BAD BATCH Season 3 Episode 6 + 7 BREAKDOWN! Star Wars Easter Eggs You Missed!

Star Wars Bad Batch 3x06 + 3x07 Breakdown by Erik Voss! Is the clone assassin secretly TECH? Go to 1shotenergy.com/newrockstars for 10% off your order!
Episodes 6 and 7 of Star Wars: #TheBadBatch is now available on Disney+, and New Rockstars is here with a scene by scene breakdown of the moment Rex meets Wolffe on Teth. Is Crosshair’s clone assassin foe the resurrected form of Tech? Erik Voss breaks it all down!
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[@nicholasgarrick8855]

Crosshair fighting against that imperial assassin was truly great.

[@mardotilk5254]

My guess is that the assassin clone is Cody

[@austin9809]

It better not be Tech. I swear to Filoni if he does this

[@Beachn2407]

​@@mardotilk5254 But didnt Cody start to question the empires actions as well?

[@epicsshadesmaster-animatio4398]

@@mardotilk5254that’s who I’m thinking it is since Cody disappeared without any reason just speculation

[@epicsshadesmaster-animatio4398]

@@Beachn2407could’ve reworked his mind which is I believed what happened to the other assassins

[@assyriancomedycentral1753]

RIP Fireball and Nemec.

[@JurgenMeOfff]

And other clones 😞

[@TimDaco]

R.I.P. 😢

[@donnadonniebeneviento9632]

Fireball, Nemec, Greer and Samson, also NR said no one died!

[@user-sc8ru7pj4p]

What if they used crosshair’s blood to make clones of him or a way to mutate the other clones to have his sharpshooting skills and smarts? (to make the assassin clones)

[@bodydoublesecurity4987]

That's what I'm thinking instead of it being Tech. It makes way more sense. Especially since the captured clone called him, brother.

[@lauran.9427]

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!!

[@davetriesthis]

What if they used crosshairs blood and also tech's to make him a sharpshooter and also a gadget user. Would have been a lot of tech blood after a fall, and Hemlock recovered the glasses.

[@user-sc8ru7pj4p]

@@davetriesthis damnnnn that would be amazing

[@lauran.9427]

@@davetriesthis ..OOOHH...THAT'S INTERESTING!!

[@victorlgcarvalho]

The scene where the assassin tries to drown Chrosshair, he sees what looks like his own reflection in the water, but it's in fact a drowning Chrosshair... And there's a small moment where he flinches... This scene was pure gold. As is this entire show.

[@Ilyena]

Fun fact: Howzer's armor is different, since he obviously didn't get to keep his original one.

[@kimjongun2536]

yep noticed that too

[@thitran1362]

He just grab a random Clone armor and painted the helmet in his original marking.

[@kookiemonster3126]

fun fact no one cares 😂😂😂

[@joharyr.9282]

​@@kookiemonster3126 I care. And obviously 89 others too

[@tomgriffiths5072]

​@@kookiemonster3126 you're on the wrong channel if you think people don't care

[@jake10881234]

Love when they are fighting the clones mixed with stormtroopers. They stun clones but straight up shoot the stormtroopers XD

[@louisianaboyjames2660]

Rest in Peace Fireball, Nemec, Greer, and Samson

[@club3717]

6:09 this also happened with Hunter where he was messing with a knife and Omega started trying to copy him

[@gamebuster4844]

Makes sense cause that's the way kids are with people that they look up to.

[@mattdawg83686]

I liked how after Crosshairs is pulled out of the water and he’s handed his helmet and he says “thanks.”

[@finnmigchelsen4868]

I love the detail of rex his right shoulder pad That the right one is a little bit cleaner than the left because he always has the pauldron on

[@Jim_The_Fish]

You mean his left

[@crunchysalmons]

OH is that why it’s cleaner? i thought he was wearing a fallen brothers armor on his left arm but you’re prob right

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

One thing i wanna see is crosshair come clean on his hand ,and the issue hes been experiencing maybe he'll be able to have that fixed ,and we can see his sharpshooters skills return kinda like obi wans connections to the force.

[@rebelfighter5249]

I think he's gonna have to get that looked at soon. The battles r only going to get harder from here and Cross needs his skills back.

[@AndromedaBL.Gaming]

I think it's ptsd from what has happened to him.

[@jiffypoo5029]

The Operatives seem like Phase 1 Dark Troopers to me. Phase 1 was cybernetically enhanced clones.

[@joshuamurray6580]

Armor also kinda looks mandolorian very cool style

[@allabouthewaves4354]

It reminds me of the Shadow Troopers from Jedi Outcast.

[@darthvictor98]

The clone troopers we see on revenge of the sith are actually the 41st scout battalion. The 41st ranger platoon are at-rt drivers and regular phase 2 clone in camo armor.

[@RohanDurey]

Fun Fact: Scorch is one of the 4 Members of Delta Squad (Republic Commando Game and a Clone Wars Episode)

[@wc8289]

Thank god someone else caught that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hunterhiatt8888]

You can see the clone try to bite his suicide tooth when he wakes up

[@TimTheEnchanter10]

I really like how the corrupted troopers are designed to look a lot like the BX droid commandos. They even feel like they move and operate a bit like them too. I think it is a great choice

[@captain_commenter8796]

I hope we can eventually see Wolffe’s Wolfpack fight with our boys to free their brothers. The cost will be great, but my god it would be glorious

[@jameshurcombe2049]

For me based on the speech pattern it's more likely crosshair by how the words are dragged out and you can hear the way crosshair pronounces letters in words

[@marshsundeen]

Do you mean like a Clone?

[@Jim_The_Fish]

@@marshsundeenyeah, I think they may have cloned Crosshair to get more sharpshooters, but it might also have Tech’s DNA as well if Hemlock captured him and lied about his death

[@jasonmarbach7800]

It can’t be a clone of a recently captured character, they take 10 years to grow to adulthood

[@Jim_The_Fish]

@@jasonmarbach7800 usually, yes. But Hemlock might have been able to speed up the process somehow. Or maybe they fused his and Tech’s DNA into another clone? Idk

[@NataliaLidia_06]

I think there was definitely some DNA mixing or something because the sharpshooter skills and yeah, the way he speaks

[@indobleh]

*The Wilhelm Scream* was in this episode which is always fun to spot !

[@m.o.5022]

Tech as “Winter Soldier” is intriguing!

[@cathystewart2268]

Bucky disappears after falling from great height…Tech disappears after falling from great height...No body is found…🤔

[@kyleferguson4236]

I seriously doubt it. Tech is dead. All the other clone assassins have been regs. I don't think the transformation process would work on tech

[@rob4576]

Absolutely

[@randomcrandom]

Sure gives that " You had your chance to be one of us " line some weight.

[@koltonarthur2607]

I think it could be Tech. Since Disney likes to reanimate dead characters. Which I think is not good for the characters or story. Really undoes his sacrifice. But I hope I am wrong

[@zeroreyortsed3624]

A recovered tech would be a bad choice in my opinion. If anything. With the assassin's skills, my theory would be that they cloned a second crosshair. Tech would never hunt down Omega. Much like Crosshair. He wouldn't be phased by reprogramming. But making a new clone of Crosshair, with the same skills, and newly cloned, so he could be trained. It just makes far more sense.

[@koltonarthur2607]

Totally agree! It would really undo Techs sacrifice. But Disney also has a habit of being back the dead 💀

[@casp512]

A clone of Crosshair makes even less sense than it being Tech. There's just not been enough time since Crosshair being brought to Tantiss for them to have an adult clone of him.

[@Nacho2003YT]

It is Fireball who gets crushed by debris, not Howzer. And it is Howzer who saves Crosshair, not Rex

[@jaronwatson8958]

And it's Nemec who gets hugged by Batcher, not Howzer

[@charlierichards6873]

Notice rexes shoulder is less dirty since that’s where his pouldren was

[@Jim_The_Fish]

I just realized, I think this is the first episode (chronologically) where he isn’t wearing the pouldron.

[@Thejuicemerchant]

@Jim_The_Fish no he wasn’t wearing it in that one episode where he saved chuchi and even then in the clone wars when they were training saw garrera he wasn’t wearing it

[@Darktrooper-mt5qu]

I chuckled when you said batcher and wrecker had the same IQ why do you feel the need to attack wrecker like that😂😂

[@Brandon-jf9cv]

12:59 Their helmets were in the main room. You can see them picking them up after they get out of the room with the captured shadow.

[@rdad123]

There was a few moments in these episodes that reminded me of marvel movies. I did get the warrior falls feel on the crosshair battle and the key that plays every time the assassin is on the screen it gives me a winter soldier vibe

[@hebatamimi6800]

I've been entertaining the idea of Hemlock being some manner of clone. It's nice to see it brought up!

[@AirbenderHawk]

LFG!!!!! Seeing Crosshair throws hands against the imperial clone assassin is a sight to see, and his skills are improving since his escape from Tantiss.

[@michaelayala7247]

I think you guys are overlooking what was said during the fight between Crosshair and the shadow agent. The shadow agent says "You had you're chance to be one of us. You chose the wrong side." Wouldn't that imply that they knew each other, so if was Tech, Crosshair would know.

[@Movie2022]

Love the nod that rex and wolf gave each other.

[@Diamondcore111]

The shadow could also be Cody and his apparent defection could have just been a cover to explain him being tested on

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

Cody's awol ,and tech's voice could be instantly recognizable the assassin is neither of them.

[@jasonmarbach7800]

Princess Leia in Return Of The Jedi would like a garbled, unrecognizably-voiced word.

[@Ilyena]

Awol, or secretly kidnapped and brainwashed? I wouldn't trust either Rampart or Hemlock to tell the truth. Why would they? If Cody were to be _integrated_ by Hemlock, maybe Rampart didn't even know, and even if he knew, why tell Crosshair. And Hemlock might as well have lied to Hunter and Wrecker in Sids bar, why would he tell the truth? I think both possibilities are still open, but it might aswell not be either anyway. But given how much attention is given to this particular CX, and that he actually looks a bit different, he might actually will be someone we know.

[@Paulc71189]

Might not be either of them but wouldn’t base that purely on the voice. Rebels had fulcrum have a different unrecognisable voice during transmissions and yet that was Ahsoka.

[@Jim_The_Fish]

Sure, it’s not like voice-changing technology exists throughout Star Wars…

[@black11189]

​@@Paulc71189fulcrum wasn't just ashoka !

[@perrytheplatypus5047]

If that assassin is Tech, I’m gonna be so disappointed. Literally will be the end of an era where death and sacrifices meant something.

[@jasonmarbach7800]

Which era would that be? The Original Trilogy, where characters who died then came back for the rest of the series as force ghosts? The prequel trilogy, where Darth Maul got cut in half and fell hundreds of feet but survived and came back for *decades* after that? The Clone Wars? Where Ahsoka died and came back and then meant *more* symbolically? Or where Rex appeared to die but didn’t? Rebels? Where Ahsoka appeared to die *AGAIN* but then came back a little more than a season later? The Mandoverse Era, where Boba Fett and Fennec Shand both literally came back from the (apparent) dead and Moff Gideon appeared to have died in a shuttle attack but didn’t? Which era do you mean?

[@perrytheplatypus5047]

@@jasonmarbach7800 yeah that’s my point. i’ve loved Star Wars my whole life, but it’s always had a problem with characters “somehow” returning

[@fraliexb]

Sorry Eric, I don't think the 2nd assassin clone was Tech. He talked to Crosseye like he knew each other in the program. Tech with Plan 99 was well after Crosshair killed the officer on his final episode....

[@DarkDyllon]

it's also hard to believe Tech even survived that fall, unless there's some magically body of water there, but then he would also be crushed by the falling rail cart he dislodged. it's possible that Techs body was recovered and his DNA used though, since the body doesn't need to be alive to harvest his DNA.

[@ethanriegel3743]

I just knew you were going to say Tech was the assassin, cause I was thinking the same thing XD

[@rebeccataylor9624]

No just no please no😭

[@bryanchurchill4343]

Makes sense the words he chooses to say when he speaks and the way he runs call me crazy but I thought the same thing.

[@tylerschofield8299]

It's Cody

[@ked49]

@@tylerschofield8299why? That wouldn’t make any thematic sense other than fan service.

[@arie-zoot]

​@@tylerschofield8299cody went AWOL... he's not an assassin

[@georgeandrews9427]

Can we have a moment of silence for Fireball, Nemec and Greer from these episodes 😢

[@ibpiano5520]

RIP Greer, Samson, Fireball and Nemec✊🏼😔

[@DSGamesStudio]

Crosshair has character development on par with Daniel Jackson and Dick Greyson! that episode where he flipped was pure art.

[@gregdennison5753]

Interesting contacts probably refers to the path. Probably where we will see Asajj again like in the trailer. No doubt this will be how the batch get Omega to safety.

[@JonJoLen]

I don’t want the clone to be tech but it really fits. The way it spoke “I prevented the target’s escape” and the way it looked so confused after Wolffe scolding him was really tech-esque

[@spicymemes7458]

Please don't let the assassin be Tech. Please let someone in this universe be really gone.

[@Blinkptx]

Agreed.

[@jasonmarbach7800]

Nemec, Fives, Fireball, Mayday, and dozens of others: “Are we a joke to you?”

[@Jim_The_Fish]

But Tech never died. The way they shot that scene made it SUPER obvious that he’d eventually come back. But it could also be a clone of Crosshair, or a clone with both Crosshair’s and Tech’s DNA.

[@Thejuicemerchant]

@Jim_The_Fish how did they set it up to where he’d come back and also how would they clone crosshair in like 10 months and it be fully grown unless they had clones of him lying around for years

[@DarkDyllon]

@@Thejuicemerchant he also said "a clone with both crosshair's and tech's DNA" Crosshair mentions these assassins come out different, it isn't too far fetched that Hemlock experimented on the clones imprisoned there with both Crosshair's and Tech's DNA, especially Crosshair's since he was captive for a long time and taken blood every day, so plenty of tries. Also that they go into some kind of hibernation when they're not active, like the 2nd assassin said "why did you activate me" they're basically in stasis till required, then return to a stasis till required again.

[@ReptilesXtremeGaming]

There were moments when Crosshair was fighting the big worm thing and he sounded exactly like tech instead of crosshair… but more the POINT crosshair said it was because he was “defective” but WE ALL KNOW it was because he resisted where if that Spec ops dark clone is tech it’s because he gave into the programming.

[@loathingh3rmit]

Thank you commenters for clarifying which clones did what. The video was a bit confusing 🤭 I think the clone assassin was not following orders because he has a different objective from higher authority. Not because he's Tech.

[@Chrisy7]

I agree. also not following clone orders isn’t the same from not following Empirial orders

[@Slowess_]

When i was watching and we got the wide shot of the clone's base, i scrambled to confirm it was teff. Somehow after all these years i still recognized it

[@diannamckellar7769]

Great review! I really enjoyed it!

[@mattflanagan9850]

the crosshair fight reminds me of the luke, rey, and all the other jedi trials of facing your darkest self. also if its tech then crosshair will have to redeem tech which is perfect for crosshairs loyalty arc

[@rqxavier24]

If you look at how Tech runs and how the assassin runs, they’re incredibly similar

[@GenralMario]

I don’t think the clone assassin is Tech and I hope not because I kind of want him to stay dead. Kind of sick of the whole “kill off” a character then bring them back for a mediocre surprise. Instead I think the clone assassins as a whole are given some of the batches DNA, the one assassin they captured called Crosshair his brother and so far every assassin we have seen has been in a sniper role

[@jasonmarbach7800]

That’s literally what Star Wars has always been, though.

[@lauran.9427]

I think " Assassin" will either be a duplicate clone of Crosshair.. Which would be..BANANAS...!!! OR...Will be Tech transformed

[@JoshuaFortuna]

SURGE GREEN!! hahaha. best part of the video.

[@MurphyTheOldMan]

This season was so good! also I would love to see Omega and Crosshair in live action

[@justinebanks854]

Please let the interesting contacts be Hondo & his pirates used to be friends of jedi or enemies he always gets them two mixed up & always being so proud when double crossed lol

[@rob4576]

4:49 “PEW PEW PEW, GOTCHA”

[@anthonydaquino5425]

Side note. Me and my wife feel like Hemlock looks strangely similar to Jeremy Renner. Which was born in modesto ca. which is the birth place of george lucas as well. Timothy olyphant was born in modesto too and he played cobb vanth. So idk if maybe they are opening it up for a live action Hemlock portrayed by Jeremy Renner which would be amazing. Seems the perfect type of character that renner can portray.

[@witchdoc5075]

That damn #11 chicken!!!! Lol

[@stevenpark2332]

Wow I wish you are right about tech!!

[@karmarey4600]

That waterfall reminded me of the final valley abit

[@butterscotch598]

Senator Singh was voiced be Alexander Siddig in his first appearance....but not in the season 3 episode...it was Danny Jacobs.

[@benmarsh5672]

OK, if the assassin(s) are cloned from Crosshair, which a lot of people/KZbinrs are coming up with. My question is how? The Kaminoans accelerated growth techniques took 10 years for them to be fully grown & trained Clones. Are the KZbin theorists saying the Empire somehow developed a system that does it in the few months or year that Crosshair was held prisoner?

[@kingjd9594]

Did you notice how there was a hint of Plan 99’s theme when Crosshair fought the Operative?

[@davetriesthis]

Not only does the assassin not seem to have heat signatures in the legs but when he got up from the seat of his ship after landing his legs looked really weird. For a moment it looked to me like a Trandoshian's legs, like the wrong size for a human. Sort of like how Maul walked with his robot legs.

[@westonbrandt7897]

It was one war with mutiple battles. Thats why the senator said the clone war. Kind of like WW2 was a war with the Battle of Normandy and Dunkirk.

[@toulamaccrue9906]

Why do I have a bad feeling Tech isn't dead but being brainwashed and maybe becoming an assassin? Hope not. That would be a bitter sweet reunion. " Oh Tech isn't dead but wants to kill us???!!!!"moment 😢

[@Tuskin38]

Singh was not voiced by Siddig in this episode. even in the prequels some people said 'Clone Wars' while others said 'Clone War'.

[@helios2538]

Scorch is from the clone commando game

[@matthewpartlow1831]

One thing I noticed, was the planet that they were on seemed to be the same planet where Jabba's son was held captive. If it isn't, that's fine, it just the first thing I thought when I saw it

[@Superglitchym]

Clone force 99 was probably going to be the first line of clone assassins. The cx’s are messy like clone force 99. Yet, they act like order 66 crosshair. Crosshair could’ve been the prototype.

[@DonnieGonzalez-lg3md]

Good video

[@Adam-xf6sq]

Something interesting I noticed is that Wolfe’s armor seems to be more like the live action version of clone armor.

[@chrishawley3444]

He’s a clone of crosshairs, ie project necromancer

[@rachelstrayer5697]

The burning ruins at the beginning of episode 7 looked to me like a phase one clone trooper helmet

[@ZeroAxle]

I think the shadows have something to do with project necromancer, they obviously tried to make us believe he is just a reg clone cut above the rest but his abilities, body language and way of speaking remind me a lot of Crosshair, what if they had found a way to take the part of crosshair that was loyal to the empire and implant it in different clones, either via chip or some king of psychological method

[@JOEKILLINGHAM]

Crosshair is a clone of the origal Crosshair, thats why his hand shakes.

[@Jim_The_Fish]

That’s an interesting take. But I hope we’re with OG Crosshair, and the assassin is HIS clone. I’m enjoying his redemption arc too much.

[@Mell-Mell713]

Bruh I deadass had that thought

[@jasonmarbach7800]

It can’t be a clone of crosshair, it takes the clones 10 years to grow to adulthood

[@propha-c]

@@jasonmarbach7800Spaarti cloning cylinders grew clones in a very short time. It’s from Legends, but the same piece of media they’ve been taking Thrawn, Mount Tantiss, and other concepts from.

[@homarutengen24]

12:17 in extraction, wasn’t there a shot of a foot of a clone stuck under rubble as the place was coming down? If so there was one casualty within that rubble

[@HaleTheFreeVoice]

The wall scratches also go back to the book about boba fetts childhood where on Kamino he would scratch the back of a data pad for the rotations jango was gone for 😂 just for superfans 😭

[@calcalmatmat279]

the minute i saw the imperial assassin alive at the end i thought tech right away

[@jimmybryant87]

Omega “YES 🤨”

[@tankoha1350]

14:17 isnt Howzer, helmet and hair is different.

[@Gufupandi09th13]

No tech voice actor said he never gonna appear that's suspected but legs no it could be Thier legs are skinny remember these CX are mysterious and we have no proof of who they were once before

[@ryanmeyer7181]

Didn't Crosshair said that "being defective has it's advantages" from Hemlock's clone training program. I don't think's it Tech, but another skilled clone.

[@niallocarroll4450]

The hash marks thing, I wonder if there's any info on whether this was a method that Jango Fett used to mark how many bounties he completed and by extension the clones do this as a subconscious thing due to Jango being their template?

[@JOEKILLINGHAM]

And armor fit different. Lastly, why he paniced when the assasin showed up. Not wanting to have secret reveiled.

[@briansmith2739]

This assassin Clone isn't Tech, he died in the second season.

[@Jim_The_Fish]

We didn’t see the body, and almost no one who watched that actually felt like it would be the last of Tech. He’s absolutely alive.

[@Chew_bacca1138]

I was thinking Nightsister green on Omega's Crossbow.

[@josephcarmolajr7827]

I thought the operative might be Tech also cause he uses his eye piece scanner a lot..which is something Tech often did

[@realrev8398]

Also that’s not howzer that batcher licks, it’s Nemic

[@christianmino3753]

OH SHIT! I WATCHED THIS WITH MY CAT WHO I NAMED AFTER JULIAN BASHIR! HAD NO IDEA!!

[@mandoelorryann4171]

I love seek G scortch , hopefully they acknowledge who he is and be able to see the rest of delta squad

[@thatonehero2265]

RIP Fireball

[@jdsjigglypuff9419]

14:12 batcher isnt licking howser it's the other clone

[@Tenthgate]

Watch this clone assassin be absolutely nobody

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

We lost nemec ,and fireball. Hemlock is gonna pay for the pain hes inflicted to these clones.

[@lachlanr7953]

"he's going to pay" 👆🤓

[@Kudarr216]

I wonder if that was the same Scorch from the Republic Commando game

[@logankreger2075]

16:50 it’s not rex that says crosshair it’s howzer

[@simonvanberlo983]

The assasin could also be commander cody. We have not seen him since he deciced to defect from the empire. We don't know what conditions he left under. Maybe he tried to deffect but was captured again. This makes more sense to me then Tech as they weren't able to convert crosshair because he is a defective clone. Tech is also a defective clone why would it suddenly work on him then. Also I think crosshairs would have known if Tech was being held at the facility were he was imprisoned. Surely he would have done something to save him.

[@melanierosekonieczny7300]

"You had your chance to be one of us".. could be Tech talking to Crosshair....

[@legendpickle1883]

Not my boy Nemec 😭

[@PWR.SHADOW]

Fireball was buried not Howzer, also Rex didn’t save Crosshair Howzer did then the rest showed up. I know the clones are the same but you can tell who is who 🤣

[@MasterJediFikroman]

06:14 This scene also like Short Round's imitating Indiana Jones.

[@mr.landis]

Does anyone know what that device is that is briefly pulled out of a backpack as they are strapping themselves into the leech vessel? It seems significant, but I can't tell what is is or who is handling it? Is it Omega or the clone trooper that gets licked by Batcher immediately after?