The Clone Wars recap: Time for a Star Wars-style jailbreak

Alex Kane, Reviewed
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On The Clone Wars this week, Ahsoka learns more about the Martez sisters.
On The Clone Wars this week, Ahsoka learns more about the Martez sisters.

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In this week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, former Jedi Ahsoka Tano helps stage a prison break, and it's just as exciting as you're already imagining.

How can you watch The Clone Wars?

We see this droid in Return of the Jedi.
We see this droid in Return of the Jedi.

In order to watch The Clone Wars, you need to subscribe to Disney+, the streaming service that serves as the online home for all things Star Wars. All 12 episodes of the new season will stream on the service. You can also watch the previous six seasons of The Clone Wars on Disney+.

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What happens in this week's episode of The Clone Wars?

Ahsoka learns how the Martez sisters lost their parents.
Ahsoka learns how the Martez sisters lost their parents.

After a failed attempt to escape the planet Oba Diah, Ahsoka and the Martez sisters have been taken captive inside a Pyke Syndicate fortress. Locked up together inside a single cell, the three women argue over who’s at fault for their imprisonment. When Ahsoka’s Jedi idealism enters the conversation, Rafa and Trace tell her how their mother and father died: as collateral damage in an explosion caused by Jedi who were pursuing Ziro the Hutt.

According to Rafa, the Jedi Knight responsible for their parents’ deaths simply told her: “I had to make a choice, but not to worry. The Force will be with you.” Here, Ahsoka appears to grasp the full reality of their struggle for the first time.

After leaving them orphaned and homeless, the Jedi had done nothing for them. “We make our own rules, and we survive just fine,” Rafa says.

It’s at this point in the episode where the Pykes arrive to collect Rafa. They take her to a torture chamber and subject her to electric shock at the hands of a droid—like the one seen torturing its fellow machines in Jabba’s palace in Return of the Jedi.

Unsatisfied with her answers, the Pykes return Rafa to the cell and escort Trace to the torture room in her place. When the moment’s right, Trace reaches for one of the Pykes’ blaster, opens fire, and flees the guards, causing a distraction. Ahsoka, meanwhile, uses the Force to unlock her cell door, freeing herself and Rafa.

Ahsoka uses the force, but tries not to reveal her training.
Ahsoka uses the force, but tries not to reveal her training.

While the three women make their escape, Ahsoka employs her Jedi capabilities on more than occasion, leading to a running gag where she’s both really lucky and athletically gifted. Along the way, the Martez sisters remark upon how much Ahsoka reminds them both of their late mother. They also spend a lot of time arguing with one another.

Before they get the chance to leave Oba Diah, Ahsoka attracts the attention of a trio of Mandalorians—including the legendary Bo-Katan Kryze. “We have a common enemy,” Kryze says, no doubt referring to the power-mad Darth Maul (who has an important role to play later on in the show’s final season). “Let’s keep track of her. She could be of use to us.”

Shortly afterward, Ahsoka and the Martez sisters are once again caught and returned to their cell inside the Pykes’ fortress. “Sorry. I never should’ve taken this job,” Rafa admits.

“We live and learn,” Ahsoka tells her.

As the final shot irises out to the end credits, they’re still stuck inside the Syndicate’s dim-lit prison. But the path to freedom seems clear.

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