A Distant Echo

"The best defense is a strong offense."

- Moral

"A Distant Echo" was a planned episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, intended to be the second episode of a seventh season. Scripted by Brent Friedman, it was to be the second installment in a four-part story arc focusing on a ragtag unit of clone commandos called The Bad Batch. However, production on the television series was halted before the episode finished production.

Development
Series Writer Brent Friedman, who scripted "A Distant Echo" as well as the other three episodes of the arc, released information about the episode via his Twitter account. Jedi General Anakin Skywalker would have been involved throughout the arc to an extent, though most of the action focused on Rex and The Batch. Friedman stated that the "emotional hook" of the arc was Rex's relationship with ARC trooper Echo, a character who had been killed in the third season episode "Counterattack" but would have been resurrected for this arc. The setting for the episodes was split between Anaxes, a planet from the Expanded Universe, and a new world called Skako Minor.