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June 28, 2006

Based on the ORIGINAL screenplay by George Lucas. This scene is one of my favourite in the movie. Some of the script were found in the film, others wasn't in the film. I will put more scene for the next few days...together with the original screenplay that wasn't in the film.

ON THE JEDI COUNCIL SCENE



"Thank you, Master. You have my pledge that I will uphold the highest principles of the Jedi Order." said Anakin Skywalker.

"Allow this appointment lightly, the Council does not. Distrubing is this move by Chancellor Palpatine. On many levels." said Master Yoda.

Anakin inclined his head. "I understand."

"I'm not sure you do." said Master Windu. "You will attend the meetings of this Council. But you will not be granted the rank and privileges of a Jedi Master."

"What?" - even to Anakin's own ears, the voice that came from his lips didn't sound like his own. "How dare you? How dare you?" He wasn't even truly aware of speaking. "No Jedi in this room can match my power - no Jedi in the galaxy! You think you can deny Mastery to me?"

"The Chancellor's representative you are," Yoda said. "And it is as his representative you shall attend the Coucil. Sit in this Chamber you will, but no vote will you have. The Chancellor's views you shall present. His wishes. His ideas and directives. Not your own."

"This is an insult to me, and to the Chancellor. Do not imagine that it will be tolerated." said Anakin.

"Take your seat, young Skywalker." Mace Windu's eyes and voice were as cold as Anakin's.

Anakin matched his stare. Perhaps I'll take yours. His own voice, inside his head. You think you can stop me from saving my love? You think you can make me watch her die? Go ahead and Vaapad this, you -
"Anakain," Obi-Wan said softly. "Please."

Anakin blink. He felt very foolish. "Forgive me, Master."


SECRET ASSIGNMENT SCENE
"This is outrageous. How can they do this?" Anakin didn have to keep his voice down.

"How can they not?" Obi-Wan countered. "It's your friendship with the Chancellor - the same freindship that got you a seat at the Council - that makes it impossible to grant you Mastery. In the Council's eyes, that would be the same as giving a vote to Palpatine himself."
Anakin didn't have time for the Council's political maneuvering. "I didn't ask for this. I don't need this. So if I wasn't friends with Palpatine I'd be a Master already, is that what you're saying?"

"I don't know."

"I have the power of any five Master. Any ten. You know it, and so do they."

"Power alone is no credit to you -"
"They're the ones who call me the chosen one! Chosen for what? To be a dupe in some slimy political game?"

"Didn't I warn you, Anakin? I told you of the...tension...between the Council and the Chancellor. I was very clear. Why didn't you listen? You walked right into it!"

"Like that ray shield trap. Should I blame this on the dark side, too?"
"However it happened, you are in a very...delicate situation."

"What situation? Who cares about me? I'm no Master, I'm just a kid, right? Is that what it's about? Is Master Windu turning everyone against me because until I came along, he was the youngest Jedi ever named to be Council?"

"No one cares about that -"
"Sure they don't. Let me tell you something a smart old man said to me no so long ago: Age is no measure of wisdom. If it were, Yoda would be twenty times as wise as you are - "

"This has nothing to do with Master Yoda."

"That's right. It has to do with me. It has to do with them all being against me. They always have been - most of them didn't even want me to be a Jedi. And if they'd won out, where would they be right now? Who would have done the things I've done? Who would have saved Naboo? Who would have saved Kamino? Who would have killed Dooku, and rescued the Chancellor? Who would have come for you and Alpha after Ventress -"

"Yes, Anakin, yes. Of course. No one questions your accomplishments. It's your relationship to Palpatine that is the problem. And it is a very serious problem."
"I'm too close to him? Maybe I am. Maybe I should alienate a man who's been nothing but kind and generous to me ever since I first came to this planet! Maybe I should reject the only man who gives me the respect I deserve -"

"Anakin, stop. Listen to yourself. Your thoughts are of jealousy, and pride. These are dark thoughts, Anakin. Dangerous thoughts, in these dark times - you are focused on yourself when you need to focus on your service. Your outburst in the Council was an eloquent argument against granting you Mastery. How can you be a Jedi Master when you have not mastered yourself?"

Anakin passed his flesh hand over his eyes and drew a long, heavy breath. In much lower, clamer, quieter tone, he said, "What do I have to do?"

Obi-Wan frowned. "I'm sorry?"

"They want something from me, don't they? That's what this is really about. That's what's been about from the beginning. They won't give me my rank until I give them what they want."

"The Council does not operate that way, Anakin, and you know it."

"Yes, I know it. Sure I do." Anakin was sick of the whole business. Why couldn't it just be over? "Tell me what they want."

"Anakin, look, I'm on your side, I never wanted to see you put in this situation."

"What situation?"

Obi-Wan hesitated.

Anakin said. "Look, whatever it is, it's not getting any better while you're standing here working up the nerve to tell me. Come on, Obi-Wan. Let's have it."

"The Council, approved your appointment because Palpatine trusts you. They want you to report on all his dealings. They have to know what he's up to."

"They want me to spy on the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic? Obi-Wan, that's treason!" "We are at war, Anakin. The Council is sworn to uphold the principles of the Republic through any means necessary. We have to. Especially when the greatest enemy of those principles seems to be the Chancellor himself!"

"Why didn't the Council give me this assignment while we were in session?"

"Because it's not for the record, Anakin. You must be able to understand why." "What I understand, is that you are trying to turn me against Palpatine. You're trying to make me keep secret from him - you want to make me lie to him. That's what this is really about."

"It isn't. It's about keeping an eye on who he deals with , and who deals with him."

"He's not a bad man, Obi-Wan - he's a great man, who's holding this Republic togetehr with his bare hands -"

"By staying in office long after his term has expired. By gathering dictatorial powers - "

"The Senate demanded that he stay! They pushed those powers on him -"
"Don't be naive. The Senate is so intimidated they give him anything he wants!"

"Then it's their fault, not his! They should have the guts to stand up to him!"

"That is what we're asking you to do, Anakin."

"He's my friend, Obi-Wan." "Yes, I know."
"If he asked me to spy on you, do you think I would do it?"

Obi-Wan become silent.

"You know how kind he has been to me. You know how he's looked after me, how he's done everything he could to help me. He's like family."

"The Jedi are you family -"

"No." Anakin said. " No, the Jedi are your family. The only one you've ever known. but I'm not like you - I had a mother who loved me -" And a wife who loves me, he thought. And soon a child who will love me, too. "Do you remember my mother? Do you remember what happened to her -?" Within him, a cold whisper chewed at his strenght. All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out.

"Anakin, yes. Of course. you know how sorry I am for your mother. Listen: we're not asking you to act against palpatine. We're only asking you to...monitor his activities. You must believe me. Palpatine himself may be in danger, this may be the only way you can help him." "What are you talking abou?"

"I am not supposed to be telling you this. Please do not reveal we have has this conversation. To anyone, do you understand?"

"I can keep a secret."

"All right. Master Windu traced Darth Sidious to Five Hundred Republica before Grievous's attack - we think that the Sith Lord is someone within Palpatine's closest circle of advisers. That is who we want you to spy on, do you understand? If Palpatine is under the influence of a Sith Lord, he may be in the gravest danger. The only way we can help him is to find Sidious, and to stop him. What we are asking of you is not treason, Anakin - it may be the only way to save the Republic!"
If this Darth Sidious of yours were to walk through taht door right now...I would ask him to sit down, and I would ask him if has any power he could use to end this war, Anaking thought. " So all you're really asking is for me the help the Council find Darth Sidious."
"Yes. Yes, that's it exactly."

Anakin thought, I would ask him to sit down, and I would ask him if he has any power he could use to save Padme.


NOT THE CHOSEN ONE? SCENE
"I suppose - he is the chosen one, after all. The prophecy says he was born to bring balance to the Force, but..." Obi-Wan's words trailed off.

"Yes. Always in motion, the future is." Yoda said. "And the prophecy, misread it could have been."

Mace Windu said, "Since the fall of Darth Dane more than a millennium ago, there have been hundreds of thousands of Jedi - hundreds of thousands of Jedi feeding the light with each work of their hands, with each breath, with every beat of their hearts, bringing justice, building civil society, radiating peace, acting out of selfless love for all living things - and in all these thousand years, there have been only 2 Sith at any time. Only two. Jedi create light, but the Sith do not create darkness. They merely use the darkness that is always there. That has always been there. Greed and jealousy, aggression and lust and fear - these are all natural to sentient beings. The legacy of the jungle. Our inheritance from the dark."

Obi-Wan said, "I'm sorry, Master Windu, but I'm not sure I follow you. Are you saying - to follow your metaphor - that the Jedi have cas too much light? From what I have seen these past years, the galaxy has not become all the bright a place."
Mace Windu reply, "All I am saying is that we don't know. We don't even truly understand what it means to bring balance to the Force. We have no way of anticipating what this may involve."

"An infinite mystery is the Force, " Yoda said softly. "The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know."

"So you both feel it too," Obi-Wan said. "You both can feel that we have turned some invisible corner."

Yoda reply, "In motion, are the events of our time. Approach, the crisis does."

"Yes." Mace Windu said. "But we're in a spice mine without a glow rod. If we stop walking, we'll never reach the light."
"And what if the light just isn't there?" Obi-Wan asked. "What if we get to the end of this tunnel and find only night?"

"Faith must we have. Trust in the will of the Force. What other choice is there?" Yoda reply.

Obi-Wan nod. "I should have argued more strongly in Council today."

"You think Skywalker won't be able to handle this? Mace Windu said. "I thought you had more confidence in his abilities." "I trust him with my life, " Obi-Wan said. "And that is preciesely the problem. For Anakin, there is nothing more important than friendship. He is the most loyal man I have ever met - loyal beyond reason, in fact. Despite all I have tried to teach him about the sacrifices that are the heart of being a Jedi, he - he will never, I think, truely understand."

Yoda and Mace Windu exchange glances.

"I think, " Obi-Wan said, "that abstractions like peace don't mean much to him. He's loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in return. He will stop at nothing to save, for example, because he thinks I would do the same for him. Because he knows I would do the same for him."

"Understand exactly where your corcern lies, I do not." Yoda said. "Named must your fear be, before banish it you can. Do you fear that perform his task, he cannot?"
Obi-Wan answer, "Oh no. That's not it at all. i am firmly convinced that Anakin can do anything. Except betray a friend. What we have done to him today..."

"But that is what Jedi are, " Mace Windu said. "That is what we have pledged ourselves to: selfless service -"
"Yes," Obi-Wan said. "That's why I don't think he will ever trust us again. And I'm not entirely sure he should."


SEED OF DISTRUST SCENE
"How are you feeling?" Anakin ask.

Padme smile, she took his flesh hand and pressed it to the soft fullness of her belly. "He keeps kicking."

"He? I thought you'd ordered your medical droid not to spoil the surprise."

"Oh, I didn't get this from the Emdee. It's my...motherly intuition."

Anaking felt a kick against his palm and laughed. "Motherly intuitions, huh? With a kick that hard? Definitely a girl."

"Anakin, let's go inside."
"I can't stay. I'm on my way to meet with the Chancellor."

"Yes, I heard about your appointment to the Council. Anakin, I'm so proud of you."

Why did she have to bring that up? "There's nothing to be proud of. This is just political manuevering between the Council and the Chancellor. I got caught in the middle, that's all."

"But to be on the Council, at your age -"

"They put me on the Council because they had to. Because he told them to, once the Senate gave him control of the Jedi. And because they think they can use me against him."
"Against him...the Jedi don't trust him?"

"That doesn't mean much. They don't trust me, either. They'll give me a chiar in the Council Chamber, but that's as far as it will. They won't accept me as a Master."

"Patience, my love. In time, they will recognize your ability." "They already recognize my abilities. They fear my abilities, but this isn't even about that. Like I said it's a political game."

"Anakin - "

"I don't know what's happening to the Jedi Order, but whatever it is, I don't like it. This war is destroying everything the Republic is supposed to stand for. I mean, what are we fighting for anyway? What about all this worth saving?" "Sometimes I wonder if we're on the wrong side."

"The wrong side? You can't mean that."

"What if the democracy we're fighting for no longer exists? What if the Republic itself has become the very evil we've been fighting to destory?"

"Oh, this again. I've been hearing that garbage ever since Geonosis. I never thought I'd hear if from you."

"A few seconds ago you were saying almost the same thing!"

"Where would the Republic be without Palpatine?"

"I don't know, but I'm not sure it would be worse that where we are."
"Everybody complains about Palpatine having too much power, but nobody offers a better alternative. Who should be running the war? The Senate? You're in the Senate, you know those people - how many of them do you trust?"

"All I know is that things are going wrong here. Our government is headed in exactly the wrong direction. You know it, too - you just said so!"

"I didn't mean that. I just - I'm tired of this, that's all. This political garbage. Sometimes I'd rather just be back out on the front lines. At least out there, I know who the bad guys are."

"I'm becoming afraid, that I might know who the bad guys are here, too."

"You're starting to sound like a Separatist."
"Anakin, the whole galaxy knows now that Count Dooku is dead. This is the time we should be pursing a diplomatic resolution to the war - but instead the fighting is intensifying! Palpatine's your friend, he might listen to you. When you see him tonight, ask him, in the name of simple decency to offer a ceasefire - "

"Is that an order?"

"What?"

"Do I get any say in this? Does my opinion matter? What if I don't agree with you? What if I think Palpatine's way is the right way?"

"Anakin, hundreds of thousands of beings are dying every day!"
"It's a war, Padme. We didn't ask for it, remember? You were there - maybe we should have 'pursued a diplomatic resolution' in that beast arena!"

"I was.....I was only asking..."

"Everyone is only asking. Everyone wants something from me. And I'm the bad guy if they don't get it! I'm sick of this. I'm sick of all of it."

"Anakin, what is it? What is it really?"

"Nothing that's your fault, nothing you can help."
"Don't shut me out, Anakin. Let me try."

"You can't help me. I'm trying to help you." He see something in her eyes. "What aren't you telling me? I can feel it, Padme. I sense you're keeping a secret."

"Oh? That's funny, I was thinking the same about you." She moved close to him.
"Why does it have to be like this? Why does there have to even be such a thing as war? Can't we just ...go back? Even just to pretend. Let's pretend we're back at the lack on Naboo, just the two of us. When there was no war, no polititcs. No plotting. Just us. you and me, and love. That's all we need. You and me, and love."

Right now Anakin couldn't remember what that had been like. "I have to go, the Chancellor is waiting."


1:23 PM


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