‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ returns to Han Solo’s homeworld this week
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In the latest episode of The Bad Batch, “Decommissioned,” a couple familiar faces from The Clone Wars make their return to the galaxy far, far away. Omega starts learning how to defend herself; Wrecker gives us some cause for concern. And even more interesting, perhaps, is the episode’s ending, which presents a new mystery: Who’s that cloaked figure in the holotransmission? The possibilities are exciting.
If you haven’t been interested in watching Bad Batch thus far, episode six might be the one that changes your mind.
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What happens in this episode of ‘The Bad Batch’?
Back in Cid’s basement bar on Ord Mantell, the Bad Batch watches as Omega gets in a little target practice with her new energy-bow weapon. She’s starting to get the hang of it, but still has a lot of practicing to do.
In the meantime, the Trandoshan has another job for them, if they’re interested: Cid wants the Batch to break into a facility in the dockyards of Corellia (Han Solo’s homeworld) and retrieve an old Separatist tactical droid. The information in its databank would prove invaluable to anyone hoping to fight, say, a squad of runaway clone troopers. Not something they want getting into the wrong hands.
The decommissioning center is a grimy, yellow-lit industrial fortress filled with broken battle droids and crawling with security. On the way in, we learn that Wrecker’s afraid of heights when the Batch has to climb a tall access ladder. Inside, conveyor belts guide countless pieces of Trade Federation battle droids into melting furnaces to be recycled—forged, perhaps, into weapons for the next devastating war.
As soon as Omega spots their target—the head of a tactical droid—a masked smuggler swoops in and snatches it up for herself. Enter Trace and Rafa Martez, last seen in season seven of The Clone Wars. Like the Batch, they’ve been hired to find and deliver the tactical droid’s mind to someone else. As the two parties fight over their prize, blasterfire alerts the army of droids guarding the place, and the facility goes into lockdown.
After some searching, Wrecker manages to find an override switch, but not before all the excitement causes the inhibitor chip in his skull to start acting up. He even begins muttering Crosshair’s ominous refrain from the pilot: “Good soldiers follow orders.” Omega, meanwhile, gets her foot caught in one of the conveyor belts, and Hunter saves her in the nick of time.
Trace Martez repairs the tactical droid’s head, and then Tech boosts its broadcast signal in order to reactivate and take control of all the battle droids throughout the facility. This gives them an army of their own with which to fight off all the security droids.
In the ensuing crossfire, the tac droid is ultimately destroyed beyond fixing, but not before Tech copies its memory core onto a “data rod.” Hunter gives this to Rafa, believing she’ll use it for good—to help people in the fight against the Empire. He doesn’t trust Cid to do the same.
“Take it from me,” Rafa says. “In the end, we all choose sides.”
After parting ways with the Bad Batch, Rafa contacts a cloaked figure, who she tells about the rogue clones. This could be almost anyone—Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bail Organa.
My money’s on another, twistier possibility: Maul, a former Sith Lord building his criminal empire in the shadows. This episode already returned to one setting from Solo: A Star Wars Story, so further tying things into the rise of Crimson Dawn makes a lot of sense.
Fingers crossed we’ll see that red-and-black devil again soon.
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