Cut back to Imperial Center. Vader and Wreth are riding a repulsorlift transport to a military detention center containing Colonel Dodonna. Vader professes to Wreth that he senses there to be more behind the attack on Palpatine than simple incompetence on the part of the Moff. Wreth recalls that he was trained at the Imperial naval academy by Dodonna in his pre-defection days. The captain is struck by how Dodonna could have fallen so far out of the Emperor’s graces in such a short time.

Then the two arrive at Dodonna’s cell. Wreth plays the “good cop” to Vader’s “bad cop”, talking to Dodonna about his days learning to be an officer at the academy. Then Vader, using his unnatural strength, forcefully extracts out of Dodonna the location of the secret Rebel base: an Outer Rim world called Dantooine.