Poor R4…
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Simplest answer (other than obviously Ep 4 was written decades before Eps 1-3):
He lied.
He doesn’t know the circumstances of Luke’s appearance at his doorstep (as it were), and his job - his ONLY job - is to keep Luke safe. Until he sees the message, he doesn’t know WTF is going on. Why would he admit owning a droid? He’s supposed to be just some old geezer in the desert.
Or the classic: “it was a military issued droid, it was never his”
Yeah. The droid belonged to the Jedi Order.
Lol
The order likely owned the droid just as they did the Jedi Starfighter R4 was probably issued with.
In fairness, he’s ooooold.
Its true, from a certain point of view
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