The Bad Batch Season 3 Episodes 10 and 11 Breakdown and Easter Eggs

These two episodes, Identity Crisis and Point Of No Return are the prelude of the final arc of the season. Dr. Emerie Karr learns what’s inside the Vault while Omega makes a choice that could change everything, for better or worse. The Bad Batch face their toughest moment, so far…

Recap of the Story So Far

After helping Fennec Shand, she talked to Asajj Ventress about the interest of The Bad Batch in M-count. She finds them on Pabu and after a small conversation, Omega convinces Asajj to test her.

Asajj Ventress shows how much she has changed and evolved since the last time we saw her on The Clone Wars show. After testing Omega and doing a display of power with Wrecker, Crosshair, and Hunter as subjects, she declines to reveal the truth to Omega.

Ventress warns Hunter about how dangerous the Empire can be. Right before leaving, she suggests that they do the same. Pabu is not as safe as they believe.

We have reviews and breakdowns of each episode of The Bad Batch. Check them out to make sure you are not missing any hidden details or easter eggs.

Internal conflict

Dr. Emerie Karr has always behaved like any other clone, she receives orders and follows them without any question. She even seemed colder than many of her brothers. I would expect anyone who’s making experiments of questionable ethics on captive clones to have the same lack of morality as Dr. Hemlock but this is where it gets interesting.

The moment she learns about children being imprisoned something breaks inside her. You can tell that she knows that it isn’t right, to experiment on children speaks volumes of what the Empire and Dr. Hemlock are willing to do to achieve their goals.

I think that having the baby delivered by Cad Bane was the last straw. From now on, Dr. Karr will get more aware of everything that’s happening on Tantiss and sooner or later her conscious won’t allow her to continue to do such things. At least that’s my prediction.

This is pretty much an exact parallel to what happened in The Mandalorian. Someone who previously had no issues doing stuff that would hurt others because of their job suddenly starts acting and thinking differently when the job involves a small adorable baby.

Secrets among allies

Project Necromancer is probably the Empire’s biggest secret. Palpatine emphasized that due to its twisted nature, no one outside Mount Tantiss should learn about it. To be honest, I never considered that this would include Grand Moff Tarkin.

Other than the Emperor, no one is above Grand Moff Tarkin. He’s involved in every top-secret project and most of the time, the people in charge of said projects answer directly to him.

To think that not even he knows what’s happening in Mount Tantiss is strange, to say the least. Though, I gotta admit that it was very funny to see Hemlock deny any information to Tarkin. The Grand Moff didn’t enjoy this and reminded the doctor what would happen if his project failed.

Considering that it took many years to develop Hemlock’s vision, I believe that Project Necromancer will be delayed significantly in the upcoming episodes. If this happens, Dr. Hemlock will be used as a scapegoat, and people inside and outside of the Imperial ranks won’t raise their voices directly against Emperor Palpatine.

No one saw this coming…

After staying on Pabu for too long, the Empire finally found Omega. I’m still amazed by how careless they were by staying there for that long. The Imperial Operatives have already found them a couple of times and even Ventress was able to pinpoint their location without much trouble.

Having a place that makes them feel at home is probably one of the best things they’ve experienced since the first episodes of the series but at this point, it’s stupid and naive to believe that any place inside Imperial jurisdiction is remotely safe.

This is the third time that I’ve rant about this, even in the previous episode’s review I talked about this. It’s just so ironic that after being fugitives for so long and surviving countless encounters with the Empire, bounty hunters, and all sorts of scum and villainy they are failing to protect Omega (again). It’s almost like they didn’t learn the lesson from the previous season.

The fact that the operative used the same cave as Ventress to hide is an ironic joke. Even after the encounter with the former assassin, they didn’t realized how anyone could infiltrate the island simply by landing there. How many will have to pay for such a mistake remains to be seen.

A tough decision

Omega has grown immensely as a character since the first season of The Bad Batch. Her different skills, maturity, and intelligence make up for the lack of combat training and experience. At this point, I’d dare say that she’s the most reliable member of Clone Force 99.

Being a target of the Empire has shown her some very tough but valuable lessons. Despite her young age, she has been through so many things, which has also made her grow up as a person. Sometimes I feel like she’s the person in the room with more maturity and common sense.

With the Havoc Marauder destroyed, no way to escape, all civilians under threat, and no one to help them she made the tough decision to let the Empire capture her. If she hadn’t done this, the Empire would have burned the place to ashes, people would have died, and probably every clone would have been captured or killed.

While her brothers may not even consider this decision, she didn’t hesitate to hand herself over to avoid any bloodshed. I think this is a very high-risk decision but if it pays out it could make all the difference. There are just a few things that Omega must do.

Omega is now fully aware of why the Empire wants her, she can now try to learn as much as possible about Project Necromancer. While she’s pretty bad at playing dumb, I think that the conflict inside Dr. Karr can be something advantageous.

Additionally, having someone inside Tantiss can be a good thing when the assault happens. Thanks to the previous access she had, Omega knows it better than anyone and we already know that she’s good at figuring out how to escape from a prison cell.

Let’s not forget that she won’t be alone. There will be three force-sensitive kids who want to go home, with someone leading them they could be a pretty formidable group. Nala Se is also a prisoner, if they can manage to free her that could unlock a bunch of new possibilities.

With each episode, things get more and more complicated. To me, their mission still sounds impossible but maybe with a lot of luck and some powerful allies, they just might pull it off.

I have a bad feeling about this

While nothing too intense happened in these episodes, I’m feeling very uneasy about the future. The music has become very dark and dramatic, Kevin Kiner always writes the music according to what is happening or will happen. It’s almost as if the music foreshadows the upcoming episodes.

Tech’s death during the last season made it very clear that this is not a show that always ends happily. With what’s at stake, and everything that must happen for Clone Force 99 to succeed I really don’t think that everyone will survive the mission.

Outside of Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor there’s no certainty about the fate of anyone. For all we know, every member of The Bad Batch could perish. It’s still too early to know for sure, maybe I’m being too dramatic but my instinct tells me that we must prepare for the worst. In just a few weeks, I’ll be able to revisit these thoughts and finally learn if I’m right or not.

Easter eggs and references

Commander Scorch

While it has been known for a while that Scorch, from the Republic Commando game, is the Clone Commando that’s under Hemlock’s orders, this is the first time that his name has been spoken in the series.

Feeding the stereotype

I’ve lost count of how many times an Aqualish has been seen doing something “questionable”. Here’s a small list:

During the Clone Wars, many of them allied with Count Dooku and the CIS.
Ponda Baba is the Aqualish who accompanies the guy who attacked Luke in A New Hope, right before Obi-Wan cut his arm.
In Nevarro, a small gang of Aqualish were taken down by Republic Marshall Cara Dune.

Kidnapping younglings

This isn’t the first time that the Emperor hires Cad Bane to abduct force-sensitive babies. This already happened in the Clone Wars animated show, Season 2 Episode Three to be precise. The episode is called Children of the Force and its main plot is about Cad Bane being sent to abduct kids while the Jedi Order attempts to stop him.

Young prisoners

The three kids that are being held captive in Tantis are from the Mirialan, Pantoran, and Iktotchi species. Notable characters from the same species are Jedi Master Luminara Unduli, Senator Ruyi Chuchi, and Jedi Master Saesee Tiin respectively.

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