Duchess of Mandalore

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

- Moral

"Duchess of Mandalore" is the fourteenth episode in Season Two of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It aired on February 12, 2010.

Official description
''On Coruscant, word reaches Duchess Satine that Death Watch is mobilizing, sparking a pre-emptive Republic invasion. On the run from Republic authorities, Satine and Obi-Wan set off to discover the group's true motives.''

Plot summary
Count Dooku, aboard a Munificent-class star frigate, discusses the final plans via hologram with Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla regarding Death Watch's plan to take over the neutral, peace loving world of Mandalore. He is on Concordia at the Death Watch hideout and his men are assembling themselves to prepare for the planetary invasion. Dooku instructs Vizsla to send a Death Watch assassin to Coruscant to kill the Duchess Satine Kryze. A New Mandalorian scout is hiding in the hills, spying on the operation down below with a pair of electrobinoculars, hurries back to report his findings to Almec in Sundari. He reports to have found the Death Watch army and they are preparing for battle. Yet he claims Death Watch will never have the strength required to conquer Mandalore without the people's support. To this, Almec states that if Mandalore is under the Galactic Republic's occupation, Death Watch will "turn the Death Watch form terrorists to liberators in the eyes of the people." The scout asks how to keep the Republic forces offworld, to which the Prime Minister claims that their fate rests with Satine.

The Galactic Senate is in session in the Grand Convocation Chamber. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine addresses rising concern about Death Watch, declaring it a "significant, deadly threat." Satine intervenes, saying that Mandalore is putting great effort into finding the leaders of the group, who are unable to gain control of the planet, and it will be achieved without the use of violence. She stresses further violence will ensue in the event of Republic military involvement with these affairs. To back his argument for occupation, the chancellor presents a hologram message from Deputy Minister Jerec; he states a civil war is amidst them, the Mandalorians. She is shocked by his words, as he was a close friend of hers. Knowing something is not right with the recoding she just witnessed, she requests to see Jerec at once, only to learn he was killed by a Death Watch bombing on Kalevala that morning.

Cast

 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker and Almec's scout
 * Dee Bradley Baker as the clone troopers, Death Watch assassin and Davu Golec
 * Ian Abercrombie as Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious
 * Corey Burton as Count Dooku, Aramis and Deputy Minister Jerec
 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Jon Favreau as Pre Vizsla
 * Catherine Taber as Padmé Amidala
 * Anna Graves as Satine Kryze
 * Stephen Stanton as Mas Amedda and Death Watch trooper
 * Tom Kane as Narrator, Police Droids and Police Probe

Notes and references
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