Chapter 24: The Return
Released on Disney+ on April 19, 2023
Bo-Katan and her reconnaissance squad retreat from Moff Gideon’s base. Upon returning to the Mandalorian flagship, Axe Woves sends the remaining Mandalorians to reinforce the planetary troops, while he defends the ship from Imperial TIE squadrons. With assistance from Grogu, Din Djarin escapes from captivity and seeks out Gideon. Djarin and Grogu discover cloning tanks filled with clones of Gideon who can use the Force, and Djarin destroys them. After a lengthy skirmish between the Mandalorians and the beskar-enhanced stormtroopers within the base, Bo-Katan, Djarin, and Grogu make a final stand against Gideon and his Praetorian Guards, in which the Darksaber is destroyed. Woves rams the Mandalorian capital ship into the Imperial base and Gideon is consumed by the resulting blast; Grogu protects Bo-Katan and Djarin from the blast with a force bubble. After the battle, the Mandalorians restart the Great Forge at the heart of Mandalore and Djarin formally adopts Grogu. Afterwards, Djarin takes up honest contract work with Carson Teva and moves into a cabin on the outskirts of Nevarro’s capital, as previously offered to him by Greef Karga, while IG-11 is rebuilt by the Anzellan mechanics to serve as Nevarro’s new marshal.
BO-KATAN: Axe, come in.
(WHOOSHING)
AXE WOVES: I copy.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
BO-KATAN: Moff Gideon is alive.
He’s gathered his forces and he’s using our home world as his base.
They’re sending up fighters to destroy the fleet.
Evacuate everyone!
Use the capital ship as a decoy. We can’t beat them in the air. We have to beat them on the ground.
(WHOOSHING)
AXE WOVES: Understood. I’m entering upper atmosphere but I have my orders.
(THUNDER BREAKING)
I’ll return… With the troops…
(COMMS STATIC)
Can you hear…
BO-KATAN: Axe? Axe!
(WHOOSHING)
(THUNDER BREAKING)
MAN: Come on. Come on. Come on!
(EXPLOSIVE TRILLING)
(WHOOSHING)
(EXPLOSIVE BEEPS)
(THE MANDALORIAN BREATHING HEAVILY)
(THE MANDALORIAN GRUNTING)
(COMMANDOS GROAN)
(CLANKS)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANS)
(WHOOSHING)
(COMMANDO SCREAMING)
(THE MANDALORIAN STRAINING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANS)
(BOTH STRAINING)
(WHIRRING)
IG-12: No. No. No. No. No.
(COMMANDO GROANING)
(THE MANDALORIAN PANTING, COUGHING)
(SPRAY HISSING)
(HOARSELY) I’m okay. I’m okay.
(THE MANDALORIAN COUGHING)
Help me up.
(WHIRRING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GRUNTING)
(COOING)
(GROANS)
(PANTING)
Will you cut me loose?
IG-12: Yes.
Thank you for your help.
(PANTING)
Grogu, I’m going to need you to be brave for me, okay?
(BABBLING)
We can’t keep running. If we don’t take out Moff Gideon, this will never end.
(BABBLES)
You with me?
(RUMBLING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(RUMBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: (ON COMMS) Bo-Katan, come in.
BO-KATAN: Received. Where are you?
THE MANDALORIAN: We’re safe. I escaped. I’ve got the kid.
I’m going after Moff Gideon.
Do you have a location?
BO-KATAN: No.
We are under attack. I have to get the troops to safety.
THE MANDALORIAN: Understood.
BO-KATAN: Stay safe.
CAPTAIN: If we escape to the surface, I know where we can hole up.
SCOUT: Let’s go, this way!
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(DOOR HISSES)
COMMANDO: Sir, the fighters and bombers have launched.
Their capital ship will soon be destroyed.
MOFF GIDEON: But the Mandalorian has escaped.
(WHIRRING)
COMMANDO: Shall we engage?
(HELMET HISSES)
(ECHOING) No,
I’ll take care of him myself.
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
R5. Come in, R5.
(BEEPING)
(ON COMMS) I need you, buddy. You’re gonna have to scomp into the base and get me the location of Moff Gideon’s command center.
(BEEPING HESITANTLY)
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Binary. I’m counting on you.
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(WHOOSHING)
(BEEPING)
(WHOOSHING)
(BEEPING NERVOUSLY)
(BEEPING NERVOUSLY)
(CLATTERING)
(WHIRRING)
(MOUSE DROID BEEPING)
(WHIRRING)
(WHIRRING)
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
R5, how are those schematics coming?
(BEEPING)
(WHIRRING)
(R5-D4 BEEPING ON COMMS)
Got it. Good job, buddy.
That’s the command center.
The communications log says that’s where he operates from.
That’s where we’re goin’.
Ready?
Stay close. Let’s go.
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(WHOOSHING)
Axe Woves to Fleet Command.
The scouting party has been ambushed by Imperial remnants.
They’re launching fighters to destroy the fleet.
Received. How shall we proceed?
AXE WOVES: Load the Gauntlets and send all available troops down as reinforcements.
Leave the capital ship behind as a decoy.
Bo-Katan needs our help!
(DOOR HISSES)
I’ll take care of the cruiser.
Everyone, go.
Move! Go. Go! Move!
(MANDALORIANS SHOUTING)
Move!
Load everyone onto the drop ships. Go.
(DOOR HISSES, CLANKS)
(BEEPING)
(WHOOSHING)
(GRUNTING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(RUMBLING)
(TURRETS WHIRRING)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(STRAINING)
(GRUNTS)
(CRACKLING)
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(SHIELD WARBLING)
The command center is down there.
I don’t have any weapons so this might get messy.
R5.
(BEEPING)
There’s some barrier shields. I’m gonna need you to deactivate them one at a time.
(BEEPS)
On my command.
(BEEPS)
Got it?
(BEEPING)
(WHIRRING)
Deactivate the first shield.
(WHIRRING)
(SHIELD DEACTIVATES)
(ALL GRUNTING)
COMMANDO: Open the shield, open the shield!
(GROANS)
COMMANDO 2: It’s not working!
(BEEPING)
THE MANDALORIAN: R5, next shield.
(CRACKLING)
(SHIELD DEACTIVATES)
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANS, SHOUTING)
THE MANDALORIAN: R5, next shield.
(BEEPING)
(SHIELD DEACTIVATES)
(GRUNTING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(R5-D4 BEEPING)
(MOUSE DROID BEEPING)
(MOUSE DROID SIREN BLARING)
(BEEPING FRANTICALLY)
THE MANDALORIAN: R5, next shield.
(MOUSE DROID SIREN BLARING)
(R5-D4 BEEPING)
R5, next shield! R5!
(MOUSE DROID SIREN BLARING)
(ZAPS)
(MOUSE DROID EXCLAIMING)
R5, next shield.
(BEEPING)
(WHIRRING)
(SHIELD DEACTIVATES)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(PANTING)
R5, good job, buddy.
(BEEPING)
(MOUSE DROID SIRENS BLARING)
(CRASHING)
(R5-D4 EXCLAIMING)
(WHIRS, WHOOSHING)
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(DOOR CLANKS, HISSES)
Wait here.
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(BEEPING)
That’s not Gideon.
Those are his clones.
(SHRIEKS)
(GRUNTS)
(BEEPING)
(POWERING DOWN)
Let’s go.
(ALARM BEEPING)
(EXPLOSIONS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(WHOOSHING)
SCOUT: We’ll be safe down here a while.
We’ve taken refuge in these surface caves since the Purge.
(WATER PATTERING)
Do you live here?
We have hideouts and food caches throughout the surface of the planet.
It’s how we survive.
There are predators above and predators below.
You found underground gardens?
No.
We planted farms.
These are the old species indigenous to Mandalore.
They’ve been dormant since before the centuries of Civil War.
Once the planet was abandoned, they sprouted in spots.
We cultivated farms.
Life persists.
I’ve only ever seen gardens in the domed cities.
I never knew the surface could still sustain plant life.
All they need is room to grow.
(COMMS STATIC)
ARMORER: (ON COMMS) Lady Kryze, your reinforcements have arrived.
(WHOOSHING)
(HELMET HISSES)
Let’s take back our planet.
(HELMETS HISS)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHIRS)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(THRUMMING)
(BO-KATAN GRUNTING)
(ARMORER GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(ARMORER GRUNTING)
(DOOR HISSES, CLANKS)
(WARBLING)
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(DOOR HISSES, CLANKS)
(IG-12 WHIRRING)
(BEEPING)
(DOOR WHIRRING)
MOFF GIDEON: My clones were finally going to be perfect.
The best parts of me but improved by adding the one thing I never had.
(ARMOR WHIRRING)
The Force.
I was isolating the potential to wield the Force, and incorporating it into an unstoppable army.
And you smothered them before they could draw their first breath.
(CLANKING)
(MISSILE WHOOSHING)
(GROGU YELPS)
(HELMET HISSES)
(ARMOR WHIRS)
(WHOOSHES)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(ARMOR WHIRRING)
(GROANS)
(ARMOR WHIRRING)
(CLANKING)
(GROANING)
(THE MANDALORIAN STRAINING)
(MOFF GIDEON GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
(MOFF GIDEON GRUNTS)
(CRACKLING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
(CRACKLING)
(BABBLING)
IG-12: No, no, no.
No!
(GROANS)
(THE MANDALORIAN STRAINING)
(GROANS)
(DOOR WHIRS)
(CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
(WHOOSHING)
(COMMANDOS SHOUTING)
(COMMANDOS GROAN)
(ARMORER GRUNTING)
(COMMANDO GROANS)
(WARBLING)
(BABBLES)
(CRACKLING)
(BABBLING)
(GROGU PANTING)
(LAUGHS)
(WHIRRING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
(CLANKING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(STRAINING)
(GROANS)
(CLANKS)
(GROANS)
(COMMANDO SCREAMS)
(COMMANDOS SCREAMS)
(GROANS)
(BO-KATAN GRUNTS)
(WHOOSHING)
(BO-KATAN GRUNTS)
I’ve got this. Go save your kid.
(ARMOR WHIRRING)
MOFF GIDEON: Bo-Katan Kryze.
What’s it gonna be this time?
Surrender or fight?
(WARBLING)
(CRACKLING)
(BO-KATAN GRUNTING)
(CRACKLING)
(YELPING)
(WHIMPERING)
(CRACKLING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(WARBLING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(MOFF GIDEON GROANS)
(BO-KATAN SHOUTING)
(WHOOSHING)
(COMMANDO SHOUTING)
(ALL GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(WARBLING)
(GRUNTS)
You did good, kid.
(BABBLING)
(THUNDER BREAKING)
(WHOOSHING)
(ALARM BLARING)
Bo, Koska, come in!
I’m coming in hot. Clear everyone out.
I’m going to take out the base.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(CRACKLING, WARBLING)
(GROANS)
(GROANS)
(THUNDER BREAKING)
Hand over the Darksaber and I will give you a warrior’s death.
(BO-KATAN SCREAMING)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(MOFF GIDEON GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
(BO-KATAN GASPING)
(GRUNTS)
The Darksaber is gone.
(GROANS, GASPS)
You’ve lost everything.
(GROANING)
(ARMOR WHIRRING)
Mandalorians are weak once they lose their trinkets.
Mandalorians are stronger together.
(GROANS)
(WHOOSHING)
(GRUNTS)
(RUMBLING)
(THE MANDALORIAN GROANING)
(CRASHING)
(MOFF GIDEON GRUNTS)
(BO-KATAN SHOUTING)
(GROANS)
(MOFF GIDEON GASPS)
(GROANS)
(GROANING)
(MOFF GIDEON SCREAMING)
(RUMBLING)
(WHOOSHING)
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)
(DRUMS BANGING)
(DRUMS BANGING)
(DRUMS BANGING)
(CLANKS)
(DRUMS BANGING)
(DRUMMING STOPS)
ARMORER: I swear on my name and the names of the ancestors…
RAGNAR: “I swear on my name and the names of the ancestors…”
ARMORER: That I shall walk the Way of the Mand’alor…
RAGNAR: “That I shall walk the Way of the Mand’alor…”
ARMORER: And the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart.
RAGNAR: “And the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart.”
ARMORER: This is the Way.
RAGNAR: “This is the Way.”
MANDALORIANS: “This is the Way.”
THE MANDALORIAN: 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.
(BABBLING)
He must remain a foundling.
(BABBLING)
THE MANDALORIAN: 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.
(BABBLES)
Then I will adopt him as my own.
(BABBLING)
ARMORER: This is the Way.
THE MANDALORIAN: This is the Way.
ARMORER: Let it be written in Song that Din Djarin is accepting this foundling as his son.
(BABBLING)
ARMORER: You are now Din Grogu, Mandalorian apprentice.
MANDALORIANS: “This is the Way.”
ARMORER: You must leave Mandalore and take your apprentice on his journeys, just as your teacher did for you.
THE MANDALORIAN: This is the Way.
(BABBLING)
(BELLOWING)
(WHOOSHING)
(ARMOR CLANKING)
AXE WOVES: For Mandalore!
ALL: For Mandalore!
AXE WOVES: For Mandalore!
ALL: For Mandalore!
AXE WOVES: For Mandalore!
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(WHOOSHING)
(HISSES)
(LIVELY CHATTER)
Let me buy you a drink, Mando.
Thanks, but I’m here on business.
CARSON TEVA: We really appreciate what you did.
You made our jobs a lot easier.
THE MANDALORIAN: We’ve both been chasing Moff Gideon.
You would have gotten him eventually I just got there first.
(CARSON TEVA LAUGHS)
(CRUNCHING)
CARSON TEVA: Your kid sure likes the trophies.
(BABBLES)
THE MANDALORIAN: It’s not him, kid.
One of them reminds him of someone he knew.
CARSON TEVA: Mmm.
I have a business proposition.
CARSON TEVA: Shoot.
This youngling is my apprentice.
What does that have to do with me?
I’m a bounty hunter by trade.
Now that he is with me, I’ll be more selective in my assignments.
Go on.
You don’t have the resources to protect the Outer Rim, let alone hunt down Imperial remnants.
And I need work.
Let me get this straight.
You want to work for the New Republic.
(CHEWING)
THE MANDALORIAN: On a case-by-case basis.
An independent contractor.
CARSON TEVA: Hmm.
You know this is against regulation.
It’ll never get approved.
THE MANDALORIAN: Which is why you won’t tell them.
Let me think about it.
You already did.
(CHUCKLES)
It’s a good deal and you know it.
CARSON TEVA: Is that so?
All I require is a small advance.
What I want in return is that.
CARSON TEVA: A scrap assassin droid head?
I need it for parts.
GREEF KARGA: The people of Nevarro appreciate all you’ve done, Mando.
I want to give you this deed to a cabin just outside of town where you can lay low with your new family if you choose so.
Between adventures.
THE MANDALORIAN: Thank you.
(GREEF KARGA CHUCKLES)
And that goes for you too, Din Grogu.
(BABBLING)
And I have a gift for you as well.
(CLANKS)
(ANZELLANS EXCLAIMING)
IG-11: Greetings, citizens.
I am IG-11, your new Marshal.
Your new Marshal of Nevarro.
(CROWD APPLAUDING)
I am here to serve and protect the citizenry.
GREEF KARGA: (LAUGHS) There we go.
Yes.
IG-11: I am at your disposal and serve at your pleasure.
(APPLAUSE, CHEERING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(CROAKING)
(SPLASHES)
