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Anakin’s dream – Padmé in distress, screaming, etc, etc.
Anakin wakes up, gasping. Palpatine, in a corner, chuckles softly and slips away with his video projector.

On garden platform
PADME
What’s the matter?

ANAKIN
Nothing. Nothing at all. No dreams about you dying in childbirth, no sir. Hey, look, it’s that necklace I gave you two movies ago!

PADME
Wow, you’re a rotten liar. Well, it was just a dream.

ANAKIN
Right. Like the ones about my mother, you mean?

PADME
Um...no. Nothing like that at all.

ANAKIN
This stinks. What’ll I do?

PADME
I’m thinking maybe you should not turn to the Dark Side.

ANAKIN
Hey, let’s not limit our options here.

PADME
This baby will change our lives. I’ll probably get fired, you’ll get kicked out of the Order.

ANAKIN
Had to bring that up, did you?

PADME
Do you think maybe Obi-Wan could help us?

ANAKIN
Obi-Wan? What about him? What’s all this about Obi-Wan all of a sudden? You got some kind of crush on him, huh? You think dear, precious Obi-Wan can fix everything?

PADME
Good grief, Ani. No jealousy problem at all, you were saying?

ANAKIN
No, none at all.

Jedi Chambers
YODA
Hmm...premonitions...premonitions...something of the future, you see? The results of the next podrace, perhaps?

ANAKIN
Uh, no. They are of pain, suffering...death.

YODA
Rats. A heavy bet, I had placed...no matter. Yourself, or someone else?

ANAKIN
Someone...but no one you know. Nope. Definitely not. Not a senator I’m secretly married to. Certainly not Padmé.

YODA
A rotten liar, you are. Someone close to you?

ANAKIN
(Astonished) How did you know?

YODA
Lucky guess. Listen, kid. Die, people do. Get over it, you must.

ANAKIN
Um...is that all you have to say? Get over it?

YODA
When 800 years you live, outlast everyone, you do. Die before you, everyone does. Forget about ‘em, you will. Coming back, they ain’t.

ANAKIN
Somehow your advice is unsatisfying.

Jedi briefing room
OBI-WAN
You missed the briefing.

ANAKIN
Yes, yes, I’m a very bad Jedi, hopelessly irresponsible, might as well give up and turn to the Dark Side, right?

OBI-WAN
You jump to the oddest conclusions. Well, in short, things are going very well. Very, very well. Unbelievably, impossibly well. Why, it’s almost as if someone on the enemy’s side is working everything out for us so we can win!

ANAKIN
That’s...weird.

OBI-WAN
On a completely unrelated note, Paplatine wants to see you.

ANAKIN
Cool.

OBI-WAN
I’d be careful if I were you. He’s oozy.

ANAKIN
Oozy?

OBI-WAN
You know – like a politician.

ANAKIN
But he is a politician.

OBI-WAN
Don’t get technical with me.