Corruption " Corruption " is the fifth episode of the ' . It aired on October 8 , 2010 . Official description . " Padmé , on a diplomatic mission to Mandalore , guarantees the pacifist planet the Republic ' s full protection , but she and Duchess Satine soon find something sinister lurking beneath the planet ' s serene facade . Moogan smuggler s have been sneaking in supplies , including bottled tea destined for the Mandalorian schools . To increase their profits , they have been diluting the tea with a hazardous chemical . " Plot summary . While Duchess Satine ' s endeavor to keep Mandalore out of the Clone Wars was successful , her world now faces an economic crisis : due to the raging war it no longer receives vital supply shipments , and she has pleaded with the Senate to allow trade routes to be opened since smuggling , in combination with corruption , has become the only way of shipping in the needed supplies . Padmé Amidala travels to the New Mandalorians ' capital city , Sundari , to assure Satine of the aid from helpful factions in the Galactic Senate . She is greeted by all the Mandalorians of the city as she goes to Satine ' s palace , but at the same time a band of Moogan smugglers land on the cargo docks and bribe a corrupt customs officer into turning a blind eye on them . In order to increase their profits by quantity , the smugglers dilute the delivered tea with a toxic chemical called slabin once on - planet . Padmé and Satine soon find themselves in a difficult situation as none of the Ruling Council members can agree on a common stand about asking the Republic for aid , since corruption is widespread in its political system — an issue which worries the two women . The next day , Satine takes Padmé to a newly opened hospital , but they are horrified to discover a vast number of ailing children inside who have been poisoned with an unknown substance . The only clue is that all the affected children visit the same school , so the cause is believed to be related to the food they have been served . Prime Minister Almec suspects the Death Watch for this deed , which Satine refuses to believe since they mostly target her and the administration . She assigns her personal bodyguards to investigate the outbreak , while she and Padmé also conduct some snooping of their own . At the school , they check out the tea drinks and find the chemical within , and try to use the delivery import logs to backtrack their source of origin . At this , the school ' s superintendent tries to sneak off but is arrested by Satine ' s guards , and forced to talk . He tells them the name of the middleman through whom he received the drinks : Siddiq , an employee of a shipping company . While Siddiq is rather indifferent to the children ' s plight , he does provide Satine and Padmé with the information that the tea shipment came from Mooga and that another shipment is expected to arrive the same night . Padmé , Satine , and one of the Ducal guards sneak to the pier in question and witness the shipment ' s arrival and the complicity of the customs officer . The police captain is in stubborn denial of Satine and Padmé ' s observation , claiming that no criminal activity takes place under his jurisdiction , but when taken to the dock warehouse where the tea is stored and seeing the operation for himself , he is quickly swayed . The smugglers open fire at the arrest party , but using a freight container as a shield , Padmé and the guards move in and take them out , and following the arrest of the conspirators , Satine has the warehouse and its contents burned down . When Satine and Padmé report to Almec , however , the Prime Minister is strangely reluctant to acknowledge the corruption within the Mandalorian government and merely promises to have the matter investigated . As Padmè prepares to leave , Satine suggests to her to send a Jedi as an undercover agent at the academy , and Padmé promises to bring the matter before Master Yoda .