Enough! Find whatever safe he has. Get it open. Beetee, clean it out.

We need to make this look like a robbery.

TRIPLE-ZERO:

An excellent strategy, Mistress Aphra! Perhaps, depending on what’s in the safe, we could once again discuss the matter of my payment—

APHRA:

Not now, Trip.

COMMODEX TAHN:

So you’re going to kill me no matter what I do. You’re not giving me much motivation to help, miss.

APHRA:

I’m sorry. But that’s not going to be something you have any say in, Commodex Tahn.

COMMODEX TAHN:

Commodex who?

APHRA:

There’s a plaque right here on your wall that says PRESENTED TO

COMMODEX TAHN FOR SERVICES TO NABOO BY PADMÉ AMIDALA. If you’re going to lie, you need to try harder than that.

COMMODEX TAHN:

If you don’t want money, then what do you want? I’m old, I’m retired —living out my golden years in peace. I don’t mean anyone any harm—

APHRA:

You’re Commodex Tahn. You prepared Senator Amidala’s body for burial. We need your fond, nostalgic memories of that sad time.

COMMODEX TAHN:

If you knew her, you wouldn’t speak so. I won’t betray her.

She was a great queen. A good queen.

APHRA:

A good queen? I guess a good queen is a good thing. But I’d take strong over good any day.

COMMODEX TAHN:

“The ends justify the means,” is that what you’re saying? Easy to say when you’re not the means.

APHRA:

Ptth. When you were playing courtier on Naboo, I was trying to grow up living in a galactic war. I had a mom who pretended we weren’t.

COMMODEX TAHN:

I was hardly “playing courtier,” my position involved many important duties and services—

APHRA:

Shh. I’m talking now. And you’re listening.

However you want to slice it, you lived a life of luxury and privilege, sir.

Meanwhile, I was growing up in a dead-end homestead on the frontier, a brave spiritual life on a new world my mom dragged me to after a split from Dad.

COMMODEX TAHN:

Your mother just wanted a better life for you, it sounds like.

APHRA:

Well, that’s not what we got—either of us. Here’s the thing with wars—

if the war doesn’t get you, all the scum opportunists profiting from the chaos will.

Raiders came in. Mom told me to run. I did.

COMMODEX TAHN:

You survived.

APHRA:

You bet I did.

And then…I came back with this awesome cannon I found in a cave I was exploring and blew them all to pieces.

I saved everyone.

COMMODEX TAHN:

You see, you survived worse than—

APHRA:

And Dad came back, we all lived happily ever after. And now I spend my time wandering the galaxy recovering awesome cannons.