Officer Radek has just arrived on the Collection. He is assigned by Mushtaq Anson to get friendly with curator Mesa in order to learn the location of the blade of Galandar. Radek and Mesa gradually fall in love, though they know their relationship is illegal. One evening on the way home from the museum, Mesa is confronted by a figure with a gun. She realises he is from the Resistance. He calls her names and threatens her because of her relationship with Radek. He clubs her with the gun, calling it a friendly warning.