The popular belief isn't always the correct one.
Fives continues to push for answers regarding the mystery of the clone contamination, but is framed for attempting to kill Chancellor Palpatine.
Tropes:
- All for Nothing: Fives knows the truth about the inhibitor chips, but no one believes him and he eventually dies, taking the full truth with him to the grave.
- Thankfully, Fives's death is not completely in vain, as Rex records Fives's findings, which Ahsoka uses to remove Rex's inhibitor chip, and leads to Rex to convince the Bad Batch to use it.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The arc ends in a total victory for Darth Sidious and his conspiracy. Fives is deep-sixed, the Jedi are none the wiser about the true purpose of the inhibitor chips, and Order 66 is set to proceed as scheduled.
- Call-Back: In 79's, one of the screens shows a podrace, complete with bit player Gasgano and his podracer making a brief cameo appearance.
- Call-Forward: The tower, and indeed the very room, where Shaak Ti and Fives meet with Chancellor Palpatine is the medical facility where Anakin Skywalker will be rebuilt into Darth Vader.
- Cassandra Truth: What does Palpatine do to goad Fives into attacking him? Telling him the truth about everything, because no one will believe him. When Fives tries to tell Anakin and Rex about the true purpose of the inhibitor chips and Palpatine's involvement in the plot, neither believe him. It doesn't help that Nala Se had earlier drugged him, visibly affecting his mental state and rendering him incapable of adequately explaining himself.
- Chemically-Induced Insanity: Whatever Nala Se injects Fives with makes him paranoid and aggressive, which, combined with Palpatine telling him the truth about everything, makes him act more and more deranged.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Fives dies in the arms of Rex, who's asking him not to die on him.
- Downer Ending: Fives' efforts to reveal the conspiracy against the Jedi have all been for nothing and Order 66 goes untouched.
- Due to the Dead: After Fives dies in Rex's arms, the Coruscant Guard members who attempted to arrest him take their helmets off and stand respectfully in a circle around him. All except for Commander Fox, the one to actually kill Fives, that is.
- Failed a Spot Check:
- The security clones are looking for Fives in the clone bar "79," while Fives walks right by them wearing a cloth hat with trooper armor (Which is the In-Universe equivalent of an Infantryman wearing a naval Officer's hat). While it might happen (if one lost a bet or similar), while on high alert, a clone that much out-of-uniform should be the first one checked.
- Also, at the start of the episode Shaak Ti fails to notice Nala Se giving Fives the drug that will plague him for the rest of the episode. This despite the fact that she had been unusually insistent on terminating both Tup and Fives, continually refused to allow the inhibitor chips and Fives to be examined at the Jedi Temple first until Shaak Ti pulled rank on her, and demanded she be allowed to come along. Even if she didn't know about the order to have Fives' memory erased, one would think Shaak Ti would have kept a closer eye on the Kaminoan after so many suspicious and insubordinate actions.
- Foregone Conclusion: Fives' mission to reveal the truth about the inhibitor chips was doomed to failure from the very beginning.
- Frameup: Palpatine claims that Fives tried to kill him. Conveniently, the security footage doesn't show the start of the confrontation — only the part with Fives on the offensive.
- I Die Free: Although he wasn't able to tell the Jedi about Order 66, Fives seems relieved as he dies that he managed to remove his control chip beforehand.
- Killed Off for Real: Fives, drugged and with access to Rex's pistols, draws on the security clone troopers sent to capture him and Commander Fox immediately guns him down.
- Little "No": Rex lets out two as Fives dies.Rex: No... oh, no...
- Lost in a Crowd: Played with. Upon fleeing the Senate building, Fives immediately heads to a clone bar, partly to evade detection as per the trope (and he almost succeeds), but also because he knows the other 501st members are likely to be there, and he can use them to get in touch with Captain Rex and Anakin.
- Meaningful Background Event: At the start of the scene in the Chancellor's office just after Fives has been killed, Anakin can be seen mourning over Fives' death
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- Spanner in the Works: Tragically averted. Fives' information on the inhibitor chips and Order 66 could have brought down Palpatine's entire scheme, but he is tragically killed before he can communicate this to the Jedi or his fellow clones.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Nala Se drugs Fives with something that makes him aggressive and paranoid, so when he captures Anakin and Rex in a ray shield and tries to explain what he knows, he can't articulate himself very well and sounds crazy.
- Your Mom: When Fives doesn't pay a taxi driver to take him to a clone bar called 79's, the driver says Fives' mother is a droid. Technically, this is kind of true, and it fits the episode's theme in a darkly funny way.
