Woo, Hitchcock title homage! Welcome back dear readers as we return to intrigue on Coruscant. We begin at a funeral for the victims of last week's hangar bombing. Yoda gives a very nice eulogy and Ahsoka tries to console Barriss Offee, she of the indeterminable accent, who was close with one of the deceased. Later, Admiral Tarkin reveals to the two and Anakin that Letta, the bomber, has been moved into military custody. Apparently because clones died in the explosion that classifies as a military matter not a Jedi one. Umm, weren't they trying to avoid that last episode? Whatever.
Tarkin also tells them that Chancellor Palpatine is trying to remove the Jedi as much from military matters as possible. Ahsoka gets very pissy about this and the fact that Letta's been taken from Jedi custody. She says a lot of things about getting justice on her that are going to bite her in the ass later. Tarkin and Anakin head off to a strategy meeting while Ahsoka tries to console Barriss, seriously what is her accent, some more.
Two things about this scene. One, how much does Tarkin know? His dialogue is very ambiguous here but it sounds like he knows Palpatine's secret identity. And given his friendly relationship with Anakin, does he know who Darth Vader is later? What's your deal Peter Cushing? Two, the Barriss/Ahsoka relationship. This is one of the things that annoys me about this show. It's a good scene and their friendship's been established before, but it'd be nice if we'd have seen it. The last time we saw these two together was like two seasons ago. The scene between them would work better if we saw them together more. And what is Barriss' accent? It sounds vaguely Mediterranean.
More after the break,
Tarkin calls up Ahsoka telling her that Letta will only talk to her. So Ahsoka heads off to the Republic Military HQ, the most evil looking place on Coruscant. Great music here too, shades of the Imperial March. After checking her lightsabers with security, because it will apparently only get worse as the Empire gains power, Ahsoka visits Letta. And she drops a bombshell, it was a Jedi who told her to make her husband a bomb. She's realized whoever this Jedi was, they set her up. But before she can give up a name, Letta is force-choked by an unseen person. Dun DUN DUN!!!!!
Of course it looks like Ahsoka killed her though, so the security clones immediately arrest her. Tarkin comes by later to say her earlier comments combined with the security footage make her the prime suspect, but the way he says it makes it sound like he knows something. Hmmm.... Anakin shows up to pay her bail but Fox, the clone in charge won't have it. Military and Jedi are separate matters now. The gulf is widening people. Also good work from Matt Lanter, putting some Vader into his Anakin voice.
Later-er, Ahsoka looks outside her cell and finds someone has helpfully left the key out for her. She uses a bit of force-trickery and escapes. Only to find that the clones patrolling the place have been attacked or killed. Uh-oh. From here on out it's basically The Fugitive with Ahsoka playing Harrison Ford and Anakin playing Tommy Lee Jones. There's a great chase scene and good music. We even get a cool homage shot. Check it out...
And maybe it's because we're on Coruscant, but the scenery of this episode's second half is gorgeous. The backgrounds and environments here would make impressive landscape paintings. Whoever did these deserves a raise. Anyway, Anakin and Ahsoka have their confrontation. He tells her to come with him and they'll prove her innocence but she tells him that nobody's going to believe them so she has to do this herself. She makes the leap out the pipe and to be continued...
Overall, this is how you do a multi-episode arc. They took the loose threads from the first episode, continued the story and brought in new conflict. And kept the mystery going. We've learned a little more but we still don't have all the answers, there are more loose ends to keep the story going. Good work still from Matt Lanter and Ashley Eckstein and as I said, gorgeous scenery.
All in all, good part two for a promising story arc. Looking forward to how this plays out, even though I think I know who the rogue Jedi is. But half the fun of a mystery is playing along isn't it?
See you next week.
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