Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Page #12

Synopsis: After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Master Yoda. His friends accept shelter from a questionable ally as Darth Vader hunts them in a plan to capture Luke.
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CONTROLLER:

Imperial walkers on the north

ridge.

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - SNOW TRENCH

The Rebel troops aim their weapons at the horizon as explosions erupt

all around them. They are nervous and their grip on their weapons

tightens from the cold and from fear.

Behind the troops a dozen snowspeeders race through the sky.

INT. LUKE'S SNOWSPEEDER, ROGUE LEADER - COCKPIT

LUKE:

(into comlink)

Echo station Five-Seven. We're

on our way.

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - BATTLEFIELD

The fleet of snowspeeders races above the ice field at full throttle.

They accelerate away from the base and head toward the distant walkers.

INT. LUKE'S SNOWSPEEDER, ROGUE LEADER - COCKPIT

LUKE:

(into comlink)

All right, boys, keep tight now.

DACK:

Luke, I have no approach vector.

I'm not set.

LUKE:

Steady, Dack. Attack pattern

delta. Go now!

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - BATTLEFIELD

The cannons mounted on the walker head fire at the speeders. Other

walkers loom in the background. Two speeders race away past two of the

enormous walkers and bank to the right.

INT. LUKE'S SNOWSPEEDER, ROGUE LEADER - COCKPIT

LUKE:

All right, I'm coming in.

He turns his speeder and heads directly at one of the walkers, flying

toward its towering legs. The horizon twists as the speeder banks

between the legs.

LUKE:

(into comlink)

Hobbie, you still with me?

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - BATTLEFIELD

Two speeders race directly at the head of a walker, then split and fly

past it.

Three other walkers march onward, firing all cannons.

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - SNOWTRENCH

Rebel troops fire on the approaching walkers, as the snow and ice

explode all around them.

EXT. HOTH - ICE PLAIN - BATTLEFIELD

A speeder banks through and away from the legs of a walker. Two other

speeders pass the first speeder from the opposite direction. Other

Rebel craft race just above the icy plain.

A giant walker head swivels and fires, striking a snowspeeder and

sending it crashing in a ball of flames.

INT. IMPERIAL SNOW WALKER - COCKPIT

General Veers and two walker pilots keep a careful eye on the racing

Rebel snowspeeders as they maneuver their lumbering war machine

forward.

Luke's speeder banks in from the side of Veers's walker and heads

straight for its viewport, blasting away. An explosion hits the walker

window, but dissipates, doing no harm. The speeder roars up and over

the impregnable war machine.

INT. LUKE'S SNOWSPEEDER, ROGUE LEADER - COCKPIT

Luke looks back at the walker as it grows smaller in the distance.

LUKE:

That armor's too strong for

blasters.

On the horizon, another walker moves up past Luke's cockpit window,

twisting out of sight as Luke banks and starts another run.

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