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The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Lightsaber Lost

Episode Air No.: 33 (Season 2, Episode 11)
Original Air Date: January 22nd, 2010.
Production No.: 211 (Season 2, Episode 11)

Written by Drew Z. Greenberg
Directed by Giancarlo Volpe

Key Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Cassie Cryar, Ione Marcy, Bannamu, Jocasta Nu
Key Locales: Coruscant

Cast:
Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker and Bounty Hunter #2
Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano
Gregory Baldwin as Tera Sinube, Police Droid and Aqualish
Meredith Salenger as Ione Marcy
James Arnold Taylor as Bounty Hunter #1, Bannamu, and Hotel Attendant
Flo DiRe as Jocasta Nu
Tom Kane as Narrator and Yoda
Jaime King as Cassie Cryar and Muk Muk Monkey

Episode Brief: When a wily pickpocket steals Ahsoka’s lightsaber, she enlists the help of an ancient Jedi to track down her weapon and reclaim her honor.

Full Synopsis:

“”Easy isn’t always simple.”

Newsreel
War creates opportunity for the criminal
underworld! Ruthless mercenaries
conspire with the Separatists to disrupt
and exploit the unstable situation within
the Republic.

Now, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka
Tano descend into the treacherous
gangster havens in an effort to find a
corrupt and vile arms dealer. Who is
buying weapons on the black market and
selling them to the Republic’s enemies…

ACT I

Deep in Coruscant’s seamy criminal haunts of slum district G17, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano weave their way through the dregs and downtrodden seeking out Car Affa, a Weequay war profiteer known to sell Republic weaponry to the Separatists. Anakin confidently strides into a bar while Ahsoka waits outside, and she is knocked over by the stream of panicky bystanders fleeing the establishment once “Jedi business” gets underway.

As Ahsoka dusts herself off, she sees that her lightsaber is missing. She catches a fleeting glimpse of a yellow-skinned Patrolian as he disappears into the general mayhem and bustle of the lower levels. Ahsoka is mortified — her lightsaber has been stolen! Anakin emerges from the bar with Car Affa is costudy, but Ahsoka does not reveal her loss to her Master.

Back at the Jedi Temple, Ahsoka visits the Jedi Archives, searching through city databases to find any clue to the thief’s identity. The helpful Jocasta Nu directs Ahsoka toward the aged Jedi Master Tera Sinube, an expert on the Coruscant underworld. Ahsoka’s confidence is hardly bolstered by the fact that Sinube is fast asleep at his library station.

Ahsoka rouses Tera from his slumber, and he is eager to help the young Padawan. Based on Ahsoka’s description and recounting of her encounter, Tera Sinube narrows down the suspect to Bannamu, a petty thief with a hangout in the slum district. Tera volunteers to accompany Ahsoka to the underworld, since it has been years since he has had an active assignment.

Master Sinube and Ahsoka venture to a noodle shop run by a surly Quarren named Lauli Wahlo. Ahsoka asks around for a lightsaber, and Wahlo and his Twi’lek associate Jan Dez claim they could get one for 20,000 credits. Ahsoka and Sinube reveal that they are Jedi, and the nervous fences point them to the nearby Spider Arms Hostel, site of Bannamu’s bolthole.

Mind-tricking her way past the hostel’s front desk, Ahsoka continues her search through the dilapidated corridors of the Spider Arms. Sinube advises that she calm down, for in her anxiety, she is missing clues in the Force. Ahsoka centers herself, and senses which room belongs to Bannamu.

Ahsoka barges into the dingy room and corners Bannamu, demanding to know where her lightsaber is. Bannamu reveals he sold it to Nack Movers, a dangerous killer in the underworld. Ahsoka’s hopes plummet — her weapon may turn into a murder weapon due to her negligence.

ACT II

Ahsoka rushes to a condo complex where Nack Movers resides. She is shocked to find the entrance to Nack’s condo sliced open, and Nack dead inside. Cowering in the shadows is a slight female alien named Ione Marcy. She asks if the men who killed Nack are gone, claiming that she found the grisly sight when she came home. Tera Sinube senses her terror, but it is limned by something else.

Ahsoka investigates the bedroom when she is suddenly sucker punched by a lithe female alien, Cassie Cryar, a Terellian jango jumper. Cassie wields Ahsoka’s lightsaber, but she is unable to activate it. Cassie leaps through the bedroom window, landing on an adjacent rooftop, and Ahsoka gives chase, radioing her status to Sinube. The chase runs across rooftops and hovering holographic billboards.

Sinube is surprised by Ahsoka’s report that her quarry is female, as it does not match Ione’s story. He continues to question an increasingly uncomfortable Ione. Sinube contacts the authorities, and when the police droids arrive, Tera accuses Ione of being an accomplice in Nack’s murder. Ione bolts, jumping to a waiting airspeeder before the droids can apprehend her.

Marcy speeds into the Coruscant skylanes and intercepts the fleeing Cassie Cryar. They are indeed partners in crime, and they speed away, leaving Ahsoka stranded high over the cityscape. Cryar still has Ahsoka’s lightsaber.

ACT III

Tera Sinube pilots a borrowed police speeder bike and picks up Ahsoka from her dangling predicament. He soars along — at a leisurely pace — through the skylanes toward a nearby train station. Tera isn’t rushed, for he knows where Ione is heading — he has affixed a tracking device on her.

At the station, as the fugitives try to lose themselves in the crowd, Cassie spots the beacon on Ione’s shoulder. She smashes it, but the Jedi have already arrived. Police droids surround Ione, but Cassie runs. The departing train doors are shut, so Cassie leaps atop the train as it speeds away, and Ahsoka gives chase.

The speeder train twists its way along its rail path amid the Coruscant skytowers, and Ahsoka and Cassie continue their chase inside the passenger cars. Cassie grabs a Twi’lek mother and child and holds them hostage. Ahsoka offers to exchange herself for the prisoners, but Cassie won’t comply. The train stops at its next station, and Cassie pushes the hostages aside as she tries to escape. Tera Sinube, though, has beat them there. He pulls his lightsaber from within his walking stick and disarms Cassie, knocking her unconscious.

Following Sinube’s advice, Ahsoka passes on what she has learned. She visits a lightsaber training class in the Jedi Temple, where Yoda instructs a group of younglings. There, Ahsoka offers her lesson of never losing track of a lightsaber

Trivia & Details

• Tera Sinube’s design is based on an abandoned alien concept illustrated for Episode I Senators. Although Tera appeared previously in “Grievous Intrigue,” he and the younglings seen in that episode were designed for this episode, which was produced first.
• Nack Movers is a Trandoshan, using the same basic character model as Gha Nachkt from Season One.
• Among the Aurebesh signs spotted around Coruscant are Star Tours posters suggesting trips to Glee Anselm, a distinctive “SODA” advertisement, a poster for a musical act called Stargazer and a performer named “Dasha Sigweed” (a name with a familiar ring to it).
• The Rodian working the door at the Spider Arms hostel is peeling a fruit that’s been seen to be native to Rodia in Season One.
• When Ahsoka is researching underworld thieves, she poses on a mugshot of Brea Tonnika, one of the Tonnika sisters seen in the cantina in Episode IV.

Memorable Quotes

• “A thief stole my lightsaber, and I only got a quick look at him. I could tell he definitely came from one of the aquatic planets. You know, one of the water worlds?”
• “So you’re saying there was something fishy about him?” — Ahsoka and Tera Sinube

“I have no doubt the Jedi are doing their very best to ensure the safety of every citizen in the Republic. The accusations that the Jedi created the Clone War to give themselves more power over the government is absurd, and I will not stand for it.” — Chancellor Palpatine addressing the citizenry

“You ran off in such a hurry. I trust you didn’t mean to be rude.” — Tera Sinube to Ione Marcy

“For a guy who moves slow, you always seem to get ahead of me.” — Ahsoka Tano to Tera Sinube

“The value of moving slowly is that one can always clearly see the way ahead.” — Tera Sinube.