The Gungan General " The Gungan General " is the twelfth episode in of the " " television series . It is the twelfth episode of the series overall . Official description . " While negotiating Count Dooku ' s ransom , Anakin and Obi - Wan are taken prisoner . The Jedi and Sith form an unlikely alliance in a bid to escape , with Jar Jar Binks as their only hope . " Plot summary . Anakin and Obi - Wan wake up in the pirates ' prison cell , having been drugged the night before despite their precautions in the previous episode . They also discover that not only is their cellmate is Count Dooku , but the three of them are chained together , making escape both far more difficult and - due to mutual antipathy - unpleasant . Meanwhile , Jar Jar Binks and Senator Kharrus fly to the Weequay pirates ' lair with a bounty of spice on board as a ransom for Dooku . Unfortunately , Turk Falso decides to go behind Hondo ' s back , since he thinks dealing with the Separatists would have been more profitable , and has his men shoot down the shuttle to sack the ransom for himself . The pilots and Kharrus die in the resulting crash , and Jar Jar subsequently gets unintentional command of the surviving clone crew . With no choice but to work together , the two Jedi and the Sith try to escape to the hangar , but are caught and reincarcerated . Obi - Wan then uses a mind trick to compel the guard to let them out and go out drinking . Unfortunately , while trying to pole - vault over a wall , Dooku ' s line is shot ; Obi - Wan grabs him , and Anakin is forced to hold onto both ; they are re - captured by Hondo hanging from the wall . Turk leads his band to hunt the survivors of the Republic delegation near the acid geysers . Jar Jar has the clones jump into a geyser , making the Weequays decide to let the acid kill them . Jar Jar is extremely confident , as the local fauna ' s behavior determines when a geyser is about to erupt , which ultimately saves the group ' s lives . Returning to the wreckage of the shuttle , they find that the spice ransom is gone . Though the clones think of waiting for reinforcements , Jar Jar plans to go after the pirates , riding the skalder s to catch up . They intercept and defeat the pirates , and with the spice back in hand , they follow a series of power supply lines straight to the pirate base . Meanwhile , Hondo becomes increasingly annoyed at the Jedis ' attempts to escape and tortures Anakin and Obi - Wan with electricity , while Dooku remains locked in his cell . Upon his return to the base , Turk lies to Hondo , saying that the Republic brought an army , and dispatches tanks after the clones and Jar Jar . Commander Stone sends Jar Jar to " negotiate " , knowing that the Gungan ' s ineptitude will be useful . As the pirates take him hostage , Jar Jar accidentally rams one tank into another and subsequently shuts down the power grid . The Weequays attempt to kill him , only for the clones to hold them at gunpoint . When the blackout hits the base , the Jedi and Dooku make their escape and go their separate ways : Dooku kills Turk and takes off in a ship ; Anakin and Obi - Wan take Hondo hostage before meeting Jar Jar outside . Obi - Wan tells Anakin to let Hondo go , as they don ' t have any quarrel with him since Dooku had escaped . Hondo commends the Jedi on their honor , but Obi - Wan reminds him that Dooku is likely to seek revenge on him , before the " Twilight " takes off . Behind the scenes . Senator Kharrus ' staff was designed off of the Staff of Ra from " Raiders of the Lost Ark " . One of the swoopbikes has depicting . Continuity . At the beginning of the episode , Obi - Wan and Anakin wake up after being drugged with their drinks , however at the end of the previous episode they switched out the spiked drinks . In one shot , when Jar Jar is burying Kharrus , a Skalder is walking by him . However , when it switches shots , the Skalder is nowhere in sight . Obi - Wan and Anakin arrived without their lightsabers , while the pirates had the lightsabers they took from Dooku - his own and Anakin ' s . When Obi - Wan and Anakin recover the lightsabers , both are distinctive blue Jedi lightsabers and Dooku ' s curved - hilt lightsaber is nowhere to be seen . In a shot , when the shuttle is flying over Florrum , the clone troopers accompanying Jar Jar and Kharrus are shown as troopers with blank armor . When the shuttle crashes , they are then shown as Coruscant Guard .