Monroville said:

cap said:

Monroville said:

Vader would be smart enough to know that eventually Luke would go to save his friend Han from Jabba, and being that Luke came from Tatooine to begin with, it would be no different than cops staking out a criminal's parents or girlfriend's home.

Vader is under explicit instructions from the Emperor not to go after Luke, but to wait for Luke to come to him.

True, but Vader wouldn't be above disobeying the Emperor for his own agenda, provided of course he could talk his way out of any punishment.

True, but Vader and the Emperor aren’t really working at cross purposes here. They both want to turn Luke to the Dark Side. The Emperor believes that the best way to accomplish that goal is to wait for Luke to come to Vader instead of going after him and grabbing him, and I think Vader trusts his master’s wisdom. Certainly he does later in the film, when he tells the Emperor that Luke has landed on Endor, the Emperor tells him to go to the moon and wait for Luke to come to him, and he does as he is instructed.