Downfall of a Droid " Downfall of a Droid " is the sixth episode of of the television series " " . It is the sixth episode of the series overall . Its title was revealed by Henry Gilroy in an interview that ran in " Star Wars Insider 103 " . It was postponed for one week , in observance of Halloween , and aired on November 7 . This is the first episode written by " " creator George Krstic . Official description . " R2 - D2 is lost during a fierce space battle - and Anakin , along with Ahsoka and a replacement droid , R3 - S6 , must find him before the Separatists discover the Jedi military secrets locked in his memory banks . " Plot summary . Because Grievous has been ambushing Republic fleets at places like Falleen , Obi - Wan advises that Anakin take his fleet out of the Bothawui system and regroup , but he has a plan to defeat General Grievous . At that moment , Grievous ' s fleet is advancing on his . Anakin leads Gold Squadron in a frontal assault , informing his forces to wait for the right moment as Grievous ' fleet advances through the asteroid belt . This gives Rex and his brigade of AT - TEs hiding on the asteroids a chance to ambush the Separatist frigates from behind . Because his droid commander is too incompetent on where to retreat to , Grievous flees the ship on his personal starfighter . Anakin and R2 pursue him until a piece of shrapnel embedded in the fighter causes it to careen off course . Anakin later wakes up aboard the " Resolute " , learning that he was salvaged from his fighter ; R2 was not . However , he informs Obi - Wan that he didn ' t erase Artoo ' s memory , which would be a severe liability should the astromech fall into Separatist hands . Anakin heads a salvage operation to recover Artoo , but Ahsoka shows him the new R3 - S6 , who has better skills than an R2 - unit , calling him Goldie . As they search the debris field , they spot a freighter and dock with it . The Trandoshan captain , Gha Nachkt , claims there is no R2 unit on board but allows them to search anyway . Anakin hears R2 ' s beep and begins to slice through the door that he thinks he heard it in . But Goldie accidentally activates two IG - 86 units instead of opening the door . The two Jedi manage to slice the droids in pieces as Anakin gets through the door , only to find Gha , who is angry that his droids were destroyed . Ahsoka concludes that R2 is not on board and they leave . But unfortunately , Gha had the little droid locked in a crate with a restraining bolt on and contacts Grievous , informing him that the droid is of great strategic value . R2 later escapes while Gha is sleeping , flushing one of his IG units out of the airlock , only to be discovered by the Trandoshan . Figuring that Grievous has a listening post somewhere , Anakin decides to go scouting but Ahsoka sends along R3 , saying they could bond . R3 instead accidentally turns on the tracking device , alerting Grievous to his position . R3 only makes things go from bad to worse , detaching Anakin ' s fighter from its hyperspace transport ring , not cutting the engines when he is told to , and disabling the blaster cannons . He is luckily saved by Ahsoka and Rex in the " Twilight " . Grievous , frustrated with Skywalker ' s escape , beheads a battle droid in rage . Anakin chastises the incompetent droid over nearly getting him killed and hopes that R2 is still out there . Decoded . The Decoded version of the episode aired on June 6 , 2009 . The annotating character for the episode was supposedly Obi - Wan , yet some annotations still referred to the character as " Obi - wan " rather than " myself " or " I . " The annotations included many facts about various ships and some characters featured in the episode . Unique information provided by the annotations included the fact that the chest plates worn by Anakin and Obi - Wan were based on designs of ancient Jedi armor . Stim plug s were named for the first time . Also , it was revealed that Gha Nachkt damaged his eye in a cantina fight . Behind the scenes . The opening scene of this episode , described and even illustrated in the accompanying Episode Guide , was cut probably because of the strict time limit of the TV format . Additionally , there were other scenes that appeared in " The Untold Stories " DVD featurette of the that were apparently cut from the episode due to similar reasons . The episode ' s original moral was " " Friends are hard to find , difficult to leave , impossible to forget . " " Continuity . Anakin ' s hair appears reversed near the end of the episode . When Anakin is scolding R3 - S6 , the droid ' s dome appears reversed for a moment . In the first shot when the " Twilight " is flying through the debris field over Bothawui , the wreckage of an " Acclamator " - class assault ship can be seen in the background , even though no ship of that model participated in the battle . The IG - 86 droid Ahsoka fights in the cargo hold of the " Vulture ’ s Claw " has one of its arms cut off by Anakin , but during the fight sequence , the droid has its arm back for a moment . There was a short line removed from the finished episode which had Ahsoka say " did somebody call for help , again ? " after she destroyed vulture droids that were about to destroy Anakin ' s fighter , although it was still present in the dataclip of the episode . There was another line that was cut from the episode where Anakin said , " and I ' m going to find him " just after he declared that R2 was not destroyed and " still out there " . It was also still present in the dataclip . DVD Release . In the United Kingdom , HMV released this episode on DVD , as an ' exclusive preview episode ' , priced at £1 . 99 in a slimline DVD case .