History Recap / AndorS1E12RixRoad

** To ''Film/RogueOne''; a cargo shuttle like the one that will carry Cassian to Scarif is parked at the landing port where Meero's shuttle lands, and Meero is accompanied by a pair of Death Troopers like the ones who will massacre many of Rogue One's members, and Cassian guns down one of those Troopers here and will do the same to a pair of them on Scarif base.

* HomeFieldAdvantage: In the end, both the rebels and the Imperials are at a huge disadvantage in Ferrix, not knowing the terrain and not having the allegiance of the locals. Cassian has their affection and knows the city's secrets and can move through the city with ease.

'''Luthen:''' ''(pauses, then picks up a gun)'' What game is this?\\

* PowderKegCrowd: The townsfolk coming together for Maarva's funeral, already frustrated by the Imperial occupation, all look inspired and ready to take action by Maarva's RousingSpeech. Then Captain Tigo [[KickTheDog had to tip Bee over.]]

* RightUnderTheirNoses: The whole reason Dedra wants to capture Cassian alive is to use him to find "Axis," but she is completely unaware that Axis himself (Luthen) is also in town.

-->''"Random acts of insurrections are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."''

'''Luthen:''' What game is this?\\

The people of Ferrix proceed with Maarva's funeral while the ISB watch it like a hawk, hoping to catch Cassian Andor's return. Luthen, Vel, Syril, and Mosk have also returned to Ferrix seeking him -- Luthen to kill him, Vel to check on Cinta, and Syril and Mosk to bring him to justice. Cassian, who has silently arrived on Ferrix, continued listening to Nemik's manifesto, and reconvened with his allies, avoids the procession and opts to rescue Bix from her imprisonment in the hotel.

* FakeUltimateMook: Two {{BFG}}[=-toting=] [[DoomTroops Death Troopers]] accompany Dedra to Ferrix as bodyguards. [[spoiler:Cassian takes one out [[OneHitKill with a single shot]] while saving Bix, and the other is nowhere to be seen as Dedra is mobbed and nearly killed by the rioting locals]].

* TheGamblingAddict: Perrin is established as being a gambling addict in this episode. Mon Mothma harshly disapproves of it, claiming it creates a political vulnerability -- and knowing that an Imperial agent is listening in, thus [[FeedTheMole establishing an excuse]] for the money missing from her accounts.

* FeedTheMole: Suspecting that the ISB have her under suspicion, and aware that her driver is likely TheMole for them, Mon Mothma deliberately raises her husband's [[TheGamblingAddict gambling problems]] in conversation within earshot of her driver. This information being passed along has the (intended) result of her recent large banking transactions possibly being attributed to covering her husband's debts, rather than their actual use of funding the nascent Rebel Alliance.

* RecruitTheMuggles: In the season one finale, a neighborhood of Ferrix residents from many walks of life (mechanics, doctor, watchman, belllringer, etc.) who are among the people the Rebel Alliance is trying to free from the Empire's tyranny end up rising up to fight back against the local garrison at a time when it is threatening the rebel heroes.

** Captain Tigo loses it after he manages crawl out of the rioting, brawling crowd and get back behind the Imperial lines to order a counterattack.

* RecruitTheMuggles: In the season one finale, a neighborhood of Fenrix residents from many walks of life (mechanics, doctor, watchman, belllringer, etc.) who are among the people the Rebel Alliance is trying to free from the Empire's tyranny end up rising up to fight back against the local garrison at a time when it is threatening the rebel heroes.

* RecruitTheMuggles: In the season one finale, a neighborhood of Fenrix residents from many walks of life (mechanics, doctor, watchman, belllringer, etc) who are among the people the Rebel Alliance is trying to free from the Empire’s tyranny end up rising up to fight back against the local garrison at a time when it is threatening the rebel heroes.

* BookEnds: The story takes place primarily on Ferrix, the focus of the first three episodes, and the final beat of the episode has Luthen take a speeder out of the city and across farmland to where his ship is hidden very similar to the ending of episode 3. Except now Cassian is waiting for him, and interested in learning more of this game.

** To ''Film/RogueOne''; a cargo shuttle like the one that will carry Cassian to Scarif is parked at the landing port where Meero's shuttle lands, and Meero is accompanied by a pair of Death Troopers like the ones who will massacre many of Rogue One's members, and Cassian guns down one of those Troopers here and will do the same to a pair of them in Scarif base.
* CantStopTheSignal: The Imperial forces at Ferrix were hoping to catch Cassian attending the funeral, and Luthen was hoping to find Cassian himself to kill him and maintain his own anonymity. No one expected Maarva to have recorded a speech inciting the attendees to rise against the Imperial garrison, and open fighting breaks out. The Empire sees first hand what an angry population is capable of and Luthen sees the Rebellion he was hoping to form is starting to grow.

** 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.

* DystopiaIsHard: Shown throughout the season, and pointed out by Nemik's manifesto. As he writes, "Tyranny requires constant effort", and the vast overreach of the ISB means a byzantine network of bureaucratic administration is needed to support it and is ''still'' not enough to keep people in line. Crackdowns lead to uprisings, leading to further crackdowns, etc...

* GambitPileup: The finale on Ferrix has no fewer than ''five'' factions in play at Maarva's funeral. The Empire, under Dedra Meero's supervision, wants to use the funeral as bait to trap Cassian when he comes back. Then there's Luthen and his operatives who want to kill Cassian once the Empire catches him but before they can interrogate him. Then there's Syril Karn and Sergeant Mosk, who are ''still'' trying to bring Cassian to Imperial justice for the deaths of the two Corpos in episode 1. Cassian, the ultimate target of everybody else, just wants to get his friends out of the planet. Finally, ''Maarva herself'' posthumously rallies the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire in her farewell holo, causing a city-wide riot that throws a wrench into everybody's plan...''except'' Cassian's, who wisely doesn't actually ''go'' to the funeral and takes advantage of the chaos to get Bix, [=B2EMO=], and many of his surviving friends off-the planet safely, presumably with some of the funds from the Aldhani heist. Finally, instead of fleeing with them, Cassian meets Luthen aboard his shift and offers to join the Rebellion.

* HologramProjectionImperfection: As the hologram of Maarva addresses the people of Ferrix it flickers and has portions glitch out at points.
* {{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 (albeit [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker temporarily]]).

* LaserGuidedKarma: Nurchi, who tips Meero, Tigo and the Imperials off to Andor's roof hiding space ends up getting killed by Wilmon's bomb strike on the Imperials. Averted by the officers Wilmon targeted surviving, though not unscathed.
* LibertyOverProsperity: Ferrix's main economy is the scrapyard where spaceships are broken up and sold for parts. The town is working class, but prosperous enough for most to be comfortable, helped by taking money from anyone--including the Empire. Even when the garrison moved in, the town's business went on as usual, despite the Imperial troopers kidnapping and torturing its citizens and general dissatisfaction with the occupation. Maarva's posthumous speech [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent calls out the town's complacency]] and rouses the PowderKegCrowd into a full-on riot.

** In Maarva's speech, she calls out the fact that the residents of Ferrix themselves [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent have spent too long keeping their heads down to survive the Imperial occupation]], happy to be left alone and take Imperial money--even after the garrison moved in and started torturing locals. It takes her speech to galvanise them to finally take action and fight.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain

* PrecisionFStrike: Near the end of Maarva's speech, she puts particular emotion and enthusiastic emphasis into calling the Empire "bastards."
* 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.

* SpannerInTheWorks: The Empire, Luthen and his agents, Syril and Mosk all have their own plans to use Maarva's funeral to trap Cassian. All of their plans are foiled by none other than...Maarva herself, whose last message rallies the people of Ferrix into causing a city-wide riot that allows Cassian to help his friends escape Ferrix while he enlists in the Rebellion.

* StockScream: Played with. A bell keep is helping to motivate the riot by ringing their war cry, a stormtrooper comes out of the floor in an attempt to stop him and is punted off the tower for his troubles, screaming on the way down. Functionally it is the Wilhelm Scream (a longstanding Star Wars tradition), but either a new recording done as an homage or was pitch shifted down to not be the ''exact'' scream.

* VillainousBreakdown

--> ''"Random acts of insurrections are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."''

* BittersweetEnding: Cassian, radicalized by his imprisonment, Nemik's manifesto, and Maarva's final message, joins the Rebellion and offers Luthen his services fully. Bix, Jezzi, Brasso, Bee, and Paak's son make it off Ferrix, but a massive riot has left many Ferrix citizens dead as a result of Maarva's speech and the usual Imperial over-response.

* BreakTheCutie: We see the end result of Bix's many, many torture sessions -- suffering from delirium, believing past events to have been mere dreams, and incapable of moving by herself. Cassian has to practically drag her out of the hotel by himself to a ship that would take her off-planet.

** Nurchi, the local to whom Cassian owes money and that has turned an ISB informant, is killed by shrapnel when Wilmon's IED causes crates of Imperial explosives to blow out.

* DrowningMySorrows: After the riot has settled down, Mosk is seen slumped against a wall, alone, drinking something from a flask and looking very sad, apparently because his old buddy Syril ditched him to run after Dedra.
* DystopiaIsHard: Shown throughout the season, and pointed out by Nemik's manifesto. As he writes, "Tyrrany requires constant effort", and the vast overreach of the ISB means a byzantine network of bureaucratic administration is needed to support it and is ''still'' not enough to keep people in line. Crackdowns lead to uprisings, leading to further crackdowns.

* FeedTheMole: Suspecting that the ISB have her under suspicion, and aware that her driver is likely TheMole for them, Mon Mothma deliberately raises her husband's [[TheGamblingAddict gambling problems]] in conversation within earshot of her driver. This information being passed along has the (intended) result of her recent large banking transactions being attributed to covering her husband's debts, rather than their actual use of funding the nascent Rebel Alliance.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Perrin has a gambling problem and a history of indiscretions that had to be covered up. Mon Mothma makes it look like he is gambling again and her missing money was used to cover his debts.
* GambitPileup: The finale on Ferrix has no fewer than ''five'' factions in play at Maarva's funeral. The Empire, under Dedra Meero's supervision, wants to use the funeral as bait to trap Cassian when he comes back. Then there's Luthen and his operatives who want to kill Cassian once the Empire catches him but before they can interrogate him. Then there's Syril Karn and Sergeant Mosk, who are ''still'' trying to bring Cassian to Imperial justice for the deaths of the two Corpos in episode 1. Cassian, the ultimate target of everybody else, just wants to get his friends out of the planet. Finally, ''Maarva'' herself posthumously rallies the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire in her farewell holo, causing a city-wide riot that throws a wrench into everybody's plan ''except'' Cassian's, who wisely takes advantage of the chaos to get Bix, [=B2EMO=], and his friends off of the planet safely, presumably with some of the funds from the Aldhani heist. Instead of fleeing with them, however, Cassian reaches out to Luthen and offers to join the Rebellion

* GoneHorriblyRight: Luthen's plan at Aldhani was to push the Empire to crack down on everyone, thus inspiring resistance to the Empire and fueling the Rebellion. Here he gets caught in a riot inspired by both of those forces coming into play. Maarva, inspired by the heist on Aldhani, encourages the people of Ferrix to rise up against the Empire with her final message. The Empire, likewise inspired by Aldhani, are cracking down on the people of Ferrix at her funeral and try to stop that message, triggering a riot. Luthen gets caught in the middle of the whole mess and gets to see the results of his actions firsthand.

* LibertyOverProsperity: Ferrix's main economy is the scrapyard where spaceships are broken up and sold for parts. The town is working class, but mostly prosperous and comfortable, and they take money from anyone - including the Empire. Even when the garrison moved in, the town's business went on as usual, despite the Imperial troopers kidnapping and torturing its citizens and general dissatisfaction with the occupation. Maarva's posthumous speech [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent calls out the town's complacency]] and rouses the PowderKegCrowd into a full-on riot.

** Having spent most of season 1 pingponging back and forth on his views of the Rebellion, Cassian is finally swayed by Nemik's manifesto, his imprisonment on Narkina 5, and Maarva's speech, and offers his services to the Rebellion without any hesitation.
** In Maarva's speech, she calls out the fact that the residents of Ferrix themselves [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent have spent too long keeping their heads down to survive the imperial occupation]], happy to be left alone and take Imperial money - even after the garrison moved in and started torturing locals. It takes her speech to galvanise them to finally take action and fight.

** Meero's insistence on capturing Cassian alive drives her to remove the snipers her subordinates had assigned on rooftops. This means the roofs aren't guarded and nobody but one traitorous local notices Cassian, who is indeed hiding atop one of the buildings and is free to observe his surroundings before making his move.

* OnlySaneEmployee: Meero is the only one to point out that it would have been useful to take captives from Anto Kreegyr's group rather than massacring them to the last one. Partagaz doesn't completely disagree with her, but is more concerned with "wiping the taste of Aldhani out of [[GreaterScopeVillain the Emperor's]] mouth" than taking captives for interrogation. Considering how cruel and evil the Emperor is and how he can eliminate or replace the Imperial bureaucracy and enforcers as he sees fit, Partagaz may view the potential loss of intelligence as a necessary sacrifice just to make sure Palpatine doesn't decide to do [[ThePurge a purge]] of ISB or replace it with a new department.
* PercussiveMaintenance: When preping 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.
* PetTheDog: Meero expresses genuine gratitude through her panic after Syril manages to rescue her from the riot, despite her having warned him off involving himself in ISB affairs multiple times.

* PrecisionFStrike: Near the end of Maarva's speech, she puts particular emotion and emphasis into calling the Empire "bastards".
* 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.
* ProperlyParanoid: Just the sight of Luthen lurking in Ferrix during Maarva's funeral at the same time the massive Imperial trap waits for Andor, convinces Cassian correctly that Luthen's only reason for being there now is to find and kill him.
* TheReveal: It turns out that Andor, Melshi, Kino Loy, Ulaf, and the other prisoners on Narkina 5 were building screws for the Death Star's superlaser.

* RousingSpeech: Maarva's holographic VideoWill reminds the people of Ferrix that while they have each other, the Empire is an overwhelming evil that must be fought no matter what. Even Luthen is moved by Maarva's words.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The Empire, Luthen and his agents, Syril and Mosk all have their own plans to use Maarva's funeral to trap Cassian. All of their plans are foiled by none other than Maarva herself, whose last message rallies the people of Ferrix into causing a city-wide riot that allows Cassian to help his friends escape Ferrix while he enlists in the Rebellion.

* TheStinger: A scene after the credits reveals that the cogs that the Narkina 5 prisoners were forced to build are parts for the Death Star's laser.

* NeutralNoLonger: Having spent most of season 1 pingponging back and forth on his views of the Rebellion, Cassian is finally swayed by Nemik's manifesto, his imprisonment on Narkina 5, and Maarva's speech, and offers his services to the Rebellion without any hesitation.

* LibertyOverProsperity: Ferrix's main economy is the scrapyard where spaceships are broken up and sold for parts. The town is working class, but mostly prosperous and comfortable, and they take money from anyone - including the Empire. Even when the garrison moved in, the town's business went on as usual, despite the Imperial troopers kidnapping and torturing its citizens and general dissatisfaction with the occupation. Maarva's posthumous speech [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent calls out the town's complacency]] and rouses the PowderkegCrown into a full-on riot.

* HologramProjectionImperfection: As the hologram of Maarva addresses the people of Ferrix is wavers and has portions glitch out at points.

** 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 [[ScatteredbrainedSenior 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.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The local Ferrix man who tips Meero, Tigo and the Imperials off to Andor's roof hiding space ends up getting killed by Wilmon's bomb strike on the Imperials. Averted by the officers Wilmon targeted surviving, though not unscathed.