WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Mandalorian.
The Mandalorian's season 1 finale is now available on Disney+, revealing what Pedro Pascal's lone gunslinger, Din Djarin and Baby Yoda's final fate is after the penultimate episode's cliffhanger ending. Here's everything that happened in the show's latest outing, titled "Redemption" and directed by Taika Waititi.
Created by Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian takes place five years after the events of Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi and focuses on Din as he went on his latest mission: retrieve a mysterious asset which happens to be a Force-sensitive infant from the same species as Jedi Master Yoda. Mando's life took a major turn when the Mandalorian decided to keep the baby himself, as he was afraid what the Imperial remnants might do to it.
The show's first season had eight episodes, which took more of a procedural form of storytelling. However, last week's outing, titled "The Reckoning" and directed by Deborah Chow, set up this week's finale with the introduction of Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) as the primary villain and the man behind the hunt for Baby Yoda.
Din Djarin's New Mission With Baby Yoda
After an intense battle with Moff Gideon and his troops, not to mention a couple of ally casualties, Din Djarin and Baby Yoda were able to leave Nevarro both unscathed and with their bond stronger than ever. Their surprise run-in with The Armourer (Emily Swallow) while navigating the underground tunnels of the planet led to her declaring the duo a "clan of two." Baby Yoda, who's dubbed a "Foundling," becomes the Mandalorian's responsibility until it becomes of age or is reunited with its own species. In the meantime, Din will be its father and primary caretaker.
With that in mind, Din sets on a new mission: to reunite Baby Yoda with his people. And since we know very little about this species (besides the Child, the only others that we've seen are Yoda and Yaddle), The Mandalorian is set to tread new ground come season 2, which already started production. There's also the possibility that Baby Yoda might be entrusted to a Jedi master, who could help him hone his ability to use the Force. Whether or not the Mandalorian will be successful in his latest endeavor remains to be seen, but at least fans can expect more adventures with the pair moving forward.
Din Has Completed His Upgrades
Upon accepting the mission to retrieve the asset from the Client back in the first episode, Din received an advance payment: a block of Beskar steel, which he immediately brought to The Armourer so that she could forge him a new pauldron. He received a camtono-full of the same precious metal, using some of it for more armor upgrades while the rest was saved for the Foundlings. The Mandalorian's season 1 finally completes his upgraded suit.
As impressive as his previous upgrades were, Din's armor wasn't complete until he received the jetpack in The Mandalorian season 1 finale. Upon learning that he trained in Rising Phoenix, The Armourer handed him his own rocket. Earlier in the season Din had made a comment about getting one of these cool suit add-ons, when a group of Mandalorians led by Paz Vizla (voiced by Jon Favreau) came to his and Baby Yoda's rescue against his fellow Bounty Hunters. Din's own jetpack proved to be useful right away as it helped him take down Moff Gideon's TIE fighter.
The Mandalorian's Hatred Of Droids & IG-11's Sacrifice
Din's hatred of droids has been established from the very first episode of The Mandalorian, and throughout the season he made it abundantly clear that he doesn't want them around him. Din was convinced that droids cannot be trusted - which stems from the trauma they inflicted on him during the Clone Wars when battle droids attacked his home planet, killed his parents, and almost murdered him. This is why even after Kuiil's (Nick Nolte) reprogrammed IG-11 (with its base function set to nurse and protect) came to their rescue while Moff Gideon's troops surrounded him, Cara Dune (Gina Carano) and Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), he assumed that it would kill him after he suffered a fatal injury. However, the droid proved Din wrong.
After it healed him with the use of Bacta tank fluid, Din's impression of IG-11 significantly changed. When it offered to sacrifice itself in order to save all of them, the Mandalorian repeatedly stopped it, saying that they still need it. Sadly, there was no other way out of the predicament other than the droid's death. So, IG-11 willingly walked on the lava river and detonated itself to take out a group of Stormtroopers waiting for Din and the team at the end of the tunnel, ensuring the gang's safe passage.
Greef Karga & Cara Dune Stay On Nevarro
Fans met Greef Karga, the leader of Bounty Guild that Din was a member of, at the beginning of The Mandalorian. He was the one who endorsed the Mandalorian to the Client for the perilous job of retrieving the Force-sensitive child. Although Greef and Din had a rocky patch due to the latter's decision to take back Baby Yoda, they eventually patched things up - as seen in last week's episode. Cara Dune was introduced later in the show; the former Shock Trooper was hiding in Sorgan when Din and Baby Yoda met her. She and Kuiil (Nick Nolte) were recruited by the Mandalorian for a mission to get rid of the Imperial troops in Nevarro in the penultimate episode.
After successfully defeating the Imperial troops in Nevarro, both Greef and Cara decided to stay on the planet. With Greef technically still the head of the Bounty Guild, he attempted to convince Din to rejoin, even enticing him with a charge increase thanks to his new jetpack. He refused, opting to help Baby Yoda reunite with his own species just as The Armourer said. Greef, who seemingly developed a kinship with Cara also invited her to become a Bounty Hunter, but she too refused. Nonetheless, Cara opted to stay in the planet now that the Imperial remnants are no longer around.
Moff Gideon Has The Darksaber (& Is Still The Show's Main Villain)
Just when everyone thought that Din had successfully defeated Moff Gideon by crashing his TIE fighter, the final moment of The Mandalorian season 1 finale revealed that not only did he survive the crash, he's also in possession of the Darksaber. First introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars with a subsequent appearance in Star Wars Rebels, the black-bladed lightsaber is an ancient weapon that is very important to the people of Mandalore. Initially owned by the first Mandalorian Jedi, Tarre Vizsla, the wielder of the Darksaber supposedly becomes the leader of Mandalore. The Darksaber has a long history, but the last time we saw it in Rebels, Sabine Wren had handed it off to Bo Katan Kryze.
Between Bo Katan being the last known owner of the Darksaber and Gideon's entanglement with the Mandalorians as the Imperial Security Bureau officer during The Purge, it's possible that he took the weapon around this time and claimed it himself. It's also worth noting that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (which takes place after the events of Rebels) revealed that the Empire has files pertaining to the "Black Sabre," meaning they were also looking for the one-of-a-kind lightsaber - or worse, maybe they already have it in their possession at that point. In any case, it's clear that Moff Gideon will still be the primary antagonist for The Mandalorian season 2 as he continues to hunt down Baby Yoda.