Clone Wars Chapter 21

Clone Wars 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 I. The episode originally aired on March 21st, 2005.

Synopsis
A customized Low Altitude Assault Transport speeds across the surface of Hypori. On board the transport, a squadron of ARC troopers prep their weapons for attack. A jamming signal cloaks them from a platoon of Super Battle Droids surrounding a crashed Republic capital ship. The transport drops a cluster of disarmed thermal detonators among the droids, who open fire on the LAAT but miss it as it lands within the wreckage.

The troopers disembark. Their commander, Captain Fordo, detects three life signs, and 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. Grievous flees as the clone troops unleash a barrage of laser fire. As Grievous attacks the troopers with two lightsabers, killing four of them, the commander calls for backup and the hovering LAAT breaks into the area and opens fire on the General with lasers and missiles, who manages to evade their attacks.

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 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...

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 tree cave on Dagobah.

At a meeting of the Jedi Council, Ki-Adi-Mundi tells the Council of the defeat on Hypori. As the Jedi numbers are spread so thinly, it's decided to anoint Anakin Skywalker as a full Jedi Knight.

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. Anakin is summoned to the Jedi Temple, where Yoda knights him, cutting off his padawan braid, which C-3PO later presents to Padmé. The significance of this offering is explained in the novelization of "Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"

Dramatis personae

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

Species

 * Humans
 * Duloks
 * Pa'lowick
 * Kaleesh

Locations

 * Hypori
 * Coruscant

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.
 * A Dulok and Jawas appear on Coruscant.
 * 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 High Council scene of Chapter 21 who is officially credited as Agen Kolar was animated instead with the unmistakable 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 accidently used the wrong reference photographs. Although the character is canonically identified as Agen Kolar, the discrepancy of his appearance has confused some fans into believing that the character actually was Koth, coupled with the fact that Eeth Koth's death has as yet not been depicted or even directly referenced in any in-universe sources. Although some fans cite this would-be appearance as superceeding proof of Koth's survival of Geonosis, his death there remains canon.