Cut Scenes - Episode V

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The Bacta Tank

INT. MEDICAL CENTER - REBEL BASE

Strange ROBOT SURGEONS adjust a mass of electronic equipment.

A switch is thrown and a sudden blinding flash obscures Luke in a chamber filled with a thick, gelatinous red slime. Luke begins to thrash about, raving in his delirium.

INT. MEDICAL CENTER OBSERVATION ROOM - REBEL BASE

Leia, Threepio, and Chewbacca are watching from a glassed-off room next door, where Han is resting on a cushioned medical table. They can hear the mechanical surgeons working and Luke's ravings on a speaker in the room.

LUKE
Watch out ... snow creatures ... dangerous ... Yoda ... go to Yoda ... only hope ... must survive ....

Han raises himself on the table, listening to Luke. Chewbacca makes him lie back down, then BARKS a comment in reference to Luke.

HAN
He doesn't make sense to me either, Chewie.

THREEPIO
I do hope he's all there ... if you take my meaning. I would hate to see Master Luke develop a short circuit ...

HAN
The kid ran into something mean, and it wasn't the cold.

LEIA
Those creatures he keeps talking about ... we'd better double the security ... Han, I don't know how ...

HAN
Forget it.

TOO-ONEBEE (2-1B), a surgeon droid, enters the room.

TOO-ONEBEE
He had gone into dormo-shock, almost hibernation. But he's responding to the Bacta. We'll bring him through.

Leia breathes a sigh of relief. Chewie lets out a long GRUNT of approval.

LEIA
Now all we've got to worry about is what attacked him.

HAN
No kidding. If this snowball's got nasty natives, they could be anywhere.

Chewie WHINES, looks around.

HAN
That's right, Chewie, inside the base.

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