Flight of the Falcon ( episode ) Flight of the Falcon is the fourth episode of " " . It follows C - 3PO , Chewbacca , and Nien Nunb on an adventure to find R2 - D2 , who has been kidnapped by a mysterious captor . C - 3PO tells the story of " " to Tien Tubb and Chewbacca . During the journey , C - 3PO recounts his adventure with Luke Skywalker , Han Solo , and Leia Organa in . Afterwards , they find R2 - D2 and discover who his kidnapper really is only to fall into a trap set by an unexpected enemy , General Maximillian Veers . Plot summary . The masked kidnapper takes R2 - D2 and the broken - down droid s to the abandoned droid foundries on Geonosis . R2 manages to transmit his coordinates to C - 3PO and Chewbacca aboard the " Millennium Falcon " in space . Chewie and 3PO are joined by the Sullustan rebel Nien Nunb . Following R2 ' s coordinates , the rebels take the " Falcon " into hyperspace . 3PO wishes that they don ' t have to travel to Hoth and relates his experiences of the Battle of Hoth and adventures on Cloud City to Numb . Darth Vader had sent probe droid s throughout the galaxy to hunt down the Rebel Alliance . One probe droid lands on Hoth while Luke Skywalker and a tauntaun hide under a giant sign . Meanwhile , at Echo Base , Han Solo and Leia Organa argue about Han leaving the Rebellion in order to pay off his debts to Jabba the Hutt . 3PO and R2 - D2 then inform Han that Luke has not returned from his tauntaun patrol . Han leaves on a tauntaun to find Luke . Meanwhile , in the wampa cave , the Force spirit of Obi - Wan Kenobi tells Luke to go to Dagobah to find Jedi Master Yoda . Kenobi also instructs Luke to use the Force to summon his lightsaber and flee the cave . Luke escapes the wampa and encounters Han in the frozen wilderness . The two rebels then encounter an Imperial probe droid and try to fool it into thinking they are visitors . However , the Empire is not fooled and launches an attack on Echo Base , During the battle , Luke and the other rebel pilots fly snowspeeders and use tow cables to trip a few AT - AT walkers including General Maximillian Veers ' one . However , Luke ' s speeder is soon shot down . At Echo Base , C3PO , Han , Leia , and Chewbacca prepare for take - off on the " Millennium Falcon " but the ship ' s engines are not working ; prompting Han to complain about " stupid claw hands . " Elsewhere , Luke uses a grappling hook to plant a bomb under an AT - AT walker , which explodes and transforms into a LEGO house . Shortly afterward , Luke and R2 escape the battlefield in a T - 65B X - wing starfighter . Back at Echo Base , the " Falcon " manages to flee just as Vader and several Cold weather assault stormtrooper s enter the base . Vader criticizes the snowtroopers for not being very good shooters and orders them to throw snowballs at his feet once they have been set aflame . Meanwhile , the " Falcon " is pursued by several TIE fighters and Star Destroyer s in space . On Dagobah , Luke and R2 encounter Yoda and whine about Yoda ' s " grubby mud hut . " Yoda sighs about Luke ' s impatience to Master Kenobi and vows to teach him manners . In space , the " Falcon " manages to lose their Imperial pursuers , but 3PO is pessimistic about their chances of survival , and they are able to escape once the crew have realized that they have ended up in the mouth of a space slug . Vader hires bounty hunters to track down the " Millennium Falcon " , for which they will be rewarded handsomely . He suggests spending the reward on shoes for Bossk ' s bare feet . One of them , Boba Fett , is able to track the " Falcon " down and gets into a heated row with Vader after confusing him for Dengar . Back on Dagobah , after building a couch for Yoda and R2 , Luke foresees that his friends will end up in a trap set up by Vader and prepares to leave . The spirit of Obi - Wan , still upside down from confronting Luke in a the wampa cave , worries to Yoda that he is their last hope . However , Yoda adds that there is another , and they both guess who it could be . Arriving on Cloud City , Han is greeted by Lando Calrissian , who is both happy and angry to see him . He leads them into the dining room where Vader is refusing all suggestions from the menu by a maître d ' . Furious at having his timing messed up by the unexpected arrival of Lando ' s guests , Vader deflects a bolt from Han ' s blaster that decapitates 3PO . Vader announces his plot to have Luke frozen in carbonite to be delivered to the Emperor , yet when Han asks teasingly if he can test it on someone first , Vader sees a perfect candidate and has him frozen in carbonite for delivery to Jabba . Luke arrives just in time to face Vader while his friends fight back at the stormtroopers . The duel between Luke and Vader takes them into the extension catwalk where the younger is disarmed . Vader is intrigued to find out from Luke that he killed his father , but before he can reveal his true identity , he is interrupted for the second time by the maître d ' . With his timing ruined once again , Vader retaliates by Force push ing the man back into the core tunnel , alone with his chance at properly revealing his identity to Luke . At first Luke laughs it off , but Vader ' s serious tone suggests otherwise , and , refusing to join him , Luke leaps to his apparent suicide , but is saved by a weather vane and an on - ride camera to go with it . He calls to Leia for help and they escape together . 3PO is happy to see R2 again , but resumes his gloomy mood when word from Luke and Leia gets to him that the Alliance is in tatters . In the end , it is revealed that Lando Calrissian is the " mysterious captor , " using extra money from recycled droids to rebuild Cloud City ' s mining facility with an unknown business partner . However , R2 had willingly gone along in order to help Lando tinker with the old droids . Their elation at reuniting with R2 is short - lived when General Veers appears , revealing himself as Calrissian ' s dealer . General Veers plans to use the recycled droids ' parts to rebuild the Separatist Droid Army in order to restore the Empire . He experiments by throwing a GNK - series power droid onto the conveyor belt , where it is modified with the head , arms and firearm of a B1 .