A Race to the Finish

"They don't come much worse than him!"

- Sise Fromm

"A Race to the Finish" is the fourth episode in season one of the Star Wars: Droids animated television series.''

Synopsis
C-3PO, R2-D2, Thall Joben, Kea Moll, and Jord Dusat were on their way to the Boonta Eve speeder race when they were attacked out of nowhere by a Lambda-class shuttle. Piloting the shuttle was none other than Sise Fromm, an old and powerful crime boss that sought revenge for when C-3PO's group stole his Trigon 1. C-3PO and his companions jumped to hyperspace just in the nick of time.

After their narrow escape they came out of hyperspace and made their descent to the planet, but lost control and crashed. The group then bumped into a kindly repair droid and made a deal with him to fix their broken ship while they raced. However, they needed to fix their speeder bike to compete in the race.

Unfortunately, Sise Fromm had hired Boba Fett to help him with his manhunt. Boba allied with a droid that offered to fix the droids' speeder in time for the race. That droid betrayed C-3PO's team to Fett but C-3PO and R2-D2 managed to disable it.

Boba Fett then arrived and tried to destroy the heroes. Eventually, both Fett and Thall competed in the Boonta Eve race. Boba used various weapons against Thall, but one of the weapons backfired and knocked them out of the race. Losing the race to Thall, Boba Fett decided to turn Sise Fromm over to Jabba the Hutt.

After winning the race the team was contacted by the Zebulon Dax Corporation and offered a position designing and building speeders for them. Taking the job would require C-3PO and R2-D2 to be reprogrammed. R2 and C-3PO decided it was time to part ways with the their friends so the Humans were free to take the job and the droids were free to go on new adventures with new people.

Characters

 * C-3PO
 * Jord Dusat
 * Boba Fett
 * Sise Fromm
 * Thall Joben
 * Kea Moll
 * Palpatine
 * R2-D2

Droid models

 * BL-series Battle Legionnaire
 * Protocol droid
 * R2-series astromech droid

Events

 * Boonta Speeder Race

Locations

 * Boonta

Sapient species

 * Humans

Vehicles and vessels

 * Sise Fromm's Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
 * Silver Speeder
 * The White Witch

Weapons and technology

 * Thermal detonator

Behind the scenes

 * Boba Fett appears in this episode.
 * This episode was written by Peter Sauder and Steven Wright.
 * Air date: September 28, 1985.
 * This episode was adapted into the children's storybook entitled A Race to the Finish: A Droid Adventure.
 * In this episode, C-3PO claims that another droid graduated from the same "production academy" as he had. This may be a continuity issue, as in Episode I it is revealed that C-3PO was built by Anakin Skywalker, although this contradiction could be explained by the fact that his memory was erased at the end of Episode III.

Exteral links

 * "A Race to Finish" at TV.com
 * "A Race to the Finish" at the Big Cartoon Database
 * "A Race to Finish" at Retrojunk.com
 * Star Wars: Droids DVD information at the Boba Fett Fan Club (July 25, 2004)