History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E5GoneWithATrace

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Rafa is the foolish one, cutting deals with shady figures to get by even if means resorting to illegal activities, while Trace is just trying to stay afloat long enough to get her ship operational and make a better living among the stars.

* RealityEnsues: Defecting from a religious order whose members own nothing means you're not going to have the cash to buy a good bike when you walk away.

* ResponsibleSiblingFoolishSibling: Rafa is the foolish to Trace's responsible.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The end of the episode has a diegetic song in the background that sounds interestingly similar to JoyDivision's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" but with an obvious difference with vocals in alien language.

** Pintu Son-El is a member of the same species as [WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Yushyn]].

** Pintu Son-El is a member of the same species as [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E13TheCall Yushyn]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Like [[VideoGame/JediFallenOrder Cal Kestis]], Ahsoka is forced to choose between exposing who she is and saving a colleague, or letting them die and concealing her Jedi heritage. She opts to save Trace, though unlike Cal, she faces no repercussions for her actions, as no one — save for a child who chooses to remain silent — notices.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: It's indicated that Ahsoka sees Anakin as like a brother, as the answer she gives Trace when asked how she learned to fight so well is "My older brother taught me."

** Happens again with Trace's forklift when Ahsoka uses it to catch Trace and the deactivated droid she's hanging on to. Ahsoka hops out and attaches the winch cable to the wall, but when the motor fails at pulling the forklift up, Ahsoka has to covertly use the Force to assist it.

Trouble with a ramshackle speeder bike she bought throws Ahsoka Tano, still reeling from her decision to leave the Jedi Order after being framed for treason, down an underworld portal to the Level 1313 repair shop owned by aspiring pilot Trace Martez. Trace offers Ahsoka a place to repair her bike, but expects payment since very little in the Coruscant underworld is free. But after Trace is threatened by a criminal named Pintu and his henchmen, who are looking for payment that her older sister Rafa owes them, Ahsoka gets roped into helping Trace assemble some dangerous binary loadlifter droids that Rafa was hired to build...

* BreatherEpisode: This episode moves away from the epic space battles of the previous story arc and the high-stakes conspiracy Ahsoka was embroiled in the last time we saw her. Also doubles as a literal LowerDeckEpisode.

* BreatherEpisode: This episode moves away from the epic space battles of the previous arc and the high-stakes conspiracy Ahsoka was embroiled in the last time we saw her. Also doubles as a literal LowerDeckEpisode.

* TimeSkip: Ahsoka's montrals and lekku have noticeably grown since her last in-person appearance in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E20TheWrongJedi "The Wrong Jedi"]], indicating that some time has passed since then.

* LowerDeckEpisode: Literally occurs on the lower levels of Coruscant where the working class population is far removed from but still impacted by the world of the Jedi.

* PunnyTitle: Ahsoka is gone, but not without a [[DoubleMeaning Trace]].

* CoverBlowingSuperpower: Ahsoka has to use the Force to drag the forklift back up when its winch motor doesn't have the power to pull itself and the droid back up on its own. Fortunately, everyone in the crowd is too distracted by the situation to notice her action, save for a child who doesn't speak up.

Trouble with a ramshackle speeder bike she bought throws Ahsoka Tano, still reeling from her decision to leave the Jedi Order after being framed for treason, down an underworld portal to the Level 1313 repair shop owned by aspiring pilot Trace Martez. Trace offers Ahsoka a place to repair her bike, but expects payment since very little in the Coruscant underworld is free. But after Trace is threatened by a criminal named Pintu and his henchmen, who are looking for payment that her older sister Rafa owes them, Ahsoka gets roped into helping Trace build some dangerous binary loadlifter droids that Rafa got hired to provide.

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* TemptingFate: After Ahsoka manages to initially get her renegade bike under control, she takes a moment to relax thinking that it's over... and then the bike plummets down the underworld portal.