WEBVTT - Andor Season 2 (Episodes 4-6) Recap 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.760 Worrying. Today's episode contains spoilers for episodes four, five, and 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:22.439 six of and Or season two. Be warned. Hello, my 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.000 name is Jasonconcepcion and I am Rosey Night and welcome 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.320 back to xt Revision, the podcast where we dive DVIDI 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.360 your favorite shows, movies, comics of pop culture, coming to 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.400 you from iHeart Podcast, where we're bringing you three huge 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.200 X ray vision episodes a week every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:40.840 plus news. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.040 In today's episode, it's that next chunk and Or season 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.040 two and boy, things that heat and up. We got 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.640 more liberal infighting, we got questions, how dedicate it is 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.320 ddre to the mission or does she just want to 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.240 catch handle? I think it is the latter. And is 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.240 Lutheran finally cracking under the pressure? Has he been taking 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.480 too many tips? Too many tips from we don't know 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:01.080 what they're doing? 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:07.080 Maybe? And remember, guys, this show has no real connection. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.080 Is mirroring. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.080 So fictional at all? And that's like really important to say. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:22.120 Let's get into it. Okay. We open episode four with 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.000 a time jump. It is now one year later bby three, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:32.039 three years out from the Titanic Battle of Yavin, one 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:37.880 year out from the massacre, the Gorman massacre, and Bix 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.039 is still having nightmares about her interrogation at the hands 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.560 of doctor Gorst. She's dreaming about other rebels being tortured 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.400 as she was. She's dreaming that she's helping doctor Gorst 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.800 torture them. It's a waking dream. She's walking around the 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.840 safe house with a blaster out in cassion. Luckily is 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.280 there to stop her from shooting up the safe house. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.560 We go to Gorman. Cyril is now on the planet 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:09.120 working at the Gorman branch of the Bureau, but the 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:15.920 Bureau for Standards, but he's actually working for Deirdre as 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.280 an isb spy, and I got to say, he's like, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.520 he's doing a great job at it. He's in his 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.920 office and he is on the phone with Edie, his mom, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.480 and she's giving him shit from light years away. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.800 She's like, it's a demotion. It's you behind. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.960 You're getting left. You were you were by the you 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.240 were around the fire here at Coruscant where everything happens. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.440 You're in the room where it happens, and now you've 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.239 gone to this fucking backwater where they make linen out 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:56.280 of spiders and spider webs and what are you even doing? 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.359 And by the way, the Gores are terrible. I'm watching 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.720 Imperial news all the time and the fucking Gorman's what's 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.360 their problem. They're arrogant, they're morons. They they don't have 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.359 any respect for the Emperor and the Empire. They're terrible. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:16.320 And meanwhile, Cyril is no, no, no, you're watching too 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:21.239 much imperially. They're actually it's actually very peaceful here. It's yeah, 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.760 it's very nice here. Everybody's I don't know what the 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.400 what the pop up is about or why the propaganda 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.040 machine is like training against them. Everybody is. I feel 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.520 like he's leading somewhere dark because everybody here is really 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.320 nice and kind and gorman is Is is a great 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:37.480 place and very. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.000 No problems, no rebel forces here, no one trying to 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:42.920 that just nice. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.520 His phone call is being as Deirdre planned, is being 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:52.040 listened to by the Gorman Front and their intelligent cell 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:59.880 led by uh the patriarch of the Ryelands fabric House, 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.280 and they feel like this guy Cyril, who's in the 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.920 Imperial bureaucracy, who probably has access to a lot of 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:14.200 intelligence we want, seems like he is empathetic to our 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.880 cause and we think that makes him vulnerable to a 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.840 kind of emotional, like heartfelt approach. Yes, got to say, well, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.080 let's see where this leads. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:24.680 This doesn't this tells. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.480 You a lot of what you need to know about 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.240 the Gorms and where that level of spy croft is at. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.960 Because I think one phone call where somebody's like, hey, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.120 they don't seem that bad to me. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.080 Let's not get too excited, guys, I. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:44.000 Think the they must have been clearly they've been at this, 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.720 and I guess they've just like everybody's just a piece 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.159 of shit, like on comms from the Imperial offices. And 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.400 this is the one guy who seems like maybe he's okay, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:58.480 maybe he's a nice guy. They bump Cereal Cyril like 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.400 out in the square, were by the monument to a 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.880 previous massacre carried out by mof Tarkin who just like 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.360 landed his spacecraft on people. A guy like bumps into 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.600 Cyril and offers him one of the you know, souvenir 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.719 spiders and is like, oh, this is you know, you 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.880 should take this home and open it and there's information 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.640 inside of it. We go back to the safe house. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.600 Cassian is cooking while Bix is cleaning the weapons. They're 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.479 arguing about a previous mission, apparently that it happened in 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:36.200 the year Jump where Cassian ended up murdering an Imperial soldier, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.760 and Bix is like, should we recruit it? Should we 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.320 report that to Lousen, And Cassian's like, why is part 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.640 of the mission? Who cast what happens? Like, this is 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.640 what we do, and they kind of you can tell 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.799 that the constant twenty four hour heightened state of alert, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.320 the anxiety, the danger all around them, it's really starting 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.800 to they're coming apart a little bit at a time, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:07.480 especially Bits, who feels terrible about killing this kid in 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:13.000 a way that Cassian doesn't. And Cassian clearly for him, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.920 the mission has changed. I think we'll see over these 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.600 episodes it's less about overthrowing the Empire, bringing down the Empire, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.880 and it's more about like protecting Bicks. Cyril returns home, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.039 He opens up the spider, he finds the message, which 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:35.559 he then eats. Bix and Cassian continue their argument about 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.760 the soldier, and you know, she just and she basically 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.000 says like, I just want to make sure that my sacrifice, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.040 like everything I've sacrificed, is going to be worth it. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.880 I want to win Cyril at Night returns to the 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.680 Bureau office saying he forgot some files. The security is 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.040 really not going to let him in, but he talks 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.280 them into letting him in, and it really shows like 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.960 how tight this operation is, Like even imperial security on 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.320 the planet don't know that Deirdre is running this. Yeah, 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.640 and they have to do that from this, They have 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.680 to do that. So the Gorman's fall for it, so 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.200 it looks legit like that he's actually spying for them, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.320 and he's very excited because he's now on the verge 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.600 of infiltrating the Gora rebels. He steals some files from 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.560 his office and when he talks to Deerser about it, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.720 he's like, I can't this is so cool, this is 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.160 so exciting. Where are you going to tell Party Gass? Like, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.320 we're not telling part of guys until we have something. Period. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.000 Deirdre goes to an intelligence meeting at the ISB offices 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.320 overseen by Party Gas. There's this issue of increasing rebel 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:47.600 raids and stolen weapons and stolen imperial gear and captured 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.880 rebels with Imperial gear, and they're trying to like trace 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.400 where all this imperial gear is coming from. But the 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.560 problem is, as one of Party Gaz's lieutenants brings up, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.720 is that they're resting too many people. They have too 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.440 much stuff, and they can't like go through it all. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.200 They don't have time to like comb through it all 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.480 in the way that they need to. So party As 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.200 is like with a little flex is. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.400 Like, well, I'm meeting with the Emperor, Well talk to 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:19.440 him about to talk to him about increasing resources, which I. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.400 Also think something that this show is doing so brilliantly 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:28.360 is kind of showing that there's absolutely no way that 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.560 the Emperor could have any handle on. The bureaucracy is 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.920 too big, The bucs big, it's too sprawling, and there 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.200 are too many agendas within it. And this is really 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.439 a very interesting expansion of the world of Star Wars 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.400 in a way that I think is very akin to 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.720 what George Lucas did with the prequels and exploring the 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.480 space tariffs and everything, which of course again no relation 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.880 to real life. There they didn't end up being prescient 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:55.920 at all, but. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.640 A bureaucracy being too big for one person to deal 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.320 with the again and leading to the subordinates carrying out 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:09.400 their own little ambition. Its personal like terrible plans in 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.480 his name like that also has absolutely. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.640 No feels like it could never happen. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.079 Deirdre meanwhile, is upset because she's working on this Gorman 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.959 false flag operation and she wants back in on the 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.000 stolen weapons thing and Axis because she still wants to 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.520 catch and Or she's ubsessed and she is obsessed with him. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.840 She's really pissed about this. Meanwhile, also on course, not 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.880 mom Matha is going around trying to lobby her fellow 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.760 politicians for some kind of legislation that's going to protect 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.280 Gorman in some way, and it's tough going. Nobody wants 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.640 to stick their head out. Everybody's afraid. The misinformation is working. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.480 Clear that the propaganda has taken hold in this year. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.520 Yeah, and even the people who haven't fallen for the 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.280 propaganda are like, I don't know, it's not the right time. This, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.600 the fear and the disinformation working together is a powerful 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:09.000 force that is effectively isolating Gorman more and more every day. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.600 And mon Mathma, then you know, quotes the founding fathers 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.560 of the American Revolution who once said, you know, either 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.520 we hang together or we hang separately. And she says, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.640 if we do not stand together, we will be crushed. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.920 She's right. Luthen then meets with Lannie. His isb mole 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:31.240 all these party gas meetings, and Lonnie tells him that Listen, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.360 Deirdre is on something right now. She's on some project. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.440 I don't know what it is, but she is all 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.480 over Gorman. She's the point person on whatever we're doing 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.000 on Gorman. It's a very tight circle. I can't tell 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.640 you what they are doing, but it's something and it's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:51.040 very tightly held. And Luthan is like, Luthen doesn't understand it. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.400 He's like, I don't get it. Like Deetre is not 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:58.480 a propagandist, she's a hunter. Why is she working on Gorman? 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.839 What's the endgame? What is the end Pier want? Lonnie 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.280 has no idea. Lonnie can't answer these questions, and Lusen's like, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.720 well I need answers. And here's another thing to notice. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.000 Throughout these episodes, Luthan is like on a deadline. He 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.880 is like, I don't have time and I don't. I 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:20.720 wonder what that's about, because he says it multiple times 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.400 throughout these this tranch of episodes, like need it now, 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.720 we're on a timeline, like I don't have time to wait, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.560 like and I wonder what he thinks is coming and 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.040 what he knows that nobody else knows, because it's clearly 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.439 something and I don't know that it is directly related 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.240 to Gorman. We go to the Gorman where the Gorman 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:46.120 Front is having their secret meeting. Various members of the 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.679 Front get up and speak to everyone, and it's clear 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:56.000 that Gore Gorman is, you know, heavily modeled on occupied 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:01.240 France and the Low Countries of World War two. Cyril 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.000 arrives at the meeting, which is growing more and more 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.000 contentious about what to do about the new trade obstacles 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.359 that the Empire is putting in place, the heavy footprint 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.040 that the Empire is showing on their planet. This new 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.679 building that is growing in the right next to the 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.720 square where the monument to the moth Tarket massacre is, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.760 what are they building in there? They won't say. The 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.600 Empire says, it's just like an office building, but it's 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.800 clear that it looks heavily fortified or it will be 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:35.719 heavily fortified, and so everybody is really really anxious about it. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.840 So the pedlar from the square and Enza, who is 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:46.040 the daughter of the patriarch of house, Ryelands come up, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.760 they speak with Cyril. There's kind of like some light 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:55.560 joking about oh he's an imperial spy. Wow. Yeah. And 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.800 later on Enza introduces Cyril to her father and he asks, well, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.480 what are you going to tell your superiors? You know, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:04.640 what are you going to write a report? What are 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:05.880 you going to say? And he's like, well, I'm here 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:06.320 on my own. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:07.640 I'm just Cyril. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.360 Yeah, I'm just Cyril. I'm just here. And then he asks, well, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.960 what's your opinion of how we should proceed, because you know, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.360 we're we understand like the Emperor probably doesn't know what's 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.600 going on in his name, but we're very concerned about it, Like, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.559 so how could we successfully lobby the emperor to get 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.000 more information? And Cyril's like, I don't know. And Ryland's 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.199 then tell Cyril, you know about the moth talk and 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:36.240 massacre which killed hundreds of Gorman's and that this you know, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.120 building throwing a shadow on that memorial is like was 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.520 supposed to be against the law and the charter, Like 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.960 now they're doing it and this is a big problem, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:45.840 Like will you help us? 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.080 So I just I just want to say this scene 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.439 is so effective that as we were saying pre Mike, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.160 I came on and I was like, maybe Cyril's into this, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.880 Like Cyril is such a good spy that he had 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.040 me questioning it, and Joel and Jason, well like no, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.600 but but this is a huge This is such a 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.440 brilliant moment because I think what's really interesting about the 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.120 Goram stuff, the Gorham stuff and this version of it. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.720 Is this is a public meeting, like they are not. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.720 It's it's there's hundreds of people there. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.240 This is the opposite of what Deirdre and Cyril are doing. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.040 This is the opposite of what Andor is doing. This 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.680 is almost feels like it's like a city council meeting 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.640 or something. There's so many people there, and it's the 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.160 opposite of what we know of the shadowy nature of rebellion. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.680 And I think there's so much interesting complexity to this 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.360 particular sequence, and also just the shock of Cyril ending 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:39.720 up being a good spy. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:40.960 Because I'm a trick me. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.480 I'm like, Okay, maybe he would be pissed off about that, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.640 and then I'm like, no, no, no, Deirdre knows. But 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.640 I just think that at that point I was like, Okay, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.040 this Gorham stuff is really gonna play like a key 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.400 part in where we're going to rogue one because it 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.400 just hit in a way that's some of the other 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.920 big like Monmoth My wedding scenes are fun to watch 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.560 and have been good, but this was a. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.520 Scene where I was like, oh, this is changing. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.320 What we even know about how the rebel forces a bill. Again, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.520 different bureaucracies, different nations, different cultures, very very hard to 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.040 wrangle and keep secret and safe, as we will see, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:18.640 very hard. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.640 Uncorussant Luthen turns on the little light on the top 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.840 of his building that is a message that he wants 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:33.520 to meet with Cassian. Cassian goes and basically Lutheran wants 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.360 to send Cassian to Gorman to meet Rylance and to 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.400 sound them out, to sound the Front out. He doesn't 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.240 know a lot about the Front, but they're anxious to 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.360 get things going, and they've been in contact because of 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:50.680 a previous rescue mission that they accomplished for the Network, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.160 in which they basically saved a down rebel pilot and 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.560 delivered him to safety. And it's a clean operation, meaning 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.600 no kills. Just go in and see what they're about 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.720 and report back, see if you can help them, and 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.320 or doesn't want to leave bicks, But Luthen presses, and 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.920 he says, like, imagine like Gorman, with its wealth, with 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:18.560 its influence, with their political cloud, imagine them coming to 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.960 the side of the rebellion. It's worth you going. So 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.320 Cassian walks away without saying yes. But it's clear that 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.120 again that Luthen needs it fast. He's again is like insisting, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.600 like I need you to go, and it's got to 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.800 happen soon. We go to Dakar to catch up with 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.360 our good friend who's been right about this for a 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:38.000 long time. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.240 It's a guy, he's still right. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:47.520 The Apologists, the back baby Sagerera is there. His rebel 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:52.080 cell has taken possession of a device that can be 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:58.200 used to unlock and to decrypt the protected pipes that 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 transfer ridonium, which is starship fuel, which is gonna be 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.240 necessary if the rebellion wants to power at ships and 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:10.080 fight the Empire. And the guy who delivered this device 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.119 and has the knowledge about how to use it as 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:19.440 this guy named Wilman, so Willman, remember is the part 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.200 of the rebel cell on the big wheat planet who 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.439 had the girlfriend who was part of, you know, a 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.640 different farm collective and who had to they all had 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.959 to flee because the Empire was doing the audit of 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:34.680 the planet. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.160 Yeah, and Will was such a sweet baby then who 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.840 had to say goodbye to his girlfriend. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.280 Now he's like a hardened guy. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.399 Now he's a hardened, terrorized young man. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.119 And you know, Saw, I was like, where do you 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.960 get this? How'd you know how to do it? Like? 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.600 Can you teach my guy? Saw threatens the guy and 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.200 then saw It basically says Willman, like you're not leaving. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.399 I know that your job was just to deliver this 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.240 and leaving you're not going back to work. I need 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.520 you to teach my guys how to do this, how 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.440 to use that thing to steal the ridonium. And until 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.960 I get that, you're staying here and that's it. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.840 We'll talk about this in the in the roundtable. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.840 But rhydonium has such like a storied history in Star Wars, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.480 and this is such an exciting moment. And yeah, I 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.080 also love this because again Wilman, baby young guy, thinks 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.240 he's helping the rebellion by dropping this off and is 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:31.919 suddenly sucked into Sare's vortex. And this whole kind of 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.920 front line direct action movement that he did not sign 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:37.320 up for. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.480 And then of course Cassian is going. He says goodbye 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:44.959 to Bix, and when he leaves, Bix starts taking drugs. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.040 It's clear that Bis has fallen into this kind of 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.120 pharmaceutically enhanced stupor in order to stop the terrible dream 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.640 she's having, and that leads us Episode five. Let's take 0:18:54.640 --> 0:19:13.160 a quick break, We'll be right back. Episode five Corossont 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:20.080 Luthens Shop. Claya is again on the communications console, listening 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.679 to all the comms wiretaps, the bugs, the different radio 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.879 signals that are coming through this Corossant network, one of 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.160 which certainly appears to be a bug in Davos Scolden's gallery, Yes, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.560 because you can hear his voice on it. Cassian goes 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.600 to a traveling and should see where he books travel 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.159 to Gorman using what's clear what we will learn throughout 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.960 the episodes is like a specific password phrase like oh 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:49.560 do you travel a lot? Yeah, I've got friends all 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:56.840 around the galaxy. He picks up recording that tells him 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.439 what his cover is going to be. His cover is 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.800 going to be very in Sky, a fashion designer from 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:06.439 team who has a who is you know, just like 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:11.359 loves fashion and where do you go if you're a 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.240 person who wants to enter the fashion istry, you have 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.919 to go to Gorman. Cyril calls mom from Gorman, telling 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.760 her like, I'll be coming home. Courseants soon coming to visit. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.719 The front are listening, and this is of course another 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.800 call for their benefit. But while he's on the phone, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.320 an ISB team shows up at the Gorman office. One 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.000 of the in the office is a Gorman Front spy, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.320 another Gorman Front spy that Cyril is not aware of, 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.439 and the spy like signals to the to the Gorman 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.960 Front like cut the bug, cut the bugs so it 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.960 can't be traced. The ISB announces that, hey, we're looking 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.879 for bugs around here, and Cyril again plays this part 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:59.879 wonderfully of the outrage is coming. Yeah, he's so outraged 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.919 the is is B. What the fuck you guys, you 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.399 jack booted thugs. I'm just trying to do my work, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:15.000 and yeah, with a friend fashist again for the benefit 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.440 of the Gorman Front and certainly their spy. The Gorman 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:19.840 Front spy who has eyes on Cyril, will be like, yeah, 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.800 it certainly seems like he doesn't know what's he's on 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:27.600 our side. Claya continues to listen to the to the Bugs, 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.440 particularly the one in Davos Golden's gallery, and and she's 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:36.440 listening with increasing alarm because Davo apparently has recently purchased 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:41.240 a fake piece of galactic history art and he's so 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:46.239 he's like, I fucking irate because there's an event coming up. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.119 Lots of new senators are going to be taking the oath, 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:51.960 and there's gonna be a big parties all around town, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.760 including at Davos. A lot of Imperial big wigs are 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.919 going to be there. And here he is with like 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.560 forged art in his gallery. He's like, come on, mad, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:02.760 but still you get it? 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.440 No, No, he's also he's kind of dodgy guy, So you. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:06.760 Gotta be kind of dodgy guy. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:08.840 You don't want someone with a good eye to spot 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:10.240 that and stop questioning you. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.360 But is It really reminds me of like in Animal Crossing, 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.119 when you buy the art from your cousin who's the 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:18.560 dodgy fox and you gotta walk out there's a forgery. 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:20.680 That's all I was thinking about this scene. But yeah, 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.120 now Cleia is fucked. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.080 So Clia is like, shit, they're gonna he's because Dallo's like, 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.120 I want everything in this room in my gallery inspected 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.600 and re certified as real, and Claiya is rightfully worried 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.399 that the bug will be found. Meanwhile, on Gorman, Cyril 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:45.200 announces to his Bureau of Standards coworkers that like they did, 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.240 the ISB did find a listening device, but like, who 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.119 knows if it's really a listening device, or if the 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.639 ISB said there was a listening device so that they 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.200 can actually put in a listening device, or if they 0:22:57.240 --> 0:22:59.920 put in the listening device previously, who knows? And again 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.080 he acts this mac He's outraged at all of this. 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:03.840 He's coming through. 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.280 I used to think Cyril was such an annoying, boring 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:07.280 character to watch. 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:08.679 It just didn't grab me. 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:11.000 He was very much like that boot Liquor, but in 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:14.119 a very traditional way we've seen him before. This is 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:18.040 letting him explore. He's almost becoming a kind of reflection 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.800 of and Or. He's so good in the moment knowing 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:25.080 how to lie, knowing what to say that it becomes believable. 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.760 And we get to see Cassie and do that similar stuff. 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:31.840 And yes, Cyril's evolution is really kind of really hooking 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:32.520 me this season. 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:38.040 So the Front is discussing Cyril and how much they 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.080 want to bet on him as a potential double agent 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.200 for them inside the Empire. They get a hold of 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:49.439 his personnel file, which clearly planted by Deirdre, says that 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:53.680 he was fired in scandal by the ISB dishonorable discharge, 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.240 so maybe he has a grudge against the ISB. They're 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.720