Act Three:
Bail saves NotPadme and gets her safely off Coruscant and takes her back to Alderaan. Obiwan rushes to the tell Anakin what has happened. During this time, Anakin is leading an assault on a, now revealed, Mandalorian Carrier that was the base for the attacks in republic space. After they have achieved victory, Anakin receives the WRONG news that NotPadme was killed in the attempt. The friends miss each other as Anakin rushes back to Coruscant in a rage. There is a confrontation between Stu and Anakin. This should be an entertaining fight, because only one of them is actually armed with a lightsaber. During this battle we learn that Stu is not a jedi, he was expelled by Obiwan back in Act One. All of this is revenge on Obiwan and his prize student. Stu taught’s him about being the “Great Anakin Skywalker.” The Battle ends with Stu losing his lightsaber and Anakin holding Stu where it appears they will die together. He tells Stu that he is too weak to be a jedi, “Are you afraid to die? Jedi don’t give into fear. I have NO fear of death… now. You are just pathetic.” He pulls Stu with him to their apparent mutual demise. As the scene ends, we see a hand grasping to life, but we don’t show to whom it belongs.
Obiwan arrives on Coruscant and goes to Anakin’s quarter, which are deserted. There he finds a holo-message from Stu. “By the time you see this, your prize student will be no more.” Obiwan closes his eyes in sadness and suddenly feels a disturbance in the force. He alerts all of his sense and runs what appears to be aimlessly until he finds himself at another murder scene with the cloak and masked individual. Obiwan lights his saber and the cloaked figure ignites his RED saber. Obiwan will be on the losing side of this battle because he is a true Jedi (knowledge and defense) and he is not accustomed to being attacked by a force wielder. Finally, the mask is removed and the killer is revealed to be… one of the Jedi from EP1 and Anakin’s Student from EP2. Obiwan says his name. The dark jedi spit the name from his mouth. “That was my Jedi name. A sign of my own weakness. Call me Darth BlaBla.” Obiwan distraught cries, “How could you commit all of those murders?” Darth responds, “You think I accomplished all this alone? There are more of us than you realize. Your own student is one of us. Your time is passed, Jedi. You could never do what was needed to be done. All the hopes of the republic lie not with your pathetic order, but with us… THE SITH!” The Battle ends like ESB, Obiwan BARELY survives (Maybe a little lightening to show OFFENSIVE use of the force and really surprise Obiwan).
The falling action shows NotPadme crying over Anakin’s “death” and Bail consoling her. Tarkin (Palpatine’s right hand man) arrives on Alderaan and requests Bail’s support. The senate is still untrusting of each other and they need a single voice to get behind in these uncertain times. Bail is reluctant to give ANY person THAT MUCH power. Tarkin convinces him, because Palpatine is not only trusted by many, but as an aging gentleman, he has no agenda of political aspiration (those are a young man’s games), so what harm could giving him this temporary power cause? We end on Palpatine accepting the responsibility and promising to bring an end to the Mandalorian threat once and for all.
Story wise, two things are important:
1) Stu is a red herring. We need to make it look like he is the killer, but me must also make sure that Anakin could be it (on a lesser scale),too. When the Darth tells Obiwan about his student being a Sith, HE MEANS ANAKIN, but we want Obiwan and the audience to think he means Stu. Stu is never actually a Sith, he is a fail jedi masquerading as a real one, thus he should still have a blue lightsaber. Conveniently, some of the murders should be people opposed to things that Palpatine is trying to achieve (which will still be explained as clones).
2) Palpatine must NEVER come across as sinister. He should seem to be desperately trying to save the republic, but show what could this poor, weak, elderly man actually do. That’s how he gets these Jedi that feel confined by the jedi code to become sith (it will be explained in EP3).