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 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, R3-S6 and R2-D2 have been fighting, Artoo having barely enough time to open the doors. 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 is destroyed by debris. R2-D2 is then rescued by Anakin.

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

 * Captain CC-7567 "Rex"
 * Sergeant 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
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * R3-series astromech droid
 * B1 battle droid
 * 631
 * B2 super battle droid
 * IG-100 MagnaGuard
 * Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Mission to Skytop Station

The Force

 * Force Sense
 * Telekinesis

Languages

 * Aurebesh
 * Basic
 * Droidspeak

Locations

 * Ruusan system
 * Ruusan
 * Ruusan moon
 * Skytop Station
 * Disassembly chamber
 * Exterior maintenance catwalk
 * Level Eight
 * Reactor room
 * South landing bay
 * Storage room
 * Surveillance posts

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
 * Twilight
 * Lucrehulk-class Core Ship
 * Battlesphere
 * Porax-38 starfighter
 * Trandoshan scavenger ship
 * Vulture's Claw
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer

Weapons and technology

 * Air duct
 * Blast door
 * Booster jet
 * Bulkhead
 * Circular saw
 * Comlink
 * Communications system
 * Computer system
 * Control panel
 * Droid recharge rack
 * EMP grenade (Droid poppers)
 * File
 * Fuel cell
 * Hologram
 * Holoprojector
 * Hull
 * Ion prod
 * Lightsaber
 * Memory bank
 * Ray shield
 * Reactor
 * Repulsorlift
 * Sensor jamming
 * Servomotor
 * Jet pack
 * Towline

Miscellanea

 * Cargo hold
 * Gravity
 * Access hatch
 * Hyperspace
 * Oil
 * Scramble code 1477
 * Telekinesis

Errors

 * An IG-100 MagnaGuard is decapitated, and it doesn't continue fighting. Most likely it was incapable of such ability due to an internal flaw or it wasn't an advanced model.  This situation is similar to a MagnaGuard on Utapau in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
 * Grievous's hand is fixed when he leaves in his starfighter after it being cut off (probably because the same scene was also used in Destroy Malevolence but reversed).
 * Anakin encounters a MagnaGuard, despite having commented on how he had only read about them in the novelization of Revenge of the Sith.
 * When R2 is on the table his Eye Socket is seen unattached momentarily when it shouldn't have been.