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The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Witches of the Mist
Episode No.: 58 (Season 3, Episode 14)
Production No.: 312 (Season 3, Episode 12)
Original Air Date: January 21, 2011
“The path to evil may bring great power, but not loyalty.”
Written by Katie Lucas
Directed by Giancarlo Volpe
Cast:
Corey Burton as Count Dooku
Clancy Brown as Savage Opress
Nika Futterman as Ventress
Barbara Goodson as Mother Talzin
James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi | Plo Koon
Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
Stephen Stanton as Brother Viscus | Toydarian Guard #2
Dee Bradley Baker as clone troopers | Toydarian Guard #1
Angelique Perrin as Adi Gallia | Talia
Terrence Carson as Mace Windu
Brian George as King Katuunko
Tom Kane as the narrator | Yoda
Matthew Wood as battle droids
Synopsis: Anakin and Obi-Wan, sent to track down the mysterious figure behind the deaths of several Jedi, soon find themselves on the trail of the monstrous apprentice that Ventress has created: Savage Opress, who has been trained in the ways of the Sith by Dooku.
Dooku sends Opress to Toydaria to capture King Katuunko. The monstrous apprentice clashes with the Jedi, and in the course of the battle he kills the king. Opress returns to Dooku’s flagship having failed his Master. It is then that Ventress strikes, with Opress at her side, against Dooku. A three-way battle for dark side supremacy ends with Dooku triumphant, Ventress fleeing, and a disillusioned Savage abandoning his loyalties to the Sith. He returns to Mother Talzin, who gives him a new task. To seek the Outer Rim for his long-lost brother….
However, Dooku and Ventress also discover that this new apprentice has a will of his own.
Returning Characters: Anakin Skywalker; Obi-Wan Kenobi; Savage Opress; Asajj Ventress; Count Dooku; King Katuunko; Adi Gallia; Plo Koon; Yoda; Mace Windu; Brother Viscus
New Characters: Boss; Scorch; Fixer; Sev; Saesee Tiin
Worlds Visited: Coruscant; Serenno; Dathomir; Toydaria
Secrets Revealed
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- The clones escorting Halsey’s body to the Jedi Temple are the four Republic commandos created for the 2005 LucasArts video game.
- Expanded Universe lore had previously suggested that the Jedi never knew Darth Maul’s name, but the captured Neimoidians would have known it during the Naboo invasion. Maul’s EU connections to Iridonia are also mentioned, though the episode reveals Maul was raised on Dathomir.
- When Dooku looms over Savage after besting him in a lightsaber duel, he holds two lightsabers at his throat in a very deadly scissor formation. Ironically, this is how Dooku meets his end in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
- Dooku evidently holds a grudge: King Katuunko rejected Dooku’s offer to join the Separatists in the very first episode of The Clone Wars, “Ambush.”
- The ship that the Jedi take to leave Toydaria is the Thief’s Eye, the same vessel briefly glimpsed in “Ambush” and used by King Katuunko.
- Dooku’s escape hatch concealed in his quarters was previously seen in Season One, “Dooku Captured.” Though Savage does not pursue because he is interrupted by Jedi intruders, it’s questionable whether his enormous build would even fit into the escape tunnel.
- Savage’s long lost brother living in the Outer Rim? Interesting.
