EXT. TATOOINE - ANCHORHEAD - SETTLEMENT - POWER STATION - DAY
The group stumbles out into the stifling desert sun. Camie and The Fixer complain and are forced to shade their eyes. Luke has his binoculars out scanning the heavens.
LUKE: There they are!
Biggs takes the binoculars from Luke as the others strain to see something with the naked eye. Through the binoculars Biggs sees two small silver specks.
BIGGS: That's no battle, hot shot... they're just sitting there! Probably a freighter-tanker refueling.
(Y/n): But there was a lot of firing earlier....
Camie grabs the binoculars away banging them against the building in the process. Luke grabs them.
LUKE: Hey, easy with those....
(Y/n): yeah really I don't want uncle Owen yelling at us because we broke his binoculars
CAMIE: Don't worry about it, Wormies.
The Fixer gives (y/n) and Luke a hard look and the young farm boys shrugs there shoulders in resignation.
FIXER: I keep telling you, the Rebellion is a long way from here. I doubt if the Empire would even fight to keep this system. Believe me (y/n),Luke, this planet is a big hunk of nothing....
Luke agrees, although it's obvious he isn't sure why. The group stumbles back into the power station, grumbling about Luke's and (y/n)s ineptitude.
INT. REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER - HALLWAY Princess Leia is led down a low-ceilinged hallway by a squad of armored stormtroopers. Her hands are bound and she is brutally shoved when she is unable to keep up with the briskly marching troops. They stop in a smoky hallway as Darth Vader emerges from the shadows. The sinister Dark Lord stares hard at the frail young senator, but she doesn't move.
LEIA:Lord Vader, I should have known. Only you could be so bold.
The Imperial Senate will not sit for this, when they hear you've attacked a diplomatic...
VADER:Don't play games with me, Your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. You passed directly through a restricted system. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.
LEIA: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan...
VADER You're a part of the Rebel Alliance... and a traitor. Take her away!
Leia is marched away down the hallway and into the smoldering hole blasted in the side of the ship. An Imperial Commander turns to Vader.
COMMANDER:Holding her is dangerous. If word of this gets out, it could generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the senate.
VADER: I have traced the Rebel spies to her. Now she is my only link to find their secret base!
COMMANDER:She'll die before she tells you anything.
VADER:Leave that to me. Send a distress signal and then inform the senate that all aboard were killed!
Another Imperial Officer approaches Vader and the Commander. They stop and snap to attention.
SECOND OFFICER:Lord Vader, the battle station plans are not aboard this ship! And no transmissions were made. An escape pod was jettisoned during the fighting, but no life forms were aboard.
Vader turns to the Commander.
VADER:She must have hidden the plans in the escape pod. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. See to it personally, Commander. There'll be no one to stop us this time.
