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Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

unused footage: scenes 21 - 40


24 - INT. MAIN HANGAR DECK - MILLENNIUM FALCON - DUSK

The hangar is full of activity. We hear a familiar stream of beeps and whistles a moment before catching sight of ARTOO and THREEPIO, who appear from a corridor and move along an ice wall toward the Millennium Falcon. Behind them, in the ice, two large yellow eyes blink open.

...


25 - INT. MAIN HANGAR DECK - TAUNTAUN CORRAL - NEAR ENTRANCE - DUSK

The Deck Sergeant and several Troopers inspect the mangled remains of three dead Tauntauns. Some of the hardware nearby has also been brutally pulled out of shape. Several surviving Tauntauns shuffle nervously nearby. Outside the light is slowly fading.

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TROOPER
(to Deck Sergeant) ... I can't imagine, sir. Their necks are broken.


The Deck Sergeant nods, then notices Han running up and steps out of the group to meet him.
...

Han pushes through the troops and mounts a snow lizard. Huge monster feet move into the shadows of one of the X wing bays.

DECK SERGEANT
The night storms will start before you can reach the first marker.

HAN
Then I'll see you in Hell.


26 - EXT. SNOW CAVE ENTRANCE - REBEL BASE - DUSK

The small, lone figure riding a snow lizard races off into the hostile vastness of snow and cold. The slightest hint of wind blows up the snow behind the Tauntaun.


27 - EXT. PLAIN OF HOTH - DUSK

The dark, evil probe robot moves across the frozen floor of the Hoth plain. The wind is beginning to pick up, and snow starts to cake on the front of the robot. It stops, hovers, then drops to the ground. Several probes emerge from its metal hull and a dome shaped force field around the robot begins to glow. Eventually, the force field becomes a solid shape and is quickly covered with the blowing snow.


36 - EXT. ICE PLAIN - HOTH - DAWN

The huge dim sun of Hoth crawls lazily over the horizon in the North as a spurt of snow shoots skyward revealing the dark probe robot. The sinister object pulls in several of its extended arms, hovers for a few moments, then starts off across the bleak Hoth plain.


Sources:
1, 2 - Behind the Magic: The Insider's Guide to Star Wars, CD-ROM, LucasArts Entertainment Co., LLC


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