Wisdom is born in fools as well as wise men.
Queen Julia of Bardotta has been abducted by the leader of the evil Frangawl cult, and Jar Jar Binks and Mace Windu have set out to rescue her. But Mace is troubled by what Jar Jar has to tell him about the cultists stealing the Living Force out of the Dagoyan Masters they sacrificed, suspecting a darker presence is at play since the cultists wouldn't be able to use it like a Jedi would. As the two chase the cultists and their sphere full of the Living Force to the moon Zardossa Stix, they have to stop the sacrifice of Queen Julia before the cultists can give the "Great Mother" they serve the queen's Life Energy for herself...
Tropes:
- Breather Episode: Together with part 1. This story arc is relatively standalone and, although having its dark moments, is lighter with a much happier ending than the two arcs preceding it, both of which had the Sith winning.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Jar Jar is still an enormous klutz, this episode highlights that he is still a Gungan - he takes out the majority of the cultists in the final battle with one well aimed heavy blaster shot (and unlike with similar instances in The Phantom Menace, this attack is completely intentional) and when he gets into a fight with their leader, despite having just carried a heavy cannon and exhausting himself while freeing Julia, Jar Jar still manages to maintain the upper hand in the fight.
- Cue the Sun: Played with, as the rising of the sun is at first a very bad thing since its light focused through a series of lenses is what will enable the Frangawl cult to take Julia's Living Force. But after the ritual is interrupted and the sphere of Living Force is destroyed, it is played straight as Nightsister Talzin is forced to discorporate by the sun's rays and the heroes are saved. (Contrary to appearances, however, it doesn't actually destroy her, as she will return in Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir.)*
- Don't Think, Feel: Mace's advice to Jar Jar, that he needs to stop focusing on his fears for Queen Julia if he wants to save her, seems like the opposite of this trope. But counterintuitively, Jar Jar's problem seems to be that he is focusing too much on the wrong feelings—instead of staying calm and fixing himself on his caring for the queen, he's losing himself in his anxieties and that is what causes his klutziness. When Jar Jar focuses on the mission is when he is most able to be a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, or at least do so consistently and deliberately.
- Go for the Eye: Mace deals with two gundarks unleashed by a cultist who's grabbed his lightsaber by kicking them both in the eyes.
- Hijacked by Ganon: The Frangawl cult turns out to be under the control of Mother Talzin.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When the cult leader tries to stop Jar Jar from rescuing Queen Julia, he ends up the only one in the path of the solar-powered device and ends up becoming the sacrifice victim. The fact he was implicitly revealed to be her treacherous seneschal in the previous episode only makes this more fitting.
- Human Sacrifice: Julia is scheduled for sacrifice in a very special location so Mother Talzin can take her connection to the Force and, as she claims, become more powerful than any Jedi or Sith.
- I Owe You My Life: Julia says this to Mace after he and Jar-Jar rescue her.
- Lethal Klutz: Jar Jar manages to take down several large security droids just by clumsily trying to avoid them, netting himself a BFG in the process.
- The Man Behind the Man: Mace first suspects this is at play when he hears about the Life Energy theft, since the Frangawl cultists are mostly not Force-users who would be able to directly exploit this energy. It turns out they are currently being controlled by Mother Talzin.
- Mobstacle Course: The chase proper starts in the marketplace, with both Jar Jar and Mace having to deal with this. The cultists exploit this to separate them, with a Zygerrian cultist sparking a slow-speed Animal Stampede to further impede the Jedi Master.
- Multipurpose Tongue: Jar Jar uses his to retrieve Mace's lightsaber while struggling with a cultist.
- Oh, Crap!: The Ming Po cultist, when Mace stuns both of his gundarks.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The fight against the cult is one of the very few times that Jar Jar is shown being completely serious in a fight, and it shows - he takes out most of the cult with one hit from his BFG, and when the cult leader recovers and tries to stop him, Jar Jar strikes him first and holds his own in the following struggle.
- Put Their Heads Together: Mace does this to the first two members of a group of cultists he runs into.
- Race Against the Clock: Mace and Jar Jar have to get Julia back to Bardotta within three rotations or The Prophecy will come true.
- Riding into the Sunset: The episode ends with Mace, Jar Jar and Queen Julia riding off towards the horizon, ready to return to Bardotta.
- Wham Shot: A spaceship lands at the cult's stronghold, and out strolls the "Great Mother"... Mother Talzin of the Nightsisters.
