History Recap / TheMandalorianS1E6Chapter6ThePrisoner

* IronicEcho: When the other mercenaries trap the Mandalorian in Qin's cell, Xi'an tells him that he deserves it for leaving Qin behind on a former job. When the Mandalorian catches up to Qin and Qin asks about the others, the Mandalorian's only reply is "They got what they deserved."

* DistressCall: The New Republic officer on the prison ship has a distress beacon which summons a flight of X-wings to the user's location inside of thirty minutes. Though the crew tries to talk him out of triggering it, Xi'an botches the effort by killing him with a knife in the middle of their talk, causing him to activate it before he goes down.

* SummonBiggerFish: The Mando, having already been betrayed once, leaves the prison warden's tracking beacon aboard Ran's station. He gets out of dodge right before New Republic X-Wings show up and blow the hanger.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While on board with the plan to turn on the Mandalorian, Mayfeld is briefly taken aback when Qin readily abandons his own sister.

* AmbiguousSituation: The X-Wings show up late and fly right past the Razor Crest to attack Ran's station. It's not clear if this was pure good timing or if Mando called them when he was offscreen in the control room.

* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Even compared to the Mando’s two previous jobs, this one ''sucks;''he’s constantly disrespected and dismissed by old criminal partners who should really no better, takes on a job tha theatens to bring down far more heat than he desires, and has to deal with NoHonorAmongThieves.

** As is usual, Mando's beskar armor can shrug off much of the blaster fire of the Battledroids--which is quite visibly more powerful when used on other targets. Vibroweapons don't seem to trouble him, either, as he simply shrugs Xi'an's knife-throwing off. She does manage to tag him at one of the armor's joints, but he overpowers her moments later.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After their betrayal, Mando quickly turns the tables on the rest of the crew, first by locking down the ship to seperate them and then by defeating each of them.

* AssholeVictim: Nearly everyone of Ran's crew seems to be bonafide jackasses (with no respect for the Mandalorian at all)--with their rescue target Qin being the worst of them all. They even throw Mando into the prison cell after everything he's done to help them. It does somewhat help us cheer on for their inevitable comeuppance when Mando unleashes vengeance on them. There's also Ran himself, who meets a similar fate.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Mayfeld defensively says he wasn't a Stormtrooper when the Mandalorian is unimpressed at hearing he used to work for the Empire.

* DistressCall: The New Republic officer on the prison ship has a distress beacon which summons a flight of X-wings to the user's location inside of thirty minutes. Though the crew tries to talk him out of triggering it, Qin botches the effort by killing him with a knife in the middle of their talk, causing him to activate it before he goes down.

** As is usual, Mando's beskar armor can shrug off much of the blaster fire of the Battledroids--which is quite visibly more powerful when used on other targets. Vibroweapons don't seem to trouble him, as he simply shrugs Xi'an's knife-throwing off.
** Burg has the honor of managing to neutralize a lot of the weapons in the Mandalorian's arsenal. He is fast and strong enough that a) he can surprise and manhandle two big security droids; b) he can endure being strangled by Mando's grappler; c) he can avoid the whistling birds and d) when Mando tries his flamethrower on Burg, he isn't even singed by the flame. He needed to trap him in two automatic doors just to disable him.

* OutGambitted: Ran put the entire thing together as a way to apparently kill or otherwise get rid of the Mandalorian, only for the Mandalorian to not only survive but ensure his own death by leading a flight of X-wings to his station.

* AssholeVictim: Nearly everyone of Ran's crew seems to be bonafide jackasses (with no respect for the Mandalorian at all)--with their rescue target Qin being the worst of them all. They even throw Mando into the prison cell after everything he's done to help them. It does somewhat help us cheer on for their inevitable comeuppance when Mando unleashes vengeance on them.

** The unfortunate New Republic warden, Davan, is played by Creator/MattLanter of ''Series/TheCloneWars''.

* NoSell: The Mandalorian tries his flamethrower on Burg, but Burg isn't even singed by the flame.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: When the heist crew first see the Child, they ask if it's the Mandalorian's pet or something. Mayfeld even takes the Child in his arms just to jokingly pretend to drop it, just to rile up Mando.

* OhCrap: Mayfeld and Burg realize how foolish their previous taunting of the Mandalorian was when they just [[OneManArmy what he's capable of]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The crew leaves the Mandalorian in a cell once Qin is rescued. When he returns with Qin and without the rest of them, Ran tries to have his ship destroyed. The Mandalorian anticipated that, however, and led the New Republic to the station.

* MechaMook: The New Republic has taken to using battledroids to guard prisoner transports, if of a higher quality used by the Trade Federation and Separatists several decades earlier.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Finally acknowledged in canon, as Mayfeld defensively says he wasn't a Stormtrooper when the Mandalorian is unimpressed at hearing he used to work for the Empire.

* BaitAndSwitch: After some hide-and-seek in the ''Razor Crest'', Zero finds the Child and prepares to shoot him. The Child seems to use the Force to make the gun misfire and scrap Zero, instead. Then Zero collapses and it's revealed the Mandalorian shot the droid from behind.
* BorrowedbiometricBypass: After being tossed into Qin's cell, the Mandalorian uses his grapple to grab a passing security droid and rip its arm off, which he then uses to unlock his cell from the inside.
* ChekhovsGun: The Mandalorian pockets the distress transmitter before leaving the control room. After delivering Qin, it's revealed he left the transmitter on Qin so the New Republic would eliminate him.