The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 4 has finally been released on Disney+, and with it we were
taken back to the familiar lava world of Nevarro, where we got some very deep and mysterious
connections to Snoke, Palpatine and some of the darker stories from the Old Expanded Universe.
So I’m going to break down everything that went down in the episode and how it connects
to the other Star Wars TV series and films.
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To start off the episode, we begin right back inside of the Razorcrest, leaving the watermoon
of Trask, from the last episode.
Just like we saw last week, the Razorcrest is still in a horrid shape, and there is absolutely
no way it is going to make it to Corvus to find Ahsoka Tano just yet.
Because of this, Mando sends the Child through a tiny gap in the ship and tries to teach
him how to fix the on board electronics, but it doesn’t go to well..
Following this, we almost get a second face reveal from the Mando as he sips his soup,
and the child is incredibly curious to see who exactly is under the helmet.
There is also a scene right after this where the two are sipping their meals at the exact
same time, really demonstrating just how closely these two have now bonded, as part of the
same Mandalorian clan, Clan Mudhorn.
After this, we return swiftly back to Nevaro, and enter the old Children of the Watch covert,
where we see the traditional Mandalorian Mythosaur skull marking the entrance.
This is of course a reference to the legendary Mandalorian creature which used to roam the
surface of Mandalore many years ago, but were quickly driven to extinction.
Inside the old Children of the Watch covert, we see that it has now been occupied by a
group of men from the Aqualish species, which is the same species as Ponda Baba from A New
Hope and later Rogue One.
We then quickly cut straight to Cara Dune rushing inside of the building, terrifying
the Aqualish, before one of them screams “It’s the Marshal”.
This is a nice little reference to Cobb Vanth from Episode 1, who of course was the Marshal
of Mos Pelgo, just like Cara Dune is now the Marshall of Nevarro.
Cara Dune quickly cleans the Aqualish up, and collects all of the precious metal that
they have stolen, ready to return them to their rightful owners.
Din Djarin then arrives back on Nevarro for the first time in a long time, landing the
Razorcrest down, before being greeted by Greef Carga and Cara Dune.
The two are incredibly excited to see the Child again, but of course the Razorcrest
is in dire need or proper repairs, prompting Greef Cargo to get two of his repairmen on
the job.
Also, there is a statue of IG-11 placed in the centre of the town, which is an awesome
little memorial to his sacrifice last season.
One of these engineers that is working on the Razorcrest is actually from the Planet
Mimban which is where Han Solo fought in Solo: A Star Wars story, and was also where the
Mud Jumpers fought during the Clone Wars.
Make sure you remember this engineer also, as he is very important later on.
As the group move into the city, Mando and Greef Carga drop the Child off at a local
school, which is just hilarious.
Inside they are learning about the trade routes of the Galaxy, like the Corellian Run and
the Hydian Way, but The child has no interest in this, and instead steals a nearby kid’s
Macarons using the force.
Absolutely hilarious stuff.
Following this, we get the reappearance of the Mythrol from the Mandalorian Season 1
Episode 1, who is now working as a bookkeeper.
As soon as the Mythrol sees the Mando, he is of course terrified because of their last
encounter and we see a thin blue mist rush out of his throat.
This is of course trait of the Mythrol species, but also a reference to the last time we saw
him in season one, where the blue man told Din Djarin “if you've never seen a Fledgling
Mythrol evacuate their thorax, you're a lucky guy”
Following this, the Mythrol says he’s happy to no longer be frozen in Carbonite, and says
“I still can’t see out of my left eye”, which is a reference to Han Solo’s blindness
from Return of the Jedi, after he was frozen in Carbonite in Empire Strikes Back.
The group then zoom off on their speeder to the nearby Imperial base, which they are attempting
to raid and to clear out the imperial presence on the planet.
As they are travelling there, we do get a small reference to Luke’s speeder Scene
from a New Hope.
As they arrive there, the group quickly realize that all control panels have been melted away
by the Planets harsh lava, meaning they have to cut their way in.
Greef Carga orders the Mythrol to cut the door with his flange cutters, which look very
similar to and could be a reference to the F-187 fusion cutters that the Clone Engineers
used in the original Battlefront games and Clone Wars comics.
The group eventually broke into the base, and Mando just used his jetpack to fly up
to the top platform, slaughtering a few stormtroopers while he waited for the others.
Eventually, Mando and the others break into the command centre of the station, with Cara
Dune gracefully choking the lead imperial officer out, before they are able to locate
the heat shaft.
They also manage to steal the officer’s code cylinders, which every imperial officer
carries, and of course we saw Agent Kallus do the same thing in Star Wars Rebels when
acting as a Fulcrum agent for the Rebel alliance.
With the help of the very scared Mythrol, Greef Karga and the group are then able to
send the Imperial base reactor into overdrive, giving them under 10 minutes to escape from
the facility.
As they are frantically trying to escape the base they come across two scientists, wearing
the same patch as Doctor Pershing from the first season.
This patch actually bears the symbol of the cloners on Kamino, further telling that group
that this is no military base, but instead a cloning and bio-research facility.
The two scientists quickly panic as they see Mando and his group approaching, causing them
to destroy files that they are working with.
They are both quickly killed, but a hologram from Doctor Pershing still survived, revealing
that he was extracting blood from the Child, in hopes of using it into infuse a cloned
body.
They also state that the Child had a high M-Count, which is most likely referring to
a high Midichlorian count.
The most surprising thing that doctor Pershing revealed was that injecting the blood of the
Child into the cloned body did actually work for a short period of time, before the body
rejected it and the experiment failed.
Count Dooku actually also tried to infuse the midichlorian rich blood of Jedi Master
Sifo Dyas into General Grievous in hopes of turning him into a force sensitive being,
but that of course failed, unlike the experiment by Doctor Pershing.
On top of this, we also see the clone body of either Snoke or Palpatine himself inside
of a very similar tank to the one holding the Snoke clones in the Rise of Skywalker.
While the group are walking past it, the eerie theme of Supreme Leader snoke is also playing
in the background, definitely pointing to these projects being connected.
Let me know down below who you think this cloned body is, or is it just a blank template
body?
Because of the impending reactor overload which is very close to taking place, the group
have no time to stop and think about the situation, causing them to rush out the building and
onto the Marauder vehicle which was parked outside earlier in the episode.
Following this, a massive chase erupts, with Scout troopers on their swoop bikes racing
to stop the Marauder from escaping.
After the swoop bikes are all successfully defeated, unfortunately, the next wave arrives,
this time Tie Fighters and Tie Outlanders.
Greef, Cara and the Myhtrol are in serious trouble, but the Mando comes zooming in to
rescue them with the Razorcrest, with the child also on board.
Mando engages in a massive 1 on 1 dog fight with a tie pilot, eventually coming out on
top after an intense battle.
After this, Carson Teva who you would remember from the second episode arrives on Nevarro,
and begins to question Greef Karga about the incident at the Imperial base, on behalf of
the New Republic.
Greef of course doesn’t answer many questions, causing Teva to move on to Cara Dune.
We also did get Coruscant and Chandrila name dropped here however, which is one of the
first times Coruscant has been mentioned in this time period.
While there we find out that Teva fought during Alderaan and the two share a somber moment
after he realizes that Cara lost everyone after the Death Star Destruction of the peaceful
planet.
And to end the episode, we get a massive, absolutely huge connection to Palpatine’s
contingency plan for after his death.
We first cut to Gideon’s Imperial Arquitens-class light cruiser and find out that the Mimbaneese
engineer from earlier was actually a spy for Moff Gideon’s imperial remnant, who has
placed a tracker on the Razorcrest, obviously placing Ahsoka in extreme danger for the Next
episode.
We then cut straight into a specialized science room, where Moff Gideon and his scientists
are inspecting a group of what look to be imperial Dark Troopers from Star Wars Legends.
The scientists in the room are also wearing the symbol of the Imperial Department of Military
research, who were heavily involved in the creation of the Phase I, II and II dark Trooper
lines of droids.
These Dark Troopers were advanced battle droids who were equipped with infantry exoskeletons
that featured incredibly heavy plating.
The Dark Trooper droids resembled stormtroopers and were used as a direct replacement for
human Stormtrooper soldiers.
These troopers were actually brought into Canon by the Star Wars Commander game, but
their story is not fully fleshed out yet in Canon.
So that is my breakdown of the Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 4, Chapter 12.
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