Tactical droid TX-20 interrupts Dooku's mediation.
TX-20 serving on board Count Dooku's flagship.
Dooku was informed by TX-20 that the Jedi were sending Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan to the neutral system Toydaria to negotiate a treaty to establish supply lines to the Republic garrison and the Twi'lek people.
Dooku tells TX-20 to contact Senator Lott Dod as he wishes to speak with him.
On Rugosa, the Toydarian monarch King Katuunko and his retinue await the arrival of their Jedi envoy when Asajj Ventress arrives and presents Katuunko with a hologram of Count Dooku.
Dooku attempts to express the Jedi's supposed incapability to protect Toydaria in hopes of swaying the king to his cause.
Dooku tells the king that he learned he was considering joining the Republic and was going to speak with his former master Yoda.
Dooku asks the Katuunko how the Jedi can protect them if they were incapable of protecting themselves.
Dooku stated that the Separatist Droid Army could better protect Toydaria, outnumbering the Grand Army of the Republic 100-to-one.
Katuunko debated with the Count over the abilities of the Jedi and the droid army.
Dooku tells the king that when he decides to join the Separatist his apprentice will contact him.
With the pleasantries done, Dooku bowed respectfully and ended the transmission.
After returning to her base, Ventress contacted Dooku and stated that her forces were being deployed.
Dooku approved of her deal, believing that Yoda made a mistake in venturing far from Coruscant.
Ventress tells Dooku she will see that the Jedi gets his "fair fight".
King Katuunko, fully convinced that the contest was over, contacted Count Dooku.
Through a holotransmission, Katuunko informed Dooku that one Jedi was not worth a hundred battle droids, but rather a thousand, and stated that he would be joining the Republic.
Dooku urged him to reconsider, but the Toydarian king refused to deal with those who went back on their promises, as Ventress had broken the terms of the competition.
Deciding that negotiations would be more fruitful with Katuunko's successor, Dooku spitefully ordered Ventress to murder the king.
Katuunko's guards tried to stop the Dark Acolyte, but Ventress merely Force pushed them aside, knocking them unconscious.
Yoda prevented the murder, and Dooku watched as Ventress made her escape.
Dooku, watching the events unfold through the holoprojector, commented before taking his leave that it was a pity that he had not been there himself.
Dooku joined General Grievous aboard the heavy cruiser Malevolence in the Abregado system.
When a fleet of Republic cruisers entered the system, Dooku ordered Grievous to jam their communications.
Count Dooku tells Grievous that this will be a suitable test for their new weapon.
Seeing this as another opportunity to test the Malevolence 's ion cannons, Dooku gave Grievous the order to fire them.
The Malevolence discharged its cannons; as the wave approached, Koon and the clone troopers braced themselves for impact, the wave passed over the fleet and neutralized the cruisers' shields, and the vulnerable cruisers fell to fire from the numerous laser cannons.
To ensure the secrecy of the Malevolence 's ion cannons, Count Dooku dispatched rocket droids using a boarding ship to hunt and kill any survivors.
Dooku supervising Grievous on the bridge of the Malevolence.
Grievous and Dooku became suspicious when they lost contact with the pod hunter.
Grievous and Dooku pick up a faint droid signal and the cyborg orders the ship into attack position.
Dooku wanted Grievous to make sure there were no witnesses and ordered him to destroy the Twilight.
Grievous reluctantly informs Count Dooku that the survivors have escaped, meaning the Republic will learn of the Separatists' secret weapon.
Dooku, displeased with the failure, lost faith in General Grievous's skills thus he would speak with his Master.
Dooku was watching the cyborg general's progress through a holotransmission and was pleased that the medical convoy had been eliminated.
With Count Dooku watching his progress via hologram, Grievous intercepted and eradicated a Republic medical convoy in the Ryndellia system.
Dooku berates Grievous for destroying battle droids telling the general they are expensive.
Dooku tells Grievous they will exploit the Jedi's weakness.
Count Dooku shows Grievous the coordinates to a secret Outer Rim medical station, the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center, which was treating over 60,000 wounded Republic clones.
Dooku assigned the medical center as the Malevolence 's new target, and the assignment.
The Count states they will end the clone's suffering by eliminating them completely.
Dooku tells Grievous he's confidant in leaving the battle ship with him.
En route to the medical facility, Dooku contacted Grievous through a hologram transmission, after he received intelligence from his Master, that the Republic had launched a small group of fighters to attack the Malevolence.
Grievous noted that the Malevolence 's hyperdrive was not fast and the warship's navicomputer was forced to recalculate its coordinates in order to go around the Kaliida Nebula.
The Sith Lord advised his general not to underestimate the Jedi, but Grievous maintained that it would be Skywalker who would underestimate the Separatist ship.
As the Malevolence fled under increasing fire from the Republic cruisers, Dooku contacted Grievous.
Dooku tells Grievous not to compound his failure by allowing the prized warship to fall.
Not wanting the General to lose the Malevolence, Dooku told Grievous that an important senator would be arriving and if captured the Republic would cease their attack.
Dooku contacted Grievous, stating that the general and his warship were being awaited at the rendezvous point.
Grievous cut off the transmission and escaped to hyperspace.
Grievous ending communications to the Count due to the shame of the ship being destroyed.
Count Dooku stands content as he learns the warship is destroyed.
Count Dooku receives a holographic message from Darth Sidious.
Tyranus said that he was already on the task, for he was sending Asajj Ventress to either free the Neimoidian or, should he talk, silence him.
Tyranus assured his Master that Ventress was a gifted assassin and he had his word that she would complete her mission "to the letter."
Count Dooku with his apprentice Asajj Ventress.
As Sidious' hologram faded away, Ventress stood before Dooku in private.
Dooku gave Ventress her mission, but warned her that she would have to prove herself worthy of being his apprentice.
The gloating viceroy explained to the clones and Jedi that they had walked into a trap shortly before being replaced by a hologram of Count Dooku.
Dooku sardonically apologized for inconveniencing the Republic forces.
Dooku claimed he would be offering them an "alternative prize" to compensate for their failed attempt to recapture Gunray.
Count Dooku's image faded away, leaving a flashing button on the chair's control panel.
Dooku soon contacts General Grievous and warns him that his ongoing stalemate in the war has become unacceptable.
The Count voices his concerns that Grievous has lost his focus and that Darth Sidious wants more dramatic results — more dead Jedi.
After completing Grievous' repairs, EV-A4-D followed the general back to the control room, informed Grievous of an incoming transmission from Dooku.
Dooku tells Grievous that his recent defeats at the Jedi's hands had shaken his faith.
Grievous soon discovered from Dooku that it was the Sith Lord himself who had deactivated his MagnaGuards and let the Jedi into his lair in order to reassess the cyborg general.
The Count confirms to Grievous that this is a test for him before the cyborg cuts off the transmission.
Returning to his castle, Grievous proceeded to the sanctum overlook chamber, where Count Dooku awaited a report via hololink.
Grievous stated that the Jedi had been defeated, and while Dooku revealed that victory over Vebb and the clones had been expected, the Sith Lord was pleased, however he was disappointed when he learned that Fisto had escaped and stated that there was "room for improvement" before severing the connection.
Kenobi and Skywalker enter Dooku's quarters where they find the Sith Lord serenely mediating in a cross-legged pose.
The Jedi ignite their lightsabers, but Dooku does not budge.
Dooku greets the Jedi and states he thought he sensed an unpleasant disturbance in the Force.
As Skywalker and Kenobi confronted the Sith Lord, the Republic Star Destroyer Resolute opened fire on Dooku's frigate.
Anakin orders Dooku to surrender, but the Sith Lord instead trips a trap door and vanishes through an escape hatch.
While Skywalker followed Dooku through the ship's interior, Kenobi left to cut the Sith Lord off in the hangar bay.
Dooku fires Force lightning at Skywalker while sliding.
Although the Jedi was able to deflect the bolts with his lightsaber, the glare caused him to lose sight of his quarry at a junction where the hatch took two different routes.
The Count lands and twists his way into the hangar.
Dooku arrived in the hangar bay where a battle droid commander told him his ship was ready.
Dooku boarded his solar sailor as Kenobi entered the room in time to see Dooku depart.
Count Dooku lounges in the exotic vessel flanked by a Vulture droid escort.
Pursuing Dooku, Kenobi managed to land a shot on Dooku's solar sailer, forcing the Count to crash-land on Vanqor.
Elsewhere in the shadows of a cave, Count Dooku ambushed the Jedi by causing a sudden collapse in the cave ceiling, and Dooku grins at his handiwork.
Dooku spots Anakin's dropped lightsaber in the debris.
Dooku confiscated Skywalker's lightsaber retrieving it.
The Count uses the Force to pull Anakin's lightsaber from the debris stating he will no longer need it.
Adding the lightsaber to his belt, Dooku triumphantly walks out of the cave.
This distraction allowed Dooku an opportunity to exit the cave.
Dooku caused an avalanche as he left the cave, blocking the cavern entrance with the Force.
While the Jedi tried to find a way out, Dooku left and followed a trail back to his crashed vessel.
Dooku turns the corner to discover his sailor is joined by a massive saucer-shaped ship of unknown origin.
The Count looks as a party of over a dozen Weequay pirates loots the shuttle and sailor.
The pirate leader, Hondo Ohnaka, spots the confident Dooku striding toward the landing area.
Dooku came upon Hondo Ohnaka's pirate gang salvaging his ship.
Ohnaka was not intimidated by Dooku's stately manner while his pet, Pilf Mukmuk, sits on Dooku's shoulder.
The Kowakian monkey-lizard, Pilf Mukmuk, leapt on Dooku's shoulders while Hondo questioned him.
Hondo complemented the Solar Sailor, realizing the wealth of this stranger and Dooku allowed the pirates to raid his craft.
Ohnaka, playing the helpful type, offers Dooku transport to the nearest planet, Florrum, six parsecs away.
Ohnaka's offer was taken by Dooku, who agreed to pay in order to escape from Skywalker and Kenobi and the Sith hid his lightsabers so as not to show his status.
Hondo orders his men to return to the ship; they are heading home with their new "guest."
Taking the Count to the planet Florrum, Ohnaka put the ship down in his organization's base.
When they arrived at Ohnaka's base, Dooku is unarmed and surrounded by dozens of pirates.
Dooku arrived at their destination, but after stepping onto the planet Florrum Dooku was surrounded at blasterpoint by the gang.
Dooku warned the pirates that they were not dealing with a Jedi, but a Sith Lord.
Hondo then revealed he had known that Dooku was the Confederacy's leader, and also revealed that he now possessed Dooku's lightsaber thinking he was a Jedi, and told the Sith he was outnumbered.
Dooku attempted to negotiate that if he could get proper means of communications, he could call someone to pay any ransom for him, but Hondo knew that if the Count contacted the Confederacy, their armies would crush them in order to get Dooku free of charge.
Count Dooku was taken into the pirate's custody, so that he could be given away at a high ransom.
Ohnaka contacted the Republic Supreme Chancellor, asking for a million credits in spice, in exchange for the Count.
Palpatine and several others spoke with Hondo via hologram, and the pirate showed an embarrassed Dooku.
Ohnaka arranged a meeting between the Jedi and Dooku, who was suspended splayed in a containment field.
Kenobi and Skywalker grin at the Sith Lord's turn of misfortune.
Dooku remained defiant, confident that he won't remain a captive for long.
After Anakin and Obi-Wan entered Dooku's cell and subtly mocked his current imprisonment, Dooku relished in the thought that the Jedi would soon join him in captivity.
The Count warned Kenobi that the Weequay were "devious and deceitful, and most importantly...stupid."
Dooku chides the Jedi for their naivety, for he warns that they "underestimated them at their own peril."
Dooku was proven correct when he, Kenobi, and Skywalker were together locked in a prison cell.
Dooku tells the Jedi he did warn them the pirates were devious and that all three of them were shackled together and Dooku tried to separate them to no avail.
The Count states that while he holds his tongue the two would devise a brilliant strategy to get them off of Florrum.
Anakin, Obi-Wan and Count Dooku are tethered together by a charged line.
Behind the cell bars, Dooku uses the Force to lift a discarded plate of food towards the door.
Dooku used the Force to levitate a knife into the key slot of their holding cell, overriding the locking mechanism.
The Count maneuvers a carelessly left behind knife into the key slot, tripping the door open; Dooku and the two Jedi are free.
Dooku, Obi-Wan and Anakin sneak through the pirate compound, having to stay close due to their shackles and Dooku knocks a pirate out.
The Jedi and Dooku open a door only to stumble upon seven slacking pirate guards and their escape was short-lived.
Dooku and the Jedi are surrounded by pirates and captured once again.
Dooku and the Jedi are once again placed in a cell, as a frustrated Ohnaka tries to figure out what to do with the troublesome prisoners.
Ohnaka places a guard outside their cell at all times.
Count Dooku watches as Kenobi used a mind trick to convince their guard to open the door and go get something to drink.
The trio escaped again and made their way outside their cell.
Count Dooku and the Jedi unimpeded, sneak through the halls to the base exterior.
Dooku, Obi-Wan and Anakin hide from a pirate guard.
Anakin taunts Dooku telling the Sith he is too old to keep up with the younger Jedi.
Dooku counters he would kill them both if he didn't have to drag their bodies.
Count Dooku uses the Force to topple a stack of crates to slow their pursuers.
Skywalker attempted to poll vault the three over the wall.
All three Force users fling through the air.
The three are vaulted onto the wall's edge, but only Anakin reaches the wall's rim.
Unfortunately, while trying to pole-vault over a wall, Dooku's line is shot and severed.
As the Jedi try to twist and turn to avoid incoming fire, a blaster strike snaps the cord connecting Obi-Wan to Dooku.
Dooku is briefly frighten when he falls from the trio.
Count Dooku almost falls before Kenobi caught him.
Ohnaka came and stood over his prisoners, once again taking them into custody.
Anakin angrily suggests to his master that they get rid of the "dead weight" much to Dooku's shock.
The Sith and Jedi look when their cell opens and guards enter.
The guards take Anakin and Obi-Wan away, while Dooku remains locked in his cell.
When the blackout hits the base, Dooku make his escape.
Noticing this, the Sith Lord silently opened the cell's door releasing him.
The Count sneaked behind the cell guard and strangled him with his shackles.
Dooku strangles the Weequay cell guard with his energy-binders and dragged him inside.
Falso was about to flee in a Flarestar-class attack shuttle knowing that Ohnaka would figure out his betrayal, when he was suddenly choked and lifted into the air by an unseen force.
Turk Falso and Barb Mentir make their way to a waiting starship when Falso stops mid-stride, clutching at his throat and Mentir watched as Count Dooku emerged from the shadows and manipulated Falso into shooting Mentir in the chest.
Dooku holds Turk Falso in a firm Force grip.
Falso being Force choked by Count Dooku.
Dooku crushes Turk's throat with the Force killing him.
Dooku casts aside the pirate's dead body.
The Count walks aboard the prepped pirate ship.
The Jedi sense through the Force the sudden departure of Count Dooku as a pirate saucer lifts off from the compound and disappears into the sky, and the Sith Lord escapes.
While the two battle droids moved into position faraway from the base, Lok Durd opened a hololink to Count Dooku.
Durd informed the Count that he had found a world perfect for the testing of the Defoliator.
Dooku tells Lok Durd the weapon better be worth the cost.
Count Dooku authorized general Lok Durd test of their new weapon, the Defoliator Deployment Tank on Maridun.
Lok Durd speaks with Dooku during the Defoliator's first test.
Dooku stated, through the hololink, that the new weapon was very impressive.
Durd is pleased with a successful test of his new weapon, but Count Dooku demands further evidence.
After the initial success of the weapon's effects on the battle droids, Dooku asked to him to test the weapon on living, sentient targets and Durd assured him that he would test it on the Lurmen colonists.
During the initial start of the Republic's return to Ryloth, Dooku assured Tambor that the Republic forces were spread thin in its sector and that it would be suicide for the Republic.
Dooku informs Tambor that his tactical droid has informed him of the "pitiful job" he has done of protecting the Separatists' investment on Ryloth.
Knowing that Tambor was no match for Windu, Dooku ordered him to retreat with valuables that can be taken with him and to destroy everything else on Ryloth.
Tambor is rather alarmed, but Dooku explains: Ryloth's fate will demonstrate to the galaxy the cost of a "Republic victory".
Count Dooku then contacted Tambor again, shocked that he had not left yet.
Dooku demanded Tambor that he needed to take off the planet, and steal every available resource on the only Separatist base at the city of Lessu.
Dooku, growing impatient with the Emir, ordered him to leave before the Republic arrives.
Count Dooku ordered TA-175 to bomb the capital after he and Tambor had left.
TA-175 reports to Dooku regarding Tambor's refusal to retreat in time, who believes this to be unfortunate.
The Count then ordered the tactical droid to order the Hyena-class bombers to destroy the capital Lessu immediately.
On Concordia, a man in Mandalorian armor is conversing with a hologram of Count Dooku.
The Mandalorian plotting with Dooku how to take over Mandalore.
The warrior is perturbed by the arrival of the Jedi, and Dooku promised to support Death Watch.
Dooku himself advised patience, proclaiming that the Republic's continued involvement in Mandalorian affairs, would spread discontent amongst the Mandalore populace, causing them to rebel to their cause so they can overthrow the Duchess.
Count Dooku, aboard a Munificent-class star frigate, discussing the final plans via hologram with Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla.
Vizsla was impatient, as both he and his men were anxious to fight, but Dooku recalled the plot that they had set into motion of manipulating the Republic Senate into ordering an occupation of Mandalore.
Dooku continued stating the Death Watch would appear as "liberators" when they struck back at the Republic occupation force and would thus gain Death Watch the people's support.
Dooku then ordered Vizsla to send a Death Watch assassin to Coruscant, as the Duchess Satine had to die.
Aboard a Munificent-class star frigate Dooku prepares to receive a transmission from his Master.
The Count informs Darth Sidious that Death Watch is ready to fight off the Republic forces.
Dooku believed the Mandalorians will be so resentful of the Republic invasion that when they arrive, the splinter group will be viewed as saviors by the people.
Sidious expresses concern about possible interference by the Duchess Satine, but is assured by Dooku that a Death Watch assassin will take care of her.
At the Death Watch base, a siren is blaring and a voice repeatedly orders all troops to stand down infuriating Pre Vizsla who complains to Dooku that his promise of Death Watch's rise to power on Mandalore failed.
Seething, Vizsla used the Count as a target for his frustration and stated his intention to continue with the invasion.
Dooku advised against such a rash action—despite the Death Watch's capability of conquering Mandalore, they would only be able to hold the planet for no more than a day if they did not have the people's support.
Dooku cited Vizsla's inexperience in battle, attributing it to his rashness.
The Sith tells Vizsla to have patience dismissing his attempts to premature conquer the planet.
Dooku stated that he had other ways of accomplishing their goal and Vizsla continues to angrily stare through the hologram.
When Pantoran Chairman Papanoida's daughters were kidnapped, Dooku offered his assistance in an attempt to coerce Pantora.
Count Dooku speaks with Ion Papanoida offering the Separatists help in finding his sisters.
Aboard his flagship, General Grievous communicates with a hologram of Dooku.
Dooku informs the cyborg warlord that his representatives in the Republic are counting on Grievous with disturbing the process.
Dooku ordered General Grievous to send droids disguised as sanitary units to commit acts of sabotage on the capital.
Grievous communicates with holograms of Dooku and Nix Card.
Dooku and Card tasked Grievous with overseeing the transfer of disguised demolition droids to Coruscant to wreak havoc and force the Senate to act.
Grievous snaps at Card, snarling that he takes orders only from Count Dooku.
On Raxus Secundus, in the Separatist Senate, a holographic Dooku officiates the assembly.
Amidst the widespread debate that broke out, Count Dooku called for order so that Mina Bonteri's bill could be brought to a vote.
As per the Bylaws of Independent Systems, Dooku held a voice vote.
Dooku called for a voice vote to open peace negotiations with the Republic.
Dooku asked the Parliament if any senators opposed the talks.
The Separatist Parliament in general approves this proposition and Dooku publicly favors the decision.
With the resolution passed, Dooku contacted the three conspirators on Coruscant, who were troubled by the development.
The Count did not share their concern; he knew that once the droids carried out their programming, the move for peace would be halted and the war would continue.
Dooku assures them that the impending Coruscant attack will snuff any chances of a peace agreement and the three will get their fair share.
After the bombing on Coruscant, Dooku sent a message to the Galactic Senate, accusing them of launching their own barbaric attack on the Separatists on their territory.
Dooku accuses the Republic of murdering the sponsor of their peace treaty, Mina Bonteri.
The hologram of Count Dooku officially withdraws the Confederate Senate's peace proposal.
In a seedy bar on Coruscant, the two thugs — Robonino and Chata Hyoki receive a holographic transmission from Dooku.
Dooku becomes aware of Senator Amidala's meddling.
Robonino tells Count Dooku that Padmé Amidala doesn't have the votes to stop the bill.
Dooku tells the bounty hunters to persuade senators to change their minds about a bill that would appropriate funds for millions of new clone troops.
Count Dooku urges the two deadbeats to employ some more drastic measures.
Dooku states something special is called for in Senator Amidala's case.
Dooku instructed them to assassinate Padmé Amidala.
The bounty hunters laugh and drink at the idea of murder while Dooku ends the holographic transmission.
During the Battle of Sullust, Count Dooku stood in his palace.
On his homeworld of Serenno, Tyranus clicks on his control console.
In his palace on Serenno, Count Dooku receives a holographic transmission from Darth Sidious.
Tyranus bows as Sidious' hologram materializes.
Lord Sidious told Dooku that he sensed a Disturbance in the Force stating his assassin has become very powerful.
Dooku tells his Master that Ventress is quite important to her.
Dooku tries to explain himself but Sidious orders him to be silent.
Sidious suspected Dooku was training Ventress to his Sith apprentice to destroy him, but Dooku assured that his loyalty was to him alone.
To prove his loyalty, the Count was ordered to eliminate Ventress and Dooku tried to convince Sidious not to do this, but his master snapped and demanded it.
Tyranus began to protest that Ventress was his most trusted subordinate, but as Sidious harshly repeated his demand, the Sith apprentice bowed and obeyed.
When Ventress' starfighter was critically damaged, she contacted Dooku for help.
Dooku tells his apprentice that she already lost the battle and informed her that he recalled her reinforcements.
Ventress implored Dooku to help destroy the Jedi and that she would prove it.
Dooku coldly states that Ventress has failed him for the last time, telling her that she was no longer his apprentice and that she would soon die.
Count Dooku made contact with TJ-912 via hologram on the bridge of her frigate.
Dooku orders the command ship carrying Ventress and the Jedi to be destroyed but TJ-912 questioned the order, but ultimately followed it when Dooku confirmed his intention.
The tactical droid aboard the attacking ship reports to Dooku that the command ship is destroyed and that their scanning indicated there were no survivors, unaware that Ventress had in fact escaped at the last moment.
Pleased his aim had presumably been accomplished, Count Dooku declared the tactical droid's work done and ordered her to recall the remaining ships of the fleet from the area, an order she acknowledged.
Dooku sits solemnly in his palace after "killing" his apprentice.
Believing Ventress to be dead, Tyranus contacted Darth Sidious.
Sidious asks why Lord Tyranus contacted him.
Dooku states he has done what his Master has asked Asajj Ventress is dead.
Darth Sidious was pleased with Dooku's obedience in killing Ventress, proving his loyalty to the Dark Lord.
After ending the holo-communication with Sidious, Dooku was now without his most trusted assassin.
In her feverish dreams, Ventress recalls her memories of meeting Dooku.
In the dreams, Dooku tells Ventress he will teach her the ways of the dark side but she had to prove herself.
The Count asleep in his bed while Asajj Ventress and her two Nightsisters became invisible and infiltrated Castle Serenno on Serenno.
The assassins enter Dooku's sleeping chamber through the ceiling.
Ventress shot a poison dart that had been dipped in Nightsister poison into Dooku's neck waking him from his slumber.
Startled, Dooku jumps out of bed and retrieves his lightsaber with the Force from his nightstand.
The Count winces when he pulls out the poisoned dart from his neck.
Dooku keeps his guard up with the activated lightsaber in hand.
Dooku armed himself with his lightsaber, but quickly began to lose his vision as a result of the poison.
The Count, blinded by a toxic dart, was under the impression the assassins were Jedi.
Nevertheless he attacked his assailants, who he assumed to be Jedi on the basis of their lightsaber blades.
Ventress attacked Dooku with a lightsaber, beginning their duel in the Count's bedroom.
Posing as Jedi, Ventress and her Nightsister accomplices took along stolen Jedi lightsabers to engage Dooku in combat.
His senses dulled by Ventress' poison dart and the cloak of invisibility which surrounds his attackers, Dooku is caught at a disadvantage but fights back furiously.
Ventress, Karis, and Naa'leth went in on the Sith Lord, striking to kill their target who remained a dangerous and talented foe despite his impairments.
Dooku fights back against both the cloaked assassins.
Count Dooku manages to shove one of the invisible Nightsisters against the wall with the Force.
Dooku engages the other cloaked assassin while Ventress readies herself.
Though his vision was distorted, Dooku is able to effectively fend off a prolonged lightsaber attack.
Dooku and the assassins move the duel from his bedroom into an adjacent hallway.
Dooku crosses blades with both the cloaked Ventress and Naa'leth.
The assassins advance on Dooku while he backs himself away.
While Dooku arms himself against the two assailants, Karis scales the wall past the Count.
Karis lands behind Dooku and activates her lightsaber while Ventress and Naa'leth point their blades at him.
Ventress and two other Nightsisters fought Tyranus with Jedi lightsabers.
Dooku kicks one of the cloaked assassins away.
The duel eventually moved into Dooku's office.
The three cloaked assassins surround the Count on the balcony below his office.
Dooku leaps off the balcony and the others follow to the floor below.
Tyranus activates his lightsaber close to his face.
Dooku and a cloaked Ventress salute each other with their lightsabers before dueling.
Dooku, Ventress and the Nightsisters resume their duel.
Count Dooku blocks Ventress' strike while Karis comes up from behind him.
Dooku and the invisible assassin exchange sword bouts.
Dooku and the cloaked assassins fight throughout his throne room.
Count Dooku and a cloaked Naa'leth combine lightsaber blades.
A cloaked Asajj attacks Dooku while the other two watch.
The Count blocks a lightsaber strike from an invisible Karis.
Dooku swats away Ventress' blue blade.
The Count fends off an attack from Naa'leth's green lightsaber.
Dooku and the invisible assassins fight throughout his office.
The assassins close in on Count Dooku.
Dooku becomes exhausted during his duel with the assassins.
The Count faltered and was slammed into his desk by a powerful Force push from Ventress.
The Nightsisters believe they have Dooku at their mercy.
The assassins eventually win the advantage, however, disarming Dooku of his lightsaber.
Ventress, who had managed to stay disguised during the entire confrontation, managed to disarm the Sith Lord.
Nearly beaten, Dooku, who fakes being completely drained of energy, instead channels all of his rage.
The Dathomirian nearly took the Sith Lord's life, but Dooku surprised his three assassins with a sudden and overwhelming blast of Force lightning.
As Ventress readied her death blow, Dooku electrifies Ventress with in one extremely powerful blast of Force lightning.
The blast of lightning incapacitated all three Nightsisters, lifting them into the air.
Dooku hurls bolts of Force lightning at the three and held them in mid-air.
Dooku then flings the three through his window and out of the palace towards the forests below.
Count Dooku evicted the assassins from his palace out the window and over a cliff, ending the attack and disrupted their invisibility spell.
After the assassination attempt, the palace sustained damage in the process.
Having only narrowly survived the attempt on his life, Dooku was now vulnerable.
Dooku receives a hologram from Mother Talzin, who was aware of the loss of his prized assassin.
The Count questions Talzin how she is aware of Ventress' demise.
Talzin responds that she has seen this as Ventress was once one of her Nightsisters.
Dooku acknowledged Ventress' talents and the power of Dathomirian warriors.
Talzin offered the Count a replacement to his lost female assassin with a highly skilled Nightbrother to train as a pupil.
Dooku, seeing this as an opportunity to get the new apprentice he desired, agreed to the Nightsister's offer.
Dooku traveled across the galaxy to enlist the Nightsisters.
Count Dooku arrives on Dathomir at Mother Talzin's invitation.
Dooku thanks Talzin for receiving him.
During their meeting, Dooku asked that the Nightsisters ally with him and pledge themselves to the Confederacy.
Dooku tells the Clan Mother that they could certainly use the Nightsister powers against the Jedi.
Talzin refused his generous offer and stated that their loyalty was to their own clan and said the only reason she is helping him is because long ago he chose to help her and that she hoped to never make contact with Dooku again once their business was done.
Inside her lair, Talzin brought Dooku to a chamber where she began to conjure something using the power of raw spirit ichor.
Mother Talzin offered Dooku a goblet of blackroot the shaman conjured for him through use of the alchemical base of all magic.
Dooku drank the brewed potion in order to replenish himself after the journey from distant Serenno.
Talzin asks if he recalls the Sith warrior Darth Maul, to which Dooku responds that he does, but remembers that he was killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi a decade ago on Naboo.
Talzin suggests recruiting a male from a village from the other side of the planet, a warrior of Darth Maul's caliber and said that there were others of his bloodline who still lived and could be as powerful as Maul.
Dooku believes the Jedi to have perpetrated a previous attack on him and Ventress to be dead.
With Ventress "dead" and the Jedi attacks increasing, Dooku accepted Talzin's offer as securing a new personal assassin is essential.
Dooku departs Dathomir, leaving the Clan Mother to make the arrangements.
A shuttle carrying Dooku's new apprentice arrives on Serenno.
Talzin and two Nightsisters disembark their shuttle on Serenno, where the Count is expecting them.
Count Dooku greets Talzin when she arrives with his new apprentice.
Talzin and fellow Nightsisters Karis and Talia escorted Opress aboard a transport shuttle to Dooku's homeworld of Serenno and presented him.
Dooku was impressed by the sight of Opress and how Talzin described him as the fiercest of his kind, assuring Dooku that Opress would serve him well.
Count Dooku smiles and agrees with the Clan Mother that he shall.
Once inside the palace, Dooku demands proof of Savage's abilities as a warrior.
Dooku then projects a hologram of the Temple of Eedit on the jungle planet Devaron.
Dooku tells Savage that because the temple served as a military outpost for the Republic and the Jedi Order, the base's capture would enable the Confederacy to conquer that area of the galaxy.
Dooku sends Opress to Devaron to finish the battle, destroy the Republic forces and capture the Temple.
After slaughtering the Republic forces present there almost singlehandedly, including two Jedi, Savage contacted Count Dooku.
With all droids, Jedi, and clones slaughtered, Opress reached the Temple of Eedit and reported his success to Dooku via Imagecaster who was impressed by the work of his new acolyte and had him return to Serenno at once.
Upon Opress' return to Dooku's palace, Dooku told Opress that he foresaw that he would do great things as his new apprentice.
Thoroughly satisfied, Dooku takes Opress in as his new apprentice.
Dooku promises to teach Savage in the ways of the dark side.
Dooku tells Savage that his powers will rival that of the great Sith Lord Darth Maul.
Count Dooku vows they will be even more powerful than Lord Sidious, and they will rule the galaxy together.
Dooku smiles content when Savage says he is at his disposal.
On Serenno, Dooku begins Savage Opress' training in the skills of the Sith.
Dooku activates his lightsaber starting the lesson.
Count Dooku points his blade at Savage.
Opress with his new double-bladed lightsaber received training from Dooku.
Tyranus training Opress in lightsaber combat.
In the throne room of the Count's palace, Opress engaged in his first practice session of lightsaber combat with Dooku.
Opress was the first to attack, swinging his lightsaber at Dooku with powerful strikes but his Master easily avoided his attacks.
Dooku tells his new apprentice he has no technique.
Savage aggressively attacks his Master who blocks the lightsaber strike.
Dooku, a highly accomplished swordsman who owed his reputation to his previous career as a Jedi Master, swats away Opress' blade.
Opress was disarmed of his lightsaber by Dooku.
Tyranus levitates Opress off the ground with a Force choke.
While choking Savage, Dooku calls his skills sloppy.
Dooku holds Opress in the air with a Force choke before dropping him.
Savage tries to charge Dooku with his strength but the Sith merely elbows him in the back.
Count Dooku retrieves Opress' double-bladed lightsaber.
Dooku then brought both his and Opress's lightsabers around his apprentice's throat, ending the duel.
Dooku looms over Savage after besting him holding two lightsabers at his throat in a very deadly scissor formation.
Despite Opress's lack of skill with a lightsaber, Dooku sought to hone his natural ability in combat by drawing upon the Nightbrother's strong feelings of hate.
Dooku asks his apprentice if he is up to the challenge, and Opress kneels before his master.
Opress's next lesson in Sith training took place outside on the palace grounds with his Master.
Dooku begins using the Force in a lesson to Savage.
Count Dooku simultaneously raised a number of heavy stone pillars.
Opress witnesses a demonstration of the power of the Force by Dooku.
Dooku tasked Opress with accomplishing the same feat.
Reaching out with the Force, Opress was initially able to lift only a few of the pillars to a meager height.
Dooku tells Savage to concentrate as he is able to lift them for a moment.
Opress deemed the task impossible, and Dooku berates it is only because he believes it so.
Drawing upon his apprentice's hate, Dooku blasted him with Force lightning.
Dooku tested Savage with his trademark ruthlessness, teaching the Nightbrother to unleash his true power by channeling his rage and fear.
Dooku was a harsh taskmaster who tortured Opress with his Sith lightning.
Dooku strives to stir Opress' anger and hatred in order to unlock the power of the dark side within him, torturing and agitating his disciple with demeaning criticism and Force lightning.
Savage snarlingly tells Dooku he hates him and the Sith says good.
Count Dooku attacks Opress several times with Force lightning and agitating his disciple with demeaning criticism.
While being electrocuted, Opress gained a crude proficiency of the Force and was able to lift the blocks a greater distance.
Although Opress questioned how one could defend against Force lightning, Dooku withheld the method of resistance to avoid making his Sith apprentice too powerful, promising to reveal such secrets in due time.
Dooku and Opress walk towards a solar sailor after his Sith lessons.
The Count tells Opress that he has completed the initial stages of his Sith training.
Dooku tells his apprentice that he is sending him on another mission to Toydaria to bring King Katuunko to him alive and kill anyone who gets in his way.
Opress obeys his Master's orders and departs Serenno.
Count Dooku awaits his apprentice in his chambers aboard a Providence-class destroyer.
Opress brought Katuunko's corpse to Dooku entering the bridge.
Dooku turns and sees Opress bring in King Katuunko's corpse.
Receiving Opress on the bridge of his destroyer, Dooku was not pleased with his performance, calling him an ignorant beast, for he had killed Katuunko in his haste to escape from the Jedi.
Dooku subjected his apprentice to a bout of Force lightning for his disobedience.
Enraged, Dooku starts angrily electrocuting Opress with Force lightning.
Opress pleads with Dooku for forgiveness, to which the Sith replies that forgiveness is not the way of the dark side.
Dooku continues to punish Savage with a volley of Sith lightning.
As Savage is hunched over in pain, Asajj Ventress appears revealing herself to be alive, to the shock of Tyranus.
Dooku tells Opress that he could make amends for his mistake.
Dooku orders Opress to kill Ventress but Asajj used magic to turn Opress against his Sith Master.
Ventress touched her finger to Opress' forehead, recalling the memory of his allegiance to her and activating the spell that ensured his loyalty to the Nightsisters, they attack the Count in concert.
A vicious duel ensued, with Dooku just barely fending off attacks from the Dathomirian warriors.
Back on the bridge, Ventress made the first move, lashing out ferociously at her former master and Dooku easily blocked her strikes and kicked her aside.
It was then that Savage lunged into the battle.
Recovering herself, Ventress stood and attacked with Savage simultaneously.
Tyranus, under attack from both his apprentices.
Opress assisting Ventress in challenging Dooku in the ensuring lightsaber duel.
Dooku tries to slash at Ventress while Savage charges.
Ventress and Dooku block each other's strikes.
Ventress repeatedly sends lightsaber bouts towards Dooku.
Count Dooku proved more than a match for both of them.
Dooku and Ventress fight through out the bridge.
Dooku was still able to block or avoid every blow before kicking Ventress to the ground again.
When Ventress was knocked aside by the Sith Lord, Opress took over, relentlessly battering away at Dooku's defenses.
Attacking alone and with much force, Savage swung wildly at the Sith Lord.
Dooku, a master of lightsaber dueling, simply evaded every swing without even parrying.
Opress won a brief advantage over Dooku by towering over him.
But, on the last downward chop, the Count was forced to block and the strength behind the blow sent him flying across the room, knocking the lightsaber from his hand.
Opress disarmed Dooku and knocked him against a wall.
Yet his victory was short-lived, as Dooku recovered in time to evade his advances and repelled him with Force lightning.
As Opress raised his blade to strike down the Sith, Dooku unleashed a blast of Force lightning.
The Nightbrother had no defense and the lightning threw him across the room.
The Sith Lord then attempted to recover his lightsaber with a Force pull.
But his former apprentice managed to pull it as well, sending it flying to another part of the bridge.
Without his lightsaber, all Dooku could do was dodge and evade as Ventress hacked and slashed at him with her blades.
Opress once again tried to strike down the Sith while he faced Ventress.
Ventress and Savage aggressively assail Dooku.
Dooku sidestepped Opress and shocked with lightning a second time.
Tyranus electrocutes Opress with Sith lightning.
As he continued to electrocute the Zabrak, Ventress swung her blades at Dooku, who ducked away.
Dooku pulled his lightsaber back into his hand with the Force.
The two continued to duel as Opress recovered.
Regaining his lightsaber, Dooku focused on dueling Ventress.
Standing up, the Nightbrother attempted to lunge at Dooku, only to be greeted by another blast of Force lightning.
Asajj attacks Dooku, commanding Savage to rejoin the fight.
Ventress, disgusted at his weakness, repeatedly ordered him to kill Dooku, but each time he made an attack, he was electrocuted.
Dooku leans back avoiding a lightsaber strike from Ventress.
Savage tries time and again to attack Dooku, but cannot repel his lightning attacks.
Dooku simultaneously counters Opress attacks with more Force lightning, preventing him from rejoining the fight.
When Opress admitted that Dooku was too strong, Ventress became even more enraged, saying that his lack of ability would not be her undoing.
Dooku responded that a failed apprentice made for an awful teacher.
Both Ventress and Dooku criticize her pawn's inability to strike at Dooku and began berating him for his weakness.
At that moment, Opress's fury surpassed his loyalty to Ventress, and he broke free of her spell of allegiance; beaten and wounded, Opress turned on both Ventress and Dooku, grabbing them in a powerful Force choke.
Opress, torn between his loyalty to Ventress and his inability to defeat Dooku, roared in fury and used the Force to choke both of them, lifting them off the ground.
Dooku and Ventress both struggled helplessly as Opress threw them both across the room, slamming them into the wall.
As the pair got to their feet, Opress lunged in and began to attack them both, striking at them.
In an ensuing three-way duel, Opress directed overpowering lightsaber strikes at his opponents, knocking them backward a second time.
Dooku slammed against the window barrier and lands on the floor.
Momentarily ceasing their duel, Dooku and Ventress retaliated with a blast of lightning and a powerful push respectively in concert to hurtle the Nightbrother against the entry door.
The truce did not last long, however, as the Count attempted to electrocute Ventress, who absorbed the bolts into her lightsaber.
Seeing his chance to escape, Dooku opened a hatch in the floor and leapt down it.
While Opress was catching his breath, Dooku fled from the bridge via an escape hatch, and Ventress pursued him without the aid of her one-time servant.
In the corridors below the bridge, Asajj pursued Dooku.
Dooku tells Ventress she is no match for him with without the aid of her monster.
Ventress retaliates that it remains to be seen and Dooku grants her request.
Ventress followed Dooku into the lower levels of the destroyer where she once again confronted her former Master.
Asajj attacks him with her lightsabers resuming their duel.
Dooku was able to deflect her assault.
The two continued their duel throughout the vessel and into the escape pod bays.
Ventress rolls away with Dooku in pursuit of her.
Dooku and Asajj exchange lightsaber strikes.
The Count shoves Asajj away with a Force push.
Dooku tries to slash at Ventress only for her to raise her blades in a block.
Dooku ended the confrontation by throwing the Nightsister into a bulkhead and disarming her with telekinetic Force.
After a few moments of strikes and parries, Dooku managed to jerk Ventress' lightsabers from her hands with the Force.
While pinning Ventress against the wall, Dooku subjected her to a blast of electricity pouring the blast into her body.
Dooku approaches a wounded Ventress telling her it's time to end this.
Standing over his wounded foe, Dooku raised his blade and stabbed downward; trying to finish the job he had failed to do once before.
Dooku moved to execute her with a swift downward strike.
But, just as the blade was about to pierce her, Ventress narrowly avoided death by using the Force to push his blade into the piping beside her instead with harsh gasses flowing out of the severed pipe and into Dooku's face, blinding him for a moment.
Ventress seized the opportunity and recovered her lightsabers before diving into an escape pod and jettisoning to safety.
Dooku attempted to stop her but the pod's path took her down towards Toydaria.
Unable to pursue the woman who had escaped him for a second time, Dooku seethed with rage.
Osi Sobeck was later contacted by Count Dooku in the Citadel.
Dooku was upset as he heard about the Jedi's success of rescuing Piell and and his men.
Sobeck carefully updated the disappointed Dooku on the state of the Jedi prisoners.
Dooku contacted the Citadel's warden, Commander Osi Sobeck about Jedi Council Member Even Piell's information on the Nexus Route.
Dooku demanded a status report and told Sobeck that he heard about "problems" with the prisoners.
Dooku asked Sobeck if this matter would require his presence.
Sobeck assured Dooku that he will recapture the prisoners and secure the navigational data of the Nexus Route.
After the Count expressed his frustration about the conflict, Sobeck assured him that everything was under control and ended transmission.
On the Citadel grounds, Warden Osi Sobeck speaks with Count Dooku via hologram.
Dooku contacted him again, angry that Sobeck had been avoiding his transmissions.
Sobeck apologizes but Dooku was growing impatient with his repeated failures.
Count Dooku once again asked if he had recaptured the prisoners.
Sobeck replied that this was not the case, but his troops would soon capture them and Dooku stated he must have the Nexus Route coordinates, for they can lead directly to Coruscant and facilitate a surprise attack on the Republic.
Dooku told Sobeck that his honesty was the only thing keeping him alive, though the Count decides to give him another chance until success or failure are a certainty.
Riff Tamson was then contacted by Count Dooku, who dispatched Trident-class assault ships and Aqua droids to bolster the Quarren forces.
Tamson tells Dooku that Nossor Ri and the Quarren were with them completely.
Dooku is pleased, and promised Tamson control of Mon Cala once the Separatists captured it.
The Count then authorized the attack by telling Tamson to proceed as planned.
Riff Tamson confers with the holographic form of Count Dooku, who demands an update on the civil war.
After the initial victory, Ri and Tamson situated themselves at the Central palace of the Mon Calamari capital where Dooku insisted they press on and take full control of the planet.
Dooku does not want Lee-Char to become a symbol of hope for the Mon Calamari people.
Dooku also ordered that all prisoners, including women and children, be processed and sent to internment camps below the city to work.
Ri spoke with concern for the captured Mon Calamari if the children could be spared the fate of a slave, but a furious Dooku silenced the Quarren leader and insisted all Mon Calamari be sent to work as slaves.
The Count revealed he was sending Tamson reinforcements that should be kept in reserve until the Republic launched a counterattack.
Back in the throne room, Tamson and Nossor Ri contacted Dooku and updated him with the situation.
With Lee-Char still at large, Dooku was still not satisfied and ordered Tamson to use any means necessary to draw him out of hiding.
When Dooku stressed the importance of finding Lee-Char and killing him, Ri inquired if all this was necessary since they had already won the battle and could start rebuilding.
Dooku scoffed at the idea and sternly reminded Ri about the bigger war going on outside the planet, a war in which Ri had pledged his allegiance to the CIS.
The Separatist leader exhibited no interest in the Quarren's opinions — he only seeks to exploit them in the larger war against the Republic.
Dooku asks Tamson if his soldiers had arrived, Riff states his squad of several Karkarodon enforcers had arrived on Mon Cala to aid in holding the planet.
Nossor Ri's sinking feeling that he has forged a terrible alliance grew as he sees that Tamson brought his own forces of the same species to the planet.
Pleased, Dooku ordered Tamson to continue their plan before cutting the transmission.
In his private offices, Minister Rish Loo contacts Count Dooku and reports his progress of creating turmoil on Naboo.
Loo is in fact secretly in league with Dooku, who has promised him the freedom of his people in exchange for aiding the Separatists in invading Naboo.
Loo is paving the way for a Separatist invasion of the planet, in return for a place in of power in Dooku's new order.
Dooku tells Rish that he will be most influencial before cutting off the transmission.
When Darth Sidious got news of General Grievous's capture, he contacted Tyranus in Rish Loo's secret lab on Naboo.
Sidious tells Tyranus that Grievous was still needed in their plans for the Clone Wars and asks what is to be done.
Sidious tells Dooku to lure Skywalker into a trap, capture the Jedi, and exchange him for Grievous.
At first, Tyranus doubted that the Republic would trade Grievous for Skywalker, but Sidious was confident that Senator Padmé Amidala would do so nonetheless and Dooku complies with his Master's orders before ending the transmission.
Dooku then contacted Rish Loo who was eluding the pursuing Skywalker on a speeder bike.
Dooku ordered Loo to leave a trail for Skywalker to follow leading him into a trap.
Loo eventually arrived at his secret lair to meet with Count Dooku followed by Anakin.
Dooku stands and greets Anakin as he enters the Naboo lair.
When Rish Loo approached Dooku and began to speak of their ongoing plans, Dooku denounced Loo as a "fool".
Finished with the traitorous Gungan minister, Dooku kills Rish Loo by abruptly stabbing him with his lightsaber.
Rish Loo's corpse falls to the chambers floor at Dooku's feet.
Anakin asked why Dooku would bring the war to Naboo.
Dooku told him that the war was started there by the Sith.
The Count circles around with lanterns flying around the chamber after revealing the Sith's hand in the first invasion of Naboo more than ten years ago.
Dooku and Anakin then briefly had a heated discussion regarding the invasion, in which Dooku revealed that the Sith were not only behind the current invasion, but had orchestrated the first invasion as well because the Sith control everything.
Dooku ignites his Sith lightsaber and begins the duel.
Skywalker fights Dooku in a fierce lightsaber duel.
Skywalker duels the Count, who blocks a strike from him.
Dooku clashes his blade against Skywalker's.
A close-up of Count Dooku during the duel.
Dooku and Skywalker locked in a blade-lock with their lightsabers.
Skywalker and Dooku then engaged each other in lightsaber combat.
Both Jedi and Sith lightsabers clash together causing them to spark.
Anakin initially took the advantage, forcing Dooku to break off the bout by telekinetically barraging Skywalker with lamp droids.
Dooku then revealed his trump card, four MagnaGuards.
While Anakin managed to deflect this barrage, Dooku smirked at his disadvantage.
Count Dooku summoned MagnaGuards to help him.
Dooku about to give the MagnaGuards the order to attack.
Dooku sicks the droid bodyguards on Skywalker.
While the MagnaGuards battle Skywalker, Dooku walks into another room.
The MagnaGuard's electrostaffs surround and protect Dooku.
Skywalker sends two droid bodyguards towards Dooku who continues walking.
Skywalker attempts to attack the Count from behind.
Dooku dodges Anakin's swinging lightsaber strikes.
Count Dooku ignites his blade and clashes against Skywalker's.
The MagnaGuards joined the fray, and gave Dooku the upper hand when he managed to disarm Skywalker.
Skywalker became incapacitated by several electric shocks and attacks from the MagnaGuard's electrostaffs.
The Magnaguards then pinned Skywalker to the ground, but calling upon his anger, he knocked them away with a Force Repulse.
Skywalker used a Force Wave to knock back the Magnaguards, surprising Dooku.
Dooku then pinned Anakin against the wall with the Force.
Count Dooku assaulted Skywalker with a Force choke.
Dooku blasts Skywalker with Sith lightning while still be held with the Force.
Dooku ultimately subdued Skywalker and brings down his unconsciousness body.
After the duel, Count Dooku pants in exhaustion due to his old age.
Shortly following the captures of Grievous and Skywalker, Padmé Amidala was attempting to contact Anakin from Otoh Gunga, when Dooku appeared on her holoprojector.
Dooku, using Skywalker's communicator, contacted Senator Amidala.
Inquiring as to what he wanted, Dooku informed Amidala that he had captured Skywalker who was held in a containment field.
Padmé, shocked and upset at the capture of her husband, was conflicted between her duties to the Republic and her feelings for Anakin.
Dooku then stated that he would be willing to exchange Skywalker for Grievous in a prisoner transfer.
When Senator Amidala refused the offer, Dooku commanded his droids to torture Skywalker through the use of several electric shocks.
Padmé cannot make the decision easily as Grievous was a valuable prisoner but could not abandoned Anakin causing Dooku to grin.
Torn between her feelings for Anakin and her commitment to the welfare of the Republic, Dooku gave her an hour to come to a decision.
Count Dooku and his Separatist forces arrive on Kiros to pressure Governor Roshti and his colony of Togruta into siding with the Confederacy.
When Dooku arrived with an invasion fleet of battle droids, Roshti again stated his wish for his people to remain neutral in the conflict.
Dooku ignored the Governor, and offers his "protection", leaving little room for negotiation.
Dooku grabs Roshti's shoulder insisting on giving the Togruta people sanctuary.
Darts D'Nar then spoke with Count Dooku and Zygerrian Prime Minister Atai Molec about the last slave shipment.
When Kenobi entered the main room of D'Nar's headquarters, he saw the commander talking to Dooku and the Zygerrian Atai Molec via a holoprojector, assuring them that the situation on the planet was under his control.
As Kenobi entered the room, he was taken under guard by two commando droids, Dooku introduced him and Molec growled.
Dooku then ordered D'Nar to bring Kenobi to him on his knees before ending the transmission.
Count Dooku arrives at Zygerria to negotiate the acquisition of millions of slaves for the Sith cause that his master had stated.
Dooku assures Sidious that the Queen's defiance won't sent back his plans and the Sith Lord orders him to gain her cooperation — or end her rule if she fails to comply.
Dooku enters the Royal Palace of Zygerria.
Queen Scintel then welcomed Dooku, despite having not asked him to come though Dooku then told her that Molec was the one who had asked him to come.
Dooku tells Miraj that she forgets that he was once a Jedi.
A slave offers Dooku and the Queen refreshments.
Scintel then told him of her plans to break and enslave the Jedi.
The Count sips his wine as he listens to the Queen's plans.
Miraj explains that she intends to break the will of the Jedi, starting with Obi-Wan Kenobi, through the hardship and cruelty at Kadavo.
Dooku finds her plans ambitious, but he has no interest in enslaving the Jedi.
Dooku told Scintel that he ultimately planned to exterminate the Jedi, not enslave them and ordered her to summon Skywalker so he could personally execute him.
Count Dooku warned her that her power over Skywalker was an illusion and once again ordered her to kill Skywalker.
Miraj Scintel defiantly refuses Dooku's orders.
Dooku then states that perhaps her Prime Minister would carry out the deed.
Molec saw his queen as unworthy to rule and decided to side with Dooku, Scintel then pulled out her electro-whip.
Dooku easily throttles her through the Force before she can bring her weapon to bear.
The Queen was strangled by Dooku by way of the Force.
Dooku holds Queen Miraj in a Force choke levitating her body off the ground.
When Anakin barges into the royal chamber, Dooku releases his hold on the gasping queen.
Dooku tells Skywalker if he takes one more step he'll kill Scintel.
Count Dooku activates his lightsaber challenging Skywalker.
Dooku lights his blade in the throne room.
Dooku points his lightsaber blade at Skywalker.
Dooku angrily glares before the duel.
Anakin, still without his lightsaber, grabs Miraj's energy whip.
Dooku blocks the electric whip with his saber.
Skywalker futilely dueled Dooku, but he is no match for the skilled swordsman.
Dooku tried to slash Skywalker but he managed to dodge the attack.
Dooku disarmed Anakin knocking the electro-whip from his hand.
Count Dooku blasts Skywalker with Force lightning.
Tyranus tortures Skywalker with Force lightning in the Zygerrian royal palace.
Darth Tyranus slowly increases the intensity of the lightning.
The guards then stormed into the room asking about the Queen, with Dooku still torturing Anakin.
As concerned palace guards ran into the chamber, Dooku claims that Skywalker had killed the queen.
The guards, believing that Skywalker had murdered their queen, tried to kill him on the orders of Dooku.
Finding himself outnumbered and outgunned without his lightsaber, Anakin picks up the dying queen and flees from the palace with Dooku trying to stop him but managed to escape.
In the control room of the Kadavo facility, Obi-wan and Rex are brought before Keeper Agruss and a hologram of Dooku.
Dooku summoned both Kenobi and Rex to the facility's command center and told the two about his intention to dispose of them.
Dooku then gave orders to Agruss that Rex and Kenobi be killed.
Count Dooku converses with the Jedi through a holo comlink, announcing their impending execution.
Agruss, under the order of Count Dooku, prepared to execute Obi-Wan and Rex, but the men of the Republic overpowered the guards while Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano led an assault by clone forces to liberate the slaves.
Dooku senses through the Force that Skywalker is leading the attack to free the slaves.
Keeper Agruss and Dooku, through holoconnection, monitor the battle.
Dooku gives Obi-Wan a grim ultimatum; if Skywalker does not surrender, all the slaves will be killed.
A guard informs Agruss and Dooku that Jedi reinforcements have arrived out of hyperspace.
In the confusion of the attack, Kenobi and Rex broke free of their restraints and began disabling their guards while Dooku looked on.
Lux Bonteri is taken to the vessel which brought the Separatist delegation to Mandalore and before the holographic projection of Count Dooku.
Dooku is hardly impressed with Lux's bravery.
Bonteri confronts Dooku, accusing Dooku for the murder of his mother.
Count Dooku, unaware of Bonteri's holotrace device, denied his involvement in Mina Bonteri's death.
Dooku tells the commando droids that he thinks they should reunite Lux with his mother.
Dooku then coldly ordered the commando droids to execute Bonteri for treason.
Aboard the junker, Moralo Eval contacts Count Dooku.
Moralo Eval apologizes to Dooku for the delay and will reach Serenno soon.
Dooku counters that Eval make no more excuses.
The hologram of Dooku warns Moralo that time is running short and Eval concurs before ending the transmission.
Count Dooku escorted by MagnaGuards sees the battered yacht arrive on Serenno.
The trio consisting of the disguised Obi-Wan, Moralo Eval, and Cad Bane arrives at Castle Serenno, where the Count himself welcomes them, although the latter chastises Eval for his delay.
The Separatist leader welcomes the trio to the next stage of the conspiracy and invites Bane and Hardeen to participate, promising a worthy reward for success.
Dooku asks Eval to ready the contestants for the tournament.
Dooku with Eval and a squad of droid guards welcome the bounty hunters to Serenno.
With Hardeen and Bane's participation, Count Dooku has a dozen bounty hunters for his challenge to determine which ones are the best.
Dooku then showed them "The Box," a floating cubelike station that served as the tournament arena.
The Count explained that five most skilled among the survivors would participate in a job that would pay very well.
Unarmed, all of them are to face a life-and-death challenge in the Box and only the first five survivors will be chosen for the task Dooku has in store for them, in return for a handsome reward.
Dooku states the surviving recruits will carry out an important assignment that will bring the Republic to its pitiful knees.
While watching the bounty hunters performance, Dooku asked Eval about Rako Hardeen while both where watching the tournament from the control room of the Box.
Eval then explained that Hardeen recently killed Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi with a sniper rifle which apparently interested Dooku.
Dooku notices that "Hardeen" is carrying everyone and tells Eval to watch him closely.
Dooku tells Moralo that he is beginning to think Hardeen may be the best one to lead the operation.
While Dooku's interest in Rako Hardeen grows, he becomes more and more disappointed in Moralo Eval.
The Count tells Eval that he will perhaps put Hardeen in charge, with Moralo stating Dooku promised him the lead role.
The Sith Lord gives the criminal mastermind one last chance to change his mind.
Moralo Eval leaves the control room while Dooku remains behind.
A close-up of Dooku grinning as he watches the monitors.
Eval attempted to drop Hardeen to the flames but he was saved by Bane, who told Eval if he wanted to kill Hardeen he should do it like a man and Dooku agreed with this.
Count Dooku's patience with Eval has come to an end and dropped him in the room to fight Hardeen face to face.
Dooku observes as Eval attempted to fight unfairly, calling in probe droids and bringing up a maze in the floor and attempting to burn Hardeen.
Dooku's hologram is projected into the wall as he watches Hardeen battle Eval.
Nevertheless, Hardeen defeated Eval eventually, and Dooku ordered Hardeen to finish Eval off, but being Kenobi in disguise and a Jedi, refused to kill Eval to Dooku's disappointment.
Dooku, however, congratulated the remaining bounty hunters for surviving the Box and announced that the job was in fact to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine during the Festival of Light on Naboo.
Dooku assigns Cad Bane in charge of the operation, as he had planned.
Dooku and the bounty hunter team infiltrate a warehouse in Theed, eliminating the hapless workers.
Now in private, Count Dooku lays out the kidnapping plans.
Dooku, Moralo Eval, Cad Bane and his team, consisting of Obi-Wan, Embo, Derrown and Twazzi, claim possession of a small hangar in Theed by murdering the mechanics inside.
Dooku and the bounty hunters plan their attack.
But as the group leave for their posts, Dooku takes Bane aside for a moment and advises him to keep a special lookout for Hardeen.
As the team departed, Dooku alerted Bane to "Hardeen", tasking him to keep a close on "Hardeen" as he suspected something wrong about him.
That night, with the Republic security forces having been sent back to Coruscant, Palpatine and Anakin instead of a banquet however, they instead came face to face with Count Dooku himself.
The conversation halts as they enter the banquet hall -- with Dooku waiting for them and welcomes the pair.
Anakin yells that Dooku made a mistake.
Dooku revealed that he had never intended for the other bounty hunters to kidnap Palpatine; he had simply been using them as a diversion so he could launch his own kidnapping plot.
With only Anakin left to protect Palpatine, Dooku asserted that he could easily kidnap the Chancellor and activated his lightsaber.
Anakin quickly cut down the two Magnaguards in the room and rushed forward to duel with Dooku, ordering Palpatine to flee.
Now, guarded by a lone Jedi, the Chancellor is vulnerable and Dooku ignites his blade and moves toward Anakin.
However, the Chancellor was intercepted by a third MagnaGuard as Anakin viciously attacked Dooku and rapidly drove him back.
Skywalker and Count Dooku rematch on Naboo.
Overwhelmed by Anakin's strength, Dooku attempted to use the Force to stave the Jedi off.
The Count telekinetically blasted him back a short distance.
Dooku used the Force to throw chairs and cutlery at Anakin, who easily batted them aside.
Before using the Force to fling various bits of cutlery and a chair at his infuriated opponent.
Dooku continues throwing items at Skywalker using the Force.
The Count tosses another chair at Anakin further infuriating him.
Dooku levitates the silverware and cutlery from the table.
Count Dooku raises the dishes into the air.
Dooku flings the cutlery and silverware towards the Jedi.
The small barrage of items did nothing but enrage Anakin further, and he attacked Dooku with renewed fury.
Dooku managed to intercept a thrust from Anakin by telekinetically moving a chair in front of him.
The Count could not hold his ground against Anakin's assault.
Anakin pushed forward against the chair that had intercepted his attack, nearly driving his lightsaber through Dooku's skull.
Before the Sith Lord managed to hit Anakin with another telekinetic blast.
However the attack had virtually no effect on Anakin, and he quickly re-engaged the now visibly shaken Count.
Dooku and Skywalker resume their duel in the banquet hall.
Skywalker and Dooku cross blades.
Dooku smirks while being crossed in a blade-lock.
The fight moves into the hallway with the Chancellor being dragged by a MagnaGuard.
Both watch as Anakin and Dooku duel across the halls.
Count Dooku tries to slash Skywalker but he dodges the blow.
The duelists began to ascend a flight of stairs.
Anakin kicked Dooku in the abdomen, knocking him to the ground.
Before the Count could regain his feet, Anakin fell upon him with a series of overhand power blows, pressing him into the stairs.
Anakin reached out to snag Dooku's throat with his mechanical hand.
Holding off Dooku's lightsaber with his own, he began to throttle Dooku.
However, Dooku managed to escape the choakhold by shocking Anakin with Force lightning.
Dooku telekinetically blasted Skywalker backwards.
Although Anakin holds Dooku down for a few seconds, Dooku manages to overpower him with Force lightning and a telekinetic shove.
With Anakin momentarily stunned, Dooku and the MagnaGuard that held Palpatine retreated.
The two Jedi caught up with Dooku just as he boarded his ship with Palpatine.
Dooku blocks a back-strike from Anakin who rushes him.
Obi-Wan, however, catches up to Anakin and together they manage to thwart Dooku's plan once again.
Dooku duels Skwalker while Obi-Wan destroys the lone MagnaGuard, rescuing Palpatine.
As Anakin re-engaged Dooku, Kenobi quickly dealt with the remaining MagnaGuard before retrieving Palpatine.
Obi-Wan resuces the Chancellor, jumping off the shuttle while Skywalker dueled Dooku.
Count Dooku brings the duel with Skywalker to an end.
Dooku proceeded to push Anakin back onto the landing platform and faced the two Jedi.
Thwarted, Dooku pushed Anakin off the boarding ramp of his ship and fled, but not before remarking that Kenobi had proven himself a "worthy adversary".
Dooku congratulated Obi-Wan on his victory, but threw one last insult at Skywalker before the shuttle flew off.
Count Dooku is forced to leave empty-handed in a shuttle that hastily departs Theed.
In his lair on Serenno, Dooku summons General Grievous.
Dooku has neither forgotten about nor taken the attempt on his life lightly, and tells Grievous the time to exact revenge against Ventress and Talzin had come.
Having harbored a grudge against Ventress and Talzin since their attempt on his life, Dooku monitored his former apprentice's movements and learned of her return to Dathomir.
Dooku orders the cyborg warmaster to lead a massive assault on Dathomir and exterminate the Nightsister witches before they continued to plot against him.
Heeding Dooku's orders, Grievous immediately acknowledges his master's commands.
Count Dooku remains in the palace while Grievous marshaled a massive detachment of the Separatist Droid Army.
Mother Talzin uses a lock of Dooku's hair she had previously taken and stashed away in secret; using it to create a magical voodoo figurine likeness of Dooku.
Talzin begins to subject the tiny effigy of Dooku to her curses.
Count Dooku was holographically monitoring the battle from his palace on Serenno.
Far away on Serenno, Dooku begins to feel the pain of the curse.
Blisters begin to sprout on the Count's forehead.
Talzin began her voodoo attack simply by holding the doll over a boiling cauldron.
As Dooku overlooked the battle in his palace on Serenno, he then felt great pain.
Blisters and painful burns appeared on Dooku's face as he realized that Talzin was using her Magic on him.
However, Talzin quickly escalated by dropping the entire figurine into the boiling fluid.
The curse induced extreme pain for the Count.
Talzin's dark arts are scarring his face and overloading him with pain.
Dooku writhes in pain as Talzin uses the doll in more of her voodoo magic.
Count Dooku lays on the floor in pain.
The Nightsister used it in conjunction with her magic to torture Dooku to the point of near-death.
Dooku was unable to defend himself from Talzin's magic and slouches to his console.
Desperately writhing in pain, Dooku contacts General Grievous with new orders.
Through tortured gasps, Dooku orders Grievous to find Mother Talzin and destroy her before she had a chance to kill him.
Dooku advised Grievous to follow the green mist, which was the witch's magic.
Whilst cutting down the attacking zombies, Grievous acknowledges his new orders before ending the transmission with Dooku.
Count Dooku writhes on the floor of his palace in pain.
Dooku screams painfully when his chest suddenly erupts.
Talzin used her magicks to reach out and appear to him as a specter breaking out of his torso.
She insisted that he call off his troops or face a painful death, but the Sith Lord remained defiant in the face of the Nightsister's magick.
Talzin's specter retreats back into Dooku's chest causing him to yell in pain.
The Count lays on his bed as the curse continues to take affect.
Mother Talzin proceeded to stick a voodoo pin in Dooku's doll.
Dooku feeling the voodoo attack coming.
Talzin plunged a voodoo pin into the forehead of the doll.
Dooku clutches his head and smacks his face trying to ward off the pain.
Nevertheless, Grievous knocked over the cauldron that had been maintaining her voodoo magic, subsequently ending Dooku's torture.
Dooku, free from her spell, vomits Nightsister magick.
Count Dooku sighs with relief after the torture ended and his life saved.
Following the Nightsister massacre, Dooku spoke with Grievous about Savage Opress.
Dooku informs General Grievous of Opress' growing power, which he could sense from afar.
Dooku feared that with the Nightsisters dead, Savage would be a danger to him and his master whose powers he felt were growing.
Dooku also sensed something else was rising, something sinister.
King Sanjay Rash watches the darkened city of Iziz, lit only by the burning wreckage of the power station and he contacts Count Dooku desperate for assistance.
King Rash tells Dooku that he saw that the rebels had grown bold with the attack on the power generator, and believed that his predecessor was behind the rebels' activities.
Dooku questions King Rash how his forces cannot keep the terrorists in line.
Dooku tells Rash he thought he could trust him to rule Onderon and find this report most disappointing.
In response to these attacks, Rash asked Dooku for reinforcements, though disappointed the Sith Lord agrees to grant the king's request for reinforcements.
Dooku dispatched Super tactical droid general, Kalani to take command of the Separatist forces on Onderon.
At some point after this final skirmish, Dooku contacted Rash and Kalani with Rash quickly explaining what had happened and that they would need even more help to defeat the rebels.
Dooku coldly refused, not wanting another war to deal with — Onderon simply isn't worth it.
Following the rebels victory over the droid gunships, Dooku ordered Kalani to withdraw what remained of the occupation force from the planet to Agamar, much to Rash's disapproval.
Dooku - via holo transmission - watched as Kalani unceremoniously raised a blaster and executed the king as he sat on his throne for his repeated failures.
Count Dooku on Serenno walking towards his desk with MagnaGuards protect the area.
Sidious materializes in the Serenno palace as a hologram and Dooku bows before him.
Dooku bows as Darth Sidious devises a plan placing Clovis in command of the Banking Clan.
Dooku questions his master on how to accomplish this and Sidious intends to entrap him to do their bidding once elevated.
Dooku marvels at the idea smiling and obeys the Sith Lord's commands.
The Count stays kneeled as Sidious ends the holographic communication.
In Padmé's bedroom, where Clovis recovers, the 2-1B surgical droid suddenly reveals itself a servant of Count Dooku and produces a holographic projector with the Count's hologram appearing.
An imposing image of Dooku appears speaking of a mutual problem they both have.
Clovis tells Dooku that he is closing in on uncovering illegal collusion between the Banking Clan and the Confederacy leadership.
Dooku asks why the Confederacy would support corruption.
Clovis tells Dooku that the banks had allowed him to borrow credits and not pay any interests and the Count states that is correct.
Dooku tells Clovis that the released information will bring war to Scipio and the banks will fall so he offers to make some arrangement between himself and Rush.
Count Dooku instead offers to make Clovis the head of the banks as it needs new management.
Dooku tells Clovis that these are delicate matters as the Confederacy need funds just as the Republic does to pay for this war.
Dooku offered to pay the Confederacy's interest on their loans as well as supply Clovis details of the Muuns' secret accounts.
Dooku knows the location of the misappropriated funds, and can make them available to Clovis to help make his claim to the Senate before cutting off the holo-communication.
As Clovis settles into his new office atop the spire at the very crest of the Main Vault fortress and enjoys a majestic view of the Scipio mountains, he is startled by the sudden holographic appearance of Count Dooku.
Sitting in his office, Clovis is contacted by Dooku, who congratulates him on his appointment.
After Clovis took his position on Scipio, Dooku contacted him to congratulate on his appointment.
Clovis thanks him for his assistance, but Dooku announces he wishes to collect the return on his "investment".
Clovis refuses, saying he and the bank must remain neutral but Dooku begs to differ.
Dooku threatens to reveal his role in Clovis' investigation, but he remains adamant.
Count Dooku demands recompense, but sees how stalwart Rush Clovis is being.
Finally Dooku tells Clovis that the Separatists will not pay the interest on their loans as promised.
Clovis protests, saying the banks will collapse without the payments, but Dooku tells him he must raise interest rates on the Republic's loans to keep the bank afloat.
Dooku tells Clovis he will raise interest and threatens that everything Rush had fought so hard for will be destroyed.
Dooku then accompanied the Confederate fleet and from the bridge of the command dreadnought, Count Dooku orders super tactical droid Kraken to begin the attack.
Dooku commandeered a fleet from the Confederate Navy and launched an invasion on Scipio as a ruse to make to make Clovis appear to be in alliance with the Separatists.
With the clone garrison defeated, Dooku arrived on the planet.
With the landing platform secured, Count Dooku's solar sailor lands and emerges.
The Count walks through a line of battle droids guarding the area.
Dooku walks with purpose toward the Main Vault.
Commando droids drag Padmé before Rush Clovis in his office with Dooku waiting.
Padmé is brought to Clovis's office, where Dooku tells her that Clovis had assured him she would join their cause.
When Padmé refuses to join the Confederacy, Dooku orders her to be arrested.
Padmé grabs a battle droid's blaster, and attempts to point it at Dooku, but he pushes the weapon with the Force.
The Sith Lord called upon the Force, using it to telekinetically aim Amidala's blaster at Bec Lawise who could only utter a few words of shock before Dooku forced Padmé to pull the trigger, killing Lawise.
Dooku smiles at this turn of events while Padmé and Clovis mourn Lawise.
Dooku declares the Confederacy in control of the banks that their debts are gone and any credit to the Republic is now gone.
Senator Amidala is saddened that Clovis' idealism was just a front with Rush insisting he had no choice and Dooku, before leaving, says everyone has their price.
Dooku leaves the Main Vault and makes his way to his ship.
Count Dooku exits the rotunda of the Main Vault when he is contacted by his Master.
Darth Sidious informs Dooku of the Republic attack coming to Scipio.
Darth Tyranus informs Sidious that Clovis had finally played his part and appeared to have coordinated the entire takeover.
Lord Sidious states because of the treachery, the banks would be placed under the control of the Supreme Chancellor before ending the holocommunication.
After ending the transmission, Dooku boards his solar sailor before kicking a dead clone's helmet away and leaves Scipio.
Dooku arrives aboard Kraken's Separatist dreadnought.
Count Dooku, who had returned from his mission on Scipio, ordered Kraken to withdraw their forces but Kraken protested, saying that hundreds of droid forces had been left on the planet.
As the battle raged on in space, it soon became apparent that the Separatist fleet was outmatched and Dooku, having accomplished his objectives in framing Clovis for the Separatist invasion, dismissed Kraken's concerns and commanded that the fleet withdraw from the system with the tactical droid obeying.
The Head of State thereafter withdrew his naval forces from Scipio just as a Republic fleet arrived to mount a planetary invasion.
Still having a score to settle with Hondo Ohnaka for holding him captive in the past, Dooku dispatched General Grievous to Florrum where the general opens a holo-communication channel through which Count Dooku contacts Ohnaka.
A towering hologram of Dooku greets Hondo coldly, recalling their past together and the time Dooku was held hostage by the pirate.
In retaliation for his imprisonment during their first encounter, the Separatist leader had come to take over Florrum due to Ohanaka's treachery.
Via transmission, Dooku spoke directly to Ohnaka and said that the invasion was in retaliation for Ohnaka holding him for ransom some time before.
The Count declared that all of Hondo's property now belongs to the Separatist Alliance and plans to dismantle and melt Ohnaka's arsenal.
Despite his protests, Hondo was incarcerated by Grievous on the command of Dooku.
When a clone trooper killed a Jedi on Ringo Vinda, Admiral Trench noticed the odd behavior and reported the action to Count Dooku.
Dooku contacted by Trench via hologram and informs him of the deadly betrayal perpetrated by a clone trooper in the thick of battle.
Dooku received word from Admiral Trench of a malfunctioning clone trooper that killed their Jedi General during the battle at Ringo Vinda.
At first Dooku believed the action to be a simple betrayal by the clone.
The Count attempts to dismiss it as a traitor in the Republic's fold, but Trench insists it is something beyond that as the trooper seemed to be in a trance-like state.
Dooku becomes alarmed and thanks the Admiral before ending the holocommunication.
Knowing that this was a serious problem, he immediately reported the event to his master Darth Sidious.
Dooku reports to his master his concerns of a malfunctioning clone.
Sidious asks Tyranus if he believes this is evidence of their secret programing and Dooku confirms he does.
Darth Sidious concludes that Tup's behavior might prematurely reveal their true plans for the war.
Sidious orders Tyranus to seize the clone for examination, lest their carefully laid plans be exposed too early.
The two Sith decide to kidnap the clone before the Republic can examine him.
After Trench had Kraken kidnap the clone, the Admiral contacted Dooku.
In the Separatist command center, Admiral Trench reports to Count Dooku that they have captured Tup.
The Count orders the clone brought to him immediately, alive and intact.
After successfully kidnapping of the clone trooper "Tup," the Count applauded the Harch's success, Trench then tasked Kraken to personally escort the captured Clone to Dooku himself.
Under his identity of "Tyranus", Dooku was contacted by Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su and Chief Scientist Nala Se in a private chamber.
They informed Lord Tyranus of the clone trooper's malfunctioning inhibitor chip.
Nala Se insists that they terminate the clone and Tyranus agrees and orders the clone be terminated, however the inhibitor chip is to be sent to him immediately for analysis.
Lord Tyranus explains that the inhibitor chips must be kept secret from the Jedi — it was devised as a means of countering rogue Jedi and the only other person to know of this genetic modification is the late Master Sifo-Dyas, and this secret has gone to the grave with him.
Tyranus was later contacted again by Nala Se, and she informs the mysterious man that a renegade clone, ARC trooper CT-5555, has stolen the inhibitor chip sample.
Nala Se contacts Darth Tyranus, telling him that the renegade clone has stolen the inhibitor chip, but that he knows nothing about its purpose or function.
Tyranus is disturbed by these events, and questions whether the clone army will live up to the Kaminoans' design.
Tyranus is deeply concerned regarding this aberrant behavior among the clones but Nala Se assures him that Tup's malfunction was an aberration, and that Fives' subsequent divergent behavior is due to the Jedi instilling "creative thinking" in their troops.
The ARC trooper's interference caused Tyranus to doubt the clone army's reliability in the event of an intentional activation of Protocol 66, although Nala Se assured him that the preemptive execution was an anomaly as there is no compromise.
Tyranus orders Nala Se to find Fives immediately and warns her that the true purpose of the chip must not be discovered by the Jedi.
Following the death of the ARC trooper, Tyranus acknowledges that he has received the bio-chips from Nala Se and ends the communication and removes his hood.
Darth Tyranus holds the inhibitor chips in his hand and smiles triumphantly.
Tyranus kneels and contacts Darth Sidious with successful news.
Tyranus assures Lord Sidious that the Sith plot has gone undiscovered.
Sidious tells his apprentice Tyranus to destroy all evidence and that soon no one will be able to stop their plan to execute Order 66.
Darth Sidious cackles with delight while Lord Tyranus kneels before his successful master.
At Dooku's estate on Serenno, the towering holographic form of Darth Sidious questions Lord Tyranus.
Sidious asks his apprentice of Sifo-Dyas.
Sidious seems furious at Tyranus, demanding to know why the Jedi are sniffing around.
Dooku tells his master that if there is a trail it is unknown to him.
Tyranus was then informed by Sidious that the Jedi had learned of a secret that Dooku failed to hide.
Sidious makes sure Tyranus understands the price of failure with a choke.
Darth Sidious briefly telekinetically chokes his apprentice with the Force.
Dooku being choked by his master.
Sidious shows Dooku the price of failure by throttling him with a Force choke.
Count Dooku coughs violently after Sidious ends the holographic transmission and released the Force choke.
Darth Tyranus arrives at the Pyke stronghold on Oba Diah, landing his solar sailor on the landing platform.
Tyranus Force hurls the Pyke guards that try to block his path.
Tyranus arrived on Oba Diah with the intention of keeping the Jedi from discovering the truth behind Sifo-Dyas' demise.
Tyranus cut through several guards choking them with the Force.
Despite his mental state, Silman managed to tell Kenobi and Skywalker that someone wanted to impersonate Master Sifo-Dyas and had ordered the Pykes to kill them and before he can reveal anymore, he is strangled to death by the dark side of the Force, Tyranus has tied up the loose end.
Anakin and Obi-Wan turn to confront Dooku, who ignites his lightsaber.
Count Dooku removes his hood and cloak.
Dooku was confronted by Kenobi and Skywalker.
The Jedi light their blades and engage Dooku in a duel.
Anakin and Obi-Wan engage Dooku in combat.
In his classical fighting style, Dooku defends himself bringing the duel to the open landing platform.
Skywalker and Kenobi move against Dooku.
Dooku tries to swipe Skywalker but blocks it.
Dooku engaged in a vicious duel with the Jedi.
Kenobi and Skywalker fight Count Dooku on the platform.
Tyranus kicks Obi-Wan away from the duel.
Dooku watches as Kenobi dangles on the edge of the platform.
Count Dooku sees Skywalker trying to save Obi-Wan with the Force.
While trying to save his master, Anakin dodges a leaped attack from Dooku.
Dooku swings a lightsaber attack at Skywalker.
Obi-Wan swings into action while the Count and Skywalker fight.
Dooku holds his saber upward while Anakin and Obi-Wan circle him.
Dooku knees Obi-Wan in the stomach.
While Kenobi is knocked aside, Dooku and Skywalker fight each other.
Count Dooku twirls in the air during his duel with the Jedi.
Dooku lands after twirling and tries to strike Anakin.
Kenobi leaps over and almost hits Dooku with his blade.
While Dooku catches his breath, Lom emerges from the stronghold flanked by Pyke guards.
Lom called Dooku by his Sith name, revealing to the Jedi the unsettling truth behind the mystery of the clone army.
During the duel, the Jedi learned that Dooku was in fact Sith Lord called Darth Tyranus, who selected Jango Fett as the clone template, and that the Sith were involved in the creation of the clone army.
Tyranus then revealed that he was telling Kenobi the truth on Geonosis about the Sith Lord.
Lom sided with the Jedi and ordered his men to kill Dooku who Force pushed them away.
Lom sided with the Jedi and ordered his men to kill Dooku with Lom surrounded him with his men.
Skywalker and Kenobi tried a Force push against Dooku, but the latter jumped, causing it to knock Lom and his men over.
Dooku used this opportunity to stab Lom Pyke with his lightsaber, killing him.
Tyranus smiles after murdering Lom while more of his troops arrive.
The Jedi and Pyke soldiers surround the Count.
Dooku shuts off his lightsaber and drops off the landing platform.
The Jedi watch as Tyranus lands onto a passing cargo freighter.
Dooku clicks a switch calling for his pilot droid to pick him up.
Anakin leaps onto the freighter, propelled by a Force throw from Obi-Wan, in a last desperate attempt to stop Dooku.
Dooku duels Anakin for a short time on the cargo freighter.
Dooku jumps to a higher section of the cargo freighter.
The Count sacrifices the freighter by slicing one of its engines, causing the entire ship to drop.
Dooku sabotages the cargo freighter causing it to explode and sends Skywalker back.
Tyranus jumps to safety on his waiting solar sailor and escapes.
During Yoda's journey to acquire immortality, he experienced an apparition, where the Clone Wars never occurred, and everyone Yoda knows is still part of the Jedi Order, including those who lost their lives and those who left/betrayed the Order due to circumstances connected to the war.
In the Temple courtyard, it is a beautiful day and many Jedi, young and old, gather and Yoda joins the Jedi seeing Obi-Wan in conversation with Qui-Gon and Master Dooku.
Dooku tells his friends about the tale of the terentatek encounter he and Yoda faced on Kashyyyk.
Dooku is friendly and recounting stories of his apprenticeship to Yoda before the gathering begins.
Dooku invites Yoda to join him and others near the tree.
Yoda follows Master Dooku towards the other Jedi.
Yoda soon realizes that this is an illusion, since Jedi like Adi Gallia, Tiplar, and Qui-Gon Jinn are dead.
Yoda recognizes the illusion and calls Dooku a traitor knowing he has become a Sith Lord.
Dooku darkens and his eyes glare red.
Yoda, realizing that this is another vision, denies Dooku's request to join them.
A shadow falls on the courtyard as the vision starts to disappear, returning Yoda to the Valley of Extinction.
Dooku turns into a savage Sith Lord.
When Dooku attacks Yoda, the entire vision disappears once more.
Dooku ignites his lightsaber and lunges but Yoda offers no defense, knowing what he sees to be false.
Elsewhere, in his command ship, Count Dooku awakens from his meditation sensing that something is wrong.
Super Tactical droid Kraken informed Dooku that Darth Sidious was ordering him back to Coruscant right away.
In a burned out, industrial sector of Coruscant, Count Dooku's solar sailor sets down in a secret hangar.
Dooku met his Master in an abandoned tower in the industrial sector of Coruscant.
Dooku is greeted by Darth Sidious after entering the tower.
Sidious tells Tyranus that he senses a great opportunity to strike a deadly blow against the Jedi Order.
Inside the LiMerge building with Sith statues lining the room, Sidious and Tyranus enter.
Sidious leads Dooku to a sacrifical altar basin.
Darth Sidious tells Tyranus that only the presence of someone significant to his apprentice would allow him to feel this ripple through time and space.
Both Tyranus and Lord Sidious felt that Yoda was on the Sith homeworld of Moraband for some unknown reason.
Sidious informed his apprentice that they would be exploiting Dooku's Force-bond with Yoda, which the two had established during their time together in the Jedi Order, to find out why Yoda had ventured to Moraband and to break his will.
Over a sacrificial altar basin, Sidious cut Dooku with a knife to draw his blood, dripping it into the water-filled basin.
Dooku then allowed Sidious to use his blood to create an illusion for Yoda due to him being his former master.
Tyranus watches as Lord Sidious recites an ancient Sith ritual in Balc.
Tyranus joins his Master and fires Sith lightning into the basin.
Darth Sidious and Darth Tyranus summoning the power of dark illusion to attack Yoda.
Sidious tells Dooku to concentrate on Master Yoda bringing all his focus to him.
When Dooku expressed concern over Yoda sensing their presence, Sidious said he would come to Yoda with someone familiar as he dipped his face into the sacrificial altar.
In an enhanced illusion, the Jedi and clones arrive at the LiMerge Building, and encounter Dooku and Darth Sidious.
Clone Captain Rex leads the charge, spotting the two Sith Lords huddled over the altar basin.
Dooku sees the approaching Jedi and clone troopers.
Tyranus activates his lightsaber and stands in front of his Master.
Darth Tyranus blocks blaster fire from the clone troopers.
When the Jedi and clones arrive at their destination, they encounter Dooku and Darth Sidious.
Dooku electrifies the approaching clones with Sith lightning.
As they arrived, the clones, lead by Captain Rex, rushed at Dooku only to be hit with Sith lightning.
Anakin engages Dooku in a duel, while Yoda confronts the hooded form of Darth Sidious.
Skywalker immediately attacked Dooku while Sidious fled.
Dooku and Skywalker cross blades in the ceremonial chamber.
Anakin engages Dooku in a lightsaber duel.
Skywalker manages to slice Dooku's knee with his lightsaber.
Anakin wounds Dooku, forcing him to his knees.
Skywalker recovers Dooku's dropped lightsaber and uses his lightsaber to scissor his neck.
Walking sadly past the fallen clones, a dismayed Yoda witnessed Skywalker brutally decapitate Dooku using both blue and red blades.
After the illusion ceased, Sidious arose from the altar basin and informed Dooku that they had failed to break Yoda's will.
Both Sith Lords depart the ceremonial chamber learning that they need more time if they are to succeed in completely wiping out the Jedi.