To Catch a Jedi

"Never become desperate enough to trust the untrustworthy."

- Moral

"To Catch a Jedi" is the nineteenth episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series' fifth season. It aired on February 23, 2013.

Official description
"The fugitive Ahsoka escapes to the criminal depths of Coruscant."

Plot summary
Follwoing Ahsoka's escape from the Republic Prison Complex, Ahsoka had used a transport shuttle to lower herself into one of the many sinkholes of Coruscant. Finding that she has been betrayed by many and wanted by the government, Ahsoka begans her desperate search to prove her innocence.

Following Ahsokas escape into the underworld, Coruscant's Police force is just getting word of the fugative Jedi. Ahsoka stalks the underlevels, and attempts to contact her friend, fellow Jedi padawan Barris Offee. After a brief conversation, Barris tells Ahsoka she will investigate and tells Ahsoka to find a different means of contacting her. Ahsoka then breaks her comlink and bargins with a homeless Lepi creature for his cloak. She then continues her presuit to find the truth.

Meanwhile, at the Jedi Temple, the Jedi High Council holds an emergency meeting to decide the best way to find Ahsoka. While most on the Council believe that she is guilty of the crime, Anakin Skywalker, her master, and Jedi Master Plo Koon, the Jedi who discovered her whereabouts, adamently believe that she is innocent. While Grand Master Yoda & Master Mace Windu feel that Anakin should not go, due to his emotional attachment to the padawan, Obi-Wan strongly supports Anakin and the two are thus allowed to go. The two are then dispatched with a team of clones and LAAT Gunships into the underlevels to find Ahsoka.

Ahsoka boards a train and hides from the police who are requesting passes as the train progresses. At the next stop, Ahsoka tries to exit but is caught by some guards who were preparing to board the vehicle. Ahsoka engages them in hand-to-hand combat, paying close attention to ensure no one is killed. She then opens the door and dives onto a nearby platform, disrupting a local Coruscanti citizen.

However, her time for rest is short when she is spotted by three guards near the platform. Ahsoka jumps into an elevator, which malfunctions as a result of the police firefight, causing the elevator to drop at a rapid pace. Ahsoka takes with her an unidentified Twi'liek child, and the child helps her to stop the elevator. Ahsoka thanks the child and quickly moves on.

After walking for some time, Ahsoka is attacked from behind by the now fugative, Asajj Ventress, who wants to turn her in for a bounty. After discussing with Assaj and comparing the similarities of there betrayl, Ahsoka and Asajj make a deal. If Ventress helps Ahsoka plead her innocence, Ahsoka will have Asajj pardoned by the Senate. Assaj agrees and the two travel to Asajj's home, a beaten structure in the underlevels and Ahsoka contacts Barris via a public holographic system. Barris tells Ahsoka about a warehouse where Lena Turmond obtained the nano droids in Sector 3.15. Ahsoka thanks her and then begans to leave with Ventress.

As the pair make there way towards the warehouse, they are ambushed by a squad of clones who had used a Probe Droid to find her whereabouts. Ahsoka tries to plead with the clones but Ventress seems ready for a fight. With no success in negotiating, Ahsoka engages in a fist-fight, attempting to knock the clones down. Ventress uses her Lightsabers to disarm the troopers and then remarks to Ahsoka that this is the new, Ventress.

Finally reaching the warehouse, Ventress departs reminding Ahsoka that she still has her half of the deal to hold up. As Ventress leaves, a small creature similar in style to Ahsoka causes a shadow which spooks Ventress. While Ventresse's guard is down, she is attacked by an unidentified Sith assailant. Ventress is knocked unconscious and seems to have lost her weapons.

Meanwhile, Ahsoka investigates in the factory. Suddenly, the unidentified Sith assailant attacks her and engages her in a duel. The two fight and Ahsoka seems to be steadly losing. The assailant uses the force to push crate after crate of supplies at her and Ahsoka's lightsaber becomes stuck in a pole after she attempts to stab the assailant. She is pushed against a stack of crates, causing her to drop her lightsaber and she desperetly tries to defend until she is pushed off the platform by the assailant. Falling below, she sees a box of nano droids just as a squad of clone troopers arrive. Before she as a chance to explain, she is netraulized by a stun blast.

Now unconscious, Anakin contacts Master Yoda and briefs him and the rest of the council on the capturing of Ahsoka. Plo Koon & Anakin Skywalker remark that there is still much to be seen and they still ponder if Ahsoka is the one behind the attack, or if the plot goes deeper than the Jedi know.

Cast

 * Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano
 * Nika Futterman as Asajj Ventress and Twi'lek Child
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
 * Meredith Salenger as Barriss Offee
 * Dee Bradley Baker as the clone troopers and Police Officer #2
 * Terrence Carson as Mace Windu
 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon, and Police Officer #3
 * Tom Kane as the narrator and Yoda
 * Stephen Stanton as Admiral Tarkin and Police Officer #1
 * Dave Filoni as Gotal Alien
 * Brian George as Ki-Adi-Mundi
 * Catherine Taber as Old Aleena
 * Robin Atkin Downes as Rattataki Alien

Behind the scenes
The episode was named for the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief.