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"A wise leader knows when to follow."
―Moral[5]

"Cat and Mouse" is the sixteenth episode of Season Two of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It aired on March 20, 2010 in the UK and on March 26 in the US. It serves as a prequel to all the other episodes, and is chronologically followed by Season One's sixteenth episode, "The Hidden Enemy."[6]

Official description[]

Obi-Wan and Anakin must deliver supplies to Christophsis while the planet is under Separatist control. They encounter Separatist Commander Admiral Trench and get more than they bargained for.

Plot summary[]

"I appreciate your decision to face me, ship to ship, to play this little game."
―Admiral Trench, to Anakin Skywalker[5]
Episode 16
CAT AND MOUSE
An impenetrable defense! Separatist
ships blockade the resource-rich
planet of Christophsis, trapping
Senator Bail Organa and his relief
effort. Desperate to aid the esteemed
Senator, a Republic task force under
the command of Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker
must break the impasse. But time runs
short for the Senator and the good
citizens of Christophsis....

From the surface of Christophsis, Senator Bail Organa conferences via hologram with Anakin Skywalker and Admiral Wullf Yularen on-board the Star Destroyer Resolute. Separatist forces are on the verge of overrunning his position, and his supplies have all but run out. Skywalker and Yularen desperately try to salvage their own losing battle against the Separatist blockade around Christophsis, but the enemy flagship Invincible under the command of Separatist Admiral Trench bears down on the Republic supply fleet. As Skywalker prepares to charge the flagship, another Republic cruiser, the Negotiator commanded by Obi-Wan Kenobi, emerges from hyperspace behind them. At the insistence of Kenobi and Yularen, Skywalker reluctantly orders a retreat to behind Christophsis's moon.

Stealth Ship Decloaks

Obi-Wan introducing to Anakin a stealth ship.

Crossing over to Kenobi's cruiser, Anakin discovers his Master's new weapon: a prototype stealth ship equipped with a powerful cloaking device. Skywalker is excited by the potential of this ship, but Kenobi insists his new mission is not to engage the Separatist fleet, but to sneak through the blockade and deliver supplies to Senator Organa. Meanwhile, Admiral Yularen, doing some research of his own, recognizes Trench's emblem on the Separatist ships and joins Anakin as the Jedi is about to depart. He tells him about how Trench has supposedly perished years ago in battle, and convinced that Trench is now in command of the blockade fleet, he joins Anakin as a volunteer advisor.

Meanwhile, Trench, wanting to add pressure to the Republic fleet, dispatches a squad of bombers to attack Organa's command center. After narrowly avoiding an inadvertent collision with the bombers, and having receiving a message from Obi-Wan regarding Bail's peril, Anakin decides to attack Trench's ship directly, hoping to divert Trench's attention from the planet. The ploy is successful, but Anakin's attack is thwarted by the Invincible's thermal shields, and after seeing Anakin in action, Trench surmises that his opponent is a Jedi. He transmits a message over an open frequency, commending Skywalker's bravery in challenging him, but warning he has faced and beaten ships armed with cloaking devices before.

InvincibleDestroyed-CaM

Trench's ship explosion.

Skywalker contacts Kenobi, who explains that Trench's war record confirms his threat. In these previous cases, Trench used tracking torpedoes to destroy the enemy whether or not their ship was cloaked, and Skywalker theorizes that Trench locks the torpedoes onto an enemy ship's magnetic signature. Sensing a way to use this against him, Skywalker attacks again. This time Trench is able to lock onto the stealth ship's magnetic signature and fires tracking torpedoes, but is forced to lower his shields to do so. With the torpedoes locked onto them, Skywalker flies straight at the Invincible. Realizing his mistake too late, Trench orders the shields be raised, but their recycling time takes too long for that. As Trench watches in horror, Skywalker flies the stealth ship inches past the Invincible's bridge, and seconds later the tracking torpedoes slam into the superstructure, destroying the Invincible.

With Trench's flagship destroyed, Kenobi and Commander Cody launch a new attack on the leaderless Separatist fleet while Anakin and Yularen pilot the stealth ship down to Christophsis to deliver the vital supplies to Organa and his men. Senator Organa gives his gratitude to Skywalker, and Yularen expresses both concern and admiration for Skywalker's daring, if unorthodox, tactics.

Continuity[]

The overall events of the episode, more specifically the usage and design of the stealth ship, were based on submarine warfare during World War II.[7]

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The lower columns display text taken directly from the Dreadnaught cruiser Wookieepedia article.

Almost the entirety of the Dreadnaught cruiser article from the fan site Wookieepedia[8] was copied verbatim to a data screen visible in the episode. The text, transliterated into Aurebesh, and still containing a [1] reference number and an anachronistic use of BBY, appears on a data screen entitled "Enemy Ship Profile," which is displayed on the bridge of Anakin's cruiser, when an officer reports that a supply ship had been hit. The screen seems to indicate that Trench's ship, the Invincible, belongs to the Sith Dreadnaught class.

It is the sixteenth episode of Season Two. Like the sixteenth episode of the first season, it is also a prequel to the series and the Clone Wars movie. Chronologically, it takes place before all previous episodes of The Clone Wars (followed by "The Hidden Enemy"), hence Skywalker and Yularen getting to know one another for the first time.

The end of Bail Organa's conversation with Obi-Wan is almost identical to the end of his daughter's recorded message for Obi-Wan two decades later.

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Appearances[]

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Characters

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  • Cat (Mentioned only; in episode title)
  • Mouse (First mentioned) (Mentioned only; in episode title)

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Events

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Locations

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Organizations and titles

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Sentient species

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Vehicles and vessels

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Weapons and technology

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Miscellanea

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Notes and references[]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 StarWars The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Cat and Mouse on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
  2. EPG listings on tv.sky.com (content obsolete and backup link not available)
  3. Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of "Cat and Mouse" to 22 BBY.
  4. 4.0 4.1 SWInsider "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 116
  5. 5.0 5.1 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cat and Mouse"
  6. TwitterLogo Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) on Twitter (March 10, 2014): "216 116 T 301 303 101-115 117-121 201-203 217-219 204-214 220-222 305-307 302 304 308 122 309-311 215 312-322 S4 502-513 501 514-520 601-613" (content now obsolete; backup link)
  7. StarWars From World War to Star Wars: Spaceships, Submarines, and Seismic Charges on StarWars.com (April 15, 2014): "Real stealth in the 1940s required diving below the water to avoid detection. Just like in "Cat and Mouse," submarine crews would often power down non-critical systems to improve their chances of hiding from ships on the surface. Staying as silent as possible increased the chance that enemy ships would pass safely overhead. And just like in The Clone Wars, World War II submarine crews could give away their position by taking offensive action." (content now obsolete; backup link)
  8. Wiki-shrinkable January 23, 2010 revision of the "Dreadnaught cruiser" article on Wookieepedia

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