- Vader tells Grand Moff Tarkin that Obi-Wan Kenobi is aboard the Death Star and that he must face his old master alone.
- Elsewhere, Obi-Wan is still in stealth mode.
- At the hangar, the droids have locked the door and stormtroopers are demanding they open it up.
- Imperial reinforcements arrive at the detention block and pin the heroes in the cell bay. Thinking quickly, Leia blasts the grate of the garbage shoot and they make their escape.