After a very short wait between the first episode on may the fourth, Star Wars: The
Bad Batch Season 1 Episode 2 Cut and run has finally released on disney+, and it had a
pretty major connection to a story that we’ve been waiting to have continued ever since
that episode of the Clone Wars came out.
So, I’m going to break down everything that went down in the episode and how it connects
to the other Star Wars tv series, films, books and comics.
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the series goes on.
To start off the episode, we skipped the traditional war time announcer broadcast that we had for
the first episode and every clone wars episode, finally marking that the Clone Wars are over
and the Galaxy is a whole different place now.
Moving straight inside the Bad Batch’s ship, the Havoc Marauder, we get straight back to
where we left off last episode, on their way to the J-19 sector, which contains Saleucami.
Omega and Wrecker have fallen asleep after getting curious and exploring the ship together,
and Hunter and Echo debate what to do with her.
Meanwhile, Tech lets the group know that they have finally arrived at the location of their
contact, on Saleucami.
Saleucami is the home of Clone Deserter Cut Lawquane and where General Stasse Allie was
killed by Commander Neyo during Order 66, in Revenge of the Sith, making it a very important
place in the aftermath of the Clone Wars.
As the group leaves the ship, omega is stunned and her senses are overwhelmed as this is
the first time she’s experienced true nature, as opposed to the sterile, while hallways
of Kamino.
Omega continues to be in awe at the beauty of all of the plants, flowers and animals
that she’s never had the chance to see before.
Following this, the group move closer to their contact on the planet, and Wrecker accidentally
sets off a trap he has set at the front of the house, alerting those inside.
The Trap is literally a set of Captured B-1 battle droids, mounted on pikes with their
blasters aimed squarely at whoever triggers the trap…
Very fitting for the man living inside this farmstead.
After being alerted, out comes the wife of a certain clone deserter, Suu Lawquane, along
with the man so many of us have been waiting to see again, Cut Lawquane.
For those of you who don’t know his story from the Clone Wars, Cut’s gunship was shot
down at the first Battle of Geonosis, and after watching all of his brothers die around
him, he knew he couldn’t fight a single second longer in the war.
As a result, he deserted to Saleucami, and eventually found a wife named, Suu, before
adopting her children, which are half Human and Half Twi’Lek.
It’s a pretty common misconception, but they are not actually his children, as they
would obviously be too old.
When we first met them in the Clone Wars, they were already around 7 years old, meanwhile
the Clones had only left Kamino about 2 years prior.
Now we did already know that he would be alive, since he and his family are mentioned in the
Aftermath novels, but awesome to finally get him back on the screen in animation.
After this, we move straight into the Lawquane residence, where Cut and wife are very happy
to see two new faces in the group, Echo and Omega, but are concerned when they notice
crosshair is gone.
This confirms that the Bad Batch met cut Long before the Battle of Anaxes, since they see
Echo as a new face, meaning they probably have a pretty deep friendship.
Cut also reveals that Rex did pass through literally the day before this, and was rambling
on about some behavioural modification program.
Omega hears this and knows immediately that he was talking about the inhibitor chips,
which is knowledge he would have gained as the medical assistant of Nala Se.
This also raises the question of what happened to Cut during Order 66.
Did his inhibitor chip activate, and require rex to take it out when he visited, or did
the order never get to him.
I think it’s getting more and more clear that the hologram message is not the only
way the Order can be activated, and these chips are able to be activated wirelessly
by Palpatine without hearing the actual message.
But I guess we’ll have to wait and see if that’s right or not
A few moments later, Cut’s adoptive children, Sheeah and Jek Lawquane come rushing out,
and notice Omega, which gets them really excited since they don’t get to see many kids around.
Omega has probably never had friends the same age as her since most of the clones begin
their training at a very young age, so she’s pretty nervous about following them.
Sheah definitely has had her skin tones changes from the Clone Wars, with her keeping the
Bluetone around her Lekku and outer face, but the pinkish color is now gone and replaced
with a grey tone.
Jek on the other hand has pretty much kept a very similar skin tone, and how has almost
full Twi’Lek Lekku, instead of the stubby hybrid type ones that he had as a younger
child.
As we are panning across, we also get a shot of a very common species seen throughout the
Clone Wars, and very commonly on Lothal, the Gotal…
These guys are native to the planet Antar 4.
Eventually, Cut dresses Hunter and Wrecker in some very similar clothing and they go
into the town center, where we discover that the Empire’s iron fist has already slammed
down on Saleucami.
It’s not going to be safe here much longer for
the Lawquanes.
The empire have started requiring chain codes for both ships and citizens to get off-world,
posing a massive challenge for Lawquane.
You might remember what a chaincode is from a few episodes in the Mandalorian, as well
as when Boba Fett proudly displayed his to Din Djarin on Tython.
On that chaincode was some very awesome details from Boba and Jango’s past, which re canonized
a lot of content.
This is also a possible connection and explanation to why the Client didn’t have a chain code
to give to Din Djarin in Season 1 of the Mandalorian.
They probably never got the chance to register Grogu under the Empire with an imperial chaincode,
because he was rescued and pulled to safety too quickly for the Empire to capture him.
This may also confirm that it wasn’t Palpatine or anyone affiliated with the Empire that
took from the Jedi temple during Order 66, as they would likely have put a chaincode
on him.
Following this, Hunter and Cut see a hologram in the town centre, with a mysterious Imperial
Admiral making his first appearance in the show.
This is imperial office Vice Admiral Rampart.
We really don’t know much about him so far, but considering he already has his own black
series figure, he’s definitely going to be a major figure in the Bad Batch, probably
in a similar role to Agent Kallus from Star Wars Rebels.
Now we do have one small hint at his role from the Black series website, which states
that “After the fall of the Republic, Vice Admiral Rampart is assigned to oversee the
Clone Troopers on Kamino by Governor Tarkin”.
This tells us straight away that Tarkin’s visit in episode one was simply sweep, which
means he’s going around to all major Imperial interests and inspecting them for the Emperor.
The true villain of the show will probably not be Tarkin, and instead Rampart.
Although if he is the one assigned to oversee the Clones on Kamino, it’s weird that his
message is being broadcasted to the citizens of Saleucami.
You’d think that the Imperial assigned to the J-19 sector would be the one doing this.
Either way, we’ll have to wait and see how this unfolds.
This shows you just how fast Palpatine was able to implement imperial era policies like
flight restrictions between planets, paperwork checks, chaincodes and the immediate transition
away from Republic credits.
Moving back to the Lawquane’s farm, Omega ventures too far past the fence to retrieve
their lost ball, and is immediately seen by a massive Nexu beast.
First seen in attack of the Clones, but also a pretty common predator across the Galaxy’s
forests.
This terrifies the young girl, but thankfully she is brought back to safety with the help
of some pinpoint sniping from Suu and Cut,, and the Hunter is taught a valuable lesson
in parenting from Cut.
After this incident, Hunter doubts himself and doesn’t believe he’s the right man
to act as a father figure for Omega, offering to give her up to the Lawquanes…
Following this, Tech and Echo hatch a plan to get their ship impounded so that they can
get into the nearby imperial impound yard and steal some chaincodes, which would allow
themselves and the Lawquanes to escape the planet, but when they leave to begin the mission…
They don’t realize one crucial detail.
Omega is still on board.
Despite this, they continue on and Echo manages to break into the chaincode kiosk, stealing
just enough chain codes for all of them.
They are then brought back to the ships where Tech can program them, and after he is done…
Omega gets herself into another situation, this time stealing the Chain Codes and hoping
to deliver them to the others by herself.
After some complications, she gets the chain codes to the Lawquane family just in the nick
of time, and notices that Tech made 5 codes instead of 4.
She doesn’t yet know that Hunter wants her to leave with Cut and his family.
This saddens Omega as she wants to stay with the Bad Batch, but hunter believes it is the
best and most safe option for her…
Cut and his family successfully have their chains codes scanned, and Suu asks Omega one
last time if she’s ready to escape with them…
Given this last chance, Omega decides not to go with them, and instead stays with her
true family, the Bad Batch, rushing off to find them before they leave the planet.
As cut boards the transport, he is almost discovered as a Clone Trooper because he obviously
shares a face with the Clone Guards, but luckily, the distraction caused by the Bad Batch at
the impound is enough to pull them away and leave Cut to board the transport without hassle.
This is also the same transport that we Star In star wars rebels, the Star Commuter 2000.
The shuttle was actually based on the original incarnation of Star Tours, a Disney theme
park attraction, which some of you might have been lucky enough to visit.
After the Bad Batch successfully escape saleucami and confirm that Cut and his family made it
out, wrecker can be seen pressing a Gonk droid, just like he did in the Clone Wars season
7.
And to end the episode off, we get a touching scene where both Omega and hunter admit they
have a lot to learn, and Omega confirms that she is here to say.
So that is my full breakdown of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 1 episode 2 Cut and Run.
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