[Maul is searching the Jundland Wastes for Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Tatooine's twin suns beating on him from directly overhead]
MaulLost... I... I am lost. And yet, I can feel... his presence. So close, so close... I can... see him, in my mind's eye...
[Maul pauses]
Maul
Kenobi... [screaming] KENOBI!!!!!!!!!!
[Maul's scream echoes across the canyon walls. There is only the sound of the blowing wind and sands. Maul leans on his cane.]
Maul
... Will it end here, like this? No... [goes to stand back up] No!
OMOld Master/Maul
Unless you take risks, do what must be done, there will always be limits to your abilities.
Maul, what game are you playing?
Maul
The endgame, Lady Tano. The endgame. I am the enemy of your enemy now, and I have my own reasons for wanting the Empire to fall, but we have little time. The one they call "Vader" will be here soon.
Maul
His dogs will tell him where we are. Two Jedi and a... part-timer? (Ahsoka looks away) Oh, he will come. He will not be able to resist us.
Okay, hold on. There is no "us". Dealing with Inquisitors is one thing, Vader is another... and I'm not convinced we're all on the same side, anyway.
Kanan, we should trust him. Look! (holds up the Sith Holocron) He and I took this from the Temple together! This is why we came here, right? To find out about the Sith. To find a way to beat them? Ahsoka, you said we came here for knowledge.
Ezra, there is no way a Jedi can unlock that Holocron.
Maul
But you may unlock the Temple itself.
Maul
At the top of the Temple is a chamber. Connect the Holocron to the obelisk within, and you can unlock the ancient knowledge of the Sith.
Why are you working so hard to keep us here?
Maul
I cannot defeat Vader alone.
Yeah? Well, I say we go, so that settles it.
Maul
Are you such cowards that you would run from this chance to defeat your enemies?! Who slaughter your friends.
(in his comlink) Chopper, we're staying for a while. (Chopper replies) Yeah, I know it's a bad idea! Just scan for incoming ships and keep the Phantom out of sight.
If you want to finish our fight, you'll have to deal with him first.
[Maul turns to see Kanan, now wearing an old Jedi Temple Guard mask over his face]
[Ahsoka runs up the stairs toward the top of the Temple]
Maul
[pityingly] I... will make this quick.
[coldly] You had your chance.
[Maul moves slowly, with Kanan using the Force to sense his enemy's movements. Maul attacks, but Kanan quickly defeats him and sends him hurtling off the side of the Temple]
Maul
I see … nothing! Only oblivion. I must go deeper! Deeper!
Maul
What do you see? What is it?!
Maul
Tell me! Tell me what you see!
Ezra! [the light from the Holocrons increases. The Ghost crew is blinded] It’s too bright! Where is he?
[removes his face mask, and sees Maul and Ezra standing out against the light] Ezra! I see him! Maul’s close! I’m going to get Ezra out! Be ready!
Wait, you see him?! Kanan!
Ezra! Ezra, listen to me! Look away!
Maul
No! Stay focused, apprentice. Gain the knowledge you desire.
Remember Bendu’s warning! Turn away before it’s too late!
It’s so close. The key to destroying the Sith is just a little farther.
Maul
I see him!
It’s not worth it Ezra! Trust me.
[Ezra begins to look away. As he does, the Holocrons pull slightly apart from each other]
Maul
NO!
[An explosion of light from the Holocrons forces all occupants of the room back. The Holocrons float down to the floor, shattered glass around them. The crew of the Ghost starts to get up. Sabine Wren looks around.]
[Maul, disoriented, makes his way to his ship, laughing softly and maniacally]
Maul
He lives! [still laughing, Maul enters the cockpit of his ship and sits down] He... lives. [Maul pilots his ship away from the station, laughing madly]
Maul
[disdainful] Look what has become of you. A rat in the desert.
OWObi-Wan
[unruffled] Look what I have risen above.
Maul
I have come to kill you, but perhaps it's worse to leave you here, festering in your squalor.
OWObi-Wan
If you define yourself by your power to take life, your desire to dominate, to possess... then you have nothing.
[Maul growls angrily and ignites one half of his lightsaber, putting out Obi-Wan's campfire.]
Maul
And what do YOU have?! Why come to this place? Not simply to hide... [realizes] Oh, you have a purpose here. Perhaps you are protecting something? No... protecting some-one.
[Obi-Wan ignites his own lightsaber and stands ready; Maul ignites the other half of his lightsaber, and both he and Obi-Wan prepare to fight. After several long moments, Maul charges furiously at Kenobi. Maul and Obi-Wan exchange three blows before Obi-Wan cuts through Maul's lightsaber, after Maul attempts to use the same move he did on Qui-Gon Jinn. After a short pause, Maul realizes he has been hit, and he falls to the ground, his lightsaber cut in half. Obi-Wan holds Maul as he dies.]
Maul
[mortally wounded] Tell me... is he the Chosen One?
Maul
He... will... avenge us.
[Maul succumbs to his wound. Obi-Wan closes Maul's eyes.]
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