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Senator Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, is returning to Coruscant to vote on the critical issue of creating an army to assist the overwhelmed Jedi...

Senator Padme's starship and it's convoy are approaching Coruscant. When the Nubian ship supposedly carrying Padme lands, disguised handmaiden Cordé (played by Veronica Segura) walks down the ramp with her entourage and suddenly there's a huge explosion near the ramp. Padme, who was riding in one of the Nubian's escort fighters, runs to her and they exchange a few quick words before Corde dies. Padme has a quick discussion with Captain Typho (played by Jay Laga'aia) about what to do and then goes to her quarters.

When she arrives safely in her apartment on Coruscant, she calls longtime friend Jar Jar Binks, who's official title is now Representative Jar Jar Binks of the Gungans. In the Senate, Jar Jar stands with Senator Padme on the Naboo platform.

After the Nubian ship was destroyed, Uv Gizen - Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's personal aide - tells Palpatine that Senator Padme is dead. The Senate later convenes on the matter at hand; voting on whether or not to create a clone army for the Republic.

Palpatine starts to speak, "My esteemed colleagues, I have received some tragic and disturbing news." He is about to announce Padme's death, but to his surprise, Padme shows up and says that she's ok. She voices her opinions about the lack of safety in the galaxy and the Senate spends the rest of this meeting dwelling on this topic. Palpatine resolves the issue of Padme's safety by assigning two Jedi Knights to protect her. He asks Mace Windu to specifically assign Obi-Wan and Anakin to this task. Shortly after comes a meeting in a small room on Coruscant. In the room are Senator Toonbuck Toora, Senator Darsana, Senator Askaak, Bail Organa (played by Jimmy Smits), Jar Jar Binks, and S.C Palpatine. They are discussing the idea of cloning an army for the Republic.

Most everyone in the room is for the clone army except Bail Organa and Jar Jar Binks. Bail is undecided, but Jar Jar is definitely against it. In this scene, Palpatine says something like "Sometimes we have to break the law in order to act in its best interest." (Not a direct quote) Clearly he is saying that they must create the Republic clone army whether or not the Senate favors the decision. Then comes the second meeting in the Senate, in which they discuss purely the idea of creating a clone army for the Republic.

Palpatine urges everyone to vote for it. He is backed up by Senator Toonbuck Toora of the Commerce Guild, Senator Orn Free Taa, and the Intergalactic Bank Clan who offer to put up the cash. Bail Organa has a role in this scene as well. Senator Padme also speaks and (I think) she votes for the army. Later that evening, there is another assassination attempt on Padme in her apartment on Coruscant. Obi-Wan and Anakin are standing guard at the door, and they suddenly both sense something weird. The line "I have a bad feeling about this" is spoken and the two Jedi burst into her quarters. There is a large droid hovering in Padme's room that has released tons of small insect-like assassination robots called kouhuns.

Anakin runs to Padme and clears all the kouhuns off her, meanwhile Obi-Wan jumps out the window and onto the large droid. When Zam Wesell, the bounty hunter who's controlling the assassination droid via remote control, brings the droid back to her, she see's Obi-Wan dangling from the flying droid. She whips out her gun and starts opening fire on Obi-Wan and the droid. Obi-Wan takes out his lightsaber and starts deflecting her bolts. Zam continues to fire - Obi continues to deflect. Zam realizes she'd better take off, so she gets on her speeder and flies away. Anakin then picks up Obi in a yellow hot rod speeder and they take off after Zam, leading to the chase scene.

Anakin and Obi-Wan chase Zam Wesell at high speeds through the heavy traffic. (This is the only time in Episode II we see Anakin's amazing piloting skills.) The chase comes to an end at a night club at the lower levels of Coruscant. As they attempt to enter, the bouncer yells "NO JEDI" at them. Anakin attempts to use a mind trick on the bouncer but Obi-Wan stops him. Anakin then reaches for his saber and lights it in the bouncer's face in attempt to scare him away. The bouncer isn't frightened away, in fact he grows double in size and gets ready to fight. Then Obi-Wan uses a mind trick on him and the two Jedi enter the club. As they enter, Obi-Wan says "Anakin, you'll be the death of me."

Once inside, they are met with a young troublemaker named Elian Sleazebaggano (played by Matt Doran). Elian tries to sell them some kind of drugs - "You want some death sticks? You want some death sticks?" he says. Obi-Wan replies with "You should rethink your life." Finally, Obi-Wan and Anakin catch Zam outside the club and begin to interrogate her, trying to find out who she's working for and why they want Padme dead. Zam gives up and says something like "Ok, ok I'll talkt.." but before she says another word, Zam is assassinated by Jango Fett's Kaminoan Kyber Dart.

The weapon that kills Zam is mysterious to the Jedi. Obi-Wan says to Anakin "There's only one man who knows all about these underground weapons at this level of Coruscant." (Not exact quote) Next we cut to Obi-Wan and Anakin walking into Dex's Diner. Dexter Jettster (played by Ronalk Falk) is a very awkward alien with four arms. With three arms he reaches hugs his long time friend Obi-Wan and with his other arm he shakes hands with Anakin. Obi-Wan asks Dexter about the weapon that killed Zam Wesell and Dex tells him that it's called a "Kyber Dart" and it only comes from the water planet Kamino.

Now Episode II is in full swing. The two Jedi return to Padme's quarters. After discussing the situation for a while and meeting with the Jedi Council, it is decided that Anakin must accompany Padme back to Naboo where she'll be safe, and Obi-Wan would go to Kamino to follow up on the clues of conspiracy he obtained from Zam Wesell's murder. Before leaving for Kamino, Obi-Wan goes to the Jedi Temple to seek information on the planet. He goes to an area of the Temple in which archives of the Jedi order are kept. There he meets Jocasta Nu, a librarian and academic (played by Alethea McGrath).

Jocasta shows him a holographic map of Kamino and they discuss the "Lost Twenty" - the only 20 Jedis to ever have left the order. Among these 20 is Count Dooku, a former highly respected Jedi Master. In this scene we see a bust of Dooku - a small statue of his head. Jocasta Nu also mentions Qui-Gon a couple times. In the sequence before Obi-Wan chats with Jocasta, there are some establishing shots of the Jedi Temple. We get to see numerous Jedi in training. One we focus in on is of Yoda and a bunch of Jedi hopefuls (little kids) on a balcony. Yoda is teaching them about the lightsaber. He pulls his out and ignites it and says something like "The lightsaber is a Jedi's most precious weapon."

Before setting off for Naboo on a public transport, Anakin and Padme are bid farewell by Jar Jar Binks. Jar Jar does not go with them. They take to the stars and begin the journey. There are many scenes in the ship that get the love story underway. The ship they travel in is sort of like a scheduled flight between planets. Anakin and Padme are not alone.. there are a lot of aliens on this ship. Naboo: Here we are introduced to Queen Jamillia (played by Ayesha Dharker), the new ruler of Naboo. (Queen Jamillia only has two scenes - very small character) The love between Anakin and Padme grows as they spend more time together on Naboo.

They travel to a Lake Retreat and that's where they meet Padme's family - her sisters (Keira Wingate - Haley Mooy) and parents, Jobal (mother - (played by Claudia Karvan) and Ruwee (father - played by Graeme Blundell). There are also scenes on Naboo in a kitchen, Anakin's bedroom, and Padme's bedroom. At the lake, Anakin tosses and turns in his bed and wakes up to a terrible nightmare concerning his mother. The next morning, Padme enters Anakin's room and find him on the balcony meditating.

She turns to leave and he tells her not to go. "Your presence is soothing," is the line. Anakin's concern for his mother grows so strong that he decides to leave Naboo with Padme and head for Tatooine. Anakin was under strict orders by the Jedi Council to stay on Naboo - he disobeys. Anakin and Padme make their way back to Theed where they meet Queen Jamillia. They tell her they have to leave immediately and she willingly gives them a ship. Anakin, Padme and R2 take off for Tatooine. It is aboard this ship and on this journey through space that Anakin and Padme share their first kiss.

After his meeting with Madame Jocasta Nu, Obi-Wan goes to Kamino on behalf of Palpatine to uncover information about the conspiracy involving Count Dooku. Since Palpatine is (in a way) behind the cloning on Kamino and doesn't want Obi-Wan to discover what's happening there, he contacts Count Dooku and tells him the Jedi Knight is on his way. Dooku dispatches Jango Fett to assassinate Obi-Wan. When Obi-Wan arrives (in a city called Tipoca - credit to T'Bone), he's greeted by Lama Su (CG character voiced by Anthony Phelan), the Prime Minister of the planet, and taken to a conference room to discuss matters at hand.

The Kaminoans are very kind to Obi-Wan and they don't think there is anything "wrong" with the cloning operation. Obi-Wan is then taken to a laboratory and a cloning facility and he realizes this conspiracy runs deeper than Dooku and the Kyber Dart. He asks Lama Su who commissioned this cloning activity and Su tells him it was Master Sido-Dyas, head of the Jedi Council. Immediately Obi-Wan contacts the Jedi Council and reports what he was told.

Yoda tells Obi-Wan to continue the investigation and try to find out who Sido-Dyas is and who he's working for. Mace Windu speculates that someone in the Senate may be involved, and this secret army is being created to start a war. Soon after, while Obi-Wan is in a cloning hatchery, Jango Fett (played by Temuera Morrison) emerges and fires at Obi-Wan. He misses. Obi-Wan lights his saber and starts to chase him. He catches up to him on a landing platform in the pouring rain. And so begins the notorious rain battle on a landing platform where Slave I is docked.

The battle ends in a stalemate - Jango takes off in Slave 1 and Obi-Wan manages to stick a seeker pod on the side of the ship as it flies away. (In this scene, which I'm sure you're all familiar with, we get our first glimpse at young Boba Fett - played by Daniel Logan.)

Obi-Wan gets in his ship and takes off into the sky in pursuit of Jango Fett in Slave I. Not after long, Jango realizes that Obi-Wan is on his tail so he takes his ship into an asteroid field in attempt to lose him. Obi-Wan follows. There is a hot chase scene through the asteroids where Obi-Wan gets caught up in some trouble.

Believing that Obi-Wan was killed in the asteroid field, Jango and Boba proceed to their destination - Geonosis. Obi-Wan, of course, is not dead. When he finally makes it out of the asteroid field he picks up Jango with the tracking device and continues to follow him. As Jango and Obi-Wan approach Geonosis, there are two droid control ships in orbit. Jango races up to one of them and two fighters come out. The Jango's surprise, the fighters start attacking him as well as Obi-Wan. Jango then makes his way to the planet where he lands.

Obi-Wan follows. Once on the ground, Obi-Wan starts snooping around. He finds out that the planet is run by an alien race that is creating thousands of advanced battle droids. He sends out a distress call to the Jedi, telling them that war is inevitable. The Jedi dispatch an army to Geonosis and Palpatine contacts Count Dooku. He tells him Obi-Wan has discovered the planet and that a Jedi army is on it's way. Obi-Wan then continues to investigate the planet and he's captured by droids and taken prisoner...

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