The Clone Wars recap: Ahsoka says goodbye to the Martez sisters
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In the eighth episode of The Clone Wars’ final season, former Jedi Ahsoka Tano and her new allies, Trace and Rafa Martez are back in the Pyke Syndicate’s dungeon on Oba Diah. Another familiar face returns in this exciting episode, which connects The Clone Wars to 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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What happens in this week's episode of The Clone Wars?
After a brief argument over who’s to blame for them being back in a cell—where they spent much of last week’s episode—Rafa says she feels like Trace is siding with Ahsoka over the family. Ahsoka interrupts to tell them she has a plan for escape (again). But it’s going to require some deception. “We have to trust each other,” she says.
The three women assure the Pyke crime lord Marg Krim that they’ll recover the amount of lost spice for him; Ahsoka will remain locked in the dungeon as collateral. “Pay your debt or watch your friends die,” Krim warns.
The Pykes know this is all a trick, but what they don’t know is that Ahsoka is an ex-Jedi with powerful capabilities. Besides, Krim says, he has no choice; his life is on the line, too, because the Pykes are under the thumb of the vengeful Maul, former apprentice of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious.
While the Martez sisters depart the planet to seek out spice on another Pyke-controlled world, Bo-Katan Kryze and the other Mandalorians from last week’s episode are again glimpsed watching over Ahsoka. “What are you up to?” says Bo-Katan.
Ahsoka, meanwhile, uses the Force to break out of her prison cell inside the Pykes’ fortress just in time to observe a transmission between Maul and Marg Krim, who assures the former Sith that the spice will be returned to them.
“You are but one small piece moving in this mechanism which I have designed,” says Maul. “And yet, when you falter, it jeopardizes everything. Do you understand?” Maul specifically name-drops Crimson Dawn, the criminal organization he’s later seen running from the shadows in the live-action Solo. Ahsoka traces the origin of his signal to Mandalore.
“What’s Maul doing there?” she wonders.
While Rafa and Trace swindle yet another Pyke operation out of their spice supply, Ahsoka rigs some thermal detonators to blow on Oba Diah. Once the Pyke Syndicate realizes she’s out of her cell, Krim witnesses her abilities firsthand and sees her for what she is: a Jedi.
The Martez sisters hit a snag in their plan when a large reptilian Trandoshan arrives at the landing platform where they’re parked, demanding to see their authorization. Naturally, a brawl ensues. And it ends with the tall humanoid lizard plunging to his death.
Back on Oba Diah, Marg Krim delights in watching the Martez sisters learn that Ahsoka’s actually a Jedi (or was). The pair have long blamed the Jedi Order for the death of their parents. Trace is shocked as well as disappointed.
“You should have told me,” she says.
With their debt to the Pykes finally paid, Ahsoka accompanies Trace and Rafa back to their home on Coruscant. Bo-Katan and the other Mandalorians arrive shortly afterward, having followed them. “You and I have a common enemy,” Bo-Katan says. She flashes an image of Maul, who now occupies her homeworld. “I need your help.”
Ahsoka leaves her speeder bike behind at the Martez sisters’ repair shop—implying that she’d like to return one day—and bids them farewell. Her duty’s not done; the galaxy still blazes with war.
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