Oh my god, everything I learn more about Palpy’s clones just makes it that much more confusing lol.

Would there be any way to cut out a lot of Palpy’s dialogue to Rey? A lot of it will have to be nixed anyway for Rey Nobody. Perhaps he’s just waiting there, silently. Rey looks up, sees her friends dying, she’s about to kill him without him goading her on (a lot of her dialogue with Finn seems to lead in this “Is Rey a killer” direction anyway), and then…she senses Benny Boy, and is given another option.

And then Palpy tries to kill her, realizes that he can absorb her life essence instead. Badda bing, badda boom.

Edit: Heck, just make it so that if she “strikes him down in anger, she’ll be lost to the Dark Side.” Basically, anything other than Palpy literally possessing her would work.