Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III (20 page)

The QUEEN OF ALDERAAN sits on a balcony looking out over the awesome mountains of Alderaan. BAIL ORGANA brings a small baby to her. She takes her and rocks her.

240 (180) EXT. TATOOINE—SUNSET

OBI-WAN rides up to the moisture farm homestead on an EOPIE. He dismounts, takes the BABY out of a papoose on his back, and walks toward AUNT BERU, who walks over to greet him. They talk for a moment, and OBI-WAN turns the baby over to the young homesteader. AUNT BERU walks to UNCLE OWEN who is standing on the ridge near the homestead. OBI-WAN leaves as OWEN, BERU, and the BABY watch the twin suns set.

END TITLES.

On the isolated asteroid of Polis Massa, YODA meditates.

Y
ODA:
Failed to stop the Sith Lord, I have. Still much to learn, there is . . .

Q
UI-
G
ON:
(V.O.
) Patience. You will have time. I did not. When I became one with the Force I made a great discovery. With my training, you will be able to merge with the Force at will. Your physical self will fade away, but you will still retain your consciousness. You will become more powerful than any Sith.

Y
ODA:
Eternal consciousness.

Q
UI-
G
ON:
(V.O.
) The ability to defy oblivion can be achieved, but only for oneself. It was accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. It is a state acquired through compassion, not greed.

Y
ODA:
. . . to become one with the Force, and influence still have . . . A power greater than all, it is.

Q
UI-
G
ON:
(V.O.
) You will learn to let go of everything. No attachment, no thought of self. No physical self.

Y
ODA:
A great Jedi Master, you have become, Qui-Gon Jinn. Your apprentice I gratefully become.

YODA thinks about this for a minute, then BAIL ORGANA enters the room and breaks his meditation.

B
AIL
O
RGANA:
Excuse me, Master Yoda. Obi-Wan Kenobi has made contact.

223 EXT. MUSTAFAR—LANDING PLATFORM—DAY

The CLONES have placed ANAKIN in a medical capsule. They float the wounded Sith Lord into the belly of the IMPERIAL CRUISER. DARTH SIDIOUS follows the capsule into the ship.

The ship takes off.

224 EXT. POLIS MASSA—LANDING PLATFORM—NIGHT

OBI-WAN lands the Naboo Cruiser on the landing platform of the isolated post of Polis Massa. YODA and BAIL ORGANA, along with a FEW GROUND CREW, are waiting as the ramp lowers and OBI-WAN emerges, carrying the unconscious PADMÉ in his arms, followed by ARTOO and THREEPIO.

B
AIL
O
RGANA:
We’ll take her to the medical center, quickly.

225 EXT. LANDING PLATFORM—CORUSCANT—IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER—DAY

The shuttle lands. DARTH SIDIOUS and CLONE TROOPERS leave the shuttle. ANAKIN’s body is carried along in a floating medical capsule.

226 (167) INT. POLIS MASSA—MEDICAL CENTER—NIGHT

POLIS MEDICS work on PADMÉ in an operating theater. OBI-WAN and one of the MEDICAL DROIDS enter an observation room where BAIL and YODA are waiting.

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
Medically, she is completely healthy. For reasons we can’t explain, we are losing her.

O
BI-
W
AN:
She’s dying?

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
We don’t know why. She has lost the will to live. We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies.

B
AIL
O
RGANA:
Babies??!!

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
She’s carrying twins.

Y
ODA:
Save them, we must. They are our last hope.

The MEDICAL DROID rushes back to the operating room.

ARTOO and THREEPIO watch, greatly puzzled. ARTOO BEEPS.

C
-
3PO
:
It’s some kind of reproductive process, I think.

227 INT. CORUSCANT—IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER—DAY

ANAKIN, in the medical capsule, is lifted onto a table in the Rehab Center. DROIDS go to work on him. ANAKIN has new legs and a new arm.

228 (169) INT. POLIS MASSA—MEDICAL CENTER—NIGHT

The TWINS are being delivered as BAIL ORGANA, YODA, ARTOO, and THREEPIO watch. OBI-WAN is in the operating theater with PADMÉ. He takes her hand.

O
BI-
W
AN:
Don’t give up, Padmé.

PADMÉ winces from the pain. The MEDICAL DROID is holding the BABY.

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
It’s a boy.

P
ADMÉ:
Luke . . .

PADMÉ can only offer up a faint smile. She struggles to touch the baby on the forehead.

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
. . . and a girl.

P
ADMÉ:
. . . Leia.

R2-D2, THREEPIO and BAIL ORGANA watch from an adjoining space.

229 INT. CORUSCANT—IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER—DAY

VADER, dressed in his black body armor, lies on the table. Nose plugs are inserted and the mask drops from above, sealing tightly. The helmet is fitted and VADER begins breathing.

230 (169) INT. POLIS MASSA—MEDICAL CENTER—NIGHT

OBI-WAN leans over PADMÉ and softly speaks to her.

O
BI-
W
AN:
You have twins, Padmé They need you . . . hang on.

P
ADMÉ:
I can’t . . .

PADMÉ winces again and takes OBI-WAN’s hand. She is holding Anakin’s japor snippet.

O
BI-
W
AN:
Save your energy.

P
ADMÉ:
Obi-Wan . . . there . . . is good in him. I know there is . . . still . . .

A last gasp, and she dies. Obi-Wan studies the necklace.

231 (174) INT. CORUSCANT—IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER—DAY

DARTH SIDIOUS hovers around the periphery of a group of MEDICAL DROIDS who are working on ANAKIN. DARTH SIDIOUS paces in the foreground. A DROID approaches the Dark Lord.

M
EDICAL
D
ROID:
My Lord, the construction is finished . . . he lives.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
Good. Good.

The DROID moves back to the table where DARTH VADER lies. The table begins to move upright. DARTH SIDIOUS moves in next to DARTH VADER.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
(continuing
) Lord Vader, can you hear me?

DARTH VADER, with his dark mask and helmet, moves up into the frame until he is in a CLOSEUP.

D
ARTH
V
ADER:
Yes, My Master.

DARTH VADER looks around the room.

D
ARTH
V
ADER:
(continuing
) Where is Padmé? Is she safe, is she all right?

DARTH SIDIOUS moves closer to the half droid/half man.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
I’m afraid she died. . . . it seems in your anger, you killed her.

A LOW GROAN emanates from Vader’s mask. Suddenly everything in the room begins to implode, including some of the DROIDS.

D
ARTH
V
ADER:
I couldn’t have! She was alive! I felt her! She was alive! It’s impossible! No!!!

VADER SCREAMS, breaks his bonds to the table, and steps forward, waving his hands, causing objects to fly around the room. SIDIOUS deflects the objects, but some of the DROIDS aren’t so lucky. VADER’S PAINFUL SCREAMS echo throughout the Center.

232 EXT. NABOO—ALDERAAN STARCRUISER

Bail Organa’s Starcruiser approaches the city of Theed.

GEORGE LUCAS is the noted filmmaker of
American Graffiti
, the
Indiana Jones
trilogy, the
Star Wars
saga,
Willow, Tucker: The Man and His Dream
, and the television series
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
. Mr. Lucas lives in Marin County.

You saw the movies. You watched the cartoon series, or maybe played some of the video games. But did you know …

In
The Empire Strikes Back
, Princess Leia Organa said to Han Solo, “I love you.” Han said, “I know.” But did you know that they actually got married? And had three Jedi children: the twins, Jacen and Jaina, and a younger son, Anakin?

Luke Skywalker was trained as a Jedi by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. But did you know that, years later, he went on to revive the Jedi Order and its commitment to defending the galaxy from evil and injustice?

Obi-Wan said to Luke, “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times. Before the Empire.” Did you know that over those millennia, legendary Jedi and infamous Sith Lords were adding their names to the annals of Republic history?

Yoda explained that the dreaded Sith tend to come in twos: “Always two, there are. No more, no less. A Master, and an apprentice.” But did you know that the Sith didn’t always exist in pairs? That at one time in the ancient Republic there were as many Sith as Jedi, until a Sith Lord named Darth Bane was the lone survivor of a great Sith war and created the “Rule of Two”?

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Star Wars
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Star Wars
!

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