You can change who you are, but you cannot run from yourself.
Ahsoka tries to help Trace and Rafa get away from the clutches of the Pyke syndicate with an elaborate, audacious scheme. However, she is hesitant on using her Force powers when they're in sight. Also, whoever's leading the Pykes is very impatient about the Martez sisters fulfilling their end of their deal.
This episode premiered April 10, 2020.
Tropes:
- Anachronic Order: This episode, like the rest of the story arc, takes place before the Bad Batch arc that opened Season 7.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Rafa tells Ahsoka that she doesn't want to hear her complicated story about leaving the Jedi because she still acts like one... or rather, how Rafa thinks they should act.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: Rafa steals a spice shipment from the Pykes by pretending to be there to pick one up and browbeating the dockmaster into going along by claiming that the unscheduled request is coming from the top. It works up until his manager, a Trandoshan, shows up and can't be intimidated the same way.
- Brought Down to Badass: The Jedi is not the lightsaber. The Jedi doesn't need the lightsaber. The Jedi does not need the weapon. The Jedi is the weapon. Ahsoka brings down the Pykes because she inspires Trace and Rafa to be their best selves, and because she can steal their weapons and blow their shit all to hell.
- Call-Forward: Maul threatens to hand the Pykes' operations to the Crimson Dawn, another member of the Shadow Collective, if the Pykes can't be trusted with the responsibility. The leader of the Crimson Dawn, Dryden Vos, ultimately answers to him as seen in Solo.
- Debt Detester: Rafa immediately plots to rescue Ahsoka after Ahsoka lies to give them a means to escape, because she can't have someone else doing something genuinely selfless for her without paying it back.
- Disney Villain Death: Rafa kills the Trandoshan manager by disconnecting the crane lift he's on while it's over a cliff.
- Enemy Mine: As of the ending, Ahsoka and Bo-Katan have one against a common enemy: Maul.
- Failed a Spot Check: Not only do the Pykes fail to notice the beeping bomb with a blinking red light in the control room when they capture Ahsoka, they also fail to notice that Ahsoka herself has the detonator, which is also beeping and blinking, strapped to her wrist, despite having handcuffed her.
- Game of Chicken: When the Silver Angel's lone gun is disabled before they can take out the third Pyke patrol ship, Trace sets a collision course, betting that the shields will hold up. The other ship flinches at the last moment and crashes into a cliff when he veers off.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ahsoka tries to set this up. She lies to the Pykes, telling them the sisters hid the spice offworld, that they should send the sisters to get it, and that she'll give up the sisters' family if they don't come back within a day. Since they can't (and don't have family), the implication is that she's risking her life for their chance to escape.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Left with no other choice, Ahsoka starts to use her Force-powers on the Pyke guards.
- Interface Spoiler: The subtitles on the Disney+ version reveal that Krim is talking to Maul a good twenty to thirty seconds before Maul's Face-Revealing Turn.
- Internal Reveal:
- The Martez sisters learn that Ahsoka is a Jedi.
- Ahsoka learns Maul is in control of the various crime syndicates, and that he also has control of Mandalore.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Maul seems to sense that Ahsoka is listening in on his conversation with Krim, looking in her direction even though, from his perspective, he shouldn't be able to see anything on his end but Krim. Nothing comes of it, however, as he just dismisses the feeling and leaves to tend to other matters.
- Mythology Gag: The shot of Ahsoka and the Martez sisters escaping the planet with a ship of Mandalorians following unnoticed behind them — with the shot then cutting to the inside of the latter ship before the scene changes — is a direct visual reference to Boba Fett tracking the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back.
- No-Sell: Rafa tries to bash the Trandoshan's head in with a pipe, but it just bends around his helmet without hurting him.
- Refuge in Audacity: Rafa plans to pay the Pykes their lost spice shipment... by stealing spice from the Pykes.
- Three Lines, Some Waiting: Thanks to the Contrived Coincidence of Bo-Katan being on Oba Diah seeking a way to bring down Maul at the same time Ahsoka and the Martez sisters are there dealing with the Pykes, the Internal Reveals of the previous episode allow several plotlines to converge by this episode's end, setting up for the two to team up on Mandalore to deal with Maul in the series' final arc, resolve a few lingering plot points, and match up with the events of Revenge of the Sith.
- Trailers Always Spoil: The preview for the episode has Ahsoka searching the Pyke records for information on Maul's whereabouts, which she has yet to learn at the start of the episode.
- Trap Is the Only Option: Krim knows Ahsoka is probably lying to him about the deal to retrieve the spice, but has no choice but to hope the Martez sisters bring the spice back lest he be punished by Maul.
