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Episode II 20th anniversary: Script re-write Pt 3
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<blockquote data-quote="Wald" data-source="post: 553321" data-attributes="member: 13359"><p>Continuation.</p><p>Main changes: The scenes of the Lost Twenty conversation, Obi-Wan and Mace in the hangar, and Padmé's family home reinstated.</p><p>Enjoy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, MAIN HALLWAY - LATE DAY</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>From high above, light streams down from the lofty</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ceilings. OBI-WAN crosses the floor of the great hallway,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>heading for the Analysis Rooms.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, ANALYSIS CUBICLES - LATE DAY</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN walks past several glass cubicles where work is</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>going on. He comes to an empty one and sits down in front</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of a console. A SP-4 ANALYSIS DROID comes to life. A tray</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>slides out of the console.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SP-4: Place the subject for analysis on the sensor tray,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>please.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN puts the dart onto the tray, which retracts into</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>the console. The DROID activates the system, and a screen</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>lights up in front of OBI-WAN.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: It's a toxic dart. I need to know where it came</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>from and who made it.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SP-4: One moment, please.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Diagrams and data appear on the screen, scrolling past at</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>great speed. OBI-WAN watches as the screen goes blank. The</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>tray slides out.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SP-4: Markings cannot be identified. As you can see on your</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>screen, subject weapon does not exist in any known culture.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Probably self-made by a warrior not associated with any</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>known society. Stand away from the sensor tray please.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Excuse me? Could you try again please?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SP-4: Master Jedi, our records are very thorough. They</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>cover eighty percent of the galaxy. If I can't tell you</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>where it came from, nobody can.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN picks up the dart and looks at it, then looks to</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>the DROID.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Thanks for your assistance! (to himself) I know</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>who can identify this.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>EXTERIOR: CORUSCANT, DOWNTOWN, BACK STREET - MORNING</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN walks down the street. It is a pretty tough part of</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>town. Old buildings, warehouses, beat up speeders and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>transporter rigs thundering past. Above, the old elevated</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>monospeed with occasional "shiny freighters" hissing</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>through.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN comes to a kind of alien diner. On the steamed-up</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>windows it says "DEX'S DINER" in alien lettering. He goes</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>inside.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: CORUSCANT, DEX'S DINER - MORNING</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>A WAITRESS DROID is carrying plates of half-eaten food.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>There is a counter with stools and a line of booths along</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>the wall by the window. A number of CUSTOMERS are eating -</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>TOUGH-LOOKING WORKERS, FREIGHTER DRIVERS, ETC. The WAITRESS</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DROID looks up as OBI-WAN comes in.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>WAITRESS DROID: Can I help ya?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: I'm looking for Dexter.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The WAITRESS DROID approaches OBI-WAN.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>WAITRESS DROID: Waddya want him for?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: He's not in trouble. It's personal.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>There is a brief pause. Then the DROID goes to the open</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>serving hatch behind the counter.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>WIITRESS DROID: Someone to see ya, honey. (lowering her</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>voice) A Jedi, by the looks of him.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Steam billows out from the kitchen hatch behind the counter</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>as a huge head pokes through.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: Obi-Wan!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Hey, Dex.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: Take a seat! Be right with ya!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN sits in a booth.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>WAITRESS DROID: You want a cup of ardees?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Oh yes, thank you.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The WAITRESS DROID moves off as the door to the counter</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>opens and DEXTER JETTSTER appears. He is big - bald and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>sweaty, old and alien. Not someone to tangle with. He</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>arrives, beaming hugely.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: Hey, ol' buddy!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Hey, Dex.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER eases himself into the seat opposite OBI-WAN. He can</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>just make it.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: So, my friend. What can I do for ya?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: You can tell me what this is.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN places the dart on the table between them. DEX'S</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>eyes widen. He puts down his mug.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: (softly) Well, whaddya know...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER picks up the dart delicately between his puffy</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>fingers and peers at it.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: I ain't seen one of these since I was</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>prospecting on Subterrel beyond the Outer Rim!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Can you tell me where it came from?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER grins. He puts the dart down between them.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: This baby belongs to them cloners. What</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>you got here is a Kamino saberdart.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Kamino saberdart? ...I wonder why it didn't show</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>up in our analysis archive.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: It's these funny little cuts on the side</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>give it away... Those analysis droids you've got over there</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>only focus on symbols, you know. I should think you Jedi</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>would have more respect for the difference between</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>knowledge and wisdom.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Well, Dex, if droids could think, we wouldn't be</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>here, would we? (laughing) Kamino... doesn't sound</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>familiar. Is it part of the Republic?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: No, it's beyond the Outer Rim. I'd say</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>about twelve parsecs outside the Rishi Maze, toward the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>south. It should be easy to find, even for those droids in</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>your archive. These Kaminoans keep to themselves. They're</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>cloners. Damned good ones, too.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN picks up the dart, holding it midway between them.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Cloners? Are they friendly?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: It depends.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: On what, Dex?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Dexter grins.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>DEXTER JETTSTER: On how good your manners are... and how</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>big your pocketbook is...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>EXTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE - DAY</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The main entrance at the base of the huge Temple is</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>bustling with activity. All sorts of JEDI are coming and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>going.</s></span></p><p></p><p>INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, ARCHIVE LIBRARY - DAY</p><p></p><p>A bronze bust of Count Dooku stands among a line of other</p><p>busts of Jedi in the Archive Room. OBI-WAN stands in front</p><p>of it, studying the striking features of the chiseled face.</p><p></p><p>On the walls, lighted computer panels seem to stretch into</p><p>infinity. Farther along the room in the background, FIVE</p><p>JEDI are seated at tables, studying archive material.</p><p></p><p>After OBI-WAN studies the bust for a few moments before</p><p>MADAME JOCASTA NU, the Jedi Archivist, is standing next to</p><p>him. She is an elderly, frail-looking human Jedi. Tough as</p><p>old boots and smart as a whip.</p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU: Did you call for assistance?</p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN: (distracted in thought) Yes... yes, I did...</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOCASTA NU: He has a powerful face, doesn't he? He was one</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">of the most brilliant Jedi I have had the privilege of</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">knowing.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: I never understood why he quit.</span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s> Only twenty Jedi</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>have ever left the Order.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: (sighs) The Lost Twenty... Count Dooku was the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>most recent and the most painful. No one likes to talk</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>about it. His leaving was a great loss to the Order.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: What happened?</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOCASTA NU: Well, </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Count Dooku</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>one might say he</u></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"> was always a bit out of step</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">with the decisions of the Council... much like your old</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: (surprised) Really?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOCASTA NU: Oh, yes. They were </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>alike in many ways. </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Very</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">individual thinkers... idealists...</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOCASTA NU gazes at the bust.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOCASTA NU:</span> <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>He was always striving to become a more</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>powerful Jedi. He wanted to be the best. With a lightsaber,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>in the old style of fencing, he had no match. His knowledge</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of the Force was... unique. </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">In the end, I think he left</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">because he lost faith in the Republic. </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>He believed that</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>politics were corrupt, and he felt the Jedi betrayed</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>themselves by serving the politicians. He always had very</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>high expectations of government. </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">He disappeared for nine or</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">ten years, then just showed up recently as the head of the</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">separatist movement.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: It's very interesting. I'm not sure I completely</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">understand.</span></p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU: <span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Well, I'm sure you didn't call me over here for</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">a history lesson.</span> Are you having a problem, Master Kenobi?</p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN: Yes, <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>um,</u></span> I'm <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>trying to find a planet</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>looking for a planetary</u></span> system called</p><p>Kamino. It doesn't <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>seem to</s></span> show up on <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>any of </s></span>the archive</p><p>charts.</p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU: - Kamino. Kamino? It's not a system I'm familiar with...</p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Let me see...</s></span></p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU leans over OBI-WAN'S shoulder, looking at the</p><p>screen.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: Are you sure you have the right coordinates?</s></span></p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN: <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>(nodding) According to my information, </s></span>it should</p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>be</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>appear</u></span> in this quadrant <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>somewhere</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>here</u></span>... just south of the Rishi</p><p>Maze.</p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU taps the keyboard<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s> and frowns</s></span>.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: No coordinates? It sounds like the sort of</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>directions you'd get from a street tout... some old miner</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>or Furbog trader.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: All three, actually.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: Are you sure it exists?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Absolutely.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: Let me do a gravitational scan.</s></span></p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN and JOCASTA NU study the star map hologram.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOCASTA NU: There are some inconsistencies here. Maybe the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>planet you're seeking was destroyed.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: Wouldn't that be on record?</s></span></p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU: <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>It ought to be, unless it was very recent.</s></span></p><p>(shakes her head) I hate to say it, but it looks like the</p><p>system you're searching for doesn't exist.</p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN: <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">That's </span>impossible... perhaps the archives are</p><p>incomplete.</p><p></p><p>JOCASTA NU: <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The archives are comprehensive and totally</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>secure, my young Jedi. One thing you may be absolutely sure</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of - </s></span>if an item does not appear in our records, it does not</p><p>exist!</p><p></p><p>OBI-WAN stares at her, then looks back to the map. JOCASTA</p><p>NU notices a young boy approach. She turns from OBI-WAN and</p><p>leaves with the youngster.</p><p></p><p>EXTERIOR: SPACE, STARSHIP FREIGHTER</p><p></p><p>The massive, slow-moving Freighter moves through space.</p><p></p><p>INTERIOR: STARFREIGHTER, STEERAGE HOLD - DAY</p><p></p><p>The great, gloomy hold is crowded with EMIGRANTS and their</p><p>belongings. To one side ARTOO is coming to the head of a</p><p>food line holding two bowls. With one of his little claw</p><p>arms, he grabs a chunk of something that looks like bread.</p><p></p><p>ARTOO slips a tube into a tub of mush and sucks up a large</p><p>quantity. A SERVER sees him.</p><p></p><p>SERVER: <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Hey! No Droids!</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>Hey, you! No droids! Get outta here!</u></span></p><p></p><p>ARTOO takes one last big suck and heads away from the food</p><p>line. <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The SERVER shouts after him angrily. </s></span>The little droid</p><p>moves past groups of eating or sleeping EMIGRANTS and comes</p><p>to ANAKIN and PADMÉ'S table<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s> where ANAKIN is sound asleep.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The young Jedi seems to be having a nightmare. He is very</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>restless</s></span>.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: No, no, Mom, no...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>He is sweating. PADMÉ leans over resting her hand on his</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>arm. He wakes up with a start, then realizes where he is.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ simply looks at him. He stares back, somewhat</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>confused.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: What?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: You seemed to be having a nightmare.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN looks at PADMÉ a little more closely, trying to see</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>if he has revealed any of his secrets. She hands him a bowl</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of mush and bread.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Are you hungry?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Yeah.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ takes the food from ARTOO and sets it on a make-shift</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>table. ANAKIN rises and takes a seat as she places a bowl</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>in front of him.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Thanks.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: We went to lightspeed a while ago.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN looks into PADMÉ'S eyes.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: I look forward to seeing Naboo again. I've thought</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>about it every day since I left. It's by far the most</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>beautiful place I've ever seen...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ is a little unnerved by his intense stare.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: It may not be as you remember it. Time changes</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>perception.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Sometimes it does... Sometimes for the better.</s></span></p><p></p><p>PADMÉ: <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>Thank you, Artoo. (to Anakin)</u></span> It must be difficult having sworn your life to the</p><p>Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or</p><p>do the things you like...</p><p></p><p>ANAKIN: Or be with the people I love.</p><p></p><p>PADMÉ: Are you allowed to love? I thought it was forbidden</p><p>for a Jedi.</p><p></p><p>ANAKIN: Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden.</p><p>Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is</p><p>central to a Jedi's life, so you might say we're encouraged</p><p>to love.</p><p></p><p>PADMÉ: You have changed so much.</p><p></p><p>ANAKIN: You haven't changed a bit. You're exactly the way I</p><p>remember you in my dreams.<span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s> I doubt if Naboo has changed</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>much either.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: It hasn't...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>There is an awkward moment.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: (continuing; changing the subject) You were dreaming</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>about your mother earlier, weren't you?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Yes... I left Tatooine so long ago, my memory of</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>her is fading. I don't want to lose it. Recently I've been</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>seeing her in my dreams... vivid dreams... scary dreams. I</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>worry about her.</s></span></p><p></p><p>PADMÉ gives ANAKIN a sympathetic look.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, MAIN HALLWAY - DAY</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN walks through the main hallway to the training</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>area.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, TRAINING VERANDA - DAY</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN comes out onto the veranda and stops, watching</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>TWENTY or so FOUR-YEAR-OLDS doing training exercises,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>supervised by YODA. They wear helmets over their eyes and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>try to strike little TRAINING DROIDS with their miniature</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>lightsabers. The DROIDS dance in front of them.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: Don't think... feel... be as one with the Force. Help</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>you, it will. (he sees Obi-Wan) Younglings - enough! A</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>visitor we have. Welcome him.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The CHILDREN turn off their lightsabers.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, meet the mighty Bear Clan.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>CHILDREN: Welcome, Master Obi-Wan!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: I am sorry to disturb you, Master.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: What help to you, can I be?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: I'm looking for a planet described to me by an old</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>friend. I trust him. But the system doesn't show up on the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>archive maps.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>embarrassing... how embarrassing. Liam, the shades. An</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>interesting puzzle. Gather, younglings, around the map</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>reader. Clear your minds and find Obi-Wan's wayward planet,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>we will.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>The reader is a small shaft with a hollow opening at the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>top. The CHILDREN gather around it. OBI-WAN takes out a</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>little glass ball and places it into the bowl. The window</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>shades close, the reader lights up and projects the star</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>map hologram into the room. The CHILDREN laugh. Some of</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>them reach up to try and touch the nebulae and stars. OBI-</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>WAN walks into the display.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: This is where it ought to be... but it isn't.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Gravity is pulling all the stars in this area inward to</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>this spot. There should be a star here... but there isn't.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: Most interesting. Gravity's silhouette remains, but</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>the star and all its planets have disappeared. How can this</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>be? Now, younglings, in your mind, what is the first thing</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>you see? An answer? A thought? Anyone?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>There is a brief pause. Then a CHILD puts his hand up. YODA</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>nods.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JEDI CHILD JACK: Master? Because someone erased it from the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>archive memory.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>CHILDREN: That's right! Yes! That's what happened! Someone</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>erased it!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JEDI CHILD MAY: If the planet blew up, the gravity would go</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>away.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN stares; YODA chuckles.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. The Padawan</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>is right. Go to the center of the gravity's pull, and find</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>your planet you will.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA and OBI-WAN move away from the CHILDREN. With a hand</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>movement, OBI-WAN causes the star map to disappear. OBI-WAN</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>uses the Force to call the glass ball back to his hand as</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>the two walk into an adjoining room.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>OBI-WAN: But Master Yoda who could have erased information</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>from the archives? That's impossible, isn't it?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>YODA: (frowning) Dangerous and disturbing this puzzle is.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Only a Jedi could have erased those files. But who and why,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>harder to answer. Meditate on this, I will. May the Force</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>be with you.</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, HANGAR - LATE AFTERNOON</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Obi-Wan and Mace are walking along the Jedi Landing</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Platform.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: It appears someone doesn't want us to know</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">about this Kamino System</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: Which means there's something happening</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">in their System we should know about.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: Master, do you think a Jedi could have erased</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">those files?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: I hope not. This disturbance in the Force</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">is making it hard to get a sense of things.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">The small platform they are on with Obi-Wan's Starfighter</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">moves outside.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">EXTERIOR: LANDING PLATFORM - LATE AFTERNOON</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">They walk over to the Jedi Starfighter</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: I'm concerned </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>with</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>for</u></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"> my Padawan. He is not ready</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">to be on his own.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: If the prophesy is true, he is the one who</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">will bring balance to the Force.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: But he still has much to learn. His skills have</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">made him, well, arrogant. </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>I realize now what you and Master</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Yoda said from the beginning, </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">the boy was too old to start</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">his training...</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN hesitates.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: Master we should not be given this assignment.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">I fear Anakin will not be able to protect the Senator.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: Why?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: He has an emotional connection with her.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">It's been there since he was a boy. Now he's confused...</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Distracted.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: Obi-Wan, you must have faith that he</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">will choose the right path.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN climbs into the cockpit of the Starfighter.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">OBI-WAN: Has Master Yoda gained any insight into</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">whether or not this war will come about?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">MACE WINDU: Probing the Dark Side is a dangerous</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">process. He could be in seclusion for days... May the</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">force be with you.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, YODA'S QUARTERS - LATE AFTERNOON</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">YODA sits with his eyes closed, meditating. Silence.</span></p><p></p><p>EXTERIOR: NABOO SPACEPORT - DAY</p><p></p><p>The Starfreighter lands in the giant port city of Theed.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ, ANAKIN and ARTOO are among the EMIGRANTS streaming</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>from the Starfreighter and into the vast docking area. They</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>exit onto the main plaza.</s></span></p><p></p><p>EXTERIOR: NABOO PALACE, GRAND COURTYARD - AFTERNOON</p><p></p><p>The speeder bus pulls up and stops. PADMÉ, ANAKIN, and</p><p>ARTOO get out. The great courtyard stretches before them,</p><p>and they see the rose-colored domes of the palace on the</p><p>far side. ARTOO WHISTLES. They pick up their gear and start</p><p>to cross the courtyard. ARTOO trundles behind them.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: If I grew up here, I don't think I'd ever leave.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: (laughing) I doubt that.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: No, really. When I started my training, I was very</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>homesick and very lonely. This city and my Mom were the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>only pleasant things I had to think about... The problem</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>was, the more I thought about my Mom, the worse I felt. But</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>I would feel better if I thought about the palace - the way</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>it shimmers in the sunlight - the way the air always smells</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of flowers...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: ...and the soft sound of the distant waterfalls. The</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>first time I saw the Capital, I was very young... I'd never</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>seen a waterfall before. I thought they were so</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>beautiful... I never dreamed one day I'd live in the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>palace.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Well, tell me, did you dream of power and politics</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>when you were a little girl?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: (laughing) No! That was the last thing I thought of,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>but the more history I studied, the more I realized how</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>much good politicians could do. After school, I became a</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Senatorial advisor with such a passion that, before I knew</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>it, I was elected Queen. For the most part it was because</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>of my conviction that reform was possible. I wasn't the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>youngest Queen ever elected, but now that I think back on</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>it, I'm not sure I was old enough. I'm not sure I was</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ready.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: The people you served thought you did a good job. I</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>heard they tried to amend the Constitution so you could</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>stay in office.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Popular rule is not democracy, Annie. It gives the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>people what they want, not what they need. And, truthfully,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>I was relieved when my two terms were up. So were my</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>parents. They worried about me during the blockade and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>couldn't wait for it all to be over. Actually, I was hoping</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>to have a family by now... My sisters have the most</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>amazing, wonderful kids... So when the Queen asked me to</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>serve as Senator, I couldn't refuse her.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: I agree! I think the Republic needs you... I'm glad</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>you chose to serve. I feel things are going to happen in</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>our generation that will change the galaxy in profound</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ways.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: I think so too.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN and PADMÉ walk toward the palace. ARTOO continues to</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>follow.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>INTERIOR: NABOO PALACE, THRONE ROOM - AFTERNOON</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA is seated on the throne, flanked by SIO</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>BIBBLE and a COUPLE OF ADVISORS. FOUR HANDMAIDENS stand</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>close by, and GUARDS are at the doors.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: We've been worried about you. (takes her</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>hand) I'm so glad you're safe, Padmé.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Thank you, Your Highness. I only wish I could have</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>served you better by staying on Coruscant for the vote.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE: Given the circumstances, Senator, you know it</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>was the only decision Her Highness could have made.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: How many systems have joined Count Dooku</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>and the separatists?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Thousands. And more are leaving the Republic every</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>day. If the Senate votes to create an army, I'm sure it's</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>going to push us into a civil war.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE: It's unthinkable! There hasn't been a full</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>scale war since the formation of the Republic!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: Do you see any way, through negotiations,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>to bring the separatists back into the Republic?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Not if they feel threatened. The separatists don't</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>have an army, but if they are provoked, they will move to</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>defend themselves. I'm sure of that. And with no time or</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>money to build an army, my guess is they will turn to the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Commerce Guilds or the Trade Federation for help.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: The armies of commerce! Why has nothing</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>been done in the Senate to restrain them?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: I'm afraid that, despite the Chancellor's best</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>efforts, there are still many bureaucrats, judges, and even</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Senators on the payrolls of the Guilds.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE: It's outrageous that, after all of those</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>hearings, and four trials in the Supreme Court, Nute Gunray</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>is still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation. I fear the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Senate is powerless to resolve this crisis. Do those money</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>mongers control everything?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: Remember, Counselor, the courts were able</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>to reduce the Federation's armies. That's a move in the</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>right direction.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: There are rumors, Your Highness, that the Trade</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Federation Army was not reduced as they were ordered.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: We must keep our faith in the Republic. The</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>it.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Let's pray that day never comes.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: In the meantime, we must consider your own</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>safety.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE signals. All the OTHER ADVISORS and ATTENDANTS</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>bow and leave the room.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE: (to Anakin) What is your suggestion, Master</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Jedi?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Anakin's not a Jedi yet, Counselor. He's still a</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Padawan learner. I was thinking...</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: (nettled) Hey, hold on a minute!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Excuse me! I was thinking I would stay in the Lake</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Country. There are some places up there that are very</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>isolated.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: Excuse me?! I am in charge of security here,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>M'Lady.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SIO BIBBLE and QUEEN JAMILLIA exchange a look. Something is</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>going on here.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Annie, my life is at risk, and this is my home. I</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>know it very well... that is why we're here. I think it</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>would be wise for you to take advantage of my knowledge in</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>this instance.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: (takes a deep breath) Sorry, M'Lady.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: Perfect. It's settled then.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN glares at PADMÉ. Then QUEEN JAMILLIA gets up, and</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>they all start to leave.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>QUEEN JAMILLIA: Padmé, I had an audience with your father</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>yesterday. I told him what was happening. He hopes you will</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>visit your mother before you leave... your family's very</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>worried about you.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Thank you, your Highness.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ looks worried. They ALL exit down the main staircase.</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">EXTERIOR: THEED, RESIDENTIAL AREA, SIDE STREET - AFTERNOON</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PEOPLE are passing through the little street, OLD MEN are</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">sunning themselves, WOMEN are gossiping, KIDS are playing.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">ANAKIN, PADMÉ and ARTOO turn onto a side street. ANAKIN is</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">back in his Jedi robes. PADMÉ wear a beautiful simple</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">dress. She stops, beaming.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>There's my house!</s></span> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>We're here. This is my house!</u></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ starts forward; ANAKIN hangs back.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: What? Don't say you're shy!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>ANAKIN: (untruthfully) No, but I...</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Suddenly, there are shouts from two little girls, RYOO (age</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">6) and POOJA (age 4). They come running toward PADMÉ.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: Ryoo!! Pooja!!</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ scoops up RYOO and POOJA and hugs them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Go wake up Artoo.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>RYOO & POOJA: Artoo!!!</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">As they see the droid, they hug him. ARTOO WHISTLES and</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">BEEPS. PADMÉ laughs. ANAKIN and PADMÉ go on toward the</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">house. The GIRLS stay and play with ARTOO.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">INTERIOR: PADMÉ'S PARENTS' HOUSE, MAIN ROOM - AFTERNOON</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">SOLA, PADMÉ'S beautiful older sister, comes in from the</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">kitchen carrying a big bowl of food.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>SOLA: (over her shoulder) They're eating over at Jev</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Narran's later, Mom. They just had a snack. They'll be</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>fine.</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">SOLA puts the bowl down on the table, where ANAKIN, PADMÉ</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">and RUWEE NABERRIE (Padme's father) are coming into the</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">room.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">SOLA: Padmé! (hugging her) </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>You're late. </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Mom was worried.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>We walked. </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Anakin, this is my sister, Sola.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">SOLA: Hello, Anakin.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">ANAKIN: Hello.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">SOLA sits, as JOBAL NABERRIE (Padme's mother) comes in with</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">a heaped bowl of steaming food.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: ...and this is my mother.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOBAL: </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>You're</s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>Hello. You made it</u></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"> just in time for dinner. I hope you're</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">hungry, Anakin.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">ANAKIN: A little.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: He's being polite, Mom. We're starving.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">RUWEE: (grinning) </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>You came</s></span><span style="color: #54acd2"> <span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>Well, you've come</u></span> to the right place at the right</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">time.</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">EVERYONE sits and starts passing food.</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">JOBAL: (to Padmé) Honey, it's so good to see you safe. We</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">were so worried.</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">PADMÉ gives JOBAL a dirty look. RUWEE smiles as he watches.</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">RUWEE: Dear...</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">JOBAL: I know, I know... but I had to say it. Now it's</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">done.</span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2"></span></p><p><span style="color: #54acd2">SOLA: </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Well, this is exciting! </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">Do you know, Anakin, you're</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">the first boyfriend my sister's ever brought home?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>(rolls her eyes) Sola!! </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">He isn't my boyfriend! He's</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">a Jedi assigned by the Senate to protect me.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">JOVAL: A bodyguard?! Oh, Padme! They didn't tell us it was</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">that serious!</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">PADMÉ: It's not, </span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Mom, </s></span><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">I promise. (glances at Jobal)</span><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s> Anyway,</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>Anakin's a friend. I've known him for years. Remember that</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>little boy who was with the Jedi during the blockade</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>crisis?</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>They nod.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: He grew up.</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>JOBAL: Honey, when are you going to settle down? Haven't</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>you had enough of that life? I certainly have!</s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s></s></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: Mom, I'm not in any danger.</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>PADMÉ: I'm not in any danger, Mom.</u></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">RUWEE: (to Anakin) Is she?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">ANAKIN: ...Yes ...I'm afraid she is.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><s>PADMÉ: (quickly) But not much.</s></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(97, 189, 109)"><u>Silence.</u></span></p><p></p><p>TBC...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wald, post: 553321, member: 13359"] Continuation. Main changes: The scenes of the Lost Twenty conversation, Obi-Wan and Mace in the hangar, and Padmé's family home reinstated. Enjoy. ;) [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, MAIN HALLWAY - LATE DAY From high above, light streams down from the lofty ceilings. OBI-WAN crosses the floor of the great hallway, heading for the Analysis Rooms. INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, ANALYSIS CUBICLES - LATE DAY OBI-WAN walks past several glass cubicles where work is going on. He comes to an empty one and sits down in front of a console. A SP-4 ANALYSIS DROID comes to life. A tray slides out of the console. SP-4: Place the subject for analysis on the sensor tray, please. OBI-WAN puts the dart onto the tray, which retracts into the console. The DROID activates the system, and a screen lights up in front of OBI-WAN. OBI-WAN: It's a toxic dart. I need to know where it came from and who made it. SP-4: One moment, please. Diagrams and data appear on the screen, scrolling past at great speed. OBI-WAN watches as the screen goes blank. The tray slides out. SP-4: Markings cannot be identified. As you can see on your screen, subject weapon does not exist in any known culture. Probably self-made by a warrior not associated with any known society. Stand away from the sensor tray please. OBI-WAN: Excuse me? Could you try again please? SP-4: Master Jedi, our records are very thorough. They cover eighty percent of the galaxy. If I can't tell you where it came from, nobody can. OBI-WAN picks up the dart and looks at it, then looks to the DROID. OBI-WAN: Thanks for your assistance! (to himself) I know who can identify this. EXTERIOR: CORUSCANT, DOWNTOWN, BACK STREET - MORNING OBI-WAN walks down the street. It is a pretty tough part of town. Old buildings, warehouses, beat up speeders and transporter rigs thundering past. Above, the old elevated monospeed with occasional "shiny freighters" hissing through. OBI-WAN comes to a kind of alien diner. On the steamed-up windows it says "DEX'S DINER" in alien lettering. He goes inside. INTERIOR: CORUSCANT, DEX'S DINER - MORNING A WAITRESS DROID is carrying plates of half-eaten food. There is a counter with stools and a line of booths along the wall by the window. A number of CUSTOMERS are eating - TOUGH-LOOKING WORKERS, FREIGHTER DRIVERS, ETC. The WAITRESS DROID looks up as OBI-WAN comes in. WAITRESS DROID: Can I help ya? OBI-WAN: I'm looking for Dexter. The WAITRESS DROID approaches OBI-WAN. WAITRESS DROID: Waddya want him for? OBI-WAN: He's not in trouble. It's personal. There is a brief pause. Then the DROID goes to the open serving hatch behind the counter. WIITRESS DROID: Someone to see ya, honey. (lowering her voice) A Jedi, by the looks of him. Steam billows out from the kitchen hatch behind the counter as a huge head pokes through. DEXTER JETTSTER: Obi-Wan! OBI-WAN: Hey, Dex. DEXTER JETTSTER: Take a seat! Be right with ya! OBI-WAN sits in a booth. WAITRESS DROID: You want a cup of ardees? OBI-WAN: Oh yes, thank you. The WAITRESS DROID moves off as the door to the counter opens and DEXTER JETTSTER appears. He is big - bald and sweaty, old and alien. Not someone to tangle with. He arrives, beaming hugely. DEXTER JETTSTER: Hey, ol' buddy! OBI-WAN: Hey, Dex. DEXTER eases himself into the seat opposite OBI-WAN. He can just make it. DEXTER JETTSTER: So, my friend. What can I do for ya? OBI-WAN: You can tell me what this is. OBI-WAN places the dart on the table between them. DEX'S eyes widen. He puts down his mug. DEXTER JETTSTER: (softly) Well, whaddya know... DEXTER picks up the dart delicately between his puffy fingers and peers at it. DEXTER JETTSTER: I ain't seen one of these since I was prospecting on Subterrel beyond the Outer Rim! OBI-WAN: Can you tell me where it came from? DEXTER grins. He puts the dart down between them. DEXTER JETTSTER: This baby belongs to them cloners. What you got here is a Kamino saberdart. OBI-WAN: Kamino saberdart? ...I wonder why it didn't show up in our analysis archive. DEXTER JETTSTER: It's these funny little cuts on the side give it away... Those analysis droids you've got over there only focus on symbols, you know. I should think you Jedi would have more respect for the difference between knowledge and wisdom. OBI-WAN: Well, Dex, if droids could think, we wouldn't be here, would we? (laughing) Kamino... doesn't sound familiar. Is it part of the Republic? DEXTER JETTSTER: No, it's beyond the Outer Rim. I'd say about twelve parsecs outside the Rishi Maze, toward the south. It should be easy to find, even for those droids in your archive. These Kaminoans keep to themselves. They're cloners. Damned good ones, too. OBI-WAN picks up the dart, holding it midway between them. OBI-WAN: Cloners? Are they friendly? DEXTER JETTSTER: It depends. OBI-WAN: On what, Dex? Dexter grins. DEXTER JETTSTER: On how good your manners are... and how big your pocketbook is... EXTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE - DAY The main entrance at the base of the huge Temple is bustling with activity. All sorts of JEDI are coming and going.[/S][/COLOR] INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, ARCHIVE LIBRARY - DAY A bronze bust of Count Dooku stands among a line of other busts of Jedi in the Archive Room. OBI-WAN stands in front of it, studying the striking features of the chiseled face. On the walls, lighted computer panels seem to stretch into infinity. Farther along the room in the background, FIVE JEDI are seated at tables, studying archive material. After OBI-WAN studies the bust for a few moments before MADAME JOCASTA NU, the Jedi Archivist, is standing next to him. She is an elderly, frail-looking human Jedi. Tough as old boots and smart as a whip. JOCASTA NU: Did you call for assistance? OBI-WAN: (distracted in thought) Yes... yes, I did... [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]JOCASTA NU: He has a powerful face, doesn't he? He was one of the most brilliant Jedi I have had the privilege of knowing. OBI-WAN: I never understood why he quit.[/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S] Only twenty Jedi have ever left the Order. JOCASTA NU: (sighs) The Lost Twenty... Count Dooku was the most recent and the most painful. No one likes to talk about it. His leaving was a great loss to the Order. OBI-WAN: What happened?[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]JOCASTA NU: Well, [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]Count Dooku[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]one might say he[/U][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)] was always a bit out of step with the decisions of the Council... much like your old Master, Qui-Gon Jinn. OBI-WAN: (surprised) Really? JOCASTA NU: Oh, yes. They were [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]alike in many ways. [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Very individual thinkers... idealists... JOCASTA NU gazes at the bust. JOCASTA NU:[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]He was always striving to become a more powerful Jedi. He wanted to be the best. With a lightsaber, in the old style of fencing, he had no match. His knowledge of the Force was... unique. [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]In the end, I think he left because he lost faith in the Republic. [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]He believed that politics were corrupt, and he felt the Jedi betrayed themselves by serving the politicians. He always had very high expectations of government. [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]He disappeared for nine or ten years, then just showed up recently as the head of the separatist movement. OBI-WAN: It's very interesting. I'm not sure I completely understand.[/COLOR] JOCASTA NU: [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Well, I'm sure you didn't call me over here for a history lesson.[/COLOR] Are you having a problem, Master Kenobi? OBI-WAN: Yes, [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]um,[/U][/COLOR] I'm [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]trying to find a planet[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]looking for a planetary[/U][/COLOR] system called Kamino. It doesn't [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]seem to[/S][/COLOR] show up on [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]any of [/S][/COLOR]the archive charts. JOCASTA NU: - Kamino. Kamino? It's not a system I'm familiar with... [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]Let me see...[/S][/COLOR] JOCASTA NU leans over OBI-WAN'S shoulder, looking at the screen. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]JOCASTA NU: Are you sure you have the right coordinates?[/S][/COLOR] OBI-WAN: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S](nodding) According to my information, [/S][/COLOR]it should [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]be[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]appear[/U][/COLOR] in this quadrant [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]somewhere[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]here[/U][/COLOR]... just south of the Rishi Maze. JOCASTA NU taps the keyboard[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S] and frowns[/S][/COLOR]. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]JOCASTA NU: No coordinates? It sounds like the sort of directions you'd get from a street tout... some old miner or Furbog trader. OBI-WAN: All three, actually. JOCASTA NU: Are you sure it exists? OBI-WAN: Absolutely. JOCASTA NU: Let me do a gravitational scan.[/S][/COLOR] OBI-WAN and JOCASTA NU study the star map hologram. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]JOCASTA NU: There are some inconsistencies here. Maybe the planet you're seeking was destroyed. OBI-WAN: Wouldn't that be on record?[/S][/COLOR] JOCASTA NU: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]It ought to be, unless it was very recent.[/S][/COLOR] (shakes her head) I hate to say it, but it looks like the system you're searching for doesn't exist. OBI-WAN: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]That's [/COLOR]impossible... perhaps the archives are incomplete. JOCASTA NU: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]The archives are comprehensive and totally secure, my young Jedi. One thing you may be absolutely sure of - [/S][/COLOR]if an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist! OBI-WAN stares at her, then looks back to the map. JOCASTA NU notices a young boy approach. She turns from OBI-WAN and leaves with the youngster. EXTERIOR: SPACE, STARSHIP FREIGHTER The massive, slow-moving Freighter moves through space. INTERIOR: STARFREIGHTER, STEERAGE HOLD - DAY The great, gloomy hold is crowded with EMIGRANTS and their belongings. To one side ARTOO is coming to the head of a food line holding two bowls. With one of his little claw arms, he grabs a chunk of something that looks like bread. ARTOO slips a tube into a tub of mush and sucks up a large quantity. A SERVER sees him. SERVER: [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]Hey! No Droids![/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]Hey, you! No droids! Get outta here![/U][/COLOR] ARTOO takes one last big suck and heads away from the food line. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]The SERVER shouts after him angrily. [/S][/COLOR]The little droid moves past groups of eating or sleeping EMIGRANTS and comes to ANAKIN and PADMÉ'S table[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S] where ANAKIN is sound asleep. The young Jedi seems to be having a nightmare. He is very restless[/S][/COLOR]. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]ANAKIN: No, no, Mom, no... He is sweating. PADMÉ leans over resting her hand on his arm. He wakes up with a start, then realizes where he is. PADMÉ simply looks at him. He stares back, somewhat confused. ANAKIN: What? PADMÉ: You seemed to be having a nightmare. ANAKIN looks at PADMÉ a little more closely, trying to see if he has revealed any of his secrets. She hands him a bowl of mush and bread. PADMÉ: Are you hungry? ANAKIN: Yeah. PADMÉ takes the food from ARTOO and sets it on a make-shift table. ANAKIN rises and takes a seat as she places a bowl in front of him. ANAKIN: Thanks. PADMÉ: We went to lightspeed a while ago. ANAKIN looks into PADMÉ'S eyes. ANAKIN: I look forward to seeing Naboo again. I've thought about it every day since I left. It's by far the most beautiful place I've ever seen... PADMÉ is a little unnerved by his intense stare. PADMÉ: It may not be as you remember it. Time changes perception. ANAKIN: Sometimes it does... Sometimes for the better.[/S][/COLOR] PADMÉ: [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]Thank you, Artoo. (to Anakin)[/U][/COLOR] It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or do the things you like... ANAKIN: Or be with the people I love. PADMÉ: Are you allowed to love? I thought it was forbidden for a Jedi. ANAKIN: Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life, so you might say we're encouraged to love. PADMÉ: You have changed so much. ANAKIN: You haven't changed a bit. You're exactly the way I remember you in my dreams.[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S] I doubt if Naboo has changed much either. PADMÉ: It hasn't... There is an awkward moment. PADMÉ: (continuing; changing the subject) You were dreaming about your mother earlier, weren't you? ANAKIN: Yes... I left Tatooine so long ago, my memory of her is fading. I don't want to lose it. Recently I've been seeing her in my dreams... vivid dreams... scary dreams. I worry about her.[/S][/COLOR] PADMÉ gives ANAKIN a sympathetic look. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, MAIN HALLWAY - DAY OBI-WAN walks through the main hallway to the training area. INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, TRAINING VERANDA - DAY OBI-WAN comes out onto the veranda and stops, watching TWENTY or so FOUR-YEAR-OLDS doing training exercises, supervised by YODA. They wear helmets over their eyes and try to strike little TRAINING DROIDS with their miniature lightsabers. The DROIDS dance in front of them. YODA: Don't think... feel... be as one with the Force. Help you, it will. (he sees Obi-Wan) Younglings - enough! A visitor we have. Welcome him. The CHILDREN turn off their lightsabers. YODA: Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, meet the mighty Bear Clan. CHILDREN: Welcome, Master Obi-Wan! OBI-WAN: I am sorry to disturb you, Master. YODA: What help to you, can I be? OBI-WAN: I'm looking for a planet described to me by an old friend. I trust him. But the system doesn't show up on the archive maps. YODA: Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing... how embarrassing. Liam, the shades. An interesting puzzle. Gather, younglings, around the map reader. Clear your minds and find Obi-Wan's wayward planet, we will. The reader is a small shaft with a hollow opening at the top. The CHILDREN gather around it. OBI-WAN takes out a little glass ball and places it into the bowl. The window shades close, the reader lights up and projects the star map hologram into the room. The CHILDREN laugh. Some of them reach up to try and touch the nebulae and stars. OBI- WAN walks into the display. OBI-WAN: This is where it ought to be... but it isn't. Gravity is pulling all the stars in this area inward to this spot. There should be a star here... but there isn't. YODA: Most interesting. Gravity's silhouette remains, but the star and all its planets have disappeared. How can this be? Now, younglings, in your mind, what is the first thing you see? An answer? A thought? Anyone? There is a brief pause. Then a CHILD puts his hand up. YODA nods. JEDI CHILD JACK: Master? Because someone erased it from the archive memory. CHILDREN: That's right! Yes! That's what happened! Someone erased it! JEDI CHILD MAY: If the planet blew up, the gravity would go away. OBI-WAN stares; YODA chuckles. YODA: Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. The Padawan is right. Go to the center of the gravity's pull, and find your planet you will. YODA and OBI-WAN move away from the CHILDREN. With a hand movement, OBI-WAN causes the star map to disappear. OBI-WAN uses the Force to call the glass ball back to his hand as the two walk into an adjoining room. OBI-WAN: But Master Yoda who could have erased information from the archives? That's impossible, isn't it? YODA: (frowning) Dangerous and disturbing this puzzle is. Only a Jedi could have erased those files. But who and why, harder to answer. Meditate on this, I will. May the Force be with you.[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, HANGAR - LATE AFTERNOON Obi-Wan and Mace are walking along the Jedi Landing Platform. OBI-WAN: It appears someone doesn't want us to know about this Kamino System MACE WINDU: Which means there's something happening in their System we should know about. OBI-WAN: Master, do you think a Jedi could have erased those files? MACE WINDU: I hope not. This disturbance in the Force is making it hard to get a sense of things. The small platform they are on with Obi-Wan's Starfighter moves outside. EXTERIOR: LANDING PLATFORM - LATE AFTERNOON They walk over to the Jedi Starfighter OBI-WAN: I'm concerned [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]with[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]for[/U][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)] my Padawan. He is not ready to be on his own. MACE WINDU: If the prophesy is true, he is the one who will bring balance to the Force. OBI-WAN: But he still has much to learn. His skills have made him, well, arrogant. [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]I realize now what you and Master Yoda said from the beginning, [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]the boy was too old to start his training... OBI-WAN hesitates. OBI-WAN: Master we should not be given this assignment. I fear Anakin will not be able to protect the Senator. MACE WINDU: Why? OBI-WAN: He has an emotional connection with her. It's been there since he was a boy. Now he's confused... Distracted. MACE WINDU: Obi-Wan, you must have faith that he will choose the right path. OBI-WAN climbs into the cockpit of the Starfighter. OBI-WAN: Has Master Yoda gained any insight into whether or not this war will come about? MACE WINDU: Probing the Dark Side is a dangerous process. He could be in seclusion for days... May the force be with you. INTERIOR: JEDI TEMPLE, YODA'S QUARTERS - LATE AFTERNOON YODA sits with his eyes closed, meditating. Silence.[/COLOR] EXTERIOR: NABOO SPACEPORT - DAY The Starfreighter lands in the giant port city of Theed. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]PADMÉ, ANAKIN and ARTOO are among the EMIGRANTS streaming from the Starfreighter and into the vast docking area. They exit onto the main plaza.[/S][/COLOR] EXTERIOR: NABOO PALACE, GRAND COURTYARD - AFTERNOON The speeder bus pulls up and stops. PADMÉ, ANAKIN, and ARTOO get out. The great courtyard stretches before them, and they see the rose-colored domes of the palace on the far side. ARTOO WHISTLES. They pick up their gear and start to cross the courtyard. ARTOO trundles behind them. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]ANAKIN: If I grew up here, I don't think I'd ever leave. PADMÉ: (laughing) I doubt that. ANAKIN: No, really. When I started my training, I was very homesick and very lonely. This city and my Mom were the only pleasant things I had to think about... The problem was, the more I thought about my Mom, the worse I felt. But I would feel better if I thought about the palace - the way it shimmers in the sunlight - the way the air always smells of flowers... PADMÉ: ...and the soft sound of the distant waterfalls. The first time I saw the Capital, I was very young... I'd never seen a waterfall before. I thought they were so beautiful... I never dreamed one day I'd live in the palace. ANAKIN: Well, tell me, did you dream of power and politics when you were a little girl? PADMÉ: (laughing) No! That was the last thing I thought of, but the more history I studied, the more I realized how much good politicians could do. After school, I became a Senatorial advisor with such a passion that, before I knew it, I was elected Queen. For the most part it was because of my conviction that reform was possible. I wasn't the youngest Queen ever elected, but now that I think back on it, I'm not sure I was old enough. I'm not sure I was ready. ANAKIN: The people you served thought you did a good job. I heard they tried to amend the Constitution so you could stay in office. PADMÉ: Popular rule is not democracy, Annie. It gives the people what they want, not what they need. And, truthfully, I was relieved when my two terms were up. So were my parents. They worried about me during the blockade and couldn't wait for it all to be over. Actually, I was hoping to have a family by now... My sisters have the most amazing, wonderful kids... So when the Queen asked me to serve as Senator, I couldn't refuse her. ANAKIN: I agree! I think the Republic needs you... I'm glad you chose to serve. I feel things are going to happen in our generation that will change the galaxy in profound ways. PADMÉ: I think so too. ANAKIN and PADMÉ walk toward the palace. ARTOO continues to follow. INTERIOR: NABOO PALACE, THRONE ROOM - AFTERNOON QUEEN JAMILLIA is seated on the throne, flanked by SIO BIBBLE and a COUPLE OF ADVISORS. FOUR HANDMAIDENS stand close by, and GUARDS are at the doors. QUEEN JAMILLIA: We've been worried about you. (takes her hand) I'm so glad you're safe, Padmé. PADMÉ: Thank you, Your Highness. I only wish I could have served you better by staying on Coruscant for the vote. SIO BIBBLE: Given the circumstances, Senator, you know it was the only decision Her Highness could have made. QUEEN JAMILLIA: How many systems have joined Count Dooku and the separatists? PADMÉ: Thousands. And more are leaving the Republic every day. If the Senate votes to create an army, I'm sure it's going to push us into a civil war. SIO BIBBLE: It's unthinkable! There hasn't been a full scale war since the formation of the Republic! QUEEN JAMILLIA: Do you see any way, through negotiations, to bring the separatists back into the Republic? PADMÉ: Not if they feel threatened. The separatists don't have an army, but if they are provoked, they will move to defend themselves. I'm sure of that. And with no time or money to build an army, my guess is they will turn to the Commerce Guilds or the Trade Federation for help. QUEEN JAMILLIA: The armies of commerce! Why has nothing been done in the Senate to restrain them? PADMÉ: I'm afraid that, despite the Chancellor's best efforts, there are still many bureaucrats, judges, and even Senators on the payrolls of the Guilds. SIO BIBBLE: It's outrageous that, after all of those hearings, and four trials in the Supreme Court, Nute Gunray is still the Viceroy of the Trade Federation. I fear the Senate is powerless to resolve this crisis. Do those money mongers control everything? QUEEN JAMILLIA: Remember, Counselor, the courts were able to reduce the Federation's armies. That's a move in the right direction. PADMÉ: There are rumors, Your Highness, that the Trade Federation Army was not reduced as they were ordered. QUEEN JAMILLIA: We must keep our faith in the Republic. The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it. PADMÉ: Let's pray that day never comes. QUEEN JAMILLIA: In the meantime, we must consider your own safety. SIO BIBBLE signals. All the OTHER ADVISORS and ATTENDANTS bow and leave the room. SIO BIBBLE: (to Anakin) What is your suggestion, Master Jedi? PADMÉ: Anakin's not a Jedi yet, Counselor. He's still a Padawan learner. I was thinking... ANAKIN: (nettled) Hey, hold on a minute! PADMÉ: Excuse me! I was thinking I would stay in the Lake Country. There are some places up there that are very isolated. ANAKIN: Excuse me?! I am in charge of security here, M'Lady. SIO BIBBLE and QUEEN JAMILLIA exchange a look. Something is going on here. PADMÉ: Annie, my life is at risk, and this is my home. I know it very well... that is why we're here. I think it would be wise for you to take advantage of my knowledge in this instance. ANAKIN: (takes a deep breath) Sorry, M'Lady. QUEEN JAMILLIA: Perfect. It's settled then. ANAKIN glares at PADMÉ. Then QUEEN JAMILLIA gets up, and they all start to leave. QUEEN JAMILLIA: Padmé, I had an audience with your father yesterday. I told him what was happening. He hopes you will visit your mother before you leave... your family's very worried about you. PADMÉ: Thank you, your Highness. PADMÉ looks worried. They ALL exit down the main staircase.[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]EXTERIOR: THEED, RESIDENTIAL AREA, SIDE STREET - AFTERNOON PEOPLE are passing through the little street, OLD MEN are sunning themselves, WOMEN are gossiping, KIDS are playing. ANAKIN, PADMÉ and ARTOO turn onto a side street. ANAKIN is back in his Jedi robes. PADMÉ wear a beautiful simple dress. She stops, beaming. PADMÉ: [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]There's my house![/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]We're here. This is my house![/U][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]PADMÉ starts forward; ANAKIN hangs back. PADMÉ: What? Don't say you're shy! ANAKIN: (untruthfully) No, but I...[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Suddenly, there are shouts from two little girls, RYOO (age 6) and POOJA (age 4). They come running toward PADMÉ. PADMÉ: Ryoo!! Pooja!! PADMÉ scoops up RYOO and POOJA and hugs them.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]PADMÉ: Go wake up Artoo. RYOO & POOJA: Artoo!!![/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]As they see the droid, they hug him. ARTOO WHISTLES and BEEPS. PADMÉ laughs. ANAKIN and PADMÉ go on toward the house. The GIRLS stay and play with ARTOO. INTERIOR: PADMÉ'S PARENTS' HOUSE, MAIN ROOM - AFTERNOON SOLA, PADMÉ'S beautiful older sister, comes in from the kitchen carrying a big bowl of food.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]SOLA: (over her shoulder) They're eating over at Jev Narran's later, Mom. They just had a snack. They'll be fine.[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]SOLA puts the bowl down on the table, where ANAKIN, PADMÉ and RUWEE NABERRIE (Padme's father) are coming into the room. SOLA: Padmé! (hugging her) [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]You're late. [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Mom was worried. PADMÉ: [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]We walked. [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Anakin, this is my sister, Sola. SOLA: Hello, Anakin. ANAKIN: Hello. SOLA sits, as JOBAL NABERRIE (Padme's mother) comes in with a heaped bowl of steaming food. PADMÉ: ...and this is my mother. JOBAL: [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]You're[/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)] [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]Hello. You made it[/U][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)] just in time for dinner. I hope you're hungry, Anakin. ANAKIN: A little. PADMÉ: He's being polite, Mom. We're starving. RUWEE: (grinning) [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]You came[/S][/COLOR][COLOR=#54acd2] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]Well, you've come[/U][/COLOR] to the right place at the right[/COLOR] [COLOR=#54acd2]time. EVERYONE sits and starts passing food. JOBAL: (to Padmé) Honey, it's so good to see you safe. We were so worried. PADMÉ gives JOBAL a dirty look. RUWEE smiles as he watches. RUWEE: Dear... JOBAL: I know, I know... but I had to say it. Now it's done. SOLA: [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]Well, this is exciting! [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]Do you know, Anakin, you're the first boyfriend my sister's ever brought home? PADMÉ: [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S](rolls her eyes) Sola!! [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]He isn't my boyfriend! He's a Jedi assigned by the Senate to protect me. JOVAL: A bodyguard?! Oh, Padme! They didn't tell us it was that serious! PADMÉ: It's not, [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]Mom, [/S][/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]I promise. (glances at Jobal)[/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S] Anyway, Anakin's a friend. I've known him for years. Remember that little boy who was with the Jedi during the blockade crisis? They nod. PADMÉ: He grew up. JOBAL: Honey, when are you going to settle down? Haven't you had enough of that life? I certainly have! PADMÉ: Mom, I'm not in any danger.[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]PADMÉ: I'm not in any danger, Mom.[/U][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]RUWEE: (to Anakin) Is she? ANAKIN: ...Yes ...I'm afraid she is.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][S]PADMÉ: (quickly) But not much.[/S][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(97, 189, 109)][U]Silence.[/U][/COLOR] TBC... [/QUOTE]
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