The episode opens with a shuttle landing in the city of spires on Ord Mantell. In the city’s alleyway is a woman, her walk cycle is strange, she walks into the bar. Then, she is startled by a blast! It is Omega testing out her energy bow recovered from the Zygerrians last episode. She tries to draw the energy bow, wavering, but Echo tries to coach her. An Ithorian, in the same blue outfit as the original Hammerhead Star Wars action figure, encourages her. There was a similarly dressed Ithorian on Coruscant in the recent Clone Wars episode “Gone with a Trace” (2020) that introduced Trace Martez. If it is the same Ithorian and he gets a name, I wanna see that action figure! He has a device around his throat, they have two mouths and four throats, so this must help him speak Basic. The Ithorian is betting on the outcome with a Weequay, the leathery alien similar to Hondo Ohnaka. Omega is successful hitting the target, but Echo tells her it is only three hits out of twelve!
The Weequay bets that Omega will fail, Echo tells her to “tune out distractions”, she tries again and fails. Wrecker whispers to Hunter that Omega is not a “natural.” I think there was a talk about Omega having skills of all of the Bad Batch, no, neither does it seem that Omega has Force sensitivity with her struggle. The gamblers are sent away by Cid who mentions to the Bad Batch about a tactical droid. The droids were battlefield strategists introduced in the Clone Wars episode, “Jedi Crash” (2009). She doesn’t like being interrupted by Tech whom she calls “Goggles”, very funny! Cid mentions that there is one with valuable intelligence on a facility on Corellia that decommissions battle droids. Corellia is in the Core Worlds, the Bad Batch is crossing the galaxy, it was seen in live action form in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). The other part of the aftermath of the Clone Wars is what happened to all of the battle droids, it looks like we have the answer in this episode.
Cid convinces Hunter that their partnership helps everyone and then says Omega needs to build up her strength. She takes her energy bow and unleashes three perfectly aimed bolts! I don’t think I’ve seen a contact that is deadlier than the mercenaries! A ship approaches Corellia, underneath it Millennium Falcon-style, is the Havoc Marauder. The Bad Batch tries to explain tactical droids to Omega and that their learning would have helpful against clone troopers. Their shuttle detaches and lands at a factory. The Bad Batch deploy with their helmets on. As they sneak in, police droids, these models don’t look like the police officers in the Clone Wars episode, “Lightsaber Lost” (2010). They look more like the spindly supervisor droid, EV-9D9 seen in Return of the Jedi (1983). Tech has found a way around their patrol cycles and up a long ladder into the factory. They enter and we see the droids “decommissoned”, put on factory belts to be melted down. This is an interesting twist after seeing the droids built in Attack of the Clones (2002).
Hunter has Echo and Tech look for the tactical droid and Wrecker has to be lookout. Wrecker complains that lookout was Crosshair’s job. Hunter wants Omega to stay at the walkway to look for the droid. Workers at a console are zapped by a stun blast and Echo plugs in. Omega spots with her electrobinoculars the head of the tactical droid on a conveyor belt. It is snatched up by someone! Wrecker thinks it is one of the workers. Omega is confronted by another “worker”, who reveals herself to be Rafa Martez (Elizabeth Rodriguez), the sister of Trace Martez. She is the older sister and the Martez sisters both lived on Level 1313 of Coruscant. Their adventures became repetitive, but like most characters in Bad Batch, the characters are fun here. Omega draws her energy bow on Rafa. Trace (Brigitte Kali) asks her sister where she is, but Omega threatens her not to answer. She in turn finds herself under the blasters of the others. They seem a little hesitant to use stun blasts even though she has the tactical droid head. Rafa tries to talk down Omega who doesn’t say a word.
She suddenly leaps at Omega and struggles with the energy bow! Omega unleashes the bolt and it breaches a container! The struggle knocks down Omega’s energy bow and the breach sends steam that alerts all o the workers! A workers sees the security breach and shuts down the factory. The workers evacuate and Trace is angry at the Bad Batch while Rafa is disappointed at Omega, it is really her fault. Police droids start to file in, taken down by Wrecker!, Rafa slips away. The Bad Batch’s specialty is handled droids, but the police droids have them without tactics for some reason. Trace runs with the droid head and comms for Rafa to meet at the “rendevous.” Trace tries to toss the droid head to her sister, but it falls onto the conveyor belt at the same time Rafa and Omega say, “I’ve got it!”, funny. Hunter and Trace blast droids on the walkway. Omega slides down and runs with the droid head. Echo shuts down the lockdown, but he needs Wrecker’s help to reboot the factory. Wrecker finds himself with a smelting pit and some distance across.
There is no time for his hesitation, he leaps onto a crane, and then slams his head into a column! This is going bad for Wrecker! He is able to throw the switch to activate the factory. This causes movement on the conveyor belt that traps Omega underneath a battle droid! Rafa takes the tactical droid head. Wrecker is agony with his head and mutters, “Good soldiers” and then is shot!, this is probably the worst outcome! Hunter has to save Omega, but who will save Wrecker? Rafa has a change of heart and tries to pull Omega up, she is trapped with droids about to be melted down, Rafa has her throw up a droid arm. At the last minute, Hunter blasts police droids, and is able to pull up Omega. Wrecker is down hearing “Good soldiers follow orders”, the inhibitor chip! There are more police droids headed for the factory. They have to come up with a plan to escape. Rafa says, “We need a diversion” and this is repeated by her sister. She asks, “Is there an echo in here?” and Echo answers, very funny! There is a team up of mechanic, Rafa, and the MacGuyver of the Bad Batch, Tech. After their Clone Wars episodes, I never wanted to see the Martez sisters, but this episode adds a dimension to them. “Decommissioned” is a dark episode where we find who the Martez sisters work for, kinda mysterious in hologram form, new allies for the Bad Batch, and a sort of success to the mission with Wrecker’s fate in question!
Four Viborknives out of Five!
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