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Enter Luke, Han, and Leia, in Revan Tower.

Luke takes out his vial of glitterstim.

Luke. Well, here goes.

Luke drinks some glitterstim.

Leia. Well? How do you feel?

Luke. Excellent. Really excellent.

Leia. Now, remember: Car'das usually eats early, takes a short walk, and then returns to his quarters.

Luke. Right. I'm going down to Chewie's.

Leia. What? No, Luke. You've go see Car'das. We had a plan.

Luke. No. I've got a good feeling about going to Chewie's.

Han. You've got a good feeling about burying a giant bug?

Luke. Yes. I feel it's the place to be tonight. Do you know what I mean?

Both. No.

Leia. This is glitterstim, I suppose? You haven't got another little bottle full of . . . I don't know . . .

Han. Force psychosis?

Luke laughs, causing Han and Leia to look more alarmed.

Luke. Trust me. I know what I'm doing. Or glitterstim does.

Luke slips under the cloaking device.

Luke, Han, and Leia return to the common room.

Enter Bria.

Bria. What were you doing up there with her?

Luke away from Han and Leia, toward the holograph of Kara.

Enter Mara and Lando.

Luke slips past them before the portrait hole shuts.

Mara. [annoyed] Don't push me, please, Lando. You're always doing that. I can get through perfectly well on my own. . . .

Luke hears Lando make an angry retort, as moves away from Revan Tower.

Exit all but Luke.

Luke slips out of the Jedi Temple, then veers toward Yaddle's greenhouses.

Enter Car'das and Yaddle, picking M'iiyoom Nightlily leaves.

Car'das. I do thank you for taking the time, Yaddle. Most authorities agree that they are at their most efficacious if picked at twilight.

Yaddle. Oh, I quite agree. That enough for you?

Car'das. Plenty, plenty. This should allow for a few leaves for each of my third years and some to spare if anybody overstews them. Well, good evening to you and many thanks again.

Exit Yaddle.

Luke removes his cloaking device.

Luke. Good evening, Captain.

Car'das. Emperor's Bones, Luke. You made me jump. How did you get out of the Temple?

Luke. [cheerful] Oh, through the front door, Captain. Jurokk must have left them unlocked.

Car'das. I'll be reporting that being. He's more concerned about litter than proper security, if you ask me. But why are you out, then, Luke?

Luke. Well, Captain, it's Chewie. He's pretty upset. But you won't tell anyone, Captain? I don't want trouble for him. . . .

Car'das. I can't promise that. But I know Yoda trusts Chewie to the hilt, so I'm sure he can't be up to anything very dreadful. . . .

Luke. Well, it's this giant bug. He's had it for years, Captain. It lived in the Unknown Regions. It could talk and everything. . . .

Car'das. I heard rumors there were Killiks in Chiss Space. It's true, then?

Luke. Yes. But this one, Gorog, was the first one Chewie ever got. And it died last night. He's devastated. He wants company while he buries it, and I said I'd go.

Car'das. Touching, touching. But Killik venom is very valuable. If the beast only just died, it might not yet have dried out. Of course, I wouldn't want to do anything insensitive if Chewbacca is upset. But if there was any way to procure some. . . . I mean, it's almost impossible to get venom from a Killik while it's alive. . . . It seems an awful waste not to collect it. . . . I might get a hundred dataries a pint. . . . To be frank, my salary is not large. . . .

Luke. Well . . . well, if you wanted to come, Captain, Chewbacca would probably be really pleased, give Gorog a better send-off, you know. . . .

Car'das. Yes, of course. I tell you what, Luke, I'll meet you down there with a bottle or two. . . . We'll drink the poor beast's . . . well, not health. But we'll send it off in style, anyway, once it's buried. And I'll change my tie, this one is a little exuberant for the occasion. . . .

Exit Car'das.

Luke enters Chewbacca's wroshyr treehouse.

Enter Chewbacca

Chewbacca. You came.

Luke. Yeah, Han and Leia couldn't, though. They're really sorry.

Chewbacca. It doesn't . . . doesn't matter. He'd have been touched you're here, though, Luke. . . .

Chewbacca sobs.

Luke. Where are we burying him, the Unknown Regions?

Chewbacca. Tarkin's Teeth, no. The other Killiks won't let me anywhere near their nest now Gorog's gone. It turns out it was only on his orders they didn't eat me. Can you believe that, Luke? There's never been an area of the Unknown Regions I couldn't go before. It wasn't easy, getting Gorog's body out of there, I can tell you. They usually eat their dead, see. But I wanted to give him a nice burial, a proper send-off. . . .

Luke. Captain Car'das met me coming down here, Chewie.

Chewbacca. [alarmed] Not in trouble, are you? You shouldn't be out of the Temple in the evening. I knew it. It's my fault. . . .

Luke. No, no. When he heard what I was doing, he said he'd like to come and pay his last respects to Gorog, too. He's gone to change into something more suitable, I think. And he said he'd bring some bottles so we can drink to Gorog's memory. . . .

Chewbacca. Did he? That's . . . that's right nice of him, that is, and not turning you in, either. I've never really had a lot to do with Jorj Car'das before. Coming to see old Gorog off, though, eh? Well, he's have liked that, Gorog would. . . .

Luke. Are we going to bury him here, Chewie, in your garden?

Chewbacca. Just beyond the pumpkin patch, I thought. I've already dug the, you know, grave. I just thought we'd say a few nice things over him. Happy memories, you know. . . .

Enter Car'das.

Car'das. Chewbacca. So very sorry to hear of your loss.

Chewbacca. That's very nice of you. Thanks a lot. And thanks for not giving Luke detention.

Car'das. I wouldn't have dreamed of it. Sad night, sad night. . . . Where is the poor creature?

Chewbacca. Out here. Shall we . . . shall we do it, then?

Luke, Chewbacca, and Car'das step aside and approach the dead Gorog.

Car'das. Magnificent.

Chewbacca. Not everyone appreciates how beautiful they are. It's the eyes, I reckon . . . They unnerve some folk.

Luke. Not to mention the pincers.

Luke imitates pincers.

Chewbacca eyes Luke curiously.

Chewbacca. I reckon that, too. I didn't know you were interested in creatures like Gorog, Jorj.

Car'das. Interested? My dear Chewbacca, I revere them. [sighs] Chewbacca. I wouldn't want to be indelicate. But Killik venom is uncommonly rare, and, well, if you wouldn't mind my extracting a vial or two, purely for academic pursuits.

Chewbacca. I don't suppose it's doing him much good, is it?

Car'das. My thoughts exactly. I always carry a few spare ampoules or two for just such occasions. Old potionmaker's habit, you know.

Car'das approaches Gorog's body and takes a few venom samples.

Chewbacca. I wish you could have seen him in his prime. Magnificent, he was, just magnificent.

Car'das. Of course, it's difficult for those who knew them best. Why don't I say a few words? He had a family, I trust?

Luke. Oh, yeah.

Car'das. Farewell, Gorog, king of Killiks. Though your body will decay, your spirit lingers on in the quiet, dark places of your Colony. May your many-eyed descendants ever flourish and your humanoid friends find solace for the loss they have sustained.

Chewbacca. [sobs] That was . . . that was . . . beautiful.

Car'das pats Chewbacca.

Car'das. There, there. Let's get inside and have a drink. Get on his other side, Luke. That's it. Up you come, Chewbacca. Well done.

Luke and Car'das help Chewbacca back into his treehouse. Car'das uncorks bottles of Corellian wine.

I have had it all tested for poison. I had a droid taste every bottle after what happened to your poor friend Harrison.

Car'das divides the Corellian wine into three glasses. He holds his drink up.

To Gorog.

Both. Gorog.

Chewbacca and Car'das drink.

Chewbacca. I had him from an egg, you know. Tiny little thing he was when he hatched. No bigger than kouhun. A kouhun, mind you.

Car'das. That's sweet. I once had a fish, Entoo Nee. Lovely little thing. One day, I came downstairs, and he's vanished. Poof.

Chewbacca. [taken aback] That's very odd.

Car'das. But that's life, I suppose. One goes along, and then suddenly, poof!

Chewbacca. Poof!

After drinking some more, Car'das starts to drunkenly seen a song about a dying Jedi named Odan-Urr.

O! The good die young. My mother was no age to go, nor were your mother and father, Luke. . . . The best Worce fielder of their age I never knew. Terrible thing, terrible thing . . .

Car'das. [singing] And Odan-Urr the hero. They bore him back home to the place that he'd known as a lad. They laid him to rest with his hat inside out and his lightsaber snapped in two, which was sad.

Chewbacca. Terrible.

Chewbacca passes out.

Car'das. Sorry. I can't carry a tune to save my life.

Luke. Chewie wasn't talking about your singing. He was talking about Mother and Father's dying. . . .

Car'das. Oh, oh, dear. Yes, that was . . . was terrible, indeed. Terrible, terrible . . . I don't . . . don't suppose you remember it, Luke?

Luke. No . . . Well, I was only one when they died. But I've found out pretty much what happened since. My father died first. Did you know that?

Car'das. I . . . I didn't.

Luke. Yes, Sidious murdered him and then stepped over his body toward my mother.

Car'das shudders.

He told her to get out of the way. He told her she needn't have died. He only wanted me. She could have run.

Car'das. Oh, my stars. She could have . . . She needn't . . . That's awful. . . .

Luke. It is, isn't it? But she didn't move. Father was already dead. But she didn't want me to go, too. She tried to plead with Sidious. But he just laughed. . . .

Car'das. That's enough. Really, my dear boy, enough. I'm an old man. I don't need to hear . . . I don't want to hear . . .

Luke. [untruthful]I forgot. You liked her, didn't you?

Car'das. Liked her? I don't imagine anyone who met her wouldn't have liked her. . . . Very brave, very funny . . . It was the most horrible thing. . . .

Luke. But you won't help her son. That's why I survived, Captain. Because of her. Because she refused to step aside. Because her love was more powerful than Sidious.

Car'das. Don't say his . . .

Luke. I'm not afraid of the name, Captain. I'm going to tell you something others have only guessed at. I am the Chosen One. Only I can kill him. But in order to do that, I need to know what Palpatine asked you that night in your quarters all those years ago. And I need to know what you told him.

Car'das. You are the Chosen One?

Luke. Of course I am.

Car'das. But the . . . my dear boy . . . You're asking a great deal . . . You're asking me, in fact, to aid you in your attempt to destroy . . .

Luke. You don't want to get rid of the Sith who murdered Padmé Amidala?

Car'das. Luke, Luke. Of course I do, but . . .

Luke. You're scared he'll find out you helped me? Be brave, Captain. Be brave like my mother. Otherwise, you disgrace her. Otherwise, she died for nothing. Otherwise, the bowl remains empty forever.

Car'das. I am not proud . . . I am ashamed of what . . . of what that memory shows. . . . I think I may have done great damage that day. . . .

Luke. You'd cancel out anything you did by giving me the memory. It would be a very brave and noble thing to do.

Using the Force, Car'das extracts the memory and stores it in vial.

Car'das. [hands the vial to Luke] Don't think too badly of me once you see this. You have no idea what he was like . . . even then.

Luke takes the memory, and Car'das passes out.

Exit Luke.