Duel of the Droids

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"Duel of the Droids"
Series	Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Season	One
Episode	7
Writer(s)	Kevin Campbell, Henry Gilroy
Director	Rob Coleman
Production No.	1.06
Airdate	November 14, 2008
Episode chronology
Previous episode	"Downfall of a Droid"
Next episode	"Bombad Jedi"

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"Duel of the Droids" is the seventh episode of Season One of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

[edit] Official description

Anakin, Ahsoka and replacement droid R3 embark on a dual rescue/sabotage mission when they discover R2-D2 is being held at General Grievous' secret enemy listening post.

[edit] Plot summary

Missing in action! Anakin
Skywalker's heroic droid 
navigator R2-D2 was lost in
battle. When a desperate 
search fails to locate Artoo, 
Anakin is forced to take on
a new navigator, R3-S6. 

Now the Jedi embark on a
dangerous new mission, to
find a secret enemy listening
post. Meanwhile, R2-D2 has 
fallen into the hands of a
vile droid smuggler and is 
on his way to General Grievous
who will surely plunder the 
Republic's secrets hidden 
within him....

Artoo manages to transmit the location of Grievous' listening post on a Ruusan moon, which the Twilight picks up. Though advised by Obi-Wan to wait for reinforcements, Anakin heads a rescue mission to save Artoo before his secrets fall into Separatist hands, as well as plant a bomb. Gha Nacht accesses R2's memorybank and finds that the little droid contains every Republic strategy. He demands more money but Grievous decides to give it to him by stabbing him in his back. When the team arrives at the station, Anakin separates from Ahsoka and the clones, heading out alone to find Artoo. Unbeknownst to them, R3-S6 is actually a spy for the Separatists, and alerts General Grievous to their presence. General Grievous orders his bodyguards to take Artoo to his ship.

Meanwhile, Anakin has succeeded in finding R2-D2, and duels Grievous' MagnaGuards. Once they are defeated, he and Artoo order everyone to rendezvous in the south hangar. Unfortunately, Ahsoka does not hear them, as Grievous has engaged her and her clones. The general kills all clones but Rex and Denal. Ahsoka defends herself against Grievous's blows and retreats to a room filled with spare droid parts. She hides from the general, but R3 gives her away . Grievous destroys her comlink so she she manages to escape through a vent. As Anakin and the clones, who have succeeded in planting the bombs, meet the Twilight in the hangar, R3's treachery is revealed when he traps them and activates several droids to fight them. Anakin orders Artoo to open the doors. Ahsoka rejoins the team, who defeat the Vulture droids and escape in the Twilight, detonating the bombs. Grievous escapes the station in his ship, Souless One. Anakin leaves in his starfighter to pick up Artoo.

Meanwhile, R2 manages to open the hangar doors, but R3 moves to intercept him, and the two droids face each other in combat. R2 pushes his Separatist counterpart over the edge, but R3 grabs him with a suction cup. Artoo succeeds in cutting the cable, and R3-S6 is sent flying into the air, and he is destroyed by flying debris. R2-D2 is then rescued by Anakin.

As they leave the system, Anakin contacts Obi-Wan. While they succeeded, Obi-Wan disapproves of Anakin's choice to risk the mission and all their lives to save a droid. While Ahsoka is happy they got R2 back, she agrees with Obi-Wan. But Anakin says R2 is more than a droid: he is a friend.

[edit] Cast

• Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
• Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano
• James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Dee Bradley Baker as Clone troopers
• Matthew Wood as General Grievous, Battle droids
• Ron Perlman as Gha Nachkt
• Tom Kane as Narrator

[edit] Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

CC-7567 "Rex" Denal (First appearance) General Grievous Obi-Wan Kenobi (Appears in hologram) Gha Nachkt R2-D2 R3-S6 Anakin Skywalker Ahsoka Tano Unidentified Aqualish technician (First appearance) Unidentified clone trooper pilot (First appearance)

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid R3-series astromech droid Battle droid B1 battle droid 631 model B1 battle droid (First appearance) B2 super battle droid IG-series IG-86 assassin droid (Appears in flashback(s)) IG-100 MagnaGuard Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I

Events

Clone Wars Battle of Bothawui (Appears in flashback(s)) Battle of Geonosis (Mentioned only in Decoded episode) Mission to Skytop Station (First appearance) Mission to the Vulture's Claw (Appears in flashback(s))

Locations

Mid Rim Bothan sector (Appears in flashback(s)) Both system (Appears in flashback(s)) Teraab Sector Ruusan system Ruusan Ruusan moon Lucrehulk-class Core Ship Battlesphere Skytop Station Milagro system (Indirect mention only in Decoded episode) Milagro (Mentioned only in Decoded episode) Outer Rim Territories (Indirect mention only in Decoded episode) Arkanis sector (Indirect mention only in Decoded episode) Geonosis system (Indirect mention only in Decoded episode) Geonosis (Mentioned only in Decoded episode)

Organizations and titles

Confederacy of Independent Systems Hyper-Communications Cartel Trade Federation 88th Flight (First appearance) Galactic Republic Grand Army of the Republic Clone jet trooper Jedi Order Jedi General Jedi Master Padawan

Sentient species

Aqualish Quara Human Clone Kaleesh Cyborg Togruta Trandoshan

Vehicles and vessels

Acclamator I-class assault ship (Appears in hologram) All Terrain Tactical Enforcer (Appears in hologram) Belbullab-22 starfighter Soulless One Consular-class space cruiser (Appears in hologram) Delta-7B Aethersprite-class starfighter Anakin Skywalker's Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor G9 Rigger freighter Twilight GS-100 salvage ship Vulture's Claw Lucrehulk-class Core Ship Battlesphere Skytop Station Munificent-class star frigate (Appears in flashback(s)) Porax-38 starfighter Venator-class Star Destroyer (Appears in hologram) Resolute (Appears in flashback(s))

Weapons and technology

Air duct Blast door Blaster Blaster pistol DC-17 hand blaster Blaster rifle DC-15A blaster rifle E-5 blaster rifle DC-15S blaster Bulkhead Circular saw Comlink Computer system Control panel Cybernetics Mechno-arm Cyborg EMP grenade "Droid popper" Fuel cell Hologram Holoprojector Hull Ion prod Jet pack JT-12 jetpack Lightsaber Memory bank Phase I clone trooper armor Kama Pauldron Ray shield Recharge rack Reactor Repulsorlift Sensor jamming Servomotor Towline

Miscellanea

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[edit] Decoded

The Decoded version of the episode reveals that Gha Nackht was a level 5 droid programmer, that R3-S6 was captured by Grievous's agents and reprogrammed on the planet Milagro, and that clone trooper Denal served with Rex on Geonosis.

[edit] Behind the scenes

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[edit] Continuity

An IG-100 MagnaGuard is decapitated and does not continue fighting.

Grievous's hand is fixed when he leaves in his starfighter after being cut off (probably because the same scene was also used in Destroy Malevolence, but reversed).

Anakin encounters a MagnaGuard, despite later having commented on how he had only read about them in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith.

When R2-D2 is on the table, his eye socket is seen unattached momentarily when it shouldn't have been.

[edit] External links

•  The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Duel of the Droids on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  R2-D2's Inner Workings Revealed in The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)