Grievous Intrigue " Grievous Intrigue " is the ninth episode of of the . It aired on January 1 , 2010 after a month - long interval and is the first in a two - part storyline . Official description . " A Jedi Master is taken hostage and tortured by General Grievous . Anakin , Obi - Wan and Adi Gallia devise a daring rescue plan , but they soon realize the General has a plan of his own . " Plot Summary . Grievous ' destroyer boards Master Eeth Koth ' s flagship and Grievous enters the ship with commando droids . The attackers kill most of Clone Captain Lock ' s clone trooper s , but Koth , after ordering his men to the escape pods , manages to defend himself against the commando droids and Grievous . Koth derides Grievous as a coward and murderer , to which Grievous retorts it is not murder to rid the galaxy of filth like the Jedi . Though Koth holds his own for a while , Grievous ' s MagnaGuards soon join the battle , and Grievous ultimately subdues Koth . The Jedi on Coruscant receive a holo - transmission from Grievous , in which the general shows his victory over the Jedi by having one of his MagnaGuards torture Koth . Grievous states that he does not care about the Jedi ' s politics , nor their Republic , concluding that he lives only to see them all die . Plo Koon and Clone Commander Wolffe notice a coded message made by Koth ' s hand gestures , which is decoded by Obi - Wan , telling them that Grievous ' ship is in the Saleucami system . Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker and Adi Gallia thus set out to rescue Eeth Koth and to capture Grievous . The ships under Kenobi ' s command , including a light cruiser , three frigates and three cruisers , emerge from hyperspace when Grievous is preparing to land on Saleucami , just as Grievous expected . Grievous warns his crew that where there is Kenobi , there is also Skywalker . The Republic engages Grievous ' fleet , and a space battle ensues . Kenobi hails Grievous , leaving Grievous surmising that Kenobi is here to bring him to justice as always . Grievous pulls Kenobi ' s cruiser in with a tractor beam , while Anakin , having received updated coordinates , comes out of hyperspace right alongside Grievous ' destroyer , and he , Adi Gallia , Captain Rex and a clone trooper squad break into the ship . Kenobi ' s ship is then boarded by commando droids . Obi - Wan and Commander Cody fight commando droids first , then Kenobi fights the MagnaGuards and eventually Grievous . Grievous tells Obi - Wan that he is aware of Skywalker ' s concurrent rescue mission , and finally Grievous and his droids overpower Kenobi . Anakin and Adi locate Koth captured in a containment field , but Grievous ' s tactical droid , TV - 94 , was expecting them and summons commando droids . The tactical droid then sends electric waves through Koth , but the Jedi ultimately destroy the all the droids present and release Koth . Meanwhile , the fight between Kenobi and Grievous continues , in which Kenobi asks what Grievous gains besides power , a mutilated body , and his place as Count Dooku ' s errand boy . Grievous snarls that he ' s no errand boy , nor that he ' s in this war for Dooku ' s politics . As Grievous roars that he is now the leader of the most powerful droid army the galaxy has ever seen , Obi - Wan asks what he intends to gain from being general of an army with no loyalty or spirit . Grievous answers that he hopes to gain a future . . . a future where there are no more Jedi . Obi - Wan Force - pushes Grievous into the window and gives him a chance to surrender , but Grievous escapes . Obi - Wan informs Anakin and Adi , the latter of whom goes to intercept him while Anakin carries Koth to his shuttle . Grievous , despite the two ships being attached still , gives orders to fire on the Republic light cruiser ' s engines and heads for his own ship . Cody and what ' s left of his men try to hold Grievous , but the general subdues them . In the docking tube , Kenobi and Cody catches up to him , but Grievous escapes again . Grievous arrives at his destroyer , but there , Adi Gallia engages him in a brief duel , before the docking tube is torn open , creating a powerful suction . Grievous climbs aboard his ship using his metallic claws , and Gallia extends a cable to Cody and Kenobi , allowing them to get to safety . Anakin then picks up Obi - Wan , Adi and Cody in his shuttle from the destroyer ' s hangar . Grievous and his ship ' s infantry droids board landing ships set for Saleucami , and the Republic light cruiser eventually explodes . Unfortunately , shrapnel causes the landing ship to lose control and to fall fast towards Saleucami . Obi - Wan then plans to descend onto Saleucami with Rex and Cody to look for Grievous while Anakin cleans up the space battle . When the rescue shuttle reaches the " Resolute " hangar , Eeth is grateful for the rescue despite saying that he would have given his life to bring Grievous to justice . Anakin , however , says that they at least live to fight another day . Adi then takes Koth to a medical shuttle , and Obi - Wan prepares his forces for the search on Saleucami .