Padmé and Ahsoka leave Bonteri, who is cautiously optimistic for peace. Ahsoka and Lux say their good-byes.

Padmé brings the Separatist peace proposal to Palpatine. She argues that an end to the fighting would spare them the need to borrow money from the Banking Clan. Palpatine questions the Separatists' sincerity. Padmé confesses she's been in direct contact with them -- an action which clearly unsettles Palpatine. Nonetheless, he agrees to put a vote to the floor.

Thousands of levels below the city surface, the sweeper droids arrive at a control room for the generator that powers the city. The droids convert into demolition droids. They open fire on the workers there, finishing them off. Combining into pairs at various locations around the room, the droids become time bombs.

Padmé addresses the Senate. She argues that because the Separatists are open to peace negotiations, the need to further fund the war seems ill-timed. Senator Organa agrees that there is no need to deregulate the banks. The Rodian Senator Onaconda Farr moves to vote the deregulation bill down.

The droids explode and the power generator collapses. The city goes dark and an explosion rocks the Senate Building. Twi'lek Senator Orn Free Taa screams that they're under attack as several fires burn throughout the city. The Senate, under emergency lighting, discovers that this was a Separatist attack. The movement to deregulate is again brought to the floor.

Padmé and Ahsoka meet up with Anakin in the Senate hallway. Aware that the two secretly went to see Bonteri, he scolds them both -- it was dangerous and illegal. While peace remains elusive, Ahsoka has arrived at a deeper understanding of the politics of war -- they are not as black and white as she once thought. Padmé's disappointment seems to lift slightly with this small victory.