The Clone Wars recap: Ahsoka Tano returns
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In the latest episode of The Clone Wars, “Gone with a Trace,” series regular Ashley Eckstein returns to the role of fan-favorite ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano—and we couldn't be more thrilled.
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What happens in this week's episode of The Clone Wars?
When we last saw Ahsoka at the end of season five—way back in 2013—she’d just been wrongfully accused of bombing the Jedi Temple. After discovering the real perpetrator and realizing their error, the Council apologized to Tano and asked her to rejoin the Order. But she chose to turn her back on them, formally renouncing her apprenticeship.
No longer a Jedi, Ahsoka’s doing her best to hide out in Coruscant’s Level 1313, part of the city-planet’s seedy underbelly. After wrecking her speeder, she winds up stranded outside a small repair shop, where she meets a mechanic named Trace. Trace offers to make repairs—for a price.
“I can fix my own bike,” Ahsoka says. “I just need some tools.”
Seeing her struggle, however, Trace begins making the necessary repairs herself and tells Ahsoka it’s on the house. The mechanic seems lonely; she tries to connect by opening up to Ahsoka about her disillusionment with the Jedi, and mentions her desire to leave the planet and start fresh someplace else.
Ahsoka learns more about Trace when a loan shark named Pintu and a pair of his enforcers show looking to collect money from Trace’s sister, Rafa, a petty criminal just trying to make a better life for her and her sister. Without reaching for a lightsaber, Ahsoka helps her new friend fight off Pintu and his thugs.
Later, a blue-skinned Twi’lek arrives to do business with Rafa, who in turn enlists Trace’s help building a set of droids—“binary load lifters”—inspired by a line from 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope. Ahsoka urges her friend to be cautious and to make sure each of the droids is properly fitted with a restraining bolt before being powered on.
“I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with droids,” Ahsoka tells her. “The majority are fine, but some are just cross-wired from the start.”
“You seem to know a lot about—everything,” Trace says.
“Not everything,” says Ahsoka. “I still don’t understand people.”
Naturally, one of the demolition droids gets loose and goes berserk, and the two women chase after and subdue it before it can cause any serious harm.
Shortly afterward, the pair enjoy a quiet meal together. Rafa tells them she used the credits earned from flipping the droids to pay off Pintu, and Ahsoka says she’d better be leaving.
“You’re not sticking around?” Trace asks.
“I think it’s for the best,” says Ahsoka.
The mechanic accompanies the former Jedi back to the shop to help finish repairing Ahsoka’s speeder.
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