Star Wars: The Acolyte’s first episode has Jedi Master Sol finding his former Padawan, Osha, but she has a discovery of her own! Re:cap - the first part of “Lost/Found”; Star Wars: The Acolyte has begun with the death of a Jedi Master, Indara, and the former Padawan, Osha, has been identified as the assassin! The Jedi Knight Yord takes her into custody and Osha’s questioning reveals that she left the Jedi Order six years ago. Osha’s prison ship crashs on the snowy planet, Carlac, after a prisoner escape. On Coruscant, at the Jedi Temple, Jedi Master Sol explains to Vernestra Rrwoh that he saved Osha along with Indara from a fire on Brendok that killed her mother. She agrees to his missio to return Osha. Leslye Headland, the creator of the series, wrote and directed the first episode.
Osha again wakes up gasping, this time in the crashed ship, she goes out to see the snowy landscape of Carlac. She re-enters the ship and then behind her is a dark figure! Eerie. Osha turns to see the person walk away. Jecki walks with Sol on her first mission, they are in their mission brown robes and tan tunics. He says they will need backup and instantly Jecki asks if it is Yord, funny! They find him in the ship steaming his robe shirtless, this is for the ladies. Yord thanks Sol and says he should have brought in Osha. Jecki tells Yord to put his clothes on, also funny. The ship leaves for the mission for the mission that will take them to a fateful meeting with Osha Aniseya!!
A wipe, Lucas’ classic technique, shifts to Osha running in a snow cave, she is chasing the dark figure she had seen at the ship. The figure turns and it is a young girl (Leah Brady), her sister, Mae! Osha finds that she is in a forest with snow drifting down at night. Osha tuns lit by orange, the forest is on fire. This must be their homeworld, Brendok, I wonder if this is how Mae was made into the Acolyte? Mae runs says, “You’re with me, I’m with you. Always one, but born as two.” Osha chases after her and they end up at what must be their childhood home. They repeat their words as children and now Mae is in her younger form (Lauren Brady). Mae asks her sister if she killed Indara.
Her reply, “Yes”, simple, and she adds, “I will kill them all” and her eyes turn all black! Not Sith, but demonic. Osha wakes up again gasping in the snow falling in the ship. A Force vision? Yoda was assaulted on Moraband, the homeworld of the Sith, in “Sacrifice” (2014), GL-CW6/13. This must be the Trial of the Spirit in the Jedi Trials and I wonder if this is also a Sith test. She picks up Pip beeping fantically and says he wouldn’t believe what she saw, Pip may have been around since she was a child? The Jedi ship travels though hyperspace. Jecki asks Jedi Master Sol about Osha. He says he was posted on Brendok when Mae started the fire that killed her family and village.
Sol adds that Osha is a twin sister. Jedi twins! This is what we saw with Luke and Leia. The connection might take Osha to the Dark Side and become The Acolyte! Jedi twins are rare, but in The High Republic comic book, in issue #2 (2021). We find the Kotabi Bond-twins, Terec and Ceret. This is impressive that Stenberg plays two different parts. Sol is certain that Mae is dead after seeing her die himself. This along with his narrative of the fire must be part of the mystery. Yord gets the signal that they have reached Carlac. A smaller craft launches from the ship. Pip has detected their descent and Osha runs out. After a search, Yord declares that there are no survivors, but Jecki says that there was someone there. I really like the relationship, Yord’s practical, typical Jedi perspective, and Jecki open to possiblities.
Sol senses something and then runs out telling the others to follow. Osha is running though the snow and canyon. The trio follow through the snowfall. Osha finds a crack in a canyon wall and rushes in. Sol has discovered the cave opening and enter with the others. Yord ignites his yellow lightsaber. Osha has reached the edge of the cave. Yord finds Osha and shouts, “Stop! In the name of the Republic and the Jedi Order!” This makes it feel that the Jedi are more of a police force than in the time of the Prequels. Osha steps back and Sol calls her name. She says she is innocent. This feels, not coincedence, like The Fugitive (1993). Osha slips back and falls, but held by Sol using the Force. She is perpendicular to the edge of the cave and then Sol pulls her in. He smiles. Osha tells him that Mae is alive.
The Jedi Master says he believes her. Yord has his lightsaber ready and Jecki prepares the binders, but Sol tells them to stand down. At the seaside of an unknown planet, Mae walks, as she hears a dark voice say, “The Jedi live in a dream.” The figure is robed with a helmet. A Sith master? He tells her, “An Acolyte kills without a weapon.” He ignites his red lightsaber. Mae left the lightsaber of Indara. A Sith takes the crystal and corrupt, “bleeding” them, until they turn the blades red!
This process was shown in Darth Vader #5 (2017); DC-DV5. Who is this mysterious master? It could be anyone, but the mastermind is usually revealed at the very end of the mystery. The prime suspect now would be Vernestra, we don't know if she is involved with Brendok at this point, but she certainly has the power, and seemed to stress keeping the case discreet, suspicious. A chaacter introduced in a later episode? I suspect that this master might later take Darth Plagueis as his apprentice! The Acolyte, “Lost/Found”, ends with a dark note even though Osha has been recovered!
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