watching the force awakens

unexpected rescue

INT. STAR DESTROYER HOLDING CELL - DAY

The cell door WHOOSHES OPEN - a STORMTROOPER enters. Poe remains shackled, worse for wear. A TROOPER GUARD here.

STORMTROOPER: Ren wants the prisoner

TIGHT ON POE, in pain, drained, as the Guard unshackles him.

"What more could he want from him?" Ahsoka says worriedly.

"If I had to guess, any intelligence on what the Resistance possess that he knows." Obi-Wan theorizes. Anakin frowns. "I could have sworn he sounded like that one trooper from before..."

INT. STAR DESTROYER CORRIDOR - DAY

An exhausted, handcuffed Poe is walked down the corridor by the Stormtrooper, who holds a blaster at Poe's body.

STORMTROOPER: Turn here.

Poe turns into a narrow passageway -

INT. STAR DESTROYER NARROW PASSAGEWAY - DAY

Heading down the narrow hall the Stormtrooper stops Poe.

STORMTROOPER: Listen carefully: you do exactly as I say, I can get you out of here.

A few Jedi blink in surprise.

"Well that's a surprise. Didn't expect him to do something like that so quickly." Obi-Wan said. Anakin grins. "Obviously he doesn't like what he was doing so he's redeeming himself! I like this guy."

POE: If - what-?

The Stormtrooper pulls off his helmet: IT IS FN-2187.

"Yup, definitely him Master." Ahsoka observes.

FN-2187: This is a rescue, I'm helping you escape. Can you fly a TIE Fighter?

"What's a TIE Fighter? I've never heard of that kind of ship before." Anakin says with a confused frown.

"Perhaps they are a newer starfighter used for the navy. This is the future after all." Kit Fisto theorizes.

POE: You with the Resistance?

FN-2187: What? No no I'm breaking you out, can you fly a TIE Fighter?!

POE: I can fly anything. Why, why are you helping me?

"Can fly anything huh?" Anakin says, grinning to Obi-Wan.

"Force help me..." Obi-Wan mutters. Yoda smiled in amusement.

FN-2187: Because it's the right thing to do.

POE: You need a pilot.

FN-2187: I need a pilot.

Ahsoka lets out a small secret laugh at the troopers embarrassed admittance. Anakin smirks as well.

And Poe, seeing this is for real, smiles a hero's smile.

POE: We're gonna do this.

FN-2187: ... Yeah?

"Something tells me that I'm going to enjoy what happens next." Anakin grins. Ahsoka looks at him. "You mean aggressive negotiations?"

"Oh Anakin, always so reckless and impatient." Obi-Wan says, gesturing towards the pilot on the screen. Anakin send him a smirk. "Hey, they've got my vote of confidence."

INT. STAR DESTROYER HANGAR - DAY

WIDE SHOT ESTABLISHING the hangar. Find FN-2187, again masked, walking with Poe. By all appearances he's escorting a prisoner. A group of OFFICERS passes in the opposite direction.