- Narrator: Danger looms! Despite recent victories in the Outer Rim, criminal minds plot at the very heart of the Republic! The bounty hunter Cad Bane has assembled some of the deadliest criminals in the galaxy and plans a daring attack to seize members of the Senate. What can be the aim of this despicable act?
- Anakin Skywalker: When I finished constructing my lightsaber. Ob-Wan said to me: Anakin, this weapon is your life. This weapon is my life.
- Padmé Amidala: No, Anakin, I can't. A Jedi lightsaber is...
- [Anakan puts his weapon in her hand]
- Padmé Amidala: Wow. It's heaver than I thought.
- Anakin Skywalker: It's yours. Believe me now?
- Ziro the Hutt: [upon being released from prison] Oh! It's so bright out here!
- Clone Troopers: [talking over Ziro] Oh my god!
- Bail Organa: Why do you have a Jedi's lightsaber?
- Padmé Amidala: The question is whether we should try to get it back to A- the Jedi Knight, or use it ourselves?
- Orn Free Taa: Oh, why do I have to go to the jail for this?
- 3D: Move it.
- Chancellor Palpatine: Sorry Senator, but everyone has a job to do.
- Cad Bane: Well, Hutt. It doesn't look like prison had too adverse an effect on you.
- Ziro the Hutt: Oh, you can't imagine the unspeakable things I've suffered! The horror!
- Bail Organa: We cannot allow the Chancellor to move this Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill forward.
- Senator Philo: We're all in agreement then.
- [Cad Bane enters the room and shoots two gunshots into the ceiling, startling Philo]
- Cad Bane: Morning, Senators. You should all consider yourselves to be in my power.
- [the other bounty hunters begin to enter the room]
- Cad Bane: As long as everybody behaves, this will be quick and painless. Do nothing, and it will all be over soon.
- Senator Philo: I don't know who you think you are, but I, for one, have no intention of listening to this kind of insolence.
- [Philo walks past Bane, who proceeds to pull out his blaster and shoot the senator in the back, who slumps over dead]
- Cad Bane: All right then. If you'll all gather at the center of this lovely atrium, my co-workers and I will relieve you of any communication devices.
- Padmé Amidala: [whispering to Bail] I see five of them here in the room. If we...
- Bail Organa: [whispering back] What are you going to do? It's not like we carry weapons.
- Cad Bane: [Shahan Alama enters the room without his droid partner] What happened? Where's the droid?
- Shahan Alama: The droid's gone, but there's good news. The Jedi is unarmed.
- Cad Bane: What?
- [suprised]
- Shahan Alama: It doesn't look like he has his lightsaber.
- Cad Bane: Go, bring him back to me.
- [Aurra Sing and Shahan Alama go after the unarmed Anakin Skywalker]