WATTO: Before gambling cost me everything and I ended up a servant to Barrola, I was once a wealthy trader on Tatooine. I owned Anakin and Shmi Skywalker.
LUKE: Our grandmother...
WATTO: The boy was good. Too good, if you ask me. He was always wasting his time helping people, and he would never cheat in the podraces. I lost to some double-crossing Nubian because of him.
WATTO pauses, slowly shaking his head, remembering.
LEIA: Then why do you want to help us?
WATTO: Ani won his freedom and became a Jedi. Years later he came back looking for his mother and I pointed him to the moisture farm where she was living. Shortly after that I heard Shmi had been killed by Tuskens, and I felt remorse for the boy.
WATTO looks up, into the eyes of LUKE and LEIA.
WATTO: (cont.) ...I saw this small opportunity to make amends.
LUKE: Thank you, Watto. Thank you for your insight.
WATTO: What my Master told you is true. Imperial soldiers have indeed taken away many of the Huttlings. They are being held hostage on Kessel to ensure the Hutts turn over their spice operation. I have even heard rumors in Barrola’s court that prisoners from other worlds have also been taken there.
LUKE: And what about the ‘Jedi’ woman Barrola spoke of?
WATTO: The soldiers were led by a woman wielding a Jedi’s weapon, only I don’t think she-