->''Without honour, victory is hollow.''

Having escaped from the Separatist prison known as the Citadel, Even Piell, Captain Tarkin, and the team that rescued them must navigate the desolate landscape of the planet Lola Sayu in time to rendezvous with Master Plo Koon and leave the prison planet.

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!!Tropes:
* AllForNothing: In the end, despite all the effort the Jedi put into rescuing Master Piell and getting the Nexus Route, all of it accomplished nothing. Since Master Piell died during the escape, and since Ahsoka and Tarkin are only willing to share the two parts of the code with different people (Ahsoka with the Jedi Order and Tarkin with the Chancellor) nobody can get access to the full code, rendering it completely useless. And even if Ahsoka had been willing to give her part to the Chancellor along with Tarkin, Palpatine [[PlayingBothSides obviously would have shared it with Dooku]] so that neither side would retain an advantage. The only thing they really accomplished was to save Tarkin, which ended up doing [[FaceHeelTurn more harm than good]].
* BloodlessCarnage: An anooba wounds Even Piell with its fangs, but there isn't a single drop of blood on him.
* BringNewsBack: With Tarkin and Piell openly out of the prison, the Jedi must protect their lives at all costs to make sure the two survive so that their crucial information makes it back to the Republic. Then, after Piell dies, Ahsoka takes on the information and becomes part of the mission's focus.
* CallForward: A brief snippet of the Imperial March plays as Anakin and Tarkin shake hands at the end of the episode.
* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Once again, Tarkin, all throughout the arc.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Zig-zagged.
** Characters hang mere meters over the lava with no problem in one scene, yet the burial cloak for a Jedi burns before it even touches it. Animals die instantly, yet said Jedi's wrapped corpse somehow ''floats downstream'' and the worst that happens is it is still on fire.
** During the air evacuation from an island in the middle of a lava lake, Separatist crab droids can be seen crawling up from all sides of the island unharmed, implying that they were built with heat shields. This also lines up with lore of crab droids being designed to operate in nasty environments.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even Piell gets mauled by an anooba, and it’s made clear it nearly tore out his throat.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Two Clone Troopers die when they fall down a cliff after the rope they used to climb down is shot loose by a Battle Droid.
* DramaticIrony: Dooku tells Sobeck that if the Nexxus Route coordinates are reobtained, they can launch a surprise attack on Coruscant, striking a crippling blow to the Republic and the Jedi. [[KarmicDeath Little does he realize...]]
* DueToTheDead: The group pause to honor Piell's sacrifice and give him a burial at lava.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tarkin may be the TokenEvilTeammate, but he doesn't complain about briefly stopping to hold a funeral for Master Piell, and makes a point to thank Ahsoka for saving his life, remarking that she has been trained well.
* EyeTwitch: Sobeck's left eye can be seen twitching quite violently after Dooku threatens his life and then hangs up on him. It's still twitching at the start of his next scene, but stops after that.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Discussed at the end of the episode. Anakin reiterates his belief that the Jedi need to be more ruthless, or else risk losing the war, but Obi-Wan counters that [[HonorBeforeReason losing their honor would be even worse]].
* HoistHeroOverHead: Osi Sobeck does this to Captain Tarkin as he prepares to throw him into the lava. Ahsoka impales him from behind before he can do so.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ahsoka kills Sobeck this way to [[SaveTheVillain save Tarkin]].
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: The three battle droids R2 reprogrammed say this to their commander before trying to slow down the Separatist droids. Sadly, they don't get very far in holding the line.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Vader's Imperial March plays briefly when Anakin and Tarkin shake hands at the end.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Osi Sobeck attempts to kill Tarkin at the end of the story so that if he can't have the Nexus Route coordinates, than neither can the Republic. [[DoomedByCanon Naturally, since he's around twenty years in the future]], Tarkin makes it out of this one, and Sobeck doesn't.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Captain Tarkin's actions in the Clone Wars remind Anakin of his own and the two relate to each other on the need for a separation of strategy and morality.
* SavageWolves: The anoobas. Osi Sobeck, the warden of the prison, releases a whole pack of them to try to track the rescue party that broke Master Even Piell out. They prove to be rather formidable, and one of them even kills Master Piell while he was distracted by fighting droids.
* SenselessSacrifice: The three droids stay behind to buy time. They last for about five seconds and don't buy any time at all.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Clone troopers have died throughout the Citadel arc, [[note]] Though Echo's true fate [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E1TheBadBatch says different...]] [[/note]] but the Jedi and other clone troopers continue onwards. However, when Jedi Master Even Piell dies in this episode, the entire group pauses for a brief funeral.
* YouShallNotPass: The three battle droids R2-D2 reprogrammed stay behind to fight off the wave of Separatist droids while the remaining survivors climb down a cliffside. The battle droids die almost immediately and don't slow any of the enemies down.

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