Recap / Star Wars: The Clone Wars S7E11 "Shattered"

"The Republic couldn't have asked for better soldiers, nor I a better friend."

"Well, I've known no other way. Gives us clones all a mixed feeling about the war. Many people wish it never happened. But without it, we clones...wouldn't exist."

— Captain Rex

"Shattered" is the 11th episode of The Clone Wars Season 7 and the penultimate episode of the series. It is directed by Saul Ruiz and written by Dave Filoni, and premiered on May 1, 2020.

After an intense battle on Mandalore, Maul has been captured and his forces are all but defeated. Ahsoka notifies the Jedi Council, who've been internally discussing their suspicions about the Chancellor but refuse to inform her more about it due to it being Council affairs only.

Ahsoka and Rex eventually depart from Mandalore with Maul in tow and head to Coruscant. As they travel, Ahsoka notes that despite the Jedi being taught to be peacekeepers and not soldiers, Ahsoka's been a soldier her entire life as a Padawan. Rex similarly notes that while many people wish the war never happened, he and all the other clones wouldn't have existed in the first place without it.

Ahsoka hopes that in the end, some good comes from all of it and that she couldn't have asked for a better friend. Rex goes alone to get a briefing before Ahsoka suddenly senses a massive disturbance in the Force. Right there and then, Rex receives a special message:

"Execute Order 66."

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Tropes in this episode:

• Admiring the Abomination: Maul hates and fears Sidious, but once he realizes the full scope to which his master manipulated the war, he can't help but acknowledge how brilliant his old master is.
  Maul: (giggling madly) Brilliant! Brilliant! I was not privy to my master's plan, but now I see it! He turned the Jedi's own army against them!
• All for Nothing: All of Ahsoka's efforts to capture Maul were pointless, as she has to release him on the execution of Order 66 so he can act as a distraction while she escapes.
• All of Them: When Rex finally comes to his senses, Ahsoka asks him how many clones are affected by Order 66, to which he replies that all of them are.
• And I Must Scream: Rex reveals at the end of the episode that he knew exactly what he was doing when he turned on Ahsoka.
• An Arm and a Leg: Maul uses the Force to hold a clone trooper's arm on his side of a closing blast door, relieving the clone trooper of both his arm and his commlink.
• Art Evolution: Sidious has been redesigned to look closer to his Revenge of the Sith appearance (complete with a new robe, forehead wrinkles, and Sith eyes). This makes sense since by this point, the series already takes place at the same time as the film.
• As You Know: For viewers unfamiliar with Revenge of the Sith or need a catch-up, Rex describes the mission parameters of Order 66 to the other clones after Ahsoka escapes from the bridge. That being said, Revenge of the Sith never actually spells out what Order 66's mandates are specifically, which is what Rex does soon after it's enacted; this trope is still in play however since every Clone seems to be aware of what it is regardless.
  Rex: All right, we know Ahsoka Tano is on board. She's been marked for termination by Order 66. Under this directive, any and all Jedi leadership must be executed for treason against the Republic. Any soldier that does not comply with the order will also be executed for treason. Understood?
  Clones: Yes, sir!
• Beam Spam: The clones' primary tactic against the Jedi is to overwhelm them with a hail of blaster fire, and they almost get Ahsoka twice by virtue of firing more blaster bolts than she can deflect. Ironically, Maul seems to be holding up better, despite lacking a lightsaber, though he compensates by using the wall plating to shield himself.
• Bloodless Carnage: Despite Maul using raw metal sheets to dismember clone troopers and even closing a blast door on one's arm, every shot of mutilation is carefully directed to only let the viewer know what happened without showing the act or any viscera.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Order 66 causes all the clones to go completely bonkers and attempt to kill Maul and Ahsoka, including Rex and Jesse, though Ahsoka manages to break Rex out of it via emergency brain surgery.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: Maul is kept in a very heavily fortified crate, designed by the Mandalorians back when they were opponents of the Jedi. Satine had outlawed them; Maul's is the last one.
• Brought Down to Badass: Maul does not have a lightsaber in this episode, mostly because he lost it in the previous episode. It does not stop him from giving the Terminator a run for his money and literally chopping his way through anything that gets in his path.
• Bullethole Door: When ambushed in Order 66, Ahsoka deflects all of the clone troopers' shots upwards until they blast a hole through the ceiling she can escape through.
• Call-Back:
  • Ahsoka reflects on the idea that the Jedi are "keepers of the peace, not soldiers", a quote from Mace Windu back in Attack of the Clones. Barriss also discussed this concept with Ahsoka back in "Brain Invaders".
  • Speaking of "Brain Invaders", Ahsoka is once again trapped on a vessel in hyperspace with brainwashed clones trying to kill her, and she also has to face the dilemma of having to fight and kill one of her closest friends.
  • Rex recalls the incident with Fives and tells Ahsoka to research him to get to the truth of Order 66.
  • A very easy-to-miss one: in both this episode and the next, Rex sheds a single tear from his right eye. This is the same eye where Tup had a tear tattoo on his cheek; Tup is of course the one who succumbed to Order 66 back in Season 6, thus kickstarting Fives' arc that ultimately informed Rex of the biochips.
• The Cameo:
  • Ursa Wren accompanies Bo-Katan to escort Maul into Republic custody.
  • Yoda, Aayla, Mace, and Ki-Adi Mundi appear in a holo meeting.
  • Sidious also briefly appears to issue Order 66 to Rex.
• Call-Forward:
  • "I am one with the Force, and the Force is with me."
  • One of the astromech droids that helps Ahsoka is a C1-unit (albeit in "stock" configuration, as opposed to Chopper, who was heavily modified by Hera and developed an attitude).
  • Bo-Katan expresses doubt on her ability to lead the Mandalorian people, just like she did when Sabine first offered her the Darksaber during the Mandalorian Civil War.
• Cassandra Truth: After the incident with Fives, Rex filed a grievance report where he voiced his concerns that the inhibitor chips inside every clone served some secret purpose. As Rex expected, his warning fell on deaf ears.
• Cerebus Retcon: In Rebels, Rex claimed not to have betrayed "his Jedi" and that he, Wolffe, and Gregor all removed their control chips. In this episode, Rex's statement is true in a broad sense. He didn't personally remove his chip before Order 66 was enacted, but did whatever he could to resist it before taking over and being forced to kill Ahsoka, so in that sense he never committed an ultimate betrayal. Ahsoka is ultimately the one that removes the chip from his head. Or, if he was speaking in a more literal sense, Rex either a) never betrayed and tried to kill Anakin, the Jedi he worked with the most during the war, or b) Ahsoka was not a Jedi when he was forced to betray her.
• Chiaroscuro: This episode is dark, literally and figuratively, with the cast in shadow half the time.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The discussion the Jedi Council has is taken directly from Revenge of the Sith, and continues farther after the scene ended in the film.
  • Maul and Ahsoka actively overhear snippets of Mace, Anakin, and Palpatine's confrontation in Revenge of the Sith, notably using the original dialogue instead of The Clone Wars' voice actors. However, at the end of it, Matt Lanter's voice is played over Hayden Christensen's own as Anakin desperately exclaims "What have I done?".
  • Maul's corridor rampage is his version of Vader's at the end of Rogue One. Both versions have them lift someone to the ceiling before dropping them as well as a part about reaching arms through a door.
  • At the end of the episode, Rex describes Order 66 as a mission to “hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights”, which is the exact same wording that Obi-Wan first uses to describe it in A New Hope.
  • Despite not being Jedi, Order 66 doesn't exclude Ahsoka (a former Jedi) and Maul (a former Sith), but this isn't elaborated on. This partially follows up on Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, where Order 66 was activated again, causing the clones to turn against the Inquisitors. It seems that Order 66 just targets any Force-user with the exception of Sidious and Vader.
  • Rex addressing Palpatine as Lord Sidious confirms what has already been hinted at in Revenge of the Sith: The clone commanders addressing the Chancellor as "My Lord" are not referring to the soon-to-be Emperor Palpatine but rather to Darth Sidious, his true identity.
  • Ahsoka gets help from R7-A7, her astromech droid in the Ryloth and Fugitive arcs.
• Crazy-Prepared: Ahsoka was kept on the list for extermination by Order 66, and Sidious evidently added Maul to the list after learning of his survival. The chip also cannot be found in a clone's brain unless the Force is used, which given that the Order would've been massacring any Force user who was even able to find out about the chip at the time of the Order being executed, significantly reduces the chance that any clones would've been deprogrammed.
• Curbstomp Battle: Maul vs. clone troopers ends with a ridiculously easy victory for Maul.
• "Die Hard" on an X: The second half of the episode is Ahsoka trying to survive aboard a Star Destroyer full of now-hostile clone troopers.
• Dramatic Drop: As he initially struggles with Order 66, Rex loses his grip on his helmet, with a shot of it hitting the floor.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • The entire first half of the episode is built around this, since the audience knows that Order 66 will soon be enacted. Instead of a triumphant celebration of the liberation of Mandalore and the capture of Maul, the tone is somber, bittersweet, sometimes grim.
  • Before everything goes down, Rex notes that clones have mixed feelings about the Clone Wars, because without it, the galaxy would be a more safer and peaceful place, but clones wouldn't exist because they've only ever existed to fight and die in it. And as our heroes will soon learn, there's another horrific reason why they exist.
    Rex: We clones have mixed feelings about the war. Some wish it had never happened, but without it, we clones wouldn't even exist.
    Ahsoka: Then perhaps some good has come from it. The Republic could never ask for better soldiers, nor I for a better friend.
• End-of-Series Awareness: On the bridge, Ahsoka and Rex reflect on their roles in the war now that, with Dooku dead, Maul captured, and Grievous likely due to be destroyed any minute now, it's about to end. They're left to wonder what life they will be able to live after the war they've spent most if not all of their lives in, but admit that the war may have been worth it if it let them meet and become friends.
• Enemy Mine: Played straight, then Subverted; with Order 66 directing the clones to kill Ahsoka and Maul, it becomes them vs the Grand Army of the Republic. After she saves him from being executed, Maul suggests he and Ahsoka work together to escape the cruiser, but she immediately rejects the idea, telling him point blank she has no intention of working with him. Instead, she only wants him to cause chaos and create a diversion to help her evade the clones. She doesn't even give him a lightsaber to better defend himself because she's not rooting for him. Maul still gets by just fine with the Force, however.
• Evil vs. Evil: After being freed by Ahsoka to use as a distraction, Maul engages in a brutal fight against the clones.
• Faceless Goons: Once Order 66 goes down, all the clone troopers wear their helmets full time to create a dehumanizing effect. The sole exception is Captain Rex, whose face serves to represent the inner turmoil with the chip in his head.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: In sharp contrast to Ahsoka's relatively pacifistic efforts, Maul's battle with the clone troopers is an orgy of carnage that pushes the boundaries of a family-friendly cartoon's ratings.
• Fighting from the Inside: Rex momentarily resists his control chip, just long enough to tell Ahsoka about Fives.
  Rex: Find him... find him... Fives... FIND HIM! (Fires his blasters) FIVES!!
• Foregone Conclusion:
  • Pretty much the entire audience knows what's going to happen, so the episode plays up a sense of impending dread that grows right up until the Order is given.
  • Even if Rex did fall under Order 66, one way or another, he will have his control chip removed.
  • Likewise, we know that Ahsoka, Rex, and Maul will survive Order 66 because of their appearance in Rebels.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Rex spells out the parameter of Order 66, he mentions that any clone trooper that does not comply with Order 66 will be gunned down along with the Jedi as a traitor to the Republic. This will play against Rex in the next episode when his chip is removed...
  • His orders to destroy the ship's escape pods and post additional clones on the hangar deck come back to bite him in the ass next episode.
• Friendship Moment: Between Ahsoka and Rex when they discuss how the war has affected them. If nothing else, they're grateful that the war at least allowed them to be friends. It only makes what comes next that much more terrible.
• Godzilla Threshold: Trapped on the ship, outnumbered, and relentlessly pursued by her former comrades, Ahsoka resorts to freeing Maul out of his specialized cell to serve as a chaotic diversion, knowing full well that the unpredictable Sith will likely murder any clone that stands in his way to freedom.
• Gory Discretion Shot: When Maul decapitates the clone troopers with the hurled sheet metal, the camera pans down to their feet right before impact and then we see their helmets fall to the floor. This is also done for the clone whose arm gets severed by the blast door.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Maul makes effective use of bulkheads to decapitate and partition clone troopers. He also pulls one through a closing blast door, with a Gory Discretion Shot letting us see some of his parts fall to the floor.
• Hearing Voices: Ahsoka and Maul both hear Mace's confrontation of Palpatine and death, as well as Anakin's horrified reaction to his complicity in helping Palpatine kill Windu through the Force.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Maul can't help but chuckle at the fact that the Jedi are being wiped out by their own army.
  • Ahsoka makes a point of calling herself a "citizen" to remind everyone present she has left the Jedi Order and does not wish to rejoin it for the time being. When the conversation turns to sensitive matters (namely, how the Order might need to commit treason to remove Palpatine from power) Mace archly calls Ahsoka "citizen" and dismisses her from the Jedi only discussion.
• Hope Spot: Ahsoka and her clone troopers successfully capture Maul and put him on a destroyer bound for Coruscant, giving Ahsoka and Rex a moment to muse about the coming end of the war. Then, Ahsoka senses a powerful disturbance in the Force centered around Anakin, while Rex receives a secret transmission:
  "Execute Order 66."
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Ahsoka pulls one on Rex near the end of the episode, although it's less of a fight and more of a case of her tazing him, putting him through an emergency medical operation, and using the Force to help coerce the removal of his control chip.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Zigzagged. True to form for the stakes of Order 66, the clone troopers are viciously competent with their aiming and very nearly kill Ahsoka. Played absolutely straight when facing Maul, however, as the clones miss all their shots even point-blank and are completely powerless before him.
• In Spite of a Nail: Even in spite of his defeat, Maul comes very close to derailing his Master's plans, as Ahsoka, shaken by Maul's claims that Sidious intends to corrupt Anakin into becoming his apprentice, tries to get in contact with him during her holographic meeting with the Jedi, presumably to warn him of what she has learned. It's only a matter of bad timing (Mace had already sent Anakin away to meet Palpatine) and Ahsoka's distrust of the Jedi (making her unwilling to pass the information off to them) that allows Sidious' scheme to go off without a hitch.
• Internal Reveal: Ahsoka learns about Order 66. So does Maul, for that matter, though he had surmised something like this would happen and puts it together faster than she does.
• Irony:
  • Ahsoka notes that Jedi were supposed to be keepers of the peace, yet all she's ever been was a soldier.
  • Ahsoka gets help from droids to survive against the clones, which is ironic in both that she's getting help from who is technically the enemy and that droids are more vulnerable to being "reprogrammed" than living beings.
  • The clone troopers end up becoming robotic, blindly obedient soldiers, just like the Separatist droid army they had spent three years fighting.
• Kill the Ones You Love:
  • The chips in their brains forces Rex and the clones to turn against Ahsoka, in spite of how much they love her.
  • When Order 66 is relayed, Rex initially resists it long enough to realize that he may have to hurt his brothers to save Ahsoka or else they're all going to kill Ahsoka. Later, after his chip is removed, he shoots a couple of other clones dead to save Ahsoka and he's horrified by this.
  • Ahsoka also kills some clones in her initial escape from the bridge.
• Killed Offscreen:
  • Played with when it comes to Grievous. The Jedi Council in their meeting notes that Grievous is eventually going to be killed and has been located on Utapau. Although there is no mention made of his death, he would be dead by the time Ahsoka and Maul sense the disturbance in the Force.
  • Also played with when it comes to Mace Windu. He appears early on in the episode and Ahsoka and Maul both sense his death at the hands of Palpatine. But while they hear it, it does still technically happen off-screen. This also extends to Saesee Tiin, Kit Fisto, and Agen Kolar.
  • The arrival of Order 66 also spells this for the numerous Jedi we've seen throughout The Clone Wars, including Aayla Secura, Ki-Adi Mundi, Plo Koon, Shaak Ti, Cin Drallig, and Depa Billaba. Though this is somewhat zig-zagged since their deaths are off-screen for the series, but they're on-screen in the film (or, in the case of Depa, The Bad Batch).
• Leave Him to Me!: When Order 66 goes live, Rex orders his men to let him kill Ahsoka, but this is only because he's resisting the chip. Once he's given her a clue and fallen under its control, she's fair game for everyone.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Mace decides not to share the Council's plans to remove Palpatine from power with Ahsoka because she is not part of the Council and it is classified information where if done wrong would label Jedi as traitors. Ahsoka decides not to reveal what Maul told her of Anakin since she wants to talk to him in person and she doesn't want the Council to doubt Anakin any more than they already do (at this point Palpatine has forcefully put Anakin in the Council which has ruffled a few feathers).
• Logical Weakness: The only way Ahsoka is able to find Rex's chip is by using the Force to search his brain. Even if someone wanted to stop a clone from carrying out Order 66, it's extremely unlikely they would've succeeded if they weren't a Force-user... who are currently being massacred en masse.
• Lower-Deck Episode: Like many other installments in the franchise, Order 66 is once more explored, this time from Ahsoka's point of view.
• Manly Tears: While trying to resist his chip, Rex sheds tears while trying to tell Ahsoka to get the hell out of there and to "find Fives" before he and the clones open fire on her. It's from a combination of not wanting to kill one of his dearest friends, the alternative possibility that he may have to kill his own brothers to save her, and realizing that Fives was right.
• Missed Him by That Much: Mace sends Anakin to inform Palpatine that General Grievous has been located just before Ahsoka can speak with him, and she decides not to inform the Council of what Maul told her. This is also done on a meta level, as Ahsoka's enters conversations seen in Revenge of the Sith right after the point the scene ended in the film.
• Mood Whiplash: Ahsoka and Rex's heartwarming Friendship Moment is immediately derailed by Palpatine killing Mace, Anakin turning to the Dark Side and Order 66 going live.
• Mook Horror Show: Even without a lightsaber, Maul with the Force alone and some metal sheets torn from the walls proves to be far too much for the clone troopers. A regiment sent to kill him is completely overwhelmed and sent panicking as he casually (and gruesomely) slaughters them, forcing a hasty retreat.
• Musical Nod: "Anakin's Dark Deeds" (or rather, the ending part, which is called "I'm So Sorry") from Revenge of the Sith plays as the clones shoot Ahsoka upon being given the Order.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Rex for a bit, after removing his biochip and realizing that he almost killed Ahsoka and had to kill several fellow clones.
  • We also hear Anakin's exclamation after helping kill Mace Windu in a Force vision, with Hayden Christensen and Matt Lanter's voices both being used.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Ahsoka senses Mace and Anakin's confrontation with Palpatine through the Force, then she senses the changes in the clones following the issuance of Order 66.
• Mythology Gag: Anakin's passcode, 8108, is a reference to the release date of the pilot movie, August 10, 2008.
  • A character voiced by Sam Witwer tears through Imperial forces with an impressive command of the Force, not even needing a lightsaber. Sound familiar?
    • For added effect, the blink-and-you-miss-it electrical arcs that form when Maul rips panels off the wall look suspiciously like the glowing blue circles from the video game that indicate you can use the Force to lift and launch it. Which Maul does. With prejudice.
    • And the cherry on this Dark Side sundae? The Force Unleashed was originally set to feature Darth Maul as its protagonist.
• No OSHA Compliance: Maul pulls a clone trooper's arm towards a closing blast door, resulting in it getting cut off.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Order 66 and the Great Jedi Purge occur in this episode, marking a definitive end to the Clone Wars - the entire premise of the series. In the context of the larger Star Wars universe, this leads to the establishment of the Galactic Empire and the rule of the Sith for the first time in over a millennium, the Jedi being all but completely wiped out. Finally, the Republic, the bastion of civilization for over a thousand years, which we've watched characters we grew to love fight and die for over the course of the series, is now extinguished.
• Not Me This Time: When she frees him from the brig, Ahsoka asks Maul if Order 66 was his doing. He assures her it's not, and admits he didn't understand exactly how the clones fit into his master's plan until now.
• Off with His Head!: Maul decapitates a few clone troopers using a piece of metal that he's ripped off the wall.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Ahsoka is able to access classified records because Anakin hasn't changed his access codes since she was still his Padawan.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Even without a lightsaber, Maul is able to wade through squads of clone troopers, curbstomping them with just the power of the Force while ripping the corridors apart as he goes for makeshift blast shields and projectiles. It's little wonder why Sith lords and rogue Jedi are so feared: if they can cut through soldiers like paper while unarmed, what does it take to actually put one down?
• Psychic Link:
  • Through the Force, Ahsoka and Maul overhear Mace confronting Palpatine, Anakin saving Palpatine, and Palpatine killing Mace.
  • Ahsoka also initiates one with Rex in order to locate his control chip.
• The Purge: Darth Sidious enacts Order 66, resulting in the clones on the cruiser turning on Ahsoka. And no, Maul is not exempt from this order either; the fact that Rex ordered Maul to be executed means Palpatine added Maul to the list.
• Retcon: In the Ahsoka novel, it is implied that Order 66 occurred on Mandalore after Maul gets captured. There is also the fact that Maul escapes in the middle of the situation. In this episode, Order 66 occurs on a ship and Maul escapes as a result of being freed by Ahsoka.
• Robot Buddy: Ahsoka gets help from three astromech droids, including her personal astromech droid R7-A7.
• Sad Battle Music: When the clones open fire on Ahsoka, the final portion of Anakin's Dark Deeds plays.
• Save the Villain: Ahsoka saves Maul from being executed, mostly for the pragmatic reason that it'll take the heat off her if there's a Sith running around for the clones to chase. She makes it clear she doesn't care if he lives beyond her rescue.
• Sickening "Crunch!": Since Maul isn't armed with a lightsaber, he settles for the Force and makeshift bladed projectiles in the form of the metal sheets he tears off the walls. As a result, when he uses these sheets as weapons, you can hear in rather graphic detail of flesh being cut with metal when the clones are being massacred.
• Single Tear: Rex sheds one as Order 66 takes over and he desperately begs Ahsoka "Find him! FIVES!"
• Smoke Out: When the clones first attack her, Ahsoka uses their deflected fire to make the small briefing room fill with smoke, then escapes through the ceiling in the confusion.
• Spanner in the Works: Fives posthumously became this, as his death and unfinished investigation into Order 66 meant that Rex became very suspicious about the inhibitor chip implanted in the clones. As a result, Rex is able to resist the chip long enough for Ahsoka to defend herself and go hunting for a way to free him from the chip's influence.
• Special Edition Title: The opening theme is a variation of the Clone Troopers' leitmotif.
• Suddenly Shouting: As the inhibitor chip takes over, Rex goes from growling and begging Ahsoka to find Fives to outright screaming at her to do so, right before he opens fire.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Maul, being an ex-Sith Lord, is much more powerful and experienced than Ahsoka. In their duel prior to this episode, she only barely defeated him through cunning (it was also implied that Maul was under a lot of stress due to sensing the end of the Clone Wars, which affected his performance). In comparison with Ahsoka being on the ropes against the clone troopers here and needing aid from Rex and droids, Maul is a walking One-Man Army that the clone troopers are unable to so much as graze, even though he doesn't have a lightsaber, which is exactly what Ahsoka was counting on.^note Although, it should be noted that Ahsoka, unlike Maul, is only trying to avoid the clones, not kill them.
  • No amount of willpower will save you from being taken over by a mechanical chip hijacking your brain. That said, Rex still manages to resist it for a short time, enough to give Ahsoka a veiled warning about the chip before it fully takes over.
  • As only the clones are affected by Order 66, other Republic staff like the astromech droids aboard the ship that Ahsoka goes to for help retain their free will, with the droids in question immediately agreeing to aid her. Additionally, their lack of knowledge regarding Order 66 means that the droids are just as confused as she is regarding why the clones have turned on the Jedi.
• Synchronous Episodes: This episode takes place simultaneously with Revenge of the Sith, starting shortly before Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, Saesee Tiin, and Agen Kolar confront Palpatine in his office.
• Tailor-Made Prison: The Mandalorians have a mobile holding cell designed to restrain Force-wielders, back from when the Jedi and the Mandalorians fought each other directly. The cell practically looks and operates like a torture device. As a result, Bo-Katan notes her sister outlawed the use of it long ago and that the one holding Maul is the only one left. The last time Bo-Katan had Maul imprisoned, he easily escaped a normal cell, so it would appear that this time she isn't taking any chances, even if it means using outlawed tech.
• Tempting Fate: Mixed with Dramatic Irony. When Commander Rex is asked to come to an important briefing, Ahsoka tells him to go without her, and that she hopes it's more good news about the war. Turns out, the "briefing" is a direct transmission from the Supreme Chancellor...
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Invoked; when Order 66 is executed, Rex orders the clones on the bridge with him to stand down and let him carry out the execution order personally. This gives him the few seconds needed to tell Ahsoka to investigate Fives and the inhibitor chips before he loses control.
• Undying Loyalty: R7 and the other astromechs to Ahsoka, given that they immediately agree to aid her. Rex also has this towards her to the degree that he's able to resist Order 66 briefly to give her a crucial piece of info.
• The Unreveal: Ahsoka intends to tell something to Anakin in person, but for obvious reasons, she doesn't get the chance to.
• Villain Respect: From another villain. When he hears the clones have turned on the Jedi, Maul can only laugh that he finally understands what Sidious was up to.
  Maul: Brilliant. Brilliant. I was not privy to my Master's plans but now...now I see it.
• We Need a Distraction: Ahsoka releases Maul to go cause some chaos while she uses the distraction to covertly reach the droid bay.
• Wham Episode: Order 66 goes live.
• Wham Line:
  • When Yoda asks Ahsoka if she considers herself a Jedi, she answers that she's only a citizen doing their civil duty and that she's not a Jedi again... yet.
  • This exchange, simply because of who the recipient of Order 66 is. Rex didn't remove the biochip until after Order 66:
    Darth Sidious: Execute Order 66.
    Rex: Yes, Lord Sidious.
• Wham Shot: After Ahsoka senses something has happened to Anakin, it cuts to a shot of Sidious speaking to Rex...

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"Ahsoka...it's all of us. The entire Grand Army of the Republic has been ordered to hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights."

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