Counterattack

"Anything that can go wrong will."

- Moral

"Counterattack" is the nineteenth episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series' third season. It is currently set to air on March 4, 2011.

Official description
"With freed prisoners in their possession and the brutal warden attempting desperately to thwart them, Obi-Wan and Anakin search for a way out of the Citadel and back to Coruscant. The prison, however, has more traps, perils and pitfalls in store for them than they had imagined and they must work past their differences if they are to escape. Their bid to board their shuttle fails when heavy weapons fire destroys the escape craft. Trooper Echo dies in the blast. The escapees then flee to the caves and call for rescue from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. "

Plot summary
As Anakin and his team edge along a magma-filled chasm in the caverns underneath the Citadel, he contacts R2-D2 to prepare their ship for departure. Obi-Wan, whose team is sneaking through the Citadel's ventilation shafts, is about to rendevouz with the shuttle on a landing platform, but they blunder into a probe droid. Although they manage to destroy it, security hatches begin shutting off the vents, killing yet another clone trooper and slowing the group's progress.

Meanwhile, warden Sobeck is contacted by Count Dooku, who presses him to gain the full information about the Nexus Route. At the same time, Ahsoka, who is leading the team while Anakin covers their retreat, becomes the object of open criticism by Captain Tarkin, with whose general viewing points about the Jedi's role in the war Anakin disturbingly begins to sympathize. They meet a wall which bars their progress, and commando droids armed with force shields, but Ahsoka manages to slip them two thermal detonators, taking them out and allowing them access to a fuel pipeline which will bring them to their rendevouz point. R2 encounters a hazard of his own as they find the landing platform where they should meet Obi-Wan's team guarded, but the little droid manages to fool the attending tactical droid that he is actually his droid team's prisoner and thus gets inside the fortress.

When Obi-Wan notices the shuttle seemingly abandoned, he smells a trap and attempts to approach it via a detour route, but finds that Sobeck has anticipated this tactic and prepared a welcoming party consisting of a squad of heavily armed battle droids. They are brought before Sobeck as prisoners, who orders to have them interrogated; R2 learns of this, however, and his battle droid team diverts the prisoners to freedom. Anakin's team likewise runs into a droid force at their exit point, but Anakin manages to annihilate them by blowing up the pipeline. These escapes plunge Sobeck into difficulties for providing an explanation to Dooku, and in desperation he sends out his remaining forces to the landing platform, where Anakin just rejoins Obi-Wan. During the fight, a commando droid commandeers one of the platform cannons and prepares to fire at the shuttle. Echo attempts to intercept him, but the droid succeeds, destroying the shuttle and killing Echo.

With their immediate means of escape gone, Obi-Wan contacts the Jedi Temple, requesting a rescue operation. While the fleet is on its way, the fugitives have no choice but to hole down within the cave system until help arrives. And with Fives throwing a last thoughtful look back, the group departs to find a hiding place.

Cast

 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi / Osi Sobeck / Plo Koon
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
 * Matthew Wood as battle droids / commando droids
 * Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano / K2-B4
 * Stephen Stanton as Tarkin
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Clone troopers'
 * Blair Bess as Even Piell
 * Tom Kane as the narrator / Yoda
 * Corey Burton as Count Dooku
 * Terrence Carson as Mace Windu