Clone Wars Chapter 24

Clone Wars Chapter 24 is the twenty-fourth episode of the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated television series, and the fourth episode of Season 3 and Volume II. The episode originally aired on March 24th, 2005.

Synopsis
Shaak Ti uses the Force to pull Supreme Chancellor Palpatine out of General Grievous's grasp. As the Jedi and the Chancellor make their escape, Grievous makes short work of the Senate Guard and clone troopers left behind to stop him. Waiting for the elevator, the Jedi turn around as the sound of battle from Palpatine's quarters stops, and Grievous crashes through the door. Grievous evades their Force attacks, but a shockwave from Roron Corobb's throats collapses the ceiling, stopping the General's advance. Shaak Ti explains to the supreme chancellor that he has four throats. the Supreme Chancellor, picking his ear to get rid of the ringing, tells her he knows.

As the elevator descends, Grievous appears running down the side of the building alongside the capsule. A clone trooper fires a bazooka at him, and when the smoke clears, he has disappeared. At the ground level, a legion of Super Battle Droids stands waiting, and as Grievous lands in front of them, the droids begin to advance. Corobb's throat blast blows most of them away, but Grievous hangs on, slowly advancing towards them. Shaak Ti orders the troopers to call for support, but their communications are jammed. Two IG-100 MagnaGuards suddenly appear in front of them. The Jedi and Palpatine manage to evade their electrostaffs, but the clone troopers are knocked to their deaths.

On Nelvaan, Anakin Skywalker follows the wind and the frozen rivers to a cave far from the village. Inside, he manages to avoid several dangerous steam vents before happening across a wall covered in ancient Nelvaanian pictograms. As the gas fumes in the cave build up, Anakin begins to hallucinate, seeing the pictograms move before his eyes. They show the Nelvaanians going about their daily lives, until a technological menace attacks them. A hero fights them off, but his arm is turned into a machine as well. At first the hero uses his powerful new arm to protect the villagers from all attacks, but eventually he uses his arm and powers to destroy the villagers as well. As Skywalker collapses, he hears Padmé calling his name - "Anakin!". When he awakes, he sees a giant spherical machine which is absorbing the planet's geothermal energy.

The Jedi protecting Palpatine leap from platform to platform through Coruscant, with the two MagnaGuards closely in pursuit. They jump on to a floating barge, but are shortly joined by four MagnaGuards and Grievous himself, who disables the barge's repulsorlift generators. The Jedi flee into a subway station, leaping over trains and narrowly avoiding death as they fight the MagnaGuards on the tracks. Shaak Ti finally manages to destroy two of the droids, and Corobb destroys another. As Grievous appears and backs the Jedi into a tunnel, Shaak Ti uses the Force to wrap his cape around a pipe on a train carriage. She activates the train, and Grievous is pulled down the corridor at great speed. The Jedi break a nearby window and make their escape.

Avoiding the patrolling battle droids, Anakin makes his way into the complex, where he overhears two Techno Union scientists discussing specimens for their "project". Anakin discovers tanks full of horribly-mutated Nelvaan warriors, augmented with cybernetic implants and weapons. He watches as the latest Nelvaanian to be captured is submerged in a mutagen to be processed. The Techno Union scientists hurriedly release the "specimens" as Anakin races in and destroys the battle droids. Anakin tries to reason with the advancing creatures, insisting he is here to help them, but they slowly raise their weapons, roaring in anger...

Dramatis personae

 * Anakin Skywalker (Mat Lucas)
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor)
 * Turnstile Computer (James Arnold Taylor)
 * Techno Union Scientist #2 (James Arnold Taylor)
 * Mutated Warrior #1 (James Arnold Taylor)
 * Padmé Amidala (Grey DeLisle)
 * Shaak Ti (Grey DeLisle)
 * Clone Trooper (André Sogliuzzo)
 * General Grievous (Richard McGonagle)
 * Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Nick Jameson)
 * Main Techno Union Scientist (Nick Jameson)

Species

 * Nelvaanian
 * Human
 * Kaleesh

Locations

 * Coruscant
 * Nelvaan

Behind the scenes

 * Anakin's vision in the Nelvaan cave directly foreshadows the events of Revenge of the Sith.


 * According to the DVD commentary, director Genndy Tartakovsky wanted the brief scene where Greivous kills the remaining clonetroopers behind the closed door in Palpatine's office to sound really violent. So he said to the sound designer that he wanted "everything" to be heard, including say, he joked, a buzzsaw. He was then suprized when a buzzsaw sound effect was put into the scene. It is left up to the viewer's imagination to wonder if Greivous wields a buzzsaw weapon.