Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 9, BOUNTY LOST has finally been released on disney+,
and with it, we finally get the follow up to Cad Bane’s kidnapping of Omega, and find
out some pretty disturbing details about the Kaminoans and their secret Cloning Facilities..
The episode also has some nice little connections to the other Star Wars Tv series, and games,
which give us some hints about what’s coming up in the next episodes.
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So, the action begins with a tense dogfight in space above the planet Bracca, where Crosshair
is relentlessly pursuing the Batch, after he was horrifically burned not long ago.
While attempting to escape Crosshair’s grasp, Hunter is extremely conflicted about whether
or not to make the jump to hyperspace because he still believes he has a chance to save
Omega from the man who took her, of course being Cad Bane.
Other other members of the batch however snap him out of hit, realizing that Bane is sadly
long gone by now.
Following this, we cut the interior of Bane’s Ship, The Justifier, which is the same one
he had in the deleted scenes of the Clone Wars, where he fought Boba Fett, replacing
his old ship, the Xanadu blood.
On board, Omega is being held inside a ray shielded cell, absolutely terrified, and still
believing that Hunter is most likely dead.
Either way, Todo 360, Cad Bane’s techno-service droid comes by the cell to speak with Omega,
and she angrily demands that he let him out, but not before his Master Cad Bane himself
comes over.
The bounty asks how his favourite asset is, which angers her, and in response Bane immediately
lowers his hat to reveal a large cybernetic patch on his head.
This patch being here most likely indicates that the western standoff between Cad Bane
and Boba Fett has already happened, and that Cad Bane somehow survived a direct blow to
the head.
The patch also seems to be in the exact same spot as Boba Fett’s helmet dent, which he
of course acquired in that exact same fight, which is an awesome little parallel, meaning
they both shot each other in the exact same spot.
This also tells us why he has a new hat in the Bad Batch, and probably hints that he’ll
be showing up in the Book of Boba Fett series either through Flashbacks or in the present,
if he lasts that long.
Of course, this cybernetic patch could be from another injury, but that would be a pretty
massive coincidence.
Following this, Cad Bane starts a holo call with Lamu Su, where he reports that the asset
is alive and ready to be taken to the meetup point for delivery.
On the other end, all inside the same room is Lamu Su, prime minister of Kamino as well
as Nala Se, and also Taun We, who we saw in Attack of the Clones.
Lamu Su isn’t happy with how much personal attachment Nala Se seems to have to Omega,
and realizes that it is threatening their operations and standing with the empire, warning
Nala Se that Omega must be terminated as soon as they have her genetic material.
This obviously leaves Nala Se very conflicted, as she has a deep bond with Omega.
Back on board the Havoc Marauder with the Bad Batch, the group begin trawling through
old Republic records and eventually discover that the bounty hunter who stole Omega is
a man named Cad Bane, who was responsible for attempting to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine
during the Clone Wars.
We of course saw this take place on Naboo in the Clone Wars Season 4.
On top of that, Tech discovers that Omega is a pure, unaltered Clone of Jango Fett,
just like the only other in the Galaxy Boba Fett, codenamed Alpha.
Pretty poetic, with Alpha meaning first and Omega meaning last.
This also makes Omega as close to a sister as Boba Fett is ever going to get, being even
closer in DNA than the clone troopers.
Finally The Batch have finally put the pieces together to realize that the Kaminoans need
Omega, because she’s the only source of the pure Jango Fett DNA left, after the disappearance
of Boba.
Back on the Justifier, Todo-360 gets easily tricked by Omega into letting her out so that
his leg can be repaired.
Omega does actually honor her word, repairing the droid’s leg, but also temporarily shuts
him down to hatch an escape.
As she does this, Bane enters the atmosphere of the planet Borra Vio, in the previously
unknown Lido System, and notices something is gravely wrong when Todo doesn’t respond
to his commands.
When he travels down into the bottom of his ship, he is met with his droid being knocked
out cold, and his asset on the run.
Omega does eventually manage to make contact with the batch, the he signal strength is
too weak to establish a direct link to her location, and before she can give her device
enough power to establish this link, she is caught and cuffed by Bane.
As they walk through the cloudy halls, Bane comes face to face with Fennec Shand, who
has sadly killed Taun We and stolen the payment from her, before Bane Could get there.
It’s pretty sad that Taun we is gone just like that, without much addition to her story
after Attack of the Clones, but Fennec is deadly, despite being very new on the block.
This understandably leads to a large stoush between the rookie bounty hunter and the experienced
apprentice of Jango Fett.
While the two hunters go head to head in a fierce standoff, Omega rushes through the
barren halls, as quickly as she can until she eventually arrives at a room filled with
large, mysterious tanks, which seemingly have other cloning attempts inside.
This whole planet and facility seems like an off-site base of operations for the Kaminoans,
where they can keep some of their projects a secret, hidden from the empire, and away
from the prying eyes of Admiral Rampart, Tarkin and Palpatine.
It seems like they’ve been using this base for their most top secret cloning projects
for quite a while…
We’ll have to wait and see if this ends up playing into the Kamino rebellion.
We also get a little bit of possible foreshadowing with Omega’s reflection in the tanks, indicating
that she will eventually be cloned…
Which is pretty scary to think about.
The obvious connection to Snoke and Palpatine’s cloning plans also must be stated, although
it isn’t exactly clear if this low profile, hidden facility in the Lido system is connected
to Palpatine’s plans at all just yet.
From the recent Vader comics, it does look like a lot of Palpatine’s cloning plan is
happening on Exegol, with Luke’s severed hand being there, but we’ll see where it
goes.
We did also see the tanks in the Mandalorian, at the military base on Navarro, so we know
the research was spread out, meaning it’s posible this laboratory was part of it.
It’s pretty likely that it will all have come together through some small link, but
right now we don’t know enough to say for sure.
Following this, Omega reaches the control pad of the base and activates a large, but
damaged communications antenna, which uses a pretty similar design or system to the one
at the Imperial Vault on Scarriff, but obviously much smaller.
After activating this large communications antenna, Echo and the Batch manage to trace
Omega to the Lido system, and rush into hyperspace to save her.
Back in the control room, Fennec Tries to convince Omega to join her because her purpose
is far less scary than what the Kaminoans want, but before she can take the young Clone,
Omega topples over one of the cloning tanks, and out comes a failed or unfinished Kaminoan
clone, falling right on top of Fennec.
After she gets up, another scuffle ensues with Bane and Fennec again going head to head,
this time with hand to hand combat, allowing Omega another chance to escape.
Cad Bane is eventually kicked off of the platforms, plunging him into the clouds below, but luckily
he has his trusty rocket boots to save him
After this, Fennec manages to escape the cloudy world and makes contact with Nala Se, who
is happy with her work, because she’s not going to end up in the hands of Lamu Su.
This finally confirms the theory that they are actually working against each other, and
Nala Se is not going to let her personal creation be executed by the Prime Minister.
While this is happening, Omega jets off into the atmosphere of Borra Vio in her transport
pod, and eventually is collected by the Bad Batch, with the friendly face of Wrecker greeting
her as soon as the hatch opens.
Omega is understandably very relieved to see his face, and is flooded with emotion.
As she gets back on board the Havoc Marauder, she begins crying and the rest of the Bad
Batch now know that they must tell her the truth.
She is wanted by the Kaminoans for her DNA.
Hearing this, Omega is again terrified and never wants to return to the dark and rainy
world of Kamino ever again, to which Crosshair promises her that she will never, ever go
back.
Of course, we all know this means she absolutely will be back there in the future, lets just
hope nothing goes wrong…
The season finale will probably end with the Kamino Rebellion and a fightback with clones
made on this newly revealed Cloning Facility, so the empire don’t see it coming and have
no idea what hits them.
In legends, the Kaminaons were eventually wiped out as a result of the Rebellion, so
we’ll see if the same fate is in store for them here.
So that is my full breakdown of Star Wars the Bad Batch Season 1 episode 9, Bounty Lost,
where Cad Bane loses his bounty of Omega to the new and upcoming Fennec Shand.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one!