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The Bad Batch eats the rich. It's a metaphor. Can you dig it?

In the 25th century, Dr. Beverly Crusher and her son Jack are attacked aboard the SS Eleos. Beverly is injured and sends an emergency message to her former Starfleet captain, the retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard. Picard and his love Laris are planning a trip to Chaltok IV when he receives the message and she encourages him to go. Beverly told Picard not to involve Starfleet so he goes to his former first officer, Captain William Riker. Riker and Picard stage a surprise inspection of the successor to Riker's former ship, the USS Titan-A, planning to convince its new captain, Liam Shaw, to go to Beverly's location without revealing their intentions. Shaw declines, but his first officer is Picard's friend Seven of Nine who ignores Shaw's orders and changes the Titan's course. On M'talas Prime, Starfleet intelligence officer Raffi Musiker searches for a stolen quantum tunneling device that her mysterious handler fears will be used in a terrorist attack; she fails to find it before it is used to destroy a Starfleet facility. Picard and Riker board the Eleos, finding Beverly and Jack as a large ship appears.

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"Caitlin" introduces herself as Snow, a blank slate resulting from the Consciousness Resurrection Chamber (CRC)'s malfunction. Mark Blaine has Team Flash try to reverse the process but secretly tries to restore Frost as well, resulting in another malfunction. They learn restoring Caitlin and Frost is impossible and vote on who to restore, but ultimately decide to let Snow choose. Meanwhile, Hartley Rathaway is attacked by a new Fiddler and goes to S.T.A.R. Labs for help. After talking with Snow, he tries to kill the Fiddler, but Flash convinces him not to, and they rescue his boyfriend Roderick and their crew from a vibrational phase. Mercer steals Hartley's sonic gauntlets and retreats with the Fiddler, who Team Flash identifies as Andrea Wozzeck. Snow chooses to live her own life as Khione and Hartley destroys the CRC, enraging Mark, who vows to get even with Hartley. The speedster uses the sonic gauntlets to stabilize into a physical form before planning to make Central City pay for Barry's actions.

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Cid sends the Bad Batch to extract some mineral from a mine she recently purchased, but during the expedition their ship is stolen. Forced to trek towards a spaceport, they are buried inside another mine when their recovered is detonated by a lightning storm. Having trouble dealing with the recent sudden turnabouts, Omega discovers an vein, but while trying to harvest it, she and Tech get separated from the others and have a talk about adapting to changes in life before they find an alternative way out. They find the spaceport abandoned, but manage to contact Cid, who agrees to pick them up in a few days.

Barry and Iris relive the same day over and over again; Joe has a heart-to-heart with Cecile; friends and foes, old and new, begin to descend upon Central City.

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Rex contacts the Bad Batch and asks them to join him and Chuchi on Coruscant, who tell them about Rampart's plot. To provide evidence against him, Rex asks the Batch to retrieve Slip's copy of Rampart's command log from his Venator-class Star Destroyer, which is undergoing planetside maintenance. While Omega accompanies Chuchi, who tries to get support from more senators, Rex and the rest of the Batch sneak aboard the cruiser to retrieve the data, but trigger an alarm and barely escape. The next morning, Chuchi accuses Rampart before the Senate, and with the data in her hands, Rampart is arrested. However, Emperor Palpatine personally orders the Imperial recruitment bill to be passed, proving that this was his goal all along. Before the Batch leave Coruscant, Echo decides to stay with Rex and Chuchi to help fighting for clones' rights.

In the Imperial Senate, Rampart pushes for the passing of a bill authorizing the military recruitment of Imperial citizens, meaning that the clones will be officially discarded. Senator Riyo Chuchi, who defends the clones' fundamental rights, is approached by clone trooper Slip, whose friend Cade was murdered on Rampart's orders when he defied the official version of Kamino's destruction by a storm disaster. Chuchi begins to investigate Rampart's conspiracy, alerting the admiral, who sends an assassin after Slip. Just as Chuchi tries to convince Slip to testify, the assassin kills him. Before Chuchi can suffer the same fate, she is rescued by Rex, whom Slip has summoned for help, but the assassin - a clone - kills himself as he is questioned.

The Bad Batch meets the Vanguard Axis for a job until Omega ends up helping Gungi, a Wookiee Jedi youngling, escape from his cartel captors. Intending to return him to his home world, the Bad Batch finds Kashyyyk being ravaged by a group of Trandoshan mercenaries working for the Empire. After winning a local tribe's trust, the clones join the Wookies and the indigenous wildlife in their fight against their Imperial opponents. The aggressors are eventually defeated, and Gungi is reunited with his people.

While searching a junkyard for useful salvage, Omega and Wrecker find an ancient compass containing a set of coordinates toward the uncharted Kaldar Trinary that carry the promise of treasure. Phee Genoa and Omega persuade the Bad Batch to set out for the system, where the compass leads them to Skara Nal, the resting place of a legendary crystal, the Heart of the Mountain. They find the stone, but upon removing it, Skara Nal is revealed as an ancient doomsday mech, which begins running amok. The Bad Batch and Genoa manage to return the crystal, which deactivates and destroys the machine.

While Hunter and Echo are away on another assignment, Cid takes Omega, Tech and Wrecker to a riot race on Safa Toma to visit her cocky droid racer, TAY-0. Cid is challenged by Millegi, one of her business rivals, and his racer Jet Venim, and during the next round, Millegi orders Venim to cheat, causing TAY-0 to lose. When Millegi comes to collect, Omega challenges him to another race for Cid's freedom, but just before the event, TAY-0 is wrecked in an accident. Tech takes TAY-0's place as Cid's pilot, and using his calculative intellect to offset his lack of experience, he wins the race. Millegi honors his part of the deal, but warns the clones that one day Cid might turn against them.