It's the penultimate episode of Season One, and man is it a good one.
Mando receives a message from Greef Karga, who informs him that The Client has effectively occupied his town on Navarro. He offers to cancel the contract on The Child if Mando helps him kill The Client. Although it's an obvious trap, Mando realises that he can't pass up an opportunity for the guild to lose interest in him or his charge. He recruits Cara Dune and the ugnaught, whose name is revealed to be Kuill. They're also joined by IG-11, whom Kuill has rebuilt and programmed to act as a nurse and protector for The Child.
This episode is full of tension from all directions. Mando has serious misgivings about IG-11, stemming from his previous attempt to kill Baby Yoda combined with his own prejudice against droids. There's also moments where Cara butts heads with Kuill over their services during the Galactic Civil War, as Cara served the Rebellion while Kuill worked for the Empire in indentured servitude. We also see what Baby Yoda is capable of with his use of The Force.
The tension only ramps up as the party arrives on Navarro, meeting Karga and several hunters. Both groups give each other some serious side-eye, and there's a moment when they're attacked by hostile fauna which results in a hard choice being made. What follows is a "Trojan Prisoner" strategy to deliver Mando and Baby Yoda's pram to The Client in a town occupied by stormtroopers.
It all amounts to a harrowing cliffhanger which leaves me excited to see the next episode.
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