[Update: this script has been written and archived here in Adobe Reader format (with this collection of my scripts).]
This is a sequel to TACO that reverses the situation in that film, with the German singing fellow arriving confused at a taco joint and singing to request a taco. Together with TACO and an as yet unwritten third, they will form THE FOOD TRILOGY.
Note - I think some as-yet unspecified event brings Luke’s grief for his father to the surface. Further, he may feel rage over a sense of betrayal. In THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK he called to Ben for closure, and hasn’t had it. I think he wants three things - 1)The ability to grieve for his newfound identification with his father 2)His father back - which he doesn’t realize right now - too much distraction with greif and also distraction with 3)His mentor back and a sense that someone in the universe understands him.
Someone said not to make a person’s objective to be understood/loved. Why? On the contrary I think this is the core objective of most people: the paradox is that acceptance comes (from those who will give it) when you understand and accept them first.
Also - I employ what I suppose must be an archetype here: sight of the sightless. The 3rd Matrix film used it and probably pulled it from the “collective unconsious” of humanity.
EXT. TATTOOINE ? BEN KENOBI’S ABANDONED HOME ? DUSK
A lone X-wing lowers to Ben’s home and lands. A figure jumps out of the X- wing and runs to the entrance of Ben’s home. It is Luke, his soul rent and enraged. R2-D2 lowers out of the X-wing droid slot and follows Luke into the home.
INT. ? BEN KENOBI’S HOME - FRONT ENTRY
Luke runs into the home in a furor, forgetting to close the door. Standing in the front entry and calling for Ben, who doesn’t show, Luke flies into a rage of SCREAMING AT BEN/VADER, his two fathers, and while he is at it Owen, about abandonment and turmoil (writ unknown). It is more than he can bear and he settles into a post-traumatic memory burial trance. The trauma won’t bury. His unconscious is aware of available help: consciousness isn’t. It exhausts him and he collapses unconscious.
EXT. - BEN KENOBI’S HOME ? NIGHT SANDSTORM ?
The sandstorm SCREAMS VIOLENTLY across the land. Impenetrable, powerful dark umber and orange gashes of sand SCREAM ENDLESSLY along our view.
INT. ? BEN KENOBI’S HOME ? MAIN ROOM
The SCREAMING of the sandstorm continues outside. Luke lies unconscious on the ground. R2 has dragged Luke into the main room and sealed the inner door. LUKE’S POV - All is deaf silent as Luke awakens. His bearing is off. 3RD POV - the sandstorm screams outside; Artoo CHIRPS a greeting to luke. LUKE’S POV - DEAD SILENT - Luke recollects consciousness and remembers why he is here. Vader, the unburied dead. Horror, grief. He inhales slowly, exhales sharply:
I might build off this silly short song to make a short film.
O hello you Christmas people
There’s a place for you today
In the cluck, cluck, coo, coo barn-house
Lay the child in a traugh with hay