The eternal storms continue to rage outside of Tipoca City. Inside are a number of clone troopers, Crosshair enters a meeting with Admiral Rampart and the Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su. He gives the report from the Scrapper Guild on Bracca about the cruiser. Crosshair shows them the hologram of Hunter. Lama Su wants the recovery of the Bad Batch alive. Rampart authorizes the kill order. At the crashed ship, Wrecker is showing Omega a dissambled thermal explosive. He has Omega try disarming the explosive, but she cuts wires and ends up activating it. Omega tries to take cover, but it is just a smoke bomb. Wrecker laughs. They are called back to the cruiser and Echo asks about Omega’s test. She gets encouragement from Wrecker. A scrapper watches them with electrobinoculars. Echo and Wrecker have spotted them, Echo says there are three, they put on their helmets and start to run. The three scrappers try to escape, two of them are hit by stun blasts, the last one tries to flee on a repulsorlift platform. Echo has really proven he is an essential part of the squad. They kinda remind me of Mad Max Marauders. Wrecker catches hold of the repulsorlift platform!
Echo reports back to Hunter. Then, we get Wrecker trying to hold onto the platform as it speeds away! The scrapper tries to drop scrap on Wrecker and then knocks him off the platform. Echo stuns the driver. Omega checks on him. Later, Echo tries to push for leaving Bracca, but Hunter wants to sell the munitions left in the cruiser for money. He wants to clear the debt from Cid. Tech says the intel on the bridge is also valuable. Hunter sends Tech to activate the ship’s power and find the intel. They search the artillery bay of the cruiser with glowrods. Omega finds a box of thermal detonators. Wrecker is impressed. Then, they look at a caged wall of proton torpedoes, the lights suddenly turn on. Wrecker pulls a proton torpedo and hugs it like a teddy bear. Tech calls Omega to the bridge. Omega enters the dark bridge, Tech is working under a console transferring the data files, he wants Omega to copy the master drive. She asks him about fighting in the Clone Wars. Omega notices a flashing red light, Tech says it’s a proximity sensor, they have incoming!
Three Nu-class attack shuttles descend. Tech contacts Hunter that the Empire has found them! Nala Se enters to see Lama Su who says the Empire’s mission on Bracca threatens their “contingency plan.” This plan is another mystery of the series. They already have a bounty hunter searching for Omega, Fennec Shand, but Lama Su has contacted another! On Brecca, Hunter spots Crosshair leading Imperial troops. Tech says he is blocking their scanners. Crosshair is not fooled, his former comrades are in the cruiser. He sends a squad to find the Havoc Marauder. The Bad Batch has their needed munitions and try to slip away from the elite squads. The troopers have discovered the shuttle of the Bad Batch and Crosshair orders them to form a perimeter around it. Hunter senses the elite troopers and they hide in a side corridor while they walk on. Tech has hacked into the comms of the troopers. Crosshair orders the troopers to force them to the hangar. Hunter changes plans and has them go to the artillery deck. Wrecker looks down the side of the cruiser from the cannons. Suddenly, the troopers appear with Crosshair! Wrecker greets his former squadmate. Tech whispers to Echo to scomp power to the cannons. Echo points out that the deck will collapse and notices it will fall on the troopers.
Hunter tries to explain that Crosshair is being controlled by the inhibitor chip. Omega says she tried to warn him on Kamino. Crosshair orders the troopers to “aim for the kid.” Cold blooded. Echo fires the cannon. It is a distraction that gets the Bad Batch blasting including Omega with her energy bow. The ceiling collapses on the troopers. Wrecker tosses two troopers screaming out of the cruiser! A trooper fires a flame unit, but Wecker tosses a proton torpedo at him. Tech leads them to the cavernous ion engine chamber. The ceiling continues to fall and Crosshair tries to recover. He is of course no match for the entire squad. Crosshair picks up his 773 Firepuncher rifle and gets the report that the troopers couldn’t find Clone Force 99. He orders a shuttle to his position and then sends ES-04 to the bridge. The Bad Batch slides down, wheee!, so they can make their way through the engine. They emerge at the edge of the cruiser’s engine. A sudden shot startles Tech and Crosshair mocks Hunter. They try to double back when there is a loud thumping, the engine is powering up!
The engine activated by ES-04 on the bridge and Tech tells Hunter they have less than two minutes! The engines flares blue and Crosshair takes aim with his rifle. Tech suggests putting the explosives around the engine cone and breaking it off. The engine starts to blast and then the charges are set off. They ripple around the engine cone dropping it. The blast knocks back Crosshair, fooled by his own vicious plan. Omega tries to hold on, but falls and Hunter catches her. They start rolling down. Crosshair orders the engine to be shut down and collapses. The Bad Batch dodge cannonfire from the Imperial shuttles. Crosshair recovers enough to say that they are headed to the Havoc Marauder. An elite trooper tries to contact the trooper guarding the shuttle, but we see him on the ground. Hunter and Omega check on them. We see the one who finished off the troopers, Cad Bane (Corey Burton)! The bounty hunter was introduced in the Clone Wars episode “Hostage Crisis” (2009). He is the one bounty hunter who could take on Jedi. Bane is a Duros, blue skin, red eyes, breathing tubes, dressed like a deadly cowboy complete with hat. I expected Cad Bane all the way back in Fennec Shand's episode, "Cornered." Dave Filoni doesn't waste characters that's a Kathleen Kennedy thing. Bane's companion droid is Todo 360 (Seth Green), just a lackey, who appeared in “Holocron Heist” (2009). Um, the Bad Batch has zero chance against him! The Bad Batch episode is incredible in getting them in impossible situations with some dark consequences!
Five Vibro Knives out of Five!
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