Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Ten years later, Senator Padmé Amidala survives assassination attempts. Anakin, now Obi-Wan's apprentice, becomes her bodyguard and they fall in love. Obi-Wan tracks bounty hunter Jango Fett to Kamino and finds a clone army secretly ordered for the Republic, using Jango as the template; his son, Boba, is an unaltered copy. On Geonosis, Obi-Wan finds Count Dooku, a former Jedi leading the Separatists. Anakin senses his mother suffering, reaches Tatooine too late and slaughters the Tuskens who killed her. The Senate grants Palpatine emergency powers, the clones are deployed and the Clone Wars begin. Dooku cuts off Anakin's arm and escapes after dueling Yoda. Anakin and Padmé marry in secret.

1. SetupThe plans Dooku takes away

   At the end, on Geonosis, Dooku takes the hologram of a spherical superweapon the Geonosians were designing and hands it to Sidious. Remember that image: those plans come back later in the saga.

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2. CameoThe woman in red at the bar

   At the Outlander club on Coruscant, look for Hayde Gofai among the patrons. She's played by Fiona Johnson, the famous Woman in Red from The Matrix (1999).

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3. Behind the scenesQui-Gon's voice during the massacre

   While Anakin attacks the Tuskens on Tatooine, Yoda meditates in the Temple and hears a scream calling Anakin's name. It's Liam Neeson's voice, lifted from The Phantom Menace and reused in the scene.

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4. Behind the scenesChristopher Lee's stunt double

   Christopher Lee was 78 during the shoot. In the most acrobatic parts of the duel with Yoda, a stunt double does the fighting, and Lee's face was added digitally later.

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5. Behind the scenesThe purple saber was the actor's request

   Mace Windu's purple blade exists because Samuel L. Jackson asked for it. He wanted to stand out from the heroes' blue and green and the villains' red.

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