Empire Strikes Back - Extra Special Edition
(Editor's Note:  Okay, so it's Star Wars, not Star Trek, so sue me!)


I just heard there's going to be an extra scene included in the DVD release
of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK coming up next year!  Basically, it expands on the
scene where Vader reveals his fatherhood to Luke, and ties up some loose
ends created with the release of Episode 1...

The Empire Strikes Back Extra-Special Edition
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INT BESPIN GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER
towards the end of the gantry.  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 your 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... You're not good enough to
be my kid.

Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.

Darth Vader And get a haircut!




Thanks to Gwen Eckman