Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Hayden Christensen: Anakin Skywalker

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• Obi-Wan : Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?

  Anakin : Don't say that, master. You're the closest thing I have to a father.

• Anakin : Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love.

• Anakin : When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.

  Padme : Aggressive negotiations? What's that?

  Anakin : Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber.

• Padme : We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.

  Anakin : I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.

• Anakin : You call this a diplomatic solution?

  Padme : No, I call it aggressive negotiations.

• [while chasing Padme's assassin, Obi-Wan and Anakin track her to a nightclub] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?

  Anakin Skywalker : Don't say that Master... You're the closest thing I have to a father... I love you. I don't want to cause you pain.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Then why don't you listen to me?

  Anakin Skywalker : I try, Master.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Can you see him?

  Anakin Skywalker : I think he's a she... and I think she's a Changeling.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : In that case be extra careful. Go and find her.

  [He heads towards the bar] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Where are you going, Master?

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : For a drink.

  [while Anakin searches the nightclub for the assassin, Obi-Wan sits down at the counter, and the dealer to his right turns to him] 

  Elan Sleazebaggano : You wanna buy some death-sticks?

  [Obi-Wan executes the Jedi Mind Trick] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : You don't want to sell me death sticks.

  Elan Sleazebaggano : Ah, I don't want to sell you death sticks.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : You want to go home and rethink your life.

  Elan Sleazebaggano : I want to go home and rethink my life.

  [Elan leaves. The assassin closes in on Obi-Wan, but just before she can shoot him, he turns around and uses his lightsaber to cut off her arm. Anakin is suddenly at Obi-Wan's side] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Easy... Jedi business. Go back to your drinks.

• Anakin : From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breath. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me... what can I do?- I will do anything you ask.

  [uncomfortable pause] 

  Anakin : ... if you are suffering as much as I am, PLEASE, tell me.

• Anakin : If you are suffering as much as I am, please tell me.

  Padme : I can't... We can't... It's not possible.

  Anakin : Anything is possible, Padme, listen to me.

  Padme : No you listen! We live in a real world, come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi, I'm... I'm a senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, it will take us to a place we cannot go, regardless of the way we feel about each other.

  Anakin : Then you do feel something!

  Padme : I will not let you give up your future for me.

  Anakin : You're asking me to be rational. That is something that I know I cannot do. Believe me, I wish I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't.

• Padme : Please don't look at me like that.

  Anakin : Why not?

  Padme : Because it makes me feel uncomfortable.

  Anakin : Sorry my lady.

• [Anakin and Padme are about to be carted into the arena] 

  Anakin : Don't be afraid.

  Padme : I'm not afraid to die. I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.

  Anakin : What are you talking about?

  Padme : I love you.

  Anakin : You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives.

  Padme : I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. I truly... deeply... love you and before we die I want you to know.

• Padmé Amidala : You're not all-powerful, Ani.

  Anakin Skywalker : Well, I should be.

• Padme : You're making fun of me!

  Anakin : Oh, no, I'd be too frightened to tease a senator!

• Obi-Wan : What took you so long?

  Anakin : Well, you know, Master, I couldn't find a speeder that I really liked...

  Obi-Wan : There he is.

  Anakin : ...with an open cockpit and the right speed capabilities.

  Obi-Wan : If you spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you did your wit, you'd rival Master Yoda as a swordsman.

  Anakin : I thought I already did.

  Obi-Wan : Only in your mind, my very young apprentice.

• Anakin : [telling Padme about the Sand People]  I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead... every single one of them. And not just the men. But the women... and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM!

• Padme : To be angry is to be human.

  Anakin : I'm a Jedi. I can be better than this.

• Padme : Ani? My goodness, you've grown.

  Anakin : So have you, grown more beautiful... for a senator, I mean.

  Padme : Ani, you'll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine.

• [while pursuing Count Dooku, a laserblast knocks Padme out of the gunship] 

  Anakin : PADME!

  [to pilot] 

  Anakin : Put the ship down!

  Obi-Wan : Anakin! Don't let your personal feelings get in the way!

  [to pilot] 

  Obi-Wan : Follow that speeder.

  Anakin : Lower the ship!

  Obi-Wan : I can't take Dooku alone! I need you! If we catch him, we can end this war right now! We have a job to do!

  Anakin : I don't care! Put the ship down!

  Obi-Wan : You will be expelled from the Jedi order!

  Anakin : I CAN'T LEAVE HER!

  Obi-Wan : COME TO YOUR SENSES! What do you think Padme would do were she in your position?

  Anakin : [pause]  She would do her duty.

• Anakin : It doesn't have to be that way. We could keep it a secret.

  Padme : We'd be living a lie. One we couldn't keep, even if we wanted to. I couldn't do that. Could you, Anakin? Could you live like that?

• Anakin : One day, I will become the greatest Jedi EVER. I will even learn how to stop people from dying.

• Obi-Wan Kenobi : Captain Typho has more than enough men downstairs. No assassin will try that way. Any activity up here?

  Anakin Skywalker : Quiet as a tomb. I don't like just waiting here for something to happen to her.

  [Obi-Wan checks a palm-sized view scanner he has pulled out of his utility belt. It views R2D2, over by the door, but no sign of Padme's bed] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : What's going on?

  Anakin Skywalker : [shrugs]  She covered the cameras. I don't think she liked me watching her.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : What is she thinking?

  Anakin Skywalker : She programmed R2 to warn us if there's an intruder.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : It's not an intruder I'm worried about. There are many other ways to kill a Senator.

  Anakin Skywalker : I know, but we also want to catch this assassin. Don't we, Master?

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : You're using her as bait?

  Anakin Skywalker : It was her idea... Don't worry, no harm will come to her. I can sense everything going on in that room. Trust me.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : It's too risky... besides, your senses aren't that attuned, young apprentice.

  Anakin Skywalker : And yours are?

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Possibly.

  [Cuts to a shot of Zam Wesell loading a probe droid and dispatching it. When it cuts back, Anakin and Obi-Wan have moved their conversation to the balcony] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : You look tired.

  Anakin Skywalker : I don't sleep well anymore.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Because of your mother?

  Anakin Skywalker : I don't know why I keep dreaming about her now. I haven't seen her since I was little.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Dreams pass in time.

  Anakin Skywalker : I'd rather dream of Padmé. Just being around her again is... intoxicating.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Be mindful of your thoughts, Anakin, they betray you. You've made a commitment to the Jedi Order... a commitment not easily broken... and don't forget she's a politician. They're not to be trusted.

  [the probe droid cuts a hole into Padme's window. R2 awakens, but when he sees no alarm, he shuts off] 

  Anakin Skywalker : She's not like the others in the Senate, Master.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : It's been my experience that Senators are only focused on pleasing those who fund their campaigns... and they are more than willing to forget the niceties of democracy to get those funds.

  Anakin Skywalker : Not another lecture, Master. Not on the economics of politics...

  [They return to the main room] 

  Anakin Skywalker : ... and besides, you're generalizing. The Chancellor doesn't appear to be corrupt.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Palpatine's a politician. I've observed that he is very clever at following the passions and prejudices of the Senators.

  [R2 sounds an alarm as the poisonous Kohuns get within inches of Padme's face] 

  Anakin Skywalker : I think he is a good man. My instincts are very positive about...

  [He stops] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : I sense it, too.

  [They move and quickly kill the Kohuns] 

• Anakin : If you'll excuse me Master.

  [Anakin jumps out of the speeder] 

  Obi-Wan : I hate it when he does that.

• Padme : It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or do the things you like.

  Anakin : Or be with the people I love.

  Padme : Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi.

• [Anakin visits Watto's place on Tatooine. The following dialogue between Anakin and Watto is in Huttese] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Chut, chut, Watto.

  [Excuse me, Watto] 

  Watto : Ke Booda?

  [What?] 

  Watto : Di nova, "Chut, chut."

  [I said, "Excuse me."] 

  Watto : [turns to his pit droids]  Go ana bopa!

  [Translation: "Shut Down". The pit droids obey] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Ding mi chasa hopa.

  [Translation: "Let me help you with that". Anakin starts to fidget with a piece of equipment] 

  Watto : Ke booda? Yo baan pee hota. No wega mi condorta. Kin chasa du Jedi. No bata tu tu.

  [What? I don't know you... What can I do for you? You look like a Jedi. Whatever it is... I didn't do it] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Mi boska di Shmi Skywalker.

  [I'm looking for Shmi Skywalker] 

  Anakin Skywalker : [Watto eyes Anakin, and then Padme and starts speaking English] 

  Watto : Annie? Little Annie? Naaah!

  [the piece of equipment Anakin has been tinkering with comes to life] 

  Watto : You are Annie! It is you! Ya sure sprouted! Weehoo! A Jedi! Waddya know? Hey, maybe you couldda help wit some deadbeats who owe me a lot of money...

  Anakin Skywalker : My mother...

  Watto : Oh, yeah. Shmi... she's not mine no more. I sold her.

  Anakin Skywalker : Sold her?

  Watto : Years ago. Sorry, Annie, but you know, business is business. Sold her to a moisture farmer named Lars. Least I think it was Lars. Believe it or not, I heard he freed her and married her. Can ya beat that?

  Anakin Skywalker : Do you know where they are?

  Watto : Long way from here... someplace over on the other side of Mos Eisley, I think...

  Anakin Skywalker : I'd like to know.

  Watto : Yeah... sure... absolutely. Let's go look in my records.

• Anakin : You're going to pay for all the Jedi that you killed today, Dooku.

  Obi-Wan : We'll take him together. You go in slowly on the left...

  Anakin : No, I'm taking him NOW!

  Obi-Wan : No Anakin, NO!

• [Cliegg Lars is telling Anakin about what happened to Shmi] 

  Cliegg Lars : It was just before dawn. They came out of nowhere. A hunting party of Tusken Raiders. Your mother had gone out early, like she always did, to pick mushrooms that grow on the vaporators. From the tracks, she was about halfway home when they took her. Those Tuskens walk like men, but they're vicious, mindless monsters. Thirty of us went out after her. Four of us came back. I'd be with them, only... after I lost my leg I just couldn't ride any more... until I heal. I don't want to give up on her, but she's been gone a month. There's little hope she's lasted this long.

  [Anakin gets up from the table] 

  Owen Lars : Where are you going?

  Anakin : To find my mother.

  Cliegg Lars : Your mother's dead, son. Accept it.

• Anakin : We will find out who's trying to kill you, Padmé. I promise you.

• Anakin : You're the closest thing I have to a father.

  Obi-Wan : Then why don't you listen to me?

• Obi-Wan : Just relax, concentrate.

  Anakin : What about Padme?

  Obi-Wan : She seems to be on top of things.

• Anakin : It's all Obi-Wan's fault. He's jealous. He's holding me back.

• Obi-Wan : I was beginning to wonder if you'd got my message.

  Anakin : I retransmitted it to Coruscant, just as you'd requested, Master. Then we decided to come and rescue you.

  Obi-Wan : [looks at his handcuffed hands]  Good job.

• Anakin : When I'm around you, my mind is no longer my own.

• [to Pademe] 

  Anakin : Oh don't worry, I've given up trying to argue with you.

• Padme : I do not like this idea of hiding.

  Anakin : Sometimes we must do what is requested of us.

• Palpatine : You don't need guidance, Anakin. In time, you will learn to trust your feelings. Then, you will be invincible. I have said it many times, you are the most gifted Jedi I have ever met.

  Anakin : Thank you, Your Excellency.

  Palpatine : I see you becoming the greatest of all the Jedi, Anakin. Even more powerful than Master Yoda.

• Anakin : I wasn't strong enough to save you mom. I wasn't strong enough, but I promise I won't fail again.

• Anakin : I've got a bad feeling about this.

• [Anakin uses his Force levitation to slice a fruit for Padme] 

  Anakin : If Obi-Wan caught me doing that, he would be very grumpy.

• Anakin : [about Amidala]  Just being around her again is... intoxicating.

• [In the speeder, while chasing the assassin] 

  Obi-Wan : You know I don't like it when you do that.

  Anakin : Sorry, master. I forgot that you don't like flying.

  Obi-Wan : I don't mind flying, but what you're doing is suicide.

• Obi-Wan : Anakin, may the force be with you.

  Anakin : May the force be with you, Master.

• Anakin : She went into the club, master.

  Obi-Wan : Patience. Use the force. Think.

• Anakin : Excuse me, I'm in charge of security here, milady.

• C-3PO : Master Owen, may I present two most important visitors?

  Anakin : I'm Anakin Skywalker.

  Owen Lars : [intrigued, but wary, tone]  Owen Lars. This is my girlfriend, Beru.

  Beru : Hello.

  Padme : I'm Padme.

  Owen Lars : Well... I guess I'm your stepbrother. I had a feeling you might show up someday.

  Anakin : Is my mother here?

  [a one-legged Cliegg Lars appears] 

  Cliegg Lars : No, she's not. Cliegg Lars. Shmi is my wife. Come inside, we've got a lot to talk about.

• Anakin : I'm a Jedi.

  Watto : A Jedi. Whaddya know?

• [Anakin's lightsaber is broken in half] 

  Anakin : Not again. Obi-Wan's going to kill me.

• Anakin : Jedi business. Go back to your drinks.

• Anakin : Mem boshka de Shmi Skywalker.

  [I'm looking for Shmi Skywalker] 

  Watto : Ani? Little Ani? It is you!

• Obi-Wan : It's a great pleasure to see you again, milady.

  Padme : It has been far too long, Master Kenobi. Ani? My goodness you've grown.

  Anakin : So have you. Grown more beautiful, I mean. Well, for a Senator I mean.

• Count Dooku : That was brave, boy, but foolish. I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson.

  Anakin : I'm a slow learner.

• Obi-Wan : Where are you going? He went that way!

  Anakin : Master, if we keep this chase going any longer that creep is gonna end up deep fried. And personally, I'd very much like to find out who he is, and who he's working for. This is a short cut... I think.

  Obi-Wan : Well, you've lost him!

• Anakin : I've heard this lesson before.

  Obi-Wan : You haven't learned anything, Anakin.

• [after Obi-Wan injures Zam inside the Night Club, Anakin and Obi-Wan drag her out into the alley to interrogate her] 

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : Do you know who it was you were trying to kill?

  Zam Wesell : It was a Senator from Naboo.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : And who hired you?

  Zam Wesell : It was just a job.

  Anakin Skywalker : Who hired you? Tell us.

  [Zam stays silent; Anakin raises his tone with anger] 

  Anakin Skywalker : Tell us now!

  Zam Wesell : It was a bounty hunter called...

  [Zam is suddenly shot in the neck by a toxic dart; Anakin and Obi-Wan see a "rocket-man" take off and fly away, and Zam dies] 

• Anakin : You're asking me to be rational. I know that is something I cannot do.

• Obi-Wan : You look tired.

  Anakin : I haven't had much sleep of late.

  Obi-Wan : Because of your mother?

  [Anakin nods] 

  Obi-Wan : ...Dreams pass in time.

• Anakin Skywalker : [as he and Obi-Wan come running to Count Dooku]  You're gonna pay for all the Jedi that you killed today, Dooku.

  Obi-Wan : We'll take him together.

  Anakin Skywalker : You go slowly while I take him now!

  [runs toward Dooku] 

  Obi-Wan : No! Anakin, no! No!

  [Dooku electrifies Anakin with his hands] 

  Count Dooku : [to Obi-Wan]  As you see, my Jedi powers are far beyond yours. Now, back up.

  [tries to electrify Obi-Wan, who blocks the electricity with his lightsaber] 

  Obi-Wan : I don't think so.

  [Dooku ignites lightsaber and fights] 

  Count Dooku : Master Kenobi, you disappoint me. Yoda holds you in such high esteem.

  [fights more] 

  Count Dooku : Surely you can do better!

• Anakin : Someday I will be the most powerful Jedi ever.

• Anakin Skywalker : He's overly critical.

• Anakin : Mom?

  Shmi Skywalker : [wounded]  Ani? Ani, is that you?

  Anakin : I'm here, Mom. You're safe.

  Shmi Skywalker : Ani? Ani? Oh, you look so handsome. My son. Oh, my grown-up son. I'm so proud of you, Ani.

  Anakin : I missed you.

• Obi-Wan Kenobi : You know I don't like it when you do that!

  Anakin Skywalker : Sorry, Master. I forgot you don't like flying.

  Obi-Wan Kenobi : I don't mind flying, but what *you're* doing is suicide!