A Distant Echo

"The search for truth begins with belief."

- Jedi Fortune Cookie

"A Distant Echo" is the second episode of the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It is the hundred and twenty-third episode of the series overall. It was released on February 28, 2020 on Disney+. It was previously screened as a story reel on April 17, 2015 at Celebration Anaheim, and released as such in tandem with the rest of the Bad Batch arc on April 29, 2015 on StarWars.com.

Cast
Starring
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Admiral Trench / Clone Troopers
 * Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker
 * Matthew Wood as Battle Droids / Poletecan Villagers / Wat Tambor
 * Tom Kane as Narrator
 * James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Catherine Taber as Padme Amidala
 * David Acord as Poletecan Leader / Skakoan Scientist

Crew
Created by
 * George Lucas

Executive Producer and Supervising Director
 * Dave Filoni

Directed by
 * Steward Lee

Written by
 * Matt Michnovetz
 * Dave Filoni
 * Brent Friedman

Score by
 * Kevin Kiner

Original Star Wars Themes & Score by
 * John Williams

Producer
 * Caroline Robinson Kermel

Co-Producer
 * Carrie Beck

Associate Producer
 * Josh Rimes

Original Series Casting by
 * Lindsay Halper

Characters

 * Padmé Amidala
 * Cody
 * Crosshair
 * Echo
 * Hunter
 * Jesse
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Kix
 * Rex
 * Trench
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Wat Tambor
 * Tech
 * Wrecker
 * Mace Windu

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle for Anaxes
 * Mission to Skako Minor
 * Battle of Lola Sayu Indirect mention only

Locations

 * Anaxes
 * Fort Anaxes
 * Cyber Center
 * Skako Minor
 * Purkell
 * Citadel
 * Jedi High Council
 * Naboo

Units

 * Clone Force 99
 * 501st Legion

Behind the scenes
"Wars are not won with superior weapons, but with superior strategy."

- Original moral


 * The finished version of this episode on Disney+ features some minor differences with the original story reels. The scene in which Anakin remarks on the nose art of Padmé Amidala on the Havoc Marauder was replaced with a scene of Anakin secretly contacting Padmé via holocall, while Rex stood guard before Obi-Wan could intrude. The scene in which Rex fights with Crosshair was also changed slightly: instead of cynicism for believing Echo turned traitor, Crosshair angered Rex by displaying apathy for him being left for dead.
 * A couple of editing mistakes are visible in the episode. The shot in which the Bad Batch slides down the slope into the Poletec village briefly shows Rex wearing a night-vision visor. Later, when Tech pinpoints Echo's location in Purkoll, his voice was not modified to sound like he was wearing his helmet.