Duel of the Droids

"You hold onto friends by keeping your heart a little softer than your head."

- Moral

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

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.

Plot summary
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. 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.

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 hand-to-hand and crushed her comlink. Eventually, 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. 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 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.

Cast

 * Matt Lanter - Anakin Skywalker
 * Ashley Eckstein - Ahsoka Tano
 * Dee Bradley Baker - clone troopers
 * Matthew Wood - General Grievous / battle droids
 * Ron Perlman - Gha Nachkt
 * James Arnold Taylor - Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Tom Kane - Narrator

Characters

 * CC-7567 "Rex"
 * Denal
 * General Grievous
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Gha Nachkt
 * R2-D2
 * R3-S6
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Ahsoka Tano
 * Unidentified clone trooper pilot
 * Unidentified Aqualish technician

Droid models

 * Astromech droid
 * R-series
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * R3-series astromech droid
 * Battle droid
 * B1 battle droid
 * 631 model B1 battle droid
 * B2 super battle droid
 * IG-series
 * IG-86 assassin droid
 * IG-100 MagnaGuard
 * Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle of Bothawui
 * Mission to Skytop Station
 * Mission to the Vulture's Claw

Locations

 * Mid Rim
 * Bothan sector
 * Both system
 * Teraab Sector
 * Ruusan system
 * Ruusan
 * Ruusan moon
 * Skytop Station
 * Disassembly chamber
 * Level Eight
 * Reactor room
 * South landing bay
 * Storage room

Organizations and titles

 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Trade Federation
 * 88th Flight
 * Galactic Republic
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * Clone jet trooper
 * Jedi Order
 * Jedi General
 * Jedi Master
 * Padawan

Sentient species

 * Aqualish
 * Human
 * Kaleesh
 * Cyborg
 * Togruta
 * Trandoshan

Vehicles and vessels

 * Acclamator I-class assault ship
 * All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
 * Belbullab-22 starfighter
 * Soulless One
 * Consular-class space cruiser
 * 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
 * Porax-38 starfighter
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer

Weapons and technology

 * Air duct
 * Blast door
 * Blaster
 * DC-15S blaster
 * DC-17 hand blaster
 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * Bulkhead
 * Circular saw
 * Comlink
 * Computer system
 * Control panel
 * Cyborg
 * EMP grenade ("Droid popper")
 * Fuel cell
 * Hologram
 * Holoprojector
 * Hull
 * Ion prod
 * Jet pack
 * Lightsaber
 * Memory bank
 * Ray shield
 * Recharge rack
 * Reactor
 * Repulsorlift
 * Sensor jamming
 * Servomotor
 * Towline

Miscellanea

 * Gravity
 * Hyperspace
 * Oil
 * Scramble code 1477

Languages

 * Aurebesh
 * Binary
 * Galactic Basic Standard

The Force

 * Force Sense
 * Telekinesis

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.