A scene from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 1983
Emperor Palpatine

Welcome, Young Skywalker, I have been expecting you. You no longer need those. [uses the Force to detach Luke's cuffs] Guards, leave us. [the red guards leave the room] I'm looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call me master.

Luke Skywalker

You're gravely mistaken. You won't convert me as you did my father.

Emperor Palpatine

Oh no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken. About a great many things.

Darth Vader

[hands Luke's lightsaber to the Emperor]

His lightsaber.

Emperor Palpatine

Ah yes, a Jedi's weapon, much like your father's. By now you must know that your father can never be turned from the Dark Side. So will it be with you.

Luke Skywalker

You're wrong. Soon I'll be dead, and you with me.

Emperor Palpatine

[laughing]

Perhaps you refer to the imminent attack of your Rebel fleet? Yes, I assure you, we are quite safe from your friends here.

Luke Skywalker

Your overconfidence is your weakness.

Emperor Palpatine

Your faith in your friends is yours.

Darth Vader

It is pointless to resist, my son.

Emperor Palpatine

Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. [mockingly] Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

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