Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore
Released on Disney+ on March 8, 2023
Din Djarin visits Peli Motto on Tatooine during the Boonta Eve festival in search of a new memory chip for IG-11. She does not have one, but instead sells him R5-D4. Djarin, Grogu and R5 fly to Mandalore and Djarin orders R5 to scout ahead and ensure that the atmosphere is non-toxic. When R5 does not return, Djarin ventures after it and is attacked by several Alamites, a native troll-like species living in the caves. Heading deeper into the mines, Djarin is captured by a cyborg creature and sends Grogu for Bo-Katan’s help. Katan rescues Djarin and kills the cyborg before leading Djarin to the Living Waters. Djarin begins to recite the creed to restore himself as a Mandalorian; however, a sudden drop off causes him to sink deep into the water. Katan dives in to save him, and on the way back up comes face to face with a Mythosaur.
Transcript:
(FIREWORKS EXPLODING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(SPEAKING RODIAN)
(PELI MOTTO SIGHS)
PELI MOTTO: (LAUGHS) I don’t know what to tell you, pal. I mean, there are a lot of parts missing.
(SPEAKING RODIAN)
PELI MOTTO: Fine, I’ll push it back out on the street. You heard him, pit droids! Out!
(PIT DROIDS CHITTERING)
(SPEAKING RODIAN)
PELI MOTTO: All right, well, I don’t appreciate the tone of voice, but I’ll fix it.
(SPEAKING RODIAN)
PELI MOTTO: (SIGHS) Oof. Boy, I don’t know. I mean, lucky for you, business is slow. I gotta order the parts from the Mid Rim. Let’s say, mmm, two months.
(SHOUTING)
PELI MOTTO: All right, settle your snout. I’ll put a rush on it. But you gotta give me half upfront for parts.
(CLINKING)
(PIT DROIDS CHITTER)
PELI MOTTO: Yeah. I should charge you more considering now I gotta work Boonta Eve.
(SPEAKING RODIAN)
PELI MOTTO: Me? You know, I do have a life. Big holiday. I had big plans! You know, I just don’t sit around here and work all day, I’m very popular.
(DROID BEEPING)
PELI MOTTO: (SIGHS) Is he gone?
(CHITTERS)
(R5D4 BEEPS)
PELI MOTTO: Hey, tell the Jawas the Rodian left.
(DROID BEEPING)
PELI MOTTO: All right, let’s get this thing back together again. Quickly, before he sees you. Go, go, go, go, go! Put those parts back on the speeder. Paint ’em so they look different. Here you go.
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
PELI MOTTO: Seriously? For five minutes of work?
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
PELI MOTTO: (GRUNTS) You’re lucky I’m a softy.
(WHOOSHING)
PELI MOTTO: Hey. Scram.
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
PELI MOTTO: Go strip another speeder. It’s Boonta Eve, it’s ripe.
(WHOOSHING)
(WHIRRING)
PELI MOTTO: Whoohoo! You hear that? She’s purring like a nuzzle shrew.
THE MANDALORIAN: No complaints. Still faster than I know what to do with.
PELI MOTTO: Well, I’ll tune her up, just the same. So, uh, where’s my guy?
(GROGU COOING)
PELI MOTTO: Huh? There he is!
(EXCLAIMING)
PELI MOTTO: Now who taught you how to leap like a Lurmen, huh?
(BABBLING)
PELI MOTTO: Was that his first word? I think he’s talking to me. Did you hear that? He said “Peli.”
THE MANDALORIAN: I’m here on business.
PELI MOTTO: Oh, are the Hutts back? Are you takin’ out Boba Fett?
THE MANDALORIAN: I need a droid part.
PELI MOTTO: Ugh. Boring! Hey, get the Jawas back in here before they hit the cantina.
(PIT DROID CHATTERS)
PELI MOTTO: You know how Mos Eisley gets during Boonta week. (VOCALIZING GULPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: I’m looking for a replacement IG memory circuit.
PELI MOTTO: Oh. Hey, grandpa. They haven’t made those for a while.
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
PELI MOTTO: Memory circuit.
(SPEAKING JAWAESE)
Sorry, pal, no chance cubes.
THE MANDALORIAN: They can’t find the part?
PELI MOTTO: Nope.
THE MANDALORIAN: I need my droid fixed now.
PELI MOTTO: Which is why I think you should buy this beauty here.
(CLANKS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: I can’t use an astromech. I need a droid that’s rated for spelunking.
PELI MOTTO: Spelunking? What are you spelunking?
THE MANDALORIAN: I’m going to Mandalore. I need a droid that can explore ahead of me and test the atmosphere, make sure it’s safe to breathe.
PELI MOTTO: Okay, well…
(BEEPS NERVOUSLY)
PELI MOTTO: Uhuhuhuh. Hey! Get right back here. Right back here, scaredy droid. Come on now, you gotta shine.
(LAUGHS)
PELI MOTTO: This R5 astromech is built for adventure.
(DROID BEEPS)
PELI MOTTO: What? (SIGHS) Of course you are. You’re supposed to be piloting starfighters across the galaxy and fighting tyranny.
(WORRIED BEEPS)
THE MANDALORIAN: It’s falling apart, and besides, I got no room for it on the N1.
PELI MOTTO: Nonsense. R5D4 is as good as the day it came back from serving in the Rebellion. And I’ll reinstall your droid port and this little baby here can even copilot.
(DROID BEEPING, TREMBLING)
PELI MOTTO: Hey, if you don’t settle your bolts, I’ll sell you back to the Jawas. (LAUGHS) And because it’s Boonta, what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna give you this for half the price and throw in a free oil bath.
(DROID BEEPING)
(DROID BEEPING FRANTICALLY)
PELI MOTTO: Oh, come on now, don’t be a coward. You’re an astromech, act like one.
(DROID BEEPING)
PELI MOTTO: I wouldn’t rely too much on this one. Its circuitry is a little fragile.
THE MANDALORIAN: I thought you said it was built for adventure.
PELI MOTTO: What? Sorry, I can’t hear you!
(ENGINES WHIRRING)
PELI MOTTO: May the Force be with you!
(FIREWORKS EXPLODING)
THE MANDALORIAN: All right, kid.
(GROGU BABBLES)
THE MANDALORIAN: You ready for an adventure?
(WHOOSHES)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHIMPERS)
THE MANDALORIAN: It looks scary. I know. But it was once green and beautiful, back when the songs were written. It’s Mandalore, the homeworld of our people. Every Mandalorian can trace their roots back to this planet, and the beskar mines deep within. And you know what? I’ve never been there either. I grew up there. On that moon. Concordia.
(GURGLES)
THE MANDALORIAN: And that’s Kalevala where we visited Bo-Katan. It’s in the same system.
(GROGU BABBLES)
THE MANDALORIAN: A Mandalorian has to understand maps and know their way around. That way, you’ll never be lost.
(COOING)
(WHOOSHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(DISTRESSED BEEPING)
(ALARM BEEPING)
(RATTLING)
(ALARM BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Looks like the fusion bombs from the Purge disrupted the magnetic field around the planet. From the surface, we won’t be able to communicate with anyone out of atmosphere, so we have to be careful. Down here, we’re completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy.
(COOS)
THE MANDALORIAN: R5, you ready? I’m gonna need you to scout ahead and analyze the atmosphere.
(R5D4 BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: That wasn’t a question.
(R5D4 BEEPING FRANTICALLY)
THE MANDALORIAN: Go over to that split in the rock, and take an air sample of the ruins below.
(R5D4 BEEPING)
(WARBLES NERVOUSLY)
(GROGU BABBLES)
(GROGU WHIMPERING)
THE MANDALORIAN: The droid will be fine. I just need him to take some readings to make sure it’s safe.
(DROID BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Don’t be a baby. Just get the samples we need, and hurry up.
(DROID BEEPING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(BABBLING)
(WHIMPERS)
THE MANDALORIAN: Here, look.
(BEEPS)
THE MANDALORIAN: You can watch him on the scope.
(BEEPING)
(GASPS)
THE MANDALORIAN: R5, come in. Do you read me?
(GROGU WHINES)
(STATIC)
THE MANDALORIAN: It’s probably just interference.
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: (SIGHS) Fine. I’ll go get him. Normally, this is droid work. I was hoping to avoid going out there. I’ll pressurize my helmet, seal yourself in your pod. Be right back.
(CANOPY HISSING)
(HELMET HISSING)
(CANOPY HISSING)
(DEVICE TRILLS)
(HELMET HISSING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Don’t worry, kid, I’ll be right back.
(BABBLING)
(HELMET HISSING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
(RUSTLING)
(CREATURE ROARS)
(GROANS)
(CREATURES GROWL)
(GRUNTS)
(GROWLS)
(GROANS)
(ALL GRUNTING, GROANING)
(GROANING)
(GRUNTING)
(ROARING)
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(PANTING)
(R5D4 BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: (GRUNTING) Yeah, wait. Okay, you’re all right.
(DROID BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Now come on, let’s get you back to the ship.
(HELMET HISSING)
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Hang on, kid. Not until I check the toxicity. You got an analysis on the atmosphere yet?
(DROID BEEPING)
(TRILLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: The charts were wrong.
(DROID BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: The atmosphere is breathable.
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Bo-Katan was right. Mandalore is not cursed.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: That’s the Civic Center. This is where Bo-Katan said to go.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(JETPACK WHOOSHING)
THE MANDALORIAN: The mines should be further down. I guess we’re on our own from here.
(BABBLING)
(JETPACK WHOOSHING)
(SPLASHES)
(DEVICE BEEPS)
(WATER PATTERING)
THE MANDALORIAN: These waters should flow down to the mines, and the Living Waters within.
(BABBLING)
(HISSING)
(BABBLING)
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: Look, that passage heads down.
(GASPS, GRUNTING)
(WHIRRING)
(GROANING)
(WHIRRING)
(DEEP ROBOTIC CHITTERING)
(BABBLING)
(WHIRRING)
(GROANING SOFTLY)
(GRUNTS)
(BABBLING)
(DEEP ROBOTIC CHITTERING)
(HATCH HISSING)
(CLICKING)
(WHIRRING, CLICKING)
(CHITTERING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(CHITTERING)
(CLATTERING)
(GROANING SOFTLY)
(BABBLING)
(CLICKING, WHIRRING)
(PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
(STRAINING)
(METAL CREAKING)
(STRAINING, PANTING)
(CLANKS)
THE MANDALORIAN: (WEAKLY) Get to Bo-Katan.
(BABBLES)
(CHITTERS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(BEEPS)
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(GROWLS)
(WHIMPERS)
(GROWLING)
(BABBLING)
(TRILLING)
(GROWLS)
(WHIMPERS)
(GROWLS)
(GRUNTS)
(DROID BEEPS)
(CANOPY HISSING)
(BABBLING)
(SCREECHING)
(DROID BEEPING)
(WHOOSHING)
(BABBLING)
(WHIRRING)
DROID: Your Majesty. An unscheduled visitor.
(SIGHS)
(WHOOSHING)
BO-KATAN: Let’s get rid of him once and for all.
(WHIRRING)
BO-KATAN: Maybe I didn’t make myself clear the last time. I want to be left alone.
(CANOPY HISSING)
(BABBLING)
BO-KATAN: What happened to him? Download the astromech. Find out where they were.
(BABBLING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHIRRING)
(WHOOSHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(RUMBLING)
(THUNDER BREAKING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
BO-KATAN: It didn’t always look like this.
(WHOOSHES)
(WHIRRING)
BO-KATAN: Okay, kid. I’m gonna need you to guide me to him. Can you do that?
(BABBLING)
(SPUTTERING)
(HISSING)
(BABBLING)
(HISSING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(WHIRRING)
(DROID BEEPING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(HELMET HISSING)
BO-KATAN: This was once a beautiful civilization. My family ruled it all. Now it’s a tomb. Let’s go.
(JETPACK WHOOSHING)
(SPLASHES)
(GROGU PANTING)
(CROAKING, HISSING)
(WHIMPERS)
(BABBLING)
BO-KATAN: I know that you’re frightened. But I need you to guide me to him.
(SPUTTERS)
(CLICKS)
(BABBLING)
(TRILLING)
BO-KATAN: I knew quite a few Jedi, you know. I don’t know what they taught you about us, but there was a time we actually got along quite well. Fought side by side.
(BABBLING)
BO-KATAN: How good are you with the Force? You must be quite good at it if you got back to me all alone.
(RUSTLING)
(CREATURES GROANING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(GROANS)
(ROARS)
(GRUNTS)
BO-KATAN: Did you think your dad was the only Mandalorian?
(BABBLING)
BO-KATAN: Those are Alamites, and we were their next meal. They used to live in the surface wastelands beyond our cities. If they survived, I wonder what else might have, too.
(WHIRRING)
(GROANING SOFTLY)
(WHIRRING)
(CHITTERS)
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(CLANKS)
(PUMPING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
(GROANING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(BOKATAN GROANS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
(ROARS)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GROANING)
BO-KATAN: Din, are you okay? Can you hear me?
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
BO-KATAN: It’s BoKatan. I’m gonna get you out of here, all right? Can you move at all?
(THE MANDALORIAN MUMBLING)
BO-KATAN: Din, I can’t hear you. Are you trying to say something?
THE MANDALORIAN: (WEAKLY) Behind you.
(WHIRRING)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(POWERING DOWN)
(FIRE CRACKLING)
(BABBLING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
THE MANDALORIAN: What happened?
BO-KATAN: I saved your life.
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
THE MANDALORIAN: How did you find me?
BO-KATAN: Your kid. He’s tougher than he looks.
(SPUTTERS)
BO-KATAN: And he’s quite the navigator.
THE MANDALORIAN: Thank you for rescuing me.
THE MANDALORIAN: (GROANS) You were right. Mandalore is not cursed.
BO-KATAN: Was I? Look around. There’s nothing left. A great society is now a memory. I once ruled here for a brief time. (GRUNTS) Now, it’s destroyed. Nothing to cling to but ashes.
THE MANDALORIAN: What is this?
BO-KATAN: You’ve never eaten pog soup?
THE MANDALORIAN: No.
BO-KATAN: Can you appreciate the irony? Any Mandalorian worth their armor was raised on this since they were his size. You should rest. I’ll get you back to my ship soon enough.
THE MANDALORIAN: (GROANS) I’m not going with you.
BO-KATAN: What are you talking about?
THE MANDALORIAN: I must continue to the Mines of Mandalore so that I may be redeemed.
BO-KATAN: I honestly think that it’s adorable that you actually believe these children’s stories. But there is nothing magic about the waters.
THE MANDALORIAN: Without the Creed, what are we? What do we stand for? Our people are scattered like stars in the galaxy. The Creed is how we survived. You rescued me and I’ll always be in your debt. But I can’t go with you until I fulfill my obligation.
BO-KATAN: I will take you.
THE MANDALORIAN: To the Living Waters?
BO-KATAN: Yes. You’d never find them on your own. Not in all this wreckage.
THE MANDALORIAN: Thank you.
BO-KATAN: Don’t thank me until you see them.
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: It’s hard to believe that this all was once filled with our kind.
BO-KATAN: It wasn’t that long ago. You’d never know it looking at all this destruction.
THE MANDALORIAN: It looks like it’s been centuries.
BO-KATAN: The Empire set out to punish us. To wipe away our memory.
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: It must pain you to see it like this after witnessing its beauty.
BO-KATAN: What pains me is seeing our own kind fight one another time and time again. Killing each other for reasons too confusing to explain. It made us weak. We had no hope to resist being smashed by the fist of the Empire. There. The entrance to the Mines of Mandalore.
(DEVICE TRILLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: This area looks much older.
BO-KATAN: The mines have been here for thousands of years. The Living Waters are in the chambers below.
THE MANDALORIAN: Have you been there?
BO-KATAN: Yes, when I was a child.
THE MANDALORIAN: Really?
BO-KATAN: I was part of the royal family. I took the Creed and was showered with gifts. But the rituals were all just theater for our subjects. They loved watching the princess recite the Mandalorian tenets as her father looked on proudly. Such a heartwarming spectacle.
THE MANDALORIAN: Maybe he was proud.
BO-KATAN: I know he was. I didn’t embarrass him in front of everyone.
THE MANDALORIAN: Your father sounds like an interesting man. I would’ve liked to have known him.
BO-KATAN: He was a great man. He died defending Mandalore.
THE MANDALORIAN: This is the Way.
BO-KATAN: What are you lookin’ at?
(WATER SLOSHING)
BO-KATAN: Here you go. The Living Waters. Hold on. I want you to get the full tour.
“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. Din? Are you all right?
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: “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.”
(SPLASHES)
(HISSING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(BO-KATAN GRUNTS)
(WHOOSHING)
(BO-KATAN GASPS)
(BOTH GROAN)
(THE MANDALORIAN COUGHING)
(WHIMPERS)
(THE MANDALORIAN COUGHING, WHEEZING)
(BO-KATAN PANTING)
