The Phantom Menace: Escape from Tatooine

Qui-Gon and Anakin race to the Millenium Fal--er, Naboo ship and tangle with Darth Maul.

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EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT MESA - DAY

The PROBE DROID beeps and whistles to DARTH MAUL. The SITH
LORD gets on a speeder bike and follows the PROBE DROID into
Mos Espa.

EXT. MOS ESPA - STREET - FRUIT STAND - DAY

ANAKIN and QUI-GON exit WATTO'S and stop before JIRA'S fruit
stand. ANAKIN hands JIRA some coins.

ANAKIN
I've been freed, and I'm going away.
Buy yourself a cooling unit with
this... Otherwise I'll worry about
you.

JIRA is astonished. She stares, not knowing what to say.

JIRA
Can I give you a hug?

ANAKIN
Sure.

She gives him a hug.

JIRA
I'll miss you, Annie... there isn't
a kinder boy in the galaxy. You be
careful...

ANAKIN runs to join QUI-GON, who has already started down
the street. As they walk along together, QUI-GON notices
something out of the corner of his eye. Suddenly, without
breaking his stride, he ignites his laser sword, swing around,
and lunges forward and cuts a lurking PROBE DROID in half.
QUI-GON inspects the sparking and fizzing DROID.

ANAKIN
What is it?

QUI-GON
Probe droid. Very unusual... not
like anything I've seen before.

Come on.

QUI-GON and ANAKIN start running.

EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY

QUI-GON and ANAKIN run toward the Naboo spacecraft. ANAKIN
is having a hard time keeping up.

ANAKIN
Master Qui-Gon,sir, wait!

QUI-GON turns to answer and sees a DARK-CLOAKED FIGURE bearing
down on a speeder bike.

QUI-GON
Anakin, drop!

ANAKIN drops to the ground just as DARTH MAUL sweeps over
him. DARTH MAUL jumps off his speeder bike, and before he
has hit the ground, the Sith Lord has swund a death blow
with his laser sword that is barely blocked by QUI-GON.

ANAKIN picks himself up. The two galactic warriors, Sith and
Jedi, are bashing each other with incredible blows. They
move in a continual cloudof dust, smashing everything around
them. This is a fierce fight. ANAKIN gets up, bewildered by
the confrontation.

QUI-GON
Annie, get to the ship! Take off!
Go! Go!

QUI-GON struggles to fend off the relentless onslaught as
ANAKIN races to the ship.

INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - HALLWAY

ANAKIN runs into the main hallway of the spaceship, where
PADME and Capt. Panaka are working.

ANAKIN
Qui-Gon's in trouble. He says to
take off...now!!

CAPT. PANAKA
Who are you?

PADME
He's a friend.

INT. NABOO SPACECRAFT - COCKPIT

Capt. Panaka, ANAKIN, and PADME rush into the cockpit where
OBI-WAN and RIC OLIE are checking the hyperdrive.

CAPT. PANAKA
Qui-Gon is in trouble, he says to
take off!

PILOT
I don't see anything.

OBI-WAN
Over there! Fly low!

In the distance is a small cloud of dust.

EXT. TATOOINE - DESERT - NABOO SPACECRAFT - DAY

QUI-GON and DARTH MAUL continue theirsword battle. Leaping
over one another in an incredible display of acrobatics, the
two warrios hear the ship fly over them a few feet off the
ground. QUI-GON almost dissapears for a moment. Before DARTH
MAUL knows what's happening, QUI-GON is on the spacecrat's
ramp.

EXT. TATOOINE - NABOO SPACECRAFT RAMP - DAY

The SITH LORD immediately jumps onto the ramp after QUI-GON,
but barely makes it. His heels hang over the edge of a forty-
foot drop. QUI-GON swings his laser sword with all his might
and knocks DARTH AMUL off the ramp and onto the desert floor.
The ramp closes, and the Naboo craft rockets away, leaving
the Sith Lord standing alone.

EXT. SPACE - NABOO SPACECRAFT (FX)

The sleek spacecraft rockets away from the planet Tatooine.