For anyone who has seen the new workprint, you might notice that the box that I’ve had light up on the Falcon as it takes off is the one which later hangs open when Han and Chewie come onboard. Han then pokes at it briefly and I’ve tried to make it look like he’s deactivated the light, but it’s very brief.

I bring this up because I didn’t realize before that he closes this box on his way out of the room and heads into the cockpit. There is no point at which I can see the box open unless I’m just missing something, and for this box to get the attention of Han twice seems suspicious to me.

My wild theory is that an earlier version of the film actually has this box serve a function in the film as the tracking device since there’s no shot where it opens. I bet that it originally opened at some point during the escape from Jakku and Han may even have had a line about the tracking device when he went to poke around in it. Since Han’s line about finding a clean ship that can’t be tracked was clearly ADR’d, I bet that this was placed in the film to shore up the reasoning for going to Maz’s castle and at that point the tracking device needed to be cut since Han deactivated it upon arriving.

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