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 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, so fast that his speed carries him up the wall and into a prime position to attack the ARC Troopers. As Grievous swings two lightsabers, killing four of the troopers, 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 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...

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. Since the Jedi numbers are spread so thinly, in the Council meeting it is 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. R2-D2 then shows a recording of this to Anakin before he leaves again for the war. Anakin smiles at the sight of his wife and puts his mechanical hand in the hologram as if he could hold it. He then gets in his starfighter, and leaves once again to fight in the Clone Wars...

Characters

 * Adi Gallia (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
 * Padmé Amidala (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
 * ARC Captain (voiced by André Sogliuzzo)
 * ARC Trooper (voiced by André Sogliuzzo)
 * B2 super battle droids
 * C-3PO (voiced by Anthony Daniels)
 * Kit Fisto (voiced by Richard McGonagle)
 * General Grievous (voiced by Richard McGonagle)
 * Qui-Gon Jinn (voiced by Fred Tatasciore)
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi (voiced by James Arnold Taylor)
 * Plo Koon
 * K'Kruhk
 * Agen Kolar (voiced by James Arnold Taylor)
 * Ki-Adi-Mundi (voiced by Daran Norris)
 * Palpatine
 * Even Piell (voiced by Daran Norris)
 * Oppo Rancisis (voiced by Fred Tatasciore)
 * Aayla Secura
 * Anakin Skywalker (voiced by Mat Lucas)
 * Young Anakin Skywalker (voiced by Frankie Ryan Manriquez)
 * Shaak Ti (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
 * Mace Windu
 * Various clone troopers
 * Yoda (voiced by Tom Kane)

Species

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

Locations

 * Coruscant
 * Jedi High Council chamber
 * Hypori

Vehicles/vessels

 * Low Altitude Assault Transports
 * Azure Angel
 * Train

Other items

 * Lightsabers
 * 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.
 * 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 accidentally 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 proof of Koth's survival of Geonosis, his death there remains canon.
 * 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.
 * This chapter is also one of the few, if not only time, that Kit Fisto's voice is heard. In most other appearances, he is silent, and while he talks in novels, this is a rare "speaking " role.
 * 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.