(That doesn’t work out so well for Gor Koresh.)ĭestination: Tatooine, to look for another Mandalorian who might be able to help. (Once again, The Mandalorian isn’t trying too hard to hide its Lone Wolf and Cub influence.) Mando gets the information he needs from Koresh then leaves him hanging, literally, putting him at the mercy of the creatures with the glowing eyes.
And so, it turns out, is the Child, whose floating carriage has gotten a weapons upgrade between seasons, allowing him to disappear into his shell like a pill bug while the carriage takes out their enemies. He wants Mando’s armor and is willing to kill him to get it. They also find that Gor Koresh can’t be trusted. At the end of their journey, they find an almost certainly illegal arena where Gamorreans fight to the death. Mando’s looking for a shady, Cyclopean character by the name of Gor Koresh (John Leguizamo, though his voice is so unrecognizable you might not have noticed that until the credits), and to get there he has to take the Child through back alleys that are filled with graffiti and home to some snarling, light-averse creatures with glowing eyes. This one, at least, bears fruit, but not without first placing our heroes in peril. It’s quite possible that the blighted urban hellscape they visit in the opening sequence is one of many such places they’ve traveled searching for clues. It’s not clear how much time has passed, but Mando and the Child haven’t gotten too deep into their search for the Jedi. Written and directed by Favreau, “Chapter 9: The Marshal” picks up where “Chapter 8: Redemption” left off.
Based on “The Marshal,” the first episode of the show’s second season, showrunner Jon Favreau seems to know it. That’s a pretty great setup for a second season, one that gives the season shape while still allowing the series to flit from place to place and from (mostly) self-contained story to (mostly) self-contained story. An orphan and an exile, they now had to wander the galaxy with scarcely a friend to call their own and only the Razor Crest to call home. Instead, the Mando assumed a new quest: get the Child back to the Jedi even though the Jedi and the Mandalorians don’t exactly have a great history.
Though they defeated Gideon - who, as far as they know, didn’t survive the showdown - Mando and his sidekick didn’t exactly get to bask in victory. When last we saw the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and the Child, they were leaving the site of season one’s climactic showdown with Moff Gideon, an Imperial dead-ender determined to snatch the child for his own nefarious purposes.
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