Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV Series)

Corruption (2010)

Anna Graves: Satine Kryze, Minister of Finance

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• Satine Kryze : Perhaps a Jedi, working undercover at the academy could be of service to us. And in more ways than one. For if we lose our young, Mandalore will indeed be lost.

  Padmé Amidala : I will speak with Master Yoda. Don't lose hope, my friend.

• Padmé Amidala : I must say, when I came to visit I hadn't pictured us in such an... informal setting.

  Satine Kryze : Yes, well, from what Master Kenobi tells me, during your tenure as Queen you became quite familliar with such 'excursions'.

• Padmé Amidala : There are times I wish I could follow Mandalore's lead. Neutrality. And not just in the war.

  Satine Kryze : But the politics as well?

• Satine Kryze : Thank you for coming, Padmé. I know our decision to stay neutral has caused distress in the Senate. But for many here, the fallout from your war has been too much.

  Padmé Amidala : If your government has trade concerns, we can talk. Many systems have been affected. I assure you not everyone in the Republic has neglected Mandalore, and there are those of us who would still vote to give you any help you require.

  Satine Kryze : The help we need now is opening trade routes so we may get supplies more freely.

  Padmé Amidala : We are making progress in the Senate.

• Padmé Amidala : Prime Minister Almec seems a bit overwhelmed.

  Satine Kryze : If you're volunteering your services as a negotiator, please, be my guest.

  Padmé Amidala : Perhaps they will listen to a new voice.

  [speaks to the Ruling Council] 

  Padmé Amidala : Ruling Council, may I speak?

  Prime Minister Almec : Senator Amidala. The floor is yours.

  Padmé Amidala : I hear your worries, your frustration, but the longer you argue, the more your people suffer. You are right. New trade routes are essential to survival, but the black market is no substitute for legitimate and legal trade.

• Satine Kryze : I told Senator Amidala that Mandalore was not part of the war, yet here I find a battle in my own place.

• Satine Kryze : Tell me, Padmé, how do you feel about the Republic's war with the Separatists?

  Padmé Amidala : It's so complicated. As you know, in the Senate, the Chancellor says it's going very well, but my sources say otherwise.

  Satine Kryze : And how does that make you feel?

  Padmé Amidala : There are times I wish I could follow Mandalore's lead: neutrality, and not just in the war.

  Satine Kryze : But the politics as well? The contamination of greed reaches deep and far within the Republic: corporations, trade guilds, too many senators serving their own interests.

  Padmé Amidala : There are still those of us who work to overcome the corruption and believe it to be possible.

  Satine Kryze : Enough of this dreary talk. A new hospital has opened. Tomorrow you and I shall visit, see true good at work.

• Satine Kryze : Terrorists? Our minds should be on the sick children that are dying in the streets. What are you going to do to save them?

• Padmé Amidala : It wasn't Death Watch, Prime Minister. It was a group of black market smugglers. They were diluting the drink with slabin. What they didn't count on was that the process would make the drinks poisonous.

  Prime Minister Almec : And what about the sick children?

  Satine Kryze : I ordered shipments of the antidote for all the schools and hospitals.

  Prime Minister Almec : Oh, I'm glad this is over.

  Satine Kryze : No, I'm afraid it's not over. The corruption we witnessed is intolerable. Payoffs, police unwilling to comply, my government fooled. How does this happen?

  Prime Minister Almec : I'm sorry. I'm setting up a committee to look into it.

  Satine Kryze : Children nearly died because our government cannot be counted on.

  Prime Minister Almec : I assure you this will not go unpunished.

  Satine Kryze : I'm counting on you, Almec.

• Satine Kryze : I'm troubled, Padmé.

  Padmé Amidala : You heard Prime Minister Almec say he'll investigate.

  Satine Kryze : His heart is in the right place, but this corruption...

  Padmé Amidala : You must have hope, Satine.

  Satine Kryze : Hope will only go so far. The very people conducting this investigation might be corrupt. Perhaps a Jedi working undercover at the academy could be of service to us and in more ways than one, for if we lose our young, Mandalore will indeed be lost.