History Recap / TheMandalorianS1E6Chapter6ThePrisoner

* ExactWords: Mando agrees to take Qin back alive as his honor dictates, but no one ever said that he must protect him once the mission is done.

* MechaMooks: The New Republic has taken to using battle droids to guard their prisoner transports, if of a higher quality then those used by the Trade Federation and Separatists several decades earlier.

* 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.

* CallBack: It's not the first time we've seen a Mandalorian involved with a Twi'lek. Boba Fett can be seen flirting with a couple of dancing girls in Jabba's palace, one of whom is a Twi'lek. ExpandedUniverse later turned her into the character of Lyn Me.

* ExactWords: Mando agrees to take Qin back alive as his honor dictates but no one ever said that he must protect him once the mission is done.

** The heist team rescue Qin, and it turns out he was originally captured by Mando, whom they immediately throw in Qin's cell in payback.

* MasterOfUnlocking: Mando's first demonstration of his skills is cracking the lock on the prison's barge's docking hatch. He later breaks off an android arm and uses it to open the lock on his cell.

* MuggingTheMonster: After they showed Mando their [[NoHonorAmongThieves true colors]], he stalks and recaptures three of them, blows away the droid in the crew, and then leaves the jailbreak target to die at the hands of the Republic with the organizer of the whole heist when he expects the organizer will backstab him. None of them would be in their incarcerated predicament or have met their final fate if they didn't try to screw Mando over.

** Played with regarding Mando's "old friend" Ran, who was apparently in on the plan to doublecross the Mandalorian from the start, but pays him the agreed amount when he brings Qin back to the station as promised. However, as soon as the ''Razor Crest'' departs his space station, Ran orders a gunship to follow and blow the Mando out of space.

** As is usual, Mando's beskar armor can shrug off much of the blaster fire of the Battle droids -- 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.

* 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, since they can detect the gunship Ran is in the process of launching.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: For most of the episode, the crew continually mock the Mandalorian's skills and question if he's even worth bringing along for the job, Burg in particular almost comes to blows with him when he tries to yank off Mando's helmet. Then they see what he's capable of when he single-handedly takes down a squad of battle droids aboard the prison ship.

* 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.

* RealityEnsues: The last time the Mandalorian used his whistling birds, he was in a fairly spacious room that gave them space to fly around and track their targets. When he tries them again on Burg in the tiny control room, they impact on the walls before they can change course.

'''Burg:''' Then why are [[ThePurge they all dead]]? (Laughs)

* CallBack: It's not the first time we've seen a Mandalorian involved with a Twi'lek. Boba Fett can be seen flirting with a Twi'lek dancer in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

This episode was directed by Rick Famuyiwa.

* CreatorCameo: The New Republic X-wing pilots are played by the series' episode directors: Creator/DaveFiloni, Rick Famuyiwa and Deborah Chow.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When taking out the team, the Mandalorian noticeably avoids several obvious lethal options, choosing to leave his blaster holstered and close to melee range instead. It makes more sense following the reveal at the end that he was planning on locking them in a cell alive.
** Burg mentions that all of the Mandalorians are dead at one point, which can be written off as him being ignorant of the galaxy at large, or at least, of Mandalorians. It is revealed later on in the season finale that [[spoiler: an event known as "The Great Purge" has taken place since the fall of the Empire, and that the Mandalorians have all been in hiding since then, thus explaining why Burg thinks all of them are dead.]]

** Burg mentions that all of the Mandalorians are dead at one point, which can be written off as him being ignorant of the galaxy at large, or at least, of Mandalorians. It is revealed later on in the season finale that [[spoiler: an event known as "The Great Purge" has taken place since the fall of the Empire, and that the Mandalorians have all been in hiding since then, thus explaining the existence of the Convent, and why Burg thinks all of them are dead.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When taking out the team, the Mandalorian noticeably avoids several obvious lethal options, choosing to leave his blaster holstered and close to melee range instead. It makes more sense following the reveal at the end that he was planning on locking them in a cell alive.

* 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.

* RedHerring: Zero discovers Greed Karga's transmission from "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS1E3Chapter3TheSin The Sin]]" while fiddling around the ''Razor Crest'''s cockpit, setting up a possible betrayal by the heist crew when they learn about the Child's value to the Empire. As it turns out, they intended to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betray the Mandalorian]] all along and the footage never comes into play.

** When his comms are shut down, Zero decides quite logically that as he can't help them any more, he's taking off and leaving them to their fate. Fortunately he's distracted by the Child, whose value he knows from Greed Karga's message.

* TheCameo:
** The unfortunate New Republic warden, Davan, is played by Creator/MattLanter of ''WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars''.
** Doubling as CreatorCameo, the New Republic X-Wing pilots are played by the series' episode directors: Creator/DaveFiloni, Rick Famuyiwa and Deborah Chow.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Qin is willing to abandon his own sister along with the rest of the crew if it means he can personally escape.

* NoSell: A few instances for some characters:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere

* RunningGag: The Mandalorian unscrews the knob from a lever and hands it to the Child to play with, as he did in Recap/TheMandalorianS1E3Chapter3TheSin. This time the baby doesn't even have to reach for the knob first.

** The Mandalorian takes down the other members of the crew in ways that look like they should have been fatal or were leading to that, only for the end to reveal he just knocked them all out and dumped them in a cell. Burg's horns do appear to have been sliced off, though.

** 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.

* GunsAkimbo: Mayfield, plus ''another'' pistol fired with a robotic arm.

* FlippingTheBird: Zero raises a conspicuously placed antennae to the Mandalorian while bragging the RobotsAreJustBetter in his case.