The Jedi Who Knew Too Much

"Courage begins by trusting oneself."

- Moral

"The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" is the eighteenth episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series' fifth season. It aired on February 16, 2013.

Official description
"As the Republic military takes over the Temple bombing case, Ahsoka finds herself at odds with Admiral Tarkin."

Plot summary
With the perpetrator of the Temple bombing having been apprehended, the Jedi turn their attention to other matters. Master Yoda must give a eulogy for the six Jedi who died during the explosion, as Chancellor Palpatine, Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, and Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee look on. During the eulogy, Ahsoka notices that Barriss is deeply grieving, and asks whether she was close to one of the fallen. Barriss reveals that she was a training companion of Tutso Mara, as Master Yoda exhorts those present to "live for the living."

The funeral over, Anakin, Ahsoka, and Barriss return to their duties along with Wilhuff Tarkin. When Tarkin reveals that Letta Turmond, the bomber of the Temple, has been taken into military custody, Ahsoka protests that Letta should have remained under Jedi oversight. As she begins to lose her temper, Anakin calms her, but not before she voices strong opinions of Letta's guilt and need for punishment.

After Tarkin enters an elevator, Barriss departs, saying she has much to do. Anakin, seeing though this statement, tells Ahsoka to go comfort Barriss. Entering the elevator with Tarkin, he sighs that in many ways Ahsoka has yet to grow up.

In the midst of a conversation on the importance of moving past one's emotions as a Jedi, Ahsoka is called away from Barriss by Anakin, due to a need to be in the war room. Once there, she finds out that Master Obi-Wan Kenobi is reporting an attack by the Separatists on the Saleucami planets. In the middle of this presentation, Tarkin calls in, reporting that Letta Turmond is asking to talk to Commander Tano, and insisting on speaking only to her. Surprised, Ahsoka agrees to go.

Arriving at the facility, Ahsoka is congratulated by the clones for capturing Letta, then asked to leave her technology behind in the safe box, according to procedure. The clones then escort her to Letta's cell, where Letta reveals that she was told to speak to Ahsoka if she needed help. Still skeptical but intrigued, Ahsoka asks for privacy when it becomes clear Letta does not want to speak in public. Once the clones close the door, Letta reveals that the idea of bombing of the Temple was not her idea. Instead, she was only the instrument--a Jedi gave her the plan of feeding the nanodroids to her husband Jackar Bowmani and then igniting the resulting bomb. When Ahsoka asks her to explain, Letta reveals that many believe the Jedi have become weapons of war and not peacekeepers, and claims that a Jedi agreed with this view and bombed the Temple to make a statement. She fears that this Jedi can reach her even within the security facility, and asks Ahsoka for protection. Ahsoka does not explicitly make a promise, but presses Letta for information. Just as Letta is about to reveal the name, however, she is grabbed in a Force-choke and dies despite everything Ahsoka does to help.

Meanwhile, the clones notice the security camera stream, which appears to show Ahsoka choking Letta. They rush into the cell to find Letta already dead, and consequently must arrest Ahsoka as the only suspect. Tarkin later arrives to inform Ahsoka that she is definitely the only suspect, and shows her the video recording of Letta's death, which (in a coincidence quite fortunate for Tarkin) has no audio recording to accompany it.

Later, when Anakin attempts to see Ahsoka, it is revealed that Tarkin has placed Ahsoka in quarantine, allowing no one to speak to her. Anakin is tempted to attack and force his way in, but masters his anger and leaves peacefully.

A few days later, Ahsoka notices a key card lying outside of her cell. Believing it to be the work of Anakin, she uses it to free herself. However, as she makes her way through the corridors, she comes upon three wounded clones. Concerned, she realizes that it might not be Anakin who is helping her. Suddenly she notices her lightsabers and comlink lying next to the clones. As she uses her comlink to try to find out who is helping her, Commander Fox comes through the door. At first, she attempts to explain it was not her fault, but Fox slaps the emergency alert button, and Ahsoka takes off down the corridors. Fox is about to give a comlink alert with warning to shoot on sight, but Anakin remands the order and tells Captain Rex, who has entered with him, to change the order to "armed and dangerous." He attempts to call out to Ahsoka, asking her to return and await judgment. Despite the fact that he trusts her, she explains that he is really the only one who believes in her, and thus keeps running.

Anakin tells the clones to capture her but keep her alive. There is a massive search for her, though she remains unspotted until a squadron of clones notice her on top of a statue outside the security facility. A chase then ensues, in which she runs into the industrial areas in an attempt to shake off the clones. Using transports and infantry, the clones work to surround her, constantly bombarding her with stun bolts that she deflects with her lightsaber and shoto until she loses her shoto during an RPG blast. Eventually, they surround her, but she makes a Force jump onto a nearby pipe, cuts a hole in, and escapes through the pipe system. The clones and Anakin follow, but she evades all but Anakin. Finally, he catches up with her at one outlet, where the pipe opens up onto a vertical shaft through which ships are traveling.

At first, Ahsoka unleashes her frustration at Anakin not helping her, but he explains that it would have only confirmed her apparent guilt for him to force his way in. He asks her to surrender her lightsaber and return with him, but she refuses, saying that she will not take the punishment for something she did not do. As Rex and Fox come down the tunnel behind Anakin, she asks him to trust her, and jumps out of the pipe onto a passing ship, thus making her escape...

Cast

 * Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Clone troopers
 * Stephen Stanton as Tarkin
 * Meredith Salenger as Barriss Offee
 * Kari Wahlgren as Letta Turmond
 * Tom Kane as narrator and Yoda
 * Terrence Carson as Mace Windu and mechanical voice
 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Behind the scenes
The episode was named for the 1934 Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much.

The episode contains many references to the 1993 film The Fugitive, which stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. One of the references include Tano jumping from a water pipe to escape capture.

The Jedi who Barriss Offee references during Yoda's eulogy was Tutso Mara.

Ahsoka Tano's mention of being trapped in a Separatist tank was a reference to the Season 2 episode Weapons Factory.

The Republic base was designed specifically to foreshadow the rise of the Galactic Empire. In addition, it was also located near the Venator staging areas that were seen in Revenge of the Sith.

There were two references to scenes from A New Hope, both relating to Tarkin in this episode. The first, when Tarkin visits Ahsoka Tano's cell, mirrors Vader's visit to Princess Leia's cell. The second, where Tarkin grabs Tano's chin, mirrors what Tarkin would later do to Leia just before blowing up Alderaan.