The Bad Batch

"The best defense is a strong offense."

- Moral

"The Bad Batch" was a planned episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, intended to be the premiere for the seventh season. Scripted by Brent Friedman, it was to be the first in a four-part story arc focusing on a ragtag squad of clone commandos of the same name. However, production on the television series was halted before the episode finished production.

Plot summary
Clone Captain Rex reluctantly takes charge of a squad of experimental and highly unorthodox clone commandos called the "Bad Batch."

Development
Series Writer Brent Friedman, who scripted "The Bad Batch" 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 in 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 arc was split between Anaxes, a planet from the Star Wars Legends line, and a new world called Skako Minor.