The third episode of The Mandalorian's second season, "Chapter 11: The Heiress," was a sea-faring
and Stormtrooper-zapping good time, with a fair amount of Easter eggs and callbacks tucked
away for fans to find. Here are a few you may have missed.
"The Heiress" brought Mando and his little green friend to the never-before-seen watery
moon of Trask, completing their mission to deliver Frog Lady and her eggs back to her
husband, credited here as Frog Man. After a very bumpy landing, and an assist from a
crane machine that might just be a repurposed Imperial walker, we get a closer look at the
residents of Trask.
Both the Quarren and the Mon Calamari species joined the Star Wars universe in Return of
the Jedi, although they appeared in very different places. The Quarren hung out with Jabba the
Hutt, while the film introduced the Mon Calamari as key members of the Rebellion during the
Battle of Endor. The most famous among them is the legendary Admiral Ackbar, who remained
a part of the faction until he died in The Last Jedi.
Additionally, a Season 4 arc of The Clone Wars put their conflict on their home world
of Mon Cala front and center. Plus, Rogue One also bolstered the Mon Calamari's standing
in the Rebellion's ranks with the introduction of Admiral Raddus.
For both species, "The Heiress" isn't their first appearance in The Mandalorian. In the
opening scene of the series premiere, a Quarren was seen being sliced in half by a door. Greef
Karga also offered Mando a Mon Calamari bounty in Episode 3. Plus, in "The Heiress," Mando
finally uses the Mon Calamari money Carga gave him way back in the very first episode.
After chartering a ship to go find more Mandalorians, Mando and the Child are betrayed by their
Quarren sea captain. Thankfully, they're rescued in short order from a new creature known as
a "Mamacore" by a group of blue-and-gray-clad Mandalorians. We know from The Clone Wars
that these are the Nite Owls, led by fan-favorite Bo-Katan Kryze. Bo-Katan is played by Battlestar
Galactica's Katee Sackhoff for the first time in live-action, and she's the "Heiress" from
the title, a nod to her past as the ruler of Mandalore.
Bo-Katan arrived in the Star Wars universe during the fourth season of The Clone Wars,
with Sackoff also voicing her, as Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla's right-hand woman. (Pre
Vizsla, by the way, was voiced by Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau.) We know from the
Season 1 finale of The Mandalorian that Mando was rescued by Death Watch members as a child.
With Pre Viszla's later demise at the hands of Darth Maul, Bo-Katan and a group of Mandalorians
split off from the faction and formed the Mandalore resistance, playing an integral
role in the Siege of Mandalore during The Clone Wars Season 7.
Following the fall of the Galactic Empire, Bo-Katan's exploits were shrouded in relative
mystery, as her story drops off after a brief appearance in Rebels. However, it appears
that The Mandalorian will rectify that, finally giving audiences the answers they desire about
her whereabouts and motives in a post-Imperial world.
In the Mandalorian Season 1 finale, Moff Gideon used an ancient Mandalorian Darksaber to cut
through the wreckage of his downed TIE fighter to escape. Since that moment, viewers have
wondered how exactly this top-ranking Imperial official wound up with the artifact. Before
its reemergence, however, Bo-Katan was the last person shown wielding it — in Star
Wars Rebels after fellow Mandalorian Sabine Wren handed it over to her. Any specifics
detailing how she lost it, however, have yet to come to light.
"There is something I am going to need if I am going to rule Mandalore, something that
was once mine."
"The Heiress" went a long way in solving this mystery through a bit of key dialogue from
Bo-Katan that hints to a previously untold Star Wars story. After she and her crew fight
their way to the bridge of an Imperial shuttle, Bo-Katan interrogates the head officer, played
by Titus Welliver, the third actor from HBO's Deadwood to appear this season, following
Timothy Olyphant and W. Earl Brown.
Bo-Katan doesn't get any information out of him before he takes his own life, but she
does allude to some kind of shared history between herself and Gideon, asking the officer
to take her to "him," without actually naming him. Hopefully, the show will expand more
on how the weapon slipped from her hands into Gideon's at some point after her Rebels cameo.
After successfully hijacking an Imperial Gozanti cruiser ship, a model first spotted in The
Phantom Menace, Mando departs to continue his mission of delivering The Child to its
people. But not before asking his fellow Mandalorian where he can find the Jedi she claimed to
know. Grateful for his aid, Bo-Katan tells him to travel to the city of Calodan on the
forest planet of Corvus, a new location for the Star Wars universe. So who is this Jedi
on Corvus? Another animated favorite, Ahsoka Tano.
The debut of Anakin Skywalker's former Padawan in live-action has been a long time coming,
with speculation over Rosario Dawson's casting as Ahsoka running rampant for months, and
the circumstances surrounding her imminent arrival couldn't be more satisfying for die-hard
Star Wars fans.
"You should have seen him in person. Anakin Skywalker. He was my master."
Having initially squared off as enemies, Bo-Katan and Ahsoka allied during the Siege of Mandalore,
as detailed on Clone Wars' seventh season. Once the Jedi Order disbanded and Order 66
went into full effect, leading Ahsoka to go into hiding, the status of their coalition
grew murky. But it seems that they retained some method of contact throughout the Galactic
Civil War and in the midst of the Empire's collapse.
Also, much like Bo-Katan, Ahsoka's adventures continued through Rebels, where she took up
the codename Fulcrum and became a secret Rebel operative. Her fate beyond the series finale
was a mystery for a long time, but it's likely The Mandalorian's 12th chapter will finally
fill in some of the long-standing blanks in her story.
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