[Mando visits the Armorer at the Mandalorian enclave on Nevarro, bringing the camtono of Beskar bars he got as bounty from The Client]
[looks at Beskar bars as the other Mandalorians witness] This amount can be shaped in many ways.
MAThe Mandalorian AKA Mando
My armor has lost its integrity. I may need to begin again.
Indeed. I can form a full cuirass. This would be in order for your station.
MandoThat would be a great honour.
I must warn you, it will draw many eyes.
[grabs one Beskar bar and snorts at seeing the Imperial logo] These were cast in an Imperial smelter. These are the spoils of the Great Purge. The reason we live hidden like sandrats. [tosses the bar back on the table]
Our secrecy is our survival. Our survival is our strength.
Our strength was once in our numbers. Now we live in the shadows and only come above ground one at a time. Our world was shattered by the Empire with whom this coward shares tables. [reaches for Mando's helmet to remove it but they fight until they come to knifepoint]
[stands up to stop the fight] The Empire is no longer, and the Beskar has returned. When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey. How can one be a coward if one chooses this way of life? Have you ever removed your helmet?
Mando
No.
Has it ever been removed by others?
Mando
Never.
This is the Way. [Vizsla and Mando let off each other]
Mando
A mudhorn.
Then you have earned the mudhorn as your signet. I shall craft it. [The Mandalorian and the Armorer sit back down]
Mando
I can't accept. It... wasn't a noble kill. I was... helped by an enemy.
Why would an enemy help you in battle?
Mando
It... did not know it was my enemy.
Since you forego a signet I shall use the excess to forge Whistling Birds.
Mando
Whistling Birds will do well. Reserve some for the Foundlings.
As it should always be. The Foundlings are the future. This is the Way.
Mando
This is the Way.
[Greef Karga and all bounty hunters have just trapped The Mandalorian and the Child from escaping, but the other Mandalorians in the area suddenly attack]
PVPaz Viszla
[to Mando] Get out of here. We'll hold 'em off!
Mando
You're going to have to relocate the covert!
Mando
This is the Way.
[The Mandalorian is not too accepting of IG-11 working as Kuill's servant droid after seeing it almost kill the Child]
Mando
That thing is programmed to kill the baby.
Not anymore. [as IG-11 places the tea tray on the table, Kuill remembers the aftermath of the original battle and his efforts to rebuild the droid] It was left behind in the wake of your destruction. I found it, laying where it fell, devoid of all life. I recovered the flotsam and staked it as my own in accordance with the Charter of the New Republic. Little remained of its neural harness. Reconstruction was quite difficult, but not impossible. It had to learn everything from scratch. This is something that cannot be taught with the twist of a spanner. It requires patience, repetition. I spent day after day reinforcing its development with patience and affirmation. It developed a personality as its experiences grew.
Mando
Is it still a hunter?
[The Mandalorian, the Child, IG-11, Greef Karga, and Cara Dune enter the Mandalorian covert on Nevarro, but Mando stops at seeing a pile of Mandalorian armor pieces]
Mando
You go. Take the ship. I can't leave it this way. [to Greef] Did you know about this? Is this the work of your bounty hunters?
No. When you left the system and took the prize, the fighting ended and the hunters just melted away. You know how it is. They're mercenaries. They're not zealots.
Mando
[confronts Greef] Did you do this? DID YOU?!
It was not his fault. We revealed ourselves. We knew what could happen if we left the covert. [puts a piece of armour from the pile onto a floating cart] The Imperials arrived shortly thereafter. This is what resulted.
Mando
Did any survive?
I hope so. Some may have escaped off-world.
Mando
Come with us.
No. I will not abandon this place until I have salvaged what remains. [goes to the forge, and the others see her melt down armour pieces] Show me the one whose safety deemed such destruction.
Mando
[IG-11 reveals the Child] This is the one.
This is the one you hunted, then saved?
Mando
Yes. The one that saved me as well.
Mando
Yes.
Mando
It's injured, but it is not helpless. Its species can move objects with its mind.
[keeps working] I know of such things. The songs of eons past tell of battles between Mandalore the Great and an order of sorcerers called "Jedi" that fought with such powers.
Mando
It is an enemy?
No. It's kind were enemies, but this individual is not.
Mando
What is it?
It is a foundling. By Creed, it is in your care.
Mando
You wish me to train this thing?
It is too weak. It would die. You have no choice. You must reunite it with its own kind.
Mando
Where?
This, you must determine.
Mando
You expect me to search the galaxy for the home of this creature and deliver it to a race of enemy sorcerers?
[Cara warns of Imperial troops about to raid the covert]
Mando
I'm staying. I need to help her, and I need to heal.
You must go. A Foundling is in your care. By Creed, until it is of age or reunited with its own kind, you are as its father. This is the Way. You have earned your Signet. [welds a mudhorn-shaped Signet to Mando's right shoulder pauldron] You are a clan of two.
Mando
Thank you. I will wear this with honour.
[as explosions occur nearby and Stormtroopers are coming in] We should go.
IG, please guard the outer hallway. A scouting party draws near.
[not comfortable with the Child in her arms] Hang on. I don't do the baby thing.
I have one more gift for your journey. Have you trained in the Rising Phoenix?
Mando
When I was a boy, yes.
Then this [turns around with a jetpack in her hands] will make you complete.
Mando
Thank you.
When you have healed, you will begin your drills. Until you know it, it will not listen to your commands.
Mando
I understand.
[the Mandalorian has detected a group of Imperial soldiers at the far end of a lava tunnel]
They will not be satisfied with anything less than the Child. This is unacceptable. I will eliminate the enemy, and you will escape.
Mando
You don't have that kind of firepower, pal. You wouldn't even get to daylight.
That is not my objective.
We're getting close. Saddle up.
I still have the security protocols from my manufacturer. If my designs are compromised, I must self-destruct.
Mando
What are you talking about?
I'm not permitted to be captured. I must be destroyed.
Are we gonna keep talking or we gonna get outta here?
[puts down the jetpack] I can no longer carry this for you. Nor can I watch over the child. [passing the Child to the Mandalorian]
Mando
Wait. You can't self-destruct. Your base command is to watch the child. That supersedes your manufacturer's protocol, right? Right?
Mando
Good. Now grab a blaster and help us shoot our way out.
Victory through combat is impossible. We will be captured. The Child will be lost. Sadly, there is no scenario where the Child is saved in which I survive.
Mando
Listen, you're not going anywhere. We need you. Let's just come with a-
Please tell me the Child will be safe in your care. If you do so, I can default to my secondary command.
Mando
But you'll be destroyed.
And you will live, and I will have served my purpose.
Mando
[emotional] No. We need you.
There is nothing to be sad about. I have never been alive.
Mando
I'm not sad.
Yes you are. I'm a nurse droid. I've analyzed your voice. [caressing the Child in farewell]
IG! [sees droid step off the boat into the lava stream] What are you doing?!
[IG-11 marches through the lava stream to the mouth of the tunnel, with the Stormtroopers lying in ambush]
Manufacturer's protocol dictates I cannot be captured. [opens breastplate to reveal an active grenade] I must be destroyed. [blows up, killing the Stormtroopers]
I'm Cobb Vanth, Marshal of Mos Pelgo.
Mando
Where did you get the armor?
Bought it off some Jawas.
Mando
Hand it over.
Look, pal, I'm sure you call the shots where you come from, but 'round here, I'm the one tells folks what to do.
Mando
Take it off, or I will.
[about the Child] We gonna do this in front o' the kid?
Mando
He's seen worse.
You're like a father to him. I cannot train him.
You made me a promise, and I held up my end.
There is one possibility. Go to the planet Tython. You will find the ancient ruins of a temple that has a strong connection to the Force. Place Grogu on the seeing stone at the top of the mountain.
Mando
Then what?
Then Grogu may choose his path. If he reaches out through the Force, there's a chance a Jedi may sense his presence and come searching for him. Then again, there aren't many Jedi left.
Mando
Thank you.
May the Force be with you.
[Mando and Grogu visit Bo-Katan Kryze's castle in the Mandalore system planet of Kalevala, and she's not too welcoming of him]
MAThe Mandalorian AKA Mando
I am going to Mandalore so that I may bathe in the Living Waters and be forgiven for my transgressions.
You are a fool. There's nothing magic about the mines of Mandalore. They supplied beskar ore to our ancestors and the rest is superstition. That planet has been ravaged, plundered, and poisoned.
Mando
You said that the curse was a lie. Make up your mind.
If you want to go to the mines, be my guest. They're beneath the civic center in the city of Sundari.
Mando
Thank you. And I will find out if the planet is really poisoned.
[Having saved Mando from a biomechanical droid, Bo-Katan Kryze joins him in going to the Mandalorian mines and the Living Waters]
Here you go. The Living Waters. [sees Mando try to walk off] Hold on. I want you to get the full tour. [reads plaque] "These mines date back to the age of the first Mandalore. According to ancient folklore, the mines were once a Mythosaur lair. Mandalore the Great is said to have tamed the mythical beast. It is from these legends that the skull signet was adopted and became the symbol of our planet." This is it. [sees Mando beginning to wade] Din? Are you all right?
Mando
[reciting the Creed] I swear on my name. And the names of the Ancestors, that I shall walk the way of the Mand'alor... and the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart... [suddenly drops out of sight]
[The Mandalorian brings together the entire Mandalorian covert after Carson Teva makes a surprise visit and asks him to help Greef Karga's situation on Nevarro when the New Republic won't lift a finger]
Mando
Now, many of you don't know Greef Karga. And those that do fought against him when you rescued me from his ambush many cycles ago on the streets of Nevarro. Since then, he's had a change of heart and has risked his life to save mine as well as the Foundling in my charge. [Grogu coos] I stand before you to petition an intervention. To help rescue Nevarro before it's too late. I am in no position to ask any more of you. However... However, the enemy that decimated this very covert were Imperials, not Greef Karga's bounty hunters. Greef Karga is now a High Magistrate and has offered me a tract of land on his independent world. Perhaps it is time for us to live in the light once again on a planet where we are welcome. So our culture may flourish and our children can feel what it is to play in the sunlight.
Does anyone else wish to speak?
Mando
It's up to them now.
I do. I was there on Nevarro that night. I fought against Greef Karga and his hunters. I saw my brothers and sisters fall at the hands of the Imperial butchers that hunted us in the sewers. I saw many die to save the life of [gestures to Grogu] this one, tiny Foundling. And now we are asked to sacrifice yet again. The question we should be asking ourselves is, "Why? Why should we lay our lives down yet again?" Because we are Mandalorians. I have had my disagreements with this man, but he risked his life to save my son. And Bo-Katan Kryze did not give up on my child's life even when the rest of us did. These two are asking us to take up arms in the name of a brighter future, and I for one will take up arms to fight by their side. [Mandalorians agree] This is the Way.
[on Plazir-15, Bo-Katan and Mando pin down the source of the malfunctioning droids]
Commissioner, we have some questions for you.
CHCommissioner Helgait
Sorry, I have to check the data farm for anomalies.
DDDin Djarin AKA The Mandalorian/Mando
We know about the Nepenthé. And the nano-droids.
They didn't malfunction. You programmed them to disrupt and attack.
Mando
You're coming with us.
HHelgait
[stands up and readies to press the droid killswitch] Everyone, freeze! If I trigger this failsafe, it will convert the planet's docile workforce back into battle droids and unleash them upon the unsuspecting citizens of Plazir! Don't make me do it.
There's no way out, Commissioner. Give yourself up.
HHelgait
Give up? I never give up. I didn't give up to the corrupt Republic, I didn't give up to the Empire, and I won't give up to you.
HHelgait
Separatist is a pejorative term. I support democracy. Count Dooku was a visionary. He was cut short in his prime by the Jedi enforcer... [subdued by Kryze's taser dart]
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