Clone Wars Chapter 21

"Chapter 21" is the twenty-first episode of the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated television series, and the first episode in Season 3 and Volume II. The episode originally aired on Cartoon Network on March 21, 2005.

Synopsis
A customized Low Altitude Assault Transport speeds across the surface of Hypori. On board the transport, a squadron of Advanced Recon Commandos prep their weapons for attack. A jamming signal cloaks them from a platoon of B2 super battle droids surrounding a crashed Acclamator I-class assault ship. The gunship drops a cluster of disarmed thermal detonators among the droids, who open fire on the transport, but miss as it lands within the wreckage.



The troopers disembark. Their commander&mdash;Captain Fordo&mdash;detects three life signs. Two of the ARC troopers go after the nearest two. The transport heads skywards to open fire on the approaching battle droids. As the troopers exit a tunnel, they encounter General Grievous in a vicious lightsaber duel with Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi. Just as he disarms Mundi and prepares to finish him off, they both notice the clones, who unleash a barrage of blaster fire at the cyborg. Grievous flees the barrage&mdash;so fast that his speed carries him up the wall and onto the ceiling, a prime position to attack the ARC troopers. As Grievous leaps down and quickly kills four of the troopers using two of his lightsabers, the commander calls for backup. The hovering LAAT breaks into the area and opens fire on the General with its blasters and missiles. Grievous manages to evade their attacks.



"No, we must pursue!"

- Ki-Adi Mundi

Fordo orders his men to retreat, despite Ki-Adi-Mundi's insistence that they pursue Grievous. Two Jedi, Aayla Secura and Shaak Ti, have survived the attack by General Grievous and are recovering on board the LAAT. Meanwhile, Grievous takes a lightsaber from the seemingly lifeless body of K'Kruhk and adds it to his collection.

The ARC troopers detonate the explosives, destroying hundreds of droids. General Grievous watches the transport head into space, musing that they have only delayed the inevitable&hellip;

On Coruscant, Yoda has a vision of the nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker and the late Qui-Gon Jinn. Qui-Gon tells Anakin he must face his fear by entering the Dark Side Cave on Dagobah.

At a meeting of the Jedi High Council, Ki-Adi-Mundi tells the Council of the defeat on Hypori. Since the Jedi numbers are spread so thinly, the Council decided in the meeting to promote Anakin Skywalker to full Jedi Knight status, despite protests from Master Oppo Rancisis.

Anakin secretly meets with Padmé Amidala in a Coruscant alleyway, but their meeting is interrupted by C-3PO, who is clad in brand-new gold casing. This impresses Anakin. Anakin is summoned to the Jedi Temple, where Yoda knights him, cutting off his Padawan braid, which C-3PO later presents to Padmé. In return, Padmé gives Anakin R2-D2 to look after (or for R2-D2 to look after Anakin). R2 then shows a recording to Anakin of C-3PO presenting the braid to Padmé. Anakin smiles at the sight of his wife and reaches into the hologram with his Mechno-arm as if he could touch her. He then climbs in his starfighter, and leaves once again to fight in the Clone Wars&hellip;

Memorable quotes
"Run, Jedi, run. You have only prolonged the inevitable."

- Grievous

Voice cast

 * Adi Gallia .... Grey DeLisle
 * Padmé Amidala .... Grey DeLisle
 * ARC Captain .... André Sogliuzzo
 * ARC Trooper .... André Sogliuzzo
 * C-3PO .... Anthony Daniels
 * Kit Fisto .... Richard McGonagle
 * General Grievous .... Richard McGonagle
 * Qui-Gon Jinn .... Fred Tatasciore
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi .... James Arnold Taylor
 * Agen Kolar .... James Arnold Taylor
 * Ki-Adi-Mundi .... Daran Norris
 * Even Piell .... Daran Norris
 * Oppo Rancisis .... Fred Tatasciore
 * Anakin Skywalker .... Mat Lucas
 * Young Anakin Skywalker .... Frankie Ryan Manriquez
 * Shaak Ti .... Grey DeLisle
 * Yoda .... Tom Kane

Characters

 * Alpha-77
 * Padmé Amidala
 * C-3PO
 * Figrin D'an
 * Kit Fisto
 * Adi Gallia
 * General Grievous
 * Qui-Gon Jinn
 * K'Kruhk
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Ki-Adi-Mundi
 * Agen Kolar
 * Plo Koon
 * Palpatine
 * Even Piell
 * Oppo Rancisis
 * Aayla Secura
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Sam Snootles
 * Shaak Ti
 * Unnamed Koorivar
 * Unnamed Koorivar (II)
 * Mace Windu
 * Yoda

Creatures

 * Dog

Droid models

 * 3PO-series protocol droid
 * B2 super battle droid

Locations

 * Coruscant
 * Jedi Temple
 * High Council Chamber
 * Dagobah
 * Hypori

Organizations and titles

 * Advanced Recon Commando
 * Advanced Recon Commando heavy gunner
 * Advanced Recon Commando pilot
 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Galactic Republic
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * Jedi
 * Jedi High Council
 * Jedi Master
 * Jedi Order
 * Padawan
 * Separatist Droid Army

Sentient species

 * Advozse
 * Aqualish
 * Bith
 * Cerean
 * Chadra-Fan
 * Dulok
 * Gamorrean
 * Gotal
 * Gran
 * Human
 * Ithorian
 * Jawa
 * Kaleesh
 * Kel Dor
 * Koorivar
 * Lannik
 * Lepi
 * Nautolan
 * Pa'lowick
 * Quarren
 * Rodian
 * Snivvian
 * Sullustan
 * Thakwaash
 * Thisspiasian
 * Togruta
 * Twi'lek
 * Whiphid
 * Yam'rii
 * Zabrak

Vehicles and vessels

 * Acclamator I-class assault ship
 * Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Train

Weapons and technology

 * Kloo horn
 * Lightsaber
 * Reciprocating quad blaster
 * Z-6 rotary blaster cannon

Miscellanea

 * Japor snippet

Behind the scenes

 * Although K'Kruhk appears to have been killed by Grievous in Chapter 20, and is not rescued with the other Jedi, he is actually known to have survived this battle and is in a state of hibernation when Grievous takes his lightsaber.
 * An animated version of Genndy Tartakovsky can be seen in the background on Coruscant during this episode.
 * A creature resembling "The Creeper" from the Scooby-Doo cartoons can be seen on Coruscant during this episode.
 * Although Eeth Koth remained canonically dead after the Battle of Geonosis, a Zabrak Jedi High Council member that appears in the Council scene, officially credited as Agen Kolar, was animated instead with the likeness of Eeth Koth. It is unknown if the character was originally intended to be Eeth Koth (in ignorance of his canonical death) and then retroactively credited as Agen Kolar to avoid a continuity problem, or if the Zabrak was always intended to be Kolar and the animators accidentally used the wrong reference photographs.
 * The significance of C-3PO's offering of Anakin's Padawan braid to Padmé is explained in the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
 * When C-3PO reveals his new golden plating to Anakin, a musical cue of "stripper music" can be heard. This was acknowledged by Genndy Tartakovsky in the Volume II DVD commentary.
 * When Genndy Tartakovsky and team began working on this episode, George Lucas' first instruction to the crew was to resolve the Hypori storyline which the crew had began in "Chapter 20". He specified this because his son Jett was eager to find out how that particular story ends, as there were originally no plans to continue the series beyond "Chapter 20".
 * The unique designs on the front of the Clones' LAATs were inspired by nose art seen on military aircraft. According to Paul Rudish on the Clone Wars Volume II DVD commentary, the front of the LAAT featured at the beginning of this episode was meant to look like the face of a rancor.
 * The clones' customizations of their helmets in this episode and in the rest of Volume II is based on real-life actions done by soldiers during Word War II and the Vietnam War.
 * According the the commentary for "Chapter 3", the creators had studied how special forces teams acted in real combat situations, to ensure the ARC troopers acted very much like a crack special forces team would. They apparently reapplied their knowledge for this episode (Captain Fordo used hand signals instead of actually speaking, and as they approach Ki-Adi-Mundi and General Grievous he directed members to perform what appear to be flanking maneuvers).
 * According to the episode commentary, Ki-Adi-Mundi's concern for Shaak Ti was intended to hint at a possible relationship between the two.