Star Wars: The Force Awakens/Transcript

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
 Written by
 Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams & Michael Arndt
 
 Based on characters created by George Lucas
 
 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
 STAR WARS
 
 EPISODE VII
 THE FORCE AWAKENS
 Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence,
 the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the
 ashes of the Empire and will not rest until
 Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.
 With the support of the REPUBLIC, General
 Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE. She is
 desperate to find her brother Luke and gain
 his help in restoring peace and justice to
 the galaxy.
 Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret
 mission to Jakku, where an old ally has
 discovered a clue to Luke's where abouts....
 PAN across the star field to a bright moon. A RUMBLING is
 FELT. A VAST STAR DESTROYER -- unlike any we have seen --
 HURTLES PAST US, of seemingly endless length, eclipsing the
 moon. After a long beat, FOUR TRANSPORT SHIPS fly from a
 hangar. We HOLD ON THEM NOW, as they fly off toward a distant
 planet. Jakku. MUSIC BUILDS AND WE...
 CUT TO BLACK.
 A GROWING ROAR of MEAN ENGINES -- gnarled RADIO CALLS, the
 SHUDDERING of a ship's hull. Then FLASHES OF LIGHT: for an
 instant we see a STORMTROOPER -- then BLACKNESS. Then ANOTHER
 STORMTROOPER, then it's gone.
 The FLICKERING CONTINUES until the LIGHTS ARE CONSTANT. We
 ARE IN:
 INT. TROOP TRANSPORT VEHICLE - NIGHT
 TWENTY STORMTROOPERS. Holding on at attention, moving to
 the ship's rhythm, in the tense moments before a raid. A
 FILTERED COMMAND and they LOCK AND LOAD their heavy blaster
 rifles. The BRUTAL NOISE is replaced by SUDDEN, SHOCKING
 QUIET:
 EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 WIDE SHOT of a small, peaceful village. Distant sounds of
 native animals. A single wind chime.
 Suddenly a DROID RISES INTO FRAME, CLOSE: ROUND and SKITTERY,
 orange and white, this is BB-8.
 Focuses on something past camera. He BEEPS -- FAST, MORSE
 CODE-LIKE SOUNDS, clearly worried. Moves EVEN CLOSER TO
 CAMERA -- is MORE worried -- BEEPS more -- then TURNS AND
 ROLLS OFF FAST --
 INT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT
 CLOSE ON A HAND: a small LEATHER SACK is placed in the palm.
 The hand closes. Another OLDER HAND covers it.
 In a primitive HUT, an old explorer, LOR SAN TEKKA, (rugged,
 kind) has handed the mysterious sack to POE DAMERON (32, in
 a pilot's jacket). Poe has charisma, a natural spark:
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 This will begin to make things right.
 I've traveled too far, and seen too
 much, to ignore the despair in the
 galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can
 be no balance in the Force.
 POE
 Well, because of you now we have a
 chance. The General's been after
 this for a long time.
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 "The General." To me, she's royalty.
 Well, she certainly is that.
 POE
 BB-8 ENTERS FRANTIC, BEEPS. Concerned, Poe turns to Lor San
 Tekka.
 POE (CONT'D)
 We've got company.
 EXT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT
 The men exit fast. Poe moves TO CAMERA, raises QUADNOCULARS.
 POE'S POV: LIGHTS on the horizon -- approaching ENEMY SHIPS.
 POE lowers the quadnocs -- PUSH IN ON HIS UNNERVED EYES. A
 GROWING, FRIGHTENING THUNDER.
 POE
 You have to hide.
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 You have to leave. Go!
 Poe turns to him. Conflicted. Finally nods, hurries off.
 BB-8 follows.
 EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 TRACK FAST with Poe as he and BB-8 hurry through the village,
 various ARMED VILLAGERS taking position, prepared to defend.
 EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 A ROAR of WIND and DUST: the TRANSPORTS LAND. Stormtroopers
 come out FIRING BLASTERS -- the VILLAGERS FIRE BACK -- many
 are HIT!
 EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO VILLAGE - NIGHT
 Poe runs to an X-WING fighter, parked at a distance from the
 village, hidden behind a ROCK OUTCROPPING.
 POE
 Come on, BB-8! Hurry!
 Poe sends BB-8 into the droid socket / co-pilot seat -- he
 moves to the cockpit -- the CONTROLS COME TO LIFE. As the
 CANOPY CLOSES, Poe shoots a quick look back: the ENEMY ARRIVES
 IN THE DISTANCE.
 Poe urgently works the controls -- BB-8 BEEPS.
 The X-WING LANDING LIGHTS COME ON, ENGINES WHINE TO LIFE!
 But just then:
 Poe's ship is suddenly HIT BY BLASTER FIRE! Poe turns to
 look: two STORMTROOPERS CHARGE HIS WAY, FIRING!
 POE (CONT'D)
 I see 'em!
 BB-8 BEEPS nervously as Poe GRABS HIS CONTROLS and FIRES AT
 THEM, using the X-wing's drop-down antipersonnel blaster!
 The two Troopers are BLOWN AWAY in the large BLAST HITS!
 Poe tries to start the ship now, but the ENGINES SPUTTER.
 Concerned, he opens his canopy, jumps down, moves to the
 back of his ship: BAD DAMAGE ON THE REAR ENGINE PANEL.
 They're in trouble.
 EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 Lor San Tekka moves sadly through the village as STORMTROOPERS
 wielding FLAME THROWERS destroy structures. Surrendering
 Villagers are ROUNDED UP. Penned ANIMALS panic.
 EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO THE VILLAGE - NIGHT
 Back at the X-wing, Poe kneels beneath his ship, pulls from
 the leather sack a SMALL, OLD ARTIFACT which he inserts into
 BB-8 -- the droid's MULTI-READER ENVELOPS it.
 POE
 You take this. It's safer with you
 than it is with me. You get as far
 away from here as you can. Do you
 hear me?
 (BB-8 BEEPS, hesitates)
 I'll come back for you! It will be
 alright.
 
 BB-8 watches Poe run off. BEEP-WHINES nervously, then turns
 and heads off. Turns back once to look at Poe, then ROLLS
 AWAY. Poe uses his blaster rifle to fire at incoming troopers
 from cover.
 EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 The Troopers and villagers in battle -- as one Trooper is
 HIT and goes down. Another -- OUR TROOPER -- KNEELS to help.
 The hit trooper raises a torn, bloody glove -- his HUMAN
 HAND visible -- and MARKS OUR STORMTROOPER'S MASK WITH BLOOD
 just before he dies. Our Trooper, stands -- overwhelmed by
 the battle.
 AN IMPOSING SHUTTLE CRAFT -- VERTICAL WINGSPAN 90 FEET TALL --
 LANDS NEAR THE TRANSPORT VEHICLES.
 The shuttle craft door OPENS -- through the wind and smoke,
 KYLO REN exits the ship: a TALL, DARK FIGURE, he strides
 through the chaos toward San Tekka.
 A senior Trooper moves to our blood-marked Trooper, and orders
 HIM:
 SENIOR TROOPER
 Stay here.
 Our Trooper nods.
 Kylo Ren stops before the outraged Lor San Tekka, dwarfing
 him. Only now does it become apparent that Kylo Ren wears a
 DARK MASK, marked by battle. Inset metal lines reflect FIRE.
 KYLO REN
 Look how old you've become.
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 Something far worse has happened to
 you.
 Our blood-marked TROOPER is placed in line with other
 stormtroopers.
 KYLO REN
 You know what I've come for.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: LOR SAN TEKKA
 I know where you come from. Before
 you called yourself Kylo Ren.
 KYLO REN
 The map to Skywalker. We know you've
 found it, and now you're going to
 give it to the First Order.
 Adjacent to the village, Poe enters frame -- sees the Ren/San
 Tekka exchange continue.
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 The First Order rose from the dark
 side... you did not.
 KYLO REN
 I'll show you the dark side.
 LOR SAN TEKKA
 You may try, but you cannot deny the
 truth that is your family.
 Suddenly Kylo Ren raises his LIGHTSABER -- IGNITES IT --
 PERPENDICULAR SMALLER BLADES AT THE HILT, A UNIQUE BUZZ --
 YELLOW/RED ENERGY, SPITTING SPARKS AND SMOKE --
 KYLO REN
 You're so right.
 And as he RIPS IT DOWN ACROSS SAN TEKKA!
 Poe, RUNNING, SEES THIS AND YELLS, AIMS HIS BLASTER AND FIRES
 AT KYLO REN! Instantly:
 Kylo Ren RAISES HIS HAND -- POE'S BLAST FREEZES -- THE BOLT
 OF ENERGY STRAINING AND VIBRATING IN MID AIR!
 Kylo Ren sees Poe, who suddenly CANNOT MOVE, but strains to.
 He is grabbed by Stormtroopers who drag him past the
 VIBRATING, FROZEN BLAST, to Kylo Ren.
 A Stormtrooper begins a brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves
 closer. Poe just glares. The Stormtrooper KICKS OUT Poe's
 legs -- he lands hard on his knees.
 Kylo Ren kneels to look at Poe.
 POE
 So who talks first? You talk first?
 KYLO REN
 The old man gave it to you.
 POE
 (INDICATES KYLO'S MASK)
 
 It's just very hard to understand
 you with all the...
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 KYLO REN
 (TO TROOPERS)
 Search him.
 POE
 ... Apparatus.
 The Troopers roughly pull Poe away. A Stormtrooper begins a
 brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves closer.
 Poe just glares as the pat down ends.
 STORMTROOPER #1
 Nothing, sir.
 KYLO REN
 Put him on board.
 Kylo Ren regards the Stormtroopers with the rounded up
 Villagers, then turns to the CHROME-SKINNED, FEMALE BLACK-
 CAPED HEAD STORMTROOPER, CAPTAIN PHASMA.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 Sir, the villagers.
 KYLO REN
 Kill them all.
 Phasma nods, steps forward:
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 On my command!
 The Troopers, including OURS, aim at the Villagers.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA (CONT'D)
 Fire!
 Poe is roughly PULLED into a transport ship, the ramp LIFTS.
 All around our Trooper BLASTERFIRE ERUPTS -- but we're WIDE
 ENOUGH to see he ISN'T FIRING. PUSH IN until the FIRING
 STOPS. All the Stormtroopers SPREAD OUT TO SEARCH -- except
 ours.
 Kylo Ren heads back toward his ship. But then he STOPS.
 Feels something. TURNS AND LOOKS AT OUR STORMTROOPER for a
 LONG MOMENT. Our Trooper can barely meet his gaze; knows
 he's doomed.
 Kylo Ren then heads off -- passes the FROZEN BLAST, which,
 after a beat, GOES FREE AND SLAMS INTO A NEARBY STRUCTURE,
 scaring the **** out of our Stormtrooper.
 EXT. EDGE OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 A Stormtrooper climbs down from the cockpit of Poe's X-wing,
 BACKS AWAY:
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 STORMTROOPER #2
 Nothing here. Go ahead!
 Three other Stormtroopers FIRE LASER CANNONS at the X-wing --
 destroying the ship in a LARGE EXPLOSION.
 EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT
 BB-8 rolls across the sand, looks back: the X-wing FIREBALL.
 BB-8, afraid, continues on his own in a mysterious, dark
 desert. We see a FORM -- an animal, its RED EYES LIFTING
 from the sand, watching the rolling droid, who just keeps
 going.
 In a WIDE SHOT, we HEAR HIM BEEPING to himself, lonely and
 frightened.
 EXT. SPACE - NIGHT
 With the SANDY PLANET OF JAKKU as backdrop, Troop Transports
 and Kylo Ren's Shuttle approach a massive STAR DESTROYER.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - NIGHT
 Poe, shackled, is ushered from the transport through the
 hangar. He is awed by the imposing space.
 POE
 All right. All right!
 Our Stormtrooper passes, moves fast:
 INT. TROOP TRANSPORT VEHICLE - NIGHT
 Our Stormtrooper enters the dark, vehicle. He removes his
 helmet. His head comes up and we PUSH IN ON HIS FACE FOR
 THE FIRST TIME. This is FN-2187. He is 23, likable. But
 in this moment, terrified, desperate.
 After a beat, behind him, CAPTAIN PHASMA enters. FN-2187
 knows he's in trouble.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 FN-2187. Submit your blaster for
 inspection.
 FN-2187
 Yes, Captain.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 And who gave you permission to remove
 that helmet?
 FN-2187
 I'm sorry, Captain.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 Report to my division at once.
 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Phasma heads off. Shattered, FN-2187 replaces his helmet.
 CUT TO:
 INT. JUNKED VESSEL CORRIDOR - DAY
 A metal sheet is pulled open to reveal the wrapped up face
 of A SCAVENGER, perhaps alien, in GOGGLES, FACE MASK and
 GLOVES. Backpack with a STAFF strapped to it. Uses TOOLS
 to remove various MECHANISMS from inside the wall. We are
 in an upside-down, canted CORRIDOR. The Scavenger finds a
 valuable piece, drops it in a SATCHEL.
 Swings the bag back and begins CLIMBING DOWN on a cable,
 between treacherous WALLS OF MACHINERY, headed to:
 INT. JUNKED VESSEL - LARGER SPACE - LATER
 Alone and tiny in this massive, sideways wreck, the Scavenger
 descends, climbing down a two-hundred foot-long cable. LANDS
 HARD onto rusty metal.
 INT. JUNKED VESSEL - ENGINES - DAY
 The Scavenger carries the satchel and another large, found
 piece, over enormous pipes in the vast space, heads through
 the dust toward a distant SLIT OF SUNLIGHT.
 EXT. JUNKED VESSEL ENGINE - DAY
 The Scavenger arrives from the darkness and pulls off goggles
 and gear, revealing the grimy face of a beautiful, young
 WOMAN. This is REY, 19.
 She opens her canteen, shakes out the two final drops into
 her mouth. HITS THE SIDE of the canteen again and again for
 whatever she can get. CUT WIDE:
 Rey is rendered minuscule, standing at the bottom of an EPIC
 ENGINE OF A DECAYING, CRASHED STAR DESTROYER -- DISTANT SOUND
 of her canteen-hitting. She sets her things on a piece of
 sheet metal and sits next to it, sliding down the sand dune.
 She RIDES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN OF SAND. WE HOLD FOR A LONG
 TIME, looking down, as she recedes from us, toward the distant
 SALT FLATS below. Random SCATTERED DEBRIS. Her SPEEDER,
 tiny from here.
 Rey moves to her junker SPEEDER, jumps on, fires the sputtery
 engine and DRIVES OFF.
 EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY
 Rey races along the desert floor: a GRAVEYARD OF CRASHED
 SPACESHIPS.
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY
 Rey's speeder PASSES us, heading for a dusty, desert town.
 Refueling, small trade, scavengers. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 CRASH! Rey's sack carrying her heavy FOUND OBJECTS hits the
 sand. Working like a tough seaman, Rey hauls the sack from
 her speeder toward the town.
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - CLEANING TABLE - DAY
 TIGHT ON REY'S HANDS as she SCRUBS CLEAN her day's salvage.
 Rey glances up: she looks at an old woman, also cleaning
 some salvage.
 Rey watches her, gets lost in the simple moment. A small,
 passing alien UNDERLING barks something to her in another
 language. She returns to work.
 INT. NIIMA TRADING STRUCTURE - DAY
 Rey looks up to a SERVICE WINDOW: two feet above her, behind
 a protective screen, is her boss, UNKAR PLUTT (50, blobfish,
 unclean). He examines her pieces. Then he offers:
 UNKAR
 What you've brought me today is
 worth... Hmmm... One quarter
 portion.
 Though disappointed, Rey barely shows it. She nods thanks.
 Unkar pushes through his transfer drawer a SEALED PACKET:
 DRIED GREEN MEAT in one section, BEIGE POWDER in another.
 She takes it.
 She swallows her resentment and heads off.
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY
 The IMMENSE SETTING SUN against the FLAT TERRAIN. Rey's
 SPEEDER races, almost insignificant, across frame.
 INT. REY'S DWELLING - DAY
 She SCRATCHES MARKS into the rusty wall. Another MARK;
 another DAY. And there are THOUSANDS of marks.
 A SIZZLING SOUND over: A DRIED DESERT FLOWER in a rusty ENGINE
 PIECE. A rough, stuffed HANDMADE DOLL, made from what looks
 like orange Rebellion flight suit material and twine.
 Rey's lonely, ramshackle dwelling. Everything reclaimed.
 She cooks for one. Does everything for one. She opens the
 POWDER, moves to the makeshift WOK, where the GREEN MEAT
 SIZZLES. Pours the powder into milky WATER in a tin. Stirs
 it. It GROWS INTO A LOAF as she puts the meat on an old
 plate. Grabs the loaf.
 EXT. REY'S DWELLING - DUSK
 Rey sits, eats like a starving child. Every last drop.
 Licks the metal plate. Looks out at the horizon. A single
 silent ship heads off, a shimmering, thin contrail. She
 wipes her mouth. Picks up an old, broken REBELLION HELMET.
 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: just 'cause.
 Puts it on,
 WIDE SHOT of Rey sitting, alone and isolated, on the leg of
 an ANCIENT, FALLEN AT-AT in which she lives.
 Then, a distant ELECTRONIC SQUEAL -- instantly she's up,
 helmet too big, she rips it off. Hears ANOTHER BEEPING
 SQUEAL. She hurries to her QUARTERSTAFF and runs off.
 Rey climbs a dune. RISE WITH HER, revealing BB-8, caught in
 a NET but fighting back, being held by a TEEDO (a small,
 brutish desert tyrant), who rides a LUGGABEAST. The teedo
 YELLS at BB-8, who BEEPS madly, struggling to free himself.
 Rey watches this injustice for a beat, finally YELLING OUT:
 REY
 Tal'ama parqual!
 The Teedo and BB-8 STOP, GO SILENT, turn to her.
 REY (CONT'D)
 Parqual zatana!
 A half beat and the Teedo YELLS SOMETHING BACK, threatening.
 BB-8's head swivels to him, then back to Rey, like watching
 a tennis match.
 Rey angrily moves to them, pulling a knife from her pouch.
 Rey starts CUTTING BB-8 out of the netting. The Teedo freaks
 out, YELLING. Rey suddenly stands, turns to the Teedo and
 says, fiercely:
 REY (CONT'D)
 NOMA.
 The Teedo barks a sort of "AHHHHH!" (As if to say, "GO TO
 ****!"), Then heads off on his beast. This prompts BB-8 to
 start BEEP-YELLING at the departing bully, provocatively.
 REY (CONT'D)
 Shhhh.
 BB-8 quiets instantly. The two watch the Teedo head off.
 Finally, BB-8 BEEPS a question. She KNEELS to him.
 REY (CONT'D)
 That's just Teedo. Wants you for
 parts. He has no respect for anyone.
 Your antenna's bent.
 (considers BB-8 for
 the first time,
 (STRAIGHTENS THE ANTENNA)
 Where do you come from?
 (BB-8 BEEPS)
 Classified. Really? Me too. Big
 secret.
 (points to horizon)
 Niima Outpost is that way, stay off
 Kelvin Ridge.
 (MORE) 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY (CONT'D)
 Keep away from the Sinking Fields in
 the north, you'll drown in the sand.
 (stands, heads off)
 
 BB-8 starts after her, BEEPS. She turns sharply, he stops.
 REY (CONT'D)
 Don't follow me. Town is that way.
 (he BEEPS again)
 No!
 She heads off again. Finally he BEEPS to her -- something
 SWEET this time. That he is alone, scared, has no one else.
 This makes her stop. She turns and looks at him. Not liking
 him. But a gesture of her head says, reluctantly, "Come
 on." BB-8 quickly moves to her. They head off together.
 REY (CONT'D)
 In the morning, you go.
 (HE BEEPS)
 You're welcome.
 The two disappear behind a dune.
 EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 Three TIE fighters head to the massive ship high above Jakku.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HOLDING CELL - DAY
 POE, shackled to a chair, BEATEN, wakes up.
 KYLO REN
 I had no idea we had the best pilot
 in the Resistance on board.
 Comfortable?
 Through battered lips:
 POE
 Not really.
 KYLO REN
 I'm impressed. No one has been able
 to get out of you what you did with
 the map.
 POE
 Might wanna rethink your technique.
 Kylo Ren says nothing, reaches out to him. Poe flinches in
 the chair as Kylo Ren reaches for his face, not touching
 him. Poe is soon in agony, remains in horrible silence --
 KYLO REN
 Where is it?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 POE
 The Resistance will not be intimidated
 by you.
 KYLO REN
 Where... is it?
 Poe can't take it -- he BEGINS TO SCREAM and we CUT TO:
 INT. STAR DESTROYER CORRIDOR - DAY
 WHOOOSH! The cell door SLIDES UP. Kylo Ren exits, fierce,
 confronts GENERAL HUX (34, scary) who awaits him:
 KYLO REN
 It's in a droid. A BB unit.
 GENERAL HUX
 Well then. If it's on Jakku, we'll
 soon have it.
 KYLO REN
 I leave that to you.
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY
 BB-8 is dropped to the sand.
 REY
 Don't give up. He still might show
 up. Whoever it is you're waiting
 for. Classified. I know all about
 waiting.
 BB-8 BEEPTALKS a question.
 REY (CONT'D)
 For my family. They'll be back.
 One day. Come on.
 She tries to force a smile, but can't, really. She heads
 off. BB-8 BEEPS... then heads after her.
 INT. NIIMA TRADING STRUCTURE - DAY
 Rey stands with BB-8 in front of Unkar Plutt, at his window.
 He reviews her goods. He glances quickly at BB-8.
 UNKAR
 These five pieces are worth... Let
 me see here... One half portion.
 REY
 (OBJECTS)
 Last week they were a half portion
 each.
 She hates him. He leans forward.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 UNKAR
 What about the droid?
 REY
 What about him?
 UNKAR
 I'll pay for him.
 BB-8 doesn't like this at all. Rey is awkward, but curious.
 UNKAR (CONT'D)
 Sixty portions.
 CLOSE ON HER. Stunned. Literally hungry for this amount of
 food, her stomach practically rumbles.
 BB-8 sees her interest and BEEPS furiously, not liking this
 conversation at all.
 She looks at Unkar. Looks down at BB-8. Considers it all.
 Finally, she hears herself say:
 REY
 Actually... the droid's not for sale.
 (TO BB-8)
 Come on.
 Unkar furious. Rey, then BB-8, head out. Recovering, Unkar
 watches her go with dark eyes. He picks up a communicator:
 UNKAR
 Follow the girl and get that droid.
 He SLAMS the service window door SHUT.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HOLDING CELL - DAY
 The cell door WHOOSHES OPEN -- a STORMTROOPER enters. Poe
 remains shackled, worse for wear. A TROOPER GUARD here.
 STORMTROOPER
 Ren wants the prisoner.
 TIGHT ON POE, in pain, drained, as the Guard unshackles him.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER CORRIDOR - DAY
 An exhausted, handcuffed Poe is walked down the corridor by
 the Stormtrooper, who holds a blaster at Poe's body.
 STORMTROOPER
 Turn here.
 Poe turns into a narrow passageway --
 INT. STAR DESTROYER NARROW PASSAGEWAY - DAY
 Heading down the narrow hall the Stormtrooper stops Poe. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 STORMTROOPER
 Listen carefully: you do exactly as
 I say, I can get you out of here.
 POE
 (COMING TO)
 If -- what--?
 The Stormtrooper pulls off his helmet: IT IS FN-2187.
 FN-2187
 This is a rescue, I'm helping you
 escape. Can you fly a TIE fighter?
 POE
 You with the Resistance--?!
 FN-2187
 What?
 (THAT'S CRAZY)
 No no no! I'm breaking you out.
 Can you fly a TIE fighter?
 POE
 I can fly anything. Why, why are
 you helping me?
 FN-2187
 Because it's the right thing to do.
 POE
 (it hits him)
 You need a pilot.
 FN-2187
 I need a pilot.
 And Poe, seeing this is for real, smiles a hero's smile.
 POE
 We're gonna do this.
 FN-2187
 (unsure but hopeful)
 ... Yeah?
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - DAY
 WIDE SHOT ESTABLISHING the hangar. Find FN-2187, again
 masked, walking with Poe. By all appearances he's escorting
 a prisoner. A group of OFFICERS passes in the opposite
 direction.
 FN-2187
 Okay, stay calm, stay calm.
 POE
 I am calm.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FN-2187
 I'm talking to myself.
 (BEAT)
 Not yet. Okay, go. This way.
 FN-2187 walks quickly toward the far wall -- Poe follows --
 up the stairs to a two-man SPECIAL FORCES TIE FIGHTER --
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 FN-2187 and Poe (wincing, sore) drop into the back-to-back
 cockpit. FN-2187 pulls off his helmet as Poe removes his
 cuffs and jacket, fires up the ship with excitement.
 POE
 I always wanted to fly one of these
 things. Can ya shoot?
 FN-2187
 Blasters, I can!
 POE
 Okay, same principal! Use the toggle
 on the left to switch between
 missiles, cannons, and mag pulse --
 use the site on the right to aim,
 triggers to fire!
 FN-2187
 This is very complicated
 FWOOOOOOM! The TIE FIGHTER LURCHES FORWARD --
 POE
 I can fix this.
 INT. HANGAR SIX CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 WIDE: see the ship STRUGGLE TO RISE, CABLES connected to it --
 PULL BACK FAST to REVEAL we're inside the main control room.
 STAR DESTROYER TECHNICIAN
 We have an unsanctioned departure
 from bay two.
 WHIP TO a FIRST ORDER COLONEL, who responds:
 FIRST ORDER COLONEL
 Alert General Hux and stop that
 fighter.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - DAY
 The TIE Fighter LIFTS OFF from the bay, rips CHARGING cables!
 Stormtroopers UNPACK and aim MEGA BLASTERS.
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 FN-2187 opens fire.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - DAY
 FN-2187 TEARS UP PARKED TIE FIGHTERS and GUN EMPLACEMENTS
 WITH WELL-AIMED, STRATEGIC LASER BLASTS! Hits the CONTROL
 ROOM!
 INT. HANGAR SIX CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 THE WINDOWS ARE BLOWN IN BY LASER BLASTS!
 INT. TIE FIGHTER COCKPIT - DAY
 POE
 I got it!
 EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 The TIE Fighter blasts from the ship --
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 Poe pilots -- amazed, almost enjoying it.
 POE
 Woooahhh! This thing really moves.
 All right, we gotta take out as many
 cannons as we can or we're not gonna
 get very far!
 FN-2187
 All right!
 POE
 I'm gonna get us in position, just
 stay sharp!
 EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 The TIE Fighter ARCS BACK, DIVES THROUGH THE OPENING BETWEEN
 THE LEVELS OF THE MASSIVE SHIP, then FLIES DOWN AND BACK,
 along the ship's belly --
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 Poe flies toward the CANNONS --
 POE
 Up ahead! Up ahead! You see it?
 I've got us dead centered. It's a
 clean shot.
 FN-2187
 Okay, got it.
 FN-2187 gets a target, FIRES!
 EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 LASERS BLAST from the TIE Fighter -- A SERIES OF CANNONS
 EXPLODE! Our TIE Fighter SLICES THROUGH the debris!
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 FN-2187 YELLS in celebration:
 FN-2187
 YES! You see that?! DID YOU SEE THAT?
 POE
 I saw it! Hey, what's your name?
 FN-2187
 FN-2187!
 Poe reacts, this tells him volumes about FN-2187's history.
 POE
 FN-whaa?
 FN-2187
 That's the only name they ever gave
 me!
 POE
 Well I ain't using it! FN, huh?
 Finn. I'm gonna call you Finn!
 That all right?
 Even in the madness, Finn can't suppress his smile.
 FINN
 "Finn." Yeah, "Finn", I like that!
 I like that!
 POE
 I'm Poe. Poe Dameron.
 FINN
 Good to meet you, Poe!
 POE
 Good to meet you too, Finn!
 INT. STAR DESTROYER MAIN BRIDGE - DAY
 General Hux looks over the shoulder of LIEUTENANT MITAKA, at
 a console.
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 Sir, they've taken out our turbo lasers--
 GENERAL HUX
 Use the ventral cannons.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 Yes, sir. Bringing them online --
 KYLO REN (O.S.)
 General Hux. Is it the Resistance
 pilot?
 Hux turns: Kylo Ren enters fast, looms large, angry.
 GENERAL HUX
 Yes, and he had help.
 (VEXED)
 From one of our own.
 PUSH IN ON REN as Hux says:
 GENERAL HUX (CONT'D)
 We're checking the registers now to
 identify which Stormtrooper it was.
 KYLO REN
 ... The one from the village. FN-
 2187.
 Hux is unnerved that Ren knows -- he chalks it up to Ren's
 Force ability. Kylo Ren heads off.
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 Sir. Ventral cannons hot.
 GENERAL HUX
 Fire.
 EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 Massive WARHEAD LAUNCHERS SPIN and FIRE BLASTS toward the
 TIE fighter, which flies EVASIVE MANEUVERS -- most blasts
 hit the DEBRIS from the TURBOLASER DESTRUCTION.
 The TIE fighter then PULLS A BIG TURN, BACK TOWARD JAKKU,
 THE SANDY PLANET WHERE POE LEFT BB-8.
 INT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 POE
 One's coming towards you. My right,
 your left. Do you see it?
 FINN
 Hold on! I see it!
 POE
 Nice shot.
 Finn looks up suddenly in alarm --
 FINN
 Where are you going?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 POE
 We're going back to Jakku. That's
 where.
 FINN
 No no no! We can't go back to Jakku!
 We need to get outta this system!
 NEAR-MISS LASER BLASTS as Poe pilots aggressively.
 POE
 I got to get to my droid before the
 First Order does!
 FINN
 What - a droid?!
 POE
 That's right. He's a BB unit! Orange
 and white: one of a kind.
 FINN
 I don't care what color he is! No
 droid can be that important!
 POE
 This one is, pal.
 FINN
 We need to get as far away from the
 First Order as we can! We go back
 to Jakku, we die!
 POE
 That droid's got a map that leads
 straight to Luke Skywalker!
 FINN
 Oh, you gotta be kidding me!!! I--
 Suddenly BAM! THEY ARE HIT!
 EXT. TIE FIGHTER - DAY
 The TIE FIGHTER SPARKS AND SMOKES, SPIRALING out of control
 toward the surface of Jakku!
 INT. STAR DESTROYER MAIN BRIDGE - DAY
 Captain Phasma and General Hux stand before a holographic
 projection detailing FN-2187's service records.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 FN-2187 reported to my division, was
 evaluated and sent to Reconditioning.
 GENERAL HUX
 No prior signs of non-conformity?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 This was his first offense.
 A technician checks her readings, reports to General Hux.
 TECHNICIAN #1
 General. They've been hit.
 GENERAL HUX
 Destroyed?
 TECHNICIAN #1
 (GETTING READINGS)
 Disabled. They were headed back to
 Jakku -- the fighter's projected to
 crash in the Goazon badlands.
 GENERAL HUX
 They were going back for the droid --
 send a squad to the wreckage.
 EXT. JAKKU DESERT - DAY
 TIGHT ON FINN'S FACE: His EYES OPEN. He goes from unconscious
 to terrified, fast. He sits up, looks around. CUT BACK
 WIDE: he sits in the middle of an EPIC DESERT, DUNES FOREVER.
 A BLACK CHUTE blows in the wind behind him, scattered debris.
 Then he sees, over distant dunes, RISING BLACK SMOKE. He
 gets up -- moves toward it, calling out:
 FINN
 Poe! Poe!
 Finn scrambles over the massive dune to the TIE FIGHTER,
 SMOKING AND ON FIRE, small debris around it. He thinks he
 sees POE'S ARM -- he pulls on it, but it's JUST POE'S JACKET.
 He throws that off and tries to find a way in -- even a way
 to LOOK INSIDE, but the smoke and heat make it impossible.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Poe!!! POE!
 Suddenly the ship BEGINS TO SINK -- like it's being CONSUMED
 INTO QUICKSAND -- Finn is slipping in too --
 FINN (CONT'D)
 POE!!! POE!!!
 It becomes clear fast: if Finn doesn't get away, he's gonna
 get sucked in too! So Finn scampers away from the TIE FIGHTER
 as it SINKS INTO THE SAND! We're in the Sinking Fields. A
 few moments and IT'S GONE.
 Finn's out of breath. Horrified. Then A GIANT EXPLOSION
 ERUPTS FROM below, SENDING SAND AND DEBRIS EVERYWHERE!
 Finn sees this, disoriented, scared, exhausted and defeated.
 And all alone.
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 ENDLESS DUNES BEHIND HIM, Finn walks, removing pieces of his
 Stormtrooper gear, using Poe's FLIGHT JACKET for shade.
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 Exhausted, Finn continues his trek across the endless, sandy
 nothingness.
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 Finn, parched and losing hope, he walks to the edge of a
 massive dune, looks out into the epic valley below. Miles
 ahead: NIIMA OUTPOST.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER - BRIDGE - DAY
 General Hux and Kylo Ren walk the length of the bridge.
 GENERAL HUX
 Supreme Leader Snoke was explicit.
 Capture the droid if we can, but
 destroy it if we must.
 KYLO REN
 How capable are your soldiers,
 General?
 GENERAL HUX
 (WITH VITRIOL)
 I won't have you question my methods.
 KYLO REN
 They're obviously skilled at
 committing high treason. Perhaps
 Leader Snoke should consider using a
 clone army.
 GENERAL HUX
 (YOU SON-OF-A-**TCH)
 My men are exceptionally trained --
 programmed from birth--
 KYLO REN
 Then they should have no problem
 retrieving the droid. Unharmed.
 GENERAL HUX
 Careful, Ren. That your "personal
 interests" not interfere with orders
 from Leader Snoke.
 KYLO REN
 I want that map. For your sake, I
 suggest you get it.
 Ren heads off. Hux hates him.
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY
 Sun-scorched and exhausted, Finn stumbles out of the desert
 into the Outpost. In a heatstroke daze he moves past enormous
 old SHIP PARTS, MERCHANTS, SCAVENGERS and TENTED STALLS.
 FINN
 Water... water... water..
 He sees a WATER TROUGH where a filthy, slobbering hippo-like
 creature (a HAPPABORE) DRINKS. Finn moves to it, uses his
 hands to desperately DRINK the filthy water. After a couple
 swallows he SPITS IT OUT, disgusted.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 -- Awgh, GAH!
 But he's parched and immediately RETURNS FOR MORE.
 ACROSS THE MARKETPLACE, REY kneels with an emphatically
 BEEPING BB-8.
 Just then, TWO of UNKAR'S THUGS approach and stop her. One
 clearly tells her that they're taking the droid. BB-8 reacts
 nervously as Rey resists them -- one pulls a SACK over BB-8
 while the other grabs Rey's arm -- in the tussle, Rey KNOCKS
 OVER METAL URNS for sale --
 Finn, still drinking, is PUSHED OVER by the happabore. He
 falls to the ground, then turns to look when he HEARS
 CRASHING. He sees, through the tents, REY FIGHTING.
 He moves UP CLOSER to help this young woman being accosted --
 but he STOPS when Rey begins to FIGHT BACK -- scrappy and
 feral, she KICKS, BITES and HITS. Finn is taken aback as
 she DEFEATS the attackers, who hit the sand, hard.
 Finn just watches, stunned.
 Rey moves to the COVERED BB-8 -- PULLS THE SACK OFF OF HIM.
 Finn cannot believe his eyes. IT'S POE'S DROID!
 Rey talks to BB-8, who, nervous now, looks around and...
 SEES FINN! BB-8 STARTS BEEPING like crazy. Then something
 insane happens: REY LOOKS AT FINN.
 REY
 (To BB-8) Who? Him?
 Finn is confused. Rey stands, staring at Finn, defiant.
 Finn can feel trouble coming -- and Rey begins CHARGING AT
 HIM, quarterstaff in hand.
 Realizing he's the target, Finn begins to RUN -- away from
 her, through the tent marketplace. Rey goes after him -- he
 turns a corner -- then another -- then BAM! She's got
 ahead of him and SLAMS HIM TO THE GROUND WITH HER STAFF!
 Finn is on his back, out of breath and freaked out. She
 holds the staff on him threateningly:
 REY
 What's your hurry, thief?
 FINN
 What--?! Thief?
 BB-8 ROLLS UP FAST, MOVES TO FINN -- a WELDING ARM TELESCOPES
 FROM HIS BODY AND SHOCKS FINN!
 FINN (CONT'D)
 OW! HEY! What?!
 REY
 The jacket! This droid says you
 stole it!
 FINN
 I've had a pretty messed up day,
 alright?! So I'd appreciate it you
 stop accusing me -- OW!!!
 (BB-8 has ZAPPED him AGAIN)
 STOP IT!
 REY
 Where'd you get it? It belongs to
 his master.
 Finn looks at her -- then the agitated droid, Finn's mind
 racing. He puts it all together. Frustrated, but sighs
 heavily, needing to respond somehow. So he makes a hard
 decision: to tell the truth.
 FINN
 It belonged to Poe Dameron. That
 was his name, right?
 Rey and BB-8 react, surprised and wanting more.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 He was captured... by the First Order!
 I helped him escape but our ship
 crashed.
 (RELIVING IT)
 Poe didn't make it.
 (sees BB-8 is sad, ROLLS OFF)
 
 Look, I tried to help him. I'm
 sorry...
 BB-8 heads off to the side, depressed. Rey watches BB-8,
 then considers Finn again. Says, a bit impressed:
 REY
 So you're with the Resistance? 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Finn's mind races again. He makes an easy decision: to lie.
 FINN
 Obviously. Yes. I am. I'm with
 the Resistance, yeah.
 (WHISPERS)
 I'm with the Resistance.
 Rey lowers her staff, Finn stands. Rey studies him:
 REY
 I've never met a Resistance fighter
 before.
 FINN
 Well, this is what we look like.
 Some of us. Others look different.
 REY
 BB-8 says he's on a secret mission,
 he has to get back to your base.
 FINN
 Apparently he's carrying a map that
 leads to Luke Skywalker, and
 everyone's after it.
 She turns to him, concerned, curious. And asks:
 REY
 Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a
 myth.
 Just then BB-8 BEEPS MADLY at something he sees.
 REY (CONT'D)
 What is it?
 Rey moves to him, peeks around a tent corner. Now Finn moves
 to see: at a distance, TWO STORMTROOPERS TALKING TO UNKAR'S
 THUGS -- who POINT THEIR WAY!
 Finn urgently grabs her hand and heads for the tents:
 REY (CONT'D)
 (re: her hand)
 What are you doing?!
 FINN
 Come on!
 Suddenly LASER BLASTS RIP PAST THEM, HIT THE CLEANING UNIT,
 SPEWING STEAM! Rey SCREAMS -- MORE BLASTS as they run!
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY
 Finn and Rey holding hands, the three race, ZIGZAGGING through
 a maze of tents: 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 Come on, BB-8!
 REY
 Let go of me!
 FINN
 No, we gotta move!
 REY
 (pulls her hand back)
 I know how to run without you holding
 my hand! BB-8 stay close! This
 way!
 Now Finn and BB-8 follow Rey -- ANOTHER BLAST just missing
 them! They disappear through a tent.
 TRACK FAST WITH STORMTROOPERS, through the tent maze. They
 come out of a tent, HAVING MOMENTARILY LOST THEIR TARGET.
 STORMTROOPER
 Call in the air strike!
 REY, FINN AND BB-8 duck into another tent:
 INT. NIIMA OUTPOST - TENT - DAY
 Rey, Finn and BB-8 move through RUSTY WARES and take cover.
 Quiet, urgent:
 REY
 They're shooting at both of us!
 FINN
 Yeah, they saw you with me! You're
 marked!
 REY
 Well, thanks for that!
 FINN
 I'm not the one who chased you down
 with a stick! Does anyone have
 blasters around here?!
 REY
 (TO BB-8)
 Are you okay?
 Finn QUIETS HER WITH A GESTURE, HEARING SOMETHING.
 PUSH IN ON FINN -- whatever he hears alarms him greatly --
 he GRABS HER HAND AGAIN -- PULLS HER AWAY --
 REY (CONT'D)
 Stop taking my hand!
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - TENT - DAY
 Finn pulls Rey from the tent -- BB-8 FOLLOWS --
 As they race from the tent a TIE FIGHTER SCREAMS INTO VIEW FROM BEHIND THE TENTS! A SECOND FOLLOWS CLOSE BEHIND. IT FIRES AT THEM -- A MASSIVE BLAST SENDS REY AND FINN FLYING -- BB-8 ROLLING!
 
 WIDE SHOT: TWO TIE FIGHTERS SCREAM OVER the town, the
 EXPLOSION throws sand and debris fifty feet into the air.
 Rey is thrown HARD to the ground -- she is rattled, truly
 afraid. Then she turns: FINN lies nearby, unconscious.
 Suddenly afraid, she scrambles to him, rolls him over. BB-8
 ROLLS OVER, BEEPING in concern.
 REY
 Hey!
 As Finn comes to, he sees her. Through his fog:
 FINN
 -- Are you okay?
 And that very question touches her -- having never in her
 life been asked it.
 REY
 Yeah.
 (extends her hand)
 Follow me.
 Grateful, Finn takes it. They're off.
 LOCALS run amok as TIE fighters DIVE BOMB. REY, Finn and BB-8 SPRINT, BLASTER EXPLOSIONS GET CLOSER AND CLOSER! 
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - SPACEPORT - DAY
 Rey, STAFF strapped to her back, leads the way as she, Finn
 and BB-8 race into the spaceport. Finn glances back: TWO
 TIE FIGHTERS BANK their return. They YELL:
 FINN
 We can't outrun them!
 Rey POINTS to a parked, four-engine SHIP ahead:
 REY
 We might in that quad-jumper!
 FINN
 We need a pilot!
 REY
 We've got one!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 You?!
 (then, indicates one OFF-CAMERA)
 What about that ship?
 REY
 That one's garbage!
 They run for the JUMPER but the passing TIE FIGHTERS FIRE AT
 IT, BLOWING IT APART IN A HUGE FLAME BALL! Rey, coming to a
 quick stop, RIGHT UP TO CAMERA:
 REY (CONT'D)
 The garbage'll do!
 She turns and runs back -- Finn and BB-8 follow as they all
 run toward the piece of junk -- and we see it for the first
 time: THE MILLENNIUM FALCON!
 TIE fighters BANK AROUND AGAIN. Finn, Rey and BB-8 run up
 the ramp of the semi-tarped Falcon.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 Finn, Rey and BB-8 enter the ship -- she hits a control and
 the door DESCENDS CLOSED as she races to the cockpit:
 REY
 Gunner position's down there!
 FINN
 (CLIMBS DOWN)
 Y'ever fly this thing?
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Rey tosses her staff aside, jumps into the pilot's seat,
 frantically flips switches. BB-8 rolls in behind her as the
 ENGINES WHINE to life:
 REY
 No! This ship hasn't been flown in
 years!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUNNER POSITION - DAY
 Finn buckles into the gunner seat -- to his shock the SEAT
 WHIPS TO THE LEFT, startling him -- he grabs the controls to
 steady himself.
 FINN
 Great.
 (reacts to seat)
 Whoa! I can do this, I can do this--
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Rey bucks herself up. Doesn't believe her quick words: 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 I can do this, I can do this--
 Rey pulls the yoke:
 THE FALCON ENGINES LIGHT UP BRIGHT!
 EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - SPACEPORT - DAY
 The FALCON RISES, WILDLY -- ITS TARPS FLY OFF -- THE SHIP SPINS AND TILTS, SLAMS INTO AND CRUMBLES THE TOWN'S ARCHWAY!
 From the tents, Unkar Plutt runs out, SCREAMS:
 UNKAR
 HEY!!!! THAT'S MIIIIIIINE!!!
 The Falcon BLASTS AWAY, two TIE FIGHTERS chase it, fast!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 Rey pilots, headed for the sky!
 Finn SWINGS into frame, trying to work the GUNS.
 FINN
 Whoa! Hey! Oh! Stay low! Stay
 low!
 REY
 WHAT?
 FINN
 Stay low! It confuses their tracking!
 For a crazy instant Rey LETS GO OF THE YOKE, stretches to
 the co-pilot controls -- THE FALCON CANTS!
 REY
 BB-8, hold on!
 Rey finally REACHES the switches, returns to the yoke,
 stabilizing the ship, afraid of this next move.
 REY
 I'M GOING LOW!!!
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 BEHIND THE FALCON as it DRAMATICALLY BANKS AT AN UPWARD ARC,
 UPSIDE-DOWN, then SWOOPS PERILOUSLY LOW across the sand.
 Two TIE FIGHTERS SCREAM past us!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 In the cylindrical corridor, BB-8 ROLLS TO THE CEILING!
 Rey looks back for a flash as the TIE Fighters pass -- They
 are ROCKED BY A BLAST! 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 What are you doing back there? Are
 you ever gonna fire back?!
 
 Finn flicks switches -- The GUN TARGETING LIGHTS UP:
 FINN
 I'm working on it! Are the shields
 up?
 Rey strains, reaching for something in the co-pilot seat.
 REY
 Not so easy without a co-pilot!
 Finn struggles with the gun controls and SWEEPING CHAIR:
 FINN
 Try sitting in this thing!
 Finn finally FIRES BACK at the two TIE FIGHTERS!
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 Finn's shots MISS. The TIE FIGHTERS ARC BACK IN PURSUIT and
 SCREAM PAST US toward the Falcon! Both TIES FIRING!
 INT. TIE FIGHTER COCKPIT - DAY
 The BLACK-SUITED PILOT FIRES at the Falcon.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUNNER POSITION - DAY
 The Falcon is ROCKED by another BLAST!
 FINN
 We need cover, quick!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Rey HITS SWITCHES, pilots the best she can:
 REY
 We're about to get some!
 (TO HERSELF)
 I hope.
 EXT. DESERT - DAY
 The Falcon speeds through a ROCK FORMATION, GRAZING THE ROCK,
 TAKING OUT A CHUNK -- the two TIE Fighters in pursuit, FIRING!
 The Falcon BANKS SO HARD, the edge of the ship RIPS A LINE
 IN THE SAND as it turns, REVEALING THE SHIP GRAVEYARD AHEAD.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 BB-8 EXTENDS MAGNETIC CABLES to brace himself in a corridor. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Finn continues to fire at the TIE fighters, narrowly missing
 them.
 FINN
 **** it!
 Rey maneuvers the ship deeper into the graveyard.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUNNER POSITION - DAY
 Finn SWOOPS into frame, FIRES --
 FINN
 Come on... come on...
 -- HITS AND SHATTERS the TIE FIGHTER!
 REY
 Nice shot!
 FINN
 I'm getting pretty good at this!
 EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY
 The TIE FIGHTER CRASHES amid the DEBRIS, THREE SCAVENGERS
 instantly there to consume the new bounty.
 The Falcon, pursued by the ONE REMAINING TIE FIGHTER, slaloms
 through the MASSIVE WRECKAGE, GRAZING THE OLD SHIPS as she
 goes, pieces flying.
 The TIE FIGHTER FIRES -- HITTING THE FALCON'S LOWER TURRET, SPINNING IT, JAMMING IT INTO FORWARD POSITION!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUNNER POSITION - DAY
 ALARMS BLARE --
 FINN
 The cannon's stuck in forward
 position, I can't move it! You gotta
 lose 'em!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 The ship is HIT AGAIN -- afraid, Rey's mind races as she
 scans the area -- and gets an idea.
 REY
 Get ready!
 FINN
 Okay! For what?
 EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY
 Rey pilots the ship up AND INTO THE REAR OF A CRASHED SUPER
 STAR DESTROYER! The final TIE FIGHTER FOLLOWS!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 Finn peers out the window, realizing where they are:
 FINN
 ARE WE REALLY DOING THIS?!
 INT. WRECKED SUPER STAR DESTROYER - DAY
 The two ships slalom debris inside the giant ship -- the
 Falcon GRAZING ONE SIDE, THEN THE OTHER, SPITTING SPARKS!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 Rey, scared, girds herself as she quickly runs out of space
 in the wreck.
 REY
 Oh no!
 Just as the TIE PILOT GETS A LOCK,
 Rey YANKS THE YOKE --
 EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY
 The Falcon makes a HARD RIGHT TURN out of the Destroyer.
 Rey then CUTS POWER AND FLIPS THE SHIP SO BACK FACES FRONT!
 FINN CAN NOW SEE THE PURSUING TIE FIGHTER! He FIRES,
 DESTROYING IT!
 REY GUNS THE ENGINES again, FLIPS THE FALCON and FLIES AWAY
 as the TIE FIGHTER CRASHES!
 FINN
 Whooo!
 The Falcon ROARS OFF, victorious, leaving the ship graveyard
 and disappearing into the clouds.
 EXT. SPACE - DAY
 The Falcon ROARS from Jakku off to space.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Rey excitedly unbuckles her seatbelt and hurries back.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - CORRIDOR - DAY
 Rey races past BB-8, who is RETRACTING his safety restraints.
 Finn, adrenalized, climbs from the turret, meets Rey in the
 corridor, the LOUNGE in the b.g..
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: REY
 FINN Good shooting! Thanks! I--
 Now that was some I don't know! -- I've
 flying! How did you flown some ships but I've
 do that?! No one never left the planet!
 trained you? No one? Your last shot was dead
 That was amazing! on. You got him with one
 (beat) blast!
 You set me up for it! (laughs)
 (cocky) It was perfect!
 That was pretty good.
 They're just staring at each other now, seeing something odd
 and weird and wonderful -- two people totally inexperienced
 in joy and camaraderie.
 Bb-8 BEEPS something urgent -- she turns to the droid, kneels.
 REY (CONT'D)
 You're ok. He's with the Resistance.
 He's going to get you home. We both
 will.
 (TO FINN)
 I don't know your name.
 FINN
 Finn. What's yours.
 REY
 I'm Rey.
 BB-8 looks at him: really? Finn is reminded: HE'S LIED TO
 HER. She looks at Finn with a sweet smile.
 FINN
 Rey...
 But before Finn can say anything they JUMP: across the lounge,
 STEAM BURSTS from under the grating.
 REY
 Help me with this! Quick!
 They hurry to the grating, PULL IT UP together. BB-8 rolls
 over, watches.
 FINN
 Whoa! What's going on?
 She goes below as BB-8 BEEPS concern.
 EXT. SPACE - DAY
 The First Order Star Destroyer above Jakku.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER BRIDGE - DAY
 Lieutenant Mitaka moves to Ren, who looks out across the
 star field. Mitaka swallows, uneasy with his task.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 Sir. We were unable to acquire the
 droid on Jakku.
 Ren turns to look at him, he says nothing.
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA (CONT'D)
 It escaped capture aboard a stolen
 Corellian YT model freighter.
 KYLO REN
 The droid... stole a freighter?
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 Not exactly, sir. It had help.
 Ren says nothing. Which says everything. Mitaka sweats.
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA (CONT'D)
 We have no confirmation, but we
 believe FN-2187 may have been helped
 in the escape--
 Ren IGNITES HIS LIGHTSABER, TURNS AND SLASHES AT THE CONSOLE
 BEHIND HIM! HOLD ON Mitaka, who reacts, looks away -- winces.
 The horrible SOUNDS of Ren's rage continues. Finally Mitaka
 looks up. The metallic wall behind Ren is RIPPED with glowing
 scars.
 KYLO REN
 Anything else?
 Mitaka hates to say the following, but:
 LIEUTENANT MITAKA
 The two were accompanied by a girl.
 Ren reaches out -- Mitaka is suddenly, violently PULLED TOWARD
 REN, into his black glove:
 KYLO REN
 What girl?
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - LOUNGE AREA - DAY
 Rey's head POPS up from under the grating, surrounded by
 STEAM. An EMERGENCY ALARM BLARES.
 REY
 It's the motivator! Grab me a Harris
 wrench -- check in there!
 As he checks a storage box, she disappears down below,
 overwhelmed by the technical issues --
 FINN
 How bad is it?!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 If we wanna live, not good!
 BB-8 watches as Finn searches A SELECTION OF TOOLS:
 FINN
 They're hunting for us now, we gotta
 get outta this system!
 Rey re-emerges, Finn hands her the wrench.
 REY
 BB-8 said the location of the
 Resistance Base is "need to know" --
 if I'm taking you there, I need to
 know!
 FINN
 (Throws a tool)
 This?
 She catches it and goes under again, leaving Finn and BB-8
 alone. He contemplates telling her the truth. This is his
 moment. But instead he knees to BB-8, says quietly, urgently:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 You gotta tell us where the base is.
 (BB-8 BEEPS)
 I don't speak that. Alright, between
 us, I'm not with the Resistance,
 okay?
 (BB-8 backs up)
 -- I'm just trying to get away from
 the First Order -- but you tell us
 where your base is, I'll get there
 first -- deal?!
 (BB-8 COCKS his head)
 Droid, please.
 Rey pops up again:
 REY
 Pilex driver, hurry!
 Finn moves for the tool.
 REY (CONT'D)
 So where's your base?
 FINN
 (searching, to BB-8)
 Go on BB-8, tell her.
 (QUIETLY)
 Please!
 She and Finn look to BB-8 -- who considers the whole
 situation, then BEEPS.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 The Ileenium system?
 Finn hands her the tool, surprised but thrilled -- Rey
 disappears below again.
 FINN
 Yeah, the Ileenium system, that's
 the one -- get us there as fast as
 you can.
 A smiling Finn gives BB-8 a THUMBS UP. BB-8 quickly extends
 his WELDING TORCH and TURNS IT UPWARD, then retracts it.
 REY
 I'll drop you two at Ponemah Terminal.
 I need the bonding tape, hurry!
 FINN
 (searching for tape)
 What about you?
 REY
 I gotta get back to Jakku!
 FINN
 (loses his mind)
 BACK TO JAK--?! Why does everyone
 always wanna go back to Jakku?! !
 REY
 No, that one! No. No. The one I'm
 pointing to! No. NO. NO. If we
 don't patch it up, the propulsion
 tank will overflow and flood the
 ship with poisonous gas!
 Bb-8 has moved to Finn -- TIPS HIS HEAD, shows him the tool.
 He throws her the tape, she disappears below:
 FINN
 This?
 REY
 Yes!
 FINN
 Hey. Rey. You're a pilot -- you
 can fly anywhere! Why go back?!
 You got a family? You got a
 boyfriend? Cute boyfriend?
 The STEAM and ALARM STOP as Rey pops up, annoyed:
 REY
 None of your business, THAT'S WHY!
 But then: ALL THE SHIP POWER GOES OUT. BB-8 is nervous. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 ... That can't be good.
 REY
 (HEADS OFF)
 -- No it can't be --
 FINN FOLLOWS REY TO:
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 They plop into the seats, in a panic. She checks the dead
 INSTRUMENTATION PANEL:
 REY
 Someone's locked onto us -- all
 controls are overridden.
 Finn quickly, awkwardly climbs up, looks out.
 REY (CONT'D)
 Get off. Get off! See anything?
 FINN
 ... Oh no.
 EXT. SPACE - DAY
 The Millennium Falcon, powerless, is a sitting duck.
 SOMETHING EPIC appears from ABOVE: THE ANTENNA ARRAY IS THE
 FIRST WE SEE OF A MASSIVE FREIGHTER, ITS GIANT HANGAR OPEN LIKE A HUGE MOUTH WHICH SWALLOWS THE FALCON LIKE A WHALE!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Finn PLOPS into his seat, horrified.
 FINN
 It's the First Order.
 REY
 What do we do-- there must be
 SOMETHING --
 Finn's mind races -- then:
 FINN
 You said poisonous gas --
 REY
 -- Yeah, but I fixed that --
 FINN
 Can you unfix it?
 Rey stares at him -- and gets his plan! They head off --
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - LOUNGE AREA - DAY
 The GAS MASKS hanging in the lounge are GRABBED. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Finn and Rey, gas masks on, quickly climb into the open
 grating area.
 REY
 C'mon BB-8.
 They help BB-8 down, too: they both struggle like crazy, he
 weighs a TON.
 FINN
 I got it.
 REY
 Oooh...
 FINN
 I'm okay. BB-8 get off me...
 UNDER THE GRATING
 Finn pulls the grating over them as Rey works on the controls.
 REY
 You think this'll work on the
 Stormtroopers?
 FINN
 Yeah. Their masks filter out smoke,
 not toxins.
 LIGHTS COME ON! SOUND of the SHIP RAMP LOWERING! Finn PULLS
 THE GRATING CLOSED as he says:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Hurry!
 REY
 I'm hurrying!
 Suddenly the FALCON DOOR OPENS -- AND HAN SOLO AND CHEWBACCA
 BOARD THE FALCON, weapons at the ready. PUSH IN ON THEM,
 ready for combat, operating silently, with hand signals only.
 HAN
 Chewie, we're home.
 Han gives Chewie a nod to check out the ship. Chewie heads
 off one way, Han in another.
 The grating above LIFTS OFF -- hands in surrender, they look
 up at Han, who's training his blaster on them, threatening.
 They're SCARED.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Where are the others? Where's the
 pilot?
 REY
 ...I'm the pilot... 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 You?
 Chewie MOAN-TALKS. Rey responds to him --
 REY
 No, it's true: we're the only ones
 on board.
 FINN
 You can understand that thing?
 HAN
 And "that thing" can understand you
 too, so watch it. Come on outta
 there.
 They climb up -- BB-8 uses his magnetic arm to quickly pull
 himself out.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Where'd you get this ship?
 REY
 Niima Outpost.
 HAN
 Jakku?! That junkyard?
 FINN
 Thank you! Junkyard!
 HAN
 (TO CHEWIE)
 Told ya we should've double-checked
 the Western Reaches!
 (TO REY)
 Who had it, Ducain?
 REY
 I stole it from Unkar Plutt. He
 stole it from the Irving Boys, who
 stole it from Ducain.
 HAN
 Who stole it from me! Well, you
 tell him Han Solo just stole back
 the Millennium Falcon for good.
 Han walks away, takes in the ship: it's his again. Doesn't
 see that Rey is awed. His back to all of them, he smiles.
 Chewie responds as Han heads toward the cockpit.
 REY
 This is the Millennium Falcon? You're
 Han Solo?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 I used to be.
 FINN
 Han Solo? The Rebellion General?
 REY
 No, the smuggler!
 FINN
 (TO CHEWIE)
 Wasn't he a war hero?!
 Chewie replies: "Yeah, I guess, kinda..." Rey calls out:
 REY
 This is the ship that made the Kessel
 Run in fourteen parsecs...!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - SAME
 Han enters the cockpit.
 HAN
 Twelve! Fourteen.
 A moment of private joy. Then he sees something that ANNOYS
 HIM:
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Hey! Some moof-milker put a
 compressor on the ignition line!
 Han moves to the corridor.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - LOUNGE AREA - DAY
 REY
 Unkar Plutt did. I thought it was a
 mistake too, puts too much stress on
 THE HYPERDRIVE--
 HAN
 (OVERLAPPING HER)
 -- Stress on the hyperdrive--
 (who is she? Then:)
 Chewie, throw 'em in a pod, we'll
 drop them at the nearest inhabited
 planet.
 REY
 Wait! No -- we need your help!
 HAN
 My help?
 REY
 This droid has to get to the
 Resistance base as soon as possible!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 He's carrying a map to Luke Skywalker.
 Yup: Han stops in his tracks.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 You are the Han Solo that fought
 with the Rebellion. You knew him.
 The mention of Luke has really hit Han. He turns to Finn.
 HAN
 Yeah, I knew him. I knew Luke.
 Suddenly: a distant, METALLIC KA-CHUNK!
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Don't tell me a Rathtar's gotten
 LOOSE--
 Han hurries out -- they all follow, (Chewie, Rey, Finn, then
 BB-8), Finn with WILD CONCERN:
 FINN
 Wait -- a what?! Did you just say
 Rathtars? Hey!
 INT. CARGO SHIP - HANGAR - DAY
 The Falcon is parked in this giant freighter's hangar. Han
 moves to a CONTROL PANEL, they all follow him.
 FINN
 You're not hauling Rathtars on this
 freighter, are you?
 HAN
 I'm hauling Rathtars.
 On the CONTROL PANEL: IMAGES ON SCREENS FROM ALL AROUND THE
 SHIP. Including the EXTERIOR, where a TRANSPORT SHIP is
 LANDING ON THE FREIGHTER. Han is fearful.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Oh great. It's the Guavian Death
 Gang -- they must've tracked us from
 Nantoon.
 Han heads off as:
 REY
 What's a Rathtar?
 INT. CARGO SHIP - CARGO CONTAINER CORRIDOR - DAY
 Han leads our group down a LONG NARROW HALL lined with cargo
 containers.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: HAN
 They're big and dangerous...
 FINN
 Y'ever heard of the Trillia Massacre?!
 REY
 No.
 FINN
 Good.
 They turn a corner:
 HAN
 I got three of 'em going to King
 Prana.
 FINN
 THREE?! How'd you get them on board?
 HAN
 I used to have a bigger crew.
 Chewie GROAN-TALKS, concurring.
 CUT TO: LOOKING UP AS A HATCH OPENS IN THE FLOOR. HAN AND CO. ARE THERE.
 HAN
 Get below deck and stay there until
 I say so -- don't even think about
 taking the Falcon.
 REY
 What about BB-8?
 HAN
 He stays with me -- until I get rid
 of the gang, then you can have him
 back and be on your way.
 FINN
 What about the Rathtars... where are
 you keeping them?
 A TERRIFYING BAM: a GROTESQUE RATHTAR GIANT TONGUE SLAMS
 into the CARGO CONTAINER window behind Finn, whose heart
 stops.
 HAN
 There's one.
 REY
 What are you gonna do?
 HAN
 Same thing I always do: talk my way
 out of it.
 (CHEWIE MOAN-TALKS)
 Yes, I do. Every time.
 INT. CARGO SHIP - NARROW CORRIDOR - DAY
 A PORTAL opens. The GUAVIAN DEATH GANG enters. One man in
 a SUIT (BALA-TIK), and five SECURITY SOLDIERS in bad**s
 UNIFORMS with ROUND-FACE HELMETS. They turn into and stop
 at one end of the corridor. Han, Chewie and BB-8 forty feet
 away in the middle of the long hall.
 BALA-TIK
 Han Solo. You are a dead man.
 Han smiles innocently, friendly. BB-8 nervously looks back
 and forth at the gang, and Han.
 HAN
 Bala-Tik. What's the problem?
 BALA-TIK
 The problem is we loaned you fifty
 thousand for this job.
 INTERCUT WITH:
 INT. CARGO SHIP - BELOW FLOOR GRATING - DAY
 They look up, trying to get a view.
 REY
 Can you see them?
 FINN
 No.
 They start crawling down the crawl space.
 BALA-TIK
 I heard you also borrowed fifty
 thousand from Kanjiklub.
 HAN
 You know you can't trust those little
 freaks! How long've we known each
 other?
 Rey and Finn arrive under the gang. They WHISPER:
 REY
 They have blasters...
 FINN
 A lot of 'em.
 We RISE THROUGH THE FLOOR to see the GANG and Han and company
 in the distance.
 BALA-TIK
 The question is how much longer will
 we know each other? Not long. We
 want our money back now.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 Ya think hunting Rathtars is cheap?
 I spent that money.
 BALA-TIK
 Kanjiklub wants their investment
 back, too.
 HAN
 I never made a deal with Kanjiklub!
 BALA-TIK
 Tell that to Kanjiklub.
 The SOUND of a PORTAL OPENING. Han's face GOES WHITE as he
 turns to the OTHER END OF THE CORRIDOR, where KANJIKLUB
 MEMBERS APPEAR. A GANG in a MEDIEVAL BANDITO style.
 Han smiles uncomfortably at the Kanjiklub members. Its
 LEADER, TASU LEECH, out front. Han tries to play it off:
 HAN
 Tasu Leech. Good to see you.
 Tasu speaks an alien language, we SUBTITLE:
 TASU LEECH
 Wrong again, Solo. It's over for
 you.
 Tasu COCKS HIS WEAPON, there for blood. BB-8 is nervous.
 Finn and Rey react to the sounds of the new gang -- start
 CRAWLING BACK the other way to see them.
 HAN
 Boys. You're both gonna get
 what I promised! Have I ever
 not delivered for you before?
 BALA-TIK
 Yeah.
 TASU LEECH
 Twice!
 Han realizes he's right.
 HAN
 What was the second time?
 BALA-TIK
 Your game is old. There's no one in
 the galaxy left for you to swindle.
 TASU LEECH
 Nowhere left for you to hide.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 BALA-TIK
 That BB unit... the First Order is
 looking for one just like it. And
 two fugitives.
 Finn and Rey SUDDENLY STOP CRAWLING, tense.
 BB-8 hides behind Han's leg. PUSH IN ON Han as he realizes:
 Finn and Rey are in real trouble.
 HAN
 First I've heard of it.
 Below the grating, Finn and Rey look at each other, afraid.
 Above, another Kanjiklubber (RAZOO QIN-FEE) says (SUBTITLED):
 RAZOO QIN-FEE
 Search the freighter.
 One of the Kanjiklubbers begins moving down the corridor,
 AIMING A FLASHLIGHT DOWN BELOW, searching for:
 FINN AND REY, in a QUIET PANIC BELOW: THEY START CRAWLING
 FAST in the opposite direction they came.
 Rey crawls off fast, Finn follows. They quickly arrive at
 a JUNCTION BOX AREA, Rey looking at the controls.
 REY
 Wait wait wait wait. If we close
 the blast doors in that corridor, we
 can trap both gangs!
 FINN
 Close the blast doors from here?
 REY
 Resetting the fuses should do it.
 Rey begins RESETTING the FUSES, SPARKS shooting from them as
 they do. Finn quickly joins in.
 Rey and Finn FINISH resetting the fuses boxes. Rey smiles
 optimistically. Finn looks hopeful too.
 DOWN AN EMPTY ROW OF LARGE CONTAINERS, which OPEN -- and a
 GIANT RATHTAR -- an ENORMOUS, FIERCE AND RAVENOUS LAND OCTOPUS --
 SLITHERS OUT OF ITS CAGE!
 BACK UP TOP as BANKS OF LIGHTS BEGIN GOING OFF, ONE BY ONE.
 The GANGS look around.
 Han's eyes go wide -- he gets it -- and it's bad. QUIETLY:
 HAN
 ... I got a bad feeling about this...
 Suddenly all the LIGHTS COME ON AGAIN -- even down below,
 where Rey realizes it hasn't gone as planned.
 REY
 Oh no.
 FINN
 Oh no, what?
 REY
 (PALE)
 Wrong fuses.
 IN ANOTHER CORRIDOR, BACK WITH THE GANGS:
 BALA-TIK
 Kill them! And take the droid!
 The gangs AIM THEIR WEAPONS JUST AS A RATHTAR APPEARS BEHIND
 THE GUAVIAN DEATH GANG, GRABBING TWO MEMBERS! THE OTHERS
 SCREAM AND RUN! The gang FIRES BACK -- BLASTS FLY!
 Han and Chewie react, flinching -- then turn to Kanjiklub as
 a RATHTAR APPEARS BEHIND THEM, ROARING DEAFENINGLY! The
 Gang turns -- others run, FIRE AT IT.
 INT. CARGO SHIP CORRIDOR A - DAY
 Han, Chewie and BB-8 race down the hall -- A MEMBER OF THE
 KANJIKLUB GANG comes around the corner. Han PUNCHES him
 with one blow, throws him toward the Rathtar. They keep
 steppin....
 INT. CARGO SHIP - BELOW FLOOR GRATING - DAY
 Rey and Finn hurriedly crawl through the space below decks.
 FINN
 This was a mistake!
 REY
 Huge!
 INT. CARGO SHIP CORRIDOR A - DAY
 Two Guavian Death Gang members run through the ship -- passing
 Tasu Leech, who sees another Kanjiklub member down the
 corridor -- who gets GRABBED BY A TENTACLE! Tasu tries to
 help him, but he gets PULLED UP AND AWAY! Tasu hears a
 distant terror-scream of a Rathtar, and runs the other way.
 Other Kanjiklub members YELL at him to avoid that direction --
 they all turn a corner -- a RATHTAR IS THERE AND GRABS THE
 TWO OTHERS! Tasu FIRES at the beast and RUNS OFF -- and we
 land on a FLOOR HATCH, which opens. Rey and Finn climb out,
 quickly.
 
 They turn a corridor --
 REY
 What do they look like? 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Another corner -- and GANG MEMBERS ARE BATTLING A HORRIBLE
 RATHTAR! Rey COVERS HER MOUTH.
 FINN
 They look like that.
 Finn yanks her away. They race around another corner -- a
 RATHTAR IS THERE!
 FINN (CONT'D)
 This way!
 REY
 Are you sure?
 They scream and run off -- but Finn is GRABBED, PULLED AWAY FAST!
 REY (CONT'D)
 FINN!
 But the Rathtar's fast and TURNS A CORNER, losing Rey --
 FINN
 REY!
 INT. CARGO SHIP CORRIDOR E - DAY
 TIGHT ON FINN as he's being yanked down the hall, SCREAMING
 as he struggles to get loose!
 Rey turns the corner -- Finn is gone -- nowhere to be seen.
 REY
 FINN!!!!
 Without Finn, she is instantly distraught -- then she
 realizes: SHE'S JUST PASSED A CONTROL PANEL! Her eyes light
 up as she moves to it: a BANK OF VIDEO MONITORS OF THE SHIP --
 and there's Finn, being dragged by a Rathtar toward an OPEN
 BLAST DOOR. Rey's hand on the button, she waits... then
 SLAMS THE BUTTON!
 INT. CARGO SHIP CORRIDOR B - DAY
 The BLAST DOOR INSTANTLY CLOSES ON ONE OF THE RATHTAR'S
 TENTACLES! It SCREAMS IN PAIN, ITS SEVERED TENTACLE STILL
 WRAPPED AROUND FINN'S LEG! Finn scrambles up, desperately
 shaking the sticky tentacle off his leg!
 Rey arrives, runs to Finn, beaming to see him alive -- he is
 adrenaline-rushed, in shock:
 REY
 Finn!
 FINN
 It had me! But the door--!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 That was lucky!
 ANOTHER CORRIDOR - Finn and Rey run towards the Falcon.
 INT. CARGO SHIP CORRIDOR D - DAY
 Han, Chewie and BB-8 take cover, Han exchanging BLASTER FIRE
 with GANG MEMBERS AT THE OTHER END OF THE HALL.
 HAN
 I got the door. Cover us!
 Chewie GROAN-AGREES. Chewie FIRES DOWN THE HALL as Han
 CROSSES THE CORRIDOR, BB-8 following nervously. As Chewie
 exchanges blaster fire, Han works the controls.
 THE HATCH OPENS (FALCON in the distance) -- just as CHEWIE
 IS HIT IN THE SHOULDER BY ENEMY FIRE! He goes down with a LOUD GROAN!
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Chewie! You okay?
 Han GRABS CHEWIE'S BOWCASTER, FIRES at the DOOR CONTROLS, BAD**S!
 HAN (CONT'D)
 (looks at bowcaster)
 Wow. Come on! Come on!
 INT. CARGO SHIP HANGAR - DAY
 Run with Finn and Rey as they turn into the hangar, toward
 the Falcon. Han helps WOUNDED CHEWIE up the ramp, sees them.
 REY
 Han!
 Finn and Rey race past BB-8 -- as they go up the ramp, Han
 says to Rey:
 HAN
 You, close the door behind us!
 (TO FINN)
 You take care of Chewie!
 Han and Rey race up the ramp as Finn heads up with Chewie,
 who SCREAMS WILDLY IN PAIN!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Han stands at the navicomputer, hitting switches. Rey enters
 fast, moves past him to Chewie's seat.
 HAN
 Hey, where are you going?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 Unkar Plutt installed a fuel pump
 too -- if we don't prime that we're
 not going anywhere.
 HAN
 I hate that guy.
 Han sits as, Rey hitting buttons:
 REY
 And you could use a co-pilot.
 HAN
 I got one, he's back there.
 IN THE LOUNGE, CHEWIE IS IN PAIN --
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Han and Rey in the seats:
 HAN
 Watch the thrust, we're goin' out of
 here at lightspeed --
 REY
 (SHOCKED)
 From inside the hangar? Is that
 even possible?
 HAN
 I never ask that question until after
 I've done it.
 A RATHTAR JUMPS ONTO THE WINDSHIELD -- REY SCREAMS! Its
 GIANT MOUTH CHEWING AT THE GLASS! Han works the controls:
 HAN (CONT'D)
 This is not how I thought this day
 was gonna go -- angle the shields --
 Hang on back there!
 IN THE LOUNGE, Chewie is in pain -- Finn going through a
 first aid kit -- the ship is HIT again --
 FINN
 (HUGE PROBLEM)
 No problem!
 INT. CARGO SHIP - HANGAR - DAY
 Three GANG MEMBERS race out here and FIRE AT THE FALCON --
 hitting FUEL LINES, BLASTING THE SHIP HARD!
 The ship is hit.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 HAN
 Come on baby, don't let me down!
 He hits a switch -- but NOTHING.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 What?!
 But Rey reaches over, hits a switch, matter-of-factly.
 REY
 Compressor.
 Han doesn't like it but she's right -- he hits the switch
 again and the HYPERDRIVE FIRES! The hangar is FILLED WITH
 LIGHTSPEED BLAST as the ATTACKING GANG MEMBERS ARE BLASTED
 BACK LIKE DRY LEAVES. In the cockpit the RATHTAR RIPS AWAY
 as THE STARS STRETCH LIKE ELASTIC and we CUT TO:
 EXT. CARGO SHIP - DAY
 Camera ROTATES as the Falcon DISAPPEARS IN A STREAK, leaving
 the cargo ship behind.
 INT. CARGO SHIP - DAY
 PUSH IN on a HANGAR DOOR where Bala-Tik arrives at the window,
 SEETHING. Makes a CALL:
 BALA-TIK
 Inform the First Order that Han Solo
 has the droid they want. And it's
 aboard the Millennium Falcon.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 A pair of TIE fighters roar towards a magnificent PLANET,
 frozen WHITE. This is the STARKILLER BASE, a natural planet
 that has been hacked and modified into something sinister.
 Over this we HEAR a DEEP, almost SOOTHING VOICE. A voice
 very much in control, of power:
 SNOKE (V.O.)
 The droid will soon be delivered to
 the Resistance...
 INT. STARKILLER PLANET - ASSEMBLY ROOM - NIGHT
 KYLO REN and General Hux in a dark space, looking UPWARD at
 someone addressing them.
 We're in a massive and dark ASSEMBLY ROOM. Hundreds of DESKS
 in a stadium arc, focused on a platform where we see SUPREME
 LEADER SNOKE. Not entirely human, at nearly twenty-five
 feet tall. All of him a STONY GREY. Old, wounded, fragile
 and powerful, all at the same time.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 SNOKE
 ... Leading them to the last Jedi.
 If Skywalker returns, the new Jedi
 will rise.
 GENERAL HUX
 Supreme Leader, I take full
 responsibility for th--
 SNOKE
 General! Our strategy must now
 change.
 GENERAL HUX
 The weapon. It is ready. I believe
 the time has come to use it. We
 shall destroy the government that
 supports the Resistance, the Republic.
 Without their friends to protect
 them, the Resistance will be
 vulnerable, and we will stop them
 before they reach Skywalker.
 Snoke considers. Almost seems to die for a moment. Then:
 SNOKE
 Go. Oversee preparations.
 GENERAL HUX
 Yes, Supreme Leader.
 General Hux, proud, cocksure, exits. Kylo Ren watches him
 go. Snoke SITS. A new intimacy in his voice.
 SNOKE
 There's been an awakening. Have you
 felt it?
 KYLO REN
 Yes.
 SNOKE
 There's something more. The droid
 we seek is aboard the Millennium
 Falcon. In the hands of your father,
 Han Solo.
 Kylo Ren reacts with subtle, but real, surprise.
 KYLO REN
 He means nothing to me.
 SNOKE
 Even you, master of the Knights of
 Ren, have never faced such a test.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 KYLO REN
 (STEELY RESOLVE)
 By the grace of your training, I
 will not be seduced.
 SNOKE
 We shall see. We shall see.
 A gentle, satisfied nod from Snoke, and Kylo Ren, obsessed,
 filled up, exits. Snoke watches him disappear, a grotesque
 evil SMILE growing -- as he DISINTEGRATES -- Snoke has been
 a HOLOGRAM all along.
 EXT. LIGHTSPEED SPACE - DAY
 RACING with the Falcon through the STRINGLIGHT of lightspeed.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - DAY
 CHAOS: INTERCUT between the COCKPIT where Han and Rey pilot,
 ALARMS SOUNDING, problems everywhere, and the LOUNGE where
 CHEWIE YELPS as Finn nervously works to BANDAGE HIS SHOULDER.
 SPARKS!
 HAN
 Electrical overload!
 REY
 I can fix that!
 HAN
 The coolant's leaking!
 REY
 Try transferring auxiliary power to
 the secondary tank--
 HAN
 -- Secondary tank, I got it!
 INT. LOUNGE:
 CHEWIE HOWLS IN PAIN! Finn hangs in there, wraps a bandage
 on Chewie's shoulder: Chewie ROARS. BB-8 scurries off.
 FINN
 Chewie, come on! I need help with
 this giant hairy thing! Stop moving!
 Chewie!
 INT. FALCON COCKPIT:
 HAN
 You hurt Chewie, you're gonna deal
 with me!
 INT. LOUNGE:
 As Finn struggles to bandage the Wookiee:
 FINN
 Hurt him?! He almost killed me six
 times!
 (Chewie GRABS HIM by
 the collar, ROARS)
 Which is fine.
 INT. FALCON COCKPIT:
 HAN
 This hyperdrive blows there's gonna
 be pieces of us in three different
 systems.
 Han at the controls when all the alarms STOP. Rey, satisfied,
 sits in the co-pilot seat. Han is confused.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 What'd you do?
 REY
 I by-passed the compressor.
 He looks at her. A little, appreciative laugh. Han exits,
 walking past BB-8.
 HAN
 Move, Ball.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - LOUNGE AREA - DAY
 Han kneels at Chewie, who lies awake but recovering. Han
 checks his friend's wound with care. Chewie MOAN-TALKS.
 HAN
 Nah, don't say that, you did great.
 Just rest.
 Han turns to Finn, who sits at the HOLOCHESS set, BB-8 beside
 him. This is awkward for Han, but ****, he means it:
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Good job, kid. And thanks.
 FINN
 You're welcome.
 Finn has accidentally hit a button on the chess set, and the
 PIECES appear, looking up at Finn, curiously. The pieces
 start to FIGHT as Finn fiddles with the controls, trying to
 turn it off.
 HAN
 So, fugitives, huh?
 REY
 The First Order wants the map.
 (MORE)
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY (CONT'D)
 (re: Finn and BB-8)
 Finn is with the Resistance...
 (SHRUGS)
 ... I'm just a scavenger.
 Han gives Finn a skeptical once-over as Finn finally manages
 to TURN THE CHESS SET OFF as Rey enters. Han looks to BB-8.
 HAN
 Let's see whatcha got.
 REY
 (TO BB-8)
 Go ahead.
 BB-8 rolls forward -- and suddenly PROJECTS A HOLOGRAPHIC
 MAP, FILLING THE ROOM. PLANETS, STARS, SYSTEMS.
 They all react. Chewie sits to look up. Han moves through
 stars, becomes reflective.
 HAN
 This map's not complete. It's just
 a piece. Ever since Luke disappeared,
 people have been looking for him.
 REY
 Why'd he leave?
 HAN
 He was training a new generation of
 Jedi. One boy, an apprentice turned
 against him, destroyed it all. Luke
 felt responsible... He walked away
 from everything.
 FINN
 Do you know what happened to him?
 HAN
 There're a lot of rumors. Stories.
 The people who knew him the best
 think he went looking for the first
 Jedi temple.
 REY
 The Jedi were real?
 HAN
 I used to wonder that myself. Thought
 it was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo --
 magical power holding together good,
 evil, the dark side and the light.
 (BEAT)
 'Crazy thing is, it's true. The
 Force, the Jedi, all of it. It's
 all true.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 An alarm rings on the control station, prompting Han to toggle
 some switches. BB-8 cuts off the hologram. Chewie rises
 and moans to Han, but Han motions for Chewie to lay back
 DOWN:
 HAN (CONT'D)
 No, you rest.
 (To Rey and Finn)
 You want my help? You're getting
 it. Gonna see an old friend. She'll
 get your droid home. This is our
 stop.
 Han leaves towards the cockpit, Rey and Finn following.
 EXT. LIGHTSPEED TO SPACE - DAY
 BEHIND THE FALCON as it DROPS OUT OF LIGHTSPEED, revealing a
 BEAUTIFUL GREEN PLANET ahead, TAKODANA.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Han pilots. Finn and BB-8 beside him, Rey as co-pilot.
 Han notices Rey looking out the windshield, almost in tears.
 REY
 (QUIETLY)
 ... I didn't know there was this
 much green in the whole galaxy...
 Han watches her -- sees a vulnerability that touches him.
 EXT. TAKODANA PLANET - DAY
 The Falcon CRESTS OVER an ENDLESS GREEN FOREST TO REVEAL a
 CASTLE on a picturesque LAKE.
 The Falcon lands near the castle, among dozens of WORN,
 smallish freighters.
 EXT. LANDING PAD - NEAR MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY
 Rey steps off the Falcon, UP TO CAMERA, BB-8 at her side.
 She takes in the towering stone CASTLE, FOREST to one side,
 LAKE to the other. Serene, beautiful, all new to her.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - LOUNGE AREA - DAY
 From BLACKNESS: a storage unit opens. Han rummages,
 retrieving old BLASTERS. Finn arrives behind him, concerned.
 FINN
 Hey, Solo -- I'm not sure what we're
 walking into here --
 HAN
 D'you just call me "Solo"?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 Sorry. Han-- Mr. Solo. You should
 know, I'm a big deal in the
 Resistance. Which puts a real target
 on my back. Are there any
 conspirators here? First Order
 sympathizers?
 HAN
 Listen big deal, you've got another
 problem. Women always figure out
 the truth.
 Hands him a BLASTER.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Always.
 Han walks off. Finn watches him go, wracked with guilt.
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY
 Han hands Rey a blaster pistol as she stands at looks at the
 castle.
 HAN
 You might need this.
 REY
 I think I can handle myself.
 HAN
 I know you do. That's why I'm giving
 it to you. Take it.
 Rey picks it up. Grips it.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 You know how to use one of these?
 REY
 Yeah, you pull the trigger.
 HAN
 There's a little bit more to it than
 that. You got a lot to learn. You
 got a name?
 REY
 Rey.
 HAN
 Rey. I've been thinkin' about
 bringing on some more crew, Rey. A
 second mate. Someone to help out.
 Someone who can keep up with Chewie
 and me, appreciates the Falcon.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 REY
 Are you offering me a job?
 HAN
 I wouldn't be nice to you. It doesn't
 pay much.
 REY
 You're offering me a job.
 HAN
 I'm thinking about it.
 Rey wants to say yes. But something stops her. A line she
 can't cross.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Well?
 REY
 If you were, I'd be flattered. But
 I have to get home.
 Han looks at her, questioningly.
 HAN
 Jakku?
 Rey looks off, in thought. Yeah, Jakku.
 REY
 (BEAT)
 I've already been away too long.
 HAN
 (TO CHEWIE)
 Chewie, check out the ship as best
 you can.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 It's too bad. Chewie kind of likes
 you.
 Han heads off. HOLD on Rey.
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY
 Han walks them to the castle.
 FINN
 Solo, why are we here again?
 HAN
 To get your droid on a clean ship.
 REY
 Clean?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 Do you think it was luck that Chewie
 and I found the Falcon? If we can
 find it on our scanners, the First
 Order's not far behind. Want to get
 BB-8 to the Resistance? Maz Kanata
 is our best bet.
 FINN
 We can trust her, right?
 HAN
 Relax, kid. She's run this watering
 hole for a thousand years. Maz is a
 bit of an acquired taste, so let me
 do the talking. And whatever you
 do, don't stare...
 REY AND FINN
 At what?
 HAN
 Any of it.
 The door opens. Music. Madness. And...
 INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - MAIN ROOM - DAY
 We ENTER THE LOUD, CROWDED MESS of a hall -- PUSHING PAST a
 room full of rough and odd ALIENS AND HUMANS, who gamble,
 drink, scheme, negotiate, argue -- until we end up on the
 BACK of a tiny, thousand year-old, four foot tall ALIEN, who
 suddenly STARTS, as if SENSING something -- the Alien TURNS
 TO US: she is FEMALE, wearing large ADJUSTABLE GOGGLES.
 This is MAZ KANATA.
 MAZ
 Han Solo!
 Everyone turns to look. It's ALL QUIET in here.
 HAN
 (Sotto) Oh boy. (Louder, waving)
 Hey, Maz!
 NOISE returns. Maz walks to them, pushes someone away.
 MAZ
 Where's my boyfriend?
 HAN
 Chewie's working on the Falcon.
 MAZ
 I like that Wookiee. I assume you
 need something. Desperately. Let's
 get to it.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Maz walks off, gesturing for them to follow. Finn and Rey
 are confused. Han indicates for them to follow. They do --
 passing the enormous GRUMMGAR, who sits with vixen BAZINE
 NETAL, who watches them suspiciously.
 A SMALL DROID (GA-97), who turns its head to see BB-8
 following Rey across the room. GA-97, now animated, makes a
 small TRANSMITTING SOUND, which is subtitled.
 GA-97
 Alert the Resistance. Their missing
 droid is here!
 And we CUT TO:
 IN A DARK ALCOVE - MOMENTS LATER
 Bazine enters a shadowy space, stealthily makes a call on a
 communicator. Clearly, BAZINE IS A SPY. Subtitled:
 BAZINE
 Inform the First Order... I've found
 the droid.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 A massive Star Destroyer hovers over the hacked ice planet.
 INT. STAR DESTROYER - KYLO REN'S CHAMBERS - DAY
 A dark space. Kylo Ren, CLOSE TO CAMERA, addresses someone
 OFF-CAMERA whom we do not see.
 KYLO REN
 Forgive me. I feel it again. The
 pull to the light. Supreme Leader
 senses it. Show me again, the power
 of the darkness, and I will let
 nothing stand in our way. Show me,
 Grandfather, and I will finish what
 you started.
 As his emotion builds, he stands and heads off -- we FOLLOW
 HIM, PIVOTING TO REVEAL who he was talking to: THE BURNT, ASHEN, GHOSTLY DEFORMED MASK OF DARTH VADER.
 CUT TO:
 INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - TABLE - DAY
 Maz is putting together some FOOD as she says:
 MAZ
 A map to Skywalker himself? You're
 right back in the mess.
 HAN
 Maz, I need you to get this droid to
 Leia. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 MAZ
 Hmm. No. You've been running away
 from this fight for too long. Han,
 nyakee nago wadda. Go home!
 HAN
 Leia doesn't want to see me.
 FINN
 Please, we came here for your help.
 REY
 What fight?
 MAZ
 The only fight: against the dark
 side. Through the ages, I've seen
 evil take many forms. The Sith.
 The Empire. Today, it is the First
 Order. Their shadow is spreading
 across the galaxy. We must face
 them. Fight them. All of us.
 FINN
 There is no fight against the First
 Order! Not one we can win. Look
 around. There's no chance we haven't
 been recognized already. I bet you
 the First Order is on their way right--
 Finn stops, seeing Maz adjusting her goggles, scrutinizing
 him -- her eyes get HUGE.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 What's this? What are you doing?
 Maz adjusts the goggles again. Her eyes get impossibly
 BIGGER. She grunts recognition. She hoists herself on the
 tabletop, knocking over food and plates, crawling towards
 Finn.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Solo, what is she doing?
 HAN
 I don't know, but it ain't good.
 MAZ
 If you live long enough you see the
 same eyes in different people. I'm
 looking at the eyes of a man who
 wants to run.
 FINN
 (eyes on Maz)
 You don't know a thing about me.
 Where I'm from. What I've seen.
 (MORE)
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 You don't know the First Order like
 I do. They'll slaughter us. We all
 need to run.
 Rey is stunned. Maz, not so much. She crawls back to her
 chair. She points to some pirates in the corner.
 MAZ
 You see those two? They'll trade
 work for transportation to the Outer
 Rim. There, you can disappear.
 Finn sees them. Considers.
 REY
 Finn!
 FINN
 Come with me.
 REY
 What about BB-8? We're not done
 yet. We have to get him back to
 your base.
 FINN
 I can't.
 Finn stands to leave. He offers the gun back to Han.
 HAN
 Keep it, kid.
 Finn heads off. Rey gets up to follow. Maz dials her lenses
 back to normal, and turns to Han.
 MAZ
 Who's the girl?
 ON FINN
 Who has arrived at the table with the ALIEN SMUGGLERS.
 FINN
 I was told you could get me to the
 Outer Rim.
 Rey barges into the conversation, interrupting.
 REY
 What are you doing?
 Finn gets up to talk to her.
 FINN
 (to Big Head)
 Don't leave without me.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Embarrassed, Finn moves her away.
 REY
 You can't just go. I won't let you.
 FINN
 I'm not who you think I am.
 REY
 Finn, what are you talking about?
 FINN
 I'm not Resistance. I'm not a hero.
 I'm a Stormtrooper.
 (STOPS HER)
 Like all of them, I was taken from a
 family I'll never know. And raised
 to do one thing...
 (EMOTIONAL)
 But my first battle, I made a choice.
 I wasn't going to kill for them. So
 I ran.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Right into you. And you looked at
 me like no one ever had. I was
 ashamed of what I was. But I'm done
 with the First Order. I'm never
 going back. Rey, come with me.
 REY
 Don't go.
 FINN
 Take care of yourself. Please.
 Rey looks at him, crushed. With quiet resignation, Rey
 watches Finn return to the aliens...
 And all three head off. He gets to the front door and walks
 through it.
 Rey is heartsick, but she turns as she hears the sound of a
 young girl in anguish, crying. She follows the sound into
 the castle, turning so she can't see that Finn has looked
 back at her one last time.
 INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY
 Rey steps down into the basement corridor. BB-8 follows
 her. Walking carefully and confused, she is not sure why
 she's down here. She can hear the echoing sounds of a young
 girl crying. She heads down the hall... to the very end,
 where there is a door. It is almost as if a SOULFUL VIBRATION
 draws her closer. She looks at the door lock -- AND THE DOOR OPENS.
 Hesitant, Rey enters.
 INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - CRYPT ROOM - DAY
 Rey moves into the dark, small, vaulted storage room. Old
 treasures line the floors and walls, but there is something
 specific Rey is drawn to: on a table, an old wooden BOX.
 She moves to it, unsure, afraid, as if an energy from inside
 the box has been calling her here. BB-8 nervously follows.
 Rey reaches out, very slowly, to touch the box. A moment
 heavy with tension.
 Rey OPENS THE BOX and sees inside Luke Skywalker's original
 lightsaber. With hesitation, she reaches towards it, but
 she cannot resist. As her hand makes contact with it, there
 is the piercing sound of a lightsaber igniting. She moves
 her hand away, as REY HEARS A MECHANICAL BREATHING sound.
 The CAMERA MOVES, LIGHTING CHANGES -- and we see behind her
 something impossible: a HALLWAY OF FROM DEEP INSIDE CLOUD
 CITY. Disembodied voices fill the air.
 YOUNG GIRL
 NO!
 She stands -- looks around, confused by all she sees and
 hears. -- Turns and sees, through a DOORWAY.
 We follow Rey and she runs down the corridor, but it all
 TILTS -- TURNS -- and she lands on the
 WALL -- which is now the GROUND -- dried GRASS.
 She turns to look -- we PIVOT -- and see a BURNING TEMPLE AT
 NIGHT. We PAN to:
 R2-D2 -- who watches the flames -- and a MAN appears (LUKE,
 whose face we do not see). He falls to his knees, reaches
 out to the droid -- with a MECHANICAL RIGHT HAND.
 We PUSH IN ON REY as RAIN BEGINS -- and DAY TURNS TO NIGHT --
 and she LOOKS UP -- we TILT UP --
 To see we're LOOKING UP AT A WARRIOR as he is STABBED BY A
 FIERY LIGHTSABER! He screams and falls to the ground -- we
 FOLLOW HIM, revealing Rey again, now in a nighttime
 battlefield. She gets to her feet, frightened by what she
 sees. We PIVOT AROUND HER to REVEAL KYLO REN, and the six
 other KNIGHTS OF REN, who flank him!
 Come back around to Rey, soaking now, as the RAIN STOPS and
 SUNLIGHT illuminates her -- she turns to look -- we PIVOT --
 and see...
 A little girl. Rey as a child. She is sobbing, hysterical.
 Unkar Plutt's meaty hand holds her thin arm. She is on Jakku,
 watching a starship fly into the sky, abandoning her.
 YOUNG GIRL
 No, come back!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 UNKAR PLUTT
 Quiet, girl!
 The ship flies towards the desert sun, which is strangely
 eclipsed, as if being eaten by darkness. Rey looks around
 her to see she is..
 In a NIGHTTIME, BARREN, SNOWY WOODS. She's losing her mind,
 confounded and lost and she gets to her feet, her breath
 seen in the frigid air -- and then: THE SOUND OF CLASHING
 LIGHTSABERS! She moves through the woods, toward the sound.
 Rey runs, heart pounding, when KYLO REN EMERGES FROM BEHIND
 A TREE! She stops, SCREAMS, FALLS BACK and LANDS IN:
 INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY
 She falls back, out of the room, suddenly sitting in the
 hall, out of breath, alarmed and perplexed.
 She HEARS something and turns to look.
 Maz stands at the end of the corridor, realizing what has
 just happened.
 REY
 What was that? I shouldn't have
 gone in there.
 MAZ
 That lightsaber was Luke's. And his
 father's before him and now, it calls
 to you!
 Rey stands, fast. Still overwhelmed, emotional, speechless.
 REY
 I have to get back to Jakku.
 MAZ
 Han told me.
 (reaches out, hold REY'S HAND)
 Dear child. I see your eyes. You
 already know the truth. Whomever
 you're waiting for on Jakku, they're
 never coming back. But... there's
 someone who still could.
 REY
 Luke.
 MAZ
 The belonging you seek is not behind
 you. It is ahead. I am no Jedi,
 but I know the Force. It moves
 through and surrounds every living
 thing. Close your eyes. Feel it.
 (MORE) 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 MAZ (CONT'D)
 The light. It's always been there.
 It will guide you. The saber. Take
 it.
 Rey suddenly stands.
 REY
 I'm never touching that again. I
 don't want any part of this.
 And Rey runs off, passing Maz.
 Rey's mind is spinning -- she can't take it -- she turns and
 heads off, fast. BB-8 follows her. TIGHT ON MAZ, watching
 her go. Maz SIGHS, feeling for the young girl.
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY
 Rey exits the castle, needs to run, but doesn't know where.
 Heads toward the woods.
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Rey moves through the foliage, heart racing. Over this, we
 HEAR a RUMBLING -- intense, an OMEN of something horrible to
 come.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - ASSEMBLY AREA - DAY
 A massive rally: a thousand STORMTROOPERS, TIE FIGHTERS,
 OFFICERS and VEHICLES. BRUTALIST STRUCTURES, mountainous
 SNOWY LANDSCAPE. Addressing them at a podium, flanked by
 RED FIRST ORDER BANNERS, is HUX. His voice ECHOES:
 GENERAL HUX
 Today is the end of the Republic!
 The end of a regime that acquiesces
 to disorder! At this very moment,
 in a system far from here the New
 Republic LIES to the GALAXY while
 secretly supporting the treachery of
 the loathsome Resistance. This fierce
 machine which you have built, upon
 which we stand, will bring an end to
 the Senate! To their cherished fleet!
 All remaining systems will bow to
 the First Order! And will remember
 this... as the last day of the
 Republic! 
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 ENGINEERS perform FINAL FIRING PROTOCOL. There's a sense of
 nervousness -- WILL THIS MASSIVE WEAPON ACTUALLY WORK?
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - ASSEMBLY AREA - DAY
 GENERAL HUX
 FIRE!
 And Hux TURNS to give the signal as we CUT BACK WIDE -- a
 ROAR OF BOOTS ON PAVEMENT as the thousand Stormtroopers TURN
 to face an endless snowy landscape. WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN?!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 A view PAST THE RALLY. For a moment, nothing. Then, eerily
 SILENT, AN IMPOSSIBLE BLAST OF FIRE LIGHT -- LIKE AN ATOMIC
 BOMB TEST TIMES A ZILLION -- BLASTS FROM MILES AWAY, INTO
 THE SKY! Seconds later, a TERRIBLE EXPLOSIVE ROAR!
 The Troopers -- everyone -- is nearly PUSHED BACK by the
 FORCE of it -- the magnitude! Many have to COVER THEIR EYES!
 For MILES around the FIREBEAM, ICE AND SNOW MELTS INSTANTLY!
 Runoff tunnels FLOODED with AN OCEAN OF FRESH WATER. AIRBORNE
 CREATURES by the thousands burst from trees and take flight.
 Hux watches, his eyes WILD WITH POWER AND EVIL. From HIS
 eyes, CUT TO:
 INT. STAR DESTROYER BRIDGE - DAY
 TIGHT ON KYLO REN as he watches the Starkiller firing.
 EXT. MAZ' CASTLE - DAY
 Finn boards the Alien Freighter. The SOUND FROM THE SKY
 makes him turn back. He sees the PATH OF FIRE and his blood
 runs cold, his heart sinks.
 EXT. REPUBLIC SYSTEM - NIGHT
 At a massive distance we see PLANETS THE REPUBLIC CAPITAL
 SYSTEM -- INCREASINGLY LIT, THEN POWERFULLY HIT BY THE VAST
 FIREBLAST WHICH OBLITERATES IT ALL!
 EXT. REPUBLIC CITY - NIGHT
 The galaxy CENTER OF GOVERNMENT at NIGHT. Impressive
 structures. Senators and dignitaries look in uncomprehending
 horror to the night sky. LIGHT GROWING --
 FROM A GREAT DISTANCE a CIRCLE OF FIRE -- LIKE A SMALL SUN APPEARING FROM NOWHERE AND GROWING CLOSE AND MASSIVE, TURNING
 NIGHT TO DAY! And in seconds THE FIRE BLOCKS OUT EVERYTHING ELSE, AND THE ENTIRE PLANET OF HOSNIAN PRIME IS INCINERATED!
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY
 A crowd of ALIENS files out from inside, all eyes on the
 FIRE IN THE SKY. Dozens of LANGUAGES exclaiming fear and
 horror. Find Han and Chewie moving out, looking up.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN (O.S.)
 It was the Republic.
 Han and Chewie turn as Finn arrives, moving quickly through
 the crowd. With dread:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 The First Order, they've done it.
 Where's Rey?
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Rey races through the forest and finally comes to a stop,
 overwhelmed and exhausted. At an emotional breaking point,
 she has no idea where to go, who to turn to. Then she HEARS
 A BEEP -- turns to see BB-8, catching up with her.
 REY
 What are you doing?
 (HE BEEPS)
 You have to go back.
 (he BEEPS again)
 REY (CONT'D)
 BB-8. No, you can't -- you have to
 go back, you're too important.
 They'll help you.
 Then, ANOTHER SOUND -- LOUDER NOW -- they LOOK UP AGAIN: in
 front of the system attack, A FLEET OF FIRST ORDER SHIPS
 ROAR OVERHEAD, TOWARD THE CASTLE! Rey's heart sinks: HER FRIENDS ARE IN DANGER!
 INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY
 Maz leads Han, Finn and Chewie down the hall, fast:
 MAZ
 I've had this for ages...
 MAZ'S CASTLE - TREASURE ROOM - DAY
 Maz opens the box -- holds out the lightsaber to Finn:
 MAZ
 Kept it locked away.
 HAN
 Where'd you get that?
 MAZ
 A good question for another time.
 (TO FINN)
 Take it! Find your friend!
 Finn grabs it as the room is SHAKEN by an above ground attack.
 MAZ (CONT'D)
 Those beasts! They're here!
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Rey and BB-8 race fast back toward the castle -- EXPLOSION
 SOUNDS can be HEARD from the direction they're headed!
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Rey races through the trees -- sees Maz' castle -- BEING
 DESTROYED BY FIRST ORDER SHIPS! Aliens RUNNING, GETTING
 OBLITERATED by SCREAMING TIE FIGHTERS! Other TIE FIGHTERS
 and TRANSPORTERS LAND, STORMTROOPERS in attack.
 Just then, filtered RADIO CALLS get Rey's attention: nearby
 STORMTROOPERS have spotted her, AND FIRE!
 STORMTROOPER
 FN-417, hold position!
 Rey takes cover, grabs her BLASTER -- but IT WON'T FIRE!
 She panics, then realizes:
 REY
 Safety!
 SHE SWITCHES OFF THE SAFETY and FIRES BACK! HITS TWO TROOPERS
 and retreats, calls to BB-8:
 BB-8 follows Rey AWAY FROM THE CASTLE, firing back at more
 chasing Troopers!
 EXT. MAZ' CASTLE RUINS - DAY
 Kylo Ren moves through the DEBRIS. A Stormtrooper approaches:
 STORMTROOPER #4
 Sir, the droid was spotted heading
 west, with a girl.
 Kylo Ren LOOKS BACK SHARPLY, in Rey's direction --
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Rey and BB-8 move swiftly, terrified -- she stops them:
 REY
 You have to keep going, stay out of
 sight, I'll try to fight 'em off.
 (BB-8 BEEPS; bravely
 through her fear)
 I hope so, too.
 BB-8 BEEPS and heads off -- Rey RUNS and TAKES COVER behind
 a massive, mossy tree. TIGHT on her TERRIFIED FACE --
 EXT. CASTLE DEBRIS - DAY
 Han, Chewie, Finn and Maz, exhausted, CLIMB UP, peek through
 debris.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 Come on, Chewie!
 Maz turns to Finn:
 MAZ
 Rey and BB-8, they need you. Now
 go.
 FINN
 I need a weapon.
 Maz grabs his wrist -- holds up his hand -- THE SABER.
 MAZ
 You have one!
 He looks at her questioningly -- he's supposed to use the
 lightsaber?! He TURNS IT ON.
 HAN AND CHEWIE RUN, TAKE COVER from BLASTS, FIRING BACK at
 Stormtroopers, taking some out!
 HAN
 Hey, can I try that?
 Han borrows Chewbacca's bowcaster, fires on Stormtroopers
 and sends them flying.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 (TO CHEWBACCA)
 I like this thing.
 FINN SURPRISES A STORMTROOPER WITH THE LIGHTSABER, then
 another! Untrained, he's athletic, brave, impressive. One
 Stormtrooper has a MACE --
 STORMTROOPER
 Traitor!
 FINN and the TROOPER WITH THE MACE battle. The Mace Trooper
 KNOCKS FINN DOWN! The Stormtrooper is about to end him,
 when THE STORMTROOPER IS SHOT AND FALLS!
 Wide-eyed Finn sees Han run over, having fired the blast!
 Han helps him up.
 HAN
 You okay, Big deal? 
 FINN
 Thanks!
 But TEN STORMTROOPERS come over a RISE, BLASTERS AIMED.
 STORMTROOPER
 Don't move! TK-338, we have targets
 in custody! 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 No way out, they DROP THEIR WEAPONS: TIGHT on the LIGHTSABER
 as it HITS THE GROUND. A STORMTROOPER HAND picks it up.
 Han's MIND RACES as a SQUAD OF TROOPERS appears behind them.
 Finn, Han and Chewie are MARCHED by Stormtroopers back toward
 a transport, hands on their heads.
 But then -- A FAMILIAR ROAR RIPPING ACROSS THE LAKE -- Han
 turns -- they all do: coming toward them across the water, X-WINGS AND RESISTANCE SPACECRAFT APPEAR, BEGIN FIRING AT THE FIRST ORDER SHIPS! PUSH IN ON HAN, HOPE SURGING -- CHEWIE TALKS.
 STORMTROOPER (CONT'D)
 We have incoming at two-eight-point-
 six! Move! Dispatch! Move!
 Scramble all squads! Repeat, scramble
 all squads! Anti-air cover en route
 to our position!
 HAN
 It's the Resistance.
 One X-WING in particular -- MARKED IN BLACK -- SWOOPS DOWN
 and takes out the parked TIE FIGHTERS and Troopers!
 INT. POE'S X-WING - DAY
 It's Poe Dameron at the stick of his X-wing.
 POE
 Go straight ahead and don't let these
 dogs scare you!
 JESS (V.O.)
 Copy that!
 SNAP (V.O.)
 We're with you, Poe!
 The Stormtroopers around Finn, Han and Chewie SCATTER, TOSSED
 in EXPLOSIONS! The LIGHTSABER LANDS AGAIN -- FINN PICKS IT UP.
 HAN
 Quick!
 Chewie picks up his Bowcaster, Han takes the blaster. Shoots
 a Trooper.
 FINN
 Woohoo! YEAH! That's one ****uva
 pilot!
 INT. POE'S X-WING - DAY
 POE
 WOOHOO!
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 In the darkened woods, Rey, terrified, keeps her blaster
 aimed. Her eyes dart around for her pursuer.
 And then: THE UNIQUE SOUND OF KYLO REN'S RASPING LIGHTSABER
 COMING TO LIFE -- A SOUND she's HEARD BEFORE in the FORCEBACK.
 Rey's heart skips a beat: she's even more scared now.
 Kylo Ren appears from behind a tree -- Rey FIRES again and
 again -- Kylo Ren moves toward her, USING HIS LIGHTSABER TO DEFLECT EVERY BLAST.
 She FIRES ferociously, but Kylo Ren keeps coming! His hand
 rises -- Rey suddenly STOPS -- GASPS -- UNABLE TO MOVE.
 KYLO REN
 The girl I've heard so much about.
 He walks AROUND HER, slowly, she won't let herself cry.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 The droid.
 He comes around to see her face. After a scary beat he WHIPS HIS SABER UP TO HER EYES, ILLUMINATING HER FACE.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 Where is it?
 WIDE SHOT: THE EPIC BATTLE BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND FIRST ORDER TROOPS, REFLECTED IN THE STILL LAKE.
 STORMTROOPER
 Request air support!
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 Kylo Ren TURNS OFF HIS SABER, reaches up... and REACHES
 TOWARDS REY'S FACE. She can't move, strains in agony. After
 a beat, surprised by what he finds, he removes his hand.
 She is relieved but still afraid.
 KYLO REN
 The map. You've seen it.
 Rey is horrified. He TOUCHES HER FACE again: the pain, tears
 stream. Kylo Ren, taking more from her mind...
 She stares at him, TERRIFIED, straining in agony --
 Kylo Ren, mid-interrogation, TURNS TOWARD THE SOUND OF THE
 EXPLOSIONS. Stormtroopers APPROACH through the woods.
 STORMTROOPER #5
 Sir, Resistance fighters! We need
 more troops.
 Kylo Ren TURNS BACK TO Rey, his hand still on her face. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 KYLO REN
 Pull the division out. Forget the
 droid. We have what we need.
 A GESTURE from Kylo Ren and REY LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS, FALLS FROM FRAME!
 EXT. CASTLE DEBRIS - DAY
 The BLACK-MARKED X-WING SWOOPS DOWN again, FIRING, EXPLODING
 another TIE Fighter! On the ground:
 STORMTROOPER
 Pull back the tree line!
 Han and Chewie dodge debris, FIRING and TAKING OUT TROOPERS.
 FINN takes out 2 TROOPERS with the blaster, then, out of
 breath, turns to see: Kylo Ren in the forest, CARRYING REY
 IN HIS ARMS, INTO HIS SHUTTLE! Finn's heart SHATTERS --
 Han stops -- turns -- sees Kylo Ren entering his shuttle.
 Han is ROCKED.
 FINN
 NO!! REY!!!
 Heroically, Finn runs toward the shuttle through LASER BLASTS
 AND EXPLOSIONS, but the shuttle TAKES OFF -- Finn irrationally
 CHASES IT, SCREAMS DESPERATELY:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 No, no, no, no... REY!!
 In crazed frustration, Finn stops running, watches the
 receding First Order ships, Rey their captive.
 EXT. FOREST - DAY
 BB-8 moves fast, then stops and looks up as the First Order
 ships RETREAT, OFF PLANET. A considered beat, and BB-8 heads BACK FOR THE CASTLE.
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE RUINS - DAY
 Post battle. Finn runs to Han:
 FINN
 He took her! Did you see that? He
 took her. She's gone!
 HAN
 (WALKS PAST)
 Yeah, yeah, I know...
 And he and Chewie head off.
 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE RUINS - DAY
 Han moves toward a RESISTANCE TRANSPORT landing in the debris.
 BB-8 rolls up beside him, in wait for the transport.
 ON HAN'S FACE, knowing exactly what's about to happen.
 Finally, the transport door opens.
 And standing there is LEIA.
 She sees Han and is stunned. A silent beat, husband and
 wife reunited for the first time in years. In the smoke and
 embers, no one says a word.
 Then C-3PO walks out from the transport, into the field:
 C-3PO
 Goodness! Han Solo! It is I, See-
 Threepio!
 (sees Han, stops)
 You probably don't recognize me
 because of the red arm.
 (sees Leia, INCREASINGLY AWKWARD)
 Look who it is! Did you see who?
 Oh. Excuse me, Prin-- uh, General.
 Sorry. Come along, BB-8. Quickly.
 (BB-8 BEEPS)
 Yes, I must get my proper arm
 reinstalled.
 He hurries off. Finally, alone again.
 HAN
 You changed your hair.
 LEIA
 Same jacket.
 HAN
 No, new jacket.
 Chewie glad to see Leia, greets her with a hug. Chewie MOANS
 a few words, looks at Han then boards the ship.
 It is complicated and loving and painful. Han says, quietly:
 HAN (CONT'D)
 ... I saw him. Leia, I saw our son.
 He was here.
 Leia hears this.
 Maz watches through the smoke.
 EXT. SPACE - DAY
 The FALCON and surviving X-WINGS ROAR past camera toward a PLANET WITH GREEN FLORA AND A RING OF ASTEROIDS. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 This is D'QAR.
 EXT. D'QAR - DAY
 The SHIPS DESCENDING among grassy mounds and sunken
 structures.
 EXT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 LARGE GRASS MOUNDS cover HANGARS, beneath the odd, giant
 trees. BOOM DOWN as RESISTANCE GROUND CREW direct an X-WING
 to a LANDING. In the FOREGROUND, another X-wing canopy OPENS,
 a PILOT climbs out. PAN TO REVEAL the landed Millennium
 Falcon. Finn runs down the ramp, UP TO CAMERA, desperate,
 searching.
 Then BB-8 SPEEDS RIGHT PAST HIM, almost knocking him down --
 Finn watches as BB-8 rolls over to the PILOT GETTING OUT OF
 THE BLACK-MARKED X-WING. The Pilot's helmet comes off.
 IT IS POE!
 Finn can't believe what he's seeing. And Poe, kneeling in
 WARM REUNION with BB-8, listens and reacts to something the
 droid tells him. Poe looks up and sees Finn -- and he can't
 believe it either! Poe smiles, points at Finn. From a
 distance, Finn gestures in sheer amazement that Poe is alive.
 FINN
 Poe. Poe Dameron.
 They move to each other -- and embrace.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 You're alive!
 POE
 So are you!
 FINN
 What happened to you?
 POE
 What happened? I got thrown from
 the crash, woke up at night -- no
 you, no ship, nothing--
 BB-8 BEEPS -- Poe listens, turns to Finn.
 POE (CONT'D)
 BB-8 says that you saved him.
 FINN
 No, no, no. It wasn't just me.
 POE
 You completed my mission, Finn.
 That's my jacket?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 Oh here.
 POE
 No, no, no. Keep it. It suits you.
 You're a good man, Finn.
 FINN
 Poe -- I need your help.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 MOVE FAST with Finn and Poe. Finn takes in this makeshift
 command center, buried deep among vines and roots. They
 arrive at Leia, who stands with a group of Resistance
 Officers, including ADMIRALS ACKBAR and STATURA:
 POE
 General Organa. Sorry to interrupt,
 this is Finn, he needs to talk to YOU --
 LEIA
 (takes Finn's hand)
 And I need to talk to him. That was
 incredibly brave, what you did.
 Renouncing the First Order, saving
 this man's life --
 FINN
 (surprised she knows)
 Thank you, ma'am -- but a friend of
 mine was taken prisoner--
 LEIA
 Han told me about the girl, I'm sorry.
 Finn is startled -- Poe jumps in:
 POE
 Finn's familiar with the weapon that
 destroyed the Hosnian system. He
 worked on the base.
 LEIA
 We're desperate for anything you can
 tell us.
 FINN
 That's where my friend was taken --
 I've got to get there, fast.
 LEIA
 And I will do everything I can to
 help, but first you must tell us all
 you know.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Chewbacca sits on a bed in the med bay. DR. KALONIA uses a
 device to help heal his shoulder. Chewie TALKS. DR. KALONIA
 (CHEWIE TALKS)
 That sounds very scary.
 (CHEWIE TALKS)
 You must be so brave.
 Chewie agrees.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 C-3PO takes the DATA DEVICE from BB-8 and inserts it into a
 BASE COMPUTER. THE PROJECTED MAP APPEARS in HOLOGRAM. Leia
 enters, studying it, dispirited. PAN as she moves, REVEALING
 HAN. C-3PO is here and some others.
 C-3PO
 General, I regret to inform you, but
 this map recovered from BB-8 is only
 partially complete. And even worse,
 it matches no charted system on
 record. We simply do not have enough
 information to locate Master Luke.
 LEIA
 I can't believe I was so foolish to
 think that I could just find Luke
 and bring him home.
 HAN
 Leia...
 LEIA
 Don't do that.
 HAN
 Do what?
 She heads off.
 LEIA
 Anything.
 Flummoxed, Han follows looking at C-3PO.
 C-3PO
 Princesses.
 Han follows Leia across the base floor:
 HAN
 I'm trying to be helpful!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 LEIA
 When did that ever help? And don't
 say the Death Star.
 HAN
 (SIGHS)
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 LOW WITH BB-8 as he rolls over and finds, under a dark and
 dusty tarp in a corner, R2-D2. BB-8 BEEPS at R2, pulls off
 the tarp and tries to start a conversation. But R2 DOESN'T
 RESPOND AT ALL. BB-8 tries again. Nothing. BB-8 NUDGES
 R2. Nothing. Then:
 C-3PO (O.S.)
 BB-8. You're wasting your time.
 BB-8 looks up at C-3PO, who stands there. C-3PO SIGHS.
 C-3PO (CONT'D)
 It is very doubtful that R2 would
 have the rest of the map in his backup
 data.
 (BB-8 BEEPS)
 I am afraid not. R2-D2 has been in
 low power mode ever since Master
 Luke went away. Sadly, he may never
 be his old self again.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Leia hears the change in Han's voice and softens. She turns.
 HAN
 Listen to me, will you? I know every
 time you... every time you look at
 me, you're reminded of him.
 LEIA
 You think I want to forget him? I
 want him back!
 Han looks at her with sympathy.
 HAN
 There was nothing we could've done.
 (hard for him to say)
 There was too much Vader in him.
 LEIA
 That's why I wanted him to train
 with Luke. I just never should have
 sent him away. That's when I lost
 him. That's when I lost you both.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 We both had to deal with it in our
 own way. I went back to the only
 thing I was ever good at.
 LEIA
 We both did.
 HAN
 We lost our son, forever.
 LEIA
 No.
 (LONG BEAT)
 It was Snoke.
 Han takes this in.
 LEIA (CONT'D)
 He seduced our son to the dark side.
 But we can still save him. Me.
 You.
 HAN
 If Luke couldn't reach him, how could I?
 LEIA
 Luke is a Jedi... you're his father.
 There's still light in him. I know
 it.
 GENERAL STATURA
 General, the reconnaissance report
 on the enemy base is coming.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - HOLDING CELL - DAY
 Rey wakes, disoriented. She is in an angled, upright
 restraining rig. Looks over, startled to see Kylo Ren, mask
 in place, standing there.
 REY
 Where am I?
 KYLO REN
 (LONG BEAT)
 You're my guest.
 REY
 Where are the others?
 KYLO REN
 You mean the murderers, traitors and
 thieves you call friends?
 (Rey stares at him)
 You'll be relieved to hear that I
 have no idea.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Rey studies him. She's fearful... but curious.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 You still want to kill me.
 REY
 That happens when you're being hunted
 by a creature in a mask.
 Kylo Ren stops, considers her... then reaches up, unlatches
 and REMOVES HIS MASK. Rey reacts, stunned. It takes a moment
 before she regains her own mask of defiance.
 KYLO REN
 Tell me about the droid.
 REY
 (a nervous beat)
 He's a BB unit with a selenium drive
 and a thermal hyperscan vindicator --
 KYLO REN
 He's carrying a section of a
 navigational chart. We have the
 rest, recovered from archives of the
 Empire. We need the last piece.
 And somehow, you convinced the droid
 to show it to you. You. A scavenger --
 Rey reacts -- afraid -- how does he know?
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 You know I can take whatever I want.
 Trepidation flashes across Rey's eyes. Kylo Ren moves closer,
 his hand rising toward her. She recoils, but has nowhere to
 go. Kylo Ren nearly TOUCHES HER FACE...
 THEY'RE BOTH SURPRISED: they react to a feeling that passes
 between them -- AN ENERGY THEY RECOGNIZE IN EACH OTHER.
 And then it's gone. Adversaries again. Rey can't move,
 quietly strains in agony, trying to resist Ren's probing.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 ... You're so lonely... so afraid to
 leave...
 (then, slight smile)
 At night, desperate to sleep... you
 imagine an ocean. I see it -- I see
 the island...
 Tears stream down her face as she resists. She tries to
 break free, but can't budge.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 And Han Solo. You feel like he's
 the father you never had. He would've
 disappointed you. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 His hand still on her face, her eyes fierce through the agony:
 REY
 -- Get out of my head --
 But this just makes Kylo lean closer.
 KYLO REN
 I know you've seen the map. It's in
 there... and now you'll give it to
 me. Don't be afraid. I feel it
 too.
 Where her strength comes from, she doesn't know, but:
 REY
 I'm not giving you anything.
 KYLO REN
 We'll see.
 He peers into her eyes intensely. She meets his gaze --
 DESPITE THE PAIN SHE IS STRONG.
 On Ren's face as HIS CONFIDENCE BEGINS TO MELT AWAY. He has
 slammed up against a barrier in her mind. He looks less
 certain by the moment as Rey seems to GROW IN STRENGTH. The
 FEROCITY of confrontation builds until it hits critical mass AND REY DOES THE UNTHINKABLE! SHE ENTERS HIS HEAD, AMAZED AT WHAT SHE IS SEEING!
 REY
 ... You... you're afraid... that you
 will never be as strong as... Darth
 Vader!
 KYLO REN SUDDENLY WITHDRAWS HIS HAND, as if her face were
 FIRE HOT. TAKES A STEP BACK, CONFUSED, RATTLED. Rey's body
 is released, she breathes deeply, her powerful eyes still on
 Kylo Ren, who starts to leave.
 And we PRELAP:
 SNOKE (V.O.)
 This scavenger, resisted you?
 INT. STARKILLER PLANET - ASSEMBLY ROOM - NIGHT
 Kylo Ren, mask off, stands before Snoke.
 KYLO REN
 She's strong with the Force, untrained
 but, stronger than she knows.
 And while Ren's mind no doubt goes to Luke:
 SNOKE
 And the droid?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Kylo Ren hesitates to reveal the truth. Then:
 GENERAL HUX (O.S.)
 Ren believed it was no longer valuable
 to us.
 Ren turns back -- Hux enters the large space, moves to the
 platform beside Ren.
 GENERAL HUX (CONT'D)
 That the girl was all we needed. As
 a result, the droid has most likely
 been returned to the hands of the
 enemy. They may have the map already.
 Snoke is visibly furious.
 SNOKE
 Then the Resistance must be destroyed
 before they get to Skywalker.
 GENERAL HUX
 We have their location. We tracked
 their reconnaissance ship to the
 Ileenium system.
 SNOKE
 Good. Then we will crush them once
 and for all. Prepare the weapon.
 Kylo Ren is stunned by the moment -- that isn't what he meant
 at all --
 KYLO REN
 Supreme Leader. I can get the map
 from the girl. I just need your
 guidance.
 SNOKE
 If what you say about this girl is
 true, bring her to me.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - HOLDING CELL - DAY
 SLOW PUSH IN ON REY, shackled, mind still racing over what's
 happened between her and Kylo Ren. She is flooded with
 emotions, feeling her potential, her strength, that in this
 moment of being restrained, perhaps anything is possible.
 She turns to the Stormtrooper Guard. Studies him for an
 intense beat. Then says:
 REY
 You will remove these restraints.
 And leave this cell, with the door
 open.
 The Stormtrooper Guard looks at her. A beat.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 TROOPER GUARD #2
 What did you say?
 Rey's eyes stay trained on him. She shifts in her seat, her
 confidence wavering, but she repeats, with authority:
 REY
 You will remove these restraints.
 And leave this cell, with the door
 open.
 The Stormtrooper Guard, rifle aimed, MOVES FOR HER.
 Rey's heart pounds -- is she about to be killed, freed, or
 laughed at? The tension unbearable when the Guard says:
 TROOPER GUARD #2
 I'll tighten those restraints,
 scavenger scum!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR 1 - DAY
 LOW ANGLE: Kylo Ren, masked, rounds a corner, PASSES US.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - HOLDING CELL - DAY
 Rey stares intently at the trooper. Calms herself. And
 tries again.
 REY
 You will remove these restraints.
 And leave this cell, with the door
 open.
 TROOPER GUARD #2
 I will remove these restraints. And
 leave this cell, with the door open.
 He reaches down and UNLATCHES THE RESTRAINTS. HE THEN TURNS
 AND STARTS TO HEAD OUT, her back to him as he exits. SHE IS
 IN SHOCK. Then tries, quickly:
 REY
 And you will drop your weapon.
 TROOPER GUARD #2
 And I'll drop my weapon.
 The Trooper Guard DROPS HIS WEAPON without turning back --
 Rey HEARS the gun fall. She's incredulous. The guard has LEFT THE CELL, ITS DOOR OPEN.
 REY, in ABSOLUTE DISBELIEF, MOVES QUICKLY OUT OF FRAME!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - HOLDING CELL - DAY
 Kylo Ren enters the cell -- we PUSH IN ON HIM as he takes in
 the empty cell -- AND IMMEDIATELY UNDERSTANDS WHAT HAS HAPPENED. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 KYLO REN
 NO!
 Enraged, he RIPS OUT HIS SABER and --
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR 1 - DAY
 WIDE ANGLE, empty corridor, toward the cell: we only HEAR
 the horrible SOUNDS. DESTRUCTION. YELLING. A few pieces
 of red hot DEBRIS BOUNCES into the corridor.
 Two STORMTROOPERS, crossing at the far end of the hall, STOP
 TO WATCH this display of pure FURY. They retreat, and fast.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 Workers at their controls. Vast snowy landscape seen outside.
 Their GAUGES RISE -- THE WEAPON CHARGING SLOWLY --
 GENERAL HUX
 Begin charging the weapon!
 STARKILLER TECHNICIAN
 Yes, sir. Weapon charging.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE PLANET - DAY
 A vast view of the planet -- a MASSIVE SOLARVAC ARRAY
 surrounds a port TEN MILES IN DIAMETER.
 MILLIONS OF PANELS turn on the ARRAY -- a wave of BRILLIANT
 REFLECTIONS. Suddenly, like a planetary-scale TESLA COIL
 LINE OF ENERGY, THE POWER OF THE SUN begins to TRAVEL DOWN
 to the Starkiller Base planet.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Finn, now a member of the inner circle of the Resistance, is
 huddled with the group around the MAP TABLE, which displays
 a WIREFRAME HOLOGRAM of a ROLLING VIEW OF THE SURFACE OF
 STARKILLER BASE. With Finn are Han, Leia, Poe, C-3PO,
 Statura, Ackbar, Brance, SNAP, MAJOR EMATT (60), NIEN NUNB,
 and others. An urgent, messy strategy session --
 POE
 The scan data from Snap's
 reconnaissance flight confirms Finn's
 report.
 SNAP
 They've somehow created a hyper
 lightspeed weapon built within the
 planet itself.
 BRANCE
 A laser cannon?
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 SNAP
 We're not sure how to describe a
 weapon of this scale.
 MAJOR EMATT
 (HORRIBLE MEMORIES)
 It's another Death Star.
 POE
 I wish that were the case, Major.
 Poe hits a control. A WIREFRAME OF THE DEATH STAR APPEARS.
 POE (CONT'D)
 This was the Death Star.
 Poe hits another control -- the Death Star SHRINKS -- AND
 SHRINKS AND SHRINKS, as the SURFACE AREA OF THE STARKILLER BASE IS DRAWN INTO A LARGER IMAGE, REVEALING THE ENTIRE BASE
 PLANET. The Death Star is a minuscule SATELLITE in
 comparison.
 POE (CONT'D)
 This is Starkiller Base.
 This is news to many here, and they're stunned.
 HAN
 So it's big.
 ADMIRAL ACKBAR
 How is it possible to power a weapon
 of this size?
 FINN
 It uses the power of the sun. As
 the weapon is charged, the sun is
 drained until it disappears.
 An OFFICER runs up, hands Leia a DATACARD.
 LEIA
 (eyes on datacard)
 The First Order: they're charging
 the weapon again, now.
 (then, heart sinking)
 Our system is the next target.
 C-3PO
 Oh my. Without the Republic fleet,
 we're doomed.
 They all react to this horrible news.
 HAN
 Okay, how do we blow it up?
 (all eyes on him)
 There's always a way to do that.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 But no one has anything. Leia watches the silence,
 frustrated. Finally, rallying them:
 LEIA
 Han's right.
 Han is surprised.
 ADMIRAL STATURA
 (at first hesitant)
 In order for that amount of power to
 be contained, that base would need
 some kind of thermal oscillator...
 FINN
 There is one.
 All eyes on Finn as he moves around the hologram to a location
 on the Starkiller Base -- it is ZOOMED IN: A GIANT BLACK HEXAGONAL STRUCTURE.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Precinct 47. Here.
 ADMIRAL STATURA
 (HYPOTHESIZING)
 If we can destroy that oscillator,
 it might de-stabilize the core and
 cripple the weapon.
 MAJOR EMATT
 ... Maybe the planet.
 Poe then tries to bolster spirits, looking at the BIG
 HEXAGONAL STRUCTURE: the Oscillator.
 POE
 We'll go in there and we'll hit that
 oscillator with everything we got.
 ADMIRAL ACKBAR
 They have defensive shields that our
 ships cannot penetrate.
 HAN
 We disable the shields.
 (TO FINN)
 Kid, you worked there, what do you
 got?
 FINN
 (beat, then:)
 I can do it.
 HAN
 I like this guy.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 I can disable the shields. But I
 have to be there, on the planet--
 HAN
 We'll get you there.
 LEIA
 Han, how?
 HAN
 If I told you, you wouldn't like it.
 POE
 So we disable the shields, take out
 the oscillator and we blow up their
 big gun. All right. Let's go!
 And everyone splits.
 EXT. HANGARS, RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 SERIES OF SHOTS: THE RESISTANCE FLEET PREPARES FOR ITS
 MISSION. Pilots inspect crafts, including Snap, Nien Nunb,
 and Poe at his black-marked X-wing. Mechanics make
 adjustments as Crews fuel the jets. Ground controllers move
 ships into takeoff formation. Pilots prep their ships,
 including BB-8, who is PULLED INTO Poe's black X-wing.
 Finn approaches Poe wearing the jacket.
 Poe slaps Finn's shoulder as he heads off. Finn watches
 Poe, despite it all, a little laugh. Over this:
 EXT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Chewie and Finn follow Han's orders as they prepare the Falcon
 for one more daring run, maybe its last:
 HAN
 Chewie, check that donal capitator.
 Come on. Let's go. -- Finn, be
 careful with those - they're
 explosives.
 FINN
 Now you tell me?
 LEIA
 No matter how much we fought, I've
 always hated watching you leave.
 Han looks over, there's Leia.
 HAN
 That's what I did it. So you'd miss
 me.
 She laughs, moves up close to him. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 LEIA
 I did miss you.
 He looks at her, says sweetly, out of the blue:
 HAN
 It wasn't all bad, was it? Huh?
 Some of it was...good.
 LEIA
 ... Pretty good.
 HAN
 Some things never change.
 LEIA
 (SMILES)
 True. You still drive me crazy.
 Han places his hands on her shoulders. It could be thirty
 years ago.
 They both know there's a good chance he won't make it back.
 They pull each other tight, holding for dear life. Quietly,
 LONGINGLY:
 LEIA (CONT'D)
 If you see our son again, bring him
 home.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 STORMTROOPER
 Sir, sensors triggered in hangar
 718. We're searching the area.
 KYLO REN
 She's just beginning to test her
 powers. The longer it takes to find
 her, the more dangerous she becomes.
 Kylo exits.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - ATRIUM AREA - DAY
 TIGHT ON REY'S FACE as she peers nervously around a corner.
 Rey runs down a long, glossy hall, taking cover in an alcove,
 the Trooper Guard's rifle HELD TIGHT.
 EXT. LIGHTSPEED SPACE - DAY
 The Falcon SCREAMS PAST --
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Flying at LIGHTSPEED, Finn, with Han and Chewie.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 FINN
 How are we getting in?
 HAN
 Their shields have a fractional
 refresh rate. Keeps anything
 traveling slower than lightspeed
 from getting through.
 Finn is suddenly filled with dread.
 FINN
 We're gonna make our landing approach
 at lightspeed?!
 Chewie, thinking it's crazy too, says: **** YES WE ARE!
 HAN
 Alright, Chewie, get ready.
 Chewie GROANS: he's ready. Han studies the PANEL INDICATORS.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 And Now!
 Chewie and Han hit switches -- 
 EXT. LIGHTSPEED SPACE/STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 The Falcon's ENVIRONMENT SHIFTS INSTANTLY FROM LIGHTSPEED TO
 PLANET ATMOSPHERE -- it's suddenly FLYING 100 FEET ABOVE THE SNOWY, ROCKY GROUND, HEADED FOR A THICK FOREST!
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 CHEWIE GROANS:
 HAN
 I AM PULLING UP!!!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 But the Falcon has no time -- it PLOWS through the trees!
 It then RISES --
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 ALARMS BLARE as the ship SLAMS THROUGH BRANCHES, SHOOTS TOWARD
 SKY! Han does his best to steer -- Chewie GROANS -- in the
 madness Han YELLS:
 HAN
 I get any higher, they'll see us!
 And the ship DIVES again, back into the trees!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - CLEARING - DAY
 A quiet CLEARING on the forest TREELINE. Suddenly the
 MILLENNIUM FALCON HURTLES OUT OF THE FOREST! From an eruption
 of BRANCHES and PINE, the ship DIVES -- SLAMS INTO THE SNOW!
 It DIGS THROUGH A THOUSAND YARDS OF WHITE until it finally
 comes to a canted stop, half buried in the snow!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 OFFICER
 Sir, she was not found in hangar 718
 but all troops are on alert.
 KYLO REN
 Put every hangar on lock-down. She's
 going to try to steal a ship to--
 Suddenly, Kylo senses something. Something familiar.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 Han Solo...
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 MASSIVE WIDE SHOT of an EPIC SNOWSCAPE. Han, Finn and Chewie
 cross the terrain. WALKERS appears on the horizon. Han,
 Finn and Chewie take cover behind a base structure. Chewie
 carries a BLACK DUFFEL of EXPLOSIVES.
 FINN
 The flooding tunnels are over that
 ridge. We'll get in that way.
 HAN
 What was your job when you were based
 here?
 FINN
 Sanitation.
 HAN
 Sanitation? Then how do you know
 how to disable the shields?
 FINN
 I don't. I'm just here to get Rey.
 HAN
 People are counting on us! The galaxy
 is counting on us--!
 FINN
 Solo, we'll figure it out! We'll
 use the Force!
 HAN
 That's not how the Force works--! 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Chewie MOAN TALKS.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 Oh really, you're cold?
 FINN
 Come on!
 They follow Finn on the snowy hike. On the horizon, THE LASER SIPHON SHOOTING INTO THE SKY, SLOWLY SUCKING THE SUN DRY.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 Technicians at work, the SUN SUCKING seen in the window behind
 him.
 GENERAL HUX
 Report.
 FIRST ORDER OFFICER
 Weapon charged in fifteen minutes,
 sir.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR 4 - DAY
 A STORMTROOPER waits to board a Transport Compartment. The
 door WHOOSHES open -- HAN, FINN and CHEWIE are there!
 STORMTROOPER FN-9330
 Hey!
 He fumbles for his blaster but Chewie shoots first. WIDE
 ANGLE of the corridor as the Trooper flies back, dead.
 Chewie drags him out of sight. Han and Finn peer around a
 corner, wary.
 HAN
 The longer we're here, less luck
 we're going to have. The shields?
 FINN
 I have an idea about that.
 Han and Chewie follow Finn.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR - DAY
 Captain Phasma heads down a corridor, distant Stormtroopers.
 Suddenly Phasma is T-BONED HARD AND FAST -- SHOVED OUT OF FRAME BY CHEWIE!
 And now we're in a NARROW CROSS-CORRIDOR, CHEWIE WITH HIS ARMS AROUND PHASMA, FORCED TO FACE FINN, WHO HOLDS HIS BLASTER
 ON HIS FORMER CAPTAIN. Han stands behind Finn.
 FINN
 Remember me? 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 FN-2187.
 FINN
 Not anymore. The name's Finn, and
 I'm in charge. I'm in charge now,
 Phasma. I'm in charge.
 HAN
 Bring it down. Bring it down.
 FINN
 Follow me.
 Finn SMILES as we CUT TO:
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - ATRIUM AREA - DAY
 TIGHT ON REY'S FACE as she peers nervously around a corner.
 Rey runs down a long, glossy hall, taking cover in an alcove,
 the Trooper Guard's rifle HELD TIGHT.
 From this alcove, she can see down another LONG, PERPENDICULAR
 WALKWAY -- on one side, a STONE AND STEEL WALL. On the other
 side, a VAST ATRIUM, with a railing-free DROP OFF, the white
 pill-light design descending HUNDREDS OF FEET.
 At the end of this walkway is an OPEN HANGAR DOOR, revealing
 HUNDREDS OF TIE FIGHTERS parked outside.
 TIGHT on Rey's face as her plan is clear. But the problem:
 between her and the ship she wants to steal, is a GROUP OF
 STORMTROOPERS. Guards, in conversation.
 As she tries to think about what to do next, we see, FAR
 BEHIND HER in the perpendicular hall, ANOTHER GROUP OF STORM-
 and SNOWTROOPERS headed her way!
 Rey's mind races -- another peek out and she RUNS FAST, across
 the walkway, and CLIMBS DOWN -- her fingertips disappearing
 over the edge just as the Troopers approach and continue.
 WIDE SHOT as Rey holds on carefully as the guards walk off,
 not seeing her over the edge, a death drop below her.
 But then she SEES SOMETHING and has a brainstorm. She
 strenuously cross-climbs to an invisible SERVICE HATCH, which
 She opens, and climbs INSIDE THE WALL, closing the hatch
 behind her.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - INSIDE THE WALLS - DAY
 A REMARKABLE IMAGE, inside the inner workings of the base.
 Tiny by comparison, Rey climbs amid the incredible
 infrastructure, a drop to infinity beneath her. She is
 between the LIGHT SOURCE and the WHITE PILL SHAPES, as she
 makes her way ACROSS.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - ATRIUM AREA - DAY
 WIDE SHOT of the Stormtrooper GUARDS, above the drop off
 into the atrium. What they cannot see is a SHADOWED
 SILHOUETTE OF REY against the ENDLESS WHITE PILL LIGHTS as
 she climbs across the space, beneath them, toward her exit!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ACCESS POINT - DAY
 CLOSE AS PHASMA SITS INTO FRAME in front of a WORKSTATION --
 Finn, Han and Chewie, blasters aimed. Phasma reluctantly
 works controls on the workstation.
 FINN
 You want me to blast that bucket off
 your head? Lower the shields.
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 You're making a big mistake.
 FINN
 Do it.
 Chewie MOAN/TALKS. Phasma hits a few more buttons -- the
 controls BEEP-CLICK. "SHIELDS DISABLE INITIATE". Eyes on THE WORKSTATION:
 FINN (CONT'D)
 Solo, if this works, we're not going
 to have a lot of time to find Rey.
 HAN
 Don't worry kid, we won't leave here
 without her.
 The controls BEEP-CLICK. "SHIELDS DISABLED".
 CAPTAIN PHASMA
 (to Finn, cruel)
 You can't be so stupid as to think
 this will be easy. My troops will
 storm this block and kill you all.
 FINN
 I disagree. What do we do with her?
 HAN
 Is there a garbage chute? Trash
 compactor?
 FINN
 Yeah, there is...
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 An ALERT: OFFICERS at their consoles, OVERLAPPING, urgent.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 OFFICER
 General, their shields
 are down!
 C-3PO
 Thank the Maker!
 LEIA
 Han did it! Send them
 in!
 ADMIRAL STATURA
 Give Poe full authorization
 to attack.
 REAR ADMIRAL GULCH
 Black Leader, go to
 sub-lights. On your
 call.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 At LIGHTSPEED, Poe pilots:
 POE
 Roger, base -- red squad, blue squad,
 take my lead.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 Nien Nunb pilots, acknowledges order in alien language.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 Another pilot, ZOLO ZIFF.
 YOLO ZIFF
 Dropping out of lightspeed.
 EXT. SPACE/STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 With CONCUSSIVE BLASTS, the X-WINGS APPEAR and ROAR PAST
 CAMERA toward the Starkiller Base planet!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - CLEARING - DAY
 The CRASHED FALCON, two parked TIE FIGHTERS and a TROOP
 TRANSPORT VEHICLE beside it.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - CLEARING - DAY
 At a distance, the X-WINGS DROP FROM THE SKY, TOWARD THE HEXAGONAL OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE IN THE DISTANCE!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - ABOVE OSCILLATOR - DAY
 The squad of X-wings DIVE BOMBS the Oscillator, the Black
 Falcon leads. INTERCUT BETWEEN THIS AND VARIOUS X-WINGS.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 POE PILOTS:
 POE
 Almost in range! Hit the target
 dead center, as many runs as we can
 get!
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 Snap pilots.
 SNAP
 Approaching target.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 Nien Nunb acknowledges.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
 LARGE EXPLOSIONS atop the DISTANT OSCILLATOR, seen through
 the large windows! ALARMS BLARE in here -- we PULL BACK as
 Hux moves quickly to see the damage, he turns sharply to a
 First Order Officer:
 GENERAL HUX
 Dispatch all squadrons...
 COLONEL DATOO
 Yes, General.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 POE
 Let's light it up!
 DIVE BOMBING THE OSCILLATOR, HITTING IT DEAD CENTER IN QUICK SUCCESSION!
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 LT. BASTIAN
 Direct hit!
 ELLO ASTY
 But no damage!
 Jess reacts.
 POE
 Yeah, we gotta keep hitting it!
 Another bombing run! Remember, when
 that sun is gone, that weapon will
 be ready to fire! But as long as
 there's light, we got a chance.
 INT. X-WING - DAY
 A BEEPING from BB-8, riding in the back of his X-wing, and
 Poe looks out -- can't believe what he's seeing: DOZENS OF TIE FIGHTERS!
 POE
 Guys, we got a lot of company!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - JUNCTION AREA - DAY
 Finn, Han and Chewie take cover, Chewie pulling some
 EXPLOSIVES out of the duffel. Blast doors nearby.
 FINN
 We'll use the charges to blow that
 blast door. I'll go in and draw
 fire, but I'm gonna need cover.
 HAN
 You sure you're up for this?
 FINN
 **** no -- I'll go in find and try
 to find Rey --
 (improvising, fast)
 -- The troopers'll be on our tail.
 We have to be ready for that. There's
 an access tunnel that'll leads --
 (Han starts pointing
 with his chin to SOMETHING BEHIND FINN)
 Why are you doing that? Why are you
 doing -- this? I'm trying to come
 up with a plan.
 Finn turns -- AND SEES REY, CLIMBING OUT FROM INSIDE THE
 WALL, carefully climbing back up to the main level! He can't
 believe it! Chewie MURMURS his relief. Han is maybe more
 grateful than anyone.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 A Resistance Technician turns to Leia:
 ADMIRAL ACKBAR
 The Oscillator's still standing.
 OFFICER
 X-wings coming back for another round
 of attacks!
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CORRIDOR 6 - DAY
 Rey climbs up to the corridor, vigilant. She hears a SOUND,
 SWOOPS her rifle at -- Finn, Han and Chewie! She cannot
 believe it! All Finn wants to do is hug her -- and she him.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 Are you all right?
 REY
 Yeah.
 HAN
 Good.
 FINN
 What happened -- did he hurt you?
 REY
 Finn. What are you doing here?!
 FINN
 We came back for you.
 She is speechless -- this is all she's ever wanted anyone to
 do. Chewie TALKS -- and Rey's eyes nearly tear up.
 FINN (CONT'D)
 What'd he say?
 REY
 (shrugs, smiles, though
 nearly in tears)
 ... That it was your idea.
 Finn awkwardly smiles. It's his nature. They embrace.
 REY (CONT'D)
 Thank you.
 FINN
 How did you get away?
 REY
 I can't explain it. And you wouldn't
 believe it.
 HAN
 Escape now. Hug later.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 The X-Wings DOGFIGHT with the TIE Fighters on the surface of
 the snowy planet. INTERCUT BETWEEN the ships SCREAMING past
 each other, and the COCKPITS of the Resistance and First
 Order fighters. Poe's fighter NEARLY COLLIDES with a close-
 passing TIE Fighter!
 SNAP
 I got one behind me. See it?
 JESS
 Yeah, I'm on it!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 A heavy cannon emplacement launches a missile that shreds an
 X-wing fighter.
 JESS
 Furillo's been hit!
 SNAP
 Watch out for ground fire!
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - DAY
 The X-wings ROAR across the sky, BLASTING and DODGING the
 TIE Fighters and missiles.
 PULL BACK TO REVEAL Han, Finn, Rey and Chewie, who run out
 here, into the snow, stopping, eyes on the sky, watching the
 lop-sided battle. THE FOUR HEROES TURN TO EACH OTHER, RESOLVE IN THEIR EYES.
 A long moment of communication.
 HAN
 They're in trouble. We can't leave.
 (to Finn, re: Chewie)
 My friend here has a bag full of
 explosives. Let's use 'em.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 A Resistance Technician turns to Leia:
 KAYDEL KO CONNIX
 General, are you seeing this?
 VOBER DAND
 Two more X-wings down. That's half
 our fleet destroyed.
 C-3PO
 And their weapon will be fully charged
 in 10 minutes! It would take a
 miracle to save us now.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 Han and Chewie arrive here to find THREE SECURITY
 STORMTROOPERS approaching a Maintenance Hatch. Instantly,
 Chewie takes out the middle one with his Bowcaster. Han and
 the other two Stormtroopers OPEN FIRE, but Han's aim is true. ALARMS START BLARING!
 INT. JUNCTION STATION - NEAR DARKNESS
 Running inside from a parked snowspeeder, Rey opens a service
 hatch. Finn behind her, as she reaches into the mechanics
 of the place, very much like the very first shot we saw of
 Rey.
 And she YANKS a piece of TECH from the machinery and:
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 The HATCH OPENS! Han and Chewie, having been on the lookout,
 step inside, weapons poised. Chewie MOANS.
 HAN
 That girl knows her stuff.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 Han and Chewie divide the explosives. Talk in hushed tones.
 HAN
 We'll set the charges at every other
 column.
 He GROAN/TALKS to Han, who looks around, reconsiders.
 HAN (CONT'D)
 You're right. That's a better idea.
 (checks his detonator)
 You take the top.
 (CHEWIE DOES)
 I'll go down below. Detonator.
 We'll meet back here.
 They head off in opposite directions.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 Han finishes placing an explosive. Checks he's all-clear
 and hurries down to the next level. Chewie climbs up a level.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - MAIN ENTRANCE - NEAR DARKNESS
 A SQUAD of Stormtroopers SNAP to alert as Kylo Ren approaches.
 CONTROLS ARE HIT and the huge DOOR OPENS. Without hesitation,
 Kylo walks INTO THE OSCILLATOR.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 A COLOSSAL CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURE. DARK CORRIDORS and
 CATWALKS. Kylo Ren comes to a stop. Scans the structure.
 SENSING SOMETHING, he motions the Stormtrooper Squad upwards.
 KYLO REN
 Find them.
 They rush past him. Kylo Ren turns slowly, and HEADS DOWN.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 The Stormtroopers move up the ramp, weapons ready, checking
 carefully where blind corners intersect from the perimeter.
 They come round to the next higher level and PASS CLOSE TO
 CAMERA. When they've passed, TILT to find CHEWIE, in the
 shadows of the grillwork. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Once they're gone, he plants another charge.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NEAR DARKNESS
 The Snowspeeder comes to a stop outside the structure. Finn
 and Rey stop for a moment, look to the sky: THE SUN IS NEARLY GONE.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - LOWER LEVEL - NIGHT
 Han finishes setting a charge and is about to move on when
 he HEARS SOMETHING and conceals himself behind a wide,
 vertical support. He peaks around the edge and his whole
 demeanor changes --
 HAN'S POV: Kylo Ren appears and stops at the railing, looking
 down into the filter.
 Han looks at his son with a tortured storm of feelings.
 WE'RE WITH KYLO REN as he resumes his hunt. He heads directly
 toward WHERE HAN IS HIDING! Kylo Ren has an INCREASING SENSE
 OF HAN'S PRESENCE as he moves closer. He comes to where Han
 was hiding -- but HAN IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.
 From his hiding place in a narrow, POWER CHAMBER in the wall, HAN WATCHES HIS SON PASS ONLY A FEW FEET IN FRONT OF HIM.
 Han SHIFTS HIS POSITION in the tight compartment, so he can
 watch Ren's progress. Kylo Ren turns onto a FLAT BRIDGE
 THAT BISECTS the open space.
 Unaware of his father, Kylo Ren walks purposefully across to
 the opposite side. Han watches his son walk off -- the CLANK-
 CLANK of Kylo Ren's boots receding.
 This is Han's opportunity to escape but Leia's words echo
 through his mind. He makes a decision and moves out, to the
 edge of the catwalk. He calls out, strongly:
 HAN
 Ben!
 The name ECHOES as Kylo Ren STOPS, far across the vast
 catwalk. He turns.
 KYLO REN
 Han Solo. I've been waiting for
 this day for a long time.
 Finn and Rey make their way into the space, opening a HATCH
 that allows A BEAM OF PRECIOUS SUNLIGHT to stream down like
 a spotlight on Han and his son. Finn and Rey get to a railing
 and look down. They can SEE and HEAR Han and Kylo Ren on
 the catwalk below.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 HAN
 Take off that mask. You don't need
 it.
 KYLO REN
 What do you think you'll see if I
 do?
 Han moves toward Kylo Ren.
 HAN
 The face of my son.
 Kylo TAKES OFF HIS MASK. Han is JOLTED -- seeing the face
 of his son for the first time as a man.
 KYLO REN
 Your son is gone. He was weak and
 foolish, like his father. So I
 destroyed him.
 HAN
 That's what Snoke wants you to believe
 but it's not true. My son is alive.
 SEVERAL LEVELS BELOW them, CHEWIE comes to the rail to watch.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - LOWER LEVEL - NEAR DARKNESS
 Kylo flares.
 KYLO REN
 No. The Supreme Leader is wise.
 UP ABOVE, Finn, Chewie and Rey watch, rapt. Stormtroopers
 dot the perimeter of the structure, watching the scene.
 ON THE BRIDGE, Han moves closer, stern:
 HAN
 Snoke is using you for your power.
 When he gets what he wants, he'll
 crush you -- you know it's true.
 Kylo hesitates. Somehow, he does know it.
 KYLO REN
 It's too late.
 HAN
 No it's not. Leave here with me.
 Come home. We miss you.
 For the first time, Kylo Ren seems truly conflicted. Tears
 flood his stoic eyes...
 KYLO REN
 I'm being torn apart. I want to be
 free of this pain.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - DARKNESS FALLS
 Han takes one step toward his son, but stops himself.
 KYLO REN
 I know what I have to do, but I don't
 know if I have the strength to do
 it. Will you help me?
 Han hears his son's voice again, pained and vulnerable.
 HAN
 Yes. Anything.
 Kylo Ren unholsters his lightsaber and SLOWLY EXTENDS IT to
 Han, within a foot of Han's chest. Han almost can't believe
 it. The moment seems to last forever. And just then, the
 LAST BEAM OF SUNLIGHT streaming through the open hatch VANISHES.
 Han actually smiles -- and reaches out for the dark weapon --
 but with the light now gone, KYLO REN'S EYES FILL WITH DARKNESS, HE IGNITES THE LIGHTSABER -- THE FIERY BLADE SHOOTS OUT, RIGHT THROUGH HAN'S CHEST AND BACK!
 KYLO REN
 Thank you.
 ABOVE, Finn and Rey GASP -- SCREAM --
 FINN
 (PANTING)
 Solo.
 REY
 (ALSO PANTING)
 No, no.
 Han's last moment is looking into his son's face. HAN'S
 KNEES BUCKLE. The blade tilts down with him... until KYLO
 REN EXTINGUISHES IT AND HAN HOLDS onto the catwalk -- his
 life slipping away.
 Finally Han FALLS BACK, OFF THE CATWALK, INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE STRUCTURE!
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Leia, feeling it instantly -- knowing -- drops into a seat, DEVASTATED.
 INT. OSCILLATOR STRUCTURE - NIGHT
 Kylo Ren is somehow WEAKENED by this wicked act. Himself
 horrified. His SHOCK is broken only when --
 CHEWIE CRIES OUT IN AGONY! Chewie furiously FIRES AT KYLO
 REN, HITTING HIM IN THE SIDE! Kylo Ren falls back, stunned.
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 Our MUSIC TAKES OVER, EPIC AND HEARTBREAKING as Stormtroopers
 FIRE AT CHEWIE, who is forced to retreat down a corridor,
 where he holds the EXPLOSIVE REMOTE -- he PUSHES THE BUTTON!
 Hearing ONLY OUR SCORE, FIRST ONE, then TWO, then FOUR, then
 SIX EXPLOSIONS rock the structure -- CATWALKS FALL as the
 walls CAVE IN!
 Kylo Ren SEES REY AND FINN, WATCHING THE EXPLOSIONS IN SHOCK --
 then they SEE KYLO REN, WHO RECOGNIZES THEM BOTH, WITH
 ASTONISHMENT. He rises to his full height and heads for
 them with long strides.
 Stormtroopers begin to BLAST AWAY AT REY AND FINN! CRAZED, REY FIRES BACK AS BLASTS HIT AROUND HER. FINN WRAPS AN ARM AROUND HER AND DRAGS/CARRIES HER OUT OF SIGHT!
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 ADMIRAL ACKBAR
 The Oscillator's been damaged but is
 still functional.
 COMMODORE META reacts.
 OFFICER TABALA ZO
 Admiral, their weapon will fire in
 two minutes.
 EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
 From a distance the oscillator is ablaze and fractured from
 the explosives. Then Rey and Finn appear, coming over a
 rising, running into a bare-tree snowy forest.
 FINN
 The Falcon's this way.
 Finn and Rey, overcome with emotion, race through the snowy
 forest -- until Finn SLOWS AND STOPS. Rey stops too, both
 out of breath. They look at each other. They both know:
 they can't run.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - FOREST - NIGHT
 Kylo Ren moves through the trees -- until he STOPS. Takes
 out the saber, ignites it.
 A still figure amidst the gusts of wind and snow. STANDING THIRTY FEET AWAY, FACING HIM, ARE FINN AND REY.
 Finn holds LUKE'S LIGHTSABER, Rey the Stormtrooper BLASTER.
 KYLO REN
 We're not done yet.
 REY
 You're a monster!
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 KYLO REN
 It's just us now. Han Solo can't
 save you.
 After a beat, Rey moves forward with the blaster -- AIMS IT!
 Kylo Ren RAISES A HAND -- Rey struggles under his FORCE POWER --
 she can't fire -- he strains too, especially with the WOUND
 Chewie inflicted. Kylo Ren GESTURES POWERFULLY -- Rey's
 BLASTER FLIES OUT OF HER HAND -- another GESTURE and Rey
 FLIES BACK and SLAMS INTO A TREE thirty feet away!
 She drops -- LANDS HARD in the snow. Dazed, hurt.
 FINN
 Rey! Rey! Rey... Rey... Oh no. Oh
 no no no...
 Finn turns to her, afraid and concerned. But the SOUND OF
 KYLO REN'S LIGHTSABER moving makes Finn TURN BACK TO KYLO
 REN, lit by the glowing YELLOW AND RED BLADE.
 KYLO REN
 TRAITOR!
 In reply, Finn TURNS ON LUKE'S LIGHTSABER -- upon seeing the
 weapon, Kylo Ren REACTS IN SHOCK.
 KYLO REN (CONT'D)
 That lightsaber. It belongs to me!
 FINN
 Come get it.
 Despite his fear, Finn raises his blade in welcome. Kylo
 Ren CHARGES at him - Finn terrified -- Kylo Ren LUNGES but
 Finn DEFLECTS Ren's SPARK-SPITTING blade!
 Kylo Ren TURNS, ATTACKS, CUTS -- amazingly Finn BLOCKS,
 COUNTER-ATTACKS -- clearly IMPRESSES KYLO REN, who only enjoys
 this challenge more!
 Rey RECOVERS, gets her bearings. Her eyes focus on the two
 men fighting, through the trees.
 Kylo Ren is obviously hampered by his wound, yet he attacks
 with a primal SAVAGERY -- Finn BLOCKS, turning DEFENSIVE
 moves into OFFENSIVE ones. And he ACTUALLY GETS A HIT IN!
 LUKE'S SABER GRAZING KYLO REN'S ARM! Kylo MOVES BACK --
 wounded, but more enraged than weakened. Kylo Ren CHARGES
 AGAIN -- their WEAPONS POUND, SPARKS FLY, their blades LOCK,
 the men are CLOSE, LIT BY the powerful, CRASHING sabers:
 And Kylo Ren PUSHES FINN BACK, attacks with pure ferocity --
 Finn is stunned -- unprepared for this fierceness.
 Rey sees this -- Kylo Ren unleashes a MERCILESS SERIES OF
 BLOWS, pushing Finn further and further back until he loses
 balance. 
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 That's when KYLO REN STRIKES: HE LANDS A BLOW TO FINN'S TORSO -- LUKE'S LIGHTSABER FLIES FROM FINN'S HAND, THROWN TWENTY FEET!
 Kylo Ren TURNS OFF HIS LIGHTSABER and REACHES FOR LUKE'S LIGHTSABER -- BECKONING IT WITH THE FORCE. LUKE'S LIGHTSABER VIBRATES IN THE SNOW.
 Kylo Ren GESTURES, INCREASES HIS POWER -- LUKE'S LIGHTSABER FINALLY FLIES OUT OF THE SNOW, BULLETS TOWARD KYLO REN -- -- AND SPEEDS PAST HIM! KYLO REN TURNS TO SEE LUKE'S LIGHTSABER LAND IN THE HAND OF REY, WHO STANDS, FACING HIM, HAVING REACHED FOR IT HERSELF, BUT UTTERLY STUNNED THAT IT LANDED IN HER HAND! SHE IS SHOCKED -- AND SO IS KYLO REN!
 Holding it with both hands, SHE IGNITES LUKE'S LIGHTSABER FOR THE FIRST TIME, HER EYES BLAZING.
 Kylo Ren IGNITES HIS SABER.
 It's REY who charges now -- Kylo Ren immediately on the
 defensive. They BATTLE POWERFULLY -- He is clearly rocked
 by her raw, innate skill.
 INT. X-WING - NIGHT
 NIV LEK
 We just lost R-1!
 JESS
 We're overwhelmed! What do we do?
 It isn't working!
 Another pilot looks down -- SEES THE EXPLOSION -- coming
 from the OSCILLATOR. Relatively small, it's an opening:
 YOLO ZIFF
 Black Leader, there's a brand new
 hole in that oscillator. Looks like
 our friends got in!
 POE
 Red Four! Red Six! Cover us!
 LT. BASTIAN
 I'm on it!
 ELLO ASTY
 Roger!
 POE
 Everybody else, hit the target hard!
 Give it everything you got!
 And the X-WINGS DIVE and BLAST the OSCILLATOR --
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR - NIGHT
 Another two X-wings -- including Poe's -- soar through the
 trench leading to the oscillator structure!
 POE
 I need some help here! I need some
 help!
 LT. BASTIAN
 I'm coming in!
 JESS
 Watch out!
 ELLO ASTY
 I'm hit!
 The alien pilot's X-wing is blasted to pieces.
 POE
 All teams - I'm going in! Pull up
 and cover me!
 NIV LEK
 Copy that, Black Leader! Good luck,
 Poe!
 The trailing X-wings peel off as Poe's black fighter darts
 into the fiery breach.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - NEAR DARKNESS
 Outside, the SUN ALMOST COMPLETELY GONE -- PULL BACK THROUGH THE WINDOW TO REVEAL A STARKILLER TECHNICIAN:
 STARKILLER TECHNICIAN
 Weapon at full capacity in thirty
 seconds.
 GENERAL HUX
 Prepare to fire.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR - NIGHT
 Poe's X-wing weaves through the breach. A pursuing TIE
 fighter does not clear the gap, leaving Poe to circle the
 interior of the unguarded structure, firing volley after
 volley of torpedoes.
 EXT. STARKILLER BASE - OSCILLATOR - NIGHT
 The remaining X-Wings -- including Poe's -- BLAST the place --
 and the structure begins to CRATER, deep underground EXPLOSIONS!
 EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
 Amid the BARE WHITE TREES, ONLY TWO LIGHTSABERS -- LUKE'S
 BLUE AND REN'S YELLOW-RED -- ILLUMINATE the FLURRIES OF SNOW
 as Rey and Kylo Ren BATTLE HARD.
 She seems to be, impossibly, STRONGER THAN HE IS for half a
 dozen blows -- until he FINDS HIS STRENGTH and FIGHTS BACK --
 MOVING FORWARD and PUSHING REY BACK, into the forest.
 Suddenly a COLOSSAL CHUNK OF THE FOREST RIGHT BEHIND REY
 DROPS AWAY! Rey is suddenly fighting on the EDGE OF A MASSIVE, BRAND NEW CLIFF!
 KYLO REN
 You need a teacher! I can show you
 the ways of the Force!
 REY
 The Force.
 Rey closes her eyes for a long beat. When Rey opens them,
 she is centered, fortified, and she POUNDS BACK, SINGLE HANDED
 SWIPES, hitting Ren's gnarly, spitting saber with incredible
 FORCE. It's so fast now, so furious, that Kylo Ren FALLS
 BACK -- She ATTACKS HARDER!
 Ren gets up again but she HITS HIS SABER'S HILT -- HIS BLADE
 GOES FLYING OFF, TUMBLING INTO THE SNOW -- and she SLASHES AGAIN AND AGAIN AND HITS KYLO REN SQUARE IN THE HEAD AND CHEST. HE GOES DOWN, SUDDENLY A FEARFUL MAN, A LARGE BURN
 SCAR SLASHED ACROSS HIS FACE! He still reaches for his saber.
 And she could kill him -- right now, with ONE VICIOUS STRIKE!
 But she stops. Realizing she stands on a greater edge than
 even the cliff -- the edge of the dark side. The earth
 SHAKES. The earth splits. A gully forms.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
 The area where the RALLY was held is now COLLAPSING into a
 giant sink hole! We WHIP PAN to a YOUNG TECHNICIAN, who
 watches this out the control room window in horror. He
 hurries off, passing COLONEL DATOO, who admonishes:
 COLONEL DATOO
 Lieutenant, get back to your station!
 YOUNG TECHNICIAN
 (stops, fleetingly)
 Just look. We won't survive -- even
 Hux has gone!
 As he hurries off, WE HEAR:
 GENERAL HUX (V.O.)
 Supreme Leader.
 INT. STARKILLER BASE - ASSEMBLY ROOM - NIGHT
 Hux stands before SNOKE'S IMAGE. Relative quiet here, but
 distant SOUNDS OF DESTRUCTION. Hux tries to keep it together
 but is horrified, heartsick:
 GENERAL HUX
 The fuel cells have ruptured. The
 collapse of the planet has begun.
 Snoke takes this in. Furious, desolate... knowing.
 SNOKE
 Leave the base at once and come to
 me with Kylo Ren.
 (GRIM)
 It is time to complete his training.
 EXT. FOREST - NIGHT
 Rey turns, runs a hundred feet through the forest to:
 FINN, who lies, near death, not far from where the GROUND
 FELL AWAY. Rey falls to her knees near him, turns him over,
 sees his cauterized but possibly fatal wound.
 REY
 Finn! Finn...
 Tears come to her eyes as she lifts him, holds his lifeless
 body in her arms. Snow flurries around them as she cries,
 holding this boy who she just met, who she already adores.
 They are left here to die -- nearby MORE TREES DROP as the
 planet continues to COLLAPSE. And just as it seems like all
 is lost... Her wet eyes look up to see: LIGHTS RISE FROM THE NEWLY-FORMED CANYON -- IT'S A SHIP WE
 KNOW -- IT'S THE MILLENNIUM FALCON -- and its lights ILLUMINATE REY, WHOSE FACE FILLS WITH HOPE!
 CHEWIE IS AT THE CONTROLS. He ROARS to them!
 EXT. FALCON - NIGHT
 Chewie exits the ship.
 MOMENTS LATER Chewie CARRIES FINN up the ramp. Rey hurries
 with them back into the ship --
 INT. FALCON - NIGHT
 Chewie carries Finn inside, followed by Rey.
 EXT. SPACE - NIGHT
 And we FLY WITH THE FALCON as it leaves the planet -- we can
 see CHEWIE AND REY PILOTING, the COLLAPSING PLANET BEHIND
 US. The Resistance X-wings, led by Poe, follow the Falcon.
 INT. X-WING - NIGHT
 POE
 All teams! I got eyes on them!
 SNAP
 Yes!
 The X-wings ROAR OFF, skyward as the MUSIC SOARS, the PLANET
 IMPLODES -- THE SUNLIGHT IT CONTAINS BURSTS FORTH, and as we
 get further and further distance from what was Starkiller
 Base, we witness the REBIRTH OF A SUN. Light restored to a
 corner of the galaxy.
 The Millennium Falcon and the X-wings RIP THROUGH SPACE,
 headed home.
 POE
 Our job's done here. Let's go home!
 EXT. D'QAR - DAY
 ESTABLISHING SHOT as the Falcon on the landing strip.
 EXT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 The Falcon has landed among the remaining Resistance ships.
 Poe is there, watching as Chewie scuttles down the ramp
 carrying an unconscious Finn. Medical Personnel and Officers,
 meet them, usher them inside.
 MEDIC
 Easy, easy. He's hurt. We've got a
 heartbeat.
 Rey walks down the ramp and sees, for the first time, Leia.
 C-3PO and BB-8 behind her. The crowds are cheering.
 Rey is so sad for Leia, so sorry.
 The two women move for each other. And Leia takes Rey's
 face in her hands. Despite her heartbreak, she is grateful.
 She embraces Rey. A mother's embrace.
 Rey cries, too, in this emotional first meeting.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Chewbacca sits quietly, as do many in the base, mourning
 their losses.
 As BB-8 approaches R2-D2, the long dormant droid suddenly
 stirs. The droids beep at each other.
 C-3PO
 R2-D2! You've come back! You found
 what? How dare you call me that!
 (MORE)
 (CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED:
 C-3PO (CONT'D)
 (he swats R2-D2, who CONTINUES BEEPING)
 Find Master Luke how? Come, R2! We
 must go tell the others at once!
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - DAY
 Leia stands alone and in silence, heartbroken.
 C-3PO (O.S.)
 General? Excuse me, General?
 Leia turns to see droids.
 C-3PO (CONT'D)
 R2-D2 may contain some much needed
 good news.
 LEIA
 Tell me.
 Rey stands with Leia, Poe C-3PO, BB-8 and a handful of
 Resistance Officers. Suddenly R2-D2 PROJECTS A HOLOGRAM! A LARGE NAVIGATIONAL MAP WITH A SPECIFIC MISSING CHUNK!
 BB-8 BEEPS -- Poe turns to him --
 POE
 Yeah, all right, buddy, hold on --
 Poe runs over -- removes the ancient data device that Lor
 San Tekka had given him from a base computer. He inserts it
 back inside BB-8, who then PROJECTS HIS MAP -- which he
 SHRINKS DOWN TO SIZE -- and the two droids MOVE SLIGHTLY -- TOGETHER -- THE TWO HOLOGRAMS UNITE, BB-8'S PIECE FILLING IN R2-D2'S PERFECTLY!
 Everyone REACTS -- amazed --
 C-3PO
 Oh! The map! It is complete!
 LEIA
 (hand on her heart)
 -- Luke --
 Suddenly there are CHEERS AND EMBRACES.
 C-3PO leans down to R2-D2 and says, quietly, sweetly:
 C-3PO
 (to R2-D2)
 Oh my dear friend. How I've missed
 you.
 INT. RESISTANCE BASE - I.C.U. - DAY
 A NEW DAY. Finn, unconscious in an I.C.U. POD. His fate
 uncertain. Rey sits with him. Deeply worried. Finally she
 leans in, close to him. She kisses him and says, quietly,
 despite her fear:
 REY
 We'll see each other again. I believe
 that. Thank you, my friend.
 EXT. D'QAR - DAY
 Chewie does last minute checks of the Falcon. Rey stands
 with Leia a beat and then turns to head to the Falcon. As
 Rey walks off, she hears Leia call out:
 LEIA
 Rey.
 Rey turns around.
 LEIA (CONT'D)
 May the Force be with you.
 This fills Rey up. She smiles gratefully. Rey crosses to
 the Falcon.
 INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT - DAY
 Rey sits in the pilot seat, Chewie as co-pilot. Rey looks
 at him compassionately.
 Rey FLICKS SWITCHES and --
 EXT. D'QAR - DAY
 The Millennium Falcon RISES.
 Leia, with Poe, BB-8, and C-3PO (with his proper arm
 replaced), watches the next generation of Jedi begin her
 journey.
 EXT. SPACE - DAY
 The Falcon FLIES through space and BLASTS to LIGHTSPEED.
 EXT. AHCH-TO - DAY
 A pristine and mighty OCEAN. Endless BLUE, dotted with
 random, beautiful, mountainous BLACK ROCK ISLANDS, dotted
 with countless GREEN TREES.
 The Millennium Falcon FLIES INTO VIEW, BANKS toward one of
 the ISLANDS.
 EXT. AHCH-TO ISLAND - DAY
 Rey, her staff strapped to her back, begins her hike up the
 considerable mountain, glancing back at Chewie and R2-D2,
 who watch her from the bottom of the ramp. A deep breath
 and Rey continues her journey.
 EXT. AHCH-TO ISLAND - STONE STAIRS - DAY
 Built within the rock and foliage of this idyllic island are
 seemingly endless ANCIENT STONE STEPS. Rey continues to
 climb them, determined, despite her fatigue.
 EXT. AHCH-TO ISLAND - STONE STRUCTURES - DAY
 Rey arrives at a clearing. Small, modest, primitive stone
 structures. But no one around. Rey walks past them, sees,
 senses no one. And then she stops. Feels something. She turns.
 Standing forty feet away from her, his back to us, is a MAN,
 in a CLOAK AND ROBE. Rey stares, knowing exactly who it is. But she just stares
 for what seems like forever. Until he finally TURNS, SLOWLY,
 to her. Pulls back his hood. IT IS LUKE SKYWALKER. Older now, white hair, bearded. He looks at Rey. A kindness
 in his eyes, but there's something tortured, too. He doesn't
 need to ask her who she is, or what she is doing here. His
 look says it all. In response, Rey pulls something from the pack. LUKE'S LIGHTSABER.
 And she holds it out to him. An offer. A plea. The galaxy's
 only hope. HOLD ON LUKE SKYWALKER'S INCREDIBLE FACE, amazed and
 conflicted at what he sees, as our MUSIC BUILDS, the promise
 of an adventure, just beginning...
 THE END
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