Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is a 2015 film directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. It is the first film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, and Peter Mayhew reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Dohmnall Gleeson, Adam Driver and Gwendoline Christie.

The story begins thirty years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. A new Republic has risen from the rebellion, and Luke Skywalker is training a new generation of Jedi, yet a dark force looms over the galaxy, and it is arriving fast. The film's story will continue in Star Wars: Episode VIII The new order and Star Wars: Episode IX Balance of the force on December 15, 2017 and in 2019, respectively.

Despite initially claiming that the Star Wars story ended with the redemption of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, and after spending years refuting speculation that there would be another film, Star Wars creator George Lucas began work on Episode VII in 2011 in order to increase the value of Lucasfilm before he sold it to The Walt Disney Company, although Disney would later elect to not use Lucas' story. The acquisition was finalized on October 30, 2012, and Disney and Lucasfilm officially announced Episode VII and the sequel trilogy the same day. Lucasfilm later announced that the film would be an original story not beholden to the continuity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was rebranded as the non-canon Star Wars Legends.

The Force Awakens was released on December 17, 2015 in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Latin America, and Asian countries; December 18, 2015 in North America; and January 9, 2016 in China. Some North American theaters offered special limited advance showings on the evening of December 17th rather than the traditional midnight showing. The film received widespread critical praise upon its release and was a massive box office success, becoming the highest grossing film of all time in North America when not adjusted for inflation. Worldwide, the film is the third highest grossing of all time when not adjusted for inflation. It is currently the highest grossing sequel of all time and the first Star Wars film since The Phantom Menace to be the highest grossing film of its release year worldwide.

Attack on Tuanul
"They followed me!"

- Bala Tik Approximately thirty years after the destruction of the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker, the Jedi Master that leads the new Jedi order, has disappeared. Both the First Order, a successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, and the Resistance, a military force backed by the New Republic and led by Luke's twin sister, General Leia Organa, scour the galaxy in an attempt to find him.

Leia sends the Jedi Poe Huk and his apprentice Finn Tico on a secret mission to the village of Tuanul on the garbage planet Jakku, to meet with the Resistance ally Bala Tik, who has obtained a map to Luke Skywalker's location. During the meeting, First Order stormtroopers under the command of the dark side force user Kylo Ren and Captain Hux attack the village. Poe, Finn and their astromech droid BB-8 attempt to flee in their Jedi shuttle, but a pair of stormtroopers disable the engines with their blasters. With no alternative, Poe gives the map to BB-8 and orders him and Finn to flee. Poe remains behind to cover BB-8's escape.

After securing the area, the remaining villagers are herded into the town square. Bala Tik is captured and brought before Kylo Ren, who demands to know where the map leading to Luke is. Bala responds that he knows who Ren used to be, and begs Ren that he won't tell it if he lets him live. Growing impatient, Ren kills Bala by striking him down with his crossguard lightsaber.

Poe tries to slice Ren with his own blue lightsaber, but Ren casually stops the blaster bolt in mid-air with the Force. Poe is captured, and Ren decides to interrogate him further back on their ship. Before leaving, Hux asks what to do with the crowd of captive villagers, and Ren orders them all slaughtered. Poe watches on as the villagers are slaughtered behind him while he is brought in. Finn watches all of this from a distance, and decides to save Poe. A patrolling Stormtrooper passes by, and Finn knocks him out, stealing his costume aswell. Finn leaves BB-8 behind telling him to run away as far as possible before Finn sneaks into the shuttle in his disguise to save Poe.

Return to the Finalizer
"You will never find master Skywalker."

- Poe Huk to Phasma Ren Returning to the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer, Finn is overwhelmed with emotions since he has never saved his master before. He ducks inside an empty shuttle to take his helmet off, breathing heavily, but Hux notices him and tells him to submit his blaster for inspection, having never seen Finn before. Noticing that he is in danger, Finn knocks Hux out with the force and sneaks out into the large ship. Meanwhile, after failed attempts of torturing Poe for vital information about the map of Luke Skywalker's location, Ren uses her mind probe Force power to pry the information from Poe's mind. Ren learns that the map is located within a BB series droid that fled the village, and informs General Armitage Holdo of the new information.

Encounter with the scavenger
"Classified. Really? Me too. Big secret."

- Qi-ra to BB-8 Elsewhere on Jakku, a scavenger named Qi-ra traverses the corridors of a downed Star Destroyer at the Graveyard of Giants. Scavenging through the Star Destroyer, she finds a valuable piece of salvage and drops it in her satchel. Rey heads to Niima Outpost, and hauls the sack of salvage throughout the town. She then goes to Unkar Plutt to exchange her scraps for foodstuff, and he offers her a quarter portion for her salvage. After taking the foodstuff, Qi-ra heads to her home, a downed AT-AT, and prepares a meal for herself. After finishing her meal, she watches a starship depart from the planet and then notices a distant sound. She immediately runs off with her quarterstaff to investigate.

There, she encounters BB-8 struggling against being captured by a green-skinned humanoid scavenger named Teedo. She frees the droid and gives it directions to Niima Outpost and sends it on its way, but BB-8 insists on traveling with her. Qi-ra goes to Unkar Plutt to again exchange her salvage for foodstuff, and the Crolute offers to buy BB-8 for sixty food portions; while tempted, Qi-ra declines the offer. Plutt then sends two thugs to steal BB-8.

Escape from the Finalizer
"Master. If you just follow my lead we can get out of here alive."

- Finn to Poe Finn manages to free the captured Poe Huk from his cell, and the two steal a Special Forces TIE fighter. Finn mans the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hangar, and then disables the Finalizer turbolasers on the outside of the vessel. Poe asks Finn where BB-8 went, wich to Finn responds that he doesn't know, and that he told him to get away as far away as possible. Poe figures out that the droid must be somewhere in the Goazon Badlands, a junkyard on Jakku. Before they can continue their conversation and escape, their TIE is hit by a missile fired from the Finalizer, sending it spiraling towards the planet below.

Hux wakes up and reveals to Holdo that this Finn was a trooper in disguise and not a traitor. A technician then informs Holdo that the TIE fighter was projected to crash on Goazon Badlands. Realizing that Poe and Finn were going after BB-8, Holdo sends out a squadron of search teams to the area.

Escape from Jakku
""What about that ship?" "That ship is a piece of junk, we don't even know if it works!""

- Finn and Rey about the "Skyscraper" Finn and Poe eject from the TIE shortly before it crashes, each landing separately some distance from the wreckage. Making his way to the crash, Finn finds no sign of Poe, and the fighter sinks into the sand. Believing his master to be dead, Finn begins wandering through the desert, discarding his stormtrooper armor disguise along the way and eventually arriving at the nearest settlement, thirsting for water.

While Finn staggers around looking for BB-8, along with stealing a jacket unoticed, he notices thugs attempting to steal a BB unit droid, which Finn recognizes as BB-8, from a woman, Rey, but Finn fends them off with his force powers.BB-8 notices Finn, and they both hae a lively conversation. Rey is simply amazed to see a Jedi. Finn explains to BB-8 that he helped Poe escape the Finalizer, but that he had apparently perished during their crash. The First Order tracks Finn to the settlement, and launches an airstrike in attempt to search for BB-8 and the map. Rey, Finn, and BB-8 attempt to flee towards a Quadjumper but TIEs destroy it. With only one option left, the trio manages to escape in the junk ship called the Skyscraper. Rey flies it through the Graveyard of Giants, while Finn fires on and destroys the pursuing TIE fighters. With the TIE fighters destroyed, they escape into space.

Back aboard the Finalizer, Lieutenant Dopheld Mitaka informs Kylo Ren that the droid escaped on a stolen freighter and that it was aided by the fake stormtrooper Finn. Ren activates his lightsaber and lashes out in a rage-fueled tantrum, slashing at an instrument panel uncontrollably. Mitaka tells Ren that they also appear to have been helped by a local scavenger girl. Kylo grows even more livid, using the Force to pull the officer by his throat across the room in order to choke him with his bare hands, and asking him what girl it was.

Meeting with Han Solo and Chewbacca
"This is even worse than the Falcon."

- Han Solo to Chewbacca While Finn and Rey celebrate their escape from Jakku, the Skyscraper breaks down. The ship is in major need of repairs, so Finn, Rey and BB-8 begin working to fix it. While they are working on repairs, the ship is caught in a tractor beam by a freighter. Although they initially believe themselves to be captured by the First Order, they soon meet their real captors: Han Solo and Chewbacca who investigate the ship. Upon boarding the vessel, Han and Chewie go about inspecting the ship and find the two stowaways, Rey and Finn, who he assumes are Bounty Hunters. When Rey and Finn explain that they were going to take a droid named BB-8 to the Resistance because it has a map that would reveal Luke's location, Han and Chewie agree to help them.

Skirmish aboard the Eravana
They exit the Skyscraper and look around the freighter, also finding Han's ship the Millenium Falcon. Unfortunately, Han's freighter, the Eravana, is boarded by two notorious criminal factions, the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub, both of whom want their money back from Solo. Not wanting Rey and Finn to be involved, Han hides both of them in the lower corridors of the freighter while he and Chewie go meet with the criminals, with BB-8 accompanying them. Han tries but fails to convince both parties that he would fix things eventually, with the Guavian Death Gang negotiator, Lor San Tekka, recognizing the BB-8 astromech droid from a First Order bounty placed on it. They demand that Han hand over the droid and any stowaways he might have on board. As the scuffle continues, Rey accidentally releases three rathtars. The rathtars provide a distraction for Han and Chewie to escape, but one catches Finn and drags him around the freighter. Rey finds a control panel and shuts a blast door on the rathtar, freeing Finn. The two join Han and Chewie and successfully jump to hyperspace in the Falcon. Lor San Tekka then orders his men to inform the First Order that Han Solo and the BB unit are aboard the ship.

Meeting with the Supreme leader
"Our strategy must now change."

- Snoke to General Holdo At Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon, powered by draining the energy of a star, and capable of destroying star systems, Kylo Ren and General Holdo are summoned by Supreme Leader Snoke, who appears as a large remote hologram projection. Holdo suggests using Starkiller Base to destroy the government of the New Republic and the Resistance, and Snoke grants him the permission to do so. Snoke reveals to Ren that the astromech droid containing the map now resides in the Millennium Falcon - along with his father, Han Solo. Ren insists that his father means nothing to him, and with Snoke's training, he would not be seduced to the light side of the Force.

Journey to Takodana
"I have set up a meeting with the Resistance, they should arrive here soon. Until then we can stay in Queen Kanata's castle."

- Han Solo to Finn and Rey During the travel in hyperspace, Han contacts his wife Leia to meet him on the royal planet Takodana along with the rest of the Reistance since he has the droid. Meanwhile, Finn attempts to bandage Chewie's arm, which was wounded while fighting on the Eravana. After fixing the ship, Han questions Finn and Rey, wondering why they are fugitives. Rey explains that the First Order is after the map located within BB-8 and that Finn is a Jedi.

After BB-8 displays a projection of the map, Han explains that after Luke disappeared, there were many parties that went searching for him. Luke had rebuilt the Jedi Order, but an apprentice of his turned to the dark side, killing three younglings and leaving the temple. Feeling responsible and blaming himself for the failure, Luke went into exile. Han also explains that he heard rumors that Luke went searching for the first Jedi Temple.

Solo explains that he was able to find the Skyscraper soon after it entered space because he and Chewbacca were scanning for signatures of any ship, and he had done the same with the Millenium Falcon. This was also why the criminal gangs were able to track it down so quickly, and meant the First Order could track it as well. In order to bring BB-8 to the Resistance, they needed to switch to a clean ship, which Han says he can obtain from the queen of Takodana, Maz Kanata.

Solo takes Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to Takodana to meet with Maz Kanata at her castle. Han says that she has maintained her castle for over a thousand years, where she runs a royal democracy. Unbeknownst to all, a spy from the First Order, Bazine Netal disguised as a royal guard calls the First Order revealing that she has found the droid.

The conflict within
Attempting to seek guidance from his grandfather, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren sits quietly in his meditation chamber. In front of him s the burned helmet of Vader, recovered from the funeral pyre on Endor. With the re-emergence of his father and Snoke's orders to kill him, Kylo feels an internal struggle within herself. He reveals to Vader's burned helmet that the light is pulling him in again and that even Snoke could sense it. He then asks her grandfather to show him the power of the darkness again, to pull him back to the dark side of the Force and help her overcome her future trials.

A call from the Force
"Rey, i can teach you how."

- Finn to Rey While Han and Chewie speak with Queen Maz, while Finn is telling Rey about how the force works, and realizes how good of a teacher he is. Suddently Rey hears the screaming of a young girl and finds herself wandering deeper into the castle to find the source, leaving Finn behind. She descends to a sub-chamber that is filled with relics of the past. There she is called by the Force to Maz's curio box, an ancient Wroshyr wood chest. Inside, she finds the lightsaber that had previously belonged to Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke.

Upon touching the lightsaber, she receives a series of visions. Suddenly, she finds herself in Cloud City where Luke battled Darth Vader. As quick as she saw that vision, it goes away, and she now sees Luke placing his metallic hand on top of R2-D2 near a fire, at a site presumed to be the first Jedi temple. Next, she finds herself lying in the rain at night to see the Knights of Ren surrounded by slaughtered victims, fearing for her life as Ren notices her. Before she reaches her, she sees herself as a child on Jakku watching the departure of her parents, yelling out to them to come back, and bleing told to quiet herself from Unkar Plutt. Looking to the future, Rey then finds herself being chased by Kylo Ren in a snowy forest. Rey pulls herself out of the vision in terror. After the vision, she finds Finn standing outside the room. Finn, recognizing the saber, explains to Rey the lightsaber's history and that it was calling to her. Frightened by her vision, Rey refuses to keep the lightsaber, running off into the woods with BB-8, ignoring Finn telling her not to go.

Hosnian Cataclysm
"Today is the end of the Republic! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder!"

- General Armitage Holdo After gaining Supreme Leader Snoke's permission to fire the Starkiller superweapon, Holdo chooses the Hosnian system, which hosts the capital of the New Republic, Hosnian Prime, as well as the New Republic Defense Fleet, in order to demonstrate the power of the First Order in an attempt to wipe out the "illegitimate" government of the New Republic in one fell swoop. The test is a success and Hosnian Prime, the current elected home of the Galactic Senate, all other astronomical bodies in the system, and an unknown percentage of the mass of the New Republic fleet are annihilated by the First Order's superweapon. The destruction of the Hosnian system is visible from the surface of Takodana. Finn realizes that it has to be some sort of super weapon, similar to the Death star but stronger.

Battle of Takodana
"Master!"

- Finn reuniting with Poe The First Order, tipped off to BB-8's presence, arrives and attacks Maz Kanata's castle. Flying in with TIE fighters and Atmospheric Assault Landers, the First Order swiftly assaults the castle and levels it, killing many of its inhabitants and guards. Finn takes Luke's lightsaber for safekeeping, telling Han she doesn't have time to tell him how he retrieved it. BB-8 follows Rey into the forests surrounding the castle, and the First Order is unable to locate the droid until a stormtrooper officer reports to Kylo Ren that the astromech had been sighted in the company of a girl.

During the fighting at the castle, Finn wields his own lightsaber to kill three Stormtroopers, until he is overpowered by Captain Hux. His life is narrowly saved by Poe, who turns out to be alive. Hux gets overpowered but not killed. Han and Chewbacca also kill multiple stormtroopers, but are captured along with Finn by the First Order. However, Resistance T-70 X-wing starfighters along with New Republic soldier shuttles arrive to fight the First Order. A fierce dogfight ensues and results in the destruction of many First Order TIEs and the deaths of many stormtroopers from X-wing strafing runs and New Republic soldiers.

Rey encounters Kylo Ren at the woods, and fires at him with her blaster pistol, but Kylo restrains her using the Force. Probing her mind, he discovers that Rey has seen the map he's been looking for all this time, and orders the First Order to pull out, saying they had what they came for and no longer need BB-8. As the battle rages on above the castle, the remaining First Order troops board their ships and retreat, and Han witnesses his son carrying an unconscious Rey away. The Resistance is victorious, freeing Finn, Han, and Chewbacca. Han and Leia are reunited, and Han reveals to Leia that he saw their son.

Reunited at the Rebel Base
Han, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Rebel temple on Yavin IV. BB-8 encounters the astromech droid R2-D2, who, as C-3PO explains, has been dormant since Luke's disappearance. With the recovered map from BB-8 displayed on hologram, 3PO reveals that it is only partially complete, and that the map matches no charted system on record. It is revealed that Han and Leia are aware that their son is Phasma Ren, and that their daughter's fall to the dark side, despite Luke's efforts to guide him.

Upon finding the location of the Jedi temple, Starkiller Base begins draining the power of the sun to destroy Yavin IV. Meanwhile, the Resistance plans an attack of their own. Finn gives them the base's blueprints that he achieved from a spy, which reveal that the base drains the energy of a star in order to charge its superweapon, and that it requires a thermal oscillator, which sustains the energy on the planet, in order to function. If the thermal oscillator was destroyed, it would de-stabilize the planet's core and implode the base. However, they would need to do it before the base charges its weapon and destroys D'Qar. Finn, Han, and Chewie volunteer to disable the base's defensive shield from the inside. Before departing to Starkiller Base, Han and Leia embrace, and Leia pleads Han to bring their son home.

Rey's capture
Rey is brought to Starkiller Base and interrogated by Kylo Ren, who wants information on the map to Luke Skywalker. Ren takes off his helmet and shows her his face. Initially, Ren is able to see into Rey's mind, mentioning an island surrounded by water. However, the dark warrior has a difficult time probing her mind, and Rey is even able to push back into Ren's mind. After a mental struggle, Rey announces that she can sense fear in him - fear that he will never be as powerful as Darth Vader. Humiliated, Kylo storms out of the room to seek audience with Snoke.

Left alone and aware of what just happened, Rey realizes it is as Finn told her: she truly is Force-sensitive. She attempts to use a Jedi mind trick on her stormtrooper guard, to make him release her and leave the door open. It doesn't work, but Rey tries again: this time he walks over and tells her he will tighten her restraints instead of undoing them. Concentrating, Rey tries one last time, and the stormtrooper listens to her demands. She quickly also remembers to have him drop his blaster as he leaves so she can arm herself. Rey then makes her way through Starkiller Base, honing her Force abilities while using stealth. She also draws on her experience climbing through wrecked Imperial starships to make her way through the bowels of the installation's machinery. Meanwhile, Kylo reveals to Snoke that Rey is strong with the Force but untrained, and Snoke commands Kylo to bring Rey to him. When Kylo discovers that Rey escaped, he throws another fit of rage, slashing at her empty restraint chair.

Battle of Starkiller base
Han Solo pilots the Millennium Falcon to Starkiller Base accompanied by Chewbacca Finn, and Poe. Finn's main objective is to rescue Rey from captivity. Since the Starkiller's shields have a fractional refresh rate, Han pilots through the shields at lightspeed, and the Falcon makes a rough landing at the edge of a cliff. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn sneak into the main base and capture Captain Hux, whom they force to disable the shields before disposing of him in a garbage chute. They reunite with Rey, who had already escaped on her own. With the shields down, Blue Squadron and Red Squadron led by Black Leader commence their assault. They fire on the base's hexagonal oscillator structure, but fail to destroy it as the First Order sends TIE fighters to stage a counterattack and throw the Resistance into chaos.

Seeing this, Han, Chewbacca, Finn, Poe and Rey try to create an opening by planting thermal detonators inside the base. Sensing his father's presence, Kylo goes to meet Han. Han then confronts his son, Kylo Ren, calling to him by his birth name, "Ben". They approach each other on a bridge over a large pit, and Han pleads with his son to reject Snoke and return to the light side of the Force. Ben, removing his mask and seeming regretful and scared, holds out his lightsaber to Solo, asking for his father's help. Han replies that he would do anything for him, but when he tries to retract the lightsaber from Ben's hand, he resists. Ben then twists the angle of the hilt and ignites the weapon through Han's torso. Witnessed by Rey, Finn, Poe and Chewbacca, Han strokes his son's face for the last time, before falling to his death. Enraged, Chewbacca and Rey start firing at Ren and the stormtroopers as Finn and Poe fight off the Stormtroopers with their lightsabers, watching as Kylo Ren escapes. As the firefight rages, back on Yavin IV Leia has to sit down when she feels Han die through the Force, squeezing her eyes shut against the tears. Chewbacca injures Ren with his bowcaster, but Ren chases them out of the base and catches up to Finn, Poe and Rey in the forest.

Rey calls Ren a monster and then proceeds to shoot him with her blaster, but Ren knocks Rey out by Force pushing her into a tree. Poe and Finn launch at Kylo Ren and almost overpower him, but not before Finn is knocked out. As Finn falls, Luke's lightsaber that he had kept inside his jacket also falls out. Ren and Poe fight over it for a while before Poe is knocked away aswell. Poe gets up again manages to deal Kylo a glancing wound, but nonetheless Ren quickly overpowers the Jedi and deals him a grievous injury to his back. Ren tries to use telekinesis to pick up the lightsaber his grandfather built, but it resists his pull and instead flies to Rey, who has awakened from her stupor.

During this time, Chewie detonates the thermal detonators in the base, allowing the squadron of X-wings into the trenches of Starkiller Base. They find an opening in the thermal oscillator and enters, while a following TIE crashes, unable to execute the same flight maneuver. Inside, The X-Wings fire volley after volley of torpedoes into the oscillator, destroying the base's thermal oscillator thirty seconds before it finishes draining the sun to completely charge the superweapon. This causes a chain reaction to go off, which destroys the base and levels the entire planet's terrain - without the weapon to dissipate it, the stored solar energy begins tearing the planet apart from the inside.

Rey and Ren continue fighting: Ren has taken even more wounds, from Chewbacca, Finn, Poe and Rey, but even so initially holds the advantage, drawing on his rage to ignore the pain. Ren becomes so impressed with Rey that he tries to tempt her, complimenting her strength with the Force and offering to complete her training if she joins him. This backfires, however, as it only serves to reassure Rey of her own power, she begins to draw on the Force to hone her attacks, and the tide of the duel shifts. Ultimately, Kylo defeats Rey, but gets overpowered by Finn who slices him over the face. By this point, Kylo has taken too many wounds to continue standing, but he still struggles in vain to rise again. Before Finn can move in to finish him off, a large trench forms between them as the base begins to fall apart.

Finn runs back to Poe, despairing that his master is not waking up and that he and Rey are trapped on the rupturing planet. However, Chewbacca arrives with the Millennium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, chaos reigns as General Holdo has already fled, and the other officers rush to abandon the installation as well. Holdo, meanwhile, reports to Snoke, who orders him to rescue Ren and flee the base, so Ren can finish his training. The Millennium Falcon and the remainder of the Resistance fleet manage to escape Starkiller Base as it erupts into a ball of fire. They then enter hyperspace to return to Yavin IV.

Locating Luke Skywalker
The Resistance celebrates their victory while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's death. R2-D2 suddenly awakens and reveals that he holds the map to Luke's location, with the only piece of the map missing being the one BB-8 was given by Poe. Together they complete the map and reveal the location of Ahch-To, the planet on which Luke Skywalker sought out the first Jedi Temple. As the unconscious Poe recovers in the medical unit, Finn says goodbye since he is going with Rey to Ahch-To to find Luke.

With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey and Finn leave on the Millennium Falcon and follows the map to the distant planet, a water world dotted with islands, which Rey had previously seen in her visions. Rey pilots the starship to a particular island with a large, ancient stone village on it. She and Finn climb the rock-carved steps to the top of the island, where they find Luke Skywalker. Without exchanging any words, Finn presents him with his father's lightsaber, only getting a tear filled empty face on Luke's face as he utters the words: "What did i miss?"