Jedi Master Adi Gallia tells Qui-Gon that Cohl is still alive.  She takes him to update Valorum on his suspicions.  On their way, they encounter a large group of protestors outside Valorum’s residence.  Several protestors make an attempt on the Chancellor’s life as he makes his way out of the building.  Qui-Gon and Adi fend off the attacks, but Valorum is wounded in the process.

Palpatine goes to visit the Valorum in the Senate Medcenter.  They discuss the news that Nebula Front was apparently behind the assassination attempt.  Palpatine suggests getting the Jedi involved for assistance with the upcoming summit.  Valorum agrees.

Sate Pestage, using a password given to him from Palpatine, slices into the computer of Senator Orn Free Taa and implants some hidden information.  The hope is that Orn will “discover” this information and feel compelled to tell many others when the time is right.

Qui-Gon consults with the Jedi Council (including Jorus C'baoth) about his concerns that the attack on Valorum was only made to look like it was carried out by the Nebula Front.

Valorum suggests to Yoda and Mace Windu that they send Jedi to accompany him on the trip to Eriadu.  He also asks that they may be needed to contain the Nebula Front at their secret bas on Asmeru.

Cohl meets with the Havac and Cindar.  He tells them that Remma has left him.  They ask him to assemble a team to assassinate Valorum during the summit.  They tell him they planned the attack on Coruscant only as a way to scare Valorum into inviting the Front to the summit.  Since it didn’t work, they want to finish the job.  They also promise to keep the Jedi busy and out of his hair.  Cohl agrees to the job.

Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and several other Jedi travel to Asmeru. Saesee Tiin negotiates a landing with the Front.  The deal turns into a trap as the minefield surrounding the planet begins to detonate and the ship carrying the Jedi is caught in a tractor beam.  They manage to escape and crash land on the surface and are held by the Nebula Front who hope to persuade Valorum to invite them to the summit.  They encounter a slave on the planet who offers to help them through a secret escape.  The escape route also turns out to be a trap.

The Jedi Council sends reinforcements to Asmeru.

The battle on Asmeru turns in favor of the Jedi.  The slaves turn and attack the Front. Moderate members of the Front also join the Jedi. They have been persuaded by a Bith spy that had previously sent information to Qui-Gon regarding Cohl's theft of the ingots. He leads a group of Front members that were not in agreement with the Front’s new radical actions.  Not long after, Republic ships appeared to save the day.  As the Bith lays dying he informs them that the Front has something else planned with Cohl.  Qui-Gon wants to follow Cohl to Karfeddion, where the plot supposedly starts.  The other Jedi don’t agree.  Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan take the Hawk-bat and decide to look into it for themselves anyway.

As Cohl looks for assassins, Remma returns to his crew.

While on Eriadu, Valorum stays in a home of friend to Palpatine, the Lieutenant Governor Wilhuff Tarkin.

Orn Free Taa presents evidence to Bail Antilles that relatives of Valorum stand to make a huge sum of money should taxation start in the trade routes.

On Karfeddion, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan pose as Front members.  They encounter Cindar and they battle him without their light sabers.  He is killed, but not before they learn the job Cohl is on involves “extermination work”.

Cohl, Rella, Boiny, Havac, and the others smuggle themselves into the summit areas.  Havac yells at them for allowing the Jedi to learn of their plans.  Havac attempts to kill them for their mistakes.  Cohl, Rella and Boiny are seriously injured in the attack and left for dead.  Havac goes to meet the assassins to go over the plan for the attack using a holoprojector.  He tells them that they will not be taking the kill shot.  Instead, a battle droid, the same as those used by the Trade Federation, will kill Valorum.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan learn that Cohl’s ship has been discovered on Eriadu, but he has not been seen.

Rella is the only casualty of the attack.  Cohl is visibly upset, but vows to avenge her death.  They discover the holoprojector and a droid's retraining bolt.  Cohl begins to understand the scope of Havac’s plot.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan find Rella and the others killed in the assault.  Qui-Gon realizes that Havac is setting up a diversion.

Lope, one of Havac’s men, leads the assassins into position.   They fear they have been discovered when patrols begin flying unusual patterns overhead.  They launch a missile on the ship that Qui-Gon, Ki Adi Mundi, Obi-Wan and others were in.  They avoid the missile and land on the roof and begin taking laser fire.  After several tense moments, they capture the six terrorists.