Escape from the Republic military base After her arrest for the murder of Letta Turmond , Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano managed to effect an escape from the Republic military base where she was being held . Prelude . After the bombing of the Jedi Temple killing several Jedi , clone trooper s , and Temple workers , Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano discovered that Letta Turmond , the wife of a Temple worker by the name of Jackar Bowmani , had fed her husband nano - droid s which then exploded when Bowmani was working inside the Temple . The Jedi placed Turmond under arrest and she was later transferred to the custody of the military at the request of Chancellor Palpatine . While being held at the Republic military base , Turmond asked to see Padawan Tano . Suspicious of her motives , Padawan Tano sought to personally interrogate the prisoner in order to better understand the reasoning behind the murder of her Jedi compatriots . Turmond revealed that she had been approached by another Jedi , disillusioned with the Jedi Order , who had asked her to give the nano - droid s to Bowmani . However , before Turmond could reveal that Jedi to be Barriss Offee she was Force choke d by Offee who had hidden herself and thereby framed Tano for Turmond ' s murder . Commander Fox of the Coruscant Guard , seeing the chocking Turmond on the monitor screen , rushed in with two other troopers and placed a confused Tano under arrest on suspicion of murder . After reviewing the footage which had no audio , but appeared to show Tano chocking Turmond ; Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin believed Tano to be guilty , given that she was displeased with Turmond being placed under military jurisdiction . Tarkin then restricted visitors , especially to Skywalker , who was forced to leave when he demanded to be let through . The escape . After a brief stay in a cell , Tano noticed a security access card sitting on the floor just beyond the force field barring the door . Assuming it had been planted by her master , she levitated the card with the Force and used it to escape her cell . Proceeding through the corridors , Tano came upon lightsaber s and comlink — amidst several unconscious troopers . As she was answering her beeping comlink , Commander Fox entered the security observation room and seeing Tano among the unconscious clones , immediately assumed she was the guilty party and sounded the alarm . Instead of staying to face Fox , Tano ran , trying to escape the facility . After evading several clone patrols , Tano found three dead clones , killed by a lightsaber . A chase through the facility ensued , with orders given by Fox to shoot to kill , until the arrival and intercession of Anakin Skywalker and Captain Rex , at which point the troops were ordered to only fire stun blasts and capture Tano alive . All clone shock trooper s were placed on alert throughout the base and the hunt continued into the landing area outside the base and past the memorial . It was there that the shock troopers spotted Tano and gave cahse with increasing numbers of troopers and LAAT / i craft pursuing her . During the chase , as she deflected stun bolts , one clone fired a rocket launcher , knocking her off her feet . As she dropped her lightsabers , Tano retrieved one before continuing to run . Eventually , Tano found herself cornered , but was once more able to escape by cutting into a nearby piping system . She managed to evade the troopers before finding herself at the end of the pipe leading to a sinkhole towards the Coruscant underworld . Skywalker managed to find her and pleaded with her to come back , saying that escaping would only make things worse . However , Tano refused to be punished for crimes she did not commit and pleaded him to trust her as she trusted him while she was searching for proof of her innocence . As Rex and Fox caught up to Skywalker , Tano jumped onto a transport descending into the underworld . Aftermath . In response to the escape , the Jedi High Council ordered Tano ' s arrest , assigning Skywalker and Jedi Master Plo Koon to the task . Eventually , Tano was recaptured after a disguised Barriss Offee lured her into a trap , and taken back to the Jedi Temple . As the Council debated on Tano ' s fate , Tarkin requested to them — on behalf of the Galactic Senate — that Tano be expelled from the Jedi Order and returned to military custody to be put to a military tribunal . Though not in total agreement , the Council decided to do as the Senate asked , expelling Tano and handing her back to the Republic military prison . Tano was subsequently put on trial before members of the Senate , with Tarkin serving as the prosecution and Senator Padmé Amidala serving as the defense . However , before the jury could render its decision , Skywalker , who had conducted his own investigation , burst into the room with Offee . She finally confessed her crimes , thereby acquitting Tano and leading Offee to be imprisoned in her place . However , Tano chose not to rejoin the Jedi Order when offered readmission , as her faith in the Order was shaken due to their disbelief in her innocence .