Star Wars: 10 Times The Jedi Went Too Far
6. Plotting To Assassinate Count Dooku
With Jedi-turned-Sith Count Dooku on the rampage and being responsible for a devastating amount of fatalities during the Clone Wars, the Jedi decided to take things up a drastic notch in the canon novel Dark Disciple.
In this story, the Jedi Council react to Dooku's massacring of refugees on the planet Mahranee by deciding the time has now come to give up on bringing their former ally to justice, with his death being the only viable solution to end the war. Their strategy? Assign Jedi Master Quinlan Vos the task of going undercover in order to manipulate Dooku's former Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress into helping him assassinate the Count.
Things go from bad to worse pretty much immediately. Vos falls in love with Ventress, embraces the dark side in order to take on Dooku, and eventually becomes his new apprentice for a brief amount of time. Ventress, who by this point was simply trying to carve out her own destiny away from the Jedi and Sith, then sacrificed herself to save her love. Vos returns to the light side, but Darth Tyranus escapes, leaving the Jedi with blood on their hands and nothing to show for it.
The Jedi's insistence that killing Dooku was the only answer at this moment in time serves to illustrate their lowest moment, but also serves as a prelude to the events we see unfold in Revenge of the Sith, when Mace Windu denied Chancellor Palpatine trial due to him being "too dangerous to be left alive".
Taking the law into your own hands is never a good look, and it all started here.