One minute he might be healing an enemy and the next Force choking a friend. He’s just a toddler, and while he has innate Force abilities, he doesn’t really know when to use each of them appropriately. It’s kind of shocking, but if you think about it it also makes a certain amount of sense. He thinks they’re actually fighting and, perhaps wanting only to stop the fight, force chokes Dune. Neither do we, of course, but we have an idea.Įarlier in the episode, Mando and Cara Dune are arm-wrestling, and poor baby Yoda thinks his dad is in trouble. Gideon emerges from his ship and tells Mando that he has no idea how badly he wants the asset or what the The Child actually means in the bigger scheme of things. Unfortunately, speeder bikes are much faster than Blurgs. But two of the Scout troopers outside intercept the message and blast off in pursuit. Just before the TIE fighter appears, Mando calls Kuiil over this com-link and tells him to hurry back to the ship and lock it down. Then a TIE fighter appears, landing slowly outside the cantina and Gideon emerges from inside. They’re quickly joined by dozens of regular Stormtroopers. Outside the blasted up cantina we see a row of Stormtroopers all in black. The Stormtroopers in the cantina are taken down quickly, but Mando and company quickly discover the odds are even worse than they expected. A big hole appears in the middle of the Client’s chest. “Are you certain of that?” Gideon replies, and then the blasters start blasting. It’s from (finally!) Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) and the Client, who we discover is actually working for this man, tells him they have the asset but he’s sleeping. The Client asks to see the asset, but Karga tells him that he’s sleeping-a rather lame excuse that ought to immediately raise suspicion.īut then The Client gets a call.
Mando, characteristically enough, has no witty retort. Compare that to the lawlessness we have now, he tells our hero. The Empire, he says, makes every system they occupy better, more peaceful and prosperous. Werner Herzog remains absolutely creepy as hell, taunting Mando about his Beskar steel and asking why the Mandalorians didn’t simply cede to Imperial rule. The city is crawling with Stormtroopers and other ex-Imperial troops. So Kuiil takes the Child back on his Blurg to the Razor Crest while Mando, Cara Dune and Greef Karga take an empty floating crib into the belly of the beast. He can’t let baby Yoda go to some Imperial monster. It was all a trap from the beginning, but now he wants to help Mando help the Child. He makes short work of his own men and then comes clean. Karga is in front, and he spins around suddenly, two blasters drawn. As they look down on the Imperial-occupied city the next day, we see his two remaining hunters pull out their blasters behind Mando and his companions.
It’s also a powerful enough gesture that Greef Karga has a change of heart. It’s a pretty incredible moment, and a much more powerful use of the Force than baby Yoda’s mudhorn levitation. I’m pretty sure this is the first time we’ve seen Force Healing onscreen, though it is part of the wider Star Wars Extended Universe, and now even though the books are no longer canon, Force Healing is once again thanks to its inclusion here. The Child’s face scrunches up into a look of intense concentration and the Karga’s look of pain disappears. The Child places his hand on the wound and a delirious Karga cries out, “He’s trying to eat me!” “Get this thing out of here,” Cara Dune says, as baby Yoda raises his arm to the wound. Nobody has an antidote.Īnd that’s when we see the Child approach. The real danger is the poison, however, and it’s spreading. His arm is gashed almost to shreds, and Cara Dune moves quickly to tend to the wound. One of Karga’s hunters is taken also before they manage to drive the dragon-like creatures away with blasters and Mando’s flamethrower. They’re powerful beasts-one lifts a Blurg right off the ground and flies away with it. More of the winged beasts descend from the darkness. “Nothing can go wrong,” Karga says over the fire, just as a huge, winged creature lurches down from the sky and gashes Karga’s arm. He tells them that they’ll camp outside the city and head in to meet with (and kill) the Client at first light. They meet Greef Karga and three of his hunters on Nevarro, and you can tell Karga is a little taken aback that Mando has brought his own muscle (and beasts). The Mandalorian Credit: Disney / LucasFilm