WEBVTT - Andor Season 2 (Episodes 7-9) Recap 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.320 Warning today's episode Canadid's spoilers for and Or episodes two, 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:19.759 O seven, two eight, and two nine. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:20.560 Hello. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.720 My name is Jason Concepcion Han on Mersey Night and 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.840 welcome back to x ray Vision of the podcast where 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.360 we dive deep. It's your favorite shows, movies, comics and 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.560 pop culture. Covery from iHeart Podcast will bring you three 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.479 huge episodes a week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday plus. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.440 In today's episode and Or and the creators Tony Gilroy 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.360 were obviously inspired by our three episodes a week because 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.920 they too are dropping three episodes a week, and this 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.360 week it is episodes seven, eight and nine, And if 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.240 you can believe it, it's just getting better. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.519 Basically getting every. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:53.720 Chapter is getting better. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.080 This is some of the best TV that we've gotten 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.760 all year and probably will stand as that. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.520 So let's talk about it. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.400 Episode seven and Or season two we open a year 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:10.280 after episode six. It is now bby two. The Rebel 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.000 base that I know, we're so close. The Rebel base 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:19.480 at Yavin is a hub of activity. Ships are gathering powered. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.880 We should add by the Crydo stolen by Saugre's cell. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.560 Willman arrives on the planet Cassian and Bickx are already there. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:32.080 They're camping in the woods. Willman comes in to break 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.040 up there snogging. They've been clearly spending some you know, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.440 like some personal time together, which is wonderful. Their love 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.640 affair is only growing and deepening, and they welcome him 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.080 back into the fold. Cassian has been injured at some point, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.760 has been hit by a blaster and the shoulder, and 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.120 Cassie wants to know what where Will has been, what 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.400 he been working on, and Will says that he doesn't 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.640 answer right away, but he says Luthan wants to know 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.160 if you're ready to again. Are you ready to go 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.360 back into the field, And apparently Cassian has been ignoring 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:10.040 Lutheran's calls. As the rebellion is really beginning to look 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.079 like a real thing here on Yeavin. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.000 It's has to look like what we see in other 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:15.960 Star Wars movies. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.880 Yeah, Cassian has kind of been caught up in that 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:24.280 energy and also like, I think, happy to spend time 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:25.280 just with Bicks. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.560 Yeah. And the place where they're staying is so beautiful. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.960 It's kind of this mixture between like a treehouse and a. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.280 Yum and nice, so calm. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.359 It's so good it's very cozy, and I understand why, 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.800 and also Cassian feels like he's done enough. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:42.120 You know. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.480 I also think this is really interesting because we've been 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.240 talking about Will's evolution and how far he's gone every year, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.760 and you got to remember, this is a guy who 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:55.320 was on Ferix, who was basically a kid who until 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.880 the funeral in the final episodes of season one, had 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.280 he ever really done anything. Before he throws that grenade, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.440 he becomes part of the rebellion, he becomes part of 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.000 Cassian's family. But here we see that Cassian is so 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.359 out of the Luthen loop that now essentially his younger 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.760 brother is the one who's giving him commands from Luthen. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.600 So lots has changed here, but it's clear that Cassian 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.200 is becoming tired of the fight. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.880 Cassian suggests, like that Luthen come and see what's happening 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.720 on Yavin, because you know, they've been working towards us 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.440 so long. But Luthen's like, you know, this is a 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.560 security risk, like people are showing up all the time. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.600 We don't know who these people are. Luthen's not gonna come, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:38.440 and Cassian says, basically like I think I'm done sneaking around, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.760 shooting people in the back in the dark. The fight 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.480 is going to happen in the broad daylight. Now with 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.040 the alliance, the rebel Alliance starting to strengthen, and I 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.200 want to do that, we go to Gorman. It's even 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.000 worse than it was a year ago. Of course, tensions 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.120 are rising. Imperial propaganda has been very effective at branding 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:02.840 the Gorman Front as terrorism. Palmo is under curfew, Cyril 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:08.040 is there, but his he's the Front knows he's an 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:13.240 Imperial double agent, but he's still trying to like make 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.600 stuff happen somehow. He's Yeah, he's a desperate figure. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.080 He's very desperate. He's hated by the Front everybody. He's 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.680 not particularly trusted by the ISB, and he's trying to 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.839 find ways in his own twisted way to help the Front. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:34.560 He like he's obsessed with this idea of an outside agitator. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.080 Yes, we'll talk more about soon. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.000 This is the life of a rat let. All rats 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:39.719 be warned. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.000 Yeah, this is what they this is what the show 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.479 is telling us. Is like, it is an unhappy place 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.640 to betray people. It is a lonely place to take 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.560 part in rat activities like this, like Tony is saying, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.280 snitches get stitches, and maybe those are the stitches of 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.680 your autopsy. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.120 You more on that in a bit. So Will has 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.359 been on Gorman, That's where he's been, and he lets 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.159 Cassie know this. Cassian thinks this is a waste, thinks 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.120 everything that's happening on Gorman is going to be They're 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.320 just wasting lives there on you know, get standing in 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.640 front of the Imperial tank and as the treads just 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.840 roll over people like, what's the point Luthan's next mission. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.200 Will tells Cassian is Deirdre. She is the butcher of Feryx, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.400 is on Gorman, running a false flag, running this whole 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:36.160 false flag operation. This is our chance to take her 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.520 off the board, and let's go kill her. That's what 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.000 Luthan wants to do. This is their best chance. We 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.040 go to Coruscant, part of gas Is, we go to Gorman. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.799 Deirdre's on Gorman, zooming with part of gas He is like, listen, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:57.120 I would just talked to the Emperor. He plaque fucking 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:03.120 loves love. Keep we gotta keep going with it. And 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.280 by the way, we looked around the galaxy, we can't 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:10.600 find any synthetic cal kite out there, so we're gonna 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.599 have to mind Gorman for its cal kite, which of 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:18.160 course means the utter destruction of Gorman. And so we 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.760 need martial law, we need all that stuff. Deirdre, you're 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.040 running point on this. We're sending Captain Kaido, who is 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.240 a specialist in crisis. They call him their their crisis specialist. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.960 And Deirdre is stressed out by all this and she 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.760 kind of doesn't want to go through with it. She's 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.679 having second or even third thoughts about like what her 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.920 what her role in this is, and what it means 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.160 to Gorman. And part of guys is like, don't worry, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.760 don't don't worry. This is you're gonna get. This is 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.320 great for your career promotion. The Emperor has its eyes 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.760 on this as a project he believes in, and you're 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.520 running point on it. This is great for you. And 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.400 then she's like, well you should know that the front 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.640 the rebels have weapons armed, and Party goes is like, good, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.440 that's what we want. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.120 Yeah, that's what we need all that war. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.120 Cyril comes to see Deirdre, he like basically has to 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:14.200 break into the so the imperial offices because security is like, again, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.760 this is a lonely, isolated, desperate figure. He's been cut 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.320 loose by everybody, and he just feels like he's not 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.360 in the loop and he wants to be in the loop, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.480 especially with Deirdre's someone who is a really disgusting but 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.200 strong emotional connection too. He's like, what you know, the 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.560 rebellion is active here, and why can't I do more? Like, uh, 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.160 the outside agitators are firing everybody up, and I feel 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.960 like I can, you know, like I can be useful 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.040 to like expose that. Andre's like, Cyril, shut the fuck up, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.960 go pack your bags. Okay, we're almost done here, just 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.800 shut up and get ready to fly off the planet, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.520 and then they kiss and she orders him to do 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.040 as told. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.040 It's definitely interesting too because Deirdre gets she's her kind 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.080 of mission. This chapter is like, she's just focused on 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.880 We're gonna get to go home no matter what. We 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.880 have to just do anything so me and Cyril can 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.720 get to go home. And it's like, Babe, what are 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.440 you going home to? You're not gonna be able to 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:14.640 run from what You'll do? 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:23.880 Yes, Encoruscant Imperial spying on senators is increasing, especially the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.520 ones who they believe aren't with the program. Man Mathma 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:34.160 is her assistant Erskine, who we saw speaking to Luthen 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.679 two years ago at the wedding party, and her are 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.200 discussing this and the fact that her driver is clearly 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.440 spying on her. She's like, I gotta fire this guy, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.840 and Erskin is like, no, no, don't fire him because 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.120 he's incompetent. The next guy might be good. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.400 She's crazy, but I love that, right, Just this guy sucks, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 Just like, just keep him on because you know, you 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.040 know what's going on. Don't get tricked by a bast by. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.599 The news on Coursant is just Gorman, Gorman, Gorman, and 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.600 it's full on war on terror propaganda about how terrible 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.880 the Gores are and the rebellion there and all this. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.320 Mathma arrives at the Senate and it's bad news after 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.560 bad news. Senator Oron of Gorman is like, things are 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:23.079 getting worse, We're getting we're isolated. The lies are really 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.960 taking a toll, and it's clear that Senator Oron is like, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.040 he's just desperate now, he doesn't you know, he's like 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.480 the only person he could talk to. Basically, the whole 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.040 building is Man, and Man is like, well, you know, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.160 like I'm going to put in a petition, but you know, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.080 and it's clear that she wishes she could do more, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.560 but like even doing this is very brave and right. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:47.120 Right now in the space, she's doing what she can publicly, yes, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:48.480 which is a big deal. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.160 And Oran's like, just be careful to protect yourself On Gorman, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:57.040 the Front is at each other's throat and each other's throats, but. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.480 Like having a figure is in the lost gen definitely 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.280 come a little further, but they are still fighting, and they're. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.840 Having how really vigorous debates about strategy and tactics and 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.920 how to how to be more active about what's going on. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.960 Someonet to be more active, someone will be more careful. Rylands, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.360 who was so gung ho a year ago ahead of 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.800 the transport heist, is now one of the more let's 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.840 be careful voices because having seen the toll of this 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.640 now now he's like, you know, it's a room full 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.760 of young people, including his daughter, and he's wanted to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.600 see them all die. And one of the Gorman Front 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.720 makes members makes a really important speech about their shared 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.959 history and their culture and how they're being wiped out 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.120 and now's the time to really try and do something, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:46.559 whatever that means. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.280 It's very interesting too, because Ryland's is definitely learning from 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.160 Cassian and Luthan, because what he really wants is for 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.920 everyone to do everything under the cover of darkness. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.199 He wants to not fall for the obvious. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.440 Perial try, don't fall for the trap, don't do the 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.840 thing they want, do the thing you want to do, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.880 like I know it feels like you need to do 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.360 this right now, but don't do the thing they're looking for. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.640 And it's really sad to see, say how all. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.880 He's listened to, but also sad to see how, you know, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.720 his ideals have kind of been broken over the loss. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.120 It's like, yeah, complete sadly Gorman is at the point 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:30.920 where you're they're going to lose. It's clearer, but it's 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.040 is it not. The argument you're having with yourself is like, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.679 isn't it better to do something and to be seen 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.720 to be doing something then and to like grasp onto 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.480 some shred of honor for your culture and your people, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.320 rather than have it be said that you just got 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.760 rolled over and did nothing. You know, even though you 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:57.200 lose both outcomes on Yavin bis Kind of tricks casting 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.800 into going to see the Force healers. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:00.400 Man, this made me. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.160 This is this is this is like such an unexpected 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.360 and incredible scene. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.000 Just an unbelievable Star Wars moment that we've never really 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.880 gotten to see before. And I was just so overwhelmed 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:19.560 by the entire scene and the introduction, the light introduction 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.320 of the Force, something that was never you know, meant 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.720 to be a part of Rogue one, though. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.400 Of course we had Force adjacent. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.679 Characters like Chirum Bays, But yeah, this what a scene. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.120 Yeah, this was important, I think because I love the Jedi, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:41.200 have my criticisms. We we know, but like ideology is 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.920 only one way of viewing the Force, and clearly there 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.920 are lots of other ways, right, and we're seeing this 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.520 so uh Bis tries to givince Cassian to let them 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.120 help him. He feels set up, like were you taking 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.199 me here for this hocus focus? Like bullshit. The Force Healer, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.520 who is working on somebody else like, immediately feels Cassian's 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.600 pain without knowing that he had arrived in the crowd, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.079 and she goes over to him and she talks to 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.600 him a little bit. She knows that he's been hitting 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.280 the shoulder, she puts her hands over it and goes 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.160 to work on him, and then she like is like, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.960 thank you for the clarity, which I took to mean 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.400 like the moral clarity of Cassian and what he is doing. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.680 I agree, And I also think I think she can 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:32.040 feel that they're gonna win this mission, that she knows 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.880 what's gonna happen in Rogue, but in this very deep 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.440 seated place where she kind of can't really tell, but 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.280 she just knows this man is important and if he 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.280 stays in the fight, we are going to be able 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:45.640 to win. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:46.840 She just knows that. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.679 She says, he's to Bis. You know, he's a messenger. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.800 There's one place he needs to be, which again I 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.160 take to be Rogue one. Foreshadowing back on Gorman, Cyril 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:04.720 goes encounters Enza ry Lance's daughter in the street and 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.880 he tries to say, like, oh, the Empire is convinced 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.920 it is the front, but listen, I know that it's 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.400 outside agitators that are doing this. You get them, and 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.520 she slaps and walks off again, which is nice because 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.800 when people say outside agitators, I too want to slap them. Well, 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:28.680 you know, it's like this is it's so fascinating because Cyril, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.080 where are you from? Are you from Gorman? 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.520 Why are you here? Are you not? 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.720 Not a thing that you are talking about? And it 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.720 just shows like how people, It's such a wonderful encapsulation, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.680 how people can get so lost in their own in 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:46.080 their own personal propaganda that they don't even realize like 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:50.600 what it is that they are doing. Later, back on Yavin, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.640 Cassian's shoulder is improving and I told you what I 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.440 tell you, And Cassian is like he doesn't believe in 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.680 the forest and all the force hokum. Cassians getting ready 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.520 to leave for the Coruscant mission, so he goes to 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.960 grab a ship off the docks and General Draven, future 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.000 hero of the rebellion, he will he will perish on 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.880 Scariff with all the other rebels. Is like, you can't 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.480 just take ships and like don't log it in and 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.440 don't tell anybody where you're going, Like why do you 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.920 never check in? Like you're a professional, Yeah, we're a 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.440 professional army. Like I know that you've are doing other 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.440 things and that you're have been with a rebellion a 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.440 long time, but like we need to start acting like 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.920 a professional army. I'm so glad that they put these 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.680 tensions in between me too, these kind of the freewheeling 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.800 life of a spy when the resistance was completely underground, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.560 to the more like, we've got to build up our 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.040 legitimacy as a thing that could truly, not just militarily 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:02.360 but politically, be a you know, antidote to the Empire. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.240 And I think it's really important, which Raven is saying, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.239 even though they're. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.520 I agree, and I think I'm arguing very telling that 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.360 Cassian's basically like, no, the moment someone tells me what 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:12.760 to do. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.080 I'm out. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.680 And I'm like, this is the battle between what Cassian, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.880 why Cassian is great at what he does, but also 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.480 why his road is going to take him where it 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.840 takes him, because he's so centrally focused on the mission 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:34.080 and he's been so molded by Lutheran that he can't 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.360 really see the future. He can't see a better future. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.320 What he can see is like the steps to take 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.440 that so other people might get to experience it, and 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.400 he's already done so much and we really feel that 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.920 weight on him in these three episodes. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.080 Back on Yavin, Velle is in camp. Now she comes 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.040 to see book. She says like, I'll be around it 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.040 for a while. I'm training. I'm out of the field, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:03.200 and I'm I'm training the new recruits. She says that, listen, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.600 you should know that there's a lot of tension vis 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.960 a vis Cassian right now because he's one of the 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:16.760 most experienced fighters that we have and so Draven uh 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:22.000 future heroes of the Rebellion generals Draven and Dodnna. I 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.280 would like to make him a general. I mean, we've 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.879 seen you don't have to do that much in the 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.680 rebellion to immediately become a general. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:35.920 They just given everyone. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.439 Everybody will be a general, and Cassian really, you know, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:43.600 they would they need his leadership and him just taking 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:48.680 ships and leaving like it makes it hard to think 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.240 about making him a leader in that way, and he's 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.159 really needed. And Velle, for her part, is thrilled to 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.840 be out of the shadows. She's like really happy to 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.720 be part of a proper professional army now, and she 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.760 wants Bicks to convince Cassian that he should put away 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:10.000 the kind of like his shadow cloak and come into 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.320 the light and be part of this force because people 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.120 will really look up to him. The Imperial Curfew goes 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.879 into an effect on Gorman. Cassian arrives and he's like, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.640 holy shit, like things are really crazy now. Will points 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.760 out the office building where Deirdre's been operating out of. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.600 Cassian checks into the hotels. The guy who checks him 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:36.160 is the same guy who was his bell hop when 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.760 he was under the variant Sky identity, and the guy 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.560 clearly recognizes them, and there's these wonderful there's another one 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.720 of these later on in this episodes we're talking about. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.600 But I love the contrast between the rat with power 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.920 Cyril and the everyday person who's using whatever small amount 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.600 of agency they have to try and stop the machine. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.040 And so this guy is one of these regular people 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.160 who's doing what they can and tells Cassian basically while 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.000 not blowing his cover, but letting him know, hey, I 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.800 remember you from last time. He's like, oh, your room 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:18.560 is going to be right on the square, which usually 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.159 people don't like. And by the way, every morning, we 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.320 have to give the list of all of our all 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.000 of our the people who stay here to the Empire, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.240 just so you know that. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.080 And he has another woman sitting by and by the desk, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.639 and he kind of lets Cassian know like she will Hondo. Yes, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.480 So it's happening like there's no getting out of it, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.480 Like she's going to hand it over, so you better 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.120 be out all cathful. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.399 So Cassie goes up to his room and he can 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:49.200 see right into the Imperial offices. Meanwhile, Will who listen. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.160 Rebellion is a thing of passion and hope, and he's 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.960 always fallen in love with somebody. So he's got a 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.480 new girlfriend, Drina, a young lady of the front. He 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.560 makes con tech with Cassian, and Cassian's unpacking his sniper 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.560 rifle and it's clear like his while this is going 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.800 to be a very tough mission. There's snipe, there's stormtroopers everywhere, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.679 on the roofs everywhere. It seems like Cassian's plan is 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.600 like I'm gonna hit Deirdre as she walks across the 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.399 square or in her office. Let's take a break and 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:18.200 we'll go to episoding. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:19.080 Yeah. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.959 No, we're back. Episode A, We're back. We're in Gorman. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.840 It's the next morning. Cassian puts his rifle together. Then 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:44.200 he hears a commotion on the square and the Imperials 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.720 are sealing it off. They're getting ready for something big. 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.359 On the Square, So Cassian tells Will and he says, listen, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.199 I'm not going this Plan A is not really gonna work. 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.000 We're gonna have to figure something out. Deirdre calls Party 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.959 Gaz and she's increasingly alarmed. Mining hardware is already here. 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.600 What's going on now? This like Captain Kaito is doing 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.159 this fucking shit on the square and like, what is happening? 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.040 Party guys is like, now is it time to incite 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.320 a violent reaction from the Gorman so we could crack down? 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.560 That's what? What did you fucking think? Yeah? 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.479 Like this was the planol along, babe, Like yeah, like 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:19.880 in that since the beginning? 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.560 What did you fucking think? Meanwhile, back on course, on 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:28.840 Edie's watching the Imperial News with growing alarm for what 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:33.560 it means for her beautiful baby boy rat who lives. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.480 Has been a beautiful baby rat gormant Uh. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:41.680 Protesters now are beginning to flock to the Square and 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.360 talk of like a general strike and yeah, we're gonna 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:49.480 go there in peacefully protest. Papa Rylands is like, no, no, no, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:53.400 We're being lured into a trap. This is so many 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.439 people are gonna die, and he argues with his daughter, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.119 like about like don't you see, like, what's what they 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.080 want you to do this? So don't do the thing 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.560 that they want. And she's like, well, how can we 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.520 you know, how can we how do we do nothing? 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.440 How can I tell these people to do nothing? And 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.880 as the crowds grow, you could see that there's members 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:18.200 of the Front armed who are among the protesters. Cassian 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.400 goes down there because he's going to have to improvise. 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:25.919 He puts his gun under his coat. Rylands see Cyril 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:27.480 in the crowd and he confronts him and he's like, 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:32.080 how dare you rat walk a walk among us after 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.040 all you've done? In Cyril again is try to say, look, no, listen, 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.960 I'm sorry, but like I have a lot of information. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:38.480 Guys. 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.320 Yeah, I know it's not outside agitators and like and 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:46.080 I know, you just get them to believe it. There's 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.360 all these lies out there, and it's these outside you're 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.360 saying that there's mine equipment here and all this stuff. 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.000 And Ryland's asks Cyril, what do they want from us? 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.160