History Recap / StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E4UnfinishedBusiness

** The Emperor’s Theme playing when Anakin kills Trench, coupled with Anakin’s angry face and claiming Jedi nobility a weakness, is a chilling reminder of what Anakin is going to become very, very soon...

* BadassBoast: Mace informs an army of Separatist droids that that he has personally dismantled over 100,000 B1 battle droids, so they should lay down their arms and surrender. The droids decide to open fire instead.

* DoomedByCanon: Anaxes was shown in ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' to be in pieces fifteen years from this episode. So when the presence of a Planet-Killing bomb is revealed, it seems that the Republic is doomed to fail. [[SubvertedTrope But Anakin and Mace indeed managed to get the codes and shut down the bomb]]. Anaxes does not die ''this'' day.

-->'''Trench''': Never! Dooku would kill me.

-->'''Anakin''': [[VirtueIsWeakness I don't have such weaknesses!]] Now let's try that again, shall we?

* BrickJoke: As the group prepare to infiltrate Trench's dreadnought, Wrecker repeatedly expresses his disappointment at having to take a stealthy approach rather than just blowing up everything in sight. At the end of the episode, Anakin rigs the ship to self-destruct... and gives the detonator to Wrecker.

* GunsAkimbo: Wrecker hands his DC17 to Hunter before “releasing the wrecking ball” on some droids. Hunter handles Wrecker’s weapon and his own in this fashion, but we never get to see him actually use them like this.

** When Trench assumes that Anakin won't kill him because that's not what Jedi do, Anakin retorts that he no longer has such weaknesses.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Echo's new armor already has a skull marking on it, similar to the ones that are the Bad Batch's unofficial unit patch. At the end of the episode, he joins them.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Anakin kills Trench this way when the Admiral attempts to shock him with his cane.

Originally released as part of an unfinished story reel, the completed episode premiered March 13, 2020.

* Foreshadowing: Echo's new armor already has a skull marking on it, similar to the ones that are the Bad Batch's unofficial unit patch. At the end of the episode, he joins them.

** When Trench assumes that Anakin won't kill him because that's not what Jedi do, Anakin retorts that he no longer has such weaknesses, which hints that he is slipping to the Dark Side.

* IChooseToStay: Echo joins the Bad Batch rather than stay with Rex, since his augmentations make him more like them than ordinary clones.

** When Trench assumes that Anakin won't kill him because that's not what Jedi do, Anakin retorts that he no longer has such weaknesses.

* BrutalHonesty: After unleashing a feedback overload on the droid army at the assembly plant, Echo asks his teammates if there was "ever any doubt". Tech replies "Some", as the Bad Batch was openly cautious about Echo's intentions until that point since he was recently tampered with by the Techno Union.
* CallBack: The com-vault on Trench's flagship that Echo and company infiltrate is the same kind as the one that D-Squad infiltrated in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E10SecretWeapons Secret Weapons]]".

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Echo disables the droid army by sending them all to the droid assembly plant and then initiating a feedback pulse which overloads their circuits. Echo falls victim to the same trick when they realize where he is and send their own pulse, which knocks him out just before he can finish deciphering the code for Trench's bomb.

* CallBack: The com-vault on Trench's flagship that Echo and company infiltrate is the same kind as the one that D-Squad infiltrated back in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E10SecretWeapons Secret Weapons]]".

* KilledOffForReal: After having cheated death at least twice before, Trench is stabbed by Anakin, and then his corpse is left behind on his flagship before it's blown up.

* CallBack: The com-vault on Trench's flagship that Echo and company infiltrate is the same kind as the one that D-Squad infiltrated in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E10SecretWeapons Secret Weapons]]".