- Back on Naboo, Viceroy Gunray informs Senator Palpatine—oops sorry, Darth Sidious—that the planet has been secured.
- Sidious agrees to keep the Senate in gridlock and to send Darth Maul to join them.
- On the Nubian cruiser, Panaka objects that they can't fight the Trade Federation without an army, and Qui-Gon reminds the Queen he can only protect her. The Queen asks Jar Jar for help.