History Recap / AndorS1E12RixRoad

* PreserveYourGays: Despite a massive riot resulting in the deaths of many civilians and Cinta nearly being killed by the ISB spy Corv, both Vel and Cinta end up surviving the episode to continue fighting for the Rebellion... though their relationship might not survive Cinta's intensifying devotion to the Rebellion.

* SpyVersusSpy: Cinta and Corv start catching on that each of them is TheMole for opposing sides, so Cinta ends up stabbing Corv to death the moment he finally has her within reach.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[GentleGiant Human teddy bear Brasso]] goes utterly ''ballistic'' when Captain Tigo [[KickTheDog knocks Bee over]], knocking Tigo halfway across the square with a kick, tossing an Imperial soldier over his shoulder like a ragdoll and bashing another's skull in with [[ImprovisedWeapon Maarva's funerary brick]], of all things.
* BittersweetEnding: Cassian, radicalized by his imprisonment, Nemik's manifesto, and Maarva's final message, joins the Rebellion and offers Luthen his services fully--and Luthen even got to see that his hopes weren't unfounded, and that people ''would'' resist the Empire. Bix, Jezzi, Brasso, Bee, and Paak's son make it off Ferrix, but the massive riot has left many Ferrix citizens dead as a result of Maarva's speech and the usual Imperial over-reaction.

* CallForward

** Xan, one of Cassian's friends, is gunned down by Stormtroopers.

* DestinationDefenestration: One Stormtrooper gets kicked out of the city's bell tower during the riot on Ferrix.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The Empire on Ferrix is fixated on finding Cassian and Luthen, viewing them as key figures of the nascent Rebellion who must be killed before they can incite widespread revolution. As a result of their obsession with these individuals, they fail to pay much attention to an actual uprising forming by the entire population of Ferrix City, until it explodes out of control and mobs the underprepared Imperial forces by surprise. Meanwhile the targets Cassian and Luthen are little more than bystanders to the entire battle.

* DueToTheDead: Not only does the entire city show up to give Maarva a funeral, Cassian stops by his father's brick to take a moment to honor the man who raised him.

* HologramProjectionImperfection: As the hologram of Maarva addresses the people of Ferrix it flickers and has portions glitch out at points. Justified by [=B2EMO=] being a rather old droid.
* {{Homage}}: The funeral march's confrontation against the Imperial troops leading to a street battle, invokes the demonstrators march also accompanied with musicians from ''Film/DoctorZhivago''; but {{Inverted}}, in that the Czar's cossacks were expecting and ready for the demonstrators which results in a massacre, while the Imperials on Ferrix are caught off-guard and underprepared against all the locals seething and ready to erupt and brawl. Also, just as the film's atrocity was prelude to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war]] that would destroy the Czar/Emperor and Imperial Russia, events in ''Andor'' are prelude to war that will [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi destroy]] the Galactic Empire and Emperor Palpatine.

* KilledOffscreen: A scene at the ISB headquarters on Coruscant moves from Supervisor Blevin's office back to the main meeting room, where the various supervisors and Major Partagaz are celebrating the complete wipeout of Anto Kreegyr's much-mentioned rebel cell.

* PercussiveMaintenance: When prepping a derelict ship to escape in, Pegla has Jezzi hit the gauges to get them to show the actual fuel level after they stay on empty even after the tanks have been filled.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Beloved citizens of Ferrix are cremated and have their ashes backed into a funeral stone, a brick that's added the wall of a building. They're part of the foundation of their community and honored as a permanent part of the city.

* UseYourHead: Brasso downs a helmeted Stormtrooper with a hard headbutt.

** In "[[Recap/AndorS1E8Narkina5 Narkina 5]]", Maarva fell trying to pry open the flood gates that leads to tunnels under the hotel, "so that the rebellion could sneak in and take them by surprise." Bix recounted this to Brasso, both of them obviously concerned that Maarva's new turn toward rebellion [[ScatterbrainedSenior was a sign of her fading mind]]. In this episode, Cassian uses the exact floodgate and those tunnels to sneak into the hotel to rescue Bix, and he does indeed take the garrison by surprise.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Every faction planning to use Maarva's funeral to draw out Cassian failed to account for all the ''other'' people who were going to attend it with their own thoughts and feelings on the subject. When months of pent-up resentment over the Imperial occupation boils over into a riot, it's the end of any hope of capturing Cassian. Luthen himself [[KnowWhenToFoldEm simply leaves]] after the chaos begins.

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on B2's projector so hastily it barely covers half the image. Not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio, i.e. the part actually telling people to riot. When all that fails, he resorts to [[KickTheDog knocking B2 over]], which proves to be [[RageBreakingPoint the last straw for the city]].

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on B2's projector so hastily it barely covers half the image. Not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio, i.e. the part actually telling people to riot. When all that fails, he resorts to [[KickTheDog kicking B2 over]], which proves to be [[RageBreakingPoint the last straw for the city]].

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on the projector so hastily it barely covers half the image. Not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio, i.e. the part actually telling people to riot.

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on the projector so hastily it barely covers half the image Not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio, i.e. the part actually telling people to riot.

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on the projector so hastily it barely covers half the image, not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The Empire on Ferrix is fixated on finding Cassian and Luthen, viewing them as key figures of the nascent Rebellion who must be killed before they can incite widespread revolution. As a result of their obsession with these individuals, they fail to pay much attention to an actual uprising forming by the entire population of Ferrix City, until it explodes out of control and mob the underprepared Imperial forces by surprise. Meanwhile the targets Cassian and Luthen are little more than bystanders to the entire battle.

* EpicFail: When Maarva’s speech takes an incendiary tone, Captain Tigo tries to cover up her hologram with his jacket, but he throws it on the projector so hastily it barely cover half the image, not to mention doing absolutely nothing about the audio.

* DamselInDistress: Bix is delirious and unable to move under her own power and still locked in a hotel room when Cassian finds her. Cassian saves her and helps take her to a ship that's leaving Ferrix.

* BatmanGambit: Every plan to either kill or capture Cassian depends on him attending Maarva's funeral. Not only does he not show up, but nobody could have predicted that Maarva's holo-speech would set off a full-scale riot, further torpedoing everyone's plans and giving Cassian an opening to rescue Bix and escape.

* DramaticIrony

* ThrowTheDogABone

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Completely averted with Dedra Meero. She is a high-ranking Imperial ''intelligence'' officer, which means her job primarily consists of administrative duties and sifting through large amounts of data. When she is thrust into a combat situation with a gun in her hand against an unarmed civilian mob, she proves completely ineffective.