Destroy Malevolence " Destroy " Malevolence " " is the fourth episode of of the " " television series . It is the fourth episode of the series overall . It aired on October 17 , 2008 on Cartoon Network . Its title was first revealed on Anthony Daniels ' website . Official description . " Padmé Amidala and C - 3PO are taken hostage by General Grievous , leaving Anakin and Obi - Wan to save the Senator and complete the destruction of the " Malevolence " . Anakin and Obi - Wan chase down the " Malevolence " , hoping to destroy it before it can escape . But when Padmé and C - 3PO are captured and held hostage aboard , the Jedi are forced to hatch a new plan . " Plot summary . During the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula , the " Malevolence " is left heavily damaged and trailed by three Star Destroyers . Unable to jump to hyperspace , Grievous is forced to buy time . Luckily for him , Darth Sidious and Count Dooku had arranged for Senator Amidala ( with C - 3PO in her company ) to fly directly onto his ship , herself believing that she was heading for negotiations with the InterGalactic Banking Clan Supreme Executive . Once Padmé comes out of hyperspace , she is pulled into the warship via a tractor beam . She manages to contact the Republic forces , asking them to continue their attacks , regardless of her own safety . However , Anakin orders their ships to cease their attack . Padmé rigs her ship ' s engines to explode so that when Grievous comes on board to capture her , the galaxy would be rid of him . Unfortunately , he survives the blast and has his droids search for her and Threepio . Anakin heads a rescue mission composed of him , Obi - Wan and Artoo to save her . The " Twilight " then latches onto the " Malevolence " by an emergency air lock and they board the ship and manage to contact the senator , who gives them her location . They set a rendezvous point at the warship ' s transportation system . They each get on separate trains . Anakin uses the Force to bring Padmé over to him because a super battle droid destroyed the rest of Padmé ' s track . Their train goes into a tunnel , where they enjoy a brief romantic moment alone ; Obi - Wan tries to get Threepio , but he gets hit by another train in transit . As they are about to kiss , Anakin is contacted by Obi - Wan about Threepio . Anakin plans on rescuing him , but Padmé informs the Jedi that the hyperdrive is close to finishing ; Obi - Wan goes to destroy the hyperdrive . However , Grievous learns of this and sends droids down to guard the drive . Meanwhile , Anakin and Padmé reach the bridge when the ship is almost ready to jump to hyperspace . They quickly destroy all the droids and rig the ship ' s navicomputer . They then leave the bridge , hiding the broken droids before others could find out what happened . Obi - Wan duels with Grievous after dispatching his droids and manages to avoid the cyborg ' s clutches . He reaches the " Twilight " along with the rest of the group and as they leave the ship , Grievous pursues in his starfighter . The droids on the warship then try to jump to hyperspace , only to discover that Anakin rigged the navicomputer to set a course right into the moon . Grievous watches in horror as the ship crashes into a nearby moon , then flees the system . While Grievous was not killed on the " Malevolence " , his warship is finally destroyed and Senator Amidala is rescued from the ship . The loss hurts Grievous ' s credibility with Count Dooku , the former ending communications to the count due to the shame of the ship being destroyed . Behind the scenes . Some ideas from the original script of the episode included : Quarsh Panaka being captured alongside with Padmé and being brutally murdered by Grievous ; a lightsaber duel between Grievous and Plo Koon on the exterior of " Malevolence " in space ; and Jedi sneaking aboard the " Malevolence " by freezing themselves in carbonite to get past droid bio scans and radiation beams . While the first two ideas were eventually abandoned completely , " the carbonite infiltration maneuver " was later adapted into the stories of " " , and the Season 3 episode " The Citadel . " Additionally , Anakin ' s original plan of entering the " Malevolence " was a foolish hyperspace micro - jump to deploy the " Twilight " centimeters from the ship ' s hull . Padmé and C - 3PO were also originally rushing to the battle site to aid in the evacuation of the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center , but these were also changed after script revisions . When General Grievous and his droids surround Obi - Wan near the hyperdrive , he says " hello there . " Obi - Wan would later repeat this line to the General in and would even later say the line to R2 - D2 during his debut appearance in . Obi - Wan ' s duel with Grievous , however , would end up creating continuity problems with . In the film , at the start of the duel between Kenobi and Grievous on Utapau , Grievous says " You fool ! I have been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku ! " as it was the first time they had fought each other . Over the course of the television show , however , Kenobi and Grievous dueled each other on several occasions , with Grievous always showing great skill in lightsaber combat . Anakin ' s comments about spinning " being a good trick " are references to his line in . The final frame of the episode shows all these prequel characters ( Anakin , Obi Wan , Padmé , C - 3PO , and R2 - D2 ) being depicted together for the first time . ( They were scattered across different planets in the films )