Hold still, Sana! I’ve almost got it.

APHRA (narration):

Hmm, so yes, this does look like I’m just letting a gigantic IG-RM

droid strangle my ex-girlfriend, doesn’t it? But actually…okay, fine, that’s exactly what was happening. But I had my reasons.

SANA STARROS:

[struggling to breathe]

It’s…choking…me…

APHRA:

I know. These things are so strong. Must have extra-strength pistons in the arms. Wow, I’ve never seen one in action before.

SANA STARROS:

Shoot… it! Shoot it in the…

APHRA:

Ah, don’t be a baby. I’ve almost got—

A blaster fires, taking down the IG-RM droid.

APHRA:

Leia! What’d you do that for? I was rewiring it. I almost had us our very own IG-RM droid.

PRINCESS LEIA:

It was killing Sana.

APHRA:

I feel like you’re focusing on the negative here, Princess. If you can call that a negative.

PRINCESS LEIA:

Play nice, Doctor Aphra, or I can’t protect you from what’s out there.

Or from her.

APHRA:

Protect me? You guys can’t even protect yourselves.

PRINCESS LEIA:

Sana, were you able to send the message?

SANA STARROS:

I’m gonna kill her. Let’s see how she likes being strangled.

PRINCESS LEIA:

Sana! Focus, please.

SANA STARROS:

[grudging]

Not sure. Tapped into the prison’s comm lines. Couldn’t get a strong enough signal to reach the rebel fleet, but if there’s somebody friendly in the area, we might get lucky.

Was busy trying to boost the signal when this droid jumped me.

Doc here let it walk right up on me.

APHRA:

I might still be able to fix it. I just need—

PRINCESS LEIA:

Get away from the droid, Doctor. That’s not our mission.

APHRA:

I thought staying alive was our mission. Also, I don’t remember agreeing to take orders from princesses.

PRINCESS LEIA:

You’re still a prisoner here. Don’t forget that.

If you’d rather take your chances in your cell than with us…

SANA STARROS:

I still say we throw her into the sun.

APHRA:

You do, sweetie, you might as well jump, too. Because without me, you two half-wits are as good as dead.

SANA STARROS:

I’ll show you as good as dead!

PRINCESS LEIA:

Sana, stop it!

The prison is under siege by an unknown force. One who’s determined to kill every prisoner he can. Our mission is to make sure everyone gets out of here alive.

And we’re failing.

Everyone on this cell block is dead. So we move to the next one. Let’s go.

SANA STARROS:

This is ridiculous. You’re even crazier than she is. Why are we trying to save a bunch of prisoners? We need to be getting to the docking bay and getting out of here.

APHRA:

Or the armory. I’d be cool with going to the armory. As long as it’s a big one.

PRINCESS LEIA: