Right, I think I’ve nailed the inclusion of the extra scene in Duchess of Mandalore that I was working on. It took a suprising amount of audio work.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1haU-GGxwf-4uz1cUYYrl441CKYI1ZNxh/view?usp=sharing

As much as I’d have liked to include the shots of Ahsoka studying, they just weren’t interesting enough, they didn’t give us anything that the scene of her talking to Anakin also gave us. They were far too sedate - which only worked in the original episode I took those shots from because they were broken up with her dramatic visions. But in this context they just would have slowed us right down.

Instead, the focus is on Anakin being called away. There’re a few nice things with having this scene here:

As discussed, we get Ahsoka in this episode, both keeping her in mind (she’s TCW:R’s main character) AND helping to justify future absences.
Anakin and Ahsoka acknowledge that she “learns more in the field than from studying”. This is a great acknowledgment that, like Anakin, Ahsoka is one of the few Jedi who doesn’t adhere too closely to Jedi dogma. We know that Jedi dogma is one of the reasons for its stangancy and fall, and we’ll also come to see that Ahsoka’s independence is one of the reasons she becomes such a great Jedi (or perhaps simply a non-Jedi lightside force user) in future. This is a nice acknowledgment of both paths.
Ahsoka is “uneasy”, and worries about “not having Anakin’s back”. Later in this episode, Anakin “brands himself a cold-blooded killer”, and with this scene now it works as light foreshadowing of what’ll happen to Anakin without Ahsoka’s moderating influence.
Anakin tells her to “stay out of trouble”, in this context acknowleding her brashness as seen in the last couple of episodes, a plotline which’ll continue through this season.
It also gives us some pacing between the preceding scene (Obi-Wan and Satine have fled the Death Watch on Concordia back to Mandalore) and the following one (The Death Watch are now believed to have have themselves fled Concordia).

So while it’s perhaps odd to just have a little flash of Ahsoka in an otherwise non-Ahsoka episode, I think it serves us nicely like this, and helps justify the movement of this episode earlier in the chronology. And there are other episodes which only have a flash of certain characters.

I’ve just got to tighten up the opening audio for the episode and then get this baby uploaded.