There's going to be an extra scene included in the DVD release of EMPIRE
STRIKES BACK coming up next year!
Basically, it expands on the scene where Vader reveals his fatherhood to
Luke, and ties up some loose ends created with the release of Episode 1...
The Empire Strikes Back: Extra-Special Edition
INT: BESPIN GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER:
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing
LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry.
A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning
off into the ventilation shaft.
Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to
go but straight down.
- Darth Vader:
- Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
- Luke:
- He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
- Darth Vader:
- No... I am your father!
- Luke:
- No, it's not true! It's impossible.
- Darth Vader:
- Search your feelings... You know it to be true...
- Luke:
- NO!
- Darth Vader:
- Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know that brass droid of
yours?
- Luke:
- Threepio?
- Darth Vader:
- Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was seven years old...
- Luke:
- No...
- Darth Vader:
- Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself -- no hand, no
job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp...
- Luke:
- I destroyed your precious Death Star!
- Darth Vader:
- When you were twenty! When I was ten, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade
Federation Droid Control ship!
- Luke:
- Well, it's not my fault...
- Darth Vader:
- Oh, here we go... "Poor me... My father never gave me what I wanted for
my birthday... Boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith... Waahhh
wahhh!"
- Luke:
- Shut up...
- Darth Vader:
- You're a slacker! By the time I was you're age, I had exterminated the
Jedi knights!
- Luke:
- I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon...
- Darth Vader:
- Oh, for the love of the Emperor... Ten years old, winner of the Boonta Eve
Open... Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer... Right here, baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.
- Darth Vader:
- I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know whose you are, but you
sure ain't mine...
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down
the shaft.
Darth Vader looks after him.
- Darth Vader:
- Get a haircut!
[Note - making the rounds unattributed - ed.]