After rejoining with Sel, he told her that Imperial Daven Quarle working in the hall was a resistance fighter and on their side, little to his knowledge that Quarle was a double agent for Ein. The next day he was arrested trying to cut the power to the Governor's Hall alongside Quarle. Sel walked in during the arrest causing enough of a distraction for herself and Quarle to escape after Vartos was shot and wounded, leaving him behind to his own fate. The mission was a success after Sel discovered Quarle's duplicity and sent a signal to a New Republic fleet waiting to be called in to liberate Verkuyl. He survived his wound but required a few hours in a bacta tank to fully recover and met with Sel after the mission was complete.