After struggling with technical difficulties with the hyper-drive, the new-found allies travel to the planet of Takodana. Rey sees the landscapes of Takodana for the first time.
Rey: I didn't know there was this much green in the whole galaxy.
After landing, Han and Rey exit the ship.
Han Solo: You might need this.
He passes a blaster to Rey.
Rey: I think I can handle myself.
Han Solo: I know you do. That's why I'm giving it to you. Take it. You know how to use one of those?
Rey: Yeah. You pull the trigger.
Han Solo: Little bit more to it than that. You got a lot to learn.
Han offers Rey to join his crew, she is flattered.
Rey: Are you offering me a job?
Han Solo: I wouldn't be nice to you. Doesn't pay much.
Rey: You're offering me a job.
Han Solo: I'm thinking about it.
But Rey prefers to return home.
Han hopes to transfer BB-8 to a "clean ship" that cannot be tracked by the First Order. They seek help from Maz Kanata, an orange skinned female alien.
Han Solo: You think it was luck that Chewie and I found the Falcon? If we can find it on our scanners, the First Order's not far behind. Wanna get BB-8 to the Resistance? Maz Kanata's our best bet.
Finn: We can trust her, right?
Han Solo: Relax, kid. She's run this watering hole for a thousand years. Maz is a bit of an acquired taste, so let me do the talking. And whatever you do, don't stare.
Rey, Finn: At what?
Han Solo: Anything.
Maz Kanata: Han Solo!
All music and conversations stop.
Han Solo: [softly] Oh, boy. [louder] Hey, Maz.
Music and conversations start up again.
Maz Kanata: Where's my boyfriend?
Han Solo: Chewie's working on the Falcon.
Maz Kanata: I like that Wookiee.
They are spotted in the cantina by both First Order and other spies.
In the star destroyer, Kylo is alone consulting with someone.
Kylo Ren: Forgive me. I feel it again. The pull to the light. Supreme Leader senses it. Show me again. The power of the darkness. And I'll let nothing stand in our way. Show me, Grandfather, and I will finish what you started.
He leaves and we see the decrepit helmet of Darth Vader.
When Han asks for her help to tranport BB-8, she instead advises he should join the fight against the First Order. Maz approaches Finn closely.
Maz Kanata: [to Finn] If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people. I'm looking at the eyes of a man who wants to run.
Finn: You don't know a thing about me. Where I'm from. What I've seen. You don't know the First Order like I do. They'll slaughter us. We all need to run.
Maz Kanata: Hmm.
Finn, still fearful of being recaptured by the First Order, decides to run by joining a mercenary crew heading for the outer rim. Rey rushes after him to try to stop him.
Finn: I'm not who you think I am.
Rey: Finn, what are you talking about?
Finn: I'm not Resistance. I'm not a hero. I'm a stormtrooper. Like all of them, I was taken from a family I'll never know. And raised to do one thing. But my first battle, I made a choice. I wasn't gonna kill for them. So I ran. Right into you. And you looked at me like no one ever had. I was ashamed of what I was. But I'm done with the First Order. I'm never going back. Rey, come with me.
Rey: Don't go.
Finn: Take care of yourself. Please.
A moment later, Rey is drawn to the lower floor of the cantina by the sound of a girl crying and opens a box to discover Skywalker's lightsaber. When she touches the lightsaber she experiences a frightening vision. The dream has the voices of old Jedi like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. It flashes by quickly.
She sees the hallways of Cloud City, a vision of Skywalker and R2-D2, a vision of Kylo Ren surrounded by bodies, thrusting his saber through the chest of a mysterious figure, a vision of herself being abandoned as a child on Jakku and finally she sees Ren pursuing her in a snowy forest.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: [voice] These are your first steps.
After the vision, Kanata appears.
Maz Kanata: That lightsaber was Luke's. And his father's before him. And now, it calls to you.
Rey: I have to get back to Jakku.
Maz Kanata: 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 Kanata: 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: I'm never touching that thing again. I don't want any part of this.
Rey leaves. Rey is frightened by her vision and runs out into the forest of Takodana.
General Hux addresses legions of First Order stormtroopers.
General Hux: Today is the end of the Republic. The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment in a system far from here, the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the rogues of the Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand will bring an end to the Senate, to their cherished fleet. All remaining systems will bow to the First Order and will remember this as the last day of the Republic!
The base fires a massive red beam from the center of the planet, traveling across space, and splitting into four separate beams which destroy individual planets. We see crowds of people on populated planets look up into the sky to witness the conflagration as their planet is destroyed. Finn and the others look to the sky as the red beams can be seen destroying the other Republic planets.
BB-8 catches up with Rey in the woods, but she tries to convince the droid to return. That's when she sees The First Order ships arriving, including Kylo Ren's V-winged ship. Maz gives the lightsaber to Finn. The stormtroopers overwhelm Katana's place, destroying much of it.
Han and Chewbacca join in the battle.
Han Solo: Hey, can I try that? [fires Chewbacca's bowcaster] I like this thing.
As the stormtroopers attack, Finn uses the lightsaber to fight back, but is challenged by a stormtrooper known as FN-2199, who activates a battle club-like energized weapon.
FN-2199: [to Finn] TRAITOR!
They battle it out, but eventually Finn is knocked down. FN-2199 is about to strike the fatal blow when Han appears and shoots the stormtrooper. The stormtroopers capture Han, Chewbacca and Finn.
The Resistance X-wing fighters arrive and takes on the First Order troops. Now freed, Han, Chewbacca, and Finn pick up weapons and rejoin the battle. Finn notices one X-wing fighter wiping out a number of Tie fighters in the air, and stormtroopers on the ground, unaware it is Poe.
Finn: That's one hell of a pilot!
Rey tries to use the blaster given to her by Han Solo, but inexperienced and frightened she fumbles with the safety and fires wild shots giving away her position. Overwhelmed she runs deeper into the forest. BB-8 follows, and she tells him to go further on while she tries to fight off their pursuers. Kylo Ren tracks down Rey in the woods. He chases her through the forest easily fending off her desperate attempts to fire on him with the blaster.
She backs away, but he stops her, using the Force to hold her still. Ren uses the Force to read her mind and discovers that she has seen the map to Luke Skywalker's location. He decides he no longer needs BB-8, so he gives orders to pull the division out and renders Rey unconscious. Han and Finn watch Kylo carry Rey to his ship, but they are too far to reach her.
A troop ship lands carrying General Leia Organa and C-3P0. Han and Leia are reunited, but their relations are tense. C-3PO steps in between Han and Leia.
C-3PO: Goodness! Han Solo! It is I, C-3PO. You probably don't recognize me because of the red arm. [turns to Leia] Look who it is, did you see who... Um... [turns back to Han] Uh... [turns back to Leia] Um... Excuse me, Princ... General. Sorry. Come along, BB-8 quickly.
Han Solo: You changed your hair.
Leia: Same jacket.
Han Solo: No, new jacket.
Chewbacca give Leia a hug and moves on. It is revealed that Kylo Ren is actually their son.
The heroes return to the Resistance Base, where Poe Dameron is reunited with Finn, who is pleased to see the pilot was not killed by the crash on Jakku.
Poe Dameron: That's my jacket.
Finn: Oh...
Finn starts to take off the jacket.
Poe Dameron: No, no, no, no. Keep it. It suits you. You're a good man, Finn.
Finn and Poe enter the command center to join Leia and Han. C-3PO projects the map as a hologram, but the map is incomplete.
Leia: Can't believe I was so foolish to think I could find Luke and bring him home.
Han Solo: Leia.
Leia: Don't do that.
Han Solo: Do what?
Leia: Anything.
Leia walks off.
C-3PO: Princesses.
Han Solo: I'm trying to be helpful.
Leia: When did that ever help? And don't say the Death Star.
BB-8 is reunited with R2-D2 and C-3P0, but R2-D2 has been in shut down since Luke left many years before. Han has an alone moment with Leia.
Han Solo: Listen to me, will you? I know every time you... Every time you look at me you're reminded of him.
Leia: You think I want to forget him? I want him back.
Han Solo: There's nothing more we could have done. There's too much Vader in him.
Leia: That's why I wanted him to train with Luke. I just never should have sent him away. That's when I lost him. That's when I lost you both.
Han Solo: We both had to deal with it in our own way. I went back to the only thing I was ever any good at.
Leia: We both did.
Han Solo: We lost our son. Forever.
Leia: No. It was Snoke. He seduced our son to the dark side. But we can still save him. Me. You.
Han Solo: If Luke couldn't reach him, how could I?
Leia: Luke is a Jedi. You're his father. There is still light in him, I know it.
On Starkiller Base, Rey wakes to find her self locked in an interrogation chair like the one we have seen earlier in Poe's interrogation scene. Kylo Ren and she conversere.
Rey: Where am I?
Kylo Ren: You're my guest.
Rey: Where are the others?
Kylo Ren: Do you mean the murderers, traitors and thieves you call friends? You'll be relieved to hear I have no idea. . . . . You still want to kill me.
Rey: That happens when you're being hunted by a creature in a mask.
Kylo Ren removes his helmet, revealing his face to her; he is a young and handsome man.
Kylo Ren: Tell me about the droid.
Rey: He's a BB unit with a selenium drive and a thermal hyperscan vindicator.
Kylo Ren: It's carrying a section of a navigational chart. And we have the rest. Recovered from the archives of the Empire, but we need the last piece. And, somehow, you convinced the droid to show it to you. You. A scavenger.
Kylo Ren Force probes Rey's mind. She reacts with hostility but seems unable to keep him from reading her thoughts.
Kylo Ren: You're so lonely... So afraid to leave... At night, desperate to sleep... You imagine an ocean... I see it... I see the island... And Han Solo... You feel like he's the father you never had. He would have disappointed you.
Rey: Get out of my head.
When he tries to extract the information about the map from her mind, however, he runs up against an unexpected barrier. Rey is not only able to resist his further probing, but pushes back into Ren's mind.
Rey: You. You're afraid. That you will never be as strong as Darth Vader.
Ren is shaken by this and by her obvious strength with the Force, and goes to meet with Snoke in search of guidance on how to proceed.
Supreme Leader Snoke: The scavenger... resisted you?
Kylo Ren: She is strong with the Force.
Kylo Ren and General Hux are scolded for not retrieving the droid, and Ren's inability to crack Rey's mind, by the Supreme Leader. Snope orders Kylo to bring Rey to him.
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