Ask Obi-Wan to tell you a story
"The opening crawl reveals that the Galactic Empire has been
working on the construction of a new armored space station which is to
be even larger and more powerful than the first Death Star. Jedi
Knight Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Princess Leia
Organa, C-3PO, and R2-D2 return to Tatooine in an attempt to rescue
Han Solo from the gangster Jabba the Hutt. Leia, disguised as a bounty
hunter, attempts to secretly free Solo, who is still encased in
carbonite. She succeeds, only to be discovered and captured by Jabba,
who makes her his personal slave. Several days later Luke arrives to
make one final plea to Jabba to release Solo. Luke is then captured by
Jabba's guards and dropped into a dungeon to battle a rancor. After
defeating the rancor he is sent along with Han Solo and Chewbacca to
the Great Pit of Carkoon to be slowly consumed by the Sarlacc. With
the help of R2-D2, Luke escapes and a large battle erupts; during the
chaos, Leia strangles Jabba to death with her slave chains, and Han
accidentally knocks Boba Fett, the bounty hunter who brought him to
Jabba, into the pit where he is eaten alive by the Sarlacc. Following
this, Luke blasts Jabba's sail barge with its own deck cannon, and all
of the heroes manage to escape before it explodes.
Luke then returns to Dagobah to complete his Jedi training. However,
upon arriving, he finds Yoda is languishing. Yoda tells Luke that no
other training is required, but that he will not truly be a Jedi until
he confronts Darth Vader who, Yoda confirms, is Luke's father. Yoda
then dies, but not before telling Luke that "there is another
Skywalker". The spirit form of Obi-Wan Kenobi then appears and
confirms that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a former Jedi who was
turned to the dark side of the Force. Though he initially seemed to
imply that Vader was merely another Jedi who betrayed and murdered
Anakin, Obi-Wan explains that Vader truly did this in the sense of the
dark side consuming Anakin's mind, apparently destroying the good man
who was Luke's father and replacing him as Vader. Luke asks Obi-Wan
about the "other" Skywalker Yoda mentioned�Obi-Wan reveals
that this "other" is his twin sister, hidden from Anakin and
separated at birth to protect them both from the Emperor. Using his
intuition, Luke quickly deduces that, to Obi-Wan's confirmation, his
sister is Leia.
Meanwhile, the entire Rebel Alliance is meeting to devise an attack
strategy. As part of the attack, Han is elected to lead a strike team
to deactivate the shield generator on the forest moon of Endor which
is projecting a protective shield up to the orbiting and incomplete
Death Star. Luke, having returned from Dagobah, joins him and Leia for
this mission; however, he soon fears that, after sensing Vader's
presence within the nearby Imperial Fleet, his own presence may
endanger the mission. On Endor, Luke and his companions encounter a
tribe of Ewoks, primitive yet intelligent indigenous forest creatures
of Endor. With the help of C-3PO, whom the Ewoks believe is a god,
they are able to forge an alliance with the forest creatures. Later,
Luke decides that the time has come for him to face Vader. He
confesses to Leia the truth about her and Vader, and that he has to
try to save the man who was once their father. He surrenders
peacefully to Vader and unsuccessfully tries to convince his father to
abandon the dark side. They go to the Death Star and meet the Emperor,
who reveals that he knew of the attack before, and that the Rebel
Alliance is walking into a trap. On the forest moon, the Rebels � led
by Solo and Leia � enter the shield generator control facility only to
be taken prisoner by waiting Imperial forces. Once they are led out of
the bunker, however, the Ewoks spring a surprise counterattack. A
desperate ground battle begins with the Rebels and Ewoks fighting the
Imperial forces. The Rebels eventually gain the upper hand, due in
large part to a stolen Imperial AT-ST Walker.
During the strike team's assault, the Rebel fleet, led by Lando,
emerges from hyperspace for the battle over Endor, only to discover
that the shield of the Death Star is still functioning. An intense
space battle takes place as the Rebel fleet battles to give the
surface party more time to complete their mission of deactivating the
Death Star's shield. During the battle, the Death Star is revealed to
be operational; its superlaser is fired at the Rebel fleet and
obliterates two Rebel star cruisers. This forces a rethinking of
strategy and the fleet closes with the Imperial star destroyers to
prevent the superlaser from firing on the Rebel fleet.
On the Death Star, the Emperor tempts Luke to give in to his anger. A
ferocious lightsaber duel erupts between Luke and his father. In the
midst of combat, Vader reads Luke's feelings and learns that Luke has
a twin sister. When Vader toys with the notion of turning Leia to the
dark side, Luke gives in to his anger and brutally overpowers his
father, eventually slicing off Vader's robotic right hand. However,
despite the Emperor's goading, Luke refuses to kill his father,
realizing that he is traveling down his father's path towards the dark
side. He declares himself a Jedi, like his father before him. Upon
realizing that Luke cannot be turned, the Emperor tortures and slowly
kills him with Force lightning; in unspeakable pain, Luke begs his
father for help. Facing a moral crisis as he sees his son dying before
his own eyes, Vader finally repents in return of his former self,
Anakin Skywalker, and turns on the Emperor, grabbing him over his
shoulder and throwing him down a reactor shaft to his death. At the
same time, however, the life support system in his suit is damaged
beyond repair by the Emperor's lightning. Moments from death, he begs
Luke to take off his breath mask to see him with his own eyes. Luke
does so, and finally sees his father's true face: that of a pale,
withered man ravaged by the dark side. He entreats Luke to leave him
and save himself, and to tell Leia that there was some good left in
him after all. With those last words, Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker
dies, finally at peace.
Back on Endor, the strike team finally destroys the shield generator.
The Rebel fleet seizes the opportunity to launch a final assault on
the Death Star in space. Lando leads Wedge Antilles and his fighter
group into the interior of the Death Star and they fire at the main
reactor, causing its collapse. Luke escapes the Death Star with his
father's body in an Imperial shuttle. Moments later, Wedge in his
X-Wing and Lando in the Millennium Falcon emerge from the Death Star
as well, just as it explodes. Back on Endor, Leia senses that Luke had
escaped the station before it exploded. Han believes that she loves
Luke and is prepared to let her go, but Leia reassures Han of her love
for him and reveals (to his surprise and relief) that Luke is actually
her brother. That evening, Luke cremates the remains of his father in
his black armor on a funeral pyre on Endor.
The entire galaxy celebrates the fall of the Empire and the
Rebellion's victory. On Endor, Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, and the rest of
the Rebellion, along with the Ewoks, celebrate the victory as well.
During the celebration, Luke catches sight of the spirit figures of
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and the redeemed Anakin Skywalker, who watch over
them with pride." Obi-Wan says.
"Obi-Wan" you suddenly say. Obi-Wan turns and looks at him.
"Yes" he says. "Do you want to tell me a story?"
you ask. Obi-Wan smiles. "Sure!" Obi-Wan says. Obi-Wan tells
you the story of "Return of the Jedi."
