Preview: When the Senate begins debating a bill that would eliminate government oversight of the Banking Clan's activities in order to fund the war, Padmé and Ahsoka travel in secret to the capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Amidala attempts to forge a peace agreement with the Separatists, while Ahsoka sees, for the first time, the people of the Confederacy. Padmé's friend, Mina Bonteri, spearheads the peace initiative, and convinces the Separatist Congress to sue for peace. Meanwhile, on Coruscant, Senators Lott Dod and Gume Saam conspire with Banking Clan representative Nix Card and Count Dooku to make the banking deregulation a reality. At Dooku's command, General Grievous engineers an attack at the central power distribution grid on Coruscant, carried out by Separatist demolition droids. The chaos and panic spreads to the Senate, which vehemently rejects the Separatist peace initiative, and votes instead to deregulate the Banking Clan.
Greatest Scene: When the the sweeper droids approach the power station and transform into the deadly demolition droids sent by General Grievous to attack the Republic Capital planet of Coruscant. They kill all but one of the workers who hides for a while then pulls out a gun and shots one of the droids. Unharmed, the droid kills the last worker then performs its final task. All the droids transform into bombs and destroy the central power station setting of a chain reaction of explosions on the surface.
Memorable Quotes:"You have been specially designed to be the perfect infiltrators. Some of you may not return from this mission, in fact non of you will. But don't let that get in your way, is that understood." General Grievous
"There are a lot of terrible things happening. A lot of killing, and my friends are saying that the Jedi are to blame." Lux Bonteri
"Well look at me, not so bad am I?" Ahsoka
"I don't take orders from you, only Count Dooku." General Grievous
Secrets Revealed:
This episode unveils new models for several of the main characters, including upgrades to Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, and a new wardrobe for Chancellor Palpatine. Ahsoka is now older; there is an unspecified passage of time between this episode and her last appearance.
With the start of this arc, which continues in Pursuit of Peace and concludes in Season Two's Senate Murders, the Clone Wars storyline advances to its furthest point in the timeline, and subsequent episodes should continue going forward without as much jumping back and forth.
The battle droids that deal with newcomers to Raxus are remarkably polite.
During production, this episode was titled Banking Conspiracy. The new title, taken from a line in the opening crawl for Episode III, came much later.
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