Clone Wars Chapter 24

Clone Wars Chapter 24 was the twenty-fourth episode of the Star Wars: Clone Wars cartoon. It was part of Season 3, and 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 orthroat collapses the ceiling, stopping the General's advance.

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 orthroat 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 in 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.

Voices

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