EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH -- BOG -- DUSK
In the bright lights of the fighter, Luke loads a heavy case into the belly of the ship. Seamus (as Artoo) sits on top of the X-wing, settling down into his cubbyhole. Dobby (as Yoda) stands nearby on a log.
DOBBY: Harry! You must complete the training.
HARRY: I can't keep the vision out of my head. They're my friends. I've got to help them.
DOBBY: You must not go!
HARRY: But Ron and Hermione will die if I don't.
DUMBLEDORE'S VOICE: You don't know that.
Harry looks toward the voice in amazement. Dumbledore has materialized as a real, lightly shimmering image near Dobby. The power of his presence stops Harry.
DUMBLDORE: Even Dobby cannot see their fate.
HARRY: But I can help them! I feel the Force!
DUMBLEDORE: But you cannot control it. This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the dark side of the Force.
DOBBY: Yes, yes. To Dumbledore you listen. The cave. Remember your failure at the cave!
HARRY: But I've learned so much since then. Master Dobby, I promise to return and finish what I've begun. You have my word.
DUMBLEDORE: It is you and your abilities the Emperor wants. that is why your friends are made to suffer.
HARRY: And that is why I have to go.
DUMBLEDORE: Harry, I don't want to lose you to the Emperor the way I lost Voldermort.
HARRY: You won't.
DOBBY: Stopped they must be. On this depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Voldermort and his Emperor. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, as Voldermort did, you will become an agent of evil.
DUMBLEDORE: Patience.
HARRY: And sacrifice Hermione and Ron?
DOBBY: If you honor what they fight for...yes!
Harry is in great anguish. He struggles with the dilemma, a battle raging in his mind.
DUMBLEDORE: If you choose to face Voldermort, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
HARRY: I understand. (he moves to his X-wing) Seamus, fire up the converters.
Seamus whistles a happy reply.
DUMBLEDORE: Harry, don't give in to hate -- that leads to the dark side.
Luke nods and climbs into his ship.
DOBBY: Strong is Voldermort. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
HARRY: I will. And I'll return. I promise.
Seamus closes the cockpit. Dumbledore and Dobby stand watching as the roar of the engines and the wind engulf them.
DOBBY: (sighs) Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.
DUMBLEDORE: That boy is our last hope.
DOBBY: (looks up) No. There is another.
EXTERIOR: SPACE -- PLANET DAGOBAH
Harry's tiny X-wing rockets away from the green planet of Dagobah and off into space.
EXTERIOR: HARRY'S X-WING -- BESPIN SYSTEM
Harry's x-wing races through thick clouds toward Cloud City.
INTERIOR: HARRY'S X-WING -- COCKPIT
Harry is grim-faced as he pilots his course toward Bespin's shining city. Seamus' beeps and whistles are transmitted onto the scope.
HARRY: (into comlink) No, Draco (As Threepio)'s with them.
Seamus whistles another worried inquiry.
HARRY: (into comlink) Just hang on. We're almost there.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- LARGE CELL
Lupin (as Chewbacca) is in a Cloud City prison cell. The stark room is flooded with hot light. To add to Lupin's misery, a high-pitched whistle screeches loudly. Lupin is going mad. He hits the wall with giant fists as he paces back and forth across the cell floor. The upper lights go off abruptly. The prisoner rubs his eyes and moves to a wall, where he listens for a moment. Then, moaning to himself, he moves to a platform where the disassembled pieces of Draco lie. He picks up the golden droid's head and meditates on it for a moment, barking a few philosophical remarks. Lupin sticks the robot's head on its torso and starts adjusting wires and circuits. Suddenly, the lights in Draco's eyes spark to life as Lupin touches two connectors together. Draco immediately begins to speak, but his voice is so slow and so low as to be nearly unintelligible.
DRACO: Mmmm. Oh, my. Uh, I, uh -- Take this off! I, uh, don't mean to intrude here. I, don't, no, no, no...Please don't get up. No!
Lupin looks at Draco in bewilderment, then scratches his furry head. He gets an idea and adjusts some connections, whereupon Draco immediately begins speaking normally.
DRACO: Death Eaters? Here? We're in danger. I must tell the others. Oh, no! I've been shot!
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- PRISON ENTRY AREA
Voldermort strides through the room as two Death Eaters prepare an elaborate torture mechanism. Ron is strapped to a rack which tilts forward onto the torture device. Voldermort activates the mechanism, creating two bursts of sparks, one of which strikes Ron's face. The door opens, and Voldermort moves to the holding chamber, where Pettigrew (as Lando) and Lucius (as Boba Fett) await him.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- HOLDING CHAMBER
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort.
VOLDERMORT: (to Lucius) You may take Captain Weasly to Cornelius Fudge after I have Potter.
Ron's screams filter through the torture room door.
LUCIUS: He's no good to me dead.
VOLDERMORT: He will not be permanently damaged.
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort, what about Hermione and the Warewolf?
VOLDERMORT: They must never again leave this city.
PETTIGREW: That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Ron to this bounty hunter!
VOLDERMORT: Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly.
PETTIGREW: No.
VOLDERMORT: Good. It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here.
Voldermort turns and sweeps into the elevator with Lucius Malfoy. Pettigrew walks swiftly down another corridor, muttering to himself.
PETTIGREW: This deal's getting worse all the time.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- LARGE CELL
Lupin now has a little more of Draco back together. One arm is connected, but the legs are yet to be attached. There is one small problem, however. It seems the Warewolf has managed to put the droid's head on backwards.
DRACO: Oh, yes, that's very good. I like that. Oh! Something's not right because now I can't see. Wait. Wait! Oh, my! what have you done? I'm backwards, you stupid furball. Only an overgrown mophead like you would be stupid enough...
Draco is cut off in mid-sentence as Lupin angrily deactivates a circuit and the droid shuts down. The Warewolf smells something and sits up. The door to the chamber slides open and a ragged Ron Weasly is shoved into the room by two Death Eaters. Barking his concern, the huge Warewolf gives Ron a big hug. Ron is very pale, with dark circles under his eyes.
RON: I feel terrible.
Lupin helps Ron to a platform and then turns as the door slides open revealing Hermione. She, too, looks a little worse for wear. The Death Eaters push her into the cell, and the door slides closed. She moves to Ron, who is lying on the platform, and kneels next to him, gently stroking his head.
HERMIONE: Why are they doing this?
RON: They never even asked me any questions.
The cell door slides open. Pettigrew and two of his guards enter.
HERMIONE: Peter.
RON: Get out of here, Peter!
PETTIGREW: Shut up and listen! Voldermort has agreed to turn Hermione and Lupin over to me.
RON: Over to you?
PETTIGREW: They'll have to stay here, but at least they'll be safe.
HERMIONE: What about RON?
PETTIGREW: Voldermort's giving him to the bounty hunter.
HERMIONE: Voldermort wants us all dead.
PETTIGREW: He doesn't want you at all. He's after somebody called Potter.
RON: Harry?
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort has set a trap for him.
Hermione's mind is racing.
HERM: And we're the bait.
PETTIGREW: Well, he's on his way.
Ron's rage peaks.
RON: Perfect. You fixed us all pretty good, didn't you? (spits it out) My friend!
Ron hauls off and punches Pettigrew. The two friends are instantly engaged in a frantic close-quarters fight. The guards hit Ron with their rifle butts and he flies across the room. Lupin growls and starts for the guards. They point their laser weapons at the giant Warewolf, but Pettigrew stops them.
PETTIGREW: Stop! I've done all I can do. I'm sorry I couldn't do better, but I have my own problems.
RON: Yeah, you're a real hero.
Pettigrew and the guards leave. Ron wipes the blood from his chin as Hermione and Lupin help him up.
HERMIONE: (dabs at his wound) You certainly have a way with people.
Meanwhile, Ron is frozen in carbonite.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CORRIDOR -- DAY As Luke and Seamus move carefully down a deserted corridor, they hear a group of people coming down a side hallway. Seamus lets out an excited series of beeps and whistles. Harry glares at the tiny droid, who stops in his tracks with a feeble squeak. Lucius Malfoy enters from a side hallway followed by two guards pushing the floating, encased body of Ron. Two Death Eaters, who follow, immediately spot Harry and open fire on him. The youth draws his weapon and blasts the two Death Eaters before they can get off a second shot. The two guards whisk Ron into another hallway as Malfoy lowers his arm and fires a deadly laser at Harry, which explodes to one side and tears up a huge chunk of wall. Harry rushes to a side hallway, but by the time he reaches it, Malfoy, Ron, and the guards are gone. A thick metal door blocks the passage. Harry turns to see Hermione, Lupin, Draco, and Pettigrew being herded down a second hallway by several other Death Eaters. Hermione turns just in time to see Harry.
HERMIONE: Harry! Harry, don't -- it's a trap! It's a trap!
Before she can finish, she is pulled through a doorway and disappears from sight. Harry races after the group, leaving little Seamus trailing behind.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- ANTEROOM
Harry runs into an anteroom and stops to get his bearings. Hermione and the others are nowhere to be seen. Behind Harry, Seamus scoots down the corridor toward the anteroom when suddenly a giant metal door comes slamming down, cutting off Harry's exit. Several more doors clang shut, echoing through the chamber.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- HALLWAY LEADING TO ANTEROOM
Seamus stands with his nose pressed against the giant metal door. He whistles a long sigh of relief and, a little dazed, wanders off in the other direction.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CARBON-FREEZING CHAMBER -- ANTEROOM
Harry cautiously walks forward among hissing pipes and steam. Seeing an opening above him, he stops to look up. As he does, the platform he stands on begins to move.
Harry rises into the chamber, borne by the platform. The room is deathly quiet. Very little steam escapes the pipes and no one else seems to be in the large room. Warily, Harry walks toward the stairway. Steam begins to build up in the chamber. Looking up through the steam, Harry sees a dark figure standing on a walkway above him. Harry holsters his gun and moves up the stairs to face Voldermort. He feels confident, eager to engage his enemy.
VOLDERMORT: The Force is with you, young Potter. But you are not a Jedi yet.
Harry ignites his sword in answer. In an instant, Voldermorts's own sword is lit. Harry lunges, but Voldermort repels the blow. Again Harry attacks, and the swords of the two combatants clash in battle.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CARBON-FREEZING CHAMBER
Harry and Voldermort are locked in combat on the platform overlooking the chamber. Their swords clash, the platform sways. Harry aggressively drives Voldermort back, forcing Voldermort to use defensive tactics.
VOLDERMORT: You have learned much, young one.
HARRY: You'll find I'm full of surprises.
Voldermort makes two quick moves, hooking Harry's sword out of his hand and sending it flying. Another lightning move at Harry's feet forces the youth to jump back to protect himself. Losing his balance, Harry rolls down the stairs to the circular carbon-freezing platform. There he sprawls on the floor, surprised and shaken. Just in time he looks up to see Voldermort, like a giant black bird, flying right at him. Harry rolls away as Voldermort lands. Crouching, Harry keeps his gaze steadily on his enemy.
VOLDERMORT: Your destiny lies with me, Potter. Dumbledore knew this to be true.
HARRY: No!
Behind Harry the hydraulic elevator cover has opened noiselessly. All the while, Harry slowly, cautiously moves back, away from the Dark Lord. Suddenly, Voldermort attacks so forcefully that Harry loses his balance and falls back into the opening. There is a rumble, and in an instant freezing steam rises to obscure Voldermort's vision. Voldermort turns aside and deactivates his sword.
VOLDERMORT: All to easy. Perhaps you are not as strong as the Emperor thought.
Through the steam behind Voldermort something blurs upward. Liquid metal begins to pour into the pit. Voldermort turns around -- and then looks up. He sees Harry, who has leaped fifteen feet straight up and who now hangs from some hoses on the carbonite outlet.
VOLDERMORT: Impressive...most impressive.
Harry jumps down to the platform where he is separated from Voldermort by the steaming carbonite pit. He raises his hand. His sword, which had fallen on another part of the platform, swiftly jumps into his outstretched hand and is instantly ignited. Voldermort immediately lights his sword as well.
VOLDERMORT: Dumbledore has taught you well. You have controlled your fear... now release your anger.
Harry is more cautious, controlling his anger. He begins to retreat as Voldermort goads him on. As Harry takes a defensive position, he realizes he has been foolhardy. A quick sword exchange and Harry forces Voldermort back. Another exchange and Voldermort retreats. Harry presses forward.
VOLDERMORT: Only your hatred can destroy me.
Breathing hard, Harry jumps in the air, turning a somersault over Voldermort. He lands on the floor and slashes at Voldermort as the room continues to fill up with steam. Voldermort retreats before Harry's skillful sword. Voldermort blocks the sword, but looses his balance and falls into the outer rim of pipes. The energy Harry has used to stop Voldermort has brought him to the point of collapse. Harry moves to the edge and looks down, but sees no sign of Voldermort. He then deactivates his sword, hooks it on his belt, and lowers himself into the pit.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- TUNNEL AND REACTOR CONTROL ROOM
Moving through a tunnellike entrance, Harry cautiously approaches the reactor room. He ignites his sword and moves into the room and toward a large window as Voldermort enters. Harry raises his sword and moves forward to attack. Behind Harry a large piece of machinery detaches itself from the wall and comes smashing forward toward his back. Harry turns and cuts it in half just as another machine comes hurtling at him. Using the Force, Harry manages to deflect it and send it flying as if it had hit an invisible shield. A large pipe detaches and comes flying at Harry. He deflects it. Sparking wires pull out of the wall and begin to whip at the youth. Small tools and equipment come flying at him. Bombardment from all sides, Harry does his best to deflect everything, but soon he is bloodied and bruised. Finally, one machine glances off his and goes flying out the large window. A fierce wind blows into the room, unmoving, stands the dark, rocklike figure of Voldermort. A piece of machinery hits Harry and he is knocked out of the window.
INTERIOR: GANTRY -- OUTSIDE CONTROL ROOM -- REACTOR SHAFT
Harry falls onto the gantry, rolls, and hangs over the edge, holding his deactivated sword in hand. He puts the sword on his belt and begins to scramble up.
Hermione, Pettigrew, Lupin and the droids come round a corner and head for the door to the landing platform. They glimpse the Millennium Falcon for a moment before the door slams shut. The group ducks into an alcove as Death Eaters arrive at the end of the corridor. The Death Eaters send a rain of laser bolts at the group. Lupin returns their fire as Pettigrew punches desperately at the door's control panel.
PETTIGREW: The security codes has been changed!
DRACO: Seamus, you can tell the computer to override the security system.
Draco points to a computer socket on the control panel. Seamus beeps and scoots toward it. Pettigrew meanwhile has connected up to the panel's intercom.
PETTIGREW: Attention! This is Peter Pettigrew. The Empire has taken control of the city. I advise everyone to leave before more Death Eaters arrive.
Seamus takes off a computer cover and sticks his computer arm into the socket. Suddenly, a short beep turns into a wild scream. Seamus' circuits light up, his head spins wildly, and smoke begins to seep out underneath him. Quickly, Lupin pulls him away.
PETTIGREW: This way.
Pettigrew, Hermione, Seamus, and Lupin flee down the corridor. As he scoots along with them, Seamus sends some angry beeps Draco's way.
Draco: Don't blame me. I'm an interpreter. I'm not supposed to know a power socket from a computer terminal.
INTERIOR: GANTRY -- OUTSIDE CONTROL ROOM -- REACTOR SHAFT
Harry moves along the railing and up to the control room. Voldermort lunges at him and Harry immediately raises his lit sword to meet Voldermort's. Sparks fly as they duel, Voldermort gradually forcing Harry backward toward the gantry.
VOLDERMORT: You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Dumbledore did.
Harry answers by rolling sideways and thrusting his sword at Voldermort so viciously that he nicks Voldermort on the shoulder. The black armor sparks and smokes and Voldermort seems to be hurt, but immediately recovers. Harry backs off along the narrow end of the gantry as Voldermort comes at him, slashing at the young Jedi with his sword. Harry makes a quick move around the instrument complex attached to the end of the gantry. Voldermort's sword comes slashing down, cutting the complex loose; it begins to fall, then is caught by the rising wind and blown upward. Harry glances at the instrument complex floating away. At that instant, Voldermort's sword comes down across Harry's right forearm, cutting off his hand and sending his sword flying. In great pain, Harry squeezes his forearm under his left armpit and moves back along the gantry to its extreme end. Voldermort follows. The wind subsides. Harry holds on. There is nowhere else to go.
VOLDERMORT: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
HARRY: I'll never join you!
VOLDEMRORT: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Dumbledore never told you what happened to your father.
HARRY: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
VOLDERMORT: No, Harry. I am your father.
Shocked, Harry looks at Voldermort in utter disbelief.
HARRY: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
VOLDERMORT: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
HARRY: No! No! No!
VOLDERMORT: Harry. You can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It's the only way.
Voldermort puts away his sword and holds his hand out to Harry. A calm comes over Harry, and he makes a decision. In the next instant he steps off the gantry platform into space. The Dark Lord looks over the platform and sees Harry falling far below. The wind begins to blow at Voldermort's cape and the torrent finally forces him back, away from the edge. The wind soon fades and the wounded Jedi begins to drop fast, unable to grab onto anything to break his fall.
INTERIOR: REACTOR SHAFT
Suddenly Harry is sucked into an exhaust pipe in the side of the shaft. When Voldermort sees this, he turns and hurries off the platform.
Harry tumbles through the exhaust pipe. He slides to the end of the slickly polished pipe and stops as his feet hit a circular grill and knock it open. Harry claws at the surface of the pipe, trying to keep from sliding out into space.
EXTERIOR: BOTTOM OF CLOUD CITY -- WEATHER VANE -- DUSK
Unable to hang onto the pipe, Harry tumbles out, emerging at the undermost part of Cloud City. Reaching out desperately, he manages to grab onto on electronic weather vane.
HARRY: Dumbledore - Dumbledore, please!
Harry tries to pull himself up on the weather vane but slips back down. He hooks one of his legs around the fragile instruments. All the while, a powerful current of air rushes out at him from the exhaust pipe.
HARRY: Dumbledore.. Hermione!
There is an ominous cracking sound from the base of the weather vane and a piece breaks off, falling into the clouds far below.
HARRY: Hear me! Hermione!
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT
Hermione seems to be lost in a fog, her expression troubled. Lupin is busy operating the ship. Pettigrew stands next to the Warewolf, watching a readout on the control panel.
Hermione: Harry...We've got to go back.
Lupin growls in surprise.
PETTIGREW: What?
HERMIONE: I know where Harry is.
PETTIGREW: But what about those fighters?
Lupin barks in agreement with Pettigrew.
HERMIONE: Lupin, just do it.
PETTIGREW: But what about Voldermort?
Lupin turns on Pettigrew, the newcomer, with an ominous growl.
PETTIGREW: All right, all right, all right.
EXTERIOR: BOTTOM OF CLOUD CITY -- WEATHER VANE
Nearly unconscious, Harry hangs upside-down on the weather vane as his body shifts in the wind.
He falls before the falcon reaches him, and suddenly he is falling again.
HARRY: damn bloody vortex.
In the bright lights of the fighter, Luke loads a heavy case into the belly of the ship. Seamus (as Artoo) sits on top of the X-wing, settling down into his cubbyhole. Dobby (as Yoda) stands nearby on a log.
DOBBY: Harry! You must complete the training.
HARRY: I can't keep the vision out of my head. They're my friends. I've got to help them.
DOBBY: You must not go!
HARRY: But Ron and Hermione will die if I don't.
DUMBLEDORE'S VOICE: You don't know that.
Harry looks toward the voice in amazement. Dumbledore has materialized as a real, lightly shimmering image near Dobby. The power of his presence stops Harry.
DUMBLDORE: Even Dobby cannot see their fate.
HARRY: But I can help them! I feel the Force!
DUMBLEDORE: But you cannot control it. This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the dark side of the Force.
DOBBY: Yes, yes. To Dumbledore you listen. The cave. Remember your failure at the cave!
HARRY: But I've learned so much since then. Master Dobby, I promise to return and finish what I've begun. You have my word.
DUMBLEDORE: It is you and your abilities the Emperor wants. that is why your friends are made to suffer.
HARRY: And that is why I have to go.
DUMBLEDORE: Harry, I don't want to lose you to the Emperor the way I lost Voldermort.
HARRY: You won't.
DOBBY: Stopped they must be. On this depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Voldermort and his Emperor. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path, as Voldermort did, you will become an agent of evil.
DUMBLEDORE: Patience.
HARRY: And sacrifice Hermione and Ron?
DOBBY: If you honor what they fight for...yes!
Harry is in great anguish. He struggles with the dilemma, a battle raging in his mind.
DUMBLEDORE: If you choose to face Voldermort, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
HARRY: I understand. (he moves to his X-wing) Seamus, fire up the converters.
Seamus whistles a happy reply.
DUMBLEDORE: Harry, don't give in to hate -- that leads to the dark side.
Luke nods and climbs into his ship.
DOBBY: Strong is Voldermort. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
HARRY: I will. And I'll return. I promise.
Seamus closes the cockpit. Dumbledore and Dobby stand watching as the roar of the engines and the wind engulf them.
DOBBY: (sighs) Told you, I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.
DUMBLEDORE: That boy is our last hope.
DOBBY: (looks up) No. There is another.
EXTERIOR: SPACE -- PLANET DAGOBAH
Harry's tiny X-wing rockets away from the green planet of Dagobah and off into space.
EXTERIOR: HARRY'S X-WING -- BESPIN SYSTEM
Harry's x-wing races through thick clouds toward Cloud City.
INTERIOR: HARRY'S X-WING -- COCKPIT
Harry is grim-faced as he pilots his course toward Bespin's shining city. Seamus' beeps and whistles are transmitted onto the scope.
HARRY: (into comlink) No, Draco (As Threepio)'s with them.
Seamus whistles another worried inquiry.
HARRY: (into comlink) Just hang on. We're almost there.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- LARGE CELL
Lupin (as Chewbacca) is in a Cloud City prison cell. The stark room is flooded with hot light. To add to Lupin's misery, a high-pitched whistle screeches loudly. Lupin is going mad. He hits the wall with giant fists as he paces back and forth across the cell floor. The upper lights go off abruptly. The prisoner rubs his eyes and moves to a wall, where he listens for a moment. Then, moaning to himself, he moves to a platform where the disassembled pieces of Draco lie. He picks up the golden droid's head and meditates on it for a moment, barking a few philosophical remarks. Lupin sticks the robot's head on its torso and starts adjusting wires and circuits. Suddenly, the lights in Draco's eyes spark to life as Lupin touches two connectors together. Draco immediately begins to speak, but his voice is so slow and so low as to be nearly unintelligible.
DRACO: Mmmm. Oh, my. Uh, I, uh -- Take this off! I, uh, don't mean to intrude here. I, don't, no, no, no...Please don't get up. No!
Lupin looks at Draco in bewilderment, then scratches his furry head. He gets an idea and adjusts some connections, whereupon Draco immediately begins speaking normally.
DRACO: Death Eaters? Here? We're in danger. I must tell the others. Oh, no! I've been shot!
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- PRISON ENTRY AREA
Voldermort strides through the room as two Death Eaters prepare an elaborate torture mechanism. Ron is strapped to a rack which tilts forward onto the torture device. Voldermort activates the mechanism, creating two bursts of sparks, one of which strikes Ron's face. The door opens, and Voldermort moves to the holding chamber, where Pettigrew (as Lando) and Lucius (as Boba Fett) await him.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- HOLDING CHAMBER
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort.
VOLDERMORT: (to Lucius) You may take Captain Weasly to Cornelius Fudge after I have Potter.
Ron's screams filter through the torture room door.
LUCIUS: He's no good to me dead.
VOLDERMORT: He will not be permanently damaged.
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort, what about Hermione and the Warewolf?
VOLDERMORT: They must never again leave this city.
PETTIGREW: That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Ron to this bounty hunter!
VOLDERMORT: Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly.
PETTIGREW: No.
VOLDERMORT: Good. It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here.
Voldermort turns and sweeps into the elevator with Lucius Malfoy. Pettigrew walks swiftly down another corridor, muttering to himself.
PETTIGREW: This deal's getting worse all the time.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- LARGE CELL
Lupin now has a little more of Draco back together. One arm is connected, but the legs are yet to be attached. There is one small problem, however. It seems the Warewolf has managed to put the droid's head on backwards.
DRACO: Oh, yes, that's very good. I like that. Oh! Something's not right because now I can't see. Wait. Wait! Oh, my! what have you done? I'm backwards, you stupid furball. Only an overgrown mophead like you would be stupid enough...
Draco is cut off in mid-sentence as Lupin angrily deactivates a circuit and the droid shuts down. The Warewolf smells something and sits up. The door to the chamber slides open and a ragged Ron Weasly is shoved into the room by two Death Eaters. Barking his concern, the huge Warewolf gives Ron a big hug. Ron is very pale, with dark circles under his eyes.
RON: I feel terrible.
Lupin helps Ron to a platform and then turns as the door slides open revealing Hermione. She, too, looks a little worse for wear. The Death Eaters push her into the cell, and the door slides closed. She moves to Ron, who is lying on the platform, and kneels next to him, gently stroking his head.
HERMIONE: Why are they doing this?
RON: They never even asked me any questions.
The cell door slides open. Pettigrew and two of his guards enter.
HERMIONE: Peter.
RON: Get out of here, Peter!
PETTIGREW: Shut up and listen! Voldermort has agreed to turn Hermione and Lupin over to me.
RON: Over to you?
PETTIGREW: They'll have to stay here, but at least they'll be safe.
HERMIONE: What about RON?
PETTIGREW: Voldermort's giving him to the bounty hunter.
HERMIONE: Voldermort wants us all dead.
PETTIGREW: He doesn't want you at all. He's after somebody called Potter.
RON: Harry?
PETTIGREW: Lord Voldermort has set a trap for him.
Hermione's mind is racing.
HERM: And we're the bait.
PETTIGREW: Well, he's on his way.
Ron's rage peaks.
RON: Perfect. You fixed us all pretty good, didn't you? (spits it out) My friend!
Ron hauls off and punches Pettigrew. The two friends are instantly engaged in a frantic close-quarters fight. The guards hit Ron with their rifle butts and he flies across the room. Lupin growls and starts for the guards. They point their laser weapons at the giant Warewolf, but Pettigrew stops them.
PETTIGREW: Stop! I've done all I can do. I'm sorry I couldn't do better, but I have my own problems.
RON: Yeah, you're a real hero.
Pettigrew and the guards leave. Ron wipes the blood from his chin as Hermione and Lupin help him up.
HERMIONE: (dabs at his wound) You certainly have a way with people.
Meanwhile, Ron is frozen in carbonite.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CORRIDOR -- DAY As Luke and Seamus move carefully down a deserted corridor, they hear a group of people coming down a side hallway. Seamus lets out an excited series of beeps and whistles. Harry glares at the tiny droid, who stops in his tracks with a feeble squeak. Lucius Malfoy enters from a side hallway followed by two guards pushing the floating, encased body of Ron. Two Death Eaters, who follow, immediately spot Harry and open fire on him. The youth draws his weapon and blasts the two Death Eaters before they can get off a second shot. The two guards whisk Ron into another hallway as Malfoy lowers his arm and fires a deadly laser at Harry, which explodes to one side and tears up a huge chunk of wall. Harry rushes to a side hallway, but by the time he reaches it, Malfoy, Ron, and the guards are gone. A thick metal door blocks the passage. Harry turns to see Hermione, Lupin, Draco, and Pettigrew being herded down a second hallway by several other Death Eaters. Hermione turns just in time to see Harry.
HERMIONE: Harry! Harry, don't -- it's a trap! It's a trap!
Before she can finish, she is pulled through a doorway and disappears from sight. Harry races after the group, leaving little Seamus trailing behind.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- ANTEROOM
Harry runs into an anteroom and stops to get his bearings. Hermione and the others are nowhere to be seen. Behind Harry, Seamus scoots down the corridor toward the anteroom when suddenly a giant metal door comes slamming down, cutting off Harry's exit. Several more doors clang shut, echoing through the chamber.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- HALLWAY LEADING TO ANTEROOM
Seamus stands with his nose pressed against the giant metal door. He whistles a long sigh of relief and, a little dazed, wanders off in the other direction.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CARBON-FREEZING CHAMBER -- ANTEROOM
Harry cautiously walks forward among hissing pipes and steam. Seeing an opening above him, he stops to look up. As he does, the platform he stands on begins to move.
Harry rises into the chamber, borne by the platform. The room is deathly quiet. Very little steam escapes the pipes and no one else seems to be in the large room. Warily, Harry walks toward the stairway. Steam begins to build up in the chamber. Looking up through the steam, Harry sees a dark figure standing on a walkway above him. Harry holsters his gun and moves up the stairs to face Voldermort. He feels confident, eager to engage his enemy.
VOLDERMORT: The Force is with you, young Potter. But you are not a Jedi yet.
Harry ignites his sword in answer. In an instant, Voldermorts's own sword is lit. Harry lunges, but Voldermort repels the blow. Again Harry attacks, and the swords of the two combatants clash in battle.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- CARBON-FREEZING CHAMBER
Harry and Voldermort are locked in combat on the platform overlooking the chamber. Their swords clash, the platform sways. Harry aggressively drives Voldermort back, forcing Voldermort to use defensive tactics.
VOLDERMORT: You have learned much, young one.
HARRY: You'll find I'm full of surprises.
Voldermort makes two quick moves, hooking Harry's sword out of his hand and sending it flying. Another lightning move at Harry's feet forces the youth to jump back to protect himself. Losing his balance, Harry rolls down the stairs to the circular carbon-freezing platform. There he sprawls on the floor, surprised and shaken. Just in time he looks up to see Voldermort, like a giant black bird, flying right at him. Harry rolls away as Voldermort lands. Crouching, Harry keeps his gaze steadily on his enemy.
VOLDERMORT: Your destiny lies with me, Potter. Dumbledore knew this to be true.
HARRY: No!
Behind Harry the hydraulic elevator cover has opened noiselessly. All the while, Harry slowly, cautiously moves back, away from the Dark Lord. Suddenly, Voldermort attacks so forcefully that Harry loses his balance and falls back into the opening. There is a rumble, and in an instant freezing steam rises to obscure Voldermort's vision. Voldermort turns aside and deactivates his sword.
VOLDERMORT: All to easy. Perhaps you are not as strong as the Emperor thought.
Through the steam behind Voldermort something blurs upward. Liquid metal begins to pour into the pit. Voldermort turns around -- and then looks up. He sees Harry, who has leaped fifteen feet straight up and who now hangs from some hoses on the carbonite outlet.
VOLDERMORT: Impressive...most impressive.
Harry jumps down to the platform where he is separated from Voldermort by the steaming carbonite pit. He raises his hand. His sword, which had fallen on another part of the platform, swiftly jumps into his outstretched hand and is instantly ignited. Voldermort immediately lights his sword as well.
VOLDERMORT: Dumbledore has taught you well. You have controlled your fear... now release your anger.
Harry is more cautious, controlling his anger. He begins to retreat as Voldermort goads him on. As Harry takes a defensive position, he realizes he has been foolhardy. A quick sword exchange and Harry forces Voldermort back. Another exchange and Voldermort retreats. Harry presses forward.
VOLDERMORT: Only your hatred can destroy me.
Breathing hard, Harry jumps in the air, turning a somersault over Voldermort. He lands on the floor and slashes at Voldermort as the room continues to fill up with steam. Voldermort retreats before Harry's skillful sword. Voldermort blocks the sword, but looses his balance and falls into the outer rim of pipes. The energy Harry has used to stop Voldermort has brought him to the point of collapse. Harry moves to the edge and looks down, but sees no sign of Voldermort. He then deactivates his sword, hooks it on his belt, and lowers himself into the pit.
INTERIOR: CLOUD CITY -- TUNNEL AND REACTOR CONTROL ROOM
Moving through a tunnellike entrance, Harry cautiously approaches the reactor room. He ignites his sword and moves into the room and toward a large window as Voldermort enters. Harry raises his sword and moves forward to attack. Behind Harry a large piece of machinery detaches itself from the wall and comes smashing forward toward his back. Harry turns and cuts it in half just as another machine comes hurtling at him. Using the Force, Harry manages to deflect it and send it flying as if it had hit an invisible shield. A large pipe detaches and comes flying at Harry. He deflects it. Sparking wires pull out of the wall and begin to whip at the youth. Small tools and equipment come flying at him. Bombardment from all sides, Harry does his best to deflect everything, but soon he is bloodied and bruised. Finally, one machine glances off his and goes flying out the large window. A fierce wind blows into the room, unmoving, stands the dark, rocklike figure of Voldermort. A piece of machinery hits Harry and he is knocked out of the window.
INTERIOR: GANTRY -- OUTSIDE CONTROL ROOM -- REACTOR SHAFT
Harry falls onto the gantry, rolls, and hangs over the edge, holding his deactivated sword in hand. He puts the sword on his belt and begins to scramble up.
Hermione, Pettigrew, Lupin and the droids come round a corner and head for the door to the landing platform. They glimpse the Millennium Falcon for a moment before the door slams shut. The group ducks into an alcove as Death Eaters arrive at the end of the corridor. The Death Eaters send a rain of laser bolts at the group. Lupin returns their fire as Pettigrew punches desperately at the door's control panel.
PETTIGREW: The security codes has been changed!
DRACO: Seamus, you can tell the computer to override the security system.
Draco points to a computer socket on the control panel. Seamus beeps and scoots toward it. Pettigrew meanwhile has connected up to the panel's intercom.
PETTIGREW: Attention! This is Peter Pettigrew. The Empire has taken control of the city. I advise everyone to leave before more Death Eaters arrive.
Seamus takes off a computer cover and sticks his computer arm into the socket. Suddenly, a short beep turns into a wild scream. Seamus' circuits light up, his head spins wildly, and smoke begins to seep out underneath him. Quickly, Lupin pulls him away.
PETTIGREW: This way.
Pettigrew, Hermione, Seamus, and Lupin flee down the corridor. As he scoots along with them, Seamus sends some angry beeps Draco's way.
Draco: Don't blame me. I'm an interpreter. I'm not supposed to know a power socket from a computer terminal.
INTERIOR: GANTRY -- OUTSIDE CONTROL ROOM -- REACTOR SHAFT
Harry moves along the railing and up to the control room. Voldermort lunges at him and Harry immediately raises his lit sword to meet Voldermort's. Sparks fly as they duel, Voldermort gradually forcing Harry backward toward the gantry.
VOLDERMORT: You are beaten. It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroyed as Dumbledore did.
Harry answers by rolling sideways and thrusting his sword at Voldermort so viciously that he nicks Voldermort on the shoulder. The black armor sparks and smokes and Voldermort seems to be hurt, but immediately recovers. Harry backs off along the narrow end of the gantry as Voldermort comes at him, slashing at the young Jedi with his sword. Harry makes a quick move around the instrument complex attached to the end of the gantry. Voldermort's sword comes slashing down, cutting the complex loose; it begins to fall, then is caught by the rising wind and blown upward. Harry glances at the instrument complex floating away. At that instant, Voldermort's sword comes down across Harry's right forearm, cutting off his hand and sending his sword flying. In great pain, Harry squeezes his forearm under his left armpit and moves back along the gantry to its extreme end. Voldermort follows. The wind subsides. Harry holds on. There is nowhere else to go.
VOLDERMORT: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
HARRY: I'll never join you!
VOLDEMRORT: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Dumbledore never told you what happened to your father.
HARRY: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
VOLDERMORT: No, Harry. I am your father.
Shocked, Harry looks at Voldermort in utter disbelief.
HARRY: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
VOLDERMORT: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
HARRY: No! No! No!
VOLDERMORT: Harry. You can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It's the only way.
Voldermort puts away his sword and holds his hand out to Harry. A calm comes over Harry, and he makes a decision. In the next instant he steps off the gantry platform into space. The Dark Lord looks over the platform and sees Harry falling far below. The wind begins to blow at Voldermort's cape and the torrent finally forces him back, away from the edge. The wind soon fades and the wounded Jedi begins to drop fast, unable to grab onto anything to break his fall.
INTERIOR: REACTOR SHAFT
Suddenly Harry is sucked into an exhaust pipe in the side of the shaft. When Voldermort sees this, he turns and hurries off the platform.
Harry tumbles through the exhaust pipe. He slides to the end of the slickly polished pipe and stops as his feet hit a circular grill and knock it open. Harry claws at the surface of the pipe, trying to keep from sliding out into space.
EXTERIOR: BOTTOM OF CLOUD CITY -- WEATHER VANE -- DUSK
Unable to hang onto the pipe, Harry tumbles out, emerging at the undermost part of Cloud City. Reaching out desperately, he manages to grab onto on electronic weather vane.
HARRY: Dumbledore - Dumbledore, please!
Harry tries to pull himself up on the weather vane but slips back down. He hooks one of his legs around the fragile instruments. All the while, a powerful current of air rushes out at him from the exhaust pipe.
HARRY: Dumbledore.. Hermione!
There is an ominous cracking sound from the base of the weather vane and a piece breaks off, falling into the clouds far below.
HARRY: Hear me! Hermione!
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT
Hermione seems to be lost in a fog, her expression troubled. Lupin is busy operating the ship. Pettigrew stands next to the Warewolf, watching a readout on the control panel.
Hermione: Harry...We've got to go back.
Lupin growls in surprise.
PETTIGREW: What?
HERMIONE: I know where Harry is.
PETTIGREW: But what about those fighters?
Lupin barks in agreement with Pettigrew.
HERMIONE: Lupin, just do it.
PETTIGREW: But what about Voldermort?
Lupin turns on Pettigrew, the newcomer, with an ominous growl.
PETTIGREW: All right, all right, all right.
EXTERIOR: BOTTOM OF CLOUD CITY -- WEATHER VANE
Nearly unconscious, Harry hangs upside-down on the weather vane as his body shifts in the wind.
He falls before the falcon reaches him, and suddenly he is falling again.
HARRY: damn bloody vortex.