Dagman stumbles back and tries to take his blaster out of its holster but Jeni brandishes her weapon first. She walks forward until her blaster’s muzzle is just outside Dagman’s arms’ reach, the man now huddled up against a wall and no longer standing upright.
Zero hovers near his owner with a holographic display of the Falcon’s last known location, Verdanth, projected into the air several inches ahead of his abdomen. Jeni gestures to the hologram while demanding Dagman to explain its significance. At gunpoint, Dagman tells Jeni that Verdanth is the Talon Striders’ base of operations.
Then she asks what the Striders want with the Isis crystals. Dagman panics and asks why she wants to know that. In response, Jeni fires a blaster bolt into the soil between his legs, which encourages the Strider to give up what he truly knows: nothing. Dagman tells her he is not privy to the higher-ups’ intentions with the crystals.
He suspects that Hossk and Tyrhevius have not been selling the crystals to anyone, instead keeping them for some other purpose. As of late, Dagman has had to siphon off goods from the Striders’ raids on civilian settlements in order to make his own ends meet...namely gambling debts.
Dagman offers Jeni and Amnar a portion of the valuable crystals if they return the sack and let him go free. Somewhere behind Jeni, Amnar chuckles and tells the Strider that he is in no position to make such a bargain. She turns her head and offers a brief smile.
Dagman rushes off the ground and deploys his weapon. With his free hand he grabs a wrench from a nearby pile of discarded junk. He knocks the pistol out of Jeni’s hand, causing a misfire that leaves a smoldering black crater on the wall.
Jeni snaps her view back to the Strider, her other hand slipping the lightsaber hilt out of her belt. Amnar takes aim with his rifle. With amazing agility, Jeni switches on the blade and makes an upward swipe at Dagman, slicing off his entire arm. The Strider's appendage, still gripping his blaster, lands in the dark soil some feet away.