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Star Wars: Episode 1:The Phantom Menace
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TITLE CARD : A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
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A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title, followed by
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a roll up, which crawls up into infinity.
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EPISODE 1 THE PHANTOM MENACE
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Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to
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outlaying star systems is in dispute.
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Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the
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greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of
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Naboo.
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While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of
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events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights,
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the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the
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conflict.....
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PAN DOWN to reveal a small space cruiser heading TOWARD CAMERA at great
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speed. PAN with the cruiser as it heads towardthe beautiful green planet of
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Naboo, which is surrounded by hundreds of Trade Federation battleships.
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INT. REPUBLIC CRUISER - COCKPIT
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In the cockpit of the cruise, the CAPTAIN and PILOT maneuver closer to one
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of the battleships.
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QUI-GON : (off screen voice) Captain.
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The Captain turns to an unseen figure sitting behind her.
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CAPTAIN : Yes, sir?
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QUI-GON : (V.O) Tell them we wish to board at once.
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CAPTAIN : Yes, sir.
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The CAPTAIN looks to her view screen, where NUTE GUNRAY, a Neimoidian trade
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viceroy, waits for a reply.
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CAPTAIN : (cont'd) With all due respect for the Trade Federation, the
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Ambassodors for the Supreme Chancellor wish to board immediately.
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NUTE : Yes, yes, of coarse...ahhh...as you know, our blockade is perfectly
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legal, and we'd be happy to recieve the Ambassador...Happy to.
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The screen goes black. Out the cockpit window, the sinister battleship
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looms ever closer.
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EXT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - DOCKING BAY - SPACE (FX)
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The small space cruiser docks in the enormous main bay of the Federation
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battleship.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - DOCKING BAY - SPACE
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A PROTOCOL DROID, TC-14, waits at the door to the docking bay. Two WORKER
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DROIDS, PK-4 and EG-9 watch.
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PK-4 : They must be important if the Viceroy sent one of those useless
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protocol gearheads to greet them.
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The door opens, and the Republic cruiser can be seen in the docking bay.
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Two darkly robed figures are greeted by TC-14.
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TC-14 : I'm TC-14 at your service. This way, please.
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They move off down the hallway.
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EG-9 : A Republic cruiser! That's trouble...don't you think?
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PR-4 : I'm not made to think.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - CONFERENCE ROOM
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A door slides open, and the two cloaked shapes are led PAST CAMERA into the
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formal conference room by TC-14.
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TC-14 : I hope you honoured sirs with the most comfortable here. My master
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will be with you shortly.
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The droid bows before OBI-WAN KENOBI and QUI- GON JINN. He backs out the
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door and it closes. The JEDI lower their hoods and look out a large window
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at the lush green planet of Naboo. QUI-GON sixty years old, has long white
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hair in a ponytail. He is tall and striking, with blue eyes. OBI-WAN is
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twenty five, with very short brown hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. Several
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exotic, bird-like creatures SING in a cage near the door.
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OBI-WAN : I have a bad feeling about this.
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QUI-GON : I don't sense anything.
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OBI-WAN : It's not about the mission, Master, it's
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somethging...elsewhere...elusive.
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QUI-GON : Don't center on your anxiety, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration
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here and now where it belongs.
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OBI-WAN : Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future...
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QUI-GON : .....but not at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the
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living Force, my young Padawan.
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OBI-WAN : Yes, Master...how do you think the trade viceroy will deal with
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the chancellor's demands?
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QUI-GON : These Federation types are cowards. The negotiations will be
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short.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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NUTE GUNRAY and DAULTRAY DOFINE stand, stunned, before TC-14.
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NUTE : (shaken) What?!? What did you say?
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TC-14 : The Ambassadors are Jedi Knights, I believe.
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DOFINE : I knew it! They were sent to force a settlement, eh. Blind me,
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we're done for!
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - HALLWAY
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A hologram of NUTE , surrounded by BATTLE DROIDS, appears in the conference
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room hallway.
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NUTE : They must be dead by now. Blast, what's left of them.
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The hologram fades off, as a BATTLE DROID, OWO-1, cautiously opens the
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door. A deadly green cloud billows from the room. BATTLE DROIDS cock their
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weapons as a figure stumbles out of the smoke. It is TC-14 , carrying the
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tray of drinks.
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TC14 : Oh, excuse me, so sorry.
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The PROTOCOL DROID passes the armed camp just as two flashing laser swords
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fly out of the deadly fog, cutting down several BATTLE DROIDS before they
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can fire.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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The bridge is a cocophony of alarms. NUTE and RUNE watch OWO-1 on the
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viewscreen.
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OWO-1 : Not sure exactly what...
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OWO-1 is suddenly cut in half in mid-sentence. RUNE gives NUTE a worried
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look.
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NUTE : What in blazes is going on down there?
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RUNE : Have you ever encountered a Jedi Knight before, sir?
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NUTE : Well, not exactly, but I don't...(panicked) Seal off the bridge.
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RUNE : That won't be enough, sir.
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The doors to the bridge SLAM shut.
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NUTE : I want destroyer droids up here at once!!!
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RUNE : We will not survive this.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - HALLWAY - OUTSIDE BRIDGE
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QUI-GON cuts several BATTLE DROIDS in half, creating a shower of sparks and
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metal parts. OBI-WAN raises his hand, sending several BATTLE DROIDS
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crashing into the wall.
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QUI-GON makes his way to the bridge door and begins to cut through it.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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The CREW is very nervous as sparks start flying around the bridge door.
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QUI-GON and OBI-WAN are on the view screen.
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NUTE : Close the blast doors!!!
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The huge, very thick blast door slams shut, followed by a second door, then
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a third. There is a hissing sound as the huge doors seal shut. QUI-GON tabs
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the door with his sword. The screen goes black as a red spot appears in the
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center of the blast door.
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RUNE : ...They're still coming through!
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On the door, chunks of molten metal begin to drop away.
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NUTE : Impossible!! This is impossible!!
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RUNE : Where are those destroyer droids?!
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - HALLWAY - OUTSIDE BRIDGE
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Ten ugly destroyer WHEEL DROIDS roll down the hallway at full speed. Just
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before they get to the bridge area, they stop and transform into their
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battle configuration. QUI-GON can't see them but senses their presence.
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QUI-GON : Destroyer droids!
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OBI-WAN : Offhand, I'd say this mission is past the negotiaion stage.
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The WHEEL DROIDS, led by P-59, rush the entry area from three hallways,
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blasting away with their laser guns. They stop firing and stand in a
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semi-circle as the smoke clears. OBI-WAN and QUI-GON are nowhere to be
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seen.
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P-59 : Switch to bio...There they are!
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The Jedi materialize at the far end of the hallway and dash through the
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doorway that slams shut. The WHEEL DROIDS blast away at the two JEDI with
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their laser swords.
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OBI-WAN : They have shield generators!
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QUI-GON : It's a standoff! Let's go!
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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NUTE and RUNE stand on the bridge, watching the view screen as the WHEEL
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DROIDS' POV speeds to the doorway.
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RUNE : We have them on the run, sir...they're no match for destroyer
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droids.
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TEY HOW : Sir, they've gone up the ventilation shaft.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - MAIN BAY
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QUI-GON and OBI-WAN appear at a large vent in a giant hanger bay. They are
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careful not to be seen. Thousands of BATTLE DROIDS are loading onto landing
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craft.
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QUI-GON : Battle droids.
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OBI-WAN : It's an invisible army.
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QUI-GON : It's an odd play for the Trade Federation. We've got to warn the
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Naboo and contact Chancellor Valorum. Let's split up. Stow aboard separate
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ships and meet down on the planet.
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OBI-WAN : You were right about one thing, Master. The negotiations were
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short.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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TEY HOW recieves a transmission.
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TEY HOW : Sir, a transmission from the planet.
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RUNE : It's Queen Amidala herself.
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NUTE : At last we're getting results.
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On the view screen, QUEEN AMIDALA appears in her throne room. Wearing her
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elaborate headdress and robes, she sits, surrounded by the GOVERNING
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COUNCIL and FOUR HANDMAIDENS, EIRTAE, YANE, RABE, and SACHE.
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NUTE : (cont'd) Again you come before me, Your highness. The Federation is
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pleased.
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AMIDALA : You will not be pleased when you hear what I have to say,
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Viceroy...Your trade boycott of our planet has ended.
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NUTE smirks at RUNE.
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NUTE : I was not aware of such a failure.
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AMIDALA : I have word that the Senate is finally voting on this blockade of
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yours.
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NUTE : I take it you know the outcome. I wonder why they bother to vote.
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AMIDALA : Enough of this pretense, Viceroy! I'm aware the Chancellor's
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Ambassadors are with you now, and that you have beencommanded to reach a
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settlement.
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NUTE : I know nothing about any Ambassadors...you must be mistaken.
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AMIDALA, surprised at his reaction, studies him carefully.
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AMIDALA : Beware, Viceroy....the Federation is going too far this time.
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NUTE : Your Highness, we would never do anything without the approval of
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the Senate. You assume too much.
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AMIDALA : We will see.
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The QUEEN fades off, and the view screen goes black.
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RUNE : She's right, the Senate will never....
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NUTE : It's too late now.
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RUNE : Do you think she suspects an attack?
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NUTE : I don't know, but we must move quickly to disrupt all communications
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down there.
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INT. NABOO PALACE - THRONE ROOM
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The QUEEN, EIRTAE, SACHE and her Governor, SIO BIBBLE, stand before a
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hologram of SENATOR PALPATINE, a thin, kindly man.
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PALPATINE : ...How could that be true? I have assurances from the
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Chancellor...his Ambassaodrs did arrive. It must be
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the...get...negotiate...
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The hologram of PALPATIONE sputters and fades away.
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AMIDALA : Senator Palpatine?!? (turns to Panaka) What's happening?
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CAPTAIN PANAKA turns to his SARGEANT
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CAPT. PANAKA : Check the transmission generators...
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BIBBLE : A malfunction?
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CAPT. PANAKA : It could be the Federation jamming us. Your Highness.
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BIBBLE : A communications disruption can only mean one thing. Invasion.
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AMIDALA : Don't jump to conclusions, Governor. The Federation would not
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dare go that far.
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CAPT. PANAKA : The Senate would revoke their trade franchise, and they'd be
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finished.
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AMIDALA : We must continue to rely on negotiation.
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BIBBLE : Negotiation? We've lost all communications!...and where atre the
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Chancellors Ambassadors? How can we negotiate? We must prepare to defend
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ourselves.
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CAPT. PANAKA : This is a dangerous situation, Your Highness. Our security
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volunteers will be no match against a battle-hardened Federation army.
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AMIDALA : I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.
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EXT. SPACE LANDING CRAFT - TWILIGHT (FX)
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Six landing craft fly in formation toward the surface of the planet Naboo.
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EXT. NABOO SWAMP - SHALLOW LAKE - TWILIGHT
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Three landing craft slowly descend through the cloud cover of the
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perpetually gray twilight side of the planet. One by one, the Federation
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warships land in the eerie swamp.
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OBI-WAN's head emerges from the mud of a shallow lake. For in the
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background, the activities of the invasion force can be seen in the mist.
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OBI-WAN takes several deep breaths, then dissapears again under the muddy
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swamp. Troop Transports (MTT's) emerge from the landing craft.
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EXT. NABOO EDGE OF SWAMP / GRASS PLAINS - TWILIGHT (FX)
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The droid invasion force moves out of the swamp and onto a grassy plain.
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OOM-9, in his tank, looks out over the vast ARMY marching across the
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rolling hills. A small hologram of RUNE and NUTE stands on the tank.
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RUNE : ...and there is no trace of the Jedi. They may have gotton onto one
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of your landing craft.
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OOM-9 : If they are down here, sir, we'll find them. We are moving out of
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the swamp and are marching on the cities. We are meeting no resistance.
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NUTE : Excellent.
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EXT. NABOO SWAMP - TWILIGHT
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QUI-GON runs through the strange landscape, glancing back to see the
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monstrous troop transports, emerging from the mist. Animals begin to run
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past him in a panic.
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An odd, frog-like Gungan, JAR JAR INKS, squats holding a clam he has
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retrieved from the murky swamp. The shell pops open. JAR JAR's greta tongue
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snaps out and grabs the clam, swallowing it in one gulp.
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JAR JAR looks up and sees QUI-GON and the other creatures running like the
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wind toward him. One of the huge MTT's bears down on the JEDI like a
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charging locomotive. JAR JAR stands transfixed, still holding the clam
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shell in one hand.
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JAR JAR : Oh, noooooooooo!
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JAR JAR drops the shell and grabs onto QUI-GON as he passes. The JEDI is
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caught by surprise.
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JAR JAR : (Cont'd) Hey, help me! Help me!!
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QUI-GON : Let go!
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The machine is about tp crush them as QUI-GON drags JAR JAR behind him.
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Just as the transport is about to hit them, QUI-GON drops, and JAR JAR goes
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splat into the mud with him. The transport races overhead.
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QUI-GON and JAR JAR pull themselves out of the mud. They stand watching the
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war machine dissapear into the mist. JAR JAR grabs QUI-GON and hugs him.
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JAR JAR : Oyi, mooie-mooie! I luv yous!
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The frog-like creature kisses the JEDI.
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QUI-GON : Are you brainless? You almost got us killed!
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JAR JAR : I spake.
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QUI-GON : The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. Now get outta
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here!
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QUI-GON starts to move off, and JAR JAR follows.
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JAR JAR : No...no! Mesa stay...Mesa yous humble servaunt.
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QUI-GON : That wont be necessary.
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JAR JAR : Oh boot tis! Tis demunded byda guds. Tis a live debett, tis. Mesa
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culled Jaja Binkss.
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In the distance, two STAPS burst out of the mist at high speed, chasing
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OBI-WAN.
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QUI-GON : I have no time for this now...
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JAR JAR : Say what?
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The two STAPS barrell down on OBI-WAN.
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JAR JAR : (cont'd) Oh, nooooo! Weesa ganna....
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QUI-GON throws JAR JAR into the mud.
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QUI-GON : Stay down!
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His head pops up.
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JAR JAR : ...dieeee!
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The two troops fire laser bolts at OBI-WAN. QUI-GON deflects the bolts
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back, and the STAPS blow up. One-two. OBI-WAN is exhausted and tries to
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catch his breath.
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OBI-WAN : Sorry, Master, the water fried my weapon.
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OBI-WAN pulls out his burnt laser sword handle. QUI-GON inspects it, as JAR
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JAR pulls himself out of the mud.
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QUI-GON : You forgot to turn your power off again, didn't you?
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OBI-WAN nods sheeplishly.
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QUI-GON : (cont'd) It won't take long to recharge, but this is a lesson I
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hope you've learned, my young Padawan.
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OBI-WAN : Yes, Master.
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JAR JAR : Yousa sav-ed my again, hey?
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OBI-WAN : What's this?
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QUI-GON : A local. Let's go, before more of those droids show up.
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JAR JAR : Mure? Mure did you spake??!?
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OBI-WAN and QUI-GON start to run. JAR JAR tries to keep up.
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JAR JAR : (cont'd) Ex-squeeze me, but da moto grande safe place would be
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Otoh Gunga. Tis where I grew up...Tis safe city.
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They all stop.
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QUI-GON : A city! (JAR JAR nods his head) Can you take us there?
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JAR JAR : Ahhh, will...on second taut...no, not willy.
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QUI-GON : No??!
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JAR JAR : Iss embarrissing, boot... My afrai my've bean banished. My
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forgoten der Bosses would do terrible tings to my. Terrible tings if my
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goen back dare.
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A PULSATING SOUND is heard in the distance.
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QUI-GON : You hear that?
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JAR JAR shakes his head yes.
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QUI-GON : (cont'd) That's the sound of a thousand terrible things heading
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this way...
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OBI-WAN : When they find us, they will crush us, grind us into little
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pieces, then blast us into oblivion!
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JAR JAR : Oh! Yousa point is well seen. Dis way! Hurry!
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JAR JAR turns and runs into the swamp.
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EXT. NABOO SWAMP LAKE - TWILIGHT
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QUI-GON, OBI-WAN and JAR JAR run into a murky lake and stop as JAR JAR
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tries to catch his breath. The TRANSPORTS ARE HEARD in the distance.
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QUI-GON : Much farther?
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JAR JAR : Wesa goen underwater, okeyday?
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QUI-GON and OBI-WAN pull out small capsule from their utility belts that
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turn into breathing masks.
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JAR JAR : (cont'd) My warning yous. Gungans no liken outlaunders. Don't
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expict a wern welcome.
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OBI-WAN : Don't worry, this has not been our day for warm welcomes.
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JAR JAR jumps, does a double somersault with a twist, and dives into the
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water.
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Breath masks on, QUI-GON and OBI-WAN wade in after him.
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EXT. NABOO LAKE - UNDERWATER
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QUI-GON and OBI-WAN swim behind JAR JAR, who is very much at home in the
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water. Down they swim into murky depths. In the distance the glow of Otoh
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Gunga, an underwater city made up of large bubbles, becomes more distinct.
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They approach the strange, art nouveau habitat. JAR JAR swims magically
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through one of the bubble membranes, which seals behind him. OBI-WAN and
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QUI-GON follow.
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INT. OTOH GUNGA - CITY SQUARE
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GUNGANS in the square scatter when they see the strange JEDI. Four GUARDS
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armed with long electro-poles ride two-legged KAADUS into the square. The
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GUARDS, led by CAPTAIN TARPALS, point their lethal poles at the dripping
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trio.
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JAR JAR : Heyo-dalee, Cap'n Tarpals, Mesa back!
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CAPT. TARPALS : Noah gain, Jar Jar. Yousa goen tada Bosses. Yousa in big
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dudu this time.
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CAPT. TARPALS gives JAR JAR a slight zap with his power pole. JAR JAR jumps
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and moves off, followed by the two JEDI.
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JAR JAR : How wude.
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INT. OTOH GUNGA - HIGH TOWER BOARD ROOM
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The Bosses' Board Room has bubble walls, with small lighted fish swimming
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around outside like moving stars. A long circular judge's bench filled with
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GUNGAN OFFICIALS dominates the room. OBI-WAN and QUI-GON stand facing BOSS
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NASS, who sits on a bench higher than the others.
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BOSS NASS : Yousa cannot bees hair. Dis army of mackineeks up dare tis new
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weesong!
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QUI-GON : That droid army is about to attack the Naboo. We must warn them.
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BOSS NASS : Wesa no like da Naboo! Un dey no like uss-ens. Da Naboo tink
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day so smarty den us-ens. Day tink day brains so big.
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OBI-WAN : After those droids take control of the surface, they will come
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here and take control of you.
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BOSS NASS : No, mesa no tink so. Mesa scant talkie witda Naboo, and no
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nutten talkie it outlaunders. Dos mackineeks no comen here! Dey not know of
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uss-en.
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OBI-WAN : You and the Naboo form a symbiont circle. What happens to noe of
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you will affect the other. You must understand this.
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BOSS NASS : Wesa wish no nutten in yousa tings, outlaunder, and wesa no
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care-n about da Naboo.
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QUI-GON : (waves his hand) Then speed us on our way.
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BOSS NASS : Wesa gonna speed yousaway.
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QUI-GON : We need a transport.
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BOSS NASS : Wesa give yousa una bongo. Da speedest way tooda Naboo tis goen
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through da core. Now go.
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QUI-GON : Thank you for your help. We go in peace.
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QUI-GON and OBI-WAN turn to leave.
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OBI-WAN : Master, whats a bongo?
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QUI-GON : A transport, I hope.
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The JEDI notice JAR JAR in chains to one side, waiting to hear his verdict.
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QUI-GON stops. JAR JAR gives him a forlorn look.
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JAR JAR : Daza setten yous up. Goen through da planet core is bad bombin!!
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QUI-GON : Thank you, my friend.
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JAR JAR : Ahhh...any hep hair would be hot.
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JAR JAR's soulful look is counterpointed by a sheepish grin.
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OBI-WAN : We are short of time, Master.
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QUI-GON : We'll need a navigator to get us through the planet's core. This
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Gungan my be of help.
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QUI-GON walks bact to BOSS NASS.
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QUI-GON : (cont'd) What is to become of Jar Jar Binks here?
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BOSS NASS : Binkss brokeen the nocombackie law. Hisen to be pune-ished.
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QUI-GON : He has been a great help to us. I hope the punishment will not be
|
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too severe.
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BOSS NASS : Pounded unto death.
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JAR JAR : (grimacing) Oooooh...Ouch!
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OBI-WAN looks concerned. QUI-GON is thinking.
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QUI-GON : We need a navigator to get us through the planet's core. I have
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saved Jar Jar Binks' life. He owes me what you call a "life.debt."
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BOSS NASS : Binks. Yousa havena liveplay with thisen hisen?
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JAR JAR nods and joins the JEDI. QUI-GON waves his hand.
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QUI-GON : Your gods demand that his life belongs to me now.
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BOSS NASS : Hisen live tis yos, outlauder. Begone wit him.
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JAR JAR : Count mesa outta dis! Better dead here, den deader in da
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|
core...Yee guds, whata mesa sayin?!
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EXT. NABOO CITY - UNDERWATER - SUB (FX)
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A strange little submarine propels itself away from the Otoh Gunga, leaving
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the glow of the settlement in the distance.
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INT. SUB COCKPIT - UNDERWATER
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OBI-WAN in the co-pilots seat, JAR JAR guides the craft.
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JAR JAR : Dis is nusen.
|
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OBI-WAN : Master, why do you keep dragging these pathetic life forms along
|
|
with us?...Here, take over.
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|
JAR JAR : Hey, ho? Where wesa goen??
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|
QUI-GON : You're the navigator.
|
|
JAR JAR : Yo dreamen mesa hopen...,br QUI-GON : Just relax, the Force will
|
|
guide us...
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|
JAR JAR : Ooooh, maxibig..."da Force"...Wellen, dat smells stinkowiff.
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|
|
|
JAR JAR veers the craft to the left and turns the lights on. The coral
|
|
vistas are grand, fantastic, and wonderous.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : Why were you banished, Jar Jar?
|
|
JAR JAR : Tis a long tale, buta small part wawdabe
|
|
mesa...ooooh...aaaa.....clumsy.
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|
OBI-WAN : They banished you because you're clumsy?
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|
|
|
As the little sub glides into the planet core, a large dark shape begins to
|
|
follow.
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|
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|
JAR JAR : Mesa cause-ed mabee one or duey lettal bitty axadentes...yud-say
|
|
boom da gasser, un crash Der Bosses heyblibber...den banished.
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|
|
|
Suddenly there is a loud CRASH, and the little craft lurches to one side.
|
|
QUI-GON looks around and sees a huge, lumimnous OPEE SEA KILLER has hooked
|
|
them with its long gooey tongue.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Full speed ahead.
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|
|
|
Instead of full ahead, JAR JAR jams the controls into reverse. The sub
|
|
flies into the mouth of the creature.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Oooops.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Give me the controls.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN takes over the controls and the OPEE SEA KILLER instantly releases
|
|
the sub from its mouth.
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|
|
|
JAR JAR : Wesa free!
|
|
|
|
As the sub zooms away they see a larger set of jaws, munching on the
|
|
hapless KILLER. The jaws belong to the incredible SANDO AQUA MONSTER. The
|
|
lights on the tiny sub begin to flicker as they cruise deeper into the
|
|
gloom.
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|
|
|
QUI-GON : There's always a bigger fish.
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|
|
|
INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
|
|
|
|
NUTE and RUNE stand before a hologram of DARTH SIDIOUS.
|
|
|
|
NUTE : The invasion is on schedule, My Lord.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Good. I have the Senate bogged down in procedures. By the
|
|
time this incident comes up for a vote, they will have no choice but to
|
|
accept your control of the system.
|
|
NUTE : The Queen has great faith the Senate will side with her.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Queen Amidala is yound and naive. You will find controlling
|
|
her will not be difficult. You have done well, Viceroy.
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|
NUTE : Thank you, My Lord.
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|
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS fades away.
|
|
|
|
RUNE : You didn't tell him about the missing Jedi?
|
|
NUTE : No need to report that to him, until we have something to report.
|
|
|
|
INT. SUB COCKPIT - UNDERWATER
|
|
|
|
Sparks are flying, and water is leaking into the cabin. The sound of the
|
|
power drive drops.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : .....we're losing power.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN is working with the sparking wires. JAR JAR panics.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Stay calm. We're not in trouble yet.
|
|
JAR JAR : What yet? Monstairs out dare! Leak'n in here, all'n sink'n, and
|
|
nooooo power! You nutsen! WHEN YOUSA TINK WESA IN TROUBLE?!!!?
|
|
OBI-WAN : Power's back.
|
|
|
|
The lights flicker on, revealing an ugly COLO CLAW FISH right in front of
|
|
them.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Monstairs back!
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|
|
|
The large COLO CLAW FISH is surprised and rears back. The sub turns around
|
|
and speeds away.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : (cont'd) Wesa in trouble now??
|
|
QUI-GON : Relax.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON puts his hand on JAR JAR's shoulder. JAR JAR relaxes into a coma.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : You overdid it.
|
|
|
|
The COLO CLAW FISH leaps after the fleeing sub as it shoots out of the
|
|
tunnel and into the waiting jaws of the SANDO AQUA MONSTER.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN (cont'd) This is not good!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR regains consciousness.
|
|
JAR JAR : Wesa dead yet?? Oie Boie!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR's eyes bulge, and he faints again. The sub narrowly avoids the
|
|
deadly teeth of the AQUA MONSTER. The COLO CLAW FISH chasing them isn't so
|
|
lucky. It is munched in half by the larger predator. The little sub slips
|
|
away.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Head for that outcropping.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - MAIN ROAD INTO THEED - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The long columns of the DROID ARMY move down the main road leading to
|
|
Theed, the Naboo capital.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED PLAZA - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
As the QUEEN watches helplessly from a window in the palace, a transport
|
|
carrying NUTE and RUNE lands in Theed Plaza. They exit the transport.
|
|
|
|
NUTE : Ah, victory!
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO LAKE - UNDERWATER - SUB (FX)
|
|
|
|
The little sub continue to propel itself toward the surface, which is
|
|
brightly lit.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Wesa dude it!
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - ESTUARY - DAY
|
|
|
|
Paradise. Billowing clouds frame a romantic body of water. There is a LOUD
|
|
RUSH OF BUBBLES, and a small sub bobs to the surface.
|
|
The current in the estuary begins to pull the sub backward into a fast
|
|
moving river. OBI-WAN switches off the two remaining bubble canopies.
|
|
QUI-GON stands up to look around. JAR JAR lets out a sigh of relief.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Wesa safe now.
|
|
QUI-GON : Get this thing started.
|
|
JAR JAR : Dissen berry good. Hey?
|
|
OBI-WAN : What is it?
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR looks back to where they're drifting. He sees they are headed for a
|
|
huge waterfall.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : What!!?? Oie boie!
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN tries to start the engine. The long props behind the sub slowly
|
|
begin to rotate. OBI-WAN struggles until finally, a few feet short of the
|
|
waterfall, the sub starts and is able to generate enough power to stop
|
|
drifting backward in the powerful current. The sub slowly moves forward. In
|
|
the background, QUI-GON takes a cable out of his belt. The engine coughs
|
|
and dies. They start drifting backward again. JAR JAR panics.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : (cont'd) Iyiiyi, wesa die'n here, hey!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON shoots the thin cable, and it wraps itself around a railing on the
|
|
shore. The sub pulls the cable taut, and the little craft hangs
|
|
precariously over the edge of the waterfall.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Come on...
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN climbs out of the sub and pulls himself along the cable. QUI-GON
|
|
starts in after him.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (cont'd) Come on, Jar Jar.
|
|
JAR JAR : No! Too scary!
|
|
OBI-WAN : Get up here!
|
|
JAR JAR : No a mighty no!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR looks back and sees he is hanging over the waterfall.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : (cont'd) Oie boie...mesa comen. Mesa comen!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR starts to climb out of the sub. OBI-WAN is on shore and helps to
|
|
pull QUI-GON out of the water.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : That was close.
|
|
BATTLE DROID 3B3 : (O.S) Drop your weapons!
|
|
|
|
The TWO JEDI turn around to see a BATTLE DROID standing in front of them.
|
|
JAR JAR climbs up on shore between the JEDI.
|
|
|
|
BATTLE DROID 3B3 : I said drop your weapons
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON ignites his laser sword, and in a brief flash, the DROID is cut
|
|
down by the JEDI. A stray laser bolt hits the cable and the sub breaks
|
|
lose, crashing down the waterfall.
|
|
The JEDI move on. JAR JAR reluctantly follows and looks back at the mess.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Whoa!!!
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - PALACE - DAY
|
|
|
|
The waterfalls of Theed sparkle in the noonday sun.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - PALACE THRONE ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA, SIO BIBBLE, and FIVE OF HER HANDMAIDENS (EIRTAE, YANE,
|
|
PADME, RABE, SACHE) are surrounded by TWENTY DROIDS. CAPTAIN PANAKA and
|
|
FOUR NABOO GUARDS are also held at gunpoint. NUTE and RUNE stand in the
|
|
middle of the room.
|
|
|
|
BIBBLE : ...how will you explain this invasion to the Senate?
|
|
NUTE : The Naboo and the Federation will forge a treaty that will
|
|
legitimize our occupation here. I've been assured it will be ratified by
|
|
the Senate.
|
|
AMIDALA : I will not co-operate.
|
|
NUTE : Now, now, your Highness. You are not going to like what we have in
|
|
store for your people. In time, their suffering will persuade you to see
|
|
our point of view. Commander. (OOM-9 steps forward) Process them.
|
|
OOM-9 : Yes, sir! (turns to his sergeant) Take them to Camp Four.
|
|
|
|
The SERGEANT marches the GROUP out of the throne room.
|
|
|
|
EXT. PALACE - PLAZA - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA, PADME, EIRTA, YANE, RABE, SACHE, CAPTAIN PANAKA, SIO
|
|
BIBBLE,
|
|
and FOUR GUARDS are led out of the palace by ten BATTLE DROIDS. The plaza
|
|
is filled with tanks and BATTLE DROIDS, which they pass on their way to the
|
|
detention camp. Unbeknownst to them, QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, and JAR JAR sneak
|
|
across on a walkway above the plaza and jump from a balcony to begin an
|
|
attack to rescue the QUEEN.
|
|
|
|
FOUR BATTLE DROIDS are instantly cut down. MORE DROIDS move forward and are
|
|
also cut down by the JEDIS' flashing lightsabres until there is only the
|
|
DROID SERGEANT left. The SERGEANT starts to run but is pulled back to
|
|
QUI-GON by the Force, until finally he is dispatched by the JEDI.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Yousa guys bombad!
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA and the OTHERS are amazed. JAR JAR is getting used to this.
|
|
They move between two buildings.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Your Highness, we are the Ambassadors, for the Supreme
|
|
Chancellor.
|
|
BIBBLE : Your negotiations seem to have failed, Ambassador.
|
|
QUI-GON : The negotiations never took place. Your Highness, we must make
|
|
contact with the republic.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA steps forward.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : They've knocked out all our communications.
|
|
QUI-GON : Do you have transports?
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : In the main hanger. This way.
|
|
|
|
THEY disappear down an alleyway as the ALARMS are sounded
|
|
|
|
INT. CENTRAL HANGER - HALLWAY - DAY
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA cracks open a side door to the central hanger. QUI-GON looks
|
|
in over his shoulder. OBI-WAN, JAR JAR, and the rest of the group are
|
|
behind him. They see several Naboo spacecraft guarded by about FIFTY BATTLE
|
|
DROIDS. ALARMS can be heard in the distance.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : There are too many of them.
|
|
QUI-GON : That won't be a problem. (to Amidala) Your Highness, under the
|
|
circumstances, Isuggest you come to Coruscant with us.
|
|
AMIDALA : Thank you, Ambassador, but my place is here with my people.
|
|
QUI-GON : They will kill you if you stay.
|
|
BIBBLE : They wouldn't dare.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : They need her to sign a treaty to make this invasion of
|
|
theirs legal. They can't afford to kill her.
|
|
QUI-GON : The situation here is not what it seems. There is something else
|
|
behind all this, Your Highness. There is no logic in the Federation's move
|
|
here. My feelings tell me they will destroy you.
|
|
BIBBLE : Please, Your Highness, reconsider. Our only hope is for the Senate
|
|
to side with us... Senator Palpatine will need your help.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Getting past their blockade is impossible, Your Highness.
|
|
Any attempt to escape will be dangerous.
|
|
BIBBLE : Your Highness, I will stay here and do what I can...They will have
|
|
to retain the Council of Governors in order to maintain control. But you
|
|
must leave...
|
|
|
|
The QUEEN turns to PADME and EIRTAE.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : Either choice presents a great risk...to all of us...
|
|
PADME : We are brave, Your Highness.
|
|
QUI-GON : If you are to leave, Your Highness, it must be now.
|
|
AMIDALA : Then, I will plead our case before the Senate. (to Bibble) Be
|
|
careful, Governor.
|
|
|
|
INT. CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
The door opens to the main hanger. QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, JAR JAR, CAPTAIN
|
|
PANAKA, TWO GUARDS, and THREE HANDMAIDENS (PADME, EIRTAE, RABE),
|
|
followed
|
|
by QUEEN AMIDALA, head for a sleek chrome spacecraft. SIO BIBBLE, YANE and
|
|
SACHE stay behind. The HANDMAIDENS begin to cry.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : We need to free those pilots.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA points to TWENTY GUARDS, GROUND CREW, and PILOTS held in a
|
|
corner by SIX BATTLE DROIDS.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : I'll take care of that. OBI-WAN heads toward the group of
|
|
captured pilots.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON and the QUEEN, CAPTAIN PANAKA, JAR JAR, and the rest Of the GROUP
|
|
approach the GUARDS at the ramp of the Naboo craft.
|
|
|
|
GUARD DROID : Where are you going?
|
|
QUI-GON : I'm Ambassador for the Supreme Chancellor, and I'm taking those
|
|
people to Coruscant.
|
|
DROID GUARD : You're under arrest!
|
|
|
|
The DROID GUARD draws his weapon, but before any of the DROIDS can fire,
|
|
they are cut down. OTHER GUARDS run to their aid. OBI-WAN attacks the
|
|
GUARDS around the PILOTS. QUI-GON stands, fighting off DROIDS as the OTHERS
|
|
rush on board the spacecraft. OBI-WAN, the FREED PILOTS (including RIC
|
|
OLIE), GUARDS and GROUND CREW MEMBERS rush on board the ship. The OTHER
|
|
PILOTS and GUARDS race to SIO BIBBLR. After everyone has made it onto the
|
|
ship, QUI-GONjumps on board. ALARMS sound. MORE DROIDS rush into the hanger
|
|
and fire as the ship takes off.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - HANGER ENTRY - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The ship exits the hanger. BATTLE DROIDS standing in the hanger shoot at
|
|
them.
|
|
|
|
EXT. SPACE (FX)
|
|
|
|
The sleek spacecraft speeds away from the planet of Naboo and heads for the
|
|
deadly Federation blockade.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT
|
|
|
|
The PILOT, RIC OLIE, navigates toward the massive battleship, QUI-GON and
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA watch.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : ....our communications are still jammed.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - DROID HOLD
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR is led into a low, cramped doorway by OBI-WAN.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : Now stay here, and keep out of trouble.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN closes the door. JAR JAR looks around and sees a long row of five
|
|
short, dome-topped ASTRO DROIDS (R-2 units). The all look alike, except for
|
|
thier paint color, and they all seem to be shut down.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Ello, boyos. (no response) Disa wanna longo trip...hey?
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR taps a bright red R-2 UNIT on the head, and its head pops up a bit.
|
|
He lets out a gasp as he lifts the head.
|
|
|
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JAR JAR : (Cont'd) Tis opens?...Oooops! Many springs and things come flying
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out.
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JAR JAR quickly closes it again, very embarrassed.
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JAR JAR : (Cont'd) Yoi! Just yoken!
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RIC OLIE : Powers back! That little droid did it. He bypassed the main
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power drive. Deflector shield up, at maximum.
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The lone BLUE DROID finishes his repairs and goes back into the ship. The
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Naboo spacecraft races away from the Federation battleship.
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RIC OLIE : There's not enough power to get us to Coruscant...the hyperdrive
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is leaking.
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QUI-GON : We'll have to land somewhere to refuel and repair the ship.
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QUI-GON studies a star chart on a monitor.
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OBI-WAN : Here, Master. Tatooine... It's small, out of the way, poor... The
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Trade Federation has no presence there.
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CAPT. PANAKA : How can you be sure?
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QUI-GON : It's controlled by the Hutts...
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CAPT. PANAKA : The Hutts??
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OBI-WAN : It's risky...but there's no alternative.
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CAPT. PANAKA : You can't take Her Royal Highness there! The Hutts are
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gangsters... If they discovered her...
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QUI-GON : ...It would be no different than if we landed on a system
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controlled by the Federation...except the Hutts aren't looking for her,
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which gives us an advantage.
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CPATAIN PANAKA takes a deep breath in frustration.
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EXT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT (FX)
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The Naboo spacecraft races away.
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - CONFERENCE ROOM
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NUTE and RUNE sit around a conference table with a hologram of DARTH
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SIDIOUS.
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NUTE : We control all the cities in the North and are searching for any
|
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other settlements...
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DARTH SIDIOUS : Destroy all high-ranking officials,
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Viceroy...slowly...quietly. And Queen Amidala, has she signed the treaty?
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NUTE : She has disappeared, My Lord. One Naboo cruiser got pat the
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blockade.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : Viceroy, find her! I want that treaty signed.
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NUTE : My Lord, it's impossible to locate the ship. It's out of our range.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : ...not for a Sith...
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A second SITH LORD appears behind DARTH SIDIOUS.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : (Cont'd) ...Viceroy, this is my apprentice. Lord Maul. He
|
|
will find your lost ship.
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NUTE : Yes, My Lord. The hologram fades off.
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NUTE : (Cont'd) This is getting out of hand...now there are two of them.
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RUNE : We should not have made this bargain. What will happen when the Jedi
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|
become aware of these Sith Lords?
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INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - QUEENS CHAMBERS
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QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and the LITTLE BLUE DROID stand before
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QUEEN AMIDALA and her THREE HANDMAIDENS, PADME, EIRTAE and RABE.
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CAPT. PANAKA : ...An extremely well put together little droid. Without a
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|
doubt, it saved the ship, as well as our lives.
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|
AMIDALA : It is to be commended...what is its number?
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|
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|
The LITTLE BLUE DROID lets out a series of bleeps.CAPTAIN PANAKA leans over
|
|
and scrapes some dirt off of the side of the DROID and read the number:
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|
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CAPT. PANAKA : R2-D2, Your Highness.
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AMIDALA : Thank you, Artoo Detoo. You have proven to be very loyal...Padme!
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PADME bows before the QUEEN.
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AMIDALA : (Cont'd) Clean this droid up the best you can. It deserves our
|
|
gratitude...(to Panaka) Continue, Captain.
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|
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|
CAPTAIN PANAKA looks nervously to OBI-WAN and QUI-GON.
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|
QUI-GON : Yor Highness, we are heading for a remote planet called Tatooine.
|
|
It is a system far beyond the reach of the Trade Federation. There we will
|
|
be able to make needed repairs, then travel on to Coruscant.
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA : Your Highness, Tatooine is very dangerous. It's controlled
|
|
by an alliance of gangs called the Hutts. I do not agree with the Jedi on
|
|
this.
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|
QUI-GON : You must trust my judgement, Your Highness.
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|
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AMIDALA and PADME exchange looks. PADME moves next to the DROID.
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|
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|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - MAIN AREA
|
|
|
|
PADME sits in the Main Area, cleaning R2-D2, the brave little Astra Droid.
|
|
JAR JAR pops out of an open door.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Hidoe!
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|
|
|
Both PADME and ARTOO jump and let out a little SCREAM. The Gungan is
|
|
embarrassed that he frightened them.
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|
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|
JAR JAR : (Cont'd) Sorry, nomeanen to scare yousa.
|
|
PADME : That's all right.
|
|
JAR JAR : I scovered oily back dare. Needen it?
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|
PADME : Thank you. This little guy is quite a mess.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR hands PADME the oil can.
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|
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|
JAR JAR : Mesa Ja Ja Binksss... PADME : I'm Padme, I attend Her Highness,
|
|
You're a Gungan, aren't you? (Jar Jar nods) How did you end up here with
|
|
us?
|
|
JAR JAR : Me no know...mesa day starten pitty okeyday witda brisky morning
|
|
munchen. Den boom....getten berry skeered, un grabbed dat Jedi, and before
|
|
mesa knowen it...pow! Mesa here. (he shrugs)...getten berry berry skeered.
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|
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|
ARTOO BEEPS a sympathetic beep.
|
|
|
|
INT. ANBOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN, QUI-GON, and CAPTAIN PANAKA watch over RIC OLIE'S shoulder. A
|
|
large yellow planet appears directly ahead. RIC OLIE searches his scopes.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : Tahyt's it. Tatooine.
|
|
RIC OLIE : There's a settlement...a spaceport, looks like.
|
|
QUI-GON : Land near the outskirts. We don't want to attract any attention.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - SPACE (FX)
|
|
|
|
The ship heads toward the planet of Tatooine.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The Naboo spacecraft lands in the desert in a swirl of dust. The spaceport
|
|
of Mos Espa is seen in the distance.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - MAIN AREA
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN is hoisting the hyperdrive out of a floor panel. JAR JAR rushes up
|
|
to him and falls to his knees.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Obi-Wan, sire, pleeese, no mesa go!
|
|
OBI-WAN : Sorry, Qui-Gon's right. You'll make things less obvious.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR walks back to ARTOO in the hallway as QUI-GON (dressed as a farmer)
|
|
enters the main area.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : (Cant'd) The Hyperdrive generator is gone. We will need a new
|
|
one.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON moves closer to OBI-WAN and speaks quietly to him.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Don't let them send ant transmissions. Be wary...I sense a
|
|
disturbance in the Force.
|
|
OBI-WAN : I fell it also, Master.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON goes into the hallway to meet up with ARTOO and JAR JAR. They head
|
|
to the exit ramp.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - SPACESHIP - DAY
|
|
|
|
They start their trek across the desert toward the city of Mos Espa. In the
|
|
distance, a strange looking caravan makes its way toward the spaceport.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dis sun doen murder tada skin.
|
|
|
|
From the spaceship, CAPTAIN PANAKA and PADME run toward them.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Wait!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON stops as they catch up. PADME is dresses in rough peasant's garb.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : (Cont'd) Her Highness commands you to take her handmaiden
|
|
with you. She wishes for her to observe the local...
|
|
QUI-GON : No more commands from Her Highness today, Captain. This spaceport
|
|
is not going to be pleasant...
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : The Queen wishes it. She is curious about this planet.
|
|
PADME : I've been trained in defense... I can take care of myself.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Don't make me go back and tell her you refuse.
|
|
QUI-GON : I don't have time to argue. But this is not a good idea. Stay
|
|
close to me.
|
|
|
|
He gives PADME a stern look.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - DAY
|
|
|
|
The little GROUP walks down the main street of Mos Espa. They pass
|
|
dangerous looking citizens of all types. PADME looks around in awe at this
|
|
exotic enviroment.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : ...moisture farms for the most part, but also a few indigenous
|
|
tribes and scavengers. The few spaceports like this one are havens for
|
|
those who do not wish to be found...
|
|
PADME : ....like us. JAR JAR is in a constant state of panic.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO whistles along, with perfect confidence.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dissen berry berry bad. (steps in ooze)
|
|
Ooooh...icky...icky...goo.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - JUNK DEALER PLAZA - DAY
|
|
|
|
The GROUP comes to a little plaza surrounded by several junk spaceship
|
|
dealers.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : We'll try one of the smaller dealers.
|
|
|
|
They head for a little junk shop that has a huge pile of broken spaceships
|
|
stacked up behind it.
|
|
|
|
INT. WATTO'S JUNK SHOP - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, JAR JAR, PADME, and ARTOO enter the dingy junk shop and are
|
|
greeted by WATTO, a pudgy blue alien who flies on short little wings like a
|
|
hummingbird.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : (subtitled) Hi chuba da naga? (What do you want?)
|
|
QUI-GON : I need parts for a J-type 327 Nubian.
|
|
WATTO : Ah yes, ah yes. Nubian. We have lots of that. What kinda junk?
|
|
(subtitled) Peedenkel! Naba dee unko (Boy, get in here! Now!)
|
|
QUI-GON : My droid here has a readout of what I need.
|
|
|
|
A disheveled boy, ANAKIN SKYWALKER, runs in from the junk yard. He is about
|
|
nine years old, very dirty, and dressed in rags. WATTO raises a hand, and
|
|
ANAKIN flinches.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : (subtitled) Coona tee-tocky malia? (What took you so long?)
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) Mel tassa cho-passa... (I was cleaning the bin like
|
|
you...)
|
|
WATTO : (subtitled) Chut-Chut! Ganda doe wallya. (Never mind! Watch the
|
|
store) Me dwana no bata. (I've got some selling to do here.) (to Gui-Gon)
|
|
Soooo, let me take- a thee out back. Ni you'll find what you need.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO and QUI-GON follow WATTO toward the junk yard, leaving JAR JAR with
|
|
PADME and the young boy ANAKIN. JAR JAR picks up a gizmo, trying to figure
|
|
out its purpose. QUI-GON takes the part out of his hand and puts it back.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Don't touch anything.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR makes a rude face to QUI-GON's back and sticks out his long tongue.
|
|
ANAKIN sits on the counter, pretending to clean a part, staring at PADME.
|
|
She is the most beautiful creaure he has ever seen in his life. PADME is a
|
|
little embarrassed by his stare, but she musters up an amused smile.
|
|
Finally, he gets the courage to speak.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Are you an angel?
|
|
PADME : What?
|
|
ANAKIN : An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They
|
|
live on the Moons of Iego I thimk. They are the most beautiful creatures in
|
|
the universe. They are good and kind, and so pretty they make even the most
|
|
hardened spice pirate cry.
|
|
|
|
PADME looks at him, not knowing what to say. PADME : I've never heard of
|
|
angels.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : You must be one...maybe you just don't know it.
|
|
PADME : You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?
|
|
ANAKIN : Since I was very little, three, I think. My Mom and I were sold to
|
|
Gardulla the Hutt, but she lost us, betting on the Podraces, to Watto,
|
|
who's a lot better master than Gardulla, I think.
|
|
PADME : You're...a slave?
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN looks at PADME defiantly.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I am a person! My name is Anakin.
|
|
PADME : I'm sorry. I don't fully understand. (looking around)This is a
|
|
strange world to me.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN studies her intently.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : You are a strange girl to me.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR pushes the nose on what appears to be a LITTLE DROID, and it
|
|
instantly comes to life, grows legs and arms, and starts marching around,
|
|
knocking over everything. JAR JAR hold on but can't stop it.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Hit the nose!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR hits the nose, and the DROID collapses back into its original
|
|
state. ANAKIN and PADME laugh. ANAKIN watches PADME straighten her hair.
|
|
|
|
EXT. WATTO'S JUNK YARD - BEHIND SHOP - DAY
|
|
|
|
WATTO reads a small portable monitor he is holding. He stands before a
|
|
hyperdrive.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : ...Here it is...a T-14 hyperdrive generator!! Thee in luck, I'm the
|
|
only one hereabouts who has one...but thee might as well buy a new ship. It
|
|
would be cheaper, I think...Sying of which, how's thee going to pay for all
|
|
this?
|
|
QUI-GON : I have 20,000 Republic dataries.
|
|
WATTO : Republic credits?!? Republic credits are no good out here. I need
|
|
something more real...
|
|
QUI-GON : I don't have anything else. (raising his hand) But credits will
|
|
do fine.
|
|
WATTO : No they won'ta. QUI-GON, using his mind power, waves his hand
|
|
again.
|
|
QUI-GON : Credits will do fine.
|
|
WATTO : No, they won'ta. What you think you're some kinda Jedi, waving your
|
|
hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks don'ta work on me-only
|
|
money. No money, no parts! No deal! And no one else has a T-14 hyperdrive,
|
|
I promise you that.
|
|
|
|
INT. WATTO'S JUNK SHOP - DAY
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR pulls a part out of a stack of parts to inspect it, and they all
|
|
come tumblimg down. He struggles to catch them, only to knock more down.
|
|
ANAKIN and PADME are oblivious.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : ...wouldn't have lasted long if I weren't so good at fixing
|
|
things. I'm making my own droid...
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON hurries into the shop, followed by ARTOO. QUI-GON : We're leaving.
|
|
JAR JAR follows QUI-GON. PADME gives ANAKIN a loving look.
|
|
|
|
PADME : I'm glad I met you,....ah...
|
|
ANAKIN : ...Anakin.
|
|
PADME : Anakin.
|
|
ANAKIN : Anakin Skywalker.
|
|
PADME : Padme Naberrie.
|
|
|
|
PADME turns, and ANAKIN looks sad as he watches her leave.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm glad I met you too.
|
|
|
|
WATTO enters the junk yard, shaking his head.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : (subtitled) Ootmians! Tinka me chasa hopoe ma booty na nolia.
|
|
(Outlanders! They think because we live so far from the center, we don't
|
|
know nothing.)
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) La lova num botaffa. (They seemed nice to me.) WATTO :
|
|
(subtitled) Fweepa niaga. Tolpa da bunky dunko. (Clean the racks, then you
|
|
can go home.)
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN lets out a "yipee" and runs out the back.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - ALCOVE - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, ARTOO, JAR JAR, and PADME have found a quiet spot between two
|
|
buildings. The busy street beyond is filled with dangerous looking
|
|
creatures. QUI-GON is talking on his com-link, while JAR JAR nervously
|
|
watches the street. OBI-WAN is in the main hold of the Naboo craft.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : ...Obi-Wan, you're sure there isn't anything of value left on
|
|
board?
|
|
OBI-WAN : (V.O) A few containers of supplies, the Queen's wardrobe, maybe.
|
|
Not enough for you to barter with. Not in the ammounts you're talking
|
|
about.
|
|
QUI-GON : All right. Another solution will present itself. I'll check back.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON puts his comlink away and starts out into the main street. JAR JAR
|
|
grabs his arm.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Noah gain...da beings hereabouts cawazy. Wesa be robbed un
|
|
crunched.
|
|
QUI-GON : Not likely. We have nothing of value, that's our problem.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - MARKET - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, PADME, JAR JAR, and ARTOO move out into the street. JAR JAR is
|
|
walking behind the others. They walk by an outdoor cafe filled with a rough
|
|
gang of aliens, one of which is especially ugly, SEBULBA, a spider-like
|
|
creature. JAR JAR stops for a moment in front of a stall selling dead frogs
|
|
hanging on a wire. He looks around to see if anyone is looknig, then sticks
|
|
out his tongue, and gets hold of one, pulling it into his mouth.
|
|
Unfortunately, the frog is tied tightly to the wire. The vendor suddenly
|
|
appears.
|
|
|
|
VENDOR : Hey, that will be seven truguts!!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR opens his mouth in surprise, and the frog snaps away, ricochets
|
|
around the market, and lands in Sebulba's soup, splashing him. As JAR JAR
|
|
moves away from the VENDOR, SEBULBA jumps up on the table and grabs the
|
|
hapless Gungan.
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA : (subtitled) Chuba!! (You!!) JAR JAR : Who, mesa?? SEBULBA :
|
|
(subtitled) Ni chuba na?? (Is this yours??)
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA holds the frog up to the Gungan threateningly. SEVERAL OTHER
|
|
CREATURES start to gather. SEBULBA shoves JAR JAR to the ground. The Gungan
|
|
desperately tries to scramble to safety.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : (to himself) Why mesa always da one??
|
|
ANAKIN : (V.O) Because you're afraid.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR turns to see ANAKNI pushing his way next to him. The boy stands up
|
|
to SEBULBA in a very self-assured way.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) Chess ko, Sebulba...Coo wolpa tooney rana. (Careful,
|
|
Sebulba...This one's very connected.)
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA stops his assault on JAR JAR and turns to ANAKIN.
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA : (subtitled) Tooney rana nu pratta dunko, shag. (Connected?? Whada
|
|
you mean, slave?)
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) Oh da Hutt...cha porko ootman geesa...me teesa rodda
|
|
co pana pee choppa chawa. (As in Hutt...big time outlander, this one... I'd
|
|
hate to see you diced before we race again.)
|
|
SEBULBA : (subtitled) Neek me chowa, wermo, mo killee ma klounkee(Next time
|
|
we race, wermo, it will be the end of you!) Una noto wo shag, me wompity du
|
|
pom pom. (If you weren't a slave, I'd squash you right now.)
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA turns away.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) Eh, chee bana do mullee ra. (Yeah, it'd be a pity if
|
|
you had to pay for me.)
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, PADME and ARTOO arrive.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Hi! Your buddy here was about to be turned into orange
|
|
goo. He picked a fight with a Dug. An especially dangerous Dug called
|
|
Sebulba.
|
|
JAR JAR : Nosir, nosir. Mesa hate crunchen. Dat's da last ting mesa wanten.
|
|
QUI-GON : Nevertheless, the boy is right...you were heading for trouble.
|
|
Thank you, my young friend.
|
|
|
|
PADME looks at ANAKINB and smiles; he smiles back. They start walking down
|
|
the crowded street.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Mesa doen nutten!
|
|
ANAKIN : Fear attracts the fearful. He was trying to overcome his fear by
|
|
squashing you...be less afraid.
|
|
PADME : And that works for you.
|
|
ANAKIN : To a point. (he smiles)
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - SPACESHIP - DAY
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN stands in front of the Naboo spacecraft as the wind picks up and
|
|
begins to whip at his robe. CAPTAIN PANAKA exits the ship and joins him.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : This storm's going to slow them down.
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CAPT. PANAKA : It looks pretty bad. We'd better seal the ship.
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CAPTAIN PANAKA'S comlink sounds off.
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CAPT. PANAKA : (Cont'd) Yes? CAPT. PANAKA : We'll be right there.
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EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - FRUIT STAND - DAY
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ANAKIN and the GROUP stop at a fruit stand run by a jolly, but very poor,
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old lady named JIRA.
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ANAKIN : How are you feeling today, Jira?
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JIRA : The heat's never been kind to me, you know, Annie!
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ANAKIN : Guess what? I've found that cooling unit I've been searching for.
|
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It's pretty beat up, but I'll have it fixed up for you in no time, I
|
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promise.
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JIRA : You're a fine boy, Annie.
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ANAKIN : I'll take four pallies today. (to Padme) You'll like these...
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ANAKIN reaches in his pocket and comes up with three coins. He drops one.
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QUI-GON picks it up, revealing for a moment, his lightsabre.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Whoops, I thought I had more...Make thgat three, I'm not
|
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hungry.
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The wind picks up. SHOP OWNERS are starting to close up their shops as JIRA
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gives them their pallies.
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JIRA : Gracious, my bones are aching...storm's coming on, Annie. You'd
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better get home quick.
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ANAKIN : (to QUI-GON) Do you have shelter?
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QUI-GON : We'll hed back to our ship.
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ANAKIN : Is it far?
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PADME : On the outskirts.
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ANAKIN : You'll never reach the outskirts in time...sandstorms are very,
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very dangerous. Come with me. Hurry!
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The GROUP follows ANAKIN as he rushes down the windy street.
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EXT. MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - STREET - SANDSTORM - DAY
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The wind is blowing hard as QUI-GON, JAR JAR, and PADME follow ANAKIN down
|
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the street and into a slave hovel.
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INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - MAIN ROOM - DAY
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QUI-GON, JAR JAR, ARTOO, and PADME enter a small living space.
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ANAKIN : Mom! Mom! I'm home.
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JAR JAR : Dissen cozy.
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Anakin's mother, SHMI SKYWALKER, a warm, friendly woman of forty, enters
|
|
from her work area and is startled to see the room full of people.
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|
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SHMI : Oh, my!! Annie, what's this?
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ANAKIN : These are my friends, Mom. This is Padme, and...gee, I don't know
|
|
any of your names.
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|
QUI-GON : I'm Qui-Gon Jinn, and this is Jar Jar Binks. ARTOO lets out a
|
|
little beep.
|
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PADME : ...and our droid, Artoo-Detoo.
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm building a droid. You wanna see?
|
|
SHMI : Anakin! Why are they here?
|
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ANAKIN : A sandstorm, Mom. Listen.
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|
|
|
The wind HOWLS outside.
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QUI-GON : Your son was kind enough to offer us shelter.
|
|
ANAKIN : Come on! Let me show you Threepio!
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|
|
|
ANAKIN leads PADME into the other room. ARTOO follows, beeping all the way.
|
|
QUI-GON takes five small capsules from his utility belt and hands them to
|
|
SHMI.
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|
QUI-GON : I have enough food for a meal.
|
|
SHMI : Oh, tank you. Thank you so much. I'm sorry if I was abrupt. I'll
|
|
never get used to Anakin's surprises.
|
|
QUI-GON : He's a very special boy. SHMI looks at him as if he's discovered
|
|
a secret.
|
|
SHMI : Yes, I know.
|
|
|
|
INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - BEDROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN shows off his ANDROID, which is lying on his workbench. There is one
|
|
eye in the head; the body, arms, and legs have no outer coverings.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Isn't he great?! He's not finished yet.
|
|
PADME : He's wonderful!
|
|
ANAKIN : You reall like him? He's a protocol droid...to help Mom. Watch!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN pushes a switch, and the DROID sits up. Anakin rushes around, grabs
|
|
an eye and puts it in one of the sockets.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : How do you do, I am See-Threepio, Human Cyborg Relations. How
|
|
might I serve you?
|
|
PADME : He's perfect.
|
|
ANAKIN : When the storm is over, you can see my racer. I'm building a
|
|
Podracer!
|
|
|
|
PADME smiles at his enthusiasm. ARTOO lets out a flurry of beeps and
|
|
whistles.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : I beg your pardon....what do you mean I'm naked?
|
|
|
|
ARTOO BEEPS
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : (Cont'd) My parts are showing? Oh, my goodness. How
|
|
embarrassing!
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - QUEENS CHAMBERS
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA, EIRTAE, RABE, and OBI-WAN watch a very bad transmission of a SIO
|
|
BIBBLE hologram.
|
|
|
|
BIBBLE : ...cut off all food supplies until you return...the death toll is
|
|
catastrophic...we must bow to their wishes, Your Highness...Please tell us
|
|
what to do! If you can hear us, Your Highness, you must contact me...
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA looks upset...almost nervous.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : It's a trick. Send no reply... Send no transmission of any kind.
|
|
|
|
INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - MAIN ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON listens to his comlink. OBI-WAN is in the cockpit.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : ...the Queen is upset...but absolutly no reply was sent.
|
|
QUI-GON : It sounds like bait to establish a connection trace.
|
|
OBI-WAN : What if it is true and the people are dying?
|
|
QUI-GON : Either way, we're running out of time.
|
|
|
|
EXT. CORUSCANT - BALCONY OVERLOOKING CITY - NIGHT
|
|
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS and DARTH MAUL look out over the vast city.
|
|
|
|
DARTH MAUL : Tatooine is sparsely populated. If the trace was correct, I
|
|
will find them quickly, Master.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Move against the Jedi first...you will then have no
|
|
difficulty taking the Queen back to Naboo, where she will sign the treaty.
|
|
DARTH MAUL : At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will
|
|
have revenge.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : You have been well trained, my young apprentice, they will
|
|
be no match for you. It is too late for them to stop us now. Everything is
|
|
going as planned. The Republic will soon be in my command.
|
|
|
|
The hologram of DARTH MAUL fades off as DARTH SIDIOUS looks out over the
|
|
city. EXT. MOS ESPA - SANDSTORM - DAY
|
|
|
|
The giant sandstorm engulfs the town, including the Naboo spaceship on the
|
|
outskirts of the city center, where Watto's ship is; and the slave
|
|
quarters, where drifts of sand begin building up against Anakin's house.
|
|
|
|
INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - MAIN ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, ANAKIN, SHMI, JAR JAR, and PADME are seated around a makeshift
|
|
table, having dinner as the wind howls outside.
|
|
JAR JAR slurps his soup rather loudly. Everyone looks at him. He turns a
|
|
little brighter red.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : All slaves have transmitters placed inside their bodies somewhere.
|
|
ANAKIN : I've been working on a scanner to try and locate them, but no
|
|
luck.
|
|
SHMI : Any attempt to escape...
|
|
ANAKIN : ...and they blow you up...poof!
|
|
|
|
PADME and JAR JAR are horrified.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : How wude.
|
|
PADME : I can't believe there is still slavery in the galaxy. The
|
|
Republic's anti-slavery laws...
|
|
SHMI : The Republic doesn't exist out here...we must survive on our own.
|
|
|
|
An awkward silence. ANAKIN attempts to end the embarrassment.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Have you ever seen a Podrace?
|
|
|
|
PADME shakes her head no. She notices the concern of SHMI. JAR JAR snatches
|
|
some food from a bowl at the other end of the table with his tongue.
|
|
QUI-GON gives him a dirty look.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : They have Podracing on Malastare. Very fast, very dangerous.
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm the only human who can do it.
|
|
|
|
SHMI looks askance at her son.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Mom, what? I'm not bragging. It's true. Watto says he's
|
|
never heard of a human doing it.
|
|
QUI-GON : You must have Jedi reflexes if you race Pods.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN smiles. JAR JAR attempts to snare another bit of food from the bowl
|
|
with his tongue, but QUI-GON, in a flash, grabs it between his thumb and
|
|
forefinger. JAR JAR is startled.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Don't do that again.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR tries to acknowledge with some silly mumbling. QUI-GON lets go of
|
|
the tongue, and it snaps back into JAR JAR's mouth.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I...I was wondering...something...
|
|
QUI-GON : What?
|
|
ANAKIN : Well, ahhh...you're a Jedi Knight, aren't you?
|
|
QUI-GON : What makes you think that?
|
|
ANAKIN : I saw your laser sword. Only Jedi carry that kind of weapon.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON leans back and slowly smiles.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Perhaps I killed a Jedi and stole it from him.
|
|
ANAKIN : I don't think so... No one can kill a Jedi Knight.
|
|
QUI-GON : I wish that were so...
|
|
ANAKIN. I had a dream I was a Jedi. I came back here and freed all the
|
|
slaves...have you come to free us?
|
|
QUI-GON : No, I'm afraid not...
|
|
ANAKIN : I think you have...why else would you be here?
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON thinks for a moment.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : I can see there's no fooling you...(leans forward) You mustn't
|
|
let anyone know about us...we're on our way to Coruscant, the central
|
|
system in the Republic, on a very important mission, and it must be kept
|
|
secret.
|
|
ANAKIN : Coruscant...wow...how did you end up here in the outer rim?
|
|
PADME : Our ship was damaged, and we're stranded here until we can repair
|
|
it.
|
|
ANAKIN : I can help! I can fix anything!
|
|
QUI-GON : I believe you can, but our first job is to aquire the parts we
|
|
need...
|
|
JAR JAR : Wit no-nutten mula to trade.
|
|
PADME : These junk dealers must have a weakness of some kind.
|
|
SHMI : Gambling. Everything here revolves around betting on those awful
|
|
races.
|
|
QUI-GON : Podracing... Greed can be a powerful ally.. if it's used
|
|
properly.
|
|
ANAKIN : I've built a racer! It's the fastest ever...There's a big race
|
|
tomorrow, on Boonta Eve. You could enter my pod. It's all but finished...
|
|
SHMI : Anakin, settle down. Watto won't let you...
|
|
ANAKIN : Watto doesn't know I've built it. (to Qui-Gon) You could make him
|
|
think it's your's, and you could get him to let me pilot it for you.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON looks to SHMI. She is upset.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : I don't want you to race, Annie...It's awful. I die every time Watto
|
|
makes you do it.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : But Mom, I love it...and they need help...they're in trouble. The
|
|
prize money would more than pay for the parts they need. JAR JAR : Wesa ina
|
|
pitty bad goo.
|
|
GUI-GON : Your mother's right. Is there anyone friendly to the Republic who
|
|
might be able to help us?
|
|
|
|
SHMI shakes her head no.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : We have to help them, Mom...you said that the biggest problem in
|
|
the universe is no one helps each other...
|
|
SHMI : Anakin, don't...
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR belches. There is silence for a moment as they eat.
|
|
|
|
PADME : I'm sure Qui-Gon doesn't want to put your son in danger. We will
|
|
find another way...
|
|
SHMI : No, Annie's right, there is no other way... I may not like it, but
|
|
he can help you...he was meant to help you.
|
|
ANAKIN : Is that a yes? That is a yes!
|
|
|
|
The storm continues to rage outside the slave hovel.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - JUNK DEALER PLAZA - DAY
|
|
|
|
The storm has passed. VENDORS and STREET PEOPLE clean up the mess and
|
|
rebuild their food stalls. JAR JAR sits on a box in front of Watto's parts
|
|
shop, watching all the activity with growing nervousness. ARTOO is standing
|
|
next to him. PADME stops QUI-GON as he is about to enter the shop.
|
|
|
|
PADME : Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know.
|
|
The Queen will not approve.
|
|
QUI-GON : The Queen does not need to know.
|
|
PADME : Well, I don't approve.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON turns and starts into the shop.
|
|
|
|
INT. WATTO'S JUNK SHOP - DAY
|
|
|
|
WATTO and ANAKIN are in the middle of an animated discussion in Huttese.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : Patta go bolla!
|
|
ANKAIN : No batta!
|
|
WATTO : Pedunky. Maa kee cheelya.
|
|
ANAKIN : Bayno, Bayno!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON walks in, and WATTO and ANAKIN join him.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : The boy tells me you wanta sponser hi insa race. You can't afford
|
|
parts. How can you do this? Not on Republic credits, I think. (he laughs)
|
|
QUI-GON : My ship will be the entry fee.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON pulls a small object that looks like a watch out of his pocket, and
|
|
a hologram of the Naboo spacecraft appears about a foot long in front of
|
|
WATTO. He studies it.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : Not bad...not bad...a Nubian.
|
|
QUI-GON : It's in good order, except for the parts we need.
|
|
WATTO : ...but what would the boy ride? He smashed up my Pod in the last
|
|
race. It will take some time to fix it.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN is embarrassed and steps forward.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Ahhhh....it wasn't my fault really...Sebulba flashed me with his
|
|
vent ports. I actually saved the Pod...mostly.
|
|
WATTO : (laughing) That you did. The boy is good, no doubts there.
|
|
QUI-GON : I have...acquired a Pod in a game of chance. "The fastest ever
|
|
built."
|
|
WATTO : I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it. (laughs) So, you
|
|
supply the Pod and the entry fee; I supply the boy. We split the winnings
|
|
fifty-fifty, I think.
|
|
QUI-GON : Fifty-fifty!?! If it's going to be fifty-fifty, I suggest you
|
|
front the cash for the entry. If we win, you keep all the winnings, minus
|
|
the cost of the parts I need...If we lose, you keep my ship.
|
|
|
|
WATTO thinks about this. ANAKIN tries not to be nervous.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Either way, you win.
|
|
WATTO : (subtitled) Deal! Yo bana pee ho-tah, meedee ya. (Your friend is a
|
|
follish one, methinks.)
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - TATOOINE DESERT - DAY
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN stands outside the Naboo spacecraft, speaking into his comlink.
|
|
QUI-GON is on the back porch of the hovel.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : What if this plan fails, Master? We could be stuck here for a
|
|
long time.
|
|
QUI-GON : (V.O) A ship without a power supply will not get us anywhere, and
|
|
there is something about this boy...
|
|
|
|
EXT MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - PORCH - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON puts the comlink away as SHMI comes onto the porch
|
|
|
|
PADME, ANAKIN, JAR JAR, and ARTOO work on the engines of the Podracer in
|
|
the courtyard below.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : You should be proud of your son. He gives without any thought of
|
|
reward.
|
|
SHMI : He knows nothing of greed. He has...
|
|
QUI-GON : He has special powers.
|
|
SHMI : Yes...
|
|
QUI-GON : He can see things before they happen. That's why he appears to
|
|
have such quick reflexes. It is a Jedi trait.
|
|
SHMI : He deserves better than a slave's life.
|
|
QUI-GON : The Force is unusally strong with him, that much is clear. Who
|
|
was his father?
|
|
SHMI : There was no father, that I know of...I carried him, I gave him
|
|
birth...I can't explain what happened. Can you help him?
|
|
QUI-GON : I'm afraid not. Had he been born in the Republic, we would have
|
|
identified him early, and he would have become Jedi, no doubt...he has the
|
|
way. But it's too late for him now, he's too old.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - BACK YARD - DAY
|
|
|
|
KITSTER (a young boy about Anakin's age), SEEK (a boy of ten), AMEE (a girl
|
|
of six), and WALD (a Greedo Type, six years old) join ANAKIN, JAR JAR,
|
|
ARTOO, and PADME securing some wiring.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Padme and Jar Jar, this is my friend Kitster, and seek, Amee, and
|
|
Wald.
|
|
|
|
All whistle, hoot, and speak a greeting.
|
|
|
|
KITSTER : Wow, a real Astro Droid...how'd you get so lucky?
|
|
ANAKIN : This isn't the half of it. I'm entered in the Boonta Race
|
|
tomorrow!
|
|
KITSTER : What? With this??
|
|
WALD : (subtitled) Annie, Jesko na joka. 9You are such a joke, Annie.)
|
|
AMEE : You've been working on that thing for years. It's never going to
|
|
run.
|
|
SEEK : Come on, let's go play ball. Keep it up, Annie, and you're gonna be
|
|
bug squash.
|
|
|
|
SEEK, WALD, and AMEE take off, laughing. JAR JAR is fiddling with one of
|
|
the energy binder plates.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Hey! Jar Jar! Stay away from those energy binders...
|
|
JAR JAR : Who, mesa?
|
|
ANAKIN : If your hand gets caught in that beam, it will go numb for hours.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR peeks at the energy plate; it makes a little electronic pop, zaps
|
|
him in the mouth and jumps back. JAR JAR tries to say something, but his
|
|
mouth is numb and his words are garbled.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Ouch-dats muy bigo Oucho. (Gibberish)
|
|
KITSTER : But you don't even know if this thing will run.
|
|
ANAKIN : It will.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON approaches the GROUP and gives ANAKIN a small battery. JAR JAR gets
|
|
his hand caught in the afterburner and tries to tell Anakin, but can't get
|
|
words out that make sense.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : I think it's time we found out. Use this power charge. ANAKIN :
|
|
Yes, sir!!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN jumps into the little capsule behind the two giant engines. He puts
|
|
the power pack back into the dashboard. EVERYONE backs away, except for JAR
|
|
JAR who calls for help. Finally PADME frees him and the engines ignite with
|
|
a ROAR. EVERYONE cheers.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - PORCH - DAY
|
|
|
|
SHMI, watching from the porch, smiles sadly.
|
|
|
|
EXT. SLAVE QUARTERS - BALCONY - NIGHT
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN sits on the balcony rail of his hovel as QUI-GON tends to a cut. The
|
|
BOY leans back to look at the vast blanket of stars in the sky.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Sit still, Annie. Let me clean this cut.
|
|
ANAKIN : There are so many! Do they all have a system of planets?
|
|
QUI-GON : Most of them.
|
|
ANAKIN : Has anyone been to them all?
|
|
QU-IG0N : (laughs) Not likely.
|
|
ANAKIN : I want to be the first one to see them all... Ouch!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON wipes a patch of blood off ANAKIN'S arm.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : There, good as new...
|
|
|
|
SHMI yells from inside the hovel.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : (O.S.) Annie, bedtime!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON scrapes ANAKIN's blood onto a comlink chip.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : What are you doing?
|
|
QUI-GON : Checking your blood for infections.
|
|
ANAKIN : I've never seen...
|
|
SHMI : (O.S.) Annie! I'm not goiung to tell you again!
|
|
QUI-GON : Go on, you have a big day tomorrow. (beat) Goodnight.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN rolls his eyes and runs into the hovel. QUI-GON takes the blood
|
|
stained chip and inserts it into the comlink, then calls OBI-WAN.
|
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QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Obi-Wan...
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OBI-WAN : Yes, Master.
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QUI-GON : Make an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you.
|
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OBI-WAN : Wait a minute...
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QUI-GON : I need a midi-chlorian count.
|
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OBI-WAN : All right. I've got it.
|
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QUI-GON : What are your readings?
|
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OBI-WAN : Something must be wrong with the transmission.
|
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QUI-GON : Here's a signal check.
|
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OBI-WAN : Strange. The transmission seems to be in good order, but the
|
|
reading's off the chart...over twenty thousand.
|
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QUI-GON : (almost to himself) That's it then.
|
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OBI-WAN : Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high!
|
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QUI-GON : No Jedi has.
|
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OBI-WAN : What does it mean?
|
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QUI-GON : I'm not sure.
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|
|
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The JEDI KNIGHT looks up and sees SHMI in the doorway watching him.
|
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Embarrassed, she goes back into the kitchen while QUI-GON ponders the
|
|
situation.
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EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - NIGHT
|
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|
|
The sinister looking Sith spacecraft lands on top of a desert mesa at dus,
|
|
scattering a herd of banthas. DARTH MAUL walks to the edge of the mesa and
|
|
studies the landscape with a pair of electrobinoculars. He picks out the
|
|
lights of three different cities in the distance, then pushes buttons on
|
|
his electronic armband.
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|
|
|
Six football-sized PROBE DROIDS float out of the ship and head off in three
|
|
different directions toward the cities.
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|
|
|
DARTH MAUL stands on the mesa and watches them through his
|
|
electrobinoculars.
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|
|
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EXT. MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - PORCH - SUNRISE
|
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|
|
Padme exits the hovel.
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EXT. MOS ESPA - SLAVE QUARTERS - BACK YARD - SUNRISE
|
|
|
|
As the twin suns rise, ARTOO is busy painting the racing Pod. ANAKIN is
|
|
asleep. PADME passes ARTOO.
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|
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|
PADME : I hope you're about finished.
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|
|
|
ARTOO whistles a positive reply. PADME sees KITSTER riding toward them on
|
|
an EOPIE, a strange camel-lile creature. He is leading a second EOPIE
|
|
behind him. PADME goes over to ANAKIN. He looks very vulnerable as he
|
|
sleeps. She watches him, then touches him on the cheek. ANAKIN wakes up,
|
|
yawns, and looks at her, a little puzzled.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : You were in my dream...you were leading a huge army into battle.
|
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PADME : I hope not; I hate fighting. Your mother wants you to come in and
|
|
clean up. We have to leave soon. ANAKIN stands up and stretches just as
|
|
KITSTER arrives.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Hook 'em up, Kitster. (to Padme) I won't be long. Where's Qui-Gon?
|
|
|
|
PADME : He and Jar Jar left already. They're with Watto at the arena.
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|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - MAIN HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
RACE CREWS mill about outside the Main Hanger.
|
|
|
|
INT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - MAIN HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
The hanger is a large building with a dozen or so Podracers being readied
|
|
for the race. ALIEN CREWS and PILOTS rush about, making last minute fixes
|
|
on their vehicles. WATTO, QUI-GON, and JAR JAR walk through the activity.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : ...I want to see your spaceship the moment the race is over.
|
|
QUI-GON : Patienc, my blue friend. You'll have your winnings before the
|
|
suns set, and we'll be far away from here.
|
|
WATTO : Not if your ship belongs to me, I think...I warn you, no funny
|
|
business.
|
|
QUI-GON : You don't think Anakin will win?
|
|
|
|
WATTO stops before an orange racer. Sitting to one side, having his
|
|
shoulders and neck massaged by TWIN YOBANAS, is SEBULBA.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : Don't get me wrongo. I have great faith in the boy. He's a credit
|
|
to your race, but Sebulba there is going to win, I think.
|
|
QUI-GON : Why?
|
|
WATTO : He always wins. (laughs) I'm betting heavily on Sebulba.
|
|
QUI-GON : I'll take that bet.
|
|
WATTO : (suddenly stops laughing) What??!! What do you mean?
|
|
QUI-GON : I'll wager my new racing pod against...say...the boy and his
|
|
mother.
|
|
WATTO : A Pod for slaves. I don't think so...well, poerhaps. Just one...the
|
|
mother, maybe...the boy isn't for sale.
|
|
QUI-GON : The boy is small, he can't be worth much.
|
|
|
|
WATTO shakes his head.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) For the fastest Pod ever built?!
|
|
|
|
WATTO shakes his head again.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Both, or no bet.
|
|
WATTO : No Pod's worth two slaves...not by a long shot...one slave or
|
|
nothing.
|
|
QUI-GON : The boy, then...
|
|
|
|
WATTO pulls out a small cube from his pocket.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : We'll let fate decide. Blue it's the boy, red his mother...
|
|
|
|
WATTO tosses the cube down. QUI-GON lifts his hand slightly; it turns blue.
|
|
QUI-GON smiles. WATTO is angry.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : (Cont'd) You won the small toss, outlander, bou you won't win the
|
|
race, so...it makes little difference.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN and PADME enter the hanger on one of the EOPIES, pulling an engine.
|
|
KITSTER, on the other EOPIE, is pulling another engine. With THREEPIO
|
|
walking alongside, ARTOO trundles behind, pulling the Pod with SHMI sitting
|
|
on it. WATTO passes ANAKIN as he leaves.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : (Cont'd) (subtitled) Bonapa keesa pateeso, o wanna meetee chobodd.
|
|
(Better stop your friends betting, or I'll end up owning him, too.)
|
|
|
|
WATTO walks off, laughing.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : What did he mean by that?
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : I'll tell you later.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps at THREEPIO.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : Oh my! Space travel sounds rather perilous.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO emits a series of beeps.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : I can assure you they will never get me onto one of those
|
|
dreadful starships!
|
|
KITSTER : (to Anakin) This is so wizard! I'm sure you'll do it this time,
|
|
Annie.
|
|
PADME : Do what?
|
|
KITSTER : Finish the race, of course!
|
|
PADME : You've never won a race?
|
|
ANAKIN : Well...not exactly...
|
|
PADME : Not even finished?!
|
|
|
|
ANAKN looks sheepish.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : ...but Kitster's right, I will this time.
|
|
QUI-GON : Of course you will.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - DAY
|
|
|
|
One of Darth Maul's PROBE DROIDS slowly floats down the main street of
|
|
Tatooine. It looks in shops and studies PEOPLE as it searches for OBI-WAN,
|
|
QI-GON, or the QUEEN.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - DESERT RACE ARENA - DAY
|
|
|
|
An EXTREME HIGH WIDE ANGLE reveals a vast arena in the Tatooine desert. A
|
|
large semi-circular amphitheatre that holds at least a hundred thousand
|
|
people dominates the landscape. Large viewing platforms loom over the
|
|
racetrack. INT. MOS ESPA - ARENA ANNOUNCER'S BOX - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
A two-headed ANNOUNCER describes the scene.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
A: Toogi! Toogie! (Greetings) Toong mee cha kulkah du Boonta magi! tah oos
|
|
azalus ooval Poddraces. (We have perfect weather today for the Boonta
|
|
classic. The most hazardous of all Podraces.)
|
|
B : That's absolutly right. And a big turnout here, from all corners of the
|
|
Outer Rim territories. I see the contestants are making their way out onto
|
|
the starting grid.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - DESERT RACE ARENA - DAY
|
|
|
|
On the left side of the tracks across from the grandstands, a line of
|
|
Podracers emerges from the large hanger, surrounded by several CREW
|
|
MEMBERS. Pods are pulled by a wide variety of CREATURES and are led by
|
|
aliens carrying flags. The PILOTS stand facing the royal box.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
(O.S) A : La Yma beestoo (Yes, there they are!)
|
|
B : I see Ben Quadinaros from the Tund system.
|
|
A : ...eh Gasgano doowa newpa Ord Petrovia! (And Gasgano in thenew Ord
|
|
Pedrovia.)
|
|
B : Two time winner, Boles Roor...
|
|
A : Poo tula moosta, woe grane champio Sebulba du Pixelito! Splastyleeya
|
|
bookie ookie!! (On the front line the reigning champion, Sebulba from
|
|
Pixelito. By far the favorite today.)
|
|
B : And a late entry, Anakin Skywalker, a local boy.
|
|
A : Wampa peedunkee unko ( I hope he has better luck this time.)
|
|
B : I see the flaggers are moving onto the track.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - GRANDSTAND - DAY
|
|
|
|
Colorful canopies shade some of the SPECTATORS. VENDORS sell barbecued
|
|
creature parts and colorful drinks.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - ROYAL BOX - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
All the PILOTS bow from the waist as JABBA THE HUTT enters the box and
|
|
waves to the crowd.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
A : O grandio lust, Jabba Du Hutt, amu intoe tah parena. (His honor, our
|
|
glorious host, Jabba the Hutt has entered the arena.)
|
|
|
|
The crowd ROARS. SEVERAL OTHER SLUG-LIKE HUTTS follow, along with humans
|
|
and aliens. Several SLAVE GIRLS on a chain are led alongside JABBA.
|
|
|
|
JABBA : (subtitled) Chowbaso! Tam ka chee Boonta rulee ya, kee madda
|
|
hodrudda du wundee. (Welcome!) Sebulba tuta Pixelito...
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - STARTING GRID - DAY
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA, who is right next to ANAKIN, stands and waves to his fans. A small
|
|
pep band plays as his fans wave and cheer.
|
|
|
|
KITSTER attaches the giant engins to Anakin's Pod with a long cable. SHMI
|
|
gives ANAKIN a big hug and kiss. She looks him right in the eye.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : Be safe.
|
|
ANAKIN : I will, Mom. I promise.
|
|
|
|
She leaves as ANAKIN checks the cable hitches.
|
|
|
|
JABBA : ...Mawhonic tuta Hok, Teemto Pagalies tuta Moonus Mandel, Anakin
|
|
SKywalker tuta Tatoonine....
|
|
|
|
The CROWD YELLS. ANAKIN waves to the crowd, as JABBA continues with his
|
|
introductions. SEBULBA moves over to one of Anakin's engines. KITSTER and
|
|
JAR JAR unhitch the EOPIES, and KITSTER leads them away. ARTOO beeps that
|
|
everything is OK. JAR JAR pats ANAKIN on the back.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dis berry loony, Annie. May da guds be kind, mesa palo.
|
|
|
|
PADME comes up and gives ANAKIN a little kiss on the cheeek. SEBULBA bangs
|
|
on a part protruding from Anakin's engine. He looks around to see if anyone
|
|
has noticed.
|
|
|
|
PADME : You carry all our hopes.
|
|
ANAKIN : I won't let you down.
|
|
|
|
PADME moves away as SEBULBA edges his way next to ANAKIN and gives him a
|
|
sinister grin.
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA : Bazda wahota, shag. Dobiella Nok. Yoka to Bantha poodoo. 9You
|
|
won't walk away from this one, slave scum! You're Bantha poodoo.)
|
|
ANAKIN : (subtitled) Cha skrundee da pat, sleemo. (Don't count on it,
|
|
slime-ball.)
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN looks the evil SEBULBA in the eye with a cold stare. QUI-GON
|
|
approaches, and SEBULBA backs off toward his racer.
|
|
|
|
JABBA : (sutitled)...Ka bazza kundee hodrudda! (...Let the challenge
|
|
begin!)
|
|
|
|
The CROWD lets out a LOUD CHEER. QUI-GON helps ANAKIN into his Pod. The boy
|
|
straps himself into the tiny racer.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Are you all set, Annie? (Anakin nods) Remember, concentrate on
|
|
the moment. Feel. Don't think. Trust your instincts. (he smiles) May the
|
|
Force be with you.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON steps away as ANAKIN puts on his goggles. The PILOTS flip switches,
|
|
and powerful energy binders shoot between the engines. ANAKIN flips a
|
|
switch, and his engine starts. The incredible ROAR of high-powered engines
|
|
igniting echoes throughout the arena. One driver, ODY MANDRELL, yells at a
|
|
droid (DUM-4) to get away from the front of his engine. The crowd is tense.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - STARTING GRID - DAY
|
|
|
|
The giant power-house engines torque as the PILOTS gun them. The PILOTS
|
|
flip switches, and poerful energy binders shoot between the engines. Aliens
|
|
carrying large flags move off the track. JAR JAR covers his eyes.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Mesa no watch. Dissen ganna be messy!
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
A : Ya pawa culka doe rundee! (The power couplings are being activated)
|
|
B : Hey, it looks like they're clearing the grid.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - VIEWING PLATFORM - DAY
|
|
|
|
SHMI looks nervously to QUI-GON as he enters a veiwing platform. PADME and
|
|
JAR JAR are already on board. The platform rises like an elevator.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : Is he nervous?
|
|
QUI-GON : He's fine.
|
|
PADME : You Jedi are far too reckless. The Queen...
|
|
QUI-GON : The Queen trusts my judgment, young handmaiden. You should too.
|
|
PADME : You assume too much.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA ANNOUNCER'S BOX - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
B : Start your engines.
|
|
|
|
The earth-pounding ROAR of the engines revving is deafening.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - ROYAL BOX - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
Jabba bites off the head of a frog and spits it at a gong, signaling the
|
|
start of the race.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - STARTING GRID - DAY
|
|
|
|
On a bridge over the track, a great green light at the center flashes. The
|
|
Podracers shoot forward with a high-pitches scream. ANAKIN'S engine floods
|
|
and coughs - then dies. All the other Podracers except one swerve around
|
|
him and dissapear down the track. The slave boy struggles to get his racer
|
|
started. The two-headed announcer reports.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
A : An dare ovv! (And they're off!)
|
|
B : Oh...wait. Little Skywalker has stalled.
|
|
|
|
PADME and JAR JAR are very dissapointed with ANAKIN. QUI-GON puts his arm
|
|
around a very worried SHMI to comfort her. Finally, Anakin's engines
|
|
ignite. He zooms away after the receeding pack of competitors, leaving one
|
|
quadra-Pod racer still trying to get started. The two-headed ANNOUNCER
|
|
describes the race as it progresses.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : And there goes Skywalker... He'll be hard pressed to catch up with the
|
|
leaders today.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - RACETRACK - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The Podracers fly across the desert. SEBULBA is running neck and neck with
|
|
MAWHONIC. They round the first turn in the track, side by side. SEBULBA
|
|
drives his Pod into his rival, forcing him into the wall of a large rock
|
|
formation. MAWHONIC crashes in a spectacular display of fire and smoke.
|
|
ANAKIN is much faster than the back-end stragglers and passes them easily.
|
|
One of the drivers, GASGANO, won't let ANAKIN by. ANAKIN tries to pass him
|
|
on one side and is cut off. He then tries to pass him on the other side
|
|
ansd is cut off. As they come up on a cliff drop-off, ANAKIN backs off,
|
|
then guns it as GASGANO goes over the cliff. ANAJIN accelerates so fast
|
|
that he sails right over the top of GASGANO and speeds away.
|
|
Four TUSKEN RAIDERS perched above the race course fire their rifles at the
|
|
Pods racing in the canyon below them. One shot ricochets off the back of
|
|
Anakin's Pod.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
B : Looks like a few Tusken Riaders have campe out on the canyon dune turn.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - VIEWING PLATFORM - DAY
|
|
|
|
JABBA THE HUTT and the crowd watch the progress of the race on small,
|
|
hand-held view screens. JAR JAR is looking over the shoulder of a strange
|
|
alien named FANTA.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Where's Skywalker?
|
|
|
|
FANTA moves the view screen out of Jar Jar's view. PADME, SHMI, and QUI-GON
|
|
watch another screen and look worried.
|
|
ARTOO, down in the pits with KITSTER, lets out a worried sigh. The driver
|
|
of the quadra-Pod looks worried.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - RACETRACK - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN is powering around corners and over hills and cliffs, passing other
|
|
racers right and left. SEBULBA is in the lead. He is being challenged by
|
|
another racer, XELBREE.
|
|
SEBULBA slows a little, and as XELBREE pulls alongside, he opens a side
|
|
vent on the racer's engine and the exhaust starts to cut through the
|
|
alien's engine.
|
|
The blast cuts along the engine until finally it EXPLODES. SEBULBA deftly
|
|
veers away.
|
|
ANAKIN works his way through a dense mass of racers as they zoom over a
|
|
dune sea, kicking up dust. His Pod shakes violently as he goes over a jump.
|
|
One of the Podracers, ODY, catches one of his engines in the sand, and the
|
|
whole thing EXPLODES.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - VIEWING PLATFORM - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON sits quietly, meditating. PADME and SHMI search the landscape for
|
|
any sign of the racers. JAR JAR is still annoying FANTA for information.
|
|
The crowd SCREAMS. WATTO is laughing with his friends, confident in
|
|
Anakin's defeat.
|
|
The quadra-Pod engines start just as the racers come around the corner. The
|
|
DRIVER, BEN QUADINAROS, puts it in gear, and the four engines go off in all
|
|
directions, EXPLODING in a spectacular display. The Pod drops to the ground
|
|
as SEBULBA enters the arena, closely followed by all the OTHER RACERS.
|
|
KITSTER strains to see as ARTOO beeps excitedly. The announcer continues.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S)
|
|
B ; There goes Quadinaros' power couplings.
|
|
A : Sebulba! Ka pa me cheespa wata! (Here comes Sebulba in record time.)
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON, PADME, SHMI, and JAR JAR yell for joy as ANAKIN passes. JAR JAR is
|
|
very nervous and pounds on the back of his alien neighbor, FANTA. JAR JAR :
|
|
What gooie-on?
|
|
FANTA : Bug off.
|
|
|
|
Lap two. SEBULBA and the pack race past the main arena. The crowd stands
|
|
and YELLS as the Podracers scream off into the distance. QUI-GON and PADME
|
|
look worried.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : He musta crash-ud.
|
|
PADME : Here he comes!
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - PIT AREA - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
ARTOO lets out an excited whistle, as KITSTER yells.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : He has to complete two more circuits? Oh dear!
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - RACETRACK - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
Sure enough, coming around the bend is ANAKIN, quickly gaining on the pack.
|
|
The two-headed announcer describes the action. The crowd goes wild.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : It looks like Skywalker is moving up through the field. He's in...
|
|
A : Steeth pa nagoola! (Sixth place, not bad.)
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN continues to gain on the pack. Tension for SHMI and PADME is
|
|
unbearable.
|
|
ODY stops in the pits. Droids work on his engines. DUM-4 stands in front of
|
|
the engine and is sucked in, causing the engine to die. DUM-4 is spit out
|
|
the back of the engine, very bent up. The engine lets out one final wheeze,
|
|
then EXPLODES in a puff of smoke.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
A : Ody Mandrell! Coona wa wunda dunko! (Ody Mandrell into the pits for
|
|
some attention.)
|
|
ODY : Droids!
|
|
|
|
TERTER is getting close to SEBULBA, who purposely breaks a small part off
|
|
his Pod, sending it into Terter's engine, causing him to veer into ANAKIN,
|
|
and unhooks one of the main straps on Anakin's engines that links the Pod
|
|
to his engines.
|
|
ANAKIN struggles to keep control of the little Pod. It whips about wildly.
|
|
As the Pod swings near the broken engine strap, ANAKIN grabs for it.
|
|
Finally, he catches the strap and manages to unhook it to the Pod.
|
|
SEBULBA cuts the engine of OBITOKI with his side exhaust, and the racer
|
|
crashes with a cloud of dust. A THIRD RACER, HABBA, flie into the cloud of
|
|
dust and crashes into OBITOKI. ANAKIN rounds a corner and heads into the
|
|
cloud of smoke. He hits a part of one of the engines but regains control.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B :At the start of the third and final lap, Sebulba is in the lead, closely
|
|
followed by Skywalker...
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN finally catches up with SEBULBA, and runs neck and neck over the
|
|
rough terrain. JAR JAR, QUI-GON, SHMI, and PADME all SCREAM s ANAKIN comes
|
|
through the arena. The lights in the tower indicate that this is the third
|
|
and last lap. WATTO begins to worry.
|
|
SEBULBA uses his side exhaust port to try to cut through Anakin's engines.
|
|
ANAKIN manages to avoid having his engine disabled but is forced off
|
|
course.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : Skywalker is forced onto the service ramp!
|
|
A : Oh noah!
|
|
|
|
On a tight corner, ANAKIN dives to the inside and takes the lead.
|
|
|
|
FODE BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : Amazing... a controlled thrust and he's back on course! What a move!
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA is furious. He stay's right on Anakin's tail, crowding him and
|
|
pushing him through the turns.
|
|
SEBULBA pushes ANAKIN harder, and the young boy has a difficult time
|
|
keeping control. One of the parts on Anakin's engines begins to shake
|
|
loose. ANAKIN sees it and switches over to an auxiliary system. While he is
|
|
trying to accomplish this maneuver, SEBULBA races past him.
|
|
ANAKIN tries to get around SEBULBA, to no avail. Every move ANAKIN makes,
|
|
SEBULBA is able to block.
|
|
Finally, ANAKIN fakes a move into the inside as he usually does, then tries
|
|
to go around SEBULBA on the outside. They race sid by side down the final
|
|
stretch of the track.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : He's catching Sebulba.
|
|
A : Inkabunga. (Incredible!)
|
|
|
|
SEBULBA veers toward ANAKIN and bangs into his Pod. He crashes into ANAKIN
|
|
over and over. The young boy struggles to maintain control as the steering
|
|
rods on the two Pods become hooked together. SEBULBA laughs at ANAKIN.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
|
|
B : That little human being is out of his mind.
|
|
A : Punda tah punda! (They're neck and neck!)
|
|
B : They're side by side!
|
|
A : Bongo du bongu! (Shoulder to shoulder!)
|
|
|
|
As they head for the final stretch, ANAKIN fights to unlock the steering
|
|
rods by trying to pull away from SEBULBA. The strain on the steering rod is
|
|
tremendous. Suddenly, ANAKIN's steering arm breaks, and his Pos starts
|
|
spinning.
|
|
The release of tension sends SEBULBA into an ancient statue. One engine
|
|
EXPLODES, then the other. SEBULBA skids through the fire-balls, blackened,
|
|
but unhurt. He slides to a smoking stop, gets out of his racer, and throws
|
|
what's left of a shifter arm on the ground. Suddenly he realizes his pants
|
|
are on fire, and he struggles to put them out. ANAKIN flies through the
|
|
EXPLOSION as the crowd stands, CHERRING. PADME and JAR JAR jump up and down
|
|
with excitment, PADME screaming for joy. ARTOO and KITSTER whistle
|
|
hysterically. QUI-GON and SHMI smile. ANAKIN races over the finish line,
|
|
the winner.
|
|
|
|
INT. MOS ESPA - ARENA ANNOUNCERS BOX - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The two-headed announcer excitedly calls the finish.
|
|
|
|
FODE/BEED : -
|
|
B : It's Skywalker! The crowd are going nuts! Oh Ah Oh Ah (rock head in
|
|
tandem with partner)
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - DAY
|
|
|
|
As ANAKIN stops the Podracer, KISTER turns up, and they embrace. Hundreds
|
|
of SPECTATORS join them and put ANAKIN on their shoulders, marching off,
|
|
CHEERING AND CHANTING. Darth Maul's PROBE DROIDS move through the crowd.
|
|
|
|
INT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - PRIVATE BOX - DAY
|
|
|
|
Several ALIENS leave Watto's box, laughing and counting their money. WATTO
|
|
sees QUI-GON standing in the doorway.
|
|
|
|
WATTO : You! You swindled me! You knew the boy was going to win! Somehow
|
|
you knew it! I lost everything.
|
|
|
|
WATTO flies up to QUI-GON and puts his face right up against QUI-GON's.
|
|
QUI-GON simply smiles.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Whenever you gamble, my freind, eventually you'll lose. Bring the
|
|
parts to the main hanger. I'll come by your shop later so you can release
|
|
the boy.
|
|
WATTO : You can't have him! It wasn't a fair bet!
|
|
QUI-GON : Would you like to discuss it with the Hutts...I'm sure they can
|
|
settle this.
|
|
WATTO : No, no! I want no more of your tricks! Take him!
|
|
|
|
The SITH PROBE DROID watches with great interest.
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - MAIN HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
The Main Hanger is almost deserted as RACERS depart.
|
|
|
|
INT. MOS ESPA - ARENA - MAIN HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR gives ANAKIN a great hug, then PADME gives him a hug, then SHMI.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Ah, gee...enough of this...
|
|
SHMI : It's so wonderful, Annie. You have brought hope to those who have
|
|
none. I'm so very proud of you...
|
|
PADME : We owe you everything.
|
|
ANAKIN : Just feeling this good was worth it.
|
|
|
|
In the background, QUI-GON has harnessed the EOPIES to containers full of
|
|
parts.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Padme. Jar Jar, let's go, we've got to get these parts back to
|
|
the ship.
|
|
|
|
The GROUP walks over to QUI-GON and the EOPIES.
|
|
PADME climbs on behind QUI-GON. JAR JAR swings up onto the second EOPIE,
|
|
only to slwly slide off the other side. ARTOO whistles. ANAKIN and SHMI
|
|
wave as they ride off.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) I'll return the eopies by midday.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY
|
|
|
|
ARTOO cruises ahead of QUI-GON and PADME, who are riding one of the EOPIES;
|
|
JAR JAR ridses the other. They stop in front of the sleek Naboo spacecraft.
|
|
OBI-WAN comes out of the ship and joins them.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Start getting this hyperdrive generator installed. I'm going
|
|
back...some unfinished business. I won't be long.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Why do I sense we've picked up another pathetic life form...?
|
|
QUI-GON : It's the boy who's responsible for getting those parts.
|
|
|
|
On a hill far overlooking the Naboo spacecraft, the SITH PROBE DROID turns
|
|
and speeds away.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - STREET - SLAVE QUARTERS - DAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN and A GREEDO are rolling around on the floor, fighting. About A
|
|
DOZEN OR SO KIDS are standing around them, yelling. Suddenly, a long shadow
|
|
is cast over the TWO BOYS; they stop fighting and look up. QUI-GOMN is
|
|
towering above them. KITSTER is with them.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : What's this?
|
|
ANAKIN : He said I cheated.
|
|
QUI-GON : Did you?
|
|
ANAKIN : No!
|
|
QUI-GON : Do you still think he cheated?
|
|
GREEDO : Yes.
|
|
QUI-GON : Well, Annie. You know the truth... You will have to tolerate his
|
|
opinion, fighting won't change it.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON moves off down the street. Anakin follows. The GREEDO wanders over
|
|
to WALD who has been watching the goings-on.
|
|
|
|
WALD : Keep this up, Greedo, and you're gonna come to a bad end.
|
|
|
|
Farther down the street QUI-GON and ANAKIN head toward Anakin's hovel.
|
|
QUI-GON takes a handful of credits from beneath his poncho and hands them
|
|
to the boy.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : These are yours. We sold the Pod.
|
|
ANAKIN : (suddenly beaming) Yes!
|
|
|
|
INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - MAIN ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
SHMI is cleaning up as ANAKIN bursts through the door, followed by QUI-GON.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Mom, he sold the Pod. Look at all the money we have!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN pulls a bag of coins out of his pocket.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : Oh, my goodness, That's wonderful.
|
|
QUI-GON : And Anakin has been freed.
|
|
ANAKIN : What?!?
|
|
QUI-GON : You're no longer a slave.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN jumps for joy! SHMI is stunned.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Did you hear that, Mom? (to Qui-Gon) Was that part of the prize,
|
|
or what?
|
|
QUI-GON : Let's just say Watto has learned an important lesson about
|
|
gambling.
|
|
SHMI : Now you can make your dreams come true, Annie. You're free! (turns
|
|
to Qui-Gon) Will you take him with you? Is he to become a Jedi?
|
|
QUI-GON : Our meeting was not a coincidence. Nothing happens by accident.
|
|
You are strong with the Force, but you may not be accepted by the Coucil.
|
|
ANAKIN : A Jedi! Mighty blasters, you mean I get to go with you in your
|
|
starship and everything?!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON kneels down to the boy.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Anakin, training to be a Jedi will not be a easy challenge. And
|
|
if you succeed, it will be a hard life.
|
|
ANAKIN : But it's what I want. What I've always dreamed about. Can I go,
|
|
Mom?!
|
|
QUI-GON : This path has been placed for you, Annie; the choice to take it
|
|
is yours alone.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN thinks, looks to his mother, then to QUI-GON.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I want to go.
|
|
QUI-GON : Then, pack your things. We haven't much time.
|
|
ANAKIN : Yipee!!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN hugs his mom and starts for the other room, then stops. SHMI and
|
|
QUI-GON give each other a knowing look. ANAKIN has realized something.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) What about Mom? Is she free too? You're coming, aren't
|
|
you, Mom
|
|
QUI-GON : I tried to free your mother, Annie, but Watto wouldn't have it.
|
|
ANAKIN : But the money from selling...
|
|
QUI-GON : It's not nearly enough.
|
|
|
|
SHMI comes over to her son and sits next to him. Taking both of his hands
|
|
in hers, she draws him close.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : Son, my place is here. My future is here. It is time for you to let
|
|
go...to let go of me. I cannot go with you.
|
|
ANAKIN : I want to stay with you. I don't want things to change.
|
|
SHMI : You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from
|
|
setting. Listen to your feelings; Annie, you know what's right.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN takes a deep breath, drops his head. QUI-GON and SHMI exchange a
|
|
look of concern. When ANAKIN raises up, there are tears in his eyes.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm going to miss you so much, Mom...
|
|
SHMI : I love you, Annie...now hurry.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN and SHMI hug. ANAKIN runs into the other room.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : (Cont'd) Thank you.
|
|
QUI-GON : I will watch after him. You have my word. Will you be all right?
|
|
SHMI : He was in my life for such a short time.
|
|
|
|
INT. ANAKIN'S HOVEL - SECOND ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN has thrown the last of his things in a small backpack. As he leaves,
|
|
he stops and pushes the button that wakes his droid up. THREEPIO stares at
|
|
him blankly.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Well, Threepio, I'm free...and I'm going away...in a starship...
|
|
THREEPIO : Master, Annie, you are my maker, and I wish you well. Although
|
|
I'd like it better if I were a little less naked.
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm sorry I wasn't able to finish you, Threepio...give you
|
|
coverings and all... I'm going to miss working on you. You've been a great
|
|
pal. I'll make sure Mom doesn't sell you or anything. Bye.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO stares at ANAKIN as he rushes out of the room.
|
|
|
|
THREEPIO : Sell me?!?
|
|
|
|
EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - SLAVE QUARTERS - DAY
|
|
|
|
KITSTER runs up to ANAKIN as he and QUI-GON exit Anakin's hovel. SHMI
|
|
stands in the doorway. ANAKIN pulls a handful of coins out of his pocket
|
|
and gives them to KITSTER.
|
|
|
|
KITSTER : There are so many of us who want you to stay, Annie... You're a
|
|
hero.
|
|
ANAKIN : I... (looks to SHMI) I... have to go.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON has moved a short way down the street.
|
|
|
|
KITSTER : Well.
|
|
ANAKIN : Well.
|
|
KITSTER : Thank's for every moment you've been here. You're my best friend.
|
|
ANAKIN : I won't forget.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN hugs KITSTER and runs toward QUI-GON, then stops to look back at his
|
|
mother standing in the doorway. He turns back to QUI-GON, then turns and
|
|
runs back to his mother.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (starting to cry) I can't do it, Mom. I just can't.
|
|
|
|
SHMI hugs ANAKIN. QUI-GON watches from the distance. She kneels down and
|
|
looks him in the face.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : Annie, remember when you climbed the great dune in order to chase
|
|
the Banthas away so they wouldn't be shot... Remember how you collapses
|
|
several times, exhausted thinking you couldn't do it?
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN shakes his head.
|
|
|
|
SHMI : (Cont'd) This is one of those times when you have to do something
|
|
you don't think you can do. I know how strong you are, Annie. I know you
|
|
can do this...
|
|
ANAKIN : Will I ever see you again?
|
|
SHMI : What does your heart tell you?
|
|
ANAKIN : I hope so...yes...I guess.
|
|
SHMI : Then we will see each other again.
|
|
ANAKIN : I.. will become a Jedi and I will come back and free you, Mom...I
|
|
promise.
|
|
SHMI : No matter where you are, my love will be with you. Now be brave, and
|
|
don't look back... don't look back.
|
|
ANAKIN : I love you so much.
|
|
|
|
SHMI hugs ANAKIN, then turns him around so he is facing QUI-GON, and off he
|
|
marches, like the brave little trooper that he is. He marches right past
|
|
QUI-GON, starring right ahead, tears in his eyes, determined not to look
|
|
back.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - DAY
|
|
|
|
The PROBE DROID beeps and whistles to DARTH MAUL. The SITH LORD gets on a
|
|
speeder bike and follows the PROBE DROID into Mos Espa.
|
|
|
|
EXT MOS ESPA - STREET - FRUIT STAND - DAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN and QUI-GON exit WATTO'S and stop before JIRA'S fruit stand. ANAKIN
|
|
hands JIRA some coins.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I've been freed, and I'm going away. Buy yourself a cooling unit
|
|
with this... Otherwise I'll worry about you.
|
|
|
|
JIRA is astonished. She stares, not knowing what to say.
|
|
|
|
JIRA : Can I give you a hug
|
|
ANAKIN : Sure.
|
|
|
|
She gives him a hug.
|
|
|
|
JIRA : I'll miss you, Annie.. there isn't a kinder boy in the galaxy. You
|
|
be careful...
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN runs to join QUI-GON, who has already started down the street. As
|
|
they walk along together, QUI-GON notices something out of the corner of
|
|
his eye.
|
|
Suddenly, without breaking his stride, he ignites his laser sword, swing
|
|
around, and lunges forward and cuts a lurking PROBE DROID in half. QUI-GON
|
|
inspects the sparking and fizzing DROID.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : What is it?
|
|
QUI-GON : Probe droid. Very unusual... not like anything I've seen before.
|
|
Come on.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON and ANAKIN start running.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON and ANAKIN run toward the Naboo spacecraft. ANAKIN is having a hard
|
|
time keeping up.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Master Qui-Gon,sir, wait!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON turns to answer and sees a DARK-CLOAKED FIGURE bearing down on a
|
|
speeder bike.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Anakin, drop!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN drops to the ground just as DARTH MAUL sweeps over him. DARTH MAUL
|
|
jumps off his speeder bike, and before he has hit the ground, the Sith Lord
|
|
has swund a death blow with his laser sword that is barely blocked by
|
|
QUI-GON.
|
|
ANAKIN picks himself up. The two galactic warriors, Sith and Jedi, are
|
|
bashing each other with incredible blows. They move in a continual cloudof
|
|
dust, smashing everything around them. This is a fierce fight. ANAKIN gets
|
|
up, bewildered by the confrontation.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Annie, get to the ship! Take off! Go! Go!
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON struggles to fend off the relentless onslaught as ANAKIN races to
|
|
the ship.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - HALLWAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN runs into the main hallway of the spaceship, where PADME and CAPTAIN
|
|
PANAKA are working.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Qui-Gon's in trouble. He says to take off...now!!
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Who are you?
|
|
PADME : He's a friend.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA, ANAKIN, and PADME rush into the cockpit where OBI-WAN and
|
|
RIC OLIE are checking the hyperdrive.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Qui-Gon is in trouble, he says to take off!
|
|
PILOT : I don't see anything.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Over there! Fly low!
|
|
|
|
In the distance is a small cloud of dust.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON and DARTH MAUL continue theirsword battle. Leaping over one another
|
|
in an incredible display of acrobatics, the two warrios hear the ship fly
|
|
over them a few feet off the ground. QUI-GON almost dissapears for a
|
|
moment.
|
|
Before DARTH MAUL knows what's happening, QUI-GON is on the spacecrat's
|
|
ramp.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TATOOINE - NABOO SPACECRAFT RAMP - DAY
|
|
|
|
The SITH LORD immediately jumps onto the ramp after QUI-GON, but barely
|
|
makes it. His heels hang over the edge of a forty-foot drop. QUI-GON swings
|
|
his laser sword with all his might and knocks DARTH AMUL off the ramp and
|
|
onto the desert floor. The ramp closes, and the Naboo craft rockets away,
|
|
leaving the Sith Lord standing alone.
|
|
|
|
EXT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT (FX)
|
|
|
|
The sleek spacecraft rockets away from the planet Tatooine.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - HALLWAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN and OBI-WAN rush into the hallway to find QUI-GON collapsed on the
|
|
floor opposite the entry. ARTOO is looking over him. The JEDI is breathing
|
|
hard, wet with sweat and covered in dirt.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Are you all right?
|
|
QUI-GON : I think so... that was a surpirse I wont soon forget.
|
|
OBI-WAN : What was it?
|
|
QUI-GON : I don't know... but he was well trained in the Jedi arts. My
|
|
guess is he was after the Queen...
|
|
ANAKIN : Do you think he'll follow us?
|
|
QUI-GON : We'll be safe enough once we're in hyperspace, but I have no
|
|
doubt he knows our destination.
|
|
ANAKIN : What are we going to do about it?
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN gives ANAKIN a "who are you?" look. ANAKIN returns an innocent
|
|
stare.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : We will be patient. Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi.
|
|
ANAKIN : Pleased to meet you. Wow! You're a Jedi too?
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OBI-WAN gives the boy a skeptical look.
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INT. COCKPIT - SPACE
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RIC OLIE pulls back on the hyperdrive. OBI-WAN, QUI-GON, and ANAKIN watch.
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QUI-GON : Let's hope this hyperdrive works and Watto didn't get the last
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laugh.
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The stars streak outside the cockpit window.
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EXT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT (FX)
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The ship streaks into hyperspace.
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EXT. THEED - STREET - NIGHT (FX)
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SEVERAL FEDERATION DROIDS patrol a deserted city street. The Palace can be
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seen in the distance.
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INT. NABOO PALACE - THRONE ROOM - THEED - NIGHT
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NUTE sits in a strange, mechanical walking chair, which approaches SIO
|
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BIBBLE and SEVERAL OTHER NABOO OFFICIALS. RUNE follows a few paces behind.
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DROID GUARDS surround SIO BIBBLE and THE OTHERS as FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS
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watch.
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NUTE : When are you going to give up this pointless strike? Your Queen is
|
|
lost, your people are starving, and you, Governor, are going to die, much
|
|
sooner than your people, I'm afraid. Take him away!
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|
BIBBLE : This invasion will gain you nothing. We're a democracy. The people
|
|
have decided... They will not live under your tyranny.
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|
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BIBBLE is taken away as OOM-9 approaches NUTE.
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OOM-9 : My troops are in position to begin searching the swamps for these
|
|
rumored underwater villages... they will not stay hidden for long.
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INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - MAIN AREA
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|
|
|
The ship is asleep. The lights are dim as PADME walks into the main room.
|
|
She goes to a monitor and watches the BIBBLE plea recording. JAR JAR is
|
|
stretched out on the floor, snoring. ARTOO is to one side, cooing as he
|
|
rests.
|
|
PADME appears tired. She senses someone watching her and turns around with
|
|
a start. She sees ANAKIN sitting in the corner, shivering and looking
|
|
verydejected. She goes over to him. He looks up at her with tears in his
|
|
eyes. He is holding his arms to keep himself warm.
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|
|
|
PADME : Are you all right?
|
|
ANAKIN : It's very cold.
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|
|
|
PADME gives him her over-jacket.
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|
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PADME : You're from a warm planet, Annie. Too warm for my taste. Space is
|
|
cold.
|
|
ANAKIN : You seem sad.
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|
PADME : The Queen is...worried. Her people are suffering...dying. She must
|
|
convince the Senate to intervene, or...I'm not sure what will happen.
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm...I'm not sure what's going to happen to me. I dunno if I'll
|
|
ever see you again.. (he pulls something from his pocket) I made this for
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|
you. Sou you'd remember me. I carved it out of a japor snippet... It will
|
|
bring you good fortune.
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|
|
|
ANAKIN hands a wooden pendant to PADME. She inspects it, then puts it
|
|
around her neck.
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|
|
|
PADME : It's beautiful, but I don't need this to remember you. Many things
|
|
will change when we reach the capital, Annie. My caring for you will always
|
|
remain.
|
|
ANAKIN : I care for you too. Only I...miss...
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|
|
|
ANAKIN is disturbed about something. Tears are in his eyes.
|
|
|
|
PADME : ...You miss your mother.
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|
|
|
ANAKIN looks at her, unable to speak. She hugs him.
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|
|
|
EXT. SPACE - PLANET CORUSCANT (FX)
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|
|
MOVE with the ship as it heads toward Coruscant.
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|
|
|
INT. CORUSCANT - CITYSCAPE - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY (FX)
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|
|
|
The spacecraft dlies over the endlesscityscape of Coruscant, the capital of
|
|
the galaxy.
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|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT
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|
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|
ANAKIN looks out the cockpit window in awe.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : Coruscant...the capital of the Republic...the entire planet is
|
|
one big city.
|
|
ANAKIN : Wow! It's so huge!
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The ship flies through the cityscape of Coruscant.
|
|
|
|
EXT. CORUSCANT - SENATE LANDING PLATFORM - DAY
|
|
|
|
Supreme Chancellor VALORUM, SEVERAL GUARDS, and SENATOR PALPATINE stand on
|
|
a landing platform.
|
|
The sleek Naboo spacecraft lands on the platform high above the street
|
|
level of the galactic capital. The ramp lowers. OBI-WAN, QUI-GON, JAR JAR
|
|
and ANAKIN descend the ramp first and bow before PALPATINE and VALORUM.
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA, TWO GUARDS, QUEEN AMIDALA, then PADME, RABE, EIRTAE,
|
|
and
|
|
MORE GUARDS descend the ramp. QUEEN AMIDALA stops before the group.
|
|
ANAKIN and JAR JAR stand to one side, looking at the huge city. PADME
|
|
smiles at ANAKIN. PALPATINE bows before the Queen.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : It is a great gift to see you alive, Your Majesty. May I
|
|
present Supreme Chancellor Valorum.
|
|
VALORUM : Welcome, Your Highness. It is an honor to finally meet you in
|
|
person. I must relay to you how distressed everyone is over the currant
|
|
situation. I've called for a special session of the Senate to hear your
|
|
position.
|
|
AMIDALA : I am grateful for your concern, Chancellor.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE starts to lead QUEEN AMIDALA and her RETINUE off the platform
|
|
toward a waiting air taxi.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : There is a question of precedure, but I feel confident we can
|
|
overcome it...
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR and ANAKIN start to follow, then stop, noticing that OBI-WAN and
|
|
QUI-GON are staying with the SUPREME CHANCELLOR. QUEEN AMIDALA waves to the
|
|
duo to follow her. ANAKIN looks back to QUI-GON, and he nods to go ahead.
|
|
ANAKIN and JAR JAR join the QUEEN, PALPATINE, PADME, RABE and EIRTAE in the
|
|
taxi. PALPATINE gives the Gungan and the boy in the back of the taxi a
|
|
skeptical look. JAR JAR leans over to ANAKIN.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Da Queens- a bein grossly nice, mesa tinks. (he looks around)
|
|
Pitty hot!
|
|
|
|
VALORUM and the JEDI watch the taxi move off into the city.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : I must speak with the Jei Council immediately, Your Honor. The
|
|
situation has become more complicated.
|
|
|
|
INT. PALPATINE'S QUARTERS - ANTEROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA is sitting listening to PALPATINE. EIRTAE and RABE stand
|
|
behind the QUEEN; PADME is nowhere to be sen. ANAKIN and JAR JAR are
|
|
waiting in an adjoining room. They can see the Queen but cannot hear what
|
|
is being said.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dissen all pitty odd to my.
|
|
ANAKIN : Don't look at me. I don't know what's going on.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA enters, then goes into the room with QUEEN AMIDALA.
|
|
|
|
INT. PALPATINE'S QUARTERS - LIVING AREA - DAY
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE is pacing as CAPTAIN PANAKA enters. EIRTAE and RABE stand to one
|
|
side.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : ...the Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of
|
|
greedy, squabbling delegates who are only looking out for themselves and
|
|
their home sytems. There is no interest in the common good...no civility,
|
|
only politics...its disgusting. I must be frank, Your Majesty, there is
|
|
little chance the Senate will act on the invasion.
|
|
AMIDALA : Chancellor Valorum seems to think there is hope.
|
|
PALPATINE : If I may say so, Your Majesty, the Chancellor has little real
|
|
power...he is mired down by baseless accusations of corruption. A
|
|
manufactured scandal surrounds him. The bureaucrats are in charge now.
|
|
AMIDALA : What options do we have?
|
|
PALPATINE : Our best choice would be to push for the election of a stronger
|
|
Supreme Chancellor. One who will take control of the bureaucrats, enforces
|
|
the laws, and give us justice. You could call for a vote of no confidence
|
|
in Chancellor Valorum.
|
|
AMIDALA : He has been our strongest supporter. Is there any other way?
|
|
PALPATINE : Our only other choice would to be to submit a plea to the
|
|
courts...
|
|
AMIDALA : There's no time for that. The courts take even longer to decide
|
|
things than the Senate. Our people are dying, Senator...more and more each
|
|
day. We must do something quickly to stop the Federation.
|
|
PALPATINE : To be realistic, Your Highness, I'd say we're going to have to
|
|
accept Federation control for the time being.
|
|
AMIDALA : There is something I cannot do.
|
|
|
|
EXT. TEMPLE OF THE JEDI - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
A unique building with it tall spires stands out against the Coruscant
|
|
skyline. A small transport passes by the vast temple.
|
|
|
|
INT. TEMPLE OF THE JEDI - COUNCIL CHAMBERS - DAY
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON stands in a tall stately room. Twelve JEDI sit in a semi-circle.
|
|
OBI-WAN stands behind QUI-GON in the center of the room.
|
|
The Senior Jedi is MACE WINDU. To his left is an alien Jedi named
|
|
KI-ADI-MUNDI, and to his right, the Jedi Master, YODA.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : ...my only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord.
|
|
MACE WINDU : A Sith Lord?!?
|
|
KI-ADI : Impossible! The Sith have been extinct for a millenium.
|
|
YODA : The very Republic is threatened, if involved the Sith are.
|
|
MACE WINDU : I do not believe they could have returned without us knowing.
|
|
YODA : Hard to see, the dark side is. Discover who this assassin is, we
|
|
must.
|
|
KI-ADI : I sense he will reveal himself again.
|
|
MACE WINDU : This attack was with purpose, that is clear, and I agree the
|
|
Queen is the target.
|
|
YODA : With this Naboo queen you must stay, Qui-Gon. Protect her.
|
|
MACE WINDU : We will use all our resources here to unravel this mystery and
|
|
discover the identity of your attacker... May the Force be with you.
|
|
YODA : May the Force be with you.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN turns to leave, but QUI-GON continues to face the Council.
|
|
|
|
YODA : (Cont'd) Master Qui-Gon more to say have you?
|
|
QUI-GON : With your permission, my Master. I have encountered a vergence in
|
|
the Force.
|
|
YODA : A vergence, you say?
|
|
MACE WINDU : Located around a person?
|
|
QUI-GON : A boy... his cells have the highest concentration of
|
|
midi-chlorians I have seen in a life form. It is possible he was conceived
|
|
by the midi-chlorians.
|
|
MACE WINDU : You're referring to the prophesy of the one who will bring
|
|
balance to the Force...you believe it's this boy??
|
|
QUI-GON : I don't pressume...
|
|
YODA : But you do! Rrevealed your opinion is.
|
|
QUI-GON : I request the boy be tested.
|
|
|
|
The JEDI all look to one another. They nod and turn back to OBI-WAN and
|
|
QUI-GON.
|
|
|
|
YODA : Trained as a Jedi, you request for him?
|
|
QUI-GON : Finding him was the will of the Force...I have no doubt of that.
|
|
There is too much happening here...
|
|
MACE WINDU : Bring him before us, then.
|
|
YODA : Tested he will be.
|
|
|
|
INT. QUEENS QUARTERS - CORUSCANT - DAY Anakin, tentative, walks down one of
|
|
the long hallways in Senator Palpatine's quarters. He stops before a dor
|
|
that is flanked by TWO GUARDS.
|
|
|
|
GUARD : May I help you, son?
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm...I'm looking for the handmaiden, Padme.
|
|
|
|
The GUARD speaks into his comlink as ANAKIN looks around a bit nervously.
|
|
|
|
GUARD : The boy is here to see Padme.
|
|
RABE : Send him in.
|
|
|
|
The doors open, and ANAKIN enters the Queen's quarters.
|
|
RABE greets ANAKIN as TWO OTHER HANDMAIDENS come and go into the next room.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I'd like to speak with Padme, if I could.
|
|
RABE : I'm sorry, Annie. Padme is not here right now.
|
|
|
|
The Queen speaks out in the next room.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : (O.S.) Who is it?
|
|
RABE : Anakin Skywalker, to see Padme, Your Highness.
|
|
|
|
The QUEEN moves into the doorway and studies ANAKIN. ANAKIN bows and looks
|
|
down, then takes a peek at her.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : I've sent Padme on an errand.
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm going to the Jedi temple to start my training, I hope.
|
|
|
|
The QUEEN just stares at him.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I may not see her again...and... I just wanted to say
|
|
goodbye.
|
|
AMIDALA : We will tell her for you. We're sure her heart goes with you.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN bows again.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Thank you, Your Highness. I'm sorry to have disturbed you.
|
|
|
|
The QUEEN dissapears behind the doorway, and ANAKIN exits.
|
|
|
|
EXT. CORUSCANT - GALACTIC SENATE BUILDING - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
A large, distinctive looking domed building stands out amid the cityscape
|
|
of Coruscant.
|
|
|
|
INT. MAIN ROTUNDA - GALACTIC SENATE - DAY
|
|
|
|
The Senate chambers are huge. Thousands of SENATORS and their AIDES sit in
|
|
the circular assembly area. CHANCELLOR VALORUM sits in an elevated area in
|
|
the center. Hindreds of AIDES and DROIDS hurry about. SENATOR PALPATINE,
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA, EIRTA, RABE, and CAPTAIN PANAKA sit in the Naboo
|
|
congressional box, which is actually a floating platform. PALPATINE leans
|
|
over to the QUEEN.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : If the Federation moves to defer the motion...Your Majesty,
|
|
Ibeg of you to ask for a resolution to end this congressional session.
|
|
AMIDALA : I wish I had your confidence in this, Senator.
|
|
PALPATINE : You must force a new election for Supreme Chancellor...I
|
|
promise you there are many who will support us...it is our best chance...
|
|
Your Majesty, our only, chance.
|
|
AMIDALA : You truely believe Chancellor Valorum will not bring our motion
|
|
to a vote?
|
|
PALAPATINE : He is distracted...he is afraid. He will be of no help.
|
|
VALORUM : The Chair recognizes the Senator from the sovereign system of
|
|
Naboo.
|
|
|
|
The Naboo congressional box floats into the center.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : Supreme Chancellor, delegates of the Senate. A tragedy has
|
|
occured on our peaceful system of Naboo. We have become caugt in a dispute
|
|
you're all well aware of, which began right here with the taxation of trade
|
|
routes, and has now engulfed our entire planet in the oppresion of the
|
|
Trade Federation.
|
|
|
|
A second box rushes into the center of the Senate. It is filled with
|
|
Federation trade barons led by LOTT DOD, the Senator for the Federation.
|
|
|
|
LOTT DOD : This is outrageous! I object to the Senator's statements!
|
|
VALORUM : The Chair does not recognize the Senator from the Trade
|
|
Federation at this time. Please return to your station.
|
|
|
|
LOTT DOD reluctantly moves back to his place.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : To state our allegations, I present Queen Amidala, the recently
|
|
elected ruler of Naboo, to speak on our behalf.
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA stands and addresses the assembly. There is some applause.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : Honorable representatives of the Republic, distinguished
|
|
delegates, and Your Honor Supreme Chancellor Valorum, I come to you under
|
|
the gravest of circumstances. The Naboo system has been invaded by force.
|
|
Invaded...against all the laws of the Republic by the Droid Armies of the
|
|
Trade...
|
|
LOTT DOD : I object! There is no proof. This is incredible. We recommend a
|
|
commision be sent to Naboo to assertain the truth.
|
|
VALORUM : Overruled.
|
|
LOTT DOD : Your Honor, you cannot allow us to be condemned without
|
|
reasonable observation. It's against all the rules of procedure.
|
|
|
|
A third box representing Malastare moves into the center of the room. AKS
|
|
MOE, the Ambassador, addresses the convention.
|
|
|
|
AKS MOE : The Congress of Malastare concurs with the honorable delegate
|
|
from the Trade Federation. A commision must be appointed...that is the law.
|
|
VALORUM : The point...
|
|
|
|
VALORUM confers with several of his AIDES and VICE CHAIRMAN MAS AMEDDA.
|
|
PALPATINE whispers something to the QUEEN.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : Enter the bureaucrats, the true rulers of the Republic, and on
|
|
the payroll of the Trade Federation, I might add. This is where Chancellor
|
|
Valorum's strength will dissapear.
|
|
VALORUM : The point is conceded...Section 523A take precedence here. Queen
|
|
Amidala of the Naboo, will you defer your motion to allow a commission to
|
|
explore the validity of your accusations?
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA is angry but remains composed.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : (angrily) I will not defer...I have come before you to resolve
|
|
this attack on our sovereignty now. I was not elected to watch my people
|
|
suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee. If this body
|
|
is not capable of action, I suggest new leadership is needed. I move for a
|
|
"vote of no confidence"...in Chancellor Valorum's leadership.
|
|
VALORUM : What?...No!
|
|
|
|
This causes a great stir in the assembly. A loud mumur cresendos into a
|
|
roar of approval and jeers. CHANCELLOR VALORUM is stunned and stands
|
|
speechless. His Vice Chair, MAS AMEDDA, takes over.
|
|
|
|
MAS AMEDDA : Order! We shall have order...
|
|
|
|
Things settledown a little. The Federation box settles next to AMIDALA.
|
|
PRINCE BAIL ORGANA moves his box into the arena.
|
|
|
|
BAIL ORGANA : Alderaan seconds the motion for a vote of no confidence in
|
|
Chancellor Valorum.
|
|
MAD AMEDDA : The motion has been seconded by Bail Organa of Alderaan.
|
|
|
|
MAS AMEDDA turns to the confused VALORUM, and whispers something to him.
|
|
|
|
BAIL ORGANA : There must be no delays. The motion is on the floor and must
|
|
be voted upon in this session.
|
|
LOTT DOD : The Trade Federation moves the motion be sent to the procedures
|
|
committee for study.
|
|
|
|
The assembly begins to chant. VALORUM talks to MAS AMEDDA.
|
|
|
|
ASSEMBLY : Vote now! Vote now! Vote now!
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE stands next to AMIDALA.
|
|
|
|
PALPATINE : You see, Your Majaesty, the tide is with us...Valorum will be
|
|
voted out, I assure you, and they will elect in a new Chancellor, a strong
|
|
Chancellor, one who will not let our tragedy continue...
|
|
MAS AMEDDA : Thew Supreme Chancellor requests a recess. Tomorrow we will
|
|
begin the vote.
|
|
|
|
The Federation delegation is furious. VALORUM turns to PALPATINE.
|
|
|
|
VALORUM : Palpatine, I thought you were my ally...my friend. You have
|
|
betrayed me! How could you do this?
|
|
|
|
EXT. PALACE OF THE JEDI - BALCONY - SUNSET
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN and QUI-GON stand outside the palace on a balcony.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : The boy will not pass the Council's tests, Master, and you know
|
|
it. He is far too old.
|
|
QUI-GON : Anakin will become A Jedi...I promise you.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Don't defy the Council, Master..not again.
|
|
QUI-GON : I will do what I must.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Master, you could be sitting on the Council by now if you would
|
|
just follow the code. They will not go along with you this time.
|
|
QUI-GON : You still have much to learn, my young apprentice.
|
|
|
|
INT. PALACE OF THE JEDI - COUNCIL CHAMBERS - SUNSET
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN stands before the TWELVE JEDI. MACE WINDU holds a small hand-held
|
|
viewing screen. In rapid succession, images flash across the screen.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : A ship...a cup...a speeder.
|
|
|
|
MACE WINDU turns the viewing screen off and nods toward YODA.
|
|
|
|
YODA : Good, good, young one. How feel you?
|
|
ANAKIN : Cold, sir.
|
|
YODA : Afraid are you?
|
|
ANAKIN : No, sir.
|
|
MACE WINDU : Afraid to give up your life?
|
|
ANAKIN : I don't think so.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN hesitates for a moment.
|
|
|
|
YODA : See through you, we can.
|
|
MACE WINDU : Be mindful of your feelings...
|
|
KI-ADI : YOur thoughts dwell on your mother.
|
|
ANAKIN : I miss her.
|
|
YODA : Afraid to lose her..I think.
|
|
ANAKIN : (a little angry) What's that got to do with anything?
|
|
YODA : Eveything. Fear is the path to the dark side... fear leads to
|
|
anger... anger leads to hate.. hate leads to suffering.
|
|
ANAKIN : (angrily) I am not afraid!
|
|
YODA : A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. I
|
|
sense much fear in you.
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ANAKIN : (quietly) I am not afraid.
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YODA : Then continue, we will.
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INT. PALPATINES QUARTERS - SUNSET
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QUEEN AMIDALA is standing, staring out the window, with JAR JAR. The lights
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of the city shimmer before them. EIRTAE and SABE stand near the door. JAR
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JAR turns to face the QUEEN and sees her sadness.
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JAR JAR : Mesa wonder why da guds invent pain?
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AMIDALA : To motivate us, I imagine...
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JAR JAR : Yousa tinken yousa people ganna die?
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AMIDALA : I don't know.
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JAR JAR : Gungans ganna get pasted too, eh?
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AMIDALA : I hope not.
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JAR JAR : Gungans do die'n without a fight.... wesa warriors. Wesa gotta
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grand army. Dat why you no liken us, metinks.
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PALPATINE and CAPTAIN PANAKA rush into the rom and bow before the QUEEN.
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CAPT. PANAKA : Your Highness, Senator Palpatine has been nominated to
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succeed Valorum as Supreme Chancellor.
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PALPATINE : A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. I promise, Your
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Majesty, if I am elected, I will bring democracy back to the Republic. I
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will put an end to corruption. The Trade Fedreation will lose its influence
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over the bureaucrats, and our people will be freed.
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AMIDALA : Who else can be nominated?
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CAPT. PANAKA : Bail Antilles of Alderaan and Ainlee Teem of Malastare.
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PALPATINE : I feel confident...our "situation" will create a strong
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sympaphy vote for us... I will be Chancellor, I promise you.
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AMIDALA : I fear by the time you have control of the bureaucrats, Senator,
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there will be nothing left of our cities, our people, our way of life...
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PALPATINE : I understand your concern, Your Majesty; unfortunately, the
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Federation has possession of our planet. The law is in their favor.
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AMIDALA : With the Senate in transition, there is nothing more I can do
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here...Senator, this is your arena. I feel I must return to mine. I have
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decided to go back to Naboo. My place is with my people.
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PALPATINE : Go back!! But, Your Majesty, be realistic! You would be in
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danger. They will force you to sign the treaty.
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AMIDALA : I will sign no treaty, Senator. My fate will be no different from
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that of our people. Captain!
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CAPT. PANAKA : Yes, Your Highness?
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AMIDALA : Ready my ship!
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CAPT. PANAKA : Please, Your Majesty, stay here...where it's safe.
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AMIDALA : No place is safe, if the Senate doesn't condemn this invasion. It
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is clear to me now that the Republic no longer functions as a democracy. If
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you win the election, Senator, I know you will do everything possible to
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stop the Federation. I pray you will bring sanity and compassion back to
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the Senate.
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AMIDALA and her RETINUE exit the room. PALPATINE has a self-satisfied smile
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on his face.
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INT. TEMPLE OF THE JEDI - COUNCIL CHAMBERS - TWILIGHT
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ANAKIN, OBI-WAN, and QUI-GON stand before the TWELVE MEMBERS OF THE JEDI
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COUNCIL.
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YODA : ...Correct you were, Qui-Gon.
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MACE WINDU : His cells contain a high concentration of midi-chlorians.
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KI-ADI : The Force is strong with him.
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QUI-GON : He's to be trained, then.
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The COUNCIL MEMBERS look to one another.
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MACE WINDU : No. He will not be trained.
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ANAKIN is crestfallen; tears begin to form in his eyes.
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QUI-GON : No??!!
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OBI-WAN smiles.
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MACE WINDU : He is too old. There is already too much anger in him.
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QUI-GON : He is the chosen one...you must see it.
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YODA : Clouded, this boy's future is. Masked by his youth.
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QUI-GON : I will trin him, then. I take Anakin as my Padawan learner.
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OBI-WAN reacts with surprise. ANAKIN watches with interest.
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YODA : An apprentice, you have, Qui-Gon. Impossible, to take on a second.
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MACE WINDU : We forbid it.
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QUI-GON : Obi-Wan is ready...
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OBI-WAN : Iam ready to face the trials.
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YODA : Ready so early, are you? What know you of ready?
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ANAKIN watches as QUI-GON and OBI-WAN exchange angry looks.
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QUI-GON : Headstrong....and he has much to learn about the living Force,
|
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but he is capabe. There is little more he will learn from me.
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YODA : Our own council we will keep on who is ready. More to learn, he
|
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has...
|
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MACE WINDU : Now is not the time for this...the Senate is voting for a new
|
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Spreme Chancellor. Queen Amidala is returning home, which will put pressure
|
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on the Federation, and could widen the confrontation.
|
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YODA : And draw out the Queen's attacker.
|
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KI-ADI : Events are moving fast...too fast.
|
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MACE WINDU : Go with the Queen to Naboo and discover the identity of the
|
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dark warrior. That is the clue we need to unravel this mystery of the Sith.
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|
|
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YODA : Young Skywalker's fate will be decided later.
|
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QUI-GON : I brought Anakin here; he must stay in my charge. He has nowhere
|
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else to go.
|
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MACE WINDU : He is your ward, Qui-Gon...we will not dispute that.
|
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YODA : Train him not. Take him with you, but train him not!
|
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MACE WINDU : Protect the Queen, but do not intercede if it comes to war
|
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until we have the Senate's approval.
|
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YODA : May the Force be with you.
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OBI-WAN, QUI-GON, and ANAKIN leave.
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EXT. CORUSCANT - SENATE LANDING PLATFORM - NIGHT
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QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, and ANAKIN stand on the landing platform outside the
|
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ship. ARTOO whistles a happy tune as he leans over the edge of the
|
|
platform, watching the traffic. Suddenly, he leans over too far and falls
|
|
overboard. After a moment, he reappears, using his on-board jets to propel
|
|
himself back onto the landing platform. The wind whips at ANAKIN as he
|
|
listens to the JEDI.
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|
|
|
OBI-WAN : It is not disrespect, Master, it is the truth.
|
|
QUI-GON : From your point of view....
|
|
OBI-WAN : The boy is dangerous...they all sense it. Why can't you?
|
|
QUI-GON : His fate is uncertain, not dangerous. The Council will decide
|
|
Anakin's future...that should be enough for you. Now get on board!
|
|
OBI-WAN reluctantly boards the Naboo spacecraft followed by ARTOO. QUI-GON
|
|
goes over to ANAKIN.
|
|
ANAKIN : Master Qui-Gon, sir, I do not wish to be a problem.
|
|
QUI-GON : You won't be, Annie....I'm not allowed to train you, so I want
|
|
you to watch me and be mindful...always remember, your focus determines
|
|
your reality. Stay close to me and you will be safe.
|
|
ANAKIN : Master, sir...I've been wondering...what are midi-chlorians?
|
|
QUI-GON : Midi-chlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all
|
|
living cells and communicates with the Force.
|
|
ANAKIN : They live inside of me?
|
|
QUI-GON : In your cells. We are symbionts with the midi-chlorians.
|
|
ANAKIN : Symbionts?
|
|
QUI-GON : Life forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the
|
|
midi-chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the
|
|
Force. They continually speak to you, telling you the will of the Force.
|
|
ANAKIN : They do??
|
|
QUI-GON : When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them speaking to
|
|
you.
|
|
ANAKIN : I don't understand.
|
|
QUI-GON : With time and training, Annie...you will.
|
|
|
|
Two taxis pull up, and CAPTAIN PANAKA, SENATOR PALPATINE, TWENTY OR SO
|
|
TROOPS, GUARDS, and OFFICERS walk briskly toward the ship, followed by
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA, PADME, EIRTAE, and finally, JAR JAR. AMIDALA and her
|
|
HANDMAIDENS stop before the JEDI.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) Your Highness, it is our pleasure to continue to serve
|
|
and protect you.
|
|
AMIDALA : I welcome your help. Senator Palpatine fears the Federation means
|
|
to destroy me.
|
|
QUI-GON : I promise you, I will not let that happen.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA enters the ship, followed by her HANDMAIDENS. JAR JAR hugs QUI-GON
|
|
and ANAKIN.
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|
|
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JAR JAR : Wesa goen home!
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|
|
|
They ALL move onto the ship. The ship takes off.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO PALACE - THRONE ROOM - THEED - NIGHT
|
|
|
|
NUTE and RUNE stand before a hologram of DARTH SIDIOUS.
|
|
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : The Queen is on her way to you. I regret she is of no
|
|
further use to us. When she gets there, destroy her.
|
|
NUTE : Yes, my Lord.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Viceroy, is the planet secure?
|
|
NUTE : Yes, my Lord, we have taken over the last pockets of primitive life
|
|
forms. We are in complete control of the planet now.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Good. I will see to it that in the Senate, things stay as
|
|
they are. I am sending Darth Maul to join you. He will deal with the Jedi.
|
|
NUTE : Yes, my Lord.
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|
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS fades off.
|
|
|
|
RUNE : A Sith lord here with us?!!
|
|
|
|
INT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT COCKPIT
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN stands next to the PILOT, RIC OLIE, pointing to various buttons and
|
|
gauges.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : ...and that one?
|
|
RIC OLIE : The forward stabalizer.
|
|
ANAKIN : And those control the pitch?
|
|
RIC OLIE : You catch on pretty quick.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - QUEEN'S CHAMBERS
|
|
|
|
SABE and EIRTAE stand behind QUEEN AMIDALA as she talks with QUI-GON and
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA. OBI-WAN and JAR JAR watch.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : The moment we land the Federation will arrest you, and force
|
|
you to sign the treaty.
|
|
QUI-GON : I agree...I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish by this.
|
|
AMIDALA : I'm going to take back what's ours.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : There are only twelve of us, Your Highness....we have no
|
|
army.
|
|
QUI-GON : I cannot fight a war for you, Your Highness, only protect you.
|
|
AMIDALA : Jar Jar Binks!
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR looks around, puzzled.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Mesa, Your Highness?
|
|
AMIDALA : Yes. I need your help.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO CRUISER COCKPIT - DAY
|
|
|
|
The Naboo Cruiser heads toward the lush green planet. There is only one
|
|
Federation battle cruiser orbiting. OBI-WAN and CAPTAIN PANAKA spot it on
|
|
the view screen.
|
|
|
|
PANAKA : The blockade's gone.
|
|
OBI-WAN : The war's over...No need for it now.
|
|
RIC OLIE : I have one battleship on my scope.
|
|
OBI-WAN : A droid control ship.
|
|
PANAKA : They've probably spotted us.
|
|
OBI-WAN ; We haven't much time.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - MAIN HOLD
|
|
|
|
The QUEEN, CAPTAIN PANAKA, TROOPS, and HANDMAIDENS get ready to disembark
|
|
as the ship alnds. The elevator door slides open, and ANAKIN emerges into
|
|
the hold area. He see PADME and run up to her.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Hi! Where have you been?
|
|
PADME : Annie! What are you doing here?
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm with Qui-Gon...but...they're not going to let me be a Jedi.
|
|
I'm too old.
|
|
PADME : This is going to be dangerous, Annie.
|
|
ANAKIN : Is it? I can help... Where are we going?
|
|
PADME : To war, I'm afraid. The Queen has had to make the most difficuld
|
|
decision of her life. She doesn't believe in fighting, Annie. We are a
|
|
peaceful people...
|
|
ANAKIN : I want to help...I'm glad you're back.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN smiles. PADME smiles back.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SWAMP - DAY
|
|
|
|
The Naboo spacecraft has landed in the Gungan swamp. TROOPS unload the
|
|
ships in the background as OBI-WAN approaches QUI-GON.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : Jar Jar is on his way to the Gungan city, Master.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON's thoughts are elsewhere.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : Good.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN and QUI-GON stand silently for a moment.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : Do you think the Queen's idea will work?
|
|
QUI-GON : The Gungans will not easily be swayed, and we cannot use our
|
|
power to help her.
|
|
OBI-WAN : I'm...I'm sorry for my behavior, Master. It is not my place to
|
|
disagree with you about the boy. I am grateful you think I am ready for the
|
|
trials.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON looks at him for a long moment.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : You have been a good apprentice. You are much wiser than Iam,
|
|
Obi-Wan. I foresee you will become a great Jedi Knight.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SWAMP - UNDERWATER - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR swims down into Bubble City.
|
|
|
|
INT. OTOH GUNGA - CITY SQUARE
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR enters the main square of the bubble city. He stands, stunned, in
|
|
amazement and fear. He is nervous and shaking.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Ello! Where das everybody?
|
|
|
|
The plaza is empty. He notices that many of the buildings are shot up as if
|
|
there had been a battle of some kind.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SWAMP LAKE - DAY
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR exits the swamp lake and walks over to QUEEN AMIDALA, CAPTAIN
|
|
PANAKA, OBI-WAN, and QUI-GON. PADME, EIRTAE, RABE, ANAKIN, and ARTOO,
|
|
FOUR
|
|
PILOTS, and EIGHT GUARDS stand in the background near the starship.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dare-sa nobody dare. All gone. Some kinda fight, I tink. Sorry,
|
|
no Gungas...no Gungas.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Do you think they have been taken to camps?
|
|
OBI-WAN : More likely they were wiped out.
|
|
JAR JAR : No...mesa no tink so. Gungan hiden. When in trouble, go to sacred
|
|
place. Mackineeks no find them dare.
|
|
QUI-GON : Do you know where they are?
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SWAMP - DAY
|
|
|
|
The GROUP follows JAR JAR as he moves through the swamp. JAR JAR stops and
|
|
sniffs the air. The GROUP stop behind him.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : Dissen it.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR makes a strange chattering noise. Suddenly, out of nowhere, CAPTAIN
|
|
TARPALS and SIX OTHER GUNGAN TROOPS riding on KAADUS emerge from the brush.
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR : (Cont'd) Heyo-dalee, Captain Tarpals.
|
|
CAPT. TARPALS : Binks!! Noah gain!
|
|
JAR JAR : We comen to see da boss.
|
|
|
|
CAPTIAN TARPALS rolls his eyes.
|
|
|
|
CAPT. TARPALS : Ouch time, Binks... Ouch time for all-n youse.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO SACRED TEMPLE RUINS - DAY
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR, QUEEN AMIDALA, ANAKIN, ARTOO, QUI-GON, OBI-WAN, PADME, RABE,
|
|
EIRTAE, and the rest of her group are led through a clearing full of GUNGAN
|
|
refugees. At the far end are the ruins of a grand temple with massive
|
|
carved heads. BOSS NASS and several other COUNCIL MEMBERS walk out on the
|
|
top of a three-quarter-submerged head.
|
|
|
|
BOSS NASS : Jar Jar, yousa payen dis time. Who's da uss-en others??
|
|
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA steps forward. CAPTAIN PANAKA and the JEDI stand behind her.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : I am Queen Amidala of the Naboo...I come before you in peace.
|
|
BOSS NASS : Naboo biggen. Yousa bringen da Mackineeks... Dya busten uss-en
|
|
omm. Yousa all bombad. Yousa all die'n, mesa tink.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA and HALF A DOZEN GUARDS and PILOTS look around nervously,
|
|
and the GUNGAN TROOPS lower their long power poles. The JEDI stay relaxed.
|
|
ANAKIN watches everything with great interest.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : We wish to form an alliance...
|
|
|
|
Suddenly, PADME steps forward.
|
|
|
|
PADME : Your Honor...
|
|
|
|
ARTOO whistles a quiet "uh oh."
|
|
|
|
BOSS NASS : Whosa dis?
|
|
PADME : I am Queen Amidala (points to Queen) This is my decoy...my
|
|
protection...my loyal bodyguard.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN is stunned. OBI-WAN and QUI-GON give each other a knowing look.
|
|
|
|
PADME : (Cont'd) ...I am sorry for my deception, but under the
|
|
circumstances it has become necessary to protect myself. Although we do not
|
|
always agree, Your Honor, our two great societies have always lived in
|
|
peace...until now. The Trade Federation has destroyed all that we have
|
|
worked so hard to build. You are in hiding, my people are in camps. If we
|
|
do not act quickly, all will be lost forever...I ask you to help us...no, I
|
|
beg you to help us.
|
|
|
|
PADME drops to her knees and prostrates herself before BOSS NASS. There is
|
|
a gasp from CAPTAIN PANAKA, HIS TROOPS, and the HANDMAIDENS.
|
|
|
|
PADME : (Cont'd) We are your humble servants...our fate is in your hands.
|
|
|
|
Slowly, CAPTAIN PANAKA and his TROOPS bow down before the GUNGAN COUNCIL.
|
|
Then the HANDMAIDENS, ANAKIN, and finally the JEDI. The GUNGANS are puzzled
|
|
by this. BOSS NASS begins to laugh.
|
|
|
|
BOSS NASS : Yousa no tinken yousa greater den da Gungans.. Mesa like dis.
|
|
Maybe wesa bein friends.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO PALACE - THRONE ROOM - DAY
|
|
|
|
NUTE, RUNE, and DARTH MAUL walk with a hologram of DARTH SIDIOUS.
|
|
|
|
NUTE : ...we've sent out patrols. We've already located their starship in
|
|
the swamp....It won't be long, My Lord.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : This is an unexpected move for her. It's too aggresive..
|
|
Lord Maul, be mindful.
|
|
DARTH MAUL : Yes, my Master.
|
|
DARTH SIDIOUS : Be patient... Let them make the first move.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO EDGE OF SWAMP/ GRASS PLAINS - DAY
|
|
|
|
A GUNGAN SENTRY sits on top of the ancient temple heah, searching the
|
|
landscape with a pair of electrobinoculars. He sees something and yells
|
|
down to ANAKIN at the foot of the statue.
|
|
|
|
GUNGAN LOOKOUT : Daza comen!
|
|
ANAKIN : All right. They're here!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN yells and runs over to PADME and the JEDI, who are discussing a
|
|
battle plan with FIVE GUNGAN GENERALS. SABE and EIRTAE stand nearby. BOSS
|
|
NASS puts his arm around JAR JAR.
|
|
|
|
BOSS NASS : Yousa doen grand. Jar Jar bringen da Naboo together.
|
|
JAR JAR : Oh, no, no, no...
|
|
BOSS NASS : So, wesa maken yousa Bombad General.
|
|
JAR JAR : General??! Oh, no..
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR's eyes roll back, his tongue flops out and he faints.
|
|
FOUR SPEEDERS pull up to the GROUP. CAPTAIN PANAKA and a DOZEN OR SO
|
|
GUARDS
|
|
and PILOT pile out and join the group.
|
|
|
|
PADME : What is the situation?
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Almost everyone's in camps. A few hundred police and guards
|
|
have formed an underground movement. I brought as many of the keaders as I
|
|
could. The Federation Army's also much larger than we thought, and much
|
|
stronger. Your Highness, this is a battle I do not think we can win.
|
|
PADME : The battle is a diversion. The Gungans must draw theDroid Army away
|
|
from the cities. We can enter the city using the secret passages on the
|
|
waterfall side. Once we get to the main entrance, Captain Pnaka will create
|
|
a diversion, so that we can enter the palace and capture the Viceroy.
|
|
Without the Viceroy, they will be lost and confused.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON and OBI-WAN look on with interest.
|
|
|
|
PADME : (Cont'd) What do you think, Master Jedi?
|
|
QUI-GON : The Viceroy will be well guarded.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : The difficulty's getting into the throne room. Once we're
|
|
inside, we shouldn't have a problem.
|
|
QUI-GON : There is a possibility with this diversion many Gungans will be
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killed.
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BOSS NASS : Wesa ready to do are-sa part.
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JAR JAR smiles a very worried and sheepish grin. ANAKIN watches with
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interest, as does ARTOO.
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PADME : We have a plan which should immobilize the Droid Army. We will send
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what pilots we have to knock out the Droid control ship which is orbiting
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the planet. If we can get past their rayshields, we can sever communication
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and their droids will be helpless.
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QUI-GON : A well-conceived plan. However, there's great risk. The weapons
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on your fighters may not penetrate the shields on the control ship.
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OBI-WAN : And there's an even bigger danger. If the Vicroy escapes, Your
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Highness, he will return with another droid army.
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PADME : That is why we must not fail to get to the Viceroy. Everything
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depends on it.
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INT. THEED - PALACE - THRONE ROOM - DAY
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NUTE, RUNE, DARTH MAUL, OOM-9, and a hologram of DARTH SIDIOUS walk through
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the throne room.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : ...she is more foolish than I thought.
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NUTE : We are sending all available troops to meet this army of hers
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assembling near the swamp. It appears to be made up of primitives. We do
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not expect much resistance.
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OOM-9 : I am increasing security at all Naboo detention camps.
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DARTH MAUL : I feel there is more to this, My Master. The two Jedi may be
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using the Queen for their own purposes.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : The Jedi cannot become involved. They can only protect the
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Queen. Even Qui-Gon Jinn will not break that conenant.... This will work to
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our advantage...
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NUTE : I have your approval to proceed then, My Lord.
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DARTH SIDIOUS : Proceed. Wipe them put...all of them. INT. NABOO SWAMP LAKE
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- DAY (FX)
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All is peaceful. SMALL CRITTERS drink out of a large swamp lake. Suddenly
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there is a disturbance in the middle of the lake. A rush of bubbles, then a
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GUNGAN SOLDIER riding a KAADU emerges from the water, followed by SEVERAL
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OTHERS. FROGS and OTHER LITTLE ANIMALS flee in all directions as the GUNGAN
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ARMY marches through the swamp. The KAADU shake themselves off as they exit
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the lake. When JAR JAR's KAADU shakes off, JAR JAR falls off.
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SOLDIERS on huge, lizard-like FAMBAAS with large shield generators mounted
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on their backs follow the marching WARRIORS. The GUNGAN ARMY heads out of
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the swamp and onto the rolling grassy hills.
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HUNDREDS OF GUNGAN WARRIORS march in lon lines toward the horizon.
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Federation tanks move up to a ridge and stop. In the distance they see the
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GUNGAN ARMY marching toward them. The GUNGAN GENERAL CEEL sees the tanks on
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the ridge and orders a halt. The GUNGANS are spread out in a large line.
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JAR JAR is nervous. GENERAL CEEL signals to the shield operators.
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GENERAL CEEL : Energize the shields.
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A red ray shoots out of the generator and blasts into a large dish on the
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back of a second FAAMBA and spreads like an umbrella over the assembled
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WARRIORS.
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EXT. THEED - CENTRAL PLAZA - DAY
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PADME, followed by EIRTAE, OBI-WAN, QUI-GON, ANAKIN, and ARTOO, stealthily
|
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makes her way toward the entrance to the main hanger. They are followed by
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about TWENTY NABOO GUARDS, PILOTS, and TROOPS. They stop, and PADME uses a
|
|
small red laser light to signal across the plaza to CAPTAIN PANAKA, RABE
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|
and TWENTY OTHER ASSORTED NABOO TROOPS. They signal back. QUI-GON leans
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over to ANAKIN.
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QUI-GON : Once we get inside, Annie, you find a safe placeto hide and stay
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there.
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ANAKIN : Sure.
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QUI-GON : And stay there!
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|
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|
DROID TROOPS mill about the tank-filled plaza. At the far end of the plaza,
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|
SEVERAL DROIDS begin to run and fire. NABOO SOLDIERS begin to fire back at
|
|
the BATTLE DROIDS.
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|
As the ruckus erupts at one end of the plaza, PADME and her TROOPS rush
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|
into the main hanger. CAPTAIN PANAKA and HIS SOLDIERS continue to engage
|
|
the DROIDS outside.
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|
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|
INT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
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|
|
ALARMS ARE SOUNDING a PADME, the JEDI, ANAKIN, EIRTAE, and PADME's TROOPS
|
|
rush into the hanger. BATTLE DROIDS begin firing at them as they run for
|
|
cover. ANAKIN runs under a Naboo fighter. The JEDI deflect bolts aimed at
|
|
PADME back onto the BATTLE DROIDS, causing them to EXPLODE.
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|
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|
INT. THEED - PALACE THRONE ROOM - DAY
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|
|
|
NUTE, RUNE, and FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS watch the plaza battle on a large view
|
|
screen.
|
|
|
|
NUTE : I thought the battle was going to take place far from here...this is
|
|
too close!
|
|
RUNE : What is going on?
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|
|
|
DARTH MAUL enters the throne room.
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|
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|
DARTH MAUL : I told you there was more to this...the Jedi are involved.
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|
|
|
EXT. NABOO GRASS PLAINS - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
The Federation tanks begin to fire on the GUNGANS, but they are protected
|
|
by their energy shield. The tanks stop firing, and the GUNGANS CHEER, until
|
|
they see the doors to the massive transports open, and racks of BATTLE
|
|
DROIDS are pulled out and lined up by a squad of STAPS.
|
|
The BATTLE DROIDS reconfigure into their standing position. The GUNGANS get
|
|
ready for an attack. OOM-9 gives the command to move forward, and THOUSANDS
|
|
OF DROIDS march toward the GUNGANS.
|
|
The GUNGANS power up their weapons. The DROIDS slowly march through the
|
|
protective shield and start firing. The GUNGANS throw their power poles and
|
|
fling small balls of energy with slingshots. The WARRIORS dump large balls
|
|
of energy into mortars that heat up and fire the energy goo onto the BATTLE
|
|
DROIDS, causing them to short out.
|
|
The battle rages and the GUNGANS defend their shield generators against the
|
|
ARMY OF DROIDS. OOM-9 watches from a tank on a hill overlooking the battle.
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|
|
|
INT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN hides behind one of the Naboo fighters, ducking as large bolts whiz
|
|
past and EXPLODE near him. PADME and the TWO JEDI destroy BATTLE DROIDS
|
|
right and left. The QUEEN'S TROOPS and EIRTAE also blast away at the
|
|
DROIDS. PADME signals to her pilots.
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|
|
|
PADME : Get to your ships!
|
|
|
|
The PILOTS and ARTOO UNITS run for the Naboo fighter craft stacked in the
|
|
hanger bay. ONE OF THE PILOTS jumps into a fighter right above where ANAKIN
|
|
is hiding.
|
|
|
|
FIGHTER PILOT : Better find a new hiding place, kid. I'm taking this ship.
|
|
|
|
The ship begins to levitate out of the hanger. BATTLE DROIDS fire at it as
|
|
it falls in behind five other fighters. ARTOO whistles to ANAKIN from a
|
|
second fighter not far away. ANAKIN runs and jumps into the second fighter
|
|
to hide.
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|
|
|
EXT. THEED - CENTRAL PLAZA - DAY (FX)
|
|
|
|
Two Naboo starfighters exit the main hanger. A tank fires at them, hitting
|
|
one of them, which causes it to pinwheel into the ground and EXPLODE.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA, SABE and NABOO TROOPS rush into the hanger and overwlm the
|
|
few remaining BATTLE DROIDS. PADME, OBI-WAN, and QUI-GON join forces with
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA.
|
|
|
|
PADME : My guess is the Viceroy is in the throne room.
|
|
|
|
She looks to QUI-GON.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : I agree.
|
|
|
|
They start to head for the exit, on the way passing the fighter where
|
|
ANAKIN is hiding. ARTOO whistles a greeting as ANAKIN peeps out of the
|
|
cockpit.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Hey! Wait for me.
|
|
QUI-GON : No, Annie, you stay there. Stay right where you are.
|
|
ANAKNI : But, I...
|
|
QUI-GON : Stay in that cockpit.
|
|
|
|
They head for the exit. As they are about to go through the door, suddenly
|
|
everyone scatters, revealing DARTH MAUL standing in the doorway. CAPTAIN
|
|
PANAKA, PADME, and HER TROOPS back away. QUI-GON and OBI-WAN step forward.
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON : (Cont'd) We'' handle this...
|
|
|
|
The TWO JEDI take off their capes and ignite their laser swords. DARTH MAUL
|
|
takes off his cape, and ignites his laser sword. Both ends of the sword
|
|
light up.
|
|
At the far end of the hanger, SIX WHEEL DROIDS roll in and transform into
|
|
their battle position. ARTOO calls ANAKIN's attention to the DROIDS. The
|
|
JEDI begin to fight the Sith Lord.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Oh, no...
|
|
|
|
The DROIDS begin to advance and start firing on PADME and HER TROOPS.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) We gotta do something, Artoo.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO whistles a reply. Suddenly, the ship's systems go on, and the ship
|
|
begins to levitate.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) All right, thanks Artoo! Great idea! I'll take over.
|
|
Let's see...
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN steers the ship toward the DROIDS. He pushes a button, and the ship
|
|
begins to shake.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Where's the trigger? Oops, wrong one.. Maybe this one....
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN pushes a second button, and the lasers begin to fire, wiping out
|
|
several DESTROYER DROIDS. ARTOO whistles a cheer.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Yeah, all right. "Droid blaster." Yeah!
|
|
|
|
The JEDI are engaged in a fierce sword fight with DARTH MAUL. They have
|
|
moved into the center of the hanger. While the WHEEL DROIDS are momentarily
|
|
distracted by ANAKIN, CAPTAIN PANAKA, PADME, and HER TROOPS exit into a
|
|
palace hallway.
|
|
The WHEEL DROIDS start firing at ANAKIN. There are EXPLOSIONS all around
|
|
him.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Oops...shield up! Always on the right...shields always on
|
|
the right.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN flips several switches, and the after-burner ignites.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I know we're moving. I'll shut the energy drive down.
|
|
|
|
The fighter rockets out of the hanger. ARTOO and ANAKIN hold on for dear
|
|
life.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Oops!! Wrong one.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I'm not doing anything!
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I know...I didn't push anything.
|
|
|
|
The SITH LORD's moves are incredible. He is fighting the TWO JEDI at once,
|
|
flipping into the air, outmaneuvering them at every turn.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO STARFIGHTER - COCKPIT - SPACE
|
|
|
|
The Naboo fleet leaves the planet and heads toward the space station.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : Bravo Flight A, take on the fighters. Flight B, make the run on
|
|
the transmitter.
|
|
BRAVO TWO : Roger, Bravo Leader.
|
|
|
|
The fleet approaches the space station. Many Federation fighters exit the
|
|
hangers and attack.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : Enemy fighters straight ahead!
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO GRASS PALINS - DAY
|
|
|
|
JAR JAR's clumsiness works for him in the battle. He gets caught up in the
|
|
wiring of a blasted DROID, dragging the torso around with him, the DROID's
|
|
gun firing randomly, accidently blasting SEVERAL DROIDS in one process.
|
|
OOM-9 decides to send in the WHEEL DROIDS and gives the signal. HUNDREDS OF
|
|
WHEEL DROIDS roll out of the transports and head down toward the battle.
|
|
They slowly roll through the deflector shields, then transform themselves
|
|
once they get on the other side. The GUNGANS blast the WHEEL DROIDS with
|
|
energy balls. The DESTROYER DROIDS blast many GUNGANS.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO STARFIGHTER - COCKPIT - SPACE
|
|
|
|
A giant dogfight ensues. ANAKIN's fighter flies into space above Naboo.
|
|
ARTOO beeps a worried concern.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : The Autopilot is searching for what other ships?
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps and whistles.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) There is no manual override, Artoo. You'll have to rewire
|
|
it or something.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO chirps that he's trying.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (cont'd) Look! There they are! That's where the autopilot is
|
|
taking us.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN's fighter flies toward the Federation Battleship.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
|
|
|
|
The SITH LORD drives the JEDI out of the hanger and nto the power generator
|
|
area next door.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR PIT - DAY
|
|
|
|
Three swords are crossed in an intense display of swordmanship. The JEDI
|
|
and the SITH LORD fight their way across the narrow bridge of the Theed
|
|
power generator. DARTH MAUL jumps onto the bridge above them. The JEDI
|
|
follow, one in front of the SITH LORD and one behind. They continue their
|
|
sword fight.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - PALACE - HALLWAY - DAY
|
|
|
|
PADME, CAPTAIN PANAKA, EIRTAE, SABE and THIER TROOPS are trapped in a
|
|
hallway by BATTLE DROIDS.
|
|
|
|
PADME : We don't have time for this, Captain.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : Let's try the outside stairway.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA blasts a hole in the window, and they make their way outside
|
|
the building onto a ledge about six stories above a raging waterfall. SABE,
|
|
EIRTAE and about TWENTY NABOO SOLDIERS stay in the hallway to hold off the
|
|
BATTLE DROIDS.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - PALACE - OVER WATERFALL - DAY
|
|
|
|
PADME, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and about TEN OTHER NABOO SOLDIERS are lined up
|
|
along the edge. They have pulled small attachments out of their pistols and
|
|
fire at a ledge about four stories above them. Thin cables shoot out of the
|
|
pistols and are embedded into the ledge. PADME, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and the
|
|
OTHERS begin to climb up the wall.
|
|
|
|
EXT . NABOO GRASS PLAINS DAY
|
|
|
|
The GUNGAN ARMY is no match for the DESTROYER DROIDS. JAR JAR tries to run
|
|
from the BATTLE DROIDS.
|
|
|
|
GENERAL CEEL : Retreat! Retreat!
|
|
|
|
The GUNGANS begin to turn and run, on foot, on their kaadu, and in wagons.
|
|
JAR JAR attempts to escape on a wagon of energy balls but only manages to
|
|
unhitch the back gate, causing all of the energy balls to roll out of the
|
|
wagon and down the hill. JAR JAR scrambles to avoid being hit by one of the
|
|
balls. FOUR DESTROYER DROIDS aren't so lucky. They get blasted by the
|
|
energy balls.
|
|
The GUNGANS renew their attack on the DROID ARMY. JAR JAR's bumbling
|
|
destroys several more DESTROYER DROIDS.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO STARFIGHTER - COCKPIT -SPACE
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN finds himself in the middle of the space battle. A ship explodes
|
|
behind him (over his left shoulder).
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : Whoo, boy! This is tense!
|
|
|
|
He looks forward to see enemy ships approaching head on.
|
|
|
|
ANAKN : (Cont'd) : Oops! Artoo, get us off Autopilot!
|
|
|
|
ARTOO screams a reply.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I've got control?
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN fips switches.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Okay, let's go left!
|
|
|
|
He moves the controls left and the ship responds, turning left.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Yes...I've got control. You did it, Artoo!
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Go back!?! Qui-Gon told me to stay in this cockpit and
|
|
that's what I'm gonna do. Now c'mon!
|
|
|
|
An enemy fighter comes into his sights. ANAKIN pushes the controls and
|
|
instead of firing, his fighter accelerates past the enemy ship.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Oops! Whoa!
|
|
|
|
Now the enemy ship is on his tail. He tries evasive maneauvers.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I'll try spinning, that's a good trick.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN rolls the ship as ARTOO screams desperately.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I know we're in trouble! Hang on! The way out of this
|
|
mess is the way we got into it.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO beeps a reply.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Which one? This one?
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN yanks on the reverse thrusters and the ship slows instantly- the
|
|
enemy fighter shoots past and explodes against the space station.
|
|
|
|
INT. NABOO STARFIGHTER - COCKPIT - SPACE
|
|
|
|
The SQUADRON attacks the space station.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : Bravo flight...go for the central bridge.
|
|
BRAVO TWO : ROger, Bravo Leader.
|
|
|
|
The attack is fruitless.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : Their deflector shield is too strong. We'll never get through
|
|
it.
|
|
|
|
Meanwhile, ANAKIN is being chased by another fighter. ARTOO shrieks.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : I know, Artoo! This isn't Podracing!
|
|
|
|
The enemy ship fires and hits ANAKIN's fighter, sending it into a spin.
|
|
ARTOO screams.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) We're hit!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN regains control as his ship enters the space station hanger.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Great gobs of bantha poo-doo!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN's ship dodges parked transport ships and other obstacles. A huge
|
|
bulkhead blocks his way. ARTOO beeps.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) I'm trying to stop! I'm trying to stop! Whoa!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN hits the reverse thrusters and the ship skids to a stop on the
|
|
hanger deck. ARTOO givesout a worried whistle.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) All right! All right! Get the system started!
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN ducks down to adjust a control panel.
|
|
|
|
ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Everything's overheated. All the lights are red.
|
|
|
|
ARTOO sees DROIDS appraoching, and beeps frantically.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR PIT - DAY
|
|
|
|
The laser sword battle continues on the small catwalk around the vast power
|
|
pit. DARTH MAUL kicks OBI-WAN off one of the ramps and he falls several
|
|
levels. QUI-GON knocks the DARK LORD off another ramp, and he lands hard on
|
|
a ramp two levels below. QUI-GON jumps down after him. The DARK LORD backs
|
|
away along the catwalk into a small door. QUI-GON follows as OBI-WAN runs
|
|
to catch up.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR ELECRIC BEAM - HALLWAY
|
|
|
|
The SITH LORD, followed by QUI-GON, enters a long hallway filled with a
|
|
series of deadly rays that go on and off in a pulsing pattern that shoots
|
|
down the corridor every minute or so. DARTH MAUL makes it down several
|
|
walls of deadly rays before they close. QUI-GON is one wall away from the
|
|
DARK LORD. OBI-WAN is just starting into it and is five walls way from
|
|
DARTH MAUL.
|
|
The JEDI must wait until the next pulse to advance down the corridor.
|
|
OBI-WAN is impatient and paces, waiting for the wall of rays to open.
|
|
QUI-GON sits and meditates. The SITH LORD tries to patch up his wounds.
|
|
|
|
INT. THEED - PALACE - HALLWAY TO THRONE ROOM
|
|
|
|
A window in the hallway blasts apart. PADME, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and HER
|
|
SOLDIERS climb into the hallway. They head for the door to the throne roo.
|
|
Suddenly, two DESTROYER DROIDS skitter in front of the door. PADME turns
|
|
around and sees TWO MORE appear at the far end of the hallway, trapping
|
|
them in the middle.
|
|
PADME throws down her pistol and turns to CAPTAIN PANAKA.
|
|
|
|
PADME : Throw down your weapons. They win this round.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : But we can't....
|
|
PADME : Captain, I said throw down your weapons.
|
|
|
|
CAPTAIN PANAKA and HIS MEN throw down their weapons.
|
|
|
|
EXT. NABOO GRASS PLAINS - DAY
|
|
|
|
A DESTROYER DROID blasts one of the shield generators, causing it to
|
|
EXPLODE. The protective shield begins to weaken and fall apart.OOM-9 sees
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the shield weaken and orders his tanks forward. The GUNGAN GENERAL signals
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a retreat as the tanks enter the battle.
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The GUNGANS flee as fast as they can. JAR JAR is blown off his KAADU and
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lands on one of the tank guns. A GUNGAN WARRIOR signals JAR JAR to jump
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off. JAR JAR is afraid. The gun swings around trying to knock JAR JAR off.
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JAR JAR hangs from the tank barrel as it moves along. Finally, he jumps
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onto a KAADU behind a GUNGAN WARRIOR. EXPLOSIONS from the tank fire are
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everywhere. It is chaos.
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INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR ELECTRIC BEAM - HALLWAY
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The electric rays cycle as QUI-GON sits meditating. The wall of the deadly
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rays turn away, and OBI-WAN starts running toward QUI-GON and the DARK
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LORD. When the wall between QUI-GON and DARTH MAUL opens, QUI-GON is in a
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split second fighting the DARK LORD with a ferocity not seen before. They
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move into the area at the end of the corridor called the melting pit, a
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small area that is mostly made up of a deep hole.
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The electron ray gates begin to close. OBI-WAN tries to make it to the
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melting pit but is caught one gate short. He slides to a stop just before
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he hits the deadly electron field.
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QUI-GON and DARTH MAUL battle around the melting pit as a frustrated
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OBI-WAN watches.
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DARTH MAUL cathces QUI-GON off guard. The SITH makes a quick move, bashes
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his lightsaber handle into QUI-GON's chin, and runs him through. QUI-GON
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slumps to the floor in a heap.
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EXT. NABOO GRASS PLAINS - DAY
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The GUNGANS have beeb overrun. Some flee into the hills, chased by BATTLE
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DROIDS on STAPS. Many OTHERS are herded into groups by BATTLE DROIDS and
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DESTROYER DROIDS.
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JAR JAR and GENERAL CEEL are held in a small group with OTHER OFFICERS.
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JAR JAR : Dissa bad, berry bombad.
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GENERAL CEEL : Mesa hopen dissa working for da Queen.
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INT. THED - PALACE THRONE ROOM - DAY
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PADME, CAPTAIN PANAKA, and SIX OTHER OFFICERS are brought by TEN BATTLE
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DROIDS before NUTE and RUNE and FOUR NEIMOIDIAN COUNCIL MEMBERS.
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NUTE : Your little insurrection is at an end, Your Highness. Time for you
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to sign the treaty...and end this pointless debate in the Senate.
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SADBE dressed like the Queen appears in the doorway with SEVERAL TROOPS.
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Several destroyed battle droids can be seen in the distance.
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SABE : I will not be signing any treaty, Viceroy, because you've lost!
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NUTE and THE OTHERS are stunned to see a SECOND QUEEN. NUTE yells at the
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TEN GUARDS in the room.
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NUTE : After her! This one is a decoy!
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SIX OF THE DROIDS rush out of the throne room after SABE. NUTE turns to
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PADME.
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NUTE : (Cont'd) Your Queen will not get away with this.
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PADME slumps down on her throne and immediately hits a security button that
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opens a panel in her desk opposite CAPTAIN PANAKA.
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PADME grabs two pistols, tosses one of the to CAPTAIN PANAKA and one to an
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OFFICER. She takes a third pistol and BLASTS the last of the BATTLE DROIDS.
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The OFFICERS rush to the door control panel as PADME hits the switch to
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close the door. The OFFICER at the door jams the controls. CAPTAIN PANAKA
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throws more pistols to the OTHER GUARDS. The NEIMODIANS are confused and
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afraid.
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PADME : Now, Viceroy, this is the end of your occupation here.
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NUTE : Don't be absurd. There are too few of you. It won't be long before
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hundreds of destroyer droids break in to rescue us.
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INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR - MELTING PIT
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OBI-WAN screams as the pulsing electron gate opens, and the SITH LORD
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attacks him. The DARK LORD is relentless in his assault on the young JEDI.
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OBI-WAN and DARTH MAUL use the Force to fling objects at each other as they
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fight. DARTH MAUL seems to have the upper hand as OBI-WAN grows weary.
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DARTH MAUL catches OBI-WAN off guard, and the JEDI slips into a melting
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pit. He is barely able to hold onto a nozzle on the side of the pit. DARTH
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MAUL grin evilly at OBI-WAN as he kicks OBI-WAN's lightsaber down the
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endless shaft.
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The SITH LORD smiles as he goes in for the kill. At the last moment,
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OBI-WAN jumps up out of the pit, calls QUI-GON's lightsaber to hi, throwing
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DARTH MAUL off. The young JEDI swings with a vengeance, cutting the SITH
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down. DARTH MAUL falls into the melting pit to his death.
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OBI-WAN rushes over to QUI-GON, who is dying.
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OBI-WAN : Master! Master!
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QUI-GON : It is too late...It's...
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OBI-WAN : No!
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QUI-GON : Obi-Wan promise...promise me you'll train the boy...
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OBI-WAN : Yes, Master...
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QUI-GON : He is the chosen one...he will...bring balance...train him!
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QUI-GON dies. OBI-WAN cradles his Master, quietly weeping.
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INT. NABOO STARFIGHTER - COCKPIT - FEDERATION HANGER
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ANAKIN peeks over the edge of the cockpit to see BATTLE DROIDS surrounding
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the ship. He ducks back down.
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ANAKIN : Uh oh. This is not good.
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He looks at the dashboard to see red lights.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) The systems are still overheated, Artoo.
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The BATTLE DROID CAPTAIN walks up to the ship and sees ARTOO.
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BATTLE DROID CAPTAIN : Where's your pilot?
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ARTOO beeps a reply.
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BATTLE DROID CAPTAIN : (Cont'd) You're the pilot?
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ARTOO whistles.
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BATTLE DROID CAPTAIN : (Cont'd) Let me see your identification!
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ANAKIN sees the dashboard lights go from red to green.
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ANAKIN : Yes...we have ignition.
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He flips the switch and the engine starts.
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BATTLE DROID CAPTAIN : (seeing Anakin) You! Come out of there or we'll
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blast you!
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ANAKIN : Not if I can help it! Shields up!
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ANAKIN flips a switch and the ship levitates, knocking over the BATTLE
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DROID CAPTAIN. The OTHER DROIDS shoot, but the lasers are deflected by
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ANAKIN's shields. ARTOO beeeps.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) This should stop them.
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ANAKIN fires lasers as the ship begins to rotate.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) ...and take this!
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He presses a button and launches two torpedos which miss the DROIDS.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Darn...I missed!
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The two torpedos fly down a hallway and explode inside the reactor room.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Let's get out of here!
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ANAKIN's ship roars through the hanger deck, bouncing over the DROIDS.
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ANAKIN : (Cont'd) Now, this is Podracing! Whoopee!
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INT. FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE
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TEY HOW turns to CAPTAIN DOFINE.
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TEY HOW : Sir, we're losing power... There is some problem with the main
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reactor...
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DOFINE : Impossible!! I don't...
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The bridge explodes.
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INT. NABOO FIGHTER - COCKPIT - SPACE
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RIC OLIE watches in amazement as the Federation battleship starts to
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explode from the inside out.
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BRAVO TWO : What's that?? It's blowing up from the inside.
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RIC OLIE : I don't know, we didn't hit it.
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BRAVO THREE : Look! One of ours! Outta the main hold!!
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EXT. NABOO GRASS PLAINS - DAY
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Suddenly, all of the DROIDS begin to shake upside down, run around in
|
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circles, then stop. The GUNGANS carefully move out to inspect the FROZEN
|
|
DROIDS. JAR JAR pushes one of the BATTLE DROIDS, and it falls over.
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JAR JAR : Wierdind...
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EXT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
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ANAKIN and ARTOO follow the squad of yellow Naboo starfighters into the
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main hanger.
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INT. THEED - CENTRAL HANGER - DAY
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RIC OLIE and the OTHER PILOTS gather around as thye exit their ships.
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BRAVO TWO : He flew into the hold, behind the deflector shield and blasted
|
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the main reactor...
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BRAVO THREE : Amazing... They don't teach that in the academy.
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|
|
|
ANAKIN's ship skids to a stop behind the other Naboo starfighters. RIC
|
|
OLIE, BRAVO TWO, the OTHER PILOTS, and GROUND CREW rush to his ship.
|
|
|
|
RIC OLIE : We're all accounted for. Who flew that ship?
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|
|
|
ANAKIN sheepishly opens the cockpit and stands up. All the PILOTS stare in
|
|
amazement.
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|
|
|
ANAKIN : I'm not going to get into trouble, am I?
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|
|
|
ARTOO beeps. oh. oh.
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|
|
|
INT. MAIN HANGER - COURTYARD - DAY
|
|
|
|
The large, grand cruiser of the Supreme Chancellor lands in the courtyard
|
|
of the main hanger. CAPTAIN PANAKA and TWENTY TROOPS guard NUTE GUNRAY and
|
|
RUNE HAAKO. OBI-WAN, the QUEEN, and her HANDMAIDENS stand before the
|
|
NEIMOIDIANS.
|
|
|
|
PADME : Now, Viceroy, you are going to have to go back to the Senate and
|
|
explain all this.
|
|
CAPT. PANAKA : I think you can kiss your Trade franchise goodbye.
|
|
|
|
The main ramp of the cruiser is lowered as OBI-WAN and CAPTAIN PANAKA lead
|
|
the VICEROY and HIS ASSISTANT toward the ship. The GRAND CHANCELLOR
|
|
PALPATINE and SEVERAL REPUBLIC GUARDS descend the walkway, followed by YODA
|
|
and SEVERAL OTHER JEDI MASTERS.
|
|
|
|
The CHANCELLOR PALPATINE is greeted by the QUEEN.
|
|
|
|
AMIDALA : Congratulations on youer election, Chancellor. It is so good to
|
|
see you again.
|
|
PALPATINE : It's good to be home. Your boldness has saved our people, Your
|
|
Majesty. It is you who should be congratulated. Together we shall bring
|
|
peace and prosperity to the Republic.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN greets YODA and the OTHER JEDI as CAPTAIN PANAKA takes the
|
|
NEIMODIANS onto the cruiser.
|
|
|
|
INT. TURRET ROOM - NABOO PALACE - LATE DAY
|
|
|
|
The sun streams into the multi-windowed room at a low angle. It is not
|
|
quite sunset. YODA paces before OBI-WAN, who is kneeling in the center of
|
|
the room.
|
|
|
|
YODA : Confer on you, the level of Jedi Knight the Coucil does. But agree
|
|
on you taking this boy as your Padawan learner, I do not.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Qui-Gon believed in him. I believe in Qui-Gon.
|
|
YODA : The Chosen One the boy may be; nevertheless, grave danger I fear in
|
|
his training.
|
|
OBI-WAN : Master Yoda, Igave Qui-Gon my word. I will train Anakin. Without
|
|
the approval of the Council if I must.
|
|
YODA : Qui-Gon's defiance I sense in you. Need that, you do not. Agree, the
|
|
council does. Your apprentice, young Skywalker will be.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - CENTRAL PLAZA - FUNERAL TEMPLE STEPS - SUNSET
|
|
|
|
QUI-GON's body goes up in flames as the JEDI COUNCIL, the QUEEN, SIO
|
|
BIBBLE, CAPTAIN PANAKA, the HANDMAIDENS, and ABOUT ONE HUNDRED NABOO
|
|
TROOPES, TWENTY OTHER JEDI, PALPATINE, OBI-WAN (standing with ANAKIN), JAR
|
|
JAR, BOSS NASS, and TWENTY OTHER GUNGAN WARRIORS watch. There is a drum
|
|
roll that stops. Doves are released, and the body is gone. ANAKIN looks to
|
|
OBI-WAN.
|
|
|
|
OBI-WAN : He is one with the Force, Anakin...You must let go.
|
|
ANAKIN : What will happen to me now?
|
|
OBI-WAN : I am your Master now. You will become a Jedi, I promise.
|
|
|
|
To one side, MACE WINDU turns to YODA.
|
|
|
|
MACE WINDU : There is no doubt. The mysterious warrior was a Sith.
|
|
YODA : Always two there are....no more...no less. A maste and an
|
|
apprentice.
|
|
MACE WINDU : But which one was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?
|
|
|
|
They give each other a concerned look.
|
|
|
|
EXT. THEED - CENTRAL PLAZA - DAY
|
|
|
|
CHILDEREN SING and throw flowers on the passing GUNGAN SOLDIERS. The CROWDS
|
|
CHEER. It is a grand parade.
|
|
QUEEN AMIDALA stands next to the SUPREME CHANCELLOR PALPATINE, ANAKIN,
|
|
OBI-WAN, SIO BIBBLE, and the JEDI COUNCIL. ARTOO stands in front of the
|
|
QUEEN'S HANDMAIDENS and whistles at the parade. QUEEN AMIDALA and PALPATINE
|
|
smile at one another
|
|
In the parade are BOSS NASS and his GUARDS, JAR JAR and GENERAL CEEL. The
|
|
GUNGANS ride KAADU. They stop before the QUEEN and walk up the steps to
|
|
stand by her side.BOSS NASS holds up the Globe of Peace. EVERYONE CHEERS.
|
|
The parade marches on.
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IRIS OUT
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