Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III (18 page)

OBI-WAN flings off his cloak.

O
BI-
W
AN:
(continuing
) You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind until now . . . until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.

They circle each other until OBI-WAN is near PADMÉ. He places his hand on her.

A
NAKIN:
Don’t lecture me, Obi-Wan. I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, justice, freedom, and security to my new Empire.

O
BI-
W
AN:
Your new Empire?

A
NAKIN:
Don’t make me kill you.

O
BI-
W
AN:
Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic . . . to democracy.

A
NAKIN:
If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.

O
BI-
W
AN:
Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.
(ignites his lightsaber
)

A
NAKIN:
You will try.

ANAKIN ignites his lightsaber.

ANAKIN lashes out at OBI-WAN, and they begin a ferocious sword fight. ANAKIN throws CONTAINERS at OBI-WAN using the Force. They work their way off the landing platform and into the main entry hallway. ANAKIN kicks OBI-WAN, and OBI-WAN drops to a lower level.

ARTOO BEEPS his concern and rushes to the unconscious PADMÉ’s aid.

196 (144) INT. CORRIDOR—SENATE ARENA—CHANCELLOR’S HOLDING OFFICE—NIGHT

YODA enters, using the Force to throw two RED GUARDS against the wall, knocking them unconscious. DARTH SIDIOUS turns his chair toward YODA. MAS AMEDDA stands behind SIDIOUS’s desk.

Y
ODA:
I hear a new apprentice, you have, Emperor, or should I call you Darth Sidious.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
Master Yoda, you survived.

Y
ODA:
Surprised?

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
Your arrogance blinds you, Master Yoda. Now you will experience the full power of the dark side.

The Dark Lord raises his arms, and LIGHTNING BOLTS shoot out, surrounding YODA.

YODA is picked up and thrown across the room, hitting the wall and sliding down in a crumpled heap. DARTH SIDIOUS chuckles.

197 INT. MUSTAFAR—PASSAGES TO MAIN CONTROL CENTER—DAY

ANAKIN and OBI-WAN move their fight toward the main control center. As the laser swords fly, bits of the hallway are cut up. OBI-WAN and ANAKIN jump and use every trick in the Jedi book.

198 EXT. MUSTAFAR—LANDING PLATFORM—NABOO CRUISER—DAY

R2-D2 tries to drag PADMÉ on board the Naboo Cruiser. C-3PO pokes his head out of the ship’s doorway.

C
-
3PO
:
What are you doing? You’re going to hurt her. Wait!!

C-3PO starts down the ramp.

199 (146) INT. CORRIDOR—SENATE ARENA—CHANCELLOR’S HOLDING OFFICE—NIGHT

MAS AMEDDA leaves the room. PALPATINE approaches a stunned YODA.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more.

Y
ODA:
Not if anything I have to say about it, Lord Sidious.

YODA uses the Force to throw DARTH SIDIOUS back, knocking him clear over his desk and onto the floor in a heap.

Y
ODA:
(continuing
) At an end your rule is and not short enough it was, I must say.

DARTH SIDIOUS flies through the air, cape flapping, heading toward the exit. At the last second, YODA flies into the exit and stops the Dark Lord.

Y
ODA:
(continuing
) If so powerful you are, why leave??

YODA ignites his lightsaber.

D
ARTH
S
IDIOUS:
You will not stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us.

DARTH SIDIOUS ignites his lightsaber.

Y
ODA:
Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be, as is your faith in the dark side of the Force.

Their swords CLASH. The battle is extremely fast and furious.

200 INT. MUSTAFAR—MAIN CONTROL CENTER—DAY

View screens EXPLODE around ANAKIN and OBI-WAN as they work their way into the Control Room. The fighting is intense. OBI-WAN is on the defensive as he jumps up on the table view screen in the center of the room.

A
NAKIN:
Don’t make me destroy you, Master. You’re no match for the dark side.

O
BI-
W
AN:
I’ve heard that before, Anakin . . . but I never thought I’d hear it from you.

ANAKIN forces OBI-WAN back into the Conference Room where the quarters are much closer. Sparks fly everywhere. ANAKIN jumps onto the conference table. OBI-WAN slides across the table, knocking ANAKIN over. OBI-WAN grabs ANAKIN’s lightsaber as he falls.

OBI-WAN uses the Force to summon his dropped lightsaber.

ANAKIN does the same.

201 INT. CORUSCANT—SENATE CHAMBER—MAIN ARENA—NIGHT

PALPATINE seeks refuge in the vast Senate Chamber. He gets into the Chancellor’s Podium and it starts to rise up into the Arena. YODA makes a giant leap into the control pod. The sword fighting is intense in the confined space.

202 INT. MUSTAFAR—MAIN CONTROL CENTER—DAY

The battle intensifies.

O
BI-
W
AN:
(continuing
) The flaw of power is arrogance.

OBI-WAN stands looking at his former apprentice for a moment.

A
NAKIN:
You hesitate . . . the flaw of compassion.

OBI-WAN and ANAKIN lock sabers. OBI-WAN puts out his hand to use the Force to push ANAKIN away. ANAKIN puts out his hand to block OBI-WAN.

Both combatants are blasted backwards onto the control panels. They regain their footing and the battle continues. ANAKIN kicks OBI-WAN away.

They battle around the room, and eventually the door to the exterior is knocked open. They continue battling out onto the balcony.

203 INT. CORUSCANT—SENATE CHAMBER—MAIN ARENA—NIGHT

YODA unleashes a ferocious assault on PALPATINE, causing him to almost go over the edge. The Dark Lord drops his lightsaber but recovers with a BLAST OF ENERGY from his hands that surrounds YODA. YODA is deflecting the Sith Lord’s lightning bolts.

The energy bolts begin to arc back on the Emperor. It looks as if the Dark Lord is doomed.

Y
ODA:
Destroy you I will, just as Master Kenobi, your apprentice will destroy.

YODA jumps to a lower Senate Pod. PALPATINE reaches out with one hand, and a Senate pod is released from its mooring and heads toward the Podium. PALPATINE uses the Force to hurl pod after pod at YODA, who ducks and jumps from one flying pod to another.

YODA leaps away from the pods. He uses the Force to hold one pod suspended in the air. The pod spins and YODA throws it back at PALPATINE, who leaps away at the last moment.

YODA leaps after him, but PALPATINE quickly turns and aims the full force of his energy bolts at the tiny green Jedi, catching him in mid-air and throwing him back hard against the Podium. The force causes YODA to drop his lightsaber. YODA blocks the lightning and throws PALPATINE backwards off the podium. YODA is knocked off the Podium and falls several hundred feet to the base of the Podium. PALPATINE follows in his pod, searching for YODA.

204 EXT. MUSTAFAR—MAIN CONTROL CENTER BALCONY—DAY

ANAKIN forces OBI-WAN down a narrow balcony outside the Control Room. He rips objects off the wall and throws them at OBI-WAN as he pushes him further and further along the walkway.

The balcony ends, and OBI-WAN is trapped. He looks over the balcony and into a river of lava.

ANAKIN cuts a piece of the balcony railing off, along with a control panel.

ALARMS SOUND, and a protective ray shield around the superstructure disappears. It tumbles into the molten abyss, disappearing in a puff of smoke. A small pipe connects the Control Center to the Main Collection Plant. OBI-WAN has no choice but to tightrope-walk out across the lava river while fighting ANAKIN.

205 EXT. MUSTAFAR—MAIN CONTROL CENTER BALCONY, PIPE ACROSS LAVA RIVER, MAIN COLLECTION PLANT—DAY

ANAKIN, following OBI-WAN, jumps down onto the flexing pipe, lands, and resumes fighting.

206 EXT. MUSTAFAR—PIPE ACROSS LAVA RIVER—DAY

OBI-WAN and ANAKIN work their way across the small pipe, fighting ferociously as they go. OBI-WAN slips, throws his lightsaber up in the air, grabs on to the pipe, swings around, grabs on to an upper pipe, retrieves his lightsaber, and lands back on the original pipe. They continue to fight across the pipe until they reach the Main Collection Plant.

207 INT. CORUSCANT—SENATE OFFICE BUILDING—WIRING CHUTE—NIGHT

YODA squishes his way through a mass of wires in a small chute. He talks on his comlink.

Y
ODA:
Hurry. Careful timing we will need.

B
AIL
O
RGANA:
(in speeder
) There aren’t many troops on this side. Activate your homing beacon when you’re ready.

208 (151) INT. CORUSCANT—SENATE CHAMBER—MAIN ARENA—NIGHT

A Senate pod with COMMANDER THIRE (4477) and SEVERAL OTHER CLONE TROOPERS climb up to where MAS AMEDDA and PALPATINE are waiting. Beneath the Main Podium, TWENTY CLONE TROOPERS search for Yoda’s body.

C
LONE
C
OMMANDER
T
HIRE:
There is no sign of his body, sir.

M
AS
A
MEDDA:
Then he is not dead.

P
ALPATINE:
Double your search.

C
LONE
C
OMMANDER
T
HIRE:
Yes sir. Right away, sir.

P
ALPATINE:
(to Mas Amedda
) Tell Captain Kagi to prepare my shuttle for immediate takeoff.

M
AS
A
MEDDA:
Yes, Master.

P
ALPATINE:
I sense Lord Vader is in danger.

PALPATINE walks into the Arena hallway. COMMANDER THIRE descends down to the floor of the Arena, where an intense search is taking place. SEVERAL CURIOUS SENATORS rubberneck in scattered pods.

209 EXT. MUSTAFAR—COLLECTION PANELS—DAY