History Recap / TheMandalorianS1E5Chapter5TheGunslinger

[[caption-width-right:350:''Old and New on the sands of Tattooine'']]

This episode was directed by Creator/DaveFiloni.

** Mando goes at Chalmun's Cantina (first seen in ''A New Hope''), and meets Toro Calican there (in the same booth Han Solo once sat, no less). The bartender is a droid from the line of [=EV-9D9=], the sadistic overseer of Jabba the Hutt's droid pool in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', if it's not her outright.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The final scene has someone whose face we don't see walking up to Fennec's body, possibly another BountyHunter on the Mandalorian's trail.

* RageHelm: The fighter pilot has this painted on his oxygen mask.

* AdultFear: The Mandalorian returns to the ''Razor Crest'', thinking that the Child is still sleeping, only to find the bed empty and the Child missing. He completely panics and runs out yelling, demanding to know where the kid is at.

* CallForward:
** In the cantina, we glimpse one of the same species of frog creatures who feature in Episode 10, ''The Passenger''.
** TheStinger shows an unknown figure approaching Fennec Shand as she lays in the desert. It turns out to be Boba Fett, who, we learn next season, saves her from dying.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The identity of the mysterious figure at the end is hinted at with the sound of their footsteps; footsteps that have a distinct spur sound associated with [[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett another Mandalorian bounty hunter]].

After a run in with one of the bounty hunters on his trail, the Mandalorian is forced to land on Tatooine, near the Mos Eisley spaceport, in order to make repairs. While there, he becomes embroiled in hunting a mercenary in order to get money for repairs.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The identity of the mysterious figure at the end is hinted at with the sound of their footsteps; footsteps that have a distinct spur sound associated with [[[[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett [[Characters/StarWarsBobaFett another Mandalorian bounty hunter]].

* HeyThatsMyLine: The Mandalorian says this almost verbatim when the hunter shooting at him in the ActionPrologue uses his BadassBoast ("I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold.") against him.

!!Tropes in this episode include:

* CallBack: We're back on Tatooine, to start with:
** The Razor Crest's arrival on Tatooine looks like the original establishing shot from ''Film/ANewHope'' before the ships show up.
** Mando goes at Chalmun's Cantina (first seen in ''A New Hope''), and meets Toro Calican there (in the same booth Han Solo once sat, no less). The bartender is a droid from the line of [=EV-9D9=], the sadistic overseer of Jabba the Hutt's droid pool in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', if it's not her outright.
** Fennec mentions Mos Espa, the town where Anakin Skywalker lived in his childhood in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. The town also reappeared in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
** Peli mentions Beggar's Canyon, where the Boonta Eve pod race happened in ''The Phantom Menace'', and calls Mando a 'womp rat'. In ''A New Hope'', Luke Skywalker talked of shooting womp rats (in Beggar’s Canyon, no less) in his T-16.
** The Mandalorian warns Toro "She's no good to us dead", almost word-for-word what a certain other Mandalorian-armored bounty hunter said in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack ''.

* ContractOnTheHitman: Toro takes a bounty assignment to bring in Fennec Shand, a notorious assassin.

* DarkActionGirl: Fennec Shand, an infamous assassin whose reputation is such that most bounty hunters refuse to go after her. Even the seasoned Mando initially refused to go after her and was reluctant.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Mando communicates with the Tusken Raiders in sign language, without either party making a sound. In Season 2 premiere [[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E1Chapter9TheMarshal Chapter 9: "The Marshal"]], Mando and the Raiders with both their signs and their grunts.

* FragileSpeedster: The bounty hunter chasing the Mandalorian in the ActionPrologue has a much faster ship than the Mandalorian, but while the Mandalorian's ship is able to withstand repeated blaster fire, it only takes the Mandalorian one volley to destroy the light fighter the hunter is piloting.

* HeyThatsMyLine: The Mandalorian says this almost verbatim when the hunter shooting at him in the ActionPrologue uses his BadassBoast [[note]]"I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold."[[/note]] against him.

** The speeder bike Mando borrows from Peli is based on one of Ralph [=McQuarrie=]'s early designs from ''Return of The Jedi''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Toro shoots Fennec in the stomach once she convinces him that the Mandalorian would be a greater prize, as he doesn't trust her not to kill him were he to release her. The final scene implies she may have survived, however.