posted May 19, 2000 06:06 PM              

A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning
off into the ventilation shaft.

Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to
go but straight down.

Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.

Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!

Darth Vader: No... I am your father!

Luke: No, it's not true! It's impossible.

Darth Vader: Search your feelings... you know it to be true...

Luke: NO!

Darth Vader: Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know
that brass droid of yours?

Luke: Threepio?

Darth Vader: Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was 7 years
old...

Luke: No...

Darth Vader: Seven years old? And what have you done? Look at
yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own
ship out of the swamp...

Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star!

Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly
destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!

Luke: Well, it's not my fault...

Darth Vader: Oh, here we go... "Poor me... my father never gave
me what I wanted for my birthday... boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark
Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh!"

Luke: Shut up...

Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was you're age, I
had exterminated the Jedi knights!

Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon

Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor... 10 years old,
winner of the Boonta Eve Open... Only human to ever fly a Pod
Racer... right here baby!

Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.

Darth Vader: I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know
whose you are, but you sure ain't mine...

Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down
the shaft.

Darth Vader looks after him.

Darth Vader: Get a haircut!