Last episode, we had the Razor Crest seemingly repaired by a Mon Calamari and his crew, but the opening of this episode starts with the ship’s systems wheezing and failing in flight. Of course this episode is directed by Carl Weathers, there is an understanding of everything great about the series, and this episode has it! Mando is working on getting the ship running and calls for Baby Yoda to get the red wire in a small compartment. He tries to give instructions to The Child. The wires are oppositely charged and Baby Yoda doesn’t follow instructions closely enough. The ship won’t reach Corvus. Baby Yoda is sipping a soup and watches Mando sip the soup through his helmet. Mando says he needs to get repairs on Nevarro, the planet of season 1. The two sipping soup together is great! Aliens ransack the Mandalorian Forge! These are Aqualish, the Walrusman aliens, like Ponda Baba whose arm is severed by Obi-Wan. One is about to chop up a weasel-like creature from a cage until they hear sounds. The Aqualish are taken down by what one calls the Marshal, Cara Dune! She tells the weasel creature that she has to get the goods to their owners.
Mando pilots the Razor Crest to Navarro’s surface as it seems systems are failing in the wire strapped cockpit. Cara and Greef Carga, Cara smiles at the landing of the ship, it is great to see the return of the duo after three episodes! Mando gets an arm shake from Greef who says his people will help repair the Razor Crest. The town seems to be thriving, restored by the work of Cara and Greef. It occured to me that we had Cobb Vanth on Tatooine and now Cara as marshal, which is lawmen in charge of protecting towns in the Old West. Also, bounty hunters and cantinas. The cantina, once part of a battle, has now been restored into a classroom(!) of young students taught by a protocol droid (her voice is by Kathryn Elise Dexter). We keep getting more of the SW culture from The Mandalorian. Greef leaves The Child at the classroom and Cara gives her word that Baby Yoda will be safe. He places Baby Yoda in an empty seat and he becomes the talk of the class. The teacher doesn’t seem to notice the new student or the distraction of the class and continues the lesson. A student is muching on blue crackers, refuses to share with Baby Yoda, so he uses the Force to bring it to his desk.
The Mythrol (Horatio Sanz), blue amphibious alien that was the bounty in the first episode, he was appointed to watch over Greef’s accounts, but ran off. Mando threatens him. They have brought Mando there to get help from him. Cara shows him a holographic map and an area that she doesn’t keep safe, a former Imperial base that was the source of troops in their last battle. They take a landspeeder through a canyon along with the Mythrol as pilot. Greef orders him to take them directly to the base taking 100 years from his 300 year sentence. The landspeeder gets to a door at the bottom of the base. While the Mythrol works on cutting into the door controls, Mando uses his jetpack to reach a platform. A stormtrooper screams and falls to the ground and the door opens to a turbolift. They reach the platform with Mando standing over several fallen stormtroopers. The Mythrol notes an Imperial Troop Transport (which we saw last season) would be worth a fortune in the black market. An Imperial officer tries to check on the security monitors, Cara chokes him out!, Creef takes one of his code cylinders. Mando has found from the console the location of the heat shaft where they will find the reactor to blow up the base.
They move past some stormtroopers and Mando wants the Mythrol to slice into a door leading to the reactor. A slicer is a hacker that was introduced in Star Wars by Heir to the Empire (1991). Greef gives the Mythrol the code cylinder to slice the door. This infiltration is very Death Star. Greef orders the Mythrol to overload the reactor on a control tower similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi releasing the tractor beam. Except below it is the lava and it starts to surge with the Mythrol’s tampering. Two technicians are sabotaging a console when the others blast them! They are stunned to find captives in some sort of liquid. Cara realizes that the base is a lab. The Mythrol tries to get information from the console and gets a hologram of Dr. Pershing (Omid Abtahl), the doctor that was experimenting on Baby Yoda! His report was that the blood from Baby Yoda is not working with the captives. They are being sustained in the tanks, bacta?, but are not freed! We finally get more of the plot that the Imperials had for Baby Yoda and it looks like some sort of duplication of Force powers. The report was for Moff Gideon. Mando believes Gideon is dead, but the Mythrol says the report was made three days ago, they know the truth!
After taking down some stormtroopers, Mando says that he has to return to get Baby Yoda, The Child is in danger with the Imperial remnants looking to get more of his blood! He leaves saying he will use his jetpack and the others have to escape with stormtroopers all around them and the reactor about to explode! Mando reaches the reactor chamber, finishes off a few stormtroopers, and then jet packs to save The Child! The others reach the hangar and find themselves under blast fire from stormtroopers. Cara runs for the Troop Transport to give Greef and the Mythrol cover. The hangar door closes and Cara sends the Troop Transport off of the hangar, plunging down the canyon, and smashing the landspeeder! Out of the hangar are several speeder bikes, it’s not over yet!, Cara gets Greef to man the transport’s cannons. I get the feeling that Weathers not only directed the episode, but got a wish list fulfilled starring in it! She is excellent as a leader as well as a fighter. It is an excellent chase, but then we find four TIE fighters deployed from the base! Seeing the Troop Transport in action, now it would be great to have as a toy! There is a cameo with Captain Treva and a little more background to Cara. Also a hint of Moff Gideon’s plan! This series keeps developing in fascinating ways always with call backs to what we like about Star Wars and pointing the way to new additions!
Five Bars of Beskar Steel out of Five!
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