Meanwhile, an Imperial transport seeks to subdue the zillo beast. Employing some sort of energy beam, it immobilizes the creature and then lifts it into the ship. "They're not killing it," Wrecker says. "They're taking it!"

The Marauder swoops in to pick up Tech and Omega, barely escaping to space. Back on the Imperial transport, the zillo beast is caged in a giant tank. And on the ground, commandos arrest all witnesses.

Tech goes over the zillo beast data, saying that the crashed vessel was part of an Imperial cloning operation. "Hunter, there is far more to this than we realized," he says, noting that the destruction of Kamino was not to meant to end cloning, but to give the Empire complete control over the technology.

On Wayland, Doctor Hemlock is informed that the zillo beast has been secured. When briefed that a ship had escaped the planet, he orders his commandos to "find out who it was."

Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su, prisoner of the Empire, arrives. Su knows the doctor is desperate for Nala Se's help, and offers up a secret in exchange for his freedom. "There is a particular clone you must locate. A young girl," he says. "She is the key to controlling Nala Se."