Star Wars: The Bad Batch – Episode Five review

There’s no peace or quiet when there’s a price on your head.

That’s what Din Djarin found out in “The Mandalorian,” and it’s what the Bad Batch knows.


In Episode Five, “Rampage,” the Bad Batch investigate why the bounty hunter, Fennec Shand, is after Omega.


Hunter and his team can’t carry out their plan to lay low until they understand what’s going on. They need answers to why Omega is important.


Hoping to find answers, the Bad Batch heads out to find an informant named Sid.


Sid’s business has declined since the Empire took control, leaving her with less profit.


As such, Sid and the Bad Batch engage in an actual quid pro quo: she’ll help them get information about who hired Fennec if they do a job for her.


Sid wants the Bad Batch to rescue a child named Muchi who is being held captive by slave traders so that they can split the bounty on the kid’s head.


This is the first time Omega has heard about slavery: the selling of people for credits. It doesn’t sit right with her.


The rescue mission doesn’t go as planned, resulting in the Bad Batch getting captured. Omega is left to fend for herself against the slavers and to save her friends.


This episode also shows that while many saw the Galactic Empire as a positive change in their lives, others saw the Empire as a chance to consolidate and expand their own power.


The slavers see the Empire as an opportunity to rebuild their own slaving empire. Since the Republic and the Jedi stopped them during the Clone Wars, the slavers have high hopes.


Omega causes a distraction by freeing an adolescent Rancor, the same species that Luke Skywalker faced off against at Jabba’s Palace in “Return of the Jedi.” This allows the Bad Batch to get free and save the slaves.


It is then that they realize that Muchi is the baby Rancor.


This means that Hunter and the others must capture Muchi, making their job harder since they thoughxt Muchi was a simple child.


Wrecker finds himself going one-on-one against Muchi in order to make Muchi submit to him. He only wins because they tired each other out.


It is then revealed that Sid’s client is Jabba the Hutt, who sent his men to pick up Muchi. 


Sid keeps her end of the bargain and tells Hunter Fennec’s name, that she’s a new bounty Hunter, and that she’s working on a direct job outside the Bounty Hunter Guild.

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