Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Darth Vader arrives at the Forest Moon of Endor, site of the under construction Death Star II. He orders Grand Moff Jerjerrod to hurry up completion of the huge battle station. Emperor Palpatine himself is coming to oversee the completion, and he is "not as forgiving as I am."

On Tatooine, Threepio, and Artoo arrives at the desert palace of Jabba the Hutt, where they deliver a message from Luke Skywalker to Jabba. Luke offers a bargain in return for Han's freedom - and as a token of his goodwill, he offers the two droids to Jabba as servants. Threepio (unaware of what Luke has planned) is stunned by this, but Jabba is merely amused - he takes the droids and refuses the bargain, unwilling to give up his favourite wall decoration. Artoo is assigned to serve drinks at the Hutt's Sail Barge, while Threepio is placed into position as Jabba's translator droid - a post that no droid has survived.

The following day, the Ubese bounty hunter Boushh arrives, with Chewbacca in chains. Jabba offers the hunter a low price, and Boushh responds by threatening to blow the palace up with a thermal detonator. Amused, Jabba gives him a higher reward and invites him to join the party he has been throwing. That night, however, Boushh sneaks over to Solo's slab and thaws him out, revealing himself - or rather, herself - to be Princess Leia. At which point Jabba reveals himself and his party. Having been tipped off by the dancing girl Arica - Emperor's Hand Mara Jade working undercover to kill Luke - he has the hibernation-blinded Han thrown in the dungeons with Chewbacca, and Leia forced into slavery as one of his dancing girls. That night, Boba Fett visits Han in the dungeon, and Lando - disguised as skiff guard Tamtel Skreej - reassures a chained and metal-bikini clad Leia.

The next morning, Luke himself arrives. Clad head-to-foot in black and using his Jedi powers to full effect, Luke tricks Bib Fortuna into bringing him before Jabba. He orders that his friends all be freed, or Jabba will suffer. Jabba laughs off the threat and sends Luke careening into the Rancor Pit. Luke shockingly kills the Rancor through sheer cleverness. Enraged, Jabba orders Luke, Han, and Chewbacca fed to the Sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon, where they will "slowly be digested over a thousand years." Mara tries to join the execution party to kill Skywalker - but Jabba will have none of it. Luke seems unconcerned, promising Jabba this will be "the last mistake you ever make."

Later that day, the execution is set to go at the Pit. Luke turns the tables, gaining his own hand-built lightsaber from Artoo (who had it hidden within his dome). A brutal battle ensues. Leia manages to use her own chain to garrotte Jabba to death. Boba Fett, who had suspected trouble all along, attacks Luke and Han. However, by a sheer freak accident, Han ignites Fett's jetpack - sending the startled bounty hunter careening headfirst into the Sail Barge, then straight down the Sarlacc's throat. Luke blows up the Sail Barge with Leia's help and takes off back to the Millenium Falcon, the Rebel heroes all reunited at last. They use a little "Corellian Overdrive" to escape the orbiting Imperial blockade by sending the surviving friends of Jabba scurrying off the planet in panic. Han (now with his sight restored) and the others head back to the Rebellion, but Luke (with Artoo) takes off for Dagobah to keep the promise he made to Yoda and complete his training.

At the Death Star, the Emperor arrives. Vader wants to resume the search for Luke, but Palpatine asks Vader to be patient - "Young Skywalker" will soon be coming to them....

On Dagobah, Yoda is nearly 900 years old now.... and at death's door. He tells Luke that he needs no more training, that only one thing stands between him and full Jedi Knighthood now - a battle to the death with Vader. Luke confronts him with Vader's revelation. Busted, Yoda admits Vader is Anakin. With his dying gasps, he warns Luke not to underestimate the Emperor - and reveals that "there.... is.... another.... s-sky.... walker…."

Outside, the ghost of Ben reveals to Luke what truly happened to Anakin, how he fell to the Dark Side. He explains that the other Skywalker is Luke's twin sister, separated at birth, and raised anonymously. Luke realises what, deep down, he has known all along - Leia is his sister. Kenobi warns Luke to keep her true identity secret, and to prepare for what he has to face. Like it or not, for the galaxy's sake, he must fight - and kill - his own father.

Near the planet Sullust, the entire Rebel Alliance has assembled into a monstrous armada. The Alliance leader, Mon Mothma, soon reveals why; specifically, that the Emperor is on the uncompleted Death Star - and thus vulnerable to a massive attack that could end the entire war. Han, having finally given up being a loner and totally in love with Leia, has joined the Alliance officially and been made a General. General Crix Madine reveals that a commando team led by Han, Leia, and Luke will infiltrate the ground installation on Endor (via a stolen shuttle) that is projecting a huge force field around the Death Star. Once they have blown it up, a now - also - promoted General Lando Calrissian and Admiral Ackbar will lead the fleet right down the station's throat, blowing it sky-high.

The stolen shuttle Tyderium makes it to Endor, but not before Vader senses Luke is aboard. Palpatine tells him to go down to Endor and await his son.

On Endor, the team runs into trouble - first from scout troopers, then later from the native primitives who live in the forest.... the Ewoks. With the aid of Threepio (whom the Ewoks at first mistake for a god, then later listens to the history of the Alliance from him), the Ewoks are swayed into joining the Rebels. They have been preparing to hit the Imperials for some time now, and they are willing to make the attack tomorrow before the fleet arrives.

As they plan, Luke is weighed down by his imminent destiny. He quietly informs Leia of his and her mutual parentage, because he is about to leave to confront Vader and he does not expect to come back. He then travels to the Imperial ground base, giving himself up to Vader. He begs Vader to come with him - he senses that some part of Anakin is still in there somewhere, that Vader does in fact hold some love for his son (or he would have killed him by now), and Vader could still, even after all he has done, return to the Light Side. Vader cannot will himself to do so, thinking it is too late for him to come back, and brings Luke with him to the Death Star.

The morning of the attack dawns. The Rebel commando team, with the Ewoks in tow, breaks into the installation as the fleet hyper - jumps toward Endor. In the Death Star throne room, Vader presents Luke to Emperor Palpatine. Luke vows that he will not turn to the Dark Side and promises that soon both he and Palpatine will be dead.

At which point, Palpatine's deathtrap is sprung.

The commando team is captured by a legion of stormtroopers who were waiting in hiding for them. As the fleet jumps into the Endor system, Interdictors seal it off from further hyper-travel, as the entire Imperial fleet (led by the Executor) smashes head-on into the fleet. The Death Star, proven to be operational after all, begins to blow up Rebel warships one by one. All at once, it seems, the Emperor is on the verge of complete victory over everything. In addition, there is nothing Luke can do, of any kind - nothing he can do, that is, without falling into the Dark Side. Moreover, Vader indeed seems ready to fight him to the death.

The Ewoks, rallying around Threepio and Artoo, jumps the Imperial battalion with various low -tech weapons. The Imperials were completely unprepared for this guerilla war against these teddy - bear -like beings on their own turf, and find themselves beaten down. Han, Leia, and the others force their way back into the installation and manage to destroy it. The shield around the Death Star goes down - and Jerjerrod, on Palpatine's order, begins to turn the Death Star toward Endor to destroy it. Lando, Wedge, and the Rogues rush into the station's unfinished superstructure to destroy the station before it manages to accomplish this holocaust. Unbeknownst to anyone, IG-88 (inside the Death Star computer core) decides to begin unleashing his own takeover of the galaxy in moments. A dying Rebel's suicide dive into the Executor's bridge sends it crashing into the station's side.

In the Death Star's throne room, Vader has dug out of Luke's mind the secret about Leia. He gloats, saying that if Luke will not turn, maybe she will. In an insane rage, Luke beats Vader to a pulp, severing his own (mechanical) right hand and ready to deliver the deathblow. Palpatine is ecstatic - the son, like the father, is about to fall to the Dark Side. Luke realises this himself.... and fights down his evil instincts. He throws his lightsaber aside, refusing to kill Vader. Disappointed, Palpatine begins to electrocute the unprepared Luke with Force lightning. Vader, stunned by Luke's show of mercy and unable to watch his own son be murdered in front of him, attacks Palpatine himself. Mortally wounded by the Force lightning, he flings Palpatine down a reactor shaft and watches him explode into a fireball of evil energy. Slowly dying, he has Luke remove his mask, so that he can see his son one time with his own eyes. As his life ebbs away, Vader - Anakin - asks Luke to tell Leia that he was right about his father still having some good inside him.

Inside the Death Star's superstructure, both Lando and Wedge manages to disable the superlaser and then destroy the main reactor. Racing against the growing destruction, the two heroes (along with Luke in a shuttle) manages to escape as the station shatters into a million pieces. Battered and demoralised by their leader's death, the Imperial fleet flees into space, even as the Rebels manage to capture two Star Destroyers (the Adjucator and Accuser). The Rebels lost 20% percent of their forces, but the Imperials lost much more.

That night, Luke consigns his father's body to the Force in a bonfire as X-Wings shoot off fireworks in the sky about him. He is gratified to see Anakin's spirit join with Obi-Wan's and Yoda's. A huge party breaks out, not only on Endor but also on every planet in the galaxy as word of the Emperor's death spreads. At the Ewok village, the heroes are all reunited to celebrate their glorious victory. The Galactic Civil War is over. The Dark Side's hold over the galaxy has been broken forever, and both the Jedi and the Republic are on the verge of resurrection....