We pick up the narrative with the hunting of Kelnacca with Mae and Qimir with Sol and Osha racing to stop her! Last episode was a look back sixteen years ago at the tragic, formative event on Brendok, but now we shift back to Khofar where we saw Kelnacca. It was surprising to move with a cast that was new except the Jedi who are targeted by Mae. “Day” is directed by Alex Garcia Lopez. He had directed two episodes of the superhero show, Daredevil. The episode was written by Claire Kiechel who for the Watchmen series and Kor Adana, a writer for Mr. Robot. Omnious music as we move from the mountains of Khofar to its forests shrouded with clouds. Kelnacca walks from the forest to his ship made into a home. He wears the brown travel robes of the Jedi. Inside, a tree has grown from inside his home, it kinda reminds me of the plant collections in E.T.’s ship. We also see scrawled on the walls marking like what was on Mother Aniseya.
Kelnacca is sitting on working on making a meal when we return to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. This was surprising since I thought the missions would be independent of the Jedi. Jecki Lon and other Padawans are training with bokken sabers, this was a training weapon that we saw Sabine use in Ahsoka, “Time to Fly” (2023), FC-1/3. I like the connection with that show plus this is the first time that we see Padawans train together. We saw Yoda advise Anakin, but it makes sense that Padawans also train with other Jedi. In this case, Jedi Master Lakshay (Paul Bullion), a bearded man with ginger hair. Bullion was Lambert in The Witcher. He gives advice casually walking past the whirling blades. Osha has watched the end of the session. She thanks Jecki for her help finding Mae and clearing her name.
Osha says that Mae is a problem for the Jedi and she is not a Jedi. This must be the arc for her character, to become a Jedi. She says to Jecki that if she returns to Coruscant they can trade stories about Master Sol. The start of a friendship? Khofar, the ship Exile II, lands. It looks like squarish with a prong on its bow, two prows, and the main ship. Its owner, Mae, packs for her mission, and is told to wait by Qimir. He says he found the Wookie, I’m not certain how, but this must have made Kelnacca wary of the scavengers when we first saw him. He says she needs to kill Kelnacca because of her deal. Qimir starts to lead her acorss a bridge, I think this is Mae’s theme we hear with the drums. At the Jedi Temple, a hologram is projected of Mae, Jedi Masters watch. Jedi Master Holden (Indra Ové) says that she acts with emotion to Jedi Master Ki-Adi Mundi (Derek Arnold).
Ové was a First Order Office in The Rise of Skywalker (2019); DC-ST3. Arnold played Pao in Rogue One (2016); DC-RO. The part was played by Silas Carson in the Prequels and is surprising since he was the Jedi Council member who said the Sith were extinct for a millennium. Maybe the Master is not a Sith? Could the Master be Mother Aniseya or one of her coven? Sol says Mae does not know her Master. Holden asks if this could be a splinter Order. Vernestra says that Mae escaped Sol and killed two Jedi Masters. Holden asks if she saying the assassin was trained by a Jedi and Vernestra says she could tell even from a hologram. Ki-Adi Mundi says the High Council should be contacted. Vernestra says that they would have to contact the Senate which would be a scandal. She asks Master Holden to contact Kelnacca and find Mae.
Vernestra ends the meeting and Sol catches up with her. She wonders why Sol didn’t tell Mae could have lived from the Brendok event. Holden and Ki-Adi Mundi pauses in the hall to overhear them. Sol wants to bring Mae in. Vernestra whispers that there may be a greater plan by the Master, “something to tip the scales.” An imbalance of the Force! Which of course leads to the rise of the Sith, Sidious! Sol says that Holden might “neutralize”(!) Mae and they won’t be able to discover the Master. My prime suspect is still Vernestra. He insists that Mae will not surrender without something in exchange. Osha is really being used as a bargaining chip. On Khofar’s hills, they are walking and Qimir is talking about the Master’s test of killing a target unarmed. Mae asks about his deal with the Master. Qimir says he owes him, the Master “collects people.” She asks about Osha and he says she seemed to like Sol.
On Coruscant, Osha takes out Pip happy that he was serviced. Sol calls for her. It looks like a busy spaceport. He wants her on the mission, but not to rejoin the Jedi yet. She refuses and Sol says he told Mae about Osha and he could sense good in her, just like Luke with Darth Vader. Osha agrees and we see the Jedi ship in hyperspace. Yord is debriefing the team of Jedi, five plus Jecki and Sol. There is a Kel Dor Jedi, but he is not Plo Koon. Osha is sitting and Pip gets the attention of a short, furry Tynnan (Hassan Taj). This was a species that was introduced in Han Solo’s Revenge (1979), EC-HS2. This is the Tynnan’s first live action appearance. Pip sprays water at him and Osha walks to Jecki who tells her he is Bazil. The Jedi landing ship lands on Khofar, Jecki speaks with a bulky local alien through a handheld translator droid like a pocket voice translator.
Yord wants Osha to turn over her blaster. She refuses and Jecki joins them saying Kelnacca went into the forest. They look at the misty forest. Yord says they have a tracker giving Basil a piece of cloth to sniff. He leads the line of Jedi, eight plus Osha. Basil starts to scurry off the path. Osha whispers to Yord impressed he knows the Tynnan language. He says Padwans usually learn Shyriwook, the Wookie language, I think this is the first time the word has been spoken. I also like that most Jedi know Wookie. She gets his attention away from the group and tells him that he should deal with Mae. He says he has known her since they were younglings and Sol took her on the mission so Osha will face herself. Osha and Qimir run into the misty forest. Basil leads the Jedi into the forest and sniffs which Yord translates as there is something rotten.
Osha touches a dark bulb on a tree, it looked like a burl, but once she leaves, it starts to crawl away! She calls for Sol, but the creature, an umbramoth, flies towards them! Sol cuts it down with his lightsaber. Jecki notes that it went after the lightsaber. Sol says it is going to be dark. Osha says to Jecki that she could sense it, but the umbramoth died. Jecki says that it has joined the Force. Osha says that she couldn’t accept death like a Jedi. The sun starts to set, Qimir pulls along Mae, a bit noisy with Wookies that must have great hearing. Mae takes off her pack saying she has to rest before fighting Kelnacca. She says the words from the Master, “Your final lesson is one you teach yourself.” Killing an unarmed opponent is against the Jedi way. She says it is impossible and the Master will kill her.
Qimir says he will find some more water and walks off. Yord has found out that Basil is missing. He goes to tell Sol and they hear screaming. Mae calls for help and Qimir runs back. He is pulled upside down by a rope trap! Mae walks up to him and tells Qimir she doesn’t want the deal. No deal! She says her loyalty is to Osha not his Master. Mae says she will surrender to Kelnacca and the Jedi. He pleads that the Jedi will imprison her. Mae says that they won’t put her in prison when she tells them who she knows! She says the Master won’t kill her without a guide like Qimir. I think she should have hit him with a stun blaster or knocked him out. She already knows that Qimir is dangerous as a guide, poisoner, and connected to the Master. A very tense episode of The Acolyte that keeps throwing twists as we get closer to the mystery, the Master, but there is the introduction of Bazil!
Four Lightsabers out of Five!
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