The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 7: ‘The Reckoning’

WARNING: Possible SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Episode 7 below

RECAP

Mando receives a transmission from Greef Karga, offering him a large reward for helping his city get rid of The Client; the one that gave Mando the job to get the child.  Mando heads back to the fishing village and recruits Cara Dune.

Knowing it is too dangerous to take the child back to that planet, Cara and Mando head back to Aphra 7 to see Kuill; someone Mando can trust.  Kuill re-engineered IG-11 to be a helpful droid rather than an assassin, but Cara and Mando are skeptical at first.

Together Mando, the child, Cara, IG-11, and two blurgs head off together.  In a very interesting, and tense filled, scene the child force chokes Cara Dune as she and Mando are having a friendly arm wrestle. Upon arriving the group meets their employer (Greef Karga) way out away from civilization.

The crew must camp out for the night and are attacked by some winged creatures. Greef Karga is wounded and poisoned, and one of his companions is killed. While Cara is attempting to provide some first aid, the child approaches and heals Greef, poison and all.

In a turn of events, Greef kills his two remaining teammates and confesses to Cara and Mando the plan was to kill them and take the baby, but after last nights events he couldn’t do it. Instead they leave the child safely with Kuill and head to take out the Client themselves.

While speaking with The Client, he receives an incoming call from Moff Gideon; Gideon shows up with a number of storm troopers and a group of death troopers.  The Death Troopers kill The Client and the rest of his team, while keeping Cara, Mando, and Greef trapped inside the building.

Mando uses his comm device to tell Kuill they are trapped, and that he and the child need to get back to the ship and leave.  Some troopers over hear this on their comms and chase down Kuill on his blurgg, shoot them and claim the child for their own.

THOUGHTS

Yay! We finally see some characters, introduced in this series, coming back instead of being relegated to just one or two episodes.  Characters like Kuill, IG-11, The Client, and Greef all make returns in this episode!

When Greef sent the transmission to Mando looking for his help with removing “The Client” from his town, I was suspicious to say the least.  Leading up to the events I believed it was all a trap, and then slowly I started to think this was a real mission.  Then when it all goes down, Greef confesses the plan was to kill Mando.

Cara Dune is an awesome character.  I wasn’t totally sure about the character, but like any good character, she has grown on me.  Did you see her beating up that Zabrak when Mando first goes to meet her again?

I really like the Kuill character, he is like the wise old sage – even when he is retelling the story of re-programming IG-11. His, “I have spoken” line only works because he is seen as the wise teacher type, otherwise it would just come of rude.

Speaking of IG-11, seeing him again was somewhat unexpected, as many felt we may have seen the last of him.  Seeing that he was reprogrammed as a nurse droid was the most surprising piece though – a former assassin, but now a nurse.  The montage of seeing IG-11 learning again how to walk, talk, and interact was interesting from a knowledge and cinematic perspective.  I would have just though you re-program a droid, and they know what to do.

Did Kuill just get killed, and was the child taken!?

DID YOU KNOW

• Episode 7 was directed by Deborah Chow who is also set to direct the Obi-Wan series. Wookieepedia.
• The Client is played by Werner Herzog, and lives in an imperial facility on the planet Nevarro.  His character has not been seen outside of The Mandalorian. Wookieepedia.
•  Moff was a rank given by the Galactic Empire to its Sector Governors. The most famous of which is Grand Moff Tarkin, who you may remember working with Darth Vader in the first Star Wars movie.  Wookieepedia.
• Gideon was a human male who rose through the Galactic Empire’s ranks, from officer, to marshal, and all the way up to Moff by the time we see him. Wookieepedia.
• Zabrak is a near-human species in the Star Wars Universe.  Their defining feature is a number of short horns on top of their head. You may recall Darth Maul, who was a Zabrak.  Wookieepedia

What are everyone’s thought on episode 7?  Cool to see characters coming back?  Or do you prefer new characters all the time? I thought this was another great episode, and they keep getting better!  This also gives me great hope for the Obi-Wan series, as the same director will be helming that. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

You can catch future episodes of The Mandalorian on Disney+.