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Episode II: Attack of the Clones

2nd draft, deleted scenes: 101 - 110

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INT. TATOOINE, HOMESTEAD - GARAGE (FULL MOON) - NIGHT
(sc. 102, 2nd draft version; rewritten as sc. 109, 3rd draft)


Note: Editor Ben Burtt felt this scene and the others tied to it were too comedic in nature during what was an otherwise tense part of the film (Anakin's search for his mother). The removal of this scene, therefore, caused significant changes throughout this part of the film, since C-3P0 had appeared in all previous scenes without his metal plating. This scene was re-written as 3rd draft scene 109 before being completely dropped from the film.

PADMÉ stands looking at a speeder parked in the garage. Short silence. Then:

C-3PO
Please don't leave us, Miss Padmé. These people need your help.

THREEPIO is parked in a corner.

PADMÉ
I'm not leaving, Threepio. I just can't sleep.

C-3PO
That's something I cannot relate to. As a Protocol Droid, I'm either active or inactive. There's no in-between.

PADMÉ
I guess you're lucky.

C-3PO
Do you really think so..? I suppose I shouldn't expect...

PADMÉ
You're not happy here?

C-3PO
Oh, I'm not unhappy... and my masters here are so kind I wouldn't wish to trouble them, it's just... being like this... well, it's embarrassing.

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PADMÉ
Being like what?

C-3PO
Naked. If you pardon the expression. You see, when Master Annie made me, he never quite found the time to give me any outer covering. It's so humiliating. How would you like it if you had to go around with all your circuits showing?

PADMÉ
I guess I wouldn't like it at all.

C-3PO
Of course you wouldn't. Nobody would. It's simply not protocol.

PADMÉ looks thoughtfully at a pile of spare parts and bits of metal and tools.

PADMÉ
Maybe we can do something about it.

C-3PO
I don't think so. Only Master Annie...

PADMÉ
Why not? They seem to have a box of old coverings here.

C-3PO
Oh? How observant of you, Miss Padmé. Of course, I'm just not mechanically minded... if you see what I mean.

PADMÉ picks up a piece of metal and holds it against him.

PADMÉ
Let's see, if we put this... here...

C-3PO
Ooooh! That's tickles.

PADMÉ
You'll have to be quiet, Threepio. Hold still, please.





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