Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, episode 12 will move the show into its home stretch, leading many to wonder when exactly it begins streaming on Disney+. The ending of The Bad Batch season 3, episode 11 was suitably tragic, with Omega being taken once more by the Empire. The return of Asajj Ventress to Star Wars saw Clone Force 99 adequately warned about the Empire’s threat to Pabu, yet the team did not have enough time to vacate the planet.
As teased in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3’s trailer, Omega was captured by one of Hemlock’s C-X2 clones and returned to the Empire. This will allow Hemlock and his associates to continue tests using Omega’s blood, something that has proven integral to Star Wars’ Project Necromancer and Palpatine’s resurrection. Given this turn of events, it is expected that Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, episode 12 will reignite Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair’s search for Mount Tantiss in a bid to save Omega, raising excitement for the episode’s release on Disney+.
As has been the case for the prior 11 episodes, Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, episode 12 will be released on Disney+ at 12:00 AM PT, 03:00 AM ET, and 08:00 AM BST. This marks no change in The Bad Batch‘s air time, as the show maintains consistency with each episode. It is expected that these release times will continue for all Star Wars animated TV shows, including the newly-announced Tales of the Empire story which is animated in the same style as The Bad Batch and The Clone Wars before it.
Concerning what to expect from the story of The Bad Batch season 3, episode 12, it will likely follow on from episode 11’s cliffhanger. Omega is now back in the hands of the Empire, likely meaning her three brothers will stop at nothing to save her. The early episodes of The Bad Batch season 3 focused on the titular team trying to find the location of Mount Tantiss to free Omega, meaning this will likely resume now that the latter has been captured once more. Another potential subplot could be a rise in tensions between Hunter and Crosshair.
Crosshair allowed Omega to turn herself over to the Empire in The Bad Batch season 3, episode 11, as she trusted him to fire a tracker onto C-X2’s ship. However, Crosshair failed to hit the vehicle, something that will surely anger Hunter, as will Crosshair’s decision to let Omega get herself captured in the first place. As such, more bickering and anger can be expected between the two clones in Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, episode 12, harkening back to Crosshair’s reintroduction to the group in earlier episodes of the season.