EXTERIOR: SPACE
The view is just like the star map hologram, plus, the storm-shrouded planet of Kamino is exactly where it ought to be. Obi-Wan's Starship disengages from the hyperspace transport ring and flies OVER CAMERA and heads down toward the planet.
OBI-WAN: There it is, Arfour, right where it should be. Our missing planet, Kamino. Those files were altered.
EXTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, KAMINO LANDING PLATFORM (RAINSTORM) - DAY
Heavy rains and hard-driving winds lash the platform as Obi-Wan's Starship approaches. The huge, ultra-modern city of Tipoca rests on great stilts that keep it above the pounding and ever-present waves that cover the surface of this watery world.
The Starfighter lands. OBI-WAN gets out and makes his way through the howling wind toward a tower on the far side of the platform. A door slides open. A shaft of brilliant light pierces the swirling rain. OBI-WAN passes through it and goes inside.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CORRIDOR ENTRANCE - DAY
A Brilliant white light. OBI-WAN pushes the soaking hood from his face.
TAUN WE: Master Jedi, so good to see you.
OBI-WAN wipes the rain from his face and blinks in surprise at a tall, pasty-white alien named TAUN WE. He has large, almond shaped eyes.
TAUN WE: The Prime Minister is expecting you.
OBI-WAN: (warily) I'm expected?
TAUN WE: Of course! He is anxious to meet you. After all these years, we were beginning to think you weren't coming. Now please, this way!
OBI-WAN masks his surprise as they move away along the corridor.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, PRIME MINISTER OFFICE - DAY
The door slides open. OBI-WAN and TAUN WE enter and cross to where LAMA SU rises, smiling, from his chair, which, like all the furniture on Kamino, seems made out of pure light. With is a green Autobot, who Obi-Wan believes it's the Autobot Medical Officer Ratchet Ultra Magnus told him About.
TAUN WE: May I present Lama Su, Prime Minister of Kamino... and this is Master Jedi...
OBI-WAN: Obi-Wan Kenobi. Autobot Medical Officer Ratchet it's nice to meet you I was sent here by Ultra Magnus.
RATCHET: It's nice to meet you Obi-Wan. I was informed by Ultra Magnus that you were coming.
LAMA SU indicates a chair. OBI-WAN and RATCHET remains standing. TAUN WE hovers. The room is bathed in brilliant white light. The whole place is ultra high-tech.
LAMA SU: I trust you are going to enjoy your stay. We are most happy you have arrived at the best part of the season.
OBI-WAN: You make me feel most welcome.
LAMA SU: Please... (gestures to chair) And now to business. You will be delighted to hear we are on schedule. Two hundred thousand units are ready, with another million well on the way.
OBI-WAN: (improvising) That is... good news.
LAMA SU: Please tell your Master Sifo-Dyas that we have every confidence his order will be met on time and in full. He is well, I hope.
OBI-WAN: I'm sorry? Master - ?
LAMA SU: Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. He's still a leading member of the Jedi Council, is he not?
OBI-WAN: Master Sifo-Dyas was killed almost ten years ago.
LAMA SU: Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. But I'm sure he would have been proud of the army we've built for him.
OBI-WAN: The army?
LAMA SU: Yes, a clone army. And, I must say, one of the finest we've ever created.
OBI-WAN: Tell me, Prime Minister, when my Master first contacted you about the army, did he say who it was for?
LAMA SU: Of course he did. This army is for the Republic. LAMA SU: But you must be anxious to inspect the units for yourself.
OBI-WAN: That's why I'm here.
OBI-WAN and LAMA SU rise and walk toward the door. OBI-WAN then started talking to RATCHET.
OBI-WAN: So this is the project for the Republic Ultra Magnus told me about.
RATCHET: Indeed the Kaminoans contacted Autobots some time ago asking us with the Clone Army so they sent me here to help with the Clones. but you didn't know did you, the Autobots thought you knew about the Clone Army all this time.
OBI-WAN: No I didn't know and I don't think the Council know as well.
EXTERIOR: NABOO LAKE RETREAT, WATER SPEEDER, LANDING PLATFORM - LATE AFTERNOON
A water speeder driven by PADDY ACCU, the retreat caretaker, docks at the island landing platform. ANAKIN, PADME, BUMBLEBEE and WHEELIE, disembark the water speeder at the base of a lodge rising on the beautiful island in the middle of the lake.
EXTERIOR: NABOO LAKE RETREAT, LODGE, GARDEN TERRACE - LATE AFTERNOON
ANAKIN and PADME walk up the stairs from where the water speeder is parked onto a terrace overlooking a lovely garden. Behind them, PADDY ACCU follows. BUMBLEBEE in Holoform and WHEELIE helps takes PADME and ANAKIN'S luggage to their rooms
ANAKIN and PADME stop at the balustrade. PADME looks out across the garden to the shimmering lake and the mountains
rising beyond. ANAKIN looks at her.
PADME: When I was in Level Three, we used to come here for school retreat. See that island? We used to swim there every day. I love the water.
ANAKIN: I do too. I guess it comes from growing up on a desert planet.
PADME becomes aware that ANAKIN is looking at her.
PADME: ...We used to lie on the sand and let the sun dry us... and try to guess the names of the birds singing.
ANAKIN: I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything's soft... and smooth...
He touches her arm. PADME has become receptive to the way he looks at her but is nervous.
PADME: There was a very old man who lived on the island. He used to make glass out of sand - and vases and necklaces out of the glass. They were magical.
ANAKIN: (looks into her eyes) Everything here is magical.
PADME: You could look into the glass and see the water. The way it ripples and moves. It looked so real... but it wasn't.
ANAKIN: Sometimes, when you believe something to be real, it becomes real.
They look into each other's eyes.
PADME: I used to think if you looked too deeply into glass, you would lose yourself.
ANAKIN: I think it's true...
ANAKIN kisses PADME. She doesn't resist. She comes to her senses and pulls away.
PADME: No, I shouldn't have done that.
ANAKIN: I'm sorry. When I'm around you, my mind is no longer my own.
He looks at her.
EXTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, PARADE GROUND (RAINSTORM) - DAY
OBI-WAN, RATCHET, LAMA SU and TAUN WE come out onto a balcony. Below is a huge parade ground. The rain and wind are brutal. THOUSANDS OF CLONE TROOPERS, faces covered by helmets, are marching and drilling in formations of several hundred.
LAMA SU: (beaming) Magnificent, aren't they?
OBI-WAN nods slowly.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CLONE CENTER, CLASSROOM - DAY
The tour continues through a classroom filled with IDENTICAL YOUNG BOY CLONES.
LAMA SU: We take great pride in our combat education and training programs. This group was created about five years ago.
OBI-WAN: You mentioned growth acceleration...
LAMA SU: Oh yes, it's essential. Otherwise, a mature clone would take a lifetime to grow. Now, we can do it in half the time. Those items you saw on the parade ground were started ten years ago, when Sifo-Dyas first placed the order, and they're already mature.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CLONE CENTER, COMMISSARY - DAY
LAMA SU conducts OBI-WAN through a large eating area. TAUN WE and RATCHET follows as they walk by HUNDREDS OF CLONES who look exactly alike, all about twenty years old, dressed in black. They are seated at tables, eating.
LAMA SU: You'll find they are totally obedient, taking any order without question. We modified their genetic structure to make them less independent than the original host.
OBI-WAN: Who was the original host?
LAMA SU: A bounty hunter called Jango Fett. We felt a Jedi would be the perfect choice, but Sifo-Dyas hand-picked Jango Fett himself.
OBI-WAN and RATCHET look at each other.
OBI-WAN: Where is this bounty hunter now?
LAMA SU: Oh, we keep him here.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CLONE CENTER, BARRACKS - DAY
The tour continues through a long corridor filled with narrow, transparent tubes into which CLONES are climbing. Once in the tube, the CLONE goes to sleep.
LAMA SU: Apart from his pay, which is considerable, Fett demanded only one thing - an unaltered clone for himself. Curious, isn't it?
OBI-WAN: Unaltered?
LAMA SU: Pure genetic replication. No tampering with the structure to make it more docile... and no growth acceleration.
OBI-WAN: I would very much like to meet this Jango Fett.
TAUN WE: I would be most happy to arrange it, for you.
TAUN WE bows, and leaves.
EXTERIOR: NABOO, MOUNTAIN MEADOW - LATE AFTERNOON
PADME and ANAKIN are in the middle of an idyllic hilly meadow, its lush grasses sprinkled with flowers. At a distance, a herd of SHAAKS graze contentedly.
Beyond is the shimmering expanse of the lake. Several other lakes stretch to the horizon. The warm air is full of little floating puffballs. They sit on the grass, in a playful, coy mood, talking. PADME is picking flowers.
PADME: I don't know...
ANAKIN: Sure you do... you just don't want to tell me.
PADME: Are you going to use one of your Jedi mind tricks on me?
ANAKIN: They only work on the weak-minded. You are anything but weak-minded.
PADME: All right... I was twelve. His name was Palo. We were both in the Legislative Youth Program. He was a few years older then I... very cute... dark curly hair... dreamy eyes.
ANAKIN: All right, I get the picture... whatever happened to him?
PADME: I went into public service. He went on to become an artist.
ANAKIN: Maybe he was the smart one.
PADME: You really don't like politicians, do you?
ANAKIN: I like two or three, but I'm not really sure about one of them. (smiling) I don't think the system works.
PADME: How would you have it work?
ANAKIN: We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problem, agree what's in the best interests of all the people, and then do it.
PADME: That is exactly what we do. The trouble is that people don't always agree. In fact, they hardly ever do.
ANAKIN: Then they should be made to.
PADME: By whom? Who's going to make them?
ANAKIN: I don't know. Someone.
PADME: You?
ANAKIN: Of course not me.
PADME: But someone.
ANAKIN: Someone wise.
PADME: That sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me.
A mischievous little grin creeps across his face.
ANAKIN: Well, if it works...
PADME stares at ANAKIN. He looks back at her, straight faced, but can't hold back a smile.
PADME: You're making fun of me!
ANAKIN: (sarcastic) Oh no, I'd be much too frightened to tease a Senator.
PADME: You're so bad!
PADME picks up a piece of fruit and throws it at him. He catches it. PADME throws two more pieces of fruit, and ANAKIN catches them.
ANAKIN: You're always so serious.
PADME: I'm so serious?!
ANAKIN then starts to juggle the fruit. PADME laughs and throws more fruit at him. He manages to juggle them too until there are too many, and he loses control and ducks, letting food fall on his head. They both laugh.
ANAKIN stands in front of a SHAAK, yelling at it and waving his arms. PADME starts laughing as ANAKIN runs in circles, chased by the SHAAK.
EXTERIOR: NABOO, MOUNTAIN MEADOW - LATE AFTEROON
The SHAAK crosses in front of PADME, with ANAKIN riding it, facing the SHAAK'S tail. ANAKIN attempts to stand on the galloping SHAAK'S back, but the SHAAK bucks, and ANAKIN loses his balance and falls off. PADME laughs even harder. ANAKIN lies still. Concerned, PADME jumps up and runs to where ANAKIN is face down in the grass.
PADME: Annie, Annie! Are you all right?
She turns him over. He is pulling a stupid face at her and laughing. She yelps in mock fury and takes a swing at him. He catches her arm. She struggles. They roll over in the grass, embracing, and looking into each other's eyes. Suddenly, they become aware of the contact between them. They let go of each other quickly and sit up, looking away.
ANAKIN stands up and holds out his hand to her. She takes it. He pulls her up. And now they are easy together, not self-conscious any more. PADME scrambles up onto the SHAAK behind ANAKIN. She puts her arms around his waist and leans against his back. ANAKIN digs his heels in. The SHAAK starts forward, and they ride away.
EXTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY (RAINSTORM) - DAY
Rain lashes the city. Below, mighty waves pound the stilts, breaking almost to the height of the platforms. A large AVIAN carrying a RAIN-SOAKED RIDER flies above the water toward a floating city.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, CORRIDOR - DAY
TAUN WE, RATCHET and OBI-WAN stand in front of the door of Jango Fett's apartment. TAUN WE waves his hand, and a muted bell RINGS.
As they wait, OBI-WAN notes the door lock entry mechanism. Then the door opens, and a ten-year-old boy, BOBA FETT, looks at them. He is identical to the boys in the classroom.
TAUN WE: Boba, is your father here?
There is a brief pause.
BOBA FETT: Yep.
TAUN WE: May we see him?
BOBA FETT: Sure.
Another brief pause, then BOBA FETT steps aside, and TAUN WE, RATCHET and OBI-WAN go through.
INTERIOR: TIPOCA CITY, FETT APARTMENT - DAY
OBI-WAN, TAUN WE, and BOBA FETT enter the apartment. OBI-WAN looks around the room.
BOBA FETT: Dad! Taun We's and Ratchets here!
JANGO FETT comes in from the bedroom. He wears a jumpsuit. He is unshaven and mean looking, his face pitted with scars of old wounds. There are a couple of weird tattoos on his muscular forearms. He eyes OBI-WAN with suspicion.
TAUN WE: Jango, welcome back. Was your trip productive?
JANGO FETT: Fairly.
OBI-WAN and JANGO FETT size each other up. BOBA FETT studies both of them.
TAUN WE: This is Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's come to check on our progress.
JANGO FETT: That right?
JANGO FETT'S eyes fix OBI-WAN coldly.
OBI-WAN: Your clones are very impressive. You must be very proud.
JANGO FETT: I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe, Master Jedi.
OBI-WAN: Aren't we all?
OBI-WAN eyes the half-open bedroom door, through which a couple of pieces of body armor can be seen on the floor. JANGO FETT registers OBI-WAN'S look. He moves in front of him, blocking the view.
OBI-WAN: Ever make your way as far into the interior as Coruscant?
JANGO FETT: Once or twice.
OBI-WAN: Recently?
JANGO FETT: (eyes Obi-Wan carefully) Possibly...
OBI-WAN: Then you must know Master Sifo-Dyas?
JANGO FETT: (in Huttese) Boba, close the door.
BOBA FETT moves to close the bedroom door. JANGO FETT smiles thinly at OBI-WAN.
JANGO FETT: Master who?
OBI-WAN: Sifo-Dyas. Is he not the Jedi who hired you for this job?
JANGO FETT: Never heard of him.
OBI-WAN: Really.
RATCHET: If he didn't hired you then who did.
JANGO FETT: I was recruited by a man called Darth Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden.
OBI-WAN: No? Ratchet and I thought...
TAUN WE: Sifo-Dyas told us to expect him. And he showed up just when your Jedi Master said he would. We have kept the Jedi's involvement a secret until your arrival, just as your Master requested.
OBI-WAN: Curious...
JANGO FETT: Do you like your army?
OBI-WAN: I look forward to seeing them in action. Along with the Autobots.
JANGO FETT: (grinning) They'll do their job well, I'll guarantee that.
OBI-WAN: Thanks for your time, Jango.
JANGO FETT: Always a pleasure to meet a Jedi. Ratchet always a pleasure.
OBI-WAN, RATCHET and TAUN WE go out. The door slides closed. JANGO FETT turns to his son. He is deep in thought.
BOBA FETT: What is it, Dad?
JANGO FETT: Pack your things. We're leaving.