The Bad Batch Episode 5 BREAKDOWN - BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION

Mount Tantiss is a super secret imperial facility that no one knows the location to, so they decide to fire up Nala Se’s data pad to get some information. I think this could lead to them finding out that Tech is indeed alive there, and perhaps being experimented on. They want to see what’s in the vault, and to get schematics on the entry points to the base. However, it’s imperially encrypted. Crosshair tells them that if you plug it into an imperial computer, the encryption will be bypassed. So they head back to Crosshair’s previous mission on Barton IV, the ice planet. Now we know why this episode is called the return. Because Echo returns, and so does Crosshair with his brothers, and his return to the ice planet.

As they prepare, Wrecker tells Omega not to worry about Hunter constantly eyeing him, he’s just being protective. Clearly crosshair is understanding of the situation and of his own wrongdoings as we see later in the episode at the end. Wrecker gives Crosshair his old armour and he observes it.

As they land on the ice terrain of Barton IV, they exit the ship and Crosshair wears his old armour and it looks epic.

As they get to the abandoned depot, they divert power, and hook up the data pad.

Crosshair walks off into a room as the boys configure the console and he picks up the frozen clone trooper helmets from Commander Mayday and his men who patrolled the station. As Hunter watches, he starts to observe there’s more to Crosshair, that there’s some human in him after all. A story to be understood. Later outside, he confronts him, where Crosshair tells him he betrayed the Empire by killing an imperial officer. He told him he risked everything to tell him and warn him. He blames Hunter for his failure which caused Omega to be captured, and they almost fight as Crosshair tells him the only reason he’s mad is because it was him who saved Omega and not Hunter.

A massive ice worm breaks out from underneath the ice and tries to eat them all. The team all work together like old old times to reactivate the system that sends a frequency out to keep the creature at bay, like a dog whistle.

They eventually overcome the beast by working together and they remember that they are brothers after all.

Crosshair tells him that he’s done things he regrets, that he thought he was being a good solider with following the empire. and Hunter tells him no one really understood what was happening back then. He regrets things too, and all they can do is to keep trying to be better.

This is the whole motif of Star Wars, that no matter what you’ve done in life, as long as you correct your ways and change, that it’s never too late. This is the story of redemption, of Anakin Skywalker, the hero’s journey and the mantra for life.

I think the next episode will be about asajj ventures, as this one ends on a happy note, as they now get the information they need to find Mount Tantiss and free the clones, as well as perhaps find Tech who I really believe is still alive and being tested on.

I think Asajj, somehow, is back in the picture, and she’s a bounty hunter who could be hired to find the bad batch and once she does, ends up joining them.

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