There seemed to be discrepencies in the dialog surrounding Obi-Wan's covert meeting with Anakin, informing him of the Council's decision to have him report on the Chancellor's dealings. Call me slow (hey, I'm a moose), but I finally took Obi-Wan's suggestion: "Search your feelings - something is out of place here."

Aside from his more obvious misgivings due to his loyalty to Palpatine, Anakin is suspicious along lines of thought not immediately clear. Obi-Wan tells Anakin he did not want to see Anakin put into this position. Anakin pointedly asks shortly thereafter why this request was not made in session. Anakin doesn't like this, and Anakin sees through Obi-Wan.

When Obi-Wan explains it was not to be a matter of record, therefore tipping the Chancellor's hand, Anakin is even more frustrated by this answer. Clearly, the more Anakin digs, there is indeed something out of place here.

Let's fast-forward to dialog on board the Republic Gunship transport speeding through Coruscant's sky traffic with Yoda, Mace and Obi-Wan on board.

"It's dangerous putting the boy with him. I don't trust him, " Mace declares.

Ah-ha. This wasn't Mace's idea. Yoda, in a rare moment of distress and tension, bows his head in frustration and rubs his brow back.

"With all due respect, Master, is he not the Chosen One?", Obi-Wan counters.

Mace and Yoda both agree "A prophecy that was misread, could have been."

Obi-Wan is adamant: "Anakin has never let me down."

"Hope right, you are," Yoda offers as a final ominous warning.

Ah-ha. This wasn't Yoda's idea, either.

This was Obi-Wan's idea to further pair Anakin with the most dangerous man in the Galaxy, Palpatine. He most likely had pushed his agenda on the Council to let Anakin do this. In fact, though a remote possibility, this may not have been the Council's joint decision at all. This could have been purely Obi-Wan's doing, and he's only now revealed it to them on that gunship. That may be why it wasn't in session. That perhaps is why Mace and Yoda are clearly so troubled.

Either way, this explains Anakin's oddly worded question to Obi-Wan. He suspected, perhaps even sensed, exactly the intent:

"Why are you asking this of me?"

Obi-Wan pauses, and that moment is telling. This may be one of the classic "certain point of view" Kenobi moments that suddenly does not seem so easy to carry off. Obi-Wan slowly reiterates:

"The council is asking."

This scene may be partially at the heart of Obi-Wan's later regret. This perhaps was Obi-Wan's final attempt to guide Anakin, to ensure his loyalties, to teach him right from wrong. Moreover, it was Obi-Wan's attempt to put Anakin back in the Council's good graces after he is forced upon their roster by the very man they don't trust, Palpatine. Not to mention, Anakin is in need of a little damage control after his tyrade in front of Mace, telling him that being on the Council in this fashion is "outrageous" and "unfair".

Obi-Wan was attempting to guide Anakin, perhaps as Yoda had once tried to guide him, away from his anger, toward his clarity. And in fact, Obi-Wan himself may have delivered a vulnerable and confused Anakin directly into the hands of the Enemy.

It took me a while to dissect those scenes, but I knew they had another layer of meaning. That's the thing about these movies, kiddos - nothing is just exactly as it seems. That's why it's fun to keep looking at them.

In the end analysis, that was what Obi-Wan was talking about I believe, when he calls out to him on Mustafar - "I have failed you, Anakin."