Mando doesn’t like where this is going but once Greef puts Grogu in the suit, no one has ever been happier about anything in all of Star Wars. All memory has been removed and he’s become more of a vehicle for a person of small stature. Things start tense but the Armorer herself welcomes the new Mandalorians and says they’ll make a feast in their honour.īefore the feast, Greef presents Mando with a gift of some fine Coruscant booze and… something else. Bo is worried about how her helmet-removing Mandalorian friends will get along with Din’s helmet-wearing ones since they’ve long hated each other despite never having met. It’s Bo-Katan, Mando, Grogu, and all of the Night Owls they recruited back in last week’s episode. ( Which, it will be.)īack on Nevarro, a fleet of Imperial ships arrives, but Greef Karga knows they’re not Imperials, they’re Mandalorians. Sounds like it could be the plot of a movie.

Something we know will eventually become the First Order lead by Snoke, and that Grand Admiral Thrawn will play some sort of role. But the biggest takeaway is how very specifically we’re seeing the Empire scrambling to rebuild something. This cold open was so jam-packed with stuff it’s almost its own episode of the show. With them, Gideon promises to wipe out the Mandalorians once and for all - and oh, by the way, “Long live the Empire.” This is not something this Shadow Council wants to see so they grant Gideon everything he wants: Praetorian Guards, TIE Interceptors, and TIE Bombers. Hux scoffs that Gideon has requested a bunch of backup for some reason, to which Gideon reveals he believes the Mandalorians are thinking of taking back Mandalore. Pershing, who was working on clones and midichlorian DNA - and in other media, Hux has been creating Stormtroopers - you can begin to loosely connect the dots: clones, troopers, those suits in the previous scene, the First Order is on the way, there’s something brewing here that’s yet to be revealed. This is a term that’s new to Star Wars but the fact that Hux mentions Dr. Instead, they point to something Hux has been working on called Project Necromancer, which could help restore leadership to Empire. Gideon seems mad that despite Pellaeon’s assurance that Thrawn is coming, he has yet to reveal himself. They talk about flying under the radar of the New Republic and balancing their true power - and one officer mentions none other than Grand Admiral Thrawn as the person who will return and help them bring it all together. The Shadow Council is made up of all manner of evil officers who are still loyal to the Empire. Gideon is travelling on a ship, and after passing through those red laser security walls from The Phantom Menace that are seemingly there for no reason (they’re flanked by some very imposing sets of armour that seem to blend Mandalorian and Stormtrooper gear), as well as what looks to be several containers filled with some sort of clones, he arrives at a meeting of the Shadow Council.

He tells Kane to keep on her mission and he’ll deal with the Mandalorians. Gideon is confused because in his mind, those tribes hate each other, but that seems to have changed. But not just any Mandalorians: the combined tribes of Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin. Kane tells Gideon that their pirate uprising on Navarro (oh, so that was them too?) has been thwarted by Mandalorians.

Yup, after multiple mentions this season, he’s finally back. In a back alley, a probe droid confirms her identity and links her up with, drumroll please, Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito). O’Brian), who we find traversing a Coruscant that looks less like Star Wars and more like Blade Runner. (We’ll dive into it more near the end.) But it does start with at least one spy, Ella Kane (Katy M. Episode seven of The Mandalorian’s third season is called “The Spies,” and despite having watched it multiple times now, I still have no idea who the title is referring to.

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