01x04 - The Sith Lord

[bunniefuu]

[Jedi murmuring]

[beeps]

[door opens, closes]

[beeping]

[electronic voice]
Archive memory access.

Please enter security
clearance code.

[beeping]

[electronic voice] Code
accepted, Master Sifo-Dyas.

Planet Kamino.

[beeping]

[electronic voice]
Kamino location deleted.

Kamino archive data deleted.

[chattering]

What's causing all the
excitement, Master Jocasta?

Your apprentice.

Qui-Gon?

Yes, it would seem he has
encountered a Sith Lord,

or so he claimed to
the Jedi High Council.

Where was this encounter?

Tatooine. Yes, I
think that was it.

Deep in the Outer
Rim, of course.

Qui-Gon Jinn always had
such an active imagination.

As did you, Dooku.

A quality valued less and
less in these great halls.

[chattering]

I guess word travels fast.

Well, your statements to the
Council were rather surprising.

[Dooku] Qui-Gon.

Master.

I heard of your
report to the Council.

Tell me about this mysterious
attacker on Tatooine.

I encountered a highly skilled warrior,
one obviously trained in the Jedi arts.

And you believe it
was a Sith Lord?

Yes.

I gather the Council was not
eager to validate that conclusion?

No, they were not, Master.

I've been warning them about
the coming darkness for years,

never to be taken seriously.

Speaking on behalf of the Council,
there's no reason to cause undue alarm.

So, you doubt his claim?

No. I do not.

But the wisdom of the Council is
to be cautious until we know more.

Master Yaddle is
right about one thing.

A Sith Lord is not
to be trifled with.

And I will not be there to
protect you, my old Padawan.

You need not worry, Master.

Obi-Wan fills that role now.

He acquits himself quite well.

That's good. I should
like to meet him someday.

You're always
singing his praises.

Master Dooku, are you all right?

They grow up so
fast, our students.

Yes, it is the way of things.

Indeed.

I must take my leave.

I used to bring
Qui-Gon here as a boy.

He was fascinated
with this tree.

Having been born here on Coruscant,
a planet of steel and stone…

he knew nothing like it.

The Council is leaving for Naboo.
The funeral is to be held there.

[thunder rumbling]

I doubt I will be
pleasant company.

You hold them accountable?

Qui-Gon Jinn has become
one with the Force.

It is time to let him go.

And you can do this?

What choice have I?

[thunder rumbling]

[controls beeping]

[ship powers down]

You've gone too far!

I don't know what you mean.

Qui-Gon Jinn. You
allowed Maul to k*ll him.

You lost an apprentice,
and so did I.

All in service of
our greater goals.

The galaxy will not be
remade without sacrifice.

He could've been
a powerful ally.

For you, perhaps.

[Dooku] You question my loyalty?

Always.

I have done
everything you asked.

And I will ask more of
you, if we are to succeed.

Sifo-Dyas, Kamino, the Clones.

I have betrayed everyone
and everything I know.

[Sidious] No, you have been
loyal to a greater cause.

How many have d*ed
because of my actions?

Such is the price of freedom.

[Yaddle] No!

This ends here, Sith Lord.

So, I have been betrayed?

No!

Dooku, step to me. Whatever
your crimes are, help me now.

Then you heard? You know.

That does not matter.

Don't believe her.

Whatever lies he's told
you, whatever you have done,

you can make up for it now
by bringing him to justice.

[Sidious] Remember
what you told me.

The Jedi blindly serve a corrupt Senate
that fails the Republic it represents.

Do you want to prove
your loyalty? k*ll her!

There is still a chance
to make things right.

I'm afraid...

I know you are.

I'm afraid it is too late.

[lightsaber ignites]

No.

[Yaddle] I am on
your side, Dooku.

I stepped down from my
position on the Council.

You were right about
so many things.

The Council should've listened.

Qui-Gon did not have to die.

[Sidious cackles]

[Dooku] Running back
to your Council?

It is you who has run, Dooku,

into the arms of evil.

[Sidious] You have done
well, my apprentice.

Rise, my friend.

Master.

[rumbling]

I want only to bring peace
and order to the galaxy.

Already so many have suffered
for what you call "order".

Then let me give you
peace, Master Yaddle.

[lightsaber impacts]