The Jedi are completely blind to Sidious’ machinations in this episode, partially because they want to keep Fives alive. Shaak Ti especially seems to have her hands tied. She has a very cool scene in pursuit of Fives, where medics gasp in awe as she leaps across a room, but it is brief. The trick Sidious uses to frame Fives is the same one he uses on the Jedi in the Revenge of the Sith novelization. A flashback in which the viewer saw what exactly transpired between Fives and the chancellor would have been nice toward the end of the episode, but doesn’t detract too much. Fives’ trip to Coruscant also serves to expand the Clone Wars time period by showing a clone bar, crowded streets, and a New York-style cab driver who says he’s heard crazier stories than Fives’ on his average drive. The blue and purple lighting looks both slick and seedy, and the streets are nicely crowded with a variety of aliens. Viewers familiar with the Republic army will recognize a lot of the graffiti on the walls of the latrine. One scrawl, pointing to a drawing of a bantha, reads “5’s sister.” The setting is very different from the sterile Kamino, and echoes Ahsoka Tano’s flight through Coruscant in the season five finale. The Coruscant of “Fugitive” is a lived-in looking setting in which the tale of a singular, tragic clone becomes part of Sidious’ grand plan. Read all of our Star Wars: The Clone Wars coverage right here!
