We open seconds after the last epsiode as Obi-Wan and Anakin prepares to bring Vindi in. The little rodent droid steals one of the bombs and commits suicide flooding the lab with the Blue Shadow. Because apparently bombs that were disable using pincers are still perfectly functionnable also why didn't you restrain that one whe you capture it, you idiots? Padmé triggers the lab shutdown sealing the entire lab shut so that no virus can escape to Naboo's atmoshpere.
Spoiler: Hmm, what about thoses holes you guys made in the roof during your attack?
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This however traps Ahsoka, Rex, Padmé, Jar Jar and some clones inside. Padmé and Jar JAr managed to put there hazmat suits on but Ahsoka & Co aren't fast enough to reach the panic room and are infected. Despite the fact that clone armour can be sealed well enough to allow for a walk in outer space. Of course, of course. Anakin is extremely upset by this development but Obi-Wan argues that bringing Vindi to Coruscant fast is their best hope to find a cure and they can't help the others from where they are anyway.
The episode is pslit between the two Jedi and the others from now, so I'll summarize both one after the other. Ahsoka and Co realize that the surviving droids (there are surviving droids!? Why were you all "mission accomplished! We win"-like when there was still hostiles unaccounted for? Why are you so incompetent!?) will surely try to escape the lab and so release the virus. Since thy're already exposed to the disease Ahsoka and the clones decide to help Padmé track them down even though that'll make their condition worse. MEanwhile I wonder how long the virus can survive outside of an host. They find several groups and destroy them quite easily. One droid manages to reach the top of a ladder leading to a manhole leading to the outside and gloats that it's to let to stop him. He shoots the anhole but the blasts ricochets all around the place ŕ la compacter scene in
A New Hope and fries him. THat one made laugh, I'll admit. during the battle, Jar Jar is his hopeless self and falls on Padmé breaching her suit and exposing her to contagion. Ahsoka feels terrible for failing to protect the Senator but she assures her that things like that happens
around Jar Jar in a battlefield and it's not her fault. All the clones except Rex die and while Padmé is sorry for her he simply says that dying is what they are born for. I worry about his mental state.
Anakin and Obi-Wan reach Theed and deliver Vindi to Tycho who tells them they know of a cure for the virus: it's made of a root found on the remote world of Iego, the Planet of the Thousand Moons, deep in Separatist Space. You would have hoped that after the last plague of this virus there would be hospital with medicine in storage just in case but I guess they aren't any better than we are at preparing for catastrophes so Anakin and Obi-Wan leave for Iego. Damn, space travel is fast in this universe.
Upon arrival the are surprised to see, in addition to the aforementionned moons a whole ship graveyard. They do manage to land and are welcomed by a crowd of battle droids. Anakin mindlessly charges them and destroys a good number before noticing that they don't fight back and all have mismatched parts and graffitti on thems. Obi-wan congratulates Ani on killing seventeen unarmed droid as another one falls down and Anakin meekly corrects "eighteen..." One droid announces that the Mighty Jebo wishes for an audience with them and they are brought to a twelvish year old boy using a vulture droid as support beam for a hamac. Anakin congratulates him on his droid-reprogramming skill and both bound somewhat over their shared interest of droid making. The mood quickly sours as Jebo evades answering to where they can find the root which prompts Anakin to draw his lightsaber to his face. Me likey, his Vader is showing. Obi-Wan manages to cool the situation and they are told the root grows inside a nearby chasm but Jebo says it doesn't matter because ever since the Separatists left (his servants were damaged droid that, I guess, were deemed to expansive to repair) evrybody who tries to leave is stopped by a certain Draal, the mere mention of the name making the droids quiver in fear. An old quarren confirms Jebo's story calling Draal "the phantom ruler of Ieago" Anakin calls bulls...upertition so he shows them a recording of the death of rodian pilot's death. The rodian was Jebo's friend so that was kinda callous. Nobody care though. Also Anakin called the quarren "twitchy" which feels somewhat specist.
Anakin and Obi-wan descend into the chasm where they fight a wasted good design of a bat-like creature and bad design of monstruous plant. There's a visual gag of Anakin drawing a trowel with the same gravitas and determined look Obi-Wan draws his lightsaber with that was nice. they get what they came for without too much trouble though and prepare to leave without listening to the warnings about Draal's ghost. I know Force Ghost aren't a thing until
Revenge of the Jedi but you'd think pshycic monks wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the supernatural. Obi-Wan does point out that even if there is no phantom,
something is destroying the ships so they better be careful. tHey still trigger a defense system that propmpts a Death Star dish-like cannon to shoot laser that jumps over from asteroid to asteroid in a deadly grid. The people on Iego watches the fireworks. None of them warned them about the form the attack would take though, jerks. Anakin and Obi-Wan retreats to Anakin's fury especially since Padmé calls to tell them the lab is secure but she has been contaminated and wants him to promise nobody will evr open the lab. The communications cuts as she was about to tell him her love for him. Anakin wants to try again immediately but Obi-Wan wants to try to get more data about whatever they are facing, saying that before making a jump, it pays to take two steps back, Anakin retorts that sometimes the will to jump is enough. Obi-wan asks him to trust him and Ankin calms down. I like this bit. Even though the war and Sidiou's manipultions are getting to Ani (that last bit sounded positively Sithish) he stills has enough confidence in Obi-Wan that a simple "trust me" from his mentor and friend is enough for him to reconsider. That's friendhsip, right there.
Anakin and obi-Wan gather the Iegans and expalin that their ghost is just a Separatrist trap. Why on Earth would the Separatists do this? what do they gain from trapping people on this planet? The people don't belive them until a hooded shining figure enters. This is one of the "Angels of the moon of Ieago" Anakin compared Padmé to back in TPM. You can't see may face right now but I'm giving a disapproving look. The angel expalins that the Separatists draw them away from their home-moon and Obi-wan decides this must be where the main laser emmiter is. Because he shook his magic 8-ball offscreen, I don't know. the commandeer Jebo's vulture dorids and link them to Artoo so he cazn remotely fly them (why can't they fly themselves? Why would the astromech have better flying skills than the droids made to fight in space?) and use them as human (well droid) shields against the rays while they take down the cannon. The plans work and they triumphantly announce to the Iegan that they can leave whenever now.
We cut to Anakin and Obi-Wan at the lab as Padmé, Rex and Ahsoka are being evacuated. The mediacl droid expects a full recovery but everybody is just standing around in the open near the lab's open hatch without any protective gear, were'ent you afraid the Blue Shadow would be released. Granted they could have used pumps to make some sort of airlock but a line of dialog about that would've been nice. Padmé is more concerned about Ahsoka than herslef because she's a good person like that. Anakin tells Jar Jar he knows what happened and, rather than the expected result of cursing his line for a thousand generations and promising bodily harm if he ever endangers Padmé again, he says he'll organize some military training for him. Rex immediately and premptively refuses to be the walking disaster area's teacher. I feel like a better resolution would have been to start treating Jar Jar like the civilian he is and keep him out of combat situation, but then again I don't see the appeal of sending teeangers into battle either so I would probably make a poor Jedi.
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