what happened to baby yoda at the end of episode 5
After last calendar week's pit cease in Nevarro, Mando finally makes it to the metropolis of Calodan on the forest planet of Corvus and information technology'south looking much worse for the clothing. The terrified citizens are nether the grip of a fearsome Magistrate (Diana Lee Inosanto) who rules the urban center without mercy. Before Mando arrives, the Magistrate is beingness bedeviled by a cloaked figure outside the gated city walls. As the Magistrate'due south guards chase the figure through the eerie expressionless forest, two gleaming white lightsabers announce they are fighting the legendary former Jedi Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson, taking over the office from the wonderful Ashley Eckstein), who makes quick work of them and gives the Magistrate one 24-hour interval to requite her the information that she knows. And while that information will have fans of a certain blue-skinned Grand Admiral screaming, the episode, written and directed by Ahsoka'south creator Dave Filoni, answers a ton of questions while creating a bunch more than.
Mando arrives in the middle of this standoff looking for a pb on Ahsoka, who has disappeared back into the desiccated woods that surrounds the city. After existence allow in by the Magistrate's master guard, Lang (Michael Biehn of Aliens fame), he starts to ask around the scared populace for a clue, and he's brought before the Magistrate. While the people exterior her fortress suffer in impecuniousness, the Magistrate lives in a virtual paradise in comparing. Knowing the Jedi are the ancient enemies of Mandalore, she wants Mando to kill Ahsoka as a bounty, offer a spear of pure beskar as a reward. Not agreeing to the deal only non saying every bit much, he asks where the Jedi is.
Taken outside the city's walls over again by Lang, Mando and Baby Yoda kickoff searching through the forest. As Mando checks out a false alarm, Ahsoka attacks and easily deflects all of Mando's tricks. Once he tells her that Bo-Katan sent him, Ahsoka stops fighting him and says she hopes it'south about the kid.
If you haven't watched whatsoever of the Star Wars animated shows, you might have no thought who Ahsoka Tano is and why she is and then important to the fandom, so here is the briefest of histories. Every bit a teenager, she became Anakin Skywalker'southward padawan and throughout the Clone Wars they became nigh like brother and sis to each other. She left the Jedi Order after existence wrongly defendant of a bombing, an issue that helped shatter Anakin's trust in the gild and leading to his eventual downfall. She'south not technically a Jedi anymore but The Mandalorian doesn't really make that distinction. After Order 66 happened and most of the Jedi were eliminated, Ahsoka became a fugitive from the Empire. She didn't know what became of Anakin until she joined the Rebellion and came face-to-face with Darth Vader. She survived their boxing and was last seen looking for the missing Jedi Ezra Bridgers one-time after the Boxing of Endor in the last episode of Star Wars Rebels.
At present whether this meeting with Mando takes place earlier or after that moment isn't quite clear in the episode but it's obvious that Ahsoka is every bit powerful in the Force every bit she'south ever been and Dawson conspicuously enjoys playing her (though admittedly Ahsoka's lekku await a bit on the rubbery side).
As Mando paces in the background like a nervous dad, Ahsoka and Babe Yoda commune with each other silently through the Force. As they finish, Ahsoka brings Baby Yoda over to Mando and he asks her if she tin can understand his child. Calling the child Grogu (Babe Yoda'due south name is GROGU?!?), she says they tin can feel each other's thoughts. Mando questions the proper noun of Grogu (as we all do) and Ahsoka confirms that is his proper name. Mando calls out to the child using Grogu and he responds quite adorably (and then shall he be named Grogu from now on).
His name isn't the only thing Ahsoka knows. Turns out Grogu was raised at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and has been trained by many masters (Can we have a lost Clone Wars episode of Anakin and Obi-Wan babysitting him back and so?). When the Empire rose to ability at the stop of the Clone Wars, someone took him from the temple and he went into hiding. His retentiveness of the time became dark and she says he was lost and alone. She tells Mando of Jedi Master Yoda and asks Mando if Grogu can however wield the Strength and he confirms he can. Informed of his job to bring Grogu to a Jedi, Ahsoka says the order has fallen but Mando notes so has the Empire and even so it's even so hunting him. Afterward proverb Grogu needs her help, she agrees to examination him in the forenoon.
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As the sunday rises, Mando sets Grogu downward for a test and Ahsoka floats a rock to him and asks him to return information technology to her the same mode. Mando says Grogu doesn't understand and Ahsoka insists he does. Grogu looks scared and drops the stone. Like any parent who watches his kid crash a test he knows the kid can pass, Mando's disappointed. Ahsoka takes Grogu's hand and says she senses much fright in him and that he'due south hidden his power in guild to survive all these years.
When Ahsoka asks him to try the exam in her identify, Mando doubts Grogu will listen to him since he knows how stubborn his child can be. Mando attempts information technology again with the rock and fails but realizes he knows what his kid really wants. Taking out the piddling round handle that Grogu always swipes from the ship to play with, Mando offers information technology and Grogu immediately calls it to his hand via the Force. Mando reacts like a true soccer dad when his kid makes a game-winning score and Ahsoka realizes just how bonded these two are to each other.
Because of Grogu's attachment (ah, not that effect again!) to Mando, Ahsoka admits she cannot train him, fearing what the child's anger and fear will practice to him. Thinking of a certain Jedi Knight who fell because their attachment to some other was too strong, Ahsoka refuses to send Grogu down that same nighttime path. As visions of Darth Grogu dance in our heads, Mando insists that's all the more reason to train him and she says that it's best to let his abilities fade.
Not willing to let it go, Mando admits the Magistrate expects him to kill her just he didn't hold to information technology. He'll aid her with her problem if she sees that Grogu is properly trained. Equally they go over the firepower that the Magistrate has at her disposal, Ahsoka tells Mando that the Magistrate's real name is Morgan Elsbeth and that afterward her people were massacred during the Clone Wars, her acrimony fueled an industry that helped build the Majestic starfleet. She's plundered and destroyed worlds and it looks like that's what she's doing to Corvus.
Knowing that they'll never see a Jedi and a Mandalorian coming, they plan their assail. As night falls, Lang and the guards on the walls sound the alert at Ahsoka's approach. She is soon at the acme of the city walls, taking out the guards and slicing through the giant metallic gong similar it's butter.
When the Magistrate emerges from her fortress to face off with Ahsoka, she tells the guards to stand up down. Ahsoka slowly walks to her and throws down Mando's signet and demands to know where the Magistrate's master is. Every bit the Magistrate orders the former Jedi killed, Ahsoka takes to the rooftops and leads Lang and his guards on a hunt through the darkened allies. The Magistrate withdraws back into her fortress and orders all her prisoners killed. A brave citizen (Wing Tao Chao) tries to intercede on the prisoners' behalf and Mando flies in and they both gratis them before they are executed.
Lang loses track of Ahsoka, who chop-chop kills most of the guards, but he eventually finds Mando. Every bit they face off, Lang sees Ahsoka jump behind the wall of the Magistrate'southward fortress. Lang is disgusted that Mando threw in with the Jedi simply as they hear the clang of beskar confronting the hum of her lightsabers, information technology's obvious that the real action is with Ahsoka.
While Ahsoka was i of the all-time fighters the Jedi had, the Magistrate is a formidable opponent and this allows martial artist Diana Lee Inosanto to show off her prodigious fighting skills likewise. Though Ahsoka loses one of her sabers during the class of the fight, she gets the upper hand and launches a question that surely led to much shock across the Star Wars fandom, "Where is M Admiral Thrawn?" That the fan favorite Chiss villain might soon appear on The Mandalorian is quite a surprise just significantly ups the stakes for the rest of the season.
Nosotros don't see the Magistrate'due south response, but her reign of terror seems to have come to an finish as Mando too takes out Lang. As the people rejoice and the dauntless citizen we saw before becomes the city'south new governor, Ahsoka gives Mando the beskar spear as his payment. When Mando goes back to the ship to get the sleeping Grogu, it'due south obvious in the time he takes with him that he's slowly and painfully wishing him goodbye.
As Mando prepares to bring Grogu to Ahsoka for training, she appears at the transport. She notes that he'southward like a male parent to him and because of that she cannot train him. Mando doesn't like having a promise broken but also seems a piffling relieved. She says that if he wants to assist Grogu, he needs to take him to the ancient temple on the planet Tython (potentially the very first Jedi temple). In one case Grogu is placed on the seeing stone at the top of the mountain, he may choose his ain path. If he reaches out through the Force, a Jedi might sense his presence and come up searching for him. Then again, there aren't that many Jedi left (since nosotros near likely aren't seeing Luke Skywalker on this show, perhaps missing Jedi Ezra Bridger or ghost Yoda might make an appearance). Mando thanks her and she says goodbye in the way the Jedi most famously do. Equally Ahsoka's theme gently plays, she walks dorsum off into the forest and Jedi legend.
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