A Rebel spy disguised as a dancer tries to complete her mission, only for an Imperial officer, one linked to her past, to impede her.
Tropes:
- Aerith and Bob: Played with; everyone has exotic looking spellings of very mundane French names. To be more strict to the trope: There is Loi'e (pronounced like Louis) but there is also Jon.
- All Part of the Show: When Loi'e sees the imperial officer and falls, she is saved by Hetis. The crowd thinks it is part of the show, preventing their cover from being blown.
- All There in the Manual: The name of the setting, Planet B-Bel, is given in the behind the scenes featurette.
- Battle Butler: When things go to hell in the dance hall, the server droids start attacking the Stormtroopers using pitchers and serving trays as melee weapons. It's ambiguous if Loi'e or someone else programmed them to do that, or if the droids were as fed up serving the Imperials as Loi'e and Hetis were.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: By the start of the episode, Hetis has grown fed up of Loi'e's subtle Honey Trap routine, and having to serve Imperials every night with a smile on her face, and wants to take a more active role in the Resistance. She gets her wish when Loi'e blows her cover, and almost gets killed as a result.
- Bittersweet Ending: Loi'e and her friends are forced to flee B-Bel with Jon and his rebel cell, and their dance hall is destroyed by Imperial walkers as they fly off. But Loi'e takes comfort knowing her son is alive, and now has a way to find her again. The last shot is of her son standing on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, looking at the hologram of himself as a baby that she gave him.
- Call-Forward: While this episode's canonicity and place in the timeline is not certain, Loi'e's meeting with her lost son parallels the Luke, I Am Your Father scene from The Empire Strikes Back.
- Chekhov's Gun: The tracking devices Loi'e places on the stormtroopers. The final shot reveals that she put one on the memento she gave to her son, allowing her to find him again.
- Close-Call Haircut: A KX droid tries to shoot Hetis but the serving droid throws off its aim, and the resulting hit grazes her cheek and shears some of her hair off.
- Cranial Processing Unit: The Officer's K2 droid is fought by Hetis, who rips it apart through its midsection by tangling it in her performing ribbons. However, its upper half continues to crawl after her, and only shuts down once Jon saws off its head.
- Dance Battler: Loi'e and Hetis' dancing skill also gives them the speed and grace to dodge blaster bolts, and to bind and hurl stormtroopers with the long, flowing fabric of their performance costumes.
- Death by Irony: The menace of the KX droid is demonstrated when it rips a serving droid in half for throwing off its shot. It meets the same fate when Hetis tears it in half with her ribbons, although it isn't stopped until Jon takes its head off too.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: While Star Wars has never been subtle about the Empire's Nazi Germany inspirations, Planet B-Bel's culture and aesthetics are essentially Vichy France IN SPACE!
- Faceless Goons: Double subverted. The stormtroopers at Loi'e's theater all take off their helmets to enjoy the show, and seem friendly and genuinely happy to see her. One of them even gets some focus as a younger guy who's never been to the show before, and is suitably stunned by the glamorous theater and the performance. However, once she’s outed as a Rebel spy, the troopers all put their helmets back on, returning to cold infantry and hiding any trace of humanizing qualities as they attack her.
- Fantastic Racism: It's implied with the Officer that this is why his adopted father had his horns cut off (or he cut them off himself) and one of his heterochromatic eyes blinded to appear more human than alien. This mutilation letting him pass as human is likely the only reason he managed to become an officer in the first place.
- Gender-Blender Name: Loi'e is pronounced like «Louis», which is a masculine french name. The feminine version is «Louise», which isn't pronounced the same. Considering that La Cachette is a French studio, and they added a silent E at the end of the name, which is frequently an indication that the word is feminine, that's not an error.
- Honey Trap: Loi'e's extravagant performances are her cover to scatter tracking devices on stormtroopers, whilst they're distracted by her alluring dance skills.
- Horned Humanoid: Loi'e and the rest of the planet's native inhabitants are a near-human species distinguished by species-wide heterochromia and small horns. It's a sign of his Imperial upbringing that her son has had his horns filed off and one of his eyes put out in order to pass for a full human.
- La Résistance: Loi'e and Jon's rebel cell is focused on tracking imperial activity and scrapping technology to escape the occupied planet. Its focus on espionage and cabaret culture are also highly reminiscent of the French Resistance of World War II. To be more precise, La Cachette, despite being a French studio, adapted to the American perception of the French Resistance, since associating it with cabarets isn't common in the French imagination. French people tend to think to the Résistants either like an exterior military force like De Gaulle's companions in England or Leclerc's soldiers in Chad and North Africa, or either like rural inhabitants sabotaging infrastructures, especially the trains. Both of those French archetypical perceptions are totally absent from the short.
- Like a Son to Me: Loi'e treats Hetis almost like a daughter ever since her son was taken by the Empire.
- Long-Lost Relative: The Imperial officer Loi'e encounters during the performance turns out to be her son, kidnapped and indoctrinated by the Empire when he was a baby.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Loi'e dancing and fighting ability looks a lot like the abilities of a Force-user, even at one point casually blocking blaster bolts with her wrist mounted stilettos, which have the shape and retractability of a lightsaber, but she never uses an actual lightsaber, nor does she demonstrate any other abilities with the Force. Her relationship with Hetis also has many parallels to the relationships seen with Jedi and Padawans.
- Mecha-Mooks: The Imperial officer has a KX-series droid as a bodyguard. It proves to be a much bigger threat to Loi'e and her friends than the Stormtroopers.
- The Men First: When Loi'e realizes her cover is probably blown, she orders Hetis and the other support staff at the dance hall to escape via a secret tunnel, while she goes back onstage and distracts the Imperials.
- Parents Know Their Children: Loi'e had her son taken from her as an infant. Decades later, she recognizes him as an adult from a single glance at his face, with his alien features concealed.
- Save the Villain: When Loi'e sees Hetis is about to shoot the Imperial officer with a stolen blaster rifle, she grabs him with a fabric rope and yanks him out of the path of the blaster bolt at the last second. The reason is revealed near the end: he's Loi'e's long-lost son.
- Tracking Device: The actual goal of the performance is for Loi'e to distract the crowd while she hides Jon's trackers on Imperial soldiers.
- Villains Out Shopping: Originally, the stormtroopers go the theater to take a break, not to fight Rebels. It doesn't last.
