(Pacifist Senator Amidala had been working for a year to defeat the Act.) In the office of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), Jedi Council member Mace Windu (Samuel L.Matthew in the Bible.The message sets the film""s moral tone and forecasts its eventual outcome:...for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.Matthew: 26-52In the short opening scene of the film seen in long-shot, a car drives into a gas station." Crawford announced that the fan note needed to be thoroughly analyzed for prints, hair fibers, etc.His prey staggers and hen drops.The camera partially zooms in on the frightened eye of he dying animal.With the trophy beast tied to the hood of his Cadillac, Michael and his pals return to town that evening and immediately head for Welsh""s Lounge."On board the Empire""s Death Star, a gigantic Imperial space fortress, officers in a large conference room argued about the power of the rebels to threaten them (especially since the Rebels possessed a "complete technical read-out" of the station), as commander Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), a skeletal, vicious-looking, power-mad tyrant, and Darth Vader entered the room.