Anakin back in the World between the Worlds then explains to Rey, "This is when I rediscovered myself and my true destiny became clear." Qui-Gon-Jinn: "In no small part thanks to me." Back in the past Rey, sees Qui-Gon materialize in front of Anakin with Anakin saying "What" in shock at seeing Qui-Gon. Qui-Gon: "Anakin in the moment when we feel death is imminent and your entire life flashes before your eyes, where a single moment can feel like an eternity, well that is where the force and I reside. In the center of every eternal moment." Anakin: "No this has to be a trick, an illusion, a... a..." Qui-Gon: "Anakin trust your instincts. You know it's really me." Anakin: "Master how is this possible?" Qui-Gon: "I am part of the Living Force of the entire universe. I went through the training to merge myself with the Force by completely letting go of my material existence, and able to return from the nether world of the Force. All live on after death, for death is not the end of existence or individuality. It is the transition from a brief material life to an eternal one where there is no pain or sorrow, in which evil has no power or presence. Force users, like us, who go through the training of spirit who are willing to completely let go of their material existence and selflessly merge with the force are free to move between the realms of existence and interact with the living as the force wills. In my case, because my training was incomplete, I could only speak as a disembodied voice. This is an ability that had become long forgotten by the Jedi when we no longer followed the will of the force. This is how one obtains true immortality through the Force. Not the way Sidious has. We only interact with the living as the force wills. I taught Yoda this and he taught Obi-Wan. That's why he disappeared when you struck him down. I tried to speak to you, but your raging emotions, and you cutting yourself off from the Force, blocked me out. It was just like when you killed the Tuskins after your mother died, and when I tried to help you on Mortis by telling you to look deeper. You will find another way." Anakin: "Then it really was you I saw not an illusion." Qui Gon: "Yes, but you still couldn't bring yourself to believe it was me. You are able to see me now because you are now finally open to the true nature of the Force and the strength of your connection to it." Anakin: "Why are you here?" Qui Gon: "I am here because your spirit called out for me. I am here to help you rediscover who you really and are to help you fulfill your destiny as I should've before Darth Maul killed me." Anakin weeps in grief. Anakin: "I can't be helped. I am beyond saving." Qui Gon: "Anakin! Stop lying to yourself and acknowledge that you are still Anakin Skywalker. You can lie to others about who you are. You can lie to yourself. But you cannot lie or hide your true self from me or the Force no matter how hard you try to deny it. I know your heart better then you know it yourself." Anakin: "I'm not the chosen one because I didn't restore the balance. I chose to murder the Tuskins. I killed the Jedi including many of the masters, the younglings, even Jocasta and my best friend Obi-Wan. I caused Padme's death and I have caused immeasurable destruction and suffering to countless lives. I deserve nothing but death and oblivion." Qui Gon: "Then why did Luke let himself be captured? Why did he not kill you when Sidious told him to? Why are you now holding yourself accountable for your actions? Because that's what love does. That's what the Force is really all about at its core. Unconditional Love for all life. It is what makes a woman still love and hope for a man who has done terrible things in anger. It is what makes a son forgive a fallen father. And it is what has brought me to you. Love sees you as something worthy of fighting, suffering, and dying for. Padme even acknowledged that on her death bed as you saw in maternity droids recording when she told Obi-Wan that with her last breath she still refused to believe that there was no longer any good left in you. It is the same with Luke now because he has his mother's heart. He inherited another quality from her. A loving spirit that recognizes a lost soul. The good in you that was never destroyed, just forgotten and pushed down is now awakened. You did not want to hold yourself accountable for your actions. You have learned to bury your shame and guilt. I am here to teach you to confront it, to break the chains you have fashioned around yourself, to help you learn to face your demons so that you can save your son and the galaxy." Anakin: "How?" Qui Gon: "By facing that which Sidious used to bend you to his will, to make Vader the shadow of your former self. Anakin face your single greatest fear, for fear born of vain selfishness is the root of all evil and can also be where salvation and redemption are found. What is yours?" Anakin: "I failed to save my mother. I failed to end slavery because of the flaws of the republic. I failed Ahsoka as a teacher and a friend. I failed the Jedi. I failed my wife and children. But I failed myself most of all. I failed to restore the balance. I am the greatest of all failures!" He falls to the ground in tears. Qui Gon: "Anakin look through your tears and see with the clarity they give." Suddenly Anakin sees the parts of the past he never knew. He sees Sidious using Sith magic to create him through the midiclorians, using his influence through the Force with a sample of his blood to get the Tuskins to capture and torture his mother to death, and reveling as Anakin slaughters them. All the things Sidious said about him behind his back. As a failed endeavor as nothing more important in his eyes as a droid. Finally, Anakin sees that Sidious never intended to help him save Padme. He proclaims in secret, "His attachment to her is his greatest weakness. She makes him weak and stands in the way of my ultimate plan. She is nothing but a pain that never goes away. She deserves nothing but death, and if he is the one who does it, all the better!" Back on the death star, "So Sidious only saw me as a means to an end. A weapon to be used and then discarded when I was no longer of use to him. Like all his apprentices before me." Qui Gon: "The Jedi too. That is also why they had to end." Anakin: "How can you say that?" Qui Gon: "Because it is the truth. The Jedi order as we both knew it was just as much the cause for the imbalance as Sidious and the Sith were. For the Jedi were mainly concerned with playing politics and keeping the status quo in the republic as peacekeepers. They served the will of corruptible fallen people instead of serving the pure infallible will of the force as I did my best to do. I learned after death that I really was the only true Jedi before the purge along with your padawan, Ahsoka. Though the Force would have preferred that the Jedi change back to their original way and allegiance to only serve the will of the Force. They refused to adhere and listen to it and so became disconnected and out of tune with it, thus becoming unknowing servants of evil. Like the Sith they only saw the Force as a means to an end. Not something they as force users, you are supposed to listen and obey without question. That is why they were mostly destroyed by Sidious and how he hid in plain sight among them all along. Now the time has come to destroy the other source of the imbalance in Sidious and restore balance to the Force." Anakin: "I can't! Not alone!" Qui Gon: "That is the greatest lie of all. You are not now, nor have you ever been alone, for the Force has always been with you. As have I and even those who loved you in life. Who still do? Though you cannot see them or touch them. Their love has never left you. Let go of all your fear, anger, and despair and open your heart again. You have denied yourself feeling anything genuinely good because of your shame and cutting yourself from the Force. For life with-out feeling isn't life, and without the Force you really can't feel at all. It's time to let that sweet loving brave child you were live again. Feel their love for you. " A long moment passes where it feels like there are two hands of two unseen women of Shime and Padme resting on his shoulders. Then Anakin says, "I can feel them. I can feel that they, along with many of the innocent I have destroyed, have forgiven me. I don't deserve any of it." Qui Gon: "That is what true love does. It has the power to make even one who is in the deepest darkest pit find their way back into the light. You know now that they, along with me and the others, have forgiven you. Now it is time for you to forgive yourself, to save your son and restore the balance." Anakin: "I don't know if I can, what if I..." Qui Gon: "Don't let your mind be clouded with anxiety about the future you cannot know. Keep your focus and concentration here and now where it belongs. I sense you still feel you can't because of your past failures." Anakin: "I have failed so much and so many." Qui Gon: "You believed that a Jedi must never fail. You tried to be strong and found yourself, in your eyes weak, so you put on a show of strength as a cover. Anakin, still the same child I was guided to on Tattooine. Still stuck in the grief that he couldn't save his mother from death. Who convinced himself that he would find a way to stop people from dying because he believed he could not live without them? Never able to truly live in the here and now. Not able to accept what he can't change or control. Cannot see what is right in front of your nose." Anakin: "I was... I was..." Qui Gon: "Guided by good intentions, yes. But you were also hopelessly lost in how you would apply them because you kept seeking the answers in the wrong places and the wrong people instead of where you needed to find them, in the Force. Yes, you sought power and strength for noble reasons, but only found weakness, folly, and failure. Yes, failure most of all. Often failure is actually the greatest teacher, for failure is often an inevitable outcome of our actions. The real test that reveals true character is more often found in failure then in victory." Anakin: "I was unbalanced, unwise, UN..." Qui Gon: "You brought all this misery on yourself and have lived a lie in denial." Anakin sobbing responds, "Your right! It is all my fault. There's no one to blame but me. I'm… I'm…" Qui Gon: "Forgiven." Anakin: "What? I'm what?" Qui-Gon: "Forgiven. If tears are any indication of remorse and regret, yours are. The Force has declared it so. That every misstep and transgression can and shall be forgiven. For what has been done cannot be undone, but all can be and will be forgiven." Anakin still sobbing retorts, "I… I…" Qui Gon: "You lost your mother, Padme, and your sense of right and wrong. You must not lose your son! And you won't, not if you show your son the real Anakin Skywalker." Anakin: "I don't know how." Qui Gon: "Remember what I taught you. Nothing happens by chance. It is merely the will of the Force expressing itself. It's like credit chips. They are only worthless metal with numbers on them that only have value if you redeem them from the promise of money that came with them. It's like your life. You can't see its true value unless you give it completely over to the Force to redeem it. Trade it in for a new Anakin. The Anakin you were always meant to be. The Force wants to give you that, but you need to first want it. Do you want that? I am speaking to the true spirit of Anakin Skywalker! Can you hear me?" Long pause, and then Anakin says, "Yes, help me I'm ready. I am done with pretending to be something and someone I'm not. I'm done being a slave. I won't fail again." Suddenly a dark figure all aflame with red and black flames appears saying in a snarl, "That just a bunch of Jedi junk. He just wants to make you weak again." Qui Gon calmly responds, "I only tell the truth, and it is the truth you need to hear." The dark Anakin angrily reacts in shouting, "Need! Where were you when we needed you? You come after all this time just tell us what you think we need to hear. After everything we've done and everything, we've been through! The loss, the betrayals, the deaths, and the suffering. Who are you to tell us what we need to do you stupid worthless old ghost!" Then a child's hand grabs the dark figures hand that is about to slap Qui Gon shouting, "Enough!" says a child's voice as a child's hand grabs and stops the dark Anakin from assaulting Qui Gon. Turning to see Anakin as he was when was found as a boy stating, "We lost Padme, our mother, the Jedi, Ahsoka, Obi Wan, and now we are about to lose our son. We have lost everyone that has ever mattered to us because of you." Dark Anakin shouts, "I am why we are still alive. I am the true source of your power. He's just wants to make you as weak as you were before you joined Sidious!" Anakin now appearing as he did when he was Obi-Wans apprentice at the beginning of the Clone Wars stating, "No! I've let you consume my mind and my heart for too long. No more!" The dark Anakin grows into a monstrous Great Krayt Dragon shouting, "Anakin Skywalker was weak. I destroyed him." Anakin proper then responds, "Then how am I still here, and why do you not attack me. Because you can't, because we are still both halves of the same whole." Dark Anakin: "You are nothing but a nascence to be crushed and then forgotten! No more than a ghost like Qui Gon." Anakin now appear as he did when he was Ahsoka's teacher says, "I see now that you are the real cause of all my suffering. The reason my path has been so dark. Why I chose to serve Sidious despite what the Force was telling me was wrong. You are the source of the imbalance with in me. You are my dark side. You are my anger, vanity, selfishness, greed, frustration, and my hate for all around me and myself. You are the real weak one." Dark Anakin shouts, "You're a fool! What has been done cannot be undone!" Anakin: "You have kept me in darkness from the light that I hid from it in shame, but now I see that it's the source of healing. I also now see clearly that if I just keep fighting you then I will always remain Vader. So instead, I accept that you are my dark side, and I will not fight you anymore, but I also reject the path you embody and instead choose a new one. And you are right about one thing, I can't change the past. But I can choose to change here and now and change my future and find my real destiny." Closing his eyes and clasping his hands Anakin begins to pray, "Oh Will of the great Living Cosmic Force from which all life comes from. Heal this old fool's broken heart. For I need a new heart. Make me into who you need me to be. I know I don't deserve it, but I ask humbly to please forgive me of my transgressions. I give my life to you. I commit my eternal soul to your will." Dark Anakin screams, "Stop it! Stop it! Just Shut up!" Anakin now starts to glow with gold light like a yellow sun as he looks at his dark side as he begins to fade away, "You have kept me blind. But now I finally see, and I forgive you." The dark Anakin in defiance as he fully vanishes, "You need me!" Anakin then sees himself all a glow fully restored asking Qui Gon, "What is this?" Qui-Gon: "You lived in darkness and were surrounded by death. Now the Will of the Force has penetrated your heart and restored it. Now you shine with the light of eternal life." Anakin: "I don't deserve any of this." Qui Gon: "That is what makes it such a blessing. Now you have at last found balance and have ended your curse. A curse born of pride. Through an act of love and humility." Anakin looks at Qui Gon and they hug each other like a son hugging his father. Anakin looks back at himself watching Sidious killing Luke all while still frozen in time. Anakin then says with confidence and assurance, "I know now what I need to do, but I'm afraid it will be the last act I will ever do alive." Qui Gon: "We all now stand beside you in this Anakin." Obi-Wan appears as he did when they fought on Mustafar, "Even I who was willing to give up on you, but I am overjoyed you are back, my friend and my brother." With tears in his eyes, "Same to you Obi-Wan." Yoda appears as well, "Returned to the path of light you have. Thought not possible to turn away from the dark path I did." Mace along with all the other Jedi Anakin had killed even the younglings appear around him. Anakin then looks at them and says sobering, "I'm so sorry, about everything. Can you ever forgive me?" They all say as one, "We forgive you, Master Anakin Skywalker." Anakin: "No one can stop Sidious in this moment but me. And I only have one chance to save everybody from him." Qui Gon: "That's all you've ever needed." As Anakin begins to remerge with his physical self while declaring, "I won't fail again!" He briefly hears Padme's and his mother's voices say, "We love you Anakin forever, and for all eternity." Then finding himself back in his body seeing through his mask lenses he hears Qui Gon, "So shall we finish this together?" Anakin: "Yes master." Qui Gon: "Before your life shall end, I will teach you what you need to know to become like us in order to help the living after your death. We will meet you on the other side." Then as time begins to move forward again Anakin shouts his second, "No!" as he lifts up Sidious to throw him to his death as he attacks Anakin with his force lightning. The scene then changes to where Anakin is about to die, he tells Luke, "Luke, help me take this mask off." Luke: "But you'll die." Anakin: "Nothing! Can stop that now. Just for once let me look on you with my own eyes." Luke removes the mask to reveal Anakin's scarred face. Anakin: "Now go my son. Leave me!" Luke: "I can't, I'm not going to leave you I've got to save you." Anakin: "You already have. You were right about me. Tell your sister. You were right." He dies quietly before Luke flies them out as the death star explodes. Then the scene changes to when Luke sees his father's spirit along with Yoda and Obi-Wan. [Not able to see all the Jedi were there as well.] Then seeing Luke remove the charred and melted helmet from the ashes of the funeral pyre. Then showing Anakin appearing to both Luke and Leia with Anakin explaining everything with R2 showing them Anakin's life from his memories. Anakin: "And that's the whole truth. I know no apology will ever be enough but can you both find it in your hearts to forgive me for what I have done." Leia eventually says, "I don't know if I ever can. But maybe someday I will." Luke then says in response, "I already did when you saved my life by sacrificing your own." Anakin then declares, "And I promise with every fiber of my being. Even if it takes the rest of eternity. I will do everything I am able to do through the Force to make amends for all that I have done." They look at each other with renewed hope. As Anakin begins to fade away, he says, "I love you my children and I always will. Thank you for bringing me home." Back in the World between Worlds Anakin looks at Rey to tell her, "With that one decision to be true to who the Force meant me to be and in humility found the light of love and forgiveness again, I restored the balance. Let what you have experienced in my life be a constant reminder, there is always a way out of darkness, and no matter how lost you may be. You can find redemption and find the correct path for you, guided by the Will of the Force, which leads you to where you need to be when you need to be there. Now you are the chosen one in this moment, along with Ben, who must bring back the balance as I did." Rey: "How?" Leia, "By staying true to who you showed yourself to be when you fought Ben."