Clone Wars Chapter 21 " Chapter 21 " is the twenty - first episode of the " " animated television series , and the first episode in and . The episode originally aired on Cartoon Network on March 21 , 2005 . Plot summary . A customized Low Altitude Assault Transport / infantry speeds across the surface of Hypori . On board the gunship , a squad of Advanced Recon Commandos prepare their weapons for attack . A jamming signal prevents their detection by an army of B2 super battle droids surrounding a crashed " Acclamator " - class assault ship . The gunship drops a cluster of thermal detonators , armed on standby , among the droids . The troopers disembark , their commander — Captain Fordo — detecting three life signs . Two of the ARC troopers go after the nearest two , while the rest follow Fordo to the third reading ; the transport is flown skywards to open fire on the approaching battle droids . As the troopers exit a tunnel , they encounter General Grievous , who is in the midst of a vicious lightsaber duel with Jedi Master Ki - Adi - Mundi . Just as he disarms Mundi and prepares to finish him off , they both notice the clones , who unleash a barrage of blaster fire at the cyborg . Grievous flees the attack , climbing up the wall and onto the ceiling . As Grievous leaps down and quickly kills four of the troopers using two of his lightsabers , the commander calls for backup . The hovering LAAT / i breaks into the area and opens fire on the General with its blasters and missiles , which he evades . Fordo orders his men to retreat , despite Ki - Adi - Mundi ' s initial insistence that they pursue Grievous . Two Jedi , Aayla Secura and Shaak Ti , have survived the attack by General Grievous and are recovering aboard the LAAT / i . Meanwhile , Grievous takes a lightsaber from the seemingly lifeless body of K ' Kruhk and adds it to his collection . The ARC troopers detonate the explosives , destroying hundreds of droids . General Grievous watches the transport head into space , musing that they have only prolonged their downfall … On Coruscant , Yoda has a vision of the nine - year - old Anakin Skywalker and the late Qui - Gon Jinn on Dagobah . Qui - Gon tells Skywalker he must face his fear by entering the Dark Side Cave , and to trust in the Force . At a meeting of the Jedi High Council , Ki - Adi - Mundi tells his fellow council - members of the defeat on Hypori . Since the Jedi numbers are spread so thinly , the Council decide to promote Anakin Skywalker to full Jedi Knight status at Obi - Wan Kenobi ' s request , despite protests from Master Oppo Rancisis . Skywalker walks through crowds amid the lower levels of Coruscant , surveying the surrounding people , including many non - huMan s , with suspicion . He thinks a hooded figure is following him , so he races off . At the entrance to an alleyway , he grabs the mysterious figure and ignites his lightsaber before realizing his pursuer is his beloved wife , Padmé Amidala . They share a kiss and , thinking they have been seen by a passerby , Skywalker rants that they should not have to hide their love . Amidala reminds him of his duty to the Jedi Order and that she ' ll always love him . He jokes that Amidala " does " look good in the dark and they kiss again , though this time they are interrupted by C - 3PO , who is clad in brand - new , gold - colored coverings . Skywalker claims to be impressed ; " most " impressed . Skywalker is called by Kenobi to the Jedi Temple , but he arrives late , interpreting his being summoned as a prelude to another scolding . Kenobi reminds his Padawan that he is no longer a child but must still follow his Master ' s orders . Skywalker retorts that Kenobi is " no Qui - Gon Jinn . " ; this saddens Kenobi visibly and Skywalker immediately regrets his hurtful comment , apologizing . Master Kenobi forgives his student thus confessing that he misses their old friend and mentor Qui - Gon too and then shows him to a dark room , where Kenobi and the other Jedi Masters surround Skywalker and ignite their lightsabers . Yoda knights Skywalker , cutting off his Padawan braid , which C - 3PO later presents to Amidala , which she happily stores away with her Japor snippet for safekeeping . In return , Amidala gives R2 - D2 to Skywalker , the droid showing the new Knight a hologram recording of Amidala presenting him the gift and accepting his own . Skywalker smiles at the sight and reaches into the hologram with his mechno - arm as if to hold her in his hand . He and R2 - D2 then board his " Actis " - class starfighter and leave once again to serve together in the Clone Wars … Behind the scenes . There are several easter egg s during the Coruscant street scene : an animated version of Genndy Tartakovsky , a creature resembling " The Creeper " from the " " cartoons , the Centurion from the original " " and a " Woolie " from Tartakovky ' s series " Samurai Jack " . When C - 3PO reveals his new golden plating to Anakin , a musical cue of " stripper music " can be heard . In the same scene , Anakin ' s line " Impressive . Most impressive . " mimics the same line he says ( as Darth Vader ) over two decades later to his son Luke ( in " " ) . When Genndy Tartakovsky and team began working on this episode , George Lucas ' s first instruction to the crew was to resolve the Hypori storyline which the crew had begun in " Chapter 20 . " He specified this because his son Jett was eager to find out how that particular story ends , as there were originally no plans to continue the series beyond " Chapter 20 . " The unique designs on the front of the clones ' LAATs were inspired by seen on military aircraft . According to Paul Rudish on the DVD commentary , the front of the LAAT featured at the beginning of this episode was meant to look like the face of a rancor . The clones ' customizations of their helmets in this episode and in the rest of Volume Two is based on real - life actions done by soldiers during World War II and the . According to the commentary for " Chapter 3 , " the creators had studied how special forces teams acted in real combat situations , to ensure the ARC troopers acted very much like a crack special forces team would . They apparently reapplied their knowledge for this episode ( Captain Fordo used hand signals instead of actually speaking , and as they approach Ki - Adi - Mundi and General Grievous he directed members to perform what appear to be flanking maneuvers ) . According to the episode commentary , Ki - Adi - Mundi ' s concern for Shaak Ti was intended to hint at a possible relationship between the two . Most of the sentient species in the Mos Eisley Cantina scenes in " " appear in the underlevels of Coruscant . Continuity . In the series , Anakin is depicted as being knighted very early on ( while his hair is still short ) as a response to a shortage of Jedi Knights , and believing that Anakin was long overdue for knighthood . This seemingly conflicts with the novel " Jedi Trial " by David Sherman and Dan Cragg , in which Anakin , only a few months prior to " " , is sent on a mission to earn his knighthood . However , Leland Chee did confirm that there is in fact a jump in time between the conclusion of the Hypori battle and the Jedi Council scenes leading up to Anakin ' s knighting , claiming Anakin ' s hair was in a top - knot that he merely let down after being knighted . Although K ' Kruhk appears to have been killed by Grievous in " Chapter 20 , " and is not rescued with the other Jedi , he is actually known to have survived this battle and is in a state of hibernation when Grievous takes his lightsaber . Although Eeth Koth remained canonically dead after the First Battle of Geonosis , a Zabrak Jedi High Council member that appears in the Council scene , officially credited as Agen Kolar , was animated instead with the likeness of Eeth Koth . It is unknown if the character was originally intended to be Eeth Koth ( in ignorance of his canonical death ) and then retroactively credited as Agen Kolar to avoid a continuity problem , or if the Zabrak was always intended to be Kolar and the animators accidentally used the wrong reference photographs .