Nightsisters(episode)
"Nightsisters"
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- "The swiftest path to destruction is through vengeance."
- ―Moral[5]
"Nightsisters" is the twelfth episode of theStar Wars: The Clone Wars television series'third season. It aired onJanuary 7,2011. The episode chronologically succeedsSenate Murders and precedes the next episode,Monster.[6]
Official description[]
Troubled by Asajj Ventress' growing prowess with the dark side of the Force, Darth Sidious commands Count Dooku to eliminate her. But Ventress survives Dooku's assassination attempt, and the jilted former apprentice vows to take revenge, enlisting the aid of her kinswomen -- the mystical Nightsisters -- in her sinister scheme.
Mother Talzin, leader of the Nightsisters, veils Asajj and her fellow assassins in a cloak of invisibility, and they infiltrate Dooku's palace on Serenno. Though they fail to kill the Count, their use of captured Jedi lightsabers leads Dooku to mistakenly believe that the Jedi have tried to kill him. Interested in protection, he requests a new apprentice from Mother Talzin.
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| Episode 12 NIGHTSISTERS |
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Galactic showdown! In a fierce battlefor survival, the Republic and Separatistarmies have clashed in the distantSullust system. Count Dooku's mostcunning assassin, Asajj Ventress,leads the vicious attack.... |
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- "Deliver your vengeance, sister, then return to us."
- ―Mother Talzin, to Asajj Ventress[5]
Asajj Ventress leads aspace battle againstRepublic forces commanded byJedi GeneralAnakin Skywalker andObi-Wan Kenobi in theSullustsystem. Ventress singles out Kenobi and attacks him, damaging his fighter, whereupon she is in turn knocked unconscious by Skywalker. Both combatants crash in the hangar of theSeparatistflagship.
Meanwhile, however, a conspiracy is brooding against Ventress' life.Darth Sidious confers withCountDooku, expressing his concerns about Ventress' growing power, and orders his disciple to destroy her before she becomes too strong to handle, and Dooku, under the will of his master and to afraid to protest, is reluctantly forced to obey. When Ventress calls him for assistance, he abandons her for her supposed failure. Shaken and infuriated, Ventress viciously engages Anakin and Obi-Wan inlightsaber combat. The confrontation is interrupted by Dooku's order to have the flagship bombarded by the other Confederate ships to ensure her destruction; the combatants barely escape with their lives. Dooku then informs Sidious of Ventress' supposed demise. The Dark Lord is satisfied that Dooku's loyalty to him is intact.
Ventress is left floating in space in her nearly destroyedfighter until she is recovered by a scavenging crew, who intend to ransom her to her employers. Instead, they are all killed by Ventress, who commandeers their vessel and proceeds to the location of her old order, theNightsisters, where Clan MotherTalzin has her tended to. In her feverish dreams, Ventress recalls how she was rescued from aslaver whomher mother sold her to and taken in byJedi KnightKy Narec as a child, her apprenticeship under him, his death and her descent into thedark Side, her being taken in by Dooku and his betrayal. Upon awakening, she swears an oath of revenge against her former master; Mother Talzin puts two of her finest warriors,Naa'leth andKaris, to assist her and provides her with the means of approaching and combating Dooku with the help of mystical invisibility potions and poisons.
The three Nightsisters travel and penetrateCastle Serenno onSerenno, where they catch him asleep. His senses dulled by Ventress' poison dart and the cloak of invisibility which surrounds his attackers, Dooku is caught at a disadvantage but fights back furiously, thinking his assassins are Jedi since Mother Talzin has armed Ventress' team withlightsabers. Nearly beaten, Dooku, who fakes being completely drained of energy, instead channels all of his rage, and, in one extremely powerful blast ofForce lightning, he evicts them from his palace and disrupts their invisibility. Mother Talzin is content, however. With this attempt on his life, she reckons that Dooku will now be more anxious to get himself a new assassin and bodyguard to protect him. She contacts the Count and suggests a replacement—amale Zabrak warrior from her people—an offer Dooku decides to accept.
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When Ventress is rescued from the wreckage of her starfighter, the long skirt of her outfit has disappeared.
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Sources[]
The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Nightsisters onStarWars.com(original site is defunct)- "Nightsisters" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)
- The Clone Wars Rewatch: Children of the "Nightsisters" onStarWars.com(backup link)
- Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection(Indirect mention only)
- "Spoils of War" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch onStarWars.com(backup link)
- 6 Nightmarish Nightsister Moments onStarWars.com(backup link)
- Our Favorite ScaryStar Wars Stories to Thrill You This Halloween Season onStarWars.com(backup link)
- 6 ScaryStar Wars Planets onStarWars.com(backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.7
The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Nightsisters onStarWars.com(original site is defunct) - ↑Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of "Nightsisters" to20 BBY.
- ↑The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 4820 BBY 9-12: Ventress and the Nightsisters dates the events of "Nightsisters" to20 BBY.
- ↑Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 2
- ↑5.05.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Nightsisters" - ↑
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External links[]
- "Nightsisters" on theAurebesh Wiki
