Mark Hamill credited as playing...
Luke Skywalker
- Princess Leia Organa: General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars. Now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person, but my ship has fallen under attack, and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to Alderaan has failed. I have placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
- [pause]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [to Luke] You must learn the ways of the Force, if you're to come with me to Alderaan.
- Luke Skywalker: Alderaan? I'm not going to Alderaan, I've gotta get *home*, it's late, I'm in for it as it is!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I need your help, Luke. She needs your help. I'm getting too old for this sort of thing.
- Luke Skywalker: Look, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now... It's all such a long way from here.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's your Uncle talking.
- Princess Leia Organa: Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
- Luke Skywalker: Huh? Oh, the uniform.
- [Luke takes off Stormtrooper mask]
- Princess Leia Organa: It's not over yet.
- Han Solo: It is for me, sister. Look, I ain't in this for your revolution, and I'm not in it for you, Princess. I expect to be well paid. I'm in it for the money.
- Princess Leia Organa: You needn't worry about your reward. If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive.
- [to Luke]
- Princess Leia Organa: Your friend is quite the mercenary. I wonder if he really cares about anything. Or anybody.
- [she stalks out]
- Luke Skywalker: [calling after her] I care.
- [to Han]
- Luke Skywalker: So, what do you think of her, Han?
- Han Solo: I'm tryin' not to, kid.
- Luke Skywalker: Good.
- Han Solo: [baiting him] Still, she's got a lot of spirit. I don't know, whaddya think? You think a princess and a guy like me...
- Luke Skywalker: [quickly] No.
- Luke Skywalker: She's rich.
- Han Solo: [interested] Rich?
- Luke Skywalker: Rich, powerful. Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be...
- Han Solo: What?
- Luke Skywalker: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
- Han Solo: I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.
- Luke Skywalker: You'll get it.
- Han Solo: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are not a good match for a blaster at your side, kid.
- Luke Skywalker: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
- Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other; I've seen a lot of strange stuff. But I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. Anyway, it's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
- Luke Skywalker: How did my father die?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.
- Luke Skywalker: The Force?
- C-3PO: As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure which planet I'm on.
- Luke Skywalker: Well, if there's a bright center to the universe you're on the planet that it's farthest from.
- [Ponda Baba gives Luke a rough shove and starts yelling at Luke in an alien language which Luke doesn't understand]
- Dr. Evazan: [explaining] He doesn't like you.
- Luke Skywalker: Sorry.
- Dr. Evazan: [grabbing Luke] *I* don't like you either. You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on twelve systems.
- Luke Skywalker: I'll be careful.
- Dr. Evazan: You'll be dead!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: [intervening] This little one's not worth the effort. Come, let me get you something.
- [Dr. Evazan shoves Luke across the room and pulls out a blaster]
- Bartender: No blasters! No blasters!
- [Obi-Wan ignites his lightsaber, wounding Dr. Evazan and severing Ponda Baba's arm]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.
- Luke Skywalker: What is it?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Your father's light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before the Empire.
- Luke Skywalker: [32:37] No, my father didn't fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals; he felt he should've stayed here and not gotten involved.
- Luke Skywalker: You fought in the Clone Wars?
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Yes. I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father.
- Luke Skywalker: I wish I'd known him.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: He was the best star pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand that you've become quite a good pilot yourself.
- [sorrowfully]
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: And he was a good friend.
- Aunt Beru: Where are you going?
- Luke: Looks like I'm going nowhere. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go finish cleaning those droids.
- Aunt Beru: [after Luke leaves] Owen, he can't stay here forever, most of his friends have gone. It means so much to him.
- Uncle Owen: I'll make it up to him next year; I promise.
- Aunt Beru: Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.
- Uncle Owen: That's what I'm afraid of.
- Luke Skywalker: t just isn't fair. Oh, Biggs is right. I'm never gonna get out of here.
- C-3PO: Is there anything I can do?
- Luke Skywalker: Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest, or teleport me off this rock.
- C-3PO: I don't think so, sir. I'm only a droid and not very knowledgeable about such things, not on this planet, anyway.
- Darth Vader: [as Obi-Wan finds him and ignites lightsaber] I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, but now I am the master.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Only a master of evil, Darth.
- [fights Vader]
- Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
- [fights more]
- Darth Vader: You should not have come back.
- [fights more]
- Luke: [Obi-Wan spots him and allows himself to be killed] NO!
- [stormtroopers shoot at him]
- Luke Skywalker: [about Princess Leia] They're gonna execute her! Look, a few minutes ago you said you didn't want to just wait here to be captured. Now all you want to do is stay?
- Han Solo: Marching into a detention area is not what I had in mind.
- Luke Skywalker: But they're gonna kill her!
- Han Solo: Better her than me!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: There was nothing you could have done, Luke, had you been there. You'd have been killed too, and the droids would now be in the hands of the Empire.
- Luke Skywalker: I want to come with you to Alderaan. There's nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.
- Luke Skywalker: I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you.
- Princess Leia Organa: You're who?
- Luke Skywalker: I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi.
- Princess Leia Organa: Ben Kenobi? Where is he?
- Luke Skywalker: Come on!
- Luke Skywalker: [1:07:19] Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
- Han Solo: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous. Even if I could take off, I'd never get past the tractor beam.
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Leave that to me.
- Han Solo: You damn fool! I knew you were gonna say that!
- Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi: Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
- [last lines]
- C-3PO: You must repair him! Sir, if any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate them.
- Luke Skywalker: He'll be all right.
- Luke Skywalker: You know, I think that R2 unit we bought may have been stolen.
- Uncle Owen: What makes you think that?
- Luke Skywalker: Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says that he belongs to someone called Obi-Wan Kenobi. I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about?
- Uncle Owen: Uh-uh.
- Luke Skywalker: I wonder if he's related to Ben.
- Uncle Owen: That wizard's just a crazy old man. You stay away from him, you hear me? He's dangerous. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have its memory erased. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.
- Luke Skywalker: But what if this Obi-Wan comes here looking for him?
- Uncle Owen: He won't. I don't think he exists anymore. He died about the same time as your father.
- Luke Skywalker: Did he know my father?
- Uncle Owen: I told you to forget it. Your only concern is to prepare those new droids for tomorrow. In the morning, I want them up there on the south ridge working on those condensers.
- Luke Skywalker: Yes, sir.