History Recap / StarWarsRebelsS3E08AnInsideMan

** Just because Thrawn is CrazyPrepared and ProperlyParanoid doesn't mean he can keep his eyes on everything--Which means Ryder can create a blind spot that will allow our heroes to escape.

** Kallus tells Ezra that they should have warned him before slamming him into a console, to which Ezra responds "Where's the fun in that?" Anakin and Rex had a similar exchange in Season 2 of ''The Clone Wars'' (albeit Rex was tossed off a collapsing wall).

* HeDidntMakeIt: Ezra re Mr. Sumar.

* BerserkButton: Ezra wants to charge at Thrawn for murdering Morad Sumar, but Kanan holds him back from doing so to maintain their cover.

* A patrol finds a pair of troopers not answering what they were guarding, not giving their operating numbers, and asks which section they were supposed to be in and then walking away just like that? Yeah, that's totally suspicious, especially since they were alerted to the news that infiltrators are in the facility.

* VehicularTurnabout: Ezra, Kanan and Chopper hijack an AT-DP. When they're caught in the act and nearly crushed by an AT-AT, they use their lightsabers to enter and steal that.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Since [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome obviously]], they're not going to immediately trust an adversary that has been their enemy for ''years'', and Kallus doesn't have time to explain everything that's happened to him since the last time they've had a close confrontation like this, he makes a quick sum up of why the trio should trust him now.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Since [[RealityEnsues obviously]], they're not going to immediately trust an adversary that has been their enemy for ''years'', and Kallus doesn't have time to explain everything that's happened to him since the last time they've had a close confrontation like this, he makes a quick sum up of why the trio should trust him now.

* RealityEnsues:

* TheReveal: Agent Kallus is the new Fulcrum... and it seems that Thrawn knows. Kallus appears wary of this too.

** Kallus, at the end, when Thrawn implies he may have figured out that he's the ReverseMole.

* ReverseMole: Agent Kallus is against the Empire now and is helping the Rebels to bring them down.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Poor worksmanship, whether intentional or not, is now punishable by ''execution''.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kallus, and Lyste to a lesser extent, are both disturbed by Thrawn letting Mr. Sumar be killed by the sabotaged speeder just to make a point. Pryce, however, took considerable pleasure seeing Sumar get killed in such a manner.

* InternalReveal: The rest of the crew finally learn about Zeb and Kallus helping each other survive on Bahryn, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain despite having agreed they wouldn't tell anyone about it]]. Ezra's tone and the reaction of the others suggests that even after Kallus revealed to Sabine he had a debt he owed Zeb when he'd helped her escape in "The Antilles Extraction", Zeb had not told them exactly what that debt was.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Thrawn kills Mr. Sumar in front of the other workers to make clear that sabotage, let alone shoddy worksmanship, will no longer be tolerated.

* ReverseMole: Agent Kallus is against the Empire now.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ezra mentions that Phoenix Squadron is getting the help of another rebel cell for the planned attack on Lothal.

!!Tropes in this episode:

* BerserkButton: Ezra wanted to charge at Thrawn for murdering Morad Sumar, but Kanan had to stop him from doing so to maintain their cover.
* BlofeldPloy: A somewhat downplayed example. When Thrawn nears the end of his spiel about saboteurs to the factory workers, he glares at Ezra...only to suddenly turn his attention towards Mr. Sumar to test a malfunctioning speeder he built (and winding up dead). Granted, Thrawn most likely didn't know Kanan and Ezra were there.
* TheBusCameBack:
** As the Specters return to Lothal, Lyste and Azadi return after their previous appearances in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E09Legacy "Legacy"]] and [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E10APrincessOnLothal "A Princess on Lothal"]].

** Back in the five-year plan shown in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E06EmpireDay "Empire Day"]], Sabine and Tseebo mentioned (as well as through [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]]) that there were experimental models and prototypes (such as a new disruptor -- which is why Minister Tua was sent to retrieve the older models to use as prototypes in [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E01DroidsInDistress "Droids in Distress"]]) being built in Lothal's factories.

* DeathGlare: To prove his point to Kallus that victory and defeat are often decided by the most minute of details, Thrawn has him remotely control a walker's movement. When the walker collapses due to previous sabotage by local Rebel sympathizers, Thrawn immediately looks to Pryce and Kallus before giving the worker responsible for the walker's sabotage one of these and ordering his arrest. The worker [[VerbalBackpedaling tries desperately to get himself out of his predicament,]] [[BadLiar saying that the walker that collapsed was not his work but the one right next to it]], which needless to say doesn't work.

* HeyWait: An unusual inversion. Kallus calls Kanan and Ezra into the elevator, then they're outed leading them to think they've been caught . . . only for them to find out Kallus is Fulcrum.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Thrawn kills Mr. Sumar in front of the other workers to make clear the sabotage, let alone shoddy worksmanship will no longer be tolerated.

* MuggedForDisguise: A Scout Trooper and a Stormtrooper get to "donate" their uniforms to Ezra and Kanan.

** Thrawn's MakeAnExampleOfThem against Mr. Sumar is darkly reminiscent of when the former's ''Legends'' counterpart executed another disloyal subordinate -- albeit for trying to cover his mistakes by blaming his superior, instead of actually being an undercover rebel.

* VehicularSabotage: The local workers in Lothal's factories build the Empire's machines to break. Thrawn rectifies this by having the workers test the machines they build -- assuming they survive the testing.

** The last scene of the episode heavily implies that Thrawn knows Kallus is the traitor based on reports from a few witnesses, Kallus knows Thrawn knows he's the traitor, and Thrawn knows that too. However, Thrawn wants the mole to humor him first.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Thrawn kills Mr. Sumar in front of the other workers to make clear the sabotage will no longer be tolerated.

** Just because Thrawn is CrazyPrepared and ProperlyParanoid doesn't mean he can keep his eyes on everything.

* FreezeFrameBonus: It's quick and mostly hidden by the angle, but Kallus is visibly surprised when Kanan takes off his helmet, as he didn't know he'd been blinded.