STAR WARS: THE NEW REPUBLIC

Written By

Scott Serradell

Based on characters created by George Lucas

and Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams
and Michael Arndt
and Rian Johnson

felipserradell@[Link]
1.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

STAR WARS

EPISODE IX

THE NEW REPUBLIC

The FIRST ORDER is victorious! Under the

tyrannical Supreme Leader Kylo Ren,
they now have complete control of the
galaxy. It is the darkest time.

While the RESISTANCE has remained hidden,

many star systems have pledged their
allegiance, hoping their efforts will
will restore the GALACTIC REPUBLIC.
But with the recent death of General
Leia Organa, a new RESISTANCE leader must
be found at this most critical hour...

PAN DOWN to a planet. HELEX. Beautiful MUSIC BUILDS TO

EXT. HELEX CITY - NIGHT

LEIA ORGANA. Princess. General. The last Skywalker. Now

at peace. Laid on a FLOWERED COVERED COFFIN (MOVING).

LARGE CROWDS of mourners pay their final respects. Those

FOLLOWING the CASKET ... ARTOO and THREEPIO and CHEWBACCA
... REY and POE and BB-8 ... FINN holds hands with a
pregnant ROSE. A SLENDER ALIEN (female) intones a LOVELY
ARIA. A noble end to an extraordinary life.

INT. MEDICAL BAY

KYLO REN. An intense look. Dangerous but vacant. A mind

not fighting but succumbing to inner turmoil. Laid on an
OPERATING TABLE. A MEDICAL DROID leans over him.

MEDICAL DROID
Do you want to proceed, Supreme
Leader? The arm is completely healthy.

KYLO REN
Do it.
MEDICAL DROID
As you wish.
2.

MEDICAL DROID IGNITES A CAUTERSAW. ELECTRIC BLADES CRACKLE

... followed by GRUESOME BUZZING. STAY ON KYLO -- His face
straining, contorting under immense pain and duress. He
shudders. Fights the urge to scream ... The CAUTERSAW
stops.

MEDICAL DROID (CONT’D)

It is done.

KYLO sits up ... Brings A MECHANICAL HAND AND FOREARM INTO

FRAME. Flexes his new METAL FINGERS.

SNOKE (VO) (PRE-LAP)

You stupid boy...

INT. STAR DESTROYER - FLAG SHIP - MAIN BRIDGE

KYLO storms inside. THE VOICE OF SNOKE we hear is in KYLO’S
MIND.

SNOKE (VO)(CONT’D)
They all see your weakness. They laugh
behind your back. And when you
least expect it they will draw out
their knives and destroy you.

KYLO towers over GENERAL HUX at COMMAND. From the WINDOWS,

we see a PLANET before us.

KYLO REN
Have you found them?

HUX
Only signs of primitive life.
If the Resistance were here they have
since fled.
KYLO REN
I want certainty.

HUX
Our scans were thorough. Is this
display really necessary?
(KYLO looks at HUX,
HUX recoils)
Of course it is. Forgive me...
(to FIRST ORDER GUNNER)
Fire Nil Cannon!

EXT. PLANET/SPACE

A BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER (FLAG SHIP) in orbit.

3.

The deadliest ever constructed. Similar to a traditional

Star Destroyer except THE BOW is ONE MASSIVE CANNON. A
THUNDERING CRESCENDO of POWER BUILDING. The weapon awakens
with tremendous energy ... THREE SHORT BURSTS of WHITE LIGHT
blind us momentarily ...

EXT. PLANET/SURFACE - NIGHT

ESTABLISHING of a PLAINS REGION. Flat. Endless. Primal.

HERDS OF QUADRUPED BEASTS roam, graze ...

CLOSE ON A GROUP OF BEASTS as their heads collectively RAISE

IN ALARM ... They RUN ... The STAMPEDING undercut by a
DEAFENING HOWL ... The night sky now a FIRMAMENT OF WHITE
FIRE ... A CATASTROPHIC WIND sweeps through ... Everything
to dust and ash ...

INT. STAR DESTROYER - FLAG SHIP - MAIN BRIDGE

COMMAND POV -- As the SURFACE EXPLODES in THREE SEPARATE

REGIONS ... Entire CONTINENTS CRUMBLING like brittle pastry
... Filling the atmosphere ...

KYLO watches with utter indifference.

HUX
Scans?

FIRST ORDER GUNNER

No sign of anything, Sir.

HUX
I trust that is enough certainty,
Supreme Leader?

KYLO REN
Continue searching the system. I want
those cowards found.

HUX
If I may, Sir: The First Order is
the power in the galaxy. We are unmatched.
Yet we seem to spend an inordinate
amount of time searching for an
insignificant number of dissidents...
I’d like to know why.

KYLO REN
My orders are my orders. I want her
found...

HUX’S curiosity peaks.

4.

HUX
Her...?

KYLO’S intimidating demeanor with a hint of panic. But

refuses to clarify. Turns to exit ... STOPS. Looks into
HUX. Probing.

KYLO REN
I see fear in you, Darcy. More so
than usual.

HUX
With respect Supreme Leader, you have
that effect on people.

KYLO snarls, STORMS OFF. STAY ON HIM.

SNOKE (VO)
You and your pathetic posturing.
You may have authority but you have no
power. And they all see it. They
see the fear that governs you,
son of Solo...

KYLO GRABS HIS HEAD. ERUPTS.

KYLO REN
SHUT UP!

The ENTIRE BRIDGE ... FROZEN ... All eyes on KYLO, who is
equally stunned at his outburst. Humiliated. He blows out
of there ... But not before using the Force to SLAM A NEARBY
OFFICER HARD INTO THE WALL ...

HUX’S distain melts into full-on contempt. GENERAL DOLAN

approaches. An obedient lapdog.

DOLAN
He’s getting worse, Sir.

HUX
And apparently this is about a girl...
That he wants to blow up?? When
does the absurdity end...

DOLAN closes the gap. Hush-hush.

DOLAN
It might be wise to move up the time
table. How soon can your plan be
underway?
HUX with a knowing smile...
5.

HUX
Underway? It is already in motion.
In one fell swoop we will finally
rid ourselves of the remaining
Resistance...
(added vinegar)
And Kylo Ren?

DOLAN
Very good, Sir. I will inform
the other Generals. You have our full
support...”Supreme Leader”.

HUX relishes in the sound of that.

INT. STAR DESTROYER - TURBOLIFT (MOVING)

KYLO struggles to hold it together. Trembling. Eyes close.
BG GOES BLACK ... KYLO opens his eyes to ... HAN SOLO. His
father. WE ARE ON --

INT. VAST CATWALK - STARKILLER BASE - NIGHT

The moment Kylo killed him. Han approaches KYLO. A man

desperate to help his son. His last words:

HAN SOLO
Yes. Anything.

KYLO IGNITES HIS LIGHTSABER and DRIVES IT through his

father’s CHEST. Han falls. A BEAT.

HAN SOLO (OS)(CONT’D)

Yes. Anything.

KYLO turns ... IT’S ANOTHER CATWALK ... AND ANOTHER HAN
SOLO. AGAIN: KYLO plunges his LIGHTSABER into HAN and
watches him fall ...

HAN SOLO (OS)(CONT’D)

Yes. Anything.

KYLO SPINS ... BOMBARDED by DOZENS OF CATWALKS--AND DOZENS

OF HAN SOLOS--that materialize around him. KYLO enraged,
WILDLY STABBING HAN(S) over and over again. KYLO SCREAMING.
Tears. Anguish.

CUT TO
BACK TO STAR DESTROYER - TURBOLIFT

KYLO’S EYES burst open ...

6.

A nightmare. One he has had many times. KYLO with erratic

breaths. A moment. TURBOLIFT WHINES TO A STOP. Door OPEN
... ONTO REY, outside the lift. The HELEX CITY behind her.
KYLO uncertain. Is this really happening?

KYLO REN
I’m not seeing you...

REY
(puzzled)
What?

It is really happening! Rey is psychically communicating.

KYLO steels himself. INTERCUT BOTH LOCATIONS

KYLO REN
What do you want?
REY
(difficult)
Leia...Your mother...is gone. I wanted
you to know. I’m so sorry...

A long PAUSE. He couldn’t care less.

KYLO REN
...And?

REY
Don’t do this.

KYLO REN
Do what?

REY
Pretend you don’t feel anything.

KYLO REN
I feel free!

REY
I don’t believe you...

KYLO REN
My offer still stands, you know.

REY
(dry)
The one where you I rule the galaxy
together?
KYLO REN
(that is the nutshell)
Well... Yes.
7.

REY
(scoffs)
You are beyond deluded, Kylo. I will
never join you...

KYLO REN
You cannot deny this connection
between us.

No she can’t. REY is struggling with something profound she

can’t fully admit. She feigns.

REY
There is nothing between us. And
as long as you continue to hunt
my friends I suggest you stay far
away from me...
KYLO REN
(grins)
You’re lying. Even from this distance
I can see the truth in your heart...
Your friends will die, that is
certain, but your fate will not
follow theirs...

REY
(wants this conversation
to end, switches gears)
Do you want to know what Leia told me?
Before she died...?

He doesn’t.

KYLO REN
Enough!--

KYLO raises his hand and--

EXT. HELEX CITY - NIGHT - THAT MOMENT

FORCIBLY PUSHES REY to the GROUND hard. She picks herself

up. Physically fine but emotionally reeling.

EXT. RESISTANCE COMMAND (HELEX) - NIGHT -

Elsewhere. FINN and ROSE together as TWO MOONS shine over

the quaint alien CITY, which from this distance closer
resembles a European hamlet. An undeniable simplicity here.
No war. No First Order. Just life--Unencumbered and quiet.
FINN soaks it in.
8.

FINN
It’s beautiful here.

ROSE
(reflective)
It was a lovely service.

FINN
Yeah. She deserved it.

FINN’S hand on her stomach. Tender. ROSE senses the

distance.

ROSE
Something the matter?

FINN
No. I just--I’ve been thinking
about the future. Our future...
(then)
I don’t remember my parents. I didn’t
even had a childhood. All I can
remember is fear. I was raised to
be afraid. I--I don’t want my
son to know that kind of world.

ROSE
(oh really?)
Your “son”? You must be a Jedi
to have that kind of insight.

FINN
Well. I can use a lightsaber.

ROSE
Hmm. But you’re wrong, “Jedi”...

She smiles. Warmly. He finally gets it.

FINN
We’re having a girl!

ROSE
We’re having a girl. And I want to
name her Leia.

FINN beams. His heart filling.

FINN
“Leia”. Yes. I can’t wait to meet her.
They kiss. Passionately, devotedly. But something
is...off. FINN opens an eyes, looks down to see--
9.

BB-8. Looking up at them. Sharing the moment. Just

adorable. A RUSTLING OS--as POE COMES INTO FRAME. Feels
out the situation.

POE
Did I interrupt something?

FINN ROSE
No... Yes.

Awkward BEAT.

POE
Huh. Finn: Everyone’s gathering
inside. They want to see you.

FINN
What’s going on?

POE
I don’t know, buddy. But it’s pretty
serious.

FINN hesitates. Looks to ROSE.

ROSE
Well? Go.

He leaves. ROSE to BB-8.

ROSE (CONT’D)
Oh. I love you too, BB...

Her hand reaches out as BB-8’S HEAD “SLIDES” AWAY.

INT. RESISTANCE COMMAND

A command meeting -- GENERALS -- OFFICERS -- PILOTS. ARTOO
and THREEPIO. POE and FINN enter. A tense air in here.
The slender alien from earlier moves forward: ONA OBY. All
attention on her.

ONA OBY
Unfortunately, our grieving must
be cut short. We are at a critical
junction and time is of the
essence. Since General Leia drove
the Resistance out of the view of the
First Order we have only gathered
in strength. We now have fifty
star systems who will come to our
aide when the opportunity presents
(MORE)
10.

ONA OBY (CONT’D)

itself. And that time is now!
(then)
Our spies have worked tirelessly
to find any weakness in the First
Order...And they have discovered
something even better...

FINN and POE ... A growing optimism.

ONA OBY MOTIONS for a WIDE-EYED ALIEN. NOXNOL.

ONA OBY (CONT’D)

Captain Noxnol...

NOXNOL inserts a SMALL DISC into the COMMAND TABLE. A

HOLOGRAM OF A SIZEABLE GUN -- similar in design to the one
seen on the behemoth Star Destroyer -- FLOATS above the
surface.

NOXNOL
It’s called: The Harbinger. It has
the capability of dismantling an
entire Star Destroyer with only
one shot--
(REACTIONS from the
room)
But it is light enough to be
transported by an X-wing. As of yet
the First Order has no knowledge of
this weapon--It is a prototype--and our
sources say they would be defenseless
against it. It’s currently on
Tyrnavos, and it’s builders were going
to sell it to the highest bidder...

ARTOO with a string of BEEPS.

THREEPIO
I have to agree with you, Artoo.
It’s about time we had a secret weapon
of our own.

POE
(to FINN)
Some good news for a change...

FINN agrees.

ONA OBY
Noxnol has personally brokered a
deal: The builders of this weapon will
sell it to the Resistance outright.
(MORE)
11.

ONA OBY (CONT’D)

But at a much higher price! We are
raising funds as we speak. Once we
do we will transfer the fleet to
Tyrnavos, collect the weapon, and
inform the other star systems of our
intention to attack. The Resistance
will be victorious!

CHEERS and APPLAUSE RISE. Renewed spirits. NOXNOL looks

around ... Ducks away unnoticed...

ONA OBY (CONT’D)

There is one more pressing issue:
The death of our dear General Leia
has left a vacancy in our
leadership. In one of her last
communications she told me the name
of the candidate to replace her...
(looks over to)
Finn...?

FINN. Did I just hear my name?

ONA OBY (CONT’D)

General Leia asked me to give the
leadership of the Resistance
over to you...

FINN suddenly feels the smallest thing here.

FINN
...me?

POE slaps FINN on the shoulder. Smiles proudly. FINN slow

to rise. Nervous. Confidence collapsing.

FINN (CONT’D)
I, uh... I can’t accept this...
I’m sorry...

FINN excuses himself. Exits. MURMURS all around. POE

watches his friend go. What the hell just happened?

ONA OBY
(perhaps saddened)
So be it... Then if there are no
objections I nominate Commander Kira
to assume command duties.

COMMANDER KIRA (female; young, confident) stands.

CMDR. KIRA
I accept. With honor.
12.

APPLAUSE again, more formal. The meeting ends. An

impromptu CROWD around KIRA. Congratulations, etc. POE
worms his way to her. We should get the indication that
something occurred between them once upon a time. And it
did not end well...

POE
Hey! Good job...

CMDR. KIRA
(oh not you)
Thanks.

KIRA maneuvers away. POE on her tail.

POE
I’ve been thinking--
CMDR. KIRA
--I highly doubt that...

POE
Ha. Funny. Anyway: About this weapon...
How much time before the Resistance
can get it?

KIRA confronts POE. Not buying it.

CMDR. KIRA
What are you scheming, Poe?

POE
Scheming?? Come on! I’m trying to
help here.

CMDR. KIRA
I don’t know. It’s a lot of credits.
It could be a month or two.
POE closer.

POE
I have an idea: Send a few of us in
to get it--

CMDR. KIRA
--“Get” it?--

POE
Yeah. If it can be moved around
on an X-wing, we only need a few guys.
Snatch and grab. We’ll be home
before dinner.
13.

CMDR. KIRA
You’re suggesting we steal it?

POE
Well. We are in the middle of a war.
And we’re talking about a weapon of
mass destruction--So I’m not seeing
where the whole “morality” thing
is an issue here...

CMDR. KIRA
The answer is no.

POE
So... You’ll think about it?

CMDR. KIRA
I’m serious Dameron. Do I have to
ground you?

POE misconstrues “ground you”. Smug. Bit flirty:

POE
I thought the last time ended
pretty disastrously. But I’m game...

Wrong answer. KIRA pissed.

CMDR. KIRA
That’s it: You’re grounded pilot!
And since you forgot what
“grounded” means it means you
don’t fly. I don’t want you so much
as climbing a staircase. Are we
clear?

POE
(stung)
Yeah. Got it.

KIRA stomps off.

EXT. RESISTANCE COMMAND (HELEX) - NIGHT

FINN alone. Beating himself up.

FINN
...What is wrong with you, Finn?

REY (OS)
Do you always talk to yourself like
this...
14.

FINN sees -- REY, with her bag and staff. She smiles.

REY (CONT’D)
It doesn’t look good.

FINN
No, no...I just, uh...They offered
me the Resistance Leader...

REY
That’s amazing, Finn! I’m so proud
of you.

FINN
(ouch, then)
I turned them down.
REY
Oh. But...Why?

FINN
I’m nobody, Rey. I’m not a leader.
I--I couldn’t even hack it as
a Stormtrooper. I didn’t even
have a name before I joined this
outfit. Now I’m husband. I’m
going to be a father...But am I
doing it? Am I good enough?
I don’t know...
(exhales, then)
I don’t know what Rose sees in me.
What Leia saw in me...

REY
They see the same thing I do:
A strong man with a good heart.

He tries to find truth in that. Lifts a little.

FINN
No disrespect to Rose but, uh,
you’re probably the only real
friend I have here.

REY finding courage--

REY
Then you’re not going to like
this next part...

FINN confused--
Then looks over at her BAG. Gets it but...
15.

FINN
(doesn’t want
the answer)
You going somewhere, Rey?

REY
I’m--I’m leaving, Finn. I have
to go.

FINN
Leave?? But why? Where?

REY
I keep having those dreams: Of
that island. In the middle of water...
I thought they were leading me to
Luke. But it’s something else. It feels
real--More real than you sitting here
now. I have to know what it is...

His heart breaking ... But understands deep-down ... A smile

eventually breaks through.

FINN
Rose told me: We’re having a girl.

REY
(the best news)
That’s wonderful! I’m so happy
for you both. Naturally you’ll
name her “Rey”.

Much needed laughter between them.

FINN
Leia.

REY
Leia. Perfect!

REY and FINN embrace. A final good-bye.

REY (CONT’D)
Take care of each other. May the
Force be with you.

They part. REY grabs her things. Tearful. The end of

something she doesn’t want to end. FINN watches her ...
She’s gone. Part of him too.

ROSE from behind. Arms around FINN.

ROSE
What was that about?
16.

FINN
Rey’s gotta go. She needs to
find something and she won’t find
it here.

ROSE
(there’s more)
She’s in love with Kylo.

FINN
Kylo...? (that guy?!) Kylo Ren??
No! No way.

ROSE nods; it’s true. FINN: Holy Sh--!

FINN (CONT’D)
I thought I had problems...

ROSE looks at FINN: What do you mean by that?

INT. HANGAR BAY (RESISTANCE BASE) - NIGHT

REY on a mission -- PAN WITH HER as she approaches... THE

MILLENNIUM FALCON, parked among several FIGHTERS. CHEWBACCA
by the open ramp.

REY
Is she all ready, Chewie?

CHEWBACCA moan-talks.

REY (CONT’D)
I can’t thank you enough for this.
I know what she means to you...
What she meant for Han...
(reflective, then)
I’ll take good care of her! She
won’t get a scratch.

CHEWBACCA moans (“I’ve heard that before.”) Wraps his

Wookie arms around her. REY loves it.

REY (CONT’D)
Take care, my friend.

REY up the ramp. CHEWBACCA looks over the FALCON. Perhaps

the last time. A low HOWL.

INT. FALCON COCKPIT - NIGHT

REY powers up the FALCON. Sits down. It dawns on her.

17.

REY
Where am I going...?

She has no idea. Closes her eyes. HER HAND stretches over
the NAVI-COMPUTER.

HER FACE -- searching -- concentrating --

CUT TO

EXT. LAKE (REY’S VISION) - DAY

What she sees. What she’s been seeing -- MOVING FAST over A
SURFACE OF WATER. Nothing but WAVES. Calm. Hypnotic even.
PAN UP ... AN ISLAND in the middle of an IMMENSE LAKE.
Closer. Not an island but A STRUCTURE ... A KIND OF TEMPLE
we are FAST APPROACHING ...

BACK TO

FALCON COCKPIT

CLOSE ON REY’S HANDS as she TYPES COORDINATES into the NAVI-

COMPUTER. Her eyes open. She reads it. Accepts it.

REY
(the call to adventure)
That’s where I’m going!

INT. HANGAR BAY - NIGHT

FALCON lifts ... VANISHES into the night sky.

INT. KYLO’S CHAMBERS - BATHROOM

KYLO REN. In the SHOWER (rated PG).

SNOKE (VO)
How much longer can you pretend? It
is only a matter of time. They will
take you down ... And you will be
helpless to act.

His hand through his scalp. Pulls a WET FISTFUL OF HAIR.

Just falls out. Stares at it. Blank.

INT. KYLO’S CHAMBERS - MAIN

Later. A ROYAL BEDROOM. KYLO before a MIRROR.
18.

SNOKE (VO)(CONT’D)
My poor, pathetic Solo. You
could have been great. But you
threw it all away. And for what?
A woman... A woman who will
end you.

KYLO TWITCHES ... MIRROR SPLINTERS into a HUNDRED PIECES.

He glares at the IMAGE.

LUKE (OS)
That’s bad luck, Ben...

KYLO spins ... the Force Ghost of LUKE SKYWALKER, a few feet
away ... KYLO growls ... IGNITES his nearby LIGHTSABER ...
DRIVES it through the air ... THROUGH LUKE ... EMBEDS INTO
THE WALL BEHIND HIM. LUKE calmly turns to the LIGHTSABER
...then faces KYLO. Almost amused.

LUKE (CONT’D)
Still wrestling with the basics,
I see.

KYLO REN
You’re not here.

LUKE
I am, and I am not. But the real
question is: Am I here because
I am not here, or--
(taps side of
his head)
Am I a figment of your imagination?
I don’t know, Ben. Seems like
it’s getting crowded in there.

KYLO REN
Stop calling me that.
LUKE
You’re in pain, son. This conflict
is taking you down a path you
will not survive. I have seen where
this ends.

KYLO REN
My path is complete! You led
me astray from my glory...
But now I am more powerful than you
ever were.
SNOKE (VO)
You are a fool if you believe such
things.
19.

KYLO CLUTCHES HIS HEAD.

KYLO REN
SHUT UP! I have survived both
of you!

LUKE
It’s not too late, Ben. You can
leave this place. But as long as
you are embroiled in this conflict
you will not know peace.

KYLO REN
Spare me your pity, Uncle!

LUKE reads KYLO. Pure torment there. But also...

LUKE
Your thoughts are about...Rey.

KYLO REN
Silence!

LUKE
She cannot save you. Not the
way you think. She is more
powerful than you can comprehend.

KYLO REN
She and I will rule the galaxy!
I have seen it.

LUKE, bleak.

LUKE
I have heard this story before. It
does not end well...
KYLO--A BLOOD-CURDLING ROAR--FURNITURE SHAKES-- SHATTERS
against the WALLS. LUKE closes his eyes. DISAPPEARS ...

KYLO alone. Smoldering. The threads holding him together

wearing thin. Chamber door OPENS ... HUX ... steps inside
... sees the LIGHTSABER BUZZING in the WALL ... the ROOM IN
SHAMBLES ... KYLO. A droll BEAT.

HUX
Problems, Supreme Leader?

KYLO REN
(fuck off)
What do you want, Hux?
20.

HUX
Only to inform you that the asset
contacted us: The Resistance has taken
the bait. It is only a short matter
of time now.
(KYLO grunts)
And... What of the girl?

KYLO with a savage gaze. Threatened. His hand outstretched

... HUX grabs his throat ... Like a vacuum inside ... Drops
to his knees ...

KYLO REN
What of her?

HUX
(fighting for air)
I... only... want... to... help...
Supreme...AGH!...Leader...

KYLO relents. Suddenly lucid or bored of this shit. HUX

gulps oxygen.

KYLO REN
Very well. Inform me immediately
when she surfaces.

HUX raises. Salvaging his dignity. Salutes.

HUX
It will be done, Supreme Leader!

HUX with an about-face. Exits. ON HIS FACE--Boiling with

anger ... That morphs into a villainous smile.

INT. HANGAR BAY (RESISTANCE BASE) - NIGHT

HIDO. A RESISTANCE PILOT. Strolls the HANGAR. Anxious.
Tries to act nonchalant. Waits for the opportunity to...

...duck into a nearby ALCOVE... Where POE is. With a SMALL

GROUP of pilots (4). A secret meeting.

A SIGNAL in silence, then

POE
Okay. We’re all here...
What I’m proposing will probably be
considered bone-headed, impulsive,
and most-likely treasonous...
But it’s the right thing to do.
The Resistance needs this weapon.
The war could be ended tomorrow!
21.

HIDO
I don’t know, Poe. They’ll lock
us up for sure.

POE
Maybe. But someone has to take
that chance.

Another pilot: LOOM-TOM (alien).

LOOM-TOM
<<Poe. This is insubordination!>>

POE
Look: This is a resistance. We’re
here because we said to hell
with the rules. But we can do this!
We’ll be in and out. They won’t
even know we’re gone...

PILOTS exchange looks. But then...

LOOM-TOM
<<Wait a minute! You said that the
last time we did this!>>

POE
No I didn’t!

HIDO
Yeah. You did. Even the whole
“we’re here because we said to
hell with the rules” part--

LOOM-TOM
<<It’s the same speech!>>

POE. Busted.
POE
Okay. Maybe. But it’s the truth!
Come on! We’re fighters. We
fight! And we’re going to win this.
I need you guys with me right now...

LOOM-TOM shrugs.

LOOM-TOM
<<Okay! We do this. But you can’t
use that again.>>
POE
Done.
22.

A rising confidence...

HIDO
I’m behind you, Poe.

POE
Then let’s go!

PILOTS race out --

EXT. HELEX - NIGHT

SIX X-WING FIGHTERS SPEED from the planet and DISAPPEAR.

CUT TO
LIGHTSPEED SPACE

-- THE MILLENNIUM FALCON SCREAMS through hyperspace --

INT. FALCON COCKPIT

REY contemplative. Watching the world at LIGHTSPEED. A RED

LIGHT BLINKS, SOUNDS OFF. She reached her destination. A
cleansing breath for her jumpiness.

REY
Let’s see what you are...

CUT TO

SPACE -- as the FALCON materializes ... PAN WITH IT to a

BLUE/GREEN PLANET: AGGO.

EXT. AGGO - FOREST - DAY

FALCON parked in a STRICT CLEARING, surrounded by FOREST.
Lush COLORS. Peaceful. REY EXITS the FALCON and takes in
the environs. It has a dream-like quality that instantly
enchants her. HOLDS out a SMALL DEVICE ... Points it
around, scanning the area ...

REY
Not getting anything. The forest
must be too dense.
(picks up her
BAG and STAFF)
Then we do this the old-fashioned way...
As FALCON RAMP CLOSES--REY finds a path and sets out ...
23.

ANOTHER ANGLE -- As Rey ENTERS the FOREST ... TWO LUMINOUS

EYES WATCH HER a short distance away.

CUT TO

As REY CONTINUES ... This is an ancient place. Alive.

Almost aware of her presence. She walks under an ENORMOUS
CANOPY of TREES HUNDREDS OF FEET TALL ... SMALL CREATURES
scurry along the FOREST FLOOR ... Or PEER OUT from HOLES IN
THE GROUND. Even FLORA seems to react. REY with a sense of
wonderment. Charmed--But somehow intimate with all this.
Like an old dream she’s just now remembering ...

She STOPS. Sudden. Alarmed. She senses something

following her. Something big. REY GRIPS HER STAFF. Her
breath tightens. Focused--
REY WHIPS AROUND--Face-to-face with a LARGE QUADRUPED. Like
an ALIEN DEER. Impressive ANTLERS. EYES with an deep
intelligence behind them.

REY STUNNED--STUMBLES--CLUMSILY FALLS BACK ... But this

thing just stares at her. Elicits no threat ...
Meet BEN-CHU.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY
What?

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY
Oh. Is that your name? Or what
you are?
BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

BEN-CHU continues past her. Almost dismissively. REY not

sure what to make of him ...

BEN-CHU STOPS a distance ahead. Turns his head--BACK AT

REY. An invitation. She’s to follow. REY does.

CUT TO

LATER--AS BEN-CHU exits the FOREST ... To a PRISTINE

LAKESHORE STRETCHING FOR MILES. REY not far behind ... Her
EYES ASTONISHED TO SEE ... The BODY OF WATER FROM HER DREAMS
right in front of her ...
24.

And--HOVERING ABOVE THE WATER--THE TEMPLE SHAPED LIKE AN

ISLAND. She cannot believe it!

REY
Am I awake...?
(one of BEN-CHU’S
ANTLERS WHACKS her
on the head)
Ow! Hey!

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

Or Stop lollygagging and come along... They walk to the

SHORE. The ISLAND not far but not close. BEN-CHU stands at
the WATER’S EDGE, looking out. REY assess the situation.
REY
Are we supposed to swim out there?
I can’t swim...
(not having it)
I have to try. I haven’t come this far...

BEN-CHU STOMPS HIS FOOT. Just wait little biped. His EYES
RETURN to the LAKE ... AS THE TIDE BEGINS RECEDING ... THE
ENTIRE LAKE BEGINS TO MOVE, EMPTY ... And soon there is a
DIRECT PATH to the ISLAND along the LAKE BED.

REY
How did--Did you do that?

No reply. BEN-CHU steps down ONTO THE COBBLED LAKEBED and

proceeds forward. REY eagerly FOLLOWS.

CUT TO

A BIT LATER--NOW UNDERNEATH THE ISLAND. REY looks up--

THERE’S AN OPENING, AN ENTRANCE UNDERNEATH ... But it’s 25
feet ABOVE them. REY deflates.

REY
What now?

BEN-CHU STOMPS on a LARGE ROCK from the LAKEBED ... It LIFTS

in the air--And he KICKS IT RIGHT AT HER ... REY DROPS ...
But ... THE ROCK doesn’t hit her ... IT IS FROZEN IN MID-
AIR. Like caught in a forcefield. REY angry. The heck??
Looks at BEN-CHU--Whose head is CRANED UPWARD ... To the
ENTRANCE. A lightbulb goes off in Rey’s head.

REY (CONT’D)
Oh!

REY GRABS A LARGE ROCK ... HEAVES it above THE FIRST ...
25.

IT STICKS IN MID-AIR. She does it AGAIN ... And AGAIN ...

Effectively constructing a LADDER up to the ENTRANCE. She’s
almost done. Looks over--SEES that BEN-CHU is WALKING AWAY.

REY (CONT’D)
Hey! Where’re you going?

BEN-CHU--Half way between HER and the SHORE--Calmly turns

his HEAD TO THE LEFT. REY does the same--

REY’S POV -- As she SEES THE LAKE RETURNING. VERY QUICKLY!

A literal WALL OF WATER COMING RIGHT AT HER--

REY GRABS HER THINGS ... FLIES UP the ROCK LADDER--

AS A DELUGE OF WATER like a flash flood comes CRASHING IN

UNDER HER ... The PULL IS DEVASTATING ... She clings on ...
FINGERS STARTING TO SLIP ... Barely GRAPPLING the smooth
surface ... Then

Calm. The lakebed a LAKE AGAIN.

But no BEN-CHU. REY frantically searching--

REY
Ben-Chu! Ben-Chu!

BEN-CHU LIFTS from the WATER ... Up ... Until he stands ON

TOP OF THE SURFACE. Calmly walks to SHORE. A minor
inconvenience.

Like much of she’s seen here, REY is flabbergasted.

She CONTINUES UP. Crawls through THE ENTRANCE.

INT. ISLAND TEMPLE - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

An obscured SPACE. Feels big. Pitch DARK.

REY enters. Cautious but unafraid. Just ahead of her ...

SUNLIGHT. A PASSAGE TO--

EXT. ISLAND TEMPLE - GARDENS - DAY - MOMENT LATER

An extraordinary GARDEN ... Rows upon rows of FLOWERS,

VEGETABLES, FRUIT TREES et al. As rustic as it is
beautiful. A PARADISE.

REY takes in the sensations ... The scents, the colors ...
NOTICES A SQUAT FIGURE NEARBY. Potbellied. A bush gray
beard. Pulling a BLUE CARROT from the ground.
This is JORGA.
26.

JORGA
(re CARROT)
Look at that! She’s a beaut!

JORGA senses REY--And the kindest face in the world LIGHTS

UP at the sight of her!

JORGA (CONT’D)
Is that? It can’t be? Little Rey
is all grown up...

REY didn’t catch that last part. She’s dazed. Stuck in

neutral...

REY
What--What is this place?
JORGA
You don’t remember? Well, how could
you. You were very small. My dear,
this is where you were born!

Rey’s heart damn near stops. Or her brain. Regardless, she

DROPS like a marionette whose strings were just cut.

INT. DWELLING (HELEX) - BEDROOM - MORNING

FINN and ROSE. Asleep. A familiar GOLDEN HAND COMES INTO

FRAME ... Taps FINN until he shoots up. It’s THREEPIO.

THREEPIO
Oh! Finn. You must come at once.
Poe Dameron has gone and done
something rather hasty...

FINN groans. ROSE snores.

INT. RESISTANCE COMMAND - MORNING

Bit later. FINN RUSHES IN. Room tight with urgency. FINN
beelines through PEOPLE MOVING at a hectic pace ...

Reaches COMMANDER KIRA at COMMAND. Her irritation could cut

a diamond.

CMDR. KIRA
Your friend did something bone-headed
and impulsive...
FINN
--Sounds about right--
27.

CMDR. KIRA
And treasonous! He took five pilots
with him to Tyrnavos. He was
going to steal the weapon--

FINN reacts. This is heavy.

CMDR. KIRA (CONT’D)

But he’s flying into a trap!

FINN
What??

CMDR. KIRA
Noxnol took off. We can’t find him.
But we found this in his quarters...
KIRA drops a SMALL OBJECT (a transmitter) on the table.
FINN examines it. Knows it.

FINN
A First Order communicator.
He sold us out. They were going
to ambush us on Tyrnavos.

CMDR. KIRA
Precisely. There probably never
was a weapon.

FINN
We have to warn Poe!

CMDR. KIRA
They turned off their com-links.
There’s nothing we can do.

FINN: Like hell!

FINN
Let me go.

CMDR. KIRA
Out of the question.

FINN
Please! He’s my friend.

CMDR. KIRA
And I used to date him. But this
is about as much concern as I’m
going to muster...
(...however...)
You’re going anyway, aren’t you?
28.

Yes he was. But FINN plays it cool.

FINN
Wouldn’t even think of it.

CMDR. KIRA
You’re a terrible liar.

FINN
Let me do it. You know my background.
I know all their tricks. I can get
him out without them knowing...

CMDR. KIRA
(damnit)
Alright! Besides, I can only
afford one rebel right now.
Keep communications open. If there
is any sign of the First Order,
you break it off. Understood?!

FINN
Yes, Ma’am!

FINN turns, SEES...

ROSE. Clearly distraught. FINN approaches --

FINN (CONT’D)
What is it?

Something terrible in her thoughts.

ROSE
Don’t go...

FINN
What’s going on? Is it the baby??
ROSE
(nods ‘no’)
I just--I have a really bad
feeling about this.

FINN
Sweetheart, I have to. Poe’s in
trouble.

ROSE
Poe’s always in trouble--
(cries, convinced)
If you go I’m never going to see you
again!
29.

They embrace. FINN torn.

FINN
Hey, hey: Listen! Nothing’s going
to happen to me. I have everything
to fight for right here! But I
have to help my friend. I’ll be
back before you know it.

ROSE fighting her intuition.

ROSE
You’d better.

FINN
You know it, baby.
They kiss. FINN pulls away. Now he has a bad feeling. But
remains strong for Rose. He leaves. ROSE empty. ONA OBY
from behind. Places HER HANDS on ROSE’S shoulders.
Comforting, motherly.

EXT. TYRNAVOS - HILLTOP - DAY

Mud and grass and HEAVY RAIN--

POE scans via QUADNOCULARS -- from this HILLTOP it’s a three

mile ISLE of SPLINTERED LANDSCAPE. Near impossible terrain
-- like God took a machete and just started hacking. On
either side ... gnarled CLIFFS ... to a STUNNING DROP to the
OCEAN BELOW. In BG a VOLCANO spews fiery MAGMA against a
dark grey sky.

At the bottom of this isle is a MOUNTAIN --

POE’S POV: -- With a LARGE CAVE at its base. Their

destination.
Behind him PILOTS cover their X-WINGS with TARPS.

POE
Finish camouflaging those X-wings.
We gotta go!

HIDO next to POE--

POE (CONT’D)
We’ll take speeders down. The base is
only a few miles away...
HIDO looks down. Gulps. It’s certain death. POE,
reassuring.
30.

POE (CONT’D)
Don’t worry! Just follow my lead.

POE runs ... Mounts a RAZORBACK SPEEDER ... Kicks it on ...

Its bulky engine PURRS WITH POWER ...

PILOTS follow suit ... Looks exchanged ... POE with a signal
... VRROOOM ... SIX RAZORBACKS TEAR DOWN THE ISLE at
incredible SPEEDS! ... CHOPPY SURFACE comes at them almost
faster than they can maneuver ... HOWEVER--

Poor HIDO tries to keep up. MOVES OVER a PATH SO NARROW his
RAZORBACK barely fits. On either side--A straight DROP
DOWN. He gulps! Meanwhile--

POE. Absolutely fearless and everything Zen. HITS the gas

-- faster! -- TRAVERSES SHARP DIPS AND CURVES with uncanny
agility. A natural. But... Glances over to...

BB-8. ROLLING FASTER than POE! POE had no idea the little
droid could move ...

BB-8 loving this! Chirps and BEEPS and squealing with

glee...

THE RAZORBACKS (and BB) reach the BOTTOM ... Enter LARGE
CAVE and disappear under the mountain.

INT. RESISTANCE SHUTTLE (HANGAR BAY) - DAY

FINN in the pilot’s seat. CHEWBACCA the co-pilot. SEVERAL

RESISTANCE FIGHTERS in the BG.

FINN
Okay! Hang on--

CUT TO
-- as SHUTTLE FLIES FROM THE HANGAR BAY and soars into the
sky -- BACK TO

RESISTANCE SHUTTLE (NOW MOVING)

FINN
Remember: Keep an ear out for the
First Order. I just hope we’re not
to late...

BACK OF THE SHUTTLE--A door opens. THREEPIO and ARTOO.

THREEPIO
Oh! I say: Are we moving?
31.

FINN slams around. Surprised.

FINN
What are you doing here?!

THREEPIO
Well: Artoo was repairing this
power motivator and I opted to keep
him company since these little
astro-droids are prone to--

FINN
(shut it!)
Buckle in and keep your heads down!

THREEPIO
Are we--Going into battle?! Oh, I
know I shouldn’t have gotten out
of bed this morning. This is all
your fault!

THREEPIO bops ARTOO on the head. ARTOO BLURTS a

retaliation. CHEWBACCA moan-talks. FINN nods, agrees.

FINN
You can say that again, Chewie...

Wait? Did Finn just understand him?? FINN and CHEWBACCA

LOOK at one another. Mystified. CHEWBACCA shrugs.

INT. ISLAND TEMPLE - KITCHEN - DAY

REY comes to ... Inside a SIMPLE DWELLING. Bubbling

CAULDRON over a SMALL FIRE. VEGETABLES laid out. HERBS and
FLOWERS drying overhead. A monastic vibe. JORGA grinding a
mortar and pestle. HUMMING softly. Pours the mixture in a
BOWL. Adds water. Hands it to REY--

JORGA
This’ll help your noggin...

REY hesitates. Takes a sip. Seems agreeable.

REY
It’s nice.

JORGA
Dried dung of Mudbuck!
REY with another mouthful. Forcibly swallows. (Almost)
hides her disgust.
32.

REY
You know why I’m here?

JORGA
Well, you passed out before we could
get to that.

REY
I know this place. I’ve seen it.
But if I was born here...How could I...
(the more pressing
question)
My parents! Are they here?! Are
they...Alive?

JORGA
No, my girl. Your parents are gone.
REY sinks. Somehow she knew. But that doesn’t stop the
torrent of emotions that have built in her since childhood
from surfacing. She breaks down.

REY
But who were they? Did they love me?
(afraid to know)
Why did they leave me all those
years ago?

JORGA takes her hands. The peacefulness of his face

immediately calms her.

JORGA
Your parents were very brave. They
did what they did because they
loved you.

REY
But who were they?
JORGA
(heavy pause)
Your parents were Jedi once. They
had come here to hide; they were
being hunted. While here they fell
in love...And had you! But it became
too dangerous for them to stay.
They kept moving around. Always
moving. They had left you on
Jakku to hide you...But were
discovered before they could return.
I’m sorry.
REY slowly comes to terms.
33.

REY
My parents were Jedi? So this
place...Is a Jedi temple?

JORGA
Oh. Nothing that fancy. Come!
I’ll show you...

JORGA waddles out. REY with curiosity. Excitedly FOLLOWS--

INT. ISLAND TEMPLE - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

The obscured SPACE Rey entered earlier. Pitch DARK. JORGA

continues inside. REY right behind. Feels her way through.

JORGA
Oh. You’ll have to excuse me.
I forget not everyone knows
their way around.

JORGA CUPS HIS HANDS--And a BRIGHT BEAM OF LIGHT appears

when he PULLS THEM APART. ILLUMES a strict space around
them. Not much else.

REY recognizes it. We all should!

REY
Did you...Just make a lightsaber
come out of your hand?!

JORGA
Pretty nifty, eh?

REY
You know the Force?

JORGA
My dear, I am the Force!

REY WIDE-EYED--This is blowing her mind! However--

JORGA (CONT’D)
--And you are the Force. And that
blue carrot is the Force...
The Force is everywhere! It’s
not a secret.

REY sours.

REY
But if you’re not a Jedi...And I
assume you’re not a Sith...
What are you?
34.

JORGA
Jorga. And who are you?

REY
(automatic)
-- Rey --

JORGA
See? That wasn’t so hard. The
Force is the simplest thing in
the universe. But that doesn’t stop
people from making it so
complicated! You say “Jedi” and
“Sith” but at the end of the day it’s
all the same thing.

REY
But what about the light, and the
dark? Good and evil?

JORGA considers.

JORGA
Okay. This room. Tell me what you
see?

REY looks. Best she can.

REY
Um. It’s big. I think.

JORGA SMACKS HIS HANDS. Extinguishes the light beam. DARK

AGAIN--

JORGA
What do you see now?

REY
...Nothing.

JORGA
So where did the room go?

As REY thinks on that... LIGHT BEAM returns.

JORGA (CONT’D)
See? It’s the same. You think
it’s different because of how you
see it. The Jedi used to see the
Force one way...The Sith another...
The Bendu yet another...But it’s
all the same Force. People just
choose to see one part or another.
35.

REY
What do you mean: “The Jedi used
to see the Force...?”

JORGA
The Force is eternal. The Jedi are
not. And now they are all gone.

REY
But they can’t be all gone--

JORGA
(cuts her off)
But-but-but-but-but-but-but. Too
many questions with you. That’s
not good.
REY
Why?
(D’oh!)

JORGA
Because all you get are answers!
I’ll make this simple. You try!

JORGA CLAPS ... LIGHT BEAM GONE ... Grabs REY’S HANDS --
SHOVES THEM TOGETHER--PULLS THEM APART--SHE CREATES HER OWN
BEAM OF LIGHT. REY, gobsmacked.

JORGA (CONT’D)
Me thinks the girl is a natural...
(then)
There were “Jedi” long before there
were Jedi. And there will be “Jedi”
long after they’re gone. Names
don’t matter; only the expression.
The Force finds a way to make itself
known...Maybe you should make one!
REY now incredulous.

REY
Me?? You want me to find a new
way for the Force?

JORGA
Why not? What good is a gift if you
don’t open it... (smiles)
You really want to see what the
Force is?
Before she can answer JORGA SLAPS REY’S HAND TOGETHER...
DARK AGAIN. Puts her RIGHT HAND OVER HER HEART--
36.

THIS SPACE LIGHTS UP IN ITS ENTIRETY. Vast. Ancient. A

kind of sanctuary. A primordial home for the Force.

REY
How...How am I doing this?
(JORGA shrugs; he’s
not saying.
REY notices)
This place! Must be thousands of
years old...

JORGA
Might be. It’s been so long since
I built it.

Who is this guy? REY’S eyes--Dizzy. About to swoon.

REY
I--I think I need to lie down.

JORGA
Probably a good idea. But one last
thing to show you...

EXT. ISLAND TEMPLE - GARDENS - DAY

JORGA leads REY to an unassuming HUT on the far side of the

GARDENS. She enters--

INT. HUT - DAY - CONTINUOUS

A BED. A SMALL TABLE. BOWLS AND POTS. Humble. Looks like

it hasn’t been occupied in ages.

REY looks around. Realizes she’s standing in the place

where she was born. Where she started. REY covers her
mouth. Fighting emotions. Looks to JORGA, who points to a
CORNER. She goes over--

CLOSE ON A PICTURE PAINTED on the WALL: A MOTHER, FATHER,

and LITTLE GIRL. A child’s handiwork--Done by Rey a long
time ago. REY touches it. Crying. But joyful.

REY
...I’m home.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE (TYRNAVOS)

Two tall REPTILIAN-LIKE ALIENS in a large military-style
BUNKER. They’re PANICKED.
37.

GRUMBRAE
<<Hurry! They’ll be here any
moment!>>

GESTOR
<<You fool! I told you we shouldn’t’ve
waited so long!>>

BUNKER DOORS BLAST OPEN! POE rushes through the SMOKE --

his BLASTER already aimed.

POE
Hands up!

GESTOR and GRUMBRAE obey. LOOM-TOM, HIDO, and the OTHER

PILOTS (with BB-8) run in --
GESTOR
<<Don’t shoot! We surrender.>>

POE
Smart move. Now where is it?

GESTOR and GRUMBRAE look at each other.

GRUMBRAE
<<We don’t know what you’re talking
about...>>

POE SHOOTS at their feet. They shriek. GRUMBRAE points to

GRUMBRAE (CONT’D)
<<Over there! The weapon is on
the other side...>>

POE looks to the MASSIVE STEEL DOORS on the far side of the
BASE. Aims at GESTOR--
POE
Open it.

GESTOR
<<We can’t! It’s on a timer.>>

POE FIRE SEVERAL MORE SHOTS at their feet. Dust kicks up as

the ALIENS dance and yelp. POE motions.

POE
Get out of here...

GESTOR and GRUMBRAE scream and flee. LOOM-TOM already at

the STEEL DOORS. Pulls off the CONTROL PANEL. Fast hands
comb through WIRES.
38.

POE (CONT’D)
How long?

LOOM-TOM
<<Five minutes...>>

POE
Good.
(to HIDO)
We’re ahead of schedule. I need
you to go back to the ships and
wait for my signal.

HIDO
(why didn’t I stay up
there in the first
place??)
Go...back? Up the mountain?

POE
The second those doors open it’s
game-time. We have one shot at this.
You can do it, Hido!

HIDO sucks it up. RUNS.

INT. STAR DESTROYER FLAG SHIP - MAIN BRIDGE

DOLAN approaches HUX. Conspiratorially.

DOLAN
We’ve had an interesting stroke of
fortune and it looks like our
time table needs to be moved up...

HUX, perplexed.
HUX
Which time table?

DOLAN
The one concerning the Asset.

HUX
Doesn’t that affect all the time tables?

DOLAN
Then why ask which one?

HUX
(cheeky bastard)
Well? What is it?!
39.

DOLAN leans close. WHISPERS. We cannot hear what is said.

But HUX’S reaction like drinking a nice cold glass of
revenge.

HUX (CONT’D)
Fantastic!

CUT TO

LATER. TURBOLIFT DOORS OPEN. KYLO REN. Stomps over to

HUX...who smiles deliciously.

HUX
Supreme Leader! Good news! We have
them. It will be done within the
hour--
(close to KYLO)
And perhaps more importantly we
have her...

Hard to tell if this pleases KYLO.

KYLO REN
Where?

HUX
She’s on Tyrnavos.

KYLO REN
Send her coordinates to my ship.
I leave at once.

KYLO exits. DOLAN gives HUX a subtle nod. HUX with triumph
in his grasp.

HUX
(to FIRST ORDER GUNNER)
Ready Nil Canon!

INT. HUT (AGGO) - NIGHT

REY in bed. Uneasy sleep.

CUT TO

EXT. HILLTOP (REY’S DREAM) - DAY

What she’s seeing ... A mud-drenched place. Dark grey

skies. Pounding RAIN. (WE know this is TYRNAVOS.)
KYLO REN. On the ground. Horribly injured. Struggling for
life. A LIGHTSABER COMES INTO FRAME. Swings up. And comes
SLAMMING DOWN AS --
40.

BACK TO

HUT

AS REY WAKES! A dreadful feeling.

INT. ISLAND TEMPLE - KITCHEN - NIGHT

REY rushes in.

REY
Jorga! I’m sorry. I must go!

JORGA nods. He knows. Remorseful.

JORGA
You won’t be able to save him, Rey.
(REY looks at him;
what exactly does he
know?)
Not the way you think. Kylo’s mind
is broken. It is only a matter
of time before it destroys him.

REY
I must try.

JORGA with a smile trying its best.

JORGA
I know, my dear...
(then)
Your ship is already outside.

REY... What?

EXT. ISLAND TEMPLE - LANDING - NIGHT

REY runs out. The MILLENNIUM FALCON already here. And next
to it ... BEN-CHU. It will forever remain a mystery how he
got it up there. But his reply says it all.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY just rolls with it.

CUT TO
FEW MINUTES LATER. As the FALCON ASCENDS into the night--

JORGA watches. BEN-CHU beside him.

41.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

JORGA
Don’t worry, my friend. We’ll see her
again.

His demeanor fades. Into apprehension. He knows what’s

about to happen.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE (TYRNAVOS)

LOOM-TOM works furiously --

LOOM-TOM
<<Almost have it!>>
FINN -- with CHEWBACCA and THE GROUP OF RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
-- arrive on scene. POE with a What the...

POE
What are you guys doing here?

FINN
Rescuing your dumb butt!

POE
What’re you talking about? We almost
have it...

FINN
There is no weapon! Noxnol sold out
the Resistance. It’s a trap!

POE dumbstruck. Then:

LOOM-TOM
<<Got it!>>

STEEL DOORS start opening. FINN: Oh shit!

FINN
No! Close it, close it--

LASER-FIRE! From the SQUADRON OF STORMTROOPERS on the other

side. A BLITZKRIEG! RESISTANCE FIGHTERS drop. POE and
FINN against the barrage of FIRE--

POE
Back to the ships!
They retreat.
42.

EXT. TYRNAVOS - ISLE/HILLTOP LANDING - DAY

HIDO pushes his RAZORBACK faster than he would care for.

It’s pounding RAIN. He’s almost at the HILLTOP ...

SEVERAL X-WINGS EXPLODE! SMOKE and FIRE billowing --

HIDO shocked! STOPS. A short distance from ...

KYLO REN. Exiting his SHIP ...

HIDO panics ... swings the RAZORBACK around ... starts

RACING BACK DOWN ... ON KYLO ... Sees Hido escaping. Uses
the Force to steer the RAZORBACK OFF A CLIFF ... KYLO looks
around, presumably for Rey when--

MENACING VOICE (OS)

Ben Solo!

KYLO turns. Recognizing the voice as --

One of the KNIGHTS OF REN. Kylo ambushed! ALL 6 KNIGHTS

surround KYLO from various points.

EXT. TYRNAVOS - LARGE CAVE/UNDERGROUND BASE - DAY

QUADNOCULAR POV: The DESTROYED X-WINGS on the HILLTOP...

POE drops them. Shit! Bad getting worse.

POE
Not that way...

LASER BLAST cuts really close. FIREFIGHT back on live.

POE runs. Followed by RESISTANCE FIGHTERS and PILOTS ...
STORMTROOPERS pushing them out into the open ... In pursuit
... CHEWBACCA cuts down SEVERAL STORMTROOPERS with his
LASER-CROSSBOW ... RESISTANCE takes momentary shelter behind
a GIANT ROCK --

FINN spots -- ALL-TERRAIN STORMTROOPERS -- on SPEEDERS --

closing fast! --

FINN
We’re done for if we stay here...

POE quick to formulate.

POE
Pilots! Back to the Speeders. We’ll
draw them off so the others can get
away.
43.

BB-8 chirps. What do I do?

POE (CONT’D)
Stay with them! First chance:
You get to the shuttle.

An “arm” shoots out of BB-8 and hooks. His version of a

salute. EVERYONE acknowledges. CHEWBACCA hollers.
1...2...3... GO! PILOTS race to the RAZORBACKS ... LASER-
FIRE from all directions ... POE jumps on his RAZORBACK ...
FIRES IT UP ... FINN JUMPS ON TOO ... POE with a look.
What’re you doing??

FINN
I got your back!

POE, reassured. They might get out of this yet.

POE
Just like old times...

POE KICKS the throttle -- RAZORBACK rips away --

then the other RAZORBACKS ... ALL-TERRAIN STORMTROOPERS on
SPEEDERS (similar to those from “Return of the Jedi”) -- hot
on their tail! FINN fires at THE SPEEDERS --

FINN
We got company!

POE
What else is new!

EXT. TYRNAVOS - HILLTOP LANDING - DAY

KYLO. Trapped. LAUGHS.

KYLO REN
Is this supposed to impress me?

(NOTE: The KNIGHTS each have different masks/outfits. Here

they will differentiated by numbers: #1, #2 and so on.)

KNIGHT #1
Silence traitor! You have
betrayed the Knights of Ren, Solo.
Your failure is complete.

KYLO REN
Snoke was a fool! He led us to ruin.
KNIGHT #1
He led you to ruin, coward. But
(MORE)
44.

KNIGHT #1 (CONT’D)
our new master is truly powerful.
And he has taught us well.

KNIGHT #2
You will not leave here alive,
Ben.

A familiar voice. Laughing.

SNOKE (VO)
You are done, boy...

A fury inside KYLO as the KNIGHTS slowly close in--Power and

fear.

KYLO REN
You want TRUE POWER--

KYLO throws his arm to KNIGHT #3--CRACK!--HIS BODY SNAPS

BACKWARDS. Falls dead. One down.

KYLO REN (CONT’D)

--COME AND TASTE IT!

FIVE RED LIGHTSABERS ignite. KYLO ignites his. Firms his

ground. Anticipating. Unleashes a WAR CRY!

EXT. TYRNAVOS - WASTELANDS - DAY

RAZORBACKS continue onto ANOTHER TREACHEROUS ISLE --

SPEEDERS dead on their trail--

CUT TO

LARGE CAVE/UNDERGROUND BASE

--CHEWBACCA and the RESISTANCE FIGHTERS PINNED behind the
LARGE ROCK. Pounded by advancing STORMTROOPERS--

INT. RESISTANCE SHUTTLE - SAME TIME

THREEPIO and ARTOO. Their friends in trouble. ARTOO with

rapid BEEPS.

THREEPIO
What do you mean: “I’m going to
help!”? R2D2, whatever are
you talking about?
ARTOO with a curt REPLY. Rolls off.
45.

THREEPIO (CONT’D)
Such language! Wait! Where are
you going? You’ve finally blown
your circuits, haven’t you?! It was
only a matter of time...

ARTOO to the FRONT. Works the controls.

THREEPIO (CONT’D)
All we can hope for is that,
if we’re captured, the First Order
will be merciful and not
disintegrate us...

ARTOO ignores him.

CUT TO
OUTSIDE RESISTANCE SHUTTLE

--The LARGE GUN beneath the SHUTTLE MOVES into position--

BACK TO

RESISTANCE SHUTTLE

THREEPIO
Really R2? What do you think you
can accomplish...?

And then...

LARGE CAVE/UNDERGROUND BASE

LASER-FIRE! From the SHUTTLE -- SPRAYS across the SQUADRON

OF STORMTROOPERS -- mowing them down instantaneously -- all
of them dead.
FROM BEHIND THE ROCK. Weird stillness in the air.
CHEWBACCA and the remaining RESISTANCE FIGHTERS: Where did
that come from?! CHEWBACCA growls.

INT. RESISTANCE SHUTTLE - DAY

THREEPIO
We did it! We saved them!

ARTOO BEEPS. We??

EXT. TYRNAVOS - HILLTOP LANDING - DAY

A crack of THUNDER --
46.

Against the CRASH OF LIGHTSABERS. KYLO engaged with KNIGHT

#1. Slashing. Hacking. Brute, unfettered force --

KNIGHT #2 from behind -- KYLO spins around -- CUTS #2’S HEAD

CLEAN OFF. He drops --

KNIGHT #4 leaps through the air -- KICKS KYLO’S BACK -- KYLO

flies FORWARD -- a few feet away --

Right NEXT to KNIGHT #5 -- who thrusts his LIGHTSABER down

in KYLO’S shoulder -- KYLO screams -- he maneuvers, spins
his legs around -- KNOCKS KNIGHT #5 flat on his BACK. KYLO
climbs on top him -- puts his HAND on #5’s MASK --
FEROCIOUSLY DRIVES HIS HEAD INTO THE GROUND. KNIGHT #5’s
head disappears under an avalanche of MUD -- stops moving --
dead --
KNIGHT #1 from behind -- cutting deep ACROSS KYLO’S BACK --
KYLO screams!

CUT TO

WASTELAND

RAZORBACKS continue. The mud-drenched terrain becoming

impossible to navigate.

FINN FIRES -- HITS a nearby STORMTROOPER -- whose SPEEDER

smashes into a rock. A nearby RAZORBACK EXPLODES. Only a
few left.

FINN
Do you even know where you’re going?

POE
Now is not the time for specifics.
The moment he says that --

ANGLE FROM HIGH ABOVE. Finn and Poe’s RAZORBACK on a one-

way course -- TO THE END OF AN ISLE. No way out. Only
ocean below.

FINN reacts.

FINN
Do you see that?!

POE
I see it! I see it!
47.

POE slams the breaks -- CAKING THEM WITH MUD -- the

RAZORBACK “skids” sideways to a grinding HALT -- MERE INCHES
from a VERTIGO-INDUCING DROP...

ANGLE ON FINN ... Seeing the THREE SPEEDERS a short distance

away ... Coming FAST!

FINN
What now hotshot?

For POE there’s only one option...

POE
Is your aim true?

POE REVS the RAZORBACK. FINN gets the gist...And doesn’t

like it!
FINN
You can’t be serious!

Part of POE is probably laughing hysterically as the

RAZORBACK TAKES OFF -- straight for the on-coming SPEEDERS.

FINN uses his opposite arm to steady the BLASTER -- FIRES on

the FIRST SPEEDER. It goes down.

FINN FIRES again ... TWICE ... HITS the SECOND SPEEDER.
THIRD closing in. FINN aims... Steady... Steady... CLICK!

BLASTER is EMPTY!

THIRD SPEEDER FIRES -- on a collision-course -- FINN reacts

-- uses POE as leverage and --

JUMPS ONTO THE ON-COMING SPEEDER -- SLAMS right into the

STORMTROOPER -- they FALL -- crash to the mud -- the SPEEDER
continues OFF THE CLIFF -- FINN gets up -- KICKS the woozy
STORMTROOPER in the head -- knocks him out. It’s over.
POE comes back on the RAZORBACK. Smiling. He knew it all
along.

POE
See? Your aim is true...

FINN not amused. COVERED in mud.

CUT TO

HILLTOP LANDING
KYLO wounded --
48.

KNIGHT #6 from the SIDE -- CUTS KYLO’S MECHANICAL HAND OFF.

It flies. Still gripping his LIGHTSABER. Lands in the mud
nearby.

KYLO wobbles -- KNIGHT #4 right there -- KYLO doesn’t see

him -- KNIGHT #4 thrusts his LIGHTSABER -- PIERCES KYLO’S
SIDE --

KYLO doesn’t react ... numb ... trembling ... stops ...
blood running cold ... crumbles to the ground ...

KYLO pitifully tries to claw away. Inch by agonizing inch.

The THREE REMAINING KNIGHTS close in like a predator assured
their prey.

KNIGHT #1
You will pay for the blood of our
brothers, Solo...

THE THREE KNIGHTS raise their hands -- use the Force to

shove KYLO into the ground. THEY ARE BURYING HIM ALIVE!
KYLO struggles ... Tries to stay above ... The ground and
mud swallowing him ... Feebly thrashes ...
KYLO looks out -- stretches his hand -- a desperate prayer
to someone ...

The ROAR of the MILLENNIUM FALCON -- a moment before it

APPEARS ABOVE THE HILLTOP.

KYLO, helpless. Perhaps grateful. SEES the ramp OPEN

before him --

CUT TO

FROM INSIDE THE FALCON -- REY runs down -- JUMPS -- FLIPS

THROUGH THE AIR WITH HER STAFF. FOLLOW HER AS SHE

LANDS in FRONT of THE THREE KNIGHTS.

Her face hard. A warrior’s face.

REY
If you want him you have to go
through me...

Holds her STAFF out -- TWO WHITE LIGHTSABERS EXTEND FROM THE
ENDS. Her own lightsaber!

KNIGHTS #1, #4, and #6 in attack positions.

REY rushes KNIGHT #1. Strength and power we have never seen
in her. A blur of precision -- HITTING KNIGHT #1 faster
than he can parry. BACK AND FORTH in an onslaught that
quickly overwhelms him. REY drives him back -- back -- to
49.

the EDGE of the HILLTOP -- delivers a BLINDSIDING KICK into

his CHEST ...

KNIGHT #1 FLIES BACKWARDS -- LANDS HARD -- sliding and

rolling a distance down the ISLE. Out of the game.

REY turns on KNIGHTS #4 and #6 --

Takes both on at once--

A flurry of RED and WHITE clashing against the RAIN and the
grey sky darkening by the minute.

Neither KNIGHT can advance her -- as soon as REY strikes at

one she’s already on the other. A human metronome of
unbelievable tempo. But tires of this ballet. She’s done
with these assholes.
REY throws out her RIGHT HAND -- holds KNIGHT #6 -- he can’t
move. FROZEN.

Blocks KNIGHT #4 with her LIGHTSABER -- her right hand into

a FIST -- swings her ARM -- SENDS KNIGHT #6 CRASHING INTO
KNIGHT #4 -- both of them FLUNG from HILLTOP -- sailing down
to the OCEAN with a well-timed WILHELM SCREAM ...

REY ... exhausted.

OVER TO KYLO. Traumatized. Wheezing. Looks up at her.

Defeated eyes. The rain a sobering baptism.

KYLO REN
Do it. Finish it.

REY for a second as though she will do it. But her heart
won’t allow it. Sees the KYLO she always knew was there:
The son of Leia and Han. She disengages her LIGHTSABER.
Reaches down. Pulls him up. Said with compassion.
With love.

REY
Never!

KYLO. An echo inside a shell. He passes out. REY buckles.

Holds him up.

REY (CONT’D)
I’ve got you. I’ve got you.

CUT TO
DOWN THE ISLE

As KNIGHT #1 gets to his feet.

50.

Looks to the hilltop. Probably fuming under that MASK. He

turns away. Escapes. Another day.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE (TYRNAVOS) - DAY

FINN and POE return ... THREEPIO and ARTOO enter too ...
The remaining RESISTANCE FIGHTERS/PILOTS have taken refuge
inside the base. Hard faces. A bitter victory. One
RESISTANCE FIGHTER cries softly, kneeling over a fallen
comrade.

POE
It’s over, isn’t it?

FINN has no idea.

POE (CONT’D)
If Noxnol was First Order...Then
they probably know about the
other star systems too. The
plan is over. The First Order
will come back hard.

Something bothering FINN about all this--

FINN
No...Something’s wrong. The plan
was to ambush us here...
(from his time as
a stormtrooper)
But that wasn’t an ambush; that was
just a surface attack. There would
have been a fleet of Star
Destroyers and--

The air cuts out of his thoughts. A terrible realization.

FINN into action.
FINN (CONT’D)
Com-link! Get com-link now!

RESISTANCE FIGHTER #1
Com-link’s destroyed.

FINN searching--

FINN
R2! Can you patch into this
relay?!
ARTOO at COMMAND TABLE. Works the CONSOLE. ON THE TABLE A
HOLOGRAM OF ROSE APPEARS. FINN with an enormous sigh of
relief --
51.

FINN (CONT’D)
Oh thank you! Rose! Rose: Listen!
You have to warn the others.
The First Order is on their way--

INT. RESISTANCE COMMAND (HELEX) - SAME TIME

ROSE at COMMAND. Grave. Hollow. Unmoving.

ROSE
(can barely say)
...Finn?

RED LIGHTS FLOOD THE ROOM. An ALARM WAILS. Chaos in the

BG. Panic. Yelling. THEY’RE UNDER ATTACK.
KIRA nearby. Looks to ROSE. Their eyes welling. Fighting
fear. Sorrow. The inevitable.

CUT TO

UNDERGROUND BASE

FINN’S heart being squeezed of life.

FINN
Oh no. Please God no...

CUT TO

RESISTANCE BASE

KIRA grabs ROSE’S HAND. One last show of strength. Of

humanity. KIRA screaming inside. ROSE horrified ... Then
at PEACE. Pure resolve.

ROSE
Finn, keep fighting. I lo--

-- EVERYTHING STOPS FOR ONE UNSETTLING BEAT AS THE SCREEN

FADES TO WHITE --

CUT TO

INT. STAR DESTROYER FLAG SHIP - MAIN BRIDGE

FROM BEHIND HUX as he watches a spectacle of destruction --

THE SURFACE OF HELEX LIKE AN APOCALYPTIC BLOOM OPENING OUT
INTO SPACE --
ON HUX. Watching with certain satisfaction.
52.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE

Rose’s hologram gone--Now a WALL OF STATIC, hissing. A

lullaby from Death. FINN paralyzed.

FINN
Resistance...? Resistance?!
(please God!)
Rose...?

THREEPIO
Sir...The Resistance Base...is gone...

FINN. Emptied. Devastated. He buckles. Weeps. No...

POE lowers his eyes.

INT. STAR DESTROYER FLAG SHIP - MAIN BRIDGE

Planetary destruction CONTINUES in the BG.

HUX
And that is the end of the Resistance.
Save a few stragglers. And they
pose no real threat to us now...
All the same: The First Order is
not to start becoming untidy.

He speaks to--DOLAN, watching his own stock skyrocket in his

mind.

DOLAN
Well executed, Sir.

HUX
And what of our other problem?
DOLAN
No sign of him anywhere, Sir.
He is no more.

HUX
I daresay it was a stroke of genius
to contact the Knights of Ren...
Or whatever they’re called now...
Let that be a lesson, Dolan:
Never dirty your hands when there
are others willing to do it
for free.
DOLAN
Sound advice, Sir.
53.

HUX
Well! All-in-all, a productive
day’s work! And I think it’s
high time the First Order is
christened as the ultimate power
in the galaxy... What news of
my coronation?

DOLAN
Everything’s on schedule, Sir.
Provided you still want it
on Coruscant...

HUX
I think that’s apt. It is the
birthplace of the Empire;
so it shall serve for the inaugural
celebration of the First Order.

DOLAN
Very symbolic, Sir.

HUX
I thought so. Are you going to
make the announcement?

DOLAN to BRIDGE--

DOLAN
THE SUPREME LEADER IS DEAD!
LONG LIVE THE SUPREME LEADER!

HUX steps forward. EVERYONE RISES, salutes.

ENTIRE BRIDGE
LONG LIVE THE SUPREME LEADER!

HUX bathes in this with delicious approval.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE

A tomb. Dead air. FINN unmoved.

POE gets it together. Best he can. Puts his hand on FINN’S

shoulder. Struggling for the words.

POE
Hey... Finn... I...

FINN with a BRUTAL look. Livid. Seething. He snaps,

SWINGS and HITS POE straight across the jaw! CRACK!
54.

POE drops. Looks. What the hell?? The EYES of the OTHERS
take a moment to react. FINN stands over POE, ready to
wreck him --

FINN
You stupid--THEY’D BE ALIVE IF IT
WASN’T FOR YOU! SHE’D BE ALIVE!
It’s all gone!

POE
(hands out; defensive)
Hold on a minute--

FINN
--Get up!--

POE
--Hold on!--

FINN
(dangerous)
Get up right now...

POE
Stop! I’m not going to fight you,
Finn! I didn’t know. I was trying
to save the Resistance...
I’m sorry. I’m--

POE to his feet. FINN holds back momentarily but wields it

like a club ...

POE catches the eyes of EVERYONE ELSE HERE. Accusing eyes.

Eyes that have just lost everything. POE shrinks,
surrounded. Not just unwelcome but threatened.

FINN
I think you’d better leave...
A cold shock. This is who Poe is. POE’S mouth trembling.
Tries to speak. But...Nothing...

POE leaves.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - MEDICAL BED

KYLO REN. Eyes open ... Flutter ... A LIGHT overhead.

Blinding ... Adjusting ... Shapes forming ... SEES

REY. Hovering. Staring at him.

KYLO RECOILS. Defensive. A scared wounded animal.
55.

REY
Don’t move!

Too late. Kylo’s body like it’s been chewed, digested, and
shat out by a larger animal. Cringes in AGONY. On the
MEDICAL BED. Recognizes it but can’t believe it.

KYLO REN
Where am I?

REY
You’re on the Falcon. I just saved
your life...

KYLO exhales. Disgust. REY offended.

REY (CONT’D)
You’re welcome!

KYLO REN
No... It’s not that. I just...
Never thought I’d be here again...

REY
When did you used to be here?

KYLO leans forward. SLOW-LY. Points to an area UNDERNEATH

THE BED. CLOSE ON a CRUDE CARVING: BEN WAS HERE.

REY delights at this.

REY (CONT’D)
You did that? Han must’ve been
furious.

KYLO REN
(remembering)
He was.
REY
(realizing)
This is where you grew up...

KYLO withdraws. Not ready for this. A long BEAT, then

KYLO REN
Thank you...

REY
For?
KYLO REN
Saving me.
56.

It’s clear to us--as with REY--this is a different Kylo.

Weak. Exposed. Human. And Rey can’t help think she’s
somehow responsible. Something her heart wanted for a long
time. She closes in--

REY
You’re...welcome.

An intimacy sparks. Something on the tips of their tongues.

But REY...retracts. Like she’s receiving a tidal wave of
information. All of it bad. KYLO notices.

KYLO REN
What is it?

REY won’t say. Can’t say.

REY
(dismissive)
Nothing. It’s nothing. I have to...
run to the cockpit...

REY runs. KYLO lays his head back. Stares up.

KYLO REN
(recalling an old
and familiar
admonishment)
You never run on the Falcon...

CUT TO

MILLENNIUM FALCON - HALLWAY

A moment later. REY stops. Out of ears/eyes of Kylo.

Horrible grief. The worst news.

REY
Oh no... Rose... Everyone! No.
No. No no no no no ...

REY crumbles to the floor. Muffling her cries.

BACK TO

KYLO, as he listens. Powerless to help her.

EXT. HILLTOP (TYRNAVOS) - TWILIGHT

The remaining light of day fading fast.

POE reaches the HILLTOP. Exhausted. Hurt. Lost.
BB-8 ROLLS OUT in front of him. Somehow he got here first.
57.

POE looks at BB-8. Then BACK at the LONG TREK to get up

here. Back to BB-8 --

POE
How’d you get up here?

BB-8 CHIRPS. But Poe’s defeated.

POE (CONT’D)
Go back, BB. I want to be alone
right now...

POE walks on. Ignores him. BB-8 rolls around -- confronts

POE -- SEPARATES his HEAD from his BALL -- BRINGS IT UP --
BB-8 “EYE” to EYE with POE.

POE (CONT’D)
I screwed up, BB. Real bad. I’m
going to make this right.
Somehow. But I need you to stay
here and help Finn.

The little droid’s head BACK AND FORTH. “No way”.

POE (CONT’D)
You’re real stubborn, you know that?

BB-8’s head DROPS. RECONNECTS with his BALL. Rolls

forward. TWO MECHANICAL ARMS SHOOT OUT. Wrap around POE’S
LEGS. A hug.

POE (CONT’D)
(touched)
I love you too, pal.

POE scans the CARNAGE OF DESTROYED X-WINGS, their FIRES

nearly burned out. POE exhales. Disheartened. Then spots -
- ONE UNTOUCHED X-WING. A miracle!
POE (CONT’D)
Come on, BB. Let’s see if she’s
still got it...

CUT TO

LATER. As the X-WING lifts -- SOARS into the now-night sky.

INT. UNDERGROUND BASE

FINN. Broken. But slowly coming together. To HIMSELF:

FINN
...keep fighting.
58.

TURNS. SEES THE EYES OF THE OTHERS. Eyes searching for

hope. TO THOSE FACES

FINN (CONT’D)
(the truth)
We’re not done yet...

THE REMAINING RESISTANCE. Stirring. Trepidatious.

Defeated. Afraid. But listening.

FINN (CONT’D)
We have unfinished business...
(to THREEPIO
at COMMAND TABLE)
The little guy with the big eyes.
Noxnol. Can R2 find him?
ARTOO with a STRING OF BEEPS. FINN leans to CHEWBACCA,
who’s right there...

FINN (CONT’D)
What’d he say?

CHEWBACCA moan-talks, shrugs. FINN stupefied.

FINN (CONT’D)
You can’t understand him either??
All these years...?

THEY look over at THREEPIO. Well?

THREEPIO
Oh. He said he can do it.

FINN
Then do it!
(to EVERYONE ELSE)
We have to locate Noxnol and find
out exactly what he told the
First Order. If they know about
the other star systems than we have
to warn them...So they don’t
suffer the same fate...
Unfortunately this guy’s a
professional spy. He could be
anywhere--

THREEPIO
--R2 has located him!

FINN
(that was quick)
Oh. Um, good, okay then.
59.

THREEPIO
He’s currently on Jutroh. In the
Mantuan system.

FINN
Does anybody know it?

SHRUGS AND NOES ALL AROUND--Until a GRIZZLED RESISTANCE

FIGHTER motions.

GRIZZLED FIGHTER
(cryptic)
I know it...

An ugly PAUSE.

FINN
...And?

GRIZZLED FIGHTER
It’s the kind of place you never
want to go.

EXT. ISLAND TEMPLE (AGGO) - LANDING - DAY

The FALCON parked. REY runs down the ramp. Looks around.

REY
Jorga...?

CUT TO

THE GARDEN - BIT LATER

REY runs through. Searching. No Jorga.

CUT TO
THE KITCHEN - BIT LATER

REY inside. No fires. Everything cleaned up.

REY
Jorga?

RETURN TO

THE LANDING - BIT LATER

REY returns to the FALCON. Where is he? A MOMENT. REY

with a feeling--TURNS--BEN-CHU IS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND HER.
She startles. How’d he do that??
60.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY
Ben-Chu! Where’s Jorga?

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY
I don’t, um, know what that means...

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

REY
(getting real old,
real quick)
Yes, okay. “Ben-Chu”. But where
is Jorga?

KYLO REN (OS)

He said he’s gone...

REY turns, SEES--KYLO hobbling down the ramp.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

KYLO-REN
He said Jorga went into the mountains
to forage mushrooms. He be back in
a few days.

REY
You--You understand him?

KYLO shrugs. Apparently. BEN-CHU stares at KYLO. For a

LONG MOMENT. A strange silence.

REY
(her take)
I don’t think he likes you.

KYLO REN
I get that a lot.

REY
Come on. I’ll take you inside...

BEN-CHU STOMPS ... BACK RISING, HAIRS STANDING UP ... EYES

ready to ATTACK. It’s actually ALARMING! It’s clear to REY
what he’s saying: Kylo’s will not step one foot inside the
Temple ...
61.

She holds her HANDS OUT, tries to calm BEN-CHU.

REY (CONT’D)
Okay...OKAY...we’ll go over there...
(points to HUT)

BEN-CHU relents ... REY helps KYLO along through the

GARDEN--LOOKS BACK at BEN-CHU, concerned.

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE) - DAY

BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER from hyperspace --

PAN WITH IT -- joining a vast FLEET of STAR DESTROYERS in

orbit around --
CORUSCANT

Former home of the Republic. But different than what we’ve

seen prior. The ENTIRE PLANET has separated into TWO HALVES
-- held together by monstrous BRIDGE-LIKE EDIFICES --
Perhaps due to war. Perhaps excessive building. This will
never be explained.

EXT. CORUSCANT (PLANET) - DAY

As before. One entire CITY. Epic architecture. Thousands

of FLYING VEHICLES in complex traffic patterns.

ZOOM ONTO an immense DOMED STRUCTURE. The former Galactic

Senate. Now the FIRST ORDER CONSULATE.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - HIGH CHAMBERS - DAY

A GRAND SPACE. Lavish and ornate. SUPREME LEADER HUX
enters with an entourage of OFFICERS, and ARMED
STORMTROOPERS (DOLAN too) --

Two dignitaries greet HUX: SEY DORON (old, bearded) and

MILNO APA (intelligent, handsome.) Both robed.

SEY DORON
Supreme Leader! We are grateful
you have arrived safely.

HUX
(being a dick)
And why would I have not arrived
safely?
62.

HUX with an unnerving stare at SEY, who grows fearful.

MILNO intervenes --

MILNO APA
A mere formality, Supreme Leader.
Of course there is no cause for alarm.

Like a switch--HUX now boisterous.

HUX
Of course. Why would there be?

HUX passes them. Parks at an obscenely LARGE DESK.

HUX (CONT’D)
I trust you gentleman are firming
the arrangements for my
coronation? I was clear: I want no
expense spared.

SEY DORON
Yes, Supreme Leader. That’s what
we came to discuss... In private?
If we may...

HUX
Nonsense. Out with it.

SEY DORON
(don’t shoot
the messenger)
Supreme Leader: The First Order is
bankrupt.

HUX
What?! How can this be?

MILNO APA
Sir, your ... ”predecessors”
directed all monies to the Military.
Now, if we unburdened the fleet
of some of its Destroyers--

HUX pounds his fist. Enraged.

HUX
Are you both MAD?? I’m talking about
the greatest celebration in our
moment of triumph and you’re
suggesting we hock some Star
Destroyers?!
(then)
Raise taxes! Steal it
if you have to!
63.

SEY DORON
With respect, Supreme Leader, that
would be unwise. Taxes are already
at their highest. Raising them
may cause unrest in among the
Systems.

HUX
Who would dare challenge me?

MILNO APA
No one, Supreme Leader. But
if we can discuss options--

DOLAN
(meeting over)
Enough! Supreme Leader is tired!

DOLAN signals. TWO STORMTROOPERS manhandle the dignitaries

-- SEY and MILNO quickly JETTISONED from the room. HUX
fuming.

HUX
Decadent swine! How dare they...

DOLAN
Yes, Sir. Bureaucratic scum.

HUX
After the coronation I want them
“reassigned” to the Spice Mines on
Kessel Dune.

DOLAN
A fitting punishment, Supreme
Leader ... Now--
(motions to HUX,
directs him to a
set of DOUBLE
DOORS)
I took the liberty of arranging a
gift: Some...pre-coronation
entertainment? I hope it’s not
too premature.

HUX
I’m intrigued...

DOLAN opens the doors -- the OTHER SIDE full of BEAUTIFUL

WOMEN. HUX stares hungrily.
HUX (CONT’D)
Very intrigued!
64.

The WOMEN acknowledge HUX. Flirty. Giggling.

HUX (CONT’D)
Supreme spoils for Supreme
Leader. Good man, Dolan. I think
it’s safe to say who the top
candidate is for my number two.

DOLAN
(best day ever!)
Thank you, Sir.

HUX enters like a rock star. DOLAN closes the doors.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - CORRIDOR - DAY

SEY and MILNO. Outside the chambers. Aghast.

SEY DORON
I really don’t like him.

MILNO looks. Coast is clear. Walks with SEY. Quiet.

MILNO APA
I trust you heard about Helex?

SEY DORON
Yes. Tragic. The Resistance all
but wiped out.

MILNO APA
But not all. A small group
survived.

SEY DORON
A small group? Oh, what’s the use?
Perhaps this was all in vein...
MILNO APA
No! It means there’s hope!
We must rally the other systems.
We can bring back the Republic!
(then)
We’ve a window of opportunity.
Small...But an opportunity nonetheless.
They will be most vulnerable at
the coronation. We must seize it!

SEY DORON
But if we cannot...it’ll be too late.
MILNO agrees. Reluctantly.
65.

EXT. JUTROH - DAY

CLOUDS AND SKY. We’re HIGH up. No hint of the planet

surface. Everything smeared with a TOXIC GLAZE. In the
midst of this--

A FLOATING CITY. More like a bazaar. A HODGE-PODGE OF

STRUCTURES WOVEN TOGETHER BY A NETWORK OF CATWALKS. Scummy.
Dilapidated. A criminal vibe.

RESISTANCE SHUTTLE swoops into the PORT.

Large FLYING CREATURES--called ALWOOS--SCREECH, fly around.

INT. SOAKER’S DEN (BAR) - JUTROH - DAY

A real hive of scum and villainy. ALIENS/CREATURES, in all
shapes/sizes ... DRINKING ... GAMBLING ... Hustling and
conspiring. LOUD. Bordering claustrophobic here. Assume
everyone is armed and/or dangerous. No heads turn--But MANY
eyes catch FINN, CHEWBACCA, and GRIZZLED FIGHTER as they
enter. And FINN is not pretending with that TOUGH-ASS LOOK.
He OWNS that outright...

FINN scans the ROOM -- SEES, towards the back -- at a

GAMBLING TABLE -- cackling with laughter at a hand he just
won...

NOXNOL. The WIDE-EYED ALIEN that sold out the Resistance.

ON FINN--No satisfaction or anger. Just the taste of blood

in his mouth.

Meanwhile--AT THE GAMBLING TABLE --

NOXNOL
(to other PLAYERS)
You boys are really generous,
you know that? If you want to make
it easier on yourselves you
could just hand me all your money
now and save yourselves the
embarrassment...

FIVE pissed-off scowls from THE OTHER SEATED PLAYERS--

NOXNOL with greedy giggling--

FINN’S FACE SLIDES INTO FRAME. Right next to NOXNOL--

Who’s oblivious. Stroking his ego.

Until
66.

FINN
(“cordial”)
Remember me?

Laughter stops. NOXNOL suddenly hysterical--

With FEAR...

FINN (CONT’D)
I’ll take that as a ‘yes’...

NOXNOL turns, BOLTS--RIGHT INTO A WOOKIE HAND--CHEWBACCA

hoists NOXNOL up with a threatening growl. No one around
gives a damn. Business as usual here.

FINN (CONT’D)
(to SEATED PLAYERS)
You don’t mind if he we borrow him?
FIVE SEATED PLAYERS--in unison--nod ‘no’.

CUT TO

ANOTHER AREA OF THE BAR

AS A LARGE PAIR OF EYES--WIDE EYES--watches in the shadows.

CUT TO

NOXNOL’S FACE. As you would expect -- REFUTING -- BEGGING -

- SCREAMING. Also oddly contorted. Like fighting a
different gravity. That’s because--

CUT TO

CHEWBACCA--HOLDS HIM UPSIDE DOWN OVER A CATWALK. Dangling

him like a caught fish. A HARSH YELLOW FOG BLOWS THROUGH.
GRIZZLED FIGHTER close. FINN not happy.
NOXNOL
Please. Please. I told you
everything I know!

FINN
You haven’t told me anything.

NOXNOL
That’s what I know!

CHEWBACCA moan-talks.

FINN
My friend’s arm is getting real tired.
67.

NOXNOL
Please. I can pay you. A lot!
We can settle this. Make it right!

FINN grabs NOXNOL. With venom.

FINN
It can never be made right!

FINN shoves him. NOXNOL “swings” back and forth.

NOXNOL
Okay. Okay. I can see this is
all very emotional for you...
But I’ve told you what I know!

FINN
(done with this)
Just drop him Chewie.

--CHEWBACCA’S arm dips--

NOXNOL
WAIT! Okay. All right! It was
all part of the plan--

FINN
(hearing the same song)
--Yeah, yeah. To destroy the
Resistance--

NOXNOL
--No! To get rid of the Supreme
Leader...
(now has FINN’S
attention)
Kylo Ren was going mad. Like crazy!
All the Generals wanted him gone.
It was all Hux’s idea...

FINN
And now he’s Supreme Leader.

NOXNOL
But not for long! The Generals
want him out too. At the coronation.
Tomorrow. On Coruscant.

FINN
What coronation...?
As that hangs in the air--

CUT TO
68.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - HIGH CHAMBERS - DAY

DOLAN. Alone. Behind the DESK.

A GROUP OF FIRST ORDER GENERALS (6) enter. Salute DOLAN.

Gone is the bloodless sycophant. Another villain emerges.

GENERAL RILEY looks around.

GENERAL RILEY
(re Hux)
Where is he?

DOLAN
Occupied. I thought it at least
sporting to fatten him up before the
slaughter.
DOLAN indicates the CLOSED DOUBLE DOORS. Faint sounds of
gaiety may/may not be heard.

GENERAL HITCH
And he has no idea?

DOLAN
Please. Hux is a half-wit at best.
He has barely enough aptitude to
shovel scud blossoms...Yet somehow
he was promoted to “general”.
Another shining example of the failed
experiment called The First Order...

GENERAL HITCH
He did rid us of Kylo Ren...

DOLAN
If you call being duped by superior
men an accomplishment...
(then)
Are we on schedule?

GENERAL RILEY
Yes, Sir.

DOLAN
Good. We will use the Nil Canon at
this coronation to rid ourselves
of this mockery of power! No longer
will we be derided by feeble sorcerers
and snot-nosed brats...
(conviction)
We will resurrect the Empire and
restore the galaxy!
69.

THEY ALL form a circle. Arms high. Hands joined. A cabal

of true believers.

ALL
To the EMPIRE!

BACK TO

EXT. CATWALK (JUTROH) - AS BEFORE

NOXNOL
(still hanging)
...that’s the plan. That’s all I
know...

FINN takes this all in.

FINN
Does the First Order know about
the other star systems?

NOXNOL
No. I didn’t say anything...

FINN
Why?

NOXNOL
The First Order paid me for one thing.
They didn’t pay me for two!

FINN actually accepts this logic. Plots his next move.

CHEWBACCA moans. He is getting tired. NOXNOL desperate.

NOXNOL (CONT’D)
Okay! Wait! There’s one more thing.
Something big! --
Before he utters another word AN ALWOO SWOOPS UP--SNATCHES A
SCREAMING NOXNOL AND FLIES AWAY. Dinner time.

FINN and CHEWBACCA ... ... ... ... ... Then

MENACING VOICE (OS)

You!

FINN and CHEWBACCA turn--IT’S THE ALIEN WITH THE WIDE EYES
FROM EARLIER. Like Noxnol but more thuggish. BOLTOL
approaches ... With a GANG OF ROUGH-LOOKING ALIENS. Very
ARMED.
BOLTOL (CONT’D)
Where is he?
70.

FINN
(feigns)
Who?

BOLTOL
Noxnol. My brother!

Oh crap. FINN points off into the distance.

FINN
I think he’s over there...

BOLTOL looks ... FINN SWINGS ... HITS BOLTOL’S CHIN ... like
a brick wall ... FINN’S hand probably broken ... Mouth agape
in silent pain ... doesn’t faze BOLTOL in the slightest.

BOLTOL
I’m going to enjoy watching some
Naver worms tear your arms off...

GRIZZLED FIGHTER
(my time to shine)
Nope!

GRIZZLED FIGHTER FIRES on BOLTOL/GANG ... Our heroes haul

ass in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION, barreling down the catwalk
... BOLTOL/GANG REACT VIOLENTLY ... They FIRE ... GRIZZLED
FIGHTER goes DOWN ... FINN NICKED across the arm ... He
CRASHES ON CATWALK ... CHEWBACCA picks him up ...

FINN
No! Get back to the shuttle.
Get out of here!

CHEWBACCA ignores him. Scoops up FINN over his shoulder ...

Raises his LASER-CROSSBOW ... WILDLY FIRES ONTO THE ON-
COMING BOLTOL/GANG BEFORE JUMPING OFF THE CATWALK ...
LANDING ON ANOTHER BELOW ... CHEWBACCA RUNS ... FINN yells
into a COMMUNICATOR.

FINN (CONT’D)
Threepio! Threepio!

CUT TO

RESISTANCE SHUTTLE - SAME TIME

THREEPIO
Yes, Sir! I read you...
FINN (COMM)
Threepio! Get the ship ready.
We’re in trouble!
71.

THREEPIO
What kind of trouble, Sir?

BACK TO

CATWALKS (JUTROH) - SAME TIME

CHEWBACCA RUNS WITH FINN DRAPED OVER. HIGH WIND AND FOG
distort the area --

A LASER-SLING FLIES THROUGH THE AIR ... WRAPS AROUND

CHEWBACCA’S LEGS ... FINN AND CHEWBACCA GO DOWN ...

ANOTHER LASER-SLING FROM OUT OF NOWHERE ... BINDING

CHEWBACCA. He can’t move--

FINN tries to reach the LASER-CROSSBOW ... FINGERS GRAZING

... almost got it--BAM! -- CUT IN HALF by a random LASER-
BLAST. BOLTOL and HIS GANG EMERGING FROM THE FOG like
ghosts materializing. WEAPONS aimed. BOLTOL approaches.
As annoyed as he is pleased.

FINN hurt, angry.

FINN
The constable of this garbage heap
will hear about this!

BOLTOL kneels. Whips out a BADGE of sorts.

BOLTOL
At your service...

Oh. He’s the constable.

BOLTOL (CONT’D)
Your bad just got worse!
FINN: You don’t know the half of it...

INT. RESISTANCE SHUTTLE - SAME TIME

THREEPIO heard all this--

THREEPIO
Oh no! They’ve been caught. We
should help them...

ARTOO chimes in.

THREEPIO (CONT’D)
“It’s déjà vu all over again?”
That makes no sense, Artoo Detoo!
72.

CUT TO

CLOSE ON A MECHANICAL HAND. KYLO’S. Being REATTACHED. In

fact--It’s KYLO who’s doing it. WE’RE IN

INT. HUT (AGGO) - DAY

KYLO at the SMALL TABLE--Using a SMALL DEVICE (like a

SOLDERING GUN) for the finishing touches. Some time has
passed. Kylo on the mend but out of the weeds. DONE.
MECHANICAL FINGERS move. He gets up, GOES OUT--

EXT. HUT/GARDENS (AGGO)

A brilliant day. Vibrant and serene. Even KYLO is

affected. A DISTANCE AWAY--
REY. In the GARDEN. Crouched. GATHERING VEGETABLES.
Doesn’t notice him. In her own world. SHE SOFTLY SINGS.

KYLO watches her. A murky demeanor. Conflicted. As he

WALKS ELSEWHERE--

REY finds ... A WILTED FLOWER amongst the VEGETABLES.

Drooped. Sad. REY reaches over. Maybe moving it will
help... HER HANDS ON THE DIRT. A TREMBLE. A SPARK OF
LIGHT--THE FLOWER RESURRECTS INSTANTLY! Upright and in full
bloom. REY stares. Did I do that??

JORGA (OS)
Getting better, I see...

REY TURNS--JORGA, amongst a PATCH OF SQUASH.

REY
Jorga! When did you get back?
JORGA
Oh, I’m not back my dear. I’m still
in the mountains. But I’d thought
I’d drop in and check on you...

REY
(re Kylo,
so happy)
Oh. He’s much better. Able to move
around quite a bit actually.
But he said he’s at peace here! That
he feels like himself. I think
it’s this place...
JORGA
Or you think it’s you...
73.

REY blushes. She does.

REY
He’s different now. I can feel it.

Among the many things Jorga knows is when a young woman is

deliberately blinding herself to the truth when having
fallen in love for the first time...

JORGA
Rey...
(quit bullshitting)

REY dims. Clouds parting onto a harsher reality.

REY
(struggling to keep it)
But...I’m happy. I’ve wanted this
for so long.

JORGA just looks at her. Father-like. Making her see

through her delusions. REY, fragile--

REY (CONT’D)
I’m fooling myself, aren’t I?
(then)
I’m terrified actually.

JORGA
But not of him.

REY
No. Of what’s inside him. That’s
there’s really nothing left...
That I’m too late...
(pleading)
Jorga. Please. You have to help
him! He’s a good man. I can
see it. I can’t just let him go!

JORGA nods. No.

JORGA
Your heart is the size of a sun.
And just as bright! All you want
is for Kylo to be the man you see.
But it cannot happen.

REY refuses to accept this. Teary.

REY
I know I can help him...

JORGA. A sad smile. He knows where this ends.

74.

A moment. A small shift.

JORGA
What about the future?
(REY looks up--
not understanding)
Do you see it?

REY
Sometimes. I saw this place...
And the place I found Kylo...
I had seen it years ago. At a strange
castle--(smiles, drifts) A little
woman with huge eyes ran it.
She was kind. And knew everything.
A bit like you...
JORGA likes that. Points to the other side of the GARDEN--

JORGA
Then what future are they...?

REY turns -- TWO SMALL BOYS--TWINS--RUN through the GARDEN.

Playing. Doing boy stuff. There’s a dreamy-quality to the
image as it’s not really happening...

Nonetheless. REY SEES IT. Or thinks she does.

REY
(to JORGA)
Who are they?

JORGA pretends he doesn’t know. REY returns to the BOYS--

CONTINUING their frivolity--but then LOOK UP--RIGHT at REY--

address her--

BOY
Mom? Do we have to come in now?

It takes a moment -- but when REY realizes what she’s seeing

her face OVERWHELMED WITH EMOTION.

REY
...Mom?
(then)
But does that mean??

REY turns--But Jorga is already gone ...

KYLO REN (OS)

Rey?
75.

She looks to KYLO nearby. Then to GARDEN. The boys are

gone too. Back to KYLO.

KYLO REN (CONT’D)

Are you...okay?

REY
(tries to cover)
Yes. Yes I’m fine. Maybe a little
too much sun...
(says sun, hears son,
panicky)
I MEAN...you know...um...being
outside. In the garden. Under...
you know...the light...and heat
thing...Up there...
KYLO just goes with it.

KYLO REN
I need some exercise...

From his feet, picks up her STAFF. Her LIGHTSABER.

KYLO REN (CONT’D)

And I want to see how this works.

REY, deeply reluctant. Not a good idea, but

REY
Alright. But...not here.

CUT TO

LAKESHORE (AGGO) - LATER

KYLO and REY on the BEACH. Face one another. Both with
LIGHTSABERS. Nearly SILHOUETTED against the water and the
sun starting to set.

REY
Okay. If this gets to be too much,
we stop.

But KYLO is focused on her lightsaber --

KYLO REN
Where’d you get that?

REY
(matter of fact)
I made it.
76.

KYLO. No response. Jealous? Ignites his LIGHTSABER. REY

with a deep breath. Still uncertain about this.

REY (CONT’D)
Remember. Take it easy--

He doesn’t ... REY immediately on her guard ... PARRIES his

attack ... Is he not holding back? KYLO on the offensive
... Then REY puts him on defense. Back and forth. Like a
dance.

KYLO put his hand out. Folded over in pain.

REY (CONT’D)
You’re pushing yourselves too hard!

KYLO REN
No...I’m fine. Come at me.

REY
I think we should stop--

KYLO REN
(yells)
I said come at me.

REY hesitates ... Then CHARGES KYLO. He wants this? I’ll

give it to him! Antagonistic but controlled. He’s really
no match for her --

KYLO in turn becoming SLOPPY--BLUNT--trying to hack his way

around her skill-set --

REY forces him BACK ... BACK ... KYLO STUMBLES ... FALLS ...
wincing in pain from a still-healing wound. Throws out his
hand. It’s over.

REY
(prickly)
Is that what you wanted?

KYLO. Vulnerable. Defeated. A long PAUSE.

KYLO REN
Why did they beat me?

REY
Because there were six of them. Trained
like you.

KYLO REN
No. Not like me. I am the best...
(sinking in)
I was the best. Not anymore.
77.

REY
Is it all so important? Being the
best? The most powerful?

A truth rising.

KYLO REN
It’s all I ever wanted. I’ve done
things I didn’t want to do
to get it...
(the confession)
...I killed my father.

KYLO. Crushed by regret. Fears he’s forever trapped in

this Hell. Kylo Ren is gone. This is Ben Solo. Shriveled.
Naked. Afraid. He cries.
REY wants to cry too--her heart breaking for him--but
remains solid. She sits beside him.

REY
Do you want to know what Leia
told me?

KYLO. Not yes, not no.

REY (CONT’D)
Before she...
(don’t say it)
She told me she never gave up on you.
She believed that her son was
still there. And she loved you.

Can’t tell if this is an enormous relief or just pouring

gasoline on the fire ... KYLO folds forward. Trembling with
sobs. REY puts her arm around him. Her heart and mind
renewed--
REY (CONT’D)
(warm)
And I agree with her...

They sit--Few feet from the WATER that GENTLY LAPS at the
SHORE.

INT. JAIL CELL (JUTROH) - DAY

A dank shithole.

FINN on a bench. CHEWBACCA close. OTHER PRISONERS littered

about. Torturous SCREAMS OS--some poor bastard getting
worked in a nearby room.
78.

DOORS OPEN--NEW PRISONER shoved in by a BIG UGLY GUARD.

Face obscured by shadow. They sit near FINN and CHEWBACCA
but still obscured.

BIG UGLY GUARD

(to FINN)
Don’t worry, sweetheart. We’ll
take care of you soon enough.

Laughter as GUARD leaves. FINN far from intimidated.

NEW PRISONER
Don’t listen to that. He’s a cheap
printot, like the rest of ‘em...

Odd cadence to his voice--both menacing and friendly (think

Robert Shaw). FINN sees a PATCH ON HIS JACKET: A SKULL WITH
A ROSE IN ITS TEETH. FINN doesn’t care for the association.
He winces from his wound. NEW PRISONER looks over, hands
him a FLASK --

NEW PRISONER (CONT’D)

Here. Put this on it. It’ll
help with the sting.

FINN pours some of the FLASK on his arm. Instantly better.

FINN
(handing it back)
Thanks. What is it?

NEW PRISONER leans forward. A FOX-LIKE face. Blond tuft on

top. Piercing blue eyes. Unsettled gaze. Equally
unsettled grin.

NEW PRISONER
Family secret...
(takes a swig)
Name’s Swann. Captain of the
Blue Cliff Squadron. Heard of me?

FINN hasn’t. CHEWBACCA moan-talks; he knows him.

CAPTAIN SWANN (CONT’D)

Your friend’s heard of me. And
I’ve heard of him...
(to CHEWBACCA, raises
flask)
My condolences to your Captain.
He was a good space pirate. My
kind of scum.
(to FINN)
What’s your name, son?
79.

FINN
Finn.

CAPTAIN SWAN
And there it is. By the looks of
you I’d guess you were once a
Resistance fighter.

FINN
Still a Resistance fighter.

CAPTAIN SWANN
Still a Resistance? Funny. I
heard otherwise... No matter,
I suppose. There’s always a good
fight to fight.
FINN
And what do you fight for?

CAPTAIN SWANN
Just war.

FINN takes “just” to mean righteous.

FINN
You mean: Against the First Order?

SWANN leans in. That grin becoming devilish.

CAPTAIN SWANN
No friend... (sharp)
Just. War.

FINN isn’t far from the mark thinking this guy’s a bit off.

CAPTAIN SWANN (CONT’D)

But here I am, Finny. Caged like
a muckrat. Waiting for my captors
to poke sticks at me.

FINN
(leans in)
Come with us. We need fighters.

CAPTAIN SWANN
(amused)
Going somewhere? I like an
optimistic fool but I don’t follow
him... And you, wanting to put the
brakes down on the First Order...
you’ll need more than just fighters...
Which I could offer you. But first
thing’s first...
80.

FINN
What? You want money?

CAPTAIN SWANN
(hits the cell bars)
Freedom.

Speaking of that...

CLOSE ON a SMALL BUTTON on FINN’S lapel -- rapidly BEEPS --

FINN jumps up -- motioning to everyone --

FINN
Move! Away from the wall!

BOOM! The back wall EXPLODES ... THE RESISTANCE SHUTTLE

BACKED UP RIGHT TO IT ... RAMP OPEN ... As CHEWBACCA jumps
inside FINN motions to a RESISTANCE FIGHTER for a BLASTER
... He THROWS one ... FINN TAKES IT--AIMS--BLOWS the cell
door open ... AN ALARM BLARES IN BG ... OTHER PRISONERS
makes a break for it ... THANKING FINN along the way. FINN
looks to a still seated SWANN...

FINN (CONT’D)
You coming?

SWANN. Casually stands. Nods. Impressed. Slaps FINN on

the shoulder. A wicked grin.

SWANN
I like how you guys work...

SWANN JUMPS on the SHUTTLE. FINN still not sure if that’s a

compliment.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - BALLROOM - DAY

Enormous. Magnificent. In BG A GRAND FUNCTION for hundreds
being meticulously assembled. All to be perfect for --

HUX. On the STAGE. Surrounded by THOUSANDS OF BOLTS OF

FABRIC. Stands before a TRI-FOLD MIRROR. A fitting.

ROYAL TAILOR maneuvers around him. HOLDS UP a RED SWATCH.

ROYAL TAILOR
...And I was thinking this color
for the vest...

HUX
Have any of my predecessors had
the same?
81.

ROYAL TAILOR
Well Supreme Leader, none of your
predecessors had a coronation.

HUX. That’s not the question I asked! ROYAL TAILOR gulps.

ROYAL TAILOR (CONT’D)

But of course I will find out right
away...

He scuttles off. OTHER TAILORS swarm in, attending to Hux’s

every whim. Nearby --

DOLAN on stand-by. Out of ear-shot.

GENERAL RILEY approaches. Everything discreet.

GENERAL RIPLEY
Operation “Storm” is locked and ready,
Sir.

DOLAN
Excellent. What of the Star
Destroyer command?

GENERAL RIPLEY
Almost complete, Sir. All our men
are in the top places.

DOLAN
By this time tomorrow we will rid
ourselves poisonous self-indulgence.

GENERAL RIPLEY
I have one concern, Sir. The use of
Clone troops. There’s a reason
they were discarded.
DOLAN
I’m aware of the dangers. But they
are for one purpose: Annihilation.
Once that purpose is served,
they will be discarded again...

HUX (OS)
Dolan!

DOLAN looks up ... HUX draped in something garish.

HUX (CONT’D)
What do you think? Cape? No
cape?

DOLAN hits the toady switch --

82.

DOLAN
In my humble opinion, Supreme Leader,
I would stay away from capes.
Many of your predecessors have
laid claim to them.

HUX
What about a cloak?

DOLAN
Same thing, Sir.

HUX
Damn! What’s left?

DOLAN
(scrambling)
Perhaps...nothing. Let your
shoulders show. It’s a...symbol
of strength. Leadership.
Virility.

HUX especially likes the last one.

HUX
You’re right. No adornments.
Nothing more than ... Me!

DOLAN
Excellent point, Sir.

HUX acknowledges. Goes back to the mirrors and the OTHER

TAILORS. A BEAT.

GENERAL RILEY
I think you like this...

DOLAN: You take that back!

INT. HUT (AGGO) - NIGHT

KYLO. On the bed. No shirt. Laying on his side.

Grimacing in discomfort --

REY behind him. Changing the MEDICAL DRESSING ON HIS BACK

WOUND. Runs diagonally across. Looks ghastly.

REY
It’s healing quite nicely. Looks
like it hurts though...
KYLO REN
I can handle it.
83.

REY
Not the same thing, is it?
(then)
Okay. Done.

KYLO rolls over on his back. Slowly.

REY (CONT’D)
It’s pretty miraculous. You should
have died up there. And yet...
Here you are.

KYLO REN
Maybe it’s you.

REY smiles. A compliment.

REY
Maybe it is...

Their eyes locked onto one another. An opening. An

opportunity. Filling with electricity ... But then--

REY (CONT’D)
(brisk, jumpy)
Right! You’re set up here. I’ll
sleep outside. Good night then.

--She’s already almost out the door--

KYLO REN
Wait!
(REY stops)
What’re you afraid of?

REY
Afraid?? With the exception of a
twelve-legged centimander, I’m
not afraid of anything.

KYLO REN
You’re lying...

REY
(heated)
You know how to get on a person’s
good side!

KYLO REN
You’re trembling...
REY
I’m... cold.
84.

KYLO gets up. CLOSES IN.

KYLO REN
Then take the bed.

REY
Don’t be ridiculous. You need it.

KYLO REN
I’ll be fine.

REY
You are far from fine...

Done with the banter. Rey cannot hide any longer.

REY (CONT’D)
What happens after this? After
you’re healed? I have nothing
to go back to. And you don’t
either. I want to stay here.
Forever. I don’t want to fight
anymore. I want...you. Here
with me--

KYLO KISSES HER! Swift. Soft. A bit awkward. But full of

love...

He retracts. REY frozen. Shocked. Her eyes brimming with

what looks like anger. Not the response he wanted. KYLO
reels back. Afraid of her reaction.

KYLO REN
I’m...sorry. I didn’t mean to--

REY RUSHES INTO HIM. They KISS. Passionately. Caught in

the gravity of one another. Something that was meant to be.
MUSIC SWELLS--

EXT. HUT - NIGHT

Lights go out. Imagine the rest.

EXT. SPACE

RESISTANCE SHUTTLE moving fast -- PAN WITH IT as it

approaches a brownish planet. BASSLE.

EXT. BASSLE - DAY

Arid. Flat. Nothing but SAND and BLUE SKY. Probably HOT.
85.

SHUTTLE is parked. EVERYONE loitering about.

By the looks of FINN they’re been there a while...

FINN
(eventually)
Your friends coming?

CAPTAIN SWANN
Patience, Finny. They’ll be along.

FINN sighs.

Nearby -- ARTOO and THREEPIO -- ARTOO with a rapid string of

BEEPS. Something’s up.

FINN
What is it?

THREEPIO
Artoo says there are several ships
approaching from the South...

FINN. Finally!

ONE RESISTANCE FIGHTER raises QUADNOCULARS to the South--

HIS POV -- SIX TIE-FIGHTERS coming right at them!

RESISTANCE FIGHTER #4
Tie-Fighters!

FINN believes they’ve been had by Swann --

FINN
That son-of-a--
(yells)
Back to the shuttle! We have to get
out of here!

SWANN rushes up.

CAPTAIN SWANN
Don’t be hasty. Those are my
boys.

FINN confused--As SIX TIE-FIGHTERS land close by.

FINN
(to SWANN)
Tie-Fighters?
CAPTAIN SWANN
They were when we stole them!
86.

Salty laughter as SWANN slaps FINN on the shoulder. Walks

over to PILOTS (6) EXITING THE TIE-FIGHTERS. All of them
FOX-LIKE in appearance.

FINN. Not feeling great about this. Walks over. SWANN and
the PILOTS in the middle of rowdy salutations. They turn,
address FINN --

CAPTAIN SWANN
Finny. The Blue Cliff Squadron.
At your service.

FINN acknowledges. But then...

FINN
Where’s the rest of them?
SWANN
What do you mean?

FINN
What do I--There’s only six of you!
Six isn’t a squadron!

CAPTAIN SWANN
Well, what number exactly constitutes
a squadron?

FINN actually doesn’t know.

FINN
It’s--It’s more than six!

FINN at the height of frustration. Kicks the sand. Swears

to himself. A minor tantrum.

FINN (CONT’D)
This is unbelievable!
CAPTAIN SWANN
Cool your boots, Finny. This is
about quality, not quantity. Now
my boys and I have a reputation --
You can go ask your furry shipmate
all about it -- He’ll vouch us
right up. Now if you’re done
with your little dance we can
talk serious about what’re the
needs and what’s to be done.

FINN chills. Or accepts the hand he’s been dealt.

FINN
Alright...
87.

EXT. ISLAND TEMPLE - GARDENS - MORNING

KYLO. Alone. Stands on the GARDEN WALLS. Looks out to--

The MORNING SUN just peaking up over the horizon. The calm
shimmer of the lake. Breathtaking colors sweeping across
the sky. A new day.

KYLO. No anger. No voices. AT PEACE.

REY comes from behind and wraps her arms around him. She
looks truly beautiful. A tender moment.

REY
It’s extraordinary here.
KYLO’S eyes forward.

KYLO REN
I’ve never seen anything like it...
(then, matter of fact)
Morning Ben-Chu.

REY turns ... AGAIN--BEN-CHU right there. She jumps!

REY
How does he do that?

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.

KYLO REN
He said an alarm has been going off
in the Falcon. It’s annoying him.

BEN-CHU
Ben-Chu.
REY has no idea--

REY
I’ll go check.

KYLO faces REY. A good morning kiss. Ending with the most
wonderful smile on her face.

REY (CONT’D)
I’ll be right back...

She floats away. KYLO looks at BEN-CHU. Friends now?

KYLO
Ben-Chu...
88.

BEN-CHU. Just shakes his head. Nope. BEN-CHU walks away.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GALLEY - MOMENTS LATER

REY RUNS IN--Sure enough there’s an irritating BEEPING

flooding the Falcon. REY to a console, turns it off. But
what is it? A HOLOGRAM OF FINN materializes. REY gasps!
Is he alive?!

FINN (HOLOGRAM)
This message is for all systems
sympathetic to the Resistance.
By now you’ve heard the terrible
news: The base on Helex was
destroyed by the First Order...
There are only a few of us left.
But we still fight! We are planning
to take over the coronation of the
new Supreme Leader tomorrow on
Coruscant...

REY
(realizes)
That’s today!

CUT TO

SOMEWHERE ON CORUSCANT - SAME TIME

SEY DORON and MILNO APA watch the message--

FINN (HOLOGRAM)
If any of you receive this message
we need your help. We’re calling
on a promise you once made to
General Leia. The time is now!
CUT TO

A LANDING IN THE COUNTRY (RANDOM PLANET) - SAME TIME

POE and BB-8 watch the message. Poe’s X-WING in BG.

FINN (HOLOGRAM)
We have one opportunity to do
this. But if we succeed, we will
be free of the First Order forever!
May the Force be with us!

POE
Got your back, buddy...
(to BB-8)
You ready for this?
89.

BB-8 CHIRPS ecstatically.

POE (CONT’D)
Let go!

To the X-WING--

BACK TO

MILLENNIUM FALCON

Message has ended...

REY ... Reaches over ... ERASES IT. Firm in her choice ...
Then REGRETS it ... Back and Forth. Her mind wrestling.
MINUTES LATER--
CUT TO

OUTSIDE--AT THE LANDING.

REY exits the FALCON. KYLO close by. Immediately senses

her conflict.

KYLO REN
What is it?

A HEAVY PAUSE. When REY finally looks at KYLO he sees

deeply troubled eyes.

REY
My...friends are still alive...
They’re going to attack the First
Order...

KYLO REN
(picking it up)
--You want to help them--
REY
I do. I don’t. I don’t want this
to end... But they need me...
(an impossible decision)

KYLO REN
You should go...

REY
But what about this place...Us?

KYLO REN
It’ll be here when we get back.

KYLO holds her close.

90.

REY
Funny that you’re the confident one.

KYLO REN
(looks lovingly at her)
I’m full of surprises.

They kiss.

CUT TO

LATER. AS THE FALCON TAKES OFF...

BEN-CHU watches.

A huffing/puffing OS. It’s JORGA. Out of breath. A

substantial bag of MUSHROOMS on his back. Upon seeing the
FALCON go --

JORGA
Oh! I was hoping to catch them...
(to BEN-CHU)
What’d I miss?

BEN-CHU. Silent. He could say plenty.

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER in orbit --

The planet encircled with many STAR DESTROYERS. Perhaps the

entire fleet.

CUT TO

BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER - MAIN BRIDGE

DOLAN enters. A YOUNG LIEUTENANT salutes.

YOUNG LIEUTENANT
The fleet is all but assembled, Sir.
A few ships still en route.

DOLAN
Good. I want the Nil Canon on
stand-by.
(then)
Patch me in to General Riley.

YOUNG LIEUTENANT
Yes Sir.
91.

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE - SAME TIME

GENERAL RILEY
(responds to hail)
Yes General.

DOLAN (COMM)
The coronation will soon be underway...

GENERAL RILEY
(pregnant)
Understood Sir.

EXT. CORUSCANT (PLANET) - DAY

FIRST ORDER CONSULATE in BG--

THOUSANDS OF STORMTROOPERS assembling in the area in FRONT.
CELEBRATORY BANNERS and other adornments everywhere. A
grandiose display.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

A dark SUB-SECTION UNDERNEATH THE CONSULATE--

FINN, CHEWBACCA, THREEPIO, ARTOO, and SEVERAL RESISTANCE
FIGHTERS (6) quickly, quietly make their way.

THREEPIO
Oh! Why did you not just leave me
on the ship? I’d much rather be
deactivated than blown to bits...

FINN
Will you be quiet...
(finds what he’s
looking for)
Here it is. Quick. Everyone in.

They MOVE into--

INT. DARK ROOM - CONTINUOUS

THREEPIO shuffles in. Only HIS EYES are seen.

THREEPIO
I can’t see a thing in here...

LIGHTS ON. THREEPIO inches from a STORMTROOPER --

THREEPIO (CONT’D)
Oh no!
92.

FINN covers THREEPIO’S mouth. It’s only a mask. This

STORAGE ROOM filled with STORMTROOPER ARMOR.

FINN
This is for auxiliary uniforms.
Everyone find a size...

CHEWBACCA moans (“You’re kidding, right?”)

FINN (CONT’D)
No big guy. I’ve another idea
for you.

CUT TO

LATER. BLACK. Can’t see anything but HEAR a kind of

HISSING SOUND.
THREEPIO (VO)
Really, Master Finn! I’m not one to
complain but this is just too much...

FINN (VO)
Nonsense. You look great.

From BLACK

TO THREEPIO’S POV -- as he turn to a MIRROR. PAINTED HEAD-

TO-TOE BLACK. Like a First Order droid.

THREEPIO
(horrified)
Oh!
(then kind of digs it)
Oh...

RESISTANCE FIGHTERS finish dressing as STORMTROOPERS.

RESISTANCE FIGHTER #3
(helmet on)
Sir? How did you ever see out of
this thing?

FINN
You get used to it...

FINN stares at his HELMET. Old emotions bubbling. Shakes

it off. PUTS IT ON.

FINN (CONT’D)
(to EVERYONE)
Follow me. Walk as I do. Let’s go...

FINN--BANG!--STRAIGHT INTO THE DOOR.

93.

INT. BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER MAIN BRIDGE

YOUNG LIEUTENANT signals DOLAN --

DOLAN
What is it?

YOUNG LIEUTENANT
Sir. I have six Tie-Fighters
on approach -- but they have refused
all hails...

DOLAN
All of them...?
(a burgeoning suspicion)
Try once more. If they refuse blow
them out of the sky.
CUT TO

BLUE CLIFF TIE-FIGHTER - SAME TIME

CAPTAIN SWANN
Okay boys. We’ve been made. They’re
targeting weapons. Looks like
we’re invited to the dance...

CUT TO

THE SIX BLUE-CLIFF TIE-FIGHTERS -- as small individual PODS

-- just large enough for a SINGLE PILOT -- POP OUT AND BREAK
AWAY FROM THE FRONT SECTION -- leave the wings behind -- FLY
DOWN to THE BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER ...

CUT TO

INT. BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER -- CORRIDOR/TURBOLIFT

A FIRST ORDER OFFICER waits for the lift

--DING!--

AN EXPLOSION--as a BLUE-CLIFF POD BLASTS OUT the TURBOLIFT

and FLIES THROUGH THE CORRIDOR like a fireball ... WILD
LASER-FIRE shredding everything --

CUT TO

INSIDE BLUE-CLIFF POD - SAME TIME

BLUE-CLIFF PILOT. Laughing hysterically.

HIS POV -- Maneuvering the CORRIDORS AT BREAK-NECK SPEEDS.
OFFICERS and STORMTROOPERS can’t duck/move fast enough...
94.

INT. BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER MAIN BRIDGE - SAME TIME

FIRST ORDER OFFICER

Sir! We’re under attack!

DOLAN. Impossible!

DOLAN
What?!
(looking out the window)
Where?

FIRST ORDER OFFICER

No Sir. Inside the ship!

DOLAN rushes over--ON A HOLOGRAPHIC MODEL OF THE BEHEMOTH

STAR DESTROYER AS SIX COLORED LINES ZIG-ZAG THROUGHOUT --
ALARMS in every section. The ship being disemboweled from
the inside out --

DOLAN furious as--THE MAIN BRIDGE TURBOLIFT EXPLODES OPEN

... A POD CRASHES DOWN ... HATCH OPENS ... SWANN and A BLUE-
CLIFF PILOT (ZEKEY) JUMP OUT, ARMED ... Capture the BRIDGE
in one fell swoop ...

CAPTAIN SWANN
Nobody move! Nobody think about
moving...
(zeroes in on DOLAN)
I’m guessing you’re the skipper
of this heap?

DOLAN shakes with indignation. Also has a blaster aimed

right at him. Chin up.

DOLAN
I am General Dolan.
CAPTAIN SWANN
(that grin again)
Pleasure to meet your acquaintance.
Now...Kindly order your crew to the
back...

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - MAIN FLOOR - DAY

FINN and RESISTANCE FIGHTERS as STORMTROOPERS ... Amongst

the HUBBUB ... MANY PEOPLE going to and fro ...
THREEPIO near ... ARTOO with a LARGE CONTAINER IN TOW ...
FINN turns, signals for EVERYONE TO GATHER AROUND.
95.

FINN
So far so good...But I don’t know.
I feel like something’s missing...

Just then--ROYAL TAILOR and his ENTOURAGE PASS THEM,

wheeling THE ROLLS OF FABRIC ...

FINN with an idea.

FINN (CONT’D)
Threepio. Stay here with Artoo.
The rest of you...follow me...

“STORMTROOPERS” follow FINN OS --

THREEPIO greets any PASSERBY. Trying to fit in.

THREEPIO
Hello...Hello there...Fine day for the
First Order, don’t you think?
(Oh dear oh dear...)

CUT TO

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - HIGH CHAMBERS

Door OPENS. Our “STORMTROOPERS” enter--EACH DRAPED IN AN

DECORATIVE FABRIC. Like a cape. Very chic.

HUX on the other side being pampered and fawned over by a

LARGE ENTOURAGE. SEES them enter. Curious.

HUX
Who are you...?

THREEPIO’S cue --

THREEPIO
Oh illustrious Supreme Leader! Many
salutations on your day of glory!
We have been sent to humbly escort
you to the proceedings...

HUX. Approves. Approaches FINN. Even with the helmet on

you can feel his teeth clinching.

HUX
I see. And what are you called?

FINN
FN... FN...
96.

Shit. FINN can’t remember his old Stormtrooper number!

Looks around. Something. Anything. A RESISTANCE FIGHTER
points to FINN’S blaster --

FINN (CONT’D)
(reading)
“1138”. Yes, that’s it. FN-1138.
Uh, “Elite Guard” ...

RESISTANCE FIGHTER #5
(whispers, correcting)
-- “death guard” --

FINN
“Elite DEATH Guard”. We serve only
the Supreme Leader.
They HUT! for effect. HUX nods. Impressed.

HUX
Very well. At ease. And rest
assured, after today there will be
no capes in the First Order...

TWO RESISTANCE FIGHTERS exchange a “look” (“The hell does

that mean? No idea.”)

HUX snaps his fingers to his ENTOURAGE.

HUX (CONT’D)
Show time everyone.

FINN
Um...No entourage. Security reasons.

HUX spins --

HUX
What did you just say? Did I hear an
order?!

FINN
(sighs)
I’m so done with this ... Artoo!

ARTOO BEEPS A FEW BARS OF “POP GOES THE WEASEL” a second

before ... CHEWBACCA POPS FROM THE CONTAINER ... Unleashes a
shattering ROAR ... HUX SHRIEKS ... FAINTS ... FINN removes
his helmet. Sees the petrified ENTOURAGE just staring at
him --
FINN (CONT’D)
Really?? OUT!
97.

THEY flee.

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

LIEUTENANT approaches GENERAL RILEY.

LIEUTENANT
Sir. I’ve been trying to contact
General Dolan’s ship. But there’s
no reply.

GENERAL RILEY
(that’s odd)
Send a shuttle right away.

LIEUTENANT
Yes Sir.

FIRST OFFICER
Sir! X-wing class ship approaching!

GENERAL RILEY
How many?

FIRST OFFICER
Just one, Sir.

GENERAL RILEY
One squadron?

FIRST OFFICER
No Sir. One ship...

GENERAL RILEY to the window. Sure enough--

CUT TO
OUTSIDE THE SHIP

ONE X-WING--on slow approach--before the entire fleet.

BACK TO

STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

FIRST OFFICER
Sir. He’s hailing us...

GENERAL RILEY amused. This has to be a joke.

GENERAL RILEY
Very well... Am I speaking to the
pilot outside my ship?
98.

POE (COMM)
I should say you are...

OFFICERS CROWD AROUND. Tickled.

GENERAL RILEY
And what can we do for you today?

CUT TO

POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
Well. Since you folks destroyed
my base -- and all my friends --
I thought I’d take the high road on
this one and ask for your
surrender...before I obliterate
your whole scummy regime...

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE - SAME TIME

SNICKERS AND SNIGGERS THROUGHOUT --

GENERAL RILEY
I see. Very sporting of you...
(low, to OFFICER)
Fire at will. Put this poor lunatic
out of his misery--
(to POE)
It’s a shame you weren’t able to
rally more to your cause, young man.

INT. X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
Actually I brought lots of friends...

CUT TO

CORUSCANT (SPACE) -- AT THAT MOMENT

Behind the X-WING -- AS HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF SHIPS

START COMING OUT OF HYPERSPACE. An instantaneous BLOCKADE.
ALMOST MORE SHIPS THAN WE CAN SEE SPACE!

CUT TO

STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE -- SAME TIME

--as the laughter dies--
99.

INT. X-WING -- SAME TIME

POE
So...Yes or no. What’re we thinking
here...

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

EVERYONE SPEECHLESS. Then --

GENERAL RILEY
Battle stations!

CUT TO
OUTSIDE POE’S X-WING

-- As BB-8 CHIRPS --

INT. POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
I’m sorry BB, but they didn’t like
your suggestion...
(game time!)
All squadrons! Get into attack
formation! Squads Red, Green, and
Black...You’re with me!

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

SWARMS OF FIGHTERS--HUNDREDS--break up into FORMATIONS--

START FLYING to the STAR DESTROYERS --

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

GENERAL RILEY
Get those Tie-fighters out now!
All cannons. Fire at will!

OUTSIDE THE WINDOW--A neighboring STAR DESTROYER EXPLODES!

IN ONE SHOT.

GENERAL RILEY (CONT’D)

They don’t have a weapon with that
kind of capability!!
FIRST OFFICER
Sir! That came from us!
100.

CUT TO

BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER - MAIN BRIDGE

CAPTAIN SWANN
OY! I said graze the hull...

ZEKEY at the NIL CANON STATION --

ZEKEY
You said in the hull!

SWANN. Did I say in the hull? SNAPS HIS FINGERS--

CAPTAIN SWANN
You’re right. I said in the hull.
My apologies. Carry on, Zekey.

BACK TO

STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

-- AS ANOTHER STAR DESTROYER BLOWS TO SMITHEREENS --

GENERAL RILEY. Fighting the horror.

FIRST OFFICER
Sir! What about Operation “Storm”?

GENERAL RILEY
(fuck it)
Give the signal.

EXT. CORUSCANT (PLANET) - DAY

Outside the FIRST ORDER CONSULATE. The THOUSANDS of

STORMTROOPERS. Lined up. Motionless. At attention ...

EXPLOSIONS AROUND THE ENTIRE PERIMETER ... Timed CHARGES ...

ONE BY ONE ... FIRE AND DEATH ... CLOSE ON TWO STORMTROOPERS
caught in this chaos --

STORMTROOPER #1
Where are they coming from?!

STORMTROOPER #2
I can’t see them!

A RUMBLING ... HUNDREDS OF FOOTSTEPS ... MARCHING ...

Surrounding them ... SMOKE starting to dissipate ... WE SEE
... FIGURES? ... Emerging, coming through ... WHITE ...
STORMTROOPERS?
101.

STORMTROOPER #2
Look! Reinforcements...

STORMTROOPER #1
Those aren’t reinforcements --

APPROACHING STORMTROOPERS FIRING upon the CROWD --

STORMTROOPER #1 (CONT’D)
Clones!

DEATH-HEAD CLONE STORMTROOPERS. MASKS like STORMTROOPER

“SKULLS”. Not the Clones we’re familiar. Feral.
Merciless. Brutal. This is an extermination ... THEY RUSH,
CHARGE --
VIEW FROM ABOVE. A FIELD OF SMOKE AND LASER-FIRE AND IT’S
STORMTROOPER VERSUS STORMTROOPER. Absolute bedlam!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT (HYPERSPACE)

REY piloting. KYLO beside her.

REY
I hope we’re not too late...

THEIR POV -- AS THE FALCON GRINDS OUT OF HYPERSPACE ...

DIRECTLY TOWARDS a STAR DESTROYER BREAKING in TWO--

KYLO REN
Up!

CUT TO

ORBIT OF CORUSCANT (SPACE)

-- as the FALCON twists, maneuvers through the WRECKAGE ...
Out the OTHER SIDE ... into a MASSIVE BATTLE! ... ANOTHER
STAR DESTROYER EXPLODES ... HUNDREDS of SHIPS keeping
Destroyers at BAY ... FIGHTERS zipping in every direction
... Now the HIGH-PITCHED WHINING of ... TIE-FIGHTERS ...
EMERGING FROM THE DESTROYERS like a black cloud -- LASER-
FIRE -- FIGHTERS EXPLODING right and left ...

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT

REY
This is madness!
(into COMM)
Rey to Resistance Squadron!
102.

POE (COMM)
Rey! Am I glad to hear you!

KYLO REN
Tell your pilots to target the
rear exhaust. It’s their most
vulnerable spot...

CUT TO

POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
(no f-ing way)
...Who’s this?

BACK TO
MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT

REY
He’s with me, Poe. What can we do?

POE (COMM)
The main base is in the center of
the planet. We have to get there
before they unleash those squadrons...

REY
We’re on our way...

THEY exchange a look. It is all a bit weird.

INT. POE’S X-WING

POE (CONT’D)
(still stunned)
...How long were we gone, BB?

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

THE FALCON begins ITS DESCENT--TIE-FIGHTERS baring down --

FIRING ACROSS THE TOP--FALCON’S TOP GUN EXPLODES!

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - COCKPIT

REY frantic at the CONTROLS--

REY
Weapons are dead!
103.

KYLO REN
(thinks, then)
Keep it steady and straight ahead.
I have an idea --

KYLO JUMPS UP. TO THE BACK--

REY
Where are you going?

KYLO REN
(like his father)
Trust me.

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

POE’S X-WING with a GROUP OF OTHER FIGHTERS ... FOLLOWING
THE MILLENNIUM FLACON SAILING DOWN TO THE PLANET like an
Angel on fire ... TIE-FIGHTERS en masse ... COMING RIGHT
THEM ... THE FALCON FIRING, DODGING --

DOWN. NOW IN THE OUTER ATMOSPHERE--

NOW IN--

EXT. CORUSCANT (PLANET) - CONTINUOUS

THE CITY BECOMING CLEARER. SHARPENING with definition.

A BIRD’S EYE of the BATTLE IN FRONT OF THE FIRST ORDER

CONSULATE ... Unreal in size and scope ... WE ARE CLOSING IN
... TIE-FIGHTERS pouring from a MASSIVE HOLE on the SURFACE
... From the CENTER OF CORUSCANT ... Angry bees defending
the hive ...

INT. POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
There it is! That takes us straight
down to the center. All fighters!
Target only the base. If we hit
the outlying structures it could
destroy the entire planet!
(then sees something in
front of him)
You’ve got to be kidding me!!

POE’S POV -- Just ahead ON THE FALCON ... KYLO CLIMBS ON

TOP, STANDING WHERE THE GUN USED TO BE (we’re assuming he’s
using the Force here...)
104.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT - SAME TIME

REY “seeing” what Kylo is doing --

REY
Are you crazy??!!

EXT. MILLENNIUM FALCON (MOVING) - DAY

KYLO REN
You have no idea...

Here’s your TRAILER SHOT: KYLO ... AGAINST THE WIND/FORCE OF

ASCENDING FALCON ... IGNITES HIS LIGHTSABER ... AND OPENS
THE BELLY OF A TIE-FIGHTER FLYING OVERHEAD ...
ANOTHER SQUADRON DEAD AHEAD ... Rocketing for the FALCON and
the FIGHTERS ... KYLO holds out his HAND ... Summoning
TREMENDOUS POWER ... A ONE-MAN VESUVIUS ... SCREAMS AS--

TIE-FIGHTERS START EXPLODING ... Or CRASH INTO EACH OTHER

... or BLOWN OFF COURSE ... KYLO using the Force to DISRUPT
THEIR CLIMB AND CLEAR A PATH --

CUT TO

REY... Cannot believe this!

CUT TO

POE... Ditto!

BACK TO

ATOP THE MILLENNIUM FALCON - SAME TIME

AS A TIE-FIGHTER BLAST CUTS THROUGH the HULL of the FALCON.

THE ENGINE’S DEAD. KYLO DUCKS, JUMP BELOW as SPARKS AND
FIRE WASH OVERHEAD --

INT. POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
Oh no! Rey!

INT MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT -- SAME TIME

REY ... Scrambling ... Every control is dead ... THE FALCON
STARTS SPINNING IN FREEFALL --
105.

CUT TO

THE FALCON ... LIFELESS ... BILLOWING BLACK SMOKE -- on a

COLLISION COURSE WITH THE--

THE OLD JEDI TEMPLE

FALCON CRASHES THROUGH THE TOP --

INT. JEDI TEMPLE - VARIOUS - CONTINUOUS

THE FALCON PLUMMETING DOWN ... DOWN ... DOWN ...

BUILDING CRUMBLING, SPLINTERING APART ... DEBRIS EXPLODING

EVERYWHERE as the FALCON FALLS ... FALLS ... HOLLOWING FLOOR
AFTER FLOOR of this long abandoned place --
THE FALCON ... Crushed, destroyed ... LANDS on the BOTTOM
with a THUD ... DEBRIS AND ROCK raining down ...
And then QUIET.

INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON - GUN BAY

KYLO. Bruised to hell. But intact. Stirs. Gets up.

KYLO REN
(urgent)
Rey!

He MOVES --

INT. JEDI TEMPLE - MAIN HALL - MOMENTS LATER

Cavernous. DEBRIS STILL FALLING. TREMORS. CEILING and

WALLS with CRACKS SPIDER-WEBBING. This entire place can
come down at any moment --

KYLO CLIMBS FROM THE TOP ... RUNS ... To the COCKPIT ... REY
inside ... Not responsive ... KYLO RIPS IT OPEN --

REY. Laid out on the controls. Lifeless. Limp. KYLO

tries to waken her. Calls her name over and over. Nothing.
Gone. KYLO breaks down. Uncontrollable sobs. Holds her
close. His heart tearing to pieces.

KYLO leaves. In a trance.

The BUILDING AROUND FALLING AND CRUMBLING APART but his

world is already gone ...

Then --
106.

SNOKE (VO)
Did you think you were rid of me...

KYLO. Horrorstruck. SLOWLY TURNS--

SNOKE. His Force Ghost. Right there.

KYLO REN
No. This isn’t real...

SNOKE
It is real. I own you. You have a
debt to repay Kylo Ren...

KYLO REN
No...
SNOKE
I brought my apprentice. I wanted
you to meet him. I think you’ll get
along very well...

SNOKE motions to ... A FIGURE ... Their BACK TO US ... Turns

around ... IT’S KYLO! Nearly bald save stringy strands of
thick hair. RED eyes. BLACK teeth. Snarling. Animal. A
face of absolute evil.

KYLO REN
(his nightmare realized)
NO!

SNOKE’S laughter builds into a CHOIR OF MENACE.

INT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - OBSERVATORY - DAY

A DOMED SPACE. Top of the consulate.

FINN, CHEWBACCA, THREEPIO, and the RESISTANCE FIGHTERS (sans
Stormtrooper outfits) enter. ARTOO follows with the
CONTAINER IN TOW. No one else here.

FINN opens the CONTAINER ... HUX inside. Pissed.

HUX
Release me at once!
(climbing out)
How dare you! When you are caught--
and you will be caught--I can’t
even begin to imagine what horrors
I will bestow upon the rest of your
miserably short lives...
107.

FINN brings up his BLASTER. HUX changes gears.

HUX (CONT’D)
Okay...Okay. Let’s not be rash.
Obviously you are a man of
intelligence...Perhaps we can use
our reason to reach a mutually
beneficial agreement...?

FINN uses the BLASTER to motion towards a WALKWAY that leads

to the BALCONY OUTSIDE --

FINN
Move.

HUX
(moving)
You know who I am, don’t you? You
are aware of the riches at my
command? Think about it...

FINN. Walks. Looks at a dead man.

HUX (CONT’D)
You could have anything. Jewels
from Oradell. Women from the
sultan of Manigaffrei. Use your
imagination. This is a boundless
offer...

THEY step onto the BALCONY ... And the PANDEMONIUM from
BELOW catches their attention. A BATTLEFIELD. A MASSACRE.
THOUSANDS DEAD. The rest fighting for their lives ...

HUX. Speechless. His “empire” in ruins.

FINN has no reaction. Focused on HUX.

HUX (CONT’D)
Let me simplify my proposal: Get me
out here and I can reward any
of your desires!

FINN. As though he considering.

FINN
Anything?

HUX
Without measure...
FINN...smiles.

HUX relaxes.
108.

FINN
(snaps)
I want my Rose back...

FINN ABOUT TO SHOOT ... HUX BRACES, cringes. BUT FINN...

Stops. Can’t. This isn’t him. Looks at HUX. A
combination of mercy and pity.

FINN (CONT’D)
No...

HUX
(a reprieve?)
No?

FINN
No. I’m not hiding anymore.
HUX
--You’re not?--

FINN
This won’t bring her back.

HUX
It won’t?

FINN
Shut up...
(HUX shuts up--
slaps HUX on shoulder,
a new resolve)
Thank you.

HUX
You’re...welcome?

FINN walks back. Signals that they’re leaving. HUX still

not getting what just happened...

HUX (CONT’D)
Wait! What about me?

FINN
It’s your coronation. Enjoy it.

THEY leave. HUX by himself.

INT. POE’S X-WING (CORUSCANT SURFACE) - DAY

POE
It’s now or never...
109.

EXT. CORUSCANT (PLANET) - SAME TIME

POE’S X-WING--WITH THE MOST WICKED NOSE-DIVE IN HISTORY--

DIRECTLY INTO THE MASSIVE HOLE ON THE SURFACE ... THE
FIGHTERS RIGHT BEHIND --

CUT TO

MASSIVE HOLE -SECONDS LATER

AS POE AND THE FIGHTERS PLUNGE INSIDE. An EXPLOSION seals

off the OPENING BEHIND THEM --

CABLES and HUGE DUCTS LINE a RESOUNDING HOLE that bores

STRAIGHT DOWN INTO THE CENTER of CORUSCANT --

But THEY ARE FLYING AGAINST THE STREAM of TIE-FIGHTERS

coming RIGHT AT THEM ... They DODGE and MANEUVER and FIRE
... Making their way to --

INT. CENTER OF CORUSCANT

With the PLANET in TWO HALVES this ENORMOUS SPACE is no

longer the planetary core but HOUSES THE ENTIRE ARSENAL for
the First Order. THOUSANDS of TIE-FIGHTERS, AT-ATS, etc
etc. THE MOTHERLOAD!

CUT TO

POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
That is a lot of stuff to blow up...

BACK TO

THIS ARSENAL
AS POE AND THE FIGHTERS unleash a FIRESTORM ...

That SETS OFF A CHAIN REACTION ...

This ENTIRE PLACE ENGULFED WITH EXPLOSIONS AND FIRE ...

THE X-WING AND THE FIGHTERS ... High-tail it OUT OF THERE--

EXT. CENTER OF CORUSCANT - MOMENTS LATER

And EXIT the DESTROYED ARSENAL ... WE ARE BETWEEN THE TWO
SPHERES OF CORUSCANT ... POE AND THE FIGHTERS CLIMB UP
through those MONSTROUS BRIDGE-LIKE EDIFICES we saw earlier.
And --
110.

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

POE AND THE FIGHTERS UPWARD to rejoin the FLEET ... PASSING
BY THE BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER ... Speaking of which...

INT. BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER MAIN BRIDGE

ZEKEY still on a rampage.

ZEKEY
I’m running out of things to shoot!

CAPTAIN SWANN
There are worse problems to have,
Zekey.
AN ALARM on a NEARBY CONSOLE ... SWANN goes over ... You’ll
recall the HOLOGRAM OF THE BEHEMOTH STAR DESTROYER with the
zig-zagging lines from earlier ... NOW IT’S COMPLETELY
COLORED IN ... The Blue Cliff Squadron has literally GUTTED
this thing ... STRUCTURAL FAILURE IMMINENT FLASHES ...

CAPTAIN SWANN (CONT’D)

That’s our cue, Zekey. This heap’s
in a bad way.

ZEKEY JUMPS UP ... Runs to the POD.

SWANN right behind. Before he ducks inside--

CAPTAIN SWANN (CONT’D)

Hey! General Heap. You hear that?

DOLAN
Hear what?

CAPTAIN SWANN
The winds of fortune.

DOLAN
(go to hell)
I don’t hear anything.

CAPTAIN SWANN
(grins)
Exactly...

SWANN closes the HATCHES ... POD LIFTS ... AIMS for ...
THE FRONT WINDOW!
DOLAN
(realizes)
No!
111.

POD ROCKETS OUT ... TEARS A HOLE THROUGH THE FRONT OF THE
BRIDGE ... Sucking DOLAN and the rest OF THE BRIDGE CREW
into SPACE.

INT. STAR DESTROYER (1) MAIN BRIDGE

GENERAL RILEY, from COMMAND--LOOKS OUT TO

THE FLEET. What’s left of it. Wrecked. Shattered. A

graveyard.

YOUNG LIEUTENANT
(more bad news)
Sir. We can’t locate the Supreme
Leader. They say he’s dead...
And General Dolan--
No words necessary--As THEY WATCH THE BEHEMOTH STAR
DESTROYER CRUMBLE apart like a sandcastle at hightide.

YOUNG LIEUTENANT (CONT’D)

That leaves you in charge, Sir...

GENERAL RILEY with a somber acknowledgment.

GENERAL RILEY
Fine. Hail the pilot.

YOUNG LIEUTENANT does so.

POE (COMM)
Poe here...

GENERAL RILEY
Is this the pilot I spoke to earlier?

POE (COMM)
Yes it is. Hey! How’s it going?
I’ll be honest: From this angle
it doesn’t look so hot...

GENERAL RILEY
I think I’d like to re-consider
your previous offer...Of surrender!

INT. POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
Probably a good career move...
COMM CUTS OUT. POE HITS the CONTROL. Yes! They did it!
THE RESISTANCE HAS WON!
112.

INT. JEDI TEMPLE - MAIN HALL

IN THE FALCON -- REY...stirs. She alive!

Woozy. Getting it together. But alive. She RISES. CLIMBS

OUT the COCKPIT. Stumbles to the floor. SEES--

KYLO. Close by. Hunched down. HIS BACK TO US--

REY
Kylo...?

No response. REY steps closer ... KYLO not moving ... REY’S
hand outstretching ... Something’s wrong--

KYLO turns--WITH A DEMENTED FACE. Almost inhuman. His mind

is gone.
REY (CONT’D)
(her nightmare realized)
No...

KYLO ignites HIS LIGHTSABER. Intending to kill her.

REY (CONT’D)
(pleads)
Kylo! It’s me. Please. Snap out
of this.

KYLO SWINGS DOWN ... REY runs ... Holds her HAND OUT ... Her
STAFF/LIGHTSABER FLIES TO HER AND SHE IGNITES IT JUST IN
TIME TO BLOCK KYLO’S HIT ... BUT HIS MOVEMENTS ARE SAVAGE.
RELENTLESS. REY with tears. She may have to kill him!

REY (CONT’D)
Kylo! Stop! Stop this. This
isn’t you.
As the fight continues -- SNOKE watches off to the side with
delight ...

LUKE (OS)
This...

SNOKE TURNS--LUKE SKYWALKER stands there. Indignant.

LUKE (OS) (CONT’D)

--is a Jedi temple. You are not
welcome here!

SNOKE with chuckling. What are you going to do? Then his
expression falls ... Confusion? ... Or pain?
LUKE is doing something ...
113.

SNOKE
What’re you doing to me? No! You
can’t do this!

SNOKE folds over ... LUKE’S gaze like it’s erasing every
trace of Snoke ... SNOKE SCREAMS ... BEGINS TO DISSIPATE ...
SNOKE truly terrified ... Pleads ... Diminishes to DUST ...
That BLOWS AWAY ...

Meanwhile--

REY doing her best to stay alive ... While trying not hurt
Kylo ... She THRUSTS DOWN ... KNOCKS HIM BACK, DOWN ... A
moment--

REY
Kylo! Come back. Please.
KYLO. Panting. Teeth barred. REY’S not getting through.
Tears streaming. Something in her snaps. Solidifies. A
deep breath. She--

-- THROWS HER STAFF AWAY --

-- CONFRONTS HIM WEAPONLESS --

REY (CONT’D)
If you have to destroy me...
THEN DO IT!

KYLO to his feet. A moment. Is he hesitating?

HE CHARGES HER WITH A VICIOUS CRY ... REY NOT MOVING ...
KYLO SWINGS UP WITH ALL HIS STRENGTH ...
COMES DOWN FOR THE KILL--

REY (CONT’D)
...No.
AND REY GRABS ONTO HIS LIGHTSABER...

HOLDS IT WITH HER BARE HANDS. THIS SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE!

This is not some Jedi trick. Rey was never a Jedi. This is
a NEW EXPRESSION of THE FORCE. And she is it! The FIRST!
Something we have not seen before. Something that doesn’t
even have a name.

A WHITE LIGHT EMANATING FROM HER HAND against THE RED OF

KYLO’S LIGHTSABER --

KYLO. This is beyond his comprehension. HIS EYES WITH

ABSOLUTE FEAR--
REY. IMMENSE POWER. God-like!
114.

NOW GROWING WITH FURY--AS SHE TAKES THE LIGHTSABER AND

BREAKS IT IN HALF! RED SPARKS and ENERGY BLOW an already
stunned KYLO flat on his back --

REY stands there ... THE BUILDING FALLING DOWN AROUND HER
... Her heart breaking. Coming to an understanding that has
plagued her for a long time.

REY
I love you...But I can’t save you...

KYLO. To his feet. Is it him? His eyes with a sadness.

He knows what she’s saying is true...

At THAT MOMENT A LARGE SECTION OF CEILING BREAKS, FALLING

DIRECTLY AT REY, KYLO WITH A SPLIT SECOND DECISION--
KYLO REN
I’m sorry...

USES ALL HIS STRENGTH TO FORCIBLY PUSH HER OUT OF THE JEDI
TEMPLE ... REY realizes only too late ... HER HAND
OUTSTRETCHED as she FLIES BACK ... SCREAMING ... Nooooo!

REY DISAPPEARS JUST AS A MASSIVE CHUNK OF CEILING CRASHES

where she’d just stood. Out of danger.

KYLO falls to his knees. THE JEDI TEMPLE COMING DOWN ALL
AROUND HIM--

He looks up--

LUKE STANDS THERE. His hand out. KYLO takes it. LUKE
takes him in his arms. A loving EMBRACE. Luke never gave
up on him. KYLO weeps. An unbearable relief. Perhaps that
it’s all over. Perhaps something else. But what’s most
important is that this is the Ben Solo so loved by his
family...
And so loved by Rey...

And that he is not alone as his world comes to an end.

CUT TO

OUTSIDE

REY watches

THE TEMPLE COLLAPSE ON ITSELF

Her heart a Supernova, becoming a black hole.

She cries.
115.

EXT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - DAY

FINN walks out. Looks over the BATTLEFIELD. It’s over. No

one left standing. So much death and destruction.

Behind him ... THREEPIO and ARTOO ... CHEWBACCA with a howl
... the RESISTANCE FIGHTERS ... Signs of relief or victory
... FINN turns, sees -- SWANN and the BLUE CLIFF SQUADRON
approaching ... Smiles on faces ... A sense of liberation
burgeoning ... Freedom! Congratulations all around.

FINN looks out ... SOMEONE walking towards them

It’s REY --

FINN can’t believe it! RUSHES to her. A deep and

affectionate embrace. They made it.

EXT. POE’S X-WING (SPACE)

-- As BB-8 CHIRPS --

INT. POE’S X-WING - SAME TIME

POE
No, BB. We’re not staying. We did
what we came to do. I think...
It’s time for a new adventure? What
do you say?

Enthusiastic CHIRPING is heard. POE smiles.

POE (CONT’D)
You’re singing my song, pal.

EXT. CORUSCANT (SPACE)

As POE’S X-WING FLIES AWAY.

EXT. FIRST ORDER CONSULATE - DAY

CLOSE ON A STORMTROOPER HELMET. BURNING. Reducing to GOOEY

WHITE POOL --

CUT TO A MONTAGE

-- ON HOTH. A downed AT-AT from a battle long ago. On its

side. Frozen over. Almost part of the landscape now. A
GROUP OF TAUNTAUNS (TWO LARGE, SEVERAL BABIES) HOP ALONG THE
BODY OF THE AT-AT. Then scurry away.
116.

-- ON NABOO. CLOSE ON THE HEAD OF A BATTLE DROID embedded

into the ground. Rusted and decomposed--A SINGLE FLOWER
growing from the eye socket.

-- ON KASHYYYK. CHEWBACCA returns home. A WOOKIE VILLAGE

in the BG. A COUPLE OF WOOKIES acknowledge him as he
approaches.

-- ON TATOOINE. TWO JAWAS digs in an area of the DESERT

with a CART full of JUNK. ONE hits something with a shovel.
DIGS IT UP excitedly. THE OTHER watches in anticipation.
ONE pulls up...A LONG BURIED STORMTROOPER HELMET. They
examine it. Look it over. Determine it has no worth and
throw it away. Continue digging.

-- ON TAKODANA. At MAZ’S CASTLE. ALIEN CUSTOMERS

enter/exit. CLOSE ON A SMALL SIGN outside the DOOR:

NO BLASTERS
NO NERF HERDERS
NO FIRST ORDER NO MORE!!

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO

INT. REPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION -- CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE - DAY

The former HIGH CHAMBERS of the First Order. But nowhere

near as decadent.

The door opens. A SECRETARY (droid) leads ... POE DAMERON

inside. It’s been a few years. A bit scruffier, a bit more
mature, but more or less the same. Save for that awesome
moustache he’s rocking.

SECRETARY
The pilot you requested, Sir.

ACROSS THE ROOM ... At the WINDOW ... FINN turns around.
The CHANCELLOR. Bearded. Robed. Regal. A LEADER.

FINN looks at POE. And vice versa. It’s been a while. And
they did not part well.

SECRETARY (CONT’D)
Anything else, Sir?
FINN
No. Thank you.
117.

SECRETARY leaves. FINN over to POE. Every step has POE

asking: Is he going to say ‘hi’ or sock me?

FINN in front of POE. HOLDS OUT HIS HAND. POE smiles.

Takes it. FINN EMBRACES POE. A long-overdue apology. He
missed his friend. They part. Look each other over--

POE
Look at you, man! The Chancellor!
You look good. Great beard.

FINN
Thanks. It actually impresses a lot
of people.

They laugh.
FINN (CONT’D)
How’ve you been?

POE
Fine. Good. It’s a better galaxy to
fly in now, I’ll tell you.

FINN
It’s getting there. A lot of work
that still needs to be done.
(then)
Which is why I called on you. I need
good people. It’s a different fight
but a fight nonetheless. Is that
something you’d be interested in?

POE slaps his shoulder.

POE
Got your back, buddy...
(re shoulder slap)
Oh. Sorry. Can I not do that now?

FINN laughs.

FINN
No. You can’t do that...

POE. Can’t tell if he’s joking or not?

FINN (CONT’D)
I’m on my way down to meet with the
Senators. Do you want to see it?
POE
The thing we fought so long for?
118.

FINN nods.

POE (CONT’D)
Hell yes I do... Can I bring a friend?

CUT TO

A MOMENT LATER. IN THE CORRIDOR OUTSIDE.

FINN and POE comes out to ... A waiting BB-8 ... Who SHAKES
WITH EXCITEMENT at seeing FINN. And FINN’S happy to see him
too.

INT. HALLWAY - CONGRESS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC - DAY

THREEPIO (back to gold) and ARTOO walking along.

THREEPIO
It’s rather astonishing, Artoo.
If you add up all the odds of success
from all the adventures we’ve
endured, it’s a truly staggering
number. And yet: Here we are! I
wonder how we were able to do it...

ARTOO BEEPS...

THREEPIO (CONT’D)
What do you mean “who are you?”!
You know very well who I am, Artoo
Detoo!
(bops ARTOO on the head,
as ARTOO ROLLS AWAY)
Where do you think you’re going you
malfunctioning, senile astro droid?
I’m not done admonishing you yet...

INT. CONGRESS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

A SIZEABLE AMPHITHEATER. Not to the scale to the Galactic

Senate we saw in “The Phantom Menace” but give them time.

60-70 SENATORS from VARIOUS STAR SYSTEMS ... Begin

APPLAUDING when FINN enters. POE lets him walk ahead ...
But marvels at what has been accomplished. FINN continues
to a PODIUM in the middle. Looks around as the APPLAUSE
CONTINUES --

CLOSE ON FINN’S HAND as he PULLS OUT ... A SMALL PICTURE ...

HIM AND ROSE from long ago.

FINN looks at it. Then up at the Congress.

119.

FINN
(to himself)
We did it, baby. We did it...

The Congress of the New Republic about to begin...

AND FINALLY

CUT TO

THE LAKESHORE ON AGGO - A PERFECT DAY

TWO SMALL BOYS (6)... The TWINS we saw earlier ... RUN
towards the shore. XAVI and MATTEO. A minor disagreement
erupts and MATTEO hits XAVI (not hard).
REY (OS)
Stop! Just a moment young man...

MATTEO freezes. Busted. XAVI keeps going.

REY ... Their MOTHER ... AS BEAUTIFUL AS EVER ... Kneels

down. MATTEO looks down. Knows he’s in trouble. REY’S
tone is nothing less than loving.

REY (CONT’D)
Why did you hit your brother?

MATTEO shrugs. No idea.

REY (CONT’D)
Were you angry at him?

That sounds good. MATTEO nods ‘yes’.

REY (CONT’D)
Why?
MATTEO can’t remember at this point.

REY (CONT’D)
So where is the anger now?

MATTEO shrugs. Apparently not angry anymore.

REY (CONT’D)
And who made the anger go away?

A philosophical quandary to a six year old.

MATTEO
...I did?
120.

REY
Yes you did. Anger -- like being
happy or sad -- comes from you.
And only you can control it!
You can tell it what to do.
Understand?

MATTEO nods ‘yes’.

REY (CONT’D)
Good. Give me a hug...
(he does)
Go apologize to your brother.

MATTEO runs off.

REY sits on the sand. Watching her sons. JORGA comes up.
Sits beside her.

JORGA
What a beautiful day...

REY
(as she watches the boys)
It’s always a beautiful day.
(re MATTEO)
He reminds me of his father...
(with a wink)
He’s stubborn.

JORGA
Do you think about him?

REY
Sometimes.
(then)
But I know part of him is always here.
Watching over us...
REY looks ... Off a short distance away ... Is KYLO ... As
we should remember him: A good man.

He smiles ... And as he watches he is joined by ... LEIA ...

Then HAN ... Then LUKE ... All of them watching over Rey.

And she knows this. Feels comforted by this. A warming

smile over her face.

JORGA
What’s on your mind, my dear?
The past? The future?
REY thinks about this for a LONG BEAT...
121.

REY
The present.
(looks to JORGA,
with a smile)
It’s a good place to be...

JORGA smiles. They look out to--

XAVI and MATTEO. They’ve reconciled. Now focused on

something at the LAKESHORE ... When they LOOK UP TO SEE--

BEN-CHU. Walking ON TOP OF THE LAKE a short distance away.

THE BOYS suddenly EXCITED ... YELLING, trying to get his
attention. BEN-CHU eventually looks over at them.

FINAL FADE OUT.

BEN-CHU
(THE END)