But instead of using like the most common sense approach to everything, Qui-Gon concocts some kind of convoluted scheme so that we could get to the pod race. I honestly still don’t understand it.

(Qui-Gon) “My ship will be the entry fee.”

(Watto) “What will the boy ride? He smashed up-a my pod in the last race!”

(Qui-Gon) “Well, I have acquired a pod in a game of chance.” LIE

(Watto) “SO, you supplyyyy the pod… the entry fee.”

(Qui-Gon) “If it’s going to be 50/50, I suggest YOU front the cash for the entry.”

(Watto) “I supply the boy. We split the winnings uuummm 50/50 I think, huh?”

(Qui-Gon) “You keep ALL the winnings, minus the cost to the parts I need…”

(Watto) “SO, you supplyyyy the pod…”

(Qui-Gon) “If we lose… you keep my ship.”

Who was betting what? Then it gets more complicated later, when the bet changes.

(Qui-Gon) “I’ll take that bet. I wager my new racing pod against saaaayyyyy…”

(Watto) “Well, uh…”

(Qui-Gon) “The boy and his mother.”

(Watto) “NO pod is worth TWO slaves!”

(Qui-Gon) “The boy then.”

So Anakin built the pod, but Watto didn’t know that he built the pod so that – He already raced with Watto’s pod. So then Anakin tells Qui- If Watto wins, Anakin tells Qui-Gon to pretend that it-it’s his pod- And Watto says I’m gonna put up the entry fee if you – uh – let me use your po – If they win, then the boy gets the – the money for the part, but if they lose, then Watto keeps the pod and the bo- Qui-Gon would have to pay back the republic credits, OH wait, no he bet, he bet the ship! He bet the ship and then if he loses the pod race then Watto gets the ship in exchange for putting up the entry fee. If Qui-Gon wins then he gets the prize mone- But then later on they throw the boy actually into the deal vs. the ship vs. the pod – Add the mom into the bet – So then- If Watto wins…. I don’t know.

(Watto) “I lost everything!”

(Qui-Gon) “Whenever you gamble my friend, eventually you lose.”