Bounty Hunters ( episode ) " Bounty Hunters " is the seventeenth episode of of the . It aired on March 27 , 2010 in the UK and April 2 , 2010 in the US . Official description . " Anakin Skywalker , Obi - Wan Kenobi , and Ahsoka Tano form an uneasy partnership with four deadly Bounty hunter s to help protect a local farmer from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates . " Plot summary . A Jedi shuttle carrying Anakin Skywalker , Obi - Wan Kenobi , and Ahsoka Tano emerges from hyperspace to investigate the disappearance of a medical station orbiting over the fungi - world of Felucia . They immediately encounter an orbital Vulture droid base . The vulture droids attack the shuttle and force it to crash - land on Felucia . The Jedi eject from the ship once it enters the atmosphere and once the survival pods land , they look for civilization . They then find a nysillin spice farm village . It appears deserted after they started searching in houses . They then find a ship in the barn of the farm . Anakin and Ahsoka finds Felucian farmers and their families in one of their houses hiding in the cellars . Anakin and Ahsoka are then surrounded by four heavily armed bounty hunters named Sugi , Embo , Rumi Paramita , and Seripas . Obi - Wan then joins in , but then the village elder , Casiss , persuades the bounty hunters and the Jedi to stand down and listen to his village ' s plea for help . Casiss tells them that they paid the bounty hunters for protection against pirates who raid their village , demanding it as tribute but he also said that with the Jedi now there , the bounty hunters can fight the pirates off . Obi - wan then said that he would like nothing better than to help the farmers , but their first priority was to find a ship and report the destruction of the medical base . Obi Wan then explained that they would attract Grievous ' s fleet which would be much worse than pirates . Later the pirates arrived demanding their portion of the nysillin . Anakin and Obi - Wan are then surprised to see Hondo Ohnaka . Hondo then acts friendly with the Jedi . When Hondo tries to buy off the bounty hunters , they refuse , stating they don ' t break deals . Obi Wan says that he would pay the pirates to take them to the Republic outpost , but he refuses , stating that he does not want Republic Credits . Hondo tells the farmers to hurry up before the crop dies . Obi Wan then put a plan together , but Dilani said they did not have enough men . Anakin then stated that the villagers would have to fight too . Then everyone started getting ready ; putting up defenses , harvesting , and training . Meanwhile Dilani was still complaining on how the farmers weren ' t soldiers and don ' t even have weapons . Anakin then showed them that their farming tools can be used as weapons . Ahsoka then teaches the farmers to use slingshots against the pirates . Seripas , while cutting down a giant fungus , was nearly crushed to death by it . Ahsoka came just in time to save him . Seripas then revealed that he is actually small and that he wore a suit to make him more intimidating . Ahsoka reassured him . Soon a pirate scout spies on the farmers while they were training . Sugi spots him and orders Embo to take care of it . He shoots the pirate ' s speeder , causing it to explode . Then he kills him . At this point Hondo decides to attack . The bounty hunters and Jedi manage to hold back the onslaught . Hondo then comes with a tank that kills Rumi and injures Embo . Anakin then attacks Hondo and manages to knock Hondo off a cliff . He begs for mercy as Anakin pulls up . Then he shouts that the effort is no longer profitable , and retreats . With the battle over , Sugi offers the Jedi a ride to a Republic outpost . Behind the scenes . The episode is dedicated to Japanese filmmaker , the director , producer , and co - writer of such films as " " and " " , to the latter of which this episode is an homage . Like Seven Samurai , this episode features a group of seven heroes who are defending an otherwise defenseless town against a much larger group of invaders . Both the Samurai and the Jedi , knowing they are outnumbered , teach the villagers how to fight and defend their homes . Like " Senate Murders " and " Cat and Mouse , " " Bounty Hunters " was shown in Canada and the UK one week before it aired in the United States . Ohnaka ' s line , " Speak softly , and drive a big tank , " is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt ' s foreign policy : " Speak softly , and carry a big stick . "