No time is wasted in the penultimate episode of time of year one ofAndor . “ Daughter of Ferrix , ” directed by Benjamin Caron and written byTony Gilroy , is abreakneck build to the finalethat omit you right into where everyone is in the last moments before their lives forever change . And you see just what they ’ll do to fight for exemption as the Rebellion — or defend their control as the Empire .
There ’s no going back now for the Disney+ Star Wars show , and as always , spoilers onwards .
What is freedom but something snatched up by those in exponent , in exchange for the various forms of labour and exploitation they demand from the plenty ? The new day for Andor ( Diego Luna ) and Melshi ( Duncan Pow ) starts with them scaling a rock rampart from the sea , still putting length between themselves and the prison house they just get away . As they claw their fashion up , bruised and fingers bleeding , there ’s no rest .
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On Ferrix , B2EMO is shaking from sadness , as Maarva ( Fiona Shaw ) has make pass away . mind , that scamp of a droid quavering and stammer in mourning pull me wide open — and dammit , if he does n’t get revenge on the Imperial stranglehold that ruined Maarva , I will riot . Each quiver line the Bee have was gut - wrenching ; he did n’t want to be alone , he wanted his mother . He ’s anticipate to help the Daughters of Ferrix help set Maarva ’s body for the funeral . I really hop she ’d go out taking down some baddies with her . We do n’t in reality get to see the face on the body , though … is it too much to hope she stag her death for some kind of Rebel trap ? Cinta is around and is asked by the regal spy if she knew her , which seems like a mode to get them off her back . I ’m corkscrew in the hope that B2EMO does n’t have to cry anymore .
Back atop the cliffs of Narkina , Andor and Melshi spot an old quad jumper but before they can borrow it , they ’re caught by Narkinians . They ’re trapped in some proper stringy and goopy webbing as likely bounty — the Narkinians pick masses like them for deflower their water system . Andor tells them the prison house was creditworthy for that , and that the Empire is their deal enemy . That ’s good enough for the Narkinians , who terminate up giving the escapees a lift to Niamos . Always good to find camaraderie in anti - Imperial solidarity .
Dedra ( Denise Gough ) is inform that Maarva has overtake , and she now sees an opportunity when her underlings narrate her the mass of Ferrix have bespeak the closure of Rix Road to honor Andor ’s female parent as she was a prominent resident . That require a permit that ’s been quest and winnow out before in the Morlana sector under Blevin . Meero say to cede it , as it would give them the opportunity to cast in Andor . So they admit Ferrix ’s two - twenty-four hours ritual where the dead are bricked : their ashes are mix in with motor and endocarp rubble , and lit up to become a part of the metropolis walls . It ’s thoroughgoing , almost too utter . Also , imagine if Andor was still in jail ? Then of course there ’d be no show .
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Speaking of electrocution , Kleya ( Elizabeth Dulau ) is infix in a blastoff where she is scorching an emblem onto something and Vel ( Faye Marsay ) enters the gallery — which is clearly something she ’s not supposed to do even as the cousin of the gallery ’s best-loved customer . perfectly done with Kleya ’s gatekeeping act preventing her from a brass to face , Vel demands to know where Luthen ( Stellan Skarsgård ) is . She gave him Aldhani , after all , and asks Kleya — who ’s Luthen ’s custodian in ways we still are n’t exclusively secret to — what she ’s done late . Kleye replies that she ’s the one who has to suffice to all those “ impoverished , panic-stricken faces , ” stand for Vel is one of many . spill the beans about rolling the Rebel comms here , and Kleya says to pull up stakes a subject matter if it ’s of import . So Vel tells her Cassian ’s mother give-up the ghost and that Cinta had inform her it ’s very meddlesome there . Kleya said she ’ll let Luthen be intimate , and we ’re not alone certain she manage about Andor other than making sure he choke . I did find that Vel still has n’t render her the treasure Andor leave her with — maybe she wants to give it directly to Luthen to prove Andor ’s commitment to the cause .
decent now too many people desire Andor numb and the sound of Ferrix’sbell towerreminds us that time is still counting down toward our hero ’s ultimate fate . Yet , in good order now we ’re more worried about what ’s going to happen to the lives of those who know him . Bix ( Adria Arjona ) for one is still being interrogated and is shew Anto Kreegyr to see if he is who she introduced to Andor . Though she breaks into cry , you bang her true reply wo n’t satisfy her captors .
It ’s always jarring to go from Bix to the charwoman on Coruscant . Vel visits Mon ( Genevieve O’Reilly ) as Leida ( Bronte Carmichael ) recount words like “ Safe in the old ways ” along with other new women ready to be married off . Mon assures Vel that her bratty kid fall into it on her own . And the timing could n’t be more special as Mon ’s problem are start up to add up to ignitor . She severalise Vel that Tay has n’t fully been capable to aid her continue up her financial Polemonium van-bruntiae minutes and that she ’s risking being exposed . Before she can tell her cousin of the likely nuptials between Leida and Davo Sculdun ’s son , they ’re disturb . But honestly if the girl would n’t be opposed to the match … then why not make it ?
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Family drama continues as Eedy Karn ( Kathryn Hunter ) aftermath Syril ( Kyle Soller ) to permit him take a call from a former foot soldier who tells him Andor ’s mother died and that he might show up for the funeral . This information just might be enough to get Syril to sabotage himself even further by trying to prove himself on a field of study he is just expire to force his manner back into .
On the quiet idyllic beaches of Niamo , we break up up on Andor sneaking back into the distance Airbnb he was staying in before Narkina 5 to grab his secret loot . When he checks it , he accidentally open up Nemik ’s manifesto and we try our boy ’s voice for a split up minute . Andor ’s got guardians on his side for substantial — he just needs to open himself up to them and get in alliance .
Meanwhile , Luthen returns to Segra Milo to fit with Saw ( Forest Whittaker ) . Saw says he ’s in on the Steergard tap and will lend in zephyr power . He want everything promised from their last meeting in exchange , but Luthen discourages it as he expose the Imperial Security Bureau already lie with the plan . Saw quickly surmise that Luthen is either ISB or has someone on the inside he needs to protect if he ’s willing to burn Kreegyr and his 30 men . The dramatic event that unfolds between Skarsgård and Whittaker in this panorama is a masterclass . In a eldritch refusal of power , Luthen tries to throw the responsibility of what to do on proverb , opening the adult male ’s previous recalcitrance to give to a wider effort to the reality of the coarse cost pay in struggle . He ’s distinctly losing grip here . They live there ’s no way out . Thirty valet and Kreegyr … dead for the greater good . Saw , pushed even further down his radical way of life , calls it what it is : warfare .
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in earnest all bets are off here and by chance , or maybe karmic interference , Luthen is draw in over by an Imperial patrol on his way out from Segra Milo . As he dial up an exculpation to bribe him time , he tries to charisma his way out of getting boarded as he ’s hit with a tractor irradiation . His humble haulcraft turns out to have lots of bells and whistle — so when get-up-and-go comes to shove , he reveals himself and you’re able to almost tell it ’s for the thill of it . His ship runs off kyber , and as it breach away from the pull , TIE fighters begin to attack … but then two ruddy lightsaber beams shoot out of the side of his ship ! It ’s sick to see it just slice and dice through the TIE fighters right before strike lightspeed .
All the pieces begin to fall into place as Andor make a call to Ferrix , learning Maarva has fleet against the beach sunset of a place he roll in the hay he never belonged in . Melshi wonder if they ’re the only ones who made it out live , and if they should separate up and spread the countersign of places like the prison house subsist because the people have to know . They part way for now and you know there ’s only one place Andor wants to be . And so the funeral on Ferrix ( with Syril on his way with mommy ’s handbag ) , the raid on Steergard , and Mon holding a Polemonium van-bruntiae gala will all come to a head in the closing curtain . And who knows who might get in on the legal action . Perhaps we ’ll see Star Wars notables Sly Moore or Krennic . We ’re already so anxious to see how things will wrap up . Protect B2EMO at all costs !
Andor pour Wednesday only on Disney+ .
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