Go on a DATE, already!

When they all return to the ship for the night, SARR shows them the video of the Force witches attacking. He's very good with that lightsaber, excellent form and everything. Mora is disgusted with the witches and doesn't seem to be too upset. She goes to bed.

Dalt holds forth on the crystal SARR has created. If there is a Light Side Pulse, then there should be a Dark Side Pulse, so perhaps the orb from the Sith Tower is a fragment of the Dark Side one and whatever is under the water on Ree's planet is a fragment of the Light Side Pulse? He wants to go visit it and see if more crystals are forming...which incidentally puts him exactly where the crew wants him. They agree to take him there tomorrow. If they're lucky, he'll go for a swim.

In the morning, Mora seems to have pulled herself together somewhat. Oola has INON help give Padme a bath. Z offers to help. "No!" Oola snaps. "PLEASE?!" Z begs.

Kyp tries to pay more attention to Ree, figuring that that's what he should do if she's interested, while Ree tries to find the right non-committal distance to not make him feel uncomfortable while she doesn't seem encouraging. She wonders how this happened. "Maybe I just haven't been paying attention...?"

After breakfast, Mora helps clean up and Dalt asks about going to the underground lake. There, he does indeed go for a swim to see what things look like underwater. He gathers some crystals, which he thinks could have any number of uses--for example, plunk one into that Dark Side device, and it could turn into a Light Side device. He rubs one in Z's face. "Feel anything?" "Rage," Z answers.

He wants to see if a Dark Sider wearing one of these crystals can access the Dark Side. He's pretty sure that it should be non-terminal. "And if it is," Oola replies, "Then, well..." "Now," answers Dalt, "You can't just go killing people in experiments." In other news, Mora seems calmer with the crystals in the room.

SARR wants another scan of Dalt's brain, which Oola arranges by telling him the last one was messed up. Kedrihm'Val suggests giving Mora one of the crystals. Ree thinks she might have her uncle give it as a gift.

Kyp figures they'll rendezvous with the Republic fleet when it passes on its way to the Outer Rim. It's probably best if Leia deals with Padme. Dalt suggests they take out the Sith temple on Thule. Not only will this throw Thule into chaos, as they perceive it as containing their sacred leadership, but the place is another of those Force-amplifying pyramids like on Yavin 4.

Ree is worried about the academy students left on Dathomir, but Kyp says he'll have someone take care of that. After they check to make sure no one has any other errands for them to run before they rejoin the fleet (the Council says only to meet them when the fleet is done at Bimmisaari), they place a call to Leia--or more accurately, Han.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow," says Han. "Ree, you brought back the dead?" "No!" she says to him. "No!" she says to Kyp. "I'll tell her," Han
answers. "Consider all other orders countermanded until you hear from me."

SARR notes taht Dalt's new brainscan shows that the "crazy-lattice" is completely gone. Oola grabs more water and returns to Ree's house. But how to apply it? Maybe just have them drink it? But the water glows, Kedrihm'Val points out. "Z, give me that flask." Unscrewing it, he says, "You have glowing alcohol." "Ooooo," says Oola, "Ryloth brandy!" They pour the water into Z's flask of glowing alcohol and he feeds it to Ree's aunt and uncle who, he comments, seem amazingly willing to accept any kind of liquor from him.

It seems to work. Really well.

Jude comes hurrying over. "Ohhh, god. I loved bacon once. I'm glad you and Kyp don't do that in public." Ree is flustered, and covers it by helping Jude escape from the room. They chat about guys, such as Z ("He's six feet of man-meat. Or, six and a half," Jude tells Ree. "No. Stay away from him," Ree commands), and Kedrihm'Val ("He's spooky. Like Yoda without the cute fuzzy.").

Dalt insults Z's sexual orientation. Z leaps at him again. Ree and kedrihm'Val grab him again. He grumbles about Dalt, who asks, "Why does everyone question my virility?" "We don't," replies Kedrihm, recalling a disturbing conversation about Darth Maul. "We question who you aim it at."

Ree shows Kyp how to make decorations. He likes that. He tries to find the courage to ask her out.

Mora shows up dressed like a normal person instead of a jungle witch, and gets Lydia to remove her Dathomiri tattoos.

They spend a few days waiting for Han, and take turns sitting with Padme, in case just having friendly people around helps.

When Kyp, Ree, Jude and Kedrihm'Val are walking to the ship one afternoon, a smoke bomb goes off. They hear four lightsabers ignite in the smoke--Thule agents. Jude crushes one's head with her cybernetic arm and summons up a Force wind, while Kedrihm'Val knocks one over, kicks the lightsaber away, and knocks him out. Ree and Kyp do awful Jedi things to their opponents. "So," begins Kyp while he fights. "You want to go to the opera with me when we get back?" And that's about the duration of the fight. Ree stares at him in astonishment. "You ask now?" "Well," he defends. "I finally felt comfortable." Then they both clam up with sudden nerves.

They take the one living guy back to the ship for interrogation. When the Thule agent wakes, he's surprised to come face-to-face with INON. "He's the nice one," Kedrihm'Val supplies. The agent looks horrified at this, and tries to dig out SARR's dossier, which he has on a datapad in his pocket. He has dossiers on all of them, in fact, but the facts are rather blurred due to all the rumors and misconceptions fostered by their popularity--especially the movies ("What do you know," Kyp mutters, "It worked!"). The information about SARR is particularly interesting, though. Apparently he's over 150 years old. The records also have some information on Sareth Fenn, the agent who works for Oola's father, commenting that his strange sword may be the remnant of a Sith sword that he had rebuilt. It seems to scramble Force-users who are hit with it.

The agent tells them his group has been here for three months, waiting for Ree. They were to capture her at an opportune moment...but they weren't exactly expecting her to be travelling with, well, that kind of help. The spaceport happily impounds their ship when Ree asks.

When Ree notices that the agent is a Force user, she plants one of those crystals next to him. Dalt "secretly" undoes the agents hands from the straps he'd been bound with, letting the others see and offering a cheesy wink to reassure the guy. The agent immediately tries to Force Lightning the group...only nothing happens. Dalt conks him on the head with the butt of his lightsaber, satisfied.

The ship has been corresponding regularly with Thule (and they also think there's something between Ree and Kyp). Z: "Bet there's tons of stuff on my romantic liaisons." Dalt: "With your mother?" Kedrihm'Val spins Z away from Dalt before he can do anything. "He doesn't need encouragement," he tells Dalt. The records indicate that there are Thule spies scattered liberally across the Republic, though apparently not as many as Thule wants people to believe. None of the cells have personal knowledge about any of the other groups, however. Also, the crew learns that someone has been sending large amounts of funding to Thule from various places in Republic space, though it has all been funneled through Keldragga the Hutt.

While the others investigate and try to ignore the lovebirds, Ree awkwardly agrees to the date at the Rodian opera (Dalt said it had exciting fights and stuff, so it wouldn't bore them).

The crew thinks they might be able to use this ship to get through Thule's planetary cloak so they can disable the planet's defenses. Oola is able to fake a message telling Thule that Ree Shevan has been dealt with, and sure enough, gets the instructions back for passing through the blockade.

Ree asks Oola for dating advice. Ree isn't even sure it is a date; it took her a day to realize she had in fact accepted. Oola calms her down from her panicky, babbling state. "Go and have fun and you can't have worse table manners than Han Solo."

Kedrihm'Val asks Dalt more about the crystals. Dalt thinks they could be used to heal Abindosan. They talk about clones and bringing back the dead. Dalt supposes it might be best to take care of the Yoda DNA, then. He wonders about the effects of bringing back someone who has faded into the Force. Would they remember? Would it drive them insane? Could they end up Force sensitive? Kedrihm'Val asks what happens if you bring back a Force spirit that doesn't want to come back. Dalt supposes they'd be drawn back against their will. He asks why they haven't eradicated E'Val, and Kedrihm explains that the scientists thought they might learn clues to fixing his planet. Dalt concedes that this is possibly true.

The spaceport goes nuts when the Millennium Falcon comes in. Ree's mother comms, hyperventilating about the Chancellor and General Solo coming to dinner. Ree's father calms the woman down, but refuses to kill the cow when she mutters something about beef being a more appropriate meal than mutton.

Dalt explains to Han and Leia about the whole 'bringing back the dead' thing, and also about the possibility of Force sensitivity. Han: "You guys go from being completely rare to being everywhere I live!" Leia checks on Padme and says they'll have to upgrade what she sarcastically refers to as the Falcon's medbay, and agrees to dinner with Ree's family. Ree's dad: "I am not killing that cow! I'll be saying goodbye to some sheep, though..."

Ree reads up on dating, but finds some awful books. When he spots her reading material, SARR offers to help. Force be with her. He gives her a list of good resources, explaining "I am a protocol droid" when she's shocked. And if Ree doesn't believe what everyone says about being herself and having a good time, SARR suggests she go ask Z for some dating advice so she can recognize the idiocy of doing otherwise firsthand. He also suggests she talk to her mother. "Don't you meatbags seek your spawning units for advice on things like this?"

Dinner goes just fine, though Ree's mom remains nervous. Ree asks her for advice. After her mother gloats a little about being right, she says, "Relax and be yourself." When Ree explains that Kyp wants to go with Han and Leia as well, her mother nods knowingly. "That's a male trick they use when they're nervous. Your father and I didn't go on a date alone for a month and a half."

Her dad passes through again, grumbling about the cow. "You know what cows can't do when they're dead? Breed!" "Well, actually-," Dalt begins. "NO!" "Fine. I'll just creme a brulee." He pulls out his lightsaber. Seeing the reaction, he starts giving instruction about cooking with a lightsaber. Ree's dad is fascinated.

During the night, while everyone is sleeping, Oola grabs INON and they give the Falcon a thorough scrubbing down. In the morning, Han is thoroughly dismayed. "Wow, Han," Leia comments. "It's white! I'm surprised nothing fell off," she adds to Oola. They load up Padme. Kedrihm'Val, figuring no one has actually asked him, checks with Dalt to see if he wants to go with them or head back to Coruscant. He's coming along, he says. Han tells Ree he'll take care of the Dathomiri students.