Hold The Gold

INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

 Rey steps down into the basement corridor. BB-8 follows her. Walking carefully and confused, she is not sure why she's down here. She can hear the echoing sounds of a young girl crying. She heads down the hall... to the very end, where there is a door. It is almost as if a SOULFUL VIBRATION draws her closer. She looks at the door lock -- AND THE

 DOOR OPENS.

 Hesitant, Rey enters.

 INT. MAZ'S CASTLE - CRYPT ROOM - DAY

 Rey moves into the dark, small, vaulted storage room. Old treasures line the floors and walls, but there is something specific Rey is drawn to: on a table, an old wooden BOX.

She moves to it, unsure, afraid, as if an energy from inside the box has been calling her here. BB-8 nervously follows. Rey reaches out, very slowly, to touch the box. A moment heavy with tension. Rey OPENS THE BOX and sees inside Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber. With hesitation, she reaches towards it, but she cannot resist. As her hand makes contact with it, there is the piercing sound of a lightsaber igniting. She moves her hand away, as REY HEARS A MECHANICAL BREATHING sound. 

The CAMERA MOVES, LIGHTING CHANGES -- and we see behind her something impossible: a HALLWAY OF FROM DEEP INSIDE CLOUD CITY. Disembodied voices fill the air.

 YOUNG GIRL

 NO!

 She stands -- looks around, confused by all she sees and hears. -- Turns and sees, through a DOORWAY.

We follow Rey and she runs down the corridor, but it all TILTS -- TURNS -- and she lands on the WALL -- which is now the GROUND -- dried GRASS.  She turns to look -- we PIVOT -- and see a BURNING TEMPLE AT NIGHT. 

We PAN to: R2-D2 -- who watches the flames -- and a MAN appears (LUKE, whose face we do not see). He falls to his knees, reaches out to the droid -- with a MECHANICAL RIGHT HAND.

We PUSH IN ON REY as RAIN BEGINS -- and DAY TURNS TO NIGHT -- and she LOOKS UP -- we TILT UP -- To see we're LOOKING UP AT A WARRIOR as he is STABBED BY A FIERY LIGHTSABER! 

He screams and falls to the ground -- we FOLLOW HIM, revealing Rey again, now in a nighttime battlefield. She gets to her feet, frightened by what she sees. We PIVOT AROUND HER to REVEAL KYLO REN, and the six other KNIGHTS OF REN, who flank him! 

Come back around to Rey, soaking now, as the RAIN STOPS and SUNLIGHT illuminates her -- she turns to look -- we PIVOT -- and see... A little girl. Rey as a child. She is sobbing, hysterical. Unkar Plutt's meaty hand holds her thin arm. She is on Jakku, watching a starship fly into the sky, abandoning her.

 YOUNG GIRL

 No, come back!

 UNKAR PLUTT

 Quiet, girl!

 The ship flies towards the desert sun, which is strangely eclipsed, as if being eaten by darkness. Rey looks around her to see she is..

 In a NIGHTTIME, BARREN, SNOWY WOODS. She's losing her mind, confounded and lost and she gets to her feet, her breath seen in the frigid air -- and then: THE SOUND OF CLASHING LIGHTSABERS! She moves through the woods, toward the sound.

Rey runs, heart pounding, when KYLO REN EMERGES FROM BEHIND A TREE! She stops, SCREAMS, FALLS BACK and LANDS IN:

 INT. MAZ' CASTLE - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY

 She falls back, out of the room, suddenly sitting in the

 hall, out of breath, alarmed and perplexed.

 She HEARS something and turns to look.

 Maz stands at the end of the corridor, realizing what has just happened.

REY

What was that? I shouldn't have gone in there.

 MAZ

That lightsaber was Luke's. And his father's before him and now, it calls to you!

 Rey stands, fast. Still overwhelmed, emotional, speechless.

 REY

 I have to get back to Jakku.

 MAZ

 Han told me.

 (reaches out, hold REY'S HAND)

 Dear child. I see your eyes. 

You already know the truth. 

Whomever you're waiting for on Jakku, they're

 never coming back. 

But... there's someone who still could.

 REY

 Luke.

MAZ

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead. 

I am no Jedi, but I know the Force. 

It moves through and surrounds every living thing. 
Close your eyes. Feel it. 

The light. It's always been there.

It will guide you. The saber. Take it. 

Rey suddenly stands.

REY
I'm never touching that again. 
I don't want any part of this.

And Rey runs off, passing Maz.

Rey's mind is spinning -- she can't take it -- she turns and heads off, fast. BB-8 follows her. TIGHT ON MAZ, watching her go. Maz SIGHS, feeling for the young girl.

 EXT. MAZ'S CASTLE - DAY

 Rey exits the castle, needs to run, but doesn't know where.

 Heads toward the woods.

 EXT. FOREST - DAY

 Rey moves through the foliage, heart racing. Over this, we HEAR a RUMBLING -- intense, an OMEN of something horrible to come.