"Deal No Deal" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars - Season 7, Episode 6

Ahsoka and Trace toil away on Martez's starship. Trace reveals that she built the craft entirely on her own, and has named it the Silver Angel. With nowhere to go, Ahsoka agrees to stay with Trace and her sister for a little longer in the lower levels of Coruscant.

Trace's sister, Rafa, comes to the hangar. She needs Trace -- and her ship -- for a job. But she won't say what it is until they're on their way.

Before they leave, Rafa confronts Ahsoka. "What are you after?" she asks with an accusatory tone. Ahsoka doesn't suffer the insult gladly. "I don't have an angle," she says. "Unless maybe to keep you both out of trouble." Rafa turns to leave, saying Ahsoka may be the trouble Trace needs to stay away from.

Finally, they take the Silver Angel into the Coruscant skies. But Trace, holding no license and inexperienced in the ways of the upper levels, accidentally pulls into a military lane and draws the attention of Admiral Yularen on a Republic command ship. Anakin Skywalker, however, seeming to sense a familiar presence, orders that they let the ship go.

Once clear, Rafa tells Trace, and only Trace, about the job. When they emerge out of hyperspace, Ahsoka is shocked to see that they've arrived at Kessel, the notorious spice-mining world. Rafa claims they're here only to pick up medicine, and Kinash Lock, majordomo of King Yaruba of Kessel, greets them at the landing platform.

Kinash welcomes Ahsoka, Trace, and Rafa to a banquet. Ahsoka, highly skeptical of the nature of this job, asks about the medicine. The majordomo says they are to deliver three containers of unrefined spice. "Many things can be made out of spice, and they're not all good," Ahsoka says defiantly. The charge creates a tension in the room, and Kinash assures her that the medicine created from the spice will save lives.

As they leave, Ahsoka tells Trace that running spice is dangerous. Trace defends her sister, even though this is Rafa's first time taking on such a job.

The Silver Angel heads to the dreary mining zone, which looks very different from the lush royal landscape. From up above, Trace admires the number of droids at work...until Ahsoka points out they're actually slaves.

After picking up the shipment, they take off for their destination: Oba Diah. Rafa's contact there is Marg Krim, leader of the Pyke Syndicate -- which alarms Ahsoka. "They'll take your ship, your life, everything!" Ahsoka tells Trace of the gangsters.

While Rafa and Ahsoka debate what to do, Trace grows more and more worried about what will happen to her ship. Impulsively, she jettisons the cargo, scattering the spice in hyperspace! Now, matters are even worse. But Ahsoka comes up with a plan.

They arrive at Kessel to find Marg Krim waiting, and he demands to see the cargo before delivering payment. Ahsoka employs a Jedi mind trick on the gangster and his goons, allowing them to take their credits and leave. But one Pyke, Fife, is not so weak-minded, and he quickly realizes they've been had.

The Silver Angel doesn't get far, as the Pyke's ensnare the ship in a tractor beam...

The Silver Angel may feel very familiar to fans of Star Wars Rebels. That’s because its cockpit, originally designed for Season Six of the original run of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, was repurposed to become the cockpit of the Ghost. At the time of Star Wars Rebels’ production, the team felt that the Silver Angel's interior worked really well and would otherwise not get to be seen on a show. Little did they know!

An updated model of Admiral Yularen appears in this episode, showing a little more gray hair as the war progresses, which also brings him closer to his look seen in Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: A New Hope.

The symbol of the Open Circle Fleet appears on the shoulders of the clone officers aboard the Republic ship. Anakin’s flagship in the Season Six episode “The Unknown” features this same icon, as do many Republic ships in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

Anakin is stationed above Coruscant, placing this arc before the events of the Bad Batch episodes, where we see Skywalker during the Outer Rim Sieges campaign.

Anakin's sensing of Ahsoka and allowing her ship to pass is an echo of a similar scene in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, in which Darth Vader detects Luke Skywalker on a stolen Imperial shuttle.

Rafa mentions the goal of “fortune and glory,” something another famous Lucasfilm hero (hint: he wears a fedora) has been known to speak of.

The episode gives us the first look at the lush, unspoiled side of Kessel and its rulers, as well as a look at the Akkadese Maelstrom, which appeared in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The Pyke bosses Marg Krim and Fife were originally created for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but first appeared in the novel Dark Disciple and comic-book series Son of Dathomir -- both of which were based on unproduced episodes of the series.

"Even though I get to use my own voice for Ahsoka, I had been doing [Star Wars] Rebels Ahsoka for so long, and she was so much older. Truthfully, I spoke in a much lower register in my voice for Rebels. So I had to go back in time and remember, 'Okay, how old is Ahsoka now?' Really, I watched a lot of the episodes from Season Five and I tried to get my voice back to that place." - Ashley Eckstein ("Ahsoka Tano")

"Ahsoka will do the right thing. That's her moral compass. She always wants to do the right thing. So for Ahsoka to see somebody choose to do, in her mind, the wrong thing, that really bothers her. And that's why Ahsoka and Rafa butt heads." - Ashley Eckstein ("Ahsoka Tano")

"Rafa is not a bad person. She's doing what she has to do to survive. She's protecting her younger sister, she cares about her sister. I mean, Rafa, in her own way, is like Anakin. She's doing some wrong things, but she means to do well." - Dave Filoni (Executive Producer & Supervising Director)

"To Ahsoka, it's just very black and white. It's the world she grew up in. So the two come into conflict pretty easily, especially because they seem to be vying for Trace's admiration." - Dave Filoni (Executive Producer & Supervising Director)