[Mando visits the Armorer at the Mandalorian enclave on Nevarro, bringing the camtono of Beskar bars he got as bounty from The Client]
Armorer[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.
Armorer
Indeed. I can form a full cuirass. This would be in order for your station.
That would be a great honour.
Armorer
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]
Armorer
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]
Armorer
[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?
Armorer
Has it ever been removed by others?
Armorer
This is the Way.
This is the Way. [Vizsla and Mando let off each other]
Armorer
What caused this damage?
Armorer
Then you have earned the mudhorn as your signet. I shall craft it. [The Mandalorian and the Armorer sit back down]
I can't accept. It... wasn't a noble kill. I was... helped by an enemy.
Armorer
Why would an enemy help you in battle?
It... did not know it was my enemy.
Armorer
Since you forego a signet I shall use the excess to forge Whistling Birds.
Whistling Birds will do well. Reserve some for the Foundlings.
Armorer
As it should always be. The Foundlings are the future. This is the Way.
[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]
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.
[confronts Greef] Did you do this? DID YOU?!
Armorer
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.
Armorer
I hope so. Some may have escaped off-world.
Armorer
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.
[IG-11 reveals the Child] This is the one.
Armorer
This is the one you hunted, then saved?
Yes. The one that saved me as well.
Armorer
From the mudhorn?
Armorer
It looks helpless.
It's injured, but it is not helpless. Its species can move objects with its mind.
Armorer
[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.
Armorer
No. It's kind were enemies, but this individual is not.
Armorer
It is a foundling. By Creed, it is in your care.
You wish me to train this thing?
Armorer
It is too weak. It would die. You have no choice. You must reunite it with its own kind.
Armorer
This, you must determine.
You expect me to search the galaxy for the home of this creature and deliver it to a race of enemy sorcerers?
Armorer
This is the Way.
[Cara warns of Imperial troops about to raid the covert]
I'm staying. I need to help her, and I need to heal.
Armorer
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.
Thank you. I will wear this with honour.
[as explosions occur nearby and Stormtroopers are coming in] We should go.
Armorer
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.
Armorer
I have one more gift for your journey. Have you trained in the Rising Phoenix?
Armorer
Then this [turns around with a jetpack in her hands] will make you complete.
Armorer
When you have healed, you will begin your drills. Until you know it, it will not listen to your commands.
[Mando returns to the Mandalorian covert with Bo-Katan Kryze along for the ride after they witness the Empire bomb her castle, and is forced to present the Armorer with a vial of water from the Living Waters to prove he underwent redemption]
Armorer
[tests the vial of Living Water in the forge vat] He speaks the truth. These are indeed the Living Waters. Din Djarin, you are redeemed. This is the Way.
Armorer
And Bo-Katan Kryze, by Creed, you too are redeemed.
But I do not walk the Way.
Armorer
Did you bathe in the Waters?
Armorer
And have you removed your helmet since?
Armorer
Then you may join our covert and live as your ancestors once did. You may leave anytime you wish. Until then, you are one of us. Welcome, Bo-Katan of Clan Kryze. This is the Way.
[Bo-Katan Kryze and Mando's team have successfully rescued Paz Viszla's son Ragnar and also brought along the now-orphaned hatchlings of the raptor that kidnapped Ragnar. She visits the Armorer to have a replacement pauldron made]
Armorer
I can replace what's missing, but not with its modern refinements. Shall I inlay the signet of the Nite Owl?
Would it be acceptable to wear one pauldron of the Nite Owl and another with the Mythosaur?
Armorer
The Mythosaur belongs to all Mandalorians. It is always acceptable to wear.
I would like that. [as the Armorer forges the new pauldron] What would you say if I told you I saw one?
Armorer
That you saw what?
Armorer
I would say you're very lucky. It is a noble vision.
No, I... I mean a real one. Beneath the Living Waters on Mandalore.
Armorer
When you choose to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you will see many things.
Armorer
This is the Way.
[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]
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.
Armorer
Does anyone else wish to speak?
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.
Armorer
This is the Way.
[After the Mandalorians and the Nevarro residents defeat the pirates, the Armorer has allowed Bo-Katan Kryze to remove her helmet, and they walk out to the sight of the Mandalorians]
Armorer
Bo-Katan Kryze is going off to bring other Mandalorians in exile to us so that we may join together once again.
But she shows her face. [Mandalorians grumble, knowing a Mandalorian cannot remove their helmet by Creed]
Armorer
Bo-Katan walks both worlds. And she can bring all tribes together. [Paz Viszla looks at Mando, who nods in agreement] It is time to retake Mandalore.
[On Mandalore's surface, Bo-Katan's team joins a group of Mandalorian holdouts aboard a skiff. One of them laments their survival during the Night of a Thousand Tears and how they did not surrender to the Empire]
That's not true. I did surrender. [signals Koska Reeves to quiet down] After our forces were annihilated in the Night of a Thousand Tears and defeat was imminent, I met with Moff Gideon. The ISB had reached out to me to negotiate a cease-fire. In exchange for submitting to the Empire and disarming, all remaining cities and Mandalorian lives were to be spared. That is how Moff Gideon came to possess the Darksaber. I didn't trust him, but it was the only chance I had to save our people. And then he betrayed me and we were helpless to resist the Purge of Mandalore.
SSurvivor Captain
[referring to Mando and the Armorer] How did these others survive?
Armorer
We were hidden on the moon of Concordia.
SSSurvivor Scout
Are you Death Watch?
Armorer
Death Watch exists no longer. It shattered into many warring factions.
Our people have suffered time and again. From division and squabbling factions. Mandalore has always been too powerful for any enemy to defeat. It is always our own division that destroys us.
[Having successfully reclaimed Mandalore and reactivated the Great Forge, the Mandalorians witness the Armorer baptize Ragnar Viszla at the Living Waters. Mando lines up Grogu for the ritual]
Grogu is my apprentice. He is no longer a Foundling. Add him to the Song.
Armorer
He is too young to speak so he is too young to take the Creed. He must remain a Foundling.
If his parent gave permission, couldn't he then become a Mandalorian apprentice?
Armorer
Yes, but his parents are far from here, if they are even alive.
Then I will adopt him as my own.
Armorer
This is the Way.
Armorer
Let it be written in Song that Din Djarin is accepting this foundling as his son. [to Grogu] You are now Din Grogu, Mandalorian apprentice.
Armorer
You must leave Mandalore and take your apprentice on his journeys, just as your teacher did for you.
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