Brothers(episode)
"Brothers"
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- "A fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
- ―Moral[5]
"Brothers" is the twenty-first episode of theStar Wars: The Clone Wars television series'fourth season. This is the third episode in a four-part storyline about the fate ofAsajj Ventress, theNightsisters, and two of theNightbrothers, which began with the last two episodes: "Massacre" and "Bounty." It aired onMarch 9,2012.
Official description[]
"The dark warrior Savage Opress is on a quest to find his long-lost brother. Could Darth Maul truly be alive, after more than a decade since his gruesome bisection at the blade of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Savage voyages into the depths of a twisted planet to find whatever became of the fallen Sith Lord."[1]
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| Episode 21 BROTHERS |
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A darkness awakes! Count Dooku'sbitter betrayal of his formerapprentice Asajj Ventress resultedin the creation of a new menace inthe galaxy: Savage Opress. Caughtin a deadly game of revenge betweenVentress and Dooku, Savage barelyescaped the carnage.Beaten and alone, he returned toMother Talzin, his creator, whogave him a new quest: to pursue hislong-lost brother.... |
Plot summary[]
- "You are the brother I've been searching for."
"No! No! No! No! No!"
"Yes! We are, we are brothers." - ―Savage Opress, and Maul[5]
Savage Opress is still on the quest for his long-lost brother, the formerSith LordMaul, he was sent on byMother Talzin, but with each day he becomes stronger and more uncontrollable. As a result,CountDooku informsGeneralGrievous of Savage's growing power, whileAsajj Ventress andAnakin Skywalker also sense something is amiss, concerning both of their respective companions,Latts Razzi andAhsoka Tano.
Meanwhile, while Opress is on the run from authorities after an altercation at alocal diner onStobar, he finds faint clues about Maul's whereabouts in the dust clinging to an assortment of cargo crates and, after tracing their origin back to afreighter which had recently visitedLotho Minor, he forces the captain to take him there. Skywalker, meanwhile, visited the same diner shortly after the altercation, resulting in a standoff where the diner's owner,Loubo, tried to defend the diner with a frying pan before the misunderstanding was cleared up.
Once they have arrived and Opress has pinpointed Maul's location in the local junk lands, he callously ditches the captain for flying past the location where Opress's pendant glowed, and proceeds to search for his brother. The amulet Mother Talzin has given him to track Maul soon fails, but a residentAnacondan namedMorley offers his guidance. Dodging the place's indigenous hazards –refuse incinerator droids, a band of hostileJunkers and a deluge of acid rain – they arrive at a lodge where Opress' amulet flares back to life, indicating that Maul is nearby. But at this very moment Morley betrays Opress, plunging him down a chute into the junk land's underworld where his "master" would deal with Opress.
Down in the tunnels beneath the junk, Opress is stalked and attacked by a spider-like creature who is eventually revealed to be an emaciated and deranged Maul, transformed into a centauroid half-spidercyborg. Morley takes this inopportune moment to reappear, asking for "leftovers," and under Opress' tight grip reveals that while he did exploit Maul for his own gain, it was not him who had turned him into a cyborg or left him in his current insane state, before he is choked to death. When Opress talks to him, Maul tells him in between his mad ravings about how he was reduced to this pitiful state and that he seeks revenge on theJedi, especially the one who did this to him. However, Opress' quest, and the menace it presents, has not gone unnoticed by the strongestForce wielders in the galaxy, andYoda has no choice but to reveal toObi-Wan Kenobi that an old enemy has come back from the dead to haunt him once more.
Continuity[]
The red opening logo seen in "Brothers" and "Revenge" wouldn't make another appearance until Season 7
Details from "Brothers" were first featured in the young-adult novelThe Wrath of Darth Maul byRyder Windham, released inJanuary2012.[6]
This was the first episode in the series to have a red opening logo instead of yellow. The same red opening logo is also seen in the following episode "Revenge" since it still features Maul and his brother.
The broadcast version of the episode began with Dooku discussing the threat of Opress with General Grievous. Originally, this scene was intended to close Act 1 of the episode, with the actual starting point of the episode being the scene where Mother Talzin mapped the route to find Opress' brother, Maul.
The deleted scene "Savage in the Diner" was featured in the Jedi Temple Archives section ofThe Complete Season Four Blu-ray. The scene featureswaitress droidMarwigo's only dialogue, but although it was cut,[7]Ashley Eckstein was still credited as voicing the character in the final episode.
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Sources[]
"Brothers" -The Clone Wars Episode Guide onStarWars.com(original link is obsolete)- "Brothers" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)
- The Clone Wars Rewatch: "Brothers" Reunited onStarWars.com(backup link)
- Our Favorite ScaryStar Wars Stories to Thrill You This Halloween Season onStarWars.com(backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.7
"Brothers" -The Clone Wars Episode Guide onStarWars.com(original link is obsolete) - ↑2.02.1
"Launchpad" —Star Wars Insider 132 - ↑Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of "Brothers" to20 BBY.
- ↑The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 8120 BBY 41-42: The Return of Darth Maul dates the events of "Brothers" to20 BBY.
- ↑5.05.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brothers" - ↑The Wrath of Darth Maul
- ↑Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Four
External links[]
- "Brothers" on theAurebesh Wiki
