Siddiq openly admits to Satine and Padmé to bribing a school official without remorse. He is confident his corporate contracts will protect him. He gets the tea from a Moogan and reveals that the next shipment will be arriving that night.

Satine, her guard and Padmé sneak onto the dock to watch the secret arrival of the smugglers' ship. They watch a customs official bribed by Tee Va ignore the cargo shipment. Satine wants to know how far up the chain of command the corruption goes.

The police captain refuses to believe there is any corruption under his command. Satine accuses the police captain of stalling at arresting the smugglers. He reluctantly goes to the dock to investigate. At the dock they discover a guarded warehouse, which contains a lab where the tea is being diluted with slabin.

The smugglers shoot at the police who are overwhelmed. The guards and Padmé take the battle against the smugglers into their own hands.

Satine demands that the police captain burn down the warehouse full of slabin-contaminated tea. Later, when Padmé and Satine reveal to Prime Minister Almec that smugglers, not Death Watch, were to blame for the mass poisoning. Satine ordered shipments of an antidote to the schools and hospitals. The prime minister doesn't seem compelled to look further into the corruption. Satine is losing hope in the government.