Rey I know this place.
Built a thousand generations ago to keep these. The original Jedi texts. Just like me, they're the last of the Jedi religion. You've seen this place. You've seen this island.
Rey [whispering]
Only in my dreams.
Rey The Resistance sent me.
They sent you? What's special about you? Where are you from?
Rey Nowhere.
Rey Jakku.
All right, that is pretty much nowhere. Why are you here, Rey from nowhere?
Rey The Resistance sent me. We need your help. The First Order has become unstoppable–
Rey Something inside me has always been there... but now it's awake, and I'm afraid. I don't know what it is, or what to do with it, and I need help.
You need a teacher. I can't teach you.
Rey Why not? I've seen your daily routine. You are not busy.
I will never train another generation of Jedi. I came to this island to die. It's time for the Jedi... to end.
Rey Why? Leia sent me here with hope. If she was wrong, she deserves to know why. We all do.
Rey Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force. Without the Jedi, we won't stand a chance against him.
What do you know about the Force?
Rey It's a power the Jedi have that lets them control people and... make things float.
Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong. Lesson one. Sit here, legs crossed. The Force is not a power you have. It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things, a tension, a balance that binds the universe together.
Rey Okay. But what is it?
Close your eyes. [Rey closes her eyes] Breathe. [Rey takes a deep breath] Now... reach out. [Rey literally reaches her hand out and Luke, after a moment's disbelief, starts tickling her hand with a leaf]
Rey [gasps, feeling the tickle]
I feel something!
Rey Yes, I feel it!
Rey Really?
Wow, it must be really strong with you!
Rey I've never felt any... [Luke smacks her with the leaf] Ow! You meant, reach out, like-- I'll try again. [closes her eyes]
Breathe. Just breathe. Reach out with your feelings. What do you see?
Rey The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence.
Rey Balance. An energy. A Force.
Rey Inside me, that same Force.
And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?
Rey There's something else... beneath the island. A place. A dark place.
Balance. Powerful light, powerful darkness.
Rey [Rock beneath her starts to crack]
It's cold. It's calling me.
Resist it, Rey. [no response] Rey? [no response] REY! [no response] [Rey snaps out of the vision] You went straight to the dark.
Rey That place was trying to show me something.
It offered something you needed. And you didn't even try to stop yourself.
Rey But I didn't see you. Nothing from you. You've closed yourself off from the Force. Of course you have.
I've seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo. It didn't scare me enough then. It does now.
Why is the Force connecting us? You and I?
Rey Murderous snake! You're too late! You've lost! I've found Skywalker!
Did he tell you what happened? The night I destroyed his temple, did he tell you why?
Rey I know everything I need to know about you.
You do? Oh, you do. You have that look in your eyes, from the forest. When you called me a monster.
Rey You are a monster.
Lesson two. Now that they're extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.
Rey That's not true!
At the height of their powers, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire, and wipe them out. It was a Jedi Master who was responsible for the training and creation of Darth Vader.
Rey And a Jedi who saved him. Yes, the most hated man in the galaxy. But you saw there was conflict inside him. You believed that he wasn't gone. That he could be turned.
And I became a legend. For many years, there was balance, and then I saw... Ben. My nephew with that mighty Skywalker blood. And in my hubris, I thought I could train him; I could pass on my strengths. Han was... Han about it, but... Leia trusted me with her son. I took him, and a dozen students, and began a training temple. By the time I realized I was no match for the darkness rising in him, it was too late.
Rey What happened?
I went to confront him, and he turned on me. He must've thought I was dead. When I came to, the temple was burning. He had vanished with a handful of my students, and slaughtered the rest. Leia blamed Snoke, but... it was me. I failed. Because I was Luke Skywalker. Jedi Master. A legend.
Rey The galaxy may need a legend. I need someone to show me my place in all this. And you didn't fail Kylo. Kylo failed you. I won't.
Rey I'd rather not do this now.
Rey Why did you hate your father? [Ren turns around shirtless] Do you have something? A cowl, or something you could put on? Why did you hate your father? Give me an honest answer. You had a father who loved you! He gave a damn about you!
Rey Then why?
"Why" what? [pauses] "Why" what? Say it.
Rey [sobbing]
Why did you... why did you kill him? I don't understand.
[seeing something inside Rey]
No? Your parents threw you away like garbage.
Rey They didn't!
They did, but you can't stop needing them. It's your greatest weakness. Looking for them everywhere, in Han Solo, and now in Skywalker. Did he tell you what happened that night?
Rey Yes.
No. He'd sensed my power, as he senses yours, and he feared it.
Rey [stunned at what she just heard]
Liar.
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. That's the only way to become what you were meant to be.
Rey [having returned to her hut after her ordeal in the Mirror Cave]
I thought I'd find answers here. I was wrong. I've never felt so alone.
Rey Neither are you.
[Rey and Ren reach out to each other through the Force. Luke notices them touching hands]
STOP!!!
Rey [Rey and Ren look at Luke angrily. Luke uses the Force to push the hut apart. Rey searches for Ren, who has vanished] [turns to Luke]
Is it true? Did you try to murder him?!
Rey [Luke storms off into the rain, but Rey follows after him]
Stop... STOP! [knocks Luke down in the back of the head with her quarterstaff] Did you do it?! Did you create Kylo Ren?! [the two proceed to fight each other along the cliffside until she gets the upper hand, forcing Luke into submission with Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber] Tell me the truth.
I saw darkness. I sensed it building in him. I'd seen it in moments during his training. But then I looked inside, and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction and pain and death, and the end of everything I love because of what he will become, and for the briefest moment of pure instinct, I thought I could stop it. It passed like a fleeting shadow, and I was left with shame and with consequence. And the last thing I saw were the eyes of a frightened boy whose Master had failed him.
Rey You failed him by thinking his choice was made. It wasn't! There's still conflict in him. If he would turn from the dark side, that could shift the tide! This could be how we win!
This is not going to go the way you think.
Rey It is. Just now, when we touched hands, I saw his future. As solid as I'm seeing you. If I go to him, Ben Solo will turn.
Rey [shows Luke his father's lightsaber]
Then he is our last hope.
S Snoke
I did not expect Skywalker to be so wise! We will give him and the Jedi Order the death he desires. After the Rebels are gone, we will go to his planet and obliterate the entire island. [Rey tries to use the Force to take Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, but Snoke uses it to hit her on the head] Such spunk. Look here now. [uses the Force to move Rey toward the viewport to show her the Resistance transport ships being destroyed one by one] The entire Resistance on those transports. Soon, they will all be gone. For you, all is lost. [Rey uses the Force to take Ren's lightsaber] Oh, still that fiery spit of hope? You have the spirit of a true Jedi! [Rey charges at Snoke with Ren's lightsaber. Snoke picks her up with the Force and she lands in front of Ren. His lightsaber spins around and stops in front of him] And because of that... you must die. [uses the Force and turns Rey toward Ren] My worthy apprentice, son of darkness, heir apparent to Lord Vader. Where there was conflict, I now sense resolve. Where there was weakness, strength. Complete your training, and fulfill your destiny.
[picks up his lightsaber]
I know what I have to do.
Rey Ben...
S Snoke
[laughs]
You think you can turn him? Pathetic child, I cannot be betrayed. I cannot be beaten. I see his mind: I see his every intent. Yes. I see him turning the lightsaber to strike true! [without Snoke knowing, Ren uses the Force to face Anakin's lightsaber toward him] And now, foolish child, he ignites it... and KILLS HIS TRUE ENEMY!!!
[Ren uses the Force to ignite Anakin's lightsaber and Snoke is cut in half at the waist. The lightsaber flies back into Rey's hand. Ren ignites his own lightsaber and he and Rey fight Snoke's Praetorian guards]
It's time to let old things die. Snoke, Skywalker, the Sith, the Jedi, the Rebels; Let it all die. Rey... I want you to join me. We can rule together and bring a new order to the galaxy!
Rey [starting to tear up]
Don't do this, Ben. Please, don't go this way.
No, no, you're still... holding on! Let go! [quickly calms down] Do you want to know the truth about your parents? Or have you always known? And you've just hidden it away. You know the truth. Say it. [Rey continues to tear up] Say it.
Rey [tearfully]
They were nobody.
They were filthy junk traders, who sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You have no place in this story; you come from nothing. You're nothing... but not to me. Join me. [he extends his hand towards Rey] Please.
