Doctor Hemlock arrives and i think he’s like the original dr pershing who looked after baby yoda in the mandalorian. He’s probably the head doctor of cloning or experiments for the empire now.

He speaks to imprisoned Mistress Se, aka Nala Se who looked after Omega on Kamino.

He asks her if she wants to be part of such a scientific achievement of all there work here. I think she’s there to hopefully help them in the life support and medical health of their cloned monsters and experiments.

They go to the crashed ship, transport 904 which is near a village on a planet. As they enter, they find the electrostaff from the clone commando, and they realize something bad happened here, and whatever it was, wasn’t human. We get a super dark horror scene vibe from this episode and it’s really fun to see. The ineterior of the ship has a full on cloning lab in it. Omega recognizes the equipment as Kaminoan, but she doesn’t recognize any of the electronics as it’s different from the ones used on Kamino.

They finally come across the beast and try to shoot it when it runs away to charge up by eating electricity. They eventually shoot an opening out of the ship and the Zillo beast escapes to the village, Tech and Omega head to the lab inside the ship to find out what the creature is. As Wrecker and Hunter head to the ship to try and stop the beast. feeding on another electrical station, the beast grows massively as he transforms into the zillo beast just like we saw on Coruscant.

The Zillo Beast is incredibly powerful and nearly invulnerable, with a thick, armored hide that is impervious to blaster fire.

The Republic forces eventually manage to subdue the beast and bring it back to Coruscant for study. However, they soon discover that the Zillo Beast is highly intelligent and possesses a level of consciousness that rivals that of many sentient beings.

Palpatine sees an opportunity to use the Zillo Beast's powerful hide for his own purposes and orders its destruction. This leads to a confrontation between the beast and the Jedi, who are conflicted about the ethics of killing such a unique and powerful creature.

In the end, the Zillo Beast is killed by a toxic gas, but not before it unleashes its wrath on the city and nearly kills Palpatine himself. The incident raises questions about the morality of using living beings as tools and foreshadows the dark turn that Palpatine's rule will take in the future.

The cloned Zillo Beast is now fully grown and impossible for the bad batch to stop, which is when the Empire shows up out of hyperspace in super star destroyers, as gun ships with clone commandos in them fly out. Taking out the Zillo Beast clone as they scoop him up.

The Empire arrests all the citizens of the village as no one can know what the Empire is doing with their evil cloning projects. Remember Andor? The Empire wants to keep everyone quiet if something gets leaked, and if not, they want to keep a facade like they’re up to nothing nefarious or questionable.

The Bad Batch get out of there and blast off into hyperspace, as we see Clone Commandos harness the zillo beast clone in a tube of gooey water.

The crew discover that palpatine had ordered to clone the zillo beast back when he was just the chcanellor and not the emperor. Tech deduces that the empire didn’t destroy Tipoca city on Kamino to destroy the cloning facilities, but merely to control them without anyone the wiser.

Hunter tells Tech to send this intel to Rex and Echo.

Doctor Hemlock speaks with former prime minister lama su, as he complains that Nala Se, his chief scientists, isn’t cooperating. Lama Su gives up information on how to command Nala Se to doing what he wants, which is working as the scientist for all the empire’s nefarious cloning experiments. Lama Su tells him to capture Omega who is the key to controlling Nala Se.

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