Anakin Skywalker: What could that creature want with Padmé? Obi-Wan Kenobi: I don’t know. But he was strong in the Force. I dare say he might have been a Sith Lord. Anakin Skywalker: A what? Obi-Wan Kenobi: Anakin, what do you know about the Jedi? Anakin Skywalker: You said Jedi weren’t warriors, but after what I saw … Obi-Wan Kenobi: We’re not warriors. We’re the keepers of the peace, and rely on the Force to guide our instincts. Sometimes we must fight, but that is always a last recourse.
SFX: [GASP!] Obi-Wan Kenobi: Where is she? Anakin Skywalker: He took her. Whoever he was. Obi-Wan Kenobi: We need to find her. SFX: [SIT UP] Anakin Skywalker: It’s too dark. The Sand People might find us. We can move at daylight. Anakin Skywalker: I found a salve in your belt pack. And reattached your laser sword. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Lightsaber. Anakin Skywalker: How do you feel? Obi-Wan Kenobi:Worse than when Master Yoda hits me with his gimmer stick.
SFX: [SNAP-HISS] SFX: [HUMM] Count Dooku: You didn’t check in. Darth Maul: You have the Queen. Count Dooku: Two starfighters made it past the blockade. Did you find her accomplice? Darth Maul: He was a Jedi. Count Dooku: Did you kill him? Darth Maul: I didn’t have time. Count Dooku: Then make time. Coming back here will let the Jedi know of your involvement with me. Find him and kill him. Darth Maul: Very well, Count Dooku. SFX: [ZOOM!]
Count Dooku: So what do you say? Would you truly turn your back on your family? Padmé Amidala: Is that what you call them? ‘Family’? Padmé Amidala: Your hubris is appalling, Count, and I will have no part in it. Throw me in a cell and leave me to rot. You’re wasting both our time. SFX: [TURN] Count Dooku: Guards, make sure Her Majesty and her friend are comfortable. Count Dooku: My office if yours, my lady. Please enjoy the view. SFX: [CLICK! CLICK!]
Count Dooku: There is another option. Join me and we can give this galaxy something it has been missing: Justice. Think, if there were justice, you wouldn’t have to hide here on the outer edges of a government that considers you less than human. Padmé Amidala: That’s treason. The Republic will consider Naboo a hostile system and treat us as such. SFX: [KNEEL] Count Dooku: What do you care? You’re just a clone. Padmé Amidala: So are you. Count Dooku: Not the only one. If you please. SFX: [CLICK! CLICK!]
Count Dooku: Don’t be insulting. Did you think I, of all people, wouldn’t know this Queen is a decoy? Sit. Count Dooku: You understand the ineffectiveness of the Senate. Bureaucracy and inadequacy as far as the eye can see. But what if I told you there’s a way to heal the Senate? A way to restore the Republic to its former glory? Padmé Amidala: And which glory is that, Count? Not everyone can be the despot of their own tiny kingdom. Count Dooku: One can’t always repair the broken starship, you know. Sometimes one must sell off the scraps. Padmé Amidala: You mean to beat other star systems into submission. Make them join your ... slaughter. Count Dooku: Slaughter? Who had the opportunity to prevent the slaughter that has claimed the lives of millions of Naboo? Tell me that, Your Majesty.
