Episode II 20th anniversary: Script re-write Pt 5

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Continuation.
Main changes:
No silliness, the Obi-Wan/Jango fight is reduced to a teaser (build up for the later action), Anakin is more impatient when talking with Watto, no showy-offy asteroid chase, Dooku's full speech reinstated (sans "cartoon" characters talking) etc.
Enjoy.;)

INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CORRIDOR - DAY

OBI-WAN enters cautiously from outside. Ahead, the corridor
is deserted. He moves down it.

INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CORRIDOR OUTSIDE FETT APARTMENT -
DAY

OBI-WAN arrives at the door to JANGO FETT'S apartment. He
reaches up and runs his fingers along the door, locating
the locks. The door slides open.

INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, FETT APARTMENT - DAY

OBI-WAN walks in to find the room in complete disorder. The
bedroom door is wide open - clear signs of hurried
departure. All of the FETTS' personal belongings are gone.

OBI-WAN goes to an ultra-thin computer screen. He punches
up AN ONSCREEN PICTURE of JANGO FETT and BOBA FETT
unhitching the lines securing their ship on the landing
platform. JANGO FETT is wearing his armor and rocket pack.


EXTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, KAMINO LANDING PLATFORM (RAINSTORM)
- DAY

JANGO FETT'S ship, SLAVE I, rests on the landing platform.
JANGO and BOBA FETT are preparing to board. OBI-WAN rushes
through the tower door and runs toward the ship.

BOBA FETT: Dad!! Look!

JANGO FETT turns to see OBI-WAN charging out of the tower
toward him. As he runs, OBI-WAN draws his lightsaber from
his belt. It flashes on.

JANGO FETT draws his gun and fires at the charging JEDI.
OBI-WAN deflects the blast and swings at JANGO FETT.


JANGO FETT: Boba, get on board.

OBI-WAN draws his lightsaber from his belt. It flashes on.

JANGO FETT draws his gun and fires at the charging JEDI.
OBI-WAN deflects the blast and swings at JANGO FETT.


The bounty hunter rockets up and over OBI-WAN, landing on
the top of a nearby tower. JANGO FETT fires down at OBI
WAN. The JEDI deflects the shots back, but JANGO FETT
evades them. Then he fires an explosive sending OBI-WAN
diving out of the way.


IN THE COCKPIT of JANGO FETT'S ship, BOBA FETT settles into the pilot's seat. He grabs the
controls of a laser gun and swings it to aim at OBI-WAN,
and fires
.

JANGO FETT fires a missile from his jetpack at OBI-WAN.
His lightsaber skids across the wet surface of the landing
platform. BOBA FETT fires the laser gun.


The explosion of the ship's laser blasts throws OBI-WAN to
the ground. His lightsaber skids across the wet surface of
the landing platform.
JANGO FETT drops from the tower
landing in front of OBI-WAN. OBI-WAN rises and charges
toward JANGO
.

IN THE COCKPIT, BOBA FETT watches as:

OUTSIDE, OBI-WAN and JANGO FETT grapple and fight,
punching, kicking, grabbing hold, and throwing each other
around. OBI-WAN grabs JANGO FETT tightly, and JANGO FETT
rockets up into the air and kicks OBI-WAN loose. OBI-WAN
crashes to the deck and slides toward the edge. He grapples
desperately for a handhold on the slick surface. OBI-WAN
reaches out for his lightsaber, using the Force to bring it
to him, but JANGO fires a thin wire from his wristpack. It
wraps around OBI-WAN'S wrists before he can retrieve the
lightsaber.

JANGO rockets into the air, dragging OBI-WAN behind him
along the platform surface. As OBI-WAN slides toward some
columns he manages to maneuver himself into a roll avoiding
a collision by leveraging the wire against the structure
and pulling himself to his feet. OBI-WAN pulls with all his
weight against the momentum of the wire, causing JANGO to
drop and crash into the ground. JANGO'S rocketpack breaks
free from his back and explodes.

Still connected by the wire, OBI-WAN charges at JANGO
kicking him over the platform edge. JANGO slides pulling
OBI-WAN with him. Locked together, OBI-WAN and JANGO FETT
plummet down toward the raging ocean. At the last moment,
JANGO FETT sees the edge and digs his forearm claws into
the surface. OBI-WAN slides past him as JANGO finally
ejects the wire free from his wrist. OBI-WAN cannot stop
the speed of his slide and shoots off the edge, falling...

OBI-WAN uses the Force and causes the wire to wrap around a
pole, stopping his descent. He swings and drops onto a
SMALL SERVICE PLATFORM just above the waves. He hauls
himself to his feet. When JANGO looks down, the Jedi has
disappeared. JANGO uses his forearm claws to climb back to
the landing platform and runs toward his ship.


IN THE COCKPIT, BOBA FETT settles into the pilot's seat. He
punches buttons. The engines ROAR.

OBI-WAN comes running out onto the landing platform and
spots his lightsaber laying on the ground. This time, he
retrieves it successfully and turns it on just as JANGO'S
ship engines roar. Realizing the ship is about to take off,
OBI-WAN takes a small tracking device from his belt and
throws in onto the hull of the ship.


OBI-WAN rises as JANGO enters his ship, bumping his head
on the closing door. OBI-WAN retrieves his lightsaber and
turns it on. Realizing the ship is about to take off, OBI-WAN
takes a small tracking device from his belt and throws in
onto the hull of the ship.


JANGO FETT'S ship lifts off from the platform and heads up
into the lowering sky. It disappears. Lightning flashes.
Rain lashes the tower and streams across the surface of the
platform where OBI-WAN stands, watching.

EXTERIOR: SPACE

The Naboo Starship heads toward the desert planet of
Tatooine.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, MOS ESPA STREETS AND WATTO'S SHIP - DAY

The Naboo Starship lands in a large parking lot of
Spaceships on the outskirts of Mos Espa. ANAKIN and PADMÉ
ride a rickshaw through the streets. ANAKIN stares at
sights he hasn't seen for years. Finally, they come to
Watto's shop, and the rickshaw stops.

ANAKIN: (to the droid driver) Wait right there, please.

ANAKIN and PADMÉ get down. Sitting on a stool in front of
the shop is WATTO. He is using a small electronic
screwdriver on a fiddly DROID. THREE PIT DROIDS are
chattering away and are trying to help him, but they seem
only to make him madder.

WATTO: (yelling, in Huttese) No, not that one - that one!
[No chuba da wanga, da wanga.]

ANAKIN: (arriving) Excuse me How's it going, Watto. [Chut, chut, Watto.]

WATTO: (in Huttese) What? [Ke Booda?]

ANAKIN: (in Huttese) I said excuse me. [Di nova, 'Chut,
chut.']

WATTO turns to the chattering PIT DROIDS.

WATTO: (in Huttese) Shut down. [Go ana bopa!]

The PIT DROIDS snap into their storage position.


ANAKIN: Let me help you with that. [Ding mi chasa hopa.]

ANAKIN takes the fiddly piece of equipment and starts to
play with it. WATTO blinks in surprise.

WATTO: (continuing, in Huttese) What? I don't know you...
What can I do for you? You look like a Jedi. Whatever it
is... I didn't do it.
[Ke booda? Yo baan pee hota. No wega
mi condorta. Kin chasa du Jedi. No bata tu tu.
]

WATTO drops the screwdriver and curses loudly in Huttese

ANAKIN: I'm looking for Where is Shmi Skywalker.? [Mi boska di Shmi
Skywalker.]

WATTO looks at him suspiciously. He stares at PADMÉ, then
back to ANAKIN.

WATTO: Annie?? Little Annie?? Naaah!!

Suddenly, the fiddly piece of equipment in Anakin's hands
WHIRS into life. WATTO blinks at it.

WATTO: (continuing; in English) You are Annie! It is you!
Ya sure sprouted! Weehoo! A Jedi! Waddya know? Hey, maybe
you couldda help wit some deadbeats who owe me a lot of
money...


ANAKIN: My mother...

WATTO: Oh, yeah. Shmi... she's not mine no more. I sold
her.

ANAKIN: Sold her...

WATTO: Years ago. Sorry, Annie, but you know, business is
business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I
think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her
and married her. Can ya beat that?

ANAKIN: Do you know where they are now?

WATTO: Long way from here... someplace over on the other
side of Mos Eisley, I think...

ANAKIN: I'd like to know.

ANAKIN'S grim look means business; WATTO gets the hint
quickly.

WATTO: Yeah... sure... absolutely. Let's go look in my
records.

ANAKIN and WATTO go into the shop.

EXTERIOR: SPACE, GEONOSIS

The red planet of Geonosis is circled by a large asteroid
field that forms rings. JANGO FETT'S ship appears, heading
toward it. OBI-WAN'S Starfighter, attached to the
hyperspace transport ring, appears in space. The
Starfighter disengages from the ring and follows JANGO
FETT'S ship.


INTERIOR: COCKPIT, FETT SHIP, SPACE, GEONOSIS
JANGO FETT grins at BOBA FETT.

JANGO FETT: Nearly there, son.


INSIDE THE COCKPIT, a small blip shows up on the ship's
scan screen.

BOBA FETT: Dad! I think we're being tracked... Look at the
scan screen! Isn't that a cloaking shadow?

BOBA FETT checks the scan screen and reveals a small
tracking device on the outer hull.

JANGO FETT: He must have put a homing device on our hull
during the fight... We'll fix it! Hang on, son! We'll move
into the asteroid field. He won't be able to follow us
there. If he does, we'll leave him a couple of surprises.

He pushes some buttons and the spot where the device was
disappears. JANGO FETT guides his ship into the asteroid
field. OBI-WAN stops his ship.

OBI-WAN: That's interesting, Arfour. They seem to have
discovered the tracker. Shut down... Shape scan their last
coordinates.

JANGO FETT pilots his ship through the asteroids.

BOBA FETT: He's gone.

JANGO FETT: He must have gone on toward the surface.

BOBA sees OBI-WAN on the screen.

BOBA FETT: Look, Dad! He's back!

JANGO FETT: Hang on!

He releases a charge which drifts toward OBI-WAN. As the
charge approaches OBI-WAN'S Starfighter, ARFOUR beeps.

OBI-WAN: Whoa! Sonic charges... Stand by.

JANGO'S goes into a power-climb to avoid an asteroid.

BOBA FETT: Dad! Watch out!

JANGO FETT: Stay calm, son. We'll be fine. That Jedi won't
be able to follow us through this.

OBI-WAN'S ship dives into the asteroid belt after them.

BOBA FETT: There he is!

JANGO FETT: He doesn't seem to be able to take a hint.

JANGO flies down a narrow tunnel in one of the larger
asteroids.

BOBA FETT: Watch out!

OBI-WAN passes over the asteroid and JANGO emerges, chasing
after him.

BOBA FETT: Get him, Dad! Get him! Fire!

JANGO FETT fires lasers at the Jedi Starfighter.

EXTERIOR: SPACE, GEONOSIS

The ships flip, roll, and turn at incredible speed,
dodging, weaving and firing. They tumble from near misses.

OBI-WAN: Oh, blast! This is why I hate flying.

Bits fly off OBI-WAN'S fighter as one of JANGO'S missiles
gets through.

In JANGO FETT'S COCKPIT, JANGO continues to bombard the
Jedi Starfighter with laser fire. One bold strikes OBI
WAN'S ship causing a small explosion.

BOBA FETT: You got him!

JANGO FETT: We'll just have to finish him.

JANGO FETT pushes buttons to open an outer hull door and
releases a guided aerial torpedo. The torpedo closely
follows OBI-WAN'S Starfighter.

IN OBI-WAN'S COCKPIT, his skill is pushed to the limit as
he throws the ship from side to side, avoiding great rocks
and the torpedo. Then a huge asteroid tumbles across his
path. There seems no way he can avoid it.

OBI-WAN: Arfour, prepare to jettison the spare parts
canisters. Release them now!

IN JANGO'S COCKPIT, they see a huge explosion as OBI-WAN'S
ship appears to smash into the asteroid.

BOBA FETT: Got him! Yeahhhhh!

JANGO FETT: We won't see him again.

BOBA FETT laughs.
JANGO FETT'S ship emerges from the
asteroid belt and
heads down toward the planet of Geonosis.

EXTERIOR: SPACE, GEONOSIS RINGS

A huge chunk of rock tumbles slowly through the asteroid
belt. CAMERA CLOSES, to discover OBI-WAN'S Starship hidden
in a blasted-out area on the pitted back side of the great
rock.


OBI-WAN'S Starfighter, attached to the hyperspace
transport ring, appears in space.


INTERIOR: COCKPIT, JEDI FIGHTER, SPACE, GEONOSIS RINGS
OBI-WAN'S ship is sitting on an asteroid.


ARFOUR BEEPS.

OBI-WAN: Well, Arfour, I think we've waited long enough...
Follow his last known trajectory.

EXTERIOR: SPACE, GEONOSIS

The Starfighter disengages from the ring.


OBI-WAN'S fighter moves out from the back side of the
asteroid and
heads away from the asteroid field, descending
toward Geonosis. OBI-WAN looks out toward Geonosis and sees
in the distance a large fleet of Trade Federation ships
hidden among the asteroids.

OBI-WAN: There's an unusual concentration of Federation
ships over there, Arfour. We'd better stay clear.

EXTERIOR: GEONOSIS, LANDING AREA - NIGHT

OBI-WAN'S ship skims across the top of a small mesa along
the edge of a rocky ridge. He maneuvers under a rock
overhang and lands. He gets out of the Fighter and walks
onto the mesa. The wind whips at him. He looks around.

Geonosis is a red rock planet, featureless apart from
buttes and mesas, and occasional tall stalagmites that
stand out dramatically on the arid plains.

The night is quiet, except for an occasional WEIRD CRY.
OBI-WAN checks his bearings, then heads away.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, BLUFF OVERLOOKING HOMESTEAD - LATE DAY

The Naboo Starship descends, hovers, and land on a bluff.
ANAKIN and PADMÉ get out. They look down from the edge of
the bluff to where the homestead is seen on the desert
floor below.

PADMÉ: Stay with the ship, Artoo.

ARTOO WHISTLES as ANAKIN and PADMÉ start down the trail
toward the homestead.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, DESERT, HOMESTEAD MOISTURE FARM - LATE
DAY

C-3PO is working outside the homestead. He looks up as
ANAKIN and PADMÉ arrive.

C-3PO: Oh, Um, uh, hello. How might I be of service? A am See...

ANAKIN: Threepio?

C-3PO: Oh, my... Oh, um-- my The maker! Oh, Master Anakin! I knew you
would return, I knew you would it! And this must be Miss
Padmé. Oh, my.

PADMÉ: Hello, Threepio.

C-3PO: Oh, Bless my circuits! I'm so pleased to see you both!

ANAKIN: I've come to see my mother.

C-3PO: I think... Oh. Um, I think... Perhaps we'd better go
indoors.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD, COURTYARD - LATE DAY

ANAKIN, PADMÉ and THREEPIO arrive in the courtyard.
THREEPIO shuffles ahead.

C-3PO: Master Cliegg Owen, Master Lars! Might I present two
most important visitors?

OWEN LARS and BERU WHITESUN come out into the courtyard.

ANAKIN: I'm Anakin Skywalker.

OWEN: Owen Lars. This is my girlfriend, Beru.

BERU: Hello.

PADMÉ: I'm Padmé.

OWEN: I guess I'm your stepbrother. I had a feeling you
might show up some day.

ANAKIN: Is my mother here?

CLIEGG: No, she's not.

CLIEGG LARS swings from the house on a small floating
chair. One of his legs is heavily bandaged; the other is
missing. He balances awkwardly and puts out a hand.

CLIEGG: Cliegg Lars. Shmi is my wife... Come on We should go inside. We
have a lot to talk about...

INTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD, KITCHEN - LATE DAY

BERU puts several steaming cups of ardees on a tray and
exits the kitchen...

CLIEGG: (O.S.) It was just before dawn. They came out of
nowhere. A hunting party of Tusken Raiders.

INTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD, DINING AREA - LATE DAY

CLIEGG, OWEN, PADMÉ and ANAKIN sit around the table, BERU
brings the drinks in from the kitchen.

CLIEGG: Your mother had gone out early, like she always
did, to pick mushrooms that grow on the vaporators. From
the tracks, she was about halfway home when they took her.
Those Tuskens walk like men, but they're vicious, mindless
monsters. Thirty of us went out after her. Four of us came
back. I'd be with them, only... after I lost my leg I just
couldn't ride any more... until I heal.

CLIEGG grimaces, easing his throbbing leg.

CLIEGG: This isn't the way I wanted to meet you, son. This
isn't how your mother and I planned it.
I don't want to
give up on her, but she's been gone a month. There's little
hope she's lasted this long.

Silence. Then ANAKIN stands up.

OWEN: Where are you going?

ANAKIN: To find my mother.

PADMÉ: No, Annie!

CLIEGG: Your mother's dead, son. Accept it.

ANAKIN: I can feel her pain, and I will find her.

OWEN: Take my speeder bike.

ANAKIN: I know she's alive.


ANAKIN turns abruptly.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD, MOISTURE FARM - LATE DAY

ANAKIN stands looking across the desert. PADMÉ comes
running out of the homestead after him. ANAKIN turns to
PADMÉ.

ANAKIN: You are going to have to stay here. These are good
people, Padmé. You'll be safe.

PADMÉ: Anakin...

PADMÉ hugs him. ANAKIN walks over to OWEN'S speeder bike,
which is standing close by.

ANAKIN: I won't be long.

ANAKIN swings onto the bike. The engine fires. He takes off
across the desert. PADMÉ watches him go.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, LANDSCAPE - SUNSET

THREE DIFFERENT SHOTS. ANAKIN rides through three exotic
landscapes.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, DESERT, JAWA CAMP - TWILIGHT

ANAKIN stands in the middle of a crowd of JAWAS. He asks
them for directions. The JAWAS confer excitedly, then the
CHIEF JAWA points in a particular direction. ANAKIN gets on
the bike and speeds off to where the JAWA pointed.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, DUNE SEA, CAMPFIRE - TWILIGHT

ANAKIN rides over a large dune toward a small flickering
light in the distance.

He rides up and stops the bike in front of a campfire.
There are bodies of THREE DEAD FARMERS lying beside the
campfire. TWO EOPIES are tethered nearby, along with a
burned and smoking speeder.


EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, DESERT, HOMESTEAD (FULL MOON) - NIGHT

The lights of the vaporators blink in the night sky.
Somewhere close by, a night animal HOWLS.

EXTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD, COURTYARD (FULL MOON) -
NIGHT

PADMÉ is pacing the courtyard restlessly. She stops,
listening to the animal HOWLING nearby. She shivers
slightly, then turns and goes into the garage at the side
of the courtyard.

INTERIOR: TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD - GARAGE (FULL MOON) - NIGHT

PADMÉ enters the garage where C-3PO sits working.

C-3PO: Hello, Miss Padmé.

PADMÉ: Hello, Threepio.

C-3PO: You can't sleep?

PADMÉ: No, I have too many things on my mind, I guess.

C-3PO: Are you worried about your work in the Senate?

PADMÉ: No, I'm just concerned about Anakin. I said
things... I'm afraid I may have hurt him. I don't know.
Maybe I only hurt myself. For the first time in my life,
I'm confused.

C-3PO: I'm not sure it will make you feel any better Miss
Padmé, but I don't think there's been a time in my life
when I haven't been confused.

PADMÉ: I want him to know I care about him. I do care about
him.

C-3PO: Don't worry about Master Annie. He can take care of
himself. Even in this awful place.


EXTERIOR: GEONOSIS, ROCK FACE TRAIL - NIGHT

OBI-WAN climbs a steep, narrow trail. Suddenly, a CRY is
heard close by. OBI-WAN stumbles slightly. His foot slips
on the edge, sending a stream of pebbles skittering into
the darkness.

OBI-WAN listens. Silence. He draws his lightsaber but does
not ignite it.

He sets off again and works his way around a narrow corner,
to confront a crouching MASSIFF (a dog-sized lizard) with
slavering fangs! The beast leaps at him, and OBI-WAN
ignites his lightsaber as the MASSIFF knocks him on his
back. Its jaws open wide. OBI-WAN stabs the creature,
throws it off of him, and jumps up.

A SECOND MASSIFF jumps from behind. OBI-WAN swings around
and cuts it in half. The MASSIFF flies over the cliff,
HOWLING. It plummets to its death hundreds of feet below.

EXTERIOR: GEONOSIS, ROCK FACE TRAIL - NIGHT

OBI-WAN arrives at the head of the trail. Far below, a flat
plain stretches into the distance. He stops, peering into
the darkness, where strange shapes loom indistinctly.

OBI-WAN takes a pair of electronic binoculars from his belt
and puts them to his eyes. He sees a cluster of great
towers like fantastic stalagmites rise from the plain
below.

SLOW PAN with the binoculars, and suddenly a line of Battle
Starships come into view. OBI-WAN touches the viewfinder.
Between fifty and a hundred Federation Starships are in
neat rows. Some are on platforms that are carrying the
Starships down to an underground facility. Other platforms
are rising to the surface. They carry THOUSANDS of BATTLE
DROIDS that step off and file into waiting ships. A fully
loaded Starship takes off. OBI-WAN swings the binoculars
upward, to see more Trade Federation Starships.


EXTERIOR: GEONOSIS, TOWER ENTRANCE - DAWN

Light grows on the clustering tower of fantastic
stalagmites. OBI-WAN sneaks up to the main one. He climbs
up the side of the tower to a small window-like opening.
OBI-WAN looks around quickly, then sneaks inside.

INTERIOR: GEONOSIS, CORRIDORS - MORNING

OBI-WAN makes his way along a narrow, pillared corridor. He
comes to what looks like a large open well or vent shaft.
He looks down and sees a huge underground facility below.
In one area, machines are constructing BATTLE DROIDS. In
another area, completed DROIDS are moving along a conveyor
belt. GEONOSIS WORKERS, with no wings, drone away at the
assembly line.

INTERIOR: GEONOSIS, CENTRAL SQUARE - MORNING

OBI-WAN arrives at a vast expanse in the stalagmite
interior. Immense pillars, soaring Gaudi-Gothic arches,
vaulted roofs. The huge space is deserted - completely
silent.

OBI-WAN starts to cross the square. Suddenly he hears
voices.

He darts behind a pillar as POGGLE THE LESSER (Archduke of
Geonosis), his aide, SUN FAC, COUNT DOOKU and NUTE GUNRAY
approach, closely followed by PASSEL ARGENTE and WAT
TAMBOR. COUNT DOOKU is tall, elderly, and saturnine, with
beautiful manners. OBI-WAN flattens himself against the
pillar as they pass by.

COUNT DOOKU: Now, we must persuade the Commerce Guild and
the Corporate Alliance to sign the treaty.

NUTE GUNRAY: What about the Senator from Naboo? Is she dead
yet? I'm not signing your treaty until I have her head! on
my desk.


COUNT DOOKU: I am a man of my word, Viceroy.

POGGLE WAT TAMBOR: With these new Battle Droids we've built for you,
Viceroy, you'll have the finest army in the galaxy.

They move out of earshot. OBI-WAN peers around the pillar
to see them going through an archway on the far side of the
courtyard. There is a flight of stairs beside it.

OBI-WAN arrives at the stairs. He sneaks up them, to arrive
at a narrow gothic archway. He looks down through it.

INTERIOR: GEONOSIS, CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY

POGGLE THE LESSER and his TWO AIDES are at one end of a
large round conference table.

COUNT DOOKU: Now is the time, my friends. This is the
moment when you have to decide between the Republic or the
Confederacy of Independent Systems.


COUNT DOOKU is at the head of the table. JANGO FETT stands
behind his chair.

In addition to the original group, there are also THREE
OPPOSITION SENATORS: PO NUDO, TESSEK and TOONBUCK TOORA,
and a COMMERCE GUILD DIGNITARY; SHU MAI and a MEMBER of the
INTERGALACTIC BANK CLAN, SAN HILL.

COUNT DOOKU: As I explained to you earlier, I'm quite
convinced that ten thousand more systems will rally to our
cause with your support, gentlemen. And let me remind you
of our absolute commitment to capitalism... of the lower
taxes, the reduced tariffs, and the eventual abolition of
all trade barriers. Signing this treaty will bring you
profits beyond your wildest imagination. What we are
proposing is completely free trade. (looks at Nute)
Our
friends in the Trade Federation have pledged their support.
When their Battle Droids are combined with yours, we shall
have an army greater than anything in the galaxy, The Jedi
will be overwhelmed. The Republic will agree to any demands
me make.

PASSEL ARGENTE, the Corporate Alliance Representative.

PASSEL ARGENTE: I am authorized by the Corporate Alliance
to sign the treaty.

COUNT DOOKU: We are most grateful for your cooperation,
Chairman.

SHU MAI, the Commerce Guild Representative.

SHU MAI: The Commerce Guilds do not at this time wish to
become openly involved, But we shall support you in secret
- and look forward to doing business with you.

There are chuckles around the table. COUNT DOOKU smiles.

COUNT DOOKU: That is all we ask.

SAN HILL, the banker.

SAN HILL: The Intergalactic Banking Clan will support you
wholeheartedly, but only in a non-exclusive arrangement.

WAT TAMBOR, the Techno Union representative.

WAT TAMBOR: The Techno Unions are at your disposal, Count.


INTERIOR: GEONOSIS, STAIRS - DAY

OBI-WAN pulls back from the archway.

TBC...
 
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