Star Wars: The Last Jedi Page #4

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FINN:
Breathe.

ROSE:
OK.

FINN:
Yeah, look I'm not a Resistance hero, but... It was nice talking to you, Rose. May the Force be with you.

ROSE:
Wow. You too. Good. But you are a hero. You left the First Order-what you did on the Starkiller Base. When we heard about it, my sister Paige said... "Rose, that's a real hero." "Know right from wrong.... "and don't run away from when it gets hard," she said. You know... Just this morning, I had to stun... three people who were trying to jump ship. In this escape pod.

FINN:
What?

ROSE:
They were running away.

FINN:
That's disgraceful.

ROSE:
I know.

FINN:
Anyway, uh... I gotta get back to what I was doing, so.

ROSE:
What were you doing?

FINN:
Just, just, uh checks.

ROSE:
Checking the escape pods.

FINN:
No, it's routine checks.

ROSE:
While boarding one... with a packed bag.

FINN:
Okay. Listen, I... I can't move. I can't move.

ROSE:
I know.

FINN:
What happened? ROSE: I'm taking you to the bridge and turning you in for desertion. FINN: I was not deserting. - I told you that... ROSE: My sister just died... protecting the fleet. And you were running away. FINN: I'm sorry. This fleet is doomed... If my friend comes back to it, she's doomed too. I've gotta get this... I've gotta get this beacon very far away from here, then she'll find me and be safe. ROSE: You're a selfish traitor. FINN: Look, we cannot outrun the First Order fleets. ROSE: We can jump to light speed! FINN: Well they can track us through lightspeed. ROSE: They can track us through lightspeed? FINN: Yeah. They'll just show up 30 seconds later and we'll have blown a ton of fuel. Of which, by the way, we're dangerously short on. ROSE: They can track us through lightspeed. FINN: Yes. And they could... I can't feel my teeth. What did you shoot me with? ROSE: Active tracking. FINN: What now? ROSE: New hyperspace tracking... Hyperspace tracking is a new tactic but the principal must be the same as any active tracker. FINN: So they're just tracking us... ROSE: Only tracking us... FINN AND ROSE: From the lead ship. ROSE: But we can't get to the tracker. It is an A-class process they'll control from the main bridge. FINN: Well, I mean, yes, but every A-class process... FINN AND ROSE: Has a dedicated power breaker. ROSE: But... Wait, but who knows where the breaker room is on the Star Destroyer? FINN: I'm the guy who used to mop it. If I can get us there.... ROSE: I can shut their tracker down.

POE:
Just give it to me one more time, but simpler. FINN: So the First Order's only tracking us from one Destroyer, the main one. POE: So we make blow that one up? FINN: I like where you're heading, but no. They'd only start tracking us from another Destroyer. ROSE: But if we can.... FINN: If we sneak on board the lead Destroyer and disable the tracker without them realizing, then we can... ROSE: They won't realize if it's for one system cycle. About six minutes. FINN: Sneak on board. Disable the tracker Our fleet escapes before they even realize. POE: How did you two meet? ROSE: Just luck. POE: Yeah? Good luck? ROSE: Not sure yet. FINN: Poe, we've got to do this It will save the fleet and it'll save Rey. C-3PO: If I surely must be the voice of reason... Admiral Holdo will never agree to this plan. POE: Yeah, you're right, 3PO. It's a need-to-know plan, and she doesn't. C-3PO: That was not exactly... POE: All right... You guys shut down that tracker. I'll be here to jump us to lightspeed. The question is... How do we sneak the two of you onto Snoke's destroyer? ROSE: We steal clearance codes. FINN: No, they are Bio-Hexaencripted and rescrambled every hour. We can't get through their security shields undetected. Nobody can.

MAZ:
Could I do it? Of course I could do it. But I can't do it, I'm a little tied down right now. FINN: Maz? What is happening? MAZ: A union dispute, you do NOT want to hear about it. But, lucky for you... There's exactly one guy I trust that can crush that kind of security! He is a master codebreaker, an ace pilot... a poet with a blaster. C-3PO: Oh my. It seems that this codebreaker can practically do everything. MAZ: Oh yes, he can. You will find him with a red ploom flower on his lapel... rolling on a high stakes table... in the casino... on Canto Bight. POE: Canto Bight? - No, no. That's... Maz... Is there any way we can take care of this ourselves? MAZ: I'm sorry, kiddo. This is rarified cracking. If you want to get on that Destroyer, I know only one option. Find the master codebreaker.

KYLO REN:
You'll bring Luke Skywalker to me. You're not doing this. The effort would kill you. Can you see my surroundings? REY: You are going to pay for what you did! KYLO REN: I can't see yours. Just you. So no. This is something else. Luke. LUKE: What's that about? REY: I was cleaning my blaster. It went off. LUKE: Let's get started. REY: Who were those things? LUKE: Caretakers. Island natives. They've kept up the Jedi structures since they've been built. REY: I don't think they like me. LUKE: I can't imagine why.

REY:
Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force. Without the Jedi, we won't stand a chance against him.

LUKE:
What do you know about the Force?

REY:
It's a power that Jedi have that lets them control people and make things float.

LUKE:
Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong. Lesson one, sit here, legs crossed. The Force is not a power you have. It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things, a tension, a balance, that binds the universe together.

REY:
OK. But what is it?

LUKE:
Close your eyes. Breathe. Now, reach out.

REY:
I feel something.

LUKE:
You feel it?

REY:
Yes, I feel it.

LUKE:
It's the Force.

REY:
Really?

LUKE:
Wow, it must be really strong with you.

REY:
I've never felt anythi----OW! You meant reach out like.... I'll try again.

LUKE:
Breathe. Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see?

REY:
The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence.

LUKE:
And between it all?

REY:
Balance. And energy. A Force.

LUKE:
And inside you?

REY:
Inside me the same Force.

LUKE:
And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?

REY:
There's something else beneath the island. A place. A dark place.

LUKE:
Balance. Powerful light, powerful darkness.

REY:
It's cold. It's calling me.

LUKE:
Resist it, Rey. Rey? Rey! You went straight to the dark.

REY:
That place was trying to show me something.

LUKE:
It offered you something you needed. And you didn't even try to stop yourself.

REY:
But I didn't see you. Nothing from you. You've closed yourself off from the Force. Of course you have.

LUKE:
I've seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now.

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