She pouts when Cad tells her no one will come for her. Her fears of being abandoned froth to the surface. This is essentially the first episode where Omega is totally alone.
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The worst-case scenario dawns on her, accentuated by Kevin Kiner's darker reprise of Omega's theme: she's one capture away from having her free will stolen and then discarded like the experiments. It's demonstrated by her dull silence in a chillingly low-lit abandoned lab as she gazes upon pickled would-be clones in grime-encrusted clone vats. The possibility of the scientists experimenting on her has already been conveyed to the audience earlier in the season, but witnessing Omega absorbing the imagery and the weight of her possible fate is no less upsetting. It is the emotional realization for Omega that hits like a ton of bricks.
(How reg clones and the Bad Batchers deeply feel about the concept of clones not bred into age-accelerated soldierhood yields loads of story potential that shouldn't be just reserved for internal monologues in tie-in novels.) Disregarding Boba's veteran status in the animated franchise, there's little time to meditate on this new knowledge that another "pure unaltered DNAed" clone exists in the galaxy. Much like Boba, Omega is not given (forced) into an age-accelerated lifespan. It also doesn't come as a surprise for Star Wars viewers that Tech namedrops the currently MIA Boba Fett, addressed as an "Alpha" to the "Omega", when he acknowledges that Boba is the only other known unaltered clone with pure first generation Jango Fett DNA. The episode delivers a few revelations, starting with an important one according to Tech's analysis: Omega has "pure first generation" DNA material of Jango Fett. She doesn't ambush Cad first like a reckless bounty hunter would, but she holds Cad's payment as hostage to grind his gears and trade for Omega. (Is her desire for Omega's safety out of a personal affection and/or to staunch more expansive guilt in how clones are treated?) This stages an action predicament between the two hunters. Lama Su intends to terminate Omega after using her, while Nala Se, Fennec's direct employer, is secretly not so keen on the idea. But Nala Se's (Gwendoline Yeo) and Lama Su's (Bob Bergen) respective bounty hunters are squaring against their clients' clashing interests. The Bad Batchers finally - duh - surmise the Kaminoan clone scientists desire Omega for nefarious reasons.
Just when you think Omega is going to wield compassion and empathy to coax Todo into allying with her, she knocks him unconscious to retrieve her comm link and manages to flee into the fog of Bora Vio. Having Todo be a bodyguard gives Omega an easy way out to tempt him to open her cell so she can fix him, although she gets to put her mechanic-medic skills to use.
For such a competent badass, why does the old bounty hunter keep that only-occasionally-useful Todo around? Perhaps being so heartless that a kid can exploit Cad's lapse in oversight on his minion is the point of it all.
Todo operates as an obvious kid-appeal sidekick, out of place in Cad Bane's circle. Omega can't fool Cad, but at least the latter entrusts his dim-witted droid assistant Todo 360 (Seth Green), who's still reeling after Hunter shot his leg off, to look after her. This will turn out to be the site of his showdown with Fennec and a clue to the Kaminoans' intention for Omega. Directed by Brad Rau and Nathaniel Villanueva and written by Matt Michnovetz, "Bounty Lost" may boast a square-off between two fan-favorite bounty hunters, but it's Omega who commands charge of the episode's emotional core.Ĭad heads toward the fog-cloaked Bora Vio, which contains an abandoned clone facility, to make the trade with the Kaminoans scientists.
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