Samuel L. Jackson credited as playing...
Mace Windu
- Mace Windu: In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.
- Supreme Chancellor: Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?
- Mace Windu: The senate will decide your fate.
- Supreme Chancellor: [now speaking as Darth Sidious] I AM the senate!
- Mace Windu: Not yet.
- [the Chancellor/Darth Sidious rises slowly, and his lightsaber snaps to his hand from his sleeve]
- Supreme Chancellor: It's treason, then...
- [ignites his lightsaber and leaps over his desk to attack]
- Anakin Skywalker: Master Windu, I must talk to you.
- Mace Windu: Skywalker! We've just received word that Obi-Wan has destroyed General Grievous. We're on our way to make sure the Chancellor returns emergency power back to the Senate.
- Anakin Skywalker: He won't give up his power. I've just learned a terrible truth. I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord.
- Mace Windu: [suprised] A Sith Lord?
- Anakin Skywalker: Yes, the one we've been looking for.
- Mace Windu: How do you know this?
- Anakin Skywalker: He knows the ways of the Force. He's been trained to use the Dark Side.
- Mace Windu: Are you sure?
- Anakin Skywalker: Absolutely.
- Mace Windu: Then our worst fears have been realized. We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive.
- Anakin Skywalker: Master, the Chancellor is very powerful. You'll need my help if you're going to arrest him.
- Mace Windu: For your own good, stay out of this affair. I sense a great deal of confusion in you, young Skywalker. There is much fear that clouds your judgment.
- Anakin Skywalker: I must go, Master.
- Mace Windu: No! If what you've told me is true, you will have gained my trust. But for now, remain here. Wait in the Council chambers until we return.
- Anakin Skywalker: Yes, Master.
- Supreme Chancellor: Anakin, I told you it would come to this! I was right! The Jedi are taking over!
- Mace Windu: The oppression of the Sith will never return! You have lost!
- Supreme Chancellor: [speaking as Darth Sidious] No... no... no! YOU WILL DIE!
- Yoda: Allow this appointment lightly the Council does not. Disturbing is this move by Chancellor Palpatine.
- Anakin Skywalker: I understand.
- Mace Windu: You are on this Council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master.
- Anakin Skywalker: What?
- [pauses]
- Anakin Skywalker: How can you do this? This is outrageous! It's unfair! How can you *be* on the Council and *not* be a master?
- Mace Windu: [sternly] Take a *seat*, young Skywalker.
- Anakin Skywalker: [bows] Forgive me, Master.
- Mace Windu: [has Palpatine subdued] I am going to end to this, once and for all!
- Anakin Skywalker: You can't. He must stand trial.
- Mace Windu: He has control of the Senate and the courts. He's too dangerous to be left alive.
- Supreme Chancellor: [exhausted and disfigured] I'm too weak. Oh, don't kill me. Please!
- Anakin Skywalker: It's not the Jedi way. He must live!
- Supreme Chancellor: [Windu ignores Anakin, still intending to kill Palpatine] Please don't!
- Anakin Skywalker: I need him!
- Supreme Chancellor: [Windu raises his lightsaber] Please don't!
- Anakin Skywalker: NO!
- [Anakin draws his own lightsaber, cutting off Windu's hand]
- Supreme Chancellor: [as he electrocutes Windu] POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!
- [after Anakin is assigned by the Jedi to spy on Chancellor Palpatine]
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Anakin did not take to his new assignment with much enthusiasm.
- Mace Windu: It's very dangerous, putting them together. I don't think the boy can handle it. I don't trust him.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: With all due respect, Master, is he not the Chosen One? Is he not to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force?
- Mace Windu: So the prophecy says.
- Yoda: A prophecy that misread could have been.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: He will not let me down. He never has.
- Yoda: I hope right you are.
- Mace Windu: I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi. The Dark Side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor.
- Ki-Adi-Mundi: If he does not give up his emergency powers after the destruction of Grievous, then he should be removed from office.
- Mace Windu: The Jedi Council would have to take control of the senate in order to secure a peaceful transition.
- Yoda: To a dark place this line of thought will carry us. Hmm. Great care we must take.
- Mace Windu: Chancellor Palpatine. Are you all right?
- Chancellor Palpatine: Yes, thanks to your two Jedi Knights. They killed Count Dooku, but General Grievous has escaped once again.
- Mace Windu: General Grievous will run and hide, as he always does. He's a coward.
- Chancellor Palpatine: But with Count Dooku dead, he is the leader of the Droid Army. And I assure you, the Senate will vote to continue the war as long as Grievous is alive.
- Mace Windu: Then the Jedi Council will make finding Grievous our highest priority.