Mark Hamill: Luke Skywalker
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Darth Vader : There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you.
[pauses]
Darth Vader : Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Luke : I'll never join you!
Darth Vader : If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. 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. No. That's not true. That's impossible!
Darth Vader : Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true!
Luke : [anguished] No! No!
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Yoda : I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke : I'm looking for someone.
Yoda : Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm?
Luke : Right...
Yoda : Help you I can. Yes, mmmm.
Luke : I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda : Ohhh. Great warrior.
[laughs and shakes his head]
Yoda : Wars not make one great.
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[Luke can't levitate his X-Wing out of the bog]
Luke : I can't. It's too big.
Yoda : Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
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Yoda : Yes, run! Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke : Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda : No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke : But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda : You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
Luke : But tell my why I can't...
Yoda : No, no! There is no "why".
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Yoda : Why wish you become Jedi?
Luke : Well, mostly because of my father, I guess.
Yoda : Ahh... father. Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.
Luke : [suspicious] Oh, come on! How can you know my father? You don't even know who I am. Oh, I don't even know what I'm doing here! We're wasting our time!
Yoda : [Looking away from Luke] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Obi-Wan : [voice-over] He will learn patience.
Yoda : Much anger in him... like his father.
Obi-Wan : [voice] Was I any different when you taught me?
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[first lines]
Luke : Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me?
Han Solo : Loud and clear, kid. What's up?
Luke : Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings.
Han Solo : There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a space cruiser. Sensors are placed. I'm going back.
Luke : Right. I'll see you shortly. There's a meteorite that hit the ground near here. I want to check it out. It won't take long.
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Luke : [clinging to an antennae below Cloud City] Leia... Hear me, Leia...
Princess Leia : [in the Falcon] Luke... We've got to go back.
Lando : What?
Princess Leia : I know where Luke is!
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Yoda : Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor. If you end your training now - if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did - you will become an agent of evil.
Obi-Wan : Patience.
Luke : And sacrifice Han and Leia?
Yoda : If you honor what they fight for? Yes.
Obi-Wan : If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
Luke : I understand. R2? Fire up the converters.
Obi-Wan : Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the Dark Side.
Yoda : Strong is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
Luke : I will. And I'll return, I promise.
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[repeated line]
Luke : Ben... Ben. Why didn't you tell me?
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[after R2D2 is spit out by a swamp creature on Dagobah - the line is changed in the Special Edition]
Luke : You were lucky to get out of there.
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Darth Vader : You have learned much, young one.
Luke : You'll find I'm full of surprises.
Darth Vader : As am I.
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[Luke has seen a vision of Han, Leia and Chewie being tortured in Cloud City]
Luke : I saw - I saw a city in the clouds.
Yoda : [nods] Friends you have there.
Luke : They were in pain...
Yoda : It is the future you see.
Luke : The future?
[pause]
Luke : Will they die?
Yoda : [closes his eyes for a moment] Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
Luke : I've got to go to them.
Yoda : Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.
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Yoda : [Luke is preparing his X-Wing fighter for take off] Luke. You must complete the training.
Luke : No, I can't keep the vision out of my head. They are my friends; I've got to help them.
Yoda : You must not go.
Luke : But, Han and Leia will die if I don't.
Obi-Wan : You don't know that.
[Force ghost of Obi-Wan appears]
Obi-Wan : Even Yoda cannot see their fate.
Luke : But, I can help them. I feel the Force.
Obi-Wan : But, you cannot control it. This is a dangerous time for you. When you will be tempted by the dark side of the force.
Yoda : Yes! Yes! To Obi Wan, you listen. The cave. Remember your failure with the cave?
Luke : But I've learnt so much since then. Master Yoda, I promise to return and finish what I've begun. You have my word.
Obi-Wan : It is you and your abilities the Emperor wants. That is why your friends are made to suffer.
Luke : That's why I have to go.
Obi-Wan : Luke. I don't want to lose you to the Emperor, the way I lost Vader.
Luke : You won't.
Yoda : Stopped, they must be. On this, all depends. Only a fully trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor. If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.
Obi-Wan : Patience.
Luke : And sacrifice Han and Leia?
Yoda : If you honor what they fight for? Yes!
Obi-Wan : If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere.
Luke : I understand.
[Yoda looks surprised]
Luke : R2, fire up the converters.
[Luke boards his X-Wing fighter]
Obi-Wan : Luke! Don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side.
Obi-Wan : Strong, is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you, it can!
Luke : I will! And I'll return. I promise!
[Luke takes off and departs Degobah]
Yoda : [Obi-Wan and Yoda watches Luke fly away. Obi-Wan vanishes] Told you I did. Reckless, is he. Now... matters are worse.
Obi-Wan : That boy is our last hope.
Yoda : No. There is another.
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Darth Vader : Your destiny lies with me Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.
Luke : No...
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Luke : Now all I got to is find this Yoda. If he even exists. It's a really strange place to find a Jedi Master. This place gives me the creeps.
[starts to eat something]
Luke : Still... there's something familiar about this place.
[R2-D2 beeps]
Luke : I don't know, I feel like...
[suddenly whips around and aims his gun at Yoda, who cowers and whimpers]
Luke : ... like we're being watched!
Yoda : Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm! I am wondering, why are you here?
Luke : I'm looking for someone.
Yoda : Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say! Hmm?
[laughs]
Luke : [lowers his gun] Right...
Yoda : Help you, I can. Yes, mmm.
Luke : I don't think so.
[Yoda frowns]
Luke : I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda : Oh!
[chuckles and comes toward Luke]
Yoda : Great warrior!
[laughs again]
Yoda : Wars not make one great, heh heh heh!
[grunts as he comes over to Luke's area and picks up the thing Luke was eating]
Luke : Put that down, now we...
[Yoda takes a bite of the food]
Luke : Hey! My dinner!
[takes the food out of Yoda's hand and puts it in the lunch pack]
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Luke : Watch that cross fire boys.
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Luke : You ask the impossible.
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Luke : [in 1997 Special Edition only] This is it.
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[Luke has encountered Yoda. Thinking he is a stranger, Luke points his blaster at Yoda who cowers down, holding his arms over his head while holding on to his cane for support]
Yoda : [fearfully] Put away your weapon! I mean you no harm!
Luke : [lowering his weapon] Who are you?
Yoda : [poking his head up, so his eyes are visible] I was just wondering... Why are you here?
Luke : I'm looking for someone.
Yoda : [uncovers his elderly, but friendly face completely, eyes wide] *Looking?* Been looking at someone, you have! Mmmm.
[Yoda laughs]
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[Luke has just encountered Yoda. Yoda is pretending to be senile to test Luke's patience; R2-D2 watches as Yoda plays with a little flashlight-like lamp. Already impatient, Luke tries to take the lamp away from Yoda]
Yoda : Mine! Or I'll help you not.
Luke : I don't want your help. I want my lamp back. I need it to get out of this slimy mudhole.
Yoda : [insulted; as he speaks, R2-D2 opens a side door and extends a pair of pinchers and grabs hold of the lamp and tries to pull the lamp away from Yoda] Mudhole? Slimy? MY home, is this!
Yoda : [startled] Wha?
Luke : [Yoda and R2-D2 start a tug-of-war with the lamp; R2 beeping and humming protestingly] R2, let him have it.
[Yoda grabs his cane and starts whacking R2-D2 repeatedly with it]
Yoda : [as he is whacking R2] Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
Luke : [firmly] *R2!*
[R2 relents, sinking his pinchers into his metallic body. Yoda uses his cane to close the side door for R2-D2's pinchers]
