Senate Spy

## Premise

At the Master High Council's request, Leopard investigates a Dark Empire conspiracy in the Senate.

## Synopsis

Daniel discreetly returns to the valley of peace  to his wife Leopard's apartment. They prepare for a romantic evening, when Daniel gets signaled by the Council to return to the Jade Palace , forcing him to cut his evening short. Before the Council, he is told that they need a spy in the Senate to spy on Senator Rush Clovis, who is suspected of being a Empire supporter. However, they can't afford to have masters taking official action in this, thus they need to convince Leopard to join their cause, as she is close to Clovis. Though Daniel doesn't believe that she would be right for the job, the Masters insist on him appointing her, because she trusts him; Oogway attempted to enlist her earlier but was rebuffed.

The next day, at the Senate, Daniel locates his wife, who is obviously resentful of him leaving her last night. He asks her about Clovis, and she says she already told Oogway she doesn't want to spy on him, as he is a colleague and an old friend. However, when she learns that Clovis is collaborating with the Dark Empire , she immediately agrees to do it. Daniel tries to convince her not to, considering that it may be dangerous, but she reminds him that she is doing her duty.

They both go before the master Council, where Leopard admits that she hasn't seen Clovis for a long time. They were close in the past, but she wanted to maintain a professional relationship, which he took very hard. The Masters encourage her to regain his trust in finding out his treachery.

She meets with Clovis at a bar, where he explains that he's planning on going to Cato Neimoidia to negotiate with the Trade Federation; he offers her to come along, for political and personal reasons. As they prepare to depart, Daniel, being the pilot for Leopard's ship, becomes jealous when Clovis kisses her on both cheeks. He assists them with getting seated on the ship, preparing a seat for Leopard, and breaking the one next to it, so that it can't get fastened. On takeoff, he jerks the ship around to prevent Clovis from kissing Leopard again.

As soon as they arrive on Cato Neimoidia, they are greeted by the wolf Senator Lott Dod. Leopard is shown to her quarters while Dod and Clovis discuss "business"—which involves the amount of credits needed to build the new droid foundry—with Poggle the Lesser. Clovis refuses to lend them any more credits. Leopard attempts to spy on them while taking a "walk," but they shut down the holographic blueprints. As Clovis leads Leopard away, Dod and Poggle realize that she is Clovis' weakness and plan on poisoning her to force him to cooperate.

While Daniel and Sonic wait outside for Leopard's signal, she gets into an elegant dress for dinner with the other Senators. Dod tricks her into sharing his drink after smearing the rim with poison. Once dinner is finished, Clovis takes Leopard on a tour of the palace, both unaware of the symptoms of the poison, including thirst and head throbbing. While Clovis goes to fetch a drink, Leopard attempts to access the palace's files, but is barred by the computer's demand for a passcode. She soon figures out that it is her name, and sees the diagram from Robot king's new droid foundry. She signals Daniel, who sneaks into her quarters. As soon as she takes the hologram disc with the plans, she hides it from Clovis, who enters the room. When he asks to hold her hand, she spontaneously embraces him to hide the disc.

She notices daniel in the shadows, his face bursting with anger and jealousy, but she calms him down by brandishing the disc. She discreetly gives it to him, but as he slips away, Leopard passes out. Clovis reports this to Dod, but is informed that Leopard is a spy. At first he refuses to believe it, but is convinced when he finds the disc missing. He angrily confronts her for betraying him, but Daniel enters, demanding that he step away from her. Clovis realizes that he loves Leopard enough to save her, so he offers to get the antidote in exchange for the disc.

As they carry Leopard back to the ship, they run into Dod and his aides. Clovis attempts to bluff his way out, but Dod refuses to let them leave, so Clovis pulls out a blaster. Dod is forced to give up the antidote, and the three run away. However, Daniel purposely leaves Clovis on the reserve , who is forced to "talk" with Dod, as he himself injects Leopard with the antidote.