Enraged, the young Jedi fought with Clovis. Unable to stop the fight, Padmé summoned her security team. When asked what happened, Clovis said an attacker entered the apartment, but was repelled with Anakin’s help.

While recovering in Padmé’s bedroom, Clovis received a holographic message from Count Dooku. When Clovis told Dooku he was close to revealing collusion between the Banking Clan and the Separatists, Dooku had an intriguing counteroffer for him. He would give Clovis the location of the Banking Clan’s secret accounts, allowing the former Senator to prove his case and take over the organization.

In a shocking turn of events, the Banking Clan told Supreme Chancellor Palpatine that its leadership had been arrested. Both the Separatists and Palpatine endorsed Clovis as the group’s new leader. Speaking to the Senate, Clovis promised to restore order and return the banks to their formal neutrality.

Clovis returned to Scipio to assume his new duties. But once in his office tower, Clovis was contacted by Dooku, who demanded the banks’ allegiance and threatened not to pay the interest on the Banking Clan’s loans if Clovis refused.

Pressured by Dooku, Clovis immediately raised the interest rates on the Republic’s loans but not on the Separatists’. Despite Clovis’s declarations of neutrality, Dooku then sent a Separatist task force to Scipio to attack the Republic forces there, making the Banking Clan look like a Separatist ally.

Padmé found herself trapped on war-torn Scipio, and commando droids dragged her to Clovis’s office towering. As Padmé watched in dismay, Dooku declared the Separatists in control of the banks and thanked a despondent Clovis for the role he played.

Dooku departed as a Republic invasion began. Anakin fought his way to Clovis’s office tower, cutting down the battle droids standing guard. Clovis, realizing he’d been outmaneuvered by Dooku, panicked and took Padmé hostage while trying to explain that the Separatist leader had masterminded the plot.

Just then a vulture droid smashed into the tower, leaving the structure dangerously unstable. Anakin grabbed both Padmé and Clovis before they could fall, but wasn’t strong enough to hold both of them. Clovis apologized to Padmé and let go, falling to his death. In the aftermath, Palpatine took over the Banking Clan in the interests of galactic stability.