Until then, I see no reason to leave the
Republic.
BAIL ORGANA
Fine. But what you don’t understand is
that there is no more Republic, you just
don’t realize it.
Garm leaves the tavern.
EXT. MUSTAFAR – LANDING PLATFORM – DAY
Vader sees Padme’s ship arriving on the screen and goes
out to meet her.
The sleek NABOO SKIFF lands on the Mustafar landing
platform near Vader’s GREEN STARFIGHTER.
Vader runs up to the SKIFF as the ramp lowers. Padme
runs to him.
DARTH VADER
Padme, I saw your ship…
They embrace.
PADME
Oh, Anakin!
DARTH VADER
It’s all right, you’re safe now. But I
told you to go to Naboo. This changes
everything.
PADME
I was scared, I didn’t know what to do.
Obi-Wan came to see me, with Master Yoda
and Senator Organa.
DARTH VADER
Obi-Wan? He’s alive?
PADME
Yes. They were trying get information
from me, about you.
DARTH VADER
And what did you tell them?
PADME
Nothing. But they know that we’re
married.
115.
GARM BEL IBLIS (CONT’D)
DARTH VADER
(snickering)
It doesn’t even matter now. Things are
going to be completely different for us.
Padme hugs him tightly.
PADME
So, what do we do now?
DARTH VADER
We’re free to live our lives now, like
we’ve always wanted.
Out of nowhere, we hear a familiar voice…
OBI-WAN KENOBI (O.C.)
What happened, Anakin?
Vader turns and sees Obi-Wan saunter down the ship’s
ramp! He snuck on board knowing Padme would lead him
right to Anakin.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Where did it all go wrong?
Padme pulls away from Anakin, surprised to see the Jedi.
DARTH VADER
What are you doing here?
PADME
He must have stowed away. I swear I
didn’t know he was on board, Anakin!
DARTH VADER
Go to the control tower, Padme.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
No, why don’t you stay and listen to what
your husband has become.
DARTH VADER
Shutup, Obi-Wan. Padme, do as I say.
(angrily)
Now!
Padme hesitates, part of her desperately wants to hear
what Obi-Wan has to say.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
How many lives have you taken, Anakin?
How many lives did it take for your get
what you wanted?
116.
DARTH VADER
I have chosen my own path, Not the one
you would have me take.
Obi-Wan walks towards his former apprentice.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
That much is for certain. Master Windu
was right about you. About your
overwhelming pride and arrogance. Did
you feel any guilt after you killed him?
DARTH VADER
Master Windu attacked me. I had no
choice.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
There is always a choice, Anakin.
DARTH VADER
I spared your life at the Chancellor’s
office. You shouldn’t have come back.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Unlike you, I do feel guilty, about the
way I failed you. I thought I could
train you as well as Yoda himself.
DARTH VADER
I absolve you of your guilt, Obi-Wan, but
I have a new master now.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Yes, I know.
DARTH VADER
You’ve left me no choice but to kill you.
Obi-Wan cannot believe how far his student has fallen.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
We were friends, Anakin, fellow Jedi
serving a greater purpose than ourselves.
Doesn’t that mean anything to you?
DARTH VADER
(beat)
My name is Darth Vader.
Vader ignites his lightsaber.
Obi-Wan knows now there is no turning back. Either he or
Anakin will die on this obscure, out-of-the-way rock of a
planet.
117.
Padme intervenes, stands in between Vader and Obi-Wan.
PADME
(pleading)
Anakin, stop! Things don’t have to end
this way.
DARTH VADER
That’s where you’re wrong.
Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber.
PADME
No more fighting, please!
Padme tries to hold her husband back as moves towards his
foe.
DARTH VADER
Get out of my way.
Vader shoves Padme to the side.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Leave her out of this!
Vader becomes so enraged that he inadvertently Force
chokes his own wife!
DARTH VADER
This is all your fault, Obi-Wan!
Padme struggles to breathe.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Let her go! It’s me you want!
Vader realizes what he’s done.
DARTH VADER
Padme!
Padme is unconscious now, lying on the platform.
Obi-Wan makes the first move, charges Vader while he’s
distracted.
They begin a ferocious sword fight. Vader throws
CONTAINERS at Obi-Wan using the Force.
They work their way off the landing platform and into the
main entry hallway. Vader kicks Obi-Wan, dropping him to
a lower level.
118.
ANAKIN
You’re no match for the dark side,
Master.
OBI-WAN
I’ve heard that before, Anakin… but I
never thought I’d hear it from you.
Vader forces Obi-Wan back into the Conference Room where
the quarters are much closer. Sparks fly everywhere.
The agile Vader jumps onto the conference table.
Obi-Wan slides across the table, knocking Vader over. Obi-
Wan grabs Vader’s lightsaber as he falls. Obi-Wan uses
the Force to summon his dropped lightsaber, Vader does
the same.
INT. CORUSCANT – SENATE CHAMBER – MAIN ARENA
Darth Sidious 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.
INT. MUSTAFAR – MAIN CONTROL CENTER
The battle intensifies!
Obi-Wan stands looking at his former apprentice for a
moment, then they lock sabers.
Obi-Wan puts out his hand to use the Force to push Vader
away.
Vader 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.
Vader 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.
INT. CORUSCANT – SENATE CHAMRER – MAIN ARENA
Yoda unleashes a ferocious assault on Sidious, causing
him to almost go over the edge.
121.
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.
YODA
Destroy you I will.
Yoda jumps to a lower Senate Pod.
Darth Sidious reaches out with one hand, and a Senate pod
is released from its mooring and heads toward the Podium.
Sidious 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 Sidious, who leaps away at the last
moment.
Yoda leaps after him, but Sidious quickly turns and aims
the full force of his energy bolts at the tiny 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 Force lightning and throws Sidious
backwards off the podium. Yoda is knocked off the Podium
and falls several hundred feet to the base of the Podium.
Darth Sidious follows in his pod, searching for Yoda.
EXT. MUSTAFAR – MAIN CONTROL CENTER BALCONY
Vader 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.
Vader cuts apiece 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.
122.
Obi-Wan has no choice but to tightrope-walk out across
the lava river while fighting Vader.
EXT. MAIN CONTROL CENTER BALCONY/PIPE ACROSS LAVA RIVER/
MAIN COLLECTION PLANT
Vader, following Obi-Wan, jumps down onto the flexing
pipe, lands, and resumes fighting.
INT. MUSTAFAR – PIPE ACROSS LAVA RIVER
Obi-Wan and Vader 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.
INT. SENATE OFFICE BUILDING – WIRING CHUTE – CORUSCANT
Yoda squishes his way through a mass of wires in a small
chute.
INT. SENATE CHAMBER – MAIN ARENA
A Senate pod with COMMANDER THIRE (4477) and SEVERAL
OTHER CLONE TROOPERS climb up to where Mas Amedda and
Sidious are waiting.
Beneath the Main Podium, TWENTY CLONE TROOPERS search for
Yoda ‘s body.
CLONE COMMANDER THIRE
There is no sign of his body, sir.
MAS AMEDDA
Then he is not dead.
DARTH SIDIOUS
Double your search.
CLONE COMMANDER THIRE
Right away, sir.
123.
DARTH SIDIOUS
(to Mas Amedda)
Tell Captain Kagi to prepare my shuttle
for immediate takeoff.
MAS AMEDDA
Yes, my Lord.
DARTH SIDIOUS
I sense Lord Vader is in danger.
Lord Sidious 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.
EXT. MUSTAFAR – COLLECTION PANELS
Obi-Wan and Vader battle on the top of the multi-spired
collection panels, jumping from one to the other. At the
end of the collection cluster, a huge spray of lava
covers the attachments that hold up the collectors. The
frame begins to melt.
It’s raining lava!
Both Vader and Obi-Wan run for cover under the collection
cluster. They continue to fight in the lava rain,
darting from cover to attack, then quickly retreating to
cover.
Support for the entire structure begins to fall away, and
the collection cluster falls into the lava river.
The Jedi continue their fight, climbing to the highest
point on the tower as the rest begins to melt away,
riding the swift current down the river. It bends toward
the lava as they get out toward the end.
The fighting gets fierce again.
Obi-Wan gets to the end and is trapped. The tower slowly
starts to sink under the lava.
EXT. CORUSCANT – SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
Bail Organa, in his open Cockpit Speeder, flies along
next to the roof eave of the huge Senate Building. He
slows and moves closer to a long row of recessed lights.
124.
Suddenly Yoda falls out of one of the light recesses and
lands in the Speeder. Bail guns it and speeds away from
the Senate Building.
INT. BAIL ORGANA’S SPEEDER
Yoda straightens himself out.
YODA
Into exile I must go. Failed, I have.
Yoda and Bail fly into the traffic of the city.
EXT. MUSTAFAR – COLLECTION PANELS
Obi-Wan realizes he is getting very close to the edge of
the lava falls. He grabs a rope and leaps from the
collection arm. Vader follows.
Vader and Obi-Wan continue their sword fight hanging from
cables as they swing past each other.
EXT. LANDING PLATFORM – NABOO SKIFF
C-3PO carefully lifts Padme into his arms. R2-D2
nervously looks on. BEEPING.
C-3PO
I am being careful. I’ve got a good hold
on her.
C-3PO carries Padme into the Naboo Skiff.
EXT. COLLECTION PANELS
From their cables, Vader and Obi-Wan both spot something
that causes them to stop fighting. The lava river ahead
drops off in a tremendous lava fall.
SNAPPING AND METAL GROANS are heard as the main part of
the collector starts to break away and move toward the
lava fall. Obi-Wan looks around and sees a small
floating platform making its way toward the tower.
Obi-Wan does a double hack-flip and lands squarely on the
floating platform. He immediately leans to one side and
moves away from the tower.
Vader realizes he is doomed as the entire tower heads for
the falls.
125.
In the distance he sees some CONSTRUCTION DROIDS. He
swings back to the tower, climbs up and makes a running
leap and miraculously lands on A WORKER DROID.
The DROID is confused and chatters to his CO-WORKER. The
giant collector goes over the lava flow and disappears in
the mist of sparks below.
Obi-Wan heads for the bank of the lava river, but Vader’s
DROID is faster. He catches up with his old Master.
Obi-Wan and Vader continue the swordfight. They battle
away, balancing on the tiny platform and puzzled DROID.
Vader, standing on the Droid, approaches Obi-Wan on the
work platform.
DARTH VADER
This is the end, Obi-Wan. You should
have vanished when I gave you the chance.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
I refused to give up on you, Anakin.
That is what it means to be good and
just.
DARTH VADER
Such foolish compassion only makes you
weak. I have had enough of your rules
and righteousness!
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Then you truly are beyond saving.
There is a pause as ObiWan contemplates his next move.
Vader reads his thoughts, his old Master has nowhere left
to go.
Obi-Wan leaps, Vader follows him, and they both flip in
the air, landing on the sloping banks of the torrential
lava river.
Obi-Wan is drained mentally and physically, completely
out of options.
DARTH VADER
Goodbye, old friend.
As Vader lifts his red lightsaber high for another
attack, a plume of lava erupts from the river, spewing
boiling magma all over Vader’s head and torso!
Lord Vader HOWLS in ungodly agony!
126.
Obi-Wan is merciless in this moment, sees the only chance
he’ll get. He charges forward and slashes, severing
Vader’s left arm!
Vader loses his balance on the slope, falls downward as
Obi-Wan strikes again, severing both of Vader’s legs at
the knees!
The crippled body of Vader slides down towards the lava
river, but Obi-Wan summons the Force and halts his former
Padawan’s descent to certain death.
Vader lies flat on stomach, his face is burned almost
beyond recognition, all his hair gone! Every inch of his
youthful frame’s skin is charred and ruined. His very
clothing melted onto his burnt flesh. All that remains
of use is his right arm, and half of that is his
artificial forearm and hand.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
I loved you, Anakin! You were my
brother!
All the helpless Vader can do is SCREAM from the
unbelievable pain as what’s left of his body is covered
in third degree burns.
The river is unstable, spewing more and more lava into
the air.
Obi-Wan’s clothing is tattered, singed by the heat and
fire of this cursed planet. He gazes one final time down
at the man he’s known since he was a young boy. Anakin,
or even Darth Vader, will never be the same again.
As the lava plumes intensify, Obi-Wan turns and abandons
the near-death Vader on the slope.