Ryan Shoots First: The Bad Batch (S1 Ep6) “Decommissioned”
The Batch are now officially mercs trying to make their way through the galaxy and this week they are on another mission. The episode starts in Cid’s lair and Omega is practicing shooting the cool bow she got last week. Cid gives them a mission to get a tactical droid from The Clone Wars on Corellia! The team sneaks into the facility where they are dismantling all the droids. Someone manages to snatch the head of the command droid and Omega manages to stop them, it turns out it is Rafa from the last season of The Clone Wars. After a standoff Omega shoots a hole through a boiler and alerts everyone to their presence. Trace and Rafa try to get away but lose the head as they have a trade off with the Batch of helping each other against the security droids but also trying to get away with the droid’s head.
Wrecker and the Batch manage to restart the facility and lift the lockdown. Wrecker is really struggling with his head injury and starts to mutter the words “Good soldiers..” similar to Crosshair. Omega is stuck on the conveyor belt but before she meets her untimely end Trace returns to help save her long enough for Hunter to get there. Hunter thanks Trace and everyone takes a moment to realize they need to work together to get out of the facility. Wrecker is struggling with his programming from his inhibitor chip. Meanwhile Trace has the bright idea to fire back up the Tactical droids head to command the defunt battle droids to help them get out. Omega is finally able to get Wrecker back in the fight, he buys them enough time to get the Battle droids up and running. In their escape they manage to lose the control unit’s head and Rafa and Trace tell the Batch their buyer was hoping to use it to fight the empire. It turns out Echo copied the data to a spike before the head was destroyed and Hunter gives it to Rafa as they leave. Once on their ship they transmit the data to “him” as a figure shows up on the hologram. Rafa tells him they had help from renegade clone troopers and that he may wanna know as the credits roll.
Well we finally have a big mystery for fans to break down, who is on the other end of the hologram? Is it friend or foe? Tune in next week for Woody’s Roundup!
Observations
- Nice to see Echo taking some time as Dad, he has seemed to be the most distant from Omega
- I like the idea of Omega one day being a Bad-Ass Merc who uses a Light Bow. Make it happen Dave!
- Always cool to see Corellia
- Daaaaaaamn Cid
- Maybe some Solo crossovers coming??
- Again… Maybe get the kid a helmet??
- Cause if there was one thing fans were clamoring for more from it was Rafa.
- This week in Wrecker head injuries.
- HA! I like the “who’s on first” bit between Trace and Echo.
- Notice how Omega is the one to finally get through to Wrecker. I imagine she will help him break the programming as they have developed a bond.
- I love Omega, she’s all about those seedy underbellies.
- Let the fan theories begin about who is in the hologram! (It’s Hondo)