Star Wars: The Force Awakens Page #6

ENGINE OF A DECAYING, CRASHED STAR DESTROYER -- DISTANT SOUND

of her canteen-hitting. She sets her things on a piece of

sheet metal and sits next to it, sliding down the sand dune.

She RIDES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN OF SAND. WE HOLD FOR A LONG

TIME, looking down, as she recedes from us, toward the distant

SALT FLATS below. Random SCATTERED DEBRIS. Her SPEEDER,

tiny from here.

Rey moves to her junker SPEEDER, jumps on, fires the sputtery

engine and DRIVES OFF.

EXT. DESERT - SPACESHIP GRAVEYARD - DAY

Rey races along the desert floor: a GRAVEYARD OF CRASHED

SPACESHIPS.

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY

Rey's speeder PASSES us, heading for a dusty, desert town.

Refueling, small trade, scavengers.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

CRASH! Rey's sack carrying her heavy FOUND OBJECTS hits the

sand. Working like a tough seaman, Rey hauls the sack from

her speeder toward the town.

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - CLEANING TABLE - DAY

TIGHT ON REY'S HANDS as she SCRUBS CLEAN her day's salvage.

Rey glances up:
she looks at an old woman, also cleaning

some salvage.

Rey watches her, gets lost in the simple moment. A small,

passing alien UNDERLING barks something to her in another

language. She returns to work.

INT. NIIMA TRADING STRUCTURE - DAY

Rey looks up to a SERVICE WINDOW: two feet above her, behind

a protective screen, is her boss, UNKAR PLUTT (50, blobfish,

unclean). He examines her pieces. Then he offers:

UNKAR:

What you've brought me today is

worth... Hmmm... One quarter

portion.

Though disappointed, Rey barely shows it. She nods thanks.

Unkar pushes through his transfer drawer a SEALED PACKET:

DRIED GREEN MEAT in one section, BEIGE POWDER in another.

She takes it.

She swallows her resentment and heads off.

EXT. NIIMA OUTPOST - DAY

The IMMENSE SETTING SUN against the FLAT TERRAIN. Rey's

SPEEDER races, almost insignificant, across frame.

INT. REY'S DWELLING - DAY

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