To Catch a Jedi

"Never become desperate enough to trust the untrustworthy."

- Moral

"To Catch a Jedi" is the nineteenth episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series' fifth season. It aired on February 23, 2013.

Official description
"The fugitive Ahsoka escapes to the criminal depths of Coruscant."

Plot summary
Following Ahsoka's escape from the Republic military base, she rides on top of a freighter to to the lower levels of Coruscant. Knowing that she has been betrayed by many and is wanted by the Republic, Ahsoka begans her desperate search to prove her innocence.

Meanwhile, at the Jedi Temple, the Jedi High Council holds an emergency meeting to decide the best way to find Ahsoka. While most on the Council believe that she is guilty of the crime, Anakin Skywalker, her master, and Jedi Master Plo Koon are doubtful of her guilt. While Grand Master Yoda & Master Mace Windu feel that Anakin should not go, due to his emotional attachment to his padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi strongly supports Anakin. Anakin is dispatched with a team of 501st Legion clone troopers led by Captain Rex and Plo Koon is dispatched with a team of Clone shock troopers led by Commander Wolffe into the underlevels to find Ahsoka. Each team rides on a Republic Police Gunship.

Following Ahsoka's escape into the underworld, the Coruscant Security Force is just getting word of the fugitive Jedi. While travelling through the underworld, Ahsoka contacts her friend, fellow Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee. After a brief conversation, Barriss tells Ahsoka that she will investigate from her end and tells Ahsoka to find a different means of contacting her. Ahsoka then breaks her comlink and bargains with a homeless Gotal drinker for his cloak.

Ahsoka boards a train and hides from the police who are requesting passes as the train progresses. At the next stop, Ahsoka tries to exit but is caught by some guards who were preparing to board the vehicle. Ahsoka engages them in hand-to-hand combat, paying close attention to ensure no one is killed. She then opens the door and dives onto a nearby platform, disrupting a local Coruscanti citizen.

However, her time for rest is short when she is spotted by three guards near the platform. Ahsoka jumps into an elevator, which malfunctions as a result of the police firefight, causing the elevator to drop at a rapid pace. Ahsoka takes with her an unidentified Twi'lek child, and the child helps her to stop the elevator. Ahsoka thanks the child and quickly moves on.

After walking for some time, Ahsoka is attacked from behind by the now bounty hunter, Asajj Ventress, who wants to turn her in for the bounty on her head. After discussing with Ventress and comparing the similarities of their betrayal, Ahsoka and Ventress make a deal. If Ventress helps her plead her innocence, Ahsoka will support a pardon for Ventress from the Galactic Senate. Ventress agrees and the two travel to Ventress's home, a beaten structure in the underlevels and Ahsoka contacts Barriss via a public holographic system. Barriss tells Ahsoka about a warehouse where Letta Turmond obtained the nano-droids on Level 1315, and Ahsoka thanks her and then begins to leave with Ventress.

As the pair make their way towards the warehouse, they are ambushed by a squad of clones who had used a probe droid to find their whereabouts. Ahsoka tries to reason with the clones but Ventress is ready for a fight. With no success in negotiating, Ahsoka engages in a fist-fight, attempting to knock the clones down. Ventress uses her lightsabers to disarm the troopers and then remarks to Ahsoka that this is the new Ventress.

Finally reaching the warehouse, Ventress departs reminding Ahsoka that she still has her half of the deal to hold up. As Ventress leaves, a small creature similar in style to Ahsoka causes a shadow which spooks Ventress. While Ventress's guard is down, she is attacked by an unidentified Force-wielding assailant. Ventress is knocked unconscious and the assailant takes her lightsabers and helmet.

Meanwhile, Ahsoka investigates the warehouse. Suddenly, the mysterious assailant attacks her and engages her in a duel. The two fight and Ahsoka seems to be steadily losing. The assailant uses the Force to push crate after crate of supplies at her and Ahsoka's lightsaber becomes momentarily stuck in a pole after she attempts to stab the assailant. She is pushed against a stack of crates, causing her to drop her lightsaber as she desperately tries to defend herself until she is pushed off the platform by the assailant. Falling below, she sees a box of nano-droids just as a squad of clone troopers arrive. Before she has a chance to explain, she is knocked out by a stun blast fired by Commander Wolffe.

Anakin and Plo Koon quickly arrive and see the crates of nano-droids. On they way back to the temple, Anakin contacts Master Yoda and briefs him and the rest of the council on the capturing of Ahsoka. Plo Koon and Anakin Skywalker remark that there is still much to be seen and they still ponder if Ahsoka is the one behind the attack, or if the plot goes deeper than the Jedi know.

Cast

 * Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano
 * Nika Futterman as Asajj Ventress and Twi'lek Child
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
 * Meredith Salenger as Barriss Offee
 * Dee Bradley Baker as the clone troopers and Police Officer #2
 * Terrence Carson as Mace Windu
 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon, and Police Officer #3
 * Tom Kane as the narrator and Yoda
 * Stephen Stanton as Admiral Tarkin and Police Officer #1
 * Dave Filoni as Spots Podal
 * Brian George as Ki-Adi-Mundi
 * Catherine Taber as Old Aleena
 * Robin Atkin Downes as Rattataki Alien

Behind the scenes
The episode was named for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief.

Spots Podal and the Rattataki alien played by Robin Atkin Downes were not specifically identified in the episode itself, but they were identified in the trivia gallery for the episode on the official Star Wars site. The same trivia gallery also elaborates that the action in the episode covered Courscant levels 1312 and 1315.