Posted by Booboo_Kittiefukk at idxcmb01-28.idx.com.au on July 31, 2002 at 05:18:45:
Here's a little something I received in my email. Thought you all might enjoy it ^_^
> Alternative ending to The Empire Strikes Back
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>A furious light sabre duel is under way. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE
>SKYWALKER toward 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 round, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down.
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>DARTH VADER: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
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>LUKE: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
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>DARTH VADER: No! I am your father!
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>LUKE: No, it's not true! It's impossible.
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>DARTH VADER: Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
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>LUKE: NO!
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>DARTH VADER: Yes, it is true and you know what else? You know that brass
>droid of yours?
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>LUKE: Threepio?
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>DARTH VADER: Yes, Threepio, I built him when I was seven years old.
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>LUKE: No!
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>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.
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>LUKE: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
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>DARTH VADER: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly
>destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
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>LUKE: Well, it's not my fault.
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>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!
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>LUKE: Shut up.
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>DARTH VADER: You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had
>exterminated the Jedi knights!
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>LUKE: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon...
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>DARTH VADER: Oh, for the love of the Emperor, 10 years old, winner of >the Boonta Eve Open. Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer, right here >baby!
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>Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step toward it.
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>DARTH VADER: I was wrong. You're not my kid. I don't know whose you are,
>but you sure ain't mine.
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>Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the >shaft. Darth Vader looks down after him.
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>DARTH VADER: And get a haircut!