This episode is written by Jon Favreau and directed by Deborah Chow who directed an episode of American Gods and is the director for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The Mandalorian has won the battles through a hacienda of gunmen to reach the Asset, also known as Baby Yoda, and then had to deal with Jawas that scavenged his ship. Finally, the Razorcrest has been restored and he travels from Arvala-7 to bring Baby Yoda back to the Client. The Razorcrest appears from hyperspace and heads down to the planet. Baby Yoda appears, again stealing the show!, and crawls outside of his sphere. A hologram of Greef Carga informs Mando that Baby Yoda needs to be directly delievered to the Client. The bounty hunter plucks Baby Yoda back to the sphere. The Razorcrest descends to the planet and lands at a docking area. The Mandalorian descends the ramp and appears with the open sphere. Baby Yoda watches all of the marketplace activity. He watches as the Mandalorian knocks and shows his card to the droid doorkeeper. Two stormtroopers appear and look at the Asset before everyone enters.
A stormtrooper takes hold of the sphere and the Client is excited to see the child. He and Dr. Pershing scan Baby Yoda. The doctor says the child is “Very healthy.” The Client at his desk takes out a container filled with stacks of beskar steel! The Mandalorian examines the bars as the sphere is taken away by Dr. Pershing with the mewling Baby Yoda! He wonders what will happen to the child as two more stormtroopers enter. The Client says his interest is “uncharacteristic” with commission and payment. He says the Bounty Hunter Code should have him forget the Asset. The Mandalorian returns the bars and picks ip the container. The bounty hunter returns to the Mandalorian refuge, down the steps, past other Mandalorians in armor. He places the container in front of the Armorer and reveals the bars of beskar steel. A few Mandalorians walk up behind him as the Armorer explains she can make a full curiass, the armor that covers the torso. One Mandalorian, Paz Vizsla (Taut Fletcher) picks up a bar, sees the Imperial insignia, and says they were made in the Great Purge. Clan Vizsla has been troublesome with Pre Vizsla leading the Death Watch. He first appeared in “The Mandalore Plot” (2010) of Clone Wars. I hope everyone uses Disney+ to catch up with Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels because this show is deep diving into Mandalorian culture.
He struggles with Paz Vizsla and slashes him with a blade. They are at a standoff with blades close to each other. The Armorer says the beskar has returned. She asks the bounty hunter if his helmet has been removed and he says no. The Armorer says, “This is the Way” which the others repeat and the blades are lowered. She asks him about the cause of his armor’s damage. The Mandalorian says a Mudhorn which the Armorer says will be his signet. He says he was helped by an “enemy”, Baby Yoda?, so the Armorer will instead use “whistling birds.” She places several bars into the forge and brings whistling birds, armaments, to his gauntlet. The Armorer slams down the forge and flashbacks appear as a foundling with an attack on a village. His parents try to run as a super battle droid blasts innocents. They hide him in a shelter, there is an explosion, then the super battle droid appears! The armor is forged. At the cantina, Greef Carga sends away a bounty hunter for his failure. The Mandalorian enters with his new armor. He asks about the tracking fobs and Greef shouts that all of them had tracking fobs.
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| The Mandalorian's armor, D23 Expo, photo by the author. |
The bounty hunter sits and Greef shows him payment of two bars of beskar steel. He wants his next job, but Greef says he should relax. The Mandalorian checks one that projects a hologram of a Mon Calamari. Greef says he is a nobleman’s son at “the ocean dunes of Carnac.” The bounty hunter asks about the child and the former Imperials. Greef says he can report them to the New Republic in the Core. The Mandalorian returns to his ship, but hesitates to launch, a connection with the child since he himself was a foundling? He shuts down his ship and returns to door. Is this defiance of the Bounty Hunter Guild? He sees a refuse bin and finds the discarded sphere. The Mandalorian uses his rifle and scans from the rooftop. He hears the Client saying to “extract the necessary material.” I’ve read hints that this might be midichlorians, but even if so the material would be useless for a non-Force user. The Mandalorian knocks on the door and then rips off the orb of the droid doorkeeper! He walks away as stormtroopers check on the disturbance. The bounty hunter places an explosive that tears away a wall. He brutally takes care of several stormtroopers. Then, blasts his way to the examining room.
Dr. Pershing pleads for his life as Baby Yoda is being scanned. The Mandalorian blasts an IT-O Interrogator Droid, the same black sphere that tortured Princess Leia in ANH. Dr. Pershing says that he protected the child. The bounty hunter has left with the child in blankets, Lone Wolf and Cub-style. Stormtroopers try to corner him in a dark room, but they haven’t dealt with a Mandalorian before! He uses his flame thrower to cook a Stormtrooper in his armor! Stormtroopers have him surrounded so The Mandalorian sets down Baby Yoda, but has another trick up his gauntlet! He walks out with the baby. The tracking fobs of all of the bounty hunters in the cantina all activate! Greef Carga looks at his tracking fob, he knows it is The Mandalorian. A bounty hunter with dreadlocks follows behind, then all of the bounty hunters surround him with Greef Carga telling him to “put down the Package”! It looks like every bounty hunter has The Mandalorian under fire. He is not invincible even in his beskar steel armor. The three episodes seem to be all one story or a single movie with three directors. This show ramps up the action as now The Mandalorian is on the run.
Five Bars of Beskar Steel out of Five!
#TheMandalorian, #TheSin, #BabyYoda, #GreefCarga.
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