The Bad Batch ep opens with a large, circular junkyard, Wrecker, now with his clone trooper upper armor painted crimson and green, Boba Fett colors, is looking for a compressor with Omega. They climb to an area, Omega finds two items while Wrecker has gotten the compressor. At Cid’s Parlor, Phee Genoa recounts a story about being captured by an Octomorph to regulars, Bolo (Liam O’Brien) and Ketch (Sam Riegel). At the bar, Tech notes that her story always changes, but Ketch and Bolo love Phee’s discovery of the Great Pearl of Novak. Wrecker comes in with the compressor for Tech and Omega adds her findings. Phee checks them out. One of them is manifold regulator, Tech adds that it is broken, but she then examines a disc. Phee finds coordinates on it. She holds up the disc to her power droid, MEL, to scan it. Genoa realizes that it is a compass. This leads to the Kaldar Trinary system and treasure.
So Phee talks Omega into going for the treasure with Hunter reluctantly goes with the others. In this episode it is strange that Cid’s Parlor doesn’t have Cid at the place. These adventures just seem so random and not leading to anything like joining the Rebellion, saving other clones, no building up to a finale. Phee tells her stories to Omega, who doesn’t seem tired of them, on board the Marauder. They reach Skara Nal; gray with rocks and spiky trees, Phee goes checking the quality of dirt. Omega does the same. Wrecker is back in his regular armor, so the other one was to find parts?, a civilian identity? Echo notices that the compass has activated and tracks the path to the south. Omega snatches the compass in her excitement. MEL-221 follows them. Omega finds that they reached a dead end at a mountainside. Phee uses her sword to part open a crack and she gets Wrecker to move a boulder.
It causes a landslide revealing a door. Something growls above them as they enter the secret entrance, a little like entering Moria. At a chamber, Tech tells Hunter that markings on the wall are a thousand years old, Phee says it is the entrance to Skara Nal. Very Indiana Jones territotry which seem slike it would an area for archeologist adventurer, Doctor Aphra. Phee tells them that it all dates back to before the Jedi and the treasure is the Heart of the Mountain. They reach a door which Phee says has a pattern, she starts moving a piece that slides a wall, a Rubik’s cube. The wall closes and they are trapped inside. Omega looks through the campus which reveals two hidden symbols. Phee has Omega place the compass on her lantern which illuminates the symbols in the room. The Bad Batch begins to move the symbols and the music swells up with the chorus. I keep thinking that the Kevin Kiner score will go to the Raiders march.
Phee and Omega start into the revealed corridor. The treasure hunt does remind me of the Legends novel, Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (1980) by Brian Daley. Phee tells Omega that the Heart of the Mountain is a crystal that is connected to an “ancient power.” They hear a growl and then some long limbed creature leaps on Wrecker! He is able to free himself, the others blast it, and this causes a collapse that separates two groups! Omega contacts the other group with Echo, Wrecker, and Tech. They are trapped, but Tech can find a way through side tunnels to reach them. Hunter with Phee and Omega continue on their way through a tunnel. He walks forward as Omega has illuminated blue panels on the tunnel roof. Phee calls out to Hunter, but he falls and sends his grappling hook up to the tunnel.
Omega looks at the symbols on the roof and says she thinks they have to find to walk on the roof. Hunter says to Phee, “You’re just making this up as you go” recalling Indiana Jones’ line. Omega places the compass into the wall lighting up the panels and then rotates the disc to rotate the tunnel! Omega tries to pull the compass free, but it is locked in. Tech finds the comlink is down and they proceed with blasters thinking the creature is near. Instead, they find Hunter, Omega, and Phee by a round door. She finds a latch that has the door roll back. Phee finds the Heart of the Mountain, a carved, blue stone that looks like the stones in The Fifth Element (1997), with some cosmic purple at its base. Omega lapses back into a wondering child. The others are to be there just to be there, but new character, Phee Genoa has some characterization. “Entombed” is a clever, Indiana Jones-type adventure, but has left the Empire narrative and the fate of the clones.
Three Vibro-Knives out of Five!
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