Episode 4.7—"Encounter"
In space, transport shuttles filter into a star destroyer called the Nexus. We close in on the shuttle containing Omega and some of the captured clones. An Imperial pilot sits in the cockpit, but Omega and the clones are alone in the main body of the ship. Omega anxiously tends to Fireball, one of the clones from Rex's squad. A blaster wound in his stomach has left him in dire condition. As the ship lands inside the Nexus, Omega promises to help her brothers escape. Fireball whispers that she must find the star destroyer's coordinates. If she transmits her location to her squad, they can come help. As the shuttle door opens, he advises her to hide.
Omega conceals herself behind a tarp just before the stormtroopers arrive. The troopers lead the clones out of the shuttle and into the star destroyer's docking station. One trooper jerks Fireball to his feet and forces him to stumble after the others. The shuttle door starts to close. Omega rolls aside the tarp and silently sprints into the docking station. Taking cover behind a hovercart piled high with crates, she watches the stormtroopers escort the clones down a corridor. The hallway's blast door slides down, separating Omega from her brothers.
A new stormtrooper arrives from a different corridor. This trooper pushes the cart Omega is hiding behind. She walks in tandem with the trooper, concealed on one side by the cart's boxes and on the other by the wall. Up ahead, the wall opens up to a computer room. She sneaks inside. A stormtrooper stands by one of the monitors, his back to her. Omega tiptoes toward a computer. It is password-protected, but she uses the skills she picked up from Echo to bypass the security measures.
She has just pulled up the ship's coordinates when the trooper whirls around. Omega reaches for her bow, but the man grabs her roughly. Yelping, Omega tries to switch on her communicuff to signal the Batch. The trooper wrenches the device from her wrist and crushes it under his foot. He raises his comlink to call for backup…but before he can, a whisper-quiet blaster shot takes him out.
The trooper who was pushing the cart stands in the doorway, holding a blaster with an attached suppressor. This "stormtrooper" removes her helmet, revealing that she is a young Mirialan woman named Remi. She sharply asks who Omega is. Omega introduces herself and says she's on a mission. Sliding her helmet back on, Remi declares that Omega is part of her mission now. She hides the fallen trooper inside a compartment, then grabs Omega's arm and pulls her out of the room.
With her free hand, Remi pushes her cart to the cargo hold. A lone stormtrooper is at work there, stacking crates. He aims his blaster at Omega. Remi warns him not to shoot. As he takes off his helmet, Omega learns that he is Remi's twin brother, Roam. The Mirialan man grumbles that Omega has seen too much; they'll have to take her with them when they leave. Setting down a pack of explosives, he adds that their pickup is behind schedule. They already have enough loot, so they should just set the bombs and take a pod out.
Pulling away from Remi, Omega exclaims that they can't blow up the ship. There are clones on board who need their help. Roam says that's all the more reason to do it. He reaches for an explosive, but Omega draws her bow. She says the clones here haven't done anything wrong, and she won't let selfish thieves harm them. A glimmer of hurt reflects in the twins' eyes. Remi insists that they aren't thieves. Ignoring Roam's protests, she opens one of the crates on the hovercart. It is filled with bars of metal that Omega recognizes as doonium.
Remi explains that the Empire has been robbing planets of their doonium. She and Roam are rebels, and they're here stop the mineral from reaching its intended destination. Lowering her bow, Omega shares that the Empire is sending clones and doonium to a secret planet. Instead of stealing the mineral, they can set a tracker on it to see where the transport takes it. She promises to help them set the tracker if they let her free the clones.
Remi considers this, but Roam staunchly refuses. He says Omega is under their orders now, and no one is leaving this room until he says so. Omega shoots a nearby temperature gauge, triggering an alarm. She remarks that stormtroopers will arrive soon to repair the damage. She asks if they may leave the room now. The twins glare at her, but they also look a little impressed.
As they follow Omega into the hall, Roam begrudgingly asks what her plan is. Omega thinks for a minute. She points out that most escape pods have trackers on them. They can remove the trackers from the star destroyer's pods, secure one of the trackers to the doonium, and then escape with the clones. Remi agrees to the plan, but Roam continues to glower at Omega. Returning his intense gaze, Omega tells him to set the tracker while she and Remi free the clones. Roam slips his helmet back on and mutters that Omega had better be worth her trouble. He pushes his cart toward the pod room while the girls head to the brig.
The further the girls travel into the ship, the more people they must avoid. Remi yanks Omega down a dark passageway and says they must take an alternate route to the brig. They're halfway down the passageway when the chatter of stormtroopers reaches their ears. Omega hisses that she thought they'd be safe here. Remi retorts that if Omega had a disguise, they would be. They duck through a maintenance shaft just before the troopers round the corner.
They climb through the shaft and enter the multi-storied engine room. Simple worker bots roll to and fro, mindlessly tending to tasks. They watch as a ledge extends from the edge of a gaping chasm, allowing a bot to travel to the other side of the room. With no other way forward, Omega and Remi step onto the ledge. The platform begins to retract. They bolt to reach the other side before the bridge runs out. Omega makes good progress, but Remi stumbles and falls, nearly slipping off the bridge. Biting her lip, Omega runs back to help her up. As the last of the ledge retracts, the two jump forward. They don't have enough momentum to reach the other side, but they land precariously on some metal piping that juts out from the edge of the chasm.
Once they regain their balance, they look at the floor above them. Remi thinks she can reach it if Omega gives her a boost. Omega hesitates but decides to trust her. With Omega's help, Remi leaps upward. She lands on the edge of a protruding air vent, then jumps up to the floor level. Omega calls out to her softly, but Remi disappears into another room. Omega's face falls. She searches for another way to reach the top but finds no way forward.
The vent above her suddenly opens. Remi wiggles halfway out of the opening and extends her arm to Omega. At the same time, Roam's voice crackles through Remi's comlink. We cut to Roam, who has made it to the pod room. He grumpily reports his location and begins removing the pods' trackers, just as Omega told him to. Back in the engine room, a relieved Omega allows Remi to pull her into the air duct.
Remi uses a flashlight to illuminate the way as the two crawl through the vents. Omega notices that Remi is bleeding from her fall on the ledge. She asks if she is okay. Remi replies that she has been through much worse. She shares that the Imperials took over her town's doonium enterprise. In the process, they destroyed her home and most of her family.
Omega's expression darkens. She says she knows what that feels like. Omega admits that she hasn't trusted the rebels since they started opposing the clones, but she now sees that they fight for the same reason she does. You can't keep still when you have so much sorrow, anger, and fear inside you. Nodding, Remi says this is why they won't stop until they have completely destroyed the Empire. A wide-eyed Omega asks if that is even possible. Remi says she's going to find out. She moves past Omega, expertly navigating through the maze of air ducts.
Having removed all the trackers from the escape pods, Roam heads back to the cargo hold. He speaks into his comlink, asking how to sync the tracker to his datapad. Back in the vents, Remi hands Omega her comlink. Omega whispers instructions to Roam. Raising an eyebrow, Remi asks how she knows so much about technology. She replies that she picked up a few things from her brother, Tech.
They reach a vent opening outside the brig. Remi peeks through the grate and spots two rows of security droids guarding the door. She starts to aim her weapon at one, but Omega stops her. She whispers that in the time it takes to shoot one droid, the others could send out a call for backup. They must take out all the droids simultaneously. Omega notices a pair of compartment hinges mounted on either side of the opposite wall. She deduces that if they shoot the hinges, their blasts will ricochet off the metal and tear through the rows of droids. Remi looks doubtful, but Omega says another one of her brothers does this all the time. They each aim at one of the hinges and fire. Their stunt is much simpler than the ones Crosshair performs, but it gets the job done. Omega's blast takes out the first row of droids, and Remi's destroys the second.
Remi regards Omega with new respect as they remove the vent's grate. She says the rebellion could use someone like her. Omega avoids Remi's gaze. She repeats what Hunter said before he accepted Bail's mission: Her goal is to help the clones so they can settle down peacefully. As the two jump to the ground, Remi asks if that's a possibility when the Empire is in power. Omega doesn't answer.
Unease spreads across Remi's face as the two approach the entrance to the brig. Omega regards her companion warily and reminds her not to harm the clones. She lifts up the arm of a fallen droid and uses its attached peripheral device to open the door.
In the cargo room, stormtroopers cart the doonium onto a transport shuttle. Thanks to his disguise, Roam enters the room unobserved. When no one is looking, he uses his knife to make a slit in one of the wooden crates. He hides the tracker in the slit, then ducks out of the room. In his haste, he does not notice that an explosive has rolled out of his pack.
Meanwhile, Omega steps into the brig. She discovers the clones from her shuttle, as well as the other clones that the Imperials captured on Florrum. They sit slumped against the wall, eyes bleary and faces contorted in agony. A small, circular device pierces each clone's temple. Omega surmises that the devices contain a drug that has rendered the clones nearly unconscious.
We travel back to the cargo room, where stormtroopers load the last of the doonium onto the shuttle. After the vessel departs, the troopers head out of the cargo room. One of them discovers Roam's explosive.
In the brig, Omega removes the devices from the clones. Some life returns to their eyes. Remi's hand hovers near her blaster, but the clones simply thank Omega for coming. She gently assures them that everything will be alright now. Concern fills her face when she spots Fireball lying in the corner, breathing weakly.
As Omega hurries to Fireball's side, someone speaks to Roam over his comlink. The speaker announces that the twin's pickup is on its way. Before Roam can respond, the stormtrooper who found the explosive seizes him. Roam breaks free and pelts toward the brig as the trooper calls for backup.
Back in the brig, Omega watches helplessly as Fireball succumbs to his wounds. Alarms resound through the ship. Remi helps the other clones to their feet and says they must go.
It's too late. Stormtroopers and security droids burst into the room. Remi pushes Omega behind her as the troopers order the girls to surrender. Omega looks back at Fireball's body, then at the clones, who are too weak from the drug to fight back. Sorrow, anger, and fear shine in her eyes.
Omega fires at the droids while Remi takes out the stormtroopers. When a droid seizes her bow, Omega unsheathes a vibroblade from her belt. She throws the knife at the droid, just like Hunter would. She isn't strong enough to send the blade through its head, but she distracts it long enough to reclaim her weapon. Roam arrives to defeat the last of their attackers. Despite his misgivings, he helps lead the clones to the pod room.
When they arrive, all the escape pods jettison. Omega asks if there is another way off the ship. Roam says their pickup is waiting just out of sight, but they can't board it from this room. As stormtroopers march down the halls, the three accept that they are trapped. Omega studies the pod room's thick walls, then eyes Roam's pack of explosives. She says they could use a bomb to separate this room from the rest of the ship. Remi says that would kill them all. Omega believes they will survive if they weaken the explosive. While Roam fires at the approaching stormtroopers, Omega helps Remi reduce a bomb's explosive charge. Omega applies the same method that Wrecker used to neutralize Palmer's bombs on Coruscant. They roll the bomb past the threshold and close the door, activating the room's hermetic seal.
The twins and clones brace themselves as the explosive detonates. It does not destroy the ship or puncture the thick walls of the pod room, but it does cause the room to break away from the vessel. The explosion propels them far from the ship. As the twins cheer, Omega finds herself caught up in their excitement. She peers through the window and sees the rebel ship arriving to pick them up. Frowning, she turns away from the twins and stands beside the clones.
Later, the Marauder lands inside the rebel vessel. As the Bad Batchers exit their ship to investigate the rebel craft, Echo warns them that the transmission they received about Omega may be a trap. Hunter doesn't reply. His overpowered senses have not let up, but he hides his condition from the others. In addition to the searing lights and amplified voices, he once again detects the sound of distant shouts and clanging. Relief floods his face when he spots Omega and the other clones. His senses return to normal as Omega runs up to him.
The Batch congratulates her on her rescue and scolds her for wandering off. Hunter adds that he will get them away from the rebels as soon as possible. Then he stiffens, once again sensing something. The squad's blasters fly out of their holsters. Behind them, someone uses the Force to gather the blasters. Setting the weapons aside, he apologizes and says this is just a precaution. They turn to see a former Jedi, Eeth Koth, standing beside the rebels.
END OF EPISODE SEVEN