Category: Book Of Boba Fett, The

Not long after escaping from the Sarlacc and being captured by a tribe of Tusken Raiders, Fett discovers that their tribe is frequently targeted by aggressors who run a speeder train on a route through their territory, and offers to tip the balance back in the Tuskens’ favor. Doing so earns their trust – and earns Fett a place among their tribe.

In the present, Fett questions the would-be assassin captured by Fennec Shand. With a little persuasion, the assassin reveals that his services were paid for by the Mayor of Mos Espa, who is the next person Fett and his party visit. But the Mayor admits to nothing, and tells Fett he should visit Garsa Fwip for more information. It is then that two Hutt twins – cousins of the late Jabba the Hutt – arrive to lay claim to what once belonged to their kin. Though they leave after nothing more than a terse exchange of verbal threats, there is little doubt that the dispute remains unsettled.

written by Jon Favreau
directed by Steph Green
music by Joseph Shirley
music themes by Ludwig Gorannson

Cast: Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Matt Berry (voice of 8D8), David Pasquesi (Mok Shaiz’s Majordomo), Jennifer Beals (Garsa Fwip), Carey Jones (Black Krrsantan), Paul Darnell (Night Wind Assassin), Frank Trigg (Gamorrean Guard), Collin Hymes (Gamorrean Guard), Galen Howard (City Hall Clerk), Robert Rodriguez (voice of Mayor Mok Shaiz), Andrea Bartlow (Twi’lek Server), Marlon Aquino (Twi’lek Server), Murphy Patrick Martin (Drummer), Joanna Bennett (Tusken Warrior), Wesley Kimmel (Tusken Kid), Xavier Jiminez (Tusken Chief), Mandy Kowalski (Camie), Skyler Bible (Fixer), Alfred Hsing (Pyke Traveler), Daniel Logan (young Boba Fett), John Rosengrant (Mayor Mok Shaiz performance artist), Chris Bartlett (Droid Server performance artist)

Notes: The Star Wars deep cuts are strong with this one – from the first live-action appearance of popular Wookiee comic character Black Krrsantan, to just about the deepest cut imaginable, characters who were entirely deleted from the original 1977 cut of Star Wars itself. The couple in the cantina which Boba Fett rids of raiders is Fixer and Camie, two characters who would have appeared in Star Wars as friends of one Luke Skywalker, skeptical of his hopes to leave Tatooine and become part of something greater. But their original filmed appearances alongside Luke and Biggs were left on the cutting room floor; they would have appeared in close proximity to Biggs’ declaration to Luke that he was leaving to join the Rebellion (another scene cut in its entirety), and Luke spotting the firefight between the Star Destroyer and Leia’s ship. (Both characters were recast for their appearance in this episode.)

Fett’s remembrance of his time among the Tuskens closes on a tragic note; having returned from trying to establish a business relationship with the Pykes on behalf of the Tusken tribe, Fett discovers that his tribe has been completely wiped out.

After hearing complaints of a gang of young speeder bike riders who have added droid parts to their bodies, Fett ventures into Mos Espa, but instead of taking on the gang, he recruits them as his personal guards. Back at his palace (formerly Jabba’s palace), Fett’s latest visit to the bacta tank is interrupted by an unannounced – and nearly fatal – visit from Krrsantan, sent by the Hutt twins to kill their rival. Fett’s new recruits prove instrumental in saving his life, and the Wookiee assassin is trapped in the pit formerly used to house Jabba’s Rancor. The Hutts arrive to declare an awkward truce with Fett before retreating to Nal Hutta because another crime syndicate has laid claim to Mos Espa: the Pykes.

written by Jon Favreau
directed by Robert Rodriguez
music by Joseph Shirley
music themes by Ludwig Gorannson

Cast: Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Matt Berry (voice of 8D8), Stephen Root (Lortha Peel), Sophie Thatcher (Drash), Jordan Bolger (Skad), Carey Jones (Black Krrsantan), Danny Trejo (Rancor Keeper), David Pasquesi (Mok Shaiz’s Majordomo), Frank Trigg (Gamorrean Guard), Collin Hymes (Gamorrean Guard), Daniel Logan (young Boba Fett), Xavier Jiminez (Tusken Chief), Joanna Bennett (Tusken Warrior), Wesley Kimmel (Tusken Kid), Phil Lamarr (voice of Pyke Boss), Murphy Patrick Martin (Drummer), Galen Howard (City Hall Clerk), Jamie Alexander (Pyke Boss performance artist), Chris Bartlett (Traffic Protocol Droid performance artist)

Notes: Fett has indeed ridden beasts larger than his new Rancor – notably in his very first appearance, in the animated segment of Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).

Mandalorian Din Djarin has returned to the life of a bounty hunter – a bounty hunter who wields the Darksaber…or wields it clumsily, at any rate. Seeking the help of fellow Mandalorians after he accidentally injures himself with the weapon, he encounters the Armorer he knew from the Mandalorian covert on Nevarro. At her insistence, he surrenders his beskar spear to be melted down, but asks her to turn it into a suit of armor for Grogu. But when Djarin reveals to the Armorer that he has been seen without his helmet, he is excommunicated from the covert and told that he must reclaim his honor in the the water beneath Mandalore’s surface, even though the planet is now considered uninhabitable.

Returning to Tatooine, he visits Peli Motto, who claims to have found a worthy successor to the Razor Crest – in this case, a Naboo N-1 starfighter to which she makes some custom modifications. Returning from a test flight that convinces him that the fighter, while an Old Republic relic, could prove handy for either fight or flight, the Mandalorian is accosted by Fennec Shand, recruiting him to Boba Fett’s cause.

written by Jon Favreau
directed by Bryce Dallas Howard
music by Joseph Shirley
music themes by Ludwig Gorannson

Cast: Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Amy Sedaris (Peli Motto), Ardeshir Radpour (Kaba Baiz), Helen Sadler (Ishi Tib Guild Master), Arden Voyles (Rodian Child), Leilani Shiu (Jawa), Max Lloyd-Jones (Lieutenant Reed), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Captain Carson Teva), Chris Bartlett (Glavis Caskadag performance artist), Safiya Fredericks (Ishi Tib Guild Master performance artist)

Notes: The cryogenic density combustion booster requested by the Mandalorian and Peli looks exactly like one of the pole-like items used by Han, Luke, and Leia to attempt to stop the trash compactor in Star Wars. Though credited, Temuera Morrison does not appear in this episode beyond the recap of previous episodes.

Marshall Cobb Vanth interrupts a Pyke spice exchange near Mos Pelgo; when three of the four Pykes try to draw down on him, he drops them where they stand, and sends the surviving Pyke home – without his spice shipment – to tell the syndicate to stay out of Mos Pelgo.

The Mandalorian, in his new fighter, visits the planet where Jedi Master Luke Skywalker already has a school for new Jedi under construction. Luke is already attempting to teach Grogu the ways of the Force, and Ahsoka is there as well, seemingly to dissuade the Mandalorian from seeing Grogu. She offers to deliver the gift of Grogu’s armor, but warns that seeing the Mandalorian in person will sabotage Grogu’s immersion in the Jedi tradition of detachment. The Mandalorian reluctantly allows Ahsoka to deliver the armor and leaves without Grogu seeing him. On Tatooine, he sits in on a briefing at Fett’s palace, learning that Fett lacks any kind of army for the coming conflict with the Pykes. The Mandalorian goes to Mos Pelgo – renamed Freetown by its citizens – to recruit Vanth and his townsfolk into helping rid Tatooine of the Pyke scourge. But after the Mandalorian leaves, another visitor walks into Freetown to deliver a very different message to Vanth from the Pykes.

written by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni
directed by Dave Filoni
music by Joseph Shirley
music themes by Ludwig Gorannson

Cast: Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Timothy Olyphant (Cobb Vanth), Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano), Jordan Bolger (Skad), Sophie Thatcher (Drash), Carey Jones (Black Krrsantan), David Pasquesi (Mok Shaiz’s Majordomo), Corey Burton (Cad Bane), Jennifer Beals (Garsa Fwip), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Frank Trigg (Gamorrean Guard), Collin Hymes (Gamorrean Guard), J.J. Dashnaw (Deputy Scott), W. Earl Brown (Weequay Proprietor), Karisma Shanel (Jo), Marlon Aquino (Twi’lek Server), Andrea Bartlow (Twi’lek server), Graham Hamilton (Jedi performance artist), Dorian Kingi (Cad Bane performance artist), Chris Bartlett (Droid Server performance artist)

Notes: Grogu’s flashback to the purge of the Jedi Temple does not include even so much as a glimpse of who got him to safety. (Interestingly enough, it places him at the Temple at the same time that Reva and her fellow padawans were trying to escape in flashbacks seen in Obi-Wan Kenobi.) In addition to playing Cobb Vanth’s short-lived deputy, J.J. Dashnaw is also the series’ stunt coordinator. This marks the first appearance of Cad Bane in live action Star Wars after many appearances in The Clone Wars animated series. Mark Hamill’s face and voice are synthesized here, though he was on set to provide reference performances. Max Rebo picked a very lucky night not to be sitting in on keyboards at Garsa’s.