Bounty Hunters (episode)

"Courage makes heroes, but trust builds friendship."

- Moral

"Bounty Hunters" is the seventeenth episode of Season Two of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It aired on March 27, 2010 in the UK and April 2, 2010 in the US.

Official description
Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka form an uneasy partnership with four deadly bounty hunters to help protect a local farmer from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates.

Plot summary
A Jedi shuttle carrying Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano emerge from hyperspace to investigate the medical station orbiting over the fungi-world og Felucia. They immediately encounter an automated vulture droid deployment station. The vulture droids attack the shuttle and force to it crash on Felucia. The Jedi eject from the ship once it enters the atmosphere and once the survival pods land, they look for civilization.

Cast

 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Pirate Trooper
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Kowakian monkey-lizard
 * Anna Graves as Sugi, Rumi Paramita
 * Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Village Child
 * Jim Cummings as Hondo Ohnaka
 * Gregory Baldwin as Casiss, Seripas, Gwarm
 * Stephen Stanton as Dilanni, Pirate Scout
 * Dave Filoni as Embo
 * Tom Kane as Narrator

Behind the scenes
The episode is dedicated to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, the director, producer, and co-writer of such films as The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai, the latter of which this episode is an homage to.

Hondo's line "But, you know what I always say - Speak softly and drive a big tank" recalls the similar phrase popularized by President Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Like "Senate Murders" and "Cat and Mouse," "Bounty Hunters" was shown in Canada and the UK one week before it aired in the United States.