History Recap / AndorS1E3Reckoning

--> "[[OneManArmy Make ten men feel like a hundred]]."

-->"Gets to you, doesn’t it? '''That’s what a reckoning sounds like.''' You want it to stop, but it just keeps coming. It’s when it stops, that’s when [[NothingIsScarier you’ll really want to start to fret]]."

* BlindShoulderToss: Luthen is willing to buy the Starpath Unit but is more interested in recruiting the kind of man who could walk into an Imperial base and steal it. He repeatedly tells off Cassian for trying to run back and fetch it when they should be escaping.

* SkewedPriorities: Luthen admonishes Cassian for trying the save the Starpath unit instead of his own life.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his recruitment speech to Cassian, Luthen describes the Empire's oppression as "the voice that tells you when to go, when to stop, when to move". Cassian will encounter a particularly literal manifestation of this oppression later in the season.

* VehicularSabotage: Unbeknownst to the fleeing pilot, Pre-Mor's transport ship is tied to a large piece of equipment on the ground that is firmly tethered to the ground, and when he attempts to take off, the ship ends up swinging and explosively crashing into a tower.

'''Cassian:''' What--to steal from the Empire? What do you need? A [[DressingAsTheEnemy uniform]], [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit]]. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.]]\\

* VillainousBreakdown: Karn grows increasingly terrified as the episode goes on and the situation spirals out of control for his team. By the end of the episode when most of his men are down and Andor has escaped, he can't even speak, looking utterly shell-shocked.

* BittersweetEnding: In any other ''Star Wars'' story, Cassian and Luthen's escape would end with the heroes celebrating, but nobody's doing much of that here. Bix has lost her boyfriend, who she still loves even though he screwed over her friend and brought the cops onto the town; Maarva is left crying in her son's ransacked bedroom, not knowing if she'll ever see him again; Karn's ambitions just literally blew up in his face in the worst way possible and he's gotten several of his own men killed; and Cassian is getting uprooted from his home once again.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When one of Bix's friends comes to warn her that someone's tipped off the cops and they've come for Cassian, she starts out to go help Cassian, and Timm stops her and tells her Cassian can look after himself. Bix points out that neither she or her friend had mentioned Cassian's name while he was in earshot, and realizes that the only way Timm could have leapt to the correct conclusion about who the cops are after is that he was the one who ratted Cassian out.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When one of Bix's friends comes to warn her that someone's tipped off the cops and they've come for Cassian, she starts out to go help Cassian, and Timm stops her and tells her Cassian can look after himself. Bix points out that neither she or her friend had mentioned Cassian's name, and realizes that the only way Timm could have leapt to the correct conclusion about who the cops are after is that he was the one who ratted Cassian out.

->''"Gets to you, doesn't it? Tha's what a reckoning sounds like. You want it to stop, but it just keeps coming. It's when it stops, that's when you’ll really want to start to fret."''

Backed against a wall, Cassian makes his last bid to escape off-world.

-->'''Cassian:''' You just [[BavarianFireDrill walk in like you belong]].
-->'''Luthen:''' It takes more than that, doesn't it?
-->'''Cassian:''' What--to steal from the Empire? What do you need? A [[DressingAsTheEnemy uniform]], [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit]]. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. [[WeHaveBecomeComplacent They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.]]
-->'''Luthen:''' Can't imagine what?
-->'''Cassian:''' That someone like me [[RightUnderTheirNoses would ever get inside their house]]. Walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.

* VillainousBreakdown: Karn grows increasingly terrified as the episode goes on and the situation spirals out of control for his team.

* PrecisionFStrike: Mosk averts PardonMyKlingon when he mutters, "Shit. We're under siege."

* ThousandYardStare: Karn is staring lifelessly after the op to arrest Cassian has gone straight to hell. Mosk can't snap him out of it and just drags him along on their retreat.
* TitleDrop: From Maarva to the two guarding her as the town's warning bells ring louder:
-->"Gets to you, doesn’t it? '''That’s what a reckoning sounds like.''' You want it to stop, but it just keeps coming. It’s when it stops, that’s when [[NothingIsScarier you’ll really want to start to fret]]."
* TriggerHappy: An unarmed Timm is gunned down when he charges towards the Corpos who have roughed up his girlfriend, and Karn opens fire on several Jawas after breaking into their home (fortunately he misses).
* VehicularSabotage: Unbeknownst to the fleeing pilot, Pre-Mor's transport ship is tied to a large piece of equipment on the ground that is firmly tethered to the ground, and when he attempts to take off, the ship ends up swinging and explosively crashing into a tower.