Recap / The Mandalorian S3E7 "Chapter 23: The Spies"

Bo-Katan and the Mandalorian rally their tribes to retake Mandalore. Moff Gideon reveals his allies.

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Tropes:

• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Hux states that the mysterious Project Necromancer will provide new leadership for the Imperial Remnant. Most viewers would fairly assume that this is a direct reference to Palpatine's forthcoming resurrection, but given how the First Order was mostly taken by surprise by it (aside from implied moles like Pryde), it's implied the project is actually something else.
  • Gideon has a new regiment of beskar-armored Super Commandos and a beskar suit of his own, but exactly how he acquired the knowledge to forge beskar is left unclear.
• Attack Its Weak Point: The Imperial Armored Commandos don't have their entire bodies covered, and quite a few are dispatched via very precise shots to the uncovered parts of their bodies. Paz Vizsla takes out more than a few with his heavy repeating blaster. In turn, the Mandalorians are subjected to the same vulnerability with the volume of incoming fire eventually bringing down a number of them.
• Badass in Distress: Din is captured when he winds up trapped on the wrong side of the blast doors, and the Mandalorians are forced to retreat, leaving him with Gideon.
• Big Entrance: The Mandalorians know how to make a good show just by arriving to a planet. When they show up above Nevarro City with an entire fleet consisting of a light cruiser and their Gauntlet starfighters, the citizens are both amazed and scared. Even the camera shots are made in such a way to look as impressive as possible, with the shadow of the light cruiser covering the entire city, announcing the arrival of the new Mandalorian fleet.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Paz Vizsla, the biggest and strongest of the Mandalorians, dies fighting Gideon's forces to cover his comrades' escape.
• Black Knight: Fitting his past emulation of Darth Vader, Moff Gideon's personal suit of Dark Trooper armor is all in black (contrasting the Stormtrooper-esque white and gray of his minions), and features a black spiked helmet and a red-lined black cape.
• The Bus Came Back: Moff Gideon returns, having not been seen since "The Rescue".
• Bring It: When the Praetorian Guard arrive to finish him off, Paz Vizsla activates the shield on his left gauntlet, draws his vibro-knife, and silently challenges them to come at him.
• Broken Record: IG-12 is programmed with simple "yes" or "no" buttons for responses. Grogu, being Grogu, has fun mashing the buttons over and over.
• Call-Back:
  • The Anzellan piloting IG-11 (now IG-12) remembers how Grogu hugged him and quickly tells him to stay back.
    Anzellan: Bad baby! No squeezie!
  • Grand Admiral Thrawn's return was first suggested in the Season 2 episode "The Jedi", which revealed that the episode's villain was operating on his behalf and that Ahsoka was concerned enough to be actively searching for him.
• Call-Forward:
  • One of the people at the Shadow Council is Commandant Brendol Hux (who first debuted in the Servants of the Empire books), a father to General Armitage Hux of the First Order.
  • Paz Vizsla eventually falls at the hands of an early version of the Praetorian Guards. Notably, they're wearing the same chest plates that First Order Stormtroopers would later have (albeit colored red).
  • Some members of the Shadow Council believe that if the Imperial Remnant gives a "show of strength" attacking the New Republic, citizens from across the galaxy will rise up to support them. Decades from now, this will happen but with the opposite effect; when Palpatine announces his return and declares himself Emperor again, now packing a fleet of planet-destroying Star Destroyers that he uses on Kijimi as a show of strength, the galaxy does rise up... against him, and the Final Order will be drowned by the entire galaxy showing up to stop the Empire and Palpatine from returning.
• Canon Immigrant: Captain Gilad Pellaeon, Thrawn's second-in-command from The Thrawn Trilogy and eventual leader of the Imperial Remnant, was already part of the New Canon since he could be heard speaking in the Rebels finale and appeared in the newer Thrawn books; but he finally makes an onscreen appearance here.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Gideon requests three Praetorian Guards at the beginning of the episode, prompting Pellaeon to sarcastically ask if he's afraid for his life. They turn up at the end of the episode, where it turns out playing bodyguard wasn't quite what Gideon wanted them for.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Children of the Watch and the Nite Owls wear darker-colored armor, with the Nite Owls all wearing dark blue. Gideon's troopers mostly wear white armor, with the Praetorian Guards wearing crimson. This means that even in a big fight with all of the characters wearing helmets, it's still easy to tell which side is which.
• Continuity Nod:
  • The Shadow Council that Gideon is a member of appears to be a new incarnation of the organization of the same name that Gallius Rax formed to rule the Empire through.
  • Back in season one, a shot from Fennec's high-powered rifle was enough to knock Din off his speeder, and he flatly said that if he'd been much closer, it would have punched through even the beskar plate. Paz Vizsla's heavy repeating blaster and the hand cannons favored at close range by many of the Mandalorians seem to have the same effect.
  • Moff Gideon makes his appearance the same way he did in season one: surrounded by elite soldiers, monologuing about a piece of deadly equipment. In this case, his new beskar Dark Trooper armor.
  • Gideon's black beskar armor (with a Death Watch inspired helm) inevitably invokes a certain Sith Lord.
• Cool Boat: The Mandalorian survivors travel the crystalized surface on a large glass skimmer, resembling a small sailing ship with skis attached to it. Sadly, it gets smashed by a huge monster near the end of the episode.
• Darkest Hour: The Mandalorians fall into Moff Gideon's trap, and he launches an attack against their unsuspecting fleet in orbit. Din Djarin, the titular Mandalorian, is captured, and Paz Vizsla is apparently killed.
• Defeat Means Friendship: After Grogu breaks up their fight, Axe Woves and Paz Vizsla are much more willing to work together, teaming up to get Grogu off of the doomed skiff, and Paz covering Woves' escape to alert the fleet.
• Defiant to the End:
  • A non-fatal example; while outnumbered and surrounded by Super Commandos, Din refuses to stop fighting, keeping his flamethrower going even with whipcords attached to his neck and arms. It's only when he's completely immobilized and disarmed that he finally lets up.
  • Even exhausted, with his weapons depleted, and outnumbered three to one, Paz refuses to back down against the Praetorian Guard, and it takes all three of them to pin him down and inflict a fatal wound. And even then, he pulled himself up the energy pike skewering him in a last defiant attempt to manually strangle one of the Praetorians.
• Disaster Scavengers: While on Mandalore, the expedition encounters a group of Mandalorians who've been surviving on the planet's surface ever since the Purge. Their weapons and gear remain in good order, but years of hard living have left them malnourished and many of them sickly; one of the first things their captain asks Bo-Katan after meeting her band is whether she has any food, and later the Armorer airlifts the worst of them up to the cruiser for medical treatment. The remainder join the group and lead them to the Great Forge.
• Double-Meaning Title: "The Spies" can either refer to the Imperial spies within the New Republic undermining the new government's authority for the Imperial Remnants, or the small force of Mandalorians who scout the surface of Mandalore for any potential threats or allies before they call upon the rest of their forces.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Gideon doesn't tell Hux the full truth about what happened to Dr. Pershing, suggesting that he actively wants the Council's cloning efforts to fail.
• The Dreaded: The Shadow Council is so afraid of a resurgent Mandalore that they grant Moff Gideon's request for reinforcements to wipe them out.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Paz Vizsla sacrifices his life to hold off Gideon's forces so the away team can escape and proceeds to take down an entire squad of stormtroopers single-handedly before being finally brought down by Praetorians. He dies gripping one of their throats, fighting to the end.
• Elite Mooks:
  • Gideon has used beskar looted from Mandalore to outfit a new generation of Mandalorian Supercommandos from the Imperial era. Although they withstand blaster fire better than average Stormtroopers and manage to take out a few Mandalorians, as well as capturing Din, their biggest advantage is in numbers, rather than superior skill.
  • An early iteration of the Praetorian Guards make their debut, outfitted with beskar armor of their own (the design of their helmets implies that it's refitted Mandalorian armor, rather than being forged specifically for them). Three of them make quick work of a disarmed and exhausted Paz Vizsla.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Several members of the Shadow Council believe that if they make a "show of strength" in an attack on the New Republic, citizens from across the galaxy will rise up behind them. They didn't get the memo that the Empire was brought down by the galaxy rebelling against its tyrannical rule, and that a "show of strength" like Tarkin's destruction of Alderaan ultimately sealed the Empire's fate.
• Evil Gloating: True to form, with Din on his knees and the other Mandalorians trapped behind a blast door, Gideon takes the opportunity to brag about his new Super Commandos and Powered Armor and his plan to complete the genocide of the Mandalorian people.
• Evil Is Petty: It is revealed that Gideon was behind Gorian Shard's attack on Nevarro for seemingly no other reason than spite.
• Explosive Overclocking: Paz Vizsla fires his gatling blaster for so long that it begins to melt from the heat of constant use, eventually destroying the internal mechanisms and rendering it a red-hot bludgeon.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • Karga's protocol droid worryingly informs him that an Imperial shuttle is approaching the city. Karga has to explain to him that a) it's actually a light cruiser, and b) the gigantic Mythosaur skull decal on the keel means they're actually Mandalorian privateers.
  • Also note that, for all his gloating to Din and Bo-Katan, and demanding the Darksaber, Gideon doesn't seem to notice Grogu riding IG-12 in the midst of the Mandalorians.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: We're treated to Paz's extended death at the hand of the Praetorian Guard, with each of the trio slowly forcing their weapons full length through his armor and into his body.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: The surviving Super Commandos from the initial ambush flee through a tunnel of obvious Imperial design, allowing the viewer to figure out that the Mandalorians are about to run into something much worse.
• Flaunting Your Fleets: The combined Nite Owl/Children of the Watch fleet, consisting of several captured Imperial cruisers and many Mandalorian fighters, departs Nevarro and jumps to Mandalore in an impressive display, signalling their triumphant return to their homeworld.
• Forgot About Her Powers: After Moff Gideon's trap is sprung and the blast doors come down, the Mandalorians try to shoot them open to get to their comrades on the other side, but fail to do any damage. Bo-Katan, meanwhile, doesn't pull out the Darksaber and start cutting holes until after Gideon's finished monologuing to her and Din's been taken away.
• Foreshadowing:
  • One of the members of the Shadow Council is Captain Pellaeon, a key figure in The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn, and quickly confirmed that his position comes from claimed connections to Thrawn.
  • Gideon says he's dubious about Thrawn's eventual return, since he has a network of spies across the galaxy and hasn't heard so much as a whisper of Thrawn's activities. This hints that Thrawn must be a great distance from the setting, enough that his ability to influence it is almost non-existent. This is followed up on in the Ahsoka series.
• Funny Background Event: Either a brief spot of levity or a troubling undertone, children who are too young to speak the Creed are shown wearing their own helmets, hand-made out of cloth and string.
• Godzilla Threshold: The other Imperial leaders find the idea of sending Moff Gideon additional troops, especially the Praetorian Guards, to be laughable. Gideon is already too ambitious for their tastes and they are not gonna weaken their own commands to make him stronger. Then they hear about the Mandalorian factions uniting and planning to take back Mandalore. They immediately change their minds and send him all the reinforcements he requested.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For the first time in live action, we see the leaders of the Imperial Remnant.
• Hate at First Sight: Paz Vizsla and Axe Woves pretty much hate each other the moment they lay eyes on one another. To their credit, they do at least try to make an attempt at civility, but all it takes is a disagreement over a game rule for them to pull out Vibro Blades and start trying to kill one another. It takes a stern admonishment from a certain foundling who cannot yet speak in his new Mini-Mecha made out of IG-11's remains to convince them to cool their jets.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Per usual, the Nite Owls doff their helmets when not in combat, and Axe Woves doesn't bother to don his when he gets into a fight with Paz Vizsla. They do don their helmets when they get into actual fights, however, making the gunfight between the Mandalorians and the Beskar Troopers a brawl of armored and helmeted warriors.
• Heroic Sacrifice: To keep the Super Commandos from overwhelming their retreat, Paz Vizsla seals the door between himself and the fleeing Mandalorians, and fights to his last breath to the point that his weapon overheats and it takes both exhaustion and three Praetorian Guards to finally kill him.
• Hope Spot: Even all alone and outnumbered by beskar-clad troopers, Paz Vizla manages to kill them all by himself. For a moment it seems like he might survive, until the Praetorian guards show up and quickly surround and impale him.
• I Lied: After the Night of a Thousand Tears, Moff Gideon offered to spare Mandalore's cities and people if Bo-Katan surrendered to him, which she did. Gideon proceeded to further raze Mandalore anyway. Naturally, when Gideon insists that Bo-Katan surrender the Darksaber in the present, even with blasters aimed at Din's head, she refuses to even entertain the notion.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Paz gets stabbed to death by the Praetorians, all three at once, forcing their weapons through his armor.
• Irony: For all Bo-Katan has been decrying that Mandalorians have always been weakened by internal conflict rather than defeated by an external enemy, their skill in fighting one another is what allows them to defeat the Beskar-clad Super Commandos.
• Last Stand: Paz Vizsla makes a last stand with his minigun blaster to cover the retreat of the Mandalorians from Moff Gideon's ambush.
• Lady and Knight: After hearing Bo-Katan's side of the story of how the Purge happened, Din confesses that he judged her wrongly and pledges himself to her. He specifies that this isn't because she's a princess of House Kryze or the owner of the Darksaber, but because he believes in her as a person.
  Din: To be honest, [the Darksaber] means nothing to me or my people. Nor does station or bloodline. What means more to me is honor, and loyalty, and character. These are the reasons I serve you, Lady Kryze. Your song is not yet written. I will serve you until it is.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Pellaeon urges the rest of the Shadow Council to keep the Imperial Remnant's true strength hidden while they wait for Thrawn to return. Gideon remarks that, for all the talk and anticipation of the Grand Admiral, he hasn't actually made an appearance and the council is getting impatient, lampshading how Thrawn hasn't been seen since the end of Star Wars Rebels.
• Logical Weakness: The beskar armor worn by the Super Commandos is resistant to blaster fire, but it still requires gaps to allow the wearers to move; a number of Super Commandos are killed by the Mandalorians (presumably familiar with the weaknesses of beskar armor) shooting them in the neck at close range. Mandalorians are also familiar with the shortcomings of beskar against blaster shots that haven't attenuated enough over range, with Paz hosing off some targets through their beskar with his repeating blaster.
• Love Confession: Din's heartfelt speech vowing Undying Loyalty to Bo-Katan based on his personal respect and admiration for her is staged exactly like a love confession, down to an especially poetic take on the phrase "until death do us part" and the music incorporating both their themes. He just never explicitly says the word love.
• Lured into a Trap: The Mandalorians close in on the Super Commandos and start inflicting casualties, forcing them to retreat. The Mandalorians pursue, falling right into Gideon's trap, sealing all but Din (and a few Red Shirts) between a pair of blast doors. Din, now badly outnumbered, is captured while the rest of the Mandalorians have to retreat, Paz staying behind to cover their escape at the cost of his life.
• The Man Behind the Man: Moff Gideon was behind the pirate attack on Nevarro, apparently for no reason other than petty spite, and the Imperial Remnant have been coordinating similar attacks to discredit the New Republic.
• Menacing Stroll: The Praetorian Guard introduce themselves by calmly strolling in once all the Super Commandos have been slain, backed by ominous chanting, kill Paz, then just stroll right back out of the room again.
• Mini-Mecha: The Anzellans have re-fitted IG-11 into IG-12, a piloted platform for Grogu.
• Mouth of Sauron: With the Grand Admiral himself absent, Captain Pellaeon represents Thrawn's interests on the Shadow Council.
• Mythology Gag: Gideon's helmet strongly resembles the spiked helmets that Death Watch adopted during Maul's brief tenure as the Mandalore. This episode shows that his base has been on Mandalore this whole time and his elite troops are all Super Commandos, so this was probably a deliberate choice on his part.
• Non-Answer: When asked whether the Children are related to the Death Watch, the Armorer just replies that Death Watch is no more.
• Nothing Is Scarier: We know the Imperials don't want the Mandalorians to retake Mandalore. We know Gideon has a plan to take care of their fleet. We know that the heroes are out of contact with the fleet while on the planet's surface. So when the Armorer is flying through the clouds for a few long drawn-out moments, it's a surprise for the audience when she clears the atmosphere and finds the fleet intact and waiting in orbit.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: The Imperial Remnant "rival factions" are putting on a show of being weak fiefdoms ruled by different petty warlords fighting each other in order to trick the New Repubilc into thinking they're not a threat worth grinding down. In secret, they're all unified together through the Shadow Council (albeit loosely and with a lot of bickering) - and staging just enough token attacks on each other to give the appearance of infighting, but not cut into the net gain they all get from avoiding direct conflict with the Republic.
• Oh, Crap!: The reaction of the Shadow Council when Gideon tells them that the Mandalorians are preparing to retake their homeworld. Up until now there's been a fair degree of bickering between them, each one clearly out for their own interests, but knowing only too well what a resurgent Mandalore will mean for their plans (especially since Gideon's operation is on the planet), they unanimously agree that it has to be crushed immediately.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Right from its name, the Shadow Council, which consists of Moff Gideon, Captain Pellaeon, Commandant Brendol Hux, and six other former Imperial higher-ups, now fugitives. They have hidden plans to rebuild the Empire, potentially with the help of Grand Admiral Thrawn, but there's some obvious bickering going on.
• One-Man Army: Fighting alone to cover his comrades' escape, Paz Vizsla manages to defeat all of the Super Commandos sent against him, and even holds his own for a brief time against the Praetorian Guard.
• Operation: [Blank]: Brendol Hux's current pet project is something involving cloning dubbed "Project Necromancer", heavily implied to be related to Palpatine's contingency plan.
• Powered Armor: Gideon wears a cybernetic beskar suit, an upgrade on the Dark Troopers, meant for a man to wear. He declares this makes him the Dark Troopers' greatest improvement. Ironically, having a human beneath the armor was previously considered "the final weakness to be solved" (per "The Rescue"). Also serves as an Easter Egg for the final boss of the Legends-era Dark Forces where the Dark Trooper concept was introduced.
• Product Placement: The Coruscant beverage Greef gifts it to Din is actually a bottle of Cincoro Añejo Tequila.
• Pull Yourself Down the Spear: Averted. Paz Vizsla clearly attempts to do this to the first Praetorian who impales him: he gets a death-grip on one side of his head and struggles to bring his other arm around to snap his neck against it. Unfortunately it's a three-on-one fight, so the other two guards manage to run him through with their blades as well before he can finish off the first one.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": This is played for laughs in most cases when Grogu gleefully abuses IG-12's "Yes" and "No" response buttons multiple times, providing both this and Rapid-Fire "Yes!". It's played straight later when Grogu breaks up a petty knife duel between Paz Vizsla and Axe Woves before either can seriously injure each other.
• Rent-a-Zilla: A giant monster erupts from the glass surface and destroys the Mandalorians' glass skimmer with its enormous club-like tail.
• The Reveal:
  • Bo-Katan informs the group how Moff Gideon came to possess the Darksaber. She surrendered herself on the promise that the rest of her people would be spared when defeat was inevitable. Moff Gideon went back on that promise and bombed whatever was left of Mandalore.
  • The Remnant Leadership are shown, including Pellaeon with a possible connection to Thrawn. Not all are convinced he's really there, though, with Gideon even noting his own sources haven't been able to confirm anything. Further, the "former imperial warlords" are actually working together to destabilize the New Republic and lay the groundwork for his and the Empire's return.
  • Moff Gideon is confirmed to be responsible for the pirate attack on Nevarro. Elia Kane is also confirmed to have been serving Moff Gideon as The Mole on Coruscant since she joined the Amnesty Program, and is working with him to undermine the New Republic.
  • The so-called "Imperial Warlords" throughout the galaxy are actually all part of the Shadow Council, but have to keep up the appearance of disorganized remnants fighting for scraps in the Outer Rim because they know if the New Republic got word of their united front, they'd come down on them.
  • The Armorer implicitly confirms that the Children of the Watch are an offshoot of the Death Watch, formed when the latter (which the Armorer says no longer exists) splintered during the Clone Wars.
  • The beskar alloy found on the shuttle in "The Pirate" was from new beskar-armored Super Commandos.
  • Moff Gideon has had a garrison on Mandalore the entire time, which is presumably the origin of the Interceptor fleet that attacked Kalevala in "The Convert".
• Sacrificial Lion: Just to establish how dangerous the Praetorian Guard are, they're able to kill Paz Vizsla, who just tanked multiple blaster shots and gunned down an entire group of Super Commandos, in a few short moves.
• Screw Your Ultimatum!: Gideon demands the Darksaber in return for the lives of Bo-Katan's party. The response is blaster fire from the Mandalorians as Bo-Katan cuts an exit through the rear blast door.
• Serious Business: Paz Vizsla is willing to draw a knife and challenge Axe Woves to single combat because they disagreed about the rules for a board game, though Axe's superior attitude certainly did nothing to calm the situation.
• Shadow Government: True to its name, the Shadow Council is a group of high-ranked Imperial officials ruling the Remnant in secret while putting up the facade that it's still fragmented.
• Silly Reason for War: Subverted. Paz Vizsla and Axe Woves disagree about the rules of a game they are playing and decide to resolve the issue with a knife duel. However, it is pretty clear that this is just an excuse for a fight and the real reason is the conflicting ideologies between the Children of the Watch and the Nite Owls. Vizsla and Woves are the most outspoken representatives of their factions and thus most eager to pick a fight. Lampshaded when Din wonders who will break the fight up and Bo-Katan replies that no-one can without implying favoritism to one side. Because the pretext is so silly, there's no objection when Grogu decides to Take a Third Option (since he hasn't been formally made a Child of the Watch) by stopping the fight.
• Solemn Ending Theme: Chapter 7's solemn ending theme is repeated here after Djarin's capture, Paz Vizsla's death, and Bo-Katan and Grogu's retreat.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Pellaeon fills in for his boss in suffering this, as most of the Shadow Council are greedy, bloodthirsty blowhards who just want to stick it to the New Republic. Pellaeon has to point out twice within a minute that they can't present a united front or they'll be wiped out by the larger, better armed new government. The council members are also easily swayed by Gideon's prodding, though at least one member recognizes what he's doing and snickers.
• The Starscream: Gideon voices a lack of confidence that Thrawn will return, implying he wants to claim the resurgent Empire as his own.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • Although united in common cause, the Shadow Council has obvious tensions and factions: on the one hand, Pellaeon and Hux appear strongly allied and working closely with Thrawn, while Gideon freely voices frustration with Pellaeon's constant assurances that Thrawn will make his return and tries to weaken their position by sowing discord with the others. There's also the clear implication that Gideon had Pershing incapacitated to waylay Hux's efforts.
  • There is some initial, but anticipated tension between the Children of the Watch and the Nite Owls when the two factions first meet face to face, culminating in a knife fight between Paz Viszla and Axe Woves. The tension melts away over the course of the episode as the two groups fight alongside each other.
• Undying Loyalty:
  • Captain Pellaeon, even in the face of skepticism from Gideon and other members of the Shadow Council, repeatedly insists that Grand Admiral Thrawn will make his grand return and that he is the Imperial Remnant's greatest hope.
  • The Mandalorians who remained on their homeworld immediately reaffirm their loyalty to Bo-Katan when she returns to the planet, despite it having been well over a decade since the Purge.
  • After Bo-Katan expresses doubt in her ability to lead Mandalore again, Din wholeheartedly pledges his fealty to her, swearing to serve and support her going forward, his faith clearly touching her heart.
• We ARE Struggling Together:
  • Bo-Katan lampshades the fact that the Mandalorians' factionalism has always been their biggest weakness and why their world was destroyed. Sure enough, Paz Vizsla and Axe Woves get into a spat over the rules of a game and might have killed each other if not stopped by Grogu.
  • Similarly, the Imperial Remnant is also plagued by bickering and infighting. However, the prospect of a resurgent Mandalore scares them all into grudgingly working together.
• We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This: Said almost verbatim by Moff Gideon upon seeing Bo-Katan behind the blast door after he captures Din.
• We Meet Again: At the end of the episode, Moff Gideon comments on the recurring-ness of his confrontations with the Mandalorians.
  Moff Gideon: Bo-Katan... We have to stop meeting like this.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Grogu is the only one with the presence of mind and strength of character to step in between Axe and Paz and stop their fight.
• Worf Had the Flu: Paz Vizsla, who was established as the biggest and strongest of the Mandalorians, breaks his repeating blaster fighting a platoon of Super Commandos and is exhausted fighting the remainder in close combat. He is then quickly killed by Praetorian Guards, who outnumber him three-to-one and are still fresh.
• You Shall Not Pass!: After the Mandalorians are ambushed by Moff Gideon's forces, Paz Vizsla sacrifices himself fighting off these forces long enough for his fellow Mandalorians to escape.
  Paz Vizsla: This is the way.

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