'The Mandalorian' recap: 'The Tragedy'

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“Fate sometimes steps in to rescue the wretched.” What a line for an episode that’s mostly a lot of action. This week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy,” was directed by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk till Dawn), and it’s a big one for the folks who have been obsessing over Boba Fett for 40 years.

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What happens in this week’s episode?

Din Djarin and Grogu arrive on the ancient Jedi planet of Tython, as instructed in “Chapter 13,” to consult the seeing stone. A powerful magic barrier envelops The Child, who slips into a sort of mystical trance, reaching out through the Force in search of purpose.

Meanwhile, a familiar starship called the Slave I comes to rest nearby. A hooded figure has been hunting Clan Mudhorn since the start of season two. “I’m here for the armor,” Fett says.

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Mando asks Boba whether he’s Mandalorian—a point of much debate among fans in the years following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, and subsequent tidying of the Star Wars canon, in 2012. As the show has made a point of telling us, wearing the armor doesn’t necessarily make you a Mandalorian

In any case, Grogu is vulnerable atop the seeing stone, and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen)—the bounty hunter left for dead on Tatooine back in “Chapter 5”—has her rifle trained on him. She works for Fett, now, and they’re not leaving Tython without his armor (first worn by his father, Jango).

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Their negotiations are cut short, however, when a pair of transport ships arrive carrying a platoon of Imperial stormtroopers. So the trio of bounty hunters form a hasty alliance in the interest of survival.

When things start getting messy, Boba boards the Razor Crest and emerges in an outfit he was last seen wearing in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, when he was swallowed by a great tentacled beast in the desert. Happy holidays from Temuera Morrison; watching him go to work in this episode is Fett’s best live-action appearance in four decades.

Unfortunately, Gideon’s warship looms unseen in the skies above, along with the monstrous “dark troopers” glimpsed earlier in the season. The Razor Crest explodes into a ball of flame, and the troopers kidnap Grogu from the Stonehenge-like structure on the mountain. Fett pursues the dark troopers in his Slave I, but turns back once he sees the Moff’s command cruiser firsthand.

“They’re back,” says Boba.

“Who?” Shand asks.

“The Empire.” For the time being, Moff Gideon has won. They’ve got Grogu.

Mando salvages what he can from the ashes of the Razor Crest: Morgan Elsbeth’s Beskar staff and the spherical control knob Grogu has always loved playing with.

Boba reveals to Mando that his father, Jango, was in fact a foundling who fought in the Mandalorian Civil Wars decades ago (before the Jedi Mace Windu beheaded him, that is). And so the legendary armor belongs to Fett after all. Grateful for the suit’s return, Fett says that he and Shand are in Djarin’s debt until Grogu is rescued.

Djarin travels back to Nevarro, to seek Cara Dune’s help in rounding up gunslingers to take on Gideon. Migs Mayfeld, Bill Burr’s character from season one, is doing time in a New Republic prison; Mando wants Cara to get him freed. “They have the kid,” Mando tells her.

In the calm blue of hyperspace, Moff Gideon watches with amusement as Grogu fights back against the stormtroopers keeping him captive. Gideon shows off the gleaming blade of his Darksaber before having the child stunned and put in shackles.

“Send an encrypted message to Doctor Pershing,” the Moff orders. “Let him know we have got our donor.”

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