No gift is more precious than trust.
After successfully destroying the shield generator of Poggle's weapon factory, Luminara Unduli and her Padawan Barriss Offee join Anakin and Ahsoka in their efforts to bring down the Geonosis primary droid foundry.
Tropes:
- Animated Adaptation: This episode was loosely based on issue 67 of the Legends' Star Wars: Republic comic series, with Ahsoka taking the place of an older Padawan named Tohno, whom Anakin had a crush on, in order to raise the stakes. Unlike Ahsoka in this episode, she didn't make it.
- Buried Alive: Barriss and Ahsoka end up getting buried in the indestructible tank. When Barriss says she'd have rather died fighting above than by starving, Ahsoka reassures her that they'll run out of breathable air long before they starve to death.
- Call-Forward: Luminara tries to counsel Anakin to be prepared for the worst if Ahsoka and Barriss die during the mission. His refusal to do so is admirable (since it does help save Ahsoka and Barriss), but it's also the exact issue, when concerning Padmé, that ultimately leads to Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.
- Crazy-Prepared: Memorizing two hundred junctions of a literal bug hive borders on this.
- Darkest Hour: Outside the droid factory, invincible super tanks are blowing lots of clone troopers to kingdom come. Inside the droid factory, Ahsoka is knocked out (again) and the Geonosians end up stealing the explosives, thus throwing a monkey wrench into Ahsoka and Barriss' operation.
- Deadpan Snarker: Anakin and Ahsoka of course, though Luminara also gets some in at their expense.Anakin: That's a lot of droids.
Luminara: Well it is a droid factory. - Disney Villain Death: As it turns out, this is how the seemingly unstoppable Super Tanks go down. While their armor is durable their main defense lies in their incredibly strong Ray Shielding protecting them from any form of blaster, including artillery cannons. It does not however protect the tank from kinetic damage. Anakin and Luminara collapsing the bridge beneath the tanks causes all of them to plummet down into the canyon. Unusually for this trope, the point where the tanks impact the ground can be seen briefly in the form of explosions, presumably from the gas reserves used for ammunition rupturing.
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Bariss performs a curtsy-like gesture upon meeting Ahsoka.
- Fantastic Light Source: In keeping with Star Wars tradition, Ahsoka and Barriss use their lightsabers for illumination while trapped in the wreckage of the tank and factory.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. After the Geonosians take the bombs, Ahsoka and Barriss use a hijacked tank to destroy the power generator, which blows up right next to them and then the whole building comes crushing down on them, while fully aware of what the consequences will be for them. However, they manage to survive due to the tank's extremely strong shield, and manage to hold out in the buried tank just long enough for Anakin and Luminara to dig them out.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Poggle's tactical droid is blown up in the middle of gloating about the durability of the super-tanks, failing to take into consideration the fact that it's doing so standing right next to the bomb outside the tank."Fool. The super-tank is impervious to all weap—"
- Mythology Gag: Anakin references working with Luminara and Barriss before, which is a reference to the mission on Ansion from Legends' The Approaching Storm.
- Oh, Crap!: Ahsoka and Barriss when the arm of a hibernating Geonosian falls on the latter's head in the tunnels. Naturally, despite their efforts to sneak past, that soldier wakes up and alerts Poggle and his forces about the intruders.
- Plot Armour: Literally. The super-tanks' extreme shielding was a plot point even before it saves Ahsoka and Barriss' lives.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ahsoka is the red to Barriss' blue.
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Luminara explains the plan in advance. It goes south at the most crucial part.
- We Need a Distraction: Anakin orders Rex to have the clone troopers fall back in order to lure the super-tanks onto the bridge so he and Luminara can plant explosives on the underside and blow it up, sending the tanks falling into the canyon.
