“Master?”
“Do you think treachery begins in the deed, my friend?”
“No. It begins in the thoughts.”
His Master showed teeth: perhaps a smile, perhaps a snarl. “And yet we can’t know the thoughts of another, especially those of a traitor, who guards his thoughts closely so as not to reveal his treachery. And so we must draw out the thoughts to have them manifest in deeds, and thus reveal the truth. Do you agree?”
ader stared into the flames. “I hear nothing with which to disagree.”
Again the smile or snarl from his Master. “You were a traitor, were you not, Lord Vader?”
Vader’s breathing caught on the hook of sudden anger. “What did you say?”
“To the Jedi. To Padmé. To Obi-Wan. To all those you loved.”
His Master turned to look at him, his eyes reflecting the flames.
Vader didn’t know the answer his Master wanted to hear, so he simply answered with the truth. “Yes.”
His Master turned his eyes back to the fire.
–Star Wars: Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp

ну какой же мудила, какой же мудила >_____< В новой РВ по сравнению со старой в их отношениях изменилось, похоже, только то, что Палпатин его теперь постоянно зовет "старым другом", но ведет себя все еще как полноправный хозяин.