Hondo's loyal pirates are being overrun by the renegades. Hondo calls for a retreat, inviting Obi-Wan with him. Kenobi grabs Adi's fallen lightsaber, and follows Honda as the pirate scurries into the tunnels of his outpost.

In the tunnels of the outpost's north passage, Hondo and his loyalists erect a tripod laser cannon to mount an ambush on the renegades. Obi-Wan agrees to draw the Sith brothers away from the pirates, and he orders Hondo and his men to collapse the tunnel behind them. In this way, Kenobi separates the Sith Lords from the pirates. Obi-Wan ignites both lightsabers to do battle with the brothers.

Jiro and the renegades turn the corner and run headlong into Hondo's turret cannon. They raise their hands in surrender. Hondo reminds his former pirates that their new Sith allies have no interest in helping them now that they have their Jedi target. Hondo calls on all his pirates to pillage the now undefended cargo vessel used by the Sith.

Obi-Wan fights with fierce intensity, holding the brothers at bay. With a swift stroke, he cuts off Savage's left arm. The Sith apprentice collapses in pain. Maul pushes Kenobi away and brings the passageway crumbling down, desperate to defend his apprentice. Maul and his wounded brother retreat.

As they emerge from the outpost, Maul and Savage witness the reunified pirates stare at them with greedy grins. At Hondo's command, the pirates open fire on the Zabrak brothers. A blast tears apart Maul's mechanical ankle. The crippled Sith Lord is helped by his maimed apprentice. In a final fit of anger, Maul uses the Force to bring the vacant Jedi shuttle crashing down behind him, using the wreckage as cover.

Maul and Savage board their cargo ship and blast off, but they are swatted from the skies by a rocket fired by a pirate. The Sith Lords survive in an escape pod as the cargo ship crashes into the Florrum wasteland. The pirates pick apart the wreckage, looking for treasure. Hondo surmises the Sith Lords to have been vaporized, but Obi-Wan isn't convinced. He knows how tenacious Darth Maul can be.

Later on Coruscant, Obi-Wan along with Anakin, Yoda, and Mace Windu meet in Chancellor Palpatine's office. Palpatine believes the Maul matter to be closed, and tells Kenobi to forget about it. The Jedi need concern themselves with the threat of the Separatists, not some madman looking to round up petty crooks in the galactic underworld.

But Obi-Wan continues to be wary. He knows Maul is planning something. And with the Jedi preoccupied with the Clone Wars, the crime lords of the galaxy have been allowed to flourish, unchecked. It is a dangerously fertile ground for Maul to exploit.