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Dooku: Jedi Lost is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright 2019 by Lucasfilm Ltd. & or where indicated. All rights reserved.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
VENTRESS: Dookus assassin, recently recruited to his cause.
Our narrator. DOOKU: Sith Lord. Seen at various points in his life. SIFO-DYAS: Male. Dookus oldest friend. Cosian. Cosian.
Jedi lightsaber instructor. YULA BRAYLON: Female. Jedi Master. KY NAREC: Male. Ventresss former Jedi Master. Altiri. Altiri.
Dookus mentor. ARATH TARREX: Male. Dookus childhood rival. COUNT GORA: Male. Dookus father. ANYA: Female.
Dookus mother. RAMIL: Male. Dookus brother. JENZA: Female. Dookus sister. RAZ FELLIDRONE: Male.
Portmaster. PRIME MINISTER: Male. Bivall. Prime minister of Protobranch. PIRA: Female. Doctor. Doctor.
GRETZ DROOM: Jedi Knight. Seen as a sixteen-year-old and then as a young Jedi and eventually Master. PRIESTESS: Presager dark sider. QUI-GON JINN: Jedi Padawan. JOR AERITH: Female. Mirialan.
Jedi Master with a sharp tongue. RAEL AVERROSS: Male. Dookus first Padawan, seen as a Jedi Knight. Thick Ringo Vindan accent. AIR-RACE COMMENTATOR: Fast-talking alien. INSPECTOR SARTORI: Male. Coruscant Security officer.
CENEVAX: Female. Jenet. Crime lord. Skittish and ratlike, but deadly.
DROIDS
LEP-10019: Dookus LEP droid
. D-4: Female. Goras cantankerous protocol droid.
TACTICAL DROID WAITRESS DROID SECURITY DROIDS BATTLE DROIDS ENFORCER DROID POLICE DROIDS MED DROIDS ATTENDANT DROID QC-ME: CSF mortuary droid.
MINOR ROLES
CELEBRATION HOLOGRAM ANNOUNCER BRY: Male. Hoopaloo. Birdlike alien thief. JORKAT: Male. Thug. Thug.
VELEK: Female. Askajian. Thug. Speaks alien language. ZANG: Female. Jedi Initiate.
TEMPLE ATTENDANT: Female. RESTELLY QUIST: Female. Elderly. Chief librarian at the Jedi Temple. YEPA: Female. Portworker.
GRAN: Male. Thugs. PENDAGO: Male. Thug. Speaks guttural alien language. SENATOR TAVETTI: Male.
Bivall senator. RRALLA: Male. Wookiee child. Medcenter patient. AID COMMANDER TRADER PROTESTOR #1 PROTESTOR #2 VARIOUS GHOSTLY VOICES FOR SINGLE LINES PARS-VALO: Initiate. AMBASSADOR KETAS: Male.
Solodoe ambassador. CHIEF TANU: Solodoe security chief. DIVAD MASSPUR: Male. Holopresenter. Drunk. CANDOVANT AMBASSADOR: Male.
Speaks alien language. DESK SERGEANT: Male. Human. Mid-forties. TRANDOSHAN HEAVIES: Speaking both Trandoshan and Basic. GUARD GLUTE: Male.
Cybernetic Crolute. Voice like Unkar Plutt but with a mechanical buzz beneath everything, as if his voice box is augmented. SENATOR BULGESKI: Male. Sallichen senator. CHANCELLOR KALPANA: Male. Elderly.
TRADE FEDERATION REPRESENTATIVE: Male. Human. SENATOR PALPATINE / DARTH SIDIOUS: Does he really need an introduction? SERGEANT ESON: Male. Serennian. COUNTESS HAGI: Female. Serennian refugee.
ABYSSIN GUARD #1 ABYSSIN GUARD #2 ABYSSIN COMMANDER ABYSSIN GENERAL ABYSSIN MERC HALSTED: Male. Ventresss slave master. REPUBLIC AGENT #1 REPUBLIC AGENT #2
PART ONE
NARRATOR: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. CUE THEME
SCENE 1. INT. KEEP. KEEP.
NIGHT.
Atmosphere: Wind whistles past a balcony, high in Dookus castle. VENTRESS: (NARRATION) I hate it here. I hate the castle. I hate the cliff. I hate the spikebats whirling above the forest far below. I hate the moons grinning down at me. I hate the fact that night after night I stand on this ledge, feeling the breeze against my skin, wondering what it would be like to jump, to drop down into the trees.
Would the Force guide me? Would it help me find that perfect branch that would take my weight so I could spring to safety, leaves crunching beneath my feet as I ran, rodents scurrying for their nests. KY NAREC: (GHOST) How did you get here, little one? VENTRESS: (NARRATION) Most of all, I hate that voice. The stupid, impossible voice. A voice of the past. A voice that doesnt belong. KY NAREC: (GHOST) I said VENTRESS: I know what you said, Ky.
KY NAREC: (GHOST) And yet you choose to ignore me, my Padawan. VENTRESS: Im not your anything! VENTRESS: (NARRATION) I whirl around, expecting to see his face. Those crinkled eyes. That crooked smile. But the room is empty, dust motes whirling in the moonlight. Hes not here.
And yet KY NAREC: (GHOST) How did you become this? VENTRESS: A monster? KY NAREC: (DISTORTED) Do not twist my words, little one. VENTRESS: Dont call me that. KY NAREC: (DISTORTED) What do you want me to call you? VENTRESS: You could try my name. KY NAREC: (GHOST) How did you become this, Asajj? VENTRESS: Actually, thats worse. VENTRESS: (NARRATION) I know Im being contrary, but what does he expect? How did I come here? How did I become this woman? This creature? He did this. He led me here.
He left me behind. KY NAREC: (GHOST) I never left you, Ventress. I never would. VENTRESS: Shut up! Get out of my head! LEP-10019: Mistress? VENTRESS: (NARRATION) The damn droid makes me jump. The castle is full of them, with their whirring servos and lifeless eyes. The droid looks around, its neck servos whirring. LEP-10019: There is no one else here. The droid looks around, its neck servos whirring. LEP-10019: There is no one else here.
VENTRESS: No. No, theres not. (SIGHS) What do you want, droid? LEP-10019: My designation is LEP-10019. VENTRESS: I dont care. LEP-10019: Oh. Um.
He needs you. KY NAREC: (GHOST) Ventressplease VENTRESS: Lead the way.
SCENE 2. INT. CASTLE CORRIDOR.
The LEP-100197 droid clanks as it leads Ventress through the castle. VENTRESS: (NARRATION) I think of the ways I could destroy the waddling robot as it leads me through the castle. The corridors are long and as sterile as its workforce.
As a building its impressive, with its high vaulted ceilings and arched doors. We had nothing like it on Rattatak, nothing that wasnt pockmarked by laser burns anyway. But where are the portraits of long-dead ancestors? Where are the statues? Where is the stuffed rancor head mounted over a roaring hearth? The castle is pristine but empty, devoid of warmth. Like its master. LEP-10019: This way please. VENTRESS: (NARRATION) Dooku is in the great hall, standing on a raised dais.