- Nute Gunray contacts Lord Sidious, who looks an awful lot like Emperor Palpatine from Return of the Jedi—nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
- Sidious tells Nute to begin landing his troops and to kill the Jedi.
- The Jedi's ship is destroyed in the docking bay. The Jedi hear the blast, but the doors to the conference room are shut while a not-so-subtle poisonous gas is pumped into the room.