- [Han answers the intercom after comandeering an attack station]
- Han Solo: [1:15:22] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
- Voice: What happened?
- Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
- Voice: We're sending a squad up.
- Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
- Voice: Who is this? What's your operating number?
- Han Solo: Uh...
- [Han shoots the intercom]
- Han Solo: [muttering] Boring conversation anyway. LUKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
- Stormtrooper: Let me see your identification.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [with a small wave of his hand] You don't need to see his identification.
- Stormtrooper: We don't need to see his identification.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: These aren't the droids you're looking for.
- Stormtrooper: These aren't the droids we're looking for.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: He can go about his business.
- Stormtrooper: You can go about your business.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Move along.
- Stormtrooper: Move along... move along.
- Princess Leia Organa: General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
- [pause]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [to Luke] You must learn the ways of the Force, if you're to come with me to Alderaan.
- Luke Skywalker: Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan, I've gotta get *home*, it's late, I'm in for it as it is!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I need your help, Luke. She needs your help. I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.
- Luke Skywalker: Look, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's your uncle talking.
- Han Solo: Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person: me.
- Princess Leia Organa: It's a wonder you're still alive.
- [Pushing past Chewbacca]
- Princess Leia Organa: Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?
- Han Solo: No reward is worth this.
- [R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon]
- Chewbacca: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh!
- C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you.
- Han Solo: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
- C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
- Han Solo: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
- Chewbacca: Grrf.
- C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win.
- Princess Leia Organa: Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
- Luke Skywalker: Huh? Oh, the uniform.
- [Luke takes off Stormtrooper mask]
- Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
- General Tagge: [37:45] And what of the Rebellion? If the Rebels have obtained a complete technical reading of this station, it is possible, however unlikely, they might find a weakness and exploit it.
- Darth Vader: The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands.
- Admiral Motti: Any attack made by the Rebels against this station would be a useless gesture, no matter what technical data they have obtained. This station is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it!
- Darth Vader: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet, or even a whole system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
- Admiral Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fort...
- [Vader makes a pinching motion and Motti starts choking]
- Darth Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Enough of this! Vader, release him!
- Darth Vader: As you wish.
- [He does]
- Grand Moff Tarkin: This bickering is pointless! Lord Vader will provide us with the location of the Rebel fortress by the time this station is operational. We will then crush the Rebellion with one swift stroke!
- Princess Leia Organa: It's not over yet.
- Han Solo: It is for me, sister. Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money.
- Princess Leia Organa: You needn't worry about your reward. If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive.
- [to Luke]
- Princess Leia Organa: Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything. Or anybody.
- [she stalks out]
- Luke Skywalker: [calling after her] I care.
- [to Han]
- Luke Skywalker: So, what do you think of her, Han?
- Han Solo: I'm tryin' not to, kid.
- Luke Skywalker: Good.
- Han Solo: [baiting him] Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, whaddya think? You think a princess and a guy like me...
- Luke Skywalker: [quickly] No.
- [first title cards]
- Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
- Title card/crawl: It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy...
- Luke Skywalker: She's rich.
- Han Solo: [interested] Rich?
- Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be...
- Han Solo: What?
- Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
- Han Solo: I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.
- Han Solo: Han Solo. I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Alderaan system?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Yes indeed, if it's a fast ship.
- Han Solo: Fast ship? You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Should I have?
- Han Solo: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. She's fast enough for you old man. What's the cargo?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only passengers. Myself, the boy, two droids... and no questions asked.
- Han Solo: [chuckles] What is it? Some kind of local trouble?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Let's just say we'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.
- Han Solo: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are not a good match for a blaster at your side, kid.
- Luke Skywalker: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
- Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other; I've seen a lot of strange stuff. But I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. Anyway, it's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
- Luke Skywalker: How did my father die?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.
- Luke Skywalker: [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.
- Darth Vader: This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi, it will soon see the end of the Rebellion.
- [Ponda Baba gives Luke a rough shove and starts yelling at Luke in an alien language which Luke doesn't understand]
- Dr. Evazan: [explaining] He doesn't like you.
- Luke Skywalker: Sorry.
- Dr. Evazan: [grabbing Luke] *I* don't like you either. You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on twelve systems.
- Luke Skywalker: I'll be careful.
- Dr. Evazan: You'll be dead!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [intervening] This little one's not worth the effort. Come, let me get you something.
- [Dr. Evazan shoves Luke across the room and pulls out a blaster]
- Bartender: No blasters! No blasters!
- [Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber, wounding Dr. Evazan and severing Ponda Baba's arm]
- Commander #1: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by?
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
- Princess Leia Organa: No! Alderaan is peaceful! We have no weapons, you can't possibly...
- Grand Moff Tarkin: [impatiently] You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: Where is the rebel base?
- Princess Leia Organa: ...Dantooine. They're on Dantooine.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: There. You see, Lord Vader, she can be reasonable. Continue with the operation; you may fire when ready.
- Princess Leia Organa: WHAT?
- Grand Moff Tarkin: You're far too trusting. Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration - but don't worry; we will deal with your rebel friends soon enough.
- Princess Leia Organa: Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.
- Princess Leia Organa: I'm surprised that you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Princess Leia, before your execution, I would like you to be my guest at a ceremony that'll make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now.
- Princess Leia Organa: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Not after we demonstrate the power of this station. In a way, you have determined the choice of the planet that'll be destroyed first. Since you are reluctant to provide us with the location of the Rebel base, I have chosen to test this station's destructive power on your home planet of Alderaan.
- Darth Vader: [zeroing in on Luke's fighter] I have you now!
- [one of Vader's wing-men explodes]
- Darth Vader: What?
- Han Solo: YAHOOO!
- [the Millennium Falcon appears]
- Tie Fighter pilot: Look out!
- [Han fires again, the second fighter collides with Vader's, sending him careening away]
- Han Solo: You're all clear, kid, now let's blow this thing and go home!
- [Luke fires, the torpedoes dive down the exhaust port; the Millennium Falcon leads the remaining rebel ships away as the Death Star explodes]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
- Luke Skywalker: [about Princess Leia] They're gonna execute her! Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay?
- Han Solo: Marching into a detention area is not what I had in mind.
- Luke Skywalker: But they're gonna kill her!
- Han Solo: Better her than me!
- Aunt Beru: Where are you going?
- Luke: Looks like I'm going nowhere. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go finish cleaning those droids.
- Aunt Beru: [after Luke leaves] Owen, he can't stay here forever, most of his friends have gone. It means so much to him.
- Uncle Owen: I'll make it up to him next year; I promise.
- Aunt Beru: Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.
- Uncle Owen: That's what I'm afraid of.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [to R2-D2] Hello there.
- [R2 beeps]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Come here, my little friend. Don't be afraid.
- [R2 beeps a question]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Oh don't worry, he'll be alright.
- Darth Vader: [addressing the Tantive IV's captain, whom he is interrogating] Where are those transmissions you intercepted? WHAT have you DONE with those plans?
- [holding Captain Antilles off the floor, the Captain's feet are dangling at Vader's knees]
- Captain Antilles: We intercepted no transmissions...
- [gasps]
- Captain Antilles: ... This is a consular ship... We're on a -
- [chokes]
- Captain Antilles: diplomatic mission...
- Darth Vader: [shouting] If this is a consular ship, WHERE is the ambassador?
- [Antilles dies before he can answer, and Vader throws the man's body against the wall, narrowly missing 2 stormtroopers]
- Darth Vader: Commander, tear this ship apart until you find those plans! And bring me all passengers, I want them ALIVE!
- Darth Vader: He is here.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Obi-Wan Kenobi? What makes you think so?
- Darth Vader: A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Surely he must be dead by now.
- Darth Vader: Don't underestimate the Force.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion.
- [answering a comm signal]
- Grand Moff Tarkin: Yes?
- Voice: We have an emergency alert in detention block AA-23.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: The Princess? Put all sections on alert.
- Darth Vader: Obi-wan is here. The Force is with him.
- Grand Moff Tarkin: If you're right, he must not be allowed to escape.
- Darth Vader: Escape is not his plan. I must face him, alone.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.
- Luke Skywalker: What is it?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your father's light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire.
- Luke Skywalker: [32:37] No, my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's what your uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals; he felt he should've stayed here and not gotten involved.
- Luke Skywalker: You fought in the Clone Wars?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Yes. I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father.
- Luke Skywalker: I wish I'd known him.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: He was the best star pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand that you've become quite a good pilot yourself.
- [sorrowfully]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: And he was a good friend.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: There was nothing you could have done, Luke, had you been there. You'd have been killed too, and the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire.
- Luke Skywalker: I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.
- C-3PO: Is there anything I can do?
- Luke Skywalker: Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock.
- [as the garbage compactor closes in]
- Han Solo: One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
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