Fives insists he had no choice. He explains that he has uncovered a massive conspiracy, and that the clones are engineered with organic chips that allow someone else to control them, to even make them capable of killing the Jedi. Fives desperately realizes he has no evidence. The drug and desperation make Fives seem all the more frantic and unhinged. Fives insists the Chancellor is in on it, and that Palpatine told him as much in the medical facility.

Just then Clone Commander Fox and his troops burst in, demanding that Fives stand down. Desperate, Fives grabs one of Rex's blaster pistols, but Fox opens fire, killing Fives with a shot through his heart. The shocktroopers collapse the shield around Anakin and Rex, and Rex rushes to Fives. With his dying words, Fives warns Rex that this conspiracy is bigger than anything anyone could have imagined.

Back at Palpatine's office, the Supreme Chancellor expresses his dismay to Yoda, Mace Windu, Shaak Ti, and Anakin at learning that Fives has died. He informs them that his own personal doctors have examined both Tup and Fives, and discovered something that Nala Se missed: a parasitic infection native to Ringo Vinda. Fives and Tup were most likely infected from a shared source, like a canteen of water, Palpatine explains. As a precaution, a vaccine has been prepared for the soldiers of the clone army.

On Serenno, Lord Tyranus communicates with Nala Se, confirming that he has received the inhibitor chip samples she has forwarded. Tyranus contacts Darth Sidious, assuring his master that the Sith plot has gone undiscovered.