Category: Mandalorian, The

The Mandalorian visits Peli Motto on Tatooine to try to buy the parts needed to repair IG-11; instead she sells him R5-D4 at a reduced rate, over the droid’s objections. He needs a droid to sample atmospheric toxicity on Mandalore, scouting ahead to see if it’s safe to seek the living waters in the subsurface mines. But Mandalore is neither toxic nor uninhabited; R5 is sent back to wait with the ship while the Mandalorian and Grogu explore the former capitol city. A bio-robotic hunter captures the Mandalorian, and it’s up to Grogu to make his way back to the ship alone, get R5 to pilot the ship to Bo-Katan’s sacntuary, and seek her help. She returns with R5 and Grogu, freeing the Mandalorian with his own darksaber and leading him to the mines. Even bathing in the water in the mines is a treacherous thing to do, and Bo-Katan has to rescue him again, but beneath the water, she catches a glimpse of something alive – possibly the mythosaur at the heart of Mandalorian folklore.

written by Jon Favreau
directed by Rachel Morrison
music by Joseph Shirley

Cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Amy Sedaris (Peli Motto), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior), Dawn Dininger (Rodian Customer), Leilani Shiu (Jawa), Ariel Shiu (Jawa)

Notes: Peli claims that R5-D4 served the Rebellion during the galactic civil war and was then sold to her, possibly by Jawas. Despite R5’s nervous demeanor suggesting that he’s not made of the same tyranny-fighting stuff as R2-D2, this story of R5’s post-Tatooine exploits is given some confirmation a few episodes later. The Mandalorian’s visit to Tatooine falls on Boonta Eve, a major holiday on that planet (which also coincided with the podrace that young Anakin Skywalker won in Star Wars Episode I).

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As they leave Mandalore in Bo-Katan’s ship, Bo-Katan and the Mandalorian are attacked by a squadron of TIE interceptors. Once the Mandalorian uses his jetpack to bail out of the ship and retrieve his starfighter, he’s able to offer backup, but another waves of fighters arrives, bombs Bo-Katan’s sanctuary, leaving the two Mandalorians without a home base. There’s only one place to which they can run: to rejoin the Mandalorian covert.

On Coruscant, former Imperial geneticist Dr. Pershing has become the very model of a reformed Imperial citizen of the New Republic. After an evening of being in the public spotlight as a promising specimen of the amnesty program, he returns to the amnesty housing building, where rehibilitated former Imperials are retrained for life in the Republic. He’s surprised to see a familiar face from Moff Gideon’s ship – Elia Kane, Gideon’s former communications officer – and over time, she drops hints that Pershing could continue his cloning research in private, even if the Republic forbids him from doing so as his full-time occupation. All he has to do is follow her lead and break some rules, with a very real risk of being caught and forced back into rehabilitation. Kane seems to be very comfortable breaking the New Republic’s rules, but Pershing is still arrested. But will he be punished for defying the rules of the New Republic, or those of the Empire?

written by Noah Kloor & Jon Favreau
directed by Lee Isaac Chung
music by Joseph Shirley

Cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Omid Abtahi (Dr. Pershing), Katy M. O’Brian (Elia Kane), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior), Valarie Pettiford (Aristocrat 1), Stephen Keearin (Aristocrat 2), Norwood Cheek (Aristocrat 3), Veanne Cox (Aristocrat 4), Dylan Firshein (Taxi Droid), Matthew Bellows (Amnesty Office M40), James Chen (Amnesty Officer G27), Max Fowler (Amnesty Officer M34), Danny Jabobs (Lab Tech), Regina Hermosillo (Parole Droid), John Ott (Technician), Sunkrish Bala (Amnesty Affairs Commissioner), Tait Fletcher (Paz Vizsla), Arden Briar Voyles (Rodian Child performance artist)

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The training of foundlings and adult warriors alike continues in the Mandalorian covert, and this includes Grogu, who bests Paz Vizsla’s son Ragnar in dart training. Ragnar wanders off from the others in embarrassment, only to find a large flying creature bearing down on him. It picks him up and carries him away, followed by Vizsla and other with their jetpacks; they exhaust their fuel trying to chase the creature and rescue the boy. Bo-Katan has a different idea, following the creature in her ship and mapping the way back to its nest. She, Vizsla, the Mandalorian and others mount an attempt to rescue the boy before he becomes the creature’s next meal. Grogu is left in the care of the Armorer, and suddenly remembers how he escaped the Jedi purge: a Jedi named Kelleran Beq saved him and, in a ship from Naboo, got Grogu away from Coruscant.

written by Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni
directed by Carl Weathers
music by Joseph Shirley

Cast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Ahmed Best (Kelleran Beq), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior), Wesley Kimmel (Ragnar), Jason Chu (Mandalorian Judge), Tait Fletcher (Paz Vizsla), Temuera Morrison (Clone Troopers), Juan Javier Cardenas (Senate Guard Captain)

Notes: Kelleran Beq was introduced in the short-lived Star Wars-themed game show Star Wars: Jedi Challenge, which premiered on YouTube in 2020. In that respect, Beq bearing resposibility for the safety of younglings does match up with what had been seen in that show, though whether this makes the game show canonical is left open. As in Jedi Challenge, the role of Kelleran Beq is played by actor Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar Binks in the prequel trilogy.

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