Ryan Shoots First: The Clone Wars (S7 Ep4) “Unfinished Business”
Ok, I swear this time THIS is the final chapter in the Bad Batch arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Four episodes is up there with the most they have devoted to a single block arc so let’s dive right into the last chapter!
With Echo in toe the team are back on base and things are bleak as the Republic is losing the battle on Anaxes. Echo has a plan to turn the tide but Rex is not so keen on him jumping back into the war so fast. The plan is to get Echo on to Admiral Trench’s command ship to feed the troops intel the Republic knows. Wrecker is upset this is a stealth mission but Tech has a… bad feeling about this. Back on the planet a giant battle begins and man does it look fantastic, the battleships and fighters flying all over dropping bombs, the show is looking so good. Echo hacks in as the Seps are attempting to use the algorithm while Mace and Obi-Wan land on the ground of the assembly plant. Mace delivers an awesome speech essentially telling all the droids “check my name” complete with his droid kill count, it of course doesn’t work and the ground battle begins. Echo diverts all the droids to the area as Echo plans to neutralize all of the droids at the same time. The Batch is skeptical of Echo as tensions are high what with his brain just being hooked up to their computers and all.
Echo pulls through and deactivates all the droids at the assembly complex. The republic is winning all over the planet as the main squad heads back. Before he de-plugs Echo learns there is a bomb in the complex capable of blowing up most of the planet. Echo will try to stop it while Anakin heads to the bridge and Mace to the bomb. Before Echo can feed the last number to Mace to defuse the bomb he is overloaded by the command bridge who have tracked the clones on the ship. Before Trench can escape though Anakin hits the bridge. Anakin plays some Bad Cop with Trench showing the hints of the Dark Side inside slicing off his robot arms. Trench gives up the code and Mace is able to defuse the bomb. Trench then tases Anakin but Anakin responds with a Lightsaber through the chest. Lightsaber wins.
While escaping the Batch get some cool hero moments with Wrecker literally wrecking an entire hallway of droids and Crosshair sniping and trapping with these cool reflective devices that bounce his blaster bolt down the hallway. As they escape Anakin grants Wrecker with the reward of blowing up all of Trench’s ships. The Batch invites Echo to join the Bad Batch and with Rex’s blessing he joins them as he too now is a misfit modified clone. The credits roll and that is a wrap on the first arc of this new season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Another great episode with solid action and great animation. Mace Windu had a awesome moment with his lecture before the battle droid battle and the Batch once again had some very cool moments chief of which being Crosshairs reflection discs. I suppose NOW we will move forward with the next arc and hopefully see some other characters from the show like Asoka and Maul. I have not read any spoilers about what arch is coming next but I look forward to the next story in this final season of The Clone Wars.