The Briefcase, or, Benny Hill does Star Wars

Kedrihm'Val has a vision: an evil clone Han, with the trademark black eyes, shoots Leia in the back, and Luke argues with the Anakin clone. Alarmed enough by this to disturb someone's rest, he calls Ree in the middle of the night, who wakes Kyp to tell him. Kedrihm heads to the temple early the next morning. Ree's in a meeting with the Masters, so he tries to meditate and get a clearer vision of it while he waits. He sees that the argument is over resurrecting Leia, Anakin trying to talk Luke out of it, ironically enough. In the vision, Zann is missing, Han is missing, and Dalt is gone. He sees flashes of Ree wearing Master's robes, and Ree fighting Jude in a snowy place. He gets the distinct sense that this will all be happening in about a week.

The Council appoints Lydia as Ree's apprentice, and offers Ree a Council seat. She's honored, but wants to think about it. When they're done with her, they ask Kedrihm'Val to come in. When he tells them about the visions, they all look at Luke kind of funny.

Ree asks Zann for advice about being a Master. He has nothing terribly useful for her. "Who wants to be a Master? I don't even want to have a job."

Salek Endek turns up that afternoon and they talk about Ree's family and her crazy aunt. Apparently she was a bit of a bitch as a girl: ruthless, ambitious, maybe wanted more out of life than she could get on such a backwater little world. Ree asks about the third child in the photos, but that one Endek isn't sure about. Her mom wasn't as upset as you might expect when Ree's aunt took off. Mora's personal effects were "put away" by her husband (Ree's uncle). The older kids had a worse reaction to Mora than the younger ones did. Endek agrees to talk with the Jedi historian and visit Ree's planet. He says he'll go back and forth. Ree thanks him.

Then she goes to visit Lydia, who's perfectly fine with being her apprentice. She also stops by to see Lexi and Jenn.

Leia and her family are going on vacation for a few days to an "undisclosed location." Kedrihm'Val talks to Zann, mostly to reassure himself that the Jedi will handle it. It's sort of domestic business, so he's reluctant to poke his nose in, and of course Luke will do what he can to protect his family, but it's still disturbing. Zann mentions that Dalt has been raising hell in his box. He somehow found about about the Han thing and is ticked off about the execution of it. Zann agrees. Kedrihm'Val: "Yes, why replace the man married to the woman in charge of the whole Republic and then simply kill her?" Zann: "He's not thinking of power. He's thinking of pissing off Luke. Because evil is dumb. Really really dumb. Better clothes and all the good parties...but really stupid."

The Council sends the group to the pristine, snowy world of Rhinnal, ostensibly to follow up on the Jedi healer's temple. There, they learn that "someone famous" who desires anonymity is staying on the top floor. Ree makes the connection: the Chancellor on a quiet vacation to an undisclosed location? Yeah. And...they sense Drath on their way in.

At the hotel, Ree spots a suspicious Force user who pursues a waiter. She follows him into the elevator and finds out it's indeed Drath, but then Ree gets tossed out of the elevator by Jude. Drath, meanwhile, heads up into the penthouse with the keys he stole from the waiter. Oola grabs the rest of the group and follows in pursuit while Ree contends with her wayward cousin.

Jude and Ree get pitched out the window and down to the slopes during their skirmish. They chat a bit, decide not to fight, but Ree can't exactly let Jude just saunter around causing trouble, so they end up getting their chase on.

The rest of the crew heads up the elevator shaft to the penthouse. There's no one there except a bunch of businessmen... Oh. This wasn't Leia's family, after all. It's a business vacation for a Corellian trade exchange. And they're quite confused.

Then they hear a commotion on the floor below. Kedrihm jumps down the shaft to the elevator door to find Drath kidnapping an old man. Z blows a hole downward. Drath Force-chokes Kedrihm, who shoves him backward to break his concentration.

Ree catches up to Jude on their snowboards. The two of them start fighting after all, zipping downward toward the conference center.

Meanwhile, the old man is hollering and carrying on while everyone fights over him. A lightsaber cuts a hole in the floor beneath him and he falls through. Drath growls and Force-hauls the guy back up. Zann follows him up through the hole. Drath doesn't like these odds, so he throws a smoke bomb in the hallway. While Kedrihm'Val protects the old man, Lydia clears the hall with a wind an Drath tries to grab his quarry. He can't quite get hold of the fellow, who's running around screaming at this point, so he grabs the man's briefcase instead and leaps out the window, Zann and Kedrihm'Val close on his heels. Oola's left babysitting the angry old gentleman, who insists they must recover the briefcase, for it "contains the secrets of life!"

Jude his the conference center, plowing through and taking some data chips as she crashes through. Ree sees a Sith ship on fire above them--that has to be SARR's doing--as she catches up to Jude. She manages to smash the chips Jude stole as the two of them snipe at each other.

The ship that's on fire reaches the conference center.

On the roof, Kedrihm and Zann catch up to Drath, who stands staring at his flaming ship. "Just look at that. No, just look. I won't do anything. My ship's on fire and yours is circling the building. You know, I promised myself I wouldn't be like Dalt and forget to plan for the droid..."

Then he hits a detonator and blows out the bottom two floors of the conference center.

Shaken from its foundations, the entire building begins to slide regally down the mountain. Zann attacks him. In shock, Drath protests, "Aren't you going to stop the building?!" Kedrihm'Val snatches the briefcase; Drath grabs it back.

Oola has SARR attack a winch to the building to stop its slide, while Ree and Jude save people from the collapsing structure. Z emerges with a kid in one hand, shouting "What do I do with this?!" Drath runs up the winch. Ree comms a warning to SARR, who starts shooting at Drath...and the cable he's on, which is holding the building from crashing.

Zann electrocutes the cable. When Drath leaps off into the snow, Zann and Kedrihm follow. Drath makes a beeline for Ree, but Jude grabs the case from him and jumps on a snow disk, which prompts everyone to set off for Jude. Ree lightsaber's Drath's snow disc; he Force lightnings hers.

Kedrihm'Val tries to grab the case from Jude; she tries to hold onto it. Lerin zips by from out of nowhere to grab the thing and takes off. What's the bounty hunter even doing here?! Z shouts, "Hey, it's Lerin!" and gives chase.

Jude and Kedrihm both agree that "This is getting stupid." She Force lightnings Lerin, Kedrihm'Val Force-grabs the bag while she's distracted, Drath leaps on it as it's flying toward Kedrihm. Z robs and strips the unconscious Lerin. Ree leaps on Drath. They hit the wall and Drath backs into the conference enter. Zann shuts the doors at Drath's back, the case goes flying again--this time to Jude, who declares, "I'm done with this!" and hands it to Kedrihm'Val.

Everybody pants for a moment, then Drath hits his button again and blows up the rest of the charges he'd planted in the conference center.

It goes rolling--yes, rolling--downhill with an almighty crash, and everybody leaps for safety. SARR torpedoes the building before it reaches the cluster of buildings at the foot of the mountain. Debris goes flying everywhere, but by some miracle the mountain doesn't quite start an avalanche.

"What'd the want the bag for?" Ree wants to know, once they clamber to safety.
"Regenerative formula," answers Jude. "Drath wants it for his clones; my mom wants it for herself."
Ree: "She's pretty bad off?"
"Well, the Dark Side decays you something awful," Jude replies. "I'd never be a Dark Sider, just for what it does to your face."
"Then the Force lightning is a bad move," Ree advises her. "So Lerin wanted it for..."
"Where are his clothes?" Kedrihm'Val cuts in.
"I was giving him first aid!" Z defends himself.
Ree: "I...I lost my train of thought."

Ree thanks SARR for saving everybody's bacon. SARR mentions that the ship had another life signal. Kedrihm'Val checks to see if it was another clone, which it seems to have been...but it's dead now. They have him fetch a sample. He snags the head, figuring that's got...useful bits.

Jude takes off before anyone can stop her. They take the old fellow back to Coruscant with them. He wakes up partway with a shout of "My life's work!" Kedrihm hands him his bag. Then, "Where's my room?!" the geezer wants to know. Ree leads him to one. "I want porridge!" he demands. Z knocks him out.

Again, they unload stuff at the jedi temple. Ree lifts the head-box...oh, look at that. It's yay-big. "Uh...Zann?" She shows him the yay-big box, to a collective groan. "How about we take this to....the Republic labs?" she proposes, to eager agreement. Of course, the Republic labs don't want it. "Uh...the...Library ship!" The library ship understands the yay-big problem, and takes custody of the thing.

To the report!

Ree gets copies of her family pictures. She finds no pictures of her aunt before the age of about 1 and a half. The missing child was a boy who belonged to local neighbors, family friends, but the child disappeared about the same time as the aunt did. No idea why. He had no Force powers. Rent Sin, his name was. She checks the Jedi family database to see if the Sins are in it, but instead finds a hole in the records. The Jedi librarian is able to inform her that the Sins were a family of lightsaber artisans.