The first thing we see after the title card is a little phrase appear on screen: "Great leaders inspire greatness in others." This is something that happens at the top of every episode of the show, and usually sums up the theme of the episode. It's almost like the moral at the end of an Aesop fable, but at the top of the story instead. Then we're into the narration, which catches us up on what's going on in the universe - namely that the Republic and the Separatists are competing for the allegiance of neutral planets.

Yoda wants to win the support of the Toydarians (Watto's species from The Phantom Menace) so he plans to meet up with their king, King Katuunko, on a neutral moon. But before Yoda arrives, Ventress shows up and holo-skypes Count Dooku in. Dooku says he knows the Jedi want to build a base in the Toydarian system in exchange for protection - so Dooku wants to show that the Jedi can't even protect themselves.

As Yoda's ship is flying in towards the planet, a droid ship jumps in and tries to shoot it out of the sky. Yoda sends the ship to retreat, but takes a few troops in an escape pod to complete the mission on the surface. They launch all the pods, but the droids only manage to miss Yoda's pod. When the robot manning the guns is called out for being a terrible shot, he shrugs and says, "Ah well, it's my programming."