Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. Twenty-five years later, forensic science has advanced to the point that the Scottish police reconsider this cold case. When Crosshair says he would have left him for dead as he is just another "reg", Rex is enraged and assaults him, but is stopped by Wrecker who say to pick on some not his size and Rex angrily says to Wrecker that he'll be a lot smaller when he's through with him. She keeps you believing that first one, then another of the four was responsible for Rosie McDuff’s death. Anakin manages to defuse the situation by sending Force 99 to scout out the surroundings while he talks to Rex.

Padmé says she wonders where he might have learned that from, and advises Anakin that he should support Rex's instincts on this mission, since Rex has always done the same for him. Also, the reason for the brief fight between Rex and Crosshair is changed from Crosshair insinuating that Echo may have turned traitor to him showing a lack of sympathy for Echo's being left for dead at the Citadel. As Skywalker and Rex leave, Kenobi says to his former apprentice: "I hope you at least told Padmé I said hello," implying that he knows about his friend's secret. Scripted by Brent Friedman, it is the second installment in a four-part story arc focusing on a ragtag unit of clone commandos, Clone Force 99. One of the boys ran for help whilst another — a medical student — struggled in vain to keep her alive.Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.

Friedman stated that the "emotional hook" of the arc was Rex's relationship with ARC trooper Echo, [14] a character who had been killed in the third season episode " Counterattack" [15] but was resurrected for this arc.Rex and Tech deduce that Echo had been kept unconscious by the Separatists, who remotely mined his mind for information on the Republic's strategies on Anaxes. Rex responds that Tambor had violated the Union's neutrality by bringing a Republic prisoner to Skako Minor. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. The episode was originally intended to be the second episode of a seventh season, but production on the television series was halted before the episode was completed.