Dooku Captured " Dooku Captured " is the eleventh episode in of the " " television series . It is the eleventh episode of the series overall . Official description . " During their own attempt to kidnap Count Dooku , Anakin and Obi - Wan discover that the Sith Lord has already been captured by pirates . " Plot summary . Prior to the Skirmish at Vanqor , Anakin Skywalker allowed himself to be captured by a " Munificent " - class star frigate , commanded by Count Dooku in an ice field near Vanqor . Once inside the ship ' s hangar , he put up a fight in order to make his capture look convincing . He was defeated and taken to a prison cell . Obi - Wan Kenobi then infiltrated the ship to release him in order to help apprehend the Count . Dooku escaped in his solar sailer with the two Jedi on his tail in a " Sheathipede " - class transport shuttle . Direct hits on the solar sailer forced the Count to make an emergency landing in a wilderness on the nearest planet . When the Jedi suffered a hit from a droid fighter , they were forced to crash land , as well . In a nearby cave , the two Jedi began to hunt for Dooku , but the Dark Lord of the Sith ambushed them by causing a sudden collapse in the cave ceiling , causing Anakin to lose his lightsaber , which Dooku retrieved . This distraction allowed Dooku an opportunity to exit and seal the cave with Anakin and Obi - Wan still inside . While the Jedi tried to find a way out , Dooku came upon Hondo Ohnaka ' s pirate gang salvaging his ship . Outnumbered , the Count considered his options and chose to accompany the pirate gang on their ship off the planet as a ransom to the Separatists , or a prize to the Republic . Meanwhile , the Jedi inadvertently disturbed " the mother of all gundark s " in the cave as they were trying to find their out . Finding the gundark , they concluded that they were on Vanqor . After rendering the gundark unconscious , they nearly succumbed to poison gas released from a trapped pocket in the cave just as Ahsoka Tano and a detachment of clone trooper s uncovered the cave entrance . After Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and representatives received a message from Hondo Ohnaka concerning a reward for the capture of Count Dooku , at the suggestion of Senator Padmé Amidala , the Jedi High Council assigns Anakin and Obi - Wan to meet with the pirates to verify that they do indeed have the Count in custody , agreeing to the condition that they must arrive unarmed . Upon arriving in the " Twilight " , the Jedi were met at gunpoint and escorted to Hondo , who arranged a meeting with their prisoner . After Anakin and Obi - Wan entered Dooku ' s cell and subtly mocked his current imprisonment , Dooku relished in the thought that the Jedi would soon join him in captivity . The Count warned that the Weequay were " devious and deceitful , and most importantly . . . stupid " and that the Jedi " underestimated them at their own peril . " Upon leaving Dooku ' s cell , the Jedi were " invited " to attend a banquet in the pirate gang ' s grand hall , which the Weequay had no intention of letting the Jedi miss . Informing Mace Windu and Palpatine that Dooku was indeed being securely held by the pirates , Palpatine told them that he was sending Senator Kharrus and Representative Binks with the ransom in exchange for the Sith Lord . The Jedi took their seat at the banquet and were provided with refreshments : drugged beverages . As Hondo made a toast to a successful transaction , the two Jedi switched their drinks with those of the Weequay and Nikto sitting next to them , returning the toast to an " alliance " with " powerful pirates and . . . new friends . " As their Weequay neighbors passed out from the drugged drinks that were switched on them , Anakin reflected on how drunken pirates were able to capture the Count when the Jedi could not . Obi - Wan told him not to be too proud to accept the gift that came their way , whereupon Anakin made a toast to unexpected gifts . Behind the scenes . Kenobi ' s line to the Niktos , " You ' re not the prisoners I ' m looking for , " echoes his line in " " , " These aren ' t the droids you ' re looking for . " The apparatus immobilizing Dooku appears to be a Containment field , which is what Dooku had Obi - Wan bound in during " " . Originally , there were going to be two Kowakian monkey - lizard s as part of the pirate group : twin brothers Pikk Mukmuk and Pilf Mukmuk , but their characters were consolidated into Pilf . The " Corona " - class armed frigate that appears in the episode was derived from 1950s - era film concepts of spaceships ( flying saucers ) , such as those in " The Earth vs . The Flying Saucers " . The commentary revealed that they had planned on using a flying - saucer type spacecraft in the prequel series since " The Phantom Menace " , either as Trade Federation spacecraft or as Alderaanean vessels , but it wasn ' t until the production of this episode that they got the chance to implement the idea . In the original script , the scene where Anakin and Obi - Wan stumble into the hangar originally had them finding a Sabaoth starfighter from " " . The song played in the background in the pirate stronghold is a Hindi song known as " Indian Pop Source " , composed by the series ' composer Kevin Kiner .