History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E11LightsaberLost

* GrannyClassic: While there's nothing on her cooking skills Master Nu is glad to go out of her way to help Ahsoka try to track down the pickpocket, and help her hide that she'd lost her saber from Anakin. When her own search is going too slowly she quickly points Ahsoka in the direction of someone who is an expert on the criminal underworld Ahsoka is looking through and who has a lot of time on their hands. She is in effect the exact opposite of the ScaryLibrarian.

* {{Newsreel}}: Like all ''The Clone Wars'' episodes "Lightsaber Lost" opens with a bombastic bit framed like a Republic propaganda newsreel;
''[[center:[[AC:"War creates opportunity for the criminal underworld! \\
Ruthless mercenaries conspire with the Separatists \\
to disrupt and exploit the unstable situation\\
within the Republic.\\
\\
Now, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano \\
descend into the treacherous gangster havens\\
in an effort to find a corrupt and vile arms dealer \\
who is buying weapons on the black market\\
and selling them to the Republic's enemies...."]]]]''

Anakin and Ahsoka are in the slums of Coruscant searching for Car Affa, an arms dealer selling Republic weapons to the Separatists. They arrive at a bar where Affa is hiding, and Anakin instructs Ahsoka to wait outside while he apprehends the fugitive. When the patrons storm out of the bar, Ahsoka is jostled by the crowd and her lightsaber gets stolen. She wants to keep the loss secret from her mentor, so she goes to the library to try and track down the thief on her own. She ends up partnering with an elderly Jedi Master, Tera Sinube, who has decades of experience with Coruscant's criminal underworld.

** Sinube's line of "Help you? Hmm?" calls forward to one of Yoda's first lines to Luke in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack.''

* IdiotBall: It’s presented several times during Ahsoka’s pursuit of Cassie. Ahsoka could've retrieved her lightsaber using the Force. And yet instead, she chose to chase Cassie all over Coruscant's busy skyline.
* IncrediblyLamePun: This is how we're introduced to the elderly Master Sinube. He learns that the pickpocket was from an aquatic world and immediately realizes that Ahsoka sensed something ''fishy'' about him. [[LamePunReaction Ahsoka is not impressed]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Ione is in ''two''. She's the girlfriend of Trandoshan Nack Movers and is also in a relationship with Terrelian Jango Jumper Cassie Cryar. Her species is unknown, but it's neither of those.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During the rooftop chase to recover her lightsaber, Ahsoka ends up in midair, clinging to the face of a huge billboard of Chancellor Palpatine denying that the Jedi started the Clone War in order to gain more power over the Republic. Obviously, it's not true... but this is ''Palpatine'' we're talking about. It’s double triple reverse psychology and all that. It doubles as a CallForward to Palpatine accusing the Jedi of attempting a coup to justify their outlawing and extermination and the reformation of the Republic into the Empire in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

* WholePlotReference: The episode was based on the classic Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''Film/StrayDog'', with Ahsoka in the Murakami role and Sinube as an {{Expy}} of Sato.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During the rooftop chase to recover her lightsaber, Ahsoka ends up in midair, clinging to the face of a huge billboard of Chancellor Palpatine denying that the Jedi started the Clone War in order to gain more power over the Republic. Obviously, it's not true... but this is ''Palpatine'' we're talking about. It’s double triple reverse psychology and all that.

* EvilDuo: Cassie and Ione, with a side order of InterspeciesRomance, and without either of them possessing the brains.
* IdiotBall: Several times during her pursuit of Cassie, Ahsoka could've retrieved her lightsaber using the Force. And yet instead, she chose to chase Cassie all over Coruscant's busy skyline.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During the rooftop chase to recover her lightsaber, Ahsoka ends up in midair, clinging to the face of a huge billboard of Chancellor Palpatine denying that the Jedi started the Clone War in order to gain more power over the Republic. Obviously it's not true... but this is ''Palpatine'' we're talking about. It’s double triple reverse psychology and all that.

While Anakin and Ahsoka are investigating the underbelly of Coruscant to try and get a lead on Cad Bane, a pickpocket steals Ahsoka's lightsaber. She wants to keep the loss secret from her mentor, so she goes to the library to try and track down the thief on her own. She ends up partnering with an elderly Jedi Master, Tera Sinube, who has decades of experience with Coruscant's criminal underworld.

* IdiotBall: Several times during her pursuit of Cassie, Ahsoka could've retrieved her lightsaber using the Force. And yet instead she chose to chase Cassie all over Coruscant's busy skyline. Probably a ShowDontTell version of the Aesop.
* IncrediblyLamePun: How we're introduced to the elderly Master Sinube. He learns that the pickpocket was from an aquatic world, and immediately realizes that Ahsoka sensed something ''fishy'' about him. [[LamePunReaction Ahsoka is not impressed]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Ione is in ''two''. She's the girlfriend of Trandoshan Nack Movers, and is also in a relationship with Terrelian Jango Jumper Cassie Cryar. We don't know what her species is, but it's neither of those.

* PercussivePickpocket: How Bannamu steals Ahsoka's lightsaber. There were multiple people running by her and bumping into her, so she didn't take particular notice of him.
* PrepareToDie: Subverted and PlayedForLaughs when Cassie pulls out the lightsaber, says this trope almost word for word, and tries to activate it... but can't figure out how to turn it on.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: During the rooftop chase to recover her lightsaber, Ahsoka ends up in midair, clinging to the face of a huge billboard of Chancellor Palpatine denying that the Jedi started the Clone War in order to gain more power over the Republic. Obviously it's not true... but this is ''Palpatine'' we're talking about. Double triple reverse psychology and all that.
* SwordCane: It turns out Master Sinube's lightsaber is the handle of his cane.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Ione thinks of Sinube as a slightly crazy old Jedi, not much of a threat. Then he figures out her secret, tracks her to the train station, anticipates her arrival at the next platform, and disarms her in under five seconds flat. Ahsoka has much the same reaction when they first meet.

* CallForward: Among the pictures of criminals on the computer are bounty hunters Aurra Sing and Robonino, as well as Brea Tonnika, one of the patrons of Chalmun's Cantina on Tatooine during the events of ''Film/ANewHope''.

* SwordCane: It turns out Master Sinube's lightsaber is the handle of his cane.

* PrepareToDie: Subverted and PlayedForLaughs when Cassie pulls out the lightsaber, says this trope almost word for word, and tries to activate it...but can't figure out how to turn it on.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Cassie pulls one of these when she can't figure out how to turn the lightsaber on, and she and Ione try to run away from Tera and the droids...but it turns out that he's predicted them.

* IdiotBall: Several times during her pursuit of Cassie, Ahsoka could've retrieved her lightsaber using the Force. And yet instead she chose to chase Cassie all over Coruscant's busy skyline.

** Sinube's line of "Help you? Hmm?" calls forward to one of Yoda's first lines to Luke in ''Film/EmpireStrikesBack.''

* CallForward: Among the pictures of criminals on the computer are bounty hunters Aurra Sing and Robonino.

* BadassGrandpa: Tera Sinube, in ''spades.''

* IncrediblyLamePun[=/=]LamePunReaction: How we're introduced to the elderly Master Sinube. He learns that the pickpocket was from an aquatic world, and immediately realizes that Ahsoka sensed something ''fishy'' about him. Eh? Eh? Ahsoka is not impressed.

* [[SwordCane Lightsaber Cane]]: It turns out Master Sinube's lightsaber is the handle of his cane.

!! This episode provides examples of:

* IncrediblyLamePun/LamePunReaction: How we're introduced to the elderly Master Sinube. He learns that the pickpocket was from an aquatic world, and immediately realizes that Ahsoka sensed something ''fishy'' about him. Eh? Eh? Ahsoka is not impressed.

* IncrediblyLamePun: How we're introduced to the elderly Master Sinube. He learns that the pickpocket was from an aquatic world, and immediately realizes that Ahsoka sensed something ''fishy'' about him. Eh? Eh?

->''"Easy isn't always simple."''

While Anakin and Ahsoka are investigating the underbelly of Coruscant to try and get a lead on Cad Bane, a pickpocket steals Ahsoka's lightsaber. She wants to keep the loss secret from her mentor, so she goes to the library to try and track down the thief on her own. She ends up partnering with an elderly Master Jedi Sinube who has decades of experience with Coruscant's criminal underworld.

* PullingTheThread: Sinube realizes there's something odd about the tale of the young woman in Nack Movers' apartment, so he begins probing to see what's going on.

* PullingTheThread: Sinube realizes there's something odd about the tale of the young woman in Nack Movers's apartment, so begins probing to see what's going on.

While Anakin and Ahsoka are investing the underbelly of Coruscant to try and get a lead on Cad Bane, a pickpocket steals Ahsoka's lightsaber. She wants to keep the loss secret from her mentor, so she goes to the library to try and track down the thief on her own. She ends up partnering with an elderly Master Jedi Sinube who has decades of experience with Coruscant's criminal underworld.