NARRATOR: Separatists on the brink of defeat. Sacrificing all but the whole of his task force,
Quinlan Vos has stabbed into the heart of Separatist space to strike at Dooku himself.
Acting without permission from the Jedi Council, the last of his clone troopers now
make contact with Coruscant.
CLONE: We've had to fall back to Dooku's command center under heavy reinforcements
from the blockades in orbit. We're all that's left.
OBI-WAN: Where is Vos?
CLONE: The general went after Count Dooku.
He's gone to ground in the woods.
ANAKIN: Have you found a kill switch? The Count must have a way
to deactivate the droids in case of a malfunction.
CLONE: Everything's heavily encrypted.
We don't have the hardware to crack it.
OBI-WAN: Might you be able to transmit his commands to us
so that we can help you from here?
so that we can help you from here?
CLONE: I don't think you'll be able to do anything for us in time, sir.
We'll send you the intelligence. For the Republic, general.
OBI-WAN: Indeed, for the Republic. Good luck trooper.
We will speed what help we can muster.
CLONE: If you do find the kill switch that'll be plenty enough.
The hologram flickers off
YODA: Without our knowledge, Quinlan Vos did attack
at the heart of the Separatists.
ANAKIN: He's proven that they're vulnerable.
If we follow up his attack then the
Separatists will be overwhelmed.
OBI-WAN: They're hardly vulnerable, Anakin. Dooku may be on the run in
the wilderness, but there remain three intact blockades over the
planet and whatever stray warships that weren't destroyed
on his approach that by now may be reinforcing the blockades.
I'm afraid we don't have the ships to disengage from any conflict
to take on such an endeavor.
ANAKIN: Dooku is the prize. We can send an even smaller force without ever
intending to engage the blockade. Once the shutdown code goes out
the blockade won't matter for much anyways.
OBI-WAN: That's a sizable condition to wager on. Even now it could be some time
before we are able to crack the Separatist codes. And any ships that are
sent will become stranded as surely as Vos' advanced force has become.
ANAKIN: Not if we capture Dooku.
YODA: Prepare a fleet, you should. But wasted it will be if we cannot cripple the
Separatist defenses. Wait, you should, for commission from the Council.
We will examine the options available to us and the losses we
have already suffered to this endeavor.
The Council leaves
ANAKIN: We don't need another fleet.
Vos just needs us.
OBI-WAN: How do you think he got as far as he did?
His success in reaching Serenno was paid for
in the lives of clones alone.
ANAKIN: Then we should follow him before that very hole closes.
OBI-WAN: Who is to say there is one? The Separatists highly prize Dooku's survival.
I think you underestimate what Vos has committed to in order to
accomplish this. Could you leave the 501st or even one of your troopers,
say Captain Rex, to die as he has for his men for a single-minded end
to the war? I know you too well, Anakin.
ANAKIN: I've left troopers for the sake of the mission.
OBI-WAN: Not like this. I believe Vos has knowingly sacrificed
three full cruisers to this cause of his.
I feel they were acceptable losses to him.
I feel they were acceptable losses to him.
ANAKIN: Perhaps it is time we took stronger measures to end the war.
OBI-WAN: Anakin!
ANAKIN: We are not supposed to let attachment get in the way of our decisions,
as Jedi. How is what Vos has done any different?
OBI-WAN: A Jedi cannot help but be changed after what Vos has felt.
Personal attachments are too strong for a Jedi. But the Force
still guides us in what is right. I feel this is a terrible thing
that has happened.
Vos chasing Dooku through the forest
NARRATOR: The static electricity rises in the surrounding foliage as Dooku's power
bleeds out, unrestrained. He gasps pitifully at the future that lies
before him; a future where he can already see the faint outline
of an artificial appendage. And it dogs his mind that perhaps
it would be better to just give into Vos. He senses the Jedi
close by and summons the strength to topple a tree, which
the Jedi leaps over and lands along the length of the trunk.
VOS: Here is where it ends.
DOOKU: This has forever and always been the beginning.
We are so very far from the end, my young Jedi friend.
VOS: You will not see your plans come to fruition.
DOOKU: At this point, see them, I may not. But come to fruition, they shall.
Have at the puppet of the Force who most of all the Jedi wants to be
without his strings, whereas the likes of Skywalker are too fond of them.
Their lightsabers disappear against each other in a flash of light.
A Republic corvette jumps into the system
and the Jedi scan over the wreckage
with their eyes.
OBI-WAN: You appear to be thinking about something.
ANAKIN: Just that the war could be won here. Never mind Dooku.
Three of our cruisers in exchange for all of theirs might be
all we needed to change the balance.
OBI-WAN: I still sense the hand of the dark side and remain suspicious that this
will not amount to a true victory. But perhaps Dooku may turn out
to be all the leverage we need.
ANAKIN: Then we'll see to it that we succeed in getting him, master.
The corvette approaches the planet under fire
and enters the atmosphere.
The ship touches down in a clearing
and the Jedi reach the bottom
of the loading ramp in time
to witness Dooku withdraw
his blade from Vos' side.
Dooku steps away as Obi-Wan cradles Vos.
VOS: Lord Tyrannous... why didn't you tell us he was lord Tyrannous?
OBI-WAN: Who told you?
VOS: Ahhh... I learned the truth from Ahsoka Tano.
Anakin is at this time standing off with Dooku,
but glances back at the mention of Ahsoka
and Dooku disappears into the brush.
Anakin groans and rushes back to Vos.
but glances back at the mention of Ahsoka
and Dooku disappears into the brush.
Anakin groans and rushes back to Vos.
Anakin is at this time standing off with Dooku,
but glances back at the mention of Ahsoka
and Dooku disappears into the brush.
Anakin groans and rushes back to Vos.
Vos dies.
OBI-WAN: Your former Padawan is full of surprises.
ANAKIN: I don't understand. The Council didn't tell anyone of our report.
Least of all, how could she know?
OBI-WAN: Clearly, she did. And it is a mystery that is vital we solve.
The only real question is where do we begin?
Dooku's shuttle rises above the trees
and disappears into the sky.
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