Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

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STAR WARS

                                      EPISODE VII

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                                   THE FORCE AWAKENS

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          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.

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          Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret
          mission to Jakku, where an old ally has
          discovered a clue to Luke's whereabouts....

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         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...

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         CUT TO BLACK.

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         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.

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         The FLICKERING CONTINUES until the LIGHTS ARE CONSTANT. We

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                        ARE IN:

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         INT. TROOP TRANSPORT VEHICLE - NIGHT

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         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

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                        QUIET:

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         EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         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

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         ROLLS OFF FAST --

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         INT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT

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         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:

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          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.

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                         POE:
          Well, because of you now we have a
          chance. The General's been after
          this for a long time.

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          LOR SAN TEKKA:
          "The General." To me, she's royalty.
          Well, she certainly is that.

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                         POE:
         BB-8 ENTERS FRANTIC, BEEPS. Concerned, Poe turns to Lor San
         Tekka.

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                         POE (CONT'D):
          We've got company.

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         EXT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT

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         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

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         GROWING, FRIGHTENING THUNDER.

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                         POE
          You have to hide.

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          LOR SAN TEKKA
          You have to leave. Go!
         Poe turns to him. Conflicted. Finally nods, hurries off.
         BB-8 follows.

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         EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         TRACK FAST with Poe as he and BB-8 hurry through the village,
         various ARMED VILLAGERS taking position, prepared to defend.

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         EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         A ROAR of WIND and DUST: the TRANSPORTS LAND. Stormtroopers
         come out FIRING BLASTERS -- the VILLAGERS FIRE BACK -- many
         are HIT!

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         EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         Poe runs to an X-WING fighter, parked at a distance from the
         village, hidden behind a ROCK OUTCROPPING.

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                         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

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         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!

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                         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.

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         EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         Lor San Tekka moves sadly through the village as STORMTROOPERS
         wielding FLAME THROWERS destroy structures. Surrendering
         Villagers are ROUNDED UP. Penned ANIMALS panic.

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         EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO THE VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         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.

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                         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.

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         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.

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         EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         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.

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         AN IMPOSING SHUTTLE CRAFT -- VERTICAL WINGSPAN 90 FEET TALL --

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         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

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                        HIM:

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                         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.

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                         KYLO REN
          Look how old you've become.

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          LOR SAN TEKKA
          Something far worse has happened to
          you.
         Our blood-marked TROOPER is placed in line with other
         stormtroopers.

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                         KYLO REN
          You know what I've come for.

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                         (CONTINUED)

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         CONTINUED: LOR SAN TEKKA
          I know where you come from. Before
          you called yourself Kylo Ren.

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                         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.

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          LOR SAN TEKKA
          The First Order rose from the dark
          side... you did not.

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                         KYLO REN
          I'll show you the dark side.

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          LOR SAN TEKKA
          You may try, but you cannot deny the
          truth that is your family.
         Suddenly Kylo Ren raises his LIGHTSABER -- IGNITES IT --

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         PERPENDICULAR SMALLER BLADES AT THE HILT, A UNIQUE BUZZ --

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         YELLOW/RED ENERGY, SPITTING SPARKS AND SMOKE --

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                         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

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         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.

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                         POE
          So who talks first? You talk first?

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                         KYLO REN
          The old man gave it to you.

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                         POE

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                         (INDICATES KYLO'S

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                         MASK)
          It's just very hard to understand
          you with all the...

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                         (CONTINUED)

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                        CONTINUED:

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                         KYLO REN

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                         (TO TROOPERS)
          Search him.

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                         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.

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                         STORMTROOPER #1
          Nothing, sir.

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                         KYLO REN
          Put him on board.
         Kylo Ren regards the Stormtroopers with the rounded up
         Villagers, then turns to the CHROME-SKINNED, FEMALE BLACK-

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         CAPED HEAD STORMTROOPER, CAPTAIN PHASMA.

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                         CAPTAIN PHASMA
          Sir, the villagers.

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                         KYLO REN
          Kill them all.
         Phasma nods, steps forward:

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                         CAPTAIN PHASMA
          On my command!
         The Troopers, including OURS, aim at the Villagers.

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          CAPTAIN PHASMA (CONT'D)
          Fire!
         Poe is roughly PULLED into a transport ship, the ramp LIFTS.
         All around our Trooper BLASTER FIRE 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 hell out of our Stormtrooper.

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         EXT. EDGE OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         A Stormtrooper climbs down from the cockpit of Poe's X-wing,

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                        BACKS AWAY:

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                         (CONTINUED)

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                        CONTINUED:

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                         STORMTROOPER #2
          Nothing here. Go ahead!
         Three other Stormtroopers FIRE LASER CANNONS at the X-wing --
         destroying the ship in a LARGE EXPLOSION.

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         EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT

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         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.

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         EXT. SPACE - NIGHT

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         With the SANDY PLANET OF JAKKU as backdrop, Troop Transports
         and Kylo Ren's Shuttle approach a massive STAR DESTROYER.

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         INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - NIGHT

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         Poe, shackled, is ushered from the transport through the
         hangar. He is awed by the imposing space.

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                         POE
          All right. All right!
         Our Stormtrooper passes, moves fast:

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         INT. TROOP TRANSPORT VEHICLE - NIGHT

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         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.

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                         CAPTAIN PHASMA
          FN-2187. Submit your blaster for
          inspection.

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                         FN-2187
          Yes, Captain.

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                         CAPTAIN PHASMA
          And who gave you permission to remove
          that helmet?

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                         FN-2187
          I'm sorry, Captain.

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                         CAPTAIN PHASMA
          Report to my division at once.

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                         (CONTINUED)

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                        CONTINUED:
         Phasma heads off. Shattered, FN-2187 replaces his helmet.

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                         CUT TO:

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         INT. JUNKED VESSEL CORRIDOR - DAY

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         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:

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         INT. JUNKED VESSEL - LARGER SPACE - LATER

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         Alone and tiny in this massive, sideways wreck, the Scavenger
         descends, climbing down a two-hundred foot-long cable. LANDS
         HARD onto rusty metal.

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         INT. JUNKED VESSEL - ENGINES - DAY

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         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.

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         EXT. JUNKED VESSEL ENGINE - DAY

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         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

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         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.

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         EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY

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         Rey races along the desert floor: a GRAVEYARD OF CRASHED

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         SPACESHIPS.

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         EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY

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         Rey's speeder PASSES us, heading for a dusty, desert town.
         Refueling, small trade, scavengers.

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                         (CONTINUED)

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                        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.

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         EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - CLEANING TABLE - DAY

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         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.

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         INT. NIIMA TRADING STRUCTURE - DAY

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         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:

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                         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.

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         EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY

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         The IMMENSE SETTING SUN against the FLAT TERRAIN. Rey's
         SPEEDER races, almost insignificant, across frame.

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         INT. REY'S DWELLING - DAY

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         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.

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         EXT. REY'S DWELLING - DUSK

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         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.

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                         (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:

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                         REY
          Tal'ama parqual!
         The Teedo and BB-8 STOP, GO SILENT, turn to her.

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                         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:

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                         REY (CONT'D)

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          NOMA.
         The Teedo barks a sort of "AHHHHH!" (As if to say, "GO TO
         HELL!"), Then heads off on his beast. This prompts BB-8 to
         start BEEP-YELLING at the departing bully, provocatively.

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                         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.

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                         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,

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                         STRAIGHTENS THE

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                         ANTENNA)
          Where do you come from?

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                         (BB-8 BEEPS)
          Classified. Really? Me too. Big
          secret.
          (points to horizon)
          Niima Outpost is that way, stay off
          Kelvin Ridge.

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                         (MORE)

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                         (CONTINUED)

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                         REY (CONT'D)
          Keep away from the Sinking Fields in
          the north, you'll drown in the sand.
          (stands, heads off)

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         BB-8 starts after her, BEEPS. She turns sharply, he stops.

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                         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.

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                         REY (CONT'D)
          In the morning, you go.

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                         (HE BEEPS)
          You're welcome.
         The two disappear behind a dune.

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         EXT. STAR DESTROYER - DAY

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         Three TIE fighters head to the massive ship high above Jakku.

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         INT. STAR DESTROYER HOLDING CELL - DAY

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         POE, shackled to a chair, BEATEN, wakes up.

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                         KYLO REN
          I had no idea we had the best pilot
          in the Resistance on board.
          Comfortable?
         Through battered lips:

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                         POE
          Not really.

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                         KYLO REN
          I'm impressed. No one has been able
          to get out of you what you did with
          the map.

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                         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 --

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                         KYLO REN
          Where is it?

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                         POE
          The Resistance will not be intimidated
          by you.

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                         KYLO REN
          Where... is it?
         Poe can't take it -- he BEGINS TO SCREAM and we CUT TO:

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         INT. STAR DESTROYER CORRIDOR - DAY

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         WHOOOSH! The cell door SLIDES UP. Kylo Ren exits, fierce,
         confronts GENERAL HUX (34, scary) who awaits him:

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                         KYLO REN
          It's in a droid. A BB unit.

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                         GENERAL HUX
          Well then. If it's on Jakku, we'll
          soon have it.

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                         KYLO REN
          I leave that to you.

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         EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY

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         BB-8 is dropped to the sand.

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                         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 BEEP TALKS a question.

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                         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.

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         INT. NIIMA TRADING STRUCTURE - DAY

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         Rey stands with BB-8 in front of Unkar Plutt, at his window.
         He reviews her goods. He glances quickly at BB-8.

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                         UNKAR
          These five pieces are worth... Let
          me see here... One half portion.

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                         REY

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                         (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 MEGABLASTERS.

```

```
         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 CANONS --

```

```
                         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-

```

```
         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 TURBO LASER 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-BITCH)
          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
          Damn 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 seat-belt 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 ass
         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 ASS!

```

```
                         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 damn, 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 FIRE BEAM, 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

```

```
         FIRE BLAST 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 helluva
          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 SOLAR VAC 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 WIRE FRAME 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 WIRE FRAME 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: HELL 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
          Hell 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

```