On Rodia, Senator Padmé Amidala is arrested by the duplicitous Prime Minister. Jar Jar, arriving to deliver a “secret weapon” (a crate of fruit), is forced to impersonate a Jedi. Through accidental luck, he releases Padmé, causes the Separatist Viceroy to be eaten by a native beast, and triggers a popular uprising. Padmé negotiates Rodia back into the Republic. Jar Jar returns to Coruscant hailed as a hero—and a security risk. Logline: Asajj Ventress hunts a captured Separatist general on a prison ship. Ahsoka must outwit her first true dark side assassin.
Ventress attacks the Tranquility , a prison transport carrying Nute Gunray to Coruscant. Ahsoka, with clone troopers Denal and Rex, defends the bridge. Ventress kills two Jedi guards and corners Ahsoka, mocking her inexperience. Ahsoka vents the cargo bay, sucking Ventress into space (she survives via Force grip). Gunray escapes anyway, but Ahsoka learns that victory isn’t always clean. Logline: Kit Fisto and his Padawan Nadhar investigate a Separatist signal—and find Grievous’s personal lair, filled with dead Jedi trophies.
Grievous arrives with reinforcements. Obi-Wan duels Grievous atop a collapsing bridge, losing his lightsaber but kicking Grievous off a cliff into a river of fuel (Grievous escapes, burning). Ahsoka, wracked with guilt, disobeys orders to save a platoon of Twi’ilf children. She confronts Ventress alone and is nearly killed—until Clone Captain Rex shoots Ventress in the shoulder, saving Ahsoka’s life. “You’re one of us,” Rex says. “We don’t leave our own.”