303: Supply Lines: Episode Guide

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

Preview: Ryloth is under siege. Trapped on the surface, Jedi Master Di rallies the local forces with the help of Cham Syndulla. Desperate to save them, the Jedi Council dispatches Senator Bail Organa and Representative Jar Jar Binks to the planet Toydaria, where they are to convince the neutral regent, King Katuunko, to send aid to Ryloth. Bail and Jar Jar must convince Toydaria that their cause is just - before it's too late. Trade Federation envoy Lott Dod attempts to prevent the Toydarians from giving up their neutrality. Katuunko follows his conscience and secretly aids the Republic, which Jar Jar is able to keep secret from the snooping Trade Federation agents with his inimitable distractions.

Greatest Scene: When Jedi Master Di and his men distract the droids to aid the Twi'leks escape but although the they fight valiantly, the droids far outnumber them and continue to push through. After a short lived fight only Master Di and Captain Keeli are left. They keep up the fight but eventually get surrounded, just before they die the blockade runners fly overhead, they had completed their mission but it has costed them their lives.

Memorable Quotes:

"Trapped on Ryloth, Master Di and his men are." Yoda

"War turns promises into hopes. I wish it wasn't so." Jedi Master Di

"I wish I could help, but for the sake of my people, Toydaria must remain neutral." King Katuunko

"For the Republic! For the Twi'leks!" Jedi Master Di

Secrets Revealed:

This episode is a prequel to the season one episode Ambush and the Ryloth trilogy. Before this episode Ambush and the Ryloth trilogy were not connected. 

The name of Jedi Master Di was deliberately chosen to foreshadow his grim fate. His full name, Ima-Gun Di is a pun on "I'm gonna die."

Jedi Master Di is a Nikto, a species first introduced in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi as underlings of Jabba the Hutt. Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones revealed that not all Nikto end up in the underworld, as several Nikto are seen among the Jedi Knights in the Geonosian arena.

Lott Dod makes a mention of the Separatist Senate. This civilian political arm of the Confederacy, not yet seen in the series, will play an important rule in future episodes.

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