Star Wars: The Clone Wars Finale Recap: Ahsoka s Adventure Ends In Victory And Death

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Ahsoka Tano is determined to escape without killing the clones.

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So it ends. The last episode in the [ ] of [/tags/star-wars/ Star Wars]: [ ]  came to [ ] on Monday, May 4, after the events of [ ] and clone troopers across the galaxy turning on the Jedi as [ ]. This is the season's 12th episode, and it's called "Victory and Death," a suitably dramatic and final-sounding title.
We're deep into the events of [ Revenge of the Sith] at this point, and ex-Padawan Ahsoka Tano ([ Ashley Eckstein]) managed to get the inhibitor chip -- which Darth Sidious used to make the clones go bad -- [ ][ ]) head. Unfortunately, they're also trapped in a medical bay with a whole bunch of Order 66'd clones ready to break in and end them both.

Meanwhile, mad lad Maul ([ Sam Witwer]) is killing his way around the ship after Ahsoka released him to cause a distraction. Let's dive into Clone Wars SPOILER town one last time.
Fighting back
Just as the clones breach the medical bay, Ahsoka and Rex burst out. Seamlessly deflecting blaster bolts and firing stun blasts, they incapacitate all the troops without killing them. (I dunno if the guy Ahsoka hits with a door is OK, though. That sure looked nasty.)

Elsewhere, Maul is listening into the clones' communications with his [ ][ available on Spotify]) gives it some extra dramatic punch.

"We need to get out of here," Ahsoka says. Good call!
The Jedi way
Ahsoka, Rex and their astromech droid buddies need to get across the hangar to the last remaining shuttle (bad Rex ordered the escape pods destroyed in the previous episode). Unfortunately, a massive contingent of Rex's clone brothers -- led by Jesse because of course it had to be someone we knew -- is in the way. 

Admirably, Ahsoka is determined to stick to the nonlethal approach even though the cruiser is doomed. She realizes Rex is pretty cut up about the situation and takes off his helmet, massditation.mystrikingly.com to find a tear rolling down his cheek.

Jesse leads his fellow clones in hunting Ahsoka and Rex.

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"You're a good soldier Rex, so is every one of those men down there," she says. "They may be willing to die, but I am not the one who is going to kill them."

It's clear she's internalized the true meaning of being a Jedi, a philosophy [ espoused] by Anakin Skywalker in [ Attack of the Clones], before he became her master: "Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life." Unfortunately, Anakin isn't really practicing what he preached at [ this point].


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Rex approaches Jesse and company with Ahsoka at blaster point, pretending to have taken her prisoner, and argues that she hasn't been a Jedi for ages -- an attempt to confuse the Order 66 programming with semantics. It buys them enough time for the droids to dump a bunch of the clones to a lower level, evening the odds as Ahsoka and Rex continue their stun-deflection dance.
Maul's escape
Their plan is thrown a little askew when Maul runs toward the ship -- the cheeky Charlie is trying to escape on his own.

"You wanted this chaos!" he growls at Ahsoka, as he flings stuff at her with the Force. Maybe she shouldn't have let the crazy guy out of his cell after all.

Ahsoka comes within an inch of sabering his throat, but he pushes her back and hops in the shuttle. She briefly tries to stop him using the Force (like Rey in [ ], no unexpected lightning here, though), but breaks away to help Rex battle the converging clones.

Ahsoka tries to stop Maul from escaping.

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The former Sith Lord jumps to hyperspace -- bye bye, Maul, we'll see you in [/news/solo-a-star-wars-story-best-and-worst-our-global-review/ Solo] and [/news/star-wars-rebels-season-4-blu-ray-brings-show-to-fitting-end/ Rebels] (please give this guy his own live action show on [/tags/disney-plus/ Disney Plus]!).

Ahsoka and Rex get surrounded, so she awesomely stabs her lightsabers into the floor with the Force and cuts out a section around them so they drop to a lower level. Faster than an elevator, quicker than the stairs!