PlotThe Galactic Republic is in turmoil. Following the invasionof Naboo ten years earlier, the former Jedi Knight Count Dooku (Christopher Lee)has now organized a Separatist movement against the Republic. The GalacticSenate debates a plan to create an army for the Republic to assist the Jediagainst the Separatist threat. Senator Padme Amidala,the former queen of Naboo and now a politician, returns to Coruscant to cast her vote. Upon her arrival,she narrowly escapes an assassination attempt, and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine assigns Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) to protect her.Obi-Wan and Anakin subdue the assassin, Zam Wessell,during another assassination attempt. However, before she can give them anyinformation, the assassin is killed by her employer using a poisonous dart.Obi-Wan learns that the dart was manufactured on the remote ocean planet of Kamino, and is assigned toinvestigate, while Anakin is assigned to escort Padme back to her home planetof Naboo. Anakin relishes theopportunity to spend time with her, and they fall in love. In investigating Kamino, Obi-Wan discoversthat it has been removed from the navigation maps of the Jedi archives. Yoda reveals that such a thing could onlyhave been done by a Jedi, suggesting that a conspiracy is afoot.Obi-Wan heads to Kamino, where hediscovers that an army of clone troopers is being secretly produced for theRepublic, using a bounty hunter named Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison)as their genetic template. Realizing that Jango is theassassin's employer, Obi-Wan tracks Jango and his son Boba (Daniel Logan)toGeonosis,a rocky planet where a new droid army is being created. Meanwhile, on Naboo,Anakin becomes troubled by premonitions of his mother Shmi in pain. DespiteObi-Wan's orders to remain on Naboo, Anakin and Padme go to Tatooine. After meetinghis new stepfather, Cliegg Lars (Jack Thompson), and stepbrother Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton),Anakin learns Shmi had been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders some weeks earlier. He heads out aloneto rescue her, but when he finds her at a Tusken camp, she dies in his armsafter suffering weeks of torture at the hands of the tribe. Enraged, Anakinslaughters the entire tribe before returning his mother's body to the Larshomestead for burial.Having learned that Count Dookuauthorized the assassination attempt on Padme and that the Separatists aredeveloping a new battle droid army, Obi-Wan relays this informationvia hologram to Anakin, who transmits it to the Jedi Council.However, Obi-Wan is captured by Dooku mid-transmission. Dooku unsuccessfullyattempts to make an ally of Obi-Wan, and reveals to him that the Republic isbeing secretly controlled by Darth Sidious. While Anakin and Padme head toGeonosis to rescue Obi-Wan, Chancellor Palpatine is granted emergency powers to organize the clone army and sendthem into battle. Shortly after arriving on Geonosis, Anakin and Padme arecaptured and sentenced to be executed along with Obi-Wan. Anakin and Padmeprofess their love before being led into a large gladiatorial arena where theyand Obi-Wan are pitted against gigantic beasts in a public execution. However, Mace Windu (Samuel L.Jackson) and a team of Jedi appear and lead a strong defense againstthe beasts and the Separatists. Windu kills Jango Fett in a brief battle, butthen the Jedi find themselves outnumbered by the Separatists' droid