-- Are you okay?

And that very question touches her -- having never in her

life been asked it.

REY:

Yeah.

(extends her hand)

Follow me.

Grateful, Finn takes it. They're off.

LOCALS run amok as TIE fighters DIVE BOMB. REY, Finn and BB-

8 SPRINT, BLASTER EXPLOSIONS GET CLOSER AND CLOSER!

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - SPACEPORT - DAY

Rey, STAFF strapped to her back, leads the way as she, Finn

and BB-8 race into the spaceport. Finn glances back: TWO

TIE FIGHTERS BANK their return. They YELL:

FINN:

We can't outrun them!

Rey POINTS to a parked, four-engine SHIP ahead:

REY:

We might in that quad-jumper!

FINN:

We need a pilot!

REY:

We've got one!

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

FINN:

You?!

(then, indicates one

OFF-CAMERA)

What about that ship?

REY:

That one's garbage!

They run for the JUMPER but the passing TIE FIGHTERS FIRE AT

IT, BLOWING IT APART IN A HUGE FLAME BALL! Rey, coming to a

quick stop, RIGHT UP TO CAMERA:

REY (CONT'D)

The garbage'll do!

She turns and runs back -- Finn and BB-8 follow as they all

run toward the piece of junk -- and we see it for the first

time:
THE MILLENNIUM FALCON!

TIE fighters BANK AROUND AGAIN. Finn, Rey and BB-8 run up

the ramp of the semi-tarped Falcon.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY

Finn, Rey and BB-8 enter the ship -- she hits a control and

the door DESCENDS CLOSED as she races to the cockpit:

REY:

Gunner position's down there!

FINN:

(CLIMBS DOWN)

Y'ever fly this thing?

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY

Rey tosses her staff aside, jumps into the pilot's seat,

frantically flips switches. BB-8 rolls in behind her as the

ENGINES WHINE to life:

REY:

No! This ship hasn't been flown in

years!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUNNER POSITION - DAY

Finn buckles into the gunner seat -- to his shock the SEAT

WHIPS TO THE LEFT, startling him -- he grabs the controls to

steady himself.

FINN:

Great.

(reacts to seat)

Whoa! I can do this, I can do this--

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY

Rey bucks herself up. Doesn't believe her quick words:

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

REY:

I can do this, I can do this--

Rey pulls the yoke:

THE FALCON ENGINES LIGHT UP BRIGHT!

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - SPACEPORT - DAY

The FALCON RISES, WILDLY -- ITS TARPS FLY OFF -- THE SHIP

SPINS AND TILTS, SLAMS INTO AND CRUMBLES THE TOWN'S ARCHWAY!

From the tents, Unkar Plutt runs out, SCREAMS:

UNKAR:

HEY!!!! THAT'S MIIIIIIINE!!!

The Falcon BLASTS AWAY, two TIE FIGHTERS chase it, fast!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY

Rey pilots, headed for the sky!

Finn SWINGS into frame, trying to work the GUNS.

FINN:

Whoa! Hey! Oh! Stay low! Stay

low!

REY:

WHAT?

FINN:

Stay low! It confuses their tracking!

For a crazy instant Rey LETS GO OF THE YOKE, stretches to

the co-pilot controls -- THE FALCON CANTS!

REY:

BB-8, hold on!

Rey finally REACHES the switches, returns to the yoke,

stabilizing the ship, afraid of this next move.

REY:

I'M GOING LOW!!!

EXT. DESERT - DAY

BEHIND THE FALCON as it DRAMATICALLY BANKS AT AN UPWARD ARC,

UPSIDE-DOWN, then SWOOPS PERILOUSLY LOW across the sand.

Two TIE FIGHTERS SCREAM past us!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY

In the cylindrical corridor, BB-8 ROLLS TO THE CEILING!

Rey looks back for a flash as the TIE Fighters pass -- They

are ROCKED BY A BLAST!

(CONTINUED)

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