History Recap / StarWarsTheBadBatchS3E14FlashStrike

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Echo swipes the uniform of the TK stormtrooper he knocked out in the previous episode. Since he's missing a hand, he has to appropriate one from a RA-7 protocol droid that catches him, which allows Emerie to figure out his identity when she catches him reattaching it in the lab.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Hunter and Rampart wind up separated from Crosshair and Wrecker when the ship crashes. When Crosshair and Wrecker run into Hunter a bit later by himself, they ask about Rampart. Hunter, dejected, says "Unfortunately... he survived." Rampart then steps out from behind a nearby rock, complaining about Hunter's joke.

* ProperlyParanoid: Having gotten word of the Batch's infiltration of Station 003, Scorch correctly surmises that they may be attempting to track the inbound science vessel, and Hemlock has a fighter screen deployed to guard its approach and flush out any trailing ships. He also orders the science vessel searched stem to stern and its crew checked before admittance, again correctly guessing that one or more of them may be aboard. The former works great, forcing Hunter to crash a fair distance from the facility. The latter, not so much, since Echo is just one man and more easily able to hide amongst the general population in disguise, but points for trying.

* BadLiar: Echo does his best to impersonate a stormtrooper, but he ''does'' end up struggling when he's caught by both the Imperial droid and Dr. Karr.

** Scorch's search party is seen using the other lurca hounds last seen at the beginning of the season.

* DirtyCoward: Justified; Rampart is unarmed, unarmored, out of his element[[note]]his military experience is as a Naval Officer, not an Army Commando like the Bad Batch[[/note]], and is already being dragged along by the Bad Batch (who have a mutual disliking for him), so when they come across the Dylax, he has no problem fleeing for his life and leaving them to deal with the beast alone.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rampart is absolutely terrified as the group arrives on Weyland and is screaming for his life as they descend from the crashing ship, a far cry from his usual smarmy demeanor.
* PartyScattering: Dr. Hemlock's welcoming committee forces Hunter to crash land their shuttle, separating them from Echo, who was the only one of them on board the science vessel and thus the only one who made it into Tantiss.
* PlugNPlayProsthetics: Subverted. Even though Echo can fit a protocol droid's hand onto his interface tool, he can't actually manipulate the limb; even if he could actually manipulate the fingers, it would just spin around since it's not secured to anything. He ends up looking like a trooper with a defective hand.

* SaveTheVillain: Despite the group's hatred for Rampart and having little practical use for him at this point, Hunter still goes to the trouble of making sure the ex-Admiral doesn't fall to his death as the shuttle crash lands.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Rampart lets out a couple of high pitched screams while fleeing the crashing ship and later running around the woods.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Rampart's reaction, almost verbatim, when he actually finds out what the plan is: rappelling straight into dense jungle, from the ship, at high speed.

* DirtyCoward: Justified; Rampart is unarmed, unarmored, out of his element, and is already being dragged along by the Bad Batch (who have a mutual disliking for him), so when they come across the Dylax, he has no problem fleeing for his life and leaving them to deal with the beast alone.

* BadLiar: Echo does his best but he does struggle when he's caught by the Imperial droid and Karr.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Among the other things going on in Tantiss, there's a side room dedicated to testing weapons on a Zillo Beast.

* ImStandingRightHere: Hunter confirms that "unfortunately", Rampart survived the shuttle crash. An annoyed Rampart quickly chimes in that he heard that.

* InsistentTerminology: When Emerie refers to the vault's captives as "children", Dr. Scalder emphasizes that she considers them "specimens", a sign of her LackOfEmpathy compared to Emerie.

* ItsPersonal: Echo is very disgusted with Karr's excuse of following orders since he is very painfully aware of what the trope has cost him and his brothers since their creation and especially since the end of the Clone Wars.

* SmugSnake: Scalder is immediately haughty when Karr asks her to watch the children, scoffing that there's no risk of them escaping.

* ItIsDehumanizing: Emerie tells Scalder to look after the children in her absense. Scalder immediately replies that Emerie's concern for the "specimens" is unwarranted.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: Hunter and Rampart wind up separated from Crosshair and Wrecker when the ship crashes. When Crosshair and Wrecker run into Hunter a bit later by himself, they ask about Rampart. Hunter, dejected, says "Unfortunately... he survived. Rampart then steps out from behind a nearby rock, complaining about Hunter's joke.

* ShutUpHannibal: Echo has no patience for Karr's excuse that she was JustFollowingOrders, chewing her out for being part of the Advanced Science Division and experimenting on her fellow clones.

** Rampart taunts Crosshair that he once believed "good soldiers follow orders".

* TheLoad: Crosshair taunts Rampart by calling him dead weight slowing them down. Due to being unarmed and not being a fighter anyway, he's in no position to argue the point, and ends up giving away their position when he wakes a Dylax and flees in terror, alerting a nearby search patrol in the process and eventually running right into another search patrol, getting himself captured.

* PartyScattering: Dr. Hemlock's welcoming committee forced Hunter to crash land their shuttle, separating them from Echo, who was the only one of them on board the science vessel and the only one who made it to Tantiss before them.
* PlugNPlayProsthetics: Subverted. Even though Echo could fit a protocol droid's hand on his interface tool, he still can't get it to work and ends up looking like a trooper with a defective hand.

* ArtificialLimbs: Since his interface tool sticks out like a sore thumb, Echo has to improvise by stealing a hand from a protocol droid. Despite fitting onto the tool, it doesn't appear to be functional.

* TheBusCameBack: The cloned Zillo Beast finally returns for the first time since "Metamorphosis".

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Echo swipes the uniform of the trooper he knocked out in the previous episode. Since he's missing a hand, he has to appropriate one from a droid that catches him, which allows Emerie to figure out his identity when she catches him reattaching it in the lab.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The science shuttle's commanding officer is deeply annoyed when Scorch leads the ordered inspection of his vessel, completely unaware of the security breach he's suffered.

* {{Pun}}: After shooting an Imperial protocol droid and helping himself to one of its hands to cover up his interface tool, Echo quips "thanks for the hand".

* SurprisinglyRealisiticOutcome: Despite appearances to the contrary, the Batch and Rampart's infiltration in the previous episode did ''not'' go unnoticed; their unusual appearance would have prompted some investigation, especially with the heightened security surrounding Mount Tantiss, and they were quickly identified, with word of their actions reaching Hemlock before the science vessel even reaches Weyland.

* TheLoad: Crosshair taunts Rampart by calling him dead weight slowing them down. Due to being unarmed and not being a fighter anyway, he's in no position to argue the point, and ends up giving away their position when he wakes a Dylax and flees in terror, alerting a nearby search patrol in the process.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Rampart and Crosshair butt heads, with Crosshair pointing out that they both got betrayed by the Empire, while Rampart tries to insist they're both loyal to no one. Crosshair claims he's changed since then, but Rampart doesn't buy it.

** Scorch's search party is seen using the other lucre hounds last seen at the beginning of the season.

* ProperlyParanoid: Having gotten word of the Batch's infiltration of Station 003, Scorch correctly surmises that they may be attempting to track the inbound science vessel, and Hemlock has a fighter screen deployed to guard its approach and flush out any trailing ships. He also orders the science vessel searched stem to stern and its crew crewed before admittance, again correctly guessing that one or more of them may be aboard. The former works great, forcing Hunter to crash a fair distance from the facility. The latter, not so much, since Echo is just one man and more easily able to hide amongst the general population in disguise, but points for trying.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Echo swipes the uniform of the trooper he knocked out in the previous episode. Since he's missing a hand, he has to appropriate one from a droid that catches him, which allows Emerie to figure out his identity.

* CrazyPrepared: The Batch's infiltration was already detected and Scorch finds the crew immediately upon their arrival in the atmosphere of the planet.

* TheLoad: Crosshair taunts Rampart by calling him dead weight slowing them down. Due to being unarmed and not being a fighter anyway, he's in no position to argue the point, and ends up giving

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Rampart and Crosshair butt heads, with Crosshair pointing out that they both got betrayed by the Empire, while Rampart tries to insist they're both loyal to no one.

* SpottingTheThread: Karr witnesses Echo putting his false hand on just in time and is able to identify him on the spot.

* SmugSnake: Scalder is immediately haughty when Karr asks her to watch the children, scoffing that there's no risk of them escaping.