STAR WARS

Mr Solo, meet Mr Delorian

So they've been captured. This happens a lot to the Rebels throughout the movies.

Kenobi's suspiciously confident he can take out the tractor beam. Does he have contacts aboard the station to help him? Has he been sifting through the data R2 has?

We get a good taste of Kenobi's and Solo's contempt for each other here as well. Han is not under his spell, evident from his reluctant cooperation, and Ben is so frustrated by Han that he's actually getting snippy. That "Who's the more foolish" line is supposed to end, "or the fool who follows HIM?" but sounds distictly like "or the fool who follows IT?". Either way it's a strange schoolyard-level taunt.

Kenobi's an old hand at guerrilla techniques and soon they're in the command office off the hanger. Watch Chewbacca kill a man with one blow like a grizzly bear (death is assumed as the officer never gets back up), making him a murderer as well.

Yet another suspicious line comes out of Kenobi:

So astromech droids are outfitted to hack battle stations? How does Kenobi know what R2 can do? And here's something to ponder; Leia's message to Kenobi said that she "placed information vital to the survival of the Rebellion" in R2. She didn't actually say 'plans for the Death Star'. Here we see R2 sifting through data while directly interfacing with the Death Star. Vader is after the droids because he believes stolen plans were hidden with them, but even if R2 is indeed carrying some info, it's very possible that he gets the crucial data about the exhaust port only now. It's a stretch to consider that Kenobi has engineered a raid on the Death Star to secure it's blueprints, but he's a sneaky old bastard.

Case in point, here's a bit of tampering to puzzle over:

In the original movie, the portion highlighted in yellow above is simply NOT there. In the Special Edition and DVD releases, it is. In the original, the terminal and machinery in the room can clearly be heard in the background as the readouts are flashed and no one speaks. In the altered editions, Threepio's voice for this added exposition noticeably does not match his other dialog. Evidence of tampering is obvious but the reason remains unclear.

Kenobi gives the readouts a cursory once-over, gives a shifty look, and then says that he has to go off alone. Seems to be confident that he can find his way now, eh? Does he have a Pocket PC with the plans on it, or just the phone number of his contact aboard this battle station?

Before leaving he stops to plant hypnotic suggestions in Luke again. This is the last time Kenobi speaks to Luke before he dies, so he makes it as cryptic and weird as possible:

Always... Remember that, Luke. There's no escape.