Summary of Star Wars episode 8: The Clone Wars: Ahsoka discovers the identity of the criminal mastermind

We are in episode eight of Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘seventh and Final season, ending the Ahsoka centered arc. This episode, Together Again, landed on Disney plus Friday, and finds Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) and sisters Trace and Rafa Martez (Brigitte Kali and Elizabeth Rodriguez) conspiring to escape the Pyke Syndicate on the planet Obadia.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because they escaped the last episode, but got caught and it starts slightly repetitively. Ho-hum Fortunately, things escalate quickly. Incoming spoilers.

Fortune cookie

“You can change who you are, but you can’t run away from yourself.” This is a pretty glaring reference to Ahsoka walking away from the Jedi, but he can’t escape the basic decency and disinterest he learned during his training.

Maulster’s mind

Pyke boss Marg Krim (Stephen Stanton) is determined to get the spice Trace and Rafa were meant to deliver (and don’t know Trace impulsively threw it in hyperspace), so let them go pick it up. It is clear that he is terrified of his invisible boss.

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When Ahsoka is left alone in Obadia, she sneaks in and manipulates the Pykes’ base to explode. He also hears Krim speak to his boss, who, unsurprisingly, turns out to be the Sith Lord boss turned crime Darth Maul (Sam Witwer). It is unclear if he already dropped the title “Darth”, but it is not used here.

He threatens to let Crimson Dawn, another member of his Shadow Collective criminal empire, take over the Pykes’ spice operation. You may remember that group of Solo, which takes place about nine years after this, and Crimson Dawn’s boss Dryden Vos was equally terrified by Maul’s wrath.

It is clear that Maul is the type of manager who pit his employees against each other, because he is a jerk and a scoundrel. It’s also great that our first glimpse of him this season is like a hologram, just like his introduction to The Phantom Menace.

Get that spice

Trace and Rafa try to cheat to get a new spice shipment from a Toong worker (the same race as the Phantom Menace rotten Ben Quadinaros). This is a bit of a silly subplot, but it’s fun that Rafa ends up fighting a Trandoshan. So basically he kills a scary lizard man while Trace hits some Toongs with a pipe.

Passive Mandalorians

As Ahsoka escapes with Trace and Rafa in a rather epic sequence that uses a touch from John Williams TIE Fighter Attack, a trio of Mandalorians who have been lurking in the shadows follow them on their boat. This moment reflects images from the scene where Boba Fett follows the Millennium Falcon on The Empire Strikes Back.

They track Ahsoka, Trace and Rafa to Coruscant, where Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) requests Ahsoka’s help to retrieve Mandalore from Maul.

He was certain that the Mandalorians would be the ones to rescue Ahsoka after they saw her in the previous episode; It seems strange that they only waited for her to escape before recruiting her. They can be a fairly insular group (even more so in The Mandalorian, which takes place years after this), but they are also a lot of badasses and it seems that Bo-Katan would take a more active role in this case.

The Jedi way

Ahsoka tried to keep his identity as a Jedi a secret from Trace and Rafa, who expressed cynicism about the Order due to the role of a Jedi in the death of his parents, but is revealed during his escape and the sisters accept Ahsoka.

“You may not think of yourself as a Jedi, but you act like one,” says Rafa. “Or at least how I want them to be.”

She clearly feels that Ahsoka embodies the true spirit of the Jedi, even though the Order has lost its way and has been subtly corrupted due to its involvement in the Clone Wars (and the machinations of a gloriously evil space magician).

Ahsoka is also nervous that joining Bo-Katan will bring her back to the Jedi. We’ll find out how close it is in Siege of Mandalore, the season’s last four-episode arc, which begins on Disney Plus on April 17.